The night was gloomy and dark, and the wind was cold. In the side hall of Wilhelm II, the fire is blazing, dispelling the coolness of early winter and bringing the warmth of spring. The moment the clock pointed to 8:30, there was a knock on the door, and Wilhelm II, who was seated at the top, put down the pen in his hand and spit out a thick syllable. Two figures in trench coats pushed the door in, and then used the door to re-isolate the coolness of the outside world.

In the past three days, Qingying has been looking forward to this day all the time, but when this moment really came, he found that the truth was not as beautiful as he imagined. After taking off her trench coat, Qingying was nakedly treated as air by Wilhelm II and Tirpitz; The communication between the two quickly got to the point, but no one glanced at Qingying's side.

"Coo! Do you two want to be so snobbish and just throw the master aside? "Seeing Wilhelm II and Tirpitz talking carefully as if no one was around, and from time to time accompanied by the hand movements of someone who was anxious to express his meaning; Qing Ying was very angry, and his heart had turned into Godzilla spitting fire and shaking the Empire State Building wildly. I am the biggest contributor to this matter! Now my bones are not cold...... Phew, that's what it means anyway, two guys unloaded and killed donkeys so quickly?

Qingying secretly slandered himself here, and Wilhelm II and Tirpitz ignored his actions without the slightest stop. After some explanation, Tirpitz handed over the enveloped and bound materials in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this is a naval development outline for the last five years listed by my Admiralty, please take a look." ”

Hearing the key word of the development outline, Qingying's ears moved, and she temporarily let go of the displeasure in her heart; Taking advantage of the short period of time that Wilhelm II took and opened, Qingying's feet moved slightly, and quietly slipped to Wilhelm II's side. Standing at this angle, with the 1.5 vision of this body, you can clearly see every character on this document. Qingying only looked at it for a short while, and was completely impressed by the rigor and detail of this development plan.

Tirpitz's plan was all-encompassing and all-encompassing. It involves naval recruitment, salary subsidies, research and development of various subsystems, construction of supporting facilities, ship design, etc., and has detailed elaboration and comments on each of them. But as Wilhelm II turned the pages one by one, Qingying's brows gradually wrinkled. The vast majority of this plan can be said to be almost impeccable, and the speed of building 1 capital ship per year also coincides with Qingying's idea; However, in the design of the most rearly old ships, there are extremely serious problems!

Since the pre-dreadnought era, the German High Seas Fleet has always had a unique style of large ships and small guns; At the same tonnage, the guns of German battleships were far inferior to those of other navies of other countries in terms of quantity and caliber. If you can reduce the firepower while improving other performance, that's fine; But the Germans were weak in firepower, but their armor and speed had not been improved at all!

For example, the "Caesar Frederick III" class battleship completed in 1898 by Germany, with a normal displacement of 11,000 tons, is only equipped with 4 240mm main guns and 18 150mm secondary guns, the speed is only 17.5 knots, and there is only a small strip of 300mm armor near the waterline on the side of the side, and the anti-sinking performance has not been reflected in any way, which is simply unscientific to the extreme! The battleship Iowa built by the Americans at the same time (this Iowa is not Iowa), with a normal displacement of 11,500 tons, is fully equipped with 4 305mm guns and 8 203mm guns, and the thickness of that small strip of main armor reaches 456mm, and the speed can reach 17 knots! Even if the man-made ships of the United States are low freeboard, and the tonnage utilization rate is increased at the expense of seaworthiness, there will not be such a big gap!

Not only battleships, but also German-built armored cruisers are confusing. The armored cruiser "Prince Heinrich", which they completed in 1902, used a displacement of 9,000 tons in order to achieve the firepower of two 240mm main guns, 10 150mm secondary guns, 100mm armor and a speed of 20 knots. And the Garibaldi-class armored cruisers, built by the Italians, had a displacement of only 7300 tons; However, it is equipped with 2 254mm main guns and 10 150mm secondary guns, and its speed is not reduced, its broadside armor is up to 150mm thick, and the coverage area is even larger! On top of that, the ship was completed in 1896, a full 6 years before the German "Prince Heinrich"! Although this situation of German battleships came to an end temporarily with the finalization of the design of the "Nassau" class battleships in 1907, the habit of loading large ships with small guns for many years had almost been immersed in the bones of German designers; In addition to a "Bavarian" class forced out by the British, Caesar, the king, and even Lao Sha and Bismarck in World War II were all deeply affected by this idea!

What is the reason for this strange situation? Qingying had thought hard in her previous life, but because she had no first-hand information, she could only rely on some supporting evidence to come to a vague conclusion. And after this crossing, the side attacks on Tirpitz in the past few days, and after analyzing the words spoken by the future father of the ocean fleet, it confirmed the correctness of Qingying's previous thoughts.

The displacement of a warship is composed of the following eight major items, namely hull structure, auxiliary crew, power, weapons, ammunition, armor, boiler water and miscellaneous provisions. With German industrial technology, it is impossible for weapons and power to be overweight in the form of backward technology; Armor, ammunition, and boiler water fluctuate with design requirements, and there is no correlation between weight and skill. Auxiliary crews and miscellaneous provisions, on the other hand, are proportional to the displacement of the battleship, and the difference in the percentages between them is very small and does not make any decisive difference in the total weight. As a result, there is only one suspect left - that's right, the "hull structure"!

The German Navy has always been fond of building an "unsinkable sea fortress", and in order to achieve this, in addition to heavy armor, it is necessary to have a tight and detailed watertight cabin, the longest possible double bottom, and reliable body strength. And the last three points are directly linked to the weight of the "hull structure". Of these three points, the first two Germans did without reproach; However, in terms of the strength of the main body, the Germans were too conservative in order to ensure the strength of the hull, and the direct result was that too much weight was spent on the hull structure, which led to the serious overweight of the battleship!

Looking at Tirpitz's report, those battleships with a design displacement of 13,000 tons were only equipped with 4 283mm guns, Qingying felt that the chrysanthemum was tight. If the problem of excessive redundancy of structural strength can be solved, even if the original strong anti-sinking ability is maintained, it is not a problem to add 500 tons and install a main turret into it! But I can't say these things directly!

"Very well, Alfred, this plan is very detailed, you have a heart." Wilhelm II slowly closed the pages in his hand, with a faint look of joy on his face, "33 million marks are allocated every year for the construction of ships, which is only 1.5 times my annual income, and those people will not chew their tongues more on this amount!" With that, Wilhelm II turned around, raised his right hand diagonally, and said to Qingying, who was thinking hard about countermeasures: "Ettel, go and help me bring the stack of beige papers over there, I want to write an edict." ”

Qingying was confused, nodded dumbly, and then walked in the direction of Wilhelm II's finger. A small stack of paper is placed in the most prominent position in the window, thick and stiff to the touch, yet soft and smooth.

"Hey, what do I see? On the top piece of paper, there is actually a warship drawn? Qingying frowned, and suddenly knew what was painted on it. Although ordinary people may not know what this thing is, as a new era military residence that has been mixed in the battleship forum all year round, Qingying is very clear about the battleship depicted in this painting.

This piece of paper depicts a dome-armored cruiser designed by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself. In the eyes of the German professional designers, the ship's firepower, protection and speed were too perfect for its design displacement of 2,650 tons, and none of the designers believed that Wilhelm II's designs could be realized with this tonnage. Once completed, the ship would be the only German ship in the Navy, which would not be sunk by the enemy, because when she launched, she would have been overweight and immediately sunk to the bottom like a duck cast from lead and thus cut herself off. For this, Wilhelm II was depressed for more than a week; This monarch, who was very fond of the navy, racked his brains to design such a ship, and when he confidently presented this manuscript to the professionals, he received such a comment! If this is placed in Mites Qing, it will be directly dragged out of the noon gate and beheaded!

Although Wilhelm II's design was a laughing stock for a while, it was justified 120 years later at the Battleship Forum. According to the simulation of the powerful S**44 assault rifle, this so-called "lead duck" is actually completely feasible and has nothing obvious irrational; The accuracy of its speed calculations and the avant-garde design of its guns give a sense of the heart of Wilhelm II when designing this battleship. And the reason why the designers at that time would give the comment of "lead duck" was precisely because they were too conservative in the structural design and did not believe that the strength of the hull structure could be guaranteed with only such a little weight!

Seeing this thing, Qingying's eyes suddenly lit up, couldn't he just use this "lead duck" to make a fuss, so as to promote the warship design of the German Navy? If you really want to sleep, someone will send you a pillow!

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