"Judging from this exercise, there was no winner in terms of ship design, and the sinking of two of Admiral Scheer's fleet did suffer a tactical defeat, and Admiral Hipper also lost one battleship, the tonnage was larger, and the Bremen-type cruisers with larger caliber guns did not gain the advantage of crushing. We put a lot of effort into this class of ships, reassigning compartments and redistributing the weight of the hull in order to equip more 6-inch guns. We've minimized the damage of the shells to the core pod, but we still can't get it out of the battle, and to be honest, I'm a little disappointed. Tyre said solemnly.

"More importantly, our warships did not gain superiority over Russian warships. THE NEW LIGHT CRUISERS OF THE RUSSIANS ALSO USED THE DOME LAYOUT, BUT THEIR GUNS WERE EQUIPPED WITH 4.7-INCH GUNS, AND OUR BATTLESHIPS WOULD BE SUNK BY TOO MANY BULLETS IN THE FACE OF 105MM GUNS. And what about the 4.7-inch guns in the face of the Russians? The Bremen-class light cruisers did not gain a technical advantage over the Russian ships. Tyre said with some distress.

"In fact, the solution to the problem is very simple, as long as we install armor belts on light cruisers, the strike efficiency of the opponent's medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, especially rapid-fire guns below 6 inches, against light cruisers will plummet. But then the weight of our light cruisers will increase, and about 5000 tons is a suitable tonnage. This depends on the budget and construction plan, not the technical inadequacy. Hipper gave his opinion.

"The other is to reduce the weight of various mine suits, in naval battles. The task of releasing torpedoes should be entrusted to specialized destroyers, and the task of laying mines should be entrusted to minelayers, and our light cruisers can hold 120 or more mines. This will obviously reduce our artillery combat capabilities. And if you are not careful, there will be tragedies such as martyrdom. So I think it will be possible to remove the minelaying tasks of the light cruisers? Scheer thought for a moment and said. After the war, look at the various dyes on the torpedo tubes. A chill ran through Scheer's heart! This thing is terrible, if the torpedo on the light cruiser is detonated, the hundreds of people will be all accountable!

In short, if there is one sentence to describe Scheer's thoughts at this time, it is: "Let the torpedo be carried out by a ship with few people." I will never allow a battleship to sink because of a torpedo! And then Schell did uphold this sentence, and his first order after becoming commander of the German High Seas Fleet was to dismantle all torpedo equipment from battleships equipped with torpedoes. The second order was for all new light cruisers to dismantle all mine-laying equipment. The third order was to equip the mine-laying cruisers with additional armor!

At this time, Liu Buyun and others, who attended the meeting, were not in a hurry to speak. Because compared to the German light cruisers, who had to sail and fight in the best stormy waves in the North Sea. The fighting environment of the cousins of the Chinese Republic fighting in the Far East is very good, although it is far away from the mainland, but the main combat area should be in the area of the Java Sea. The sea conditions are much better, and judging from the current situation, the Huaxia Navy has not said that it has any intention of laying mines to the other side's doorstep. Therefore, the new light cruiser of the Chinese Republic can slightly adjust the sea trial performance to a lower point, and at the same time, it can also remove all the equipment used to place and lay mines to save weight. In the opinion of Liu Buyun and others, the displacement of 4500 tons is enough to take down an improved version of a Bremen-type lightly armored cruiser. Of course. The main improvement is the addition of an armor belt.

Subsequently, when this document was sent to Yan Boxun, Yan Boxun made some changes in terms of armament, in his opinion, it is indeed difficult to arrange 6 6-inch turret guns in the central axis, but if you use the gun gallery, the rate of fire and protection of the artillery are really worrying, not to mention anything else. You should at least have some protection on the front of the artillery. Moreover, the operating area of the artillery gallery is too small, and the 6-inch artillery shells need manpower. The place is too small, and the manpower cannot be used, which definitely affects the rate of fire and sustained combat ability, and then Yan Boxun thought about it and made some changes with a stroke of his pen.

The turret can't be installed, the weight is not allowed, and the volume is a bit large. But this is difficult Comrade Yan Boxun, since the pure turret can't be built, it doesn't mean that the pseudo turret can't be built! What is a turret? The turret is not a turret if the gun and servo equipment can move together, it is at most a modification of the deck turntable! The upper part of the turret is only visible as part of the turret system, from which there is a dressing room, a bomb delivery mechanism and a lifting channel, as well as a magazine for shells and powder magazines in the lower part. The whole system is very large, so the weight is also very large.

But what if some of the facilities are reduced? For example, remove the dressing room in the middle directly, send the shells directly to the gun position through the lifting channel, and then reduce some of the servo equipment, anyway, the weight of 45KG is not very heavy, and it can be made with manpower! First of all, the protection and working area are raised. The basis of the existence of automatic reloading is that manpower cannot support the weight of shells for heavy artillery, and since it can be supported, then various servos can be removed.

After simple improvements, although not too many new techniques and new designs were used, only the armor belt and armament were strengthened, Yan Boxun believed that in future naval battles, the improved version of the new Bremen type light armored cruiser in China was enough to suppress the light cruisers of the Russians and the Dutch, whether it was the waterline armor of about 70MM or the frontal gun shield of the pseudo-turret could ensure that the shells facing the 4.7-inch rapid-fire gun would not be penetrated.

At the same time, the fire extinguishing and explosion protection of the whole ship will be improved. After all, light cruisers sometimes encounter enemy ships equipped with large-caliber guns, and if you don't want to be able to fight, you just want to have a better chance of escaping, so don't be shot in seconds, of course, if you have to say that a cannon directly knocks through the propellant magazine, then there is no way, and God does not have it. It's too late to irrigate!

Although there were delays in production due to design changes, such delays were not fatal because the light cruiser had a short construction period and could be commissioned in just over a year at the earliest. In addition, light cruisers do not have high requirements for construction plants, so more shipyards can produce this kind of production version of the warship, so in 2 to 3 years, it is still possible to serve enough light cruisers for about 8 ships needed by the entire Huaxia fleet.

Today's double update, the subscription to the first chapter is very bleak, and the author is very hurt——! (To be continued......)