Just when Ge Fatzi was furious, the German Navy, which had been waiting for the aircraft carrier for a long time, was all elated, in fact, they agreed to send Zeppelin to China for construction in order to prevent Ge Fatzi from continuing to interfere with and destroy. Now that the aircraft carrier is finally completed, as long as she proves her worth in the war, they believe that the Führer will definitely agree to allocate funds for the construction of more aircraft carriers.

For this reason, the German Navy tried every means to desperately poach people from the active pilots of domestic aviation schools, aviation clubs, and even the Air Force, and at the same time asked Hu Weidong, who was considered to be very good at identifying the potential of pilots because of precedents such as Pokryshkin, to help them pick people. ), World War II crash king Hartmann (who was still training amateur at the aero club at this time), and Marseilleu, the most powerful fighter ace in the history of World War II (he had just joined the Luftwaffe at this time), and a large number of other famous super aces in history were pulled up on the aircraft carrier. As a result, the Luftwaffe in World War II had at least 20 fewer super aces (fighter pilots, for example, needed to shoot down more than 100 enemy aircraft. And the aircraft carrier Zeppelin will usher in a legend of its own

Compared with the battleships and aircraft carriers that Hu Weidong attached more importance to, the O-class battlecruiser with a standard displacement of more than 30,000 tons in the design and the same caliber of its main guns as the Bismarck-class battleships is much more chicken.

And the construction of the battlecruiser Jihua itself was also very problematic, it was not as complete as the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and to build it from scratch in China, it would require at least 30,000 tons of docks, but the two 30,000-ton docks in Qingdao were not built at the beginning. This inevitably delayed some time. And within a few months of its construction, the two 70,000-ton giant shipyards in Qingdao were also built (although the amount of work is much larger, the degree of attention is also much greater). ）。 The construction of the two Hindenburg-class super battleships began at the same time, which inevitably led to a competition for resources with the battlecruiser, which was no longer as priority as the battleship, so the construction speed became slower and slower. Another two or three months passed. Due to the good performance of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin in the exercise, the excited mustache immediately decided to build a few more aircraft carriers, although the construction of the local Jihua was eventually aborted due to the repeated obstruction of the fat man and the outbreak of the European war. But on the Chinese side, Hu Weidong immediately nodded and agreed to convert this battlecruiser, which was less than half of the hull completed, into an aircraft carrier, and this was the second German aircraft carrier during World War II. Strasser".

Hu Weidong undoubtedly valued the two heavy cruisers that might be incorporated into the Chinese Navy more than the battleships and aircraft carriers built for the Germans, and his idea was that even if the Germans eventually paid for them, we could build a few more after we had experience. Compared to super battleships that are very expensive to build and maintain. China can still afford to build and raise heavy cruisers with a standard displacement of only about 15,000 tons, and heavy cruisers will not be eliminated quickly after the war like battleships. There is still considerable value. What's more, under the premise of realistic conditions, any man must prefer a weapon with a large size, so it is no wonder that Hu Weidong would rack his brains for the design of these two heavy cruisers.

Because the two 20,000-ton docks in Shanghai can provide a platform for the construction of two heavy cruisers without the need for new construction, they are the first of the six warships to start construction. Because of this, these two heavy cruisers are also responsible for the task of jishu verification for the Hindenburg-class battleships, such as the triple main turret, bulbous bow bow, etc., which have been the first to be applied to these two heavy cruisers, not to mention the new armored steel. Because of this, these two Admiral-Hipper-class heavy cruisers have been very different from their prototypes, and their performance is far from being comparable to the Admiral-Hipper-class heavy cruisers built in Germany, and later Germany did not buy these two heavy cruisers due to financial constraints and inconvenient payment, and they were later incorporated into the combat sequence of the Chinese Navy, so in order to show the difference between the two, most of the later generations called it "Nanchang-class heavy cruisers" according to their Chinese names, and its initial design parameters are as follows:

Standard displacement: 15200 tons, full load displacement: 18500 tons

Dimensions: 205.9 meters long, 21.3 meters wide, draft 5.83 meters

Power: 12 high-pressure heavy oil boilers, 3 steam turbine engines, the maximum power of the main engine design is 156,000 horsepower

Speed: 36 knots

Endurance: 9000 nm / 16 knots

Main guns: 3 triple 203mm turrets

Air defense: 12 double-mounted 105mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 double-mounted 37mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 single-mounted 37mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 twin-mounted 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 single-mounted 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 "phalanx" 7-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft guns.

Anti-submarine: 2 rocket depth launchers (maximum range 1500 meters), 2 hedgehog guns (maximum range 300 meters).

Torpedo tubes: 6 x 533 mm tubes (2*3)

Carrier-based aircraft: 4 Ar-196 seaplanes

Catapult: 1 unit

Armor: waterline main armor belt 80-120mm; horizontal armor 60-100mm; turret frontal 120mm, gun mount 120mm; conning tower 150mm; Mine armor, three layers of 25mm each.

Crew: 1820 people

However, before the completion of these two heavy cruisers, Germany gave up the purchase due to financial constraints and other reasons, so the two heavy cruisers made some changes according to the needs of the Chinese navy. For example, at the beginning of the German request, the weapons on the ship were all original or assembled German products, but since Germany decided not to do so, it naturally replaced them with domestic products. Despite this, domestically made weapons are no worse than German products, and even because Hu Weidong has left a relationship with others in the process of Sino-German exchanges (Note 1), domestic products still have certain advantages

Note 1: Germany naturally has reservations, but not as many as us, because Hu Weidong, as a traverser, knows the level of science and technology and industry in Germany during this period, while the Germans have never known how many unique new jishu (to be continued) have been mastered in the Central Plains Liberated Area. )