Four-nine-seven soaring

In the ancient and majestic Forbidden City, wandering between the golden palaces and looking at the golden dragons and stone lions that can be seen everywhere, Li Mobi can feel this majesty and inviolability dignified than people of this era. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

This is the nominally large and luxurious property of the Chinese royal family, although most of the antiques here have been secretly collected, but the value of this huge complex itself cannot be estimated, so in order to ensure the safety of this place, not only is it all taken over by the Royal Praetorian Guard, but also a large number of daily maintenance personnel are specially hired, and even Li Mo himself often comes here to go around.

Can I pass on this majesty that has been condensing the world for thousands of years?

After staring at the bright plaque for a long time, Li Mo skimmed away his distracting thoughts, turned his head and asked Chen Ping, who came to report: "The Russian envoy is gone?" Nicholas II didn't scold his mother, right? ”

"How can you not scold your mother." Chen Ping smiled: "One hundred tons of gold, in exchange for only 200,000 rifles and supplies that he left here before, plus some ammunition and cotton yarn or something, I want to throw it directly into the sea."

"Oh? Didn't he ask for a veteran? ”

"Nope." Chen Ping shook his head: "Lenin has successively brought back 30,000 veterans, these people are now hardcore supporters of the Bolsheviks, and Nicholas II is also afraid that if he wants them all back, he will strengthen the rebel party, so the rest of the money is also used to order ammunition and materials." ”

"It's a pity." Li Mo sighed, he hoped that Nicholas II would take this group back, although this would exacerbate the turmoil in Russia, but it was not a good thing for Germany and Austria-Hungary, 300,000 people could pick out at least a third of the soldiers, and they were all veterans of the war, enough to give them two blows

After asking about Russia, Li Mo turned the topic to urgent matters: "Where is the connection between Britain?" ”

"The ambassador to the United Kingdom, Wu Tingfang, has sent a note to the British government about the interception of our fleet and the death of two shipwrights, but there is still no reply, but Germany and Austria-Hungary have reacted very positively, openly saying that we should not be suppressed, and that commercial matters should be resolved commercially, and that all countries have the right to decide to build railways."

As soon as Chen Ping finished speaking, Li Mo smiled dumbly: "Hehe, it's useless to be positive, they can also see the excitement." ”

"Not necessarily." Chen Ping said: "Germany has sent two armored cruisers to replenish the Far East Fleet, and it has now crossed the Suez Canal, and if I guess correctly, the Vice Admiral Pace may be willing to go and see the excitement." ”

He was silent, but not because of Pace, but because the two famous armored cruisers, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, had finally come out, and he had thought that they would not come to the Far East again. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Hehe, if Pace really goes to the Persian Gulf, it will be troublesome for the British, they will think that our two families have joined hands, and they will probably die in a hurry."

This sentence made Li Mo think of a possibility, and his steps fell sharply: "Yuanshou, you said that if Pace appeared in the Persian Gulf, would Britain be ruthless in going to war?"

Hearing this assumption, Chen Ping's eyes changed suddenly, and after thinking about it, he shook his head: "Probably not, as long as we don't really start the Baghdad Railway, then Britain may not be ruthless, because what they want to keep at the moment is Europe, if they send more capital ships to the Far East, the European side will be greatly weakened, not to mention that Germany has begun to build the first two of the six Bavaria-class battleships, he may not be able to suppress Germany."

"Oh? Germany began to build the Bavarian class? Six ships at a time" Li Mo rubbed his hands, and suddenly became excited, in history, this is second only to the British Queen Elizabeth class, and there are two more, and now Jutland is going to change its taste

"Originally, it was not like this, but after Germany got the loan, it ordered 100,000 tons of Krupp carburized armor steel from us, and also purchased ship generators, high-power motors and other things, and almost handed over the bits and pieces to us to manufacture, and the progress of the 15-inch naval gun jointly developed by our two countries has also exceeded the expected speed, and the first prototype gun is already under construction, and it is estimated that it will be able to get the production version by the end of next year at the latest."

"So" Li Mo's eyes widened, because of the special environment in the North Sea, the German 15-inch gun design requirements are very strict, not only high speed, but also much better accuracy and power, so it has led to the lag in the development of naval guns, which is also one of the main reasons why the Bavarian class lags behind Queen Elizabeth, so he hurriedly asked: "You won't take out chrome plating technology and electroslag refining, right?" ”

"The emperor can rest assured, we are mainly responsible for gun mounts and high-power motors, and the equipment department has already had technical reserves in these aspects, so the progress will be so."

"Okay" Li Mo shouted Okay, this 15-inch gun was used by Bismarck in later generations, and the speed and accuracy were very good, if you can add electroslag heavy chrome plating technology, use heavy armor-piercing shells, increase to 50 times the caliber, I dare not say that it is more than 16 inches, but at least it will not be much worse, and this is the rapid progress of naval gun development, and it also indicates that their second batch of fast battleships can be built at an accelerated pace, so that they do not have to wait for 1916, but can be completed a year earlier

"Inform the equipment department and suppliers to fully guarantee and accelerate the production speed of German Bavaria-class parts from now on" Li Mo's eyes were burning, and the news of the start of construction of six Bavaria-class battleships was definitely heavyweight, which indicated that the British Queen-class with only five ships would completely lose its advantage, and would reduce Britain's determination to start a war with itself.

It's October 1912, the Balkan War and Europe are the core interests, as long as you don't really pierce that layer of window paper, don't make too much trouble, Britain can only swallow it.

"You go and tell Tang Shaoyi and Feng Qi that you can send a signal to Britain that we will not build the Baghdad Railway, but the premise is that we must find a way to ensure our interests in the Persian Gulf region."

"Yes."

Soon after Chen Ping left, Li Xiufeng quickly walked over and said, "Your Majesty, my father-in-law asked me to go back and forth to you, the gold from last month has been put into storage." ”

Looking at him who wanted to stop talking, how could Li Mo not know the purpose of Fu Bo and his use of gold as an excuse, and smiled slightly: "Worried about your brother?" ”

Xiufeng nodded and did not hide it, although he had been prepared since the day his younger brother chose to be a soldier, but he really encountered it and knew how bitter this kind of ordeal was, not to mention that his younger brother led a destroyer, Xiao * said that if he encountered a large British warship, he was afraid that he would suffer.

Li Mo didn't know how to answer him, although there were many small islands in the Strait of Hormuz, which were very suitable for high-speed small warship raids, but who could predict war.

What's more, he was worried about fuel

According to the news brought by Chen Ping before, although the 37 destroyer detachment happened to get fuel from the supply ship the day before departure, it was still more than 2,000 nautical miles from Sikkim to the Strait of Hormuz, and Li Xiuyan was too anxious, and the average speed along the way reached 23 knots.

This means that if he can't finish a few bites, he won't even be able to escape

Looking at his watch, Li Mo thought for a while: "Let's go to the General Staff first, there should be a result." ”

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In the bridge of the Weiqing, Li Xiuyan put down the telephone and raised his head, two small British cruisers had already appeared in the distance, and the news from the engine room was not very good for him, because the fuel could only last less than five hours at a high speed of 37 knots.

"Inform the ships that the left rudder is fifteen degrees away from the shoreline."

"Grouping, the first team Li Mu and Meng Tian follow our ship closely, the second team Bai Qi, and Tian Dan protect the right wing."

"Contact the British, we are the 37th fleet of the Chinese Empire, and we need to enter the Persian Gulf for nautical training, let them give way" Li Xiuyan quickly forgot the bad news and took the chart in front of him.

The Strait of Hormuz used to be herringbone, only 55 kilometers narrow, of which the islands and reefs made up, if it weren't for the Navy hydrographic survey ship staying here for a year, and the British hydrographic data records obtained through the Ministry of Intelligence, I am afraid that he would not dare to play high-speed assault in this area, but even so, he must still hold the chart at ease.

Just as he was studying how to quickly avoid islands and reefs and choosing a route, the communications officer had already shouted: "Report, the British ** ship said that they are holding exercises here and ask us to leave immediately."

"Drills?" Li Xiuyan smiled at the corner of his mouth, grabbed the special shortwave fleet contact microphone, and glanced at the first mate, who immediately asked people to turn on the radio.

"This is Wei Qing, and I'm Li Xiuyan." Holding the microphone, Li Xiuyan's eyes were still staring at the two cruisers that were approaching at a fast pace in the distance, and said with a smile: "I just asked the British to avoid it, and they were very polite, but those guys said they wanted us to get out."

"What should I do?"

Inside the bridge, there was a snickering of laughter, a burst of laughter from the radio speakers, and then several loud voices were heard by everyone.

"Chen Shaokuan, Tiandan is ready."

"Yang Feng, Li Mu is ready."

"Zhang Ke, Meng Tian is ready."

"Chen Jiliang, Bai Qi is ready."

Hearing this loud sound of preparation, carefully selected on the five destroyers, whose average age was only twenty-three, all the sailors felt a tingling current rising up their spines, and then heard a word.

"Hurricane"

With these words, the five chief engineers who had been holding the telephone for a long time shouted violently, and the steam turbine, which had just been low, suddenly let out a scream, and the huge sound was like the trumpet of the army's charge.

The five destroyers, each with six main guns stuffed into shells at the same time, came from behind the protective shields of the four quadruple 37mm machine guns on the deck, and even the six twin machine guns slammed open the bolts and pushed them into their chambers.

The hot steam roared into the steam turbine, stirring the blades and hissing, and the sharps of the Chinese Empire, like a fierce horse pressed on the ass by a soldering iron, slammed the bow of the ship and slammed the waves wildly.

Li Xiuyan grabbed the handrail beside him, stared at the British cruiser in the distance, handed over the microphone to Dada, and ordered: "Sickle line, rush over"

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