If there is no aircraft carrier to disrupt the situation, after the high-speed battleship is formed, the tactical effect will be somewhat similar to that of the aircraft carrier.

There is no need to make a clear distinction between avant-garde warfare and decisive battle, and the main fleet can also be divided into several detachments to go out and operate independently, just like the screen fleet.

Each detachment is equipped with an aircraft carrier, and after searching and discovering the enemy's Screen Fleet, the main detachment presses up to destroy the enemy Screen Fleet.

Then continue to look for the enemy's main fleet, and after discovering it, notify the other main fleets to assemble and start a decisive battle with the most suitable angle.

The actual effect may be like skirmishers versus line infantry, and the battle mode will change very significantly.

The craftsmen and military personnel at the scene, without a complete concept of the high-speed battleship, did not immediately realize this change in the logic of operations.

But everyone's military literacy is there, and after Zhu Jingyuan's reminder, everyone quickly understood.

All capital ships have more defense and firepower than the enemy's capital ships, and at the same time have faster than cruisers, which is completely unreasonable.

High-speed battleships, if they appear in this era, are really a bit unreasonable.

It's just that the cost of construction and use of such a fleet is also conceivable, and it will be unreasonable to be high.

The number of high-speed battleships that can be built for the same budget may be only half, or even a third, of the traditional capital ships.

Cao Zhenyong and other officials, as well as the designer and the emperor, were quick to realize this.

So after a short period of consternation, Cao Zhenyong, who had already stood up, once again asked relevant questions as a representative:

"Your Highness, the cost of this capital ship ...... It will obviously be too expensive, perhaps twice or even more than three times that of a traditional capital ship.

"What if the enemy avoids a decisive battle with us and goes it alone with traditional capital ships to disrupt our sea lines of communication and attack our cargo fleet?

"If we only use high-speed battleships, it is obvious that we will not be able to mark them one-on-one, so how should we deal with them at that time?

"Therefore, the minister thinks that although it is not cost-effective to build a large cruiser, she can have more of them and can deal with the enemy's traditional capital ships......"

After listening to this, Zhu Jingyuan felt that this situation was still a little familiar.

This is the United States, which has deep pockets, wants to build an Alaska-class Grand Cruiser to deal with the German-Japanese supercruiser program?

But in history, Germany, Japan, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries, which were not financially rich at that time, how could it be possible to build the most cost-effective large cruisers in batches?

The Grand Cruiser plans of Germany, Japan, Britain and the Soviet Union were finally abandoned halfway, and the British "supercruiser" drawings were not finished, and it was found that this thing was "of unknown purpose".

What B65 (Azuma), O-class (Egil), Pr69 (Kronstadt), all of them are impossible to exist.

Only the Americans stupidly built it, and ordered six ships at once, and finally built two, dismantled one on the slipway, and canceled three.

"So what did I make?"

This may have been the mentality of the US Navy at the time.

No wonder Admiral Ernest King would rate the Alaska-class Grand Tour as "the prettiest piece of waste."

With some complicated feelings, Zhu Jingyuan tried to stop the military staff officers of the Ming Dynasty from once again embarking on the crooked path of a large cruiser:

"Cao Junji, if you are talking about the enemy's traditional capital ship, which is the previous ship with a displacement of less than 20,000 tons and a speed of less than 20 knots, we also have it.

"We can defend with traditional capital ships, and at the same time hunt separately with high-speed battleships.

"That kind of old ship faces a high-speed battleship, let alone fight, and there is no room to escape.

"The old ships that had been accumulated before were quickly exhausted in this kind of battle, and the speed at which new ships were built could not keep up with the speed of hunting.

"So the enemy will definitely abandon the traditional battleships in favor of similar all-main gun battleships.

"If the enemy adopts a conservative strategy and builds ships with a displacement of twenty-five or six thousand tons and a speed of twenty-five to twenty-seven knots, he will fall into the trap of a medium-sized ship.

"The cost has reached six or seven percent of ours, and the combat effectiveness is only four or five percent of ours, and two ships can't beat one of us.

"The key is the number of their builds, and they do not have an absolute advantage over our high-speed battleships, and they will still be hunted down quickly by us.

"If the enemy chooses to follow head-on, build high-speed battleships with a displacement similar to ours.

"That's going to be because they're a little bit less skilled, and the overall cost of building is a little bit higher, or the final performance is a little bit worse.

"Even if the cost and performance are the same, their military spending ceiling and production capacity are lower than ours, and the overall number of construction will be less than ours, and there is still no chance of winning.

"I think that after thinking about it in this way, the enemy may choose to take the aggressive route and build a capital ship that is larger than ours."

Cao Zhenyong was stunned for a moment, and found that it was indeed such a logic, so he subconsciously asked:

"Then if the enemy really builds bigger ships, how should our navy deal with it?"

Zhu Jingyuan said very decisively and directly:

"We also build bigger capital ships, or simply the other way around, we can take the initiative to control the rhythm and let the tonnage of capital ships continue to expand.

"After the mass production of the 40,000-ton capital ship, the design and production of the 60,000-ton capital ship began, and after the 60,000-ton capital ship, the design of the 80,000-ton capital ship continued.

"The enemy, who is inferior to us in overall strength, will be crushed by our arms race, no matter what grade he chooses to follow up on.

"Of course, if the enemy calmly gives up the chase and stays at a time when it is clearly behind us, then we don't need to continue to increase the stake.

"We just need to continue to maintain relative fleet superiority and guarantee the strength to maintain world order."

Cao Zhenyong was obviously stunned for a moment, this kind of arms race is really a bit exciting:

"Thank Your Highness for the ideas provided, and immediately after the minister returned, he and his colleagues will conduct strategic discussions and form a strategic plan......

This is the end of the discussion of cruisers.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will no longer build large-size cruisers, and will use high-speed battleships with 10,000-ton light cruisers to form the main combat fleet of the Ming Dynasty.

Further down, there are six or seven thousand tons of colonial town guard light cruisers, two or three thousand tons of fleet miscellaneous destroyers (cruisers), and more than 1,000 tons of escort destroyers (frigates).

The design requirements of this kind of warship are to find the right positioning, meet the needs of the target, and then be as cheap as possible and as easy to mass produce as possible.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan instructed the relevant designers to try the feasibility of a modern destroyer ship type.

That is, the sides of the hull are completely straight, and the tail is completely flat.

The top-down view of the hull looks like a slender square, with a sleek pointed tip, which can be said to be extremely concise.

The more concise, the easier it is to design, produce and mass-......

At this point, Zhu Jingyuan's plan, the future ship system of the Ming Navy, and the design indicators of all major ships have been officially announced.

But the formal design work has only just begun.

The designers on the site had to continue to hold meetings when they went back, study the design indicators given by Zhu Jingyuan, slowly plan the specific implementation plan, and finally draw the design drawings.

In this process, Zhu Jingyuan still has to follow up the whole process, answer questions and give various hints at the same time to ensure that the design direction will not deviate.

By the time the design metrics presentation was finally over, it was almost noon and the meeting should be over.

However, in Zhu Jingyuan's heart, there is one more thing that is not big or small.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the craftsmen and officials around him, and then at the old emperor closest to him, and tried to make a final request:

"Grandpa Huang, can I directly specify the names of these battleship design plans now?"

There are no certain rules for the naming of warships in the Ming Dynasty, and the names of mountains, rivers and lakes, places and celebrities, and various common phrases can be used as ship names.

There are also no clear rules for the naming time, from the beginning of the design, to the order, the start of construction, the launch, and the service is possible, and the particularly unimportant ship may not have a ship name directly.

So the old emperor didn't think too much about it now:

"Then you talk about it now, I'll listen to it."

Zhu Jingyuan said directly:

"Two battleships, named Dreadnought, Invincible ......"

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously wanted to go on, but the old emperor directly waved his hand and interrupted:

"It's okay to be fearless, it's not good to be invincible, it's easy to break if it's too rigid, it's called fearless."

Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, what the old emperor said was quite reasonable, and it was also in line with the culture of the East.

Then he nodded:

"Then it's called Fearless, and then the two aircraft carriers are called Dinghai and Zhenhai respectively."

After Zhu Jingyuan finished speaking this time, he glanced at the old emperor and found that he nodded directly and did not express any opinions.

Zhu Jingyuan breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"Two cruisers, named Chongqing Mansion and Jinan Mansion respectively.

"The two destroyers are named Weihaiwei and Jinzhouwei respectively."

This time, the old emperor did not doubt it, and nodded directly again and said:

"Okay, let's name these ships like that."