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Admiralty of Chile.

Xu Wei, the chief designer of the Guangzhou Shipyard Design Institute, is the representative of the designers, and he is now standing in front of a 2-type large-scale model, gushing endlessly about a group of Chilean bigwigs.

“...... To sum up, the new Type 2 battleship is a perfect combination of firepower, defense and mobility, which can fully meet or even exceed the requirements of your country

Argentina's Saavedra is definitely no match for him."

“...... At present, China is the only country in the world with experience in using super-dreadnoughts, and the Fuxi-class super-dreadnoughts designed by China have undergone the test of war and fully proved our design level. The fleet designed and built by our country for the Ottomans also experienced the test of war not long ago, and the Ottomans repelled the Russian navy, which was several times their size, with a weak force, and won the victory in the defense of Saryer. In particular, the super-dreadnought ship Suleiman the Magnificent, built by our country, was extremely good, and with one enemy and five enemies, it achieved the astonishing result of sinking two and damaging two Russian battleships. Now the Ottomans have again applied to our country for the purchase of battleships. This also fully proves the level of warship manufacturing in our country......"

"The greatest contributor to the defense of Saryere is our country's Fuxi class, that is, your country's greatest imaginary enemy, Argentina's Saavedra class. The current Type 20 battleship is a new generation of powerful battleships that we have carefully improved and strengthened and redesigned on the basis of the Fuxi class and with reference to the needs of actual combat. According to our calculations, its combat effectiveness is at least b times that of the Fuxi class."

"Not only do we have excellent battleship design and manufacturing capabilities, but the rest of the ships are also very good, and our Minjiang-class cruisers and Zhuhai-class destroyers, as well as Type 3L submarines, have also been tested in actual combat and have achieved good results. Germany used our Type 3L submarines to sink three 10,000-ton armored cruisers in one fell swoop...... Therefore, the choice of our warships is definitely a wise choice for your country"

Xu Wei reasoned with the facts, and fooled the big men in Chile with a smile and nodded one after another.

Of course, although there is a lot of Spring and Autumn brushwork in Engineer Xu Wei's words, he still respects the basic facts and is not nonsense. Otherwise, the Chilean people are not stupid, and if things are really good, it is useless to fool them.

The "Battle of Saleyer" that Xu Wei just mentioned took place on 15 July, a naval battle between Russia and the Ottomans. At that time, Britain and France were even tighter on the Western Front because of the fiasco of the "Battle of Down", and in order to reduce the pressure, they asked Russia to move quickly and pull the hatred of Erdezi. Russia did move, too, but instead of on the Eastern Front, as Britain and France had hoped, they pinched it in the Black Sea and Turkey.

Since Russia declared war on Turkey on July 9, the two sides have been fighting in Armenia and the Ottomans in the Caucasus. On 9 July, the afternoon of the day after the declaration of war, 19 divisions were dispatched to attack the Meliá region of West Asia. The Ottomans, of course, were also prepared, they put twelve divisions here. The two armies fought fiercely in the mountains of the Caucasus, and the result of the battle shattered the glasses of a group of military experts, and the seemingly powerful Russian army was pushed back by the Ottomans.

The Ottoman air force played a great role in this campaign, and as soon as the war began, the attacking Russian army was attacked from the air, and the roaring Qiang-l "Bailing" attack aircraft accurately dropped bombs into the ranks of the Russian troops, blowing up the gray cattle to the ground. Then the Ottoman army launched a counteroffensive, using light mortars, rocket launchers and other weapons suitable for mountain warfare, flexibly and maneuverably attacking Russian supply lines and camps.

In more than a month of fighting, the slow-moving Russian army was deflated one after another, not only was it driven out of the Russian-Turkish border, but even half of the eastern Armenia they originally controlled was lost, and they retreated to Lake Sevan to stabilize their position. The Russians had a lot of money and blew up the Ottoman streets, and this small defeat had little impact on them, but their main focus was on the Eastern Front, where the German-Austrian forces were really difficult to deal with. And the Ottoman army was insufficient, and the next step was to fight here, and most importantly, the local Armenians were very hostile to the Turks, and the Ottoman army did not have the support of the locals at all. So the two sides are at a stalemate here.

Seeing that Russia could not open up the situation in the Caucasus, it was ready to make a move on the Black Sea side to see if there was a chance. After getting help from Britain and France, they also fell into the trap, and after knocking a hard sum of aid, they were ready to get a guy.

Their target is Saryer, a place on the western side of the Black Sea, next to Istanbul, the entrance to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea, and its strategic location is very important. In fact, Russia did not plan to really fight, because their Black Sea Fleet was not very powerful, and after the Russo-Japanese War, the Black Sea Fleet has been rebuilding.

On paper, the current Black Sea Fleet has seven battleships, three armored ships for shore defense, four cruisers, twenty-two destroyers, and a dozen small boats such as gunboats, torpedo boats, etc.

Well, it seems pretty good. But only six of these destroyers were new ships completed between 1913 and 1914. The other ships are all old ships. Among the seven battleships that are the main force, there are only two dreadnoughts, the other five are former dreadnoughts, two of which are old goods from the last century, and the three shore defense armored ships are old ships about 2 years old.

They faced an Ottoman navy with super-dreadnoughts, aircraft carriers, and a whole new fleet.

The commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Andrei Augustovich and Qiongbegaard, is not the second in the middle, and he also knows that the Ottoman Navy is not easy to mess with, at least now it will not take advantage of the fight. But pressure from Nicholas II forced him to take a look. According to Jebegard's plan, they only had to run to Saaryel to shell for a while, and then they could withdraw.

In this way, without having to fight hard with the Ottoman navy, you can say "We are attacking, but the Turkish barbarians dare not fight, what can we do?", and His Majesty the Tsar can make a difference. The Tsar was also able to make a letter to the Entente that we had not taken aid in vain. How nice is that?

At this time, the Ottoman navy's new Second Fleet was all operating in the waters of Georgia's Pakistani reunification belt, where they were monitoring the Russian army. Only a few old ships are guarding the entrance to the Bosphorus, incidentally protecting Istanbul. According to the idea of His Excellency the commander, the main force of the Ottoman navy is in the southeast of the Black Sea, and the home port of the Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, is in the north, and the shipping route is just avoided. When they got to the ground, with the urine of the Ottoman navy, the broken ships in Istanbul would never dare to come out. And their new fleet has no time to rush back, Batumi and Saryer are separated by more than 60 nautical miles, anyway, when the time comes, they will leave after a few shots, and the Ottoman new fleet will not have time to chase after it.

But the reality was far from so rosy, and things did not turn out according to Commander Jebegard's script.

In order to make the play more realistic, Commander Yebegard took almost all the family resources of the Black Sea Fleet and went to Saaryar in a murderous manner. But less than an hour after they left their home port of Sevastopol, they were discovered by the Turks.

The Ottoman Empire bought six water patrol planes from China last year, and after tensions between Russia and Turkey, they transferred all four to the Black Sea direction, leaving only one in the Mediterranean.

At 7 a.m. on the 14th, a "lion-headed goose" on a routine patrol spot spotted the sneaky Russian fleet in the waters near Sevastopol.

As a result, Turkey, when it learned of the Black Sea Fleet's attack, reacted much more vigorously than Russia imagined. No way, they didn't communicate in advance, the woolly bear was thinking about the meaning, just go through the motions, but Turkey doesn't know. Looking at the battle of the heroes of the Black Sea Fleet here, how could the Turks be calm. Nima, looking at the posture of the woolly bear, it is obvious that he wants to attack the rhythm of our Istanbul

Immediately, the cutting-edge fleet, which was still monitoring the Russian army near Batumi, immediately turned around and returned at full speed.

Many of the warships in this group of warships of the Black Sea Fleet are old ships of the last century, and the speed is not fast, and the maintenance of Maozi's warships has always been very bad, so it is even slower, and the maximum speed of the entire fleet is only more than 13 knots, and the cruising speed can only reach more than B knots. The Ottoman Second Fleet, on the other hand, was a new warship, capable of running at full speed.

And the two Ottoman Type 3L submarines did not use soy sauce, they aimed at the two most powerful dreadnoughts in the Russian fleet, the Empress Maria and Catherine the Great, and fired B torpedoes in one go, but the skills of the Turkish submariners were a little rougher, and the Russian sailors also reacted in time. The submarine failed to hit the intended target, but it hit the two shore defense armored ships next to it, the Twelve Apostles and the Sinop, both of which were old ships completed more than two years ago, and the power system was slow to respond, and it was impossible to dodge in the face of high-speed torpedoes.

Sinop was torpedoed by two torpedoes and sank on the spot. The port side of the Twelve Apostles was torpedoed and exploded a hole of more than two meters near the waterline, causing a large amount of water to enter the sea and collapse directly on the surface of the sea. The destroyers of the Russian fleet rushed over to the anti-submarine forces, and the two Type 3L submarines did not dare to fight, so they fired torpedoes and ran away, and the Russian destroyers searched for a long time but did not find them. Although the Ottoman submarines in the back never attacked again, the Russian fleet became more cautious and slower.

By the time of the morning of 15 a.m., the Turkish Second Fleet had reached the waters of Saryer first, while the Russian Black Sea Fleet was still 8 nautical miles away. After the Turkish fleet had merged the two remaining Brandenburg-class battleships, it had time to complete some resupply and overhaul, and the sailors could still sleep.

At 4:03 p.m., the belated Black Sea Fleet finally reached the waters off Saryer. At this time, it was the turn of the Russians to be dumbfounded, and their destroyers were surprised to find that the Turkish navy was all here, and that they were already in front of them.

Although the Russians were not prepared for a tough battle in advance, they have encountered it now, so let's fight.

Anyway, it seems that the Russian fleet has the upper hand, the Black Sea Fleet has seven battleships, while the Turkish fleet has only three. But that's not how the account is calculated, most of Turkey's warships are cutting-edge, and there are land-based aircraft to help, no matter how you look at it, it's unlucky. But at that time, the Russian Navy did not see any threat to battleships by aircraft, and they did not think so.

The Ottomans tasted the sweetness of airplanes during the Balyu War, and their importance to airplanes can be said to be second only to China in the world at present, and their confidence in airplanes may still be above that of the Chinese army. The battle was no exception, and the first to attack was the 1st Fighter Wing and the 1st Bomber Wing of the Ottoman Air Force that took off from Istanbul Airport.

At 4:03, a group of J-2 "Raven" fighters and three H-L "Tern" light bombers reached the sky over the Black Sea Fleet. Bullying the Russian fleet without aircraft cover, the Turkish Air Force not only let the "Tern" be mounted according to the limit, hanging two 20-kilogram bombs, but even the "Raven" also hung two 6-kilogram bombs.

At this moment, the Russian fleet panicked, they did not conduct air defense training, and the entire fleet suddenly fell into a state of chaos of fighting on its own. The anti-aircraft guns and machine guns on the various ships fired desperately at the planes, and they hurriedly maneuvered to dodge. But this unorganized firepower was no threat to the Ottoman swarm, and they aimed and dropped bombs unhurriedly.

However, the Ottoman Air Force also lacked experience in attacking surface ships, and the "Tern" light bomber was not a dive bomber, but could only deliver bombs horizontally, so the hit rate was very speechless, and it was even inferior to the part-time "Raven" fighter. Of the 180 20-kilogram bombs dropped, only 4 hit directly, and another 6 missed. Although the "Raven" fighters are capable of diving, they are not bombers, and the pilots have also received the most basic bombing training, so the hit rate is only slightly better, and 2 of the 184 6-kilogram bombs they dropped hit directly, but the 6-kilogram bombs are too small for a warship, and they can only be regarded as painless, even destroyers don't care much.

As a result, the losses of the Russian fleet were minimal, only one old cruiser was unfortunately sunk, and one destroyer was seriously damaged. The two main turrets of the front and rear turrets of the "Victor Georgi" were blown up and most of their combat effectiveness was lost. Several other ships were slightly damaged. Despite the pitiful hit rate of the bombs, the "Raven" fighters used their 2-mm cannons to sweep the decks of all Russian ships, destroyed a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, killed many sailors, and created better conditions for the next carrier-based aircraft.

At 6 o'clock, the air force group left the scene, and before their figures disappeared, the 20 carrier-based planes that took off from the "Fatih" aircraft carrier arrived at the scene one after the other. Carrier-based planes are specialized in attacking warships, and among them are dive bombers, a full 40 J-IH "Haibring" attack planes, and 40 H-"Warship Bird" torpedo bombers that pose an even greater threat.

And at this time, three Ottoman battleships also rushed up with a group of light ships. Two Brandenburg-class battleships set their sights on the Three Saints (Trivitephalia). The super-dreadnought "Suleiman the Magnificent" targeted the Empress Maria, the most powerful ship of the Black Sea Fleet. The most excessive thing was that six Ottoman Type 3L submarines also came to join in the fun, and they shot all the torpedoes in one go at a distance of about 7 kilometers southwest of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Black Sea Fleet was suddenly caught in a flank, and at the same time it was attacked from the sky, from the surface and from under the water, and then there was no more. After more than two hours of fierce fighting, at about half past seven in the evening, the Russian fleet returned with a crushing defeat. Of the seven battleships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, only the dreadnought Catherine the Great and the former dreadnought Potemkin fled back to their home port with scars, the shore defense armored ships and cruisers were completely destroyed, and only six of the twenty-two destroyers escaped.

The Ottoman navy won a great victory, and they breathed a bad breath that had been held for hundreds of years, and they called this battle "the great victory of Saryer". You know, in the past, they were basically beaten by the hairy bear.

In this battle, the "Suleiman Magnificent" super-dreadnought was indeed eye-catching, it successively engaged five Russian battleships, sank the Empress Maria dreadnought and the Three Saints (Trivitephalia) dreadnought, damaged two dreadnoughts of Potemkin and Yevstafi, and sank the victorious Georgi, which was damaged by aircraft.

In fact, when the Chinese navy learned the details of the battle, they were not impressed by the so-called great victory of the Ottoman navy. They generally believed that Turkey did not fight this battle very well, that they had made many mistakes in tactics, and that there was a clear shortage of officers and men, and that they were able to win the battle because of their equipment. The Chinese admirals all felt that if they were replaced by the Chinese navy, the Black Sea Fleet would not be able to return even a single plank.

However, this does not affect the fact that Chinese-made warships have won praise in the world. It is precisely because of this battle that Chileans are completely convinced that their choice is right

Of course, there is another very important reason, that is, China's quotation is relatively low, and you don't have to pay all in cash. Yes, according to China's requirements, Chile can use mineral exploration and development rights in several areas such as Escondida (CDHDDA) to offset one-third of the cost, and then use minerals such as copper ore to offset one-third of the cost, and only need to pay one-third in cash.

It is impossible for the United States to agree to such conditions, and they do not lack copper mines.