Republic 2752 (1911) September 1o, Canton Ship Design Bureau.

"Hahaha......" Xu Wei looked at the newspaper and suddenly burst out laughing.

The colleague next to him asked, "Xu Gong, what's so funny?"

"Look at it, this article says that our Fuxi level can be eroded for dozens of miles with one shot?" hahaha......" Xu Wei laughed heartily.

Several designers came around to take a look, and they all said that they were in a groove, and they all laughed.

Because on the 1st of this month, the outfitting of the two Fuxi-class ships was completed, and the auxiliary guns, antiaircraft guns, and other small-caliber guns, as well as the new fire control system, radar, computer, and other secret equipment were installed, and the day before yesterday began formal sea trials and the final commissioning of each system. After the news came out, the naval fever, which had just subsided a little, began to heat up again, and major newspapers and periodicals followed up and reported it one after another. In addition, the outfitting of two Qinling-class and two Qingcheng-class ships was completed last month, and the formal sea trials and system commissioning have been carried out for more than half a month.

One of them couldn't help but laugh and said, "Oh my mother......!

Everyone laughed for a while, and Xu Wei continued: "Look at the next piece of news, France and Italy have announced that they will build new dreadnoughts, and Britain and Germany have also urgently revised their designs and revised their construction plans. Germany announced that the King-class battleships of the new class would also adopt the 36o mm class main guns......"

"Isn't this the same as our Fuxi class?"

"Our Fuxi-class main gun uses the technology of the Austro-Hungarian company Skoda, and the Germans and Austria-Hungary are allies, and if they want it, Austria-Hungary will not refuse...... I heard that their previous Nassau class used a 31o mm gun from Skoda......"

Xu Wei smiled: "It's not all, I heard that the Emperor class built in Germany has already used a 36o mm main gun, so they delayed the start date for a few months, just to modify the design." It was originally scheduled to start construction at the end of O9, but it turned out to start a year later than our Fuxi class. In addition, the Americans are also contacting us to buy a full set of drawings and calculations for the Fuxi class...... Now that all countries are building dreadnoughts, it seems that our Fuxi class has pushed the current dreadnought competition to a **......"

Everyone was an expert, and they began to talk about it.

After all, they are high-level technical personnel, and some relevant foreign confidential information will also be opened to them, and many of the information they are talking about now is not known to ordinary people in the outside world.

Not long after returning to China at the Fuxi level, this dreadnought competition began to move towards the first. The fuse is actually the Americans, because with China's naval strength, even if a few more dreadnoughts are added, the stimulation for countries is not too great. But when the Yankees joined, things went sour.

In January 1911, when the Fuxi-class began sea trials, the U.S. Navy was shocked by the performance of the Fuxi-class bunkers, and after several months of discussion, they decided to cancel the design of the follow-up New York-class battleships and directly adopt the design of the Fuxi-class. As soon as the Fuxi class returned to China, the United States sent people to contact the purchase of designs and related patents.

Some people may ask, the Fuxi class was built in the United States, and the Americans have the drawings in their hands, so why should they buy them? Yes, the Americans have the drawings, but they are only construction drawings, not a complete set of drawings, especially since there are no calculation books. In other words, it is not impossible for them to continue to build the Fuxi class, but they can only build it as it is, and they can't make some major changes. Besides, now that the two countries are in the honeymoon period, and the Yankees are not short of that little money, it is very stupid to affect the friendship between the two countries for this little thing.

After the Yankees begged to come to the door, Wen Deji also readily agreed, and the two sides closed the deal for $450,000. China has provided the United States with a complete set of drawings and calculations for the Fuxi-class, Qinling-class, and Qingcheng-class warships. And the United States does not have to pay cash, and it is directly deducted from the balance of the purchase of the ship.

As a result, as soon as the Yankees turned around, they immediately announced that they would start construction of a new battleship this year, that is, the Fuxi class. Of course, they also changed the name, and directly used the New York class of the original canceled design. However, the Yankees also made some changes, changing the Fuxi-class 13o mm secondary gun to their own 127mm secondary gun.

This time, the Yankees directly announced the true number of the new New York-level, and the Fuxi-level has been created, so there is no need to fool people. 3。 20,000 tons of standard platoon, 4 3-in-1 36o mm 45 times the diameter of the gun, tail back arrangement, 8 twin 127mm 5o times the diameter of the auxiliary gun.

As soon as the powers saw it, they were on the Yankees with 30,000 tons of dreadnoughts with 14-inch guns! The Yankees were all on board, and we couldn't lag behind, could we?

Especially Niu Niu, who is the world's first brother, can't bear it!

If just a few more battleships in China can't change the world pattern, Niu Niu knows very well that although China has been desperately building ships in recent years, their main focus is still on 6 places. The navy meant more defense for China, which would not pose much of a threat to the British Empire. Besides, there is the vicious dog of Japan on the side of China, and if you want to challenge the British Empire, you have to deal with this vicious dog first.

But the United States is different, a formidable potential adversary, a contender with every position to kick Niu Niu off the throne. There is absolutely no room for carelessness.

As a result, British Admiral Winston Churchill strongly demanded that the development of a 15-inch caliber gun immediately begin to replace the existing 13. 5-inch caliber main gun. And immediately overhauled the drawings of the Iron Duke-class battleship, which was scheduled to start construction next year, so that it could be equipped with 15-inch guns. In order to catch up with the schedule, Qiu Fatzi ordered the trial production and manufacture of the 15-inch caliber gun to be carried out at the same time. For reasons of secrecy, this new naval gun was called the "14-inch gun". Of course, this kind of secrecy is meaningless to China, which is familiar with the world.

The great powers have all moved, and Japan, next door to China, is no exception. In August, they announced plans to build the next class of battleships, the Fuso-class, and although the specific parameters were kept secret from the outside world, this secrecy was completely meaningless for China's intelligence capabilities, and within a few days of their announcement, the Chinese side had already received very detailed information.

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Wuhan, Presidential Palace.

"It's really funny, you say, why are the Japanese so obsessed with the six-turret layout? The last time they bought the Orion-class blueprints from the British, they still changed it to a six-gun turret, and now this Fuso-class is a six-turret. How much do they like the six-turret?"

Wen Deji looked at the information in his hand and couldn't laugh a little, and the Japanese fascination with the six turrets made him feel embarrassed.

"Mr. Wen, the Fusang class turned out to be more than six turrets, but seven ......turrets," Wang Qi, Minister of State Security, said with some amusement: "As far as we know, the Japanese Navy proposed a seven-turret plan at the beginning, but the Ship Administration Headquarters (Japanese warship design department) said that the existing technology could not meet the requirements of the Navy, so it was changed to a six-turret ......"

Wen Desi shook his head: "I have to say, the six-gun turret, or even the five-gun turret, is a very stupid layout, let alone a seven-gun turret." It turned out that it was better not to have more than four of the main turrets of the battleship, otherwise the negative impact on the armor would be too great......"

Gu Xiaolu replied: "Of course, although for us, it is common sense. But the people of this plane have not yet been taught a lesson, especially the Japanese, who have a tradition of desperately stacking weapons on warships. ”

"It's not surprising that Japan lacks national strength, but they are too ambitious, so they always like to engage in some crooked ways, hoping to win by surprise. But history has already taught us that even if we succeed in winning by surprise, we can only be complacent for a while, and in the end, we still have to speak with strength. What's more, more so-called 'surprising' examples end in failure...... "Military Secretary Gu Xiaoyuan also despises Japan's strategy.

She continued: "By the way, Mr. Wen, according to our intelligence, the two Hanoi-class ships launched by Japan last month are already working on outfitting, and they have organized five times the number of workers to work in three shifts, and according to our experts, it will be completed by the end of this year." ”

Wen Deji smiled disapprerovingly: "So fast, hehe, Japan has been stimulated by us, and it is also quite hard......"

Of course he didn't care too much. Because Japan's so-called "Shinkawachi-class" is an emergency product. The original Hanoi-class main gun was arranged in a diamond shape, that is, one in the front and rear, and two on the left and right sides, of course, this is not wrong, this is the mainstream arrangement at that time, but it is very speechless. Although the caliber of the 12 main guns of the Hanoi class is the same 3o5 mm, the double diameter is different. The 4 main guns in the tail are 5o times the diameter, while the 8 main guns on the side are 45 times the diameter, that is, it is not a real dreadnought at all, at most it can only be considered a "quasi-dreadnought".

After receiving the news that China had commissioned the United States to build battleships, the Japanese were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, because even according to the shrinkage deliberately leaked by China and the United States at that time, it was not comparable to the Hanoi class. The most important thing is that the main guns of the Chinese battleships were laid out on the full central axis, and when firing from the sideboard, they were able to wield all the main gun firepower, while the Hanoi class with a diamond-shaped layout could only wield two-thirds of the main gun fire when firing from the sideboard.

At this moment, the Japanese navy quit, and according to their ideas, their own warships could barely accept it compared to the British and Mi ghost animals, but they could never be worse than the Chinese people!

The original Hanoi-class design was directly thrown away, and even the Settsu, which was almost laid with a keel, was urgently suspended, and the Military Command Department asked the Ship Administration Headquarters to immediately revise it, and also want the kind of all-central axis layout that can wield all the firepower. This can make the ship's headquarters miserable, and the diamond-shaped layout will be changed to the layout of the whole central axis? This is still called changing, changing your sister! This Nima is redesigned, right?

The Ship Administration Headquarters said that it was okay to make a major change, but in any case it was impossible to come up with a new design before 19o9. Now the combined fleet is gone, and I can't afford to wait. So, they had to look for Niu Niu to buy drawings. At that time, the British happened to design their first battleship with a full central axis layout, which was the "Orion class". Out of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the consideration of containing China and the United States, Britain also generously sold the drawings of Orion to Japan.

However, the Orion class had only five turrets, which was unacceptable to the Japanese, so they asked the British to add another turret and to complete it within two months. Since it was the customer's request, the British designers had to embarrass their faces. They lengthened the length of the Orion class, shoehorned another turret in between the two chimneys, and increased the standard displacement from 22ooo tons to 26ooo tons.

But everyone can imagine how good the design can be in such a hurry.

And now Japan's announced Fuso-class shipbuilding plan has been revised on the basis of the Hanoi-class. Oh, this time there is more time, at least to fill in the leaks of the Hanoi class, but the layout of the six-turret is not much better.

At a time when countries are crazy about battleships, two inconspicuous things are being built at two large shipyards in China......

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