Chapter 188 It’s better to hide behind and fight the fire, and then win without a fight! (Please subscribe and vote monthly)

A brief introduction to the Hongwu Type 1 battleship has been placed in front of the members of the Naval Armaments Committee.

It has a standard displacement of 18,500 tons and a full load displacement of 20,500 tons; it has a total length of 146 meters, a width of 26.8 meters, and a draft of 8.75 meters. It is equipped with 12 Jiangnan C-type coal-fired boilers, three three-cylinder reciprocating steam engines, and a main engine power of up to 22,000 tons.

Horsepower, 3 axes and 2 rudders are configured in parallel; the warship's maximum speed can reach 20 knots, and its endurance is as high as 9,500 nautical miles at an economical speed of 10 knots.

The warship's armament includes 12 280mm 45x caliber Jiangnan 280-Type 4 main guns, 6 twin turret layouts, 12 155mm 45x caliber secondary guns, and 18 single 50mm rapid-fire anti-aircraft/anti-torpedo boat guns

, 6 450mm torpedo tubes.

In addition, in view of the increasing threat of airships, the Hongwu modified version 1 is also preparing to add 36 13mm anti-aircraft guns!

The main armor belt of the Hongwu modified version is 300 mm thick; it is equipped with three layers of armor deck, each layer is 25-30 mm thick; the command tower armor is 300 mm thick. All of the above armor uses the newly developed surface of Jiangnan Heavy Industry

Hardened steel!

The ship has a full crew of 1,018 people, including 40 officers.

Although this battleship is modified on the basis of the Hongwu Emperor class, it can actually be regarded as an epoch-making battleship! It is completely comparable to the Dreadnought class in another timeline. Its appearance can make the British Empire and the Ming Empire

The previous naval equipment advantages were wiped out overnight.

Moreover, this battleship does not use much "black technology". There is no oil boiler, no steam turbine, and no piggyback turret. The only black technology is surface-hardened steel. Compared with the original old-fashioned armor, surface-hardened steel

The bulletproof capability has more than doubled. Therefore, the 300mm armor modified by Hongwu is equivalent to the original 700mm or more old-fashioned armor.

However, the "black technology" of surface-hardened armor steel alone cannot trouble France, Prussia, and the Austrian Rakshasa country. The metallurgy may be inferior, but as long as the Ming Dynasty is willing to teach it, it is not a problem.

"Daozi," Zhuge Weiyi already understood Zhuge Weidao's thoughts, "Do you want France and the Rakshasa Kingdom to equal us and Great Britain in the navy?"

Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "Only when we have people chasing us can we have the motivation to work hard! And we are not afraid of France and Rakshasa chasing us. First of all, we are not a European country, far away from the place of right and wrong. At worst, we can strictly guard the Strait of Malacca. Anyway, now Batam Island,

Bintan Island is all in our hands. If we build a few more forts and deploy some airships and torpedo boats, we will be safe.

Secondly, we still have something in hand! Minister, our 20,000-ton battlecruiser should be out soon, right?"

Zhuge Weiyi nodded and said: "I'm not satisfied with what you said. In fact, the Design Institute of Jiangnan Heavy Industry and the Design Institute of the Ministry of Navy have already worked on several plans for the 20,000-ton battlecruiser. The hull was modified in Hongwu.

Based on the basics, we then enlarged it, and then added oil-fired boilers, steam turbines, and piggy-back turrets. The number of main guns was reduced to 8. Now the oil-fired boilers and steam turbines have been used in Jiangnan Power Plant for almost a year.

The land test of the turret is almost completed. If construction starts now, the 20,000-ton battle cruiser will be ready for sea trials by Taiping 11. By the time this 20,000-ton battle cruiser is unveiled, the Hongwu modified version will appear outdated.

!The armor and firepower of the 20,000-ton battle cruiser will be equivalent to that of the Hongwu Kai Type 1. Although there are 4 fewer main guns, with the use of a backpack turret, the entire ship's 8 main guns can be aimed at the left or right side at the same time.

When the side fire is fired and a 20,000-ton ship is equipped with a main engine of 75,000-80,000 horsepower, the speed will be more than 30 knots, while the Hongwu modified version can only reach 20 knots at most."

Zhuge Weidao continued what the old man said: "By Taiping 11, our 30,000-ton mass-produced battleship and 30,000-ton battle cruiser should have been designed, right?"

"Hahaha," Zhuge Weiyi laughed, "Absolutely. If everything goes well, these two new warships will be outfitted by Taiping 13. Daozi, if your aircraft can be equipped by Taiping 13, it can be put on the ship.

If the aircraft carrier is developed based on the 20,000-ton battlecruiser hull, it can be secretly built in Taiping 13, and sea trials can begin in Taiping 15."

Zhuge Weidao nodded and thought: "The 10 million-ton navy is more of a bluff. If 10 million tons are on dreadnoughts or pre-dreadnoughts, facing a 30,000-ton mass-produced battleship and a 30,000-ton

The battle cruiser and the 20,000-ton fleet aircraft carrier are just a bunch of living targets. Therefore, the key to a world war lies in using the right mass-produced capital ship at the right time!

If the mass-produced battleships are built too early, they will be out of date when the war begins. If they are built too late, they will not be ready for the war.

Therefore, grasping the time to start the war is the key! At the same time, it is also very critical to induce the opponent to waste limited financial resources on eliminating ship types. After all, no one’s money comes from strong winds, and no one can destroy what has just been built.

The fleet is ruined!"

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "The British can also build the battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers that we can build. It's just a few years behind us. And the use of these battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers

The lifespan is at least twenty or thirty years.

If there is no war, it does not matter whether it is three to five years earlier or three to five years later. These three to five years are our time window. To extend this time window as much as possible, we should force the British to

More financial resources will be spent on the Hongwu modified type 1 and the 20,000-ton battle cruiser!"

Director of Naval Intelligence Li Tiezhu asked with a smile: "So you want to give the Hongwu modified model to France and Rakshasa? Let them challenge the British Empire's hegemony on the Western seas?"

"Actually, we can add an Arab Empire!" Zhuge Weidao said, "France can restore the glory of Western Rome. Rakshasa has inherited the legal system of Eastern Rome and calls itself the Third Rome. If Egypt can develop into the Third Rome after the collapse of the Turkish Empire,

Arab Empire, then the hegemony of the British Empire will automatically end? By then, won’t we be able to win without a fight?

The British army has no deterrent effect against France, the Rakshasa Kingdom, or even Egypt's Ali Pasha. What everyone is really afraid of is the British Royal Navy. If we can export a warship that can greatly weaken Britain's maritime superiority, then

France, Rakshasa, and Egypt will definitely take action. If these three countries achieve the revival of Western Rome, Eastern Rome, and the Arab Empire by carving up the Turkish Empire, then the glory of the British Empire will be gone!

If the British Empire still wants to maintain their glory, they must follow up immediately and start building large-scale battleships similar to the Hongwu Type 1, and the number of built battleships must not be less than the Hongwu Type 1 that Rakshasa, France and Ali Pasha may have.

The sum total! Even so, the British Empire cannot guarantee that Rakshasa, France, and Egypt will not jump out to carve up the Ottoman Turkish Empire."

Hearing Zhuge Weidao's plan of "holding fire from behind and winning without fighting", Zhuge Weiyi, Zhuge Weiyong, Li Tiezhu, and Guan Tianpei all showed relaxed smiles. In fact, they didn't really want to fight a world war, so they could do without fighting.

And winning, that would be the best thing.

Chief of Naval Staff Zhuge Weiyi laughed at this time: "Taozi, the fire of France and Arabia can be held by the military advisors, but the fire of Rakshasa still has to be held by you personally. To untie the bell, you need the person who tied the bell!

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Zhuge Weidao nodded: "Okay, I'll go. When will the Hongwu Type 1 modification be completed for sea trials?"

"It will definitely be too late this year," Zhuge Weiyi calculated. "The sea trials should be completed next summer. Daozi, I can promote you to the rank of general by then, and you will be the admiral of the European formation, and take Nata with you."

Grand Duke Li, how about you go to Europe in all your glory and promote our Hongwu modified model one?"

"Okay, it's settled!"
Chapter completed!