Chapter 270 The new species of the Ming Dynasty - battlecruiser torpedo boat! (Please subscribe, please vote)

Just when King Yipian of the British Empire and Wei Zhongtang and Sir Lord Nadezzi were discussing in Windsor Castle how to launch a war against the Ming Empire, which loved peace and only wanted peaceful development, Zhuge Weidao was standing on a huge ship.

From the bridge of the battleship, one looks out over the boundless sea.

This is no longer the Arabian Sea or the Indian Ocean, but the sea area that the Ming Dynasty himself called the "Ming Dynasty South Ocean".

The so-called Daming South Sea roughly includes the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Karimata, the Gulf of Siam, the South China Sea, the Java Sea, the Sulu Sea, the Sulawesi Sea, the Makassar Strait, the Maluku Sea, the Banda Sea, and the Sahara Sea.

Wuhai, Luzon Sea and other large sea areas have been owned by the Celestial Empire since ancient times! Although some of these sea areas are temporarily occupied by Western imperialism, after the upcoming world war (which has actually begun) is over,

Western imperialism will run away in despair.

Looking out from the bridge where Zhuge Weidao is located, the sea surface of the Ming Nanyang is like a piece of blue, shiny silk and satin, undulating layer by layer in the sea breeze. When the weather is fine,

When the sun shines, the eyes are filled with flashes of light.

The sea of ​​Nanyang is dotted with islands of all sizes. Each island is covered with lush green jungles and white beaches. Each island seems to be full of vitality. And all of this, as far as the eye can see, is the Ming Sea.

, the island of Ming Dynasty, the sky of Ming Dynasty! Standing on the bridge, looking at the beautiful scenery of the ocean, islands and sky belonging to Ming Dynasty all day long, I really never get tired of it.

The sea area that Zhuge Weidao's warship is passing through is not on the merchant ship route, so in addition to a thousand-ton destroyer closely following it, some old-fashioned motor sailing ships can occasionally be seen passing by. Those motor sailing ships are traveling to and from the Nanyang of the Ming Dynasty.

Those freighters and passenger boats between the small islands, if they encounter a favorable wind, they will hang up their white sails like clouds and sail with the wind, which looks poetic.

Just when Zhuge Weidao wanted to recite a poem but didn't know how to recite it, Guan Tianpei's voice suddenly rang out.

"Are you envious? Do you like it? You want it very much, don't you? If you want it, just tell me, brother, I will report to the superiors and transfer you to the Nanyang Fleet as deputy admiral and admiral of the battle patrol unit. From now on, this battlecruiser King Wuzhong will

This is your flagship, this battlecruiser is much stronger than the airships and wooden planes of the Aviation Command!"

It turns out that Guan Tianpei’s new position is the admiral of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy!

The Nanyang Fleet is the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty. Its strength cannot be compared to the Persian Gulf Fleet, nor can it be compared to the Beiyang Fleet and the Home Fleet.

The successive admirals of the Nanyang Fleet later served as the highest naval positions such as the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Staff! People who are not from the eight major aristocratic families can become admirals of the Nanyang Fleet. Apart from Guan Tianpei, only Liu Guoxuan, the founder of the Nanyang Fleet,

Chen Yonghua, Chen Shangchuan and Guan Tianpei are the fourth!

But what really attracted Zhuge Weidao, who originally took a Nandao-class passenger ship to return to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and started heading north with his wife Natalie and personal maid Ali at the Brunei military port was not his old boss. The new official took office.

Guan Tianpei, the admiral of the Nanyang Fleet, is the battle cruiser Wuzhong King that he is currently riding on, which has just been assigned to the Nanyang Fleet!

The King Wu Zhong is the first ship of the "Hachada King" class. It is a battle cruiser with a certain experimental nature that is equipped with oil-fired boilers and steam turbines and has a standard displacement of more than 20,000 tons.

While the British were going all out to build the Victory class, the Huangdao Shipyard of the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan Heavy Industry, whose shipbuilding speed was also not slow (the Ming Dynasty does not have a 997 now, but can work in three shifts), was also rushing to the construction site day and night to build this 20,000-ton giant.

The ship has been assembled. While Zhuge Weidao is busy fixing the Persian Gulf, this 20,000-ton giant ship, which has been kept secret until now, has completed sea trials and been assigned to the Nanyang Fleet. But this

The ship is not stationed in Brunei Port, the home port of the Nanyang Fleet, but is hiding in Crocodile Harbor on Palawan Island.

Palawan Island was taken back by Zheng Chenggong during his southern expedition to Luzon. Although the South Luzon Islands to the east of Palawan Island were not taken back at the same time, they have always been a Spanish colony. But after the end of the Age of Sailing, this place became

It is no longer a node of the galleon trade. After the collapse of the colonial rule of the Spanish Empire in Mexico and South America, the Spanish power has actually withdrawn from the Southern Luzon Islands. However, the peace-loving Ming Dynasty did not occupy it, but

Let the local Chinese-Spanish mixed-race families in Southern Luzon practice self-government and maintain the name of Spanish territory, but the local politics, economy, military, education, etc. are already under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for doing this, apart from the fact that the Ming Dynasty is relatively "cowardly", is mainly because Southern Luzon does not meet the conditions for becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty - it is too poor! It also needs to work hard to develop the economy, so that it can become a vassal state for the Ming Dynasty.

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Moreover, the Spanish Bourbon dynasty, which was extremely poor, was not willing to let go easily. Instead, it asked the Ming Dynasty for 10 million silver dollars in "traitorous money." Spending 10 million yuan to buy a poor country will have to spend millions every year to subsidize it. This is not

What is being taken advantage of?

Therefore, Southern Luzon maintained the status quo of Spain, while the Ming Empire controlled politics, economy, military, education, etc., and became a candidate vassal state.

In this case, the Sulu Sea became the actual inland sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty. The King Wuzhong was based at Crocodile Harbor in Palawan Island, making it difficult for outsiders to discover it.

However, Zhuge Weidao is not an "outsider". He used to be a member of the Armament Commission and is now the admiral-designate of the Naval Aviation. After taking over as admiral, he will naturally become the Naval Armament Commission, so the Wuzhong King is not a secret to him.

In addition, according to the plan, the hull design and power system of the Wuzhong King will also be adopted by the Ming Dynasty's first fleet aircraft carrier.

Zhuge Weidao, the admiral of HNA, should come and take a look.

So Guan Tianpei simply sent the Wuzhong King a training mission to T Bay, and boarded the ship with Zhuge Weidao by the way. However, Natalie and Ali could only take a passenger ship to T Bay Island because they did not have the corresponding permissions.

Joined Zhuge Weidao.

However, this 20,000-ton battle cruiser is not Zhuge Weidao's favorite. What he really wants to command is an aircraft carrier formation.

Seeing that Zhuge Weidao did not show much interest, Guan Tianpei began to introduce this cutting-edge battleship that had just been commissioned.

"The standard displacement is 20,000 tons; the full load displacement is 24,200 tons; the ship size is 182 meters * 24.8 meters * 8.2 meters; the armor protection is 165 mm for the side main armor belt, 30 mm for the main deck, 55 mm for the deck around the turret, and 40 mm for the lower deck

, the main turret has 175 mm of armor on all sides, the top of the turret is 75 mm, the turret base is 175 mm, the maximum armor of the conning tower is 250 mm, and the top and bottom of the conning tower are both 75 mm. In addition, the sides adopt a cambered armor design, and there are

Lightning protection partitions and armor steel plates are also surface-hardened steel!

The power of the Wuzhong King is: 16 kerosene mixed-fired steam boilers, 4 steam turbines, the maximum output power of the main engine exceeds 42,000 horsepower, and uses four-axis propulsion. The endurance can reach 7,000 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots, and the maximum speed is 24 Festival!

The armaments of the Wuzhong King are: 8 twin 300mm 45-caliber cannons; 16 100mm 45-caliber rapid-fire cannons; 16 20mm anti-aircraft cannons; 2*4 530mm bow underwater Torpedo launch tubes, 2*4 530 mm side underwater torpedo launch tubes.”

"Wait a minute," Zhuge Weidao heard the strange configuration and looked back at Guan Tianpei, "Zhong Yin, how come our battlecruiser is equipped with so many 520mm torpedo tubes? This time it can launch 16 520mm torpedo tubes Torpedoes, is this still a battlecruiser? Isn’t this a battlecruiser torpedo boat?”
Chapter completed!