Republic of China: Our great warlord has many children and many blessings

When human history entered the Age of Navigation, the Western maritime powers attached great importance to their navy to an unprecedented degree.

There is a consensus in the West that"whoever owns the ocean and controls the waterways will own the future of the empire."

Yong Jianqiu has been in the arms business for several years and has knowledge of weapons at home and abroad.

Although there are not many transactions in the field of warships, he still has his own knowledge reserve.

After all, warships are too expensive and ordinary warlords cannot afford them.

After sorting out his thoughts, Yong Jianqiu said:"General Shen, when setting up a fleet, the first choice is of course battleships.

Now, the top navies of all European countries hold the same view.

That is, they believe that the victory or defeat of naval battles at sea is , will ultimately be decided by the confrontation between the largest strategic ships.

In other words, whoever has warships with larger tonnage, greater numbers, and more heavy guns will win the naval battle.

Among today's maritime powers, battleships are undoubtedly the largest warships, so every country has positioned the production of battleships as the goal of naval expansion."

Shen Hao nodded, he still knew about battleships.

Battleships have large tonnage, large-caliber guns, and thick armor.

It was the main ship in the naval artillery battle of World War I and the king of the"530" artillery era. Only battleships could deal with battleships.

Battleships were named after they formed a battle line during battle and were characterized by large-caliber and powerful guns and thick armor.

In this era without aircraft carriers, battleships are the dominant force on the sea.

Today's naval battles are clumsy, with ships lining up and artillery firing at each other.

However, battleships are stronger in a battle, but they are not cheap either.

Shen Hao asked:"What is the price of this battleship?"

Yong Jianqiu said:"With this high status, the price is naturally high.

The battleship has a large tonnage and many weapons, so it is naturally expensive to build.

The specific price, according to the earliest calculations, should be British.

1906 In December, a newly built British battleship, the HMS Dreadnought, was launched. It was the first battleship with all cannons. It took 14 months to build and was capable of speeding up to 10 knots. It was the first time that steam turbine power equipment was used, allowing the battleship to sail faster. The distance is 30% longer than that of the battleships of the same period.

It is also equipped with 10 powerful 305mm cannons. The launch of this battleship was a leap in the ship design industry at that time.

The Dreadnought was longer than the British battleships of the same period. It was much more advanced, and it also made the German battleships that were only equipped with four 0mm caliber guns at the same time pale.

At the same time, the Dreadnought's attack hit rate was much better than other ships.

The appearance of this heavy battleship made its German counterparts Envious of this, the German military started a"shipbuilding frenzy."

Dreadnought-class battleship £1.78 million.

The UK also has Tiger-class battlecruisers worth £2.593 million.

A Queen-class battleship with a displacement of 27,000 tons costs 2.5 million pounds.

Most recently, in 1911, the Qing Dynasty envoy ordered a battleship based on the USS Delaware from the United States on an installment basis after visiting a U.S. shipyard.

This battleship has a displacement of 22,325 tons, is equipped with 14 boilers, has a horsepower of 31,000 horsepower, and a speed of 21 knots.

The price is 10 million oceans.

But because the Qing Dynasty was gone, the battleship Delaware also died."

Hearing this, Shen Hao was speechless for a moment. He could afford it, but it was so expensive that it made Shen Hao feel distressed.

As if he could tell that Shen Hao thought it was expensive, Yong Jianqiu said again:"At this time, armored steel is about 100 pounds per ton ( As a comparison, 3,000 tons of armored steel for a warship will definitely be more expensive (normal steel costs 6-8 pounds per ton).

However, General Shen can just buy a battleship with a smaller displacement.

For example, the Dreadnought-class with a displacement of 17,000 tons costs 1.7 million pounds. I think it can be bought, and it should be cheaper.

Of course, if it is a battlecruiser, the tonnage cost will be more expensive, after all, the boiler is more expensive.

When there are second-class battleships like the Centurion, it will be cheaper."

Shen Hao said:"Just buy a battleship worth more than one million pounds, and some others."

Yong Jianqiu said happily:"Okay General Shen, generally a fleet consists of Of course, the composition of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines can also be replaced by gunboats.

Destroyers are indispensable.

Several major European naval forces are equipped with destroyers.

Countries with stronger navies naturally have more in their hands. For example, the United Kingdom has 300 ships, Germany has 144, and even a weak navy like the Austro-Hungarian Empire has 25 ships. This shows that the popularity of this kind of warship is really wide.

There are also submarines, which are now also an important part of the fleet."

Having said this, Yong Jianqiu smiled and explained to Shen Hao:"There is a little story when it comes to submarines.

At the beginning, the British relied on themselves to be the world's most powerful navy, with over a hundred giant ships and thousands of sterns, and a surface fleet that swept the world.

For gadgets like submarines, the British Navy initially rejected them. Not only did they reject them, they also despised them.

The British are arrogant. Not only do they reject it themselves, they also fool the French, Russian, American and other new naval talents into giving up submarines.

Even elevated to a moral level.

The then First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Arthur Wilson, once complained that"submarines are mean, unfair, damned, and unlike the English. Those on board should be hanged as pirates!"

But he was the first to hold true. submarine force, equipment"SS-1" submarine, because it met a century-old wizard-John Holland.

Then all countries began to develop submarines, and the birth of torpedoes gave submarines the ability to destroy large warships overnight, but they could not even build a submarine. The British were even more and more panicked.

So in 1901, they quickly changed the direction and ordered five"Divers/Hawkers" from the American Electric Boat Company in the name of"studying how to deal with submarines". Lan 7" class submarine."

It must be said that Yong Jianqiu is much more familiar with the knowledge reserve of warships than Shen Hao.

Shen Hao only has aircraft carriers, cruisers and the like in his memory.

Shen Hao asked curiously:"What is the strength of the Japanese navy?"

Yong Jianqiu said:"It can be said to be invincible in Asia.

The high-speed part of the main fleet will be composed of 4 King Kong-class (battleships), and the core of the low-speed part will be 2 Fuso -class (battleships), 2 Kawachi-class (battleships), 2 Satsuma-class (battleships), 2 Kurama-class armored cruisers and 2 Tsukuba-class armored cruisers.

There are also cruisers...submarines." (Read the Baoshuang novel, just Go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Following Yong Jianqiu's eloquent talk, Shen Hao discovered how powerful the Japanese pirates' navy was.

Shen Hao's current battleships don't even have so many sisters-in-law...

Obviously, they can't be defeated on the sea.

Just like the British Navy is invincible on the sea, other countries can only change the track and play submarines.

Suddenly, Shen Hao was stunned. Shen Hao could also play submarine.

The price is much cheaper than that of a battleship.

Speaking of submarines, this reminded Shen Hao of German submarine tactics.

In the early days of World War II, the German army had two major tactical magic weapons: land and sea. One was the blitzkrieg of Army General Guderian, and the other was the wolf pack tactic created by Marshal Dönitz, who was known as the wolf's head.

Shen Hao has handed over the blitzkrieg to Li Yunlong and others. Although there are no mechanized troops, Shen Hao has more than 3,000 cavalry.

Admiral Dönitz took submarine tactics to the extreme.

He was inspired by the hunting methods of wolves. Wolves can hunt animals larger than themselves and adopt multiple pursuit methods when hunting.

When the prey encounters an obstacle and turns while running, the wolves on both sides will just surround it. Even if the prey runs very fast, it will be difficult to escape from pursuit.

The essence of Dönitz's wolf pack tactics is to send out weak submarines to destroy enemy heavy ships, and have a wolf-headed ship to command the unification of the wolves.

After thinking about it, Shen Hao felt that it would be more cost-effective to buy a submarine.

"How much money does a submarine make? Yong Jianqiu looked through the information and said:"

On July 15, 1908, the German Navy successfully developed a U-submarine, and the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig Port started laying the keel of the U-9 submarine.

The boat was launched on February 22, 1910. After a short trial, it was officially put into service on February 22, 1910. The total cost of the boat was 214 gold marks.

U-No. 9 is 57.38 meters long, 6 meters wide, with a draft of 3.13 meters, a standard displacement of 493 tons, and an underwater displacement of 611 tons; two Körting 6-cylinder and two Körting 8-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engines, with a combined maximum power of 890 horsepower , for surface navigation."

When he heard 214 gold marks, Shen Hao's mouth twitched. It's really expensive.

Nowadays, gold marks are equal to German marks.

And 1 pound is equal to 20 marks.

The price of a submarine is equivalent to 1.07 million pounds, and 1.7 is converted into US dollars. , the current exchange rate is 4.96 US dollars to 1 pound, which is 5.27 million US dollars.

And 1 pound can be exchanged for 9.6 oceans, so a submarine costs more than 10 million oceans.

This price makes Shen Haolan thin mushrooms.

In the past, it was still I thought I was very rich, but now I see that I am still too poor.

A battleship costs more than 10 million yuan, and a submarine costs more than 10 million yuan. I hate how expensive they are.

No wonder the navy is burning money.

Seeing Shen Hao's ugly face, Yong Jianqiu said cautiously:"General Shen, other warships are not expensive.

Take the iron-clad ships of the Beiyang Navy - Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

These two 7,000-ton iron-clad ships, plus artillery, will definitely The cost of building a distant ship is around 1.6-1.7 million taels of silver.

The Beiyang Fleet has three dome-armored cruisers - Jiyuan, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan. Their cost is more than 620,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to less than half of an ironclad. Arrive.

The cost of the armored cruiser is 1.5 million marks, which is equivalent to 300,000 taels of silver (one tael of silver means an ocean)."

Shen Hao calculated silently, and his current net worth was less than 50 million taels.

Buy a battleship or a submarine for half of 20 million and lose it?.