The so-called greenboy is the famous green bullet in later generations.

In the Battle of Scargerac Strait in 1915, the arrogant Royal Navy was defeated from the altar and lost three battleships and four battlecruisers in one breath. The Battle of Portsmouth then broke into the Greater London offshore, known as the iron walls of the walls, and then flew a shot and wiped out the fleet that was returning from the Mediterranean to rescue, playing with the Scarpa Bay Fleet in applause.

After the defeat in the Battle of Scarglake Strait and Portsmouth, except for the "Gold of Scarglake" completed by Lampard and Betty, the Royal Navy did not deeply analyze and review the gains and losses of the two naval battles at the first time, but fell into an unrestrained shirk responsibility and political struggle. It was not until the British Navy Secretary Arthur Belford used his iron-blooded skills to clean up the mess that the British had the time to think about the gains and losses.

Regarding the Battle of Scarglake Strait, the British most intuitive understanding was that the Germans defeated the British Empire's numerical advantage with their quality advantage. Regarding the Battle of Portsmouth, the British most intuitive feeling was that the heroes could not get a banquet without a battleship. The derived view was that the Royal Navy's capital ships were not enough.

The reason is high-sounding. Except for the period when the Royal Navy was in conflict with each other in the last century, the empire that adhered to the principle of the two strong has firmly controlled maritime hegemony for a long time. From this point of view, the principle of the two strong has to be effective.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the German Ocean Fleet rose strongly. In the cruel naval competition, the British Empire did not completely implement the principle of two strengths, but relaxed the proportion to one to one-to-one-five. In actual use, this proportion was further reduced.

Just like the Battle of Scarglake Strait, although the number of main ships of the British Rapid Fleet was twice that of the Silome Battle Patrol, the "Chapter" of General Moore's poor performance made General Moore unable to play their numerical advantage. He was suppressed by the same number of Silome Battle Patrol.

The decisive battle of the main fleet can better illustrate this point. The German Ocean Fleet has 17 battleships, while the Grand Fleet has only 20 battleships. Even with the battleships Agincourt and Ireland serving in the Mediterranean, the Grand Fleet still cannot form a 1-1.5 numerical advantage over the Germans.

After deducing this conclusion, the wealthy John Bulls fell into a violent state, waving money to buy warships all over the world. They first rented and bought two battleships, two new battleships, and three pocket battleships from Spain, Riben, Argentina and Brazil, and then listed a crazy list of shipbuilding.

Five Revenge-class battleships, two Canadian-class battleships, three prestige-class battleships. Three Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, and three large light cruisers. The Royal Navy's shipbuilding orders were filled with the British Empire's shipyard from Portsmouth to Armstrong.

In addition to the number of issues, the British also summarized other reasons.

First of all, the protection of the cannon mount and turret.

The Battle of Scarglake Straits proved that it could not withstand logical scrutiny but real "turret magnet" theory. In the battle between the fast fleet and the German battle patrol team and the subsequent decisive battle between the main fleet, reports of the turrets or gun mounts of the main ships on both sides were common. What is disheartening is that the German main ships survived strongly, and the turrets and gun mounts of the main ships of the British main ships were like large firecrackers at a glance!

It is obvious that there are problems with the gun mount and turret design of the British capital ship. The technical officer of the Admiralty and the technical employee of the shipyard were damaged by the damage to the gun mount and turret of the British capital ship, locking the source on the quality of the fire manhole cover and the gunner's work.

"The fire-proof manhole cover inside the British main ship's gun well is more or less insufficient, and it cannot effectively prevent the shell from breaking through the turret or the gun seat. The British Empire gunner's work, which is more terrifying than the strength, is to increase the speed. The fire-proof manhole cover between the turret and the ammunition depot of the Royal Navy's main ship is not all in the same way as the regular work is to open it when the shell is lifted, but the fire-proof manhole cover is kept open during the entire battle!

As for the protection of turrets or gun mounts, the British did not agree. In addition to slightly strengthening the top armor of the turrets. For the 11-inch turret front defense armor and 10-inch gun mount armor that is common to battleships, the 7-inch turret front armor and less than 7-inch gun mount armor that is common to battleship cruisers, but most Royal Navy officers believed that the number 11-inch is worthy of the conscience of the empire, and even Betty and Lampard were rarely confused at this time.

The second is the protective armor of the battleship.

As the battle distance was extended, the Royal Navy had realized the threat of water bombs and the importance of horizontal armor.

In the early battleship battles, the battle distance between the two sides was relatively close, and the corners of the shells were smaller. It was said that water drifting occurred frequently, that is, the shells bounced up by the sea surface the moment they touched the sea surface, and it was repeated until the kinetic energy of the shells was exhausted. In this case, the shells were difficult to threaten the warships under the waterline. However, the battle of the Skagerak Straits proved that the combat distance in the era of the Dreadnought had extended to more than ten kilometers. At this time, the corners of the shells were larger, giving it a greater chance to penetrate the sea water directly and hit the hull below the waterline, forming a water bomb that killed gods and Buddhas.

In line with the theory of water bombing, as the combat distance increases, the shells will have a greater chance of hitting the horizontal armor of the warship, while the thickness of the horizontal armor of the Royal Navy battleship is shocking.

"The Great Power Sea Soul Chapter 7 The Death of the Avant-garde (III)" In response to these problems, the designers of British shipyards racked their brains to re-arrange the horizontal watertight compartment partitions that were cancelled to reduce the weight of the hull, and strengthened the explosion-proof doors of these watertight compartments to a certain extent.

The thickness of the horizontal deck of the British main battleship has also been strengthened. Under the two eternal high-voltage lines, "maintaining speed as much as possible" and "beautiful in appearance, saving money in specific details", the designers were sweating all the main battleships of the British Empire that could only soothe people's hearts at the level of the gods.

Finally, there are shells.

The Royal Navy's quilt-cap armor-piercing bombs were usually soft-clothes, with picy sour and short delay fuses. This combination method was mainstream at the time, but in the Battle of Scarglake Strait, the Royal Navy found that their armor-piercing bombs had problems such as early bombing and short-spuncture and poor penetration.

In fact, the soft cap technology used by British armor-piercing shells is relatively advanced. It can make the shell more sticky when touching the target at a small angle, and can attach to the armor like a pool of mud and not be bounced open, which is conducive to penetrating the armor of the target ship. However, the picy acid-based medicine plus a short delay fuse messed up everything.

Pyric acid is a kind of yellow sè**, which has the advantages of strong power, simple processing procedures and relatively cheap prices. At the same time, picric acid is also a substance that is extremely corrosive to metals. After corrosion of metals, it forms unstable picric acid salts, which are very easy to explode after being heated and impacted. Therefore, picric acid is not easy to store, and can only be loaded in non-metal containers, and must be kept dry during handling and storage.

The unstable xing and short delay fuse of picric acid caused the British armor-piercing bomb to explode just after contacting the target ship's armor-piercing or exploded. In response to this problem, the British Empire's chemical experts and artillery madmen decided to improve their armor-piercing bombs. So a new soft-close-cap armor-piercing bomb, affectionately known as greenboy, was privately called greenboy by military expert "The Great Power Sea Soul". The official code-named Greenboy appeared.

Compared with the previous armor-piercing bombs, the green bomb improved the charging mechanism of the shells to a certain extent, greatly enhancing the penetration of the British armor-piercing bombs. In March 1917, the Royal Navy officially loaded the first batch of 15-inch greenboy armor-piercing bombs and conducted a secret experiment.

Queen Elizabeth battleship was used at a distance of 5 chains (926 meters) to launch shells at the Queen Elizabeth battleship No. 2, which was in service in 1894. The "Queen of Magic" used two labels to fire shells with initial velocities of 472 meters/second and 421 meters/second respectively. It was used to simulate the 77.5 chain (14352 meters) and 109 chain (20185 meters) distance.

The coal, armor and other loads on the port side of the 10,500 tons of the 10-member Captain battleship were dismantled to create a right tilt of about 5 degrees to simulate the real turret angle. All turrets turned to 90 degrees starboard. To test the frontal defense effect, it turned out that the 421-meter/second initial velocity bomb hit the 18.5-degree waterline belt main armor, as a result, the 12-inch main armor belt was penetrated with almost no effort to blow the ball, and then penetrated the coal bin, boiler bay partition and watertight compartment at the bottom of the ship, blowing up two boilers.

Although the Captain Hundreds is an old ship of the last century. Its defensive armor is far less than the hardened Harvey armor of the Dreadnought era, the huge penetration of the Green Bomb is still recognized by the Navy.

Of course, the problem of early explosion and close explosion of green bombs has not been greatly improved. In the experiment, Queen Elizabeth Battle Tour threw a total of 31 new armor-piercing bombs at the Captain Hundred. Although there are many examples of piercing the Captain Hundred, the armor-piercing bombs detonated early during the invasion process, resulting in penetration failure.

"And judging from Captain Collingwood's report, the Avant-garde is very ""It is possible that the ammunition depot was destroyed. I'm worried that this has some kind of intrinsic connection with the greenboy we just installed!"

Lieutenant General Lampard, commander-in-chief of the fast fleet, expressed his concerns truthfully. David Betty, standing on the simple bridge of the destroyer, turned her head and frowned again, the brow that had just been stretched out.

To be honest, Lampard's exaggerated fleet training, training of officers and soldiers and logistics support cannot completely dispel David Betty's fighting will. In the battle with his old friend Heidi Sileme, Betty was always at a disadvantage. The reason why he was able to escape the trial of the Navy's military court in 1915 and return to the Great Fleet was nothing more than that of all the results achieved by the Royal Navy were his hands, and at this stage, the Navy could no longer find him a better commander than him.

Betty felt that the British people's motivation to understand and trust him was not fair to him when the Admiralty Department recommended and promoted him. Moreover, after Betty re-appointed as commander-in-chief of the Great Fleet, he also suffered a lot of public criticism and criticism. Whether from the perspective of the people's hearts or to prove his personal value, Betty must compete with Silame again.

In addition to the explosion-sinking battleships of the Foreward, Betty now has twenty-four battleships, thirteen battleships, an unexpected reinforcement from the Germans, and a greenboy with great power. The Germans only have nineteen battleships and eight battleships. The number of main battleships has been formed, and the quality disadvantage has been greatly reduced. Even if the final battle is so fierce that one is replaced, Betty and the British Empire will still be the winners!

"But, what if greenboy is unreliable?" Betty thought in dismay. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!