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"Back to Kiel, I was embarrassed to find that I had fallen in love with the salty and wet sea, the thick smell of coal smoke and the paint of warships, and the smell of firewood, rice, oil and salt made me feel like I was on pins and needles..." [..com]

Wang Heidi almost rolled and crawled back to Wilhelmshaven and said this to General Hippel.

When Wang Heidi asked for leave from the Ocean Fleet Command, General Schell gave him ten days off in one breath. After returning from the tomb sweeping in Bavaria, Wang Heidi was determined to return to Wilhelmshaven after taking off the leave. However, Wang Heidi, who had always been bold in the navy, was a perfect slight slut at home. His status was not as good as his daughter Avril, so he had to patiently cultivate his body.

The tempering of the war and the transformation of Wang Heidi in his 20-year military career subtly moved him like a spring breeze. Wang Heidi suddenly realized that he was no longer the idle otaku in his previous life. During the embarrassing vacation and resting, Wang Heidi went crazy and wandered around the Kil Naval Academy and the Kil Germania Shipyard.

At the warm invitation of the old instructor and Major General Stenzell, the president of the Naval Academy, Wang Heidi made some speeches and wargame deductions for the scholars of the military academy. Wang Heidi was once a liaison officer at the Navy's Shipyard in Kiel Shipyard. When he took office as the commander of the Helgolan Bay Defense Circle, he also blocked the doors and urged the Germanic shipyard to give priority to the construction of his submarines and destroyers. With his identity as a senior naval general and his good identity with Kiel Shipyard, Wang Heidi was rampant in various ships and even received the invitation of the captain of the Crown Prince William, who was doing the final commissioning in Kielfjord, and visited the King-class battleship No. 4.

However, all this still cannot calm down the brave heart of a general. In early December, Wang Heidi rushed back to Wilhelmshaven with dust. The feeling of being in water made the otaku who once loved peace in his previous life feel mixed feelings.

After a series of lengthy battle situation meetings, the General Staff of the Navy confirmed that the strength of the large fleet had basically recovered and the navies of Germany and Britain returned to a balanced state. The old General Hugo von Boer in his office of the Chief of Staff cancelled the Ocean Fleet's voluntary attack plan, waiting for the border governor, the Royal William battleship, the German battle patrol, and the bloody 1915.

However, this does not mean that the North Sea can calm down. The debate over Saxony-class battleships gradually evolved from a corner of the North Sea to a storm that affected the world.

The accident originated in a Dutch newspaper. They quoted reliable intelligence from powerful people and pointed out that Germany has begun to build a super battleship code-named "Saxon" and a single ship cost more than 5 million pounds. Its standard displacement may exceed the King's and Bavarians. It is equipped with a 380mm main gun and its speed may reach the level of a battlecruiser.

When the news came out, the whole world was amazed by the Germans' boldness and unrestrainedness.

The "1914 Turning Conference" and subsequent battle situation analysis meetings and naval warfare summary meetings, Wang Heidi proposed many warship improvement plans for the gains and losses of the Dogersan Sea Battle.

First of all, the problem of underwater fish. The decisive battle of the main ships is usually carried out at a distance of more than 10,000 yards. The equipment underwater fish not only has no practical value, but also occupies the tight space of the main ship. This issue has been criticized, so that the Admiralty Department passed this modification proposal without a special argumentation meeting. William Shipyard has already started to dismantle those unsavory underwater fish when the main ship of the Ocean Fleet was underway.

There are also those anti-submarine nets that are almost useless. Before the Battle of Dogel Sands, Wang Heidi's raid fleet was wrapped in a thick anti-submarine net in order to avoid the decisive impact of British submarines and Harrich Port destroyers. The unbeaten Harrich fleet attacked once. Several destroyers rushed out of the port desperately and encountered the sea of ​​fire woven by 150mm and 88mm rapid-fire guns, and the anti-submarine net was ineffective at all. When Wang Heidi received information about David Betty's First Battle Cruise Fleet's southward interception, Wang Heidi had to throw away the burden of expensive but affecting speed and threatening propellers. When Wang Heidi made this revision proposal, the Admiralty quickly passed.

Finally, he praised the Saxon-class battleship at the top of his voice. Wang Heidi refuted Lieutenant General Mawei's shipbuilding plan on the pretext of insufficient resources and manpower, and listed three Markensen-class battleships as the top priority. In order to implement his new three elements of sea power, Wang Heidi proposed to design a brand new Saxon-class battleship, and General Scher and Pole happily agreed.

After the news spread, American journalists who were willing to fan the flames interviewed a group of bigwigs in the German Navy. However, whether it was the dull naval veteran or the new general who showed his sharpness, there were many contradictions within the navy, but once facing foreign journalists, the nostrils of the sky were surprisingly consistent:

"Nothing happened."

The Navy did not lie. The Saxony-class battleship is indeed a super battleship with excellent performance, but only on paper. This battleship is just a lie deliberately created to practice Wang Heidi's new theory of political and military politics and economics as the ultimate goal. It is obvious that the effect is good.

The Americans were crying. They had just shouted the slogan of standard battleships and built two Nevada-class two Pennsylvania three New Mexico-class battleships in one go, but they didn't expect that this was outdated technology. So the cowboys panickedly terminated the New Mexico-class shipbuilding plan and redesigned a Tennessee-class battleship with a maximum speed of more than 26 knots. It was planned to be put into service before 1919. At the same time, the famous Lexington-class battle patrol also surfaced.

In November 1914, Japan already had a King Kong-class battle cruiser, and three King Kong-class battle cruisers were on the ship platform of a Japanese shipyard. The Dogel Sands Battle proved the value of the battle cruiser, and the Japanese were complacent about it. However, in less than a month, a basin of cold water poured over, making the Yamato Samurai draw his sword and look confused. The Queen Elizabeth-class battleship and the Saxony-class battleship made the Japanese realize the gap between them and European powers. The designer Kirifumi Fujimoto was quickly sent to the UK to inspect shipbuilding.

As the weakest link in the imperialist chain, the Russians were on the verge of bankruptcy, but the polar bears were greedy for the oceans and could hardly imagine outsiders. In 1909, the Russians started construction of four Gangu special-class dreadnoughts at the St. Petersburg shipyard in the Baltic Sea, and in 1911, three Maria-class dreadnoughts were built at the Nikolaev shipyard in one go. When the Dutch unveiled the German Saxon-class battleship construction plan, the Russians announced the construction of a Nikola I-class rapid battleship equipped with three 3-mounted 356mm main guns, using American steam engines and boilers.

As for the Gaul rooster, in the mid-to-late 19th century, due to superstitious belief in the concept of green water naval, the second-ranked Frenchman in the world abandoned his martial arts and terminated a large number of first-class ironclad ships and former dreadnoughts shipbuilding plans. When the French came to their senses, the years of staying in the era of the Naval Technology Blast were enough to make the French have no place to stand. The construction of the Guba-class battleships in 1909 were far inferior to the German-English main battleships of the same era. Although the Provence-class battleships that laid keels in 1912 were equipped with 340.

The millimeter main gun, but the use of the hull and the same power system of the Guba-class battleship did not improve this super dreadnought. As the war broke out in France, the once prominent French Empire was exhausted in finance, but the characteristics of colonial countries made them unable and dared not give up on the navy. The French forced a lot of money and designed a cost-effective Normandy-class rapid battleship, equipped with 10 340 main guns, designed a speed of 25.5 knots, and planned to build 4 ships.

December 13, 1914, London, England.

The intelligence sent back by the naval intelligence personnel spread in the dim Navy's office. The four maritime ministers were stunned. General Jelico said nothing. Chief of staff Lieutenant General Frederick Study frowned. David Betty turned the information in his hand over and over until the stunning design parameters were familiar with them. Then he handed the information back in annoyedly.

The shallow, but every word is terrifying to read, was locked into the said cold safe by the Secretary of the Navy. Winston Churchill returned to his desk, took out a small wooden box containing a cigar, and knocked a large Havana cigar and held it in his hand.

"I have to give up my pride of being the Royal Navy and admit in shame that Queen Elizabeth's class is not an opponent of the Markensen-class battleship, nor is it an opponent of the Saxon-class battleship." After Fisher stepped down, Sir Arthur Wilson, who succeeded as the First Minister of Sea, glanced at Churchill and said frowningly: "Whether in armor or speed, the Queen-class and Revenge level are not as good as the German Markensen. Perhaps our warships have an advantage in endurance, but in the North Sea, which lacks strategic depth, it is better than nothing!"

"Fortunately, the Germans' main gun caliber uses metric system, and the inches we use, we can have one millimeter more main gun caliber than the Germans!" Winston Churchill sniffed the smell of tobacco leaves of cigars and said to himself:

"Gentlemen, the Germans have found a way to deal with the large fleet, that is, to use amazing protection against our battle patrol team and use their speed advantage to get rid of the huge number of battleships. In this way, the large fleet has the advantage of numerical power but cannot concentrate its forces. They can only sit and watch the battle patrol fleet be destroyed, and the main fleet that has lost its reconnaissance power is divided and surrounded by the German rapid fleet and defeated one by one."

Churchill's straightforwardness made the fleet commander present frown unconsciously. Although these professional soldiers looked down on Churchill, who was from civilians, who did not understand military affairs, no one could deny that what the Navy minister said was true.

In the Battle of Dogel Sands, although the British lost a super-dreadnought, a new battleship and an old-fashioned battleship, the British could still proudly declare themselves as the winner: David Betty used his recklessness to destroy the German ambush plan and avoided a Trafalgar-style decisive battle. The strength of the large fleet did not suffer much loss. As time went by, the main ships repaired, modified and maintained by the shipyard returned to the organization of the large fleet, and the two battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet were also heading north, and the British easily regained strategic advantages. Therefore, David Betty did not receive harshness from his colleagues in the Battle of Dogel Sands, but was promoted because of the needs of publicity.

From 1915 to 1917, five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, five Revenge-class battleships and three prestige-class battleships were launched one after another. Although these shipbuilding plans exhausted Britain's finances in the next few years, the sharp blade and rich war dividends of the naval arms race made the John Bulls, who were born in pirates, desperately, and the Royal Navy felt that the situation was bright and the future was bright.

But when the Germans started construction of the Markensen-class battleship and Saxon-class battleships, everyone was panicked. The three battleships and two battleships would not make the awesome empire chaos. What was terrible was that the British saw bad signs, that is, the Germans changed from a simple shipbuilding competition to a sword and go astray: they could not escape the British high-speed battleship, but they had to beat those thin-skinned slags; the caliber and quantity of the main gun could not match the large fleet, but they had to withstand the British battleships with poor shell quality, and even annihilate a large fleet under the same number of conditions.

"That's better than building a ship. The British Empire has never been afraid of the ship-building competition!" Lieutenant General Studdy waved his hand and made a powerful gesture.

"Where does the cost of shipbuilding come from? The first ship of the Queen class is expected to cost 3 million pounds, and the average cost of the five warships is also 2.7 million pounds; although the Revenge class is the product of the Queen class's shrinkage, the displacement has dropped by 500 tons, the speed has dropped to 23 knots, and the endurance is only 4,800 nautical miles, it still requires 2.4 million pounds, and the average cost of the three reputation-class battle patrols is 3.1 million pounds!" Sir Arthur Wilson, the first minister of the shipbuilding, knocked on the table and said angrily: "The most terrifying thing is that the five Queen class and five Revenge class have laid keels, and there is little room for improvement! The expensive shipbuilding funds of the three reputation-class battle patrols have made the Downing Street Finance Minister unhappy, and to build a more luxurious fast battleship. What can we use to convince Westminster Palace?"

Arthur Wilson was sure of it, and Study snorted coldly, turned her head away and stopped talking. The dim office fell into a dead silence, and at this time, the door of the office was pushed open.

"Just, things are not good. The damn American cowboy exposes the lies of the Invincible!" Churchill's personal secretary Eddie Marsh broke in panting, and his staggering steps accidentally hit the door frame. The newspaper in his hand flew out and fell straight onto the carpet.

It was a tabloid in London, and the front page of the newspaper was the captain of the American fast-cargo ship wearing a denim suit.

【Note】

1. Palace of Westminster: British Parliament.
Chapter completed!