The sea water slowly flows along the more than two hundred water injection holes on both sides of the 400-meter-long stone dock. As the sea water pours in, the oil-impregnated oak wood and other oil-impregnated wood that hold up the hull begin to flow along.

When the water surface rises and floats, the hull needs to be supported by wood. This is to prevent the hull from colliding with the dock when launching.**

Situations such as hull collisions often occur when ships are launched. Hull outfitting is the most important part of ship construction, and launch accidents are the most chaotic and accident-prone part. Therefore, the Germans responsible for the repair of this battleship

Marine engineer Feng Ekman, while nervously inspecting every link, directed the workers to slowly open the steel dock door of the mechanical structure after the seawater injection reached the calibrated level.

When the dock door opened, there were no ripples on the parallel water. In the dock, the officers and soldiers of the Army and Marine Corps receiving the ship had already begun to board the ship from both sides. Under the attention of everyone, Li Zicheng slowly walked towards the high platform set up in front of the dock.

The high platform is aimed right at the bow of the ship.

Standing on the stage, looking at the "Atlantic Bow" that had been transformed into the "Atlantic Ship" during the restoration, Li Zicheng had a hint of pride on his face. It can be said that from the "Hanoi" and "Settsu" two ships

After the battleship was captured by its own troops, the shame of the Chinese Navy during the Sino-Japanese War was somewhat alleviated. Since the world entered the ironclad era, up to now, it seems that only the capital ships of two countries have been captured during the war. One is the Qing Dynasty.

The "Zhenyuan" of the Beiyang Navy is another warship of the Russian Imperial Navy that was captured by Japan in the Tsushima Strait ten years ago. Now, China has also captured two main warships, although they were salvaged and floating.

Looking at the extremely obvious "Atlantic bow", Li Zicheng knew that he had gone through a lot of careful consideration when choosing this extremely special "ship bow". Atlantic bow is the name of Germany, and its form originated from the earliest

The scissor-type bow of the "clipper sailboat". The clipper sailboat is a high-speed sailboat designed by the Americans in the 19th century. Because of its excellent sailing performance, countries are imitating it.

For a long period of time during the Second World War, German naval ships usually had to operate for a long time in the Atlantic Ocean with rough sea conditions and frequent storms to break engagements. Therefore, they were very fond of this kind of bow and named it "Atlantic Bow".

"It means it is very suitable for sailing in the storms and huge waves of the Atlantic Ocean.

It is precisely because he learned about this past event from the documentary that Li Zicheng chose this "Atlantic bow" that is suitable for the ocean and can adapt to harsh sea conditions. He also took out the warship data from the technical information center and translated some of the data on the ship's bow manufacturing.

, they were handed over to the shipyard, which was responsible for modifying the two ships.

However, when the shipyard was setting up the transformation plan, it turned out that the construction of the "Atlantic Bow" was far more difficult than they imagined. Compared with the vertical bow and the inclined bow, the "Atlantic Bow" not only had a larger bow volume but also had

Large buoyancy reserve, and because the angle of the ship's bow outwards continues to increase with the rise of the stem chord, when the ship's bow is submerged in the water, the buoyancy increases in a geometric progression, which can avoid the ship's ""

To solve the problem of "head down", the ship's anti-sinking performance and longitudinal pitching stability under high sea conditions are improved.

In addition to this advantage, the Onishi bow also brings another advantage, that is, the high-speed characteristics of the "Atlantic bow" are better reflected in its alias "clipper bow". The clipper bow will all

The waterline of the bow narrows to an almost blade shape to achieve the so-called "long and sharp curved scissor-shaped bow post", which is a posture suitable for racing. It can cut (shear) waves forward on the sea to reduce waves.

The resistance, so called "flying shear" performance, combined with the floating bow and freeboard, prevents the ship from serious waves when sailing at high speed, ensuring that the ship's powerful power can be converted into high-speed to the maximum extent.

speed.

Although the "Atlantic Bow" has many advantages, the most fatal shortcoming of the "Atlantic Bow" is that the manufacturing process is more complicated than other bows. It requires large equipment such as a 10,000-ton hydraulic press to cold forge the bow pillar, which is not suitable for large quantities.

Not to mention production, the cost is high.//**//In addition, the bow of the Atlantic ship has lengthened the deck length and increased the trunk side area. In the battleship's artillery battle, this means that the probability of being hit by the enemy increases.

, the most obvious can be seen in the significantly longer hulls of the "Hanoi-class" before the transformation and the "Dinghai" with a new bow.

Although there are some shortcomings, the reason why Li Zicheng chose this kind of bow at that time was very simple. First, the Chinese Navy has limited warships. Even if it sends warships into the Pacific or other oceans during war, it will have to bear the burden of a long time.

, or even months of break-up engagements, so the seaworthiness of the ship must be very good. Due to the characteristics of break-up engagements, Chinese warships do not need to face Japanese warships with powerful firepower. Therefore, the consideration of bomb damage is

placed in a secondary position.

Although the "Atlantic Bow" meets the current needs of the Chinese navy, compared with Germany, China does not boast of being first-class in metallurgical and heavy industries. Although it has the technical information and development data of Germany during World War II, it is not easy to choose the Atlantic Bow.

It is difficult to understand, but choosing the "Atlantic Bow" is still a huge challenge for Lianyungang's metallurgical industry and heavy industry.

The final result is that when building the new bow part, it is even more time-consuming than the anti-torpedo belt on the side. But on the other hand, Li Zicheng has never doubted the effect of "large projects to promote industrial technology improvement"

However, when the two ships were being repaired, someone proposed to purchase armor steel and gun blanks from the United States, and Bethlehem Steel was also willing to provide armor steel and gun blanks to Yingyoumen Shipyard, but in the end this proposal was rejected by Li Zicheng

, the reason is simple - it is better to build than to buy.

The Chinese people have always had a problem. They will never study anything they can buy. They will only study carefully what they cannot buy. This contrast is extremely obvious in the industrialization roads of China and Japan, two East Asian countries. Opium

After the war, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement went through a long and slow process of recognizing and understanding Western science and technology. In the half-century of two vague understandings of rejecting Western civilization and worshiping foreigners, the ignorant Manchu Qing Dynasty finally lost to

The small country of Japan is on the same starting line.

Since the mid-19th century, the Qing Dynasty has seen the gap between Eastern and Western war cultures from its failure in fighting foreign aggression. The Westernizationists headed by Li Hongzhang realized that the widespread application of steam power and gunpowder in the military field was promoting changes in modern warfare methods

.The war has transformed from a face-to-face combat with cold weapons to a long-distance confrontation with hot weapons. The Qing people's enthusiasm for foreign guns, foreign cannons, and foreign ships has increased sharply. The country has invested a large amount of silver to purchase advanced weapons and equipment. In the import of weapons

At the same time, the government was also building weapons manufacturing plants in various places, planning to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Qing army by comprehensively imitating foreign guns and weapons. Before the outbreak of the Qing-Japanese War, the Qing State already owned Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Jinling Machinery

Manufacturing Bureau, Hubei Gun Factory, Sichuan Machinery Bureau, Shandong Machinery Bureau, Jilin Machinery Bureau, Guangdong Manufacturing Guns and Ammunition Factory, as well as Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, Huangpu Dockyard, Dagu Dockyard, Lushun Dockyard and other military industrial enterprises.

During the Westernization Movement, the Qing government carried out blind introduction without coordination and plan, wasting a lot of resources. The armies under the jurisdiction of governors in various places purchased Western-style weapons from European and American countries through various channels. Due to the lack of rules and regulations, they went their own way and purchased guns.

There are many countries, types, and specifications of guns, and a mix of old and new guns. This has resulted in a wide variety of guns, different ammunition, and complex operations in the Qing army, which has brought great difficulties to combat operations, ammunition supply, and gun maintenance. Various arsenals have imitated them.

The firearms and equipment produced are even more diverse and the workmanship is not up to standard. Many guns cannot be fired safely. Even if the homemade projectiles can be fired, they lack accuracy. The factory production efficiency is low and the progress is slow. The counterfeit guns have not yet been finalized and put into use. There is another international phenomenon.

New firearms with better performance and affordable prices. The situation with imitation of steamboats is generally similar. Several self-made ships are costly, slow, and consume too much fuel.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty and Japan adopted different stances and attitudes on accepting Western military technology.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty had strong financial resources but ignorant ideas. In the eyes of the court officials, as long as they had the same military equipment as the West, they would naturally have a powerful country. For this reason, the Manchu Qing Dynasty insisted on buying and imitating dozens of

There are no independently innovative technological achievements in the years. Japan's national financial resources are weak, and the Meiji Restoration army intends to completely get rid of outdated military concepts and take the road of innovation by absorbing and digesting modern military technologies from European and American countries. 19

At the end of the century, Japan had become a rising star on par with Western powers in many fields of science and technology. The different attitudes of the Qing and Japan on this issue produced different results in the war. The Manchu officials paid great tribute to their stubborn and pedantic ideas.

Paid a heavy price.

The Manchu and Qing dynasties' efforts to simply imitate and plagiarize did not achieve the expected results. The military refused to purchase low-quality, expensive domestic weapons, resulting in a large backlog of guns and ammunition manufactured by various military-industrial enterprises that were unsaleable. The disappointed government and military began to

Turning to the other extreme, they adopted a strategy of following the new trend of international weapons development and purchasing the latest foreign weapons in real time. As a result, the Manchu Qing Dynasty became a big buyer in the international arms market at that time.

Europe in the 19th century was the most prosperous arms market in the world at that time. Near the purchasing groups of Manchu officials with long braids, there were many Asian faces of the same skin color. They were dressed in Western clothes and wore Western-style weapons.

Top Hat, quite a gentleman, is a Japanese scholar with strong professional knowledge in weapons engineering and full of interest in the latest weapons technology. The former seems to have plenty of money and the courage to buy back all the new weapons in Europe; the latter seems humble and studious.

Trying to bring European technology back to their own country. In terms of their attitude towards acquiring modern military science and technology, the Japanese adopted completely different considerations from the Manchus. After completing the transformation of the military system, the Meiji government continued to make great efforts

Study hard in the field of new generation warfare technology, develop the country's weapons industry, and attempt to build a modern army supported by advanced science and technology.

The final result was that the Manchu Qing Dynasty lacked the concepts of digestion, absorption, and innovation in their strategic thinking for the development of military science and technology. They only wanted to increase their country's military power in one fell swoop through shortcuts of purchasing and imitation. As a result, the Manchu Qing Dynasty never really grasped the ideas of the Europeans.

Gun technology and the country's basic science and technology industry have also distanced themselves from Japan. The gap in military science and technology between the Qing Dynasty and Japan is not only reflected in the field of guns and weapons, but also in logistics support, health care, food supply, material delivery, etc.

In fields closely related to war, the gap is also growing day by day. When Japan's Meiji Restoration was in line with Western technology and the country had thousands of kilometers of modernized railways, the arrogant Manchu Qing Dynasty was running its original "railroad carriage" on the rails.

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This short-sighted mentality, even a hundred years later, is still a flaw in China's introduction of technology. After the Second World War, the industries of China and Japan started almost at the same time. Compared with Japan's foresight in introducing technology, and the industrialization

The Provincial Federation of Industry and Economics stipulates that "the steel and chemical industries can only approve one equipment introduction investment decision per year, and it must be approved by the Prime Minister" and the "introduction of machine No. 1, localization of machine No. 2, and domestic production of machine No. 3",

The road of "attracting and improving" started from the Meiji Restoration. When it comes to introducing technology, Japan pays more attention to the introduction of technology rather than the direct import of hardware equipment.

In addition to the systematic and scientific introduction of Soviet technology in the early days, in the 1980s, the introduction of foreign technology became a one-pot-type effort, with various regions competing to purchase foreign equipment, and completely ignoring the technology absorption of imported equipment. From the early days of reform and opening up,

Suit production lines were introduced in droves. Later, the market became saturated and clothing factories closed down. Then provinces introduced home appliance production lines, and later steel production lines, automobile production lines, city modeling projects, etc., all in the rough style of the "Great Leap Forward"

Economic development methods. Their characteristics are similar: use the hard-earned money of the country's people to invest, and if you succeed, it will be your "political achievement" for promotion; if you fail, you will not be responsible. The final result is obvious to everyone, and it goes without saying.

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For example, steel companies, since the late 1980s, have all taken pride in bringing in old steel plants from various European countries at "low prices" due to the high cost of personnel and raw materials, loss of competitiveness, and market saturation.

It is claimed to "save foreign exchange for the country" and "save funds for enterprises", but does not consider the country's overall hardware technology absorption, and even causes the Metallurgical Research Institute to study similar equipment that cannot be sold. The final result is extremely obvious. China may be

It is the world's largest steel producer, but most of its equipment or equipment cores are imported.

Later, the so-called localization was still the well-known "localization shell". Perhaps it was because of understanding the truth about China's so-called "world's largest steel power" and the introduction of technology that Li Zicheng stubbornly pursued it.

"Localization" has even reached the point where no matter the cost, no matter the price.

However, it was this kind of stubbornness that led Lianyun Iron and Steel Company to produce ST52 shipbuilding steel after producing ST42 shipbuilding steel in the second year of the Republic of China. During the repair process of the "Hanoi-class" battleship, it achieved WW high elasticity and uniformity.

Quality steel, mass production of wh high-strength homogeneous steel, and small batch production of kca surface carburized hardened steel. Although there are still some gaps compared to the German World War II standard, compared with similar steel products in Britain, Germany, and the United States,

Not only is it not inferior, its main indexes even exceed similar steel products from the three countries.

The production of these three types of battleship steel means that China can provide all the steel needed when building battleships. In terms of battleship armor steel technology, China has even surpassed Germany. As long as further research is carried out, in a few years

, in at least ten years, battleship armor steel technology will be able to reach the level of Germany in World War II.

And without the original persistence, without "repairing two warships is equivalent to the huge investment in building two new ships", the technological breakthrough that came from Lianyun Iron and Steel Company could not be bought with any amount of money.

In the past, and now, the industrial development path that I have formulated is, to a certain extent, a reference to Japan in later generations.

He was deep in thought when suddenly Shen Honglie's coughing sound came from behind him. At this moment, Li Zicheng noticed that now was not the time for his own thoughts. Today was a big day. It was the launch of the battle cruiser "Pinghai". On that day, looking at the beautiful "Atlantic bow", Li Zicheng first cleared his throat, and then walked to the loudspeaker.

"Yi maintains peace in the sea, shines brightly in the morning light, has five teeth to form a majesty, and weighs Ying Biao galloping. The eagle shows achievements, the dragon leaps to the foundation, the tower is powerful, and the flag is strong.

Flying clouds are grand, soaring phoenixes are magnificent, and they are far-reaching, and they are as dangerous as being on the road. Horizontal divination, armor-washing phase, peaceful whale waves, and auspicious times. Li Zicheng, Premier of the State Council of the Republic of China, September 4, 2017 Twenty-eighth."

In this era in China, the launching of warships required a poem. After reading the poem, Li Zicheng, who was full of joy, picked up the champagne under the red silk tied to the bow of the ship and slammed the large bottle of champagne onto the bow of the ship. Go, with the sound of glass bottles breaking, wine splashed everywhere for a while.

Applause, cheers, military music, and firecrackers rang out from time to time. When the firecrackers lined up along both sides of the dock sounded, the battlecruiser "Pinghai" was slowly launched into the water under the tow of a tugboat.

At this time, standing on the high platform, listening to the military music in his ears, the corners of Li Zicheng's lips slightly raised. This is just the beginning. In the future, more Chinese warships will ride the wind and waves into the sea and fight bravely on the sea. To protect the interests of this country, and China's national power is bound to continue to move forward like this battleship, no one or any country can stop him.

Tomorrow, thinking that those British people would arrive in Lianyungang tomorrow, Li Zicheng said seriously when he turned around and looked at Shen Honglie.

"Chengjun, tomorrow, tomorrow is up to you!"
Chapter completed!