Two 3250-ton iron armor hit the cruiser, each with a 210mm main gun in front and back, four secondary guns in 150mm, and ten 37mm six-barrel machine guns. The maximum pressurized speed of this site is 28 knots. Since it is a collision cruiser, the natural speed must be fast, so how can the slower ones hit faster?

These two ships naturally replaced the Chaoyang Ship and the Yangwei Ship. In fact, the improvement of these two ships is actually the biggest. Originally, a layer of iron sheet hung outside the wooden hull, which is too thin and cannot be considered iron armor.

Now we have replaced the thickest iron armor of 200 mm and the thinest 120 mm. The tonnage has naturally increased significantly.

Six gunboats with no-load displacement of 999 tons are equipped with a 305mm main gun, with full protection from the turret. Four 37mm six-barrel machine guns, with a maximum speed of 15 knots. This gunboat nickname is a mosquito ship, a typical offshore defense water turret.

Used to replace six gunboats of the town class.

After hearing that the torpedo improved its range and increased its power and ship speed, the new torpedo can have a maximum range of 2,000 meters and an optimal range of 1,500 meters, the Beiyang Navy and the Guangdong Navy requested 25 40-ton torpedo boats.

Both old Li like torpedo boats very much and always think that small boats can do big things. Unfortunately, the combat submarines appeared relatively late, otherwise both old Li would be members of the submarine party.

Lao Li also wanted all the corresponding additional artillery and barrel ammunition prepared for replacement, and said that it was not just golden nanmu, which was not a problem.

Lao Li is not crazy. But he has power in his hands and there is nothing he can't do.

Both Guangdong and Guangxi can obtain more than 5 million kilograms of golden nanmu. Lao Li's Huai generals are all over the country. If you call me, you can't handle it.

After all, the new ships of the Beiyang Navy and the Guangdong Navy have a total displacement of more than 76,000 tons, while the Japanese Navy has a total displacement of only 72,000 tons. Now, at least it is not a loss.

After Li Hongzhang received the news that his elder brother had exchanged a golden nanmu for iron-clad ship, he was overjoyed. The court did not allocate silver to buy a ship. Not only did the quality of his own manufacturing, the price was higher.

Now the entire Beiyang can be replaced with a new ship, and even when facing the court, there is a statement. Anyway, the court just doesn’t allow it to buy it with silver, and it doesn’t mean that it can’t be replaced with furniture. It’s true that gold nanmu is a tribute, but gold nanmu furniture is not.

There was a table with golden nanmu in Li Hongzhang's study. Old Li touched the table and said to himself: "I didn't expect this thing to be exchanged for ironclad ships and cannons."

That's right, Zhang Cheng's purchase is not just iron armored ships, but also various new recruits' guns and various shells can also be exchanged for golden nanmu. The ratio is to exchange for a ton of golden nanmu for thousands of jin.

Li Hongzhang is preparing to strengthen the retired naval guns to artillery fortresses in Lushun and Weihaiwei. Although the retired naval guns are older, they can still exert their residual heat as fortress guns. The fortress guns themselves do not need too high firing rate, and the range is long enough to be powerful enough. Most retired naval guns can meet this requirement.

In terms of the caliber of the fleet, Zhang Cheng specially standardized the caliber of the main gun and the secondary gun for Beiyang. The former Beiyang Fleet had too many gun calibers, including 305, 260, 210, 200, 150, 120, 75, 57, 37 and other messes.

The Beiyang Fleet is originally a Wanguo Card, so it is normal to have such a thing.

After Zhang Cheng changed the ship, the caliber of the gun was adjusted to 305,210,150,75,37. Only these five caliber cannons save a lot of trouble in the logistics.

The Beiyang Fleet celebrated the New Year in Guangdong. After the New Year, it happily returned to Lushun. The first thing that was discovered was the Japanese spies. In order to defeat Beiyang, Japan sent at least tens of thousands of spies during this period, and the informants they bought were a great force. Some of the descendants of these Japanese spies even played a very important role in the war of aggression against China decades later.

Faced with the overall ships of the Beiyang Fleet becoming larger and the ship became new. A Japanese spy report immediately went up. However, the Japanese senior executives who could not stop on the downhill of the war did not believe the news at all.

If the Beiyang and even Li Hongzhang secretly spent money to buy one or two new ships and replace them with the old ships, the top Japanese pirates could believe it. But if the whole thing was replaced, let alone whether Lao Li and even Beiyang have so much money. Which country can provide so many warships?

Perhaps only the UK can provide it, but at this time it is still the honeymoon period of the British-Japanese alliance, and Britain and France are also the alliance. The only European countries have the only friendship with Beiyang, but where did Germany come from so many ships? So, what does not exist must be intelligence personnel who are dazzled or they have a mental illness. The treatment bill is also very simple and just suck a few mouths and shout "Baga".

Simply put, the unfavorable news of the attitude of the top Japanese pirates at this time is: I don’t believe it, I don’t listen, shut up.

No matter how many intelligence personnel are there, what can I do? You can't wake up someone who pretends to be asleep.

So after the intelligence personnel of the low-level Japanese pirates were slapped a few big mouths, they looked at the Beiyang Fleet that had become bigger and new, and numb themselves in their minds: I was dazzled and my mind was not clear. It wasn't that all the Beiyang ships had become bigger. Yes, the boss must be right, it was my problem.

Because of changing ships for the Beiyang Fleet and the Guangdong Navy, Zhang Cheng sent a 50-person biochemical mechanic to the two fleets, who can be used as coaches. For Er Li, what are you going to be afraid of on each ship? If you don’t understand, you can ask, and they can really repair and maintain machinery.

The remaining five hundred biochemical robots have opened a shipyard in Guangzhou, and are preparing to replace boilers and artillery for the replaced old ships of the Beiyang Fleet. After the renovation of the old ships in Beiyang is completed, it is planned to open a shipyard for each of Guangdong and Tianjin - in addition to producing ships, it can also produce weapons and ammunition. The northern ones can improve some of them based on the Tianjin Machinery Bureau.

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. Of course, this is not free. You don’t need to exchange gold nanmu, but just use jade, yellow stone, chicken blood stone, and mutton fat jade. All mechanical equipment is exchanged for one pound of jade every 100 kilograms, which is fair and reasonable. Tong’s wife is not bullied. Why is such a good exchange ratio offered? Many mechanical equipment, especially steelmaking equipment, are very heavy. Even if shipbuilding equipment such as 10,000 tons of water presses, you can tell that it is very heavy when you hear the name.

These jades are the fastest and best-selling except for golden nanmu. There is no problem with the inheritance of the jade itself for tens of thousands of years. Jade is not a pearl, so there is no problem of old and yellow pearls. Moreover, the beauty of jade can be appreciated by almost everyone, and it is not very troublesome to identify it. There are a lot of methods for identifying the authenticity on the Internet, which are actually available.

Er Li was naturally overjoyed. Although there is not a shortage of golden nanmu, the number is limited. As for jade, there are many on the market now, even if people are sent to dig it right away, it is still time - the shipyard weapon factory cannot be built in one day.
Chapter completed!