The dark night was gloomy and cold wind. In the side hall of William II, the fire was bright, dispelling the coolness of early winter and bringing the warmth of spring. When the clock pointed at 8:30, a plain knock on the door suddenly rang out. William II, who was sitting on the top, put down the pen in his hand and spit out a thick syllable. Two figures wearing windbreakers pushed the door and then isolated the coolness of the outside world with the door.

In the past three days, Qingying has been looking forward to this day all the time, but when the moment comes, he finds that the facts are not as beautiful as he imagined. After taking off his windbreaker, Qingying was nakedly regarded as air by William II and Tirpitz; the communication between the two quickly got to the point, but no one glanced at Qingying.

"Koao! Are you two so snobbish? You just throw your master aside and ignore it?" Seeing William II and Tylpitz, two gay friends, talking carefully as if no one else, and sometimes accompanied by someone's hand movements that were eager to express his meaning. Qingying was very angry and had already transformed into Godzilla and swayed the Empire State Building in his heart. He was the biggest contributor to this matter! Now his body is not cold... Bah, that's what it means anyway, the two guys are going to kill the donkey so quickly?

Qingying secretly complained here, and William II and Tirpitz ignored his actions but did not stop at all. After some explanation, Tirpitz handed over the enclosed material in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this is a naval development outline listed by my Admiralty for the past five years. Please check it out."

Hearing the keyword "Development Outline", Qingying moved his ears and temporarily let go of his displeasure. During the short period when William II took it and opened it, Qingying's feet moved slightly and quietly slipped to the side of William II. Standing at this angle, with the 1.5 vision of this body, every character on the document can be clearly seen. Qingying only looked at it for a while, and was completely impressed by the rigor and detail of this development plan.

The plan formulated by Tirpitz is all-encompassing and comprehensive. It involves naval enrollment, salary subsidies, various subsystem research and development, supporting facilities construction, ship design, etc., and has detailed explanations and comments on each item. However, as William II turned page by page, Qingying's brow gradually frowned. Most of this plan can be said to be impeccable, and the speed of building a main battleship every year coincides with Qingying's idea; but in the final ship design, there are extremely serious problems!

Since the pre-Defensive era, the German high seas fleet has always had the unique style of large ships equipped with small cannons; at the same tonnage, the artillery equipped by German warships is far inferior to the ships served by other navies in the same era. It would be fine if the firepower can be reduced while other performance can be improved; but the Germans have weak firepower, but the armor and speed have not been improved accordingly!

For example, in historical fact, the "Caesar Frederick III" class battleship completed by Germany in 1898 has a normal displacement of 11,000 tons, and is only equipped with 4 240mm main guns and 18 150mm secondary guns, with a speed of only 17.5 knots, and there is only a small 300mm armor near the waterline on the side. The anti-sinking performance has not been reflected in any way. This is simply unscientific! The battleship Iowa (this Iowa is not an Iowa) built by the Americans at the same time has a normal displacement of 11,500 tons, but it is equipped with 4 305mm guns and 8 203mm guns. The thickness of that small main armor reaches 456mm, and the speed can reach 17 knots! Even though the American man-made ship is low in freeboard and increases the tonnage utilization rate at the expense of nauticality, there will not be such a big gap!

Not only battleships, but also the armored cruisers built by Germany are also confusing. The "Prince Heinrich" armored cruiser, which they completed in 1902, used a total of 9,000 tons of displacement in order to achieve two 240mm main guns, 10 150mm secondary guns, 100mm armor and 20 knots. The Garibal Class armored cruiser built by the Italians had a displacement of only 7,300 tons; but was equipped with two better 254mm main guns and 10 150mm secondary guns, with speed not diminished, and its side was equipped with

The thickness of the Arc is 150mm, and the coverage area is even larger! The most important thing is that the ship was completed in 1896, which was 6 years earlier than the German "Prince Heinrich"! Although this situation of the German warship was temporarily ended with the design of the "Nassau" class battleship in 1907, the habit of large ships loading small cannons has almost been immersed in the bones of German designers; except for the "Bavarian" class forced out by the British, Caesar, the King, and even Lao Sha and Bismarck in World War II were all deeply infringed on this concept!

What exactly is the reason for this strange situation? Qingying had thought hard in his previous life, but he had no first-hand information and could only draw a vague conclusion based on some evidence. After this time travel, the indirect attacks on Tirpitz in the past few days, and after analyzing the words spoken by the father of the Ocean Fleet in the future, the correctness of Qingying's previous ideas was confirmed.

The displacement of a warship is composed of the following 8 major items, namely the hull structure, auxiliary unit, power, weapons, ammunition, armor, boiler water and miscellaneous feeding. With German industrial technology, weapons and power cannot be overweight with technological backwardness; armor, ammunition and boiler water will change with the change of design requirements, and their weight and technology are not related. The auxiliary unit and miscellaneous feeding are proportional to the displacement of the warship. The difference in the percentage of these two items between different ships is very small, and there will be no decisive difference in the total weight. In this way, there is only one suspect left--yes, it is the "hull structure" guy!

The German Navy has always been fond of building "unsinkable sea fortresses". To achieve this, in addition to having heavy armor, the three essentials of strict and detailed watertight cabins, the long double-layer ship bottom as possible and the reliable main strength are also essential. The latter three points are directly linked to the weight of the "hull structure". Among these three points, the first two Germans did nothing wrong; but in terms of main strength, the Germans were too conservative in order to ensure the strength of the hull, and the direct result was that they spent too much weight on the hull structure, which led to the serious overweight of the warship!

Looking at Tirpitz's report, those battleships with a designed displacement of 13,000 tons were only equipped with 4 283mm main guns, Qingying felt that the chrysanthemum was tight. If the problem of excessive redundancy in structural strength could be solved, even if the original strong anti-sinking ability was maintained, adding 500 tons and installing a main turret would be completely no problem! But I can't say these things directly!

"Very good, Alfred, this plan is very detailed, you are determined." William II slowly closed the pages of paper in his hand, with a faint look of joy on his face. "The annual allocation of 33 million marks for ship construction is only 1.5 times my annual income. I hope those people will not gossip about this amount!" After speaking, William II turned around, raised his right hand sideways, and said to Qingying, who was thinking about countermeasures: "Ettle, go and help me bring the stack of beige paper over there. I want to write an order."

Qingying was confused and nodded blankly, then walked towards the direction of William II's finger. A small stack of paper was placed in the most conspicuous position in the window. It was thick and hard, but soft and smooth.

"Hey, what did I see? There is a warship drawn on the top of the paper?" Qingying frowned and suddenly knew what was drawn on it. Although ordinary people may not know what this thing is, as a new era military resident who has been hiding in the Battleship Forum for many years, Qingying knew the warship depicted in this painting very clearly.

What is depicted on this piece of paper is a dome-armored cruiser designed by German Emperor William II. In the eyes of German professional designers, the firepower, protection and speed of this ship are too perfect compared to its 2,650-ton design displacement. All designers do not believe that this tonnage can be used to achieve William II's designs. Once this warship is built, it will be the only ship of the German Navy that will not be sunk by the enemy country, because when she is in the water, she will immediately sink into the bottom of the water like a lead-cast duck because she is overweight, thus breaking herself. For this reason, William II was depressed for more than a week; this monarch who is extremely fond of his brains to design such a ship, and when he confidently gave this manuscript to those professionals, he got such a comment! If this was placed in Miqing, it would be dragged out of the Meridian Gate and killed!

The light flies, and time flies. Although William II's design was once said to be a joke, it was renamed at the Battleship Forum 120 years later. According to the simulation of the powerful S**44 assault rifle, this so-called "lead duck" is actually completely feasible and there is no obvious unreasonable point; its speed calculation is accurate and the guards before the artillery design make people feel William II's heart when designing this battleship. The reason why the designers at that time gave the comment of "lead duck" was because they were too conservative in the structural design and did not believe that only using such a little weight can ensure the strength of the hull structure!

Seeing this thing, Qingying suddenly had a bright light. Could it be that he could use this "lead duck" to make a fuss to promote the design of the German Navy's warship? I really want to sleep, so someone gave me a pillow!

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Chapter completed!