There is only one ship of Zhiyuan, and the warship produced by the Chinese people later explores the design style of the dreadnought warship in Xiao Lotte's previous life!

Moreover, two important branches were born during the manufacturing process of ironclad ships, one was the battleship branch of the Shanzi series, and the other was the cruiser branch of the Water series!

Battleships belong to the strategic deterrent weapon of this era, and the real naval battle for the high seas is reassured. In the several naval battles of battleships recorded in human history, especially during World War I!

All war data proves the importance of survivability and firepower. Many battles will not sink even if they get shots from morning to afternoon. They can still continue to fight!

Most of the people who were directly sunk in the naval battle were light cruisers and large-filled dumplings with thin armor and thin skin!

Even earlier, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the survival of the heavy warships was shocked by the world. The Japanese ships in Dingzhen tried every means but could not sink!

What is the reason? The reason lies in the thickness of the armor!

Armor with a thickness of 200mm is already unimaginable. Armor exceeds 300mm has exceeded the power limit of ammunition explosion in this era!

In other words, in the era when depleted uranium ** did not appear, it was a luxury to want the shell to penetrate such armor. You could deform or even sag, but you could never break through it!

With the current national strength of the Chinese people, there is no problem in raising ten such heavy battleships. Then, such battleships can be divided into two main combat sequences with other cruisers and small boats!

There is no threat to the north now. These two main combat fleets can be placed in the south, namely the South China Sea and the Pacific region east of the Philippines!

These are the two walls on the sea. The enemy can be blocked tightly when it comes. Even if the decisive battle of the high seas can still hold back the enemy's main force. Once Britain invades, if it wants to deal with the Shanzi fleet, it must concentrate double the firepower to defeat it, otherwise it can only be tied!

The heavy armored battleship can block the main British force, just drag a draw, and the water-shaped cruiser behind can show its power!

The purpose of cruisers is to break the battle! Use high speed to harass the enemy's rear. As long as the battleship drags down the enemy's main force, the other British colonies will all become fragile eggs!

Cities, merchant ships, oil fields, mines, shipping routes... As long as there are valuable targets, they are all targets of cruisers!

Moreover, the cruiser of the Water-Selection Series is not a very weak warship itself. It only suffers when fighting heavy battleships, and there are still many advantages to deal with other warships!

For example, in the northern waters of the Chinese people, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Western Pacific, a cruiser fleet is enough to maintain maritime hegemony!

Because there is no opponent that can challenge the cruiser, although the armor of the water-shaped cruiser is thin, it is also a 200mm level armor, and it is not something that the backward nation can knock on!

In fact, the strategic goal of the Chinese people is very clear. There is only one purpose for setting up all maritime forces, to block Britain's future invasion and maintain maritime hegemony in the Pacific region!

Xiao Letian is not a fool. She will not compete with the British for the Atlantic Ocean. The marine interests of the Indian Ocean. Xiao Letian is not that arrogant. The century-old navy is not a slogan, but a fact!

The Chinese people's foundation is still much worse, and their software and hardware strength are not good!

Therefore, Xiao Letian can only adopt a defensive strategy. I believe that the UK has obtained specific parameters through spies.

Through the design styles of these two warships, Xiao Letian and the British elites quietly exchanged subtexts.

Xiao Letian's attitude is very clear, "I just have to defend the bottom line. The Shanzi heavy battleship has super defense but very slow speed and insufficient cruising mileage, so I can only fight in the local area!"

"The battleship formation needs a lot of support from the supply ports to effectively control the ocean. So according to the current radius of the port coverage of the Chinese people, the Chinese people can basically use the Strait of Malacca as the dividing line with the UK!"

"Singapore is the dividing point between two forces... Because of the Shanzi battleship, once the Malacca Strait breaks through, the supply problem becomes a terminal illness!"

"Light cruisers can break through war, but they can harass you and make you miserable, but they cannot effectively control the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean because they cannot fight decisively on the high seas and battleships!"

"Look, my Xiao Letian's strategy is very clear! Just in one sentence, I won't provoke you in the UK, but you can't bully me unscrupulously!"

"As long as you enter my territory and the battleships block you, my cruiser wolves can drag down the maritime economy behind you, and even if the financial bankruptcy of both countries!"

"You are the UK and my Chinese to death? Don't forget that Germany, France, and the United States are eyeing you at the world's number one, and the boss's position!"

"You really want to consume the elite of your navy from my Chinese? The precious surplus in your treasury? Think about it carefully, don't stalk the cicada oriole behind!"

In fact, before these two models were finalized, there were two experimental warships, but they were light cruisers of about 4,000 tons. It was not until the two models of Shanzi and Shuizi appeared that Xiao Letian officially decided that these two warships were the final models.

This incident caused a great sensation in the Navy. Xiang Ying's home in Naha was almost flattened by the young and powerful navy. Everyone hoped that Xiang Ying could persuade the head of state to change his decision!

It’s not that the characters Shan and Shui are not good, but that they cannot make decisions so easily and become the final level!

It is only more than 5,000 tons, which is far from enough. The Chinese need steel warships of 8,000 tons, 10,000 tons or even more than 30,000 tons!

This is the obsession of the naval faction, because the sea is very interesting, and the ocean has huge buoyancy. According to theory, as long as human metal technology meets the standards, you can create theoretically infinite ships.

Ten thousand tons, one hundred thousand tons, or even one million tons of ships!

Moreover, the larger the tonnage, the safer the ship will be and the better the wind and wave resistance will be!

It's only more than 5,000 tons and stopped. What if the UK sells 8,000 tons in the future? What should I do if it raises it to 10,000 tons?

Xiang Ying also had the same concerns. He put everyone's opinions together and found a time to make a comment with Xiao Letian alone!

In the end, Xiao Letian laughed, "You guys! You really can't even listen to words. Are I talking about stopping the construction of ships?"

"What I stopped is the development of warships that manufacture coal-fired boilers! This warship that burns coal and uses reciprocating power units, that's all!"

"No matter how rich we Chinese are, we cannot waste it on such warships!"

"We will have better technology to produce better battleships in the future! The reciprocating power unit is not our future, the future is a steam turbine unit!"

"Our scientific researchers have started to do it. Are you still struggling with the blind expansion of warships like this?"
Chapter completed!