The information sent by Fang Guan and Pierre was very accurate, and the Chinese paid a bloody price for such intelligence in Europe.

The intelligence costs were consumed by more than 200,000 pounds, three spies died and two were missing!

But all sacrifices are valuable, and this list almost counts the detailed data of the British White Fleet!

The total tonnage exceeds 230,000 tons, and the main gun caliber is 8 inches, of which the main gun caliber of the Royal Power and Queen reach 11 inches!

Xiao Letian has a detailed table at hand. The British are too proud. Those who are proud will not use metric to measure sizes at all. They always use their own imperial sizes to design and produce them.

The 8-inch caliber cannon is converted into metric system and it is 203mm, while the 11-inch caliber cannon is 279mm.

It can be said that compared with the firepower caliber, the Chinese people have some advantages but they are absolutely not obvious. The other indicators such as armor, combat personnel, and endurance also have their own advantages and disadvantages!

Tonnage, the most troublesome thing is tonnage. The British Navy's tonnage is almost twice that of the Chinese!

One is 230,000 tons and the other is 130,000 tons. The gap in strength in this battle is too obvious!

Xiao Letian knew very well that in the era of sail battleships, the Navy still had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. There were many cases where the Navy defeated the weak and defeated the strong.

But in the era of giant steel ships, the era of battleship bombing, tonnage and firepower are indicators of crushing!

It is hard for ordinary people to think about how terrifying the defense capabilities of battleships in that era were. Thirty to forty centimeters thick steel plates were piled together and floating like mountains on the sea.

A naval battle lasted for six or seven hours, but it was not impossible to sank a main warship in the end!

That is a super meat shield, which is pressed in front to resist fire and constantly pours out shells! Both sides are grinding each other to death little by little!

According to Xiao Letian's previous life, the naval battle during World War I was completely a plate-armored paladin, or a defensive paladin, grinding blood on it!

Sometimes a day of blasting is just a minor injury. Therefore, in an era when missiles and missiles did not appear, humans had to take the path of tonnage supremacy.

You can only rely on the advantage of quantity to win. You have eight Chinese battleships, and I, the UK, will use twelve to fight you. Only in this way can you expand your chances of victory!

"Tonnage! Tonnage..." Xiao Letian threw down his pencil and paced back and forth in the tent, and half a cup of bitter and astringent black coffee was taken in one sip.

"How to break? How to break the British fleet? Do you use torpedoes? Unfortunately, I hit the torpedo in my hand now, and the electromagnetic torpedo was not created at all!"

"Damn it, if Tesla had been invited, the electromagnetic torpedo would have been launched in advance. If there were such a treasure, it might have been dangerous!"

"But... the British were equipped with 21 destroyers... Damn, British naval experts probably have guessed my backup..."

Xiao Letian was right, and the British even guessed the Chinese backhand, which was the torpedo speedboat team hidden deep in the Amami Islands!

Gordon had stayed at the Ryukyu Naval Base. He had seen a mountain that was wrapped in a disguised net. This was the Chinese killer torpedo speedboat base.

Use the caves in the original mountain and then manually blast and expand them, turning them into a naval base hidden in the mountains, where many torpedo speedboats are hidden!

These small torpedo boats with a displacement of only one or two hundred tons, each carrying two steam-touch torpedoes, and are coming and going quickly on the sea like the wind!

But their shortcomings are also obvious, that is, their defense capabilities are too weak, and the 4-inch secondary guns of British warships can easily destroy these torpedo speedboats.

According to Xiao Letian's plan, three teams of 24 torpedo speedboats were launched, and even if they were wiped out, as long as 48 torpedoes were launched, they could replace three or four enemy battleships!

As long as you can tear off such a large piece of flesh and blood from the British, even if the British have great achievements, they will cry out in pain.

This is a huge blow to the enemy's morale!

However, the latest information sent by Fang Guan made Xiao Letian feel cold. He did not expect that the British would bring 21 destroyers with him this time.

The tonnage of destroyers before World War I was very small, just seven or eight hundred tons. After World War I, more than one thousand tons of destroyers appeared! The largest tonnage was only 1,500 tons.

This kind of warship is low in manufacturing costs. With the British shipbuilding level, it is too simple to mass produce such a small boat of 700 ton.

The destroyer is not big but its importance is not low. This is the personal guard of the main fleet. According to the Qing Dynasty, it is called a sword guard!

The main task of destroyers on the battlefield is those annoying torpedo boats, which are fast and powerful. It is too difficult to deal with these mosquitoes by battleships and cruisers.

You have to deal with it quickly and flexibly, and small and medium artillery of various caliber fire to protect the safety of the main fleet!

The remaining naval battle is actually the main battleships of both sides, and the continuous bombardment is the end of the naval battle even if it hits the entire day, until one side can't stand it.

The British brought so many destroyers to Asia, which shows that the British Navy staff had deduced Xiao Lotte's attempt to attack with a torpedo speedboat.

It’s not a loss to be a powerful country for a century-old naval power. This foundation, this talent reserve, and this navy’s shipbuilding capabilities are not comparable to that of emerging countries!

Just as Xiao Letian rubbed his temples in pain, footsteps sounded outside the door. Fatty Jin came again with the latest European information.

"The Head of State...the latest European intelligence, just completed the transcoding..."

Xiao Letian took it and came over and whispered in anger, "Damn it... Why is this British man so difficult?" After that, he smashed the telegram on the table.

The above sentence is: "The British fleet has fully added a lightning protection network, and it has been completely modified before June 1st..."

"Thunderproof net?" Fatty Jin had never seen such a thing, but Xiao Letian's memory bank is not unfamiliar with this thing at all!

Before and after World War I, European countries generally added lightning protection nets to the main warships. This thing has no black technology, just a few steel poles extending to the sea and then hanging down the metal iron net!

Torpedo or mine cannot crash into the hull. Of course, this kind of equipment has a disadvantage that once it is hung up, the speed will not be guaranteed.

But the British are not that stupid. They don’t know how to hang the Internet all the time. They can usually put away the lightning protection net and then put it down before the naval battle.

This kind of thing is combined with destroyers, and the Chinese torpedo boats become completely useless!

"Damn it... our torpedoes don't have a net breaker, and there is no electromagnetic fuse... I can't break this situation! It's too late..."
Chapter completed!