"This year is the 3966th year of Jianyuan, and the first year of Guanghua, so it is called the 39661 armored iron battleship! In the future, new naval ships will be named like this, using numbers and heavenly stems and earthly branches to combine them. The more chaotic it looks, the better. It is best not to let the enemy guess the model easily, which is conducive to confidentiality work."

Li Weiguo finally made the decision to set the level for this batch of nine 10,000-ton armored iron battleships. Since then, every first-class battleship designed by the Chinese Navy was named by the combination of the China Jianyuan and the year number.

In the eyes of Xu Shou and others, this naming method has the word "lazy". Only Li Weiguo himself knew that his new China in time and space also named the warship models in this way. What are 052 and 055 are all numbers. In order to express his respect for the new China at that moment, he also used numbers to name the warship models.

This is just the Chinese Navy's own number name for warships. After the 39661 Armored Iron Battleship was released, Western powers naturally also wanted to use their methods to name Chinese naval ships. In the end, the 39661 Armored Iron Battleship was called Dingyuan class by Europe and the United States, because Dingyuan will become the flagship of the Chinese naval fleet, and the most dazzling star will inevitably be deeply remembered by the European and American powers.

There are ten armored iron battleships in the 39661 type. In addition to the already built bb-warships, the other nine armored iron battleships will be renamed Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Weiyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Laiyuan, Jiyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, although these nine ships are of the same class of 39661, due to various aspects such as construction errors, the tonnage at the end was different. Due to the technical level of this era, the maximum error is close to 1,000 tons, among which the Dingyuan has the largest tonnage, with a full load displacement of up to 12,550 tons. The other eight ships are not much different, all between hundreds of tons.

As for the test ship BB, it will be used as a training ship, and if necessary, it can become a substitute and join the main fleet to participate in the war.

For ordinary national navies, it is a bit too extravagant and wasteful to use a newly built large surface warship as a training ship. Normally, the navies of various countries use retired main ships as training ships. However, the Chinese navies are a bit special. They are not established for hundreds of years, with a large number of assets and a large number of naval officers and soldiers serving. The Chinese navy started late, had a thin foundation, and had no steam power as a training ship. The previous shallow water heavy turret ironclad ironclad ships were obviously not good. They do not meet the needs of future naval battles. If you want to train a large number of qualified officers and soldiers as soon as possible, you can only use the newly built ironclad ships.

Therefore, the bb-warship was named Zheng He and handed over to the Shanghai Naval Ship Academy for use as a training ship for naval cadets. It is also a commemoration of the glorious era when Zheng He voyages to the West, which means that the naval cadets trained by Zheng He can reproduce the glory of the Zheng He era in the future.

In the 99 Fleet case, in addition to the nine armored iron battleships, there are nine main cruise ships with displacement of about 5,000 tons and their speed is much higher than that of the battleships, reaching 18 knots. They are used for combat readiness cruises on the surrounding coasts, and provide fire cover for the main ships during naval warfare. In order to increase the speed, some armor must be sacrificed.

Originally, the Navy General Administration planned to imitate the British unprotected cruise ship or flat-armor cruise ship, but they were rejected by Li Weiguo. Because he knew that the unprotected cruise ship and the peace-armor cruise ship were all defeats and were vulnerable in naval battles.

Li Weiguo prefers dome-armored cruisers and armored cruisers. The latter will seriously drag down speed after being armed. In this era when steam engine technology is immature, cruisers that are dragged down speed are useless, so they were temporarily rejected by Li Weiguo and finally decided to build nine dome-armored cruisers.

Change the flat armor deck to the dome armor deck on both slopes, namely the dome armor.

The flat armor in the middle is raised above the waterline, and the oblique armor on both sides falls below the waterline. Because the central part is higher than the waterline, even if the water inlet is damaged, it is difficult to submerge the armored deck above the waterline for a while, and the warship can still maintain a large buoyancy. The two sides of the armored deck extending obliquely to the waterline are formed with good bulletproof effects. In addition, the resistance of the water outside the ship plays a good protective role on the side of the warship's waterline, that is, "reject bullets with an inclined degree and use the dome boundary to isolate leakage". Compared with unprotected cruisers and peace armor cruisers, the advantages of the dome armored cruisers are quite obvious.

Of course, Li Weiguo also thought that as the founder of the dome-armored cruiser, the Chaoyong, her performance in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was too bad and was often criticized by later generations as a useless person. In fact, the Chaoyong was a castrated version exported by the British to the Beiyang Navy. The British tampered with it and only covered the dome-armored armor and other key parts in the middle of the warship, and could not protect the entire ship. The British Navy itself used the "perfect dome-armored cruiser" designed by Randall.

It can be said that the Beiyang Navy was a pit that was cheated by the British and Germans, and eventually it was robbed by the pit.

Li Weiguo naturally would not repeat the same mistake. Under his instructions, when the nine dome armored cruisers were designed, the dome armor extended to the bow and stern of the entire warship, covering and protecting the entire warship's lower layer in horizontal direction, directly improving the quality, with a degree of protection close to that of the armored cruisers, but its speed exceeded that of the armored cruisers.

However, this perfect dome cruiser was perfect before the 1880s. After the 1880s, as the power of the steam engine increased significantly and the speed advantage of the armored cruiser was strengthened, the dome cruiser became outdated.

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't care at all, because by the 1980s, the dome-armored cruiser that had been in service for more than 20 years should be retired. At that time, it was natural to replace it with armored cruisers, which had no impact on the Chinese Navy.

Nine dome-armored cruisers started construction one after another. Due to Li Weiguo's intervention and the design drawings were modified, the start time of the nine cruisers was postponed to the spring of the second year of Guanghua. Therefore, this class of cruisers was classified as type 39672, named after the nine seas, namely Haiqi, Haitian, Hairong, Haichen, Haiyue, Haidai, Haihuan, Haiyang and Hairi.

As for the supporting frigates, supply ships, warning gunboats, etc. of the 99 Fleet case, these warships are very easy to design, and they are all ready-made and not designed separately. Unless the steam engine technology has made great progress, existing frigates, supply ships and warning gunboats will be competent enough.

However, there is another supplementary plan for the 99th Fleet case, which is a secret and has not been made public. However, Li Weiguo attached great importance to it.

That is the submarine that made great contributions in the Third Yabo War. This weapon is still a secret and the news was strictly blocked.

The 99 Fleet case supplement plan is to build a large number of submarines, but it is not now, because Holland's submarines cannot follow the fleet to fight the enemy in the sea. According to Li Weiguo's naval development plan, the British Navy will be driven out of Asia in the next five years, so a large-scale naval battle on the ocean will be carried out to completely defeat the Royal Navy Asian fleet.

At that time, the combat waters should be in the near sea or deep sea. The current Holland submarine's endurance is insufficient, the underwater fish radium system is incomplete, and the submarine performance is insufficient, and other reasons are all necessary to speed up the R&D speed.

According to Li Weiguo's plan, the submarine design must be completed within three years and meet the combat requirements, and then it will be built in large quantities in two years to deal with the sea war between China and Britain five years later.

To this end, Li Weiguo provided Holland with more than 10 million yuan in funds. No matter what Holland needs, he will be given priority treatment. The purpose is to enable Holland to complete the development and development of the submarine project as soon as possible.

At the same time, besides submarines, fish radium is a big killer. After the naval battle on Chongming Island, Li Weiguo noticed the huge role of fish radium. Since the submarine's underwater submarine project has not been completed (the fish radium launch system of the main battleship also has to wait), it is better to develop a batch of fish radium speedboats.

Although the Yulai speedboat can only fight in the near-shore and shallow seas, as long as it is unexpected, it can also achieve great results, just like the Gatling machine gun on the battlefield of Songhu, directly sweeping the enemy and turning the situation around.

The plan for the fish radial boat is also strictly confidential. The location where the fish radial boat was built was placed on the Demon Island Naval Base in Taihu Lake, where closed security can prevent the information of the fish radial boat from being leaked. At that time, ten shallow water heavy turrets and ironclad ships caught the British and French navies off guard. In the next war, Li Weiguo also planned to use the fish radial boat to teach the enemy another lesson.

It would be a war of gamble on national destiny, so Li Weiguo did not dare to be careless, and he would do his best to prepare whatever he could.

Li Weiguo stayed in Shanghai for a while. On the one hand, he inspected all the work of the navy, and on the other hand, he was also stabilizing the officialdom and people's hearts in various parts of Jiangnan, so that they knew that Li Weiguo was still paying attention to them. He had just ascended the throne and went on a southern tour. This was a powerful signal.

During this period, Li Weiguo was not idle, but continued to inquire about news from European and American countries through the telecommunications room of the General Staff of the General Staff.

War broke out between Prussia and France. In the early days, due to the insufficient French army, although they declared war, they did not really send troops. Until the signing of the Memorandum of the Sino-French Peace Treaty on Beijing, France paid war compensation to redeem 60,000 French troops, the French emperor immediately led his troops to fight to start war on Prussia.

When the famous battle in history did not happen, the Prussian army and the French army were in a difficult situation to separate, and both sides paid a huge price.

The reason for this situation was mainly that Li Weiguo exported a large number of Gatling machine guns to France and Prussia, of which one Gatling machine gun was sold to France for 200,000 francs, with 5 million 12.7 mm bullets, making 25 million francs of foreign exchange, offsetting with French gold and silver.

This sucker was captured by Li Weiguo, because France's permanent army had too few troops. Including the 60,000 French troops that redeemed the country, there were only 80,000 troops able to send troops to fight. The newly recruited soldiers were still being trained and had no combat effectiveness. The Prussian army adopted a compulsory military service system and mobilized 600,000 troops. The French army was absolutely weak in this regard.

Under this situation, the French Emperor Napoleon remembered the French defeat on the battlefield in the Shanghai, so he asked the Chinese government for Gatling machine guns.

In dealing with France, it is necessary to take advantage of the situation. Li Weiguo knew that if the French were given time, they would completely develop the Gatling machine gun within two or three years, so there was no need to keep it confidential. It would be better to sell it to France openly and smash the French into a huge sum of money and cash out foreign exchange.

Although Li Weiguo was very rich when he was in Shanghai, he could catch up with the prosperity of London, England and New York, the United States in more than ten years of development. However, with China's unification, Li Weiguo, who moved the capital to Beijing, found that he was increasingly short of money. In such a large China, economic and military construction all over the country had to be carried out, and it cost money. One Shanghai was easy to build, but one hundred and one thousand, and the money consumed was simply astronomical, which led to a serious fiscal deficit in the first year after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, based on the principle that mosquitoes are also meat, Li Weiguo severely knocked the Frenchman 25 million francs, which is about 3 million yuan, which is just enough for the construction cost of the first phase of the Liaozhongnan Industrial Base.

After getting the Gatling machine gun, although the French cursed Li Weiguo for being unfair, they were soon happy after actual combat. The French army with Gatling machine guns could defeat a Prussian army with a regiment, and the Prussian army killed was bloody.

So Prussia immediately contacted the Chinese government and wanted to import Gatling machine guns.

Li Weiguo is easy to talk about. He can sell as long as he has money. The price is higher than that given to the French. Whoever caused the Prussian army to suffer heavy casualties? This is the best advertising effect.

Bismarck scolded Li Weiguo for being unfair, but he had to agree with the harsh conditions proposed by Li Weiguo. In the end, he endured the pain and bought a hundred Gatling machine guns and five million bullets, with a price of one million yuan more than the French, totaling four million yuan.

What made Bismarck most collapse was that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau could not immediately provide five million bullets, and at most delivered two million rounds first, because the Chinese Shence Army itself was also consuming such bullets and inadequate inventory, but did not give Bismarck a refund, but stated that it would pay the remaining three million rounds within a year.

Do you want to be so tricky?

A year later, the French-Prussian War is about to end. What's the use of sending bullets?

Unfortunately, this is a tyrannical clause. The Prussian government must pay the full amount first, otherwise the Chinese military will not sell weapons and ammunition to Prussia.

Bismarck was very sad. He was known as the Iron-Blooded Prime Minister. He always played with others and made European countries play around. Unfortunately, he met Li Weiguo now and was cheated naked by others. There was no place to say anything.

This is so angry!

"Ah puff..."

Bismarck, who couldn't figure it out, was vomited blood, which caused his body to be left with hidden diseases from then on.

Without the Battle of Sexually, the Franco-Prussian War will not end for a while, which is exactly the result that Li Weiguo is happy to see.

Of course, the British were also very happy that Prussia was not that strong and would not have one more competitor, but would instead drag down France, which echoed the interests of the British.

However, there was a sudden problem in the United States. Lincoln's little friend, the United States of America guerrillas grew and grew, defeating the government forces of the Union of the United States and losing most of their territory.

The situation in the entire United States is turbulent, and the British government seems to be able to foresee that Lincoln's Northern Army may win, because the Northern Army now has an army of millions of black slaves.

But the British government cannot draw more troops to help the American Alliance government forces. Once the Southern Army is defeated, a powerful Northern Military Government will inevitably rise, which will be a nightmare for Britain and threaten Britain's world hegemony.

At this moment, the Shence Army from China's overseas war zone organized an expeditionary force to arrive in New York. Although the troops were only more than 12,000 in one town, they were equipped with advanced equipment. At the same time, they also brought a large number of new weapons and equipment to the US South Military Government, including 155mm heavy howitzers and Gatling machine guns, quickly arming the US South Military.

Soon, Lincoln's guerrillas met the Chinese Shence Army. Just like the British and French allied forces on the battlefield in Shanghai, the Lincoln guerrillas encountered the American version of Waterloo. On the way to attack Washington, Lincoln guerrillas had more than 50,000 troops in one front were defeated by more than 10,000 Chinese Shence Army and were almost destroyed.

After this battle, the Washington Daily published a front page headline, praising the title of the Chinese Shence Army as a beating Lincoln friend, which made the reputation of the Chinese Shence Army shock the entire American continent. Even the European powers followed suit and realized a serious problem.
Chapter completed!