An emergency telegram was presented to Li Weiguo at the Wuhan Palace in Greater Kyoto.

"On the night of May 11, the British-French joint fleet was dispatched, commander Admiral Lawrence, deputy commander Lieutenant General De Le!"

"On the night of May 13, the German high seas fleet was dispatched, commander Lieutenant General Tirpitz!"

Seeing these two messages, Li Weiguo's expression instantly frozen.

Why is the commander of the German High Seas Fleet not Hudil? Instead, he became Tirpitz!

This sudden change made Li Weiguo feel something was wrong.

He clearly learned from MacArthur that this time the decisive battle between the British, French and German naval forces that were about to take place in the Barents Sea, the final winner will be the British, French navy, and the German high seas fleet was wiped out, and the commander of the German fleet who caused this result was Hudil.

But now Hudil suddenly became Tirpitz. These two characters with completely opposite personalities will bring to this naval battle?

Li Weiguo didn't dare to think about it. The result he hoped was that the German high seas fleet was wiped out, and even though the British and French navies won, they also won miserably.

Under this situation, the main force of the Chinese Empire's Pacific Fleet entered Europe. On the way back to victory, the main force of the British and French navies would be eliminated in one fell swoop, thereby completely controlling the entire Atlantic Ocean and various European waters, and then capturing the British mainland. Even if Germany captures France, the Chinese Empire could continue to contain Germany.

But now there are variables. The commander of the German High Seas Fleet is no longer Hudir, but has been replaced by Tirpitz, who is known for his cunning and cruelty. Then the result of this naval battle may change.

After taking control of MacArthur, Li Weiguo regained a rough grasp of the direction of history.

But this time the variable made him feel a little nervous again.

Whether it was caused by the butterfly effect of MacArthur or whether there was another time traveler coming, the latter is still uncertain.

When Li Weiguo turned on the communicator, he wanted to contact Zhao Kuangyin to determine whether another time traveler had arrived, but unfortunately he couldn't get through.

"I ordered Li Weijun to pay close attention to the movements of the British, French and German naval forces. If Britain and France win, take the initiative to attack and wipe out them. If Germany wins, immediately attack the British mainland and defeat Britain before Germany can react."

There is no need to explain the imperial edict in the form of a telegram to the Pacific Fleet.

After Li Weiguo made the above decision, in order to calm his surprise, he opened a bottle of red wine and wanted to drink some to suppress his shock.

As a result, he had just taken a few sips, and then Mingyue came to report, which shocked him again.

"Your Majesty, the German branch of SHIELD in China has received top secret information. The German side has secretly developed a cruise ship with aircraft carriers. The new commander is Admiral Hudil, the former fleet commander who had just transferred from the German Empire's High Seas Fleet!"

Ahem!

Li Weiguo was glad that he just took a sip of red wine, otherwise he would have squirted out in shock.

Carrier cruise ship?

Isn’t this the nickname of an aircraft carrier?

"What? Germany has begun to develop aircraft carriers? This is impossible!"

Mingyue repeated: "This is true! Your Majesty, I have repeatedly verified it! German Emperor William II removed Hudil's position as commander of the High Seas Fleet, and he must appease Hudil, so he transferred Hudil to a secret unit. Hudil was very dissatisfied because he lost the position of commander of the High Seas Fleet, so he spoke wildly after drinking and told him that his department was developing a cruise ship."

Li Weiguo said calmly: "The Germans developed aircraft cruise ships, but did we leak news?"

Mingyue replied: "It's not clear yet. I have sent someone to investigate the matter specifically for this matter. I believe there will be results soon!"

Li Weiguo sighed. Although he was prepared in his heart, he still didn't want such a thing to happen.

Although aircraft carriers appeared in Britain less than two years after the first appearance of fighter jets in history, it was still very shocking to hear that the German Empire had aircraft carriers.

Thinking of the recent changes in the German Empire, Li Weiguo gradually had an answer in his mind, but it still needed specific verification.

Of course, Li Weiguo was not afraid of Germany's so-called "aircraft cruise ship", because the Chinese Empire also had aircraft carriers long ago.

As early as when Li Weiguo issued an order to develop aircraft, aircraft carriers were put on the agenda.

However, Li Weiguo has always been worried about being known and imitated by the outside world, so he has never allowed any information to be disclosed and has been conducting aircraft carrier tests in the Bering Strait of Alaska.

The first aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire was built three years ago. The main body was a retired heavy cruiser with a displacement of 15,000 tons. After three years, it finally looked like an aircraft carrier.

The reason why it took so long was mainly because Li Weiguo was not in a hurry. He thought that the emergence of aircraft carriers would take at least many years, so the task of the Navy General Administration was to first study it, and after understanding the technology of the aircraft carrier, then build the aircraft carrier, and strive to be in place in one step.

Therefore, the Navy and Ship Administration has not been restricted by time and began to slowly study the design drawings and experience of aircraft carriers.

Li Weiguo's strategy of developing aircraft carriers itself has no problems, and it is completely the right way. After all, the Chinese Empire has no experience in construction of aircraft carriers, and countries around the world have no experience in construction. The concept of aircraft carriers is as difficult as primary school students to study university calculus for the Chinese Empire Navy.

Indeed, Li Weiguo could draw a sketch, such as pointing out the purpose and function of an aircraft carrier, and guiding some straight-through flight decks, side vertical ship islands, elevators, blocking, etc.

But these are just concepts, and Li Weiguo can only explain to this level, but the specific design needs professional engineering experts to study it.

The structure of an aircraft carrier is very complex. In history, the development of aircraft carriers between Britain, France, the United States and Russia has accumulated bit by bit. Through continuous construction and step by step to the finalization of aircraft carriers, countries have taken many detours. Almost every aircraft carrier passed by on the basis of the previous aircraft carrier, and each ship was different. It was not until it finally became a real aircraft carrier that the advantages and disadvantages of each aircraft carrier were integrated and discarded, which took a hundred years.

In the 30 years of reform and opening up in China, the achievements of various industries were very high, but they could not build aircraft carriers themselves, and they had to spend money to return from Ukraine to study. Even if they built the first domestically produced aircraft carrier by themselves, they could only make some improvements based on Ukrainian aircraft carriers and could not build their own unique aircraft carriers like Britain and France.

This contains one of the most critical issues, that is, structural engineering calculations.

You should know that in the era of giant ships and cannons, battleships were symbols of invincibility. Any general of the Chinese Empire's naval general would not be willing to turn a future super fearless battleship into an aircraft carrier. After all, the advantages of aircraft carriers have not been exposed and have not been reflected.

If other countries know about the hull of a battleship with a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons, it will definitely curse the Chinese to death and scold the Chinese for being full. You must know that with the destruction of the American Navy, only the Chinese Empire in the world has a super fearless battleship of 50,000 tons. What a glory that makes other countries envious, jealous and hateful, but the Chinese Empire turns such a behemoth into an aircraft carrier. How does this make other countries sound?

It's simply super loser!

Of course, countries do not know that the Chinese Empire is super battleships.

The first super fearless battleship was originally intended to be named Dingyuan. Like Haiqi, Dingyuan was considered to be re-entered, but it was originally a super fearless battleship, but now it has become an aircraft carrier.

The Dingyuan has been built 60%, the hull and power system have been completed, the horizontal deck has been laid, and it is preparing to install superstructures and equipment such as ship islands and main guns.

After the General Administration of Shipbuilding and Administration took over, the Dingyuan secretly dragged it to Alaska and carried out secretly.

The four main artillery ammunition depots were not removed, but cleverly became aviation fuel depots and aircraft load-based ammunition depots. The ammunition depots with armor of up to 350 mm thick make aviation fuel extremely safe. The interior cabin was newly arranged, and two large hangars in front and rear were cleared to store components of carrier-based aircraft.

The reason why a complete carrier-based aircraft cannot be stored is mainly because the current carrier-based aircraft wings are very huge, long and wide (the engine thrust is insufficient, and the aircraft can only be obtained by relying on the wingspan area). The hangar cannot store carrier-based aircraft at all. All carrier-based aircraft can only be placed on the flight deck. The carrier-based aircraft can only be dismantled in the hangar and used as parts maintenance.

The boiler smoke exhaust pipe was modified. The large chimney, which was originally in the center of the hull, became on the starboard side like the island. After weight calculation, the designers reweighted the weight below the port side flight deck to ensure the balance between the left and right sides.

The huge hull can be installed with a long and wide flight deck.

This time, the designers moved the ship island to the starboard side of the hull according to Li Weiguo's reminder, so that the full-purpose flight deck could be realized.

The 205-meter-long all-purpose flight deck allows fifty of the latest 16 fighters to be placed on it. This time the flight deck does not use wooden boards, but is laid with all colored steel plates.

This is not to prevent aviation bombing. The designers of the General Administration of Shipbuilding and Administration are not as powerful as foresight. Their purpose is very simple, which is to counterweight the aircraft carrier.

Before, the island was moved to the starboard side, so the port side naturally had to counterweight to ensure balance. This flight deck was one of the counterweight solutions.

Invisibly, the flight deck paved with steel plates has much stronger ability to resist beating than the wooden flight deck, so that in the future naval battles, the Dingyuan aircraft carrier became the most resistant to beating among all aircraft carriers of the Imperial Navy, and by chance, it created various naval battle legends.

This is a later story, so there is no need to say much.

After the transformation of Haiqi and Dingyuan, the Imperial Chinese Navy has actually mastered the original technology of building aircraft carriers and has become richer in experience.

Therefore, the drawings of the first self-built aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire designed by the General Administration of Shipbuilding and Administration can finally take action.

In the 32nd year of Guanghua, on April 15, 3997, and on May 18, 1897, the Imperial Chinese Navy officially started the construction of its first aircraft carrier.
Chapter completed!