Germany basically accepted the proposal of East China ** to establish overseas ports as a base for the fleet to maintain and supplement the security. After all, this is also part of the battle. Moreover, Germany also hopes to fully develop the existing colonial areas, strive to make the colonial areas profitable as soon as possible and increase revenue for Germany.

Moreover, after careful discussions by the German cabinet and the Navy, it was finally decided to establish an overseas base in Sabah area in northern Borneo. In this base, two dry docks 160 meters long and 35 meters wide will be built, and a large shipyard will be built, which can repair various damages from warships, including replacing gun barrels and repairing engines. In this way, all warships of the German Navy, including warships under construction, can be put into docks here for maintenance; at the same time, warehouses, barracks, forts, arsenals and other facilities will be built, and a shore defense force of one regiment and 2 regiments will be built. In the Lantao area in southern Borneo, a large port is built in each of German Susiv, German New Guinea and German Java, and a small port is built in the rest.

The planned construction period of the base is 4 years, but it can be opened in 2 years; the construction period of the large port is 3 years, and it can be opened in 2 years; the construction period of the small port is 2 years, and 1 year; the first to start construction are Sabah Base, Susieve Port, Guinea Port, and East Africa and West Africa. All these five ports will be started this year.

The base was chosen in Sabah area not only because this area has a large area, with a size of 66,000 square kilometers, close to the size of two Taiwan islands, which is larger than the territory of the Netherlands and Belgium, and is also a larger colonial territory for Germany to overseas. It has a good geographical location, facing the South China Sea to the west, looking at the Philippines to the north, and going out of the Pacific to the east, and it is not easy to be blocked. What is more important is that it is backed by the huge Borneo, which is actually backed by the East China **, so it can get full support from the East China **.

In fact, Germany is very clear that the number and area of ​​its overseas colonies are actually not suitable for building base-type ports, because Germany's overseas colonies are too small, scattered, and the degree of development is not high. They can generate few economic benefits and lack self-supply capabilities, which rely entirely on domestic support. Overseas colonies such as Britain and France all have an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of areas or even millions of square kilometers, with a large population and rich resources. Moreover, both countries have been operating in the colonies for decades. In the past hundreds of years, the colonies have been fully developed and can generate a large amount of economic benefits and support the daily operation of the ports and bases. Therefore, if Germany wants to establish an overseas base, it must be supported by the East China **.

Setting the base on Borneo not only can we make full use of the manpower and material resources of East China to build ports, bases, cities, etc., which saves a lot of money than mobilizing manpower and material resources from Germany to transport it. At the same time, we can also use the East China National University to develop the colonial economy and strive to enable the colonies to make profits as soon as possible and supply the expenses of the base port. During the war, the base was backed by the East China National University, so there was no need to worry about the enemy landing on the shore from behind. At the same time, the East China National University could also supply various materials to the base to maintain the battle. At the same time, it could also use the territory of East China National University to interact and communicate with the ports of Sabah and Lantao to support and assist each other. Moreover, this would also enable Germany and East China National University to maintain closer and closer relations, and perhaps the relationship between the two countries could be closer to achieve alliances.

Although Germany has accepted the proposal of forming a partnership proposed by East China, it did not give up the idea of ​​forming an alliance with East China. It was just that East China had clearly replied to Germany and had no interest in alliance. Therefore, it could only settle for the second best and choose to form a partnership. After all, although partnership is not as good as alliance, it is much closer than ordinary friendly relations in the country. Moreover, Germany still has to make a partnership first, and slowly develop further with East China and finally achieve the goal of forming an alliance. As long as it strengthens its relationship with East China, Germany will certainly not miss it, and this itself is beneficial to Germany.

Germany's naval development plan was determined in this way. The first thing to do is to complete the warship design. Of course, all these warship designs are not required to be completed immediately. After all, the design of a type of warship is a very complicated event. It is only a few hundred ordinary cruiser drawings, and the drawings of battleships and battleships all have more than a thousand, and it takes at least 2 or 3 months to complete. If you encounter technical difficulties in construction, or if the demand party has modified technical requirements during the design period, it will be as long as 1 or 2 years, and Germany's shipbuilding capacity is limited. Even if the design drawings are released, it is impossible to start construction together.

First of all, the design of the two types of battleships can be completed until the beginning of next year, because now only three of the four Nassau-class ships have started construction, and one will not start construction in March, while the first two Helgolan-class ships will not start construction until June. The third and fourth ships are expected to wait until the end of the year, and the first two Nassau-class ships will be installed and the dock will be vacated. Therefore, the construction of these two types of battleships will be completed at the earliest until the middle of next year, the 3rd and 4th Nassau-class ships will be installed before construction will be started. Of course, there is no need to rush to complete the design drawings.

The most urgent task now is the design of the battleship cruiser, because it is a brand new type, which Germany naturally had never built before. Although according to East China, this is a large armored cruiser equipped with battleship guns, it is by no means simply to enlarge the armored cruiser proportionally. Because it is equipped with battleship guns, it means that the upper deck must be reinforced. In order to pursue high speed, it must be equipped with a larger number of boilers. The number of chimneys must be greater than that of ordinary battleships. Moreover, although the protection of battleship cruisers is not as good as that of battleships, such a expensive warship will never be vulnerable. The necessary protection is still required. So how should the armor be distributed and distributed, and various details require careful calculation and trade-offs to achieve the optimal result.

In addition, the battle cruiser is used as the core of the plan to break the warship, and break the warship is also a new combat mode for the German Navy. Although military chess deductions have been conducted, everyone knows that military chess deductions cannot replace actual operations, so Germany urgently needs a service battle cruiser to truly practice the tactics of breaking the warship.

Of course, there is another hidden reason here, that is, the battle cruiser built by the UK has been launched and installed and is expected to be put into service this year, so Germany naturally cannot fall behind too much. Therefore, the German Navy decided to put the design of the battle cruiser first, requiring the visiting delegation to complete the design of the battle cruiser before returning to China. Others such as armored cruisers, large cruisers, light cruisers, and submarines can all return to China for design, as long as it is completed within the year.

After consultation, the visiting delegation asked for instructions abroad and finally agreed to Germany's request. After completing the visit, other members could return home first, leaving only the naval team to complete the design of the battle cruiser in Germany.

By this time, the military exchanges between the two sides were all over, and this visit to Germany was basically over. However, the cultural team's tour in Germany, Xu Jichao and Li Sanjie's visit to other European countries had not yet ended. Therefore, taking advantage of this free time, the naval team also began to design a draft battlecruiser.

In fact, before visiting Germany, it was expected that Germany would find the East China ** design warships, so Huang Zhe was included in the visiting list. Now Huang Zhe is the chief shipbuilding expert of East China **, and has also made several design drafts for warships. It is a battle cruiser and prepared two plans, one focusing on the main battleship decisive battle and the other focusing on breaking the war, because Britain has started construction, and in the old time and space, Germany will also start building its first battleship cruiser in March this year.

However, since Germany had accepted the proposal of breaking the war from East China, a week later, Huang Zhe chose a plan focused on breaking the war from the two battlecruisers he prepared and handed it over to Germany.

The length of this model is 178 meters, 24 meters wide, 9 meters draft, and the aspect ratio reaches 7.4:1. In this era, the aspect ratio is quite large, which is obviously a design for high-speed production.

The ship-based weapons are: 4 dual-mounted 305mm main guns, arranged on the back of the central axis; 6 dual-mounted 150mm secondary guns, 8 dual-mounted 105mm rapid-fire guns, arranged on both sides of the hull; 4 500mm*** launch tubes, installed underwater, one on each bow and stern, and one on each side of the middle.

In terms of the hull design, the characteristics of the ship's best ship design in East China are still adopted, with a V-shaped hull floating outboard, the bow of the ship adopts a large inclined flying scissors, and a bulbous bow is installed under the waterline. Two 56-meter-long slosh fins are installed in the middle of the hull, reducing the lack of poor seaworthiness caused by the large aspect ratio; the long forecastle hull design of the entire hull adopts a layer lowered on the deck of the stern part. This design can reduce the weight of the hull; the second is that the deck difference of the stern deck can be used to arrange the back-mounted turret at the rear to avoid the disadvantage of the high center of gravity caused by the turret.

The power plant uses 24 boilers and 2 of the latest German Kiel steam turbines, with a maximum power of 56,000 horsepower; 4-axis and 4-rotation propulsion, dual rudders, and the expected high-speed speed is 27-28 knots. The endurance is 12 knots/6,500 nautical miles and 18 knots/4,000 nautical miles.

The armor is a waterline armor belt with a length of 120 meters, 2.5 meters high, 1.3 meters below the waterline and 150mm thick, the secondary armor belt with a length of 96 meters, 0.8 meters above the waterline and 0.6 meters below the waterline and 50mm thick; the horizontal armor of the central deck is 100 meters long, 80mm thick, and the horizontal armor of the bow and stern deck is 25 meters long, 50mm thick; the partition of the watertight cabin armor is 150mm thick; the front of the turret armor is 250mm thick, the front of the turret armor is 150mm thick, the front of the turret armor is 150mm, the side of the 150mm, and the top of the command tower armor is 250mm thick. In addition, in the ammunition depot, the local armor of the power cabin is thickened to 250mm.
Chapter completed!