The Longxing Island sailed for more than 20 hours and arrived at Qingdao Bay at around 6 o'clock the next morning. At this time, most of the crossers on the ship were still sleeping, and only the members of the negotiation team had already stood up and got off the ship.

At this time, Qin Zhengji was waiting for them on the dock. After everyone met, they greeted each other and then boarded the ships sent by Shanghai to pick up the negotiation team. It turned out that what Shanghai sent was the Ping'an ship that Li Hongzhang rode on when he visited Tianjin last time, and the warships escorted were the two protective cruisers, Haitian and Haicuo.

At seven o'clock, three ships left Jingdao and headed towards Shanghai. At this time, other talents on the Longxing Island stood up one after another. The Qingdao Command also arranged personnel to board the ship and arrange work for them. At the same time, it announced that the LAN on the ship would be closed, and after the Qingdao crosser dormitory was built, the LAN would be arranged in the dormitory area area. In short, you could no longer hide on the ship and live a life of scattered life.

But not every time traveler wants to work. Some people think that such a life is good, at least three meals a day to be full, and they get off the boat and stroll around the LAN at night. It is good to just go on like this. Now this life has not naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of a few people, so they clamored on the boat, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.

At this moment, Qin Moman sneaked off the Longxing Island and rushed to Prince Heinrich's Hotel to meet Prince Heinrich. Because Germany and the time traveler are still invisible, Qin Moman came to Qingdao this time in a secret operation, claiming to the public that he was sick and rested at home, and the affairs of the consulate were handed over to the deputy consulate. Even in the German consulate in Tianjin, only three people knew that he had come to Qingdao.

Now Heinrich Hotel has basically become a temporary residence for the German envoy, and there are no customers anyway. Therefore, Heinrich, Wadesi, Falkenheis, and others who were released by the time traveler, all lived in Heinrich Hotel, just to hide their whereabouts and could not leave the hotel easily.

However, when Qin Moman arrived, another special envoy, Tirpitz, had left Qingdao on a German merchant ship yesterday with a complete set of drawings of the old man's star battleship. He would transfer to a passenger ship back to Germany in Shanghai.

Although he had not obtained the drawings of the Magnificent Class Battleship and the Cresey-class armored cruiser, Tirpitz did not feel regretful or unwilling at all. On the one hand, it was because the remaining drawings had an agreement, and sooner or later it was also from Germany. On the other hand, Tirpitz believed that the gains of this trip to Qingdao had far exceeded his expectations.

After Qin Zheng and Heinrich signed the [China-Germany Qingdao Agreement], Tirpitz did not participate in the subsequent negotiations, mainly discussing the design of warships with Huang Zhe. Although Tirpitz was brave, motivated and courageous, he was not a person with innovative ideas. Therefore, the German ship construction technology he presided over was mainly followed by British ships, rather than pioneering new warships. Although this could help German shipbuilding avoid detours and avoid risks, it also made Germany's technical level one generation behind Britain. After all, Germany could only imitate Britain's built warships, but after Germany built the warships, Britain built a new generation of warships. As a result, it often made the German ships lagging behind as soon as they were built.

After several tests and visiting the warships of the crosser, Tirpitz has basically determined that the design capabilities of overseas Chinese are not inferior to those of the United Kingdom, but are at least roughly equivalent to those of Britain. Even though Germany and overseas Chinese have signed a military cooperation agreement, Tirpitz naturally hopes to exchange ideas on warship design with overseas Chinese. It is best to give some suggestions for German warship design, accelerate the design level of Germany's warships, and strive to catch up with the United Kingdom as soon as possible.

Moreover, Tirpitz did not hide his own privately this time. In fact, this time Tirpitz came to Qingdao to bring all the sketches of Germany's latest battleships. When communicating with Huang Zhe again, he took out the drawings of these battleships and let Huang Zhe watch and give guidance.

In fact, Huang Zhe knew all these types of German battleships: the Caesar Frederick III-class battleship is the second type of front-dreadnought built by Germany. Of course, there is no concept of a former dreadnought, because the dreadnought has not been built yet. The standard displacement of this class battleship is: 111oo tons, full load displacement: 1178o; length: 125.36 meters, width: 2o.3 meters, draft: 8.2 meters; degree 17.5 knots; crew members are 65o people. The military equipment is 2 double-company 4o diameter 24o mm main guns, 14 single-company 4o diameter 15o mm secondary guns, 12 88 mm secondary guns, and 5 45o mm underwater torpedo tubes. Currently, the five ships of this type of warship have been launched, and 3 have entered the German Navy for service.

The Vechersbach-class battleship is the third type of former dreadnought built by Germany, and is also an expanded and improved version of the Caesar Frederick III class. The standard displacement is 1177o tons, full load displacement: 1279o; length: 126.8 meters, width: 2o.79 meters, draft: 8 meters; degree 18 knots; crew members are 683 people. The military equipment is 2 double-component 4o diameter 24o mm main guns, 18 single-component 4o diameter 15o mm secondary guns, 12 88 mm secondary guns, and 6 45o mm underwater torpedo tubes. Germany also plans to build five warships, all of which have been started, and three have been launched.

Compared with the current British main battleship Majestic class battleships, which have reached 15ooo tons of water displacement, the two types of warships are of course far inferior. This is mainly because the Kiel Canal, which spans the North Sea and the Baltic Sea in the early years, limited the displacement of German warships, making it impossible for Germany to build warships with a displacement of 15ooo tons. However, Germany has planned to expand the Kiel Canal, so the bottleneck limiting the displacement of German warships will be lifted in the future.

In fact, the design of these two types of warships is still unique. Due to the advanced military technology of Germany, the 15o mm secondary gun used by these two types of warships fires faster than that of similar British naval guns, so the 1o5 mm secondary gun was abolished and only 88 mm secondary guns were retained. This also helps the smaller hull to arrange weapons and reduce logistics pressure.

However, there are still many problems in the design of these two types of warships. The 88-mm gun position of the Caesar Frederick III-class battleship was arranged lower on the middle deck, and a secondary muzzle was opened on the side of the ship. This design was originally intended to facilitate flat shooting of the torpedo boats that were quickly forced at any time in the mooring state. This was also the experience of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, but it caused the integrity of the armor on the side of the side of the side of the armour, which reduced the defense performance and could not be fired at all under harsh sea conditions. The Vechersbach-class battleship cancelled the artillery on the middle deck and the secondary gun opening on the side of the ship, strengthening the hull structure. However, more weapons were moved above the upper deck, making the center of gravity of the entire ship too high, and the position of the secondary gun deck had to be lowered by a layer. Therefore, the problem of being unable to shoot at all under harsh sea conditions was still not solved.

In the final analysis, the displacement of these two types of warships is too small, but they must take on the task of the main battleship, and have to install too many weapons and thick armor. Problems like the British majestic battleship are much better.

After hearing these problems pointed out by Huang Zhe, Tirpitz nodded repeatedly because the three Caesar-Friedrich III-class battleships that had been in service did encounter situations in the sea trials where the low-level secondary guns could not be fired under harsh sea conditions.

Huang Zhe also pointed out that another problem with these two types of warships is that the caliber of the main gun is too small, only 240 mm. As a battleship, the main gun with such a caliber is obviously insufficient. Currently, the main guns of the first-class battleships in the UK are both 305 mm, and the two sides are also too far apart. Although the main guns of the German ships are fired quickly, no matter how fast the fire is, it is useless to not penetrate the enemy warships.

The reason why the German ship insisted on using small-caliber main guns was, first, learned from the Dadonggou naval battle. In that naval battle, the artillery fire of the Japanese joint fleet overwhelmed the large-caliber main gun of the Beiyang Navy. Second, the naval battle area set by Germany was poor in the North Sea for many years, and the Baltic Sea was narrow in scope. In this waters, the combat distance was relatively close, and the artillery firing was much more important than the caliber and range. Therefore, although in the design of the next Brunswick-class battleship, Germany changed to a 28o mm main gun, which was not changed, but Germany had already made a 28o mm main gun with a firing that was almost the same as the 24o mm gun. To put it bluntly, it still paid attention to fire, but the single damage power of the 28o mm main gun was still not as good as the British 3o5 mm naval gun.

The Brunswick-class battleship is a 4th-class battleship built by Germany. Since it has accumulated considerable experience, this type of battleship has been relatively successful in design, with its displacement increased to 132oo tons and its main gun also increased to 28o mm caliber. Although it is slightly inferior to the British majestic battleship, the combat effectiveness of a single ship has been greatly improved. However, this type of battleship has just been frozen in the design and has not yet begun to be built. At the same time, the German type of 5th-class battleship has begun to design, and the ultimate goal of this type of warship is to compete with the British majestic class.

Huang Zhe knew that it was right that Germany attached great importance to shooting, but it was a bit too much. In the Dadonggou naval battle, the artillery fire of the Japanese Combined Fleet did cause huge damage to the Beiyang Fleet, but the ones sunk were warships below 2ooo tons. Because the artillery fire of the Japanese Combined Fleet was small and medium caliber, it was difficult to cause fatal damage to the heavy armor of the two ships of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan. However, the power of the 3o5mm naval guns of the two ships of Zhenyuan were huge. As long as one shot hit, it would be enough to make the Japanese ships die. Therefore, the Dadonggou naval battle ended with the Japanese Combined Fleet retreating first. Although the Beiyang Fleet lost this battle, the main force was still there and still had combat power. This also shows that in the decisive battle of the main ships, it was impossible to only talk about shooting without taking into account the power.

Germany believes that the North Sea has a poor climate vision for many years, the Baltic Sea is narrow in range, and the combat distance in such waters is relatively close, and the relative caliber and range of artillery fire is much more important. This is even more a false proposition. No matter how small the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are, there are 450,000 square kilometers, which is enough for two fleets to fight together. Moreover, the North Sea does not have a harsh climate every day. In the old time and space, in World War I, the largest battleship war, the Jutland Naval Battle was held in the North Sea, and the average firefight between the two sides was about 15 kilometers.

Although Huang Zhe could not use the Jutland Naval Battle to illustrate that in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, it was possible to fight a distance. But Tirpitz also knew that Huang Zhe's opinion was correct. The caliber of the main gun of the German ship was indeed a big problem, because Tirpitz had conducted multiple shooting tests of naval guns in Germany, and the result was very dissatisfied with the penetration of the 24o mm caliber main gun.
Chapter completed!