Qin Zheng said: "Very good, what about the other types of warships?"

Huang Bo said, "The ironclad ships Saxony, Byrne, Fertenburg and Baden are all Saxony-class ironclad ships. They are a type of ironclad ship built by Germany between 1874 and 1876. There are 4 ships of the same class. This time Germany sent all four ships. The Saxony-class ironclad ship is 98 meters long, the waterline is 9 meters long, the ship is 18. meters wide, and the draft is 6.5 meters. The standard displacement is 7411 tons, the full load displacement is 795 tons, the speed is 14 knots, the endurance is 1,940 nautical miles, and the crew is 17."

"Weapons and equipment are: 6 60mm caliber main guns. The main gun is arranged as a double-mounted front main gun, installed in the pear-shaped armored cabin on the first floor. The other 4 main guns are located in the exposed turret in the middle of the ship, but there is no cannon cover. In addition, they are equipped with 6 87mm guns. In 1886, 8 88mm guns were added, with 50mm torpedo tubes, and then 450mm torpedo tubes were added."

"Armor protection is: the outer layer of the armor belt is a layer of 17mm-54mm iron armor, a layer of 00mm-88mm teak, a layer of waterproof compartment outer armor 0mm, and an inner armor 15mm. The deck armor is 50mm-70mm. The turret armor is also double-layer. The outer layer is 54mm iron armor, and the inner teak layer is lined with 8mm teak. The commander tower armor is 140mm."

Wang Hailong said: "I heard from the Beiyang Navy's Dingyuan, and the two ships of Zhenyuan are based on the Saxon class."

Huang Bo said: "It should be Dingyuan of the Beiyang Navy. The two ships of Zhenyuan adopted the design of the British unyielding ironclad ship and the Saxon-class ironclad ship. The design of the two ships is precisely the hull of the Saxon-class ironclad ship and the turret design of the unyielding ironclad ship. Therefore, the two ships of Zhenyuan can be regarded as improved models of the Saxon-class ironclad ship."

Huang Bo opened another picture. There are six types of ships in this picture. The left side elevation line drawings of the three types of warships are vertically arranged side by side, and the right side is the deck layout plan, from top to bottom, three types of warships Dingyuan, Saxony and Buqu.

This comparison is very clear. From the side elevation, the ship types from the Dingyuan and Saxon are almost exactly the same from the deck, but the deck layout plan is completely different. The main gun layout of the Dingyuan and the Bend is the same. The turret is designed as a diagonal layout or an oblique turret, with the turrets staggered at a certain angle and arranged in the front of the middle of the warship. Using this layout, theoretically, the turret can fire at the same time towards the head and stern of the ship, without worrying about it blocking the artillery's firing boundary. However, the difference is that the Bendu uses a rotating table turret on the surface, that is, the artillery and the turret rotate together, while the Dingyuan uses the exposed turret style, but adds a cannon.

Everyone present was an expert, and you could tell at a glance that the design of the Dingyuan was indeed much more reasonable than that of the Saxon.

Huang Bo also said: "The Saxony-class ironclad ship is the latest and most advanced main ironclad ship of the German Navy in the late 1870s. However, the design of the Saxony-class ironclad ship was guided by the strategic idea of ​​the German side's "Naval Fleet to first provide support for army operations". In fact, it was designed as a first-class coastal defense ironclad ship, which is not suitable for ocean navigation operations. She mainly guards and patrols the coastal Baltic Sea and other coastal waters of the German Navy, as a maritime pillar for the German Navy to consolidate its national gates.

.The huge arrangement of the four chimneys of this class has won it the nickname of "cement factory". In 1899, the Saxony was modernized and changed the four chimneys into one chimney. The position of the flybridge was moved, and some equipment was added, and the armor protection was also enhanced. However, the only ones that were modified were the Saxony. None of the other three ships were modified. It is estimated that the Germans believed that the Saxony-class ironclad ship was out of date and was not worth remodeling."

After a stop, Huang Bo continued: "The remaining four warships are the protective cruiser Queen Louise, Ferya, the coastal defense cruiser Ziegfred, Heimdal. The full name of Queen Louise should be called Queen Victoria Louise. It is a type of protective cruiser built by Germany between 1895 and 1899. There are five ships of the same class. The German ship Hansa, which we captured in the Battle of Dagukou, and the sunken German ship Hertha belong to this class warship. Victoria Louise

The basic performance parameters of Queen Sil and Feria are roughly the same as those of Lufthansa, with a length of 110.6 meters, a width of 17.4 meters, a draft of 7. meters, a displacement of 6,700 tons, a speed of 19.5 knots, and a cruising capacity of 400 nautical miles. The weapons equipped are 10mm single-load guns, 8 150mm single-load guns, 10 88mm single-load guns, and 10 7mm rapid-fire guns. The Herta is the last of this type of warship, which reduces the draft depth, so the displacement is only 5,800 tons."

"Siegfred and Heimdal are the same type of coastal defense cruiser. Because this type of warship was built earlier and was irrelevant in the history of Germany's naval, I don't have much data. I only know that the displacement of this type of warship is 500 tons, equipped with a single-mounted 40mm artillery, the rate of fire can reach a firing rate per minute, and the waterline armor is 40mm thick."

After listening to Huang Bo, the captains also made a lot of comments. The strength of the German fleet was obviously far above the coalition fleet stationed at Dagukou. The Earl Bismarck armored cruiser and Brandenburg-class battleship were all large ships of 10,000 tons. Compared with the sunken Russian ships, the battleship of the Sissoi battleship and the Russian armored cruiser, although the armor of the Earl Bismarck armored cruiser was only 00 mm, it used carburized steel armored armor with surface hardening of Knuber, so it was stronger in defense. The Earl Bismarck artillery was 40 mm caliber, while the artillery of the Russian was 0 mm caliber, which was obviously much stronger.

The main armor belts of the Brandenburg-class battleship and the Sissoi battleship are 400 mm, and they are both wrought iron composite armor, with roughly the same defense. The Brandenburg-class is equipped with 6 80 mm cannons, and the Sissoi is equipped with 4 05 mm cannons. The main gun of the Brandenburg-class battleship is slightly caliber, but two more, so it is still slightly better.

Although the four Saxon-class ironclad ships were lagging behind in this era, the defense of the Saxon-class ironclad ships is obvious to all. In the Battle of Dadonggou, the two ships of Zhenyuan, built on the Saxon-class, were besieged by the Japanese ships and hit hundreds of artillery, but they were still not severely damaged. So, Yuuki Ito, the commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet, sighed that "it can't be sunk no matter how hard it is." Therefore, although the Beiyang Navy lost the war, the German-made warships have since become famous and have squeezed into the world's first-class lineup.

To deal with such warships, it is estimated that it is difficult to penetrate their side armor with the Eagle Strike 8 anti-ship missile. Only the Haihongqi 9 can be used for air penetration strikes. However, the fleet had only 32 Haihongqi 9s in total. Three of them were used in the Battle of Dagukou, and only twenty-nine were left. Although attacking these 8 warships was enough, it would take more than half of them to be used.

Just as everyone was thinking, Xia Bohai said: "Comrade Huang, the information you provide is very important to us, so we should express our gratitude to you, and this also shows that what you wrote in your self-evaluation is indeed true, and your abilities in this aspect are also useful to us. After we stabilize, we will definitely build our own warships, and you will definitely consider your requirements at that time."

When Huang Zhe heard this, he couldn't help but look happy and said repeatedly: "That's great, that's great."

Xia Bohai said again: "But it may be a long time before we can build our own warships. Before that, we plan to hire you as the navy consultant, just like the temporary army recruited yesterday, it is considered a temporary organization in wartime. When it stabilizes later, we will consider it can be transferred to a formal organization, or otherwise. Are you willing to accept this position?"

Huang Zhechao didn't believe his ears and said, "Is this true? After becoming an advisor, can you go to the warship and take a look? Go to the Kunming ship?"

It turns out that although Huang Zhe likes old-style warships the most, he is also interested in modern warships. As a military enthusiast, Huang Zhe is naturally very concerned about China's naval development. In the past ten years, the Chinese navy's warship level has made rapid progress and has made great progress. From the first aircraft carrier Liaoning ships to the completion and service of internationally advanced surface ships such as 054a, 05c, 05d, etc., there are even the rumored 055. When Huang Zhe is proud of his motherland, he also hopes to see these warships with his own eyes one day. This time, he can see 054a, 05d at a close distance. Although he was unable to board these warships to see, Huang Zhe was very satisfied. But he did not expect that he would become a consultant to the navy.

Xia Bohai smiled and said, "If you are a naval consultant, of course you have the opportunity to go on the warship, not only the Kunming ship, Yueyang ship, Sanya ship, Xiangyang ship, Huaihua ship, or even the Changbaishan ship, can do it."

Huang Zhe quickly said, "I am willing, when can I start working?"

Xia Bohai laughed and said, "Let's start tomorrow. You will report to the Changbai Mountain ship at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. First work in the technical department. Explain the information you have to the comrades in the technical department to see how to classify, work requirements and conditions."

Huang Zhe repeatedly said: "Okay, OK, I will definitely go early tomorrow morning."
Chapter completed!