Valley Emperor

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Because the design of the Banten has been tossing and turning, and the Navy is not in a hurry to use it, it will be built slowly, not to say that it will work overtime. The construction cost is too high, and the Navy is unwilling!

Therefore, in this way, the Wandan will not be launched for service until three years later.

However, although the design and construction of the Banten battleship were slow and tossed, other naval warships with post-mounted guns were much simpler and faster.

Although the navy has been building 10,000-ton battleships, no one in the navy has ever expected to rely on any battleships to maintain the global sea power of the Tang Empire!

That thing is not only extremely expensive, but also can not find suitable opponents.

You can't drive a battleship of tens of thousands of tons to fight the small sampans of hundreds of tons of indigenous people!

If you have to find an opponent, the only enemy of the Navy's 10,000-ton battleship is estimated to be the train gun of the army!

The navy has made several secrets within the navy, leaving no documents, only a war plan that exists in the mouth: If the army rebels and wants to attack Jinling City, the navy will take the battleship to Jinling City to **** it!

Of course, the navy will not know of course, and the army has more or less the same idea when it comes to train guns.

In case the navy rebels want to go up the river to bombard Jinling, the army must stand up, block the Yangtze River with train guns or heavy artillery units, and stop the navy rebels!

When they think so, if the Guards know about it, the Guards will say: Haha!

If you want to come to Jinling City, have you asked me for the opinion of the Guards?

Our Guards fleet has several shallow-water heavy artillery ships of more than 3,000 tons, and you think that the Jinling Fortress controlled by our Guards is a fake?

There are a full eight 300mm 25 times the latest heavy artillery on it!

Neither the naval battleship nor the army's train gun could withstand the strong firepower interception of the Guards and approach the Jinling City range.

At present, there are only two battleships equipped with this type of naval guns in the navy. There are two on the Guangdong and four on the Luzon. There are not as many as the Guards.

Before the Navy got the rear-mounted guns, the first eight mass-produced 300mm rear-mounted guns were taken away by the Guards and deployed in the two fortresses in the east and west of Jinling of the Guards.

The army has even fewer train guns. Today, there is not a single rear-mounted train gun. There are only two 200mm front-mounted guns for pretence.

It can be seen from the fact that the navy and the army are so idle that they regard each other as an opponent. In fact, the naval battleship design does not have much performance requirements except for the face project of the battleship.

Not to mention the rear-mounted guns, even with the current front-loaded rifled guns, the Datang Navy can smash the indigenous navies of various countries around the world.

A Datang Navy Seventh Fleet is able to overwhelm the entire Europe.

Even the European Squadron under the Seventh Fleet is enough to create enormous pressure on the navies of European countries.

Therefore, when the Datang Navy considers the warships used in actual wars, it does not care much about the performance. Anyway, it is not too bad. It is more concerned with construction costs and later use and maintenance costs.

Therefore, it can be seen that when the Datang Navy is building many warships, it likes to build a batch of warships in order to reduce the cost of a single ship.

At the same time, in terms of power, they like to use mature, reliable and cheap steam engines, rather than using advanced steam engines with more advanced performance, but high prices and higher maintenance costs.

The only exception is naval guns.

Because the Datang Navy likes to hang and beat the enemy from a long distance.

I can hit you, you can't hit me, this is what the Datang Navy has been pursuing.

And at this point, the rear-mounted naval gun is enough to bring this advantage to the Navy.

The previous front-loaded rifled guns can generally maintain an effective range of 800 meters. If the rear-loaded rifled gun is used, and the technology has also been improved, it is not a big problem to maintain the effective range of more than one thousand meters.

The effective range of one kilometer is enough to sling any enemy warships equipped with front-mounted smoothbore guns.

In terms of performance, construction costs, and later use costs, the Datang Navy conducted a comprehensive curved shot, and finally determined several ocean-going battleships of the next generation.

According to the principles of the Datang Navy, new warships should be built according to their positioning.

Naturally, the most important thing is the battleship responsible for the decisive battle of the fleet. This task was previously undertaken by the Shanxi-class and Guangxi-class.

These two battleships were still classified as battleships a year ago, but the Navy disliked their small tonnage. One was 2,800 tons, and the other was 3,800 tons!

Taking into account the latest battleship Banten, the displacement is expected to reach 12,000 tons, and it is somewhat inappropriate to call a battleship of two or three thousand tons a battleship.

Therefore, starting this year, the Navy simply classified these two warships as a type of cruiser, and a more accurate classification is the armored belt protection cruiser.

After all, although these two battleships were designed based on the main battleships of battleships, they are the product of the naval strategic thinking more than ten years ago, and are no longer used for future naval warfare needs.

In the future, the main ships of the navy will be undertaken by battleships.

However, battleships are too expensive and cannot be widely deployed overseas. Therefore, the Navy needs a capital ship that has certain capabilities of battleships and can be deployed overseas at the same time, and it is not too expensive.

In this way, there is also a type of ship such as the armored cruiser.

The positioning of the datang navy for the armored cruiser is actually: it has the ocean seaworthiness and speed of the cruiser, and has the firepower and armor that is higher than that of the cruiser and inferior to the battleship.

In wartime, it can be used as a supplement to battleships, cooperate with battleships to fight, or even directly act as the core of the fleet to conduct fleet battles.

To put it bluntly, it is actually a scaled-down version of a battleship, or a second-class battleship, but the Datang Navy feels that this category of battleships should be a title that can only be worthy of the top-level battleships. misused.

Therefore, a classification of armored cruisers was specially created.

As for the original smaller tonnage Shanxi-class and Guangxi-class, they can only aggrieved themselves and relegated to protection cruisers.

The Shanxi-class and Guangxi-class are small in tonnage, but the designs are based on the decisive battle of the fleet. The protection and firepower are quite good, and the ocean seaworthiness is also good. These two classes of warships have always been deployed overseas. The Seventh Fleet in the Atlantic Ocean , the Fourth Fleet of the Indian Ocean has both types of warships.

Therefore, it is also possible to directly change the name and call it a cruiser.

And the armored cruiser is naturally a new generation of newly built warships, and the number of construction should not be too small.

After all, there are not many battleships of more than 10,000 tons in the Navy today, and the Navy feels that there is no need to build too many first-class battleships.

Therefore, it is necessary to continue to build and maintain a considerable number of second-class battleships or armored cruisers to control and guard the local waters, and it is very necessary to carry out duty overseas.

This also requires the new generation of armored cruisers to carry more coal in addition to protection and firepower to ensure endurance. At the same time, in order to better deploy overseas, the seaworthiness of ocean voyages should also be optimized. Rushed to the war zone and participated in the war, the speed should not be too low.

In terms of firepower, the navy does not have much requirements. Anyway, the enemy is just like that. Moreover, large-caliber naval guns are expensive and heavy, and a 10,000-ton warship cannot be equipped with a few. To be equipped with large-caliber naval guns, the new generation of armored cruisers must have a tonnage. will be greatly improved.

At the same time, the rate of fire of large-caliber naval guns is too slow, and the rate of fire of a 300mm naval gun takes three or four minutes to shoot one shot!

After comprehensive consideration by the Navy, I feel that the cost is more important, and the quantity is more important.

Therefore, the requirements set for the Ministry of Naval Affairs are: naval guns are mainly 150mm or even 120mm naval guns, and the number must be large. As for the main guns of large-caliber naval guns, it is only a few thousand tons. Tonnage, just engage in one or two meanings.

The Navy's firepower expectation for armored cruisers is to directly use 150mm and 120mm guns to smash the enemy into pieces, as for the large-caliber main gun!

The Navy has proved through many live-fire exercises and numerous armed conflicts with indigenous people that a small number of large-caliber main guns have no practical value at all.

Can't hit a serve for a few minutes, and the hit rate is the same.

In addition to bombarding the land, it is impossible to effectively hit the enemy in naval battles. It is better to use a large number of medium-caliber naval guns to win by numbers.

More importantly, the Datang Navy basically does not use the armor-piercing ability of large-caliber naval guns to destroy enemy warships.

European navies are a group of wooden warships. In recent years, they have learned to be smart and began to lay iron plates on the warships, but they are still very primitive iron plates.

Without the armor-piercing ability of large-caliber naval guns!

To put it bluntly, the Datang Navy cannot use the armor-piercing ability of naval guns unless it hits the right hand with its left hand.

Therefore, the actual combat effectiveness of large-caliber naval guns is actually very tasteless for the Datang Navy.

On the contrary, protection is more important. The armor belt can be thinner, but it must be there. After all, now Europe and the Tatars all have artillery, even if it is a smoothbore gun, but the large-caliber smoothbore gun is not small, and there is no armor belt. Yes, it would be funny if it was sunk by enemy smoothbore guns.

In terms of speed, the requirements are not too high, just higher than a battleship, and I don't expect to compare with those cruisers that have no armor belt and only a thin layer of iron ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The same is true for battery life and seaworthiness, as long as To meet the basic needs, it is enough to be able to conduct ocean voyages, and the requirements are not high.

After the high-level navy put forward these opinions, the designers of the ship administration department did not waste many brain cells, and soon came up with the original design.

The displacement has reached 7,000 tons, and this tonnage is already comparable to the Guangdong.

But although the tonnage is very large, the large-caliber main gun is only a mere 250 mm and 30 times the naval gun.

There is no doubt that this main gun is an embellishment, and it has basically no practical value. The biggest role is estimated to be used to intimidate the indigenous people.

The real main artillery is the 150mm and 35 times the naval gun,

The designers densely arranged sixteen 150mm and 35 times guns for this battleship.

Then there are numerous small-caliber secondary guns.

The dense deployment of naval guns makes people feel numb.

The endurance performance is also good. It can continue to run 5,000 kilometers at an economical speed of 10 knots. The 5,000-kilometer range, coupled with Datang's almost all over the world's supply ports, perfectly solves the problem of overseas deployment.

The top speed is a bit slow, only about sixteen knots, but the navy doesn't really care.

After all, the design of warships requires trade-offs. With the protection of firepower, the speed can only be reduced.

And even if there are only sixteen knots, they can hang all the sailing warships, and even many active steam warships in Datang have not yet had sixteen knots.

For example, the Jiangnan class has only a speed of thirteen knots, so it is not very good!

Of course, in fact, although the navy also pays attention to the above things, it is actually a little bit better. The navy doesn't really matter, as long as it is cheap enough!

Because the Navy is most concerned about the price, if it is not cheap enough, it is no use!