1825 My New Daming

Chapter 179 The key is the speed of speed shipbuilding! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Zhuge Weidao's current position is Chief of Staff of Naval Aviation and Commissioner of Naval Armaments.

The headquarters of the Naval Air Force is not in Beijing, but outside Beijing, in an airship base at the foot of Xishan Mountain.Therefore, in order to facilitate commuting to and from get off work, Zhuge Weidao now does not live in a house in Goulan Hutong in the city, but in a villa in Xishan. It is not very convenient to go to the city.Fortunately, Zhuge Weidao recently bought a car, a newly launched "Chitu" brand convertible car.The little car has 16 horsepower, a top speed of 20km/h, shock springs, seat belts, a gear shifter (not even a gearbox), soft car seats and a removable canvas Well, it's a pretty nice little car.It's just that it's a bit difficult to start. You have to insert a joystick into the engine and shake it several times to start the vehicle.

But one must be content, he now has a house, a car, and a wife (more than one), what else is there to be satisfied with?

So after learning that the Ministry of the Navy wanted him to go to a meeting, he immediately did it himself, dressed neatly, washed up, ate a casual breakfast, put on his briefcase, and called his orderly Xiao Yu (Yu De's brother-in-law) , named Yu Gang), drove a "red rabbit car" together, and headed for Beijing at a speed of 960 miles a day.There was no traffic jam on the road, and it took less than an hour to cover a distance of more than ten kilometers.At 9:30 a.m. that day, he had already held a meeting with Guan Tianpei, Zhuge Weiyi, Zhuge Weiyong, Li Tiezhu and several other naval armament commissioners.

The so-called armament committee is of course the member who participates in the formulation of the naval armament plan and supervises its implementation. It is considered a position with real power in the Ministry of the Navy.Usually only ministers and ministers of the Ministry of the Navy, the chief and deputy chiefs of staff of the Navy Department, and the heads of the Department of the Navy, the Navy Staff Department and all important divisions (commands) and bureaus under it can be members of this committee.

However, Zhuge Weidao made an exception and became the Armaments Commissioner as the Chief of Staff of the Naval Aviation Command, so today he is qualified to sit in the conference room of the Ministry of the Navy and watch the Naval Staff and Naval Armaments. Briefing on the Arms Conference at Versailles, prepared jointly by the Office of Naval Intelligence.

After successfully regaining the dog of Japan, the Ming court is still implementing the strategy of "small bets and small wins" - starting from the "Gongjin printing", the Ming Dynasty has been in several "small bets" Having tasted the sweetness, naturally he will not easily change his strategy to play stud.And now there is no way to stud, because the naval armament of Ming Dynasty also exposed many problems in the battle of Jiyi waterway Row.

"750 million tons" Naval Minister Zhuge Weiyi has read the briefing, and a smile appeared on his face. Obviously, he is not worried about this surface combat ship with a total tonnage of 750 million tons.

Afterwards, the shipbuilding expert of Zhuge's family threw the problem to Zhuge Weidao, who was "true" and able to pinch and count: "Daozi, what do you think? Can they build so many warships?"

"Well," Zhuge Weidao thought for a while, "the British alone can't make so many, but the British only made 300 million tons of it, the rest was 100 million tons in France, 70 tons in Luocha, and 50 tons in Prussia. 50 tons, 20 tons made in Austria, 750 tons in the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, the United States, the Kingdom of Sardinia, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, and Belgium seems not impossible. Even if it can’t reach 700 million tons in the end, 680 million There should still be 2.5 tons or 3 million tons. However, this tonnage and combat effectiveness cannot be equated. Battleships of [-]-[-] tons are not difficult to deal with."

Zhuge Weiyi and Zhuge Weiyong looked at each other, Zhuge Weiyi smiled and took a sip of tea, and asked, "Daozi, tell me, how should we deal with it?"

"Those dozens of 2.5-3-ton slow battleships are not difficult to deal with," Zhuge Weidao considered, "We can use 3-ton battleships to deal with them. Our shipbuilding level is much better than that of the British. The same 3-ton battleship, our speed, defense, and firepower will all be stronger than the British, and we are not afraid that we will not be able to win. What is really difficult to deal with is the one million-ton patrol, which is going to fight us? We use it The battleships fighting the main decisive battle with the British will not be able to catch up with them. If the [-]-ton patrol is also built, the patrol will have to compete in numbers in the end.

If our opponent is only the United Kingdom, we are not afraid of comparing numbers, but now, in my opinion, we have to develop a ship type between an armored cruiser and a battleship.It should have the speed of a patrol and the firepower of a battleship. It can be inferior to a battleship in terms of defense, but it must be far superior to a patrol. "

Zhuge Weiyong laughed and said: "This kind of ship is called a battlecruiser, and the tonnage can also be set at 3 tons!"

Zhuge Weidao nodded. He was not in favor of building a battle cruiser, but if the British brought a group of white-skinned friends to build a battle cruiser, then Ming should develop a battle cruiser.

Of course, carrier-based aircraft and aircraft carriers are the ultimate solution!

Even if it's just a biplane, it can also form a dimensionality reduction strike for a battleship sailing on the sea.It's just that airplanes haven't been invented yet. Even if an aircraft carrier is built, it's useless.

In addition, because the battle cruiser requires a more powerful power system, it is more difficult to develop than a battleship of the same tonnage, and it is also not easy to build.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Zhuge Weiyi and Zhuge Weiyong: "Shangshu, Chief of Staff, I suggest that you first develop a 2-ton battle patrol armor based on the Hongwu Emperor class. It doesn't have to be too thick. But the speed must be as fast as possible, and heavy oil-fired boilers and steam turbines should be used as power. The power cabin should be as large as possible to reserve room for upgrades.

As for the main gun, you can use the design of four double 280 mm to test the design of the piggyback turret.

Through the development and production of this level of battle cruiser, we can thoroughly understand the hull and power system of a 2-ton fast battleship, and then we can develop a 2.5-3-ton battleship based on it.It is safest to develop battle cruisers of the same tonnage after a thorough understanding of battleships of 2.5-3 tons.

In addition, the hull of the 2-ton fast ship is very useful for our naval aviation, and can be used to convert it into an aircraft carrier, so it is not afraid of waste! "

The great use he said is of course as the basic hull of an aircraft carrier!
An aircraft carrier used to take off and land biplane carrier-based aircraft has a displacement of about 2 tons, which is sufficient.However, since the range of the biplane is not too far, the possibility of the aircraft carrier being hit by the opponent's surface ship cannot be ruled out, so it must be stronger and run faster.

The hull and power system of the 2-ton battlecruiser are of course the most suitable!

"Daozi," Li Tiezhu, Chief of Naval Intelligence, stroked his beard, "the plan to develop 2-ton battlecruisers first, and then 2.5-3 tons of battleships and battlecruisers is a solid plan, but it is slow! If it is done step by step In the future, the 2-ton battlecruiser will be built for at least three years, and the 2.5-3-ton battleship will be built for at least another year or two, and then the battlecruiser and aircraft carrier. When will our 300 million-ton battleship be used? , maybe the 100 million tons under the name of Japan have all been produced?"

"Mr. Li," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "I believe that the key to winning future wars is speed! Of course, the speed of shipbuilding is also the combat effectiveness!
Not only must we build ships quickly before the war, but we must build them even faster during the war! "

After he finished speaking, Zhuge Weiyi, Minister of the Admiralty of the Navy Department of the Shipbuilding Army, asked knowingly, "How can we make it faster?"

"There should be many ways," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "First of all, of course, mass production should be considered in the design. In the future, we will mass-produce the same warship..."

(End of this chapter)