The Rise of the Empire

"Admiral Liolle belongs to them, and Prince Heinrich belongs to the Kaiser. His current attitude is unclear and he is fishing in troubled waters. Tirpitz and Bohr are still neutral, but their attitudes tend to be conservative. Scheer has no right to speak! ’” Ruprecht wrote in his diary. \u003c/p\u003e "It's careless." The prince sighed. He didn't expect that he would encounter such a fierce resistance in the most critical military expansion plan this time after he had led the German Navy's military expansion plan twice in a row! The Prussian capitalists joined forces with the Ministry of the Navy to work on the prince's plan. I am afraid that there is also the meaning of the Kaiser. It seems that the top Prussians are very dissatisfied with their actions. \u003c/p\u003e But in all fairness, the plan put forward by the Kaiser Wilhelm Shipyard and the Krupp factory behind them is really good, at least much better than in history. They have two relatively good plans on the battleship, namely the No. 3 plan using the layout of the Historical Mountain Kaiser and the No. 4 plan using the king's layout! \u003c/p\u003eNo. 3 plan, a total of 5 dual-mounted main guns, two of which are deployed at diagonal positions in the middle of the hull, and can shoot from the opposite side within a certain angle. There are 2 dual-mounted turrets placed on the back of the hull . The thickness of the side chord armor is 280mm, and the height of the main armor belt is 4 meters. The upper gun gallery armor is 150mm, the front and rear armor is 100mm, the front armor of the turret is 300mm, and the side armor is 150mm. 200mm rear. Gun mount armor 300mm. \u003c/p\u003eThe horizontal armor of the hull is composed of two layers, an upper armor plate with a thickness of 30mm is connected to the upper armor of the side chord, and there is a layer of dome below, the horizontal part is 30mm, and the side chord part is 50mm. Using steam turbines and coal-fired boilers, the maximum output is 30,000 horsepower, and the theoretical speed is about 21 knots. With a total displacement of about 23,000 tons, it can be regarded as a weakly protected Caesar-class battleship. Plan No. 4 is the central axis arrangement of 5 dual-mounted turrets, with two dual-mounted turrets at the head and tail, and a dual-mounted turret in the middle. Other attributes are almost the same as those of No. 3 plan. \u003c/p\u003eAnd what about the prince's battleship plan? The central axis arrangement is a must, and the triple turret is also a must, and 3 are incorrect, at least 4 are required! It is almost an enhanced version of the joint force level of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in later generations! 4 3-mounted 12-inch L45 main guns. And 14 6-inch secondary guns. The side chord armor belt has a maximum thickness of 280mm and an inclination of 12 degrees. Considering the tragic fuze technology and unstable charge of the British, the 280mm slanted armor is almost immune to all British armor-piercing projectiles in history at normal combat distances. The upper armor belt is also 150mm, 100mm at the beginning and end. This is for immunity to secondary fire. \u003c/p\u003eIn order to enhance the horizontal armor, the prince's battleship completely abandoned the dome armor, saving weight to enhance the horizontal defense. A layer of 90mm horizontal armor connected to the upper part of the main armor belt is enough to be immune to the horizontal strike of the World War I shells. At the same time, the underwater protection system has been enhanced, and the layout of empty tank-liquid tank-empty tank has been adopted, and the depth has reached 3.5 meters to 4 meters! There is also a 50mm high-strength steel plate at the rear of the last layer of empty bins. Fighting against torpedoes and sea mines is not a big problem. As for underwater bombs, it depends on the situation. \u003c/p\u003eIf you only look at the layout of the surface artillery, Bavaria's plan is not better than that of the Royal William Dockyard. Although the former has 2 more main guns than the latter, considering the complexity of the 3-unit turret, the distance between the guns The weak point of being small, and the salvo is large, may not be better than 5 dual-mounted warships in terms of firepower. Moreover, the coordination of the semi salvo is also more convenient for the 5-seater double installation. At the beginning, Count Vittorio also proposed this plan to the prince, but then the prince refused. \u003c/p\u003e"Every warship of the German High Seas Fleet is very precious. We must take into account possible improvements and upgrades that may be required in the future when building. It is foreseeable that,

Once we go to war with a certain big country in the future, the opponent will have a huge quantitative advantage, and we can only balance the opponent's quantitative advantage by improving the quality as much as possible! "\u003c/p\u003e"The mount of the triple-mounted 12-inch artillery is large enough, so we can replace it with a double-mounted 14-inch artillery in the future. After a short period of modification, we can increase the combat effectiveness of this battleship by one grade. It is absolutely impossible for a battleship with 10 12-inch guns to make such an improvement. "The prince said that at the time.\u003c/p\u003eYes, the prince did not intend to let his battleship use the 12-inch main gun from the beginning to the end. As a traverser, the prince understands the situation of the German High Seas Fleet during World War I! \u003c/p\u003eFirst of all, the High Seas Fleet is facing a huge British fleet that is extremely short of warships! Except for the beginning of the war in 1914, the British sent two battlecruisers to South America to kill Earl Spey, and several warships were under maintenance at the same time. In addition to the force vacuum created, (even at that time, the Royal Navy still had a certain numerical advantage), other times the British Royal Navy was able to stabilize the High Seas Fleet in terms of fleet tonnage and quantity!\u003c/p\u003eIn order to balance the Royal Navy’s Such a huge advantage in numbers that Scheer was forced to bring as many as two teams of pre-dreadnoughts in the Battle of Jutland. The speed of the pre-dreadnoughts was already slow, and coupled with the longer service time, the speed was even slower! The 11-inch l40 cannon can only be said to be stronger than the fire stick. But why did Scheer bring it? The reason is very simple. I am reluctant to run 40 11-inch guns! When the wind is downwind, it can be strong, and when the wind is headwind, the gecko can dock its tail ....\u003c/p\u003eIt turns out that these pre-dreadnought ships are too insignificant, and even dragged down the fleet's actions. As for firepower? Haha, the 11-inch L50 artillery on the German battlecruiser can barely deal with the British's most defensive defense Poor first-generation battlecruiser. The 11-inch L40 artillery is even more useless!\u003c/p\u003e On this plane, the Germans don’t have so many Dreadnoughts to deploy. Before World War I, the Germans had 20 Dreadnoughts, and this There are only 6 ships in the plane! Including the Mainz-class armored cruiser, there are only 10 ships. Considering the decommissioning and resale of these warships, this number may be lower.\u003c/p\u003eSo, what the prince meant is very clear, the number is not enough, Quality improvement! Every dreadnought must be designed for high-quality products! The first-generation dreadnought that can suppress the British is only the most basic requirement, and it must be able to go up to some super-dreadnoughts when necessary! And if you face those super-dreadnoughts , the first thing to be sure is that the firepower must be sufficient! Now the question is, is the German artillery powerful enough?\u003c/p\u003eThe answer is simple, obviously not enough! Nassau's 11-inch l45 and Battlecruiser's 11 Needless to say, the 1-inch 150-inch gun is at most equal to the 6-inch armor of the first British battlecruisers, and it must be a case of insufficient fire protection. The performance of the German 12-inch gun is also very average. In the Battle of Lanhai, they showed great prowess, but they also fought against weaker defenses. At the same time, the British's poor fire prevention also helped a lot! Throughout the entire World War I, the German 12-inch artillery never achieved a penetration of more than 9 inches. Armored record!\u003c/p\u003eThe third update is here~~~! Please subscribe\u003c/a\u003e~~~!!!\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e