Chapter 511 What is that?

In the galloping cabin of the Honolulu, Li Mo looked straight at the military map on the table. Although he had supplemented a lot of military and command knowledge after returning to this era, he had never been to a regular military academy in his previous life, so these large and small symbols and dense arrows still made him have some eyes. Dizzy.

Fortunately, there are no outsiders here. He can think carefully that he will not be laughed at by his generals, and his advantage is that he has a variety of concepts and a grasp of the development rhythm of the times. War is really not an insider.

The previous battles were also mostly surprise attacks. As for the Battle of Siberia, it was entirely due to the huge gap in the inferior combat effectiveness of the old Maio [[***] team in front of advanced equipment, which led to the final avalanche.

It's different now. Europe has shown its greatest strength, and famous generals from all walks of life have appeared one after another. This is already a war where you have no way out. In this case, don't expect Russia to be defeated like a mountain.

Every inch of land will be soaked with blood!

The advantage of equipment is not invincible. In fact, its own emergence and the new technology of the Xinhua Army have brought all kinds of technology to a critical point. Even according to history, at the end of 1917, the European aircraft engine broke through 460 horsepower, and the aircraft carrier also took shape.

At present, if the United States participates in the war, it must also participate in the war. It is impossible for everyone to fight quickly. Because the territory and distance are here, it is very likely that the war will continue to be extended for four to five years. Technology can indeed help you occupy the initial strategic advantage, but if you want to keep the advantage, you want to be in the opponent. To continue to defeat the other party after narrowing the gap between the surnames, you need to rely on the soldiers to accumulate little by little and finally crush the psychological defense line.

Britain and the United States sent more troops to the Far East and India, and increased the formation of local puppet troops to defend themselves. They showed that they had not yet realized the tragedy of the European war. In fact, in the world, only he and Chen Ping, who was influenced by him, were making plans and preparing for a long war.

According to intelligence, Britain and the United States have currently formed about one million puppet armies in the southeastern peninsula, India and Australia, and their productivity determines that once the war breaks out, it may double. Although the combat effectiveness of India and Vietnam's puppet forces is limited, hundreds of thousands of Australian white troops are not easy to fight. Australia The performance of Asian soldiers in World War I and World War II was remarkable.

This does not include the United States, a country with a population of nearly 100 million. It is easy to arm millions of troops, so once the war starts, Xinhua will face a siege of about four to five million!

The numbers are very scary, but these are basically on the periphery. Except for the Southeast Peninsula and India, the biggest threat is the army from Australia. As for the number of people in the U.S. Army, it can't threaten Xinhua. Therefore, the most important is still the navy. Blocking the sea route will become the key to war.

The key to Europe is the Western Front. He is not a military strategist and can't comment on whether Schrifen's plan is perfect, but he has always believed that Little Maourke does not have the ability to become a Chief of General Staff compared with other German generals.

The main reason for making the meat grinder on the Western Front bigger is that he sold the tank to Germany and reminded Xiao Maoqi not to reduce the strength of the Western Front. He did not know whether it would work, but after the century of Industrial Revolution, Europe was barren, and there was no blood transfusion from external colonies. As long as he strangled more blood, let alone a few years, to give decades to Europe. There is no way to recover!

In order to let Germany learn to use the mini A7V tank as soon as possible, he even promised to let Sun Jiugong and several armored soldiers stay in Germany for temporary guidance, but this is also Xinhua's only military force in Europe.

Not interfering in the European land war for the time being is his own benchmark. Although Xinhua is also facing multi-line warfare, the only real opponent is the United States!

Li Mo's fingers extend eastward along Hawaii. The huge land, rich resources, and the lack of supportable and powerful regimes around them are the unique advantages of the United States and the most urgent problem for him to solve. The combat effectiveness of the Colombian army cannot be expected. Mexico is even more useless. Maybe after they have their own advantage. They can all be icing on the cake, but it will definitely be a tragedy to rely on them at the beginning.

Li Mo rubbed the swollen temple. For him, war may be the largest project in the world. He must be carefully calculated and ensure that every part can work properly, so he will rush to Ryukyu at this last moment.

"Your Majesty, Ocean 15 and 16 are back."

Du Dazhuang's report made Li Mo raise his head and quickly walk to the deck. He only saw Chen Ping holding his binoculars and looking at the two modified ro-ro ships lined up in front of the Honolulu and had just returned from Germany.

Following the two cargo ships, the Honolulu leaned over the dock. As soon as Li Mo and Chen Ping got off the warship, they got on the jeep and hurried to the shipyard.

The first thing you see is the shipyard fitting-out area. There are four wharves here. The rails connecting the wharf can enable heavy equipment to arrive by small trains, and up to eight fitting-up operations can be carried out at the same time. Now it is full of large and small warships. The most eye-catching thing is that the two have just finished a sea test and return The last two Hebei-class battleships were commissioned by the shipyard. This kind of commissioning usually takes several times, and a non-wartime sea test basically takes about a year.

In addition to the two Hebei-class ships, the largest on the dock is the two battleships to be delivered for the Chilean navy, which is also the main reason why Li Mo came to Ryukyu this time and attended the delivery ceremony.

Ocean 15 took the lead in leaning against the dock in the set-out area. As the modified top hatch opened, the thick 380mm gun barrel was lifted out of the cabin and carefully placed on the flat locomotive padded with cork.

Seeing this scene, both of them tilted the corners of their mouths.

This is the third batch and the last batch of jointly developed 380mm naval guns that have just been shipped back from Germany, with a total of 30 guns.

Li Mo has always adhered to the doctrine. After learning that the 406mm naval gun was blocked, he immediately cooperated with Germany to engage in the 380 mm naval gun. Because Germany was also preparing to build a stronger Bavarian class at that time, the joint development can not only integrate the technology of the two countries, but also greatly reduce the risk and cost of reading development, and After the purchase volume went up, the unit price of the naval gun could also drop a lot, so I immediately agreed.

It is also because of the efforts of naval gun experts from the two countries that this naval gun appeared more than a year earlier than history, making the German Bavarian-class battleship catch up with Britain.

It was just because Xinhua thought that 50 times the caliber full-body sleeve should be directly engaged at that time, and although Germany also agreed, the manufacturing equipment could not keep up, especially the length of the large vertical heating tower used for sleeve processing was insufficient, and finally it had to be reduced to 47 times the caliber.

In the era of wire-bore gun, the longer the gun, the more powerful it is, but the equipment can't keep up with Li Mo, so it has to accept the monster of 47 times caliber.

If the most complicated place to be manufactured on the battleship is undoubtedly the gun barrel. From material selection to final molding, dozens of processes are required. Historically, the 410mm gun of the Changmen-class battleship started construction together with the warship. It took three years to almost delay, which shows the length of the gun production cycle and the technology. Complex, it is definitely the top processing technology in this era.

Under Li Mo's Jinyuan attack, Xinhua has established a large-caliber naval gun manufacturing capacity several times stronger than that of Japan at the same time, and it is technically not worse than that of Europe and the United States, and even better in terms of life and accuracy. However, 380mm is not the direction of Xinhua's main attack, and the impact of getting some armor-piercing shells and shells is not very great. Then, it is not economical to build another 380mm when attacking 406mm, so I finally decided to purchase all of them from Germany.

Germany's manufacturing capacity is worthy of being top-notch. The muzzle kinetic energy of the L47/380mm naval gun is one or twice that of the same caliber in the United Kingdom. Without the use of electroslag refining and chrome plating technology, the barrel life is still reaching 220 rounds, and the accuracy is also very high, which basically meets the needs of Li Mo's new generation of fast battleships. He ordered 90 in one go. The reason why there are so many is that Xinhua uses a triple pack. Six ships need 54, and the rest are spare barrel.

After crossing the fitting-out area, it is the factory area. There are both semi-enclosed large platforms and ordinary open-air docks. Now it is full of all kinds of steel skeletons, and more than 5,000 workers are busy at night.

Originally, Li Mo wanted to go inside to see the two second-generation fast battleships built here that were about to be tested. Before he left, Chen Ping suddenly pulled the corner of his clothes and saw a convoy sailing into the fitting-up area.

"Great Li, I'm so happy to see you!"

Seeing Li Mo, the bearded Simmons immediately ran over, and Li Mo directly welcomed him with a hug, so that the Chilean naval officers behind him could understand why Simmons had been able to rise over the years and control the navy until now.

After a few greetings, Simmons was also attracted by the gun that was being hoisted in front of him. Looking at the thick barrel, he couldn't help slitting and exclaiming, "Dear Li, are you going to install it on the new warship?"

"Yes, 15 inches!" Li Mo laughed and looked very proud. At this moment, he didn't care that he knew that he was going to build a battleship with a 380mm naval gun. He smiled and said, "I don't like being pointed to my head by a bigger naval gun!"

This sentence made Simmons hang a few black lines on his forehead, and he couldn't help sighing in the bottom of his heart. Although Li Mo just welcomed him with a warm hug, after all, he was no longer the child who hid in Honolulu 20 years ago. Now he is a huge emperor enough to influence the world.

So only such people dare to say that they don't like to be pointed at the head by a bigger naval gun!

Although he is extremely enthusiastic about this kind of naval gun, the gap between Chile and Xinhua is so big that he can't afford to play the crazy money-burning game from Europe.

However, soon after his eyes were withdrawn from the naval gun, his eyes suddenly widened, because he saw a unique appearance in the distance, and the flat deck ship with only one island on the upper floor slowly sailed into the dock.

"Li, what is that?"

Following Simmons' fingers, Li Mo and Chen Ping's faces also changed slightly at the same time. How did it come back?

(to be continued)