Vol 4 Chapter 61: Brewing

What Ferdinand was most worried about did not happen after all. The Italians should have bounced the Dreadnoughts in early 1914. Of course, the Dante Alligri battleship, which they planned to serve in 1913, was already completed.
Main parameters of Dante-Argoli:
Displacement: 19552 tons
Length: 168.1m
Width: 26.6 meters
Draft: 8.8m (average)
Main engine: Parsons direct-drive steam turbine 3 sets / 4 shafts
Main boilers: 7 Blechton-type fuel water tube boilers, 16 same-combustion water tube boilers
Power: 32300 horsepower
Speed: 23 knots
Endurance: 4800 nautical miles at 10 knots
Armament: 4 305 mm 46 times diameter triple guns (front and back, two crotch), 4 120 mm 50 times single guns, 12 same guns, 76 mm 40 times single guns 13 doors, 4 450mm torpedo tubes in water
Armor: 254 mm side, 38 mm deck, unknown turret, 254 mm in front of turret, 305 mm in command tower
Crew: 981
Note: This class of ship is the first warship in the history of shipbuilding to use a triple turret. The main gun has a range of 18,000 meters.
In addition, the ship set a speed record of 24.2 knots during the trial, which was the fastest battleship in the world at that time.
The extension is the Julio Caesar, which should have been in service in February. It has not been completed in May, but it is estimated that it will soon be completed.
Since the Italian shipbuilding industry was holding back, then Ferdinand guessed that the Allied attack on the French Mediterranean fleet would not have happened.
Of course, the most important thing is that the two Dreadnoughts ordered by the Ottoman Empire from the Germans were stopped by the British on their way home, and they attacked the French fleet with the strength of the Italian navy now, mostly meat buns and dogs, smart Italians naturally won't do it.
The British blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar directly triggered the "warship crisis". The Allies and the Allies once again flared up, and the war broke out!
Well, Ferdinand thought that the two sides would fight directly. Bulgaria had conducted national mobilization, and the Germans retracted directly!
Think about it, everyone knows that the European War may break out at any time, but to the Germans that war now breaks out, these two fearless ships will be finished first, which is very bad for the Germans in the military!
Besides, the warships that the Germans launched last year have not had time to serve? Just wait a few months and the German Navy can add another four Dreadnoughts, plus two Dreadnoughts here are six, which will further narrow the gap with the British!
As for the Allies, are you all not ready yet? If the war breaks out, the French will be miserable. Prepare to stand alone against the Germans for a month or two!
Obviously this is not the result everyone wants. Although the British want to weaken France, the prerequisite is to defeat the Germans! Otherwise, if the French were beaten by the Germans in advance, how could they fight after this war?
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The interception of these two warships was mainly because the British did not want to let the Ottomans two fearless ships return to the country, breaking the navy's dominant position in the Mediterranean and affecting the Mediterranean's sea power. Therefore, it blocked the Gibraltar Strait and prohibited warships from passing. This means that the British are ready for war.
The Germans are now short of warships. No matter how they break out, the gap with the British is still so huge. The German Navy has always had the idea of ​​requisitioning these two fearless ships, but it was stopped by the German government because of its alliance.
The British are now doing what they want, and the Germans naturally accepted the two fearless ships. Although the two Dreadnoughts cannot change the situation in which the German Navy is still in a disadvantageous position, the gap between the two sides is finally closed!
Of course, protests are indispensable. How can we explain to the Ottomans?
Yingde's approach stunned everyone, and this operation!
In order to appease the Ottoman Empire, the Germans said that since the British were blocking the road, the warship would definitely not be delivered, so simply rebuild it in Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire separately, and upgrade the price without changing the configuration. Send two more cruisers. !!
The problems in Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were naturally solved by the Germans. The Ottomans only need to wait another two years to obtain the fearless ship. Under no way, the Ottoman government can only accept the Germans' words. Already.
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The failure of the two alliances to disappoint many people, such as the Americans on the other side of the ocean, and the Japanese in the Far East, they are all looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to the outbreak of war in continental Europe!
Ferdinand knows that at this step, the two sides are almost on Mars. Originally, he thought that the Ottoman navy returned to Congress to serve as the fuse between the two sides. I did not expect that the British and German sides would have ghosts. This was the past. Already.
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No matter how the international situation develops, what Ferdinand has to do now is prepare for the war, reserve enough strategic materials in advance, and recruit enough cannon fodder are the top priorities of the current Bulgarian government!
After the warship crisis broke out, Ferdinand convened a cabinet meeting to speed up Bulgaria's preparation for the war.
"The Prime Minister, from now on, will increase food reserves and let the media speak out, saying that Ukraine and Romania will owe food in the next two years, and international food prices will soon rise. It is recommended that people reserve food in advance! The government also if necessary We can work together to allow the people to reserve as much food as possible. "
Ferdinand has been working hard to get the credibility built by the media, and now it is time for them to make a difference. If you say that Bulgaria ’s domestic food is under-collected, this estimate can't fool people, but if you say it ’s abroad, it ’s different. There is no Internet in this era, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to check the news!
Even if someone swears that the news is false, it has no effect! Everyone knows that as long as fake newspapers publish fake news in Bulgaria, except for seizing newspapers, all relevant personnel will go to prison!
In the eyes of ordinary people, it is impossible for all Bulgarian newspapers to flood their brains. Let's publish this fake news together?
What's more, Ferdinand is not a rumor. As soon as the war breaks out, the lack of food is inevitable. Now the most important thing is to seize the last time and search for a batch of food!
Although the General Staff has vowed to pledge, it will take Romania's Wallachia Plain at the beginning of the war, which can fully guarantee the domestic food supply.
However, Ferdinand couldn't believe it completely. It won't be a problem to win the Wallachia Plain. It was originally a flat river and bordered on Bulgaria. Romania can't defend it!
As for whether the domestic food supply in Bulgaria can be guaranteed, this is difficult to say. The military can at most guarantee that the place will be taken down, and it is irrelevant to them to resume production.
After theoretically winning the Wallachia Plain, Bulgaria's total grain output will directly increase by one-third from the current scale, which is sufficient to meet domestic demand, and there will still be a lot of wealth.
In fact, as long as the local Romanians do not cooperate, it will not be possible to restore food production without two or three years of effort!
"Yes!" Chekov answered.
The Information Agency and the Ministry of Science and Technology are also under the jurisdiction of Chekov. Otherwise, the name of an education minister will not be enough to make him the number two person in the Bulgarian cabinet!
"Prime Minister, how many young people have we brought in from Russia so far?" Ferdinand asked again
Constantine thought about it and said, "Originally there were more than 800,000 Russian laborers in the country. Since last year, we have increased our efforts to introduce more. There are about 700,000 Russian young people who have arrived in Bulgaria. They are in Russia. There are still about 200,000 young people already organized. If the war breaks out at the end of the year, we can still introduce about 700,000 to 800,000! "
Ferdinand figured it out. Even if the war broke out immediately, Bulgaria also added 14.5 million cannon fodder. It would be better if it could be dragged to the end of the year. The 2.2.3 million cannon fodder is basically enough for World War II Now, of course, if we can do more, the result will be more perfect!
"Continue to work hard, and we cannot relax our work in this area. Once the war breaks out, the Russians will definitely recruit soldiers. It will not be easy to pull people at that time!" Ferdinand said lightly.
"Okay, Your Majesty! Let's speed it up!" Constantine replied affirmatively.
In order to make the preparation work smoothly, Ferdinand has always stayed under the command of Sofia, and even the two super-dreadnought ships just completed have not participated in person.
The two Dreadnoughts were named by Ferdinand: Constantinople and Balkan.
The politics in it are very strong. Constantinople is the achievement of Ferdinand's restoration of the holy city of Constantinople; there is also the last Constantinople in the second Balkan It sank during the war, and the people strongly demanded reconstruction. Ferdinand naturally follows the public opinion!
From the literal meaning of the Balkans, everyone knows that it is Ferdinand who has sworn sovereignty over the Balkan Peninsula; the deeper purpose is to tell the Allies that this is our previous agreement and everyone must comply!
The specifications of both warships are the same, the parameters are as follows:
Displacement: 26,500 tons
Length: 189.7m
Width: 27 meters
Draft: 8.3m
Main engine: Parsons direct-drive steam turbine 2 sets / 4 shafts
Main boiler: 22 B & W type (Hercules Yaro) mixed-fired water boilers
Power: 34000 horsepower
Speed: 22.5 knots
Endurance: 4000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Armament: 7 305mm 45-fold dual guns (front, rear, and third ~ EbookFREE.me ~ backpack type, one on each side), 20mm 150mm 50x single gun, 47mm single 4 guns, 4 450mm underwater torpedo tubes
Armor: 270mm on the side, 70mm on the deck, 270mm on the turret, 320mm on the front of the turret, 310mm on the command tower
Crew: 1046 ~ 1126