Chapter 1550: Four. Chess (13)

The single taboo source of intelligence is taboo. Because in this realm of inferiority, betrayal and betrayal are daily routines, and trust is a scarce thing that can't be expected. Not to mention that between the informant and the intelligence officer, that is, between colleagues, superiors, family members, and blood relatives, you dare not pat your to ensure that these people have no walkers belonging to any other organization. In fact, betrayal by lovers and blood relatives has always been one of the most important reasons for intelligence officers to overturn their ships.
When it comes to the Empire, things are different again. In this country where everyone is monitored, everyone may be a whistleblower, and it is suspected that everyone is instinct. This is still the case for ordinary people, not to mention the people who are busy on the hidden front, only God and themselves know how much work is needed to confirm the authenticity of an information, and even take a life for it.
Plan Z is by far the largest and most complicated arms expansion plan of the Empire. There are hundreds of units involved, and the size of the relevant technical team that directly participates in the design demonstration stage of design, drawing, model making, fluid mechanics testing, etc. is as large as seven or eight thousand people. 30,000 sheets, basically the more complicated and larger the battleship, the more drawings there are). Specifically, the total number of industrial workers directly involved in the manufacture, commissioning, and installation of battleship hulls and auxiliary equipment is millions. Based solely on the empire's strategic trends and his own speculations, there is simply no way to get a glimpse of the entire Z plan and its various details.
To put it simply and understandably, since the "Liberty Army" all knew about the existence of the Z plan, the intelligence agencies of various countries naturally also got the relevant information. So far, everyone only knows that there is such a plan, what is the specific planning period, how big is the scale, how many battleships are to be built, what is the focus, what are the R&D units and manufacturers, performance parameters and deployment of various types of battleships Location... These vital details are completely hidden behind the iron curtain of the imperial security system. Anyone who wants to touch these secrets will be taught the imperial iron fist. So far, people can only select and piece together a vague outline from a lot of information that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Compared with the intelligence counterparts of various countries, the "Liberty Army" has a person who has had a lot of contact with the emperor, so they can take a lot of detours. While the intelligence analysts of other agencies or organizations are still struggling with a lot of "reliable news" from unknown sources, they have sorted out a general direction.
"The Empire does not need large battleships."
Roland read through several inside reports from V.E Heavy Industries, which clearly pointed out that there have been no plans to purchase new smelting furnaces and rolling machinery recently, nor have there been arrangements for convening experts and technicians for technical exchange meetings.
The largest caliber guns of the Imperial Navy's warships so far are 155㎜. In addition to the main flagship, the Air Force Air Battleship, the mainstream naval guns are mostly 305㎜, 280㎜, 203㎜, 155㎜, 128㎜. In other words, if the empire wants to build a super battleship, it is necessary to update the additional equipment to manufacture large-caliber naval guns and corresponding armor plates-according to the unwritten rules of the imperial battleship, the main armor belt of the battleship must be able to withstand the attack of its own main gun. The larger the caliber of the main gun, the thicker the armor is, and the higher the difficulty and technical requirements of the relevant operations.
Considering that the Empire does not lack technical reserves in this regard, but the number of related equipment is scarce (all prepared for the construction of the Great Emperor), it is necessary to rush to add acidic open hearths, high-power forging presses, and new welding before the battleship design is frozen and sealed. The number of machines and other equipment, and training engineers and technicians using these equipment. But so far, all the heavy industry units of the Empire have not experienced abnormal mobilization of technicians or increased capital flow from the average level, which means that at least so far, the Empire has no intention to manufacture large-caliber naval guns.
Not intending to engage in large ships and giant artillery, but intending to increase the power of the sea, then the empire is likely to choose an extremely pragmatic route: based on the existing technical level, build an economical fleet with a sufficient number of ships.
"Now it is urgent to figure out, what is the core in the planning of the empire? Or, to put it another way, what is their naval strategy?"
The design and construction of warships are the end and achievements of the entire system engineering. Those warships are essentially the product of the transformation of various naval strategic ideas into reality, and the naval strategic ideas are based on their own conditions-such as national will, strategic determination, industry Productivity, economic affordability, geopolitical environment, technological level, strategic demand order, etc. are the products of comprehensive consideration.
Even if it was another world's second emperor in Germany, "I want to turn Britain", the construction of the second emperor in Germany is not purely the result of a hot head. In the era of the rise of German reunification, most of the world’s colonies have been divided up, without resource protection, and Germany, which lacks a place for dumping commodities, has to wait for the economic crisis to erupt, or to prepare for war, break the existing international order, and establish its own New order. The construction of the navy is the personal will of William II, and it is also the result of the interaction between the entire German nationalist trend of thought and the objective needs of the country’s survival and development. However, as a later industrial country and shipbuilding country, and at the same time, Germany, which wants to expand its armaments in both land and sea, is inferior to Britain in terms of shipbuilding capacity and experience. More importantly, at that time, Britain also had a colonial system throughout the world. The huge trade profits were enough for Britain to let out the rhetoric that
every German builds one, we build four
(in fact, it is true that the German government’s annual income is the most In 1909, which was close to the United Kingdom, it had just exceeded 50% of the United Kingdom). It was precisely after recognizing this fact that Tirpitz proposed the "risk fleet" theory, trying to build a powerful "existing fleet", to contain the royal family with the huge risk of "both parties will do their best to seriously damage the British marine hegemony" navy. Following this strategy, German battleships pay more attention to survivability than British battleships of the same period, that is, more refined and reasonable compartment design, and heavier protection. As a cost, German battleships are more expensive and the caliber of artillery is also smaller.
The topic returns to the empire's maritime strategy and naval military strategy. As the earliest force to profit from colonies and overseas trade, the Empire had unique insights into maritime strategy and sea power. From the perspective of the empire, the so-called sea power is essentially "control".
It can be called "sea power" only after the resources of origin, commodity dumping, ports and auxiliary facilities, sea passages, merchant shipping fleets, etc. can be effectively controlled after integrating these zero and total benefits chains together. There is a huge fleet but they can only shrink the port for containment purposes. Only a few ships or a large number of submarines break through the blockade line to attack the sea traffic line, or simply break the tank and break down to commit suicide assault for "honorary death"-these At best, it can only be regarded as "challenge" and "destruction". It is completely different from the concept of "existence" and "control" of sea power. The straightforward point is that the weak will only adopt the method because of the helplessness of the weak.
The empire’s naval strategy was simple, protecting its own sea lanes and destroying others’ maritime traffic lines. As for the decisive battle of the fleet, it is not within the scope of consideration. In the face of the empire's powerful air superiority, the traditional surface fleet can't even fight in the sea, even if it shrinks in the port. The only thing to worry about is that the enemy may launch a single ship attack or a small formation to break the engagement. When the enemy cruisers, camouflage assault ships, and submarines attack from all sides, it will inevitably pose a great threat to the safety of the imperial maritime shipping .
According to the Imperial Navy's own estimates, each attack ship can contain 3-4 warships on average. It is obviously impossible for the Empire to build an extremely large fleet and protect the merchant fleet at all times, which is too cost-effective. A more reasonable approach is to build a cruiser killer dedicated to hunting assault ships, assault ships and submarines dedicated to breaking through, and a light cruiser (destroyer fleet leader) and destroyer dedicated to providing for the merchant fleet. In this way, under the premise that the empire can effectively ensure the safety of its own maritime traffic line, it in turn threatens the enemy’s maritime shipping safety, and even frees up to form a special hunting formation to hunt the other party under the guidance of the air force or naval aviation force. Assault ship.
The last and most important point is that cruiser killers and assault ships are essentially enlarged or strengthened cruisers, and their displacement, firepower and protection level are lower than those of battleships, and may even be lower than that of small battleships. The stimulation to the countries is not so strong. Once proposed, the countries are relatively easy to accept.
Roland’s goal was to try to stop the terrorist attack, delay the start of the naval conference and Plan Z, and try to figure out the whole picture and details of Plan Z during the time he won. Use relevant information to persuade the countries to strengthen cooperation with the Republic, resist the Empire's army expansion plan, and eventually promote an informal anti-imperial alliance.
But first, he must stop the terrorist attack. Only by blocking the fall of the first domino, the domino array paved by Li Lin would not fall in one go. Only the Republic can overcome the immediate difficulties and will not be isolated immediately. Taking advantage of this time, he could manage to investigate carefully.
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