Vol 2 Chapter 502: ，

Since the sea traffic was cut off, the British situation has been very dangerous. One of the most dangerous things is food security. Since the "enclosure movement" that year, the food produced in Britain has become less and less. In addition, the British do not have a "red line of XX acres of arable land", and considering that the natural conditions in the UK are not suitable for the development of plantation. Whether it is growing wheat or growing anything, it cannot be compared with France, Ukraine, and other European countries.
Therefore, for many years, Britain’s food problem has been solved by the international market. After all, as long as you have money, how can you not buy food? People will not lock you down, unless you do something maddening. So, isn't it fragrant?
Of course, the British can do this in the first place. The British navy has always been super strong, and it is not easy to block it from the sea. As long as there is no blockade on the sea, farmland from overseas colonies will be sufficient. Therefore, the British national policy back then was really not wrong.
But with the rise of France, especially the technological revolution led by the French navy, the reliability of the British navy has dropped drastically. At this time, the policy should have been adjusted. Even in fact, the French gave the British time to adjust their policies.
As early as the emergence of the first generation of "Free Trade", the British had found it increasingly difficult for them to ensure the safety of their shipping lines at sea. Even Nelson did not dare to say that the British fleet could guarantee the safety of the waterway.
If you hurriedly return to farming at this time, it will actually be too late. Even if all the grazing land is converted to farmland, the local grain production in the UK is still not enough to support his consumption, but it will be much better after all.
However, the wool spinning industry is one of the most important industries in the UK. In peacetime, it is also the most profitable business for exporting. Should we return grazing to farming? What about the wool spinning industry? Without the wool spinning industry, how can there be money for an arms race? Therefore, returning grazing to farmland will not return grazing to farming, and we will never return grazing to farming in this life. Only efforts to strengthen the navy can barely maintain food security.
However, it is wrong to say that the British are not prepared. The British have built more warehouses and increased the proportion of grain reserves. In this way, even if the navy has temporary difficulties, the British can theoretically support a long period of time. time.
Moreover, in Britain, the efficiency of the British rule is still quite high, so there have not been too many granaries on fire. At least the blockade is not long, and the price of food has not risen too high, so such a thing has not happened yet. But after a long time and the food really starts to get tense, what will happen is really hard to say.
Relying on the grain in the granary, if the grazing land is returned to farming immediately, it will be too late. But the pasture has become a farm, and it is not a small expense to change it in the future. Many people think that if the pasture is less than a year, it will be changed back immediately, it would be better not to toss.
Therefore, although the British government has introduced a series of measures to encourage returning grazing to farming, not many land owners have responded to the call. This is not because they do not love Britain, but because they respect economic laws more. And they are more willing to bet on the revival of the navy and even peace negotiations.
The naval revival, um, is really a little bit possible. After the French proposed a new shipbuilding plan, the British immediately followed up. In response to the French Augustus-class battleship, the British urgently designed the "Lionheart"-class battleship with a displacement of up to 15,000 tons, and construction has begun on the berth. And three were built in one go!
Of course, no matter how fast such a large warship is built, it will definitely not be built in two years. However, in theory, Britain's grain reserves can still barely support this time. As for other things, the United Kingdom has coal, iron, steel, etc., which can still be guaranteed.
It’s just that people who really know how to do it understand that the temporary design of the ship, the construction of the time frame, and then most of the time has not been fully trained, these things together, almost means that the true combat effectiveness of this warship is actually very problematic. of. In a sense, building this thing on the one hand is a gambling on the fortune of the country, on the other hand, it is not necessarily an attempt to increase the capital for future negotiations.
In addition, in the current situation, these several warships under construction have almost become a source of courage to support the whole of Britain to continue fighting.
Because the French used the new 280 artillery in the Dublin battle, the British naturally suspected that this type of artillery was the main gun of the French "Augustus class" battleship. Therefore, the artillery of the "Lionheart" class battleship has to be re-developed.
In fact, Joseph is also willing to let the British continue to maintain this illusion. With an eight-nation coalition (France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Rhine Union, Prussia, Austria, Northern Italy, Spain, exactly eight countries.) landed in England, and then burned down Buckingham Palace, such a thing will make you think about it. People feel fascinated, but...
But landing in England is really not easy.
The British coast closest to France is full of cliffs, with only a few gaps that can be reached. When William, the Duke of Normandy, landed in England, those gaps had no defense. But now, those places are all heavily guarded forts. And the British also laid a large number of mines on the nearby sea. Even if the entire French navy is dragged on, it may not be possible to please in front of these forts.
Of course, the French can also go a little farther, go around to Scotland, facing the direction of the Atlantic Ocean to land. The terrain there is much better. But landing from here, the fleet sailing time at sea will be doubled, which also means that their transportation capacity will be reduced to a fraction of the original. In the landing battle, if the overwhelmingly superior army and supplies cannot be sent ashore quickly after the landing, then even if they land ashore, they will be driven into the sea by the enemy.
Britain has a fairly developed railway system, relying on them to transport troops, it is very efficient, at least much faster than the sea route that bypasses half of the British island. Therefore, landing on those points in the English Channel is very dangerous, but landing from Scotland by detour is actually just as dangerous.
In this case, through a naval battle, the hope of the British was completely destroyed, and then the British were forced to sign a series of treaties for cede and reparations. In the eyes of the French, it was one of the best choices.
Of course, the current strength of the French navy is not enough to deal with the three "Lionheart" class battleships, but the French are not idle in the arms race. Although the "Lionheart" is larger than the "Augustus", this does not mean that it can be stronger than the "Augustus". Because the French industry is more developed and the level of shipbuilding is higher. Therefore, the French warships can surpass the British in speed and quantity.
According to information obtained by intelligence personnel, the British "Lionheart-class" battleship is basically an enlarged version of the "Queen Elizabeth". In other words, this is an iron turtle with thicker armor, larger cannon caliber, and the same slow speed. After all, in the last naval battle, the "Queen Elizabeth" still replaced an enemy battleship under the inferior force. In the eyes of the British, this is the correct expression of British design thinking. Therefore, the British iron tortoise is better than the thin skin of the French. Although the British were not sure how thick the armor of the French battleships was, they still portrayed them as broken eggshells for morale reasons.
However, the progress of the "Augustus Class" compared to the previous "Inberdade Class" is much greater than that of the "Lionheart Class" than the "Queen Elizabeth".
The president of the French Academy of Sciences, Joseph Bonaparte, personally participated in the design of this warship. This makes this warship full of flavor from later generations.
The first is a turret with a stepped central axis. On the central axis of this warship, two two-mounted turrets were arranged one after the other in a stepwise manner. This turret will be equipped with a new 203mm barrel retreat and a total of eight cannons, which makes the firepower of this warship more than doubled compared to the previous "Inbredo Class".
Of course, with so many cannons, it will consume a lot of weight, which makes the remaining weight of the ship that can be used for armor is not much. If the armor is arranged in the same way as the "Inbredo Class", the defense of the "Augustus Class" is at best not much different from the "Inbredo Class". After everyone upgraded the cannon, this kind of armor is really thin-skinned.
However, Joseph proposed a new protection concept from later generations, that is, "key defense."
In later generations, with the increasing power of naval guns, the displacement of warships could not increase indefinitely. If we continue to try to cover the warship with thick enough armor, it will only bring about one result, that is this warship. Once it hits the water, it will sink directly because it is too heavy. It's like the battleship of Gu Erye back then, or the submarine of Spain that put the decimal point in the wrong place when it was designed.
Therefore, when designing warships, later generations abandoned the method of arranging armor in all positions of the warship. Instead, they adopted heavy armor only in the most critical parts that directly affected the survivability and combat effectiveness. Other non-essential Area, just don’t need armor at all.
In this way, if the opponent's armor-piercing projectile hits an unprotected place, it will probably directly penetrate the hull and fly out, and the damage it can cause is limited. If it is an ordinary high-explosive bomb-those places are not terrible places anyway, although it will be damaged if it is hit, the impact will be limited. And if the opponent uses this shell in a naval battle, it means that it is basically impossible for them to pose any threat to the really important area. Taking this opportunity, is it not fragrant to use authentic armor-piercing bombs on the opponent's face?
Therefore, although the "Augustus-class battleship" is far lower than its opponents in terms of total armor weight, in terms of actual defensive effects, the defense level of the "Augustus-class battleship" is not necessarily greater. The heavier "Lion Heart King" is worse.
On the French berth, there are five "Augustus-class battleships" and five "Hermes-class super cruisers" under construction. If nothing else, the completion time of these French battleships will be in the UK. Before people.
At that time, after defeating Britain again through a naval battle, all British hopes were shattered. and……
"And maybe there will be a revolution in Britain." Napoleon smiled and said to Lucien, "You have to arrange this matter. But now, um, you still concentrate your efforts and finish the thing about North America first. Right."
Just a few days ago, the Americans launched a general offensive towards Ottawa. After paying huge casualties, the Americans almost consumed the British’s ammunition with their lives and drove into Ottawa. Then something happened naturally. The Americans started the massacre in Ottawa.
The Americans killed every living person they saw, whether he was a man or a woman, an old man or a child.
A group of American soldiers, holding rifles with bayonets in their hands, surrounded a building-many British people fled into this building. The Americans surrounded the building, they even dragged cannons and aimed at the building. Many British people have hidden here. However, the American soldiers did not rush in because a French flag was flying on this building.
This is the largest Catholic church in Ottawa. Moreover, this church can really display the French flag, because the Holy See has already handed over the right of apology in North America to the French~EbookFREE.me~ In addition, Father Thom in this church, too It is indeed a Frenchman, although he is a Frenchman who speaks German. Today this church has become a shelter for many Canadians. Father Thom was standing at the entrance of the church, and the French flag was flying on the small spire of the church, which became a temporary shelter.
The Americans do not want to have conflicts with the French, even if it is a German-speaking Frenchman, if only some civilians hide in the church, the Americans probably forget it. But some people saw with their own eyes that more than a dozen British people in military uniforms ran into the church, and they couldn't ignore it.
So the Americans surrounded the church and asked Father Thom to hand over the British soldiers who had hidden in the church. Father Thom insists that these people are no longer armed and therefore cannot be considered soldiers, and that the church cannot expel anyone who tries to seek safety under the protection of God.
"You must respect the temple, respect the right of refuge in the temple!" Father Thom insisted.
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