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    A week later, the Navy Ministry came up with a design plan for a new frigate, which was named the Lop Nur class frigate, named after a lake in China.

    ¡®Lop Nur-class frigate, with a displacement of 1,100 tons, and armament of a 75mm rapid-fire gun installed on the bow.  In addition, there are two 37mm rapid-fire cannons on each side.  At the same time, there are two depth charge launchers on each side.  To detect underwater submarines, a passive sonar and an active sonar are installed.  There are also two 533mm heavy torpedo launch tubes on the bow.  It is powered by two large oil-fired boilers and a steam turbine with a power of 5,000 horsepower and a maximum speed of 33 knots.  Endurance is 10 knots nautical miles.  The construction cost is 400,000 yuan per ship.

    Wang Yuze is quite satisfied with this frigate.  Although this frigate has relatively poor firepower, it is enough to protect transport fleets or destroy pirates.

    In addition, after installing sonar, it also has very powerful anti-submarine capabilities. Once the sonar detects an enemy submarine, it can use depth bombs to destroy it.  Of course, the performance of sonar in this era is still relatively backward, and it is very likely that large whales will be regarded as enemy submarines.  The most important thing is that the cost is relatively low, with each ship costing 400,000 yuan, allowing the navy to build such warships on a large scale.

    After receiving Wang Yuze's approval, the Navy Ministry formulated a construction plan for the Lop Nur class frigates. The first batch will build twenty-four ships, which will be mainly used in the Eastern Pacific waters to deal with U.S. Navy submarines and ensure the logistics supply line of the Mexican battlefield.  unobstructed.  In order to speed up the construction progress, these frigates will be built by private Chinese shipyards.  The Navy Ministry clearly requires that all warships must be delivered within 5 months.

    After entering May, all major battlefields seem to have entered a short truce.  On the Mexican battlefield, the Chinese army has annihilated the surrounding U.S. troops. In this battle, it once again annihilated more than a million U.S. troops.  Although the U.S. Army has retreated to northern Mexico to hold on, the U.S. Army has suffered heavy losses, and the United States itself has no confidence in whether it can hold northern Mexico.  In addition, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the US Navy's attacks on China's maritime transportation lines continue, but under the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese Navy, this attack has become more and more like a suicidal attack.  Moreover, the losses caused to China are getting smaller and smaller.  Once the Chinese Army has accumulated enough supplies on the Mexican battlefield, it will launch an attack on the US military entrenched in northern Mexico and completely invade the United States.

    The fighting on the European battlefield has also calmed down.  Although there were fierce exchanges of fire every day on the Western Front of the European War, more often than not the Germans and the British and French forces hid in trenches and bombarded each other with artillery.  Although the fighting was fierce, the real casualties were not large.

    Although the war has come to a standstill, no one thinks that this short truce will last long.  Everyone knows that this truce is just accumulating energy for the next war.  When everyone is ready, a large-scale battle will inevitably break out.  Just like previous wars.  Every time, the sky was shattered and blood flowed like rivers.

    During this period, the most active one was the German Navy.  In addition to probably the navy's submarine force frequently attacking British merchant ships and escorting warships in the North Sea and the Atlantic.  Cruisers and destroyers of the German Navy also often appeared in British waters to detect the movements of the Royal Navy.  This made the British Royal Navy feel a great threat.  With the German Navy's Bavaria-class battleships entering service, this threat has become more and more serious. British Admiralty Minister John.  Sir Fisher repeatedly ordered the navy to increase its alert level and prepare for a decisive battle with the German navy.

    In early May, the German Navy's battlecruiser formation used high speed to avoid the British Navy's blockade and entered the North Sea.  This formation of four battlecruisers sank a British fleet of ten merchant ships in the North Sea near northern Britain, and was accompanied by three escorting cruisers and destroyers.  This caused a shock in the UK. A large number of British people and parliamentarians demanded that the Royal Navy launch a counterattack against this provocation by the German Navy.  However, the British Navy was unable to do anything about it.  After the war broke out, Germany's coast had been blocked and maritime trade had been completely cut off. It was impossible to attack German merchant ships.  As for the warships attacking the German Navy, those warships were protected by coastal defense batteries.  To attack rashly is to seek death.

    As the German navy continues to dispatch warships to provoke Britain, the situation in the North Sea has become further tense.  The eyes of the whole world are focused here. Everyone believes that Britain and Germany will soon have the largest naval decisive battle in history here.  The outcome of this decisive battle will also have a profound impact on the ongoing world war.  If the British navy wins, Britain's maritime supremacy can continue to survive.  If the German NavyIf it wins, then Germany may be able to reverse the current war situation and quickly win the war.  Of course, with dozens of capital ships on both sides, it will be very difficult to completely defeat the other side!

    On May 15, Kaiser Wilhelm II summoned Chief of the General Staff Admiral Falkenhayn, Minister of the Navy Marshal Tirpitz, and Commander of the German High Seas Fleet Reinhardt at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.  Admiral Franz Scheer, Commander of the High Seas Fleet Reconnaissance Squadron.  Feng.  Vice Admiral Shippe, and Prince Heinrich, who was responsible for the construction of naval warships.  This time the summons was held late at night, and the generals who were summoned all entered alone in carriages from the back door of Sanssouci Palace after the KO point in the evening.  This secret meeting was held precisely for the navy's upcoming direct decisive battle with the British navy.

    General Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff, was the first to arrive at Sanssouci Palace. He reported to Kaiser Wilhelm II the situation on the battlefield in the past few months.  Generally speaking, in the European battlefield, the offensive capabilities of the German Army have become lower and lower.  In a battlefield filled with trenches, if you want to break through the enemy's defense line, you will need to pay greater casualties.  Therefore, the German Army had to act cautiously.

    "Your Majesty, the tanks and armored vehicles that the Chinese put into the Mexican battlefield, especially the tanks, can easily break through the enemy's trenches. If the German Army can be equipped with such weapons, we can easily break through the defense lines of the British and French coalition forces and drive straight in.  Fight to Paris!" Admiral Farfalkenhayn said excitedly.

    "Your Excellency, Chief of General Staff, but those damn yellow-skinned monkeys are unwilling to hand over the tank design drawings to us? Those ungrateful guys, they have completely forgotten how Germany helped them in the first place!" Crown Prince William cursed fiercely.  The German government and military have contacted China several times and wanted to purchase tank design drawings, but they were declined by China, which made Germany very angry.

    Kaiser Wilhelm II¡¯s face was also a little gloomy, although if Germany owned tanks and China wanted to buy them, Germany would definitely not agree.  But now that he is being treated like this by China, he still feels very uncomfortable.

    "Your Excellency, Chief of the General Staff, do we have the ability to develop it ourselves? Our industrial strength is much stronger than that of the Chinese. I believe that the tank we develop will not be worse than the Chinese!" Kaiser Wilhelm II  said.

    "Your Majesty, we have obtained some drawings through some informal channels. These drawings have been handed over to Daimler, and they are conducting research on this basis. The Chinese tank technology is actually not very advanced. It is simple.  In other words, it is just a tractor chassis plus a square iron box. However, we still need time to develop the most critical tank engine technology. It is expected that it will not be able to be used in actual combat until the second half of the year.  Tank among them!" said Admiral Falkenhayn.  Since China is unwilling to help, Germany can only rely on itself.  Fortunately, with Germany's industrial strength, they only need to spend a little more time.  In addition, there are many German scientists working in China, and Germany can find ways to obtain some key technologies from these scientists through some means, which will help Germany build its own tanks.

    "That's good! One day, we will make these ungrateful Chinese people regret it!" Kaiser Wilhelm II said.  This time, China flatly refused, which made him very dissatisfied.

    The last time Germany asked China for aircraft drawings, although China asked for a relatively high price, it still delayed for a while.  But generally speaking, Germany's request was agreed to.  Now, the first batch of twenty FB' Haidongqing fighter jets have arrived in Germany. German pilots are getting familiar with this fighter jet, and German aviation engineers are also conducting research, hoping to imitate it on this basis.  , and create more powerful fighters.

    Soon, the navy generals also arrived one after another, and Kaiser Wilhelm II also shifted his attention from the army to the navy.  After the outbreak of the war, the German Navy stayed in the military port and became a fleet.  This made Kaiser Wilhelm II very dissatisfied. Germany spent a huge amount of national power to build a world-class navy. This was not about letting the navy stay in the port.

    "Everyone, the empire seriously misjudged the difficulty of this war. Now, the empire is in trouble. To solve the current predicament, the navy will be an important force that the empire relies on! I hope that the empire navy can bring great success to the empire.  A decisive victory!" Kaiser Wilhelm II looked at the navy generals and said in a deep voice!
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