No one expected that negotiations on cruisers would be so difficult, and would actually take longer than negotiations on battleships and aircraft carriers! It’s not that cruisers are more important than battleships and aircraft carriers, but that

Say, cruisers are something that each country decides on

Yidu is diverse, ranging from tonnage to firepower! For example, China and Italy use armored cruisers with main gun calibers of 10 inches. The British have 234mm main guns, and the United States has 8-inch guns and 10-inch guns.

France, Germany and Austria

The advantage is the 240mm artillery. As a result, when the two sides talk, it is difficult to reach an agreement just in terms of firepower. Everyone has been fighting for n years, and they all know that artillery with larger calibers of the same tonnage is advantageous.

And at the same time, each country has its own set of sea

In the military system, the development of various artillery is carried out in accordance with the established direction. It is not easy to convince others to use their own artillery caliber. Especially the British 234mm main gun, which in the eyes of other countries

What a strange existence it is!

Historically, everyone chose 8-inch guns because the British produced cruisers equipped with 8-inch guns and sold them to Japan. The Italians also used 8-inch guns produced by Armstrong, and the Americans also had cruisers equipped with 8-inch guns. It can be said that

Except for France, several signatory countries have 8-inch guns. So everyone can just settle on this caliber. But this time, it can be said that a hundred ghosts walk in the night! You want to unify the 8-inch guns? Why, there are a bunch of countries.

Against you! Deofa is against

I am still very satisfied with my 240mml45 artillery. China, the United States and Italy all prefer 10-inch guns... But this brings another problem. With such a large artillery, the tonnage of ships will increase. And various countries have concerns about endurance.

The requirements of cruisers are different. The United States and Britain have relatively large requirements for endurance, while the Allies basically do not have much demand. As a result, this, together with the improvement of artillery performance, has led to a vicious expansion of cruiser tonnage.

According to historical experience, if a treaty cruiser wants to have armor that can resist 8-inch guns to a certain extent, it needs at least 14,000 tons. If it is replaced with 10-inch guns, then this data will be more terrifying! Completely

They are small battle cruisers! When Xu Jie saw the naval armament negotiation records reported by his subordinates, he also expressed confusion. Now he is not sure how to set the tone of the cruiser.

Okay. In fact, for China, cruisers are a bit useless. China does not have such distant overseas colonies to patrol, and it is not ready to cross the Atlantic to support European operations like the United States. Air defense and anti-submarine are naturally left to destroyers, which will be the main force in future naval battles.

It's an aircraft carrier. At night, you have to either move in or rely on battleships. Cruisers are a bit too high and too low! No matter how powerful the 10-inch artillery is, they can't hurt the battleships.

After arguing for about four days, the negotiating parties did not even finalize the upper limit of cruiser artillery... In the end, the Allies put forward this opinion: "The maximum tonnage of a heavy cruiser shall not exceed 15,000 tons, and the remaining

Let’s take a look!” The Germans’ suggestion of this tonnage is based on the fact that in World War I, most of the largest armored cruisers in various countries had this tonnage.

If it is larger, it will be a small battlecruiser. Since it must be different from a battlecruiser, the tonnage of 15,000 tons is just about right. No one can offer any objection to this suggestion.

However, taking into account the artillery calibers of the original armored cruisers of various countries, the final upper limit of the artillery of the heavy cruiser proposed should not exceed 10 inches.

In addition to heavy cruisers, there are also light cruisers. When defining the caliber of light cruiser artillery, the United Kingdom recommended using 7-inch artillery as the upper limit. In World War I, the United States had artillery of this caliber as the second-level main gun of the pre-dreadnought.

Corresponding Germany and Austria-Hungary also have 170mm artillery. So this level

Other artillery is more suitable for their respective situations, and (the British cried) everyone can accept it, but as for the tonnage of light cruisers, various countries have no relevant regulations. After all, if you are willing to build a 15,000-ton ship but only install a 7.5-inch gun

, that’s your own loss, a big ship resists a small cannon, no one cares about you!

What remains is the issue of cruiser tonnage. In fact, all countries have a huge demand for cruisers. The United States needs to take care of both the Pacific and the Atlantic. The United Kingdom and France have colonies all over the world. The German navy has come out of the North Sea, and because it was full in World War 1

Affected by the insufficient number of escort warships, the emphasis on cruisers has

The speed has increased. As for China? In order to protect the waters from the Arctic Ocean to the equator, a large number of auxiliary warships must also be owned. This money is absolutely not saving for the vast majority of countries participating in the jump. Therefore, during the negotiations, it will be

The maximum tonnage of the cruiser is set at 350,000 tons, and other countries will obtain their own tonnage in proportion.

Because the cruiser category itself is divided into two types, one is a heavy cruiser equipped with 10-inch guns, and the other is a light cruiser equipped with 7.5-inch guns. Now the question becomes, what is the ratio of these two types of cruisers?

What is the definition? The Allies naturally hope that the number of heavy patrols will be larger. After all, they want quality rather than quantity. Naturally, they hope to increase the ratio of heavy patrols.

For example, Britain and France must maintain a certain number of light cruisers to meet the needs of cruising colonies. They also hope to increase the proportion of light cruisers to reduce the Allies' qualitative advantage in cruisers. However, China and the United States do not care much about this, because as the highest combat effectiveness

The two navies, their advantages in battleships and aircraft carriers are enough to erase the slight differences in cruisers.

"Cruisers are different from battleships. The latter can only have one role, which is to deal with the battleships of other countries. Cruisers vary according to the needs of each country, so there will be some differences in use. For example, some countries need to maintain sufficient

The quantity also maintains the security of overseas colonies, and some countries' cruisers need to overwhelm the cruisers of potential enemy countries. For this reason, we directly use a one-size-fits-all approach to determine it with a fixed ratio.

The ratio of heavy cruisers to light cruisers in all countries is arbitrary and unreasonable! For this reason, I suggest that all countries implement a floating ratio in terms of cruisers, and the proportion of heavy cruisers should not exceed 60% of the total tonnage at most." In the end, China proposed.

A compromise plan. However, in the eyes of some people, this aspect is obviously in favor of the Allies, because the Allies' requirement for heavy patrols is close to 60%. The Allied Powers' opinion is half to half.

However, the Allied Powers have also conducted internal research on this proposal and believe that although they may have suffered a loss in terms of heavy patrols, considering that at the beginning, in order to take care of the United Kingdom, the treaty agreed that Australia and Canada would each build a cruise ship of no more than 20,000 tons.

Secondary battleships, so the secondary battleships would not suffer any loss. So I finally agreed.

After the cruiser negotiations ended, the countries did not immediately negotiate the tonnage of destroyers, frigates and submarines. Instead, they negotiated the replacement time of all the above large and medium-sized warships. In this regard, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy were particularly concerned.

Because these countries can retain the ships

The fleet has a large number of old battleships that need to be replaced, such as the British's three 13.5-inch gun super-dreadnoughts, some of the Americans' 14-inch Iron Turtles, and the German König-class and Kaiser-class battleships. We have to talk about ship replacement.

Cycle is a double-edged sword, you can replace it,

Others can also replace them, so this makes both sides feel quite troublesome. As for China? Although the construction time of the three Longxu-class battleships is not short, China has never thought of replacing them, and they will just make do with it.

Anyway, the main force in the future will be aircraft carriers. Besides, according to the jump

, 8 fast battleships equipped with 16-inch guns are definitely enough. The remaining 6 ships are all surplus. The length of the battleship is longer than that of the later American South Dakota class. After replacing the power system, it can reach 27 knots.

There is no problem with any of the above. Section 27 and above are enough.

In addition to replacement, another issue is gun replacement. The Germans have obtained permission to replace the Izmail-class battleships with larger-caliber main guns, and the three-unit 14-inch artillery guns of the United States and France have also been replaced.

Potential. For this reason, this question

The two sides have also started consultations on the issue. As for China, if the two French warships are replaced, they will be replaced. But if the iron tortoise of the United States is really replaced, China will suffer a loss? In this regard, China

He firmly sided with the Allies.

"The fundamental starting point of this naval negotiation is the principle of reciprocity in naval strength. Based on this principle, the replacement of guns on the two battleships of the German Navy was achieved by giving up a 14-inch turret on each of the three König-class battleships. It was also to balance the British

The Royal Navy has too many 15-inch guns. But the U.S. Navy does not have this problem. The main fleet of the Chinese Navy, which is equivalent to the U.S. Navy, has 16

In terms of the number of main guns, it is the same as that of the U.S. Navy. If the U.S. Navy also changes its guns, then China will have to reconsider the fairness of this negotiation." At the meeting, the Chinese representative sternly rejected the United States.

However, as a balance, China said that it would be understandable if the French Navy was willing to replace the two Brestany-class battleships with 16-inch guns.

"It's wrong to balance the balance and just fight on one side." Afterwards, when someone asked why he was open to France, Xu Jie explained it this way. The U.S. Navy is indeed one of China's biggest potential enemies, but at the same time, what about the German Navy?

Isn't it? Some time ago, Germany gained too much advantage in terms of battleships and aircraft carriers. When it comes to actual combat capabilities, after the construction of all the battleships stipulated in the treaty is completed, the German battleships will be inferior in terms of application and firepower.

In terms of power, the Bismarck-class battleship has an advantage. The speed of the Bismarck-class battleship will also increase after changing the power. If the Germans bite the bullet and abandon the middle turret, then after the modification, it will be a standard fast battleship, which can be used in future naval battles.

It has a considerable role. As for the aircraft carrier, it goes without saying that even the overall combat power of the cruiser is dominated by Germany. In this case, China naturally needs to support France to balance Germany's overly powerful maritime power.

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