The sun rose from the east, and Scher, who had been resting for a night, stood on the bow of the ship again, and almost all the sailors showed relaxed expressions. Although the cabins were full along the way, there were almost no places to lie down and sleep, and hammocks were hung in many places, but the long journey of thousands of miles was finally about to reach the end, and Qingdao finally arrived...

From afar, you can see the harbor and fortress, a port that has been operated by Germany for almost 20 years, and it may become someone else's in the near future. The one who was replaced was the group of warships that Scher was going to welcome. I don't know what the warships were like, and whether such exchanges were worth it.

Spee walked to Sher and said, "Sher, it's coming soon. I need to enter the military port to report my work, and you need to continue moving forward, don't worry, the ship will send you over!"

Schell's heart was a little complicated, and in anticipation, he was a little unsure. The officers above the lieutenant colonel came with him were the same. In Germany, the captains of the battleships were mostly colonels, and a few were major generals. However, this time, all the lieutenant colonels and even the major's heavy patrol captains were completely unthinkable before. Even he was only in the position of the captain of the battleships, and had been resigned for a few years.

Spee knew about Scher's mood at this time. He didn't know much about the Qingdao Shipyard. He heard Fabian say a few words. These things were impossible to help Scher. The more he knew about the navy, the more he knew that the difficulty of naval construction was that Germany had been following Britain for many years before it formed its current scale. As for the United States, it had the world's largest industrial output value, but it was still more than one level missing on the warships.

The East Asian fleet finally docked at Qingdao Military Port. To be precise, after a short stay at the military port, he hurriedly left and let down several major leaders such as Spe. The purpose of course is to take Qingdao Shipyard dozens of kilometers away. It will take more than an hour to walk on the waterway.

There are not only telegraph lines, but also telephone lines between the shipyard and Qingdao. The arrival of Scher and others was notified here very early. All the people who came were officers, but the number of more than 4,000 people was enough to open two fantasy classes and could also be equipped with some Chinese seamen. These ships were definitely not allowed to be tested in the Chinese waters. According to the previous estimate, the five-month sea test was all located in Southeast Asia, where there were enough supply ships and supply ports to deal with the consumption of the entire fleet, unless there were major losses. It required overhaul or replacement of engines and guns, so that they needed to return to Qingdao. This method was to ensure that these warships were secretly put into service.

Compared with the great powers who paid more attention to the coast of China, the southeast of Indonesia is more suitable. After crossing Borneo, it penetrates into the Pacific Ocean. It is endless, not the main channel, and not much people. It is a good place.

Yang Yuanzhao did not go to the harbor to greet him. His identity is now similar to that of the national leader. This is just a commercial activity. He is more concerned about the sea test command system. As long as this system is completed, not only will the German high seas fleet be greatly improved, but even the future Chinese navy does not need to be adjusted for a long time when it comes to this. Once he is on the ship and knows all the operations, he can play the maximum hit rate. This is an irresistible temptation.

Next, the electronic command and control system will not be installed on the warship, but some personnel responsible for data collection and design will follow the warships, mainly to record most of the data in real life, especially the habits of shooting, so as to adapt to this command system, reduce unnecessary operations, and strive to make this command system have a better hit rate. In the era without radar and in the era when the application level of computers has not been greatly improved, this is the ultimate that the Northwest can do.

At sea level, several smoke columns first appeared, and as time went by, there were more and more smoke columns and became more and more dense. When the ten-ton armored cruiser appeared in the south of the shipyard, the person in charge of looking for the people reported and discovered the East Asian fleet.

German Ambassador Mummer and the battalion commander of the German Army Battalion stationed in the shipyard all went to the port to greet him, and the deck of the East Asian fleet in the distance was full of people. These were German naval officers. I heard that they were about to arrive at the shipyard, and most of them came out, including some senior officers. They also followed the sailors. Jiaozhou Bay is Germany's territory, and it is not close to the main channel. There is no ship for dozens of miles. They are not worried about being discovered. They come out openly and arrive in half an hour.

"Finally arrived!" Sher said with a little melancholy. He had already seen the tall dock in the distance. Although most docks had a height of only a few dozen meters on land, from a distance, a large number of docks were densely distributed here. Even if Scher was the official of the De*, he couldn't help but admire it. This was probably the largest shipyard he had ever seen. There were at least seventy or eighty docks.

Some of the worries in his heart began to calm down. What he was most afraid of was that he was poor and was poor. Then the so-called warships were made randomly. He knew that they were led by German engineers, but how long it took, less than a year and a half. For Germany, there was not enough time to build a shipyard, so how could it be possible to produce warships?

The Northwest is a master of construction. As a senior executive of the Navy, he knew very well that the Kiel Canal, which was completed around June 1913, not only did the tonnage of the passage increased by 80%, but the shipping conditions and traffic capacity were also much larger. Not only could the current king-class pass smoothly, but even the Bavarian class pass in the future. According to this actual capability, warships with a minimum of 60,000 tons pass through.

The Kiel Canal, as the largest canal in Germany, is a tight spell that restricts the high seas fleet. In order to quickly cross the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, Germany built the Kiel Canal. However, when designing it, it was unexpected that maritime forces would develop so rapidly in just a few decades. By 1907, it had to be re-excavated. A canal that had only been built less than 10 years ago was re-excavated and expanded. This was the first time in history.

Due to the funding and time, the scale of this excavation was relatively small. Even most of the warships built during the excavation period needed to consider the depth of this canal. The king-level level was quite obvious. Taking the draft issue, the wide hull as the basis is not very airworthiness under high sea clearance conditions.

Now all problems have been solved. The depth of the Kiel Canal has reached the extreme that can be achieved at present. With the greatly increased depth, the newly designed Bavarian-class can be ignored, and a wider hull is not required to be designed to pass through the Kiel Canal. It can be designed with higher freeboards to cope with the stability under complex sea conditions, which greatly increases the combat effectiveness of Bavaria and it greatly increases.

At that time, Scher was very grateful to the workers in the northwest. It was their hard work that made the Kiel Canal not a German tight spell, but became a booster. The newly connected canal carried out charging operations under the Northwest, and charged 30% of the range savings based on the tonnage. This was the first time in Europe that the charge amount was much higher than that of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal only charges according to the tonnage, without considering the cost of savings, which was relatively low. The charge amount of the Kiel Canal is at least 10 times that of the Suez Canal. There was a rebound, but not a large one. Soon, many ships flocked in, allowing the Admiralty to obtain a lot of money. It is estimated that at most one year, one can provide an extra fund for a battleship.

As a senior management of the Navy, Scher admires the construction capabilities of the Northwest, but the foundation of excavation and other earthworks is earthworks, the dock is dock, and the construction of battleships is the construction of battleships. These cannot be equated. In my heart, Scher does not believe that the Northwest can build battleships.

However, everything in front of us proves with iron-like facts that the Northwest seems to have incredible magic in construction, and can build huge projects like building blocks or magic. As the warships approach, they clearly saw the huge warships in every dock.

Standing at Scher's position, you can clearly see that the general outline of the battleship looks thinner, not the traditional broad layout of the battleship, but it is probably about speed considerations. In Spee's brief introduction, Scher knew that the speed of the battleship was above 27 knots, and basically caught up with most of the battleship patrols of Britain and Germany, so the fantasy level was also named as the fast battleship. The word "fast" was added, which was to compare it with the battleship. His main task was to form a generation difference and overwhelming advantage against the battleship.

It was so big, an officer next to him exclaimed, the first feeling that this warship, which was still in the dock, gave them the big one. They were all naval officers who had been dealing with various warships all year round. They knew very well what the size of the main battleship was. Although it was still a few kilometers away and could not see clearly, the height of the stage and the superstructure like a forest still shocked them. The Chinese really created miracles. In such a short time, so many steel giant beasts were produced.

Scher was a little strange. Could it be that he sacrificed his firepower and only cared about speed? However, according to Spe's introduction, this fantasy-level has 5 double-connected 15-inch turrets and 10 15-inch naval guns. Can it be accommodated with a slightly narrow hull?

Schell wanted to see it carefully, but the mist in the morning and the distance made him unable to see it clearly, and even the outline of the ship was vague. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!