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At the end of 1900, the British army led by General Roberts won a series of successive victories in South Africa, and completely defeated the Boer coalition forces of the Orange Autonomous Region before Christmas, planted the British Empire's rice flag into Bloemfontein, the capital of the autonomous region. The President of the Orange Free State, Matius Stein, led government and parliamentary officials to flee to Cronstad in the north helplessly.

At the same time, the British army attacking the middle line of Transvaal also had an excellent opportunity because of the fall of Orange. Facing the threat of the cut-off, the DeWitt Legion of the Transvaal coalition was forced to retreat. The battle situation occurred in less than two months. In this regard, the Salisbury Cabinet and the British media were obviously very excited and asserted that Transvaal would completely collapse within a few months.

However, the New Year bell just rang, and a plague swept across Orange. The Transvasti Front suddenly attacked the British Expeditionary Force that had just occupied Bloemfontein. In less than twenty days, Admiral Roberts received news that nearly 8,000 people fell ill. This means that a larger epidemic may break out in the occupied areas. The originally stalemate of the two sides had to stop. The British team entered Bloemfontein for a full rest, and the Boer coalition also turned to Colognestad for defense.

On January 20, British Foreign Minister Churchill gave a note to Chinese Ambassador to the UK Chen Bo, who proposed a series of demands for purchasing medicines, food and trade. Chen Bo naturally refused everyone. The reason why the British extended an olive branch to China was obviously hoped that the huge Chinese merchant fleet and the East African Chinese fleet would participate in the military supplies to Cape Town. Compared with purchasing from the more distant United States, China, which still controls the Strait of Malacca, obviously has more favorable conditions.

However, Qin Kai, who was attending the Party Affairs Meeting of the Baath Party in Beijing, obviously did not take this trade seriously at all. After receiving the telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he immediately turned to the Ministry of Commerce for handling it. His attention was completely directed to another secret telegram from London.

After monopolizing the Royal Navy's shooting command platform trade for nearly two years, the HS-2 type shooting commander produced by Heisenber Precision Machinery Factory unexpectedly appeared in the recent Royal Navy bidding. What made Qin Kai even more amused was that he planned the deployment of the shooting HS system secretly promoted by the Intelligence Department, which unexpectedly gave birth to this competitor.

After Heisenber Precision Machinery Factory provided the Royal Navy with a range-based and calculated HS-3 type shooting commander, he served as an adjutant and participated in this project. After studying the HS series shooting command system, he participated in the planning of the new shooting commander after participating in the Royal Navy's naval surveys. A year later, at the end of 1900, he submitted a relevant design research report to the British Navy and quickly obtained relevant patents.

When the Royal Navy bid for the fire control system in 1901, the Strauss Machinery Factory, which Fred participated, submitted the Fred shooting command platform they developed to the Royal Navy. According to the information, the British navy captain did show good imagination. In addition to borrowing the design of the wind biaser and deviation device in the HS fire control, he actually designed the distance change rate calculation clock and a simple drawing device by himself.

In fact, from Qin Kai's perspective, this type of Fred's shooting command platform is a rough simulation solution. Although the specific test effect is not clear, it is basically certain that this primary product is obviously difficult to fight against the HS-type shooting commander with the gust shooting command system as a parent, but competing with the early HS-2 type, I think this Strauss Machinery Factory is obviously prepared.

The hs-2 type shooting commander still uses the distance input method, rather than the distance change rate of the Fred shooting command platform. However, Qin Kai obviously did not have much concern about the Fred shooting commander of this design concept. After all, China has reached an unprecedented level of research and development on the analytical fire control platform, and there are three mature products from the series of typhoon, gust and storm.

The HS-2 series shooting commander, which originated from the earlier model of gusts, can achieve good shooting hits at a distance of less than 7,000 meters and a relative speed of less than 10 knots. Of course, the biggest problem of this model is that the system's calculation benchmark is that the position changes between the two sides cannot be too large.

If the target performs complex z-motoring and uses the HS-based shooting commander to attack the opponent, it is probably a tragedy even at a short distance. The Fred shooting commander developed by Captain Fred, the British Navy, has been difficult to determine the effectiveness of the mechanical computing system designed by the British, but it is indeed a conceptual victory. However, the judgment of the analytical fire control for irregular movements has always been difficult based on Qin Kai's judgment.

The reason why Qin Kai was worried was naturally not because the British finally developed the Fred shooting commander. Even if it was a big HS-type shooting commander, it was not difficult to imitate. As the most innovative empire of this era, Britain obviously had technical resources and industrial accumulation in all aspects, which also led to the research and development of the Fred shooting commander by a naval captain.

This is obviously not the only bad news from the Intelligence Department in the UK and Heisenber Precision Machinery Factory. The Fred Shooting Commander is obviously not the only company competing with the HS-based Shooting Commander. Another Eric Brothers Precision Company, which is favored by the Royal Navy for its range-finding equipment, is also selling the Demerick computing clock they designed to the Royal Navy. The news obtained from the Admiralty is still in the evaluation stage, but the British Admiralty is very interested in this mechanical data processing clock and even suggesting that Heisenber Precision Machinery Factory consider integrating this computing clock.

In response, Heisenberg Machinery Factory naturally rejected this, but the imminent problem is that targeted product bids must be launched immediately. Otherwise, the Royal Navy, which has always been very concerned about any naval technology, will definitely pay enough attention to Fred's shooting commander and Demerick's calculation clock. The Royal Navy will not mind having more choices.

After careful consideration, Qin Kai quickly issued an instruction through the Intelligence Department. In the process of fire control development, the appearance of the Fred shooting commander may not be a bad thing. Since it is also based on the analysis of observation data, although this is not a way out, it will eventually be impossible to escape the fate of being eliminated. Therefore, letting the British continue to move along this path may not be a bad thing.

In April, Heisenberg Precision Machinery Factory released the updated products of the HS series, equipped with the relative position mapping function of the enemy and us and upgraded the new shooting commander of the gust calculation clock. In July, it successfully bid successfully and became the fire control system installed on the second King-class battleship Commonwealth launched. The Royal Navy obviously did not give up the Fred shooting commander. While fully adopting the HS-type fire control, it also ordered two sets of shooting command systems from the Strauss Machinery Factory as the fast-class battleship launched earlier.

British battleships were working day and night in shipyards spread across the east coast of Britain like dumplings. Qin Kai was naturally stress-free, but the Germans...especially the fanatical naval builder William II, told Wang Li, a major event in Berlin in June, hoping that China could increase its exports to German marine equipment, especially marine armor with a long construction cycle and complex process. The German emperor even made it clear that China hoped that China would completely join Germany's allies!

Wang Li reiterated his remarks about China's diplomatic non-alignment, but at the same time confirmed to German Emperor William II that he would do his best to provide the friendly Federal German Empire with the best marine armor in China. When the news reached Beijing, another news that shocked the cabinet also came from the Americas! (The novel "Industrial China" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!) (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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