C2746 Hundred Ghosts Night Walk (1/2)
Huo Fu felt that today was hell for him, and everything that was happening before his eyes was incomprehensible to him!
Zhiyuan Warship was the enemy of the entire French Navy. Ever since the appearance of this warship, they have never stopped collecting information on this warship!
But today, he finally understood that all the intelligence gathering was just a fart! It was not even comparable to a fart!
All the technical analysis was wrong. No one could have predicted that the defensive capabilities of this warship would be so heaven-defying!
”How thick is this battleship's armor? ”Who can tell me how thick it is!”
They could only look on helplessly as the cannonball exploded on the Zhiyuan Warship s, but in the end, all they got was the enemy ship's trembling and blackening, not even a needle-sized hole had been blown out.
How could he fight such a tortoiseshell warship? I can't fight anymore!
In this world, only Prussia and the Chinese themselves knew the detailed data of the Zhiyuan Warship. The thickness of its armor was not two and a half inches as judged by the French nor by the British, but an incredible four and a half inches!
How thick was four and a half inches? Four inches to a millimeter is 114 inches! This was a full 11 centimeters thick!
The thickness of the steel plates had reached 11 centimeters. During World War I and World War II, they would have looked like paper shells. However, in this era, the thickness of the steel plates had exceeded everyone's imaginations!
The French Navy's cannons only had a maximum caliber of 150, while the British Navy's cannons only had a maximum caliber of 160. This kind of cannonball could fight against two inches of iron armor, but the Zhiyuan Warship s had directly doubled the standard!
This type of armor could only be defended against with cannons that were over 210 caliber in diameter, but this cannon, the English and French Navy, was not equipped with this type of armor!
It wasn't that they couldn't make it, but they felt that this kind of cannon was meaningless. It was a complete waste, because they didn't think that there would be such a lunatic in this world!
But reality had slapped them hard in the face! Of course there were lunatics! Furthermore, they were lunatics who could mobilize countless amounts of wealth in East Asia!
This kind of crazy person could turn his random thoughts into reality, because he had the right to do so even if he had the money!
Such a person could naturally be willful!
When he thought about the design drawings that had been delivered to the Prussian engineers, almost all the engineers who had seen the blueprints went crazy. They all thought that Xiao Letian was really rich!
How many people suggested to the Eastern leader that he should lower the standards and not waste money, but Xiao Letian did not listen to them at all. This stubborn fellow wanted Prussia to create such a 'big toy' for him.
In fact, Bismark had also tried to indirectly persuade Xiao Letian, but the result was that they had all gotten away with it!
In the end, the Prussian engineers had made it for him. ”If you Chinese don't pay well, then just make it! If you are willing to be a spendthrift, then what is there to be worried about! ”Anyway, in the end, I will still earn your money. If I don't, then that is a son of a b * tch!”
Most of the Prussian engineers worked for Xiao Letian in this state of mind!
But the Prussian was a strict and moral person. Although they disapproved of Xiao Letian's plans, they did not want to take advantage of him!
It was precisely because of this kind of crazy insistence and this kind of paranoia, that the North Sea Yang Wei of today's legendary warships was able to do it!
After the war, Xiao Letian once gave the navy a secret meeting. At that meeting, he proposed a noun, ”Hundred Ghost Night Walk”.
Xiao Letian said that when humans went from wooden sail battleship to pure steel steam Iron-armored Ship, this kind of period was actually called Hundred Ghost Night Walk!
What did that mean? This meant that in this century of great change, all the ship designers, all the high ranking officials of the intelligence agencies of the countries, were actually confused about the future direction of the battleship's development!
Because of their confusion, the rulers needed to pool their knowledge and work together. They needed countless wise men to discuss the future development of the warships!
In the end, this was just gambling! Wasn't war gambling on national destiny!? This kind of collective wisdom is actually gambling on the design, gambling on the future direction of the war.