Volume VIII 1152 The Espionage Capital of East Asia

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Ryukyu Naha is now one of the cities with the highest spy coverage in East Asia, and definitely the first. The great powers of the world, including the Qing Dynasty, have stationed countless spies and meticulous works here.

Don't look at the CIA's huge funds with Xiao Letian, plus Wang Huaiyuan's genius spy master, but it can't be perfect.

The reason is very simple: there are those who have been thieves for a thousand days, but where are they who have been guarding against thieves for a thousand days? There are too many forces that want to explore the details of Ryukyu, and Ryukyu is an open and mercantile country, and the free flow of people and funds will inevitably make intelligence pour in like a tidal wave.

In fact, this situation is also the result of Xiao Letian and Wang Huaiyuan's deliberate connivance, in fact, the big spies of many countries appeared in the Ryukyus, and the CIA had already mastered their identities, but the CIA did not interfere with their actions, on the contrary, they deliberately connived.

As long as the core secrets of the Prime Minister's Mansion are not leaked, even if some small information is exposed, it is rare to issue a killing order.

Not only that, but the CIA also used its capital and local advantages to dig up some double agents, and even consciously released some information for them to sell.

Slowly, a very important information trading market in East Asia appeared in Naha, and in many cases, some important information that was not related to the Ryukyus would also be traded here.

Because many spies know very well that as long as you follow the unspoken rules of the CIA, then the transactions you make are also protected by the unspoken rules.

Xiao Lotian's plan is to make Naha the Casablanca of East Asia and the port of Cyprus in the Pacific Ocean......

The information transmitted back and forth in this world is like a big river, all Xiao Lotian has to do is to let the main road of this river pass under his nose, not only can he take advantage of the geographical advantage to get a lot of information, and even he can make this river into an industry.

It's a dark industry, but it's also a very lucrative one.

It was under his connivance that the appearance of the Zhiyuan became a show for top spies, and those subordinates released by Wang Huaiyuan were stunned one by one, they never expected that the level of their European counterparts would be as high as this.

The latest cameras are one-third smaller and twice as sharp than those used by the CIA. The best sketcher, a charcoal pen can clearly print the outline of a battleship more than a thousand meters away on paper in more than ten seconds, and the scale is not messed up at all.

What's even more eye-popping is the military literacy of those military attachés, and some things can be guessed at just a glance.

Obviously, the main gun of the Zhiyuan has been wrapped in canvas, but they can still see the parameters such as the twin 210 caliber, and even deduce that it is impossible for the Zhiyuan to carry out a double salvo, so the volume of the Zhiyuan does not have such a strong keel at all.

There is also the air duct next to the chimney of the Zhiyuan, who would think of what it is for, but these military attaches have already guessed that it is the strong vent of the boiler unit when they look at the two or three people who meet each other.

They knew at that time that the Zhiyuan had adopted a very advanced strong wind pressurization technology, which to put it bluntly was to forcibly blow fresh air into the boiler to increase the firepower.

Among them, the British spies were the most excellent, and those CIA officers who were in charge of spying on the British could see the pens of several British military attachés wandering on the paper like flying, strings of cursive writing and numbers flowing.

The foundation left by a century-old powerful navy is not comparable to ordinary countries, just a few military attaches assigned to East Asia can speculate so many about the attributes of the Zhiyuan in a moment, and if there is any error in it, just rush this line of thought, this sensitive brain already wants to be terrifying.

Just a parameter of the main gun double diameter, they have already reversed Xiao Letian's naval thinking, this kind of talent is extremely scary to think about.

"For a main gun with a caliber of more than 200 mm, according to the length of this barrel, the double diameter is already close to 25! What is Xiao Lotian going to do? Obviously, he wants to build a high-quality navy, and this is to use quality to suppress quantity......

"The current main gun technology, if you can have a 15 times the diameter, it is already against the sky, and every time you increase a little bit above the 15 times the diameter, the money paid is not a little, and it may even be one or two times!"

The two British military attachés were talking and writing hard, and they never imagined that among the local sedan chair men in the Ryukyus, there were CIA spies who were proficient in English, and they recorded every word they said in their hearts.

The double diameter that the British military attaché talked about was an important number of artillery, and most people knew what the caliber was, that is, the diameter of the barrel, whether it was in imperial pounds or metric millimeters, all followed a principle, the greater the power.

And what is the double diameter? This is actually the number of guns that was discovered only after the appearance of rifled guns, and the double diameter is the ratio of the caliber to the length of the barrel of the gun.

For a rifled gun, you divide the length of its barrel by the caliber of the barrel, and the value obtained is an integer, and that number jù is the multiple diameter.

For example, 50 times the 160 howitzer, these two sets of numbers have actually told you some basic parameters of the artillery, 160 is the caliber of the gun 160 mm, and 50 times the diameter can be used to calculate the length of the barrel.

50 times 160 mm equals 8000 mm, which is eight meters. Judging from this number, you know that this is a very large heavy artillery.

The larger the double diameter, the longer the barrel, and the advantage of a long barrel is that it allows the shell to rotate in the chamber for a little longer, and gets more acceleration from the rifling.

Theoretically speaking, the longer the barrel, the straighter the trajectory of the projectile, the more stable the trajectory, and of course the higher the accuracy, which is an important factor for the Zhiyuan to stand out in Iquique.

Although you have a lot of artillery and a lot of fire, you can't shoot as accurately as I do! Lao Tzu will get pregnant with one shot, and then fire another gun, and then get pregnant, and the cannons will not fail.

However, the large-diameter artillery also has defects, first of all, the long rifling time of the barrel is more, and the corresponding power will be consumed, which will cause the ultra-long-range armor-piercing effect to be reduced.

There is also the problem of rifling wear, which is really an incurable disease of rifled guns, the shells keep and rifling wear, as the rifling becomes thinner and thinner, the life of the barrel will naturally decrease, and the accuracy will also be reduced.

The last important factor is the cost, this kind of artillery is too expensive, the same caliber artillery, an additional meter in length, the casting process and rifling manufacturing process add countless problems, the corresponding cost will also double.

The two British military attachés speculated that the cost of one of the main guns of the Zhiyuan was 100,000 pounds, but unfortunately they guessed wrong, and each of the main guns of the Zhiyuan had exceeded 150,000 pounds, which is said to have frightened Bismarck for a long time.

With just one piece of artillery, the two British military attachés have already guessed the fundamental strategy of the navy that Xiao Lotian is about to build...... The Ryukyu Navy was supposed to be a deterrent naval force that followed a small but lean strategy...... What he is looking for is absolute superiority in East Asia or the Western Pacific......"

"According to this kind of naval development thinking, Xiao Lotian will never be able to compete for global hegemony, there is no doubt about it!"