Martin has been a bit annoyed lately, as Nyasaland had an advantage in the North Sea (Lake Tanganyika as it is called), but that advantage is now rapidly shrinking.

Lake Tanganyika, with an area of 33,000 square kilometers, is very important for Nyasaland and Tanganyika, according to international practice, the North Sea is half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika, and there is only a marine police in Nyasaland in the North Sea, and the Germans do not have any military force.

This situation is certainly not conducive to Tanganyika's rights protection, and Nyasaland's marine police ships are indeed very arrogant, often crossing the median line and patrolling the waters of the Tanganyika side, which has triggered many protests in Tanganyika.

However, the Nyasaland Marine Police did not relent, Tanganyika had no military force in the North Sea, and there was no choice but to see the Nyasaland Marine Police boats, so they could only look at the ocean and sigh.

This year, Tanganyika decided to change this passive situation, so he dismantled the two gunboats and sent them to the North Sea by hand to assemble them in preparation for the confrontation with the Nyasaland Marine Police Boats.

The two gunboats were the Count Gozen, with a displacement of up to 800 tons, and the Weissmann, with a displacement of 100 tons.

The 100-ton Weisman is not worth mentioning, but the 800-ton Earl Gozen is a huge threat to the Nyasaland Marine Police.

800 tons is close to the level of destroyers, Nyasaland marine police ships have a displacement of less than 500 tons, and are only equipped with 40 mm rapid-fire guns, but the Earl Gotzen is equipped with 76 mm naval guns, plus the design is newer and faster, which is not something that Nyasaland's marine police ships can compete.

Don't look at 76-mm guns, they are not worth mentioning in the field of naval artillery.

But the 76 mm gun is also a serious naval gun, and the 40 mm rapid-fire gun is only auxiliary firepower, and the two are not a heavyweight.

If left to assemble by the Germans, then in the event of a future clash between Nyasaland and Tanganyika, the Count Gotzen could easily defeat all the marine police ships in Nyasaland.

"Of course, we can't let the Germans assemble the gunboats smoothly, so I'm ready to send troops to Usumbra, and if we can't blow up the German gunboats, we will have to make some trouble for the Germans." Martin is ready to stand firm and resolutely defend the interests of Nyasaland.

Usombra is the future capital of Burundi, Bujumbura, which was conquered by the Germans in 1890 and became part of the German Tanganyika and was the base for the German colonization of Central Africa.

Before 1890, Usombra was just a small fishing village, after the Germans came to Central Africa, they built Usumbra as a military stronghold and promoted the development of Usumbra, so from this point of view, the arrival of European colonizers did promote the local economic development of Africa, but this development was based on the oppression and plundering of African natives by European colonizers.

Anton did not express his position directly, but looked at Roque with hopeful eyes, probably thinking the same way.

Roque felt that he had led his subordinates astray, and the gang had now habitually used violent means to solve the problem, completely ignoring the consequences of violent means.

"No, we don't want to do it unless we want to go to war with the Germans." Roque is well aware of the current situation, there is an arms race in Europe, and it is not yet time for war.

In 1900, Germany passed the Naval Act, which gave full impetus to the development of the navy, in an attempt to strengthen the ties between Germany and its colonies with its fleet.

The Germans' approach raised concerns in Britain, an island nation whose survival depended heavily on a strong navy to maintain superiority in maritime power in order to maintain Britain's homeland security and supply routes at sea.

So the expansion of the German navy aroused the jealousy of the British, so two years earlier, during the Earl of Selborn's tenure as British Minister of the Admiralty, Britain began to build a more advanced and powerful warship to maintain the British Navy's superiority over the German Navy.

Such a warship is a "dreadnought".

The term "dreadnought" began with the British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which began construction two years earlier, a brand new all-heavy artillery battleship unlike any previous battleship.

Due to the different firing range and rate of fire of shipborne artillery, the battleships equipped by the world's naval powers were all mixed with two caliber main guns, and the smaller caliber six- to ten-inch rapid-fire guns were used to make up for the lack of firepower of the eleven- to thirteen-inch large-caliber main guns.

With the advancement of large-caliber naval artillery technology, the accuracy and power of large-caliber naval guns have been greatly improved while increasing the firing range and rate of fire, and the emergence of more advanced artillery aiming technology has also effectively improved the hit rate of artillery.

However, when battleships used two caliber guns to fire, due to the different ballistics and rates of fire, the observation of the impact point and the control of fire could not be unified, so that the rate of fire and the hit rate of the main guns were affected, and this disadvantage was particularly obvious in the naval battle of the Tsushima Strait during the Russo-Japanese War.

So two years ago, learning the lessons of the Russians in the Battle of Tsushima, Britain began to build a new generation of new battleships, the first ship is the "Dreadnought" that has been built and completed, and since then, all the new generation of battleships with unified caliber main guns have been collectively called "Dreadnought-class" battleships.

Germany is also ambitious, although Germany's national strength is obviously inferior to Britain, but on this issue, Wilhelm II showed the same paranoia as in other matters, so at the beginning of this year, Germany also began to build dreadnoughts, officially challenging the British Navy.

Britain certainly would not sit idly by and watch the German navy sit on a large scale, so it was decided that for every dreadnought that Germany built, Britain would build two dreadnoughts in order to maintain absolute superiority over the German navy.

And so the arms race began in earnest.

Although Britain and Germany are both powerful, the arms race will greatly restrain the national strength of Britain and Germany, and attract more attention from Britain and Germany to Europe, so that the living space in southern Africa will become larger and larger.

Due to the high cost of "dreadnoughts", even with Britain's national strength, it cannot support an arms race with no upper limit, so the arms race will develop to the end, and it will definitely be the outbreak of a world war, and then Nyasaland will be able to take action against Tanganyika.

So now I can only endure it.

"Sir, we don't have to endure it at all, just like two years ago, secretly send troops to Usongbra, and evacuate quickly with one blow, even if the Germans suspect that we did it, but there is no evidence and no way." Martin still hopes to take out the Count Gotzen, so he has a lot of attack power.

"Impossible!" Roque cut the nail on.

"Then can we let Yaya go-" Anton offered another way of thinking.

Yaya and his scouts are still active in the Congo Free State, because of the support of Nyasaland, Yaya's men are very active in the Congo Free State, and now Yaya's subordinates are not only Zulu and Yao, but also the Taitera people in the Congo Free State.

This is indeed a good way, in order to complete their "Teutonic Africa Project", the Germans took in the Tetera people and tried to subvert the Congo Free State, and now it seems that the Germans are also shooting themselves in the foot, not only the Germans can use the Tetera to fight the Belgians, but Roque can also use the Tetera to fight the Germans.

Roque thought about it for two minutes and agreed to Anton's suggestion, it was a good idea to let Yaya's men go, even if it didn't work, leave some evidence, as long as it didn't leave a living mouth, it had nothing to do with Nyasaland.

What's more, even if there is evidence left at the scene, Nyasaland can completely deny it, everyone knows that there are no Africans in Nyasaland, so those Tetera can only be from the Belgian Congo.

Normally, Yaya is a Ulysses resident on the North Sea coast, commanding his subordinates in the Congo Free State from a remote control.

Ulysses is the former Calemie, when Martin joked with Isiah Ulysses, and changed Kalemi's name to Ulysses almost like child's play, and the name has been fixed since then.

After Roque got Ulysses, it was customary to remake Ulysses.

Originally, Nyasaland hired the Tertella to transform Ulysses, but later because of the conflict between Nyasaland and the Congo Free State, Nyasaland captured a group of mercenaries, so those mercenaries became the main force to transform Ulysses.

Like other cities in Nyasaland, Ulysses has wide roads and perfect drainage facilities, and there are many public parks in the town, around which mercenaries began to build residential areas, and then supporting markets, schools and hospitals, and this whole set of punches has become the brightest pearl on the North Sea coast.

Now the mercenaries who built Ulysses are nowhere to be found, most of the residents of Ulysses are Chinese, and there are also some white people in charge of technical work, Nyasaland Shipyard has a branch in Ulysses, because of the threat of the Germans, now Nyasaland Shipyard is working on a thousand-ton destroyer to counter the Germans who have not yet built the Count Gotzen.

Interestingly, because of the need to fight the Germans, the Nyasaland shipyard developed a destroyer, which not only did not cause concern to the British government, but was strongly supported by the British government.

The British government even brought in some engineering staff from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the largest in the UK and possibly the largest in the world, to assist the Nyasaland shipyard in the development of destroyers.

In fact, Britain also has relatively mature technology for destroyers, and the world's first destroyer was the "Havoc" built by Britain in 1893.

The whole process of the destroyer was a "torpedo boat destroyer", and from this name you can see the purpose of the British production of destroyers.

In Germany, destroyers were called "large torpedo boats".

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