William II looked at the officers below, frowning one by one, the Northwest battleship is very powerful, but in terms of price, it is relatively high, the price of 5 million pounds, it is really unacceptable, so what should I do, can I let the number of British warships completely overwhelm them?

"Otherwise, we'll place other orders for the Northwest, such as the King Class!" Another general's proposal, which made Tirpitz a little moved, compared with the technology of the fantasy class and the Orion class, it seems that the superiority of the King class and the Bavarian class cannot be shown, since Britain has to turn to the United States for help, and it also wants to have an advantage, then it is not a big deal for Germany to turn to China.

"Why the king level, the Bavarian level is good, the strength is still a little stronger!" Another officer took the initiative to speak.

As if a door was opened, everyone saw a different world, the Bavarian class, is currently Germany's most advanced battleship, because the northwest has solved the problem of naval guns, and now it has entered the final stage, the first two ships may be completed in the middle of the year, put into sea trials, for this battleship entrusted by Germany, the navy is also quite important. "Send a Bavarian-class index and simple drawings to the Northwest, and let them estimate the price, if not higher than 10% of our local production, you can definitely place an order, the more the better!" Tirpitz made a decisive decision at the behest of Wilhelm II, and the reason why he was so generous was that Germany had far more money on hand than at this time in history, and received a large amount of cash from France and Belgium. Just one aspect, the trade in antiques. The trade of the population gave the Germans a lot of sweetness. 5 million people, can provide 15 million US dollars per month, even if it is the fantasy class, in 2 months, it is almost one, not to mention the Bavarian class, the price has been greatly increased compared with the king class, and the cost of a single ship is 57.5 million, which is about 10 million higher. Converted to £500,000, the Queen Elizabeth class rose by a huge margin compared to the previous battleships.

It is precisely because of the money that the wealth will be abundant, and Germany cannot put so many battleships on the current slipway, and has already started construction of 4 Bavaria-class, and it is feasible to hand it over to China appropriately. As long as it can contribute to the size of the high seas fleet, there is a relatively large increase, it is worthwhile.

The northwest received a telegram from Germany, and some of them couldn't laugh or cry. The full set of Bavarian-level drawings was already available in the northwest when Yang Yuanzhao went to Germany, and it was the advanced technology that was absorbed from Germany and Britain. That's why there is such an outstanding performance as the fantasy level, which can be said unceremoniously. No foundation, no foundation. The Fantasy class simply can't be that good.

After two rounds in the northwest, the construction of 18 capital ships, a large number of complete construction teams have been formed, even if the Bavarian class has not been built, with perfect drawings, the designers have made slight improvements to the drawings according to the existing things in the northwest, some places that are not conducive to construction, some places that are not conducive to the efficient sectional method in the northwest have been slightly modified, and under the premise that the overall performance indicators have not changed much, the budget estimate has been completed, and on the basis of the cost, 70% has been added profits, which eventually formed a figure.

The final price on the German side was £2.45 million via telegraph. In this way, the cost of the northwest is only about 1.5 million pounds, that's right, the leading technology, will bring about a large-scale reduction in production costs, the use of machine tools on the battleship to process a lot of workpieces, this cost savings are a lot, the use of ordinary machine tool processing, not only the speed is very slow, time-consuming, these add up to the cost, and the high-speed machine tool in the northwest, the speed is more than 10 times that of ordinary machine tools, the degree of wear and tear of the knife is also within the acceptable range, this part of the cost has been reduced a lot, There is also the cost reduction of multi-batch production under the overestimation of production.

The German Admiralty, when it received the price reported by the Northwest, was first of all incredulous, 2.45 million pounds, could it be wrong, and once again sent a telegram to confirm it, it was 2.45 million undoubtedly, the entire Admiralty was excited, you know, now that the Bavarian class has risen for a period of time, the delivery price in Germany is almost 2.8 million pounds, which is equivalent to 20% less than the German price, is this possible?

Several rounds of telegram inquiries, the northwest almost said that the contract was signed at this price, the German side believed the authenticity of this price, the report was once again placed in front of Wilhelm II, I heard that the powerful Bavarian class, in the northwest, was actually less than 2.45 million pounds, and the delivery time was faster than their local production, Wilhelm II could not say anything, the facts have proved that the Chinese should have mastered a fast and low-cost method of building sea scissors, It is a pity that the German side has no clue, and if Germany gets this, it can completely enter into an arms race with Britain.

At this time, no one could stop Germany from placing an order for the northwest, a total of 8 capital ships, that is to say, the most powerful battleship in Germany during World War I, entered the shipbuilding sequence in the northwest.

Starting from Britain, the United States signed the Lend-Lease Act, and really began to get more deeply involved in the camp of the Entente, and Germany also did the same, the army on the battlefield, even if Britain and France were combined, it was not Germany's opponent, the strength of the army, this is obvious to all, but the navy, the number of capital ships, has not been as much as Britain, and it is easy to catch up with the number with the United Kingdom, Germany is 27, Britain is 29, basically in the same grade.

However, Britain's request for help from the United States, even at a huge cost, increased the number of capital ships to 35, and stubbornly pressed Germany, which of course would not stand still, and issued an order for eight capital ships to the northwest.

Originally, Germany was preparing to launch a naval battle in August, but it seems that it was slightly postponed because of the change in strength of the two sides, but in Southeast Asia and Asia, Germany's dominant position has not weakened.

The Scheer fleet has always been near Pontianak, after almost a month of tenacity, seeing that the army can not get more gains, the Nanyang Army launched a general attack on Borneo, the entire Borneo has become a battlefield, at this time it is not the native troops, but a strong force composed of the regular army of the Nanyang Army, with the help of artillery fire and battleship guns, the momentum is like a bamboo, in just 3 days, from the depths of Borneo, attacked to Pontianak, 12 hours, on Pontianak. The Anglo-French forces, including the remnants of the Dutch, were no longer able to withstand the Chinese attack, and eventually Pontianak fell, ending the war in Borneo.

Borneo finally fell completely into the hands of the Chinese, representing the end of the war in Southeast Asia, and for a long time to come, the Chinese will continue to occupy the entire territory of Indonesia, such a huge island country, and only in the hands of China, will people really feel at ease.

Scheer's fleet entered the port of Pontianak and rested a little, in fact, it was to refuel and refuel, Borneo, as the base camp of the whole of China in Southeast Asia, had a large amount of resources in reserve, and Scheer consumed too much in the battle, just to replenish.

After resting for three days, the Scheer fleet set off again, this time, behind him, a cargo ship of about 30 tons of 10,000 tons was also following, and the Nanyang Army sent a team of 18,000 people to Singapore to help the Scheer army land and fight.

Singapore, at this moment, is like a great enemy, has long known that Germany in helping the Chinese, after occupying Borneo, will inevitably attack Malacca, Germany does not want Malacca to be in the hands of the British, this will is even stronger than Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, after returning to Singapore, the fleet and army have been strengthening Singapore's defense, but no one has a bottom in their hearts, can in a short period of time, the British and French fleet are sent to the bottom of the sea of the powerful fleet, how can you be afraid of Singapore, in Asia, Britain has been dominant for a long time, so the British have not paid attention to the defense of Malacca, Singapore has shore artillery, but that is only fixed, and the naval guns are also the goods of 10 years ago, maybe for pirates, or a small-scale fleet is okay, for battleships, especially cutting-edge battleships, it is not enough to see.

In fact, after the northwest provided Singapore's defense, there was no obstacle to conquer Singapore, the location of each battery was marked on the deployment map, the fantasy class and Orion changed, more than 15 kilometers of range, but also so that the coastal defense artillery could not reach the fleet at a safe enough distance, little by little to clear the coastal defense artillery, the British defense troops could almost only watch, with naval guns to clean up the shore defense artillery, and suppress the opponent's firepower, the army that followed began to landDue to the relationship of supporting Pontianak, Singapore's garrison was basically emptied, leaving less than half a division, how to wait enough to resist Scheer's task force and the wolf-like Nanyang Army, in the end, Singapore only resisted for 3 days, and then declared it falling, belonging to the British, Malacca, the throat of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and finally, fell into the hands of the Germans, and the situation in the whole of Asia changed color.

, (To be continued.) )