Chapter 1293: Changes in the High Seas Fleet
The aggressiveness shown by the German fleet made the British very uncomfortable, how could the British fleet, which once crisscrossed the seven seas, encounter such a provocation, it has always been that they pressed each other to fight, and were bullied by the Germans to the head, or so naked, some young officers repeatedly asked for battle, but in the end, it was rejected in the Admiralty, according to the Admiralty's assessment of the Schell fleet plus the high seas fleet, the German fleet and the British fleet should be in between, and even Germany still has a little upper hand, in this case, Once the two sides start a war, whether they win or not depends on who can seize the opportunity, and in the middle, the evaluation of the Scheer fleet is quite high, and the British Admiralty cannot take the risk of losing all its capital ships.
Besides, the 28 warships that the United States is currently building are the ultimate killer weapon, and when the time comes, the Entente will suppress the German Navy with a double advantage, and even say that the first batch will enter service next year, and under the premise that it is possible to overwhelm Germany, no high-ranking officer of the Admiralty is willing to pin his fate on an unreliable decisive battle.
Britain did not dare to start a war with the Scheer fleet, and under the strength of Germany, Britain did not have a good solution, so it could only retreat step by step, not only withdrawing from the Baltic Sea, even if it was above the North Sea, but also retreating step by step, and even withdrawing from the strategic point of monitoring the Baltic Sea.
Scheer didn't dare to persecute the British fleet too much, after all, the British Navy has deep roots in the entire North Sea, and the island chain formed by various islands makes the British fleet rely on it, even if it is a big guy like a battleship, if it really takes a few torpedoes, it will be ironclad. Although it is said that on the sea, it is able to deal with capital ships. There is only one capital ship, but it is in the area of the island. If a group of torpedo boats or submarines are ambushed, it will be very troublesome, and there will not be many results in killing them, and if you are not careful, you will be caught by one or two torpedoes, and it will be all over.
Scheer continued to keep the fleet on cruise, not for the sake of annihilating the British fleet, and in this case, the British took the initiative to avoid it. Germany can't help it, unlike Germany, there is not much power overseas, the British have a huge hidden strength in addition to the capital ships on the surface, and Germany cannot force them to fight a decisive battle like the British.
In Scheer's heart, it was more about wanting the High Seas Fleet to be stronger, in the battle at the mouth of the Baltic Sea. The Scheer fleet has exerted great strength, and the command system is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, because of the requirements of the Chinese. The chain of command can only be controlled by them, but Scheer has also made some adjustments to find a way to get the best of both worlds.
Because of the input of a total data. The command system cannot be universalized to every warship, and currently only the 9 capital ships that fully cooperate with this system can. This more or less made Scheer a little helpless, if the entire high seas fleet was unified under the chain of command. The combat effectiveness exerted can be multiplied several times, and at that time, even if it is a decisive battle with the British, it will be an absolute German victory, and their losses will not be too great.
Thinking towards this goal, I really thought of a way for Scheer, I can't use the direct aiming of the command system, but I can make adjustments, other warships are equipped with radio systems, and I can accept the radio signals in the command system, as long as I have a measuring tool, I can measure the distance between my ship and the ships of the Scheer fleet, and if you fix a few ships, you can get a specific distance, and this, through Scheer's aiming communication with the northwest, it is possible to directly give a distance, not a data.
This is enough for elite gunners, you know, before the sighting system, how the German high seas fleet attacked, isn't it the artillery commander, according to this fuzzy calculation, now although there is an additional procedure, but there is a more accurate distance, and then there are indicators such as speed and direction, skilled artillery commanders, can still attack according to this distance and speed, this is the original level of the high seas fleet, now there is a more accurate measurement method, It's just that you can't use an attack method that is almost godlike like the Scheer fleet, but the overall strength is still improving.
This method is very novel, but the maneuverability is quite strong, after consulting the Chinese side, on the premise that this can be done, the rest is how to train, so that the soldiers can get used to this kind of hair.
It was this whimsy that in just two months, the Scheer fleet was transformed, and the hit rate of the high seas fleet increased by 32%, which represented an increase in the strength and firepower invested in the unit of time.
Scheer has never been a conservative, after becoming the captain of the high seas fleet, the second topic he raised is to modify the armor of the battleship, and improve some naval guns, although the high seas fleet is completely rectified, it requires the investment of almost 3 battleships, but whether it is protection or attack, it can be increased by about 50% according to the strength of the northwest, which is a huge number, and the huge high seas fleet will be reborn.
When the strength increases to a certain extent, any increase in the magnitude is unlikely to change the overall strength to a great extent, and this modification of the warship costs a lot of money, but it does not take much time, and it can even be completed in the repair shop of the high seas fleet.
As for the leakage, in the relationship between the Northwest and Germany, all the German warships, even the strongest Bavarian class, did not hide anything from the Northwest, in this case, is this still a problem?
Scheer's proposal, in the Admiralty, set off an uproar, however, in the end, it was approved, the armor used in the fantasy class, Krupp also checked, is a very perfect hardness and all aspects of the armor steel, such steel is installed on the warships of the high seas fleet, for the improvement of protection is particularly obvious.
Although it takes time to modify the battleship, but the combat effectiveness is the greatest, increasing the armor, does not mean increasing the tonnage, with a stronger dealer, replacing the backward one, the armor steel in the northwest, in terms of protection is first-class, but in terms of specific gravity, even lighter, it increases the protection capacity, and increases the performance, where to find such a good thing.
The High Seas Fleet was quietly refitted, and only the Scheer fleet remained when patrolling, but fortunately, he did not press too much, and only occasionally entered the North Sea, and the two sides did not go to war in the end.
With 2 months of refit, improve the strength of all the high seas fleet, 50% is not much, but coupled with the previous 32% increase in accuracy, the two are superimposed, in terms of combat effectiveness, the high seas fleet will completely surpass, the British fleet, at this time, it is not the British who take the initiative to provoke, but the German provocation, even if the British also avoid the war, they can also rely on the advantage of the battleship, forcibly pull out the British island chain in the periphery, when the time comes, the British say that there is no way to avoid, can only be with them strategic decisive battle. (To be continued.) )
PS: The second chapter is delivered, there are too many things today, the second chapter is only 2000, and it will be restored tomorrow!