Lin Youde was a little surprised when he learned that the Ming fleet had four fast battleships entering the Persian Gulf, but he was surprised that all four new fast battleships had survived.

The Ming Empire's navy was devastated during the Yingzhou War of Independence, allowing the Yingzhou people to gain complete maritime superiority, but four Ming battleships survived. In naval battles in the era of battleships, it was normal for battleships to survive serious injuries, especially after entering the era of dreadnoughts, the greatly enhanced protection capabilities of battleships made it difficult for the main battleships to be sunk in naval gun attacks.

Taking the Battle of Jutland in another time and space as an example, the two sides invested a total of 46 dreadnought and super dreadnought capital ships, each firing 2,000 main gun shells and incalculable secondary gun shells, as a result, none of the warships above the dreadnought level on both sides sank, and only one German dreadnought was sunk.

Some German dreadnoughts were even hit by more than six 15-inch shells, but they still drove back to their home port under their own power, without even losing speed.

But in fact, after Jutland was fought, more than half of the capital ships of the German Grand Fleet had to be overhauled, and for a long time after Jutland, the High Seas Fleet had only ten capital ships available.

It was not until two years later that the High Seas Fleet was fully restored, and by that time the Germans were on the verge of defeat and had no fuel left for them to continue their attacks.

Therefore, the German Navy did not do much after Jutland and could not be blamed entirely on Wilhelm II - it was true that Wilhelm II felt sorry for his navy and was reluctant to fight again, but the German Navy also had its own difficulties: other warships were "bathing" in the dock.

Many things are causal, and after the end of the Jitland fight in another time and space, the navies of the world felt that the super-dreadnought was too hard, and began to study the way to sink the super-dreadnought, first of all, to give their newly built ships 410 (406), and then to strengthen the torpedo combat capability. In particular, the Japanese Navy had a tradition of attaching importance to torpedo warfare, and now it regarded "lightning warfare" as one of the magic weapons for victory, and in addition, the signing of naval treaties at that time was limited in the construction of ships, so the Japanese Navy went all out to establish a "mine warfare team."

The destroyers and light cruisers of the Japanese Navy were all prepared for "mine warfare," and the result was that in the later Pacific War, these destroyers and light cruisers could not do air defense and could not do it, and at first they could go to Iron Bottom Bay to fight the rookie soldiers of the United States in waves, but later the US military absorbed enough experience and became "three-star veterans." In addition, the American father relied on radar, and these mine combat teams were completely useless.

The Japanese also had a way of equipping the destroyers with oil drums and turning them into means of transport, and using the destroyers as fast armed transport ships, which made the army on many small islands very grateful, and greatly alleviated the situation in which the army and navy did not like each other.

But then the Japanese Army built its own submarines specifically for transporting supplies - you read that right, submarines specially designed to break through the US blockade line and transport supplies, the Army's!

Japan's amusement in World War II is more than a thing, so let's not press the table for the time being.

In short, the Ming Navy also had four ships that were fearlessly wounded and returned to Hong Kong, and then they could no longer leave the port, so they could only use as batteries to help resist the possible landing operations of the Yingzhou people while repairing them - but the Yingzhou people could not spare the strength to land on the southern coast at that time.

By the way, after reading the resumes of these four old ships, Lin Youde felt that this might probably be the Kong-class isotope of different time and space, but it was not before the modernization.

The Ming Empire of this time and space did not join the naval treaty, so there was no need to spend effort on overhauling the old ship. In another space-time diamond-level modernization and modification, the main engine was dismantled and replaced with a new one, and the amount of work was not small at all.

Before the war with the Yingzhou independence faction, there were still two new fast battleships under construction on the slipway of the Ming Empire, but after the war, the construction speed was greatly reduced due to the lack of materials.

After the end of the war, the government of the Ming Empire decided to speed up the construction of two new ships on the slipway, and at the same time tighten the belt, and after the two ships were launched and began to outfit, the vacated slipway was used to start construction of two more - at that time, the entire Ming Empire had these two large slipways, and the others were cut off by Yingzhou independently.

The four surviving old ships took four or five years to repair -- you must know that these old ships were not lightly injured, and the one in Qingdao Port was blocked outside the port by Nagato Mutsu in Yingzhou, and it was bombed until it sat on the bottom of the port.

The repaired old ships were painted with new paint and put together with the new ships, so the Ming Imperial Navy once again had eight battleships.

After Lin Youde received the news from China that the navy was going to the Persian Gulf, his estimate was that all the old ships would be donated, after all, the speed was too slow, and the remaining new battleships could reach 29 knots, and the Americans could catch up with no more than four new battleships, and it was estimated that one or two could run away while fighting.

Unexpectedly, the Americans let all four new ships run away.

Now it is difficult for the Americans to do it, it is impossible to chase after them and encircle and annihilate them, and Vale in the Persian Gulf region has air superiority, and the Americans will also worry about sending meat.

The British were even more difficult to do, the British were really broken in the last war, and after the ships that were started in the war were built intermittently, it took many years to start building new ships. Originally, Britain wanted to use a naval treaty to limit the expansion of the Ming Navy, but the Ming Empire, which had made a lot of money in the last war, did not abandon Britain at all, and continued to start construction of new warships.

Originally, there was nothing to do with Britain in Asia without the independence of Yingzhou, and after the new ships were built, the British had to obediently hand over the interests in China that they had obtained by coercion and economic encroachment by force.

But the British's talent for-stirring sticks allowed them to succeed, and the British were able to continue to survive in Asia.

History is always similar, another time and space, although Lin Youde hates the Manchu wild boar skin, but has to admit that the Qing Empire also has a chance to turn around, although the Sino-French War was an undefeated and defeated result, but the military victory has increased its prestige, and the Europeans have been empty. At that time, the British said that the future of Asia depended on Britain and the Qing Dynasty. If the First Sino-Japanese War wins the war again, then there will be nothing to do with the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Li Wenzhong Gong is an authentic minister of Zhongxing, and we should commemorate him in the 21 st century.

Far from it.

At this time, four new battleships sailed into the Persian Gulf, the British army only had four old R-class in the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean fleet could not leave lightly because of the existence of the French and Italian fleets.

At this time, Lin Youde's heart began to stir, thinking that he could let Vale join the war, but after thinking about it calmly, he gave up this plan.

There is no other reason: the British Empire probably can't deal with Vale, but the United States can. Not to mention the Persian Gulf, which is far away from the US mainland, the small piece of territory above Australia is estimated to be filled with explosive American GIs soon after the US is fully mobilized.

Lin Youde didn't want to lose the super iron ore and the uranium mine of the future.

At this time, you have to be calm, let the Ming fleet go out to break the attack after repairs, and it is estimated that the Americans will turn a blind eye, so it is disgusting and disgusting to the British.