Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 643 The Western Qing Navy Entering the Ocean

On the stormy North Sea, Galdan stood in the air-conditioned bridge control room, holding a telescope and looking at several Western Qing warships buckling on the other side of the sea level.

Ding Quan, the deputy commander of the fleet beside him, put down his binoculars and asked, "It's already within visual distance, are we really not going to fight?"

Galdan sighed, and said, "No, the order from the staff headquarters is for me not to engage in pointless firefights with the other party, unless the other party actively provokes or threatens my Ming Dynasty route."

Ding Quan sighed, "This will make Xiqing and his grandsons leave the Baltic Sea. Our blockade of them is meaningless."

Galdan has always been silent and did not speak.

Ding Quan looked at the ship models representing the Daming Atlantic Fleet on the sand table, and said with a wry smile: "Isn't it just to watch if you build such a large-scale army?"

Even though he said that, Ding Quan knew that Daming's idea was to drive Xiqing completely crazy before he destroyed it.

Galdan is the commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy. His 20-year naval career has turned him from a little Mongolian prince into a man who works with waves and giant steel ships.He is familiar with every ship in the fleet, its features and details.He once thought that he would be in a hurry, but he didn't expect that he would cut through the waves in the end.

The battleship that Galdan is currently riding on is precisely the battleship Shanghai. Originally, Shanghai was determined to be the last battleship of Ming Dynasty, but because of the war, the construction of Shanghai's sister ship Suez also started.Not only that, Daming is even developing the next generation of battleships, but this kind of battleship is no longer limited to bombardment with heavy cannons, but has taken into account future improvements, leaving a lot of space on the hull and deck for future battleships. vertical launch system.

This is also Bai Mingxiu's suggestion for improvement. Although it will take many years of scientific research and accumulation for Da Ming to release such a thing, after all, he knows the future technology trend, so there is no problem in making preparations early.Four new battleships are planned to be built, with a full load displacement of up to 4 tons. They will be designated as Hongwu-class battleships. In Bai Mingxiu's view, these should actually be considered arsenal battleships.Because assuming that a vertical launch unit of the size of Mk56 can be equipped in the future, then this huge arsenal battleship can at least stuff more than [-] units into it.

Even though such a terrifying arsenal battleship didn't have a clear enemy after it was born, Bai Mingxiu let them build it, and maybe they will fight some aliens who invaded the earth in the future.

But at least for now, these giant ships will also use heavy artillery, and it is a 520mm super giant artillery developed by Ming Dynasty.In line with the creed that a large caliber is justice, and a large caliber is love and beauty, this literal and special caliber was established.

However, these giant ships will take at least three years to serve, and Bai Mingxiu thinks that the war may be over in three years.But even if the war is over, the navy will insist on gritting its teeth so that at least two warships of this type will be built.And Bai Mingxiu will force the navy to use these warships for at least 40 years.When it comes to life extension in the mid-term, let the Navy put VLS in it.

It is because Bai Mingxiu is afraid of wasting things, and the Ministry of War spends a lot of money, so many new weapons manufactured at this stage, Bai Mingxiu requires them to be built with high standards, leaving a lot of room for improvement that is not needed at all.For example, for a new type of strategic bomber, Bai Mingxiu requires that the airframe structure be better, and the life of the airframe can last for 50 years; for the light cruiser currently being built by the Navy, Bai Mingxiu requires that there is also a lot of room for improvement, and it can be directly inserted into it when it is rebuilt in the middle of 20 years. Plug in the new radar and vertical launch system, and change it to a guided missile destroyer.

After all, if you know what direction you are going to take in the future, you can make more preparations and avoid waste.

In fact, the current strength of the Ming Dynasty Navy is considered to be as strong as the Zenith Star, but because it did not consider the future in advance, I am afraid that after this war, a large number of ships will be eliminated.

噶尔丹率领的大西洋舰队这边陈列着7艘战列舰，分别是58000吨的上海级一艘、46000吨的江南级4艘、33000吨的爪哇级2艘、37000吨的摩洛哥级1艘。

The Ming Navy basically maintained its own heavy battleships at more than 20 on a daily basis, but later, as the importance of aircraft carriers became more prominent, Ming's interest in building battleships declined.Before the war, the Ming Navy was only operating 6 Jiangnan-class ships, 3 Moroccan-class ships and 12 Java-class ships.However, due to the war, the Ming Navy finally promised to take out the five Hebei-class 5-ton old-fashioned dreadnoughts that had been sealed in the past.However, Bai Mingxiu knew that what the navy did was just for show, because something as old as the Hebei class was unlikely to be used on the battlefield.

After voyaging around the world, Ming successively built 20000 Gansu-class dreadnought ships with a displacement of 15 tons and 25500 Hebei-class ships with a displacement of 18 tons. Because the tonnage of battleships became larger and larger, the number of battleships built gradually decreased.The average service life of the Hebei class and Gansu class did not exceed 7 years, and the least one was sealed and kept after serving for four and a half years.

建设到37000吨级的摩洛哥级和46000吨级的江南级时，大明分别只建造了3艘和4艘。不过摩洛哥级和江南级乃至更新的上海级都已经是航速30节以上的高速战列舰，爪哇级只有23节多的航速。

The seven battleships of the Atlantic Fleet are completely in front of the Xiqing Fleet that can overwhelm the opponent.Because the few ships they ran out with their heads and heads were just a few cruisers and frigates.

In this world, because of the influence of Ming Dynasty, the ship type of destroyer has not been developed, and the frigate is just doing the work of destroyer.Therefore, other countries also call their small main battleships frigates, which are responsible for escorting the fleet, performing a series of tasks such as breaking diplomatic relations, anti-submarine, and air defense.

One of the fundamental reasons why Ming no longer controlled Xiqing to go out of the Baltic Sea was that Denmark eventually fell. After controlling the Danish peninsula, Xiqing, together with Norway on the other side, had completely controlled the Skagerrak Strait. The risk of performing a blockade mission here is increased.But despite this, before leaving, the Atlantic Fleet carried out a large-scale mine deployment there, which would obviously disgust Xiqing for a while.

But Galdan was more worried about another thing.

"The Xiqing surface ships that have entered the ocean are not worth worrying about, but I heard that Xiqing has built a lot of new submarines recently..."

(End of this chapter)