The Second Reich: Beginning with the Prince of Prussia

The war ended as Andrews and Bismarck had speculated.

After the woolly bear stopped its assault on Constantinople, the Man Who Never Sets also stopped outside St. Peter's City.

The two sides began to contact each other to discuss a ceasefire.

The war made both warring sides realize the strength of the other.

And for the sun never sets, the army of the woolly bear is much stronger than them, and they can't bargain at all for fighting on the ground.

If it weren't for the fortress of Constantinople this time, their army would have been wiped out by the Woolly Bears.

Therefore, after the end of the war, the sun never set on the people of the conscious expansion of the army, increasing the standing strength of the army from 100,000 to 250,000.

In order to increase their actual combat experience, they also planned to transfer these armies to the major colonies and participate in the wars in the colonies.

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For Mao Xiong, this war made them realize the great strength of the navy!

If they can't stop the attack of the opposing navy, their own homeland will be greatly threatened.

This gave the woolly bears a huge sense of crisis, and the opinions of the entire hairy bears, including the Tsar, were unified: they needed to develop the navy!

To this end, the Furry Bears began to look for countries around the world that had strong shipbuilding capabilities and were willing to sell warships to them, seeking cooperation.

At present, the world's shipbuilding industry is the most advanced, and the sunset is the most outstanding performance of warships.

However, they had just fought with the Sunset, and they couldn't pull their faces to ask Sunset to buy warships.

And it is impossible for people who do not set the sun to do this kind of thing of raising tigers, so the road of purchasing warships from the sun will not work.

After removing the sun that never sets, there are only three countries left in the world that can afford to build large warships.

Gaul, the Second Empire and Eagle Sauce.

Among the three countries, Eagle Sauce has a poor reputation in the world because of the problem of copycat and imitation.

Although the furry bears are called savages, they are not stupid at all.

The reputation of the Eagle Sauce people is so bad, they don't dare to take risks, so they directly gave the option of Eagle Sauce to SS!

After removing the eagle sauce, the hairy bear was left with only two options: Gaul or the Second Empire.

Although the weapons of the Second Reich were of good quality, they were applauded by the Russian army.

And there are no grudges with them, it stands to reason that the hairy bear should give priority to cooperating with the Second Empire.

But in the previous war, the Second Empire slaughtered them fiercely, which made the hairy bear people quite jealous:

The Second Empire was good, but the price was a bit unaffordable.

If there was an alternative, they really didn't want to buy it from the Second Reich, because it was too expensive!

As a result, the first people to come into contact with the woolly bears were actually the Gauls.

In recent years, Gallic has had a good relationship with the woolly bear.

After the Woolly Bear withdrew from the Second Empire, Gaul has been trying to win over the Woolly Bear and join them in attacking the Second Empire from both the east and the west.

Therefore, the Gauls showed considerable enthusiasm for the cooperation of the woolly bears in purchasing warships.

They enthusiastically showed the furry bears the latest generation of ironclads they had just launched, the Marceau-class ironclads!

This battleship was developed by the Gauls to benchmark the Trafalgar-class ironclad ship on which the sun never sets, and it is currently the largest tonnage, the strongest firepower, and the best protection in Gaul!

Judging by the standards of the current era, the performance of the Marceau-class ironclad ship is definitely not backward, and can even be called advanced.

It has a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, four 340 mm guns, a maximum speed of 16 knots, and a range of 4,700 nautical miles.

These performances, in this era, are almost all top-notch.

Especially the caliber of the main guns, even more ferocious than the battleships on which the sun never sets.

Compared with the current capital warships of the Second Empire, the Gallic Marceau-class ironclad ships can be said to have an overwhelming advantage.

The hairy bears were naturally very satisfied with this, so they immediately negotiated with the Gauls, and as long as the price was right, they were ready to purchase such ships.

The Gauls were also very happy with the cooperation, so they offered what they thought was a fair price: £1,000,000!

Considering that when the sun never sets on the Trafalgar-class battleships built five years ago, the cost of a single battleship has exceeded 780,000 pounds, the price given by the Gauls is not high, and it can even be said to be quite cheap. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

But the hairy bears were shy, and the Gauls felt that it was not very expensive, and in their eyes it was already ridiculously expensive.

So, while dragging the Gauls, the woolly bears prepared to go back to the market to look for more cost-effective warships.

It was at this time that the Second Reich launched new warships made for the Ottomans.

This battleship is the product of Andrews's various optimizations on the basis of the former dreadnought, combined with the actual situation of the Ottomans.

The displacement of this battleship is not large, only 8800 tons, but the firepower is not weak at all........ []

It was armed with six 305 mm guns, two in the front and one on the sides, which allowed it to have at least three guns to fight in the face of enemies from any direction.

On top of that, it also has excellent protection.

The armor of the battleship reached a thickness of 380 mm, and it was made of special steel, the latest development of the Second Reich.

This new special steel has at least 25% higher protection than ordinary steel!

So that the actual protection capacity of 380 mm of armor is equivalent to the original 480 mm ordinary steel plate!

This makes its protection even better than the top 10,000-ton battleships at the moment!

As soon as this battleship came out, it immediately became a global sensation!

The navies of all countries in the world were in disbelief after learning about the performance data of this warship!

"Impossible!"

"It's absolutely impossible!"

"How could anyone build such a powerful warship with such a small tonnage?"

It's not that they haven't seen powerful battleships, but those are large battleships with a tonnage of tens of thousands of tons.

And the one built by the Second Reich has a displacement of less than 9,000 tons, which is nearly 2,000 tons smaller than those battleships!

Don't look at it only a little smaller, the difference between the two warships in terms of cost is at least doubled!

To build a large warship of 10,000 tons, you need to use a larger dock, a better gantry crane, and more workers.

Moreover, the larger the battleship, the more complex the internal structure will be, and the man-hours consumed to build it will be greatly increased.

Therefore, the cost of 10,000-ton battleships of various countries is usually not less than 700,000 pounds!

The construction requirements of 7000-8000-ton warships are a grade lower than those of 10,000-ton warships, and the price is also a lot cheaper.

At the beginning, the two Dingyuan-class ironclad ships built by the Second Empire for the Qing court only cost a total of 1.3 million taels of silver, which was converted into 400,000 pounds.

Although labor costs and construction costs have increased over the years, the increase is not too much.

Countries generally only need 300,000-400,000 pounds to build an 8,000-ton warship.

The cost is twice as cheap, but there is not much difference in performance, this kind of battleship is simply a dream warship that the navies of various countries dream of!

So, after the launch of this battleship, representatives of the navies of various countries of the world flocked to the Second Reich, all wanting to buy such a warship!