Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 511 Large Torpedo Boat

Martin has been a little annoyed recently. Originally, Nyasaland had an absolute advantage in the North Sea (Tanganyika is called Lake Tanganyika), but this advantage is now rapidly shrinking.

Lake Tanganyika, with an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, is very important to both Nyasaland and Tanganyika. According to international practice, the North Sea is half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika. Only Nyasaland's marine police existed in the North Sea, and the Germans did not have any military presence.

This situation is definitely not conducive to Tanganyika's protection of its own rights. Nyasaland's marine police boats are indeed very arrogant. They often cross the center line and enter the waters of Tanganyika for patrol. Gurnicha's repeated protests.

But the Nyasaland marine police did not hold back. Tanganyika has no military force in the North Sea, and he can't do anything to Nyasaland's marine police boats, so he can only look at the ocean and sigh.

This year, Tanganyika decided to change this passive situation, so they dismantled the two gunboats and sent them to the North Sea for assembly through Tanganyika by hand, preparing to confront Nyasaland's marine police boat.

The two gunboats are the Earl Gotzen with a displacement of up to 800 tons and the Weissmann with a displacement of 100 tons.

The 100-ton Weissmann is not worth mentioning, but the 800-ton Earl of Gotzen is a huge threat to the Nyasaland Marine Police.

800 tons is already close to the level of a destroyer. Nyasaland's marine police ships have a displacement of less than 500 tons and are only equipped with 40mm rapid-fire guns. The Earl of Gotzen is equipped with a 76mm naval gun, and the design is relatively new. , faster speed, not Nyasaland's marine police boat can compete.

Regardless of the 76mm artillery, it is not worth mentioning in the field of naval guns.

But the 76mm gun is also a serious naval gun, but the 40mm rapid-fire gun is only auxiliary firepower, and the two are not of the same heavyweight.

If it is assembled by the Germans, then in the event of a conflict between Nyasaland and Tanganyika in the future, the Earl of Gotzen can easily defeat all the water police ships in Nyasaland.

"Of course we can't let the Germans assemble the gunboats smoothly, so I'm going to send troops to Usumbra. Even if we can't blow up the German gunboats, we still have to cause the Germans some trouble." Martin is going to be tough. , resolutely safeguard the interests of Nyasaland.

Usumbura is the future capital of Burundi, Bujumbura. In 1890, the Germans conquered Burundi. Since then, Burundi has become part of the German Tanganyika and is the base for the Germans to colonize Central Africa.

Before 1890, Usumbula was just a small fishing village. After the Germans came to Central Africa, they built Usumbula into a military stronghold, which promoted the development of Usumbula. Therefore, from this perspective, European colonialism The arrival of the settlers indeed promoted the local economic development in Africa, but this development was based on the oppression and plunder of the African locals by the European colonists.

Anton didn't express his opinion directly, but looked at Rock with hopeful eyes, probably thinking the same way.

Rock felt that his subordinates had been led astray. These people now habitually resort to violent means to solve problems, regardless of the consequences of violent means.

"No, unless we want to go to war with the Germans, we don't want to do it." Rock is very clear about the current situation. Europe is in an arms race, and it's not time to go to war.

In 1900, Germany passed the "Naval Law" to fully promote the development of the navy, trying to use the fleet to strengthen the link between Germany and the colonies.

The Germans' approach has aroused concerns in the United Kingdom. As an island country, its survival depends heavily on a strong navy to maintain its superiority in sea power to maintain Britain's homeland security and sea supply routes.

Therefore, the expansion of the German navy aroused the fear of the United Kingdom, so two years ago, during the period when Earl Selborne was the Minister of the British Navy, the United Kingdom began to build a more advanced and powerful warship to keep the British navy against the German navy. The advantages.

This kind of warship is the "dreadnought ship".

The term "dreadnought" began with the British battleship "HMS Dreadnought" two years ago. This is a brand-new full-heavy artillery battleship, which is different from all previous battleships.

Because the range and rate of fire of shipboard artillery are different, the battleships equipped by the world's naval powers are mixed with two types of caliber main guns. The firepower of the main guns of the caliber was insufficient.

With the advancement of large-caliber naval gun technology, the accuracy and power of large-caliber naval guns have been greatly improved while increasing the range and rate of fire. The emergence of more advanced artillery targeting technology has also effectively improved the artillery hit rate.

However, when battleships use two caliber main guns to shoot, due to different ballistics and rates of fire, the observation of the impact point and fire control cannot be unified, which affects the rate of fire and hit rate of the main guns. In the Strait naval battle, the performance is particularly obvious.

So two years ago, after learning the lessons of the Russians in the Battle of Tsushima, the United Kingdom began to build a new generation of new battleships. A generation of battleships are collectively referred to as the "Dreadnought-class" battleships.

Germany is also ambitious. Although Germany's national strength is obviously not as good as that of the United Kingdom, William II was as paranoid on this issue as he was on other things. So at the beginning of this year, Germany also began to build dreadnoughts, formally to the British Navy. issue a challenge.

The United Kingdom will certainly not sit back and watch the German navy grow bigger, so it decided that for every dreadnought built by Germany, Britain will build two dreadnoughts to maintain its absolute advantage over the German navy.

And so the arms race officially began.

The arms race is what Roark wants to see the most. Although the United Kingdom and Germany are both powerful, the arms race will greatly restrain the national strength of the United Kingdom and Germany, and attract more attention from the United Kingdom and Germany to Europe, so that southern Africa The living space will become larger and larger.

Due to the high cost of "dreadnoughts", even with the national strength of the United Kingdom, it cannot sustain an arms race without an upper limit. Therefore, when the arms race develops to the end, it must be the outbreak of a world war. Only then can Nyasaland deal with Tanganyika made a move.

So now I can only bear it.

"My lord, we don't have to bear it at all. Just like two years ago, we secretly sent troops to Usumbra and retreated quickly with one blow. Even if the Germans suspect that we did it, there is no evidence and there is no way." Martin still hopes to kill the Earl of Gotzen, so the attack is full.

"Impossible!" Rock said firmly.

"Then can we let Yaya go—" Anton offered another way of thinking.

Yaya and his scouts are still active in the Congo Free State. Because of Nyasaland's support, Yaya's men are very active in the Congo Free State. Now Yaya's men are not only Zulus The Heyao people, as well as the Tatera people in the Congo Free State.

This is indeed a good way. In order to complete their "Teutonic Africa Plan", the Germans took in the Tatera people and tried to subvert the Congo Free State. Now it seems that the Germans are shooting themselves in the foot, not only The Germans can use the Tateras against the Belgians, and Roque can use the Tateras against the Germans.

Rock thought about it for 2 minutes, and agreed with Anton's suggestion that it would be a good idea to let Yaya's men go down. Even if it fails, leave some evidence, as long as no one is left alive, it has nothing to do with Nyasaland.

What's more, even if there is evidence left at the scene, Nyasaland can completely deny it. Everyone knows that there are no Africans in Nyasaland, so those Tatera people can only come from the Belgian Congo.

Under normal circumstances, Yaya is Ulysses who lives on the coast of the North Sea, remotely commanding his subordinates in the Congo Free State.

Ulysses was the former Kalemie. At the beginning, Martin and Isiah Ulysses were joking and changed Kalemie’s name to Ulysses almost like a child’s play. Since then, the name has been fixed.

After Roque got Ulysses, according to the habit, Ulysses had to be transformed.

At first, Nyasaland hired Taitera to transform Ulysses. Later, during the conflict between Nyasaland and the Congo Free State, Nyasaland captured a group of mercenaries, so those mercenaries became reformed The main force of Ulysses.

The current Ulysses is no longer the original and dilapidated small town, but a "garden city" full of flowers. Like other cities in Nyasaland, Ulysses has spacious roads and perfect drainage facilities , At the same time, there are many public parks in the small town. Around those public parks, mercenaries began to build residential areas, and then supporting markets, schools, and hospitals. After this whole set of punches, Ulysses became a city on the North Sea coast. The brightest pearl.

The mercenaries who built Ulysses are nowhere to be found. Most of the residents in Ulysses are Chinese, and there are also some whites who are responsible for technical work. The Nyasaland Shipyard is located in Ulysses. Because of the threat of the Germans, the Nyasaland Shipyard is now doing its best to study the [-]-ton destroyer to counter the Earl of Gotzen, which the Germans have not yet built.

Interestingly, because of the need to fight against the Germans, Nyasaland Shipyard's development of destroyers not only did not arouse the concerns of the British government, but received strong support from the British government.

The British government even transferred some engineers from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the largest in the UK and possibly the largest in the world, to Nyasaland Shipyard to assist Nyasaland Shipyard in developing destroyers.

In fact, the United Kingdom also has relatively mature technology for destroyers. The world's first destroyer was the "Havok" built by the United Kingdom in 1893.

The full name of the destroyer is "torpedo boat destroyer". From this name, we can see the purpose of the British production of destroyers.

In Germany, destroyers are called "large torpedo boats".

　Sorry, an elder at home was hospitalized for acute cholecystitis. I have been running around the hospital for the past few days, so the update is not stable. I may have surgery in two days. I hope everything goes well——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)