On February 26, 2760 (1919 AD), Hanjing.

This maritime battle between the Allies and the Allies for the Mediterranean was called the "Kissilla Sea Battle". The two sides invested a total of 54 main battleships (formerly dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts), 17 aircraft carriers (including temporary aircraft carriers), 39 armored cruisers, 54 light cruisers (including protective cruisers and reconnaissance cruisers), more than 200 destroyers and large torpedo boats, as well as 55 submarines, and more than 1,500 aircraft.

It was a sea decisive battle in this world war, second only to the Battle of Jutland. The battle ended with a great victory of the Allies. The elite naval forces of the Allies, Italy and Austro-Hungarian Empire, were all destroyed, and the main fleets of the two countries were completely lost. From then on, they completely lost control of the Mediterranean and had no strength to compete with the Allies.

In this battle, Italy and Austria lost all their main ships, a total of 18 battleships (7 former dreadnoughts), 6 temporary aircraft carriers, 10 armored cruisers, 16 light cruisers, 67 destroyers and large torpedo boats, 15 submarines and 276 aircraft. More than 39,500 officers and soldiers participated in the battle, more than 14,400 were killed and 650 were missing. Among the remaining 24,500 people, except for a very small number of pilots who escaped from the plane, the rest were all captured.

In this battle, the Allies also lost 9 battleships (eight British and one French), 5 armored cruisers (four British and one French), 9 light cruisers (six British, two French, and one Chinese), 17 destroyers and large torpedo boats (two Chinese), and 57 aircraft (two Chinese). Dozens of other ships were injured in varying degrees of weight. More than 66,000 officers and soldiers participated in the battle, more than 4,800 were killed (mainly Britain, 577 Chinese), nearly 10,000 injured (1,456 Chinese), and 7 were missing.

"Mr. Wen, this is a great victory! From then on, the power of the Allies in the Mediterranean was completely destroyed..." Navy Commander-in-Chief Wang Tiechui smiled so hard that he was blinded.

Wen Desi nodded and asked, "What are you going to deal with the captured ships?"

This time, the Chinese Navy captured a total of five battleships, a light cruiser, six destroyers and four submarines.

Wang Tiechui smiled: "This is how we plan. After the repair of the United Di and Andrea Doria, we can use it ourselves, but the Andrea Doria needs to change the main gun, otherwise it will not be consistent with our caliber. At the same time, their power system must also be replaced, otherwise it will not meet our tactical requirements. According to preliminary inspections by the frontline personnel, the three dreadnoughtsman, the United Power, Prince Eugen and Julio Caesar, found that the damage was serious and the repair was not very meaningful. Even if it was repaired, their foundation was not good, and there was no room for improvement. It was inconsistent with our tactics. At least it was not very useful here, so I'm afraid that we could only go to the second line."

"Well, going to the second line is a waste, and training ships are not used so much. It is enough for those overseas provinces to have cruisers. You can't use battleships to do the fishery and coast guards..." Wen Desi touched his chin, and was really embarrassed.

The more battleships, the better. If you collect everything, it depends on whether it meets the country's military ideas and tactical needs. Otherwise, it will be a large toy. For example, the original Japanese Shishima Fleet is the best example. Their old battleships are too slow and there is no room for transformation. They are reluctant to abandon it. As a result, they become decorations and waste a lot of manpower and material resources.

Now China has become a local tyrant, and the navy has a high vision. They really don’t like the two battleships, namely the Earl Cafur class and the Joint Force class. For example, the Joint Force class, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no experience in designing a dreadnought, nor did they have excellent designers. Although this battleship eliminated the problem of upgrading the channel compared with the original time and space, the ship's ship's hull was too short. After installing four triple main turrets, the center of gravity of the battleship was increased and the stability was insufficient. Moreover, the hull space redundancy is insufficient, the waterline defense design is outdated, and the underwater lightning protection performance is not good. Don’t say it is difficult to use, it is not easy to modify.

In the field of warship design, Italian is definitely much better than Au, so their Earl Cafur class has not many obvious problems except for the short range. Although the speed cannot be compared with similar products in China, it is not very backward in the world. The speed of 21.5 knots is also the mainstream data at this time. To be honest, it is the turret installed in the middle. In the eyes of the Chinese Navy, this Italian-style design is more painful and there is no need at all.

If you want to make the change to a satisfactory situation, you will spend more money, so it would be better to build a new ship. So the Chinese Navy now thinks these three dreadnoughts are useless. Of course, the only ones are useless. The British Navy is very jealous. They proposed early on that they want to buy this batch of trophy. The price is easy to negotiate, and they are all ready to be killed.

And China also opened its mouth wide. Wen Desi said: "We don't lack small money now, but we just lack territory. If you are willing to use British horses to pay for the money, these five ships can be sold to you."

However, the situation is probably getting better now. This time, the opium cow refused to exchange it for territory, and they were only willing to use money and resources. China did not respond to this condition, so the two sides broke down. In addition to the British, the United States, France and Japan were also very interested in this and all proposed purchase intentions. Even the Soviet Union came over with a smell, expressing their willingness to accept one or two ships.

"If the British don't give us territory, then they won't sell it. The Japanese side definitely won't sell it. The Americans just want to use it for emergency response and have no strong desire to buy, they just come to join in the fun. Tsarist Russia now has a good relationship with us and is more obedient. There is no need to offend them for this little money, and the Soviet side should not consider it. As for the French, our conditions are the same..." Wen Desi thought for a while and said, "If they are willing to give us the islands in the Pacific, they can trade..."

"However, now the French Polynesian Islands have been transferred to the United States, and now there are only New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands. Besides, the French do not have a strong demand for warships, so I'm afraid they will not give it to..." Cafur thought for a while and said.

Wen Desi smiled indifferently and said, "It doesn't matter. Let's set the conditions first, let's just let them not. Persia, Arabia, Turkey, and Siam are all very interested." If the great powers couldn't sell them, they could still sell them to their younger brothers.

Then he ordered: "So, now the three dreadnoughts can only control the damaged places in Turkey and restore their navigation capabilities. They will be left first and wait until the buyer has made a reservation. The United Empire and Andrea Doria will undergo preliminary repairs in Turkey, and they will be brought back to China before they will make major changes..."

There are not many places that can make major changes to the Super Dreadnought. There are only a few companies in the world. Don’t expect them in Europe. They can’t finish their own work. The docks in Turkey can only repair and maintain them. It’s still a little short of major changes.

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After finishing the navy's affairs, we began to talk about the current international situation.

At present, the army is divided into two parts, part of which is in Turkey's European part, helping them resist the attack of the allies. After the Turkish Revolution, Bulgaria and Romania formed a coalition force to come and interfere, but they kicked it onto the steel plate, and were beaten by the coalition forces of the Revolutionary League and the Turkish coalition forces, causing losses to the generals.

Now it has not only helped Turkey recover its occupied territory, but has also pushed it back. It has now hit the Lira Mountains and the Maricha River, less than 60 kilometers away from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. This has caused the Bulgarian government to be shocked three times a day. If China hadn't been willing to work hard, it would have been parade in Sofia.

But even so, it restrained many of the troops of the Allied Powers. The Bulgarian and Romanian troops did not dare to go to the Western Front and could only fight for defense in the Sofia area. Moreover, some of the Austro-Hungarian troops had to withdraw and strengthen the defense of the original Serbian area.

There are also some army in Africa, and now they have defeated the Italian colonial forces occupying British Somalia and recaptured British Somalia. Not long ago, with the cooperation of the navy, they occupied Italian Somalia. The defeated Italian army carried forward the fine tradition of long legs and fled into the territory of German-occupied Kenya with "lightning speed" and rushed into the territory of Kenya occupied by Germany. They turned like the wind and ran more than 240 kilometers in a day and night, which made our officers and soldiers unable to catch up with them, sighing and could only watch them silently walk away.

Now the Chinese African Expeditionary Forces have confronted the Germans on the border between Somalia and Kenya.

"Don't be anxious in Africa. Take your time. Anyway, it's not our territory. We have already fulfilled our obligations after taking Somalia..." Wen Desi said calmly. It's not his territory, so the fool is fighting with Er Dezi.

"We can't get British Somalia and Italian Somalia, but we can't get the British. Let the African dispatched troops train more locals and let them make independence after the war..." Zhang Lizheng said viciously.

"Yes, there must be some more humanitarian aid supplies..."

"The organization in Ethiopia must also be strengthened. A coup has just occurred there. The rule of Queen Zoditu and Regent of Haier Selasi is still unstable, which is a good opportunity for development. Provide support to them through Yanqiu (Djibouti)....”

Everyone decided on their future strategy in a long way.

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It should be mentioned here that last year was 1918, when China's crude steel production exceeded 50 million tons, reaching 52.5 million tons, surpassing the 48.7 million tons of the United States in the same year, jumping to the world's first place for the first time. Grain production exceeded 700 million tons, output reached 735 million tons, cotton yarn production reached 82.8 million ingots (about 1.054 million tons), and automobile production reached 4.12 million vehicles, which are the world's first.

Speaking of oil, it is very tragic. The national crude oil production has just exceeded 2 million tons last year. This is only the number that has been reached with the newly acquired Nanyang Oilfield.

Nowadays, China still imports more than 20 million tons of oil and more than 8 million tons of oil and natural gas every year. Of course, because of the gold finger of diesel tree, there is no shortage of civilian fuel, but high octane aviation gasoline is still more cost-effective to extract from oil. In addition, it is the need of the petrochemical industry. Biodiesel is not as good as natural oil in this regard, and many components used in chemical industry do not have.

There is also the mineral industry, except for the minerals that consume large amounts of limestone, quartz, kaolin and other earth-rock minerals. Last year, except for the raw coal output reaching 420 million tons, which can rank second in the world, other energy mining and metal mining are relatively sad. Unlike other industries where the booming situation is completely different, China's mining industry has always seemed very "sluggish".

Not to mention the large amount of oil, copper ore, nickel ore, chromium ore, tungsten ore, bauxite, etc., there are also some things that everyone doesn't understand at the moment, such as uranium ore, rare earth ore, lithium ore, etc. Of course, only a small amount of these ore is directly imported, and most of them are entered into China through many vest companies. With the current logistics management level, you can't find out where you can't find it. Of course, many other ordinary minerals also come in through this method of backhand.

Anyway, according to the instructions given by General Secretary Wen, "It is better to mine local mines than to mine new territory, and it is better to sell other people's mines than to mine new territory." Except for coal mines and earth and stone mines that use too much, you can buy them and spend money to buy them. No problem can be solved with money. All raw ore produced in the country is not allowed to be exported for a gram, and violators will be severely punished!

Not to mention the minerals that are already short of, even those that are not in short supply, China has been making efforts in recent years. For example, China imports tens of thousands of tons of tungsten concentrate from Spain, Bolivia, the United States, Russia, and Canada every year. There are also uranium ore, rare earth ore, etc.

In addition, the Party of Science and Technology has strictly controlled China's mineral resource information and prohibited private geological surveys. All survey activities must be organized by the government, and participants must sign confidentiality agreements. It can be said that all resource data published in China are fake. If it is something that no one knows before, it will definitely not exist. If it was discovered before and it is really impossible to fool it, then its reserve data will jump to the left to a few decimal points...

So now the mainstream public opinion in the world believes that China is a poor mine country, except for the large amount of coal, there are many other mines...

In fact, although the domestic mining industry in China looks like it is a waste of time, its technology is actually very advanced, which is definitely far beyond the level of one generation abroad. Don’t forget that General Wen’s Xingke is a mining and smelting company, which is his old profession. The only difference is the scale. At present, these domestic mining farms are mainly used as technical reserves, mainly cultivating personnel, not pursuing output. The trained personnel will also be sent to foreign mining and smelting companies controlled by China. They will not waste the value of these people, nor will they lack people because of the small output.
Chapter completed!