"Oh, Germany and Italy have started construction of super battleships?"

Li Weiguo was tasting Dahongpao, which he had just come out this year, and was a little surprised when he heard this.

In his opinion, Germany and Italy were both poor after the World War. They wanted to start construction of super battleships, even if they only built one, the cost was very scary.

In the naval budget of the 36th year of Guanghua (1900th Western calendar) declared by the Navy Department of the Chinese Empire, the cost of building two Imperial-class super battleships reached 115 million yuan per ship.

According to the mentality of the German Imperial Navy to surpass the Imperial Navy, the High Seas Fleet submitted the construction of Bismarck-class battleships. Even if the performance cannot surpass the Imperial Battleships of the Imperial Navy, it must at least be the same.

Then the German Empire's Navy wanted to build Bismarck-class battleships into battleships that could match the Empire. Since the German Empire's industrial technology level lags behind the Chinese Empire, that long time means that the German Empire's cost of starting construction of Bismarck battleships is far more than the cost of building the Empire's Imperial Battleships.

Li Weiguo conservatively estimated that the information leaked from the Bismarck battleship shows that its cost will not be less than 150 million yuan.

Based on the 98 million yuan GDP of the German Empire last year, it would take at least 30 million yuan to allocate funds to the Bismarck-class battleship for five consecutive years to be completed.

This will have a serious impact on the economic recovery of the German Empire. There are also the Roman-class battleships of the Italian Navy, which are said to be provided by the German military with funds, technology, talents, equipment and materials. This is equivalent to the German Empire spending money to build another Bismarck-class battleship in Italy, and a 50,000 ton dock that can build Bismarck-class battleships.

After counting this, the German Empire's economy must be exhausted.

So Li Weiguo was skeptical about this because it was beyond the economic affordability of the German Empire.

"Can it be a smoke bomb? Just like the strategic tricks we launched against the German Empire before?"

Hearing Li Weiguo's inquiry, Zhang Xiaoliu, Minister of Defense of the Ministry of War, replied: "Your Majesty's guess is not unreasonable! In the past, the empire often strategically defrauded Western European and American countries in the manufacturing of various naval equipment, especially warship construction, and the results were significant, which caused great losses to the European and American powers. The Allies Group once could not compete with the empire in terms of steam turbine technology, so they also followed our tactics to strategically defraud us. At that time, we responded with an attitude of not believing in it."

He paused and continued: "It seems that even the stupidest Europeans should have learned this strategic deception tactic. It is not ruled out that the German Empire also adopted this tactic to try to interfere with the imperial judgment."

Li Weiguo also agreed with this analysis, saying: "Germany's Hitra is a hidden and dangerous enemy. He was able to help the German Empire form a huge fleet of aircraft carriers in a short period of time, which made us dare not attack Germany easily, which shows his foresight. But why didn't he oppose the German High Seas Fleet to build Bismarck-class battleships?"

In Li Weiguo's view, Hitra would not be unaware that the super battleships will be replaced by aircraft carriers in the future, and the cost of super battleships is too high. The money for building a super battleship can build three powerful aircraft carriers. However, Hitra did not oppose the German Imperial Navy continuing to engage in an arms race with the Chinese Imperial Navy, which is somewhat unreasonable.

Of course, if Li Weiguo knew Hitra's situation at this moment and his subtle relationship with William II, if he was not careful, he might lead to a murder, then everything would make sense.

Hitra deliberately did not stop the German High Seas Fleet from developing super battleships. It may be that he would wait for the German High Seas Fleet to suffer a great loss in the future against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Navy, and then take action to save the German High Seas Fleet. In that way, the German Navy would completely turn to Hitra and give him a gift like a god.

This is what Hitra thought, and Li Weiguo could only guess a few points. The future world changes too much and people's hearts are unpredictable.

"No matter what the German and Italian navy thinks, it is a good thing that they are willing to continue to compete with us. We can directly drag them down. If it is fake, it doesn't matter. Due to various conditions, the aircraft carrier will not replace the core position of the super battleship in the next ten years. In any case, the Imperial Navy is now reaching the global waters and needs strong deterrence. Besides, the Empire's steel reserves are too much, and it is impossible to use them. Instead of rotting in the warehouse, it is better to build a ship."

Li Weiguo's words are the truth. The Chinese Empire Navy is currently the only super navy in the world, and even the second-generation German Empire's high seas fleet cannot match it.

As the Chinese Navy, which arrived in the global waters, is like the US Navy in later generations. Even if countries around the world have no aircraft carriers, the United States still needs to build aircraft carriers. That is an indispensable display of fruit fruit strength and deterrence.

Besides, during the World War, the Chinese Empire started construction with all its efforts in the country's top ten industrial bases, and the steel materials produced had long been out of stock. After the World War, various exports, domestic sales, and even assistance to many countries were used in endless use.

The piles of steel materials are not only rust or moldy in the warehouse, but also used to build super battleships, but also to achieve their own beauty.

"You should tell Lin Jiyun when you go back, don't just think about building super battleships. The development of aircraft carriers cannot be stopped. There are also anti-submarine warships and submarines. This is also the top priority."

Zhang Xiaoliu asked, "Does Your Majesty be worried?"

After Zhang Xiaoliu saw it, Li Weiguo nodded and said, "That's right! I have a premonition that Hitra may not take conventional measures to compete with us at sea and in the air. He will pay more attention to aircraft carrier warfare and submarine warfare."

In history, Hitra was not able to develop the aircraft carrier of the German Empire, which led to a disastrous defeat of the German Navy. He also had a chance to succeed, that is, to develop submarines with all his strength. Unfortunately, when the German Navy's Seawolf tactics were unprecedentedly victorious, Hitra misappropriated the steel used to build submarines to build tanks for the army, which also led to a disastrous defeat of the German Navy.

So Li Weiguo gave himself a different perspective and looked at the problem from Hitra's position and attitude, and found that aircraft carrier warfare and submarine warfare were most likely Hitra's core naval philosophy in the future.

Seeing that Li Weiguo was not worried about William II, Zhang Xiaoliu was worried about an unknown Hitra, and couldn't help but ask: "Why does Your Majesty value Hitra so much? Since that's the case, it's better for me to send someone to kill Hitra!"

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and said, "Do you think I have never thought about killing Hitra to solve the problem? In fact, I ordered the SHIELD to be responsible for eliminating Hitra many years ago. Unfortunately, Hitra is very lucky. He was assassinated hundreds of times and could still live well. I am also drunk!"

Mingyue, who was silent beside Li Weiguo, stood up and said, "Your Majesty forgives me, it's my incompetence!"

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "You don't need to blame yourself. I know that you and your subordinates have done their best!"

Hitra in history has not known that he has been assassinated hundreds of times, and they are all high-tech killing weapons during World War II, so they still failed. So Li Weiguo would not blame Mingyue and S.H.I.E.D.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoliu volunteered: "Your Majesty, I know that there is a sharpshooter in the Western Theater Command. In the Battle of Yekalin Arbor, he set a record of shooting and killing enemy commanders 1,500 meters away."

“1500 meters?”

Li Weiguo and Mingyue exclaimed at the same time. This number was so scary. For Mingyue, her eyes were almost falling out of surprise.

Li Weiguo was not as exaggerated as Mingyue, but he was also surprised. He knew what it meant to shoot the enemy 1,500 meters away.

When the sniper's sniper rifle fires, the target distance is within 200 meters, and other factors do not need to be considered. That means wherever it is to fight. This is basically the maximum killing distance created by the sniper troops of the Imperial Army during each battle. A team of snipers is enough to kill a battalion, a regiment of the enemy's troops, and even more. It is also a proof of the invincible myth of the Chinese Empire's Divine Strategy Army.

But after more than two hundred meters, we have to consider the impact of various natural factors on the ballistics. This is the beginning of the real test for snipers. Even though the snipers of the Chinese Empire have been training hard, there are no more than 1,500 snipers who can accurately shoot targets within 200 to 500 meters, and less than 300 snipers who can accurately shoot targets within 500 to 1 thousand meters, and there are less than 300 snipers who can accurately shoot targets within 1 thousand meters, and there are never before.

It is logical that there are millions of people in the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire. According to common sense, it is impossible for snipers to accurately shoot the enemy a thousand meters away without snipers.

But that's the truth.

You should know that it is only 4000 years of Jianyuan, that is, 1900 of the Western calendar. Although the industrial manufacturing capabilities of the Chinese Empire have developed rapidly, they cannot escape the limitations of history. For example, precision CNC machine tools are something that you don’t even think about. Without that thing, it will be difficult to create a sniper rifle that can accurately shoot targets one thousand meters away. At least the barrel is not manufactured with insufficient manufacturing accuracy and bullets.

Therefore, there are many snipers in the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire, but it is difficult to find classic battle examples that can accurately shoot the enemy from one thousand meters away.

But this time, the person Zhang Xiaoliu said was not accidental, because among the snipers of the Shence Army, some people had hit the target a thousand or hundreds of meters away, but there were too many accidental and coincidental factors.

But the sniper Zhang Xiaoliu mentioned shot and killed the enemy commander at a distance of about 1,500 meters in a row.

"who is he?"

Li Weiguo couldn't help asking, wanting to know the other party's name.

Zhang Xiaoliudao: "His name is Li Xiangyang! The sniper of the Special Operations Brigade of the Fourth Town of the Western Theater Command is currently on the rank of sixth sergeant chief!"

Could it be that the legendary railway guerrilla captain traveled through time?

Li Weiguo thought strangely. However, Li Xiangyang is already a sixth-level sergeant commander, which is amazing!

You should know that among the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, those who are capable may not be those lieutenant officers, but those sergeant commanders of the level of the sergeant. The sergeant commander is the highest commander of the grassroots level of the Shence Army. The sixth-level sergeant commander can be a person who walks sideways in front of the division-level cadres, which is not ordinary awesome.

"How old is he?"

"28 years old?"

He was so young, which scared Li Weiguo again.

"Are you a sixth-level sergeant commander at such a young age?"

"But he shot so many enemies, why is he still the chief sergeant?"

Zhang Xiaoliu immediately said embarrassedly: "This, your Majesty, you may not know that he is Li Weimin's son."

The three words Li Weimin are not unfamiliar to Li Weiguo. He even remember very clearly that Li Weiguo and his son were on the streets, and their father was imprisoned unjustly. The initiator behind them was Li Weimin, a clan brother who was trying to seize the property of the Li family, and his father.

Although Li Weiguo did not revenge on them because of his parents' kindness and opposition, he did not like them.

Few people know the details of what happened to Li Weiguo's family back then, but Zhang Xiaoliu knows that he is Li Weiguo's young follower, and there is nothing he doesn't know about.

So Zhang Xiaoliu was in charge of the Ministry of War and knew that Li Weimin's son Li Xiangyang had joined the Shence Army, so he would definitely have to suppress him with all his might. It would be impossible for Li Xiangyang to have a chance to get promoted! So no matter how many contributions Li Xiangyang made, he was just a sergeant.

This time, Zhang Xiaoliu saw that Mingyue and her assassination of Hitra by Hitra hundreds of times were not successful. Zhang Xiaoliu was not stupid. He knew how terrifying the S.H.E.L.D. was born in many talented people, and there were hundreds of powerful snipers. Even if he didn't kill Hitra, he couldn't help but make Zhang Xiaoliu pay attention.

Zhang Xiaoliu wanted to share the worries for Li Weiguo. He knew that snipers shot Hitra was the most suitable choice. It was difficult for ordinary snipers to complete the task, so he thought that Li Xiangyang could shoot the enemy 1,500 meters away, so he volunteered to Li Weiguo to kill Hitra. However, he did not mention Li Xiangyang's name at the beginning, and thought that he could get away with it, but Li Weiguo asked you to know about it.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaoliu lowered his head and did not dare to look at Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo also understood Zhang Xiaoliu's thoughts and did not blame him, so he did not intend to continue asking questions.

"If you make merit this time, you must give him normal meritorious treatment! The grievances of the previous generation should not involve the younger generation of the next generation! If you have the chance to bring him to me!"

"I obey the order!" Zhang Xiaoliu then accepted the order, but it could be seen that he was not so willing.

Although Li Weiguo no longer holds a grudge against what happened back then, Zhang Xiaoliu is not as envious as Li Weiguo. After he took this job, even if Li Xiangyang succeeded, he would not be able to give him much credit. Even if Li Xiangyang failed, Zhang Xiaoliu might have the excuse that this was a task assigned by the emperor. If Li Xiangyang did not complete it, he might be punished even more. Being driven out of the army would be light, and he might even be sent to the military court to jail.

This is Zhang Xiaoliu, he will be revenged with all his grudges. This is his only personality that will not change.
Chapter completed!