The Third Reich in Desperation

In fact, Reinhardt knew very well that the rhetoric just now was impossible to perfuse the Soviet government. If nothing else, his old and cunning "good brother" Stalin would not buy it.

In addition, this is a critical period when Su and Germany are using each other, and no one can do without each other. Naturally, Reinhardt is unwilling to offend Stalin for this incident.

If the Soviet Union could send troops to Poland first, the benefits to Germany would not be equivalent to three battleships.Although the historical battle of Germany and Poland took no more than a month, the casualties were negligible compared to the total number of troops.However, the military aspect of the war was not something Reinhardt wanted to change.

What Reinhardt wants to change is Germany's political status.

To put it bluntly (to put it bluntly), it is to implement the justice that Britain and France hope for, and to defend the capitalist world against the Soviet Union's invasion of Europe.To put it practically, it is to seek a buffer area in the east for Germany, and to prevent Germany itself from the Soviet Union's future "Thunderstorm" aggression plan.At the same time, eliminate Poland, an unfriendly country that has occupied German land and has a certain strength, and eliminates unstable factors.

If the Soviet Union can send troops one step earlier than in history, it will attack Poland before Germany.That can further ignite the fear of the Soviet Union in Britain and France, and it can further deepen their appeasement policy.

At that time, Britain and France will not attack Germany from behind.In this war, Germany's position will be even more detached.

The most important thing is that Rundstede, the spiritual leader of the Wehrmacht who is always against him, can owe himself an elegant "streaking trip to Berlin".

Thinking of this, Reinhard smiled kindly at Huarevsky: "Don't worry, the affairs of the Soviet Union are my affairs. Although the generals of the navy under me have crossed the river and demolished the bridge, they are short-sighted and do not understand the overall situation... ...How dare you not take me as the head of state seriously. But after all, I am still the leader of a country, right? Can I handle such a small matter?"

Listening to Reinhardt's eloquent scolding for half an hour, he was filled with righteous indignation and reprimanded his naval generals for being shameless, how he took the overall situation into consideration, and how many ways he thought of for the interests of the Soviet Union Go all out.Just when Hua Lieves felt that it seemed likely that he would not be able to pay the job when he went back, Reinhardt's last words gave him hope.

Although Reinhardt complained to himself before, and the shameless image of talking and talking made Huarevsky quite want to play his character of the fighting nation, give this guy two punches, let him Shut up.

But just a second before Huarevsky felt that he was about to explode, he was fed "a candy".What does this mean, everything is done, why did you complain to me inexplicably just now, and play with me?

As if he didn't see Huarevsky's expression, Reinhardt continued to talk endlessly: "My biggest problem is that I am too honest and trustworthy. Although there are all kinds of difficulties I just mentioned, this is not the case. It is not an excuse or reason for breach of contract! As for the project of building battleships for the Soviet Union, I have always spared manpower from the Navy. Without further ado, I will take you to visit now."

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"The standard displacement is 31400 tons, the full displacement is 38000 tons, the length is 239 meters, the width is 29.2 meters, the draft is 9.1 meters, the rated power of the main engine is 15 horsepower, and it is no problem to reach 16.5 horsepower in a short period of time under extreme conditions."

”四轴推进，设计航速31.5节，续航7500海里/15节，装有6台460千瓦涡汽轮发电机和2台150千瓦柴油机发电机。”

"Compared to the battleship drawings provided to the Soviet Union, we have further increased the freeboard of the battleship Peter the Great to avoid the embarrassing phenomenon that the waterline is too low and the waves on the front deck."

Speaking of the battleship named Peter the Great, Reinhardt seemed extremely excited on the surface.In his mouth, this is simply the result of his tireless struggle for the friends of the Soviet Union. It is the first battleship stipulated in the agreement that was finally squeezed out of the navy's production capacity.

Compared with the other two battleships to be delivered to the Soviet Union in the agreement, the Peter the Great has a relatively smallest tonnage and was completed the earliest.If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet Union is now counting on the Soviet Union to cooperate with Germany to attack Poland, Reinhard really doesn't want to hand it over to the Soviet Union now.

Although this battleship was basically completed two years ago, the final launching steps have not been carried out for a long time, in order to be used for today's play.

"Mr. Warevsky, I invited you to Germany just to visit the launching ceremony of the Peter the Great the day after tomorrow." Reinhardt said happily.

"Going into the water the day after tomorrow?!" Huarevsky asked incredulously.

In his opinion, the Germans should have built battleships long ago, but they just kept on not delivering them to the Soviet Union.But according to the current situation, it seems that he has deviated from his original guess a little bit.

"Of course!" Reinhard laughed heartily: "There are not many shipbuilders in Germany, and at the same time arrange manpower to build three modern battleships for the Soviet Union. This progress will definitely not be fast. If it is not for the Peter the Great The tonnage is quite small, and it will not be completed first.”

He patted Huarevsky's shoulder affectionately, and then Reinhardt patted himself on the chest and swore: "But don't worry, this matter is slow, but we will never cut corners in terms of quality, after all Slow work and meticulous work. In less than two years, I guarantee that the remaining two high-quality battleships will also be delivered to your hands."

What is greatness is greatness.Why can't the German manufacturing speed increase? Isn't it because of their pursuit of quality?Against the doubts from the Soviet Union, we firmly implemented the quality control.this.It is really in line with the rigorous, serious, objective and honest attitude of the Germans!

Thinking of his unreasonable doubts about the German head of state before, Huarevsky, who had been in the Soviet political circle for many years, was a little embarrassed, and had the illusion that he was judging the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

"Come on, come on, let me tell you about how excellent the Peter the Great was brought back for you this time." Reinhardt generously grabbed Huarevsky and walked all the way into the reception at the airport room.

In the reception room, Reinhardt introduced with a proud expression through a few partial diagrams hung on the wall in advance: "Considering that the 11-inch guns used by Germany are likely to be disliked by the Soviet Union for its small caliber, I made a special trip to issue an order. Take out the 305-inch L56 gun in the German Navy's 12L50 plan, and adopt a 3x3 main gun layout. And the main gun fire control uses our German Zeiss 10-meter baseline optical rangefinder, which can further ensure accuracy."

"As for the secondary guns, four double-linked 150 and four double-linked 105 were installed. In addition, a large number of 37mm defensive guns were installed, which were specially used to defend against the sneak attack of enemy torpedo boats. For example, in the Japanese-Russian naval battle, the Japanese navy The tactics of using torpedo boats to hide people."

Reinhardt's acting skills can be said to be superb. A righteous face helped the Soviet Navy find out all the historical black spots, and also helped add countermeasures.But in fact, this bastard's heart is simply hurting people to the extreme.

The 37mm defensive runner, nicknamed "37 hand-held machine", was originally a "garbage" equipped by a large number of German naval warships in history.In World War II, when warships from all over the world were pursuing automation, this thing was actually manually loaded with a single shot, with a rate of fire of 3-4 seconds, and when shooting, there was a special person hanging a pouch next to it to put a dozen rounds of shells.

Before Raeder's brainless column was installed to the German Navy, the witty Reinhardt hurriedly installed it on the first battleship for the Soviet Union.This group of garbage with no firepower at all, or the recycling of waste, should be given to Soviet friends.However, if anyone dares to produce in the future, the Gestapo will not be too polite, and will directly invest in the "Production Labor Corps" for 100 years of labor reform.

Of course, Reinhardt's mental activity was invisible to Warevsky.In the eyes of this layman who was appointed by Stalin as a member of the General Military Committee of the Soviet Navy and director of the Navy's Political Propaganda Department, the help given by the Germans was too appropriate.For this well-spoken head of state, Huarevsky admired him from the bottom of his heart.

After that, Reinhardt professionally introduced the layout of the comprehensive protective dome of the battleship Peter the Great to Warevsky.

The vertical main armor is 12 inches 305mm, the upper armor of the main armor is 50mm, the horizontal section of the dome armor is 80mm, and the inclined section is 110mm. 35mm on the sides and 60mm on the top.A layout that looks beautiful, but actually weakens the air defense capability.

The self-proclaimed Reinhardt also fooled that the Peter the Great abandoned the layout of the traditional German turret design and adopted an Italian turret design with better protection.

The 150 turret secondary gun has 120mm armor on the front, the 105 gun has a semi-open layout, and only has an 80-100mm artillery shield (this shield limits the elevation angle of the gun barrel to only 30 degrees, that is to say, it cannot be used against the air).

In terms of power system, the Peter the Great seems to have adopted an Italian power system with a conscience.Because the Hipper-class heavy cruiser started in Germany in 1935 was still using a power unit of 55 horsepower per ton, the same type of product built in Italy in 1928 could easily reach the level of 78 horsepower per ton. is quite reasonable.

In order to obtain the power system of the Italian Navy, Reinhardt even used the No. 500 figure in Italy installed by the Gestapo, Deputy Prime Minister Rossi.Without Mussolini's knowledge, a bribe of [-] million US dollars was spent, and finally this power system was obtained, which is better than the German Navy.

Of course, this is not all for the power system made by the Soviet Union.In general, it is still to prepare for the integration of this power system into Germany's own excellent high-pressure, high-temperature, strong-circulation boiler.As for other aspects, the German navy, which has been more or less suppressed by the Treaty of Versailles for so many years, can only rely on the technology of Italy, the victorious country of World War I.

In addition, the rest of the Peter the Great is commendable, that is, the welding process used in the hull construction and the hull structure integrated into the armor design.

While the newly improved welding process in Germany saves a lot of structural weight, the fused armor also plays a bullet-resistant role of 1 plus 1 greater than 2, ensuring the basic structural strength of the ship.

Welding technology has been greatly developed in 36, and the Bismarck battleship in history is a welding process, and its hull structure accounted for the lowest proportion of the total tonnage at that time.

As for the method of integrating the hull structure into the armor, it was originally created by the well-known Japanese "God of Shipbuilding" Hiraga Joe, and is now taught by Reinhardt to the German shipbuilding department through concept guidance.

Text 1Chapter 17 Use other people's boats to test your own technology

In fact, the Peter the Great battleship adopted many advanced subsystems and advanced design and construction technologies, but followed the backward armor layout and underwater defense during World War I, so that its various excellent subsystem performance could not be brought into play. .

From the perspective of the Soviet Union, the firepower of the nine 9-inch L12 guns is so powerful.Moreover, the Ismail-class battleships of Tsarist Russia in World War I were 50-inch L12s. The guns were technology given by Britain, and Tsarist Russia built them themselves.It is a pity that after so long, coupled with the civil war, the technology has long been lost.

However, it is precisely because of this factor that the Soviet Union will definitely be very interested in the 12-inch guns provided by Germany.In this way, you will be very satisfied with this firepower.

Coupled with the Zeiss optical rangefinder and the German high-firing wedge-bolt naval gun, this conscience match is enough to impress the Soviet government.

In terms of power, the design speed of 3.15 knots can fully satisfy the desire of the Soviet Union to gallop.After all, this speed has already surpassed the Hood of the United Kingdom and equaled the reputation of the HMS. Even if you shout "This is the fastest battleship in the world", it is completely fine.Besides, this is only the design speed. According to the design, the main engine of this ship can run with overload, and it is not a problem to run at a speed faster than the Renown during light-load sea trials.

The main load is 12 inches, which is enough.The 350 mm armor of the command tower can just avoid the tragedy of the command tower being shot in the Russo-Japanese naval battle.

However, in reality, the dome armor, which is backward in defense, and the underwater defense that Reinhard deliberately avoided talking about are almost fatal.

Because of Reinhardt's "grabbing business", there was no historical cooperation between Italy and the Soviet Union in the navy. As a result, the Red Navy's understanding of the current world's advanced naval technology is very limited, and it is difficult to see if it is fooled.

Moreover, in 1938, when the naval holiday had just ended, all countries were hiding their new capital ships.Coupled with ideological differences and European countries' defense against the red regime, it was difficult for the Soviet Union to obtain first-hand information on the development of naval technology.

Now suddenly there is Germany, which suddenly shows you a large number of advanced design concepts of the Soviet Union, and other conservative designs can also give an explanation, isn’t it?

As for the consequences... The Peter the Great, based on the Scharnhorst in the original history, was excessively elongated in order to pursue speed, to arrange more power systems, and to reduce water resistance during driving up the hull.However, due to the narrowing of the hull, the length of armor protection will naturally increase. In order to maintain the main armor of 305 mm on paper, the height of the main armor belt can only be reduced.

The narrower hull means that the torpedo compartments are less deep, making them more vulnerable to underwater attacks.And the upper armor belt of the main armor was cut down to 50mm which is better than nothing.The short-range ballistic shooting is actually covered by the iron pants of the dome armor, but once the distance is opened, the shells can bypass the main armor, easily penetrate the upper armor, the dome armor, and reach the core cabin under the dome armor.

As for the face of aviation attack, the ship is more vulnerable.

In terms of air defense, the 150 and 105 guns cannot target the air due to the deliberately changed elevation angle and rate of fire.The small-caliber anti-aircraft guns also have a straight trajectory and outstanding accuracy. The "37 hand-held machine" designed to hit torpedo boats accounts for a part of it, so that the air-to-air capability is in a hurry.