Martin has been a little annoyed recently. Nyasaland originally had an advantage in the North Sea (Tanganyika is called Lake Tanganyika), but this advantage is now rapidly shrinking.
Lake Tanganyika, which covers an area of 33,000 square kilometers, is very important to both Nyasaland and Tanganyika. According to international practice, the North Sea is half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika.
There is only the Nyasaland Marine Police in the North Sea, and the Germans do 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 and often cross the center line and enter the Tanganyika side of the water to patrol. This has triggered a conflict in Tanganyika.
Gurnicke's many protests.
However, the Nyasaland Marine Police did not restrain themselves. Tanganyika had no military power in the North Sea and had no choice but to rely on Nyasaland's Marine Police ships, so it could only look to the sea and sigh.
This year, Tanganyika decided to change this passive situation, so it dismantled the two gunboats and sent them all the way to the North Sea through Tanganyika manually for assembly in preparation for confrontation with Nyasaland's marine police ships.
The two gunboats are the 800-ton Graf Gotzen and the 100-ton Weissmann.
The 100-ton Weismann is not worth mentioning, but the 800-ton Graf Gotzen is a huge threat to the Nyasaland Marine Police.
800 tons is 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. However, the Graf Gotzen is equipped with a 76mm naval gun, and the design is relatively new.
, which is relatively fast and cannot be competed by Nyasaland’s marine police boats.
Regardless of the 76mm artillery, it is not worth mentioning in the field of naval guns.
However, the 76mm cannon is also a serious naval gun, and the 40mm rapid-fire cannon is only auxiliary firepower. The two are not of the same weight.
If allowed to be assembled by the Germans, in the event of a conflict between Nyasaland and Tanganyika in the future, the Graf Gotzen could easily defeat all Nyasaland's maritime police ships.
"Of course we can't let the Germans assemble the gunboats smoothly, so I'm going to send troops to Usombula. Even if they can't blow up the German gunboats, they still have to cause some trouble for the Germans." Martin is ready to be tough.
, resolutely safeguard the interests of Nyasaland.
Usombra is Bujumbura, the future capital of Burundi. In 1890, the Germans conquered Burundi. From then on, Burundi became part of German Tanganyika and was the base for German colonization of Central Africa.
Before 1890, Usombula was just a small fishing village. After the Germans came to Central Africa, they built Usombula into a military stronghold and promoted the development of Usombula. So from this perspective, European colonization
The arrival of the immigrants did promote the local economic development of Africa, but this development was based on the oppression and plunder of the African locals by the European colonists.
Anton did not express his position directly, but looked at Roque with hopeful eyes, probably thinking the same thing.
Rock felt that his subordinates had been led astray. These people now habitually resorted to violent means to solve problems when they encountered them, regardless of the consequences of violent means.
"No, unless we want to go to war with the Germans, we shouldn't do it." Roque is very clear about the current situation. Europe is undergoing an arms race, and it is not yet time to go to war.
In 1900, Germany passed the Naval Law, fully promoting the development of the navy, and trying to use the fleet to strengthen the connection between Germany and its colonies.
The Germans' actions have aroused concerns in the United Kingdom. As an island nation, its survival relies heavily on a powerful navy to maintain maritime power superiority to maintain Britain's homeland security and maritime supply routes.
Therefore, the expansion of the German navy aroused the fear of the British. So two years ago, while the Earl of Selborne was serving as the British Minister of the Navy, the British began to build a more advanced and powerful warship to maintain the British navy against the German navy.
The advantages.
This kind of battleship is a "dreadnought".
The term "dreadnought" originated from the British battleship "Dreadnought", which started construction two years ago. This is a brand-new all-heavy artillery battleship that is different from all previous battleships.
Due to the different range and rate of fire of ship-based artillery, the battleships previously equipped by the world's naval powers were mixed with two-caliber main guns, using smaller-caliber six- to ten-inch rapid-fire guns to make up for the 11- to 13-inch large guns.
The caliber main gun has insufficient firepower.
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 aiming technology has also effectively improved the artillery hit rate.
However, when a battleship uses two caliber main guns to fire, due to different ballistic trajectories and rates of fire, the observation of bullet impact point and fire control cannot be unified, which affects the rate of fire and hit rate of the main guns. This shortcoming was used in Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War.
This was particularly evident in the Strait Naval Battle.
So two years ago, after learning from the lessons learned by the Russians in the Battle of Tsushima, Britain began to build a new generation of new battleships. The first ship was the "Dreadnought" that had already been built and completed. Since then, all new battleships using the same caliber main gun have
This generation of battleships is collectively referred to as the "Dreadnought-class" battleships.
Germany is also ambitious. Although Germany's national power is obviously not as good as Britain's, on this issue, William II showed the same paranoia as on other things. So at the beginning of this year, Germany also began to build dreadnoughts, formally imposing a threat to the British Navy.
issue a challenge.
Britain would definitely not sit back and watch the German navy grow bigger, so it decided that for every dreadnought ship Germany built, Britain would build two dreadnought ships in order to maintain its absolute advantage over the German navy.
So the arms race officially began.
The arms race is the situation that Rock wants to see most. Although Britain and Germany are both powerful, the arms race will greatly restrict the national strength of Britain and Germany, attracting more of the attention of Britain and Germany to Europe, and thus southern Africa.
The living space will become larger and larger.
Due to the high cost of "dreadnoughts", even Britain's national strength cannot sustain an unlimited arms race. Therefore, when the arms race develops to the end, a world war will definitely break out. By then, Nyasaland will be able to deal with it.
Tanganyika takes action.
So now I can only endure it.
"Sir, we don't need to be patient at all. Just like two years ago, we secretly sent troops to Usombula and evacuated quickly with one blow. Even if the Germans suspect that we did it, there is no way to do it without evidence."
Martin still hopes to kill the Graf Gotzen, so his attack power is full.
"Impossible!" Rock said firmly.
"Then can we let Yaya go?" Anton offered another idea.
Yaya and his scouts are still operating in the Congo Free State. With the support of Nyasaland, Yaya's men are very active in the Congo Free State. Now Yaya's men are not only Zulu people.
and the Yao people, as well as the Tetera people in the Congo Free State.
This is indeed a good idea. In order to complete their "Teutonic Africa Plan", the Germans took in the Tetera people and tried to subvert the Congo Free State. Now it seems that the Germans are also shooting themselves in the foot, not only
The Germans can use the Teterans to attack the Belgians, and Rock can also use the Teterans to attack the Germans.
Rock thought for two minutes and agreed to Anton's suggestion. It was a good idea to let Yaya's men go. Even if it failed, some evidence could be left behind. As long as no one was left alive, it would have nothing to do with Nyasaland.
What's more, even if evidence is left at the scene, Nyasaland can completely deny it. Everyone knows that there are no Africans in Nyasaland, so those Tetera people can only come from the Belgian Congo.
Under normal circumstances, Yaya is Ulysses who lives on the coast of the North Sea and remotely commands his subordinates in the Congo Free State.
Ulysses was the former Kalemmi. Martin and Isiah Ulysses joked about changing Kalemmi's name to Ulysses as a child's play, and the name has been fixed since then.
After Rock got Ulysses, it was his custom to make some changes to Ulysses.
Initially, Nyasaland hired Tetera people to transform Ulysses. Later, during the conflict between Nyasaland and the Congo Free State, Nyasaland captured a group of mercenaries, so those mercenaries became the transformers.
The main force of Ulysses.
Today's Ulysses is no longer the primitive and dilapidated small town it once was, but a "garden city" full of flowers. Like other cities in Nyasaland, Ulysses has spacious roads and complete 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 combinations, Ulysses became the coast of the North Sea.
The brightest pearl.
Now the mercenaries who built Ulysses have disappeared. Most of the residents living in Ulysses are Chinese, and there are also some white people who are responsible for technical work. The Nyasaland Shipyard is in Ulysses.
There is a branch factory in Sri Lanka. Due to the threat from the Germans, the Nyasaland Shipyard is currently studying a thousand-ton destroyer to counter the Germans' unfinished Graf Gotzen.
Interestingly, because of the need to fight the Germans, the Nyasaland Shipyard developed destroyers, which not only did not cause any concern from the British government, but instead received strong support from the British government.
The British government even transferred some engineers from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the largest in the UK and probably the largest in the world, to the Nyasaland Shipyard to assist the Nyasaland Shipyard in developing destroyers.
In fact, the UK also has relatively mature technology for destroyers. The world’s first destroyer was the HMS Havoc built by the UK in 1893.
The full name of the destroyer is "torpedo boat destroyer". From this name, we can see the purpose of the British destroyer production.
In Germany, destroyers are called "large torpedo boats."
