In December of the 25th year of Qian Sheng's reign, in the closed dock of the Jingzhou Bay Second Shipyard, a huge gray-painted ship was hung with colorful ribbons.
On the viewing platform nearby, Admiral Hong Wenbing, the Chief of Naval Staff of the Daheng Empire, personally presided over the service ceremony.
In the past four or five years, the Daheng Empire Navy has launched a large number of battleships every year. Even absolute capital ships such as battleships and battlecruisers can launch several ships every year.
Among them, not many can have the chief of staff attend the service ceremony in person.
In the power system of the Daheng Empire, the Chief of Naval Staff is actually the number one person in the navy.
In the power structure of the Daheng Empire, the emperor is the supreme leader, with the Government Affairs Council and the Supreme Command having two major institutions, one civil and one military. In addition, there is also a Council of Ministers, but the Council of Ministers is actually just a fictitious organization.
In fact, Lin Ziran has never established a formal Council of Ministers. He has only appointed some ministers as Councilors. These Councilors need to be on duty in the Mirror Palace in rotation to handle various urgent and major affairs. Therefore, Over time, it gradually became synonymous with the powerful officials of the empire.
In terms of formal institutions, they are still the Government Administration Council and the Supreme Command.
The Government Administration Council on the civilian side did not talk about it, but said that the Supreme Command has departments such as the Joint Staff Department, the Department of National Defense Science and Technology, and the Joint Logistics Department.
Among them, the Joint Staff is the highest military order body of the Daheng Empire, responsible for commanding all army and navy forces except the Guards.
The Joint Staff has a Chief of Staff and three Deputy Chiefs of Staff. Among these three Deputy Chiefs of Staff, one is the Executive Deputy Chief of Staff who is responsible for the daily affairs within the Joint Staff, and the remaining two are Responsible for army affairs and naval affairs respectively.
The two deputy chiefs of staff of the army and navy are directly served by the chief of the army staff and the chief of the naval staff respectively.
\bTherefore, the Chief of the Naval Staff is already the highest person in charge of the naval system in the entire military order system of the Daheng Empire. Furthermore, although there is a joint chief of staff in name, in fact he often reports directly to the emperor Lin Zi. Ran report.
Such a navy boss usually does not have a battleship commissioning ceremony. He will preside over and attend such a ceremony only when some new battleships of great significance are commissioned.
The huge battleship now belongs to this kind of battleship of great significance!
This is the second super battleship with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 in the history of the Daheng Empire Navy. It is also the second ship of the Daheng-class battleship, Dongliang.
Dongliang, an ancient country that Daheng annexed more than a thousand years ago, is located in the Jingzhou Peninsula area east of the Jinghe River. The Daheng people first settled in the middle and lower reaches of the Jinghe River, when the Jingzhou area rose, and in the eastern part of Jingzhou. The Dongliang people of the peninsula fought a brutal war.
After a hard struggle a thousand years ago, the Daheng people launched three wars of annihilation, successfully annihilating the Dongliang Kingdom, and then annexed the eastern peninsula of Jingzhou, which completely laid the foundation for the rise of the Daheng people and established the Daheng Empire.
Later, the people in Daheng took the name Hengren as their nation, and Heng as the name of their country for all ages.
The seventh dynasty from the first to the present in Daheng's history of more than a thousand years has always taken "Heng" as its country name.
The word Dongliang also has a special status in the hearts of the Daheng people. It was the first country that the Daheng people destroyed, and it was the beginning of Daheng's dominance of the central continent.
Taking the name of the main warship from the country that oneself destroyed in ancient times, apart from the Daheng people, probably no other country can do this.
But the people of Daheng have always been unconventional. Besides, the people of Daheng have also been having a headache recently when it comes to naming new battleships.
In the early years, the Daheng Empire Navy also tried naming capital ships such as battleships after continents, but soon found that it was unreliable because Daheng only had thirteen states in total, even if several more were added in the future.
state, but it is far from enough.
The Daheng people have dozens of battleships, plus a dozen battlecruisers...
Therefore, when it comes to the naming of battleships and battlecruisers, the people of Daheng became more liberal, using the names of continents, rivers, large mountain ranges, and even the names of sea areas such as the Endless Sea and Shayang Bay.
Since the beginning of the Daheng Level, the people of Daheng have used the name of their own nation and country. It is not surprising that they now use the name of an ancient country that they destroyed a thousand years ago.
However, only the two main battleships, battleships and battlecruisers, have this kind of treatment. Other cruisers, destroyers, and even large cruisers with more than 10,000 tons now strictly follow the names of cities in the Daheng Empire.
Usually cruisers are named after big cities and destroyers are named after small cities.
As for offshore patrol ships below destroyers, inland river patrol ships, minelayers and other auxiliary warships, they don’t even have ship names, only a hull number.
The Dongliang is the largest in the Daheng Empire Navy, and it is also the second battleship on Blue Star with a weight of more than 40,000 tons. Everyone in the Daheng Empire Navy attaches great importance to it.
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Hong Wenbing personally presided over the commissioning ceremony and then waited for the ship to inspect.
In fact, the Dongliang had completed the hull construction and launched it in the first half of the year, but launching it did not mean that the construction was successful, because artillery and various precision equipment had to be installed.
For example, the optical sighting equipment of the unified fire control system, etc., in order to avoid excessive vibration when launching into the water and damaging these precision equipment, these precision equipment will not be installed until the outfitting stage after launching into the water.
After the outfitting is completed, a period of sea trials will be conducted. After the sea trials are completed, the ship will go to the Jingzhou Bay Naval Base and join the Third Battleship Division where the Daheng is currently located.
The Daheng was commissioned two months earlier than the Dongliang, becoming the first 40,000-ton warship in the Daheng Empire Navy.
At the same time, when it became the first fleet of the Daheng Empire, it was also the flagship of the third mobile fleet.
When the Daheng was secretly commissioned, Lin Ziran, the emperor of the Daheng Empire at that time, went there in person and presided over the commissioning ceremony, which shows the importance he attached to the ship and its follow-up ships.
We have to pay attention to the Daheng-class battleship, which belongs to the Daheng Empire Navy. It is also the first battleship on Blue Star with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, reaching 43,000 tons, and is equipped with a 400 mm caliber cannon.
The powerful combat effectiveness of this class of ship can be seen from its huge tonnage and super-large-caliber main gun.
At the predetermined combat distance of 20,000 meters, the firepower of this class of ship is enough to destroy any current warship in service on Blue Star, and its protection is also sufficient to protect against the main gun strike of any current warship in service.
It can be said that Blue Star’s most powerful battleship deserves the title!
And now, Daheng's sister ship Dongliang has also been successfully commissioned, which means that after entering the Qian Sheng twenty-six years ago, the Daheng Empire Navy has two super battleships that can be used in wars.
Moreover, next spring the No. 3 Daheng-class battleship Wuhe will be commissioned one after another, and in the fall the No. 4 Daheng-class battleship Song Ping will be commissioned. By then, the strength of the Daheng Empire Navy will be further strengthened. strength.
This kind of strength is enough for the Daheng Empire to once again launch a large-scale naval battle, completely overwhelming the Krul Kingdom's navy, and winning this war that has never been declared but has been fought for half a year!