Bulgarian Empire

The most worrying thing in Ferdinand's heart still did not happen. The Italians should have skipped the dreadnoughts in service at the beginning of 1914. Of course, the battleship Dante Alligre they planned to serve in 1913 had already been completed.

The main parameters of the Dante Alighieri:

Displacement: 19552 tons

Length: 168.1m

Width: 26.6 meters

Draft: 8.8m (average)

Main engine: Parsons type direct drive steam turbine 3 groups/4 shafts

Main boilers: 7 Brechinton-style oil-fired water-tube boilers, 16 mixed-fired water-tube boilers

Power: 32,300 horsepower

Speed: 23 knots

Endurance: 4800 nautical miles at 10 knots

Armament: 4 305mm 46-diameter triple guns (one front and one rear, two midships), 4 120mm 50-diameter single-loaded guns, 12 single-loaded guns, 76mm 40-diameter single-loaded guns 13 doors, 4 450mm underwater torpedo tubes

Armor: side 254 mm, deck 38 mm, gun mount unknown, 254 mm front turret, 305 mm conning tower

Crew: 981

Note: This class of ship is the first warship to use triple-mounted turrets in the history of shipbuilding. The main gun range of this gun is 18,000 meters.

In addition, the ship set a speed record of 24.2 knots during the trial, making it the fastest battleship in the world at that time.

The postponed is the Julio Caesar, which was supposed to be in service in February. It has not been completed in May, but it is estimated that it will soon be completed.

Since the Italian shipbuilding industry was dragging its feet, Ferdinand guessed that the Allied attack on the French Mediterranean fleet naturally did not happen.

Of course, the most important thing is that the two dreadnoughts ordered by the Ottoman Empire from the Germans were stopped by the British on their way back. They used the strength of the Italian navy to attack the French fleet. Most of them were meat buns and dogs. Naturally, the Italians will not do it.

The British blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar directly triggered the "warship crisis". The Allied Powers and the Allied Powers were once again at war, and the war was about to start!

Well, Ferdinand thought that the two sides would fight directly. Bulgaria carried out a national mobilization, and the Germans retreated directly!

It's right to think about it. Everyone knows that European wars may break out at any time, but if war breaks out to the Germans, these two dreadnoughts will be finished first. This is very detrimental to the Germans in the military!

Moreover, the warship that the Germans launched last year has not had time to serve? Just wait a few months for the German Navy to add four dreadnoughts, and the two dreadnoughts here are six, which will further narrow the gap with the British!

As for the Allies, are everyone not ready yet? If war breaks out now, the French will be miserable. Prepare to stand the Germans alone for a month or two!

Obviously this is not the result that everyone wants. Although the British want to weaken France, the prerequisite is to defeat the Germans first! Otherwise, if the French were beaten and maimed by the Germans in advance, how would they fight after this war?

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The interception of these two warships was mainly because the British did not want the Ottomans and these two dreadnoughts to return home. This broke the current naval dominance of the Allied Powers in the Mediterranean and affected the Mediterranean Sea dominance. Therefore, the Strait of Gibraltar was blocked to prohibit the passage of warships. It means that the British are ready for war.

The Germans are currently short of warships. No matter how they erupt, the gap with the British is still so huge. The German navy has always had the idea of ​​requisitioning these two dreadnoughts, but the German government stopped them because of the alliance.

The British now acted as they wanted, and the Germans naturally took over the two dreadnoughts. Although the two dreadnoughts cannot change the situation that the German navy is still at a disadvantage, they finally narrowed the gap between the two sides!

Of course, protests are indispensable, so why should I give an explanation to the Ottomans?

The British-German approach stunned all the people who eat melons, and there is this kind of operation!

In order to appease the Ottoman Empire, the Germans said that since the British blocked the road, this warship must not be delivered, so simply rebuild it in Italy and Austria-Hungary, and the price remains unchanged, the configuration upgrades, and two more cruisers are given. !

The problems in Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were naturally resolved by the Germans. The Ottomans only needed to wait two more years before they could get the Dreadnoughts. There was no other way the Ottoman government could only accept the Germans. Up.

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The failure of the two major alliances to fight has disappointed many people, such as the Americans on the other side of the ocean and the Japanese in the Far East. They all look forward to the stars and the moon, hoping for a war on the European continent!

Ferdinand knew that at this point, the two sides were only close to sparks. Originally, he thought that the Ottoman navy returned to Congress as the fuse for both sides. He did not expect that the British and Germans had their own ghosts, and this happened. Up.

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Regardless of the development of the international situation, what Ferdinand has to do now is to prepare for war, reserve enough strategic materials in advance, and recruit enough cannon fodder, which is now the top priority of the Bulgarian government!

After the warship crisis broke out, Ferdinand convened a cabinet meeting to speed up Bulgaria's war preparations.

"The Prime Minister, from now on increase grain reserves, and let the media speak out that Ukraine and Romania will be short of grain harvests in the next two years, and international grain prices will soon rise. The people are advised to reserve grain in advance! The government also wants to do so if necessary. You can come forward to cooperate and let the people store as much food as possible."

Ferdinand has worked hard to make the credibility established by the media, and now it is time for them to work. If it is said that there is a lack of domestic food in Bulgaria, this is probably not deceiving, but if it is foreign, it is different. In this era, there is no Internet, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to check the news!

Even if someone vowed to say that the news was false, it would have no effect! Everyone knows that as long as there is a newspaper in Bulgaria that publishes fake news, in addition to shutting down the newspaper, the relevant personnel will go to jail!

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is impossible for all the newspapers in Bulgaria to have a collective brain drain and publish this fake news together, right?

Moreover, Ferdinand is no longer a rumor. As soon as the war breaks out, the lack of grain harvest is inevitable. The most important thing now is to seize the last time and search for another batch of grain!

Although the General Staff has vowed to guarantee that the Wallachia Plain in Romania will be taken at the beginning of the war, the domestic food supply can be guaranteed.

However, Ferdinand could not fully believe that it was not a big problem to win the Wallachia Plain. It was originally a Pingchuan River and bordered Bulgaria. Romania couldn't even defend it!

As for whether Bulgaria’s domestic food supply can be guaranteed, this is hard to say. The military can at most guarantee that the place will be destroyed and the restoration of production will have nothing to do with them.

Theoretically, after the Wallachia Plain is taken, Bulgaria’s total grain output will directly increase by one-third of the current scale, which is enough to meet domestic demand, and there is still a lot of wealth.

In fact, as long as the local Romanians do not cooperate, it will be impossible to restore food production without two or three years of effort!

"Yes!" Chekov replied

The Information Administration and the Ministry of Science and Technology are also in charge of Chekov, otherwise the title of Minister of Education alone would not be enough to make him the number two figure in the Bulgarian cabinet!

"Prime Minister, how many young men have we brought in from Russia so far?" Ferdinand asked again

Constantine thought for a while and said: "Originally, there were more than 800,000 Russian laborers in the country. Since last year, we have increased the introduction. Now there are about 700,000 Russian youths who have arrived in Bulgaria. There are about 200,000 young people who have been organized. If the war breaks out at the end of the year, we can still bring in about 700,000 to 800,000!"

Ferdinand calculated that even if the war breaks out, Bulgaria will add 1.4 million cannon fodder. If it can be delayed until the end of the year, it would be even better. The 2.2 million cannon fodder is basically enough for the consumption of the world war. Of course, if more can be made, the result will be even more perfect!

"Continue to work hard, and work in this area cannot be relaxed. Once the war breaks out, the Russians will definitely recruit troops. It will not be easy to recruit people at that time!" Ferdinand said lightly.

"Okay, Your Majesty UU Read www.uukanshu.com! Let's speed it up!" Constantine replied affirmatively

In order to make the preparations work smoothly, Ferdinand has always stayed in Sofia to take command, and he did not personally participate in the service of the two super dreadnoughts just completed.

These two dreadnoughts were named by Ferdinand respectively: Constantinople and Balkan.

The political meaning in this is very strong. The Constantinople is the feat of Ferdinand’s restoration of the holy city of Constantinople; there is also the last Constantinople’s second Balkan flight. It sank during the war, and the people strongly demanded reconstruction. Naturally, Ferdinand would follow public opinion!

From the literal meaning of the Balkan light, everyone knows that this is Ferdinand's oath of sovereignty over the Balkan Peninsula; the deeper purpose is to tell the Allied countries that this is our previous agreement, and everyone must abide by it!

The specifications of the two warships are the same, the parameters are as follows:

Displacement: 26500 tons

Length: 189.7m

Width: 27 meters

Draft: 8.3m

Main engine: Parsons type direct drive steam turbine 2 groups/4 shafts

Main boiler: 22 bamp;w type (Hercules is a Yarrow type) mixed-fired water boiler

Power: 34000 horsepower

Speed: 22.5 knots

Endurance: 4000 nautical miles at 10 knots

Armament: 7 305mm 45-diameter twin-mounted guns (two fronts and three rear, in a backpack, one on each side), 20 150mm 50-diameter single guns, 4 47mm single guns, 450 mm 4 underwater torpedo tubes

Armor: 270 mm side, 70 mm deck, 270 mm gun mount, 320 mm front turret, 310 mm conning tower

Crew: 1046~1126