The concept of full-heavy firepower output and unified salvo is naturally an advanced new battleship design concept in this era. However, the shelf life of this advanced concept is not much. In the old time and space, the Fearless battleship that the British built a water suit in 1907 was equipped with 10 305mm main guns, and 8 main guns can be concentrated on the side of the side. A comprehensive fire control system was installed, and a steam turbine was used as power. This concept was truly applied to reality, thus creating a new era of battleship technology.

The Battleship of the USS Dreadnought became a watershed in the battleship technology. All battleships before the appearance of the USS Dreadnought were called former dreadnoughts. After the appearance of the USS Dreadnought, all battleships were called former dreadnoughts, referred to as Dreadnoughts for short.

Time travelers are looking for an opportunity to sell this concept to Germany before the shelf life ends, so as to gain more benefits for themselves, otherwise it will be worthless once the Fearless battleship comes out. Of course, Time travelers do not just want to earn the design fee of 160,000 pounds, but to maintain military cooperation with Germany. Now the East China government's own military technology is still very fragile and needs support from a major military power like Germany. In addition, it is also to enhance Germany's strength, involve the energy of Britain and France, make the situation in Europe more complex, thereby reducing interference in the Far East and making the East China government more room for development.

The design agreement was finally reached. When the Crossover took the ship back, Germany sent technicians to Shandong with the ship. Before June, they first received the design drawings of the New Schänhorst-class armored cruiser, and the design drawings of the New German-class battleship, and the Crossover promised to deliver them to Germany by the end of the year.

At this time, the maintenance and commissioning of the two new warships had been completed, and the test ships could be conducted again, because the two ships had actually been completed at this time, which would be a comprehensive trial sail to test the comprehensive performance of the warship. Moreover, in order to facilitate the work of the ship pick-up working group, the working group and the two shipyards also negotiated and decided that the two warships would go on trial sail together. Therefore, on the day before the trial sail, the staff of the Kiel Shipyard drove the warship to Hamburg and berthed at the dock of the Brom-Foss Shipyard. After this trial sailing, if the warship does not have major failures, it will be left in Hamburg, and the Kiel Shipyard will send staff to carry out routine maintenance and commissioning work here.

The day before the trial voyage, the working group also formed two groups to officially move into these two warships. On the same night, they lived on these two warships. If the two warships do not have to return to the shipyard for overhaul after the sea trial tomorrow, then in the next time, all personnel, including Zhang Wei, will live on the warship. This is also the practice of the navy. As long as the warship does not enter a state of rest, even if they are parked in the port, all officers and soldiers of the ship must live on the warship. This is a way for soldiers to cultivate their feelings for the warship.

Although the People's Army had not officially accepted the two warships at this time, since they had officially moved into these two warships, they naturally had to raise the People's Army Navy's warships on the warships and designate temporary captains. At the same time, they also had to name the two warships. Of course, the names had been decided long ago, and they were only assigned to the two warships. The temporary captain was also a candidate for the captain who had been decided long ago, and could only go back to Shandong and then make an official appointment.

The two shipyards had no objection to this. After all, these two warships were originally for crossers, and they were not far from delivery. So in the afternoon of the same day, the ship pick-up working group held a small naming ceremony on the dock and the appointment of the temporary captain. The warship built at the Brom-Foss Shipyard was considered the first ship, officially named the Qingzhou ship, and the warship built at the Kiel Shipyard was named the Yizhou ship. According to the practice of the sea, the first ship was the class name of the warship of this class, so this type of warship is also collectively called the Qingzhou class protective cruiser.

The temporary captain of the Qingzhou ship is Xia Ruichen, and it turned out to be the navigator of the Sanya ship; the temporary captain of the Yizhou ship is Lei Meng, and it turned out to be the mechanical and electrical captain of the Sanya ship. Moreover, the two of them have served as the captains of the two ironclad ships, Zhenyuan and Zhenwei respectively.

After the naming and appointment, the flag was raised on two warships. Now the East China government still uses the flags that had crossed the road. However, since the two warships had not been officially delivered to the East China government at this time, the German flag and the flags of the two shipyards were still hung on the warships.

He Xin, Zhao Ping and others were assigned to the Qingzhou ship, He Xin was in the navigation group, Zhao Ping was in the turbine unit, Yang Shicheng was in the ship gun group, and Guo Qing was in the Guantong group. The Qingzhou ship was organized by 500-550 people, and now there are only more than 200 people stayed in the warship. Even if more than 100 shipyard staff were far from full, the accommodation was very relaxed.

Although these two warships have not been officially accepted and are docked shipyard docks, the Navy still strictly followed the regulations and arranged personnel on duty at night. Zhang Wei personally inspected the posts at night and determined that all posts were on duty before returning to his room to rest with confidence. Scher, who moved into the warship with him, also admired him a little more because the Germans have always been known for their rigor, so Scher praised the time travelers' approach.

The departure time was at 6:00 a.m. the next morning, at 5:30, Zhang Wei got up, after a simple cleaning, walked out of his room, and met Scher on the deck, so the two of them came to the command room together.

At this time, the sky was not completely bright, but through the porthole of the command room, you could still see the masts in the port and the street lights of the stars on the coast, and you could even vaguely see the crowds coming and going on the dock. About 100 meters away, you could see dark gray smoke coming out of the chimney of the Yizhou ship, which was obviously starting to ignite. I guess the Qingzhou ship was the same. After a while, Hans Cowell, the commander-in-chief of the shipyard who was trying this time, walked into the command room with his pipe and Xia Ruichen.

Hans Cowell was a 65-year-old man. He served in the German Navy in the past, served as the captain of the cruiser for seven years, retired from the rank of colonel, and served as the merchant captain for 12 years, and then went to the Brom-Foss Shipyard to serve as the trial sailing commander. He had been serving as the pilot sailing commander for 6 years. He was a very rich old captain and the trial sailing commander. However, in his service, Germany had not yet built a large navy, so the warships served in Cowell were not large, with only 4,5,000 tons. In the past few years when he served as the trial sailing commander, Germany was vigorously developing the navy, and several warships were commanded by him. He often lamented that if he could command such a warship back then, he would not have retired at the age of 50.

He was the first two trial voyages of the Qingzhou ship, so he praised the performance of the warship and once told Zhang Wei that this was the best navigational warship he had ever seen. This time, the two warships were trial voyage together, with Cowell as the commander-in-chief of the trial voyage.

In fact, they got up earlier than Zhang Wei, and they got up at 5 o'clock. They just checked the whole ship together, and then came to the command center. When they saw Zhang Wei and Sher, the four of them greeted each other. Kewell looked at his pocket watch and said, "We are about to set sail less than 10 minutes away. I hope this trial can achieve a complete success.

It was the first time that Scher boarded the Qingzhou ship. He had heard that the Qingzhou ship had good navigation performance before, and he was quite eager to try it out, saying, "I have been waiting a little bit unhappy."

While filling his pipe with tobacco, Cowell smiled and said, "Young man, you should be a little patient. This is indeed a good warship. Moreover, our Germany is also preparing to build this warship. The order has been signed. Our Brom-Foss Shipyard will build two, so I decided to work for a few more years and at least try our German warships in person."

He turned to Zhang Wei again and said, "I want to thank you for Germany's ability to have such a good warship."

Zhang Wei laughed and said, "There is there, it is thanks to Germany's construction capabilities that can turn our vision into reality."

And Scher also respected this old senior and said, "I suggest you work for at least 10 more years because we will build more powerful warships."

Cowell smiled and said, "I am old. I will leave the German Navy to you young people before the position. I hope you can create a glorious era for the German Navy."

Zhang Wei said meaningfully: "I believe that with the efforts of Major Schell's generation, the German Navy will bring its glory." Zhang Wei certainly knew that the final outcome of the German Navy in this era, although it ended with self-sinking, was indeed the most glorious era of the German Navy during World War I, because the German Navy was the first army to challenge Britain's maritime hegemony head-on.

At this time, someone came to report to Kuway that the time for departure had come, and the boiler of the Qingzhou ship had reached the standard of departure. The Yizhou ship came to the flag language and said that they had been prepared and could set off at any time. In addition, the tugboats at the port had been in place. So Kuway immediately ordered the Qingzhou ship to set off.

With the long sound of two whistles, two huge warships slowly drove away from the port one after another and entered the sea under the pull of the tugboat. At this time, a light red glow flashed.

However, at this time, the warships were still towed by tugs because the estuary of Hamburg was a very narrow waterway. This is of course compared to the wide sea surface, but it is actually about 10 kilometers wide, with a depth of more than 10 meters, and close to the Elbe River. Therefore, tens of thousands of tons of cargo ships can be directly docked in Hamburg, and cargo ships below 10,000 tons can even drive along the river to Berlin. There are more than a thousand trade ships that arrive at Hamburg through the waterway or sail from Hamburg every day. Therefore, a large number of ships must be towed by tugs.
Chapter completed!