There are a large number of 75mm rapid-fire guns equipped in the army. This level of artillery is still the mainstream equipment of the armies of various countries, and it has become the artillery with backward technology in the mouth of Emanuel.

"Only relying on the 75mm artillery can no longer allow the Army to maintain its firepower advantage in the face of the enemy in the next war."

After tasting the advantage of artillery firepower in the Macedonian border battle, many officers in the army believed in the theory of artillery victory.

"The potential opponents of the army, whether it is the Ottoman Empire or Bulgaria or Serbia, will inevitably pay attention to the construction of their own artillery after the war in 1896. The Greek Army must maintain the advantage of artillery."

"Recently, the Greek arsenal has completed the research and development of the 105mm howitzer. The General Staff means that it hopes that the government can allocate funds for the army to purchase 200 105mm howitzers," Emma Inur continued.

"At the same time, due to the amazing weight of the 105mm artillery, reaching about four tons, and the weight of the shells reaching 32kg, it is difficult to use traditional draught horses for towing, and it is very difficult to maneuver in the field. We have commissioned a tractor factory to produce a batch of special crawler type. Tractors, entering military service, instead of horses, can be used to drag artillery and supply ammunition." There are a lot of requests.

Hearing Emma Inur's words, Constantine thought secretly, it seems that Andros has developed a crawler tractor.

After supporting Andros to build a tractor factory, after several years of development, through the imitation of American tractors and the assistance of the government's implementation of tractor purchase subsidies, it has now reached an annual output of 1,200 tractors.

After learning that Benjamin in the United States had invented the crawler tractor, under the instructions of Constantine, the tractor factory immediately ordered several units for dismantling and imitation through the Greek embassy in the United States. Finally, after more than a year of hard work , finally met the requirements of the Army Logistics Department.

Tracked tractors can drive in rough terrain, but wheeled vehicles cannot.

Now that crawler tractors can be produced, the army is naturally eager to try to "mechanize" artillery.

After negotiating with Prime Minister Alexandros, Emma Inur's request to increase the number of technical weapons in the base army was basically met.

Then it was the navy's turn. Constantine and Alexandros reviewed the plan submitted by the navy.

"The emergence of dreadnoughts has brought the navies of the world to the same starting line. At present, a large number of warships in service in the navies of the world are outdated and outdated. At present, the world's naval powers are building or preparing to build dreadnoughts." Contoriotti said excitedly.

"This is a rare opportunity for Greece's naval construction. It can directly step into the era of dreadnoughts and keep up with the mainstream of the world's navy."

Taking advantage of the time when the two read the naval expansion plan, Admiral Cantoriotis said: "In view of the lack of adequate defenses on Greece's long coastline, the Navy intends to build a fast-reaction fleet responsible for defense, patrolling, vigilance, reconnaissance, etc. mission to ensure the safety of the Greek coast”

Prime Minister Alexandros gave a cold face, interrupted Cantoriotis' inciting remarks, and said: "Your Excellency Commander, you should be more sober, such an expensive warship as a dreadnought is simply not something that Greece can afford. of"

"As far as I know, the price of a dreadnought is 2.5 million pounds, and the price of a battlecruiser is almost the same as the price of a dreadnought battleship. Converted to drachma, it is the price of 40 million to 50 million drachma, what do you think? What is the use of the Greek Navy?"

In the plan submitted by the Navy, the main cost is still the four battlecruisers. As for the other 24 torpedo boats, 12 destroyers, etc., the number seems to be quite large. money.

The current destroyer has a tonnage of about 1,000 tons, and as for the torpedo boat, the tonnage is several hundred tons.

Seeing that Alexandros' face was not good, Cantoriotis said quickly: "The battlecruiser is the core of this fast-reaction fleet. If it is built according to the Navy's plan, all the warships of the fast-reaction fleet will have a speed of 20 Once completed, even in the face of the absolute superiority of the navies of neighboring countries, this fast-reaction fleet can use its speed to deal with the enemy at sea, and whether or not to engage in war can be controlled by the navy.”

"The reason why I chose a battle cruiser is because of its characteristics. Those who can beat it can't catch up with it (dreadnoughts emphasize heavy armor and sharp guns, and the speed has no battlecruiser blocks), and those who can catch up with it can't beat it."

"Recently, Italy and Austria-Hungary have plans to build dreadnoughts. Although battlecruisers are not as powerful as dreadnoughts, their firepower is not inferior to dreadnoughts, and their speed exceeds that of dreadnoughts."

Constantine interjected: "Cantoriotis, whether it is Austria-Hungary or Italy, Greece cannot compete with them at sea, we cannot afford such a navy, it is beyond our capabilities. "

Even if it is the weakest link among the great powers, Italy has a population of 30 million after all, which is several times that of Greece. If one person pays one lira, it is 30 million lira (due to the relationship between the Latin Currency Union, the lira and the drake same value in ringgit)

Cantoriotis continued: "What about the Ottomans? Recently, the navy heard rumors that due to the weakness of the Ottoman navy in the last war~lightnovelpub.net~, the Greek navy was completely galloping across the Aegean Sea, causing Salo Nika was attacked and learned from this, I heard that the Ottoman Empire made a request to Germany to buy and sell battleships after the political chaos.”

Hearing that the crown prince did not intend to support his plan, he threw out heavy news: "I heard that they are planning to buy the German ex-dreadnoughts Grossercher, Wiesenburg, two Brandon ships currently in service with the German Navy. "Fort-class pre-dreadnought"

"Both are 10,000-ton battleships, equipped with six 280mm cannons. They are the main warships of the German Navy at present, and their combat effectiveness is very strong."

As soon as this news appeared, everyone in the conference room started to discuss with each other with a buzzing sound.

Everyone is very sensitive to the Ottomans buying new warships. As the victor of the last war, Greece is naturally reluctant to watch the opponent's navy regroup.

The Greek Navy currently has an advantage in the Aegean Sea. Once such two large warships join the Ottoman Navy, Greece will have no way to compete with them, which will pose a huge threat to Greece's coastal defense.

Even the prime minister, who has the most opinion on the expansion of the army, after hearing the news, his expression was stagnant, and his tone was three-point weak: "Then we don't need battle cruisers, can we also buy two former dreadnoughts from the UK? Like you said, the UK is building dreadnoughts, and there must be a strong willingness to sell the large number of outdated dreadnoughts in the British Navy."

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