Yuan Ship and Zhenyuan Ship were indeed advanced armored warships in the world when they were first produced, and they were also two groups of armored warships with the largest displacement and the strongest fighting capacity in Asia, but they were not the strongest warships in the world. At least British British British British British British British warships can suppress the absolute strength of these two warships.

Less than 10 years after the production of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan warships, the design concepts of these two warships have been eliminated. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, although these two warships were famous all over the world, their power systems and firepower systems were completely backward. Just like China's current aircraft carrier Liaoning, it ranks in the top five in the world and is also the most powerful naval force in China, but it is far from the Ford class in the United States.

Dingyuan warship and Zhenyuan warship are the two largest armored warships purchased by the Qing government, and they are also the last two large warships purchased by the Qing government. Since the Westernization Movement, the Qing government tried to buy some warships from the maritime colonial powers in Europe to strengthen China's navy.

Although the Qing government was poor and weak in the late Qing dynasty, after all, the thin camel was bigger than the horse, and the tax revenue of the Qing government also improved obviously after the Westernization Movement. In particular, although some trading ports that were forced to open were controlled by foreigners, the overall income of the Qing government also increased significantly.

Moreover, buying warships at that time was not as expensive as everyone thought. For example, the total cost of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan warships is less than 4 million taels of silver. Of course, these two warships are indeed slightly lower than the market price.

Before buying Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships, the Qing government originally planned to order warships from Britain and the United States. After all, Britain, as an old capitalist country, once defeated the Qing government, so the Qing government recognized British warships.

But at that time, the British government was not sincere to the Qing government, and often used some dirty warships to fool the Qing government, so the Qing government began to look to other shipyards in Europe.

At that time, Li Hongzhang selected a German shipyard through inspection and regularly purchased these two Dingyuan ships and Zhenyuan ships with a displacement of 7,000 tons. Moreover, at that time, the two warships were equipped with the most advanced power system in Germany and the cannons produced by Krupp.

According to relevant data, the length of these two warships reaches 94.5 meters, the width is 18 meters, the water consumption is 6 meters, and the full load reaches 7670 tons. From this size alone, they are already the largest warships in Asia.

The two warships are also equipped with eight large steam engines, with a maximum output of 1200 watts and a maximum speed of 15.4 knots. Moreover, the design of these two warships also refers to the design of the ironclad fort of the world's most advanced British, British and French white warships. The British White Frye Battleship is characterized by adding 50 cm to 70 cm protective steel armor behind the command module, ammunition depot and power part of the ship. Even if the enemy ship directly hits the bow and stern, it will not completely lose its power and combat effectiveness.

At that time, when Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships were designed and produced, British Anglo-Saxon white-class warships had been in service for some time. Therefore, in order to make Dingyuan and Zhengyuan ships stronger, Germany also referred to the armor design of British Anglo-Saxon white-class warships and added protective armor in the middle of the hull. Although the protective armor is not as thick as that of Britain, it can already cope with conventional shelling.

More importantly, the German shipyard also equipped Dingyuan with four 305mm guns produced by Krupp. At that time, this kind of firepower equipment was among the best in the world. Therefore, in terms of comprehensive performance, these two warships can be ranked all over the world, even stronger than the Saxon-class armored warships of the same level used in Germany at that time.

It is for this reason that after the two warships were delivered to the Qing government, the Qing government declared that this was? One of the best armored ships in the world? .

Two warships paid the deposit in 1880, and two warships were completed in 1884. According to the normal plan, 1884, the Germans should have handed over the warships to China. However, China and France were at war at that time. At that time, the Qing government asked Germany to send warships back to China as soon as possible in order to participate in the Sino-French war. However, in order to avoid the mixing of the two wars, Germany refused to deliver the warship.

It was not until 1885 after the Sino-French War that Germany officially handed over these two warships to the then Beiyang Navy.

After the Qing government got these two warships, they showed their muscles to neighboring countries one by one. However, due to the shallow and small-scale shipyards in China at that time, these two warships had to go to some Japanese shipyards for regular paint derusting.

At that time, the Japanese authorities were very surprised when they saw these two huge warships. Zhenyuan ship sailor whoring? After the incident, the China government also put pressure on the Japanese government with a tough attitude, and the Japanese authorities had to suffer a dumb loss because they were afraid of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships.

It was this incident that inspired Japan's determination to build a large warship. In order to compete with China's navy, the Japanese navy took these two warships as imaginary enemies and manufactured and purchased a large number of new warships.

Dingyuan Ship and Zhenyuan Ship were indeed one of the best warships in the world when they first entered the service, but with the development of time, the hull design of Dingyuan Ship and Zhenyuan Ship began to be eliminated.

19190' s, Britain has entered the dreadnought era, and the fire system has also begun to be greatly updated. Artillery can shoot faster and farther. At that time, the most advanced naval gun in Britain could penetrate Krupp steel armor with a thickness of 400 mm 2 kilometers away, and the protective armor of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships was useless in front of this naval gun.

Later, during the Sino-Japanese War, beiyang fleet suffered heavy losses? Yoshino boat? The warship was launched in 1893, with a displacement of only over 4,000 tons. This aspect is indeed much worse than Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships.

But due to the development of science and technology, Yoshino ship? The above artillery system is much more powerful and faster than Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships. Although there is no powerful armored defense system, with its superior maneuverability, it can effectively avoid the shooting of traditional artillery. The powerful rapid-fire gun makes up for the shortcomings of small caliber and few batteries.

Therefore, during the Yellow Sea war, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships had large displacement and great single gun power, but they could not give play to their advantages in front of the flexible Yoshino ship.

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, neither of these two warships could be called advanced warships. After all, they had been produced for 10 years.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese ordered two warships from Britain with China reparations? Fuji? And then what? Eight islands? The displacement of these two warships reached1more than 2,000 tons. Since then, Japan has formed an absolute military suppression on the navy of the Qing government at that time.

At that time, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships had not been eliminated, and they could only be called ordinary warships.