The end of the military era

Liu Erga saw his younger brother who stood taller and stronger than himself, and turned to look at his mother.

Sun Caihua sighed, "Then let San Jin go back to the army with you!

Your mother doesn't understand the truth, but knowing this time, we can't be cowardly! "

When Liu Erga left that afternoon, he not only took away his third brother Liu Sanjin, five cousins, two cousins, but also 5 young people from the village.

Not long after Liu Erga left the village, he found his elder brother Liu Daneng squatting on the side of the road with a burden on his back.

"Brother, who are you?"

"Second brother, I will go with you to beat the orc cubs."

"No, my nephew is only three years old, my sister-in-law"

Before Liu Erga could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Liu Daneng, "Second brother, your sister-in-law also agrees with me to beat the orc cub.

I used to be a soldier for two years at least. At this time, I can't squint at home, or someone will poke my spine. "

Chapter 1: The Secret Fleet

Early in the morning on February 1539, 2, Xievas, the commander of the Eighth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire, was woken up by his adjutant.

"Commander, about 60 nautical miles to the west of Gaosnail Island, the main force of the southwestern coastal defense fleet of the Han and Tang Empires has been discovered, and the number of capital ships may be more than 50."

When Xievas heard this, he sat up from the bed in the cabin unhurriedly, "Sure enough, I was not disappointed. I sent a telegram to General Nakola, and the fish has already been hooked."

It turns out that the Golden Lion Empire, before issuing a joint statement with the Red Tiger Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire, considered that once the joint statement was issued, Zhou Rui, the three governors of the Han and Tang Empires, should not have chosen Compromise with the Three Kingdoms.

Then the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the three towns of Jiedu in the Han and Tang Empires is likely to attack Gaosnail Island and the Eighth Fleet stationed on Gaosnail Island before the expeditionary forces of the Three Kingdoms arrive, taking advantage of the unfinished construction of the Gaosnail Island Naval Base.

Therefore, after the release of the joint statement of the three countries, the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy began to actively prepare for battle, sending a large number of light cruisers and destroyers responsible for reconnaissance to the surrounding waters.

In addition, the boilers of all the warships of the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy that are parked in the port are always in a hot standby state. Once the enemy of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet is found, all warships can be activated in a short time.

At the same time, a huge fleet secretly assembled by the Golden Lion Empire Navy stopped near several islands and reefs about 50 nautical miles south of Gaosnail Island.

这支规模庞大的舰队，是金狮帝国海军从这个世界其他七支主力舰队当中抽调出来的，总计包括26艘全主炮战列舰、20艘全钢制战列舰、16艘大型装甲巡洋舰、30艘轻巡洋舰和30艘驱逐舰。

Almost half of the warships were drawn from the Fourth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire, so Nakola, the commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire, was appointed as the temporary commander of this secret fleet.

At this time, inside the bridge of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet's flagship Ruixue battleship with all main guns, Captain Chen Yongliang reported to Song Liminhui: "Song Zhi, Jingsheng No. 17 ahead sent a telegram and found the warship of the Golden Lion Empire Navy. Our whereabouts have been exposed."

Jingsheng NO.17 is a German Wiesbaden-class light cruiser. At present, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has a total of 54 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers, all of which are named after "Jingsheng", followed by a number.

In addition, the German Scharnhorst-class large armored cruisers in the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet are all named after "Xiangshi" plus numbers.

The German York-class large armored cruiser is named after "Ganyang" plus a number, and the Russian Wuli-class destroyer is named after "Longshan" plus a number.

The prefixes of these four levels of warships are the names of the first four cities controlled by the Zhou family.

Song Limin frowned, "I didn't expect the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy to be so cautious and send the reconnaissance ship so far.

Anyway, we have never imagined that the sneak attack might be successful. Next, our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet will fight face to face with the world's number one navy!

Of course, the premise is that the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy does not learn from the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy, and directly abandons Gaosnail Island. "

Captain Chen Yongliang said: "The navy of the Golden Lion Empire has always been used to domineering. I think that the commander of the Eighth Fleet, Xie Vas, probably chose to stay and start a decisive naval battle with our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. After all, the other side has combined forces. 40 capital ships."

Song Limin nodded, "This is exactly what we hoped for, to send reports to the four formations of Provisional Tenth, Provisional No.11, Provisional No.12, and Provisional No.13, as well as the eighth formation, so that They continued to maintain a distance of 50 kilometers from the first column, and encircled the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy after the war broke out."

The 24 capital ships that Zhou Rui had just added to the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had already been staffed by Song Limin.

However, considering the internal coordination of the formations, the 24 capital ships were not immediately assigned to the nine formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, but were temporarily organized into four formations by Song Limin.

Among them, the temporary tenth formation is composed of 8 American Nevada-class full-main gun battleships, and the temporary No.11 formation is composed of 4 German König-class full-main-gun battleships and 4 British Iron Duke-class full-main-gun battleships.

Temporary Formation No.12 is composed of 4 Dongying Kingdom Kongo-class battlecruisers, and Provisional Formation No.13 is composed of 4 Dongying Kingdom Fuso-class battleships.

The four temporary formations, because they are only temporary, are not equipped with other warships, only capital ships.

This time, in order to deal with the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet took out most of the main force.

The first, second, third, fourth, seventh, and ninth formations are the first column, and the eighth, provisional tenth, provisional No.11, provisional No.12, provisional The five formations of No.13 are the second column.

另外还有100多艘运输船被编入了第二纵队，这100多艘运输船的上面，搭载了凤武军的2个师、振威军的2个师以及晋南军的2个师。

These 6 infantry divisions of the Zhou family army will serve as the landing force to capture Gaosnail Island.

What was discovered by the reconnaissance ship of the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy was only the first column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. In order to hide part of its strength, Song Limin asked the second column to follow the first column, keeping a distance of about 50 kilometers.

At noon on February 2th, the first column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet and the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy met in the waters about 24 kilometers west of Gao Wo Island.

Xivas, the commander of the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy, put down the binoculars in his hands on the bridge of the eighth fleet's flagship, the All-Main Gun Battleship Praise. I didn't expect that one day, I could see such a large human fleet.

When will the fleet led by General Nakola arrive? "

The Salute is one of the Golden Lion Empire Valiant-class all-main-gun battleships, with a full-load displacement of 30600 tons and a maximum speed of 215 knots.

装备了4座双联装45倍口径360毫米主炮，14门五十倍150毫米副炮，20门30毫米高射炮，26挺13毫米高射机枪，4具550毫米鱼雷发射管

The side armor belt is 240 mm to 400 mm, the main deck armor is 90 mm, the main turret armor is 400 mm, and the crew is full of 1080 people.

The Valiant class can be said to be the most powerful all-main-gun battleship in active service in the Golden Lion Empire Navy. Although the Valiant-class only has 8 main guns, it is almost the minimum configuration compared to a full-main-gun battleship.

However, the caliber of these 8 main guns has reached 360 mm, which is currently the largest caliber naval gun among the navies of various countries.

Another feature of the Valiant class is that the armor is particularly thick, but the speed is not slow, even faster than the average battleship with full main guns.

Inside the Golden Lion Empire Navy, the Valiant-class battleship with full main guns also has the nickname Long-legged Turtle.

Niok, the captain of the Salute, immediately said: "Commander, General Nakola has just sent a telegram, and the fleet he leads will arrive within two hours."

"Very well, this naval battle should be recorded in the annals of the empire.

Order each team to meet the enemy according to the previously arranged tactics, and keep in touch with the flagship at any time. "

The fleets of the two sides were still more than 1 meters apart, and the capital ships of the two sides began to pour firepower at each other with their main guns. It seemed that there was only the sound of rumbling guns left in the whole world.

Although there are 16 all-steel battleships in the capital ships of the Eighth Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire Navy, the main guns of these 16 all-steel battleships are all equipped with two double-mounted 2mm main guns with a caliber of 45 times. There is no problem at all for bombardment at this distance.

Just because of the number of main guns, in the duel with all main gun battleships, it is a little bit disadvantaged.

On the bridge of the all-main-gun battleship Fuchang of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, Captain Liu Ergou angrily said to First Officer Jiang Hui: "Tell the commanders of the four main turrets to aim a little bit!

After firing a full 10 rounds of salvos from the main guns, they didn't even hurt the opponent at all! "

When the ninth formation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet was formed, Liu Ergou was transferred to the full main gun battleship Fuchang as the captain.