The end of the military era

If the Black Bear Empire really implements this shipbuilding plan, then the navy of the Black Bear Empire will definitely become the strongest opponent of our Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire in the future! "

It turned out that the Black Bear Empire, which has never been a strong navy, announced a naval revitalization plan a few days ago, which included the first phase of preparing to build 50 Idol-class battleships with full main guns and 50 Sea King-class battleships. cruiser.

Governor Kosno then said: "According to the information we have received, the Idol-class battleship with full main guns and the Sea King-class battlecruiser of the Black Bear Empire may both have a full-load displacement of more than 3 tons.

神像级全主炮战列舰会装备5座双联装45倍口径360毫米主炮，海王级战列巡洋舰会装备4座双联装45倍口径360毫米主炮。

It is obviously aimed at our Golden Lion Empire's Unicorn Tiger-class battleship with full main guns and Vanguard-class battlecruiser. It seems that the result of the naval battle on Gaosnail Island has made the Black Bear Empire, a naval underdog, a little restless.

Does your Admiralty have any strategies to deal with the latest shipbuilding plan of the Black Bear Empire? "

"Governor, our Admiralty is preparing to build the first batch of 30 Unicorn-class battleships with full main guns and 30 Vanguard-class battlecruisers.

They began to build a full main gun battleship with a larger main gun caliber, and a battlecruiser with a larger main gun caliber. "

"What caliber are you going to use for the main gun?"

"Now the empire's arsenal has successfully developed a 45mm naval gun with 380 times the caliber, so the main guns of the battleships and battlecruisers to be built next will use this caliber for the main guns."

"Has the new all-main gun battleship and battlecruiser been designed?"

"It is in the process of design and demonstration, and the drawings should come out soon."

"Then there is no need to wait for the first batch of Unicorn Tiger and Vanguard to be completed. There are still many large shipyards in the Empire. After the drawings come out, construction can begin immediately."

The Deputy Secretary of the Navy Raff hesitated and said: "Governor, it is the military expenditure of the Navy Department for the construction of the second batch of Unicorns and Vanguards."

Before Raff could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Governor Cosno, "I will specially approve a sum of money to build new battleships and battlecruisers with full main guns.

How many large docks are left vacant now?

I mean large shipyards where the next tier of all main gun battleships and the next tier of battlecruisers can be built. "

"It is estimated that the full-load displacement of these two new capital ships may both reach about 3 tons.

In this case, there should be 40 large shipyards in the entire empire's shipyards, which can build these two new capital ships. "

"Then let's build 20 each first! The number of large shipyards in the empire is still a little small. It seems that we need to urge the Ministry of Industry to build a new batch of large shipyards."

In a palace in Shuguang City, the capital of the Red Tiger Empire, Navy Minister Svia reported to Emperor Gruyan: "Your Majesty, the intelligence department has already found out.

On the side of the Spirit Race world, the Black Bear Empire bought dozens of second-hand large docks from the Bull Empire and remodeled them.

Now the Black Bear Empire has the ability to build 50 Idol-class battleships and 50 Sea King-class battlecruisers at the same time. "

Since the Bull Empire is planning to build an offshore defensive navy with destroyers and torpedo boats as its main combat ships, all the large shipyards in the Bull Empire are useless.

The large shipyards on the New World side were bought by Zhou Rui, and the large shipyards on the Orc World side were bought by the Black Bear Empire at a lower price.

Emperor Gruyan sighed and said, "What a troubled time!

The Golden Lion Empire has just announced an additional order for 20 Unicorn-class battleships and 30 Vanguard-class battlecruisers. The Black Bear Empire has announced that it will build 50 Idol-class battleships and 50 Sea King-class battleships. row cruiser.

This is forcing our Red Tiger Empire to join this shipbuilding competition!

How many Miracle-class battleships with full main guns did the Admiralty plan to build before?How many countercurrent-class battlecruisers are you going to build? "

The Miracle-class battleship with full main guns and the battlecruiser with countercurrents of the Red Tiger Empire were designed for the battlecruiser with full main guns and the Vanguard-class of the Golden Lion Empire.

Miracle-class full main gun battleship, with a full load displacement of 33500 tons and a maximum speed of 20 knots.

装备了5座双联装45倍口径360毫米主炮，14门五十倍150毫米副炮，18门30毫米高射炮，24挺13毫米高射机枪，4具550毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 230 mm to 390 mm, the main deck armor is 70 mm, the main turret armor is 390 mm, and the crew is full of 1160 people.

The countercurrent-class battlecruiser has a full load displacement of 33900 tons and a maximum speed of 25 knots.

装备了4座双联装45倍口径360毫米主炮，18门五十倍口径150毫米副炮，18门30毫米高射炮，18挺13毫米高射机枪，4具550毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 90 mm to 200 mm, the main deck armor is 50 mm, the main turret armor is 200 mm, and the crew is full of 1130 people.

"Your Majesty, the Admiralty originally planned to build 24 Miracle-class battleships with full main guns at the same time.

Since we haven't built a battlecruiser before, we plan to build 8 countercurrent-class battlecruisers first. "

Emperor Gruyan thought about it and said: "Double the number of Miracle-class all-main-gun battleships built, and build 48 ships at the same time.

I still have great confidence in the design capabilities of the Admiralty, and I also have confidence in the Admiralty-class battlecruiser designed by the Admiralty.

8 ships are really too few. In order to cope with this shipbuilding competition, let's build 48 countercurrent-class battlecruisers at the same time!

I will give your Admiralty a special grant for shipbuilding funds. "

Like a chain reaction, the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire among the six major orc nations soon joined the shipbuilding competition, greatly increasing the number of battleships built in their own countries.

Only the Buffalo Empire of the six major orc nations is still obsessed with the offshore defensive navy, building new small docks one after another, and frantically producing destroyers and torpedo boats.

Chapter 1 Seventy

At ten o'clock in the morning on April 1539, 4, in the bridge of the flagship of the Royal Navy's Second Fleet of the Golden Lion Empire, the Brave, the interim commander of the expeditionary fleet, Renich, asked Naniko, the commander of the Second Fleet: "Did the scout ship sent out find anything?"

At this time, the expeditionary fleet of the Golden Lion Empire had arrived at the coast of Boting Town of the Han and Tang Empires. At around 5:[-] this morning, the scouting ships sent by the expeditionary fleet found several warships that were suspected to be the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

However, due to the thick fog on the sea at that time and the low visibility, the warships suspected of being the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet quickly disappeared.

Even the reconnaissance ships of the expeditionary fleet were not sure whether the warships discovered belonged to the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet?

The commander of the Second Fleet, Naniko, shook his head, "There is still no discovery, but it is only about 70 nautical miles away from Kosnail Island.

The few warships discovered in the morning, I think they should be the warships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire. "

Renich, the temporary commander of the expeditionary fleet, pondered for a while and said: "If I were the commander of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire, I should choose the battlefield near Gaosnail Island.

Unless it was the armies of the three feudal towns of the Han and Tang Empires who voluntarily gave up Gaosnail Island.

Let the fleets continue to maintain their battle formations, maybe today is the day when our Imperial Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet and the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire will fight! "

As soon as Renich's words fell, Sashenka, the captain of the Brave, ran over with a telegram, "We discovered the main force of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire!"

Zenich snatched the telegram from Sashenka's hand, quickly read it, then raised his head and said in a deep voice, "We can send a telegram to the Governor's Office.

The Imperial Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet has found the main force of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires! "

At 12:30 noon, two large fleets met in the sea about 100 kilometers south of Gaosnail Island.

当双方的战列舰编队相距14万米的时候，金狮帝国远征舰队的28艘骁勇级全主炮战列舰和30艘黑王子级全主炮战列舰，首先用45倍口径360毫米主炮对西南海防舰队展开了齐射。

随即西南海防舰队这边第三编队的9艘东瀛国扶桑级全主炮战列舰、第四编队的22艘美国内华达级全主炮战列舰、第五编队的10艘美国新墨西哥级全主炮战列舰，也用45倍口径356毫米主炮展开了还击。