The end of the military era

Golden Lion Empire Prime Minister Salento promised that once the war broke out, the Golden Lion Empire Air Force would send at least more than 3000 fourth-generation fighters and more than 7000 third-generation fighters to participate in the battle.

The Prime Minister of the Red Tiger Empire Kudep promised that after the outbreak of the war, the Red Tiger Empire Air Force will send at least more than 2000 fourth-generation fighters and more than 4000 third-generation fighters to participate in the battle.

The prime ministers of the three elf countries all promised to send more than 2000 fourth-generation fighters and more than 5000 third-generation fighters to participate in the battle.

The Black Bear Empire promised to send more than 3000 third-generation fighters to the battle, and the Silver Wolf Empire and the Bull Empire both promised to send more than 1000 third-generation fighters to the battle.

Only the air force of the Flying Leopard Empire, because it was ravaged by the air forces of three elven countries before, the Prime Minister of the Flying Leopard Empire Mu Feiluo looked very ugly and said that the Flying Leopard Empire Air Force can probably send 200 third-generation fighter jets to participate in the battle.

In addition to fighter jets, the air forces of various countries will also send some long-range bombers, early warning aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft and large transport aircraft to participate in the battle.

In terms of the army, the Golden Lion Empire, Scarlet Tiger Empire, Black Bear Empire, Barbarian Bull Empire and the three elf nations all promised to send at least tens of millions of army troops to participate in the war once the war broke out.

Both the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire promised to send no less than 800 million troops to join the battle.

In addition, the prime ministers of various countries have also made it clear that according to the needs of the war, there is no upper limit to the strength of the armies of various countries participating in the war.

Chapter 341 List of Sky-high Compensation

Just when the Han and Tang Empires and the countries of the Nine Military Alliance were doing their best to prepare for the war, an unexpected event suddenly accelerated the pace of the war.

In the middle of the night on March 1577, 3, an ocean-going cargo ship belonging to the Royal Transportation Group of the Han and Tang Empire was sunk by a mine in the offshore of the Black Bear Empire.

Of the 36 crew members on the ocean-going freighter, only 10 were rescued by a nearby Black Bear Empire Navy frigate, and the other 26 crew members, including the captain, were all missing.

And being missing in a shipwreck means being killed.

In the situation where the Han Tang Empire and the Nine Military Alliance were at war, this happened, which immediately made many people nervous.

"Has the matter been investigated clearly?" Deniso, the emperor of the Black Bear Empire, said to Prime Minister Arnia in a deep voice.

Prime Minister Aniya said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the place where the ocean-going freighter of the Han and Tang Empire hit a mine belongs to a civil waterway, and the navy has never deployed mines in the nearby waters.

Now there are two possibilities, one is that the mines may have drifted from other sea areas, and the other is that the explosion was self-directed by the Han and Tang Empires, and there were no mines at all. "

Back then, in order to prepare for the landing of the Han and Tang Empires from its coast and open up new battlefields, the Black Bear Empire's navy deployed many mines in the coastal waters, forming patches of sea minefields.

Although after the war, the navy of the Black Bear Empire fished out most of the sea mines, some of the sea mines drifted to other places and could no longer be found, or could not be found at all.

However, in more than ten years, ordinary sea mines should have lost their effect and could no longer be detonated.

Emperor Deniso snorted coldly, "I think the explosion was programmed and directed by the Han and Tang Empires, and the purpose was to provoke a war with the entire Nine Military Alliance."

Prime Minister Ania hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, the Han and Tang Empire now asks the Black Bear Empire to give us an explanation. How should we reply?"

Emperor Deniso thought for a while and said, "Let's just say that the mines are left over from the last war. We, the Black Bear Empire, are willing to compensate the ocean-going freighter and the crew members who died."

Prime Minister Arnia couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words. He originally thought that Emperor Deniso would take a tough attitude this time, but he didn't expect Emperor Deniso to choose to calm down.

Then Emperor Deniso sighed and said: "This war with the Han and Tang Empire should not be detonated by our Black Bear Empire, not to mention that our Black Bear Empire has already imported the production technology of the fourth generation fighter jet from the Red Tiger Empire at a high price. .

I hope that the time when the war breaks out will be as late as possible, preferably our Black Bear Empire Royal Air Force, which has been equipped with the fourth-generation fighter jets produced by our Black Bear Empire itself. "

Prime Minister Ania nodded and said: "Your Majesty is still considerate, and I know what to do."

In the palace of Tiansheng City, the capital of the Han and Tang Empires, Zhou Rui said to more than a dozen high-ranking generals of the three armed forces: "What do you think about the ocean freighter Fu'an 108?"

Fuan No. 108 ocean-going freighter is the ocean-going freighter that sank after being hit by a mine in the offshore of the Black Bear Empire. It is the No. 108 ship of the Fu'an-class ocean-going freighter.

The Fuan-class ocean-going freighter has a full-load displacement of 375 million tons and can carry 8800 standard containers. It is currently the ocean-going freighter with the largest load capacity in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and more than 150 ships have been built.

Wang Kui, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy, immediately said: "Your Majesty, the ocean freighter Fu'an 108 was bombed and sunk off the coast of the Black Bear Empire. This is a once-in-a-lifetime excuse for war.

Why not use this incident to directly declare war on the Black Bear Empire, and even the entire Nine Military Alliance! "

According to the agreement of the Prime Minister's Meeting of the Nine Military Alliance, the combined naval fleet of the nine countries will have more than 811 combat ships including 5800 aircraft carriers, which is not insignificant.

However, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empire, because of its sufficient military expenditures and Zhou Rui’s ability to extract a large number of advanced warships from the lottery system, is even larger than the combined fleet of nine navies. Only the active aircraft carrier There are 867 ships.

其中包括138艘美国小鹰级、66艘美国福莱斯特级、60艘浮云级、60艘擎天级、30艘岛屿级和343艘巨无霸级，以及原梁燕帝国海军的20艘蜂巢级、20艘鹰巢级、20艘山峰级、40艘河流级、40艘湖泊级。

In addition, 180 US Midway-class aircraft carriers and 52 Bird's Nest-class aircraft carriers that have been unsealed are undergoing modernization and are equipped with advanced missile devices and ship-to-ship weapon systems.

If the 232 aircraft carriers being transformed are included, the number of aircraft carriers available to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires will reach 1099.

汉唐帝国皇家海军还拥有1445艘导弹战列舰、552艘导弹战列巡洋舰、3636艘导弹巡洋舰、4166艘导弹驱逐舰、5130艘导弹护卫舰、2880艘攻击潜艇。

Although 2050 guided missile cruisers and 1360 guided missile destroyers have just been unsealed, there are still many warships that need to be repaired by the shipyard before they can be delivered to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

But it is undeniable that with the current strength of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, it can completely crush the combined fleet of nine navies that will soon be formed.

In addition, in terms of the number of fourth-generation carrier-based fighters, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires is also far ahead of the combined fleet of nine navies.

Huang Zhigang, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force, followed up and said: "Your Majesty, the number of fourth-generation fighter jets in our Royal Air Force should now have an absolute advantage compared with the entire Nine Military Alliance.

I am in favor of declaring war with the Nine Military Alliance now, and our Royal Air Force must firmly control the air supremacy for the Royal Army. "

Due to Zhou Rui's recent release of a large number of fourth-generation fighter jets from the lottery system, the Imperial Air Force of the Han and Tang Dynasties has formed 54 air divisions mainly based on fourth-generation fighter jets, and another 92 are mainly based on third-generation fighter jets. The air division and 12 air divisions based on long-range bombers.

Each air division of the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empires was equipped with 1024 combat aircraft as standard. However, no matter whether the air division was dominated by fighter jets or the air division dominated by long-range bombers, it would be equipped with some early warning aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft, so each air force Not all of the division's 1024 combat aircraft were fighters or long-range bombers.

But even so, the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empire already had about 54 fourth-generation fighters, 92 third-generation fighters, and 12 long-range bombers, far exceeding the combined air forces of the nine military alliances.

After the navy and air force expressed their opinions one after another, Xiang Tao, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army, hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, with the addition of the 20 group armies adapted from the original Liangyan Imperial Army, our Royal Army already has 170 group armies and 1000 garrison divisions." .

However, if you want to defeat the army of six orc nations and three elf nations, it is best to expand some more troops.

Our Royal Army is going to form 30 new group armies and 500 new garrison divisions next, so that our Royal Army can use 1 million troops. "

After the war within the Nine Military Alliance ended, the armies of the six orc countries and the three elf countries not only did not shrink, but continued to expand their armies.

At present, the army strength of each country of the Nine Military Alliance has more than 1000 million troops, and there are even several countries whose army strength can reach more than 2000 million.

Therefore, compared with the three armed forces of the Han and Tang Empires, only the army could not crush the army of the Nine Military Alliance in terms of strength.

After listening to the opinions of the armed forces, Zhou Rui pondered for a while and said: "I think we can make a big fuss by taking advantage of the bombing and sinking of the ocean-going freighter Fu'an 108.

Even if we fight now, it will not delay the army's expansion. Perhaps in this battlefield, the army's expansion of 1 million troops may not be enough. "

After the Black Bear Empire was willing to pay compensation to the Fuan 108 ocean-going freighter and the crew members who died, it did not expect that the Han and Tang Empire would be unreasonable and offered a sky-high compensation list.

The compensation cost for each of the 26 shipwrecked crew members was 500 million silver coins, the compensation cost for the ocean freighter Fuan 108 was 37 billion silver coins, and the compensation for the goods transshipped by the Fuan 108 ocean freighter was 35 billion silver coins, totaling 40 billion silver coins.

"Boom—" Deniso, the emperor of the Black Bear Empire, slammed his fist on the table, "It's so deceiving!

This is forcing our Black Bear Empire to declare war with their Han Tang Empire! "

Prime Minister Aniya said helplessly: "The Han and Tang Empires are obviously blackmailing, even if the ocean-going freighter is loaded with gold, it cannot be worth 35 billion silver coins.