Power and Empire Chapter 3713: Early summer strong wind (14)
No clouds in the sky in May, the most peaceful season on the ocean
The shimmering waves near the coastline, the wind and the calm waves, the sea level in people’s eyes, is as calm as spreading soft woolen satin, and like condensed jasper, without the slightest flaw, the turquoise water reflects the blue sky and white clouds, and looks even The light is transparent and deep, and the distant sunlight shyly sees through the clouds. It is especially soft, shining gently on the calm sea, and dyeing the surface of the sea with a light golden yellow.
"After passing the coastline of Central Europe, how long will it take for the Feshan Sea to arrive?"
Hu Keqili, Minister of Military Affairs of the Empire, wearing a black army uniform, stood on the bow of the Dragon-class battleship, looking at the fish in the sea happily chasing the sun, swimming and leaping silhouettes, on the sailing battleship On the side of the fast-moving warship, strips of shallow looming water patterns were drawn back, and he turned around and asked the Admiral Casoya of the 19th Squadron of the Imperial Navy behind him
Although the Imperial Navy and the Army are two systems, Hu Keqili, the Imperial Minister of Military Affairs, is mainly responsible for army affairs. If other important army ministers come to the navy warships, the navy admirals who were kicked out of the army Even if you don’t ridicule it, it won’t be too good-looking, but it’s another thing to come from Hu Keqili, Minister of Military Affairs of the Empire. Hu Keqili is not only the Minister of Military Affairs of the Empire, but also the commander of the Imperial Central Legion. , These admirers of the Navy, who laid the invincible reputation of the Imperial Navy, two-thirds of them were from the Imperial Central Army system. The 19th Squadron Naval Admiral Casoya was born in the Central Army.
"My lord, if the wind is in the right direction and nothing is encountered on the road, you should be able to reach the Feshan Sea in three or two days, but it is May now, and May is also called the Moon of Streaming Light by our sailors, because the weather begins. It becomes hot, and there is always the possibility of storms!" Admiral Casoya of the 19th Squadron replied respectfully, but with strong pride in his tone. At the beginning, every Central Army officer who was assigned to the navy had a heart. They were all suffocating. They thought that they were abandoned by the army. Throwing them onto the vast sea is like self-defeating.
"Two days? It took six days from the Imperial Metropolis to Lisbon"
"It’s four days from Lisbon to here. If you count the two days to reach the Feshan sea area, that is to say, if everything goes well, the journey from Feshan area to the Royal Capital Sea City can be completed in fifteen days. Do you mean so"
Hu Keqili's eyes are very bright, and he looks a little emotional. This speed is too fast. He is the Minister of Military Affairs. He naturally knows that if it is by land, it will take 15 Around the sky, let alone transfer to Central Europe, the time to finally arrive in the Feshan area is not a month, almost impossible, and it only takes fifteen days by sea. As one of the executors of the empire’s grand strategy of opening the inland sea, Hu Keqili also had to admit that he had some opinions about the emperor’s desperate opening of the inland sea. The inner sea was so unfamiliar to the empire at that time, no one knew. What will be brought to the empire after the opening of the inner sea, but the emperor insisted, opened the inner sea with an iron fist, and then triggered a war between the empire and the Congo empire, triggered a series of tragic conquests of the inner sea by the imperial navy, and finally the empire completely destroyed the inner sea. Become the inner sea of the empire
The value of the inland sea is also fully reflected at this moment
The huge advantage in sea transportation, it can be said that land transportation has been thrown out several blocks. Almost all important areas of the empire are on the sea line. The carrying capacity of a large maritime merchant ship can be compared to a hundred vehicles. The total number of horse-drawn carriages, and the manpower and cost required, may only be equipped with ten horse-drawn carriages. The inland sea itself has more than 2,000 miles of coastline and more than a dozen large and small countries, which provided great opportunities for the empire’s maritime development in the following years. The impetus of the empire provided huge financial and material support for the empire to conquer the Barrow region of northern Europe.
I have to admit that the speed of maritime transport has indeed greatly surpassed the speed of the empire’s land. The so-called benefits catalyzed the advancement of technology, especially in the empire’s maritime transport. The shipbuilding technology of the empire was in the Ikadiva era. , I also pursued that the load capacity is large enough, and the speed requirements are not great, because the coastline is so long, but as the empire gradually unified the entire northern European Barrow continent, it also moved east-west to more than two thousand miles of the inland sea coast. Incorporating into the imperial control area, if it can complete the circulation of goods in the shortest time, the speed requirements for ships will begin to become the mainstream requirements of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Imperial Navy still focused its research on how to build a huge dragon-class main battleship. The private ship associations have already begun to improve existing ships on their own, and absorbed the original imperial shipbuilding technology. The shipbuilding technology of Gaul in the north and Gangfei in the south has put forward a concept of a sailing clipper that can greatly increase the speed of sailing
With the surrender of the Strands Sea State to the Empire, the Strands Sea State’s ship improvement technology for decades has also naturally flowed into the Empire’s civilian shipbuilding industry. In terms of naval warships, the Strands Navy’s technology It is comparable to the empire, but in terms of civilian ships, the Strand Sea State, known as the hegemon of the inland sea, far exceeds the empire
In the winter of last year, the first fast sailing carrier was launched in Lisbon. This is a crystallization of the highest shipbuilding technology in several regions.
Completely abandon the wide and thick hull structure used by the original merchant ship, adopt a triangular bottom, adopt a cabin partition, and use an extremely powerful three-mast sail. This new type of ship is immediately available for shipping by major seas. Favored by the Chamber of Commerce, the carrying capacity of this kind of fast boat is less than one-third of that of ordinary commercial ships, but the speed is extremely fast. In the past, it took 15 days for the transport ship to travel from the Imperial Sea City to the coast of South Obalo Feze , And this kind of fast sailing ship takes eight days, which is almost half of the original time. For shipping merchants who need to catch business opportunities at all times and need to transport goods to the most expensive cities in the shortest time, the speed is Means everything
Just like now, a merchant fleet that is flying by the side of the squadron is two of these sailing clippers. Compared with this, even the speed of the Imperial Dragon Tooth was quickly left behind. Looking at the figures of these commercial clippers, the faces of the Imperial sailors on the deck were very strange. These merchant ships, which once feared the Imperial Navy like a god, no longer have a sense of fear or even basic respect for the Imperial Navy. All are lacking. This is mainly because the imperial navy’s thunderous deterrence weakened with the advent of the peaceful age, and there is no threat. Even the pirates were knocked out one by one by the boring imperial navy as targets for practicing new sailors. Merchant ships no longer need to **** in the inland waters, coupled with the psychological advantage brought by extremely fast speed, and there are even the phenomenon of sailors on merchant ships whistling to the naval fleet
"These **** businessmen, don’t you know a little respect, what a naval vessel passing by with such dignity?" At the high watchtower of the Dragon Tooth battleship, a naval watchman put down the high magnification Binoculars, looking angrily at the distant merchant fleet, since the Strand Navy surrendered, there has been no war in the Inland Sea for a long time. This had to make the Imperial Navy sailors who were accustomed to the sulphur smoke and thunderbolt feel that Nostalgia, nostalgia for the densely packed masts when the naval fleet entered, towering into the clouds, like a sword piercing the sky, one can't help but feel a tingling hair, and nostalgia for the years when hundreds of hulls fought in the smoke of gunpowder.
"The Imperial Navy is dying!"
Even a person like Dusterenkai, Minister of the Navy of the Empire, described in the report to the Emperor that a powerful naval fleet without enemies is sad, but at present the entire Obaro Inland Sea area Under the control of the empire, the imperial navy wants to find an opponent, so easy said than done! The only place where the imperial navy is still fighting is in the distant southern waters of Central Piazza, which is too far away. Even if the imperial has opened the waterway into the southwestern region of Central Piazza, it will start from the imperial side and arrive in China. It also takes more than two months for the Biannan Sea, and this is still only possible with the smaller Dragon Tooth battleship. If the Dragon-class battleship wants to pass, the only way is to disassemble it as a whole, and then assemble it after arrival, which is time-consuming. It’s hard to say whether it can go to sea within three months. After barely transporting the three Dragon-class battleships, the emperor ordered the plan to stop
"You don’t need to envy those. When the latest type of Dragon Tooth Cruiser comes out, it should be faster than the caravan Clippers in the past, and the Admiralty will also loosen the restrictions on the squadron to China. Will agree to at least five thousand imperial naval personnel to be transferred to the Southern Squadron of Central and Biya", Hu Keqili reached out and patted Casoya's shoulder on the map of the squadron, and the news revealed that Casoya's body was slightly slightly. Vibrate
"Five thousand people!"
"Yes, at least five thousand people" Hu Keqili looked at the outline of the coastline in the distance, nodding silently in his heart
The construction of the imperial navy fleet at this time is no longer the chaotic period in which all types of models were used for combat readiness. It was rather rigorously classified, the-class sail dragon tooth ship. This class of warships generally served as the fleet. The main combat force, two floors of Thor decks, Thor sixty doors, and a capacity of 300 people. It is the perfect combination of firepower, speed, and cost. It is the intermediate force in naval battles; the second-level sailing dragon-tooth warship, this class has only one warship. On the deck of the gun, there are 30 Thor cannons and a capacity of about 200 people. This class of ship has relatively weak firepower and does not participate in fleet decisive battles. It mainly serves as a cruise ship and serves as an observation ship for the main ship. The latest improved Dragon Tooth battleship proposed is this kind of similar sailing clipper
Because the load is not enough, only four Thor’s equipment is prepared, but it has an absolute advantage in speed. This light and fast naval dragon tooth warship is obviously specifically aimed at the empire’s operations in the southern waters of Central and Bharat. Designed, smaller, faster, and naturally brought about cheaper construction costs. At present, the biggest reason why the imperial navy cannot expand its success in the southern waters of Central and Biyah ~ IndoMTL.com~ is that the number of warships and Aden The huge gap in the navy, even if the imperial navy won the situation, but in general, the Aden Navy still firmly controls the control of the southern sea of Central Europe and Baro, and the Aden Navy’s transport fleet is still in this area. To and from the sea,
The emperor has already begun to make arrangements. After gaining the hegemony of Southern Europe and integrating the unstable situation of Central Europe, the empire is completely ready to take a hand and make reasonable sense with the Adenites who are raging in Central Bialand! Even the Imperial Minister of Military Affairs, this time, left the Imperial Capital Sea City in the name of inspecting the garrison of the Feshan Governor’s Mansion, and his true destination was not Feshan at all, but the Iraqi area opposite Feshan. Stan, he will finally join the imperial army from the battlefield of the Order Nation into the northern area of Eero. In name, it suppressed the siege of the former capital of Aero by the princes in the southern part of Aero, but in fact it was to find a reason for the empire to mobilize heavy troops in the northern part of Aero!
The Minister of Military Affairs of the Empire, Hu Keqili, will never stay in the Feshan area at all!
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