Chapter 590 Opening of the Age of Ironclad Battleships
Chapter 590: The beginning of the era of armored battleships
No one expected that the first transaction at the Vibato Port Shipbuilding Base would be from the Kingdom of Carmanlane. Claude remembered that this kingdom had bought an ironclad destroyer from the Royal Navy last year. It seems that they encountered the same situation.
The problem of imitation is limited by the high-temperature resistant alloy materials of marine steam-powered machinery and the manufacture of propellers. Even if all the drawings of the first-generation iron-clad battleships are obtained, it is impossible to manufacture an iron-clad battleship based on the drawings.
The special envoy from the Kingdom of Kamanlane who purchased armored warships ordered six armored warships in the name of an ocean-going businessman. One armored cruiser, four armored destroyers, and one armored transport ship formed a minimum cruising and combat unit.
The total cost of the six armored warships is 900,000 gold crowns, and the construction period is half a year. The ship purchase envoy from the Kingdom of Carmenline just wants to see the intention of the ship purchase, and he is not willing to publicize this transaction. The Dominion Military Region is naturally willing to keep it secret for him.
Make a fortune silently.
General Bokoal believed that the special envoy from the Kingdom of Karmanlane who came to purchase iron-clad warships was probably facing the same dilemma as the Royal Navy. They accepted the order from the higher-ups to imitate the iron-clad warships, but found that they could not imitate them, so they had no choice but to
We can look for help from the Autonomous Order Military Region again to facilitate our relations. Fortunately, we have just built a shipbuilding base in Vibato Port, specializing in the production and sale of first and second generation ironclad warships, which can be regarded as solving a big trouble for them...
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Claude is willing to let Vibato Port be built as a shipbuilding base to specialize in producing first and second generation ironclad warships for sale, mainly because he discovered that other countries are making rapid progress in developing ironclad warships. What he has learned so far is basically
Most countries that imitate ironclad battleships can imitate the full metal shell of ironclad battleships. The only difficulties are the imitation of the huge first-generation marine steam-powered machinery in the bottom compartment and the propeller on the outside of the hull, but with the funding
With the investment of time and effort, one day some country will crack the secret.
The Vibato Port Shipbuilding Base can sell the first and second generation iron-clad warships, also to cause trouble for those countries that insist on cracking the ship's steam-powered machinery. For those countries that imitate, it is really better to build than to buy, they have invested in research and development
If the funds are used to purchase armored warships, at least twenty armored warships can be purchased to form an armored fleet to provide the most powerful guarantee for the security of the country's maritime areas.
And it is necessary to research and imitate so that the country can also have the ability to manufacture iron-clad warships, so the funds invested in research and imitation are not a small amount. They may spend the purchase cost of two or three iron-clad fleets to build a so-so warship by themselves.
The decent armored battleships that come out are simply not comparable to the armored battleships sold by the Dominion Military District.
And if you want to continue to improve the iron-clad warships made in your country, you don't know how much money you need to invest. Therefore, Claude hopes that most countries will change their course and replace their own domestically-developed iron-clad warships with purchasing them from the Dominion Military Region. As long as you pay the money, the Dominion Military Region will
Guarantee that even if there is a war with the hostile parties in the Dominion Military Region, the armored warships that should be delivered will be delivered on time and will never be withheld.
In fact, for the Dominion Military Region, the sale of the first-generation iron-clad battleship was a huge profit-making transaction. It was simply a huge profit among huge profits. Even Master Bird, who originally designed the first-generation iron-clad battleship, looked at the simplified version now.
The design drawings of the first-generation iron-clad battleships were a little embarrassing. They felt that it was really embarrassing and embarrassing to fool buyers with such a crude battleship design. So they improved the first-generation marine steam-powered machinery so that its combustion efficiency and
The power can be more durable and faster...
A first-generation armored destroyer is sold by the Dominion to the outside world for 150,000 gold crowns, and the production price handed over to the shipbuilding base by the Dominion is 50,000 gold crowns. The Dominion Military Region here has received a huge profit of 100,000 gold crowns. However,
In fact, the cost of manufacturing this first-generation armored destroyer at the shipbuilding base was only more than 20,000 gold crowns, and they still had double the profit.
Take a look at what the first-generation ironclad destroyers have. First, the splicing and welding of metal hulls that do not include watertight compartments. The most technical ones are the installation of marine steam power machinery and propeller spindles in the outboard bilges. Then there are those used for communications.
The layout of the copper pipes, the front desk of the command cabin on the ship, and the layout of the artillery turrets on the deck are nothing else. At most, a sharp collision angle can be installed on the bow...
It costs 150,000 gold crowns to build a first-generation armored destroyer. When the Dominion’s first armored warship was launched into the sea, nearly one million gold crowns were spent on testing. Therefore, for the current Dominion Military Region, it would cost so much money to build a first-generation armored destroyer.
Iron-clad battleships are a very loss-making business, but for those countries that are ready to develop and imitate them, buying an armored battleship at this price is really very cheap...
With the first ship purchase transaction made by the Kingdom of Carmanlane in Vibato Port, other countries will soon come to purchase iron-clad warships. However, the first-generation iron-clad warships produced by the Dominion Military Region are no longer available.
For storage storage, the six ships purchased by the Kingdom of Kamanlane this time still need to be re-forged by the shipbuilding base to produce metal ship plates.
Claude regretted that the special envoy from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands never responded after hearing the quotation for the second-generation iron-clad battleship. If they wanted to purchase this second-generation iron-clad battleship, the Dominion Military District would guarantee that the delivery would be better than Carmen Lane.
The six first-generation ironclad warships purchased by the kingdom are faster. They simply transfer the existing second-generation ironclad warships directly from the ironclad fleet, remove sensitive parts, renovate them and sell them as new ships, and then give the money earned to Mourière
The German general used it to customize the fourth generation ironclad warship...
The twelve first-generation iron-clad warships of the Black Sail Pirates were overhauled in the remote shipbuilding workshop in Vibato Port, and sixteen fast sailing warships were covered with copper, and the bottom tanks were equipped with a new generation of marine steam-powered machinery and equipment.
After turning the propeller, Erikson led the black sail pirates to weigh anchor and leave the harbor on a foggy and rainy night, disappearing into the vast sea without anyone noticing.
Claude is busy organizing reserve troops for the Dominion Military Region and recruiting conscripts every year. It can be said that this time the Dominion Military Region has made the biggest change to the military system of the Kingdom of Ovelas. Originally, the military system of the Kingdom of Ovelas was a standing army.
The regiment system, the combat recruitment system, and the standing regiment system, such as the three famous ace field regiments of the Guards, Red Dragon, and Griffin. Soldiers have a service period of up to fifteen years after being recruited. After the period expires, they can obtain national status.
In addition, there is a generous salary during the service, which can be said to be a recruitment.
As for the wartime conscription system, in the face of a national war, local counties forcibly recruited military-age personnel to form new second-line regiments to supplement the front lines. The fate of these forced conscripts was not very good. They failed and died, becoming a first-line army.
A nameless cannon fodder. Victory is just a waste of joy. What he did after he was forced to retire will continue to do what he did. It will not change his destiny. Only a very small number of meritorious personnel have the good luck to transfer to that place.
Several standing corps became official service soldiers...
The overseas autonomous territories now have four standing corps, plus a navy, and 12 local garrison regiments, with a total strength of nearly 550,000. Since most of the troops are recruited through the recruitment system like the standing corps, in terms of military expenditures,
It has put a lot of pressure on the Dominion Military Region. After all, the funds for personnel salary and welfare subsidies have been overrun, and the funds for improvement of tactical weapons and armaments will be reduced...
Claude plans to combine compulsory service with the recruitment system and establish a new conscription and reserve military service system in the Dominion Military Region. Not all conscripts are willing to serve in the army for fifteen years. They are not interested in national identity. On the contrary, they hope
You can go home early and be reunited with your family. The reason why the military service period is as long as fifteen years is because all the countries in Farea continent need experienced veterans and excellent soldiers to defend their countries.
In the overseas autonomous territories, a young man who has reached the age of 18 is an eligible conscript. However, his enlistment period is only five years. During these five years, he will receive training in the military camp and become a qualified member of the autonomous territory military region.
Soldier. If he has meritorious service in the war and is promoted, his military career will be very long...
If there is no war and no need to go to the battlefield during a recruit's five-year service period, then after the five-year service period, the recruit has two choices. One is to continue serving in the military, but this choice has a prerequisite
The condition is that during the five years of service, the recruit must have become a non-commissioned officer. He will be employed by the army as a non-commissioned officer, and will enjoy generous salary and welfare subsidies until he becomes a national after fifteen years of service.
After officially retiring from the army, you can directly arrange to receive training locally to serve as a public servant...
Another option is that if the soldier does not want to continue serving in the army, he can say goodbye to the military camp and go home. Marriage, childbirth, business, etc. will not be affected. The army will seal his files and record that his service period has expired.
Five years. As long as the soldier wants to become a national before the age of forty, he can apply to continue serving in the local garrison until the fifteen-year service period expires and he obtains national status.
As long as they are eligible conscripts from overseas autonomous territories, the military reform that the autonomous military region is planning to implement will have a great impact on the future of these conscripts. Any adult who is over 18 years old will enter the military camp to receive training for a military career.
And forging, reshaping the three views. In this way, even during the five years of compulsory military service, he will be influenced by the discipline of the military camp. After retirement, he can become a reserve soldier, waiting for re-recruitment when the military region faces a war...
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The reform of the enlistment system and reservist registration system of the Dominion Military Region presided over by Claude largely broke the ancient tradition of fifteen-year service period for soldiers. From now on, in the four standing corps of the Dominion Military Region,
, without mastering a superb military skill, it becomes impossible to stay in the army for a long time. The five-year compulsory enlistment system has brought new vitality to the closed military camp.
The biggest benefit of this military reform to the Dominion Military Region is that it saves military expenses in terms of labor and salaries. As General Beach Kerin said, joining the army in the past was equivalent to finding a lifelong career, as long as you did not die young.
If you die in battle, you can keep this job with generous salary and benefits until you retire. For example, Claude was recommended to join the Blue Feathers. When his name appeared on the roster of the Blue Feathers, he has been a member of the Blue Feathers since then.
Have a generous salary and welfare subsidies.
However, the Blue Feather Legion was probably the standing legion with the worst luck during the war. It experienced ups and downs and the crisis of annihilation. Claude was lucky enough to avoid these bad luck and was transferred to the Ranger Camp by Prince Hansback.
He came to test new tactics and rose through the military ranks. As General Beachlin said, guys as lucky as Claude are actually rare in the military...
But after the five-year compulsory military service system and the reserve registration system were implemented in the Dominion Military Region, guys as lucky as Claude will never be the protagonist again in the future. Because Claude was very frantic and canceled the five-year conscription period for new recruits.
The generous salary during the enlistment period is only provided with a small welfare subsidy. This is the five-year compulsory military service. It is not about finding a job, but about fulfilling one's obligations. The military camp provides food, accommodation, clothing, and travel, so what else do you need salary for?
If you want to get a generous salary, you have to wait until five years of compulsory military service is over. Rely on your excellent military skills and be retained by the army at the rank of non-commissioned officer. Then you can get a generous salary and welfare subsidies, and this salary will follow.
The number of years in the military camp increases, or you receive rewards for meritorious service on the battlefield and in the military...
However, General Bockard said very bluntly that Claude changed the original fifteen-year salary payment period for soldiers to a ten-year payment period. The first five years became a compulsory military service elimination period, and those who wanted to work in the military camp were
All the people who were dawdling in the military camp were eliminated. Even though their salary was reduced for five years, those fools who stayed in the military camp were still grateful. I really don’t understand that it is so difficult to leave the military camp and work hard on their own? It would be better to do any business than to stay in the military camp.
You can earn more in the military camp...
In the 607th year of the Holy Light Calendar, there was not much movement in the overseas autonomous territories. Except for the eye-catching alliance with the Pamigal National Republic, the rest of the time was spent taking care of the internal affairs of the autonomous military regions. Whether it was cooperating with the severe crackdowns implemented by the autonomous territory council
and inspection of officials, they all fulfilled their duties of supporting roles. The next step is to continue to resettle Hicks military immigrants, reduce and disband eight Hicks returning divisions, and form the Hicks Volunteer Corps.
In the second half of the year, the Dominion Military Region was busy reforming the military system and implementing a five-year compulsory military service system and a reserve registration system within the Dominion. By mid-October, there were reports of Black Sails Pirates and the United Kingdom of Fox Islands on the West Coast again.
News of the sailing fleet going to war.
This time it was the Black Sail Pirates who took the initiative to cause trouble for the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. They took the initiative to attack the sailing fleet stationed at the port of the second colony. Not only did they defeat the sailing fleet, they also captured the entire port and plundered it for three days before leaving.
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The Kingdom of the Fox Islands was severely slapped in the face this time. The so-called powerful maritime power has lost its initial threat. All that is left are two seemingly powerful sailing fleets. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that sailing warships
They will soon be left behind. Just like this time, the Black Sail Pirates once again used twelve iron-clad battleships to charge, and then used sixteen copper-clad sailing battleships that also used marine steam-powered machinery to follow behind, overwhelming the Fox Islands in one fell swoop.
The tight defensive array deployed by the United Kingdom's sailing fleet quickly caused the enemy to collapse and flee on their own.
The result of this naval battle was that the Kingdom of Carmanlane no longer ignored the threat of a maritime declaration of war and naval blockade by the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and directly mobilized its army to capture the remaining colony of the neighboring Kingdom of Resnia.
The Kingdom of Resnia was directly kicked out of the ranks of colonial countries on the west coast of the Nubisian continent.
On the other side of the colony of the Kingdom of Resnia, the colony of the Principality of Leliolo was a step slower. On one side, it was madly complaining about the Kingdom of Carmanlane's colony for moving so fast. On the other side, it also mobilized the army without hesitation to attack the Fox next door.
The second colony of the United Kingdom of Islands was launched.
The defense force on the Fox Islands United Kingdom colony was in bad luck. First, the powerful kingdom's sailing fleet was defeated by the black sail pirates. Then they were pressed to the ground and rubbed by the black sail pirates who came ashore to plunder them, and their property was robbed.
Most of the time, some wives and daughters were robbed. We haven’t yet calculated the extent of the losses. As a result, new occupiers of the colony of the Principality of Leriolo were ushered in. Their kingdom colony was gone and was announced to be annexed to the territory of Leriolo.
Among the colonies of the Principality of Riolo...
The furious United Kingdom of the Fox Islands immediately declared war on the sea and launched a naval blockade against the Kingdom of Camanlane and the Principality of Leriolo. At this stage, they could not find the black sail pirates to vent their anger, so it did not prevent them from venting their anger on these two countries.
In the Fox Islands, the United Kingdom also knows that its own army is vulnerable, so it will not show it to make people look conspicuous. It is preparing to use two powerful sailing fleets to block the sea routes between the two countries and sink or capture all the ships in the two countries.
Ocean-going ships and armed warships.
The two countries, the Kingdom of Camanlane and the Principality of Leriolo, also announced that they would unite to form a powerful maritime force to break the naval blockade imposed on them by the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. At this time, the Overseas Autonomous Territory Vibato Port Shipbuilding Base
Six armored warships built for the Kingdom of Kamanlane have been delivered.
Therefore, when these six armored warships appeared in the maritime armed fleet jointly formed by the Kingdom of Carmanlane and the Principality of Leriolo, the sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, which was confronting them in the distance, lost the courage to attack and could only
Circling in circles in the distance without daring to get close. The so-called naval blockade ended in vain...
Now the Dominion Military Region has received a large order for a total of twenty-four first-generation iron-clad warships from the Kingdom of Carmenline and the Principality of Leriolo, which will be delivered within one year. The two countries have just received the deposit and sent away the special envoys of the two countries who purchased the iron-clad warships.
Here comes the purchasing group from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
"We want to buy forty-eight ironclad warships..." said the envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.