"I'm sorry, Your Majesty Marshal, we have not reached a purchase agreement with the special envoy of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands." General Mantveit, the director of the Equipment Department, and General Conde Walker, the director of the Military and Political Department, stood in front of Claude and reported to him.
got this bad news.
General Kande Walker, director of the Ministry of Military Affairs, added: "We tried to ask the special envoy to purchase second-generation iron-clad warships, but he refused. Even if we told him that if he purchased second-generation warships, the delivery date would be advanced.
One year, but after thinking about it, he still rejected our proposal and insisted on purchasing all first-generation iron-clad warships..."
"From his personal officers, the Naval Intelligence Department learned such news. This time the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands sent a special envoy to purchase forty-eight iron-clad warships. It was a special transfer of funds. This amount of money was allocated, and no money was given to them.
The special envoy's extra funds allowed him to purchase several second-generation iron-clad warships to test their combat differences and effects compared to the first-generation iron-clad warships.
And the most important point is that all the armored warships produced by our Dominion Shipbuilding Workshop do not contain artillery devices, leaving only the turret position on the deck. Therefore, in the eyes of this special envoy, these purchased armored warships still need to be equipped with them.
Our own artillery has no effect on the enemy's armored battleships, so it doesn't matter whether we have first-generation or second-generation armored battleships."
The director of the equipment department, General Mantwai, found out some inside information about the procurement envoy from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands through the Naval Intelligence Bureau, because even the large and heavy naval guns developed by the Dominion Military Region on the first and second generation ironclad warships could not be used.
It is impossible to achieve the record of sinking another armored warship with more than ten shells, even if the target is a first-generation armored warship.
Only the third-generation iron-clad warships developed by the Dominion Military Region have been replaced with new naval guns and armor-piercing projectiles, which poses a fatal threat to the first and second-generation iron-clad warships. Now, the Dominion Military Region has several shipbuilding companies established in the Port of Vibato
All the first- and second-generation iron-clad warships produced and built in the base workshop do not contain naval guns. After the construction is completed, the purchaser will drag them back and install the guns themselves.
They are all large or heavy bronze cannons loaded with black powder in the front and fired solid projectiles mounted on sailing warships. They are indeed not a great threat to first- and second-generation ironclad warships. No wonder the procurement envoy from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands
We must have one generation of armored battleships. Before we can ensure that these armored battleships can be sunk with existing artillery, there is really no difference between the first and second generation of armored battleships. Even if the speed, agility, and resistance performance are higher, it will be of no use.
Double the price is the most uneconomical deal...
"So this procurement envoy insists on a generation of iron-armored warships, and the several major workshops we have set up at the Vibato Port Shipbuilding Base are already filled with orders for warships from the Kingdom of Carmanlane and the Principality of Leliolo. In the future,
We won’t be able to receive any more orders for new armored warships within this year, right?” Claude raised his head: “Didn’t you say that Vibato Port is still expanding its shipyards and building new docks?”
General Kande Walker, director of the Ministry of Military Affairs, replied: "The shipbuilding base in Vibato Port does have an expansion plan. It is planned to add four shipbuilding workshops and build eight new docks within six months. But this expansion plan will not be available until at least April next year.
It will take a lot of time to complete and install various auxiliary shipbuilding engineering machinery. It will be very good to be put into use before June in the first half of next year.
The order placed by the procurement envoy of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands was very large, and it was a pity to reject it. But they insisted that they only wanted first-generation ironclad warships, not second-generation ironclad warships, otherwise we could renovate the current second-generation ironclad warships and deliver them to him.
.In that case, it only needs to be modified and refurbished at the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base.
The current problem is that the Vibato Port cannot meet the construction deadline, and the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base refuses to undertake obsolete goods such as the first-generation armored warships. Their workshops and shipyards have also accumulated orders for new ships.
.If we are to accept this large order for armored battleships from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, construction will have to start in the second half of next year at the earliest.
This is why we were unable to reach an agreement with the procurement envoys of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. They asked us to immediately start building the ironclad warships we ordered and deliver the first batch of twelve ironclad warships six months later. We were unable to fulfill this request.
.No matter what, there is a first-come, first-served basis. We must first complete the warship orders for the Kingdom of Carmenline and the Principality of Leliolo."
"In this case, there is no need to drag it out. Let's just reject this order from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. We don't need to compromise for forty-eight first-generation iron-clad battleships." Claude made a decision, and then stood up.
I walked to the wall and looked at the map of the colonies on the west coast hanging on the wall. I shook my head and laughed.
"I really don't know what the United Kingdom of Fox Islands will do next," Claude pointed to the only two colonies of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands on the map: "Without ironclad battleships, these two colonies are very likely to
It will be impossible to keep it. When the orders for armored warships placed by the Kingdom of Carmenline and the Principality of Leriolo are completed, then the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands will have to worry about being blocked on the Fox Islands and will not be able to take care of the remaining two countries on the west coast.
a colony.
The Mount Weders Harbor Colony may be able to be saved. It is already the only colony at the extreme northern end of the west coast. Further north is the Gobi wasteland with no vegetation. It is also separated from the colony of the Federo Principality by nearly a hundred miles of desert soil.
Qiu, the relationship between the two countries has always been good. If other countries did not intervene, this colony should be able to be saved. However, the Mount Wade Seaport Colony has rich mineral resources and an excellent deep-water seaport. In the eyes of other colonial countries,
, is also a big fat piece of meat, but I don’t know who will get the advantage in the end.
In addition to the Mount Mount Seaport Colony, the only thing left in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands is the Port Colony of Lupusel, which is next to the Opsaro City-State Alliance. With good luck, it is sandwiched between the Opsaro City-State Alliance and the Feipsaro City-State Alliance.
Among the colonies of the Principality of Deloitte, unlike the neighboring colony of the Principality of Leriolo in the middle, it was directly and forcibly occupied by the colonial authorities of the Principality of Leriolo. However, this colony of Purcell Port is now also facing being occupied.
The danger of annexation by the Opsaro City-State Alliance, once the Fox Islands United Kingdom loses another battle at sea..."
The United Kingdom of Fox Islands originally had four colonies on the west coast. The smallest colony, Rodex Bay Colony, has been given to the Overseas Dominion. The remaining three are distributed at the northern end, middle and south of the west coast. The northernmost one is Wade.
The Sishan Seaport Colony is a mountainous and hilly area with rich mineral resources. It is a military industrial base that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands plans to use for the construction and production of ironclad warships.
The central part is a colony in the plains, and it is also the colony with the richest agricultural products. However, it has been occupied by troops from the colonial authorities of the Principality of Leriolo, and this colony is gone. The colony in the south is called Port of Pusel.
The Migal National Republic is not far away, separated only by the Vasiliko Principality Colony and the Opsaro City-State Alliance Colony.
The colony of the Principality of Vasiliko is half-broken, but the Opsaro City-State Alliance is very happy. In front of it is the colony abandoned by the Principality of Vasiliko, and behind it is the colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands whose land defense force is weak. As long as it is annexed
With the Vasiliko Principality Colony and the Lupusel Port Colony, the Opsaro City-State Alliance's colonies on the west coast can almost triple. Just out of respect for the maritime power of the United Fox Islands, the Opsaro City-State Alliance colonial authorities
I haven't taken any action...
Without negotiating a production order for ironclad battleships with the Dominion Military District, the procurement envoy from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands instead placed an order for sixty first-generation marine steam power machinery and propeller spindle configurations with the Dominion's First Commercial Power Machinery Workshop, with a total value of
Three million gold crowns, equivalent to 50,000 gold crowns, is a marine steam power machinery and propeller spindle configuration. After approval by the Dominion Military District, the order was completed and the transaction was completed within three months.
The Department of Naval Intelligence believes that the Fox Islands United Kingdom’s so-called purchase of iron-clad warships is actually a cover. The real purpose is to purchase these marine steam power mechanical devices and propeller spindle configurations from the Dominion Military Region. This probably means that the Fox Islands United Kingdom develops and produces them themselves.
Ironclad battleships may imitate black-sail pirates, covering sailing battleships with copper or iron armor, and then modifying them with marine steam-powered machinery and propellers.
A month later, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands sent a sailing battleship squadron to welcome six ocean-going armed transport ships carrying twenty marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindle configurations back to the Fox Islands off the southern coast of the Falea continent.
.But what they didn’t expect was to be ambushed and attacked by the combined maritime fleets of the Kingdom of Carmenline and the Principality of Leriolo in the waters three hundred miles away from the Fox Islands...
The Kingdom of Kamanlane dispatched two cruising combat units, that is, twelve armored battleships, minus two armored armed transport ships loaded with black stone coal. What actually went into battle were two first-generation armored cruisers and eight first-generation armored battleships.
Destroyers, that is, ten armored battleships. The Principality of Leriolo has not yet received the first batch of customized armored battleships, and has only dispatched twelve ocean-going fast three-masted sailing cruising battleships.
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is a squadron of the sailing fleet, consisting of eighteen three-class sailing battleships (that is, five-masted three-tiered main battleships with forty-eight forward-loaded heavy guns on each side of the battleship) plus six armed ocean-going ships.
transport ships, as well as four ocean-going fast three-masted sailing cruising warships, a total of twenty-eight sailing warships, against the ten iron-clad warships and twelve ocean-going fast cruising warships of the combined maritime fleets of the Kingdom of Carmanlane and the Principality of Leriolo
...
The result of this naval battle was another major defeat of the Fox Islands United Kingdom. If the rescue fleet had not arrived quickly, the twenty-eight sail warships might have sunk to the bottom of the sea. Judging from the firepower possessed by the fleet, the Fox Islands United Kingdom
The kingdom's sailing squadron occupies a comprehensive advantage.
However, the ten armored warships of the Kingdom of Kamanlane did not mainly flank the sailing warships during sea battles. Instead, they used their maneuverability to chase the tail of the sailing warships, ejecting white phosphorus bombs and destroying the rear cabin of the rudder, making the sailing warships possess
Its firepower advantage cannot be used at all, or it can be said to be useless and can only become a target at sea...
Only three of the twenty marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindle configurations carried by the six ocean-going armed transport ships were left. Only one ocean-going armed transport ship survived until rescue came. The remaining five ocean-going armed transport ships were all sunk.
The seventeen power units and propeller spindle configurations all became objects on the seabed. This huge loss caused the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands to once again send envoys to the overseas dominions. This time they waved bank drafts and requested the purchase of twelve second-generation ironclads.
The battleship will be completed and delivered in half a year...
The second-generation iron-clad warships are twice as expensive as the first-generation iron-clad warships. The total price of twelve second-generation iron-clad warships is 3.6 million gold crowns. With a smile, General Muriel allocates twelve second-generation iron-clad warships from the fleet.
The battleship was delivered to the naval port shipbuilding base for renovation and transformation, and was ready to be delivered to the United Kingdom of Fox Islands in six months. Here, an order for twelve brand new fourth-generation ironclad battleships was placed with Master Bird's Ship Design Center...
..
When the combined maritime fleets of the Kingdom of Carmanlane and the Principality of Leriolo ambushed the sailing battleship squadron of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and the news of their great victory spread to the west coast, the Opsaro City-State Alliance finally launched a joint attack on the neighboring Fox Islands.
The Kingdom's Port Colony of Lipsell was taken action. The Opsaro City-State Alliance sent a legion to occupy the Port Colony of Lipsell, and acquired three ocean-going ships to transport officials and their families of the colonial authorities of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.
Get on the ship and send gifts out of the country.
As for the Mount Mount Seaport Colony at the northernmost point of the west coast, it became the only remaining colony of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands on the west coast. In order to preserve this colony, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands specifically entrusted the Principality of Federo with which it had a good relationship.
, sent troops to guard the Desshan Seaport Colony. Only when the Principality of Federo hesitated again and again and finally decided to send a local garrison force to take a look, did they find that the Wadeshan Seaport Colony had been silently occupied by the Black Sail Pirates.
is occupied.
The only thing to blame is that the Mount Wedes Seaport Colony is too far north. Even the land boundary of the adjacent Federo Principality Colony is more than a hundred miles away from it. If it weren't for the fact that there is an excellent deep-water seaport.
, maybe it will also become a colony abandoned by the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. Fortunately, this colony is rich in mineral resources, which effectively fills the shortage of mineral resources in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands as an archipelago country.
For more than 100 years, the Mount Guards Seaport Colony has been the largest mineral resource collection site in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. They implement two systems here. The mountain mines are a slave system. Through various channels, they collect mineral resources from other colonies or
Pirate gangs purchased slaves to work as mining slaves to mine mineral resources for the kingdom. The seaport under the mountain followed a normal colonial system, with towns established, governors set up, and immigrants moved in...
To be honest, Mount Guards Harbor Colony should be the largest colony on the west coast of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. However, because it is located at the northern end, it is very remote, and because it is surrounded by mountains and hills, it is not liked by immigrants from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
Over the years, only two or three towns have been established around the harbor at the foot of the mountain, with less than 50,000 immigrants.
It was not until the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands decided to build the Mount Guards Harbor Colony into a military shipbuilding base that could produce ironclad warships that a large number of immigrants and their families arrived here, and shipbuilding workshops and laboratories began to be built. Because in
There are four powerful sailing fleets at sea, so the authorities of the Mount Guards Harbor Colony never dreamed of being attacked by pirates.
Then the Mount Guards Seaport Colony suffered a sudden attack by more than a dozen pirate gangs headed by the Black Sail Pirates. More than a hundred warships of a sailing fleet that had just arrived at the port to prepare for a carnival night were robbed and divided by the pirates.
, was set on fire and burned to ashes. The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was inexplicably missing a sailing fleet.
Immediately afterwards, the Black Sail Pirates swept through the rest of the facilities in the harbor, including various mechanical equipment and military supplies in the warehouse, the metal shells of six ironclad battleships, shipbuilding experts and technicians recruited by the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and several
The rune mages all fell into the hands of the Black Sails Pirates. It can be said that the Black Sails Pirates returned from the Mount Weders Harbor Colony with a full load...
Next, the remaining three sailing fleets of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands went crazy around the world looking for the pirate forces that attacked them. Until one of their sailing fleets met the Black Sail Island in the Nubali Sea and suffered a huge defeat.
After a naval battle, the United Kingdom of Fox Islands finally found the culprit who attacked them.
Soon, the iron-clad battleships of the Black Sails Pirates once again attacked the richest colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands in the middle of the west coast. They once again destroyed a sailing fleet and plundered coastal towns, letting the world understand that iron-clad battleships replaced sailing battleships.
The trend is irreversible.
At this critical moment, instead of helping the United Kingdom of Fox Islands to deal with the Black Sail Pirates, the Kingdom of Camanlane and the Principality of Leriolo not only added insult to injury. One of them captured the colony of the Kingdom of Resnia, and the other annexed the central part of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
Colonies, forcing the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands to ignore the Black Sails Pirates and turn their attention to deal with these two enemy countries first.
In this way, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands forgot about the Weders Mountain Seaport Colony that was attacked by the Black Sails Pirates. It was not until even the Opsaro City-State Alliance attacked the Lipsell Port Colony that they remembered that there was a Weders Mountain Port Colony.
Sishan Seaport Colony. But then it was discovered that at some point the Black Sail Pirates came back and the Wedesshan Seaport Colony had fallen into the hands of the pirates...