The Endless Sea-class battleship in Port Lane has been put on the livery of the Daheng Navy and hung with the peony flag of the Daheng Navy. After being put on the officers and soldiers of the Daheng Navy, no matter from which angle you look at it, this is
It is an Endless Sea-class battleship of the Daheng Empire Navy.
Anyway, these are all battleships of the same class, with exactly the same appearance. Is it possible that when the Garfians see it in the future, they still dare to say that this ship belongs to their Orians?
Just kidding, we Orians are easy to bully!
Forget about you being a Carfiya, even if the people of Daheng came and said that this ship is mine, I would not recognize it.
As for the Daheng Empire, although they were dissatisfied with the Orrs' refusal to rent new battleships, they didn't say much. After all, even countries with the best relations would most likely not lend them such a thing.
After all, the battleship is not a big deal, so how can you just borrow it?
So forget it after acquiring an Endless Sea-class battleship. Although in the eyes of the Daheng Empire Navy itself, this ship is so old that it can only be relegated to the second line, but even if it is relegated to the second line, at this critical moment
Time can still play some role.
After all, it is not a battleship, and the Orr Kingdom Navy has already modified the ship with rapid-fire cannons. The secondary guns have been replaced with ten-year-old 150mm 45-fold rapid-fire cannons and nine-year-old 75-speed cannons.
Millimeter rapid-fire cannon, coupled with the Daheng Empire Navy's own smokeless propellant and armor-piercing projectiles, the combat effectiveness is still feasible, at least better than the four low-freeboard battleships previously deployed by the Garfia Empire Navy's Second Fleet.
The addition of such a modified Endless Sea-class battleship can be regarded as strengthening the strength. During the period before the main ship of the Southwest Fleet is repaired and supplied at Lane Military Base and the second batch of reinforcements arrives, it cannot be said that
Not even a single battleship.
On February 23, the twelfth year of Qian Sheng, the Daheng Empire Navy's second reinforcement fleet, the "First Mobile Fleet," urgently assembled from Nanfeng Port and headed south.
The First Mobile Fleet is composed of the main fleet of the Daheng Empire Navy's East Coast First Fleet.
Its core formation is the Third Battleship Fleet, which has four Jingzhou-class battleships;
The Third Cruiser Fleet has two Fengyang-class armored cruisers and two Kelan-class armored cruisers;
The Sixth Cruiser Fleet has four Zhendong-class second-class protected cruisers.
There are also the Third Destroyer Fleet, the Fourth Destroyer Fleet, and the Fifth Destroyer Fleet. Together, the three destroyer fleets have a total of three Yuchi-class cruisers and twelve Yuanlin-class destroyers.
The entire First Mobile Fleet has a total of four battleships, four armored cruisers, four second-class protected cruisers, three light cruisers, and twelve destroyers. All the above-mentioned battleships were built seven years after Qian Sheng.
The new generation of warships in service have high freeboards and are suitable for ocean warfare. They adopt medium and large-caliber rapid-fire guns, hardened armor and comprehensive protective measures.
The total tonnage of the above-mentioned warships exceeds 140,000 tons, and this does not include the numerous two to three hundred ton torpedo boats, mine-laying and mine-clearing vessels, various supply ships, and hospital ships that accompany them.
This first mobile fleet accounts for almost half of the strength of the Daheng Empire Navy!
This shows that the Daheng Empire attaches great importance to this war with the Carfiya Empire.
Because a large number of cutting-edge battleships were mobilized to fight south, in order to prevent accidents, the empire had already implemented coastal blockades on the east and west coasts of the mainland. At the same time, other remaining ships were also put on high alert to avoid being robbed by third parties.
Several major military ports have entered a state of first-level combat readiness. A large number of light ships are patrolling the periphery. At the same time, the port has also been strictly blocked. A large number of anti-sneak attack measures have been temporarily added, such as the installation of a large number of lightning protection nets.
, and even temporarily blocked part of the waterway by laying mines.
This series of preparations also includes the early commissioning of the Gaoqing!
As the Daheng Empire and the first hybrid main gun battleship on Blue Star, the Gaoqing was just outfitted in January this year and entered the secret stage. According to the scheduled plan, the sea trials of the ship are expected to continue.
It will take about three months, but now that the situation is tense, the Navy has put this warship into active service in advance, and will continue to conduct sea trials and training at the same time to form combat effectiveness in advance.
With the Gaoqing, the top battleship of the contemporary era, entering service ahead of schedule, the Daheng Empire Navy's confidence has become much stronger.
If the Gaoqing, a new top-class hybrid main gun battleship, had not entered service ahead of schedule, the Daheng Empire Navy would not have dared to dispatch so many battleships to the south.
After all, the pressure on coastal defense and navigation safety in the Endless Strait faced by the Daheng Empire has always been relatively high.
Whether it is the Orissa people or the Kruls, if they see the opportunity, they will never give up the opportunity to defeat the Daheng Empire Navy.
The Orissa people are pretty good, but the Krul Kingdom Navy has always had a tradition of sneak attacks.
As the world's largest country and the largest navy, the Kingdom of Krul has no regard for the face of the world's largest country. In the past few decades, they have engaged in many such sneak attack operations.
When the Kekel Navy was sneak attacked by the Kingdom of Krul, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army, it always reminded the navies of every country on the Blue Star not to take the Navy of the Kingdom of Krul lightly at any time. Maybe Krul here
The kingdom's diplomats are still chatting with you, but on the other side, their Krul Kingdom's navy has already launched a surprise attack on your military port.
The Daheng Empire Navy was naturally on guard against the notorious sneak attack tradition of the Krul Kingdom Navy.
Although there are not many battleships left behind, there are still two Jingzhou-class battleships, two Fengyang-class improved armored cruisers, and the Gaoqing battleship. There are a total of five cutting-edge battleships left behind.
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In addition, there are five Endless Sea-class battleships, two Yonglin-class battleships, and two Chongke-class armored cruisers, a total of nine old low-freeboard battleships cooperating in combat.
In addition, the full-speed artillery main ship Mirror River is expected to be outfitted within this month. By then, it can be directly put into emergency service, conducting sea trials and training at the same time.
In addition to these capital ships, there are a large number of small and medium-sized ships remaining on the mainland, as well as a large number of second-class protected cruisers, third-class reconnaissance cruisers, first-class destroyers, second-class destroyers, and third-class destroyers.
As for the world-famous A-series torpedo boats in Dahengli, there are naturally more. There are more than 170 A-series torpedo boats of various types deployed on the east coast alone, and there are more than 60 on the west coast.
Although the Daheng Empire has long ago made large-scale torpedo boats, and has successively developed first-, second-, and third-class destroyers, third-class destroyers of four to five hundred tons, second-class destroyers of five hundred tons to one thousand tons, and first-class destroyers of more than one thousand tons, but
The development of A-series torpedo boats ranging from tens to two to three hundred tons has not stopped, and multiple improved models have been continuously developed.
In terms of home defense, the Daheng Empire Navy has made full preparations.
Only in this way can the First Mobile Fleet be able to move south with peace of mind!
In order to move south smoothly and avoid accidents, such as the sudden attack of the Orissa Empire and the Kingdom of Krul and the sudden attack and interception of the mobile fleet, the First Mobile Fleet relied on its excellent ocean navigation performance and did not move along the route.
Instead of heading south along the mainland coastline, we went directly through the more dangerous Dana Bay.
The western end of Dana Bay is the Endless Sea Strait, with the Kingdom of Dana in the north, the Orissa Empire in the south, and the Dana Islands in the west. The two major islands in the archipelago are occupied by the Orissa Empire and the Kingdom of Krul respectively.
occupy.
To the east, Dana Island is located in the waters of the Endless Strait of the Kingdom of Krul. It is also the most important naval base in the entire central continent and the southern continent, and the headquarters of the Western Fleet of the Kingdom of Krul.
In order to avoid trouble, the First Mobile Fleet will pass directly through the middle of Dana Bay instead of sailing along the coastline.
It will sail all the way to the waters near the four countries on the east coast. The Daheng Empire has discussed with the four countries on the east coast. After paying some costs, the four countries on the east coast have agreed that the fleet can temporarily dock in its north, which is the Kingdom of Duze.
An ordinary port for routine supplies.
After regular replenishment, the fleet will continue southward and finally arrive at the Lane Military Base in the Orr Kingdom.
During the entire voyage, because there was only one regular replenishment in the Kingdom of Du Ze in the four countries on the east coast, although the fleet going south this time were all ocean-going warships, their endurance was very good, and its main ships could reach Orr in one go.
Going to the Kingdom, some destroyers have poor endurance, but they are enough to get through after a replenishment.
However, in order to avoid any accidents, and the risks of ultra-long-distance navigation are high, the fleet carried a large number of supply ships when it went south. At the same time, the Daheng Empire also arranged many supply ships along the way to provide emergency maritime support for the fleet.
supply.
Fortunately, the Daheng Empire Navy had previously lacked overseas bases, so in order to expand its ocean combat capabilities, it had always focused on maritime supply.
To this end, a large number of professional coal supply ships and comprehensive supply ships have been specially researched and built. These supply ships are equipped with hoisting equipment, which can directly supply coal, ammunition, food and fresh water to warships through hoisting operations in calm sea conditions.
These supply ships are not cheap, not to mention hoisting equipment and other professional equipment. In order to keep up with the sailing speed of the fleet, their power systems are all used in battleships, and their speed can reach about fifteen knots.
In terms of maritime supply capabilities, the Daheng Empire is probably the most powerful in the world.
There is no way, this is all forced out. Although the Daheng Empire has been busy with civil strife in recent decades, it has not done much overseas expansion. After several years of hard work after the reunification, it only obtained a military base in the Orr Kingdom.
That's it, now that we are doing the second one, we have met with strong opposition from the Garfia Empire, which has led to a military conflict between the two sides.
Under such circumstances, there is nothing the Daheng Empire can do to improve its ocean-going supply capabilities.
Relatively speaking, the maritime supply capability of the Krul Kingdom Navy is not very good, because they don’t need it at all!
Their overseas military bases are spread all over the world, and they don't need any sea supplies at all.
When the Daheng Empire Navy dispatched a large number of capital ships to go south, the Garfia Empire was not idle either. They also made the decision to dispatch a fleet to reinforce the west coast.