Black Iron’s Glory

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Chapter 591 The West Coast in a changeable situation

 

“Sorry, Your Excellency Marshal, we have not reached all and the Special Envoy of the Kingdom of Fux Islands and Kingdom has reached a purchase agreement.” He reported the bad news.

 

Kant Walker General, Director of the Department of Military Affairs, added: “We tried to get this special envoy to purchase the second-generation armored battleship, but he was rejected. Even if we told him that if he purchased the second-generation battleship, then the delivery The meeting was one year in advance, but after thinking about it, he rejected our proposal and insisted on purchasing all the first-generation iron armored battleships … “

 

“From his accompany officers, the Navy’s intelligence department has learned such news. This time, the Fux Islands and the Kingdom sent a special envoy to purchase 48 iron armored battleships, which is a special fund transfer. The amount paid is so much. not at all Give the special envoy extra funds so that he can purchase several second-generation iron armored battleships to try out their War Zone differences and effects with the first generation iron armored battleships.

 

And the most important point is that the armored battleships produced by our Dominion Shipbuilding Workshop do not include artillery devices, leaving only the turret position on the deck. Therefore, in the eyes of this special envoy, these purchased armored battleships also need to install their own artillery, which has no effect on the enemy’s armored battleship, so it does not matter whether the first or second generation of armored battleship. “

 

The head of the equipment department, Mantvit General, did inquire through the Naval Intelligence Agency some inside information of the procurement envoy from the Fux Islands United Kingdom, because one or two generations of iron armored battleships are even large and heavy ships developed by the autonomous region. The artillery cannot achieve the record of more than ten shells sinking another armored battleship, even if the goal is a generation of armored battleship.

 

Only the third-generation iron armored battleship developed by the autonomous region was replaced with new naval guns and armor-piercing shells, which constituted a lethal threat to the first and second generation of iron armored battleships. However, several autonomous shipbuilding workshops in the Port of Wibator are now built in the autonomous command zone. The second-generation iron armored battleship produced and built does not include ship guns. After the construction is completed, the purchaser will drag them back to install artillery.

 

These are large or heavy bronze gun-loaded black gunpowder fired solid projectiles loaded on the sailship battleship. The threat to the second-generation iron armored battleship is really not great. No wonder that the Fux Islands and Kingdom’s purchasing envoy must have a generation of armored battleships. Before the existing artillery can not ensure that these armored battleships can be sunk, the generation of armored battleships of the second generation is really no different. Even speed, agility, no higher resistance is useless, double the price is the most uneconomical business …

 

“So this purchasing envoy insists on a generation of iron armored battleships, and our major workshops set up at the shipbuilding base of the Port of Vibato have been filled with battleship orders from Carman Lane King and Rerioro Dukedom. Will there be no more orders for new armored battleships in the next year? “Claude looked up.” Isn’t Port Vibatuo still expanding its shipbuilding workshops and building new docks? “

 

Kant Walker, General of the Ministry of Military Affairs, replied: “The shipbuilding base of the Port of Wibator does have an expansion plan. It plans to add four shipbuilding workshops and build eight new docks within six months. But this expansion plan is at least until next year. It will be completed in April, and it will take a lot of time to install various auxiliary shipbuilding engineering machinery, and it will be very good to be put into use before June in the first half of next year.

 

The order placed by the purchasing envoy of the Fux Islands and Kingdom was very large, and it was a pity that it was cancelled. But they insisted that as long as the first-generation iron armor battleship, not the second-generation iron armor battleship, otherwise we can deliver the current second-generation iron armor battleship to him after renovation. That would only require modification and refurbishment at Patras Naval Shipbuilding Base.

 

The problem now is that there is no schedule for the port of Wibator. The Patres naval shipbuilding base has refused to accept the elimination of a generation of iron armored battleships. Their workshops and docks have also accumulated new Ship’s order. If you want to take this iron armored battleship order from Fux Islands and Kingdom, then the fastest start of construction must be in the second half of next year.

 

This is why we could not reach an agreement with the procurement envoy of the Kingdom of Fux Islands. They asked us to immediately start the construction of the ordered iron armored battleship and deliver the first twelve iron armored battleships half a year later. This requires us Can’t do it. No matter what, there is a come first come first, we have to complete the battleship order of Kaman Ryan Kingdom and Rerioro Dukedom. “

 

“In this case, then there is no need to drag on, just reject this order from the Fux Islands United Kingdom. We don’t need to go all out for the 48 generations of iron armor battleship.” Claude made a decision, then stood up , Walked to the wall, looked at the map of the West Coast colonies hanging on the wall, shook the head and laughed.

 

“I really don’t know what the Fux Islands united Kingdom will do next,” Claude pointed at the two remaining Fux Islands united Kingdom colonies on the map: “Without iron armor battleship, these two colonies are also very It may not be able to keep it. When the order of the armored battleship placed by Kamman Ryan Kingdom and Relioro Dukedom with us is completed, then the Fux Islands and Kingdom will have to worry that they will be blocked on the Fux Islands, and they cannot take care of the rest of the West Coast. Two colonies.

 

The Wade Mountain Harbour Colony may be able to be maintained. It is already the only colony at the extreme northern end of the West Coast, and further north is Gobi wasteland, with no vegetation. Desert Colony, which is nearly 100 miles away from the colony of Federow Dukedom, has always been a good relationship between the two countries. This colony should be able to survive without the intervention of other countries. However, the Wade Mountain Harbor Colony has rich mineral resources and an excellent deep-water harbor. In the eyes of other colonial countries, it is also a big piece of fat, but I don’t know who will be cheaper in the end.

 

In addition to this Weidesberg harbour colony, what remains of the Fux Islands United Kingdom is this colony of Port Lupsel beside the Opsaro City-State Alliance. With good luck, it was sandwiched between the Opsaro City-state Alliance and the Fedro Dukedom colony. Unlike the central colony of the nearby Riorio Dukedom, it was directly occupied by the colonial authorities of the Riorio Dukedom. However, this Port Russell colony is also now facing the danger of being annexed by the Opsaro City-State Alliance. Once the Fux Islands and Kingdom are defeated at sea … “

 

The Fux Islands and United Kingdom originally had four colonies on the west coast. The smallest Rodex Bay colony has been given to the Overseas Dominion, and the remaining three are distributed on the north, central, and south ends of the west coast. The northernmost point is the Weedes Seaport Colony, which is a mountainous hill with rich mineral resources. It is a military industrial base prepared by the Fux Islands and Kingdom to be used for the construction of iron armored battleships.

 

The central part is a colony in the plains and the most abundant colony of agricultural products. However, it has now been occupied by the colonial authorities of the Dukedom Rerioro Dukedom. This colony is gone. The colony called Puerto Russell to the south is not far from the Pamigar National Republic. The two are separated only by the Vasilico Dukedom colony and the Opusaro City-state colony.

 

The Vasilico Dukedom colony is half-disabled, but the Opsaro City-State Alliance is very happy. In front of it is the colony abandoned by Vasilico Dukedom. Behind is the Fux Islands united Kingdom, which is capable of defending with a single blow. Colony. As long as the annexation of the Vasilico Dukedom colony and the Port Purcell colony, the colony of the Opsaro city-state on the west coast can almost triple. Only out of respect for the maritime power of the United Kingdom of the Fux Islands, the colonial authority of the Opsaro City-State Alliance has not acted …

 

Failed to negotiate the production order for the armored battleship with the autonomous region, the Fux Islands United Kingdom’s procurement envoy turned to the first commercial power machinery workshop of the autonomous region for 60 generations of steam power machinery and propeller spindle configuration. , With a total value of 3,000,000 kronor, equivalent to 50,000 kronor, a marine steam power mechanism and a propeller spindle configuration. After the approval of the Autonomous Military Command, the order was completed and the transaction was completed within three months.

 

The Department of Naval Intelligence believes that the so-called purchase of iron armored battleship by the Fux Islands and Kingdom is actually a cover. The real purpose is to purchase the ship ’s steam power machinery and propeller spindle configuration from the autonomous region. This is likely to mean that the Fux Islands and Kingdom jointly developed the iron armored battleship or imitated the black sail pirate, covered the sail battleship with copper or iron armor, and then modified the steam power machinery and propellers on board.

 

One month later, the Fux Islands and United Kingdom sent a sailship battleship to welcome six ocean-going armed transport ships with twenty marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindles back to Fux, south of Freia Continent. Islands. But what they didn’t expect was that the Sea Territory, 300 li away from the Fux Islands, was attacked by the Kamman Ryan Kingdom and the Relioro Dukedom maritime fleet at a sneak attack …

 

Kaman Ryan Kingdom has dispatched two cruise combat units, that is, twelve iron armored battleships, which minus two iron armored armed transport ships loaded with blackstone coal. Two generations of iron armored cruisers and eight One generation of armored destroyers, that is, ten armored battleships. However, Relioro Dukedom has not received the first batch of customized iron armored battleships, and only sent twelve ocean-going fast three-masted sail cruise battleships.

 

Fux Islands United Kingdom is a sub-fleet of a sailing fleet, eighteen Level 3 sailing battleships (that is, five-masted three-story artillery, two sides of the battleship each have four 18 battleships with heavy artillery battleships) plus six Armed ocean-going transport ships, as well as four ocean-going fast three-masted sail cruise battleships, a total of twenty-eight sail battleships, ten iron armored battleships against the Carman Ryan Kingdom and Rerioro Dukedom maritime fleet, and twelve oceans Fast cruise battleship …

 

The result of this naval battle was the defeat of the Fux Islands and Kingdom. If not for the rescue fleet, the twenty-eight sailships might have sunk into the seabed. From the point of view of the fleet’s firepower, the sail sub-fleet of the Fux Islands and Kingdom has a comprehensive advantage.

 

However, the ten iron armored battleships of Kaman Ryan Kingdom are not like side sails when sailboat battleships are at sea. Instead, they use mechanical power to chase the tail section of sailship battleships, throwing white phosphorous bombs and destroying the rudder rear cabin. The firepower advantage of the sailship battleship cannot be used at all, or it is useless, it can only be a target at sea …

 

Twenty marine steam power mechanisms and propeller main shaft configurations carried by six ocean-going armed transport ships left only three, and only one ocean-going armed transport ship survived the rescue. The remaining five ocean-going armed transport ships were all sunk, and the 17 power units and propeller spindle configurations carried on them were all seabed. This huge loss caused the Fux Islands and United Kingdom to send a special envoy to the Overseas Dominion again. This time they waved a bank draft to purchase twelve second-generation iron armored battleships, which were completed and delivered after six months …

 

The second-generation iron armored battleship is twice as expensive as the first-generation iron armored battleship, and the total amount of twelve second-generation iron armored battleships is three hundred sixty million kronor. Mordred General smiled at the twelve second-generation iron armored battleships from the fleet to be delivered to the warship shipbuilding base for refurbishment and transformation, and was ready to be delivered to the Fux Islands United Kingdom in half a year. Here, we have placed an order for twelve new fourth-generation iron armored battleships with the ship design center of Byrd Great Master …

 

When Kaman Ryan Kingdom and Relioro Dukedom maritime combined fleet ambushed the sail battleship of the Fux Islands and United Kingdom, and the news of the victory came to the West Coast, the Opsaro City-State Alliance finally made a deal with the neighboring The Fux Islands united Kingdom’s Port Russell colony underground. The Opsaro City-State Alliance sent a Legion, occupying the Port Russell colony, and set up three ocean-going ships to bring the Fux Islands and Kingdom ’s colonial authority officials and family members on board, as a gift.

 

As for the Weedes Seaport Colony at the northernmost point of the West Coast, it became the only remaining colony on the West Coast of the Fux Islands United Kingdom. In order to keep this colony, the Fux Islands joined Kingdom with the help of their well-connected Federow Dukedom, and stationed troops to guard the colony of Dessau Harbour. Only when Fedro Dukedom hesitated again and again and finally decided to send a troops of the local defense team to see, it was found that the Wade Mountain Harbor colony had been occupied by the black sail pirates silently.

 

You can only blame the Wade Mountain Harbour colony, which is too far north. Even the borderline of the adjacent Federow Dukedom colony is more than a hundred miles away from it. If not, there is an excellent one. The deep-water harbour might also be a colony abandoned by the Fux Islands and Kingdom. Fortunately, this colony has abundant mineral resources, which effectively fills the lack of mineral resources of the Fux Islands and Kingdom as an archipelago country.

 

For more than a century, the Wade Mountain Harbour Colony has been the largest mineral resource collection site in the Kingdom of the Fux Islands and Kingdom. They implemented two systems here, the slave system in the mountains and mines. Through various channels, slaves were purchased from other colonies or pirate groups to become slaves and to mine mineral resources for Kingdom. The Yamashita harbour is a normal colonial system, with towns, governors, and immigrants …

 

To be honest, the Wade Mountain Harbour Colony should be the largest colony on the west coast of the Fux Islands and the United Kingdom, but because it is located at the northern end, it is very remote, and because of the hills everywhere, it does not discuss the immigration of the Fux Islands and the Kingdom. like. For more than a century, only two or three towns have been established around the harbour below the mountain, with less than 50,000 migrants.

 

It wasn’t until the Fux Islands and Kingdom decided to build the Weeds Mountain Harbour Colony into a military shipbuilding base capable of producing iron armored battleships, and it was here that a large number of immigrants and their families arrived, began to build shipbuilding workshops, set up laboratories and so on. Because of the existence of four powerful sailing fleets at sea, the authorities of the Weeds Mountain Harbour Colony never dreamed of being attacked by pirates.

 

Then the Wade Mountain Seaport Colony was attacked by dozens of pirate gangs led by Blacksail Pirates, and more than a hundred battleships of a sailing fleet that had just arrived in the harbour for a carnival night were not pirates. To rob a robber is to burn to ashes. The Fux Islands United Kingdom thus has an unfathomable mystery missing one sailing fleet.

 

Soon the black sail pirate’s iron armored battleship once again attacked the richest colony of the Fux Islands United Kingdom located in the middle of the west coast. It once again destroyed a sail fleet, plundered coastal towns, and made the world understand that the iron armored battleship replaced it. The trend of sailing battleships is irreversible.

 

At this critical moment, instead of helping the Fux Islands to unite Kingdom against Blacksail Pirates, Kaman Ryan Kingdom and Relioro Dukedom fell to the ground, a colony that captured the Kingdom of Resnia Kingdom, and a annexation of the Fux Islands Central colony of Kingdom. Forced the Fux Islands to unite Kingdom with the Black Sail Pirates, and turned their heads against these two enemy nations.

 

In this way, the Fux Islands and Kingdom put the Weedes Seaport colony attacked by the Blacksail pirates and left behind, and it was not until the Opsaro City-State Alliance had colonized the Puerto Russell Underground. There is a colony of Mount Wedders Harbour. But then I found out that I do n’t know when the black sail pirates came back with a carbine, and the Wade Mountain Harbor colony has fallen into the hands of the pirates …