1919 The Empire's Counterattack (III)

The ocean is boundless and vast, in the era when human beings can not float on it, standing on the edge of the boundless sea, human beings will load all kinds of imagination on a piece of unconquerable blue in front of them, in front of the sea, is the end of the world that can never be reached, the sea has a big monster that can swallow a qiē, human curiosity is innate, in order to explore the mystery of the other side of the sea, human beings invented a boat that can cross the sea, so human beings found that the sea can actually be controlled, so because of human desire there is a maritime hegemony

Mankind has artificially divided the oceans into sections, between accessible and inaccessible areas, and into navigable and non-navigable areas; The navy, on the other hand, divides the vast expanse of the sea into areas dominated by the enemy and our sub-districts, areas that should be kept for themselves and areas worth defending, or areas that are easy to capture and areas that are not easy to capture, and which are now on the chart before the commander of the Fifth Fleet of the Sea of Strands, Duke Ichare, is a zone dyed red, which represents a dangerous area where war may break out at any time.

This is one hundred and fifty nautical miles away from the southern coast of Gangfei, the port of Bodoya, which is still a relatively safe range, and the sea country signed a 30-year lease agreement with the kingdom of Weis, which controls the port of Baidua, ten years ago, and then will make every effort to build this port into the most strategic port of the sea country in the inland sea.

The Falcon Imperial Navy won the battle at sea, and three days ago finally occupied the port of Valenya, which had resisted for a week, and after learning that the entire operation was completely unsuccessful, the Gangfei people who had gathered a large number of land forces also chose to retreat, and now they are still holding on to the southern port of Gangfei, only the farthest port of Vasili remains, although there are signs that the Falcon Empire Navy's operation on the southern coast of Gangfei has been won in advance,

However, there are still rumors that the two sides in the Valenya Sea will decide the winner in the last port, Vasili Port. Although the Sea Kingdom lost the Battle of Valenya, it still maintained the safe evacuation of half of the warships, and still had nearly 100 warships, but the Duke of Ahalley, who was on a secret mission, knew that the fleet of the Sea Kingdom would soon withdraw from the southern coast of Gangnon, and would mobilize all the funds and resources that had been allocated for half a century to complete a war that was a life-and-death war for the Sea State.

He had come to convey the order, and as to why he was so eager to evacuate, he quoted Navy Secretary Papra as saying on the same day: "It is unpredictable that the two countries will win at sea, and if they lose." The Sea Kingdom will no longer be able to stop the Falcon Empire's navy's all-out attack, the storm will rise, and the Falcon Empire's fleet will surely swarm in, and while the Sea Kingdom still has the strength to stabilize its defensive position, it is the right way to quickly get out of this unfavorable battlefield! I am the first to give such an order to the sea country's navy, which has been arrogant for half a century!"

With a wry smile on the corner of Duke Aiharley's mouth, the world remembers the victors, remembers the heroes, and will also remember those dishonorable characters. And the commission I accepted this time is to do this kind of thing.

"Lord Duke!

The naval officer leading the way in front pointed to a warship docked in front of him and said that this battleship was huge, twice the size of the average warship of the Sea Kingdom. Covered with iron armor, the roulette wheels on both sides are of a sixteen-leaf structure, and the momentum is menacing, from the position of the duke. He could only raise his head and look up, and following the dizzying arc of the battleship, Duke Aharley's gaze changed from solemn to stunned. The mermaid bow at the front of the Poseidon-class battleship illustrates the identity of this Poseidon-class battleship.

"Is this the Sidila Mermaid?" Duke Aiharley's pupils constricted, and his face was slightly stunned, "Isn't the flagship of the Sea Kingdom the Golden Trident?"

"I'm sorry, but the Golden Trident has sunk!" the officer's face was a little ugly

"What, didn't the Poseidon-class battleship hold on...... How many Seagods have been sunk in total?" Duke Aiharley's face changed greatly, although he was prepared for the tragedy of the naval battle, he did not expect that the Seagod class, which was known as a maritime barrier by the Sea Kingdom, would also be lost.

You must know that every Poseidon-class battleship is the survival of a sea fortress, and there are only five Poseidon-class ships in the entire Sea Kingdom, each of which is accumulated by countless resources and money of the Sea Kingdom, and the cost is as high as 1.5 million gold coins, using the most expensive and indestructible offshore ironwood as the hull, and the Sea Country is spending a high price every year to collect this scarce wood from Southern Europe, because the attack resistance of this wood is more than five to ten times that of ordinary wood, and the battleship made of this wood is simply an unsinkable fortress on the sea.

The tactics of the sea country, most of them are based on the Poseidon-class battleship, such a giant rushed in front, and the enemy in front was basically collapsed, this time except for one sitting in the base camp, the other four ships were involved in this sea battle,

"We lost three Poseidon-class, the Second Fleet's Princess was sunk, the Fourth Fleet's Phipelis sank before it could return to port because the ship's deck was shattered, and the flagship Golden Trident!" said the officer's voice, paused, "...... Someone saw that it was covered by the enemy's dense firepower, and the hull sank into the water" The officer's face was gloomy and replied "It looks far worse than expected" Duke Iharley muttered to himself, as the officer boarded the staircase leading to the flagship, his eyes swept over the warships of the Sea Kingdom docked in the harbor at the same time, it was really bleak, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he didn't believe that the Sea Fleet would be so miserable one day, is this still the Sea Fleet that has been crisscrossing the inland sea for decades? Almost none of them were intact, the thick auxiliary mast broke from the middle, the white sails were torn into cloth, and the damage to the hull of the battleship carrying the glory of the sea country was like walking into a huge wounded barracks,

"What the hell has happened? It's the whole spirit destroyed!"

Duke Aiharley sighed secretly, his eyebrows tightly twisted together, the battleship is like this, and the people are like this, the decks of many battleships are still full of wounded, and the sailors who come and go all look mentally depressed, compared with the sailors of the sea country who dared to go into the water and fight sharks with high spirits before

On the new flagship, Duke Ahalle saw the acting commander Wabialo, the commander of the Sea Nation Fleet, whose legs and waist were wrapped in gauze, like a big Robbie wrapped in gauze, limping and straddle the adjutant's support and walked over, "I'm sorry, the way I look now makes you smile!" Vabialo saw the unconcealable smile in his friend's eyes, "No, you are now the commander-in-chief of the Sea Fleet, I'm still thinking about whether I should congratulate you?" Duke Aharley suppressed the smile on the corner of his mouth. said with a straight face, his relationship with Wabialo is quite good, not only are the two of them the commanders of the marginal detachment in the navy, but also because the two are from the same background, Wabialo is also a nobleman, and he has a fiefdom himself, although his ability is affirmed, but his status as a marquis is always regarded by others as the reason for his success, "What if that kid is not a nobleman?" "What else, it's not like us to mix in the cabin to death!" "Yes." A good birth in itself is enviable good luck!" Such words are not not uncommon among the officers of the Strand Admiral,

Also one of the lords of the islands, Wabialo was a well-known mischievous man in the Strand navy, always smiling and treating people sincerely, though he did not have the aggressive determination of Fleet Commander Fullenval, nor the pessimistic disappointment of the disappointed, in a certain way. He really got mixed up with his qualifications, he had no proud records, and he didn't make big mistakes, and he steadily rose to the position of commander of the Third Fleet. Although he was the weakest in the main fleet of the sea country, he was appointed commander of the broken fleet without the slightest complaint

And now, the Third Fleet's ability to turn the tide at sea has earned the respect of the other fleets, though mostly thanks to the young officer who came out of nowhere. But the admirals of the other fleets all thought that if they were in the same position, in the chaotic environment at that time, they could fully support a strange young man to control the entire fleet, except for the broad-minded indiscriminate good man Wabiloya. There will be no second person, such a person as the temporary commander-in-chief, and no one has a problem with this, "Congratulations? Do you think this is appropriate? And this is only temporary!' Wabialo raised his gauze hands and feet, and the corners of his aching eyes twitched before he smiled bitterly at the corners of his mouth, "Don't walk for yourself, or tell me what you are doing?"

"If you add the thirty warships supported by the Fifth Fleet, well...... Do you think the battle can be reversed?" Duke Agaray took a deep breath, his gaze swept over the sailors on the deck of the battleship, and asked tentatively, "After all, the fleet of the Falcon Empire has not yet reached the port of Vasili, and we still have a chance, if we concentrate all our strength, we may not have the strength to fight!" "Don't be kidding, your Fifth Fleet is here to meet the retreat!"

Wabialo rolled his eyes very unceremoniously, rarely revealing a little sternness, with wisps of blood in his eyes, and said word by word" As you can see, although half of the strength is still preserved, most of the warships are damaged, and it is impossible to repair all of them in three months by relying only on the repair docks in the existing port, and the blow to the hearts of the sailors is immeasurable, watching more than 10,000 colleagues die in the sea, watching our fleet being beaten and fleeing in all directions, it has been a long time since there has been such a fiasco, not to mention the sailors, even I was determined to die at that time! Now such an order is to send them to their deaths, and the probability of mutiny is 80 percent."

"Isn't that still a twenty percent success rate!" Duke Agaray blinked, "There is still a twenty percent chance, that is, the kind that lets you go alone to face the Falcon Empire Navy, tied to the mast!"

That is the Strand Navy for the new battleship recruit training, in order to make a rookie quickly grow into an old bird who is not afraid of wind and waves, the best way is to tie him to the mast of the bow of the battleship, let him withstand the waves of the storm, generally less than three hours, the people tied to it will be afraid of the waves to numb, and even some people will become very violent, like sliding from one extreme to another, but as a sailor who needs to fight with the sea all the time, this is the person that all captains like, and the Duke of Agare, who was born in the aristocracy, received this preferential treatment, and it is precisely the kind of "Okay, I admit, I'm here to give the order to retreat" Aigaret shrugged helplessly, and took out the order of the Admiralty Minister Papra from his bosom "The order is delivered, and I will take my leave first!" "Where are you going?" Wabialo took the order and glanced at it, and then looked at Aigaret curiously, "You just came to deliver such an order?" Of course, I can't just come to deliver an order, I'm not an errand runner, and I don't give money, I'm going to Port Vasili!" Duke Agaray sighed faintly, "Since the naval battle has failed, I can only reluctantly serve as a special envoy for negotiations" "You are going to negotiate with the Falcon Empire" Wabialo was taken aback, and looked at him in disbelief "Whether you believe it or not, I did go to negotiate." The Sea Nation needs time to recuperate, and if the Falcon Navy takes the opportunity to launch an all-out offensive on the inner coast at this time, we will lose most of the area!" "Duke Agaray has cast a deep eye on Wabiloa from the front, but fortunately, the Falcon Empire's eyes are only focused on the south of Gangfei for the time being, and it has no intention of continuing to entangle with us, otherwise it would have launched an attack on us a long time ago! Minister Bapra specially explained that if the battle of Valenya Port is lost, it will be up to me to make up for it, and sometimes, the war is not limited to frontal combat!"

"What are you going to do?" Wabialo's eyes lit up slightly. He asked with some suspicion, he knew that his good friend's ability, when it came to frontal combat, his ability was only average, but as a foreign liaison officer, he was very famous in the Inland Sea region, he had the status of a duke of the Sea Kingdom, he was handsome, and he had traveled most of the Inland Sea as a sailor. Even the southern European Barrow, which most people consider a barbaric land, has some contacts, which can be called a living map of the inland sea, and "the sea will make concessions!"

Duke Agaray took a deep breath, and his face became stern, "Your Excellency Papra will resign from his post as Minister of the Navy. He will be succeeded by Prince Anji, who is pro-Falcon Empire, and the marriage between the Sea Kingdom and the Gangfei Empire will be canceled and replaced by the marriage between the Sea Kingdom and the Falcon Empire" "Bastard, what is Lord Papra going to do? And he even proposed a marriage? He even thought that the Falcon Empire would give up fighting back because of the marriage of the Sea Nation" Wabialo heard that his forehead was full of green tendons, and he was a little angry and walked back and forth

"The marriage itself is not important, the important thing is that the marriage partner is the Sea King family. The new Minister of the Navy, Prince Anji's daughter, Lord Anji! Is this a hostage, understand! This shows that the Sea Kingdom is already willing to be subject to the Falcon Empire! The other party can also understand this," Duke Agaray seemed to know that Vabialo would say this, and the corners of his mouth grinned, "Isn't what the other party has always wanted to attack is the prestige of the Sea Kingdom in the Inland Sea? Since the sea power has been lost, it must have a certain degree of consciousness!" In fact, after this battle, the future of the sea country is already unpredictable, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, rather than being torn apart by the turbulence, it is better to follow the flow to avoid the edge for the time being!"

Wabiloya was silent, and only after half a sound did he say, "Will the other party agree to the marriage? After all, the other party is the emperor!" "It was only a marriage, but it was not said that it was a marriage with the emperor! I believe that the other party would not rest assured that the lord of Anji would be next to the emperor! It should be pointed out to that minister! It is said that the Falcon Empire is like a cloud, hoping to find a good husband!" Duke Aigaret raised his head and looked at the sky, how ridiculous, isn't it, the life and death of the sea country requires the sacrifice of a woman's happiness, which really makes us and other men ashamed! But this is the biggest chance to weaken the Falcon Empire's counterattack at the moment, and if you don't want to be destroyed by the Falcon Empire's powerful merchant fleet, the best way is to let the interests of the Sea Nation side with the Falcon Empire, not the opposite!" "Okay, do you need to send someone to escort you?" asked Wabiloya

"No, let's take them all back, bring them back without pulling them, take them home, and let the Falcon Empire agree that it is my duty, and it is your duty to bring the fleet back, or this is the last time we will have such a face-to-face conversation" Duke Agaray said bitterly at the corner of his mouth, "You will become a hero, and I, the devil knows!"

The Aliens announced their marriage to the Falcon Empire ......! This murderous news shook the entire Gangfei court.

"Is this true? Didn't the Aliens marry us?" said the Marquis de Borkawa, Undersecretary of the Interior, with a solemn expression at his desk.

"I can't believe it. Could it be a false positive?" said the finance secretary Hedai Luo in a hoarse voice, after confirming the facts, he was also locked in a suffocating silence, for this marriage, the finance department even squeezed out the flesh between the teeth, as soon as it was ready, who knew that it would fly, his eyes looked at the pale face of the other minister on the other side, this time there was a lot of excitement, those who took advantage of this marriage to collect a lot of money, thought of all the spit out of the way they felt happy,

Even the little emperor sent someone to summon Marcos, the Minister of War, to explain the situation.

"It's an immutable fact that the Strangers are going back on their word. But such a regrettable thing happened today, and it was completely imperceptible to disturb His Majesty's subordinates, and I was really ashamed. Marcos was full of shame, the cooperation with the Sea of Strand had come to an end, after submitting a new diplomatic letter, the first lady of the Sea Country left Besuka on the same day, which was equivalent to a slap in the face of Gang Feiren, but what made Gang Feiren feel even more angry and annoyed was that the army of the Falcon Empire finally began to act,

The attack started in the morning, under the morning light, the 40,000 Central Army of the Falcon Empire, which had been stranded on the border, swooped down on the border with overwhelming momentum, and in just one morning, the main transportation route to the south of Gang-Africa Muyabao fell, and the 200,000-strong Gangfei Southern Army was like being stabbed in the nest, and the various teams began to gather at Muyabao (to be continued......