Chapter 279: The Unsinkable Battleship
"Did you just let that girl go so easily?" Duke Pankla Rodphili said unwillingly.
Marquis Tanilla Blackcak persuaded: "Duke, since Princess Dai Bona has joined forces with those humans in another time and space, I am afraid that even if the 190,000 people of the Guards Legion enter the Warcraft Forest, they may not be able to kill Princess Dai Bona.
But is it possible to use this to make some articles? ”
"What do you mean, is it propaganda that the princess colludes with humans in another time and space?"
"Duke, at that time, Princess Dai Bona was not only a sinner of our Star and Moon Alliance, but also a sinner of the entire Continent of the Gods."
"Haha, that's a good idea!
Let Gavri and them make meritorious contributions and collect more information about humans in different time and space, and this duke will announce to the outside world that there are forces from different time and space that have invaded our continent of gods! ”
After repelling the attack of the enemy who pursued and killed Princess Dai Bona, Zhou Rui directly transferred 5 garrisons from the periphery of the Tiansheng City of the Han and Tang Empires into the Wizarding World, and also carried a large number of building materials and construction machinery and equipment.
According to Zhou Rui's request, a small fortress of about 30,000 square meters will be expanded into a giant fortress of 10 square kilometers.
However, in the process of expanding the giant fortress, the officers and soldiers of the Han and Tang Empires also discovered a large gold mine nearby.
The gold content of the gold mine is so high that it is even jaw-dropping, and what shocked Zhou Rui even more was that the gold reserves of this large gold mine may exceed 300,000 tons just by preliminary exploration.
You must know that the current Han and Tang Empires are located in the world, the largest gold mine with the largest gold reserves, is located in the territory of the Golden Lion Empire, with reserves of about 280,000 tons.
In the wizarding world, just by discovering a random gold mine, the gold reserves exceed the world's first gold mine in the Golden Lion Empire, and it is so rich that he has no friends.
From the surface of that large gold mine, a piece of dog's head gold weighing 40 tons was also excavated, with a gold content of more than 85 percent.
Zhou Rui patted this giant dog's head gold with his hand, and couldn't help but wonder if it was time to approve the major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empires to build the next batch of aircraft carriers.
At present, the Ganyang Shipyard, which has the strongest design capabilities, has designed a new aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires on the basis of the Bird's Nest class aircraft carrier.
This new aircraft carrier, with a full load displacement of 59,500 tons, almost reaches the full load displacement of the American Midway-class aircraft carriers, with a maximum speed of 30 knots and a crew of 3,550 people.
The waterline armor belt is 90 mm to 130 mm thick, the flight deck armor is 70 mm thick, and the hangar deck armor is 100 mm thick.
It is equipped with 16 100-mm high-altitude guns, 56 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, 38 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 32 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
It can be equipped with 48 imitation Wildcat fighters, 48 imitation dreadnought dive bombers and 48 imitation Avenger torpedo attack aircraft.
Of course, the cost of this new aircraft carrier is also very touching, and the cost of the warship plus the carrier-based aircraft can be as high as 40 million silver coins.
At present, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires has a total of 100 Bird's Nest-class aircraft carriers, 24 Dongying Guoxianghe-class aircraft carriers, 30 American Essex-class aircraft carriers, and 20 American Midway-class aircraft carriers.
In a four-star lottery given in November, Zhou Rui opened another 8 U.S. Midway-class aircraft carriers, and now the 20 U.S. Midway-class aircraft carriers reserved in the lottery system have all been extracted by Zhou Rui and delivered to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires.
With so many aircraft carriers, it should be enough for the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires for a long time in the future, and because during the war, the military expenditure of the Han and Tang Empires every month was an astronomical amount, so Zhou Rui originally planned to postpone the construction of new aircraft carriers and super battleships designed by Ganyang Shipyard.
Originally, because of aircraft carriers, Zhou Rui was no longer ready to let the major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empires build new battleships or battle cruisers with full main guns.
However, the Ganyang Shipyard has recently designed a super battleship, which is also called an unsinkable battleship by the Ganyang Shipyard.
According to the design of the Ganyang Shipyard, this super battleship has a full load displacement of 135,000 tons and a maximum speed of 29 knots.
It is equipped with 5 triple 45-caliber 500-mm main guns, 6 triple 200-mm secondary guns, 24 100-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 70 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, 50 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, 50 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 2 catapults, 4 seaplanes, and is equipped with anti-aircraft and sea-to-sea search radars.
The broadside armor belt was up to 650 mm thick, the main deck armor was 280 mm, the main turret armor was 780 mm, and the crew was 3950 people.
To be honest, when Zhou Rui saw the data of this super battleship, he was immediately moved, but seeing that each one cost as much as 130 million silver coins, and Zhou Rui knew that there could be no unsinkable battleship in the world, especially after the appearance of aircraft carriers, Zhou Rui couldn't help but hesitate.
However, Zhou Rui, who has a battleship complex, still decided to build several super battleships with a full load displacement of more than 130,000 tons after the end of the war with the Nine ** Alliance, and equip them with the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires.
Now that we have a large gold mine with more than 300,000 tons of gold reserves, and maybe even more, shouldn't we also build a few more super battleships?
Princess Dai Berna Rodfeli saw Zhou Rui standing next to the giant dog-headed gold, and hesitated and walked over.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, listening to Alina's introduction, the exchange rate of gold and silver in the Han and Tang Empires is very high.
And our Star-Moon Alliance happens to produce gold, for example, in my county, there are two large gold mines, with an annual output of more than 200,000 ounces of gold.
If you want, the Han and Tang Empires can exchange silver for the gold of our Star and Moon Alliance, and the ratio can be exchanged according to one to ten, that is, 1 pound of silver can be exchanged for 10 pounds of gold. ”
Ang is also the unit of weight of the Continent of the Gods, 1 ounce is equal to 1000 pounds, and 1 pound is almost 0.45 kilograms.
The reason why Princess Debona Rodhfili was willing to exchange gold and silver with the Han and Tang Empires was that she hoped to use the huge profits of the two exchanges to fill Zhou Rui's ambitions for the Continent of the Gods.
As Princess Debona Rodphili understands more and more about the Han and Tang Empires, and the horror of the Han and Tang Empires is getting deeper and deeper, once this emperor of the Han and Tang Empires really wants to invade the Continent of the Gods, it will be a disaster for all the countries and races in the Continent of the Gods.
Zhou Rui couldn't help but swallow when he heard that in Princess Dai Bona's county, two large gold mines could produce more than 200,000 ounces of gold a year.
As for swallowing saliva because of the two large gold mines, or because of Princess Dai Bona's peerless appearance, Zhou Rui himself couldn't figure it out.
"Hehe, Princess Dai Bona, if you exchange 1 pound of silver for 10 pounds of gold, how much gold is in the Star Moon Alliance, our Han and Tang Empires are willing to exchange it for silver."
Then Princess Debonne Rodphili hesitated and asked, "Your Majesty, there is a question I have always wanted to ask.
The Han and Tang Empires are preparing to build a giant fortress in the Warcraft Forest, I don't know what the purpose is? ”
Zhou Rui said with a smile: "Princess Dai Bona, rest assured, our Han and Tang Empire has no intention of invading the Star Moon Alliance, or any country in the Continent of the Gods.
The Han and Tang Empires have always been a peace-loving country, and even the wars that broke out between the Han and Tang Empires and the six orc countries and the three elven countries were completely provoked by those six orc countries and three elven countries.
The reason why the Han and Tang Empires built this giant fortress was mainly to be able to trade with the various countries of the Continent of the Gods.
Moreover, the Warcraft Forest does not belong to any country in the Continent of the Gods, presumably our Han and Tang Empires built a giant fortress here, and it did not infringe on the interests of any country in the Continent of the Gods. ”
Whether Princess Dai Bona believes it or not, anyway, Zhou Rui is convinced of what she said.
The territory of the Han and Tang Empires was already vast enough, and Zhou Ruizhen had no intention of expanding his territory in the Continent of the Gods.
What's more, war is just a means, if there is no need for war, the Han and Tang Empires will be able to obtain huge benefits in the Continent of the Gods, so why not?
Song Limin, who was leading many of the main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires cruising along the coast of Tongzhou Town on the western continent, immediately summoned the commanders of the main fleets after receiving a telegram from Zhou Rui.
At present, most of the main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires have gathered along the coast of Tongzhou Town, preparing to cooperate with the army to implement the battle plan of landing on the Red Tiger Empire.
Song Limin distributed the data on all aspects of the two warships designed by the Ganyang Shipyard to the commanders of the main fleets and said: "Your Majesty has sent a telegram asking for the opinion of our Royal Navy.
Next, the major shipyards of the empire will build aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of 59,500 tons, as well as super battleships with a full load displacement of up to 135,000 tons.
As for how many of these two warships to build, Your Majesty has left the decision to our Royal Navy. ”
As soon as Song Limin's words fell, Liu Ergou, commander of the Eighth Fleet, couldn't wait to say: "A few more super battleships with a full load displacement of 135,000 tons must be built."
Such a super battleship is difficult to sink even in the face of the siege of carrier-based aircraft, and the Ganyang Shipyard even calls it an unsinkable battleship.
If you can command such a super battleship, it is exciting to think about it. ”
Wang Kui, commander of the Eleventh Fleet, immediately said: "However, the cost of this super battleship is too high, and you can build three 'town' class battleships." ”
Song Limin said: "Presumably everyone should know that our Han and Tang Empires have discovered another world where civilization exists.
In that world, there are many large gold mines with amazing gold reserves, and our Han and Tang Empires have only discovered one large gold mine so far, and its gold reserves have exceeded the world's first gold mine in the Golden Lion Empire.
Your Majesty means that you don't need to think about the cost, just look at how many new aircraft carriers and how many super battleships our Royal Navy needs. ”