At around 2 o'clock in the morning on October 18, 1545, the shipyard in the port of Most of the Flying Leopard Empire was still brightly lit.

The shipyard in Port Most, the largest shipyard of the Flying Leopard Empire in the New World, is currently under construction with eight Grace-class battleships and six Honorable-class battlecruisers at the same time.

The Grace-class all-gun battleship and the Honorable-class battlecruiser are the newest two capital ships of the Royal Navy of the Flying Leopard Empire, both equipped with 380 mm guns of 45 times the calibre.

After these two capital ships were first designed, the Flying Leopard Empire only planned to build 10 of each in the first batch due to financial pressure, but later due to the influence of several other beast countries to build capital ships, the Flying Leopard Empire finally decided to build 18 Grace-class battleships with full main guns and 18 Honorable-class battlecruisers at the same time.

The 18 Elegance-class battleships with full main guns and the 18 Honorable-class battlecruisers built in the first batch have already entered the sequence of the Royal Navy of the Flying Leopard Empire.

Among the 50 all-main gun battleships and 30 battle cruisers that the Flying Leopard Navy joined the combined fleet of the six navies this time, including 10 Grace-class all-main gun battleships and 10 Honor-class battlecruisers.

The 8 Elegance-class full-main gun battleships and 6 Honorable-class battlecruisers currently being built by the Port Most shipyard belong to the second batch, and before the Six ** Alliance and the Zhou family officially declared war, the construction of these two capital ships of the second batch of the Flying Leopard Empire has begun.

Because the financial revenue of the Flying Leopard Empire in recent years has been relatively good, and the military expenditure allocated to the Royal Navy of the Flying Leopard Empire has also increased, so this time, the Royal Navy of the Flying Leopard Empire has placed orders for a total of 24 Grace-class battleships with full main guns and 24 Honorable-class battlecruisers to several large shipyards in China.

When the Port Most shipyard was building the first batch of these two capital ships, it built 8 of them, and this time the Port Most shipyard received an order for 14 of them.

After the official declaration of war between the Six ** Alliance and the Zhou family, in order to speed up the construction of 8 Elegance-class battleships with full main guns and 6 Honorable-class battlecruisers, the Port of Muse shipyard gathered workers and adopted a two-shift system.

The 14 40,000-ton docks used to build the two capital ships were carried out almost around the clock.

Today, the eight Elegance-class battleships and the six Prestige-class battlecruisers at the Port of Most shipyard have a completion rate of more than 50 percent.

A sturdy middle-aged Leopard Warrior was welding deck armor to an Elegance-class all-main gun battleship, when a young Leopard Clan worker came over and handed the Leopard Clan's middle-aged worker a water tank, "Master, take a break and drink saliva!" ”

When Suo Qi, a middle-aged worker of the leopard clan, heard this, he put down the electric welding in his hand, took the water tank and took a sip, "Yavi, how is your welding over there?"

Can the task assigned by the workshop be completed today? ”

"Master, about half of the welding has been completed, and there should be no problem in completing the task of today's night shift."

Suo Qi nodded slightly, "Yavi, this Elegance-class all-main gun battleship under our feet even costs more than 27 million silver coins, which can be described as a national weapon.

Therefore, we must not only complete the tasks of each class, but also ensure quality and quantity. ”

Yavi smiled and said, "Master, don't worry!

I welded every weld very seriously.

As for the quality, my craftsmanship is hand-in-hand.

What's more, there are quality inspectors in the workshop who will inspect them, and the quality of welding will not pass the acceptance. ”

Soqi took another sip of water and twisted his stiff neck, "It's a pity that the shipyard fired all those human workers, otherwise we should be able to take it a lot easier, at least three shifts, two shifts are really tiring." ”

"Master, now humans can no longer be trusted.

Not only the Port Most shipyard, but all the factories related to military supplies in the five provinces of the Flying Leopard Empire in the New World have fired human workers and human technicians.

Although the security regiments in the five provinces were not disbanded, they heard that the guns of the human soldiers were also confiscated and replaced with wooden sticks. ”

The Flying Leopard Empire has a land area of about 8.8 million square kilometers in this world, divided into five provinces, and has a total population of about 200 million, of which about 50 million are orcs, mainly leopards, and the remaining 150 million are humans.

On the other side of the Spirit World, the Flying Leopard Empire has a land area of about 7 million square kilometers and a total population of about 90 million, all of which are orcs who are mainly leopard people.

The Royal Army of the Flying Leopard Empire is also a group army, with a strength of about 70,000 troops in each group army, and the officers and soldiers are all composed of leopard people.

The second is an independent division with the Leopards as mid- and high-ranking officers and the Deer as junior officers and soldiers, with a strength of about 15,000 men.

Finally, the security regiment is composed of 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers with the deer people as officers and humans as soldiers, and is mainly responsible for law and order in various places.

The loss of the Brute Bull Empire's Kunclair Province and New Constance Province has made the various orc countries very distrustful of the human soldiers in their own armies.

The reason why these two provinces of the Barbarian Bull Empire were occupied by the Zhou army so quickly can be said to have a great relationship with the defection of more than 300 security brigades in these two provinces, mainly human soldiers.

Now the six orc countries have begun to restrict human soldiers, and even disbanded the armed forces dominated by human soldiers, and everyone is afraid of being stabbed in the back by human soldiers.

Sochi and Yavi, the master and apprentice, were talking when suddenly there was a whistling sound of cannonballs tearing through the air in the dark sky.

"Master, what's the sound?"

"Not good! Get down! It's a cannonball! ”

Sochi and Yavi had just collapsed when a large-caliber shell landed near the two of them, piercing the deck that was still welding.

Immediately after the violent explosion, Sochi and Yavi who were lying on the deck were blown away, and when the two of them fell on the deck again, both of them were no longer in shape, and they could not die anymore.

At this time, in the waters outside Port Most, the two squadrons of the ninth formation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, a total of 16 British Hood-class battle cruisers, 6 large armored cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 12 destroyers, were the 6th and 7th warframes of the ninth formation.

After the 24 new British Hood-class battlecruisers were incorporated into the ninth formation, they were temporarily organized into the 5th, 6th, and 7th teams.

This time, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet adopted the strategy of substituting offense for defense, and dispatched the ninth and twelfth formations to the coasts of the six orc countries to carry out raiding operations.

The first task of the two teams of the 9th Formation, 6 and 7, was to attack the Flying Leopard Empire's Port of Most, and strive to destroy the shipyard in Port Most.

Because of the operation of the ninth and twelfth formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Ship this time, the secrecy work was done very well, so that the six beast nations did not know that the two main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had arrived at their doorstep.

Originally, due to the presence of many submarines of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet along the coast of the six beast countries, the Flying Leopard Navy had already laid a large number of anti-submarine nets and mines outside the port of Most, but the Flying Leopard Navy did not expect that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet would dare to send dozens of warships to attack Port Most.

At this time, there were still hundreds of warships of the Royal Navy of the Flying Leopard Empire stationed in the port of Most, including 6 battleships with full main guns, 4 battlecruisers and 8 all-steel battleships, but most of these warships were parked at berths in the harbor, and after being bombed for a long time, some warships began to use naval guns to start firing back.

The port of Moster had 7 batteries and was equipped with hundreds of large-caliber coastal defense guns.

Although the seven batteries built in Port Most launched a counterattack shortly after the attack of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet began, the counterattack of the seven batteries was not satisfactory due to night reasons.

By the time the two squadrons of the Ninth Formation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Ship shelled for about two hours and began to retreat, the port of Moster was almost covered in thick smoke, and 8 of the 14 40,000-ton docks where the two capital ships were being built were almost completely destroyed, and more than 20 docks were damaged to varying degrees.

Of the hundreds of Flying Leopard naval warships in Port Most, 21 were also destroyed, including 2 battleships with full main guns, 2 battlecruisers and 4 all-steel battleships, and most of the surviving warships were also injured.

Although none of the 16 British Hood-class battlecruisers of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet were sunk, one British Hood-class battlecruiser was also seriously damaged, and one large armored cruiser, one light cruiser, and one destroyer were sunk.

Most of the results achieved by the Flying Leopard Empire relied on the large-caliber coastal defense guns in the 7 batteries in Port Most, and the results achieved by the hundreds of warships of the Flying Leopard Navy can be said to be minimal.

With the attack on the Flying Leopard Empire's Moster Harbor, many port cities of the Golden Lion Empire, the Red Tiger Empire, and the Black Bear Empire were also attacked by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and the coastal areas of the above four beast countries suddenly became noisy.

After the combined fleets of the navies of the six countries learned that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had attacked a number of port cities in the four countries of Golden Lion, Red Tiger, Black Bear, and Flying Leopard, the commanders of the navies of the six countries immediately gathered together.

On the bridge of the Golden Lion Empire's Royal Navy's Dragon Lion-class all-main gun battleship Oath, the First Deputy Minister of the Admiralty of the Golden Lion Empire, Raf, said in a deep voice to the commanders of the navies of the other five countries: "In this attack of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, two ports of our Golden Lion Empire have been attacked.

Three battleships with full main guns, one battlecruiser, three all-steel battleships, two large armored cruisers, four light cruisers, three destroyers, 11 torpedo boats and five offshore gunboats were destroyed in the attack, as were the two shipyards built in two ports.

Our combined fleet of the six navies must not watch the Zhou family's southwest coastal defense fleet wreak havoc on the coastal areas of several of our Spirit Race countries.

Therefore, I suggest that the main forces of the combined fleet of the navies of our six countries be transferred back to the coasts of the Golden Lion, Red Tiger, Black Bear, and Flying Leopard, and wipe out those warships sent by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet! ”

Pogue, the second vice minister of the Red Tiger Empire, followed and said, "Those warships sent by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet must be wiped out!"

Previously, because of the submarines of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the maritime trade of our six Spirit Clan countries has been greatly affected.

If those warships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet continue to wreak havoc in the coastal areas of several of our Spirit Nation countries, the sea passage between our six Spirit Nation countries will be cut off by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. ”

The Red Tiger Empire also had two port cities attacked, and the losses were even worse than those of the Golden Lion Empire.

Yegor, the first vice minister of the Silver Wolf Empire, and Larion, the naval minister of the Barbarian Bull Empire, glanced at each other at this time, and both of them couldn't help but show a look of worry in their eyes.

At present, the main forces of the combined fleet of the six navies are all gathered in the seven feudal towns of the Zhou family and the coasts of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Wild Bull Empire, so the two main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet have not launched an attack on the coastal ports of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Wild Bull Empire for the time being.

However, if the main force of the combined fleet of the navy of the six countries, even if only the main force of the navy of the four countries of Golden Lion, Red Tiger, Black Bear, and Flying Leopard is withdrawn, the blockade of the seven feudal towns of the Zhou family by the combined fleet of the navy of the six countries will immediately appear very big loopholes, and the coastal areas of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Barbarian Bull Empire will also become unsafe.

Yegor, the first vice minister of the Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, hesitated for a moment and said: "At present, the battle on the northern front is about to start, and at this time, if the main force of the combined fleet of the navy of the six countries withdraws, I am afraid that the previous naval blockade will be wasted." ”

On the northern line of the Silver Wolf Empire bordering Zhoujia Jingzhou Town, Yuzhou Town, and Lanzhou Town, the Silver Wolf Empire has gathered a full 6 million troops.

The Golden Lion Empire, the Black Bear Empire, and the Flying Leopard Empire also sent about 3 million army troops, 4 million army troops, and 2 million army troops respectively, preparing to cooperate with the 6 million army forces of the Silver Wolf Empire to attack the Zhou family's Jingzhou Town, Yuzhou Town, and Lanzhou Town.

Raf, the First Deputy Minister of the Admiralty of the Golden Lion Empire, immediately said: "General Yegor rest assured, the naval blockade of the Zhou family will continue.

The main forces of the combined fleet of the six navies will not all be withdrawn. ”

Although Raff vowed that he would continue to blockade the seven feudal towns of the Zhou family, Raff finally took most of the warships of the Golden Lion Navy in the combined fleet of the six navies and led these warships back to the coast of the Golden Lion Empire.

The Red Tiger Navy, the Black Bear Navy, and the Flying Leopard Navy, like the Golden Lion Navy, have taken most of their warships out of the combined fleet of the six navies.

In this way, the heavy task of blocking the sea passage of the seven feudal towns of the Zhou family fell on the Silver Wolf Navy, and as for the Barbarian Bull Navy, because the strength was too weak, it could not be counted on at all.

At this time, the combined fleet of the navy of the six countries did not have the energy to attack the coastal cities of Queensland Town and Connecticut Town, and the strategy of attacking instead of defending was a success.