Although the relationship between the Han and Tang Empires and the orc countries such as the Golden Lion and the Black Bear became more and more tense, and even both sides began to mobilize for war, neither side declared war first.

On the morning of May 8, 1557, in a large hall of the imperial palace in Tiansheng City, the capital of the Han and Tang Empires, more than a dozen high-ranking military and political officials of the Han and Tang Empires gathered.

Minister of Industry Kang Huai reported to Zhou Rui with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, the problems of the several military industrial enterprises that have been attacked, except for the aircraft factory in Xiushui City, which have suffered large losses, are not too big. ”

It turned out that at the end of last month, a number of large military enterprises in the Han and Tang Empires were attacked by bombs, and a large number of casualties were caused.

Zhou Rui asked in a deep voice: "What about the loss of the Silk City Aircraft Factory?" How much impact does it have on production? ”

Silk City is the capital of Fengwu Town, Silk City Aircraft Factory is the second largest aircraft factory in the Han and Tang Empires, and the largest aircraft factory in the Han and Tang Empires is the Ganyang City Aircraft Factory.

The Silk City Aircraft Factory currently mainly produces jet fighters for the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empires, including Magpie jet fighters, Heron jet medium-range bombers, and Goshawk jet long-range bombers.

The Magpie jet fighter, with a maximum flight speed of 2,360 kilometers per hour, a maximum ceiling of 17,800 meters, and a range of 1,250 kilometers, is equipped with four 20 mm cannons and can carry four 50 kg aerial bombs.

The Heron jet medium-range bomber has a maximum level flight speed of 950 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 600 kilometers, a crew of 4 people, equipped with five 20 mm cannons, and can carry a total of 3.5 tons of aerial bombs.

The Goshawk jet long-range bomber has a maximum level flight speed of 1030 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 5200 kilometers, a crew of 5 people, armed with seven 20-mm cannons, and can carry a total of 33 tons of aerial bombs.

The Magpie jet fighter is currently the fastest flying jet fighter known in the world.

The Goshawk jet long-range bomber has the farthest combat radius among the known jet bombers in the world.

Kang Huai hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the explosion of the Xiushuicheng Aircraft Factory has seriously damaged the No. 2 and No. 3 production lines of the Heron Jet Medium-Range Bomber, and only the No. 1 production line of the Heron Jet Medium-Range Bomber remains, which can still work normally."

However, the Silk City Aircraft Factory is organizing forces to work overtime to repair the No. 2 and No. 3 production lines of the Heron jet medium-range bomber.

At the same time, the Silk City Aircraft Factory is also stepping up the expansion of the Heron jet medium-range bomber, and another new production line. ”

Zhou Rui then turned his head to Hu Yi, the director of the Royal Intelligence Bureau, and asked, "How is the investigation of the attacks on a number of military industrial enterprises?" ”

Hu Yi said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, the few clues found are all broken."

However, according to the estimates of our intelligence bureau, the attacks on a number of military-industrial enterprises are likely to be carried out by the Golden Lion Empire.

The Golden Lion Empire bought some human beings and established an intelligence network in our Han and Tang Empires, and our intelligence bureau has not dug it up over the years. ”

Zhou Rui immediately said: "This time, your intelligence bureau must learn a lesson, and cooperate with the military to do a good job in defense of those large military industrial enterprises in our Han and Tang Empires."

I don't want to hear about that large military-industrial complex again, and to suffer the destruction of the enemy again. ”

Hu Yi hurriedly nodded and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, such a thing will never happen again." ”

Zhou Rui then asked Song Limin, commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires: "Old Song, when will the 120 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 120 Ganyang-class super battleships be able to form combat effectiveness?" ”

Today, 120 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 120 Ganyang-class super battleships have been delivered to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires by the end of April.

As a result, the active capital ships of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires increased to 566 aircraft carriers, 1,820 battleships and 600 battle cruisers.

Song Limin said loudly: "Your Majesty, since our Royal Navy has been equipped with 80 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 80 Ganyang-class super battleships before, we are very familiar with these two capital ships.

In addition, many of the officers and men of the new battleships were drawn from warships of the same type, so although the reception time was short, 120 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 120 Ganyang-class super battleships could already perform general combat missions.

However, although the aircraft carriers of our Royal Navy have reached 566, our Royal Navy has to face the navies of six orc countries and three elven countries this time.

Therefore, Chen hopes that the major shipyards can complete the transformation of the 232 Vostok-class container ships as soon as possible, and at the same time hopes that several carrier-based aircraft manufacturing factories can also complete the carrier-based aircraft of the 232 Vostok-class escort aircraft carriers as soon as possible. ”

Zhou Rui turned his head to Kang Huai, Minister of Industry, and said: "The 232 Dongfang-class escort aircraft carriers and the required carrier-based aircraft, your Ministry of Industry must hurry up and complete them, and don't drag the Navy back." ”

Kang Huai nodded and said, "Your Majesty, Song Shuai, the transformation of 232 Dongfang-class container ships will be completed in about this month."

However, according to the production capacity of several carrier-based aircraft manufacturers and the current inventory, it will take five months at the earliest to complete all three jet carrier-based aircraft of the 232 Vostok-class escort aircraft carriers. ”

Song Limin said at this time: "Minister Kang, according to the configuration of 27 Thunderbird carrier-based fighters, 27 Fire Eagle carrier-based dive bombers, and 27 Snow Sculpture carrier-based torpedo attack aircraft for each Dongfang-class escort carrier.

The three jet carrier-based aircraft in the reserve of our Royal Navy can completely match the carrier-based aircraft of 100 Vostok-class escort aircraft carriers, and the remaining 132 carrier-based aircraft of the Vostok-class escort aircraft carriers will be in trouble with Minister Kang. ”

Kang Huai pondered for a while and said: "If the navy uses the three jet carrier-based aircraft in reserve, it can solve the carrier-based aircraft deployment of 100 Dongfang-class escort aircraft carriers.

Then several carrier-based aircraft factories can be equipped with the remaining 132 jet carrier-based aircraft of the Vostok-class escort aircraft carrier around mid-August. ”

Since the major military industrial enterprises of the Han and Tang Empires had already entered the wartime system, several aircraft factories in the Han and Tang Empires that produced jet carrier-based aircraft were currently able to produce about 3,000 jet carrier-based aircraft every month.

Such a huge production capacity is also the confidence of Zhou Rui to once again single-handedly challenge the six beast countries and the three elf countries.

Zhou Rui then spoke: "After all, the Dongfang-class escort aircraft carrier is only used to assist operations, and the navy must also keep enough jet carrier-based aircraft as a reserve.

I felt that it would be better to activate some of the mothballed propeller-based carrier-based aircraft and equip them with the Vostok-class escort carriers.

Old Song, what do you think? ”

Hearing this, Song Limin couldn't help but nodded, "Your Majesty, our Royal Navy actually has plans in this regard, dreadnought dive bombers and Avenger torpedo attack planes, in sea attacks, still have strong combat effectiveness."

However, the speed of the Wildcat fighter is too slow, and it is best to use the configuration of the Thunderbird jet carrier-based fighter plus the dreadnought dive bomber and the Avenger torpedo attack aircraft to be applied to the Vostok-class escort carrier. ”

Wildcat fighters, dreadnought dive bombers, and Avenger torpedo attack aircraft, are all propeller carrier-based aircraft.

After the three jet carrier-based aircraft could be mass-produced, the three propeller carrier-based aircraft were partially disassembled into parts, and partly mothballed.

Today, there are more than 40,000 propeller carrier-based aircraft in storage.

The main combat mission of the Dreadnought dive bomber and the Avenger torpedo attack aircraft is to bomb enemy ships, and there is no need to compete with the enemy's jet carrier-based fighters for air supremacy.

Therefore, even if the dreadnought dive bomber and the Avenger torpedo attack aircraft lag behind the jet dive bomber and jet torpedo attack aircraft in all aspects of performance, they can still play a great role in naval warfare.

Song Limin paused for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, at present, our Royal Navy has recruited a large number of reserve officers and soldiers, can we activate some mothballed battleships and battle cruisers?"

After all, many of the mothballed battleships and battlecruisers of our Royal Navy were not mothballed because of performance problems. ”

At present, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires has mothballed a total of 493 battleships and 312 battlecruisers, including Xiandao-class battleships, "Jing"-class battleships, order-class battlecruisers, and "Jie"-class battlecruisers, which are capital ships with 380 mm guns.

The main reason why these capital ships with decent performance were mothballed was because there were too many capital ships in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires.

Zhou Rui hesitated for a moment and said: "It just so happens that the number of capital ships of the 36 garrison fleets is insufficient, and your navy can activate the mothballed battleships and battle cruisers according to the needs and equip them for the use of the 36 garrison fleets." ”

The 36 garrison fleets of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires had a total of 60 Nevada-class battleships, 60 New Mexico-class battleships, 60 Tennessee-class battleships, 60 Italian Veneto-class battleships, and 120 British Prestige-class battlecruisers.

The other battleships and battlecruisers in the active service of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires were assigned to each aircraft carrier group.

However, the garrison fleet is mainly to defend the port, and in the port where each garrison fleet is stationed, there will be a shore-based aviation subordinate to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires.

Next, Zhou Rui asked Zhou Xiaorong, commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empires: "Second uncle, how is the expansion of the army?" ”

Zhou Xiaorong immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the newly expanded 100 group armies, as well as the 1,200 garrison divisions expanded from 1,200 garrison brigades, have all completed the initial integration.

Since all the recruits are veterans, the combat effectiveness of the troops has not decreased because of the expansion.

Our Royal Army's 300 army groups and 1,200 garrison divisions can be said to have completed pre-war preparations! ”

At this time, Xiang Tao, chief of the general staff of the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empires, said to Zhou Rui: "Your Majesty, next our Han and Tang Empire will go to war with the six beast countries and the three elf countries at the same time.

Although the total strength of our Royal Army has exceeded 100 million, the minister suggested that we should immediately expand the 1,200 garrison divisions to 2,400 garrison divisions to avoid a shortage of troops in the war. ”

Zhou Rui has no opinion on the requirements of the Royal Army to continue to expand the army, "Yes!" However, is the army's reserve of weapons enough to expand the garrison division by another 1,200? ”

Xiang Tao nodded and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the weapons and equipment in our Royal Army's reserves, not to mention the expansion of another 1,200 garrison divisions, even if the expansion of four or five thousand garrison divisions is enough." ”

In fact, in Zhou Rui's lottery system, there are also a large number of weapons and ammunition of the army, if they are all extracted by Zhou Rui, the weapons alone will be almost enough to equip 1,200 garrison divisions.

Next, Zhou Rui asked Huang Zhigang, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empires: "How many of the newly expanded 70 air force divisions have been formed so far?" ”

Huang Zhigang said: "Your Majesty, with the jet fighters and two propeller bombers that we have in the Royal Air Force, plus the jet fighters that more than a dozen aircraft factories have delivered to our Royal Air Force in recent months, we have now completed the formation of 30 new air divisions.

However, according to the capacity of more than a dozen aircraft factories, the remaining 40 new air divisions may take about 10 months to fully equip. ”

More than a dozen aircraft factories that produced jet fighters for the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empires could produce Magpie jet fighters, Heron jet medium-range bombers, and Goshawk jet long-range bombers every month, totaling about 4,000 units.

Minister of Industry Kang Huai interjected at this time: "Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry is adding some new production lines to more than a dozen aircraft factories that produce jet fighters for the Air Force.

According to the plan drawn up by our Ministry of Industry, after two months, those dozen aircraft factories will be able to produce about 3,000 Magpie jet fighters, about 2,000 Heron jet medium-range bombers, and about 500 Goshawk jet long-range bombers every month.

Equipping the remaining 40 new air divisions with fighter jets should shorten the time by at least two months. ”

Next, Minister of Finance Xia Wenwen said under Zhou Rui's signal: "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty has ordered our Ministry of Finance to prepare a full 120 billion silver coins worth of gold for this war that is about to break out.

If we need it in the future, our Ministry of Finance can also come up with another 120 billion silver coins worth of gold to spend on this war. ”

Xia Wenwen was the chief manager of Purple Star Pictures back then, and by hugging Zhou Rui's thighs, Xia Wenwen has now become one of the top leaders of the Han and Tang Empires.

Zhou Rui followed Xia Wen's words and said to the other dozen or so military and political leaders of the Han and Tang Empires in the main hall: "Those beast countries, even the Red Tiger Empire and the Barbarian Bull Empire that we drove back to the beast world, have always had a peep at our Han and Tang Empires.

I don't want to fight, but I'm not afraid of it.

I hope that through this war that is about to break out, we can create a peaceful environment for the billions of people in our Han and Tang Empires.

Strive to drive the Golden Lion Empire, the Black Bear Empire, the Flying Leopard Empire, and the Silver Wolf Empire back to the orc world! ”