Chapter 712: The Great Purchase of the Orr Kingdom
Not every country can afford a war loss of more than a billion constant dollars like the Krull Kingdom!
What's more, the Krull Kingdom can organize hundreds of thousands of troops, but it doesn't mean that other countries can too, and logistics support alone will have to drag them down.
Besides, in addition to the navy of the Krull Kingdom on the contemporary Blue Star, they dare to pat their chests and say that the coast of the Orr Kingdom will be completely blocked, so that they will not be able to go out to sea without a sampan!
The navies of other countries really don't have the confidence to say this!
Don't think that the navy of the Orr Kingdom was suppressed by the navy of the Krull Kingdom, and it was even more disgraced in the Second Battle of Ian, but it was the Navy of the Krull Kingdom!
In the Second Battle of Ian, the navy of the Krull Kingdom dispatched 26 first- and second-class battleships (including old warships, large-tonnage turret coastal defense ironclads, etc.); more than 20 cruisers of the first class (including mounted cruisers); There were more than 100 cruisers of the second and third ranks, large mine-striking ships, and shallow water heavy gunboats, which were almost all over the bay of Ian at that time!
Other countries, such as the nearby Olisa Empire and the Gafia Empire, have their entire navy size not as large as the Krul Kingdom's constant task force......
In this way, the navy of the Krull Kingdom also spent a lot of effort, and even played a small trick to lure the navy of the kingdom of Orr to take the initiative to launch a night attack, and then carried out an ambush, which severely damaged the torpedo boat force and the main fleet of the navy of the kingdom of Orr.
Replaced by the navies of other countries, there are really few people with such strength!
Now although the navy of the Orr Kingdom has been damaged, it still retains most of its strength, and more importantly, when the armistice negotiations of the Orr War are still ongoing, the Orr Kingdom has secretly negotiated with the Daheng Empire for the purchase of weapons.
After the negotiations reached an agreement, the Orr Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire jointly announced that the two sides had reached a major arms trade!
According to the agreement, the Orr Kingdom will purchase many warships from the Daheng Empire to replace the warships lost in the war, and at the same time use these newly ordered warships to bring the Orr Kingdom's navy into a new era.
At the same time, there are also numerous shore fire artillery, offshore defense vessels.
Although the details have not been disclosed, the outside world can still understand a general idea, which is definitely a large order for a large number of battleships, a number of armored cruisers, a large number of torpedo boats, and shore defense guns, which is much larger than last year's order from the Mongol Khanate.
The Orr Kingdom is determined to increase its fleet to the world's first-class level, to ensure that there will be no more wars in the Orr Wars where the coastline is blocked and coastal cities are shelled.
In fact, this time, the orders for coastal defense warships and coastal defense facilities of the Orr Kingdom had already been contacted and negotiated before the start of the Orr War two years ago, but because of the impact of the Orr War, the Navy's orders were repeatedly postponed, and the scheduled warships were also changed many times.
At the beginning, the main battleship was an improved version of the Endless Sea-class battleship, but now the Endless Sea-class battleship is backward and can't keep up with the times, so it was replaced with a high freeboard + 350 mm naval gun design halfway.
When the war was coming to an end, the two sides re-negotiated, and the Orr kingdom hoped to obtain the top battleship of the modern era and become a first-class battleship after completion, and put forward a series of new requirements: such as high freeboard, 350 mm 30 times the caliber naval gun, comprehensive protection, the thickest part of the main armor belt should have 450 mm composite armor, and extend upward, the upper part of the armor should be protected by nickel steel armor secondary guns, a large number of 55 mm rapid-fire guns, at least 17 knots, and equipped with the most advanced searchlights, Optical rangefinder and a series of other requirements.
These requirements are not made arbitrarily, they are referring to the first high-freeboard battleships of the Navy of the Krull Kingdom, and they are also referring to the battleships built for the Mongol Khanate for the Daheng Empire, as for the Jingzhou-class battleships of the Daheng Empire, these are top secrets, even they can't watch it in person, they can only look at it from a distance, but they probably know that it is a high freeboard, at least fourteen or five thousand tons of big ships.
For the requirements of the Orr Kingdom, the Daheng Empire naturally gave it to them, and handed it over to them after perfecting the design of the foreign trade battleship, and the Orr Kingdom was still relatively satisfied.
In the end, the two parties signed a contract for the construction of two ships.
In terms of armored cruisers, they were not very satisfied with the Garin-class armored cruisers that were determined in the early days, and they also carried out performance improvements, and finally built two Garin-class armored cruisers, and the tonnage of the Garin-class armored cruisers at this time had been increased to 11,000 tons, the same two.
In addition, there are orders for six Bougier armored cruisers, this thing has good performance and the price is not expensive, that is a tyrant like the Orr Kingdom also thinks this thing is good, you can buy it to make up the number.
In addition to the capital ships, there were orders for cruisers of the second rank, as well as destroyers, offshore torpedo boats, and this number was even greater.
Just after the upgraded and improved torpedo boats, they ordered fifty in one go, and then ordered four or five hundred tons of large torpedo boats, that is, eight destroyers.
There are as many as ten capital ships ordered, and once the capital ships and auxiliary ships are completed and delivered, it will be enough for the strength of the Orr Kingdom's navy to not only recover, but even surpass the past.
In addition to warships, there are also shore defense guns, and they will order more newer guns as shore defense guns, just 300 mm and 30 times the caliber of the coastal defense guns, they have ordered as many as 16 guns, in addition to they have even ordered four 350 mm 30 times the caliber naval guns for shore defense guns......
At the same time, because the construction of new ships takes time, and the navy of the Orr Kingdom suffered a lot of losses in the Orr War, the torpedo boat force was almost completely lost, and only three of the old seven second-class battleships remained, only two of the four shore defense ironclad ships remained, and only one lone new dome cruiser remained.
In order to quickly restore its strength and avoid a war crisis before a large number of new warships are built and delivered, the Orr Kingdom has also reached a procurement agreement with the Daheng Imperial Navy for active campaigns.
The Orr Kingdom will purchase two Endless Sea-class battleships of the Great Heng Empire, four second-class dome cruisers, and sixteen A series torpedo boats for emergency purposes.
The reason why the deal of this active warship was reached was because the Orr Kingdom in order to quickly replenish the losses and avoid external peeping, and at the same time, although they spent a lot of money during the war and paid a lot of compensation, the new orders here in Daheng are also over 100 million super large orders, but never underestimate the family background of the Orr Kingdom, a local tyrant.
It is still acceptable for them to spend more than 10 million Hengyuan to purchase warships that are obviously outdated.
On the one hand, the Orr Kingdom itself is willing and rich, but on the other hand, it is also because the navy of the Great Heng Empire is in a period of upgrading, and the strategic value of these old warships is no longer large, so it is more in the interests of the navy to sell them in exchange for funds to build new ships.
Now the Imperial Navy felt that even the Jingzhou-class battleships were lagging behind...... Not to mention the Endless Sea-class battleships, if it weren't for maintaining the size of the fleet, the Navy would be eager to buy them all in one go, after all, in this era of very rapid technological innovation, it is really not so easy to find a country to sell these second-hand warships.
Only the country where the Orr Kingdom is not short of money and urgently needs to replenish warships can do this kind of thing.
In the eyes of the Orr Kingdom, spending more than 10 million Hengyuan can obtain the guarantee of naval strength within two years, this business has been done!
So after the two sides negotiated, they reached such an agreement, and after reaching this agreement, in fact, the Daheng Navy also approached the Orers, saying that we would wait until next year and the year after next when we had a batch of new warships in service, and the Endless Sea-class battleships we had on hand would be useless, and we would deal with them cheaply when the time came.
But the Orr kingdom doesn't want it......
They want second-hand warships, but only now, as for next year, the year after that, it doesn't make much sense, they might as well order a few more capital ships.
You have to know the order for battleships, but it is an order for two plus two, if the first two are satisfied, then there will be two more orders for new warships in the follow-up Orr Navy.
What they want to build is a new generation navy with four first-class battleships as the core, and they don't want old warships.
In the ordnance transaction between the two sides, in addition to orders for warships, orders for army equipment are naturally indispensable.
In fact, the Orr Kingdom is more satisfied with the weapons of the Daheng Empire or the army equipment, whether it is the Luo'an Type 4 rifle with a tube magazine, or the Yuannian heavy machine gun, or the five-year 27 times 75 mm field gun, or the 100 mm field gun, the 150 mm howitzer, etc., they are all handy, and they also played a huge role in the war.
The reason why the Orr Kingdom was able to resist the invasion of the Krull people was not by the navy, but by the army.
Without the desperate resistance of the army units in the three Karan Heights, they would have died long ago and become a colony, and it would have been impossible to exchange 300 million constant dollars in reparations for an armistice agreement.
This is also the sorrow of a small country, obviously the army fought well and kept the homeland, but in the end, it can only end the war with reparations, because if it continues to drag on, the Krull Kingdom will be uncomfortable at best, but the Orr Kingdom will definitely die!
This time, a tacit understanding has been formed within the Orr Kingdom!
If it loses a lot of money in the next war, it is better to invest it directly in military spending, and increase the strength of the army to the extent that even the Krull Kingdom will not dare to invade again.
Therefore, in addition to a large number of warships in the Navy, they pay more attention to the armament of the army.
In addition to their own equipment and reserves, they also have to arm all the standing forces of the two junior brothers, and don't wait until the war is about to break out to rush to purchase weapons to arm the two younger brothers.
This time, they will be fully prepared to deal a blow to any nation that dares to invade their Orr Kingdom!