When the Great Heng Empire completed the emergency arms trade with the Orr Kingdom, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, Holibart, did not return immediately, but stayed in the Daheng Empire for a period of time and continued to negotiate trade with the Daheng Empire.

This time, they brought 200 tons of gold, and although the previous emergency ordnance trade cost a lot, it was only tens of millions, and they still have a large amount of money on hand that has not been spent.

Therefore, after urgently purchasing a batch of ready-made weapons and equipment and warships, Holibat continued to negotiate with the Daheng Empire to purchase weapons.

However, this time the procurement is not an urgent procurement, it must be in stock and delivered immediately, and it also needs to be delivered to the door when the Daheng Empire sends a fleet of armed troops, but it is an ordinary military procurement.

This includes an order for 100,000 Roan IV rifles and a batch of 75 mm and 27 times the caliber field guns and a batch of new army weapons, as well as a large number of bullets and shells, as well as gauze, bedding, canned food, wheat, and almost everything that can be used in the war.

In addition, negotiations were also held to order a number of new types of battleships, cruisers, and heavy shore defense guns from the Daheng Empire.

However, for battleships and cruisers, as well as shore defense heavy artillery, torpedo boats, etc., they demanded the latest warships.

During the high-level talks between the parties, the request for a new battleship was personally put forward by Crown Prince Holybart:

The new type of warship must be equipped with four naval guns of 300 mm and 30 times the caliber.

The speed can reach more than 15.5 knots, and the maximum speed can reach more than 16 knots by using strong ventilation technology.

At the same time, the main armor belt must be equipped with 450 mm steel armor, which can effectively resist the main gun attack of any contemporary battleship.

It is equipped with the latest convergence rangefinder and other fire control assistance systems.

Electric lights with generators and interior lighting, and no less than four sets of searchlights.

All guns must be equipped with a hydraulically controlled Cole gun mount.

This kind of gun carriage was invented by Colonel Cole of the Kingdom of Krull, using hydraulic control and gravity re-advance, which can effectively increase the rate of fire of the gun, the rate of fire of the 150 mm gun can reach one shot a minute after using this gun mount, and the 300 mm gun can also reach one round in 2.5 minutes.

At present, the rapid-fire tube withdrawal cannon in the Daheng Empire can only be a maximum of 150 mm, and it is a top-secret project, which has not been made public for the time being, let alone sold to the outside world.

These requirements of Crown Prince Hollibart are actually based on the most mainstream king-class battleships and endless sea-class battleships of our time!

Later, he also made it clear that he hoped to improve it based on the Endless Sea-class battleships of the Great Heng Empire, but don't show the turret, they want a closed turret with better protection performance, as for the problem of poor stability and poor seaworthiness in complex sea conditions, they also know but don't care.

Because their battleships were only used for coastal defense operations, they did not consider the issue of ocean-going operations at all.

For their requirements, the Great Heng Empire naturally tried its best to meet them!

Soon the specific design was finalized, and they were ready to order one first, and then add another one depending on the situation, but the current large-tonnage docks of the Daheng Empire are full, not only to build large-tonnage warships, but also to build large-tonnage civilian merchant ships, which will not be vacated for a while, so it will not be able to start construction until next year at the earliest.

This also reflects the current lack of shipbuilding strength in the Daheng Empire, there are only three large shipyards, there are not many 10,000-ton docks, and even fewer 15,000-ton and 20,000-ton docks.

In addition to the battleships, they also ordered two armored cruisers!

Interestingly, their requirements for armored cruisers were quite simple, and they demanded that the new armored cruisers they ordered have a speed of more than twenty knots.

At the same time, they wanted the armored cruiser to have good ocean-going seaworthiness, strong endurance, more ammunition reserves, and freshwater food reserves, and they needed to be able to easily and quickly replenish at sea.

At the same time, it is stronger than the protection and firepower of ordinary dome cruisers, but it is not required to be comparable to the protection and firepower of second-class battleships.

This kind of requirement is clear at a glance, this is an armored cruiser specially designed to break the relationship.

Otherwise, there would not be such a special requirement!

For their requirements, the Daheng Empire still met them one by one, and soon finalized an armored cruiser with a speed of more than 20 knots, using a high freeboard open-air battery design, taking into account the needs of breaking the relationship, the ship's endurance is extremely strong, and at the same time the ocean-going seaworthiness is good, the use of high freeboard and open-air battery layout, firepower is two four 200 mm 40 times the caliber of naval guns, 14 150 mm single auxiliary guns.

Considering that the tonnage of the ship is only 9,000 tons, the protection is also slightly worse.

After Crown Prince Holibat left a batch of new orders, he returned to the Orr Kingdom on the 10,000-ton large passenger ship of the Great Heng Empire's Ocean Shipping Company.

At this time, the situation in the southern continent had become very tense.

The Krull Kingdom continued to increase its troops to the southern continent, and a large number of troops and materials began to gather in a steady stream to the southern continent.

The Orr kingdom also began to mobilize very simply, and began to arm its two younger brothers, strengthen the coastal defense turrets, and build the defense line on the southern border.

At the same time, a large amount of military supplies were hoarded in advance, and one after another, the ships of the Daheng people, loaded with all kinds of materials, arrived at several major ports of the Orr people one after another, and brought a large number of grain and other military supplies.

At the same time, it is inevitable to use the last time to continue to replenish all kinds of weapons and ammunition.

Once the war broke out, it would be difficult to obtain supplies, and even then it would be impossible for the Daheng Empire to risk breaking neutrality to forcibly transport supplies to the Orr Kingdom.

But can this completely block the passage of supplies from the Orr Kingdom?

Naturally, it doesn't work, the southern continent is big, and their own coastal areas are blocked, but the four eastern countries in the north and the Danrui Principality in the south all have land borders with them, and as long as they pay a certain price, they can also secretly obtain certain material supplies from the above areas.

Of course, these countries are not very courageous, but they can't openly resist the diplomatic pressure of the Krull Kingdom, so they can only do it secretly, without fanfare, so the supply of materials will not be large.

The situation in the southern continent has developed to the point where war is inevitable.

Sure enough, as soon as Qiansheng came into contact in the seventh year, and as soon as the chapter was turned in the eighth year of Qiansheng, urgent news came from the south: the alliance between the Kingdom of Natre and the Principality of Bird officially declared war on the Kingdom of Andel and the Kingdom of Venabe under the pretext of border territorial contradictions.

The colony of the Krull Kingdom and the younger brother of the Orr Kingdom have declared war on each other, so it is not far off for them to declare war on each other.

Just three days later, the Kingdom of Krull became hostile to the Kingdom of Orr and its two younger brothers.

The Orr Kingdom and its two younger brothers also declared war on the Krull Kingdom immediately afterward.

Thus, the war between the Kingdom of Krull and the Kingdom of Orr broke out!

From the very beginning of this war, it attracted the attention of the entire Blue Star.

All countries want to see if the Orr Kingdom can block the invasion of the Krull Kingdom, and at the same time, they also want to use this war to have a deeper understanding of the development of contemporary warfare.

Because the two sides of this war will use the latest types of weapons and equipment, whether it is army weapons and equipment or warships, which are all new types of equipment that have been newly developed in recent years, and these new equipment bring new tactics, and unfortunately, since the end of the unification war of the Great Heng Empire, it is difficult for them to really understand the application and changes of new weapons and new tactics through war.

During the Unification War of the Daheng Empire, the fierceness of the Battle of Jingzhou and the ferocity of firepower in the Unification War left a strong impression on the countries at that time, and even changed their understanding of the war.

In the Battle of Jingzhou at that time, the amount of ammunition fired by both sides amazed the military attaches of various countries!

The unification war of the Great Heng Empire directly led to the beginning of the first year of Qiansheng, and the countries of the Blue Star set off a wave of military innovation, and first-class powers such as the Krull Kingdom, the Walya Empire, and the Gafia Empire have launched their own breech-loading rifled rifles, artillery and even warships, which are equipped with their own troops.

And according to the tactics and establishment of the two sides in the unification war of the Great Heng Empire, the tactics and establishment of the troops were completely renovated.

Although it has only been a few years, now all countries have basically completed the replacement of rear-loading weapons, and the line tactics have been completely abandoned, and the use of skirmishers has been switched to the use of skirmishers.

However, in fact, the generals of many countries are still very vague about how to fight such a war.

They tried their best to collect and study the intelligence during the unification war of the Great Heng Empire, trying to figure out everything, but all they could collect was some public information, and some confidential information was naturally unknown.

At present, only a few countries that purchase large amounts of weapons from Daheng can send military students to study in several military academies in the empire, but they are only limited to ordinary technical military schools, and they cannot enter senior military schools.

At present, the only one who can send military students to study in Daheng and really learn is the Orr Kingdom.

What's that, although they are big customers of the Daheng Empire, other customers will throw out tens of millions and hundreds of millions of them at every turn, and it is normal for dozens of hundreds of military students to come over.

Therefore, if I have to say, in fact, the army of the Orr Kingdom is the most complete army to emulate the army of the Great Heng Empire.

But whether it can be fought or not, it will have to be seen.