Charlotte closed his eyes tightly, his heart tormented with pain. In the past two days, there were people from the Shenzhou City military, as well as petition representatives under their own command, as well as Holliman, James, and other captured officers. He never thought that these people almost had a common wish, they wanted to stay in Shenzhou City for the rest of their lives. Even Holliman expressed the idea of serving in the fleet of Shenzhou City, because he really wanted to drive those fast warships.

From Holliman's mouth, he heard that now unless all the warships in the Netherlands were sailed, or maybe they had the ability to fight with the Shenzhou Army, because their new destroyers were almost finished. And if you set sail from Europe now, then it will be a dead end to come, because at that time there is no doubt that the cruisers of the Shenzhou Army must have been completed, and the war will be carried out in a completely one-sided manner.

Charlotte believed that the boats were like sharks in the sea against whales, devouring his fleet in one bite, though they might suffer great losses as well. However, the outcome of the battle is not to be guessed. Now he thought back to the sneer on the corner of the young officer's mouth, and his words, he understood that it was not arrogance, it was a kind of self-confidence, confidence in his own strength. If they really had the battleships described by Holliman, let alone the Netherlands and Southeast Asia, they would not be left behind in the competition on the oceans.

"Oh God! Is the world going to fall into the hands of the yellow race again? Is European civilization going to sink again? ”

"Father, father," the daughter's gentle cry reached his ears, soothing his uneasy anxiety and the violation of his dignity.

"Rhona, my dear daughter, I'm relieved to hear you're okay!"

Charlotte had a hint of solace in the fact that his beloved daughter was not implicated and that she did not have to go to hell.

Lorna bit her red lip, she had to convince his father today, because he couldn't watch the crew lose their precious lives.

"Father, today I went bald him...... Have mercy on them. ”

Charlotte looked at his daughter, he didn't want to hear anything that betrayed the dignity of his subordinates, he looked at the clothes on his daughter suspiciously, and his intuition told him that those were precious things.

"Rhona, where have you been staying these days?"

"All this time, I have lived in the City Lord's Mansion, which is the home of the Governor here."

"The Doge's Palace?" Charlotte asked rhetorically, he didn't believe that his daughter would sell her dignity, after all, she was a nobleman.

"Yes father, the Doge has been fighting the rebels on the front lines, and there are only three of his ladies in the Doge's Palace, and they are all beautiful and kind people."

"Three ladies! Like those soil kings, it can be seen that they are still an uncivilized barbarian people! ”

"Father, I visited the skinheads ......"

"How are they doing, it's not bad!"

Listening to her father's mocking words, a trace of sadness flashed across Rona's face, "Father, you don't know, you don't know what kind of life they live." Today, just today they died two more. Father...... Did the father let these poor people lose their lives for the sake of the dignity of the so-called aristocracy? No, Father, no! You can save them, and they are only trading their own labor for their freedom and safety, will Father lose his dignity? Father, for God's sake, I beg you. ”

"You...... You have disappointed me so much, how can you speak like that, they have lost not their own dignity, they have lost the dignity of the Dutch Navy! ”

"No, no, they don't! They have fought hard, but you can see the power of the Shenzhou Navy fleet, it is not something they can compete with at all, if their sacrifice is the dignity of the Royal Navy, then is their sacrifice not enough? Enough is enough, enough is enough, father! ”

Charlotte closed her eyes tightly again, and two lines and two tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Father, we are nobles, and we cannot tolerate our dignity being violated by others, even a little bit. And is the dignity that you have gained in exchange for the lives of your men still dignity? Father, we can't hesitate any longer...... Father," Rhona said quietly as she looked at her father's face.

"Father, now is the last chance to save their lives and to embody the dignity of our nobility. You must know that the lord of the city is still on the front line, and if he misses this opportunity, he will have to wait for three months or more, and I dare not imagine that by that time, there will be a few more of those seamen left. Father, or I can arrange for you to meet with a few of the lord's wives, they are all kind and benevolent people, and I think they will help us. ”

The next day, the front page of Shenzhou Pravda newspaper was that the Royal Dutch Navy instructor had been hired to join the Shenzhou Military Naval Academy as the vice principal. And after the amnesty of the city lord, the rest of the Dutch captives will join the ranks of foreign mercenaries and form the third battalion of foreign mercenaries.

At this point, the matter of dealing with these Dutch captives is over, and Rona has to worry about her work, otherwise she will always live in the city lord's mansion. As for James's proposal, she hadn't thought about it, but the salty waters had always flowed through her veins.

On the passenger ship to Pingtan Island, she accompanied her father to the Naval Academy. And she didn't plan to go back to Shenzhou City again, because she was already planning to find a job that suited her.

At the same time as building destroyers, Shenzhou City used Minjiang-class ships to renovate a number of "whale-class" amphibious assault ships, which were assigned to the Marine Corps. And these battleships, as we mentioned earlier, are armed with ten 100-mm guns, several 60-mm guns, and can be equipped with vehicle-mounted rocket launchers on the deck.

Their function is primarily to provide fire suppression for the Marine Corps. Each Marine Division was equipped with 30 ships to deliver the entire division's strength and the first batch of replenishment. Due to their reinforced armor, they sailed at a speed of only ten knots, which was slightly slower than the battleships, but sufficient to carry the landing force.

"Where's your sir?" It wasn't difficult for Lorna to find the barracks, and although she couldn't get in, the soldiers standing guard had a deep memory of the red-haired girl who had quarreled with her commander a few days ago.

"Surfing at the beach!"

"Surfing?" Growing up in the middle of the sea, Rona had never heard the word, so she rode curiously on her borrowed bicycle to the location the sentry pointed out.

On the golden sand, on the white waves in the distance, fierce figures rise and fall with the waves. Lorna couldn't help but be fascinated by this extremely thrilling and exciting game.