Chapter 45: Ten Battleship Formations

The Sharad Empire did not blockade the news of the expeditionary fleet's disastrous defeat in the Yanmen Strait of the Liuyun Empire, and even informed its allies the Jisk Empire and the Orensa Empire at the first time.

In the imperial palace of Wendell City, the capital of the Gisk Empire, Maxim, the prime minister of the Gisk Empire, held a telegram in his hand and said to Emperor Lazarik in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, news has come from the Sharad Empire, the expeditionary fleet they sent to the east coast of the Liuyun Empire was defeated by Su Yi's fleet in the Yanmen Strait in the northern waters of the Liuyun Empire, and the Sharad Empire's navy suffered heavy losses, and even lost three super dreadnought battleships and five dreadnought battleships. ”

Emperor Lazarik frowned and said: "I really didn't expect that the fleet under Su Yi was so strong that even the world's second navy of the Shalad Empire suffered a big loss, but now the main force of the fleet under Su Yi should not be able to return to Kangshan Port of the Celestial Star Empire in a short period of time, should our navy of the Jisk Empire seize this opportunity to attack Kangshan Port?" ”

Prime Minister Maxim shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, Kangshan Port has a large number of coastal defense artillery, and sending the navy to attack Kangshan Port can be said to be worth the loss. ”

"Then what about going to the sea to intercept that Su Yi's fleet?"

"Your Majesty, I feel that our Jisk Empire should not focus on that Su Yi at present, even if he has a powerful fleet and sent his army troops to occupy a county of the Celestial Star Empire, but it still can't affect the overall situation of the war between our Gisk Empire and the Celestial Star Empire, now for our Jisk Empire, the most important thing is to force the Celestial Star Empire to submit as soon as possible, and turn the Celestial Star Empire into a raw material source and commodity dumping ground for our Gisk Empire."

Emperor Lazarik nodded and said: "The Prime Minister is reasonable, Kangshan County was occupied by that Su Yi, it really does not affect the overall situation, and it is the most important thing to make the Celestial Star Empire submit to our Jisk Empire as soon as possible." ”

Su Yi was originally going to use the two newly acquired Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, three Guba-class battleships and three Braunschweig-class battleships to give the Navy of the Jisk Empire a big surprise, but unfortunately Su Yi waited left and right, and did not wait for the fleet of the Jisk Imperial Navy to attack Kangshan Port, but waited for the main force of the expeditionary fleet to come back.

On June 20, 3011 in the Tang calendar, a huge fleet slowly sailed into Kangshan Port, and this fleet was the independent fleet that returned victoriously, because it needed to tow the injured warships of the Shalad Empire, so it took more than 20 days for the independent fleet to return to Kangshan Port.

On the wharf of Kangshan Port, Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet who had just disembarked, couldn't wait to ask Su Yi: "Marshal, those battleships at the berth on the east side of the port are all from our independent fleet, right?" ”

Su Yi smiled and nodded and said, "In addition to the two Holy Sword-class dreadnought battleships, two gem-class dreadnought battleships, four former dreadnought battleships, and two ironclad battleships of the Jisk Empire that have been repaired, there are also eight new battleships, including two super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships, and three former dreadnought battleships, and now these eighteen warships are all under your independent fleet!" ”

"Haha, that's great! Marshal, when these warships that captured the Salad Empire's navy are also repaired, even if the Shalad Empire's navy pours in, our independent fleet will have the confidence to win the battle! ”

The two Holy Sword-class dreadnought battleships that captured the Jisk Empire were renamed Jixiang and Jiheng by Su Yi, and the two gem-class dreadnought battleships were renamed Jirui and Jichen by Su Yi.

The four former dreadnought battleships that captured the Jisk Empire were renamed Huhui, Huming, Hutai and Huyu by Su Yi, and the two ironclad battleships were named by Su Yi according to the number and renamed Tiejia No. 1 and Tiejia No. 2 respectively.

Su Yi decided that the captured ironclad battleships in the future would be named after this, so this time the independent fleet captured the four ironclad battleships of the Sharad Empire, and they were directly renamed by Su Yi as Tiejia No. 3, Tiejia No. 4, Tiejia No. 5 and Tiejia No. 6.

The Sharad Empire's super dreadnought battleship Sun God was renamed the Battle Rain by Su Yi, and the super dreadnought battleship Moon Goddess was renamed the Battle Snow by Su Yi.

The three dreadnought battleships of the Sharad Empire were captured, all of which had six twin 45 times the caliber of 305 mm main guns, but their models were not the same, Su Yi directly renamed them Jiying, Jikang and Ji'an in order to save trouble, and the dreadnought battleships captured in the future, Su Yi was ready to name them after the word "Ji".

The captured former dreadnought battleships of the Sharad Empire, each with four 35 times the caliber of 305 mm main guns, with a full load displacement of more than 10,000 tons, were renamed Huqian, Huyou and Huguan by Su Yi.

With the addition of so many new battleships, the strength of the independent fleet has increased a lot, Su Yi and Wang Chengliang discussed it, and the establishment of the independent fleet was readjusted.

Two Bavaria-class battleships, two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, a total of four super dreadnought battleships, form the first battleship formation of the independent fleet, referred to as the first warframe.

Two Ise-class battleships, two Iron Duke-class battleships, and two captured Warrain and Warsnow of the Sharad Imperial Navy, a total of six super dreadnought battleships were organized into the second squadron.

Two Giant-class battleships and two King-class battleships were organized into the Third Squadron, and three Earl Cavour-class battleships and three Lone Pull class battleships were organized into the Fourth Squadron.

The seven dreadnought battleships named after the character "Ji" were organized into the Fifth Sentai and the four Lion-class battlecruisers were reorganized into the Sixth Sentai Sentai.

Five Edward VII-class battleships were assigned to the Seventh Squadron, four Lord Nelson-class battleships and three Braunschweig-class battleships were assigned to the Eighth Squadron.

The seven former dreadnought battleships named after the word "lake" were organized into the Ninth Sentai and six ironclad battleships were reorganized into the Tenth Sentai Sentai.

Although the battleships of the independent fleet were organized into ten battleship formations, the twelve battleships of the Sharad Empire were captured and had to enter the shipyard in Kangshan Port for overhaul.

Su Yi said with a smile to Wang Chengliang, the commander of the Independent Fleet: "It's a pity that the number of small warships in our Independent Fleet is too small, otherwise it would be no problem for the Independent Fleet to replace the Salad Imperial Navy and become the second navy in the world." ”

Wang Chengliang nodded and said: "Marshal, we must add more small warships, if it weren't for the fact that there were too few small warships in this naval battle, we wouldn't have sunk two battleships." ”

Su Yi shrugged his shoulders and said, "There is no way for the time being, but next year the independent fleet will add at least twelve light cruisers and thirty-six destroyers." ”