Chapter 116: The Empress's Helplessness

On the afternoon of June 28, 3012 in the Tang calendar, in a large hall of the imperial palace of Suisheng City, the capital of the Purple Moon Empire, Empress Ouyang Xue held a newspaper tightly in her hand, and said to Prime Minister Guo Xian, Minister of War Yuan Lin and Minister of the Navy Liu Yongcheng with trembling voices: "I have decided to launch a full-scale retaliatory action against the Orenza Empire, I don't know what you think?" ”

Empress Ouyang Xue spoke a little tremblingly, completely angry at the fact that the Royal Army of Orensa had slaughtered prisoners of war and civilians of the Purple Moon Empire.

Prime Minister Guo Xian hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, in addition to the more than 30,000 prisoners of war of the Orensa Army in our Purple Moon Empire, it seems that it is impossible to retaliate against the Orenza Empire in other aspects. ”

Empress Ouyang Xue immediately said: "Then shoot all the more than 30,000 prisoners of war of the Orensa Army to avenge the tragic death of the Royal Army officers and soldiers and civilians!" ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, it is a violation of international conventions to massacre prisoners of war, once our Purple Moon Empire also follows the example of the Orenza army, then our Purple Moon Empire will change from reasonable to unreasonable, not to mention that there are more captured Royal Army officers and soldiers in the hands of the Orenza army, and many cities in the southern region of our Purple Moon Empire are still controlled by the Orenza army, and the Orenza army may then make even more crazy retaliation." ”

Minister of War Yuan Lin said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, you really can't do this, otherwise the Orenza army's massacre of our Purple Moon Empire's prisoners of war and civilians may become even larger and more blatant. ”

Empress Ouyang Xue gritted her teeth and said, "Now that the Orenza army slaughtered our Purple Moon Empire's prisoners of war and civilians, the whole world knows about it, so let's let the Purple Moon Empire just assume that this incident didn't happen?" How should I explain to the army and the people of the whole country? ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian sighed and said, "Your Majesty, the minister will ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strongly condemn the Orenza Empire and urge the Orenza Empire to severely punish the murderers who slaughtered our Purple Moon Empire's prisoners of war and civilians. ”

Empress Ouyang Xue sneered, "If the condemnation is useful, then the Orenza Empire will not invade our Purple Moon Empire." ”

At this moment, a female official hurriedly walked into the main hall and handed a piece of paper to Empress Ouyang Xue.

Empress Ouyang Xue took the piece of paper handed over by the female official and looked at it, and her face couldn't help but show excitement, "Okay!" Well done! Three adults, just this morning, the independent fleet carried out a devastating shelling of the city of Hamadan on the coast of the Orenza Empire, and now the city of Hamadan, with a population of more than 800,000, has been reduced to ruins. ”

After Su Yi received the news of the Orenza army's massacre of prisoners of war and civilians of the Purple Moon Empire yesterday, he immediately sent a telegram to Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, ordering Wang Chengliang to lead the three battleship squadrons, two armored cruiser squadrons, four light cruiser squadrons, and eight destroyer squadrons of the independent fleet to immediately launch an artillery bombardment of various cities along the coast of the Orenza Empire.

As a seaside city, Hamadan City also built four forts, but the port of Hamadan City is not a military port after all, and the four forts were built decades ago, more to defend against pirates.

Today, the four batteries in the port of Hamadan City add up to only six 102-mm shore defense guns and eighteen 75-mm shore defense guns, and the thickness of the reinforced concrete of the four batteries is also very average.

Next, more than 200 warships of all sizes of the Independent Fleet began to bombard the city of Hamadan, including the port of Hamadan City, for about two hours.

Prime Minister Guo Xian heard that the Independent Fleet had destroyed the Harbor City of the Orensa Empire, and his face couldn't help but show excitement and said to Empress Ouyang Xue: "Your Majesty, with Su Yi's character, since he has intervened in this matter, it will definitely not end with just destroying a Hamadan City, and then the Independent Fleet will definitely shell more coastal cities of the Orenza Empire, presumably the Orenza Empire will also hand over the real murderers who slaughtered our Purple Moon Empire's prisoners of war and civilians as soon as possible, otherwise the losses of the Orenza Empire will be great." ”

Empress Ouyang Xue immediately said to the Minister of the Navy, Liu Yongcheng: "Now that the Orenza Navy has almost been wiped out, can our Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire also attack and shell the coastal cities of the Orenza Empire?" ”

Admiral Minister Liu Yongcheng hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, it is no problem for our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Navy to attack, after all, the main force of the Orenza Navy has been destroyed in the hands of the independent fleet, but once our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Navy shells the coastal cities of the Orenza Empire, then the Orenza army can still carry out a larger-scale retaliatory action against our Purple Moon Empire, so I feel that our Purple Moon Empire will be better to wait and see what happens." ”

Empress Ouyang Xue smiled angrily and said: "After talking about it for a long time, you still can't take revenge on the Orenza Empire, can it be that this blood debt owed by the Orenza army still has to rely on outsiders to help our Purple Moon Empire repay it?" ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian coughed and said: "Your Majesty, Su Yi is now the concubine of our Purple Moon Empire, and the independent fleet under his command shelled the coastal cities of the Orenza Empire, which can actually be regarded as the revenge of our Purple Moon Empire against the Orenza Empire. ”

Minister of War Yuan Lin then said: "Your Majesty, the Su family army is not the army of our Purple Moon Empire after all, even if the independent fleet of the Su family army shells the coastal cities of the Orensa Empire, the Orenza Empire can't blame the head of our Purple Moon Empire, not to mention that the Su family army still controls hundreds of thousands of prisoners of the Orensa Navy and the Orenza Army, the best choice for our Purple Moon Empire now is to do nothing, if the Orenza army continues to massacre the prisoners of war and civilians of our Purple Moon Empire on a large scale, It's not too late for our Purple Moon Empire to retaliate. ”

Empress Ouyang Xue waved her hand and said, "Then this matter, let's do it according to your wishes!" I'm a little tired, go down! ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian said to Empress Ouyang Xue in a deep voice at this time: "Your Majesty, in fact, in the hearts of the three ministers, they also want to take revenge on the Orenza Empire desperately, but the current situation does not allow the three of us to act rashly, otherwise the most seriously injured will still be our Purple Moon Empire, so for this Orenza army's massacre of our Purple Moon Empire's prisoners of war and civilians, our Purple Moon Empire can only choose to forbear." ”