Chapter 163: Preparing for War

After Su Yi arrived in Huifeng City, he did not rest in Huifeng City, and soon came to the blockaded Huifeng Port, and in the system goods warehouse, the thirty-six large armored cruisers, four former dreadnought battleships, eight dreadnought battleships, sixteen battlecruisers and sixteen super dreadnought battleships that had been purchased were all embodied in reality.

As for the naval officers and sailors required for these new warships, they will come from the four marine brigades blockading Huifeng Port, and at present, the various marine brigades of the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire are all composed of marine-type cyborgs, just to facilitate the naval officers and sailors of the Marine Brigade, which can be transformed into naval officers and sailors on the warships at any time.

Subsequently, after consulting with Wang Chengliang, commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, Su Yi decided to attribute the four Connecticut-class dreadnought battleships to the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, so that the number of Connecticut-class dreadnought battleships of the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire will increase to twelve.

The two Giant-class dreadnought battleships, the two King-class dreadnought battleships, and the four Florida-class dreadnought battleships will be attributed to the Fourth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, increasing the number of Giant-class and King-class ships to ten, and the number of Florida-class ships to eleven.

The four Vengeance-class super dreadnought battleships with 381 mm guns, as well as four Colorado-class super dreadnought battleships and four Nelson-class super dreadnought battleships with 406 mm guns, as well as four King Kong-class battlecruisers and four prestige-class battlecruisers, will all belong to the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

The First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire will also have 12 Queen Elizabeth-class, 10 Bavaria-class, 4 Revenge-class, 4 Colorado-class, and 4 Nelson-class, a total of 34 super dreadnought battleships, as well as 8 Kong-class battlecruisers and 8 Prestige-class battlecruisers, which deservedly become the main force in the main fleet.

The other four Tennessee-class Super Dreadnought battleships and four Tiger-class battlecruisers will be deployed to the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, and four Lion-class battlecruisers will be assigned to the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire.

The twelve Minotaur-class armored cruisers, the twelve Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers, and the twelve Blucher-class armored cruisers, which have just been revealed, will form a new formation of nine armored cruisers, each of which will have four large armored cruisers.

These nine armored cruiser formations will be assigned to the five main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the four main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, and it just so happens that one main fleet will be assigned to a new armored cruiser formation.

After adding a batch of new warships to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, Su Yi asked the two navies to keep the newly added warships as secret as possible and not let the outside world know, hoping to leave some more cards for the two navies to deal with a possible war.

On the night of July 25, Su Yi left the railway station in Huifeng City on an armored train, preparing to rush back to Chang'an City.

When Su Yi left Huifeng City, Liu Muqing, who looked depressed, took photographer Wu Xuedong, assistant Zhang Ying and two bodyguards to board a train that was about to leave Chang'an City.

After Su Yi's enthronement ceremony ended, Liu Muqing thought of many ways to try to meet Su Yi, but today's Su Yi is not as good as before, and it is not easy for Liu Muqing, a foreign reporter, to see.

On the afternoon of July 25, Liu Muqing received a telegram from her father that her mother suddenly fell ill and asked Liu Muqing to return to Liuyun City quickly, but Liu Muqing had no choice but to leave Chang'an City in a hurry, first take a train to a border city in the east of the Tang Empire, and then take a car back to the territory of the Liuyun Empire, and then take a train back to Liuyun City.

When the train was about to leave, Liu Muqing looked at the direction of the palace in Chang'an City through the window, and sighed unwillingly, but what Liu Muqing didn't know was that Su Yi, who she hoped to see, was not in the palace at this time.

Su Yi was sitting in a luxury car of the armored train, and suddenly sneezed, and then Du Zhongtie, the captain of the royal guard who was following Su Yi, hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, do you need to get you a thicker blanket?" ”

Su Yi waved his hand and said, "No need, it may be that the queen is talking about me!" By the way, the intelligence services of the two countries, as well as the military intelligence agencies of the two countries, are there any new news from the seven countries of Yingluopa, Sharad, Noomi, Monia, Gisk, Ruierland, and Orenza? ”

Du Zhongtie shook his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the intelligence departments and military intelligence bureaus of our Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire have not found any major moves from the Seven Kingdoms such as Yingluoba and Sharad for the time being. ”

Su Yi suddenly sighed and said: "I have a hunch that the withdrawal of our Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire from the negotiations on restricting the scale of the navy and army of various countries will never end like this, maybe a larger-scale war will fall on the heads of our Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire, it seems that not only must the navy be prepared, but also the army must be prepared if it agrees." ”

After Su Yi returned to Chang'an City, he immediately summoned He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, into the palace, and after studying with He Yunfei, the establishment of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire and the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire, although it was not expanded, but Su Yi ordered the entire Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire to improve the reserve system as soon as possible.

Within half a year, a total of 600 reserve infantry divisions will be established in the 64 provinces of the Tang Empire and the 33 provinces of the Purple Moon Empire, including 400 reserve infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire and 200 reserve infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire.

The soldiers of these 600 reserve infantry divisions will be mainly peasants, workers, and craftsmen, and these soldiers will only need to spare a few days a month for training, and each reserve infantry division will have nearly 2,000 active-duty officers as the backbone, and if needed, each reserve infantry division can be turned into a full-fledged infantry division with 80,000 men in a short time.

Now, with the machinery and equipment purchased by Su Yi from the system mall, the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire have built several extra-large arsenals, which can now imitate the Mauser 98k rifle, MP34 submachine gun, Walter P38 pistol, Mauser 98K sniper rifle, MG-42 general-purpose machine gun, M-2 mortar, M1897 field gun, M2 105 mm howitzer and M1 155 mm howitzer used by the army, and the production is not low.

Coupled with the army weapons that Su Yi can buy from the system mall every month, as well as the army weapons stored in the system item warehouse, it only takes about a year or so, and Su Yi can equip the weapons needed by the six hundred reserve infantry divisions.

In addition, Su Yi also asked several extra-large arsenals to start copying two fighters and one bomber equipped by the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, as well as light tanks, heavy tanks and armored vehicles equipped by the First Armored Division of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, and Su Yi also invested a lot of money to require these arsenals to develop fighters, bombers, armored vehicles and tanks with better performance.

Under the supervision of Su Yi, the eight large shipyards of the Tang Empire began to build twenty super dreadnought battleships with five twin 42 times caliber 381 mm guns and twenty battle cruisers with four twin 42 times caliber 381 mm guns.

With the support of Su Yi's sufficient funds, the eight large shipyards of the Tang Empire also started a large number of large armored cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers in one go, and one of the large shipyards also secretly began to copy the VIIC submarines equipped by the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

The foundation of the original shipbuilding industry of the Purple Moon Empire was good, and with the support of Su Yi's large amount of funds and mechanical equipment, the shipbuilding industry of the Purple Moon Empire was finally integrated into six large shipyards, and when the twenty super dreadnought battleships and twenty battle cruisers independently built by the Tang Empire started, sixteen super dreadnought battleships of the same type and sixteen battle cruisers of the same type began to lay keels in the six large shipyards of the Purple Moon Empire.

The six large shipyards of the Purple Moon Empire have also started a large number of large armored cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers.

When Su Yi invested in the military industry on a large scale, his investment in the livelihood of the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire did not decrease, thanks to the rice, flour, canned meat, and penicillin sold in the system mall, which could help Su Yi exchange a lot of money, especially the 1.6 million units of penicillin, which was more expensive than gold, and was exported to all over the world, in exchange for a large amount of money for Su Yi, otherwise such a large investment would have bankrupted the finances of the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire.

Su Yi can buy one billion units of 1.6 million units of penicillin from the system mall every month, while the penicillin in this world is generally only 10,000 units, and the price is expensive, and the market price of each 10,000 units of penicillin is about two dollars.

You must know that 1.6 million units of penicillin can be much better than 10,000 units of penicillin, so Su Yi set the export price of 1.6 million units of penicillin at three dollars each.

In the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire, the price was only set at ten silver dollars each, and poor families could apply to military hospitals for free penicillin injections.

And just as the Tang Empire and the Purple Moon Empire were preparing for war in an orderly manner, the seven first-class powers, Yingluopa, Sharad, Noomi, Monia, Gisk, Ruierlan and Orenza, also began a series of actions.