After the first broken fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire attacked the Derian Port of the British Empire, this broken fleet became a nightmare for almost all the civilian ports and merchant ships of the British Empire, and in the following half a month, this broken fleet attacked five civilian ports of the British Empire, and also blocked the shipping lanes near the British Empire, and sank a number of merchant ships of the British Empire.

And just when this broken fleet was wreaking havoc on the coast of the Yingroba Empire, the other two broken fleets of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire also appeared on the coast of the Noomi Empire and the Sharad Empire, attacking the civilian ports and merchant ships of these two countries.

Like the first one, these two fleets consisted of four battle cruisers, four large armored cruisers, four light cruisers, and eight destroyers, except that these two fleets were drawn from the First Fleet and the Sixth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire respectively.

In the face of the broken fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, the navies of Yingluoba, Noomi and Sharad sent many warships to try to encircle and suppress the naval fleet of the Tang Empire that was ravaging their coasts, but the effect was not ideal.

The three broken fleets of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire did not fight face to face with you at all, and after discovering the enemy fleet, they immediately turned around and ran.

You must know that in order to prevent falling into the trap of the Tang Imperial Navy, the warships sent out by the navies of Yingluoba, Noomi and Sharad are mainly former dreadnought battleships and ironclad battleships, and the speed of these two battleships is not fast, and they can't catch up with the battlecruiser-based broken fleet, and the speed of other types of warships that follow the former dreadnought battleships and ironclad battleships is enough, but without the former dreadnought battleships and ironclad battleships, even if they catch up with the broken fleet, it will only add some results to the broken fleet.

On the morning of May 29, 3014 in the Tang calendar, in the palace of Kay City, the capital of the Noomi Empire, Emperor Edgrew said to Prime Minister Julian with a gloomy face: "Last night, Valerian Port was attacked by the Tang Empire Navy, the port facilities of Valerian Port were seriously damaged, and the shipyard in Valerian Port was also blown up. If we continue to attack the civilian ports of our Noomi Empire like this, the losses will be beyond the reach of our Noomi Empire. ”

Prime Minister Julian hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, before that, our Noomi Royal Navy had been worried that the Tang Imperial Navy would come up with some traps, so the warships sent to encircle and suppress this Datang Empire Navy fleet were mainly dreadnought battleships and ironclad battleships, but according to the information obtained by our Noomi Empire intelligence department, the main fleets of the Datang Empire Navy seem to still be in several military ports of the Tang Empire, so they attacked this Tang Empire naval fleet along the coast of our Noomi Empire, There should be no hidden power, and the minister suggested sending our super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers of the Noomi Royal Navy to join the encirclement and suppression operation. ”

After the naval battle between the combined fleet of the five navies and the main forces of the Datang and Ziyue navies, the capital ships of the Noomi Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet finally withdrew to the Noomi Empire with only nine super dreadnought battleships, seven battle cruisers, six dreadnought battleships, seven former dreadnought battleships and fifteen ironclad battleships.

However, at the end of April, the construction of another twelve ocean-class super dreadnought battleships and twelve fighter-class battlecruisers of the Noomi Royal Navy was also completed, joining the sequence of the Noomi Royal Navy, plus some capital ships that originally stayed in the country, so that the Noomi Royal Navy now has twenty-one super dreadnought battleships, nineteen battlecruisers, twelve dreadnought battleships, thirteen former dreadnought battleships and twenty-seven ironclad battleships.

Emperor Edgrew nodded and said: "Then hurry up and let the Royal Navy send out super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers to encircle and suppress, just like the fleet of the Tang Imperial Navy, the strongest battleship is only four battle cruisers, I hope to receive the good news of victory as soon as possible!" ”

Then Emperor Edgru's face became a little solemn, "I heard that Yingluoba and Sharad have formulated an unusually large shipbuilding plan?" ”

Prime Minister Julian heard Emperor Edgrew ask about this, and the expression on his face became solemn, "Your Majesty, it is true, according to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Yingluoba Empire is ready to build another thirty Tenacious-class and thirty Ambush-class, and will also start construction of thirty super dreadnought battleships with 406 mm guns and thirty battle cruisers with 406 mm guns. ”

After a pause, Prime Minister Julian continued: "The Salad Navy is not far behind in the construction of capital ships, they are ready to build twenty-four more Loud-class super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four Maple Leaf-class battle cruisers, and at the same time build thirty super dreadnought battleships with 406 mm guns and thirty battle cruisers with 406 mm guns, and we don't have other data on the latter two battleships yet." ”

Emperor Edgrew sneered and said, "It seems that our Noomi Royal Navy's plan to build thirty-six Mist-class super dreadnought battleships and thirty-six Fasthorse-class battlecruisers at the same time is still not enough to see compared to the Angloba and Shalad navies!" ”

The Royal Navy's Mist-class super dreadnought battleship, with a standard displacement of 35,800 tons and a full load displacement of 40,300 tons, has five twin 45 times the caliber of 381 mm main guns, and can reach a maximum speed of 20.5 knots.

The Kuaima-class battlecruiser, with a standard displacement of 36,300 tons and a full load displacement of 41,100 tons, has five twin 45-fold caliber 381 mm main guns, and can reach a maximum speed of 26 knots.

Now these thirty-six Mist-class and thirty-six Kuaima-class ships have been started in many shipyards in the Noomi Empire, but fortunately, these shipyards that built the Mist-class and Kuaima-class are all located in various military ports of the Noomi Empire, but they have not been disturbed by the Royal Navy's broken fleet of the Tang Empire for the time being.

As soon as Prime Minister Julian heard Emperor Edru's tone, he knew that the Noomi Empire was going to build a batch of large docks again, after all, the Noomi royal family held a gold mine with an annual output of nearly 3,000 tons of gold and a silver mine with an annual output of more than 30,000 tons of silver.

The exchange rate between the No. 1 dollar and the British dollar is about 10 to 1, and 2.4 billion No. 1 dollars is almost equivalent to 240 million British dollars.

And the Noomi royal family's industry is not only this gold mine and this silver mine, in addition, the Noomi Empire's finances will also pay 400 million Noomi dollars to the Noomi royal family every year, and it is preliminarily estimated that the Noomi royal family's annual income is at least 3.5 billion nod dollars.

Sure enough, Emperor Edgrew immediately said: "Since the Admiralty has also designed a super dreadnought battleship with 406 mm guns and a battle cruiser with a 406 mm gun, then immediately let the large shipyards expand a batch of 50,000 tons of docks, and strive to build another thirty-six new super dreadnought battleships and thirty-six new battle cruisers in one go, and the problem of funds will be solved by the royal family, and the current Noomi royal family is not short of money!" ”

Prime Minister Julian was completely suppressed by Emperor Edgru's generosity, "Your Majesty, you ...... Are you really ready to build thirty-six super-dreadnought battleships with 406 mm guns and thirty-six battle cruisers with 406 mm guns in one fell swoop? ”

Emperor Edgrew said indifferently: "I have already seen the design budget of the Admiralty, the construction of seventy-two huge ships with 406 mm guns, the total cost is about 2.2 billion Norwegian dollars, this is only the income of the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine for one year, in order to build the Noomi Royal Navy into the world's first-class navy, I am willing to pay this money!" ”

Prime Minister Julian heard the firmness in Emperor Edgru's words, so he nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the minister will urge the Admiralty as soon as possible to build another seventy-two docks of fifty-five tons for the construction of thirty-six new super dreadnought battleships and thirty-six new battle cruisers. ”

Emperor Edgrew suddenly asked, "By the way, how is the development of the submarine detector?" I heard that the Yingroba Navy has installed submarine detectors on many warships. ”

The corners of Prime Minister Julian's mouth curled slightly, "Your Majesty, the intelligence department has obtained all the design drawings of the submarine detector of the Yingluoba Empire, and at present, one of our arsenals has successfully copied it, and this imitation submarine detector will be installed on most of the warships of our Royal Noomi Navy in the near future." ”

The Noomi Empire has not made much progress in the development of submarine detectors, so the intelligence department of the Noomi Empire bribed several scientific researchers from the Yingluoba Empire to develop submarine detectors and obtained the drawings of this submarine detector.

Emperor Edgrew said: "When it comes to submarine detectors, we have to mention submarines, how is the development of our new submarine of the Noomi Royal Navy?" ”

Prime Minister Julian immediately said: "Your Majesty, the Admiralty recently designed a new type of submarine, with a design displacement of 900 tons on the surface and 1,150 tons under the water, a maximum design speed of 14 knots on the surface, a design endurance of 6,800 nautical miles on the surface, a maximum design speed of 5.5 knots underwater, a design endurance of 90 nautical miles under water, a maximum design depth of 155 meters, equipped with five 533 mm torpedo tubes, and can carry eighteen torpedoes. ”

Emperor Edgrew nodded slightly and said: "Listening to the data, it's not bad, then let the Admiralty build a new submarine as soon as possible, if there are no problems in all aspects, start batch construction as soon as possible, even if the navies of all countries are equipped with submarine detectors, the submarine is still an offensive weapon underwater." ”

Prime Minister Julian agreed: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, even if there is a submarine detector, it cannot completely restrict the submarine, if the submarine is ambushed in the sea in advance and the engine is turned off, according to the working principle of the submarine detector, it will not be found." ”

Emperor Edgrew suddenly waved his hand and said, "Speaking of the Royal Navy first, what does the Prime Minister think about the war on the eastern front of the Sharad Empire?" ”

Prime Minister Julian smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, now that the armies of the two sides have fought a positional battle on the eastern front of the Shalad Empire, if you want to crack the positional war of the Tang Empire's army, in addition to fighting attrition, the minister can't think of any other way." ”

"How's the tank being developed by the War Department going?"

"Your Majesty, the War Department has gathered a group of scientific researchers, referring to the tanks of the Tang Empire, has designed a light tank, a medium tank and a heavy tank, and has also designed two armored vehicles, which are currently being tested and improved in all aspects."

Emperor Edgru's eyes lit up, "The emergence of tanks and armored vehicles, for the army, is cross-era, our Noomi Royal Army has always ranked first in the world, I don't want this title to be taken by other countries, especially the army of the Tang Empire, so our Noomi Royal Army must be equipped with tanks and armored vehicles that are more advanced than the Tang Empire, maybe tanks and armored vehicles can become a sharp weapon for cracking positional warfare." ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the War Department has recognized the importance of tanks and armored vehicles, as long as the three tanks and two armored vehicles are finalized, our arsenals in the Noomi Empire will do their best to build these three tanks and two armored vehicles."

"Regarding the development of fighters and bombers, have there been any recent developments?"

Prime Minister Julian shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, because of the comparison between the fighters and bombers of the Tang Empire, the War Department has always been dissatisfied with the design of our Noomi Empire's new fighters. ”

Emperor Edgrew frowned slightly, "The Tang people have an idiom called nitpicking, now is the war, is it possible that the War Department has not received a satisfactory design plan, so we have to let the officers and soldiers of the Noomi Royal Army on the front line have been subjected to the strafing of the fighters of the Tang Empire and the indiscriminate bombardment of bombers?" ”

When Prime Minister Julian heard this, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister will go to the War Department in a while, and ask them to come up with a design plan for a fighter and a bomber as soon as possible, and then let the various arsenals manufacture them in batches." ”

Emperor Edgrew then said: "Let the War Department first build a batch of fighters and bombers to support the front line, as for the fighters and bombers with more advanced performance, let the War Department organize scientific researchers to continue the development, of course I hope that our Royal Army Noomi can have the most advanced fighters and bombers in the world." ”