On the morning of July 14, 3012 in the Tang calendar, in a large hall of the imperial palace in Merseca City, the capital of the Yingluoba Empire, Emperor Penelope said to Brady, the Minister of the Navy of the Yingluoba Empire: "The intelligence department has confirmed that the Salad Navy dispatched more than fifteen submarines to launch an attack on the independent fleet in the port of Newport City of the Liuyun Empire, sinking two former dreadnought battleships and five ironclad battleships of the independent fleet, and damaging four former dreadnought battleships and two ironclad battleships. ”

After a pause, Emperor Penelope continued: "In this way, the Sharad Empire has become the first country in the world to have a submarine force, and I very much want to know, when will our Royal Navy in Yingluoba have a new type of warship like submarines?" ”

Navy Minister Brady hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, our Admiralty has actually invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop a new type of warship such as a submarine, and an experimental submarine has been manufactured. ”

The expression on Emperor Penelope's face relaxed a little and said: "The work of the Admiralty is very good, judging from the record of the submarine force of the Salad Navy in attacking the port of Newport City, the submarine is a new type of warship with very strong concealment and aggression, and can even change the current mode of naval warfare, our Royal Navy of Yingluoba must invest more resources in the development and construction of submarines in the future, by the way, what is the performance of that experimental submarine?" ”

"Your Majesty, this experimental submarine has a surface displacement of 530 tons, an underwater displacement of 588 tons, a maximum surface speed of 12 knots, a surface endurance of 5,000 nautical miles, a maximum underwater speed of 4 knots, an underwater endurance of 70 nautical miles, a maximum diving depth of 90 meters, equipped with three 533 mm torpedo tubes, a total of six torpedoes, although I do not know the specific data of the submarine of the Sharad Navy, but I believe that our Royal Navy of the British Roba This experimental submarine, It must be one of the most advanced submarines in the world. ”

Emperor Penelope showed a smile and said, "Then the Admiralty will raise funds as soon as possible to build more submarines of this class." ”

Admiral Brady then said: "Your Majesty, according to the budget, if thirty submarines are built at one time, the cost of each submarine can be reduced to almost 130,000 British dollars, and at present, our Admiralty has raised four million British dollars, and is ready to use that experimental submarine as a prototype to build another thirty submarines to form the first submarine force of our Royal Navy of Yingroba." ”

Emperor Penelope asked, "Is that experimental submarine named?" ”

"Your Majesty, it has not yet been named, and we in the Admiralty hope that you, Your Majesty, will personally name the first submarine of our Royal Navy in Yingroba."

Emperor Penelope nodded slightly and said, "Let's call it the Ghost!" This class of submarines is called the ghost class, and I hope that the submarine force of our Royal Navy in Yingluoba can be like a ghost, so that the enemy is always in fear! However, thirty Wraith class submarines are too few, and I will allocate another fifteen million British dollars to the Admiralty alone, some of which will be used to build a hundred Wraith class submarines, and the rest of the funds will be used for the development of new submarines, remember, this fifteen million British dollars must be earmarked! ”

Admiral Brady said excitedly: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the Admiralty will definitely spend fifteen million British dollars on the construction and development of submarines, so that our Royal Navy of Yingluoba has the most powerful submarine force in the world." ”

Emperor Penelope then asked, "Then does the Admiralty have any measures against submarines?" I don't want our Royal Navy in Yingroba to be attacked by enemy submarine forces in the future. ”

"Your Majesty, while building the Ghost submarine, our Admiralty designed an anti-submarine net for harbor protection for the submarine, which is made of steel cables, the mesh is square, there is a floating body at the top of the mesh, and there is an anchor block at the lower end, so that the mesh can remain vertical and fix its position, and the mesh is hung with a special blasting barrel, when the submarine touches the net, due to the impulsive effect, the mesh is torn out of place, and the blasting barrel will be pulled and exploded immediately, thereby destroying the submarine."

"In addition, our Admiralty has also developed depth charges for active attack submarines, which will detonate when they sink to a certain depth after being put into the water, and the independent fleet should have sunk most of the submarines of the Sharad Navy with depth charges after being attacked by the submarine forces of the Sharad Navy."

Emperor Penelope suddenly frowned and said, "What kind of forces did that person named Su Yi get?" The independent fleet under his command alone has even posed a certain threat to our Royal British Navy, and because of the existence of the independent fleet, the difficulty of our Royal British Navy to maintain the 'four-strong standard' has simply increased exponentially. ”

According to the four-strong standard of the Royal Navy of Yingluopa, the overall strength of the Royal Navy of Yingroba should not be lower than the naval strength of any four naval powers combined, that is to say, the strength of the Royal Navy of Yingroba must be equal to the combined strength of the second, third, fourth and fifth navies in the world.

Navy Minister Brady smiled bitterly and said: "Su Yi is indeed too mysterious, it has been confirmed that the independent fleet sank a super dreadnought battleship when attacking the port of Leon in the Orenza Empire not long ago, but the independent fleet still has twenty-seven super dreadnought battleships, you must know that now our Royal Navy in Yingluoba has a total of twenty-four super dreadnought battleships in service." ”

"In addition, the independent fleet also has twenty battle cruisers, and the fastest fast-class battle cruisers built by our Royal British Navy will also have to be commissioned in January next year, not to mention maintaining the standard of the top four, in a short period of time, the goal of our Royal British Navy is to surpass Su Yi's independent fleet in the number of super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers."

Emperor Penelope's brows furrowed a little tighter, "Do you know the number of dreadnoughts, former dreadnoughts, and ironclad battleships of the Independent Fleet?" ”

Navy Minister Brady nodded and said: "After the intelligence of all aspects, the independent fleet now has more than fifty dreadnought battleships, the number of dreadnought battleships before the independent fleet is almost about fifty, and the number of ironclad battleships in the independent fleet is not much, after just losing five ironclad battleships, the independent fleet should only have fourteen or five ironclad battleships left." ”