Chapter Ninety-One: Visitors from Starfish Harbor
In the case of the retreat of the Sharad Empire and the Gisk Empire one after another, the Orenza Empire, at the insistence of its Emperor Modest, not only did not prepare to withdraw troops from the territory of the Purple Moon Empire, but was ready to send more than one million troops to the territory of the Purple Moon Empire, and Emperor Modest ordered that three million reserve troops of the Royal Army of Orenza should be recruited again to be put into the battlefield of the Purple Moon Empire in the next few months.
When Su Yi learned that the Orenza Empire had increased its troops, he immediately transferred about 200,000 Su family army troops from the eastern region of the Purple Moon Empire to the southern region of the Purple Moon Empire, bringing the total strength of the Su family army in the southern region to 600,000.
And in the eastern region of the Purple Moon Empire, there are still more than 100,000 troops in the Su family army that have not left, in case the Jisk Empire kills a horse gun.
In the early morning of March 3, 3012 in the Tang calendar, more than 40 transport ships of the Yingluoba Empire finally arrived at the second largest military port of the Purple Moon Empire - Starfish Port.
Because the Salad Empire chose to evacuate the battlefield of the Purple Moon Empire, the Second Expeditionary Fleet of the Sharad Royal Navy received an order to withdraw to the mainland of the Sharad Empire.
Immediately, the commander of the Second Expeditionary Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Sharad, Denis, led the main force of the Second Expeditionary Fleet, which had been staying in Port Leon of the Orenza Empire, to avoid the obstruction of the independent fleet, and after joining up with the Sharad naval detachment near the Xiguan Islands of the Purple Moon Empire, he embarked on the route back to the Sharad Empire.
As soon as the Salad naval detachment near the Xiguan Islands left, the fleet of weapons and ammunition of the Yingroba Empire immediately sailed to the Starfish Harbor of the Purple Moon Empire.
Yuan Lin, Minister of War of the Purple Moon Empire, who was standing at the dock of Haixing Harbor, and Liu Yongcheng, Minister of the Navy, who was excited, said: "These transport ships of the Yingluoba Empire are loaded with 300,000 new repeating rifles, 2 million breech single-shot rifles, 4,000 light machine guns, 500 heavy machine guns, 4 billion rounds of ammunition, 30 million grenades, 500 mortars, 100,000 mortar shells, 100,000 75mm field guns, 50,000 75mm artillery shells, 50,000 105mm howitzers and 20,000 105mm shells. These weapons and ammunition are enough for our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Army to expand by almost three million troops. ”
Navy Minister Liu Yongcheng breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This batch of munitions has finally arrived safely, if something happens, the low-interest loan of 50 million British dollars will be spent in vain, by the way, I heard that the Orenza Empire has increased its troops again?" ”
The look of excitement on the face of War Minister Yuan Lin suddenly disappeared, "According to the reliable information obtained by the intelligence department, the Orenza Empire not only invested more than one million troops in our Purple Moon Empire, but also mobilized the reserve forces again, and the Orenza Empire mobilized another three million reserve troops at once this time. ”
Admiral Minister Liu Yongcheng frowned and said, "It seems that the Orenza Empire is going to make a desperate bet, so how many troops does our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Army have in the southern region?" ”
Minister of War Yuan Lin pondered for a while and said: "In the entire southern region, our Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire has gathered about three million troops, many of which have just been transferred from the northern and eastern regions, but these three million troops are extremely short of weapons and ammunition. ”
In order to unload the weapons and ammunition on the more than forty transport ships, the Royal Army and Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire combined dispatched almost 50,000 people, and it took a whole day to temporarily transport the mountains of weapons and ammunition to the docks of Starfish Harbor.
Minister of the Navy Liu Yongcheng looked at the munitions piled up on the dock, and couldn't help but say to the Minister of War Yuan Lin: "It is really unsafe to put so many munitions on the wharf, and it will take about how long it will take for your Royal Army to transport this batch of munitions." ”
War Minister Yuan Lin shrugged his shoulders and said: "Now our Royal Army is short of trucks and pack horses, so we can only rely on trains to transport them to the southern region to arm the three million troops there, and I am ready to transport one-third of the weapons and ammunition to Suisheng City, and our War Department is ready to form a new one million troops in Suisheng City." ”
As soon as Minister of War Yuan Lin's words fell, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded over the dock, and the faces of Minister of War Yuan Lin and Minister of the Navy Liu Yongcheng all changed.
At this time, an officer of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire hurriedly ran to Liu Yongcheng's side, "My lord, it's not good! A fleet of the Orenza Navy is approaching Starfish Harbor! ”
Yuan Lin immediately grabbed Liu Yongcheng's hand, "Brother Yongcheng, you must not let the fleet of the Orensa Navy get close to Starfish Harbor, otherwise all these weapons and ammunition on the dock will be finished!" ”
Liu Yongcheng said urgently: "Brother Yuan, hurry up and organize people to rush to transport the arms on the dock, our Royal Navy will definitely block the fleet of the Orensa Navy as much as possible!" ”
In the bridge of the Crown, the flagship of the Royal Navy of the Orenza Empire, Mihailo, the Minister of the Navy of the Orenza Empire, held a telegram in his hand and said with a smile to the captain of the Crown, Grusha: "Hurry up, finally catch up, and the batch of munitions sold by the Yingroba Empire to the Purple Moon Empire has just been unloaded on the dock of Starfish Harbor." ”
The captain of the Crown, Grusha, hesitated for a moment and said: "Marquis Mihailo, the four main fleets of the Purple Moon Empire are all in Starfish Harbor, and the capital ships of our Royal Navy of Orenza are only left with these eight dreadnought battleships, six former dreadnought battleships and twelve ironclad battleships, plus Starfish Harbor, as the second largest military port in the Purple Moon Empire, has a lot of large-caliber coastal defense guns, and if our Orenza Royal Navy attacks it, it will definitely suffer a lot of losses." ”
Mihailo said in a resolute tone: "No matter how much it costs, we must also destroy this batch of arms sold by the Yingluoba Empire to the Purple Moon Empire, our intelligence department of the Orenza Empire has received accurate information, the Su family army is in the four northern provinces of the Purple Moon Empire, preparing to send troops to the Cangyu Empire, and compete with the Salad Royal Army again, so the troops of the Su family army in the southern region of the Purple Moon Empire are likely to be gradually transferred to the four provinces in the northern region of the Purple Moon Empire, The next main opponent of our Royal Army in Orenza will become the army of the Purple Moon Empire. ”
The captain of the Crown, Grusha, nodded and said: "Although the army of the Purple Moon Empire has a strong will to fight, they have always been short of weapons and ammunition, if we can destroy the batch of munitions on the dock of Starfish Harbor, it will be a great help to our Royal Army of Orenza." ”
"Today, we will cripple our Royal Navy in Orenza, and we must destroy the weapons and ammunition on the docks."