Chapter Seventy-Two: The Purple Moon Empire Endured
Yan Shishan, the commander of the Third Division of the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire, who followed Su Yi on the platform of the railway station to greet the second princess Ouyang Qian, saw that Ouyang Qian and Su Yi quarreled as soon as they met, and secretly said that it was not good, and quickly interjected: "Her Royal Highness the Second Princess, General Su, I have prepared a banquet in a restaurant in Ambo City, and I also invite Her Royal Highness the Princess and General Su to enjoy the light." ”
Since discovering that the army units under Su Yi's command had extremely strong combat effectiveness, the Purple Moon Empire War Department transferred the Third Division of the Royal Army, which had been transferred from the front line to recuperate, to Ambo City to continue to recuperate.
The Third Division has always been the main division of the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire, after suffering heavy losses in the defense of Purple Moon City, the original division of 50,000 people, only less than 8,000 people remained, after several additions from the War Department, now the third division has been restored to the size of 50,000 people, but the weapons and equipment are a little less, the entire third division only has more than 13,000 rifles and more than 60 light and heavy machine guns, and the artillery is only a dozen mortars and four infantry guns.
Su Yi then said in a cold voice: "Commander Yan, I still have a lot of military affairs waiting for me to deal with, today's banquet, Su will not go, I will invite Commander Yan to drink alone another day!" ”
Then Su Yi said to the second princess Ouyang Qian: "Your Royal Highness the second princess, let me reiterate, it is your Purple Moon Empire that has no ability to accommodate the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and their families of the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy, and the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy came to take refuge in me Su Yi, in this matter, your Purple Moon Empire is not qualified to question me, and since the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy have joined the independent fleet, then they will never be able to break away from the independent fleet again." ”
After speaking, Su Yi waved his hand, and took a company of guards and walked towards the exit of the platform.
The second princess, Ouyang Qian, had a calm face, and watched Su Yi walk out of the exit of the train station without saying a word, and couldn't help but regret it a little in her heart, you must know that she came to Ambo City to alleviate the rift with Su Yi because of the exclusion of the Su family army by the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire.
However, when the second princess Ouyang Qian learned that Su Yi had actually incorporated the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy, she suddenly couldn't control her anger, the major newspapers of the Purple Moon Empire had already made a lot of reports on the fact that the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy had come from thousands of miles to join the Purple Moon Empire, but now an exciting thing was stirred up by Su Yi.
Yan Shishan, the division commander of the Third Division, hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Royal Highness the Second Princess, now on several fronts, our Royal Army needs to rely on the Su Family Army, and the matter of the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy should not be pursued again." ”
Second Princess Ouyang Qian took a deep breath, calmed down her emotions, and then said in a deep voice: "This matter, Su Yi has gone too far, we must not count it like this, if the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy can join our Purple Moon Empire Royal Navy, then the strength of the Royal Navy can immediately return to the pre-war level." ”
The fuse of this war between the four eastern countries and the three first-class powers was that the navy of the Orenza Empire launched a surprise attack on the two major fleets of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire that were participating in sea exercises, causing the two main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire to suffer heavy losses, sinking two dreadnought battleships, five former dreadnought battleships, seven ironclad battleships, eight armored cruisers, thirteen light cruisers, eleven destroyers and twenty-nine torpedo boats, and many warships were seriously damaged. The strength of the Purple Moon Empire's Royal Navy has lost more than one-third.
Yan Shishan smiled bitterly and said: "Your Royal Highness Second Princess, according to the current situation, our Purple Moon Empire can only tolerate Su Yi's annexation of the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy, so it's better not to have a stalemate with Su Yi!" ”
In the palace of Suisheng City, the capital of the Purple Moon Empire, Empress Ouyang Xue frowned and said to Prime Minister Guo Xian and Minister of War Yuan Lin: "Su Yi is really a little excessive, the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy came to defect to our Purple Moon Empire, but now they have been cut off by Su Yi, if this matter spreads in the country, it will definitely have a great impact on the prestige of our royal family!" ”
Prime Minister Guo Xian sighed and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is a reason why the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy defected to Su Yi, Feng Lin, the commander of the first fleet of the Cangyu Navy, asked us about the arrangements for their three fleets and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, maybe the arrangements we gave made them unsatisfied, so they took refuge in Su Yi." ”
Empress Ouyang Xue had long known about the arrangement plan of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire for the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy, and this plan was also agreed by Empress Ouyang Xue, and then she said with a wry smile: "The empire's finances really can't come up with much money now, and I knew that I should set aside a part of the low-interest loan of 50 million British dollars from the Yingluoba Empire to house the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy." ”
At this time, the Minister of War Yuan Lin spoke: "Your Majesty, even if our Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire takes the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy under its command, our Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire is still not the opponent of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza, and if you want to drive the invaders of these three countries out of our Purple Moon Empire, you can only rely on our Royal Army, so it is definitely the most correct choice to use the low-interest loan of 50 million British dollars to buy weapons and ammunition for the army." ”
At the beginning, the Purple Moon Empire used a low-interest loan of 50 million British dollars to purchase enough weapons and ammunition from the Yingluoba Empire to arm nearly three million army troops, which was facilitated by the Minister of War Yuan Lin, and the ambassador of the Purple Moon Empire to the Yingluoba Empire who handled this matter was the younger brother of the Minister of War Yuan Lin.
Prime Minister Guo Xian looked at Yuan Lin with a vague look, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly, although there was no evidence, Guo Xian believed that the Yuan brothers must have gained a lot of benefits in this military purchase.
Empress Ouyang Xue said with a gloomy face: "Prime Minister, Lord Yuan, what do you say about Su Yi's incorporation of the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy, how should we deal with it?" ”
Prime Minister Guo Xian then said helplessly: "Your Majesty, we can only choose to endure this matter, after all, on all fronts, we still have to rely on the Su army to resist the land forces of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza, and we must not have a bigger rift with the Su army because of this matter." ”
War Minister Yuan Lin pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Prime Minister is reasonable, our Purple Moon Empire can't deepen the conflict with Su Yi for the sake of some warships, and now the top priority is to let Su Yi send a fleet to escort the fleet of weapons and ammunition of the Yingluoba Empire to Starfish Harbor." ”
Empress Ouyang Xue asked again: "Then how do you explain to the people?" Our domestic newspapers can spare no effort to declare the matter of the three fleets of the Cangyu Navy defecting to the Purple Moon Empire! ”
Prime Minister Guo Xian immediately said: "Your Majesty, we can announce to the outside world that in order to thank General Su Yi for his help to the Purple Moon Empire, the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire has decided to allocate hundreds of warships of the Cangyu Navy to the fleet under General Su Yi, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the fleet under General Su Yi's lack of small and medium-sized warships. ”
Empress Ouyang Xue nodded, sighed and said, "Now I have to do this." ”