The history of the United Empire of St. Roman-Santa Sunia will forever be remembered: 1122, from 20 October 58 B century to 16 November 61 B, which lasted 1,122 days; 8713-13621, from the place of departure of our navy's assembly to the nearest combat area at that time, it took 8,713 kilometers of long voyage, and the distance of the longest voyage theater was 13,621 kilometers; 1,329,674, a total of 1,329 ships were put into operation, and 674 were left after the victory; 6867751, it captured two large colonies and opened up 6,867,751 square kilometers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 This is what the international academic community calls the war between the United Empire in the B century and the Sakhir Continent Colony of the Marnerocco Empire, referred to as the intercontinental war of the colonies in the B century.

In this war, more than one million of our troops died in the war. The United Imperial Navy lost a total of 655 warships of all types for various reasons, and another 42 leased or purchased commercial transport ships sank for various reasons, and the death and missing number of naval officers and sailors alone exceeded six figures......

The price of victory is never cheap, but the price of the victor only needs to be paid until the victory is won.

Pay until you win, and then there will be a harvest, an enticing and huge reward.

In that protracted intercontinental colonial war, our United Empire sent a total of 12 batches and 1,329 combat ships of various types (the actual statistics of ships participating in the war, the same ship still counts as one when it goes on two or more voyages). Before the war, the total number of registered warships in our Navy was 136, which also included 16 semi-finished warships under construction.

In that war, our United Imperial Navy used various methods such as self-construction, purchase, and rental, and added a total of 1,343 ships and equipment (as long as those who entered service in the army during the war, regardless of the nature of the source). The specific statistics of each category are: 1,271 ships were built by themselves, and 23 ships in service from other countries were purchased at high prices; In addition, 137 merchant ships were purchased and 2,249 ships were chartered from other countries to transport ships. Among the 1,271 self-built warships, except for the 16 ironclad dreadnought battleships ordered by the Navy before the war and whose hulls were basically completed, the rest were all fast-built wooden battleships (iron-ribbed wood-hulled ships), a total of 1,255 warships. These "quick battleships" are all manufactured in the mode of modern industrial batch standardization -- the combination of splicing parts of the same specification and the unified standardized operation procedures to save man-hours and shorten the construction period.

These "quick battleships" served as the main force of our Navy's expeditionary fleet in the famous intercontinental colonial war of the B century. Compared with the high-tech equipment of that era, the extremely expensive ironclad dreadnoughts, the only advantage of this warship may be that it is cheap, super cheap.

In later naval battles, these wooden warships also showed the advantages that a large number of iron warships could not have, the sinking resistance was super stronger than that of iron ships, the battle damage repair was simple and convenient, and the actual bullet resistance was stronger than that of iron ships......

In fact, none of these advantages were the most important for that war. The most important point is that our strength is weaker than that of the enemy Marnerocco Empire, but it is the decisive factor in our eventual victory - this kind of warship can be mass-produced in a short time. It is like the T-34 tank and the Sherman tank in World War II, which was mass-produced and drowned the powerful elite fleet of the Marne-Rocco Empire in the sea of our ships. It's just that the price of this victory is never cheap.

This chapter will introduce the general course of a series of naval battles of that war in chronological order, with reference to the course of the war, and at the same time show the various types of warships built by the United Empire in each period, those heroic warships.

History goes back to October 15, B58, the southern coastal industrial town of the United Empire, Odessapolis Shipyard, Imperial State Shipyard Odessa Branch, St. Peter Shipyard Odessa Branch, Southern Ordnance Industries Group Odessa Warship Factory, these four shipyards are busy building the same type of warship - Penguin-class pocket battleships. Sixteen warships, which were nearing completion, worked day and night in the large dockyard. These unfinished battleships were the only large ships of the Union Empire Navy in this area. The Empire built a total of 36 Penguin-class ships, and these 16 are the last batches. The ships will be completed within the year. The completion of these 16 battleships meant that the Empire's first phase of the B-century arms race shipbuilding program was finally completed.

The main ships of the Imperial Navy's Southern Fleet, which were guarding this sea, had been away for more than a month, heading, west, and west. Far away on the western horizon, thousands of nautical miles to the west, a mighty fleet is heading at high speed towards the Marnerocco Empire's Sakhir continental colony, reaching its target within a week. The war for the colony of Sashir between the United Empire and the Marnerocco Empire in the B century is about to begin.

This fleet includes 247 warships of various types, the number of ships registered is not necessarily the actual number of ships), 320 armed troop carriers, and 75 large cargo ships. This is the first batch of expeditionary forces sent by our United Empire, and the first battle is a decisive battle, and all the warships and quasi-warships that the navy can call on are on the battlefield (our army has sent a total of 1,329 combat ships of various types in this war).

To fight a war, it is necessary to learn tricks, and the number of ships registered in the register is not necessarily the actual number of ships, and the actual number of ships is not necessarily the number of ships that can be used in wartime. Of the 247 warships that participated in the first battle, only 20 Penguin-class pocket battleships and 2 Odessa-class large battleships were registered naval warships. The decisive battle of the main forces of the navy does not move? It's incredible!

Let's take a look at the map, surrounded by strong enemies, no matter how big the battle is, there must be enough warships in the nest. Twenty-two battleships is the limit of what a regular navy can use. The remaining 225 warships are all "merchant ships", and the "invisible naval fleet" was secretly built in the name of merchant ships in accordance with the standards of warships for two years. It is impossible to build ironclad ships under the banner of merchant ships, and these warships can only be built using the technology of iron-ribbed wooden hull ships commonly used in ocean-going merchant ships of that era.

The story of the "Invisible Fleet" should have begun on December 30, B55, or just a few days earlier than that.

On November 29, B56, the central continent added a super-large intercontinental transcontinental trading group company, the Constantine Intercontinental Trade Group, with several subordinate branches. The company was headquartered in White City, the capital of the Saxony-Windsor Empire, and is said to have been jointly funded by the nobles of the Saxony-Windsor Empire.

This Konstantine intercontinental trading group is very low-key, very rich, and very good at spending money, and all the reliable shipyards in the Central Continent have received orders for merchant ships from this company. The company provides the drawings of the ship, the company provides the material supply of the ship, the company provides the engine equipment of the ship, and the company provides everything needed to build the ship. The shipyard's business is only to assemble according to the drawings, report the progress of the construction, collect money, and one more important thing is - confidentiality, you can't tell anyone about the ship, you have to ask three questions, you must make sure that this trade secret is not leaked.

Since December 22, B56, the company began to scatter orders, and it took half a year to scatter; A total of 225 almost identical "sturdy ocean-going heavy cargo ships" and 320 uniformly standard "labour transport passenger liners"/crab-class troop carriers were ordered in the Saxony-Windsor Empire and other countries of the same technical standard.

At the beginning of B58, deliveries of these ships began. The people who picked up the ship were all Navy veterans hired by foreign countries, and these guys were absolutely good sailors...... At the beginning of B58, Julius Caesar began to recruit the navy...... In July B58, the last batch of 20 "sturdy ocean-going heavy cargo ships" was handed over and headed directly for St. York, the staging place, where the cannons had been waiting for a long time. Once the cannons were loaded, the warships could take on their real names, Selena-class cruisers. The Selena class, Selena II, was the most built warship in that war. In the middle of B58, the shipyard that built the Selena class received orders from the Constantine Group one after another, the same drawings, the same model......... The first batch was completed in half a year at the earliest, and the other batches were basically built at this time...... Then go ahead and ......

In the final stage of the war, a cruiser was built in a month. This is called factory production, making missiles like sausages and warships like dumplings. The output is there, and our fleet on the front line has maintained absolute numerical superiority over the enemy from beginning to end. This huge output is due to the standardized manufacturing system and specialized modular division of labor. In addition, the initial drawings of the ship are indeed good enough, and the ship designers have played an irreplaceable role in resolutely implementing the core design idea of simplification and practicality. "Simplicity is beauty, simplicity brings victory", Bellenko conveys this truth to us from beginning to end in his book "Inside the Soviet Army". The truth of victory!!

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October 20, the first day of the intercontinental colonial war in the B century. War was declared in the morning, but the speed of the voyage was miscalculated, and the fleet arrived at noon. The day's battle began with a surprise attack by the advance fleet on the Imperial naval fleet of Marnerocco on the island of Curry, which was not at all sudden.

The fleet's first battle was unfavorable, and the advance fleet of 11 Selenas strayed into the minefield outside the military port, and was completely annihilated under the blows of the enemy's shore guns and enemy warships leaving the port, but at the end of the day, a ship sank an enemy medium-sized armored cruiser with a torpedo, which can be regarded as a bit of a success, and this result still has historical significance in ordnance - the torpedo was used in actual combat for the first time to sink the enemy ship. It was not a complete failure on this day, the landing of the army in the evening was successful, and it was strange that it was not successful on a completely defenseless beach. From the next day, the enemy forces on Curry Island began to rely on the fortresses around the port to defend it. The ground offensive of the army was not smooth, and the enemy infantry was strong and fierce.

At 8 a.m. on October 22, enemy reinforcements arrived, and the enemy fleet leaving the port made peace with the reinforcements. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy still did not leave, which was clearly a desire to fight a battle before leaving. At 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the decisive battle in the first battle of the war finally began. It was the largest naval battle ever fought between the two armies.

The first decisive battle fleet of the Marnerocco Empire: 2 main battleships of the Naru type, 3 ordinary battleships of the Yanar type, 10 large cruisers, 15 medium cruisers.

The "First Battle Fleet" of the Saint-Roman Empire: 2 large Odessa-class battleships, 20 Penguin-class pocket battleships, 150 Selena cruisers.

(See the appendix for all the technical performance parameters of the ships of the Saint Roman Empire.) The data and performance of the relevant ships of the Marnerocco Empire will be divided into a chapter on the comparison of armament ideas and the discussion of shipbuilding technology in the future)

The two armies face off, which side has the more victorious appearance? Quantity brother? Quality brother?

Even if dozens of Selenas were left with the landing force and supply fleet to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack, our fleet still had an absolute numerical superiority.

The result of the battle was that the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, which was overwhelmingly superior in numbers, paid absolutely huge losses in the face of an absolutely qualitatively superior enemy, with only a pitiful victory.

The expeditionary fleet of our empire sank seven enemy ships, one large cruiser, six medium cruisers, most of which were sunk by torpedoes. The cruiser fleet sank four enemy ships, and the other three were sunk by the battleship fleet.

Their losses were that 54 cruisers were sunk. Counting the 11 ships that were previously sunk and the other 2 ships that were lost, we sank 67 ships. The warships of our army are somewhat like the Shermans, a hit and a lighter, or more appropriately, a torch at sea. As soon as the large-caliber guns of the enemy ship hit our ship, huge sea torches will be lit until the battleship sinks. (Nima, is this a war or a death!?) ）

Compared to your own losses, this result is completely symbolic of the victory of the enemy. This is an absolute loss-making transaction.

It's just that our cruiser fleet, which was divided into battlefields, achieved an absolutely non-losing result. A Yanar-type battleship of the Marnerocco Empire raided the landing force, and was forced to abandon the original slaughter plan under the impact of dozens of Selena cruisers, there are too many wolves, and no matter how strong the lion is, it can't stand it! Run for your life decisively.

When the ship turned its rudder, it was hit by a torpedo fired by a cruiser, and two mines were hit in a row, and the cruiser saw that the enemy ship was hit by a mine, and they fired a second mine, and the enemy ship was hit by another mine......

In just a few seconds, this mighty battleship came to an end. It's not sinking, it's blowing. Explosive! Rumble! The brilliant explosion came just seconds after it hit the torpedo for the second time.

This battleship declared our army victorious with a tragic explosion pattern of the whole ship. The ship sank only 2 cruisers of our army.

On the whole, my country's naval expeditionary fleet has really been beaten badly, and if we do it three more times, it will be over.

However, everyone at the top of the army saw it as a victory - a great strategic victory.

"The enemy fleet was encircled by our warships, and it was only by fighting desperately with all their resources that it was able to break through," and "the enemy was forced to abandon the island of Curry." Our army has a base for advancement.

After the war, military historians considered this naval battle to be the greatest and even decisive victory in the early stages of the war: it solidified the doctrine of quality victory in the military system of the Marnerocco Empire. If it weren't for the over-appreciation of the winning experience of this war and the obsession with the so-called quality winning theory, the military industrial system of the Marnerocco Empire during this war could have built a greater number of warships. Quality first! Quality first? In order to ensure quality, the output of warships can be low, and the number of ships put into the front line is much less. Is that right? I'm afraid not. If the military system of the Marnerocco Empire at that time abandoned the strict requirements for the quality of weapons and pursued a greater number of warships. This will mean that the numerical superiority of our fleet will be weakened, and our fleet will not have so many "idle warships" to do "very bad things."

The torpedoes in the Yanar battleship actually exploded on the whole ship, and the other two cruisers also blew up in the torpedo, and one cruiser exploded violently after being hit by a high-explosive bomb on the superstructure and then sank in a secondary explosion, these circumstances made the United Imperial Navy feel as if it had discovered the weakness of the warships of the Manrocco Empire, and the enemy's warships that looked very powerful only looked powerful.

The idea that "torpedoes are the nemesis of enemy ships" led directly to the creation of the Selena II mine-strike cruiser 10 months later; In a series of subsequent operations, our army discovered a more effective weapon than torpedoes to defeat the enemy -- high-explosive bombs, or grenades.

Grenade: also known as flowering/high-explosive shells, it is the "patriarch" of artillery shells, it is the earliest "born", the longest used, and the most descendants. The earliest high-explosive shells were made by the Chinese around 1000 AD. Meng Ge Khan, who was on the edge of Diaoyu City, tasted it very happily. Tastes great. "Khan was injured by the cannon wind, and died the next morning" praised the Song Army grenade throwing artillery in Diaoyu City! It can be seen here that the grenade is characterized by a relatively large number of explosives and a thinner shell, which mainly uses the huge shock wave generated by the projectile explosion to destroy the target.

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In the months that followed, it was time to wait. Both sides are waiting for reinforcements, waiting for logistical supplies, etc., and when things are almost there, the decisive battle of the fleet will begin. Our fleet gave full play to its numerical superiority and launched a broken engagement.

In December B58, a large number of Zorro-class fast gunboats joined the fleet, frequently raiding and harassing the Marnerocco Imperial transport fleet, destroying the enemy transport fleet many times, and the supply and transportation lines from the imperial mainland to this colony were interrupted for a time.

Since the beginning of January B59, the two navies have launched a series of merchant ship escort battles and sea supremacy battles. Our army frequently took the initiative to attack at any cost, and the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco, which often won victories in merchant escort battles and fleet naval battles, became more and more passive in the war. Due to the lack of ammunition and the extreme exhaustion of personnel due to the heavy consumption of ammunition in frequent battles, the Marne-Rocco Imperial fleet here was eventually exhausted and even almost abandoned the defense of part of the coastline.

At the end of February B59, a large number of United Imperial forces landed on the western coast of Yanar. "The colonial army must be reinforced", and from March B59 onwards, a large number of Marnerocco troops arrived by boat, and the navy had to escort them all the way. The number of warships was insufficient, and the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco, which was tasked with escorting the army, began to be exhausted.

From April to October B59, the two sides began to fight frequently off the coast of Yanar, and they won and lost each other. The army triumphantly sang all the way and captured many key points. By the end of September, the enemy fleet stationed at Yanar was about to fall into a predicament. During this period, our navy discovered and confirmed the cause of the self-explosion of the warship of the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco, and took advantage of the enemy's weakness to formulate relevant tactics.

In early October B59, the enemy army came to the aid in large numbers, and a large number of fleets were assembled in the Yanar colony, and a decisive battle between the two sides was imminent.

On October 16, B59, a few days before the decisive battle between the two armies, our fleet was informed by its superiors of an Achilles heel of the enemy's main battleship. Previously, our army, fearing the loss of battleships, generally avoided engaging the enemy's main battleships.

On the morning of October 22, B59, the real Armageddon of the two armies began, and both sides fought fiercely off the coast of Yanar for a day, both suffering heavy losses. The next day, both sides went all out, using all the ships they could use. All of our army's iron-ribbed wood-hulled ships and iron-hulled ships are all active, including the newly built Selena II lightning cruiser, and the 12 trial-built large heavy fireships that have not yet been named.

After this decisive battle of the fleet, both sides declared themselves victorious.

After that, until the end of the year, there was no more fighting between the main fleets of the two navies. However, our army still uses Zorro-class fast gunboats to frequently attack enemy supply fleets, and cooperates with Selena II mine-strike ships to completely annihilate enemy supply fleets many times, and even completely annihilates reinforcement transport fleets escorted by a large number of enemy warships.

From 27 June to 10 August B60, the Imperial Army units of the Marnerocco in the Yanar region began to retreat in batches under naval escort.

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The planned war was over, but Julius Caesar was going to continue.

On August 16, B60, our ground troops made a surprise attack on the Naru area, and 50,000 people landed on the same day, and the operation in the Naru area, which caused the vast majority of the army's casualties in this war, began. Naval losses during this period were also enormous, mainly due to the loss of escort ships of the supply fleet. The Navy invested a large number of domestically built and finalized heavy fireships with iron ribs and wooden hulls to serve as escort ships and ships for fleet decisive battles, and this type of ship was finally named the Storm-class escort battleship.

On October 26, B60, October 10, B61, and November 11, the two navies had three battles at the level of the main fleet.

On November 16, 61 B, the Marnerocco Empire proposed an armistice, abandoning Naru in exchange for peace. Since then, the war has ended. All of the Marnerocco Empire's colonies on the continent of Sasil fell into the hands of the United Empire of St. Roman-Santa Sunia.

As Julius Caesar said: I come, I see, I win.

Finally, we shout: Long live the great United Empire of St. Román-St. Sunia!! Long live the valiant United Imperial Navy of St. Roman-Santa Sunia!!

Appendix: Data on the ships of our army

Odessa-class large battleship: displacement 10,600 tons, length 132 meters, width 17.8 meters, average draft 6.2 meters, maximum draft 6.8 meters, design horsepower 12,200 horsepower, speed 16.5 knots, endurance 6,000 nautical miles / 10 knots, coal carrying capacity 1,800 tons. Caliber of the main gun: 320mm/L40 two, one front and one main gun. Secondary guns, 10 150mm, 6 57mm rapid-fire machine guns, arranged on both sides. The original plan was to build 16 ships of this class, but due to problems such as unreasonable design and weak allocation of main gun firepower, only 5 ships were started in total, only two were built, and the other three hulls were converted into heavy cruisers.

Penguin-class pocket battleship: displacement of 4,800 tons, length of 102 meters, width of 15.6 meters, average draft of 6 meters, maximum draft of 6.8 meters, design horsepower of 6,200 horsepower, speed of 16.5 knots, endurance of 6,000 nautical miles/10 knots, coal carrying capacity of 800 tons. The caliber of the main gun: 320mm/L38, the simplified position of the main gun is in the middle, causing the bridge to be seriously backward. Secondary guns, 8 120mm, 4 57mm rapid-fire machine guns, arranged on both sides of the hull, and two 120mm secondary guns on the rear deck are arranged on both sides as tail guns. A total of 36 ships of this class are planned to be built, and all of them are planned to be completed.

Storm-class escort battleship: displacement of 3,300 tons, length of 98.6 meters, width of 12 meters, draft of 6 meters, horsepower of 3,600 horsepower, speed of 15 knots, crew of 220 people, 13 guns, 3 203mm main guns, 2 front and 1 rear, 6 120mm secondary guns, 4 57mm rapid-fire machine guns. A total of 45 ships of this class were built.

Zorro-class fast gunboat: Iron-ribbed wooden hull, displacement of 450 tons, length of 37 meters, width of 7.5 meters, depth of 4.4 meters, draft of 3.5 meters, 800 horsepower, speed of about 22.5 knots. Equipped with 1 150mm gun (single front main gun), 2 400mm torpedo tubes, 2 57mm rapid-fire machine guns; Crew 60 people. A total of 480 ships of this class were built. (Towed to the war zone by ocean-going transport ships, 21 ships were lost due to cable disconnection and drifting away with the current.) ）

Selena-class cruiser: Iron-ribbed wooden hull, displacement of 1,300 tons, length of 86 meters, width of 11 meters, depth of 7.6 meters, draft of 5.3 meters, 1,500 horsepower, speed of 16 knots. Armament of 2 150-mm guns (twin forward guns), 4 120-mm guns (layout on both sides), two 400mm torpedo tubes; The crew is 160 people. A total of 366 ships of this class were built.

Selena II: 1,300 tons of displacement, 86 meters long, 11 meters wide, 7.6 meters deep, 5.3 meters draft, 1,500 horsepower, 16 knots. Armed with 2 150mm guns (twin forward guns), 8 400mm torpedo tubes; The crew is 130 people. A total of 144 ships of this class were built.

Crab-class armed personnel carrier: all-iron-hulled structure multi-purpose transport ship, double-deck, Chase cabin layout, length of 110 meters, width of 18 meters, depth of 7.7 meters, draft of 5.6 meters, full load displacement of 3,800 tons, can accommodate 1,800 infantry, 3,600 horsepower, speed of 15 knots, equipped with two 57 mm guns. A total of 120 ships of this class were built.