Prologue: The Remains of the Expedition

C century 61, November 16, the international newspaper Lace News Summary:

According to the Voyager Daily of the Empire of Sakasen Windsor on November 16, nearly 200 abandoned ships are parked in Prince Rodman Constantine Bay near the mouth of the Polork River in the United Empire's Massasland province, and many of them have become sunken ships or only wreckage. The unsuspecting www.biquge.info passing by here is like encountering a "ghost fleet...... This is a fleet that fought a century ago in the battle for the intercontinental colonies between the United Empire and the Marne-Rocco Empire...... This war is known in the international academic community as the war for the colony of the United Empire in the B century and the Sashir continent of the Marnerocco Empire, referred to as the intercontinental war of the colonies in the B century.

That war was of great significance and largely determined the pattern of today's world. After the war, the Marne-Rocco Empire, which had lost its major colonies, collapsed and gradually declined. The United Empire of Saint-Roman-Saint-Sunia relied on the rich resources of the colonies and entered a period of rapid development in the 60s of the B century. Eventually, the United Empire became a superpower in the C century.

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Prince Constantine Bay is one of the main warship graveyards in our country. A large number of naval vessels are buried here, including a large number of abandoned warships from the late 50s and early 60s of the B century, the intercontinental war against the Marnerocco Empire, and even the old ships from the early B century during the Punitive War against the Tasman Empire. At that time, the enemies of the Marne-Rocco Empire and the Tasman Empire had all perished, but some of the warships that fought against them were still floating on the water, as if eager to tell people about the bravery and fearlessness, the undefeated and the legend of the past......

These seem to be abandoned ships on the surface of the Inland Sea, and almost every one of them has an extraordinary history, which may be a heroic history. These ships are a true illustration of the history of the United Imperial Navy's fleet, a fighting navy, full of amazing heroic deeds.

This naval fleet cemetery occupies an open sea area of 1,396 square hectares. In the shipyard, there were either several ships concentrated or a single ship scattered, and 186 ships of various types were distributed among them, standing proudly on the surface of the sea. These old warships are still floating on the sea, just like the unyielding pride of the past shuttling through the enemy's artillery fire. Beneath the surface of the sea, there are still 315 warships, some of which have been completely wrecked, and some of which are still clearly outlined. These grandfather-class warships are sunk under the water, buried in history, and the rusty hulls are attached to all kinds of sea creatures, which seem to be decaying and sinking, but in fact they are still brilliant, because the great history they have created is enough for them to bathe in glory forever.

All these ships are registered in the archives of the Navy, their history, their experiences, their battles, their glory and glory......

According to the statistics of naval history enthusiasts checking the historical archives, of the 315 warships that were strong and sunk in the water, a total of 423 warships participated in the great expedition against the imperial colony of Marnerocco in the fifties and sixties of the B century. This includes a large number of 367 wooden ships that were urgently built during that period to rapidly expand the navy. These 367 wooden ships (all of them are iron-ribbed and wood-hulled ships, strong enough to meet the standards of warships) were built to win this intercontinental war. They 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 procedure to save man-hours and shorten the construction period. At that time, the war situation was urgent, and China even invested heavily in the purchase of active warships of other countries to strengthen its navy.

During that war, a total of 1,255 such mass wooden ships (iron-ribbed wood-hulled ships) were built, a staggering number. Before that war, the total number of warships in our Navy was 136, and this also included the 16 semi-finished warships under construction.

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 number of ships participating in the war, two or more voyages of the same ship are still counted as one). At the end of the war, only 542 warships returned (calculated based on the actual number of warships that returned after the war), and another 132 ships of various types were stranded in the colonies.

Some of these ships were built, and before they had time to test the voyage, they made only one one-way intercontinental voyage and never returned. Some of the ships were seriously damaged in battle and had to be abandoned, and some became sunken ships in the record of the enemy's record. After confirming the fact of loss or meeting the time requirement for disappearance, the ship will be deregistered.

Some of the ships were towed back by friendly ships, and they were covered in bruises, so they could only be scrapped, and the ships were denaturalized, and the hull was disposed of as appropriate. Some ships that were not seriously damaged and were still intact, and even a very small number of ships were never shot during the entire war and came back almost completely intact. Some of these ships were abandoned by the Navy and sent to the shipbreaking yard for dismantling, while others were either in service or parked in Prince Constantine Bay of Rodman as decommissioned/service-to-service/mothballed warships. Until these ships were officially scrapped, their flags were still recorded in the Imperial Navy warship archives.

With the refitting of the navy, the old warships were phased out, and all the undismantled ships that returned from the war were sent to Prince Constantine Bay of Rodman around 83 of the B century, where they have been preserved to this day.

Rosto Gorman, a military historian of the Chinese Navy, a doctor of military history, a master's degree in naval tactics in naval warfare, and a first-class professor at the United Imperial Naval University, said: "Those ships here are of great historical value, and this is the best place for naval history archaeology in our United Empire, which can be called the National Naval History Museum. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the victory of the intercontinental war in the colonial colony of Marnerocco, if it can become a national military, historical and cultural reserve, it will be the most meaningful event in the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the victory in that great war, and it will also be the best gift to the imperial navy and all the people. ”

The history of the empire will always be remembered: 1122, from October 20, 58 B century to November 16, 61 B century, which lasted 1122 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 voyage, and 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 conquered two large colonies, and expanded the empire's territory to 6,867,751 square kilometers.

There is no doubt that the United Empire vs the Marne-Rocco Empire, the intercontinental war of the colonies in the B century, a great expeditionary war.

Behind greatness, there is another number: 1708158, this is the number of individuals, the number of people who are controversial in nature. First, the number of deaths of all types of personnel of our army who participated in the war; The other says the difference between those who actually left the war and those who returned after the war.

Most experts believe that because our army failed to count the number of casualties in detail during the war, this figure can only be the difference between the number of people who left and the number of people who returned, and does not represent the actual number of deaths; After the war, a large number of officers and soldiers of our army settled in the colony and did not return to their original places of residence, which cannot be counted as deaths.

All experts agree on one thing: the actual death toll of our troops in this battle is definitely more than one million. The United Imperial Navy alone lost 655 warships of all types (1,329 minus 674), and another 42 transport ships sank for various reasons, with the death and missing toll of officers and men alone exceeding six figures......

The price of victory is never cheap.........