In 93 B, the Tasman Empire, the world's sixth-largest power, was sinking step by step, imposing heavy taxes on merchant ships transiting through other countries in order to make up for the financial deficit, including the shipping point of Roquedel Point, which he controlled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Merchant ships from various countries avoided it, so they had to buy the tall fresh water of the Heng family, the diesel sold by Sinopec, the food sold in Japan made in China, and then pay a very heavy tax, and the parking fee, the car fare, and the fuel tax, then they also had to pay the toll. (Nima, this is a duplicate charge, who did you learn this, I want to do it too.) ）

This Tasman Empire was once glorious and is graying and yellow, once one of the three great powers of the world, and now hehe. However, in public information at the time, the country was counted or advertised as the sixth largest power in the world. It has a bit of an Ottoman turkey, and Turkey in the second half of the 19th century was indeed a turkey, and it tasted so good, that the great Tsarist Russia had always loved this dish.

The Tasman Empire was a continental power, and its navy was not strong but not weak. Cape Roquedel was the country's most important overseas colony, heavily garrisoned, and the Imperial Offshore Fleet was stationed here all year round. It is also a shipping place, and you can sit on the ground to collect money every year, just like putting a pole on the territory of a certain country to collect road and bridge tolls, but people have always expected to sell things to make money, which is much fairer than the toll booth blocking the road and robbing. The merchant fleet, which has been passing by here for decades, has a good time reminiscing about the past. Hey, money, it's so hard to earn.

At the end of 94 of the B century, a black shop was opened on this tourist spot, and the profiteering behavior of selling Niu Master ramen on the top of Mount Tai escalated. The fleet of the empire went directly to enforce the law on the road, stopped cars to collect fees, and warships drove to the nearby high seas to forcibly intercept ships, detained ships and demanded money, collected taxes, collected taxes, and tolls. There is no doubt that this is naked pirate robbery, so this act is limited to ships of weak countries in the eyes of the Tasman Empire. After being robbed several times, the White Ocean Federation ships began to make as many detours as possible around the Tasman-controlled area.

On June 20, 95 B, the Tasman Empire's Offshore Fleet, stationed at Cape Roquedel, an important maritime navigation point, intercepted the armed merchant fleet of the White Ocean Democratic Federation on the high seas, and the two sides exchanged fire. Warships fighting merchant ships, it can be imagined. After the Tasman Empire's officers and sailors plundered it happily, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasaye, the commander of the fleet at the time, took a big mouth and "confiscated" all the remaining merchant ships that dared to confront the Imperial fleet. At that time, a total of seven merchant ships were intercepted, two were sunk, and the remaining five ships and cargo became "government assets" of the Tasman Empire.

For thousands of years, the Baiyang Democratic Federation, a wealthy country and a new small and medium-sized country, has always had a history of fighting against pirates, and the historical experience of this kind of thing is definitely very rich. To deal with pirates, there has never been one word for thousands of years, fight, take the pirate's nest, and recapture their own merchant ships, oops, this group of pirates' nest is really super tall, the location is superb, if you can occupy it, then it will be ...... That's it...... That's it. Let's occupy it, and let's open a high-speed toll booth. Soldiers！ Let！ Us！ Go！ Go! Go!

I didn't drink much, I don't drink! Am I mistaken? Those uncles here are not Somali pirates, Malacca pirates, it is true that they are pirates, but their official occupation is the regular army of the former superpower, and the ocean-bound fleet of the sixth military power in the world. Not only the battleships of the fleet, but also the shore guns, the Krupp cannons. Look at those cannon barrels, they're thicker than your chimneys! Where can you beat others in an emerging small and medium-sized country with a commercial foundation? Besides, you're still on an expedition? Are you crazy? Aren't you sent to death? Let's just pay for a few broken merchant ships and the warships of the whole country!

A savvy businessman would never trade at a loss, not to mention that these are the descendants of a thousand-year-old businessman. The Baiyang Democratic Federation made this decision after fully collecting relevant information, conducting full systematic arguments and many war games, and voting in the upper house of the country. The decision-making process is absolutely scientific and 100% democratic. The White Ocean Democratic Federation believes that its own fleet can definitely destroy the garrison fleet of the Tasman Empire, and can also use the Marines to take the important place of Cape Roquedel. Almost all of the active ships of her navy are new, the average age of the ships is less than 15 years, the capital ships all adopt new ship designs, the new large-caliber artillery and weapon fire control systems are fought accurately, the latest internal combustion engine power system ensures that the maximum speed of the ships is more than 30 knots, and they continue to introduce the most advanced naval equipment regardless of the cost, such as 610 mm high-pressure oxygen long-range torpedoes (this is a famous spear torpedo, obediently, buy two and release them during the Chinese New Year this year). The combat mode and naval battle concept of this navy are the latest in the world, "only follow the first place and learn the most advanced in the world".

Although there are many large ships in the Imperial Offshore Fleet stationed at Cape Roquedale, most of the main warships are old, most of the large warships are still using steam engines, and all the capital ships do not have an artillery fire command and control system. This turkey imperial navy has always had a tradition of arrogance and self-style, outdated concepts, and super conservative tactical concepts, although it was beaten again and again, this disease still could not be cured, until later this turkey was processed into a stewed turkey by a number of large countries and eaten, this disease was still not cured, but there is no need to treat it.

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After full preparation, the Federal Navy fleet made a decisive attack, and the large ships that could sail there were dispatched. The expeditionary fleet consists of 2 Federation-class heavy cruisers, 6 Caiyun-class large cruisers (similar to the Japanese Combined Fleet Type 136 but with reduced armor, the Oyodo light armored version), and 17 medium-sized ocean-going cruisers of various types (equipped with 610 mm spears and torpedoes, which are super powerful weapons for fleet decisive battles), 20 supply ships and oil tankers and other auxiliary vessels, and 4 large troop carriers (more than 2,000 marines and their equipment supplies).

On October 11, 95 B century, the two fleets encountered.

At 14:31 on the same day, the reconnaissance aircraft of the Federal Navy's expeditionary fleet discovered two small and medium-sized auxiliary warships of the Tasman Empire's Cape Roquedel garrison fleet. At 15:16, the USS Federation and the USS Honor advanced to attack positions, and the heavy artillery fire quickly sank the two small warships. At 12 noon local time in Cape Roquedel, the White Ocean Democratic Federation had declared war on the Tasman Empire in strict accordance with international law, and it was completely legal to fight their ship.

People are not like little Japan, they come up and stab you first, stab you in the liver, it declares war with you, stabs you in the leg, it says that it is a very small number of officers planning an accident.

When the Tasman Empire's high-level officials received the telegram of the declaration of war from the White Ocean Democratic Federation, the monarch and the ministers were enjoying a happy feast. After reading the telegram, everyone laughed, and the reigning emperor at that time, Ashina Sabiha, joked to the ministers: "This goods are here to deliver money, immediately organize an expeditionary fleet, and go to him to grab enough." Then the emperor raised his glass and drank it all, and the ministers drank with joy.

heavy taxes on passing merchant ships at Cape Roquedel to make up for the day-to-day financial shortfall; Warships go to the high seas to grab merchant ships to subsidize the fleet's salaries and the emperor's treasury (all the widows have a small treasury, and your other half may also have it), these two things are the last emperor's tricks, and the intellectual property rights belong to the emperor's henchman Prime Minister Amsariye, people have to have money to spend, such a table of the emperor is very expensive, how can the money be spent less. However, these two things are not big at all, a few years ago, the emperor used the decree to enforce the nationalization of paper money and silver to accumulate a huge amount of folk silver, and then the Ashina emperor began to send large amounts of paper money to almost wipe out the monetary property of the domestic people, and you can make money by adding a zero, which everyone likes. This domestic silver war is a glory that Emperor Ashina Sabiha is proud of, and it is also one of the ten merits of history recorded by himself. Now, he is going to have a real war, and "another historical merit of this emperor will go down in history."

Since Vice Admiral Amsar Kasayeh, the cousin of Prime Minister Amsariya at the time, became the commander of the Outer Sea Fleet, the Tasman Imperial Navy ships stationed at Cape Rockdel have lived a leisurely life, a very happy life, and a very exciting robbery. Although we turned into pirates, our family is a pirate of a superpower, and besides, we only rob the goods of small and weak countries that are far away from countries, so they can't help us. This kind of pirate work of killing people and goods has done a lot, so it will be easy to be familiar with the road, and besides, the army of this barbarian empire has always had the traditional custom of plundering caravans to replenish silver. Even though it was known that a country had declared war on the Empire, the fleet was free to roam and enjoy itself. People think so: We are far away from the front line, let's talk about Lele first, even if the fleet of the White Ocean Federation comes, what can he do to us, we have strength. Judging from the number of ships and tonnage of artillery, the pirate fleet of this great country stationed here is indeed very powerful, which is why they can sit still. After the news of the enemy attack came, the captains of the fleet were still talking and laughing, and only a few people still had a trace of soberness.

"They're finally here to die."

"Our fleet is going to practice live firing again."

"It's more fun to fight a warship than a merchant ship, because the merchant ship is too indifferent. Boring. ”

"Only two auxiliary ships were lost, nothing. Sprinkled with water. ”

"It is necessary to give them a glimpse of the navy of the superpower."

"It is necessary to remind you that we are not as good as before, and the ranking of the world's naval power has dropped again and again."

"The national strength of our empire has declined a little over the years, and it is declining quite quickly."

"No matter how much it declines, the main fleet of our superpower's offshore colonies will be more powerful than their small countries."

"A poor nouveau riche with only money dares to argue with a powerful country like ours, and he must teach them a lesson."

"We must defend the honor of the empire and resolutely eradicate these filthy and lowly minority."

"Noble gentlemen, shouldn't we first find out about the enemy?"

"I don't think so, it's just a group of merchants, our imperial fleet will destroy them in a minute."

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Vice Admiral Amsa Kasaye: "Tomorrow morning, the whole fleet will attack. Practice shooting. ”

At 10 a.m. on October 12, the Tasman Imperial Naval fleet was dispatched. In the minds of the officers of the fleet, they were a huge fleet, a mighty one, a near-invincible one, I add, like the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Later in the next chapter, we'll get a glimpse of the Sunset Empire's Armadada. Here's the upswing time.

The following is a list of all large combat vessels in the Tasman Imperial Navy's fleet:

The Meisu-class battleships, a total of 7 ships, all in service.

The first generation of self-built dreadnoughts, self-built, slightly ironclad battleships, the first B century was built in 54, with a standard displacement of 9,020 tons, a full load displacement of 9,800 tons, a length of 106.2 meters, a width of 18.8 meters, a draft of 8.1 meters, equipped with 12 152mm guns (6 twins), 14 single-seat 76mm guns and two single-seat 47mm guns, using a three-rise steam engine, rated power of 11,000 horsepower, maximum speed of 16 knots. Personnel: 630

Die-class battleships, a total of 7 ships, all in service.

The first generation of dreadnoughts, self-built, the appearance of ironclad battleships, the empire at that time was very rich, and it was able to build two capital ships at the same time. The first ship was built in 55 years of the B century, with a standard displacement of 9,320 tons, a full load displacement of 9,910 tons, a length of 111.6 meters, a width of 19.9 meters, a draft of 8.2 meters, a rated engine power of 14,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 17.7 knots, and 12 250mm guns (6 twins) and 6 76mm guns (single) and 6 single-seat 47mm guns. Personnel: 600

The Redbeard King-class battleship, a total of 6 ships, all in service.

The country's first generation of battleships built in cooperation with the allied Kingdom Wilhelm. The construction of the first ship began in June 66 of the B century, when the empire had strong financial resources, and six warships were built at the same time, and they were launched almost simultaneously in January of the B century 68, and all of them began official service in October of the following year. At that time, with the launch of these six capital ships, the country's navy began to have 20 active ironclad dreadnoughts (ironclad battleships) in October 69 of the B century, and the number of large dreadnoughts with a tonnage of about 10,000 tons jumped to the first place in the world at that time. This record stood for more than 10 years, and was not broken until September 81 of the B century.

Displacement: standard 10013 tons and 10670 tons at full load. Dimensions: 115.8x19.5x7.9. Speed: 16 knots

Power plant: 12 boilers, 2 sets of three-rise reciprocating steam engine, main engine power: 9,698-10, 2282 shafts, 2 propellers, coal: 1050 tons, heavy oil: 110 tons

Endurance: 10 knots 4300 nautical miles 14 knots 2180 nautical miles Weapons: main guns: 2 2 units 260mm/L40 (bow and stern); 2 single tubes 260mm/L35 (amidships); Secondary gun: 6 single-barreled 105mm/L35; 8-seater single tube 88mm/L30; Torpedo: 6 450mm torpedo tubes

ArmorMain armor belt: 300-400-300mm Horizontal armor: 180-200-180mm Deck: 60mm Main turret: 120mm on both sides 50mm on top

Turrets: 300mm Conning tower: 300mm on both sides and 30mm on top Personnel: 568-591 people

Bruno-class protective cruisers: Purchased from abroad, there were 20 of them at that time, all of them in service.

B century 84 ordered from the international arms market. The empire originally planned to buy more than 36 ships, but due to the lack of funds for the navy, only 20 were bought back at this time. All of them are the strongest firepower configuration (Guild Battle) of the Bruno Protected Cruiser. This type of ship was an internationally popular arms trade ship at that time, and most of the buyers were small and medium-sized countries that lacked the ability to build ships. Since the late 70s of the B century, a large number of old and medium-sized ships have been decommissioned one after another, resulting in a serious shortage of cruisers in the Tasman Empire Navy, limited shipbuilding capacity, and relatively backward technology, unable to provide a sufficient number of warships for the navy. In order to replenish the Navy's auxiliary vessels, the country plans to purchase a large number of medium-sized warships of a certain type from overseas. This type of warship won the bid because of its cheap price, reliable performance, luck and strength.

This type of warship has been selling well in the international arms market for nearly 20 years with its fast speed, fierce firepower, and low price, and the cumulative total sales of various types are as many as 126 ships, making it one of the most built cruisers in the world. Later, there was a lot of criticism about this type of warship in the international market, mainly because its armor thickness was insufficient, it had no firepower and speed, and its protection was too poor, so it was not suitable for naval combat operations with a certain intensity, but it was still very suitable for use as a maritime patrol ship.

The data of the fierce battle type of the cruiser of this type are as follows:

Displacement: 3130 tons, dimensions: 103.63x14.48x4.88 (draft), speed: 27 knots, power plant: 2 vertical steam engines, 2 shafts, main engine power: 12500 hp

Armament: 2 x 152mm cannons; 8 120mm guns; 6 47mm rapid-fire guns; 6 37mm rapid-fire guns; Torpedo: 2 381mm launch tubes;

The armor is unknown, and it is said that the armor is extremely light and thin, and the bullet resistance is very poor, so it can only bully merchant ships. But the firepower is too fierce, too fierce. Personnel: 320 people.

Borg-class light cruisers: 12 units, all in service. Another 6 are under construction.

Construction began in 85 of the B century. Built with the help of engineers from the Allied Kingdom of William, it is called self-built, but it is actually assembled, and the industrial technical standards of the two countries are completely inconsistent, which is bold enough. At least 36 ships were planned to be built, and the first construction started with 12 ships at a time, setting a world record for the number of warships of the same class at the same shipyard at the same time, which is still held today. However, due to the country's financial constraints and the fact that the Bruno-class cruisers were cheaper and more practical than this type of ship, the project was limited in funding, and only six warships could be built or assembled at the same time, and only 18 warships of this type were built in three batches. The data is as follows:

Displacement: 4500 tons (standard) 5500 (fully loaded) tons Dimensions: 138.7×13.4×6 Speed: 27 knots

Power plant: 16 coal boilers, 2 oil boilers, 2 steam turbines, 3 shaft main engine power: 25000 coal: 1200 heavy oil: 106 endurance: 5820 nautical miles at 12 knots

Armament: 8 single-barreled 150mm/L45, 12-seat single-barreled 105mm/L45, 2-seater single-barreled 88mm/L45 torpedoes: 2 500mm launch tubes

Armor: Waterline Armor Belt: 18-61mm Deck: 18-61mm Crash Compartment: 40.6mm Conning Tower: 100mm on both sides and 18mm on top; Personnel: 364 people

The great Khan-class battleships, four, all in service.

The main battleship, the most powerful battleship of the Empire, the data is as follows:

Displacement: Standard 23,000 tons, Full load: 25,500 tons Dimensions (m): 186.5x29.5x9.2 Speed: 25.5 knots

Powerplant: 24 boilers, 2 Parsons steam turbines, maximum power 52,000 horsepower; 4 shafts, 4 propellers, twin rudders

Endurance: 4120 nautical miles at 14 knots

Weapons: 5 main guns, 2 units 280mm/L50; 12 secondary guns, single-barreled 150mm/L45; 12-seater single tube 88mm/L45; Torpedoes: 4 500 mm torpedo tubes, underwater mounted, one at the bow and one at the tail and one under the two A-turrets

Armor: Broadside Armor: 269mm + 50mm Teak Horizontal Armor: 100mm Deck: 50mm Torpedo Compartment Increase: 46-50mm

Main turret: frontal 228mm, sides 30mm, rear 30mm, top 80mm, 155mm gun profile, armor: 150mm, 88mm, gun shield: 80mm

Turret: 231mm Command tower: 350mm on both sides and 80mm on top Personnel: peacetime: 1053 people 1240 people in wartime

In order to maintain the navy's superiority in naval capital ships, in June 87 of the B century, with the help of the allied Kingdom William, the Tasman Empire began to design and build the next generation of capital ships, and the first batch of 4 warships B91 was launched in January and completed in June of the following year B92, and officially joined the active service that year.

This type of ship uses a large number of technologies and materials from the Kingdom of William, which assisted in the construction, and all the weapons are equipped with the standards of that country. It is planned to build 8 to 12 ships, and the Imperial Navy plans to use this class of warships as the main ocean-going warships of the Imperial Navy from the end of the B century to the beginning of the C century. The empire had only four ships completed and commissioned at that time.

The entry into service of these four ships in that year made the Tasman Empire have 24 capital ships of about 10,000 tons and more than 10,000 tons, and it seems that the number of capital ships in the country has once again entered the forefront of the world. However, at that time, the world's naval strength evaluation no longer regarded warships below 15,000 tons or even 20,000 tons as capital ships. At that time, the number one naval power had 2 giant battleships of 40,000 tons, 4 battleships of between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, and as many as 11 warships of nearly 30,000 tons below 30,000 tons. The country has only four so-called giant ships of more than 20,000 tons and six large warships of more than 10,000 tons, which will definitely not enter the top 10 of the world's naval forces.

In fact, the Tasman Empire was very old at that time, he was too tired, and he had been completely defeated in the arms race. But in order to maintain the strength that appears on the surface, he is still using limited financial resources to maintain and expand armaments and decorate the façade. At that time, those high-level officials of the empire knew very well that once the façade of this empire was broken and it was impossible to scare people, the powers around the empire and other powers in the world would not hesitate to rush over and eat themselves like a cake, either slapping their swollen faces and filling up their fat people to survive, or they would cower and be seen as weak and the essence of weakness would be carved up.

In fact, the decision-makers of those powerful countries have long seen the weakness of the Tasman Empire's aging dragon clock, and they are afraid of the majesty of the empire in the past, or the profit cake is not big enough, or they think that the best time has not yet come, and these countries have not yet taken action. The Baiyang Democratic Federation can be said to be a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers, and the merchants have seen the Tasman Empire's pretense of arrogance, and behind the display of strength is the extreme weakness of the actual national strength. An old empire with a regular ocean-going fleet that had to work part-time as pirates was already faltering, and a young man could kick him over with a single kick. The White Ocean Federation believes that in the open sea, the overseas colony of Roquedel, the corner of the world, her naval strength is enough to defeat this old empire, and the capture of this place means that the gold flows into the treasury every year, driven by the potential huge benefits, the beautiful thousand-year-old royal sister bravely waved the long sword in her hand......

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Addendum: Federal Navy vessels

Introduction to the Federal-class heavy cruiser (adapted from the Italian Navy's Zara-class heavy cruiser, with changes)

A total of 3 "Federation", "Honor", "Constitution" (under construction at that time) were built on the Federacy-class heavy cruiser

Basic data

Length: 182.7m Waterline Length: 176.5m Width: 20.6m Draft: 5.9m

Standard displacement: 11000t, full load: 12600t

Armament:

8×203mm gun (4× duplex/53x caliber-M1927)

12×100mm secondary gun (6× duplex/47x caliber-M1924)

8×37mm anti-aircraft gun (4× duplex / 54x caliber),

118,000 hp, 2-shaft steam turbine

Speed: 32 knots Endurance: 6200 nautical miles / 25 knots, 8700 nautical miles / 16 knots

Armor: side 150mm; deck 70mm; Turret and main parts 150mm

Seaplanes: 2 catapults: 1

Crew: 810 + 31 officers

Caiyun-class large cruiser (data from the Japanese Combined Fleet Oyodo light cruiser, with modifications)

24 large cruisers of the Caiyun class are planned to be built, and a total of 18 have been successfully built. The Caiyun class is very distinctive in structure. This is because it was designed to be a merchant fleet escort ship that could be used professionally. In order to effectively avoid the enemy fleet, the merchant fleet must have a strong ability to seek the enemy, otherwise the merchant fleet with only a few escort ships will definitely die if it encounters the enemy's main fleet. To this end, the White Ocean Federation designed a small seaplane hangar and catapult on this type of ship to serve as an ocean-going escort ship for the merchant fleet. The ship also has a large and amazing range and is equipped with a large number of other facilities.

It can be said that the task orientation of the Caiyun-class large ocean-going cruisers is very obvious. He has flagship-level bridge facilities, towering masts, powerful communication capabilities, and extremely powerful ability to seek the enemy. Since it was a merchant fleet escort ship, his lightning strike ability was not emphasized, so he was a rare untorpedoed ship below the heavy cruiser of the Japanese Navy. In addition, his artillery is very powerful, and the main gun uses a 155-mm triple main gun, although it is only equipped with two. The main guns were all equipped in the bow of the ship, because of the need to be equipped with a complete seaplane installation at the stern.

Brief parameters at a glance

The daily displacement is 8100 tons, the full load displacement is 8800 tons, the length of the ship is 192m, and the width of the ship is 16.6m

Armor: 40mm on the side and 25mm on the deck (why is it lighter than your data, because there is less armor)

maximum speed, 35 knots; Duration 18 knots / hour 8700 nautical miles;

The armament is 15.5cm, 60 times the diameter of the main gun, three consecutive guns, two bases, a total of six

There are eight 10cm65 times diameter continuous high-angle guns with four bases

Six 25mm triple loading machine guns, a total of 18 units

Six high-speed surface reconnaissance aircraft

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The 17 medium-sized ocean-going cruisers of various types are all modified versions of the Nagara-type light cruisers of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Full load displacement 6200t, length 163, width 14.8, draft 4.8m, side armor 40mm, deck 25mm. The speed is 34 knots, and the armament is 7 140mm single-mounted guns, 22 25mm twin guns, and 6-base 8-unit 610 torpedo launchers. These 610 torpedoes are the famous spear torpedoes, 48 per ship.