On October 12, 95 B, the first half of the last large-scale naval battle of the B century broke out off the coast of Cape Roquedel, a key maritime navigation point, and the scale was certainly not comparable to the Battle of Jutland. In the eyes www.biquge.info of a real naval power, this is just a comic duel between two second-rate naval powers: outdated ships and generally equipped ships.

Emperor Ashina Sabiha was excited, and his historical exploits were about to begin. He was actually nervous, after all, this was the first naval battle in the empire in his lifetime. In addition, the emperor, who is familiar with the history of the empire, knows very well that the imperial navy in the naval battle that was once here was shaved bald, and there is not a little psychological shadow area, but the times have changed, and his own fleet is fighting at home, and the size of the fleet is still so large, it should definitely win. Confident of this victory, he sent a telegram to the commander of the fleet and his drinking friend, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasaye, to report the battle situation as soon as possible, and the telegram enclosed: Don't forget to grab a few tons of good wine from the enemy's supply ships and send them back, the wine from the last time was good.

All the ships of the Tasman Empire's Cape Roquedale were dispatched. The fleet had: 2 Great Khan-class battleships (flagship Steppe, Steed), 6 Redbeard-class King class battleships, 6 Borg-class light cruisers, 8 Bruno-class protective cruisers (originally 10, 2 sunk).

The Tasman Empire has a backstage, he is not fighting alone, he is not fighting alone, if he fights completely on his own, then the Tasman Empire's navy may still be using wooden ships. These ancient barbarian nations have not been good at naval warfare since ancient times. For hundreds of years, in order to learn the skills of naval warfare, he worshipped more than one teacher, and in recent decades, it seems that he has learned something, but it just looks. Because he has found a good teacher, a good friend on the same continent, a sea power, a land power, and a sworn enemy of our country, William Kingdom.

Logical reasoning shows that this Tasman Empire is likely to be our opponent as well. This guess is basically correct.

Our country (the United Empire of St. Roman-St. Sunia) defines this Tasman Empire as: a retarded man at sea, a reckless man on land, an ally of William's kingdom and a purse, and a defeated man of our country. But there is one thing that my country seems to be afraid of this defeated general - a good friend of his. To be exact, he has two allies who are hostile to each other. The Kingdom of William was an ally of his Tasman Empire. The superpower, the Saxony-Windsor Empire, was the rival of the Kingdom of William, and the Williams family was always demolished.

Because China's relationship with the superpower Saxony-Windsor Empire is acceptable, or our country has always been afraid of the superpower Saxony-Windsor Empire, the Tasman Empire has been an important financier of the Saxony-Windsor Empire in the past two decades, and it is a treaty and an agreement, and the relationship seems to be good. Therefore, in the past ten years, my country has ignored the Tasman Empire and directly did not provoke this goods.

Objectively speaking, the friendly relations between the Saxony-Windsor Empire and the Tasman were the result of a huge arms trade. The Tasman Empire's army equipment system was all derived from the Saxony-Windsor Empire. The Kingdom of William, for its part, provided a number of technical assistance to the Tasman Empire's naval armament system, much of it pro bono for free. The two Tasman empires of the Kingdom of William have always helped each other in their confrontation with our country. In layman's terms, the Saxony-Windsor family and the Tasman family are friends of wine and meat, and they are together for money. William's family and the Tasman family are comrades in the trenches. Opposite the trench is my home trench.

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When my country learned that the Baiyang Democratic Federation was going to take the initiative to attack and beat this goods, it was very refreshing, this girl was my neighbor, and her distant relatives were not as good as those of her close neighbors. My family watched the team of Bai Yang girls, but they sweated for her, and they were a little worried that she would be XXOO by this disgusting old man. But after a closer look, I found that the girl next door definitely knew what to do, but unfortunately my country really couldn't help, so I had to pray for the Baiyang girl who fought alone. Alleluia.

The White Ocean Democratic Federation Expeditionary Fleet has 2 Federation-class heavy cruisers, 6 Caiyun-class large cruisers, and 17 Nagara-type medium ocean-going cruisers (equipped with 610-mm long-range torpedoes). That's all, nothing else. There is also the chief instructor of the Navy, the commander-in-chief of the Federal Navy, Admiral Cadrus King, who is a returnee, a returnee who specializes in naval warfare.

Comparison of the strength of the two sides:

The number of large battleships over 20,000 tons: 2 Imperial Army, 0 Federal Army

The number of capital ships in the early 10,000s or close to 10,000 tons: 6 Imperial Army and 8 Federal Army

Number of medium auxiliary ships: 14 Imperial Army, 17 Federal Army (escort supply fleet, only 13 ships actually participated in the battle)

Number and type of guns above 200 mm:

The Imperial Army 260mm counts 24 seats and 48 tubes, and 280mm counts 10 seats and 20 tubes. (Redbeard: 4-seater 2-pack 260mm; Great Khan 5-seater 2-pack 280mm/L50)

Federal Army 203 mm 4× duplex / 53 times caliber, 8 seats 16 tubes. (Federal-class heavy cruisers "Federation", "Honor")

The number and type of guns around 150:

96 guns of this type plus 64 guns 120 (power is close to 140)

(12 single-barreled 150mm/L45 guns on the Great Khan-class battleships, 8 single-barreled 150mm/L45 guns on the Borg-class light cruisers, 2 152mm guns on the Bruno-class protective cruisers; 8 120mm guns)

Federal Army: 36 155mm guns, 91 140mm guns (Caiyun-class large cruisers 15.5cm60 times diameter main guns with three batteries and two bases, 7 140mm single-mounted guns on medium ocean-going cruisers)

Speed: 20 knots on average for the capital ships of the Imperial Army, 16 knots for the King of the Redbeard class battleships, and 25.5 knots for the Great Khan-class battleships. Auxiliary cruiser 27 knots. All are the highest speed. The Federation Army can reach this speed at a minimum of 30 knots.

Fleet Commander:

Federal Navy: Returnee long-legged Oba, charming middle-aged leftover man, handsome academic guy, known as the fleet is my family, and he is not married in service. (Dear, you're stupid!) Without that star, women are rare for you old man! ）

Imperial Navy: Tasman Empire's native turtle belly part-time pirate uncle, the husband of his women, a lot of children and his father, a good man who dumps money at home in a whole box. Accompany the emperor to drink and become the commander of the fleet, Niu.

From the perspective of traditional naval combat power, compared with the Tasman Imperial Army, the only advantage of the Federal Army is speed. Just looking at the firepower of the Tasman Empire, it is overwhelming. But this is not the case, the 4 2-pack 260mm main guns of the Redbeard King have a range of less than 10 kilometers (the maximum range is 7000m). The great Khan-class battleship 280 main guns had a maximum range of 17400 meters. The 203mm naval guns of the Federal Army have a range of 26,000 meters, and the Federal Army also has two secret weapons, aircraft and torpedoes.

The plane allowed the Federal Army to discover the Imperial fleet first, and also allowed the Federal Army to always take the initiative, which modern armies call the discovery of the enemy first.

What's more, torpedoes, tonnage TNT, or other more powerful content is enough to turn any battleship into a submarine in a matter of minutes, provided it hits, of course. A torpedo boat of more than 100 tons can launch torpedoes and sink a battleship of tens of thousands of tons, which is called the cost performance of weapons...... According to the U.S. military, this should be called definitive destruction.

At 12 noon, the Imperial fleet was spotted by a federal reconnaissance plane, and an engagement was expected between the two sides at 13:30 p.m...... The Federation had plenty of time to adjust their formation and put themselves in the most advantageous position......

At 13:40, the two sides began to fight, and the two fleets were 15 nautical miles apart, and at this time it could only be unilateral artillery bombardment by the Union Army. At 14 o'clock, the two sides began to approach in a parallel movement of the fleet, but the federal forces always maintained a suitable distance, constantly bombarding each other with 203mm long-range artillery, and the two great Khan-class battleships were the best targets and were constantly hit. He has been beaten but can't beat others, and the commander of the Tasman Imperial Navy fleet is annoyed.

At 14:05, the broadside armor of the flagship of the Tasman Imperial Navy fleet was hit, and the deck could be covered with 50mm teak, which was a high-explosive bomb, and the teak belt caught fire. The Federation has been bombarding each other with high-explosive shells, after another great Khan-class battleship caught fire. The commander of the Imperial Navy fleet could no longer bear it anymore, abandoned the original combat plan of the whole fleet to engage the enemy and give full play to the superiority of heavy artillery firepower, and ordered high-speed cruisers and battleships to charge the enemy. At 14:10, the federal fleet found that the fish had been hooked, and the fleet was divided into two parts, two capital ships led one fleet to maintain a reasonable distance from the enemy at a suitable speed to attract the enemy, and the other detachment composed of eight fastest medium ocean-going cruisers threw off the enemy and prepared to go around to sneak attack the pursuing enemy.

At 15:10, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasayy, commander of the Imperial Fleet, realized that he seemed to be walking into a trap carefully laid by the other side, and he was right, but it was too late. The 610mm long-range torpedoes, launched by medium ocean-going cruisers perpendicular to the direction of the pursuing fleet, have already begun to hit these warships......

Seeing that many of his cruisers had been torpedoed, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasayh ordered the fleet to slow down and rescue friendly forces......

The White Ocean Federation fleet moved away at high speed, and then began to approach again around a corner, seizing the opportunity to attack again. At 15:30, it circled to the 45° direction of the fleet and approached 8 nautical miles, and again fired torpedoes at the Imperial Navy's ocean-going fleet, which was crowded together by rescuing friendly ships......

The ships of the Imperial Navy fleet opened fire on the enemy cruisers, but only a few warships took the action of avoiding torpedoes, and most of the captains believed that the enemy torpedoes did not have such a long range, in fact, their military knowledge was outdated......

In this offensive and defensive battle, the Cape Roquedel garrison fleet achieved its first victory, and a medium ocean-going cruiser of the White Ocean Federation Navy was sunk by the main gun fire of the great Khan-class battleship. Then the ships of the Cape Roquedel garrison fleet began to bombard again, how could the torpedoes hit so far !!

At 15:50, the Cape Roquedel garrison fleet, which was pursuing the White Ocean Federation Navy, was already in a miserable situation......

The first round of torpedo attacks on the steppe, the flagship of the great Khan-class battleship fleet, was hit...... In this attack, the Steppe was hit again, this time the position of the hit bomb could not be balanced by water, the flagship of the fleet was slowly sinking, and everyone in the fleet tried to save the ship, but to no avail.

At 16 o'clock, six Redbeard Kings rushed over to assist in the rescue of friendly troops. At this time, the navy of the White Ocean Federation did not go far, and they were preparing for the next round of attacks. The supply ships arrived to complete the torpedo replenishment before dusk, and another round of torpedo attacks......

At 18:30, on the way back to the base of the Cape Rockdel garrison flotilla, which had suffered heavy losses, another round of torpedo attacks began, and the Federation-class heavy cruisers and Caiyun-class large cruisers volleyed in front with artillery fire, and the garrison fleet was forced to engage. By covering the night, all the ocean-going medium cruisers of the Federation Army approached the garrison as close as possible and fired torpedoes......

According to the prisoners after the war, the great Khan-class battleship Horse, the fleet's acting flagship, was hit by a torpedo attack in that torpedo attack, and two torpedoes on one side of the hull and two 610-mm torpedoes were a terrible thing for any warship. The commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasaye, disappeared.

The losses of the Federation fleet were also heavy. Seven medium cruisers were hit, four cruisers that had torpedoed were hit and caught fire, becoming targets and sunk, two of which exploded on the spot...... The 610 torpedo is also an extremely dangerous weapon for its users.

On the 12th, five medium cruisers of the Federal Fleet were sunk, one large cruiser of the Caiyun class was damaged, and three medium cruisers were severely damaged, and these ships withdrew from future combat operations, and the number of ships in the fleet was reduced by a quarter, which can be described as heavy losses, but these losses were insignificant compared to the losses of almost all the sunk of the Rockdel Point garrison fleet.

The ships of the Cape Rockdel garrison fleet that attacked: 2 Great Khan-class battleships, 6 King Redbeard-class battleships, 6 Borg-class light cruisers, 8 Bruno-class protective cruisers, only one Borg-class light cruiser and one Bruno-class protective cruiser, fled back to the port. Naturally, no one would report the battle situation to His Majesty the Great Emperor at the first time, unless the commander of the Tasman Empire's offshore fleet at the bottom of the sea had a long-wave radio for nuclear submarines.

Admiral Obakedruskin, a returnee, specializes in naval tactics that are really good, and this is the power of knowledge. From that time, the saying that knowledge is power began to be recognized as a universal truth.

At 9 a.m. local time on October 13, 95 BC, the White Ocean Democratic Federation Expeditionary Fleet began shelling the batteries and the command structure of the defenders at Cape Roquedel. The 203 mm 4× twin/53 caliber guns of the Commonwealth-class heavy cruisers and the 15.5 cm 60 times diameter main guns of the Caiyun-class large cruisers were fully firepowered. Under the calibration of the reconnaissance aircraft, the shelling was carried out very efficiently. In the first round of shelling, the command structure and barracks of the defenders were completely destroyed. The next targets were the various shore artillery batteries. It has always been an open port, and all the battery locations are in broad daylight. There were 15 shore batteries in the port, equipped with 12 250mm guns and 3 170mm guns, and like the fleet's guns, these shore batteries had a very limited range and could hardly damage the attacking army. Soon, aircraft reconnaissance reported that the batteries were all destroyed. When the fleet shells stationary targets. The remaining Borg-class light cruisers, the Bruno-class protective cruisers, wanted to escape, and the reconnaissance aircraft informed the fleet of the movement of enemy ships in time, and the two ships were intercepted. Faced with the mighty Federation fleet, the two warships of the formerly powerful fleet chose to surrender. In this way, a powerful fleet was completely wiped out by a small and powerful fleet that was weak on the surface but relied on the level of science and technology to increase its huge combat effectiveness.

At 11 a.m., the defenders of the harbor raised the white flag from the commanding heights...... The battle is over.

The defenders and the remaining personnel of the garrison fleet base surrendered to the Federation Expeditionary Fleet.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Marines of the Federal Army landed and completed the handover with the surrendered defenders. To the surprise of the federal army, there were as many as 7,000 surrendered defenders in the port of Cape Roquedel, all of whom were Luo people from the Loni region of the Tasman Empire, who had a tragic history, having had their own national independent state, and had been conquered by the Tasman Empire established by the Turks for more than three centuries, and had been exploited and enslaved by the empire. These people were forced to leave their homes to serve in this faraway place, and it can be said that they were liberated by the heavy shelling of the federal army, and the Tasman Empire's native Turkish commander and the Turkish troops guarding the fort were blown to ashes, and they did not want to die for the empire that enslaved them, so they killed the Turk officers who supervised the war and raised the white flag.

The Union Army treated these people who brought them such good fortune with courtesy, did not restrict their freedom, but only confiscated their artillery. The next day, the Federation sent them a large number of supplies, which were much better than those provided by the Empire. The defenders of the surrender surrendered to the defenders, and they took the initiative to undertake the garrison around the port, and also helped the White Ocean Federation Army to restore the normal operation of the port.

On October 14, the White Ocean Federation Army telegraphed to the Tasman Empire in accordance with international practice: First, Cape Roquedel has been captured by our Federal Army, and the offshore fleet stationed here by your country has been completely annihilated, and the Federal Army will treat the captured personnel well; 2. If your country recognizes the port of Cape Roquedel and the area adjacent to it as a territory of the White Ocean Democratic Federation, the war will end and peace will be restored between the two countries; Third, if your country agrees to the second condition, the Federation will release the prisoners of war and return the captured ships.

The Tasman Emperor Ashina Sabiha felt that this unexpectedly "result" was very shocking, and Prime Minister Amsariyah even thought it was a cousin's joke. However, after repeatedly confirming that the war situation was indeed true, the top officials of the empire immediately convened a meeting of all the important members of the imperial cabinet, and held a meeting, which has been held for several days.

At the same time, the White Ocean Democratic Federation advertised this armistice condition in the world's major newspapers, with a brief history of the fighting between the two sides. This armistice proposal advertisement made the countries of the world feel good about the White Ocean Democratic Federation. This wonderful quick decisive battle made the military circles of all countries in the world applaud, and Nima opened his eyes. The military victory also led to a rapid increase in the international political status of the White Ocean Democratic Federation. The status of the Tasman Empire declined rapidly.

At that time, an international relations expert said: "The Tasman Empire does not deserve to stay in the IPI10 (Top 10 International Empires) club." It's a miracle that the former superpower, which boasted to be the world's sixth-largest power, was easily defeated by an emerging mid-business power. If this former superpower, which has always used military threats as its most important diplomatic means, issues the threat of force and an ultimatum again, I don't believe it anyway. ”

Historians generally agree that the Battle of Cape Rockdel was a turning point in the slow decline of the Tasman Empire, an aging empire.

Here the international relations expert is not right, military threats and military conquest are only the diplomatic means of the Tasman Empire against weak and small countries; For powerful countries with strong powers, strong enough and super strong, the Tass Oman Empire has always behaved like a Baghdad dancing girl, enthusiastic and charming. In the camp of the world's great powers, the Tasman Empire has friends all over the world, and only our country is such an enemy, and the problem of territory is not easy to solve after all.

Of course, these friends are almost all general friends, and the only teammate who can really rely on him is William's Kingdom. This is a country that has taken a lot of money from the Tasman Empire, and has eaten up almost half of the gold in the Empire's treasury by various means. After all, he has short hands and short mouths, but even William, the iron buddy in the impression of Emperor Ashina when he was a child, despised him this time. According to the leading Wilhelm newspapers, the Tasman Empire's performance in the war was "almost like a pig", and "not even a pig".

Come to think of it, even good buddies say so, those friends who drink and meat at least have to keep their distance from him. However, a few of them are still decisively approaching, and no matter how close they are, they still bring guys, "It's really enough buddy, and we see the truth in adversity."

At the end of the month, the kingdom of St. Asornia, the ninth strongest in the world, began to make negative contact with the overseas colonies of the Tasman Empire, which was named the sixth Tasman Empire. It took only half a month for the army of the Kingdom of St. Asornia to occupy all the important overseas food supply bases of the Tasman Empire and the Lingel Delta. For this rich delta, Lao Jiu has long had an idea. This treasure trove of feng shui is bordered by the kingdom of Santa Asornia, but the Tasman Empire is 4,000 kilometers away from the sea. Well robbed, this is the robbery of wisdom, the wisdom of robbery, hallelujah.

At the end of December of that year, the St. Mary's Empire, which was outside the top 10 but within the top 15, sent an additional elite force of 560,000 people in 8 legions in the border area with the Tasman Empire. He wanted the Crystal Valley Plains, an important food source for the Tasman Empire, and the two countries had been at war in history, more than 100 years ago, and the St. Mary's Empire has always remembered it. He's waiting for the perfect moment, hallelujah.

Not only were the powerful countries taking advantage of the fire, but even the "Imperial Friendly States" that counted the middle powers were twenty miles away, and the Republic of Kusi also detained the Tasman Empire's grain convoy in January of the following year. The reason is that for many years I have been short of food here, and you have been selling my grain at a high price and buying my refined copper at a low price, which is not fair. As for such consequences, anyway, the Republic of Cusi will buy grain from the Asornia Kingdom in the future, so there will be no consequences. As a result, the unit price of imported grain in the country is half cheaper than before, and as for refined copper, there is never a shortage of buyers.

It's really not easy for a boss empire to get mixed up with this. In this regard, our country, which is also an ancient empire, expresses concern and sympathy, of course, more importantly, hehe......

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Late at night on October 14, B95, in Lotta, the capital of the Tasman Empire, Emperor Alf Ali and numerous ministers stayed up all night. The aging Tasman Empire, after all, is a genuine big empire, a real big country, once extremely powerful, ranked among the top three world powers, and today it is not weak, but it was actually overturned by the emerging medium-sized country of the Baiyang Democratic Federation, which is outside the 20th or even 30th place in the list of world powers. We're not big green fruits. We have a strong pretending force, and it has always been the imperial army that has abused other families, and now the imperial army has been brutalized. It's so bloody!! This drunkard, Vice Admiral Amsa Kasaye, is not in a drunken state to command the battle!! But even if he was drunk, the Imperial Navy should be able to completely destroy this small country of Wan'er on an expedition.

It's already defeated, it's useless to complain. The battle is lost, what should I do? What should I do if such a big purse as Cape Roquedel, a shipping destination, is lost, and the Empire's financial revenue from overseas colonies is suddenly reduced by half? If a big country is slapped in the face in public by a small country, and the slapping sound, the status of this big country will be lost immediately, what should I do?

The result of the meeting was that, for the sake of its international standing and financial purse, the Empire must continue the war by immediately mobilizing all the large ships of the country to retake Cape Roquedel under the command of the most powerful naval commander, Admiral Sami Hallor, the commander-in-chief of the navy.

The Meisu-class battleships, a total of 7 ships, all in service, all dispatched. Die-class battleships, a total of 7 ships, all in service, all dispatched. The great Khan-class battleships, four, all in service, and two in existence, all sorted. Borg-class light cruisers, 12 ships, all in service, 6 in existence, all sorted. Bruno-class protective cruisers: purchased from abroad, there were 20 of them at that time, all of them were in service, and 10 are extant. All sorted. Eight troop carriers, loaded with 10,000 infantry, were dispatched.

It was definitely a big gamble. The entire base of the Tasman Empire Navy, 16 battleships and 16 cruisers, rushed towards the fleet of the White Ocean Federation Expeditionary Force. All the large ships of the White Ocean Democratic Federation Navy have already been dispatched, and all the stocks are headed for the war zone at the highest speed, and the decisive battle of the country will be held.

The battle of national fortunes should be so.

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Overhead map overview: The Tasman Empire is similar to the map location of the historical Ottoman Turkish Turkey Turkey State, with its capital near Aswan, Egypt, and the main areas of the empire in the novel are temperate climates, suitable for human habitation, and have a population of 200 million. The guy who pit him was Prussia of Kaiser Wilhelm's family. Our country is roughly the role of Tsarist Russia, not so cold, the population is much larger. The Windsor Empire is also British and British, but the small island of the people is the size of the French Republic and has a large population. The Karan Canal is approximately equal to the Suez Canal. Cape Roquedel resembles the Cape of Good Hope.

Spain, France, Italy, sorry, all sunk in the water. I'm sorry.