In the middle of the night on December 30, 99 B, the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet of Saxony and Windsor arrived near its destination. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is an unprecedentedly powerful fleet, with more than 300 ships and supply ships of various types. The main ships are as follows:

10 battleships, 8 Daystar-class battleships, 2 King-class battleships.

14 battlecruisers, 6 coma-rated high-speed battlecruisers, and 8 Pluto-class battlecruisers.

Heavy cruisers were used for the defense of the homeland and were not sent.

50 light cruisers, 10 Sunset (Xiaguang) class light cruisers, 20 Full Moon-class light cruisers, 20 Galileo 305 heavy gun light cruisers.

Destroyers, 20 destroyers of various types of M, are mainly used to protect the transport and supply fleet and do not participate in battles.

The landing combat force of the fleet is an amphibious combat force of 60,000 people, which is jointly formed by the Navy and the Army, three Marine Divisions, the 1st Marine Division, the 2nd Marine Division, and the 3rd Marine Division; In addition, there is a tank brigade.

At 23:30, all ships of the fleet sounded the wake-up call. The new Admiral, Duke Herman Norton, who was the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, began to issue combat missions to the officers and men of the expeditionary force: "The combat objectives are: the garrison of Treasure Island of the Delstein dynasty of the Marneroko Empire; Combat mission: Capture the country's important overseas islands, and build a new international shipping cargo turnover center, Treasure Island. ”

Overview of Treasure Island:

First, the geographical situation

Treasure Island is located at 1°28'N latitude and 179°55'E longitude, in the central and eastern part of the Ping'an Ocean, with a number of important international routes newly opened up nearby. It is named after the abundance of gold and silver on the island. The land area of the island is 1618.3 square kilometers, the coastline is more than 400 kilometers long, and the country is composed of more than 30 islands such as the main island of Treasure Island, York Island, Xingxing Island, and Yuanbao Island. The island is located just west of the International Date Line and is almost the first place in the world to welcome the sunrise. The island is an extinct volcanic island with complex topography but gentle relief, with the western and central regions consisting of mountainous and hilly terrain, mostly covered by forests, and the eastern and coastal strips are plains, with the highest point being Mount Juma, which is 953 meters high. There are 15 major rivers on the island, most of which have been converted into cisterns to provide drinking water for residents. A total of 17 reservoirs have been built to store fresh water for the public. These reservoirs are almost sufficient to meet the island's water needs, and in order to make the water source more reliable, several large-scale desalination plants have been built. With the completion of the world's largest desalination plant at the time, desalination could meet more than 60% of water demand, thus providing a stable and reliable supply of fresh water.

In terms of climate, the island is located in the tropics, controlled by the equatorial low pressure zone for many years, and has an equatorial rainy climate, with a small annual temperature difference and daily temperature difference. The average temperature ranges from 23 to 34°C, the average annual rainfall is around 2,400 mm, and the humidity ranges from 65% to 90%. The rainy season runs from November to January to March, with unstable weather under the influence of the humid northeast monsoon, usually with thundershowers in the afternoon and an average low of 24 to 25°C. From June to September, the southwest wind is the driest when it blows. During the monsoon months, April to May, and October to November, the winds on the ground are weak and the sun is very hot, and the maximum temperature on the island can reach 35°C.

Second, the island's economy

After more than 20 years of construction, Treasure Island has become one of the world's busiest ports and major entrepot hubs, as well as the world's largest fuel supply port, with more than 100 international routes connecting most of the world's important ports. By the end of B98, the container throughput of the Golden and Silver Ports had risen by 14% to 8.9 million TEUs, ranking first in the world, according to the Imperial Maritime Department and the Specific Port Authority, which oversees Treasure Island. In terms of fuel sales, Treasure Island is also the world's largest bunkering port, with a total of 9.4 million metric tons of fuel sold in B98 and a record 770 million gross tons of ships arriving at the port.

The island is not just a shipping center, it also has a well-developed manufacturing and service industry. The island's manufacturing products mainly include chemicals and chemicals, transportation equipment, petroleum products, oil refining and other products. In addition, the island was home to a large number of ship repair plants, the largest shipbuilding base in the ocean, and the fourth largest oil refining center in the world at the time. In order to assist the development of shipping and manufacturing, Treasure Island's service industry plays an important economic role, and the main industries include business services, financial services, catering and accommodation, and legal. The service industry is also a major industry on the island, and it can be said that it is the well-established service industry that Treasure Island has established itself as a world-class shipping center and trade center in the middle of the ocean.

Third, the cultural and political situation on the island

As of June 99, Treasure Island had a total permanent population of 620,000, of which 540,000 were local registered citizens or "long-term working residents", about 50,000 non-local military personnel such as foreign mercenaries in the Delstein Imperial Standing Army and the Islanders' Self-Defense Force, and the number of commercial expatriates was also quite large, with nearly 30,000. This island, built by the Delstein dynasty of the Marnerocco Empire, was not the territory of the Marnerocco Empire.

Treasure Island, the full name of the Treasure Island Free City-State Republic, is an independent international polity on this ocean, and the international system is a people's parliament and a senatorial republic. The history of this small island nation dates back to the early days of the Age of Discovery.

400 years ago, when the Age of Discovery had just begun, many islands were undiscovered or unexplored, and people were willing to live away from the mainland unless there was a special reason. At that time, more than 1,000 kilometers from here, the rich and powerful Mural dynasty took a coup d'état. The prime minister who staged the coup took control of the army and wanted to kill the royal family and their supporters. At that time, the navy was firmly on the side of the emperor and protected the emperor and his supporters from taking refuge at sea. The prime minister was strong and there was no hope of recovering the country, and a detachment happened to have visited the island, so the defeated fugitives came to the island to multiply. Soon after arriving on the island, the fugitives discovered gold mines on the island, and relying on the gold and silver produced by the mines, they began to trade extensively by sea, as well as develop agriculture and fishing.

For hundreds of years, the island belonged to the Müller dynasty. At the beginning of the B century, the last emperor of the dynasty, who was educated abroad, decided to implement a constitutional monarchy and establish a modern state system following the example of developed countries abroad. He also abolished polygamy, which had lasted for thousands of years, probably because he had no children. Towards the middle of the B century, the last emperor issued a decree on his deathbed to implement a democratic system. Shortly thereafter, the country established a parliamentary democracy based on the original modern state system, which continues to this day.

Since the 65th century B, a number of new international routes have been opened through the seas near the country. The government was interested in developing the shipping industry, but lacked the funds and experience.

In 69 B, the Delstein dynasty of the Manlok Empire sent dignitaries to visit the country and initially established the intention of cooperation.

In 71 of the B century, a cooperation agreement was reached for the Treasure Island shipping hub project. The following year, construction began in earnest.

In the 80s of the B century, a number of new routes through the nearby waters were successfully opened, and the geographical location of the island became more and more important.

By the end of the B century, Treasure Island had enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, and its highly developed economy attracted immigrants or migrant workers from the region. The opulence here is beyond imagination. In B98, the island's economic growth rate was 15.6%, eight times the world average at that time, and the per capita income of the people reached a staggering 8,000 silver dinars (the currency of the Delstein dynasty was the silver dinar, and the circulating currency was a 20-gram heavy alloy coin containing silver, but the specific silver content was not specified).

On the first day of the first year of the C century, a new war broke out here. On the first day of the new century, this small island, which had been peaceful for hundreds of years, was caught in the flames of war. What happened in the next few years was even more bloody.

At about 23 o'clock in the evening of December 30, 99 B, the capital ships of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet of Saxony and Windsor began to approach the waters off Treasure Island. Prior to this, the fleet was discovered by the Delstein merchant fleet, and the defenders of the island immediately began preparations for battle. The defenders here seem to be far more powerful than the Saxony-Windsor Empire could have imagined.