Chapter 71: Battleships
Zhou Tai took the letter and looked at it carefully, "Our army has successfully occupied Incheon Port, the five hundred Japanese defenders in the port have been completely annihilated, and five large Japanese transport ships and eight small steamers have been captured. All kinds of baggage materials in the port are piled up, and there is no time to ......count them," Zhou Tai exclaimed excitedly when he saw this, "This is a good thing!" Why aren't you upset? ”
"Keep looking!" Ren Chao didn't bother to explain and said casually.
Zhou Tai smiled and picked up the letter paper and looked at it again, and when he saw Zhou Tai's face behind him, he couldn't help but change, "This~!" If the information is accurate, the 1st Division of the Japanese Army will land at Inchon in three days! Zhou Tai shouted in panic.
"Yes!" Ren Chao nodded and said, "Ye Zhichao is really too unlucky, we are already struggling to fight against the nearly 20,000 Japanese troops in Pyongyang, if we add a first division, our trouble will be even greater!" ”
"So what are we going to do?" Zhou Tai couldn't help but ask.
Ren Chao shook his head and said, "I can't take care of these things now, I will go to Incheon according to the original plan." ”
"Yes!"
At dawn, Ren Chao finally arrived at the Incheon wharf, Ren Chao didn't alarm too many people, just took Zhou Tai and Zhou Bin and a few personal guards to the beach, looking at the dozen or so large and small steamers moored in the port, Ren Chao couldn't help but ask, "These are the ships that captured the little devils?" ”
"It's not! Those three merchant ships over there are British and American! These boats here are all small devils, and the small steamers over there are North Koreans. Zhao Bin pointed to the ship in the port and explained with a smile.
Ren Chao smiled and nodded, turned his head to the elf who stopped on his shoulder and said, "Elf, I remember that after the capture of Seoul this time, I was successfully promoted to a major general, and a new function was added, right?" ”
"Not bad!" The elf nodded and said, "The newly added function is the function of matching huàn with the same amount, which means that you can use the same amount of raw materials to exchange huàn into the same amount of finished product, but you have to pay for the processing fee." ”
"Then can I exchange these ships for huàn warships?" Ren Chao asked with some excitement.
"Of course you can, but these merchant ships can only be regarded as raw materials, that is to say, they can only be regarded as scrap steel, and you can exchange them for huàn warships, but you have to make up the processing costs!" The elf patiently explained.
"Excellent! Can these ships, including the three Anglo-American merchant ships, be able to exchange for a battleship! Ren Chaoqiang asked with the excitement in his heart.
"It can be exchanged for a light battleship with a displacement of 10,000 tons! However, you'll have to pay about 1,000,000 in-game coins. The elf thought for a moment and replied.
"Yes!" Ren Chao nodded, "How much money do I have now!" ”
"More than 1,300,000! Including more than 500 officers and men on board, it is enough! The elf replied with a smile.
"Looks like you've already calculated! You profiteer! Ren Chao couldn't help but smile.
The elf let out a wicked laugh, "If you don't squeeze every penny out of you, how can you work hard to make money!" ”
"Shouldn't I thank you if you say that?" Ren Chao said with a smile.
"You're welcome, are you sure to exchange huàn?" The elf asked with a smile.
"The Navy is really burning money!" Ren Chao still couldn't help but sigh.
"Lord Ren, there are two British merchant ships and one American merchant ship!" Zhao Bin couldn't help but remind.
"Just pay them some money!" Ren Chao said casually, "Tell them directly, their boat was requisitioned, and those North Korean boats also gave them some compensation." Lao Tzu is worried that the gold and silver treasures seized these days have nowhere to be spent! "After these several battles, Ren Chao did seize a lot of money from the little devils, especially after the capture of Seoul, the gold and silver treasures that the little devils looted in Seoul went into Ren Chao's pockets before they could be transported away. Not only the Japanese army, but even those Japanese businessmen in the DPRK, as well as those pro-Japanese traitors, as long as Ren Chao is touched, the heinous crime will be directly beheaded to show the public, and all the less guilty will be confiscated to the army to do coolies, and as for the family property, all the property will naturally be confiscated. Therefore, in the past few days, Ren Chao has accumulated a lot of gold and silver treasures, and it can't help but be so, in order to win over Ren Chao, the North Korean government also sends money to Ren Chao from time to time in the name of the labor army. Therefore, Ren Chao has accumulated a lot of money these days, but the only regret is that the system does not recognize this money at all, and there is nowhere to spend it, so Ren Chao is depressed.
"And! You send someone to have a good talk with those foreigners, and ask them if they can get steel, copper, tin and other metal raw materials, the more the better, and the price is negotiable. Ren Chao thought about it and explained again.
"Yes!" Zhao Bin could only bow down and receive the order.
"There are no outsiders in the harbor, right?" Ren Chao then asked.
"No, according to your orders, those foreign merchants and fishermen have been temporarily resettled somewhere else!" Zhao Bin hurriedly replied.
"That's good!" Ren Chao smiled, "Elf, then let's exchange huàn!" ”
"Okay!" The elf smiled in response. Then the sky suddenly darkened, and the steamer that had been parked in the harbor suddenly disappeared, as if those things had never existed at all. In the distance, a large black shadow appeared on the surface of the sea.
"What a big ship!" Zhou Tai couldn't help but open his mouth wide. Even Zhao Bin was speechless in surprise. I saw a huge black shadow on the sea in the distance appear out of thin air, as if a deep-sea beast had suddenly emerged from the bottom of the sea.
Ren Chao couldn't help but nodded, "Okay!" Very good! Lao Tzu also has a navy! Show me the main number of the ship. Ren Chao asked impatiently.
"It has a displacement of about 11,000 tons, a total length of 120 meters, a beam of 21.9 meters, and an average draft of 8.2 meters. The maximum speed is 18 knots, and the cruising range is 3000 nautical miles / 14 knots. THE ARMAMENT INCLUDES FOUR 320MM GUNS, TEN 150 MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS, 12 57 MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS, AND SIX TORPEDO TUBES,...... THE ELF SAID SERIOUSLY.
"Good! Very good! Ren Chao said happily, "From today onwards, this battleship will be called 'Celestial' as the flagship of our navy, but unfortunately, now the Celestial Empire is just a bare-bones commander." But it doesn't matter, as long as you can sink a Japanese ship, I'll add a little brother to you! Sink ten, and I'll add ten to you!" ”
Ren Chao let out a sigh of relief, looked at the rising sun in the east, and sighed helplessly, "Today is September 17th, go ahead!" My Celestial Empire! Good luck! ”
"Whew!" The Celestial Empire let out a shrill whistle and slowly began to start heading off into the distance.