Fang Xiaoyu really didn't disappoint Sun Xiaohu, the new warship was in place quickly, Sun Xiaohu looked at the beautiful appearance and huge main gun of his new flagship, and his mood was extremely excited.

"How? The young master will definitely not treat you lightly. Zhang Haiyang, who came with the ship, smiled and patted Sun Xiaohu's shoulder, he came here to transport the warship to Sun Xiaohu, and by the way, Zhang Haiyang also wanted to see how the old brother was doing.

Sun Xiaohu stood intently at the giant ship in front of him and nodded: "Yes, such a good warship is really good." ”

Sun Xiaohu immediately saw the huge eight main guns on the warship, and he wondered: "There are so many main guns, is it ......?"

Zhang Haiyang nodded and said, "That's right, this is the latest type of Chinese-class battleship in our Chinese Empire, a total of four, all of which have been brought to you." ”

Sun Xiaohu was surprised: "Isn't our Chinese Empire only these four Chinese-class battleships?" It's all given to me, what about the Eastern Ocean Fleet? ”

Zhang Haiyang smiled: "It's okay, you can use it with peace of mind." In another half a year, the second batch of four Zhonghua-class battleships will be launched. The latest level of battleships has also started, according to the young master's intentions, this class of battleships to be built ten, this is the most built in our Chinese Empire first-class battleships, of course, how many will be built after the most depends on the actual situation, but unless there are better warships, this number of construction is only a lot more. ”

Sun Xiaohu said with a smile: "This shows that the young master has indeed made a fortune by taking advantage of the all-out war in the Western Continent, and he actually let the iron rooster of the East China Trip build so many big warships." ”

Zhang Haiyang looked around at no one and said in a low voice: "I also heard that we are going to build four aircraft carriers, which are said to be larger than our battleships." ”

"Bigger than a battleship? What caliber of the main gun do you want to install? Sun Xiaohu was surprised.

Zhang Haiyang smiled and patted Sun Xiaohu's shoulder and said: "You have been away from the Eastern Continent for too long, now our Chinese Empire's science and technology is changing with each passing day, it is no longer your old brain that can keep up, I think you should read more books, recently the young master personally published this army's internal magazine called "New Weapons Era", you should take a look." ”

Sun Xiaohu said: "When you go back, send me more, I want to see more, but what does this aircraft carrier you are talking about?" ”

Zhang Haiyang said: "The aircraft carrier is said to take off and land aircraft, I only know that he has no main gun, and I don't know how to fight." ”

Sun Xiaohu said with a smile: "After blowing the atmosphere for a long time, it turns out that you don't know what to do." ”

Zhang Haiyang rolled his eyes and said: "Anyway, the young master said that it is very powerful, according to the young master, the main force of the navy in the future will be this aircraft carrier, you have to learn more, if you can't keep up with the trend, it is estimated that the young master will remove you." ”

Sun Xiaohu nodded: "I will definitely strengthen my study, but for now, I should enjoy the majesty of the Chinese-class battleship first, Ha Luha." ”

Fang Xiaoyu spared no expense to expand the Southern Ocean Fleet this time, and he sent all the current main warships of the Chinese Empire, including four 'Zhonghua' class battleships, four 'Wanghai' class heavy cruisers and eight 'Swordfish' class destroyers, as well as as ten Seawolf 2 submarines, the Southern Ocean Fleet can be said to have reached the sky in one step.

The rapid expansion of the strength of the Southern Ocean Fleet made the Saar Empire's navy anxious in their eyes, but now they can't send many extra warships to reinforce the Eastern Continent Fleet, and they can only pray that the Chinese Empire will not join the allies.

After losing eight capital warships, the Eastern Continent Fleet of the Saar Empire has completely become a local garrison fleet, and they can only retreat in the Tamsui port, not daring to support the colonies of the Western Kingdom that are gradually encroaching.

The situation of the Nantes Empire was also difficult, as their naval policy mistakes in previous years had caused the entire navy to be denied large ships, and after the war began, the Nantes Empire had to collect the larger warships of the colonies and return them for use.

Now their colonial army can only come out on Sumen Island, and at the moment their naval presence in the Eastern Continent is not even as good as the Sahr Empire, and his few dilapidated gunboats and torpedo boats are more appropriate to call them the coastal defense fleet than the naval fleet.

The naval structure of the Southern Ocean has undergone earth-shaking changes unconsciously, and the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire led by Sun Xiaohu has become the first naval force in the Southern Ocean.

With four Lanting-class battleships and eight Tongjiang-class cruisers purchased from the Chinese Empire, plus eight warships captured from the Saar Navy, the Champi Kingdom had quickly risen to the second navy in the Southern Ocean.

For the Zhanxi Kingdom that Fang Xiaoyu quickly raised, even if Vena II became his godsister, he would not be defenseless.

All the newly established armies of the Champsi Kingdom were in the hands of the instructors of the Chinese Empire who secretly became the nationality of the Champsi, and there were also many sailors of the Chinese Empire in the naval fleet who controlled them in the name of assistance, and the deputies of the key departments were all from the Chinese Empire, and the actual power was also in their hands.

Economically, the Chinese Empire's large investments in the Champsey Kingdom tied the Champsey Kingdom to the chariot of the Eastern Ocean Entente Alliance. And the most absolute thing is the incident of Fang Xiaoyu instructing Xiao Cheng to be buried alive, that is, the saar Empire's governor in the Western Kingdom and the army soldiers were buried alive.

This incident was deliberately done by Fang Xiaoyu, so that the Saar Empire and the Zhanxi Kingdom would become mortal enemies, even if the Saar royal family agreed to recruit the Chakran Kingdom, as long as Fang Xiaoyu released a little news in the Sahr Empire, their country would be in turmoil.

Unless their government wants to be overthrown by the people, they will never hurt the feelings of the people so much and form an alliance with the Champsi Kingdom, which will block the way for the Chhandi Kingdom to form an alliance with the outside world, and as for the Yaman Empire, their power will not extend to the Southern Ocean.

Fang Xiaoyu began to speed up his naval renewal plan at this time, and all the old warships were eliminated, except for the four Lanting-class battleships sold to the Zhanxi Kingdom, the remaining two were sold to the Wahu Kingdom along with the four Tongjiang-class cruisers.

The four Beidi-class battleships were sold to the San Martin Empire, but the Lanting, the lead ship of the Lanting-class battleships previously sold to the San Martin Empire, was bought back by Fang Xiaoyu, and it will be moored in Quanzhou Port after renovation, as the first naval education base and military theme park in the Chinese Empire.

Fang Xiaoyu unknowingly transferred his navy in the Eastern Continent out of a big loophole, and the Chinese Empire did not have any battleships to defend it for a while on the 10,000-mile sea frontier of the Eastern Continent. At this time, the Wa Kingdom, which had always been eyeing the Chinese Empire and holding back, began to live.

Gonbei Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, angrily threw a document on the desk of the Minister of Military Orders, Naoshige Oshima, who still squinted his eyes as if he hadn't seen it, and savored the tea in his hand.

Yamamoto Gonbei said: "My proposal to attack the Chinese Empire has been rejected by you. ”

Naoshige Oshima did not answer immediately, but took a small sip of the tea in his hand, then put the teacup on the table, wiped his hands with a towel before asking, "Do you think we can defeat the Chinese Empire?" ”

Yamamoto clapped his hands on the table and said, "I am sure that I will annex Ezo and then force the Chinese Empire to negotiate peace with us, so that we can obtain huge benefits."

Naoshige Oshima shook his head and said, "Yamamoto-kun, we have been friends for many years, and I don't want to discourage you, but our country is too small compared to the Chinese Empire, and we have no hope of victory at all." ”

Yamamoto Gonbei said: "I also know this, but now is the best time for us to defeat them, there is a vacuum of strength in their Eastern Ocean Navy, there is no longer a single battleship of the Chinese Empire cruising here, and this vacuum will take at least half a year to a year to be filled, as long as we make good use of this time, we can obtain huge benefits." ”

Naoshige Oshima stood up, walked around the room twice, and said, "But in this case, we are too risky, and once we are defeated, we will fall into a situation from which we will never recover." ”

Yamamoto Gonbei said: "I also know that there are some adventures in the road, but this is our only choice, if we miss this opportunity, our country will be suppressed forever, and we will never be able to become a strong country." Rather than accept a hopeless future, I'd rather fight now, even if I'm dead. ”

Naoge Oshima said: "But it's a small matter if we die, if the empire is defeated, how can I explain it to His Majesty." ”

Yamamoto said, "If we don't do it, we won't be able to account for it in the future." Let's fight, if we win, we will be the heroes of the empire, and if we lose, I will be the scapegoat, just like Commander Ito back then. ”

In order to strengthen the confidence of the other party, he then added: "Since the establishment of our military government, a large amount of funds have been transferred to the construction of the army, especially the navy is already very large, if these weapons can not bring us war dividends, their maintenance costs will crush us, and we now have to go to war." ”

Naoshige Oshima said that Yamamoto Gonbei made sense, and that there was such a drawback in using the military industry to stimulate the economy, and although it was very effective in the early stage, when the military strength developed to a certain extent, if the war dividends could not be obtained from the outside, the entire economy would be in danger of collapsing.

Naoshige Oshima sighed and said, "That's all, if we are really defeated, there is no point in our lives." ”

"Yes, Mr. Minister, I will do my best to serve Your Majesty." Gonbei Yamamoto immediately stood up and stood upright.

Naoshige Oshima nodded: "Since we have decided to go to war, we will go all out to win, and the army will cooperate closely with you." ”