Imagine how the Sahr Empire could rest assured that the Cossack Imperial fleet would pass through, in case they would kill the horses and guns, and they would not leave the Sinai Canal area, and such an important waterway would be lost, which the Saar Empire would never want to see.

The current Saar Empire is highly dependent on the supply of agricultural products and minerals in the colonies of the Chhansi Kingdom, and once the Sinai Canal is cut off, it is equivalent to stucking the neck of the Saar Empire, so how careless they are.

Since the Sinai Canal is not crossed, there is no point in entering the Mediterranean, and the Cossack Navy can only continue to sail south, and they are ready to bypass the entire southern subcontinent, so that the distance of the Cossack Navy has increased by more than 10,000 nautical miles out of thin air, and the time to reach the Eastern Continent has been delayed again.

With enough time, Fang Xiaoyu will not be idle and wait for the other party to fight, the Chinese defense army expanded again while fighting, not only replenished the losses of all troops, Fang Xiaoyu also rewarded Xue Boling, who had made great contributions, promoted him to lieutenant general, and ordered him to form the third army of the defense army.

The troops that are besieging Kuli City have also been adjusted, anyway, there are not many Cossack troops left, and there are no heavy weapons, Fang Xiaoyu thinks that as long as there are three infantry divisions plus the cooperation of artillery, it is enough to make the other side unable to move.

The only thing to worry about is that the Cossack army still has more than 20,000 cavalry, in order to prevent these cavalry from going out of the city to raid the defense army, the Chinese leading army recruited a large number of local Cossack people, and in a short period of time around the entire city of Kuli dug a criss-cross trench, the entire trench system not only has a siege of the city of horizontal ditches but also for communication of vertical ditches.

Such a defense system greatly hindered the activities of the Cossack cavalry, and Fang Xiaoyu praised Su Zhizhen's decision after learning of it, and he even transferred some snipers from the Iron Blood Army and the Special Operations Army, and let these snipers enter the trench system to snipe the Cossack soldiers at the head of the city.

The way these snipers fought was very effective, they hit the Cossack soldiers with accurate shots, and the Chinese artillerymen did not shell the city, which made Romanov completely frightened, and he simply retreated into the city completely, no longer thinking about breaking through.

With three divisions of the First Army, plus artillery divisions to suppress the Cossack corps in the city of Kuli, the defense army was able to free up more manpower, and the three divisions of the Second Army and the 1st Division of the Iron Army immediately began to divide their forces to sweep through the territory of the Cossack Empire, advance into the Cossack Empire, and occupy large territories.

In order to implement the policy of seizing territory, Fang Xiaoyu allocated all the horses that could be mobilized in the Chinese territory to the various troops, and the new logistics policy that began after the last war played a huge role, tens of thousands of horses and a large number of carriages were sent to the Cossack territory, in this area with backward infrastructure, these carriages played a huge role, transporting supplies to the army, helping to transport immigrants, the encroachment ability of the defense army was greatly strengthened, and the attack on the Cossack Empire became more fierce.

The other party's strategy of traveling to East China is well known, as long as the local population structure changes, this will become the new territory of the Chinese territory, so he also tilted the policy here, and allocated a large number of immigrants who had just entered the Chinese territory here, so that the engineering team and the Cossack civilians who were collected by the military would build settlements with strong walls for the immigrants, and Fang Xiaoyu also ordered the distribution of guns for them, the establishment of militia organizations, and their own defense.

In this way, Fang Xiaoyu relied on this large number of immigrants to divide the Cossacks in the local area, and the Chinese Territory forbade the local Cossacks to have weapons, so the situation in the newly occupied areas was quickly stabilized.

The regional stable garrison can free up their hands to continue to attack the next region, they began to encroach on the territory of the Cossack Empire little by little, and in just half a year, the Chinese Territory has occupied nearly 300,000 square kilometers of territory of the Cossack Empire, and the besieged city of Kuli has become a large rear.

At this moment, good news came from Xu Shouchang, and the four new warships of 14,000 tons, which had been built first, were finally launched and delivered.

The new 'Lanting' class battleships were different from the previous ironclad ships, which were the first batch of truly all-steel warships, so they were no longer called ironclad ships, but were named battleships by Fang Xiaoyu.

The displacement of this class of battleships reached 14,000 tons, and the main guns used the newly developed 330 mm hydraulic tube retreat main guns, and used twin turrets, and the second main guns were evenly distributed ten 152 mm rapid-fire guns.

In order to be safe, its armor protection adopts the concept of comprehensive defense, the thickness of the armor is 450 mm, and the use of the original nickel-cadmium alloy steel created by the Chinese leader, even the horizontal deck armor that countries do not pay attention to, Fang Xiaoyu also laid three layers with a total thickness of 120 mm.

Despite such heavy armor, the ship was able to reach speeds of eighteen knots, as the latest eight small-tube boilers and three triple-expansion steam engines were used to make the ship 11,000 horsepower.

In addition, in order to increase the seaworthiness of the warship and reduce the roll of the hull during the shelling, the warship was also equipped with keels and stabilizer fins.

In addition to the first ship of the 'Lanting' class battleship, which was specially named 'Lanting' by Fang Xiaoyu to commemorate the Lanting Villa he started, the other three ships were named "Tongshan", "Far East", and "Xing'an" respectively after the three counties of the Chinese Territory.

The appearance of these four warships marked that all the previous ironclad ships were outdated, and the officers and men of the navy who came to participate in the launching ceremony were extremely excited to see these four huge warships.

At the launching ceremony, Fang Xiaoyu immediately announced the appointment of Liu Junguo as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Consulate Navy, Zhang Haiyang as the chief of staff, and Zhang Xiaobing, Qu Jintao, Jiang Pingxian, and Guo Yu as the captains of the four newly built battleships.

Wan Yong and three other gunboat captains were promoted to cruiser captains because of their merits, and were responsible for commanding the 'Tongjiang' commanded by Zhang Haiyang, as well as five newly built improved cruisers, and six torpedo boats joined the active service.

Liu Junguo and the others were dismissed because they were scapegoats, and they were already full of resentment towards the imperial government, and Fang Xiaoyu was not afraid of what small actions they would make in their own fleet if the emperor wanted to curb him in the future.

With the exemplary role of Liu Junguo and others, it greatly encouraged the officers and men of the navy who had just defected. With these examples, these people can be more at ease and more quickly integrate into the collective of the Chinese Territorial Navy.

Although Liu Junguo is Liu Junxi's elder brother and there is no risk of rebellion, there are still necessary precautions, and in these former imperial navies, a large number of deputy positions and key departments have placed personnel from the former Chinese Territorial Navy.

In the case of frequent exchanges with each other, the officers and men of the navy from the two systems quickly merged and soon formed combat effectiveness, and the Chinese Led Navy, which originally lacked the foundation, finally had a relatively strong force through this talent harvest, at least in the Eastern Continent, it was already quite strong.

Time was pressing, and the Chinese Consulate Navy began adaptation training as soon as the new warships joined the active service, and conducted more detailed sea trials on the new warships to cope with the upcoming Cossack Imperial Expeditionary Fleet.

It is impossible for Fang Xiaoyu to participate in these actions as a lord, as long as such things are left to the people below to do, his vision must be long-term and grasp the general direction, so in addition to ordering the army to step up operations, he began to prepare for the establishment of a military academy in the territory.

Fang Xiaoyu understands that with his growing potential, the demand for all kinds of talents, especially military talents, is increasing, and in the face of more and more strong demand, it is unrealistic to rely on external input alone, and he must have a place and mechanism for cultivating talents.

In the past, Fang Xiaoyu has always been very interested in the two major military academies of the empire, but now there is a training base for scientific research and basic talents in China, and what is lacking is a place to train military talents, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to establish the Songjiang Army School in Tongjiang Fucheng and the Vladivostok Naval School in Vladivostok Port.

In addition to serving as guest lecturers for active duty officers, Fang Xiaoyu also poached people at the Imperial Army and Naval Academies, and because of the extremely high salaries given by Fang Xiaoyu, many teachers and professors resigned and came to teach in the Chinese Consulate.

Now that the power of the Chinese Leader is getting bigger and bigger, Emperor Xiahou has a very good impression of Fang Xiaoyu, and the schools of the two major schools do not dare to obviously offend this lord who is gaining power, and they also turn a blind eye to Fang Xiaoyu's obvious behavior of digging into the wall, which can be regarded as acquiescence.

Fang Xiaoyu didn't want to offend the royal family too much, and it was only enough to dig up talents, these people were mainly to deal with the recent shortage of teachers, and as for the bigger addition, Wu Feng still needed to poach people in the Western Continent and the New World.

The military academy is for long-term development considerations, and the current military threat cannot but be prepared, for which Fang Xiaoyu found Horan, who has been idle, because of the electric motor, Einstein's laboratory recently invented a high-performance lead-zinc battery, with such a battery, the construction of submarines can finally be put on the agenda.

Horan was so pleased that he could start the research he loved, and he immediately threw himself into the design of the submarine.

As for submarines, Fang Xiaoyu, who used to focus on surface ships, was not proficient, so he could only instill some vague concepts about submarines that he knew, such as pressurized water tanks, drop-shaped hulls, hybrid power and horizontal wings, to Horan for his own research.

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