In fact, the private fleet under Zhang Xin's command is already extremely overstaffed.

According to the Earth Federal Defense Act, the number of private fleets of an honorary duke cannot exceed 60,000 ships. However, as early as a few months ago, Zhang Xin had reached an agreement with President Liu Wei, who would give him a power of attorney to legally recruit 90,000 private warships.

- This does not require the consent of Congress, as Liu Wei declared a state of emergency as early as the beginning of the war in both directions. In this state, many of Liu Wei's military decisions can bypass Congress.

The president also has enough reasons that the Yingzhou Star Domain needs a strong enough defense force. And the powerful fleet of the Yingzhou Star Domain can also effectively pose a threat to the flank of the Gaoting people, and can contain the latter's fleet.

Naturally, with the current state of the Majestic Group, it is far from being able to gather the amount of 90,000 warships.

Although as early as three months ago, they had already entered a state of full mobilization under the leadership of Zhang Xin. However, it takes time to build and buy warships, as does the expansion of production lines. In particular, those newly recruited workers must go through three to five months of training and practice before they can master various production skills.

It is more nonsense to talk about the fact that although the Earth Federation was able to achieve fully automated warship production very early. According to the relevant laws, major arms manufacturers can also reduce the proportion of manual jobs in wartime, but at present, the entire Earth Federation does not have a complete fully automated warship production line for sale.

In fact, they can't automate production now, and Shenwei Shipbuilding stopped the production of all old warships more than a month ago, and instead went all out to produce new 'rune warships'.

These ships combined with Dome Rune Technology are different from all the current warship models of the Earth Federation, and they cannot be completed independently by fully automated production lines.

- Unless it is those intelligent brains who can think like Ye Ruo and have the ability to think on their own, these artificial intelligences that only know the step-by-step process and do not know how to adapt at all will only make a mess of everything. There has to be a fair amount of human input to bring everything back to normal.

What makes Zhang Xin more helpless is that these workers and engineers must also have a certain mental foundation, otherwise it will not be beneficial to the seal carving of those runes.

So now, the warship output of the Weiyan Shipbuilding Company is far from reaching the ideal state of Zhang Xin. It is a long way to get together 90,000 cutting-edge rune warships.

In fact, even the four standard warship groups under his current command have nearly a quarter of the warships, which are more than 200 years old.

- This is not an old model, according to the concept of the Earth Federation, these ships still belong to the category of cutting-edge warships. Compared with the warships of the Gaoting people, the combat effectiveness is undoubtedly weak. And the vast majority of them, in the castrated version, are civilian models.

And the gap between the two sides in terms of combat power can also be glimpsed from the sporadic battles that followed.

Since February 32442 in the federal calendar, several detachments of the Gaoting people have appeared in several systems adjacent to Yingzhou.

During this period, Zhang Xin also ordered several fleets under his command to take the initiative to launch an offensive against the Gaoting people. Led by the Al Weilun brothers and sisters, the arrogant sword saint Xuanyuan blood, and the four people of the Wei State, tens of thousands of warships brazenly attacked from the state defense line.

As a result, although these local fleet battles ended with the victory of the Federation, the results achieved were very few. They did not achieve their plan to encircle and annihilate, and were successfully escaped back by the enemy detachment of the Gaoting people. Only in the course of the battle, with absolute military superiority, about 1,200 or so warships of the Gaoting people were sunk.

-- Among them, less than 1 percent of the capital ships were damaged by the Gao Tingren. And the exchange ratio of warships between the Federation side and the High Court people, when the firepower was nearly double, was as high as 1.2 to 1.

That is, they had to pay one or two battleships in exchange for one of the opposing ships being sunk.

So in Zhang Xin's view, this can't be called a victory at all-

However, they took the initiative this time, and they still gained some gains. Although these local wars were a shame in Zhang Xin's eyes, they were an excellent record in the entire Earth Federation.

Compared with the successive defeats on other fronts, their side at least temporarily repelled the Gaoting people. The casualties were also relatively small. , since it is the federal side that wins, it has the right to clear the battlefield. Therefore, although the number of battleships they sank was large, the actual number of people killed in the battle was less than 6,000, which can indeed be called a beautiful victory.

Therefore, the major federal media are all in the pages, trying their best to publicize these four fleet battles, which are very close to touting their abilities. This is somewhat beneficial to the people of the entire Earth Federation, especially within the Yingzhou.

Since the invasion of the Gaoting people into the Cartier Star Domain, there has actually been a wave of fleeing from Yingzhou. It's just that due to the previous piracy, the vast majority of Yingzhou citizens have exhausted their financial resources during this period, so they can't afford to take a space yacht away from Yingzhou, so this wave of flight is only limited to some upper-class people in Yingzhou.

This also made the prestige of Zhang Changzhi and the Zhang family in Yingzhou high again, and the Weiyan Group did not give up Yingzhou, but spent a huge amount of money to gather more than 100,000 warships on the border, which made the people of the major administrative stars in Yingzhou grateful.

This also directly affected the recruitment of troops by the Weiyan Group in Yingzhou, and the proportion of troops joining the army here far exceeded that of Guangcheng.

Some people in Yingzhou even initiated donations and raised federal coins in just ten days, but Zhang Xin did not accept them, and only used these funds to purchase food and various daily necessities as material reserves in Yingzhou.

And this time, the private fleet under his command defeated the achievements of the Gaoting people, and also made the local people in Yingzhou further stable.

Another advantage of this victory was that the president had allocated nearly 15 billion federal dollars from the funds of the Department of Defense to the Guangying Theater as war funds for the theater.

This was undoubtedly a move to rush to the hospital, and the successive defeats of the Wehrmacht on all fronts since the beginning of the war had discouraged the president. For this reason, he is also eagerly looking forward to the direction of Yingzhou, which can form a strong flank threat to the Gaoting people as quickly as possible, and even take the initiative to attack to bring more good news to this person.

However, this appropriation plan cannot be done by the president alone, and it is actually a transaction.

In this battle, Al and others, with the assistance of Xie Linger and many other strong people, captured no less than 100 warships and nearly 20,000 Gaoting people.

The various forces of the Federation are eager to obtain this part of the spoils from the hands of the Majestic Collective, which is used to study the military technology of the High Court warship and the physiology of this alien intelligent race.

And as a price, they turned a deaf ear to this slightly excessive appropriation and did nothing to hinder it.

On the day he got the funds, Zhang Xin directly bypassed the procurement department of the Ministry of National Defense, and in the name of the local patrol force, placed an order for 13,000 rune warships with Weiyan Shipbuilding, and urged the shipbuilding company to expand its production line again, and in one step to the scale of producing 9,000 warships per month.