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Chapter 244: The Unexpected American War Situation!

Although I don't know why the young master is already angry at the mention of rì, and his murderous aura is compelling! However, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan has been poisoned by the Japanese invaders for a long time, and rì himself has also landed on the island many times to burn, kill and loot in modern times, so Huo Long also does not have much affection for rì himself!

A few days ago, the destroyer 'Pang Juan' of our Navy encountered the ironclad ship 'Hiei' in the sea area of 50 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan, and there was a confrontation between the two sides, and it was not until the destroyer Bai Qi received the radio that Rì's own battleship left!" Thinking of the confrontation at sea that took place a few days ago, Huo Long still felt that the atmosphere was unsettled! If it weren't for the fact that the Huo Jiajun was now at war with the United States, most of the warships had already been transferred to the eastern Pacific, and it would really not be appropriate to start a new war. The Huo family's navy, which has the upper hand in terms of tonnage, firepower, speed and defense capability, has already beaten him!

"Hiei?" Huo Shan, who was extremely familiar with the development history of the Rì Navy, immediately came up with all the data of the battleship himself!

In 1874, in the war of aggression against Taiwan, China, which was provoked under the pretext of the murder of Ryukyu fishermen, because the naval strength was inferior to that of China at that time, he decided to order the ironclad ship Hiei and the same class ship King Kong from the British! The "Hiei" was built by the British Herwin Shipyard and the construction began on September 24, 1875. It was launched on 12 December 1877 and completed in March 1878. The construction of the ship "King Kong" was started in September 1875 by the British Earles shipyard, launched in April 1877, and completed in January 1878.

The two ships are both of the "King Kong" class and belong to the early second-class ironclad ships. Iron waki, wooden shell, external armor. Normal displacement 2250 tons, length meters, width meters, draft meters. The waterline with armor thickness is 88-137mm, the standard coal carrying is 330 tons (340 tons for the "Hiei"), the main engine is 1 horizontal 2-cylinder reciprocating steam engine, 6 coal-fired boilers, the power is 2035 hp (2270 hp for the "Hiei"), single-shaft propulsion, and the speed knots (13 knots for the "Hiei"). Establishment of 286 people. Main weapons: 3 170mm Krupp guns, 6 150mm Krupp guns, 2 80mm Krupp guns, 2 75mm Krupp guns, 4 25mm 4-barreled Nordenfeld cannons, 2 11mm Nordenfeld guns. 2 360mm torpedo tubes (1 for the "Hiei" ship). Although the number of artillery far exceeds that of the Huo Jiajun Navy's current leading battleship 'Mingxiang' class destroyer, it is too far behind in terms of the range and power of the main guns!

"Huo Long, how are the warships we captured in the last naval battle repaired?" As a descendant, Huo Shan knew very well that the first step of his mainland policy was to capture Taiwan.

What's more, the current island of Taiwan has established numerous factories under his command in the past two years or so. In particular, the Keelung Shipyard, which has a total tonnage of nearly 100,000 tons, and the Kaohsiung Shipyard in southern Taiwan. In the eyes of the greedy rì himself, it is as dazzling as gold, even if they know that the island of Taiwan belongs to the Huo Jiajun, I am afraid that they will take risks!

After all, rì himself is famous for his madness, and he gambles on the fortunes of the country at every turn! This was true of both the First Sino-Japanese War and the later Russo-Japanese War, although both wars allowed him to win the bet! Rì himself also obtained a large amount of war benefits through this, and thus became a member of the club of great powers! However, he often walks by the river, how can he not get his shoes wet! This old Chinese saying is reflected in the arrogant rì himself!

In the war of aggression against China, and later in the war between the United States and the United States, they all lost their unfortunate and tragic bets! The national fortunes of several decades since the Meiji Restoration were wiped out! It is in line with the old Chinese saying, 'Although the country is great and warlike, it will perish'!

"The four ironclad ships 'Seven Provinces Alliance', 'Princess Maria', 'Jewel' and 'Grand Duke', as well as the 'Sovereign', 'Dolphin', and 'Princess' wooden-hulled cruisers are too large in their own tonnage, so it will take half a year to complete the entire refit plan! The all-round refit of the remaining four ironclad ships and five wooden-hulled cruisers will be completed in half a month!" Huo Long hurriedly said.

"Well, what about our new warship, will it be delivered on time?" Huo Shan then asked.

"The next eight Admiral-class warships, as well as the new batch of eight Seahawk-class frigates, will be able to launch sea trials at the end of this year and officially enter service in May next year!" If it weren't for the fact that the thirty-nine warships captured in the last two naval battles with the Netherlands and Portugal would have been fully refitted, which consumed a lot of shipbuilding materials and the jīng power of shipyard workers, the sixteen battleships of the new style would have been delivered at least a month ahead of schedule, or even earlier! After all, the tonnage of these two levels of warships is not too large, and several shipyards under the jurisdiction of Huo Jiajun have already had corresponding construction experience.

After listening to his words, Huo Shan didn't say anything, he knew that this delivery time was already the greatest capacity of the Huo Family Military Shipyard at present! After all, the foundation was too thin! Even if he searched for shipbuilding talents from all over the world through the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Security Bureau, and the secret guards directly under the Huo family, purchased shipbuilding equipment in a large amount, and even robbed the talents accumulated by the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement for decades, three years was still too short!

However, Huo Shan has no choice, with the start of the war between China and the United States, the Huo family army occupies Wake Island, Johnston Island, and the Hawaiian Islands, and if you are lucky, Alaska, which is regarded as a barren land by the Americans, can also be taken into the hands of the Huo family army! If all these strategic goals are realized, then the Huo family army will once again increase the land area of more than one million square kilometers and tens of millions of square kilometers of sea area, and the Huo family army and navy will truly become the hegemon in the Pacific Ocean!

There are too many naval warships needed for such a huge territory! Even if all the current warships of the Huo Jiajun are in service, plus the patrol ships that are responsible for coastal patrol missions, the entire Huojia Army Navy will only have just over 100 ships!

This kind of navy scale can only defend the current Pacific island territory of the Huo Jiajun! However, the navy is originally an offensive service, so the current naval scale of the Huo Jiajun is still too small! In addition, the Huo Jiajun is not only a force in the Pacific, the powerful Britain and the arrogant France are gritting their teeth to expand their naval fleet, and the old Qing Dynasty is taking advantage of the prestige of the great power! They are all strong challengers to the Huo Jiajun Navy!

In addition, the war between Huo Jiajun and the United States will always come to an end, and I believe that the Americans, who have already suffered a loss, will certainly not make the same mistake again! Not to mention that their congress has now passed a bill to build new warships and expand their navy!

It is believed that with the passage of time, the Huo Jiajun will face more and more challenges on the ocean, so in the next period of time, the navy will surpass the army to become the focus of the development of the Huojiajun's military strength!

"But now Huo Jiajun's shipbuilding equipment has been used to the limit, if you want to continue to expand the scale of shipbuilding, the only way to do this is to expand a new shipyard! But now I don't have a penny!" Huo Shan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Of course, there is more than one reason, the extreme lack of shipbuilders within the Huo Jiajun is also a bottleneck that restricts the development of the shipbuilding industry!

Looking at the tired look on the young master's face, Huo Long couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart!

In three years, the Huo Jiajun has grown to a population of nearly 50 million, a territory spanning the Pacific Ocean, an army of more than 600,000, a rapidly expanding navy, and officially becoming a new force recognized by various countries in the world, all supported by the young man in front of him who has not yet reached the age of fifteen!

Although the contribution of the Military Department and the Government Council is not small in the middle, Huo Long himself knows that they are all implementing the plan that the young master has formulated a long time ago! They are just simple executors, not decision-makers!

Now, as the head of the Huo Jiajun Military Department and the number one leader of the military, Huo Long has also begun to consider the development of the Huo Jiajun from the strategic level! However, every time the intricate international relations between countries have made him very troubled! Only when he really stands at this level can he understand how many difficulties the young master has experienced in leading the Huo Jiajun step by step from the cracks of Taiwan to the present!

After massaging his sideburns, Huo Shan felt that his jīng spirit was a little better! The recent war between Huo Jiajun and the United States has always been in his heart. With the constant changes in the war situation in the United States, Huo Shan has gradually felt that the war there has been out of his control, or in other words, it has been out of the military plan he originally formulated for the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force to occupy the three western states of the United States! The reason why this has become like this is also because the American army is so invulnerable that it is almost about to collapse at the touch of a button! In addition, the emptiness of troops within the United States has completely stimulated the Huo Jiajun's ambition to occupy the entire western United States!

Although Huo Shan had already learned that the military strength of the United States was very weak in this era, he never expected that the Americans would be so indiscriminate! Later, it was not until Huo Jiajun, with only two divisions and less than 40,000 troops, quickly defeated the garrison of three American divisions at a small cost and occupied all the cities in the three western states of the United States in less than five days, that Huo Shan realized that he was really a little too conservative when formulating the military strategy of marching into the United States! The thinking in his head was still involuntarily influenced by the later generations of Americans to dominate the world!

Therefore, when Wu Guangzong, commander of the expeditionary force, sent a new military plan by radio, Huo Shan thought about it for a while and agreed! In military affairs, Wu Guangzong, who is now on the battlefield, will certainly understand the war situation of the United States better than Huo Shan, who is far away in Taiwan, and Huo Shan also believes that the officers he has trained can lead the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force to continue to win new victories! However, in this way, the occupation of the entire United States is completely beyond his control, and I believe that as long as the new military plan of the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force can be realized, then the Americans must fight to the death even if they are not ready!