Portsmouth Military Port.

Several luxury carriages slowly drove into the heavily guarded port area.

The officers guarding the gate of the port area looked at the two groups of Gurkha riflemen guarding the front and back of the carriage, immediately thought of something, and hurriedly shouted: "All ...... Attention! ”

The guards, who had been listless, perked up at once, puffed out their chests, and saluted with their guns raised towards the carriage. When the carriage drove into the gate, the officer guarding the gate hurried back to the sentry box, picked up the phone and informed his superiors that "Kaiser Wilhelm has arrived".

The convoy drove straight into the port area and stopped in front of a building full of high-ranking officers in British Royal Navy uniforms. The door opened, revealing Kaiser Wilhelm and the Duke of Wellington. The senior officers waiting on the dock came forward to salute Kaiser Wilhelm, who also wore a navy uniform today, and also raised his hand to return the salute, and then walked with the Duke of Wellington to a warship outfitting area near the building.

Located in the Portsmouth Military Harbour, this outfitting area is shared by several major shipyards in the United Kingdom, including the Bath Shipyard, Armstrong Shipyard, and Royal Dockyard. There are six wharves jutting out into the bay, each with railroad tracks that connect directly to the dense network of England's railways, which connects the shipyards in Portsmouth Military Harbour with supporting factories throughout England.

On these six outfitting docks, the steel giants are being completed little by little in the industrious hands of busy English workers like worker ants, revealing their hideous faces. Due to the urgency of the war, there are as many as a dozen warships outfitting in the outfitting area of Portsmouth Military Port, all of which are large surface ships with a standard displacement of more than 10,000 tons. In order to rush the work, the outfitting area is tinkling 24 hours a day. All the shipbuilders have turned on the "997 mode", working in two shifts, and even the worship has been changed to the church in the military port, and it is enough to worship God in a so-so way.

In today's England, there are too many factories that open the "997 mode" like the outfitting area in the Portsmouth Military Port, at least there are tens of thousands - don't look at the industrial strength of the United Kingdom is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, but it is also an industrial country with a complete category and a complete system. It is capable of building all kinds of large warships and all kinds of equipment and ammunition of the navy and army on its own.

If it does not have such strength, how can Britain pull the two "stupid sons" of the United States and India together to fight against the Great Tomorrow Dynasty?

However, Kaiser Wilhelm was still well aware of the reality that although the industry of the British Empire was systematic and relatively complete, compared with the industrial system of the Great Ming Dynasty, the industrial system owned by Britain was not only small in scale, but also relatively backward in technology...... This made it difficult for the British Empire to achieve final victory in a long war of attrition with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the British Empire has been working on the idea of a quick victory since before the start of this war. Specifically, he wanted to take advantage of his early preparation for war and the scale of the shipbuilding industry greater than that of the Ming Dynasty to defeat the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time and force the other side to sue for peace.

But as the war between the two sides entered its third year, it became clear to Kaiser Wilhelm that the British Empire had lost the possibility of a quick victory...... Several battles in the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean have clearly shown that the Ming Empire's war preparations were very well carried out, and that their complete and powerful industrial system was better adapted to the state of war.

In addition, the fighting spirit of the Japanese cannon fodder found by the Ming Empire and the Indian cannon fodder of the British Empire are completely the same heaven and one earth. The combat efficiency of the former is at least ten times higher than that of the latter!

Fortunately, the Ming Empire, after winning the naval battle, did not seem to be in a hurry to attack India. For more than a year after they seized the Strait of Malacca, the main thing was to break the engagement in the Indian Ocean.

Although they sank and captured hundreds of British and Indian civilian ships and escort warships, and won several naval battles caused by escorts and broken diplomatic relations, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue into India - through the peace talks in Vienna, the British also found out a little bit about the Ming Dynasty, they did not intend to occupy India, but only wanted to dismember the country unified by the British into twenty or thirty ......

This "stupid son" is about to be dismembered, and he doesn't know how to fight to the death, which really makes Kaiser Wilhelm speechless!

And the other "stupid son" of the British Empire, the United States, is much stronger than India, and it is enough to crush Mexico, another helper of the Ming Dynasty. However, by supporting the Japanese diaspora in Texas and supporting Florida's independence, the Ming Dynasty had already seized the lead in the American battlefield. Even if President Jackson launched a general mobilization and organized an army of millions, it would inevitably fall into a long-lasting situation.

Recently, U.S. forces on the North American theater of war suffered heavy losses in front of the trench defenses of the Mexican-Japanese coalition forces in the swamps of Florida and Texas. It is said that the Mexicans and Japanese were armed with a squad machine gun that could follow the infantry quickly, and had an overwhelming firepower advantage in infantry engagements! The Americans are now going crazy looking everywhere for individual firearms that can shoot continuously......

"Duke, what do you think of the current situation?" Kaiser Wilhelm suddenly turned his head and seemed to listen to the Duke of Wellington's thoughts.

"Let's make peace by war!"

Looking at Emperor William, the Duke of Wellington frowned, thinking like a bookkeeper, "The goal of the Ming Dynasty is obviously to weaken the United States, dismember India, and seize Australia...... And Pearl Harbor is not only the home port of the Pacific Fleet, but also their logistics and transshipment center to support the North American theater, if we can destroy the facilities at Pearl Harbor and the large number of merchant ships moored there, it will have a great adverse impact on the Ming operation in North America. Then we might be able to ...... Take advantage of this victory to reach some kind of compromise with the Ming Empire. ”

"Yes! But I'm going to leave the Indian Empire, a country of 200 million people, intact to Victoria......" Kaiser Wilhelm smiled and stopped in front of several huge warships that had been completed in the center of the outfitting area.

At this time, Kaiser Wilhelm's eyes suddenly lit up, and he no longer discussed the terms of peace talks with Wellington with the Ming Dynasty, but turned his attention to the huge warships.

There were a total of 6 warships that appeared in front of Kaiser Wilhelm, 2 of which were battleships and 4 of which were stitching monsters - half armored cruisers and half aircraft carriers!

The two battleships were a pair of sister ships, identical, the battleship "Wilhelm IV" and the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", on which Kaiser Wilhelm had high hopes.

George who followed Kaiser Wilhelm and the Duke of Wellington at the side of George W. William. Yilu immediately opened his mouth and introduced: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the standard displacement of the William IV class has reached 29,000 tons, and the full load displacement has reached 35,000 tons!" Its thickness of the main armor belt reached 343-203 mm, horizontal protection 76 mm; turret frontal 457 mm; Command tower frontal 406 mm!

It also had 10 14-inch 45-caliber guns, 21 5-inch high-level dual-purpose guns, 21 1-pounder anti-aircraft guns and 21 anti-aircraft machine guns. It also has 12 kerosene boilers and 2 steam turbines with a total power of 31,500 hp with twin-shaft propulsion and a top speed of 20.5 knots! ”

Kaiser Wilhelm nodded and said to George. Yilu said: "Vice Admiral Yilu, I will now hand over these two battleships and the other four aircraft-carrying armored cruisers to you and General Baga...... The British Empire looks forward to your victory! ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, our Australian Grand Fleet will definitely fulfill our duties!"