Looking at the history of wars, it is not difficult for people to find that most of the wars that have been planned for a long time start with some form of surprise attack or sneak attack, and there are many examples of undeclared war. It is very rare to achieve the effect of a surprise attack tactically, and at the same time occupy the commanding heights of international morality and diplomatic norms, and finally succeed completely.

No doesn't mean there won't be. The history of the wisdom species is a history of constantly challenging all kinds of limits, and there are always people who want to make a big news and make themselves a shining phoenix, but most people end up becoming a model for challenging the lower limit of IQ.

Now there are two more challengers standing in the ring of history, and it is surprising that these two goods are so similar - they are both challengers to the existing order, and they both pin their national fortunes on a decisive war, and the success of the war is pinned on "a surprise start, a quick victory".

If it weren't for the institutional and racial differences between Charlemagne's kingdom and Alfheim, everyone would have regarded what happened next as a wonderful drama of twins falling in love and killing each other.

It is precisely because of the approximation of strategic thinking that the two sides collided, and then the beginning of a comprehensive tearing face was destined to start with an encounter. Regardless of what Charlemagne thought, Alfheim had already realized that less than 15 minutes after Roland left the Emperor, the Defense Force had entered the second level of alert posture, all active soldiers had canceled their vacations, the reserve mobilization system was ready to be activated at any time, and overseas bases and warships and merchant ships under sail were on alert for possible attacks at any time.

Compared with Alfheim's cautious and exuberant caution, when Charlemagne provoked the incident, except for a very small number of anxious insiders, the whole country was immersed in the intoxication brought by the "big victory" on the left and the "big victory" on the right, and no one calmly looked around him and thought about the more and more sinister future. Imresponsibility and imprudence occupy everyone's heads. There is no market for sanity and sobriety at all.

In this way, Alfheim patiently made the gallows and put the noose behind Charlemagne's neck, and Charlemagne happily kicked off the stool under his feet.

Major General Eugène de Beauharne had no idea about the historical role he was playing, and what was the significance of his upcoming operation, as did his country and his superiors. Knowing nothing of the consequences, the Count happily lifted his foot against the stool that supported the country from being hanged—

To be sure, the Count was not a fanatical militarist who dominated the military, but one of the few good men under the Crown Prince's command, and an impeccable moral exemplar: upright, courageous, and boundless loyalty to the Prince. The only fly in the ointment is the experience of the army, especially the lack of combat experience in commanding the floating fleet. However, Count Beauarne had fought several encounters on the Riga front before, and he had quite a success, which could be regarded as a good performance. Moreover, the next task is not a serious fleet showdown, just a small raid. Given the specificity of the mission and the political calculations behind it, commander loyalty is more important than competence and experience.

After all, the first shot of the showdown against the consortium is not something that anyone dares to fire and can fire.

The tentacles of the consortium are everywhere, and who knows how many people in Charlemagne's upper echelons have been entangled in the cobwebs of "interests" and taken away from their backbone, and the so-called "confidential matters" are just water in a bamboo basket for the consortium.

In the past, most of the reasons for the failure of operations against consortia were due to intelligence leaks. The other side was able to annihilate the physical evidence in advance, mobilized a team of lawyers to carry out judicial counterattacks, bribed witnesses and judges, etc., and even directly retaliated by force - the regular army of the monarchy failed to repair the financial group. was beaten by various private soldiers of the consortium. No matter how you look at this issue, it makes people laugh and cry a little.

Setbacks and inaction will eventually be a thing of the past. The true value of a soldier – the sword and shield to defend the king, the guardian of order – is about to be revealed. According to intelligence, the fleet was carrying prohibited items that were more serious than any previous unseen shipment by the consortium. Once one of them is successfully captured – preferably all of them – the consortium will be in an unprecedented state of passivity. Moreover, the crown prince also specifically instructed that the crew and cargo should be captured together, which was involved in a huge scandal. Huge enough to upend an entire consortium.

If we use this as an opportunity to mobilize public opinion and public opinion, then the upper echelons, who have been robbed of their backbone by the consortium, will have to do something about it. In the face of this wave, the monster of the consortium had to lower its head and obediently be put on a collar.

The above good intentions are based on the premise of the success of this operation, and whether the operation will be successful or not...... The Count of Beauarne felt that no sane person would think about it.

"4 small cargo ships. 1 medium-sized cargo ship. ”

The Count lowered his binoculars, the corners of his mouth twisted.

"This can't be called a war at all, it's just a one-sided hunt and ravage. ”

Looking around at the 10 third-class floating cruisers that are ready to go, and then look at the second-class floating cruiser Rala Galissoniers, which is well-equipped, and the officers and soldiers are all in high spirits, ready to beat the army's great enemy consortium into the streets.

That's right, that's how the army calls the consortium, and you can see how deep the army's resentment against the consortium is. Following the "Navy National Thief" and "Titans Bastard", what the army deer want to defeat the most is the consortium that rides on their heads all day long to shit and pee, and puts small shoes on themselves when they have nothing to do.

Number of ships 11: 5;

the number of artillery pieces 112: 0;

The difference in combat power is clear at a glance, and there is no need to consider any tactics at all, just run over. In Charlemagne's popular propaganda nowadays, it is, "How can such a cowardly and incompetent rat stop the heroic and invincible knights of the kingdom?"

"Signal them to stop the ship for inspection, dare to resist or run away—"

The Count stroked his chin, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"No warning, just sink. ”

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When the commander of the camouflage transport fleet, Lieutenant Colonel Eberhardt Linz, saw the navigation lights in the distance, he immediately ordered the battle alarm to be sounded.

Before being transferred to the Logistics Department to direct the transportation work, Lieutenant Commander Linz was the second officer of the Navy assault ship "Penguin". Belongs to the veteran professional pirates. With this experience, the Count of Beauharne and his amateur rookie pirate were alerted by the Lieutenant Colonel's appearance as soon as they appeared.

Although it has been half a month since the start of the all-out war, Charlemagne's home is still a peaceful and prosperous scene, there is no light control, and all kinds of ships are brightly lit when they sail at night. At this time, half of the floating cruisers turned off the lights to seize the upper hand, and the other half sneakily followed behind the ass closer and closer...... As long as the nerves aren't thick enough to roll out a rolling pin. No one will remain indifferent to this.

Charlemagne's floating cruisers, perhaps because they were rarely enthusiastic about patrolling or sailing practice, could sail through the course of the cargo ship, and put on a flanking posture, which could only suspect that the other side was preparing to take some kind of hostile behavior.

"All the personnel are in position, the gun hangar is opened to distribute weapons, the armed men are on standby on the lower deck, the maintenance officer confirms that the cargo is in good condition, and no shots are allowed without an order!"

After giving the order in one breath. The lieutenant colonel continued to observe the movements of the floating cruiser fleet while secretly cursing his bad luck.

The small fleet set sail from La Rochelle to Agen Toraton. After the start of the war, all kinds of raw materials and industrial products continued to enter the Agen Toratone, and when the railway transport was close to saturation, the air routes, which were originally only open to overseas, began to extend to Charlemagne proper. Convoys like Lieutenant Colonel Linz are commonplace.

Only the consortium and the defense forces themselves know under the pretext of "increasing arms production". Alfheim is rapidly reaping assets outside the zone of control. All raw materials, products, and production equipment that can be transported are packed and taken away, and those that cannot be taken away are destroyed or sealed for reasons such as failures. This small fleet is one of the units that will undertake this task. In addition to being loaded with industrial refined oil, producing molds, and refining ore, the ship was also loaded with a batch of 88 gun barrels, 100 boxes of assembled submachine guns, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition.

It was troublesome enough for the barrels and bullets to be detected, and even more troublesome was that in order to prevent possible attacks, these cargo ships built according to the standards of the Liberty Wheel were also equipped with concealed naval guns, and their firepower even exceeded that of the British Q ships in World War I, and they were close to the active raiders of the Wehrmacht. It may be that the bigwigs of the Air Force are doing a good job of watching the Navy do pirates. I want to get a ticket myself.

Taking the Ruida as an example, there are two liftable twin 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns in the bow and stern, which is not enough, but the detachable 16-mounted 107mm rocket launcher at the rear of the bow is a sweat-wiping machine, and the two gun gallery-type twin 128mm rapid-fire naval guns hidden in the amidship of the hull make people wonder whether this is an attack ship or a cargo ship.

Those 2 cannons also have a lot of origins. It can be called the epitome of the brain hole history of the engineer of the General Armament Department of the Defense Forces.

As we all know, the armored department of the Wehrmacht has a special hobby for high-powered artillery, and the engineers are staunch supporters of high-velocity chariot guns. After hitting the nail at the Supreme Boss a few times in a row, the Wehrmacht Super Chariot and Invincible Chariot Cannon tended to suspend research for a while, and the Turret Cultists submitted a report on the reserve of research resources.

The researchers and engineers burst into tears in their reports, lamenting the cessation of high-powered artillery, but of course everyone will obey the overall situation and the organization. However, just continuing to toss the 88 cannon is not a solution, at most a few years, the potential of this panacea will be squeezed dry. At that time, it will be a bit hasty to start the research of new artillery, and the cycle of developing an artillery gun from scratch will not be too short, and 5~10 years is a normal cycle. If there are any changes and technical difficulties, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems such as soaring costs, long R&D cycles, and backward equipment as soon as they are equipped. At that time, they will become national thieves and must die to thank the world, and the great cause of Bahong Yiyu will be delayed, but there is no redemption for a hundred deaths. In view of this, whether it is possible to start a few experimental research projects, whether they succeed or not, at least retain the research strength, and also reserve the technology for future related research.

As soon as Li Lin looked at this report, which seemed to be a dead edict, he knew where the turret cultists' brains were going, but he did not veto this report.

Everyone knows that conquering the world is a long-term project, God knows if the human side will one day open their brains and research their own water tanks, although the performance will not be able to catch up with the pile of meow chariots in the hands of the elves, but more wolves can bite tigers, more ants can eat elephants, and Mark I can crush the lone tiger in the mountains. The pre-development of a new artillery gun or combat vehicle is also within the reach of Yalfheim's financial and R&D capabilities.

In another world, in order to resist the torrent of Maozi steel that rushed across the border one day during the Cold War, a certain big country not only let the strong five armor bear the name of "the powerful five-type A-type atomic force special attack aircraft for the decisive battle in East Asia" at any time to fly to Siberia with the Hurricane No. 1 mushroom bomb to engage in kamikaze, and introduced 105mm artifacts from the imperialists to install them on their own five pairs of load-bearing wheels, but also took care of their own research and development of "58 times the diameter of 120 mm chariot cannon for the decisive battle of Greater East Asia" , and finally came up with a modern version of the Type 89 Ferdinand Destroyer Chariot. In Li Lin's mind, with the relatively generous economic environment of the elf camp, at least something similar can be made, so as not to lose all his money. So with a big stroke of the pen, he let go.

As it turns out, the ever-shrewd Archon also had his eyes on the occasion, and he apparently underestimated the guy with a brain bigger than his neck.

The designers' ideas can be said to be very straight. The idea was that since the 88 gun was so successful, it would be nice to amplify and enhance it.

We want longer, thicker, stronger artillery! We want longer, thicker, stronger artillery! We want longer, thicker, stronger artillery! Because it's important, we have to shout it three times!

They wanted to increase their firepower, so the caliber was enlarged from 88mm to 128mm, the body tube was 55 times the diameter, and at a firing distance of 1000 meters, when the hitting normal was 30 degrees, it could penetrate 230mm homogeneous armor steel, and Pan Datou, who killed the Mi ghost in seconds at a distance of 2500 meters. Maozi's steel No. 2 tank had no pressure; they wanted to increase the rate of fire, so the high and low direction of the gun was all driven by motors, and the gun loading was also assisted by electricity, and the theoretical rate of fire reached 20~24 rounds per minute; then they were not satisfied, and developed 150mm and 170mm ......

"You scumbags!

The archon was furious, slapped the table and dropped the pen, and they finally stopped. But several cannons had already been built, and even the chassis of the chariot codenamed "Rat" and "E-100" had been completed, so they had to use these big guys to enrich the Siegfried Line. The surplus was either sent to Alfheim to be attached to the anti-aircraft towers, or it was loaded onto a cargo ship for self-defense firepower, which is how the four guns on the Reda came from.

Although it is not a professional naval gun, and the ship-based high-level dual-purpose gun is still on the drawing board, Lieutenant Colonel Linz believes that if Charlemagneau really has any bad intentions, the Light Ruida will teach them an unforgettable lesson. Not to mention that those small transports are also equipped with an 88 gun, and in terms of firepower alone, this transport fleet is superior to the same number of human floating cruisers, and it is pure death to trouble them.

With the old bird's inherent self-confidence, contempt for humanity, and a hint of apprehension, the lieutenant colonel watched Charlemagne's floating cruiser approach little by little. (To be continued......)