MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 584 Royal armored battleship

Chapter 584 The Iron Armored Warship of the Royal Navy

Claude ended his visit to the Pamigar National Republic on August 11 and returned to the Patres military port shipbuilding base in the Overseas Dominion. The results of this visit are good. Both the Overseas Dominion Council and the Dominion Command area are very satisfied with the results achieved. Marshal Bolognik, the Speaker of the Dominion Parliament, led a group of members of parliament to Patras naval port to welcome the return of Claude, and expressed great appreciation for the economic cooperation agreement reached between the Overseas Dominion and the Pamigar National Republic ...

Claude knows that most of the investment projects in the economic cooperation agreement reached between the Overseas Dominion and the Pamigar National Republic are in the family business and private joint-stock industries of these parliamentarians. They are now investing in Pamigar. Each King Krona invested by the National Republic will bring in dozens of King Krona in the future, so they will come here happily to welcome their return.

Of course, Crowder is not short of gains in this area, no one can forget his share. On the contrary, General Bokal, who accompanied him on his visit, obtained the exclusive monopoly authorization for the aphrodisiac medicinal liquor for the bison firm. In other words, only the Buffalo firm that Claude and Bokal's father have a joint venture with has the right to sell the aphrodisiac wine made by the Pamigarians in overseas dominions. Come countless gold coins ...

Compared with the economic cooperation agreement, Claude valued the military cooperation agreement signed between the autonomous region and the Pamigar National Republic, and its effect was very obvious. It made all the colonial nations on the west coast unwilling to the Pamigar National Republic. At the same time, I also weighed whether my country has the strength to provoke the autonomous region behind the Pamigar. Claude's fanfare trip made it clear that the Dominion is the backing relationship behind the Pamigarians, but it has added a layer of scruples to those colonial nations and dare not easily provoke war.

And the Port of Flimz lease agreement has deepened the impression of those colonial nations on the West Coast that overseas dominions have formed a de facto military alliance with the Pamigar National Republic. Under such circumstances, invasion or attack of the Pamigar National Republic is tantamount to challenging the dignity of overseas dominions, and it is easy for the autonomous region to join the war with an excuse.

In the eyes of the colonial nations on the west coast, the three indigenous peoples' rioting colonies are the only value of the Pamigar National Republic, which has been established independently. The territory occupied by the Rusman Chiefs Alliance is desert and wasteland. Although the place is large, it has little development value. Not to mention that the Rusman nomadic tribes in this colony are killing each other. Just because of the geographical location between the overseas dominion and the Pamigar Republic, the colonial countries gave up the occupation of this colony. Intended.

The other is the Duchy of Vasilik. The situation in this colony is more complicated. This is a hilly mountainous area. The two indigenous peoples, the Skoreans and the Gistrians, are fighting each other in the wild. They are not as rioting Said they were waging war against each other. The Duchy of Vasilico ran out of energy in the two expeditionary wars, and has now decided to abandon this colony and is silently withdrawing the immigrants from their duchy ...

The Opsaro City-state Alliance colony, which was originally called for by the colonial authorities of the Duchy of Wasilik, entered the colony and occupied only a few coastal seaports and towns. They did not dare to advance inland and did not withdraw. Stationed there. It seems that they want to annex this colony without the courage, for fear that they will be involved in the war between the two indigenous peoples ...

So the three colonies that looked the most plentiful and delicious were the Pamigarites. Although they had established their country independently, none of the West Coast colonies recognized it. It's just that the Overseas Dominion and the Pamigar National Republic are now standing together, so that all West Coast colonial nations that think of Pamigar have to think carefully in order to catch a rabbit and anger the elephant behind it Isn't it worth it ...

Without the idea of ​​the Pamigar National Republic, the only remaining colony in the Kingdom of Resnia, which has little self-protection, is the best target. The colonies of the Kingdom of Camanlein and the Principality of Rerioro turned their sights again to this place sandwiched between their two colonies, but they also faced the risk of maritime blockade and declaration of war in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and were afraid to do so Make a decision.

Crowd, returning to Lanhu City, was again busy, and in the last few days of his visit to the Pamigar National Republic, Crowd visited the Volunteer Corps where the Autonomous Military Command was stationed. Although General Beechklin formed this volunteer corps, known as the Overseas Dominion Civil Retired Soldier, to assist the Pamigarans with two divisions of the Rock Corps and retired members of the local defense, Crowd only visited the volunteer corps. I find the situation is not optimistic ...

The divisions of the two Rock Corps were better due to the rotation of General Beechklin, but most of the local veterans in the garrison army decided to leave this volunteer army and stay in the Pamirgal National Republic. Rather than decide to return to domicile abroad. The reason is simple, staying here can marry two Pamigar women as wives, and after ending the war with the expeditionary forces of the three colonial countries, a half-year rest period allowed these volunteer legionary veterans to be found near the station. Your own goodness ...

The Pamigar National Republic is happy with such a situation, and even some retired soldiers who have contributed to the battlefield have obtained the commitment of the Pamigar military. After leaving the volunteer army, they can have one in the newly formed republic standing army. Intermediate officer position, continued military career. Claude had no solution to the situation, and everyone had his own will. Since these veterans decided to stay here, he had no way to stop them.

Only in this way, Claude found that in addition to the two rotating division generals of the Rock Corps and the retired soldiers who formed the other two divisions, except for a small part of the decision to return home, most of them would stay in the Pamigar people. Republic life. At least it is convenient to find a wife here, and you can also marry two wives. This is a welfare benefit beyond the reach of the autonomous region ...

In short, the Volunteer Corps has been abolished, and after the divisions of the two Rock Corps returned to the Overseas Dominion, the Volunteer Corps could no longer retain this establishment. Experienced military talent. This made Claude worry about whether the Thunder Corps would be used to seduce a large number of generals in the past when the Legion came to station ...

At the end of September, the Oceanic Transport Fleet of the Dominion Territory Navy again transported more than 400,000 Hicks military immigrants. This is the fourth time that the Holy Light's 6600 transport mission has been completed. However, there are more than one million military members gathered in the Kingdom of Breot to lease to Porta Kara Port in the Autonomous Territory, as well as the Thunder Corps and the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions, which are expected to take at least four more times to complete the immigration transport. task.

The total number of military immigrants from the Hicks Kingdom this time is nearly 3.8 million. After the overseas dominions have digested these Hicks military immigrants, the total population will reach about 11 million. Pass line. This will enable one-third of the overseas dominions to be developed and used, instead of leaving the cities and towns where the immigrants gather, and looking around into a deserted and desolate landscape.

On the occasion of a brief inspection and repair by all ocean shipping vessels, General Murray ran to the headquarters of the autonomous region of Lanhu City, haunting Crowd and asked the military district to allocate four generations of iron armored warships and let the second All generations of ironclad warships are retired. Claude looked at the shipbuilding report submitted by the Navy, and at first glance saw the final amount of funding required for shipbuilding, and he did not hesitate to reject General Murray's shipbuilding application.

Just kidding, where did the Dominion Command get a 20 million kronor sum for the Navy to use to build the fourth-generation iron armored warship? And the current armored battleships are more technically expensive, and Crowder remembers that the cost of the first generation of armored battleships did not exceed 50,000 kronor, and that of the second generation of armored battleships was close to ten. The cost of the third-generation iron armoured destroyer has exceeded 150,000 kronor. The iron armoured cruiser is a quotation of 220,000 kronor. Only the iron armoured transport ship is the cheapest, and one is almost 100,000 kronor.

As for the fourth-generation experimental iron armored ship that Master Byrd now makes, the cost is close to 350,000 kronor. Although large-scale construction will flatten some costs, it is not so exaggerated as few as 100,000, which can reduce the construction cost by 30,000 to 40,000 kronor. General Murray submitted the Navy's request for funding for the construction of the fourth-generation iron armored warships, which amounted to 20 million kronor. This posture is clearly intended to eliminate the third-generation iron armored ships ... .

Today, the first and second generation of iron armored battleships can beat the world's invincible. Today, if Claude approves the naval shipbuilding application, it is really mentally ill. After reprimanding General Murray for a meal, General Murray gave a piece of evidence. Claude took a look at the panic, and hurried to call General Fordlers, the director of the military intelligence department. General Sue told Claude that the Ministry of Intelligence was not aware of this situation because the military area did not deploy intelligence investigations against the Royal Navy ...

The evidence brought out by General Murray was exactly the information of King Ovilas's navy. Before the Hicks Kingdom Raiders of the Autonomous Territory, Crowd went to the kingdom's native White Deer City and handed over sixteen to the Royal Navy. An ironclad battleship, completing the arms trade between the Autonomous Territory and the Kingdom. Then the autonomous region did not pay attention to the movement of the sixteen iron armored warships of the Wang family navy. They were all eliminated and refurbished. It is possible to deal with sail wooden warships, but it is not a grade with the armored ships of the autonomous navy.

Only General Murray, as the governor of the Navy of the Dominion, has always paid attention to the information of the Royal Navy. Of course, this has to do with General Murray's heart to treat the Royal Navy as an imaginary enemy. How can the Royal Navy be equipped with 16 iron armors? Battleships, even if they are the first-generation knockouts, are more difficult to deal with than the sail fleets of other navies.

However, no one expected that the Wang family navy would conduct such a showy operation on the sixteen iron armored warships. Of the sixteen iron armored warships, three iron armored warships were pulled to the dock to open their stomachs as research samples and redrawn. The drawings are subjected to various tests. The destroyer, cruiser and transport ship of each of the three iron armoured battleships also cost the Kingdom Navy.

After a year-long study, the kingdom began to imitate these marine powers, but it brought great difficulties to the technical experts of the kingdom from zero to imitation. The progress of the work is difficult.

According to a report from a technical expert bought by the Dominion Navy, the Sterling family has specially approved a special fund of 5 million kronor for the imitation of the armored warship, but the funds are running out, and the imitation task has not made much progress. ....

In order to make fun of the commissioner sent by Her Majesty the King, the Kingdom Navy built a huge iron-clad warship, then dismantled two iron destroyers, and moved the ship's power on the iron destroyers to the empty iron. Shell ship, used to drive iron shell ship. Their coping plan was successful. The commissioner who came down to visit did not understand it. Seeing that the huge iron-hulled warship built by the kingdom could be set off at sea, he thought the imitation work was successful, and reported to the audience that the imitation work was progressing smoothly. ...

His Majesty once again allocated a huge sum of 5 million kronor to prepare to build an iron armored fleet not inferior to the overseas dominion. It was just that the Chinese Navy was sitting on the wax side, and no one expected that Her Majesty the King was so eager. There was no way but to continue to make fun of it and continue to build huge iron-hulled warships. Here, he ordered a batch of marine power from the Overseas Dominion. As the kingdom's home side is a generation of marine power that has been eliminated, the Dominion's Mechanical Power Workshop also accepted these orders.

As a result, the 5 million kronor shipbuilding funds of the Kingdom Navy were quickly exhausted. In order to deal with the royal family's inquiry, the Kingdom Navy had the idea of ​​eleven remaining armored warships, sinking with reefs, training in accidents, and encountering storms. For various reasons, five iron armored warships were scrapped and scrapped, and then the five iron armored warships were secretly sold to other coastal countries at high prices, and the funds of millions of kronor that could be further developed were collected.

General Murray was told that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands had purchased two ironclad warships at a premium of more than 400,000 kronor. In addition, three other coastal countries also purchased the remaining three iron armored warships, but they only adopted an agent approach, so the technicians of the Royal Navy who were bought by the autonomous navy did not find the names of the three coastal countries. ...

This is what happened in the second half of last year. General Murriet believes that other coastal countries have invested more in the development of iron armored warships, and their technical personnel are more professional. . He believes that in the second half of this year or next year, the four coastal countries that have won the armored warships will make great progress, and it is very likely that they will develop their own armored warships, thereby posing a threat to the Dominion ’s armored fleet.

So General Murriet represented the Navy, hoping to eliminate all second-generation iron armored warships and replace them with fourth-generation iron armored warships. Only in this way can the future enemy's iron armored fleet have a generational advantage, and they can still be crushed at sea ...

Military Director General Fordlers expressed his doubts about the information submitted by General Murray. He personally believed that it was impossible for the Royal Navy to conduct such operations. But Claude told him that the information submitted by General Murray was most likely true because last year the Speaker of the Dominion Council Bennet received several protests from the Kingdom ’s Prime Minister Marquis Blanchard, saying that the Dominion District and the The iron armored warship trade conducted by the Wang family navy has a sub-optimal scam. Several iron armored warships suffered training accidents and were sunk or scrapped ...

Speaker Bennett did not take these protests seriously. These situations can only blame the Wang family's navy for improper operation and bad luck. Later, he told Claude these jokes, and no one paid attention to Prime Minister Blanchard's protest. Anyway, the transaction has been completed. What happened to the Wang family's navy can only blame them for being unlucky.

Just looking at it now, the Wang family navy has very big suspicions, and they may indeed do so. General Fordlers was very skeptical that the Royal Navy had such a courage to deceive him, and Claude could only tell him with a bitter smile. According to the traditional integrity of the Royal Navy, he believed that His Majesty the King twice allocated 10 million kronor It is remarkable that half of the funds can be put into the work of imitation iron armored warships.

Most of the appropriations have been misappropriated or corrupted. This is the bureaucratic tradition of the Wang family navy. The current Wang family navy has no way to earn extra money. They can only focus on these appropriations. Anyway, the tightness of funds is unlucky. No one wants to spit out the benefits again. Therefore, forced to helplessly, the senior members of the Wang family's navy can only play up the idea of ​​iron armored warships, which is a very inevitable result.

Claude assigned a new task to General Fordlers, and in the shortest possible time, found out all the secrets in the Royal Navy. As for General Murray, he was still severely reprimanded by Claude. Isn't the Dominion Navy unable to defeat the new enemy without relying on the advantage of generational differences? Obviously, the enemy only got the first generation of armored warships. What can be anxious, the second generation of armored warships can completely deal with the first generation of armored warships. Don't know ...

In the end, the Navy's shipbuilding application report was still thrown into the trash can by Claude. Claude told General Murray seriously that there would be no large-scale shipbuilding plan in the autonomous region in the next few years. The four shipbuilding workshops of the Patras Naval Shipbuilding Base all leave only one military dock, and can only build four supplementary warships for the Dominion Navy in a year. If it is a fourth-generation iron armored warship, it is likely to be too expensive. The autonomous region cannot afford it, so only the third-generation iron armored warships can be built.

General Murray finally went back down ...