There are many countries on the southern continent, the north is the eldest Olisa Empire, and the four kingdoms in the middle of the west coast, but although the Miro Kingdom in the north is called a kingdom, it actually became a part of the Olisa Empire more than a hundred years ago, but it retains some autonomous rights such as administration internally, and belongs to the states within the Olisa Empire.

The three countries to the south are a loose alliance, and behind them are several large powers!

On the east coast of the South Continent, the north is close to the Coatella Kingdom of the Olisa Empire, this place is also very special, this place was still a direct territory of the Olisa Empire more than 50 years ago, after the Hengao War, the Olisa Empire and the East Coast Four-Nation Alliance and the Central Alliance broke out in war, and after the defeat, this land was forced to establish an independent state.

However, after the country became independent, it did not join the Quad Alliance, but instead became a buffer zone between the Quad Alliance and the Olisa Empire.

However, the people of this place are still Orissa, and the locals don't want independence, so they have been trying to return to the Orissa Empire all these years, and after so many years, this place has actually returned to the Orissa Empire to some extent, but it is still an independent country in name.

There is the East Coast Quadruple Alliance on the northeast coast, don't look at the small territory of the Quadruple Alliance, but the military is strong, but the north is strong against the Orissa Empire, and the south is constantly putting pressure on the Orr Kingdom.

Farther south, the kingdom of Orr allied with two poor brothers to protect themselves.

Of the five southernmost countries, two are colonies of the Krull Kingdom, and three are also allied to protect themselves.

From this, it can be seen why the Orr Kingdom is looking for weapons from the Great Heng Empire, instead of the Krull Kingdom.

Because the colonial expansion of the Krull Kingdom has already reached the doorstep of the Orr Kingdom, it is estimated that they are pondering how to swallow the gold-producing country of the Orr Kingdom.

Looking at the situation in the southern continent, Lin Ziran thinks that this place is promising!

The East Coast Quadruple Alliance and the West Coast Central Three Nations Alliance are all objects that the Great Heng Empire can woo!

They themselves are not dealing with the Olisa Empire, and it is very profitable to support them against the Olisa Empire.

It would be better if it was also possible to get a large number of orders for military equipment from them.

It's just that the difficulty is not small, the reason why the Four-Nation Alliance is strong is that it is supported by the Krull Kingdom, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to snatch orders from the Krull Kingdom.

On the contrary, the three countries in the middle of the West Coast are somewhat likely.

There are also three southernmost countries, and the possibility of fighting for their orders is not small.

On the southern continent, there is still an effort to work the arms market.

In terms of other continents, needless to say, the kingdom continent is the self-reserved land of the Krull Kingdom, the Sriel Kingdom and the Bakhnia Kingdom close to the Krull Kingdom, which have become the puppet kingdoms of the Krull Kingdom in the past twenty years, and even the first heir in line to the Krull Kingdom, and also the first in line to the heirs of the above two countries.

As soon as the puppet kings of these two countries die, then the first heir in line to the throne of the Kingdom of Krull will be able to rightfully inherit the two kingdoms, and finally completely integrate the three kingdoms into a united kingdom.

To the west, the United Kingdom of Anoror and the Kingdom of Isayatu have barely retained their independence, but their economy and industry have been fully infiltrated by the Krull Kingdom.

The command of the armies of these two kingdoms is even controlled by the Krull Kingdom in the name of the United Army of the Continent of the Kingdom.

The kingdom continent, this place is the territory of the Krull Kingdom, and if other countries want to enter it, you must first kill the world's first navy of the Krull Kingdom.

And located in the western part of the Great Heng Empire, separated from the sea, and located in the eastern part of the kingdom continent, the 'Western Continent', this place is more complicated, this broken place has a large area, and the country is like a forest.

The Walya Empire, across the sea from the Kingdom of Krull, is the second most powerful country in the world, with the second largest naval tonnage in the world.

And most of the other countries are not bad, and among the world's top ten naval powers, the western continent can account for half.

Lin Ziran felt that there was basically no need to expect to seize any weapons market here, there were too many powerful countries here, and many medium-sized countries also had their own defense industries, so weapons were not easy to sell here.

However, the southwest continent is due south of the kingdom continent, this place is simpler, although the continent is large, but most of the southern areas are deserts, except for a small number of coastal strongholds, the inland areas are no man's land, and the main countries of the southwest continent are concentrated in the eastern region of the continent and the northern region, that is, the coast of the endless sea.

With the hard work here, it is estimated that it will also be able to harvest arms orders from several countries.

Lin Ziran attaches great importance to the arms export trade, after all, this thing is the only industrial product in the Daheng Empire that can be exported on a large scale to earn foreign exchange, and the profits are extremely high.

Even in order to reach a new procurement agreement with the Orr Kingdom, Lin Ziran personally came forward to meet with the delegation of the Orr Kingdom, and hosted a banquet for the first heir of the Orr Kingdom, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, who led the delegation of the Orr Kingdom.

During the banquet, Lin Ziran turned into a salesman and sold to the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, who was more than ten years older than himself.

The enthusiasm even embarrassed Holybart a little.

What, everyone is a decent person, you are the high-ranking Emperor Daheng, what about me, I am also the crown prince, the royal heir with the most gold in the world, people of our status, sitting down to talk about some big things, talk about the global situation or something.

But now talking about the details of the battleship, the details of the army artillery are a bit out of words!

In the end, unable to withstand Lin Ziran's enthusiasm, Hollibat couldn't hold back at the banquet for a while, and placed another order for two cruisers!

This made Lin Ziran even happier: "Your country's choice is very wise, we have rich experience and strength in building cruisers!" ”

To a certain extent, the order of the local tyrant Orr Kingdom has allowed the shipyards of the Daheng Empire and the related defense industry to develop more rapidly.

Although there are a lot of orders from the Daheng Imperial Navy, the profits from internal orders are limited, which is far less profitable than foreign trade orders.

Lin Ziran came forward in person, plus the two sides had almost talked about it before, and the design plan that came out made the Orr Kingdom more satisfied, so the new round of orders between the two sides was also determined, and a formal contract was signed.

According to the contract, the Orr Kingdom will order two 7,500-ton battleships, an additional coast-class shore defense ironclad, two dome-armored cruisers, two unprotected reconnaissance cruisers, eight shallow-water heavy gunboats of only a few hundred tons, and several offshore patrol ships.

At the same time, a follow-up order of intent was signed, two improved battleships.

This is only an order from the Navy, and the Army has placed an additional order of 150,000 Roan III rifles, some rear-loading army guns, and a large number of 13 mm all-metal bullets and shells of various calibers.

The Orr Kingdom's order will once again fill the Empire's defense industry.

Taking advantage of this east wind, the army and navy have also accelerated the replacement of new equipment.

According to the current expected production of the follow-up Luoan IV rifles, it should be able to equip 250,000 Luoan IV rifles this year, 300,000 next year, and 300,000 the year after.

Through three years of accumulation, the preliminary refitting of the standard rifles of the 800,000 reorganized standing army has been completed.

Subsequent production will focus on normal replacement, stockpiling and equipping reserve forces, and the design and development of new rifles will be initiated.

In terms of artillery, it is also very simple, that is, it is replaced with 75 mm 27 times artillery and 1005 mm howitzers, while continuing to be equipped with some heavy caliber artillery.

The replacement of the above-mentioned equipment will proceed steadily according to the plan.

Compared with the simple change of equipment of the army, the navy is much more complicated.

Although the second phase of the naval development plan has been determined to expand the scale, in fact, there have always been disagreements within the navy on how to design and use warships.

Even the Yonglin-class battleships are like this, although the design has been completed and two have begun to be built, but there are still differences in the northern part of the Navy about the Yonglin-class battleships, some generals think that the Yonglin-class battleships are very suitable for the Daheng Navy, while some think they are not suitable.

This disagreement is multifaceted, including naval guns, protection, power and other aspects, and reflects the uncertainty within the navy about future naval warfare.

The strategic development of the navy is clear, that is, to build a strong top navy, and the long-term goal is to surpass the Krull Kingdom to become the world's first navy.

Although the strategic plan is clear, there are huge differences within the navy about how to develop future warships and how future naval battles will be conducted.

And this kind of disagreement does not only exist within the Daheng Navy, but also in the navies of other countries.

Even this situation is even more serious in the Krull Kingdom Navy, the world's largest navy, otherwise the warships of the Krull Kingdom Navy would not have turret warships, central gun gallery warships, and even artillery battleships next to the ship.

The main thing here is to design the idea of future naval warfare!

Due to the very rapid development of technology in recent decades, especially in the last two decades, various technologies have been updated extremely quickly, and the emergence of endless technologies has directly led to the chaos in the development of the navies of various countries.

In the past ten or twenty years, although some naval battles have broken out on the Blue Star, such as the civil war of the Great Heng Empire, there have been several medium-sized naval battles, but these navies still have not been able to point out the direction of development for the navies of the Blue Star countries.

For example, a few years ago, there was a medium-sized naval battle between the Imperial Navy of Kkel and the Imperial Navy of Iberan, and the Imperial Navy of Kairel at that time adopted the goose-style tactics of bow-to-bow against the enemy and won a great victory, and even sank a capital ship of the Iberian Empire with a ramming angle in the battle.

However, almost at the same time, in a naval conflict with the Gafia Empire on the southwest continent, the Krull Kingdom used powerful broadside firepower to take out a detachment of the Gafia Empire.

In the civil war of the Daheng Empire, several sea battles had the tactics of facing the enemy on the bow of the ship, and the column tactics of facing the enemy on the side of the ship.

In these years of naval battles, there are all kinds of them, even the battleships with guns next to the ship can find shining points, and some seemingly advanced turret battleships have also been hanged and beaten.

There are all kinds of actual combat examples, which directly leads to the confusion of the speculation of the navies of contemporary countries about future naval warfare!

It is difficult for them to completely determine what the future naval warfare will look like, what tactics should be used, and what kind of warships should be developed.

This directly led to confusion in the construction of warships.

The same warships that led to this year have appeared.

As the first power, the navy of the Krull Kingdom is facing this situation, there are many ways to retreat, you said that the future naval battle mode will be the bow of the ship against the enemy, okay, they will make a bunch of central amidships, and make two twin main turrets on the left and right sides of the amidships, so that the four large-caliber main guns of the battleship can shoot directly forward at the same time.

You said that in the future, naval battles will be on the side against the enemy, so they have made a bunch of warships that give full play to the layout of the side firepower, including many battleships with the layout of the main turrets in the front and rear of the central axis.

The battleship Andrey is a typical example!

In short, people have a big business, different paths, and different technical routes can be tried simultaneously, and when the Krull Kingdom walks on two legs at the same time, it actually keeps an eye on it, that is, to continue to pursue the suppression strategy.

No matter what the future naval battle will become, even their ship-building plans are not based on their own guesses, but based on the ship-building plans of other countries.

This is very popular in the navy of the Krull Kingdom: the synchronization plan!

This synchronization plan is that after a certain country develops a certain kind of threatening warship, the Krull Kingdom should also develop the same type of warship, and more and better.

In other words, no matter how it changes in the future, their Krull Kingdom Navy can deal with it.

But it is more difficult for other countries, after all, not every country's navy can be the same as the navy of the Krull Kingdom, which can target multiple countries and take multiple routes at the same time.

Although the Great Heng Empire has huge potential and ambitions, it has just been unified after all, and the funds are limited, so it is impossible to say that it can get a bunch of warship types for all routes.

They must find a path that suits them most best and at the same time is most in line with the direction of the development of future naval warfare, and formulate a strategy for the development of the navy in a targeted manner, including building ships, formulating tactics, and so on.

Among them, the most controversial question is, of course, the bow against the enemy or the side of the ship.

The navies of all countries in the Blue Star have been arguing about this for more than ten years, and now they have not come to an accurate conclusion, and even in several naval battles in the past few years, they have not been able to completely highlight the obvious advantages and disadvantages of these two arguments.

Each has its own advantages and each has its own disadvantages.

These are the characteristics of these two arguments in contemporary times.

It was not only the battle between the bow or the side against the enemy, but also the battle for the secondary guns.

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