Big ships, huge guns, angry sea battles - this is the classic naval battle model admired by countless people who aspire to the navy, and in some people's hearts, this has been elevated to a kind of belief beyond hobby and admiration.

This is true of humans, of orcs, and of elves.

In the current golden age of the seas, every nation's navy is figuring out how to cram more, thicker, and longer pipes into its giant ships in order to destroy their opponents more efficiently and gorgeously. At this point, the warship designers of various countries can be described as heroes who see the same thing, the only difference is that human and orc designers are limited by technical limitations and thinking limitations, and can only find ways to open more windows on the wooden hull. The Elven designers benefited from advanced technology and industrial systems that allowed them to bring the sacred turrets to the Iron Battleship.

In a world where the BB Party is almost dominant, and all the designers worship the "truth" of "hundreds of millions of turrets, hundreds of millions of lights", the defense navy will make a bunch of sail attack ships, which is really a very surreal thing.

Sea Hawks, Comets, Atlantis, Penguins, Cormorants – the first five camouflaged assault ships to be built under the name "Auxiliary Cruisers", plus numerous auxiliary vessels, are all the surface ships of the Defence Navy. If it weren't for the fact that there were submarines and underwater aircraft carriers, it would have really confirmed the title of "Fishery Administration" used when the Navy was first established.

Defend the country, defend the Ministry of Agriculture, open up the territory and expand the fishery political bureau - the ancients did not deceive me.

In fact, the designers of the Naval Shipbuilding Committee began to plan various large warships for a long time, but first, the sea was not the strategic center of gravity in Alfheim, and secondly, there were not so many ready-made qualified sailors. Even if a lot of BB, CV, CA are built, there is a shortage of qualified sailors who can handle these ships. Plans to build large surface ships were shelved, and for a long time, the expansion of the Defence Navy's navy was limited to creating underwater wolf packs and raising "wolf cubs".

With the consuls lifting the ban on the design and manufacture of large surface ships, the navy finally waited for the spring of its dreams, although the first batch of warships was not the super battleships equipped with four twin 800mm guns they had been dreaming of, but a group of attack ships used to attack sea transportation lines, which was better than nothing for the navy. Moreover, this is also in line with the current naval strategy.

The main task of the Defence Force Navy is twofold: to cooperate with overseas garrisons to protect colonies that produce important strategic goods, and on this basis, to strike as much as possible on the enemy's sea transport lines. As for the task of the traditional navy in the struggle for sea supremacy. It was put to the bottom of the list. After all, relying on their powerful air power, the elves can easily wipe out or paralyze any country's navy in the harbor.

In addition, the design drawings of surface ships have not yet been approved, in accordance with the consistent tradition of the defense forces that "equipment can be waited, but equipment cannot be allowed to wait". The rookie sailors were caught up on the steel sail assault ship. While adapting to life at sea. While training on a merchant ship that sails alone, you will accumulate the skills and experience necessary for "Cruiser Warfare" (Kreuzer.krieg), and prepare for the future of a broken engagement consisting of submarines, spaceships, and surface ships.

Like the sister ships that hunt the oceans for prey. The Sea Eagle is also a newly launched three-masted fast sailing ship, with a length of 83.5 meters and a draft of 5.5 meters. But compared with her companions, the proportion of recruits on the ship is high, as high as 79%, it is completely a military academy training ship, if she does not have a smart, brave, and imaginative captain, I am afraid that the navy will be reluctant to let this ship of baby bumps go to sea to be a pirate.

Major Felix Luknall came from a military family, and his father was a cavalryman who worked hard to become a colonel, and now he is ambitiously aiming to add "Von" to his rank and surname. Naturally, relying on his father's accumulated connections in the army, serving in the cavalry unit will be Felix's life trajectory. But I don't know if he thinks that cavalry will be useless in future wars, or if he is rebellious by nature, or if he is destined to be a man who wants to become the king of the pirates. In short, Felix did not have a son to inherit his father's business, and he finally chose the sea. After learning of his son's choice, the old Luckner was almost so angry that he snorted his horns, but the matter had come to this point, and the old man had to muttered sadly that "the family is unfortunate".

Soon, Luknall proved himself with his diligence and hard work, and when the naval lieutenant in a straight military uniform, wearing a gold tassel and epaulettes on his shoulders, a sword at his waist, and a brimmed hat on his head, appeared at home, the elder Luknar was also moved by his son's perseverance, and warmly welcomed his son with open arms.

However, relying on diligence alone, even if you can hang the epaulettes of a major, it is still a little difficult to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, let alone go to sea with a shipload of the hearts and minds of the naval tycoons to rob their homes. During his time on the merchant ships of the Consortium, the Major had accumulated a wealth of experience in sailing and sailing, was fluent in Lapland, familiar with the habits of sailors and the characteristics of the ships of various countries, and was impressed by his courage, sense of responsibility, ability to adapt to changes and rich imagination.

There is no doubt that he is the right person for this task.

The Major taught all the crew members to speak Lapland, teaching them to be calm and brave in battle. Since the raider had to disguise itself as a Lapland sail freighter, a Lapland navigation clock, barometer, thermometer and other metal paraphernalia were installed on board to make it more authentic, and a logbook was stolen from a real Lapland freighter through Guò Stasi. The crew wore wooden boots, woolen sweaters, blue sailors' hats, and Lapland tobacco in their pockets – Skrie brand chewing tobacco and other identification. For example, a few love letters and photos of the pendant, each crew member has a "Lapland fiancée who misses and writes frequently". In the end, a crew member was also selected, put on a transformation bracelet, dressed in women's clothing, and acted as the captain's wife "Josephine......

This arrangement is ingenious, as Albion and Captain Charlemagne are naturally polite to women, and tend to be distracted in order to appear gentlemanly and manly. And the well-known bad habit of the Lapland sailors - chewing tobacco endlessly, casually spitting the dregs of chewing onto the deck. It will make decent gentlemen have the idea of leaving the ship as much as possible.

In order to make the camouflage more realistic, Major Luknall also came up with a brilliant idea, he gathered the carpenters and boatswain on the ship, and asked them to smash all the portholes, windows, everything with father and son, and then soak everything with seawater. After the furniture was damaged, the railings were knocked out, and seawater was poured on the carpets, bunks, cabinets and ship certificates, they were restored in accordance with the regular work at sea. The repaired Sea Eagle is no different from a cargo ship that has just weathered a storm at sea, soaked and covered in water and ink. Relying on this layer of successful camouflage, the Sea Eagle successfully crossed the sea. Sail to the Great Passage with a shipload of elves with One Piece dreams in mind.

However, at this moment, Lucknar and his crew were not in a hurry to search for the target. In the past few days, the elusive Sea Eagle has swallowed the cargo ships "Gladys Royal", "Rundy Island", and "Charles Gounod" one after another, and has consumed a lot of supplies in successive battles, and is now in need of supplies. The sea area where they are located is exactly where the junction has been agreed.

"Periscope! 3,000 yards on the port side!"

The lookout shouted loudly. The captain and officers picked up their binoculars and looked out into the sea on the port side. I saw the undulating waves in the distance. A jet-black iron pipe protrudes from the water, casting a snow-white trail on the turquoise sea, and foam waves glistening in the sun.

The signal light at the top of the periscope flickered on and off. The operator quickly converted the Morse code into text.

"Captain, they asked us to have a code. ”

"Here we go again......"

Lucknar smiled helplessly and nodded, and the top of the mast immediately emitted a Morse code with a light signal.

(Mushrooms, where are you, what price?)

(What do you want, what do you want, you want to breastfeed, you want to be a mother, you want to be a person in your mother's family, and your uncle is here.) ）

(The Heavenly King covers the tiger.) ）

(Pagoda Town River Demon.) ）

(Pheasant stuffy drilling, how can you go to Tianwang Mountain!)

(There is rice on the ground, hey, there is a root!)

......

After an incision about whether it was a bandit or a pirate, a huge submarine surfaced.

The Cow-type supply submarine, a logistics submarine tailored for U-boat group operations, can be loaded with 1,674 shells, 18 torpedoes, as well as a large number of mail, canned food, and medicines, and there is a special cold storage in the boat for storing fresh vegetables, fruits and meat. These are indispensable for raid ships that have been adrift overseas for a long time.

This time, however, there were some surprises that came with Luknar.

"Charlemagne and Castile go to war?"

This is not surprising, relations between the two countries have not been good, especially after the Seven-Day War, and Charlemagne is full of madmen who are counting on the war to prosper, and it is only a matter of time before it starts. The question is, how did it come to be?

"Minister Charlemagne rushed into the Escoria Palace with a group of soldiers and gave Queen Anna 'heaven' to death. ”

Captain Lothar Arnault La Perle hung his unlit pipe and spoke in a relaxed tone as if he were telling a joke.

A minister led a team to storm the palace of another king to kill people and set fire to them - although it was not very funny, it was indeed a joke.

And then—

"Look, it's time for us to play soon. ”

Peller smiled wistfully, and Luckner nodded knowingly.

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Armed conflict broke out again between Titans and Castile, and within three days all that was heard by the Castilian bureaucracy and poor means of communication was Charlemagne's official account of the incident.

Late at night on the 7th of July, a battalion of the Titans garrison stationed in the border port city of Henday conducted a night exercise under the command of Major Corbyn. By about 10 p.m., when the exercises were over and the troops were being assembled, the Castilian army "reportedly" fired bullets from the direction of Fontaravia, across the river, first a few and then a dozen. Major Corbyn then ordered the exercise to be halted, and the personnel were counted, and it was found that one soldier was missing. For this reason, while searching, report to the garrison army headquarters. Lieutenant Colonel Ríos, who was in the Henday barracks at the time, immediately reported the matter to the commander of the garrison, Brigadier General François, and at the same time personally went to the border with an infantry battalion to reinforce and made a request to enter the cities of Fontravia and Irun to conduct searches.

But the soldier, who was initially said to be "missing", had returned safely by this time, and the Duke of Alva, the supreme commander of the Castilian army stationed at the border, made a public statement. It was said that there were no Castilian troops operating on the border that day, and if there were troops, they must be bandits. Brigadier General François then ordered to return fire if the design was encountered again, and at about 4 a.m., another shooting incident occurred.

The above is a report on the incident, written by Major General Lambert, then assistant military attache of Charlemagne's embassy in Fontavia, and privately, after investigating the matter, the major general concluded that there was indeed no shooting on the Castilian side. But he also insisted that the Titans garrison had indeed been shot. Major General Lambert believes that the biggest suspects are probably the hardliners who want to get the war for the annexation of Castile to begin early. For example, a hooligan who is instructed by a member of the armed forces, or a third-party force who is at the behest of a foreign country. However, Titans himself could not escape the suspicion, and as early as the Battle of Riga, the prophecy of "the Seven-Day War would be repeated in the month of Lüdes" was privately circulated among well-informed people in Lüdes's political circles. Both the Prime Minister and the War Office, alarmed by the rumors, secretly sent their own investigators. Before the investigators arrived. Incidents have erupted. And it became out of control.

On the 8th of the month, the Titans garrison opened fire without authorization;

On the 9th of the month, the two sides reached a provisional agreement. Both armies temporarily retreated to their places of origin and issued armistice orders. Unexpectedly, another fire incident occurred in the afternoon of the same day.

On the 10th of July, Lüders proposed a solution: 1. The Castilian border garrison apologized to Titans and punished the "perpetrators"; 2. The Castilian army withdrew from Fontavia and Iren; 3. In view of the fact that it was the anti-Charleman elements in the Castilian army who first shot and caused the incident, anti-Charlemagne ideas and ideas should be banned in the future;

Unable to reach an agreement, Titans shelled Font Travia and Iren that night......

"Isn't that a beautiful job? They don't even have to interfere with us, and they themselves will rush over according to the set track, more faithful than reflex-trained dogs. ”

Crossing his hands, Li Lin said leisurely.

What he wanted to express was only the literal meaning, but that smile gave people a mocking image, and I don't know if he was aware of it, he continued to supplement it with a tone that was no different from sarcasm.

"It's not in vain that we invested so much in them. ”

There are many elements for the rise of Titans, the most important of which is the support of the consortium, and it is with the support of a large number of gold coins, guns, instructors, logistics, and even invisible military support, this "security force", which is essentially the private army of the second prince, can be formed in a short period of time and quickly become an important force in Charlemagne's political arena.

Of course, this is also a very cost-effective investment. The orders sent by various countries to start an arms race alone have made the consortium a lot of money, not to mention other supporting facilities, trade interests, and so on. Most importantly, they opened the door to the abyss of disaster for Charlemagne.

"Excellent staff. ”

Freya sneered.

"They should be awarded the medal 'Work Liberates'. ”

There is no doubt that the consortium has been sparing no effort to promote Charlemagne's development towards militarism, supporting Titans, constantly provoking small-scale wars, creating the illusion that Charlemagne is "invincible", and using various channels to preach that "war can make the country strong and the people rich", "follow the military flag and rush abroad to reap benefits" and other "patriotic ideas", and then promote the people to turn from antipathy to war in the past to fanatical support.

The consortium is certainly not spending so much effort in Charlemagne's interests, but in order to subvert the country. Just when Charlemagne's whole country was immersed in myths such as "from one victory to another" and "the king's army was invincible", the country had made enemies on all sides, and it was not far from the end of "from victory to destruction".

Among them, Titans has a lot of credit, and it is enough to give them medals.

"It's been a lot faster than expected. ”

Tyr shook his head, a hint of disbelief on his face.

"I thought it would be at least a few years before they became what they are now. ”

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has gone through a series of turmoil in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, World War I, the Taisho Spring, and the early Showa period, before finally forming the fascist system of the Emperor-Military Department. The front-line soldiers unscrupulously "went violent" and "walked alone", igniting the flames of war everywhere until they ate the atomic bomb. Another model of militarism, Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich. It took nearly 20 years before and after. With a country with a deep militaristic heritage, such as Footpot Chicken and Hansmeow, coupled with the Great Depression and the general dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom with the status quo, it will take at least ten years to complete the transformation into a fascist state. Charlemagne has almost grown to that level in just one year, even if there is a consortium among them, this speed is a little too fast.

There are actually two reasons for such rapid progress. The first is that there are no external constraints, the Versailles-Washington system that restrains the German-Japanese rampage does not exist, there is no effective international system to restrain military powers, and there is no written international law and international moral code of conduct. It is naturally much faster to take the road of militaristic expansion. Second, Charlemagne has almost no civilian clique or left-wing forces in his country that can restrain the power of the military. Although Charlemagne was brought into modernization by the consortium. However, in addition to the voice of the chaebol, the national government is basically the original system of the ruling of the elite, and there is no complete civil service examination system and talent selection system like Yarfheim, and the civil bureaucracy is naturally unable to talk about it. Those magnates are more or less inextricably linked to the army and the princes behind it. Even Archbishop Leh, who has been devising the country's development strategy with great effort. He is also planning to cultivate a navy to balance the army and Titans. Using the military to balance the soldiers, in the end, does it not become a martial artist?

There are no internal and external constraints, and the cultural quality of the common people is not high. After hearing the phrase "war can make you rich," and after tasting some sweetness, and seeing the example of soldiers who used to be civilians in the past to come back with large bags of real money and silver, and thus change their fate, and become rich, who else would oppose the war without knowing each other? In less than one year, Charlemagne was naturally unanimous in the whole country.

"The Prime Minister is indeed a capable minister, but this idea of using soldiers to suppress soldiers is really ......"

Brunhill spread his hands, and the attendees chuckled.

"That's fine, with Charlemagne as a living specimen, the right wing of the country clamoring for a military junta will be much quieter. However, that's not what we're going to talk about now. ”

The laughter stopped abruptly, and the elven soldiers all sat upright.

"There's no point in talking about what has already happened. Now more attention needs to be paid to the construction of our army itself, Lieutenant General Brunhill. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency. ”

With a flick of his jaw, Brunhill walked over to the hanging battle map and placed the whip on the west side of Alsace and Lorraineta.

"The construction of the 'Siegfried Line' is 87 percent complete, positions for fortress guns, large anti-aircraft rockets have been prepared, railways for the deployment of heavy weapons have been laid, and ammunition depots are stockpiled with a large amount of special ammunition. ”

The core idea of the Yellow Plan of the Defense Forces can be summed up in one sentence: attack from the south to the north, and outflank with lightning.

The Siegfried Line was used to attract and contain Charlemagne's army, and the armored forces broke through and outflanked the Ardennes Forest, thus starting a war of annihilation.

Whether this plan can be achieved smoothly or not depends on two core points.

First, the speed of breakthrough of armored forces.

Second, how much the Siegfried Line was able to attract and contain Charlemagne's army.

Mistakes in any of the above could allow Charlemagne's army to escape the trap, regroup and inflict heavy losses on the Defence, prolong the war and bring down Alfheim with a war of attrition.

In this war with the fortunes of the country at stake, the elves could not afford any defeat, Alfheim was not the Second German Reich, and without the Battle of the Marne, there would still be the victory of Tannenberg, the meat grinder of Verdun, and the Battle of Jutland...... Once the Yellow Plan fails, the elves have no follow-up.

Therefore, they have spared no effort in the construction of the army, in addition to vigorously building up the armored forces, the investment in the Siegfried line is also very happy.

Barbed wire, mines, trenches and the like needless to say, all kinds of heavy artillery are indispensable, in addition to countless mortars, rocket artillery, 88mm and 128mm high-level dual-purpose guns, there is no lack of 305mm tractor chassis self-propelled guns, 420mm siege guns and other big guys, more exaggerated is that a large number of circular railway positions have been built in the defense line, specially for the use of 280mm train guns, once into the war, the Siegfried line can deploy at least 18 of these terrifying train guns.

This alone is not enough, in order to further enhance the air defense capability of the defense line, the newly developed "Rhine's Daughter" air defense rocket has also been moved out, and the launch positions have been set up at the key points where the enemy's air warships may pass, and after entering wartime, these radio-guided rockets can quickly take position and give the invading enemy a head-on attack.

As the last killer feature, all heavy artillery and rockets are equipped with "special ammunition" such as poison gas bombs and bacteriological bombs. If the battle doesn't go well, the defenders will fire all of these shells in a matter of minutes, creating a large no-man's land and buying time to take the next step in the battle. As for how many people might die as a result, that's not something the elves are considering......

"This is a last resort, and we will not activate it until we have to. ”

Brunhill's eyebrows jumped, and some of the generals also gave unnatural looks.

The reason for this decision was not because of morality and humanitarianism, but because after seeing the test of special ammunition and the actual production of a large number of human bodies, the soldiers who were disgusted by Yan zhòng failed to exercise the wolf-hearted dog lungs like the Japanese two-legged beasts. In addition, the elves who may endanger themselves with biological and chemical weapons that do not have a high fertility rate are still very taboo, and they will not use these weapons of mass destruction unless they have to.

With such a luxurious configuration, the Siegfried Line can be described as the most impregnable fortress in the world. However, I don't know if it was the elves' lack of security or the difficulty of building a line of defense, in order to ensure that this line of defense, which consumes a lot of time and resources, is more secure, they have further strengthened the line of defense, which directly leads to a significant delay in the progress of the construction period.

"The remaining shortfall is mainly the destroyer tank units that act as a mobile defense force, and since the production of tanks occupies most of the production capacity, the production of destroyer tanks is quite underground. In addition, the finalization of the heavy destroyer tank 'Tiger Hunter' has not yet been completed-"

"Suspend the research and development of 'Hunting Tiger' and allocate some production lines to 'Cheetah'. ”

"But this may affect the production of the main tank, and now the tank factory has entered a quasi-wartime system, and all the workers are working in three shifts, putting into production at full capacity. Haphazard changes to production operations can impact resource allocation and make it impossible for skilled workers to centralize their use. ”

"Then reduce the production of heavy tanks. ”

Li Lin lightly buttoned the table, and said leisurely:

"Depending on the situation, several heavily armored battalions and large MAs can be deployed to strengthen the mobile defenses on the defensive line, and if this is not enough, then the trial machines such as 'Mouse' and 'E-100' can also be strengthened. ”

"The subordinate understood. ”

"Let them hurry, by the beginning of next year at the latest, I hope that our army has completed all the combat readiness. ”

This sentence was undoubtedly addressed to all the generals and colonels present, and the sound of shoes coming together and the roar of "Yes, sir!" suddenly rang out in the conference room.

Li Lin returned the salute while saying things such as "sincere unity" and "encouragement from all the gentlemen", but his mind had already flown to Lüders.

The preparation here cannot be relaxed, and Lüders's side also needs some fierce material to further stimulate.

As for what should be called this fierce material called a "secret service agency", Li Lin is still deliberating.

Is it better to call it the East Factory? or is it better to call it the East Factory?

Anyway, the second prince already has a lot of titles, and he doesn't care about adding another title of "Dongchang Admiral Eunuch" and "Nine Thousand Years Old", right...... (To be continued......)