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Chapter 592 Humanitarian Rescue
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands has gone crazy. Half a year ago, it was the country with the most colonies on the west coast of Nubisia. However, in the past few months, three of its colonies have disappeared. What was most unexpected was that the three colonies were not in the hands of its most guarded enemy, the Overseas Dominion, but were occupied and divided by its allies, the pirates...
The allies they originally thought had stabbed the United Kingdom of Fox Islands in the back. The central colony and the southern Port Port Colony were annexed and occupied by the principality of Leriolo and the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance respectively. This was the most frustrating thing for Fox. The United Kingdom of the Islands is stimulated. These two colonies have been in business for many years, have many immigrants, and are rich in products. They are the most reliable logistics support base for the kingdom's powerful navy across the two continents.
It is another piece of bad news that the Mount Guards Harbor Colony is occupied by the Black Sail Pirates. However, this colony is located at the northern end of the island in a remote place. It is the mineral resource collection site of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. There are not many immigrants. Except for ore transport ships and slave traders, there are few other merchant ships coming to trade...
If the kingdom didn't want to turn this colony into a shipbuilding base capable of producing iron-clad warships, it would invest in large-scale infrastructure construction. But all this was destroyed by the Black Sail Pirates. After being plundered by the Black Sail Pirates, the colony was forgotten by the kingdom's senior officials. However, they did not expect that the Black Sail Island would quietly circle around and come back again. occupied this colony.
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, which had lost all its colonies, was as restless as an ant in a pot. Within three months, it sent three special envoys to the overseas dominions. The first envoy waved a bank draft and ordered twelve second-generation iron-clad warships, which were delivered six months later. The second envoy came to the Dominion Military Region to negotiate the training of armored battleship cadets. They paid 100,000 gold crowns to get the Dominion Military Region to agree to use Rodex Bay as a training base.
The third envoy also came from the Dominion Military Region to purchase the artillery equipped on the second-generation iron-clad warships, but unfortunately, the Dominion Military Region no longer produces the heavy-duty naval guns that fire solid projectiles in the front. Fortunately, the more than ten armed smuggler ships later captured by General Murray Ed's ocean-going transport fleet were still equipped with this device, and he ordered these naval guns to be gathered together to satisfy the third envoy's request... .
Half a year later, twelve armored warships customized by the United Kingdom of Fox Islands in the Dominion Military District gathered in Rodex Bay. The trainees were all trained, and the armored transport ships were also loaded with coal. The senior naval officers of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands were confident. He is commanding the fleet and preparing to set sail to recapture the lost colony.
However, Claude is not optimistic about what the second-generation armored fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands will do when it goes north. The main reason is that this kingdom is too partial. It is no longer an era when a powerful naval fleet can conquer the world. Relying on the navy alone , the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands cannot regain its lost colony, and even if it does, it cannot hold it...
As expected, the first target of this armored fleet of the Fox Islands United Kingdom was the Lupusel Port Colony that was annexed by the Opsaro City-State Alliance. However, the Opsaro City-State Alliance does not have a powerful navy, and it has no intention of having a decisive naval battle with the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. On the contrary, they may have a guilty conscience. They took the initiative to avoid the front of the Fox Kingdom's armored fleet, moved the residents of the towns within thirty miles of the coast to the inland, implemented a sea ban, and allowed the armored fleet to move within thirty miles of the coast. Tossing within the land...
There is nothing to worry about, the empty seaport town has nothing, unless you form a team and advance inland. But the weakest thing in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands is the army. Leaving the battleships and marching inland seems to the naval officers to be a suicide. So after two or three days of tossing along the coast of Port Sailor Colony, I felt bored and ordered to return to the team and set sail again. This time, the target was the central colony occupied by the Principality of Leriolo. There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Fox Kingdom there who should be able to get help and regain their lost territory.
However, the Principality of Leriolo had already built strong forts and other defense facilities in the seaport towns along the coast of the Central Colonies, and launched a bombardment-type artillery battle with the armored fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. At the same time, another generation of armored warships attacked, using every opportunity to harass the armored fleet. As a result, after three days and two nights, the United Kingdom's armored fleet from the Fox Islands voluntarily evacuated. If they persisted and ran out of food, ammunition and fuel, the armored fleet would be captured by the enemy...
Now the remaining supplies of the armored fleet are enough to insist on a trip to the Mount Guards Seaport Colony. As long as this colony can be recovered, all supplies and ammunition can be replenished. The naval officers of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands have never been so eager to have a seaport as a base on the west coast. I believe that the black sail pirates will never be a match for the armored fleet. Under normal circumstances, pirates will turn around and run away when they see a country's regular navy.
But the Black Sail Pirates seemed to regard the Mount Guards Harbor Colony as their own territory. They built forts at the coastal ports, constructed waterways in and out of the harbor, and showed their courage and courage to fight to the death with the Ironclad Fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. determination. So the battle started again. The morale of the sailors of the armored fleet that had been drifting at sea for a long time was low. They did not have the determination to fight the black sail pirates to the end and the dedication to die heroically on the battlefield...
The Black Sail Pirates' armored battleships were dispatched, and the cannonballs from both sides flew through the air, leaving traces of cannonballs of varying sizes and depths on the decks of their respective armored battleships. A black-sailed pirate's iron-clad warship rushed not far from a second-generation iron-clad warship of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. It was about ten to twenty meters away. Braving fierce gunfire, several black-sailed pirates Put a shark specimen made of iron shell into the water, aim it at the second-generation iron-clad battleship in front, and then light the match rope on it...
As the match rope was lit, the stuffed shark emitted black smoke from the back of its iron shell. Then it started to move in the sea water and rushed towards the second-generation iron-clad battleship not far away. The speed was not very fast. . It’s just that the naval officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands didn’t know what this thing was. They were so dazzled that they looked like a sea monster. They just watched helplessly as this stuffed shark-like thing hit the bottom of the second-generation iron-clad battleship.
A huge explosion sounded, and the water splashed more than ten meters above the battleship. The second-generation iron-clad battleship began to tilt to the other side as if it had been hit hard by a train. The damage control personnel in the bottom tank climbed up and reported that the violent explosion just now caused large cracks in the welded parts of the metal ship plates at the bottom of the battleship. Sea water surged in. The steam-powered machinery in the bottom tank had been submerged, and the battleship had entered too much water. It's no longer possible to save everyone. Let's run for our lives...
Four violent explosions destroyed three second-generation iron-clad warships of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. There was another ship that was lucky enough to have small cracks that were blocked by damage control personnel, allowing other warships to pull it away from the battlefield. The nine armored fleets of the Fox Islands United Kingdom, which had lost the battle and left the battlefield in despair, finally arrived at the colony of the Principality of Federo before they ran out of fuel, and repaired and rested at the harbor here...
The colony of the Federo Principality does not produce black stone coal, so the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands could only pay to purchase a large amount of charcoal to load on ships for fuel. It returned to the Dominion Military District with nine scarred second-generation iron-clad warships at Vibato Port. After repairing the warships, the shipbuilding base purchased a large number of marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindle configurations and returned to the Fox Islands. In the next few decades, the fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands never visited the west coast again...
In front of Claude, there was already a blueprint of a bomb that looked like a specimen of a shark that the Black Sail Pirates used to attack the Fox Kingdom's armored battleships. What Claude didn't expect was that this thing was called a moving mine...
Whoever came up with the name was less capable than me. Claude picked up a pen and changed it to torpedo. Anyway, it looked like a shark, so there was nothing wrong with calling it torpedo. It is said that this thing is the work of a rune mage under Erikson. The guy originally wanted to create a mine that could wait in the water, but he could not create a device to control the explosion time of the mine. Simply create a movable mine that can actively ram into a battleship, so this kind of shark specimen-like movable mine appeared.
This kind of mine has a very simple structure, with a long cylindrical shape that looks like a shark, and two shark fins on the outside for balance. The head is filled with gunpowder and has a percussion trigger device, and the tail is a small propeller and a spring twister. After putting it into the water, tighten the spring of the spring twist piece to push the entire mine forward in the water. Of course the distance is not long, only about twenty meters. The speed is not very fast either. It is almost as fast as walking alone on the plains. If the battleship is discovered early, it can be completely avoided...
If it cannot be avoided, the mine will explode the moment it hits the ship plate. This explosion basically occurs underwater. The water pressure generated by the explosion will be used to tear the welding gaps of the ship plate, causing the ship plate to leak to the bottom. The cabin took in water and sank. However, this thing seems to pose no threat to the third and fourth generation ironclad battleships of the Dominion Navy, because the bottom tanks of the Dominion's own ironclad battleships are designed with watertight compartments. Water leaks like this will not have any effect on the battleships... ..
This should be regarded as the most primitive torpedo. Claude instructed that this weapon should be paid attention to and funds should be invested in upgrading tests and improvements to reach practicality as soon as possible. His request is very simple. This torpedo can be launched from a battleship. The launch distance can reach one thousand meters. The speed can be more than twice that of an armored battleship. It is guaranteed to sink an armored battleship in one hit. Only in this way can it be considered to have actual combat value. . ...
Apart from the original torpedo of the Black Sails Pirates which gave Claude an unexpected surprise, Claude was not very interested in what he encountered when the United Kingdom's ironclad fleet headed north in the Fox Islands. For a kingdom that has lost all its colonies and has a weak army, it is simply a dream to rely on an armored fleet to regain lost territory. Especially since its enemy also has a fleet of armored warships, which cannot even achieve a naval blockade, let alone a seaport base for supplies and rest, how can it possibly regain the three lost colonies
Next, it’s time to get busy with the Dominion Military Region’s own affairs. The reorganized and reorganized Hicks Volunteer Corps and the Thunder Corps have been put in place, and will soon join a standing corps of the Pamigal National Republic to attack the neighboring Vasilko The two indigenous ethnic groups Skolo and Gisid who were still killing each other in the Principality's colony implemented humanitarian relief, stopped their ethnic killings, and incorporated the Vasilik Principality's colony into an orderly social security guarantee.
Speaking of which, the two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdes, have been killing each other for about four years. The two indigenous peoples originally had a total population of nearly five million, but now only less than two million are left. It is said that there are more than one million old, weak, women and children of Skolo and Gisid people who ran to the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony as refugees. It can be said that during the four-year feud between the two indigenous peoples, the population was artificially reduced by two million people.
At present, the two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdes, have built forts and fortresses in the mountainous and hilly areas they occupy to protect themselves. They have almost returned to the life of primitive people and refuse to communicate with outsiders. If there are no living supplies, they will go out in groups to rob. This is why the Principality of Vasiliko was forced to abandon this colony after two failed expeditions, because the local garrison was no match for these vicious indigenous people, and the casualties were very high. Big.
However, just after the Dominion Military District and the Pamigal people issued a so-called humanitarian rescue operation for the two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vasilko, they stopped the mutual vendetta between the two indigenous peoples and built a harmonious, peaceful and happy life together. , the Thunder Corps, the Hicks Volunteer Corps, and a Pamigal Standing Corps entered the Vasiliko Principality Colony with great fanfare, destroying all the earthen fortresses built by the two indigenous peoples found, and the two indigenous peoples were killed. The ethnic groups were isolated on the east and west sides of the colony.
In less than three months, the entire Vasiliko Principality colony was wiped out, and all the indigenous peoples had been isolated in two camps. However, the two legions of the Dominion Army continued to advance and soon entered the territory of the Opsaro City-State Alliance Colony. The colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance hurriedly sent troops to block the way, and sent special envoys to the frontline headquarters of the Dominion Military Region to discuss solving the problem of mistakenly entering the border...
It’s just that the commander-in-chief of the frontline command of the Dominion Military Region, General Beach Kerin, didn’t think this was a problem of straying into the border. He asked the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance to get out of the way immediately and cooperate with the troops of the Dominion Military Region to completely solve the problem of Skok. The issue of vendetta between the two indigenous peoples, the Luo and the Gisdes.
Because during the process of the Dominion Military District's raids on the colonies of the Principality of Vasilko, many clues were discovered indicating that it was the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance who were behind the instigation of the Skolo and the Gisid people to kill each other, which ultimately led to Vasilko's death. A humanitarian disaster occurred between the two indigenous peoples in the Principality's colony. Two million indigenous people died of violence and massacres between them.
Of course, the special envoy of the Opsaro City-State Alliance colonial authorities shouted that it was unfair and impossible. He protested that the so-called humanitarian relief in the Dominion Military Region was actually a way to invade the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony. General Beach Green laughed and said, "What can you do even if we invade?" Don’t forget that we still have evidence that you are the one behind this vendetta of indigenous peoples in the Vasilko Principality Colony. For the sake of peace, I hope you will put down your arms and surrender obediently...
This was naturally impossible. The colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance immediately mobilized local defense forces and built a defensive front, but none of this could withstand the advance of the Thunder Legion and the Hicks Volunteer Legion. The standing legions of the three Opsaro city-state alliances collapsed immediately, and many officers and soldiers even raised white flags as soon as they were attacked.
So when the Thunder Legion captured the Port of Purcell Colony, which was formerly the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands and had been surrendered to the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance, they suddenly found that they had two more security corps under their command, composed of surrendered officers and soldiers of the Opsaro City-State Alliance... . ...
Originally, the indigenous peoples of the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony were also Skolos and Gisdes, the same two indigenous peoples of the Vasiliko Principality colony. After the two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdians, violently massacred each other in the colony of the Principality of Vasiliko, the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance immediately closed the border between the two countries and imposed restrictions on their own colonies. The two indigenous peoples defended themselves to the death, which calmed down the two indigenous peoples' willingness to imitate their compatriots in neighboring colonies and kill each other.
The Dominion Military Region dismissed a deer as a horse and insisted that the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance were the main force behind the vendetta between the two indigenous peoples. It was indeed unfair to them, but who allowed the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance to block the way of the Dominion Military Region
Moreover, after the Dominion Military Region captured the colony of the Opsaro City-State Alliance, it implemented a large-scale migration plan, which was to move all the Skolo people to the colony of the former Vasiliko Principality, and then move all the Githids to Opsaro. The Salo City-State Alliance Colony allowed these two mutually hostile indigenous peoples to occupy one colony. Two high side walls were built on the border between the two colonies, three hundred meters apart. Except for a limited number of gates, anyone who appears between the two side walls will be shot by the soldiers guarding both sides.
This was how the Skolo National Republic and the Gisted Solidarity Union were established. These two indigenous nation-states have regarded each other as mortal enemies since their establishment. As for the Port Colony of Lupusel, the indigenous people who also called themselves the Lanstorbuks established the Lupusel Free Federation, and the Dominion Military Region leased the famous deep-water harbor Lupu from the Lanstorbuks. As the second military port base on the west coast, Port Sayre has a lease period of ninety-nine years...