New Duner is covered in snow. wWW. QuANbEn-XiAoShUo. coM
The wind and snow coming from the Odin Icefield gently killed all the life in this port city. Thick ice blocks extend all the way from the Odin Icefield, and the nearest ice surface is less than twenty miles away from the port. Tall icebergs are blowing with the wind and waves on the waterway outside the port, posing a fatal threat to the waterway.
There are no civilian ships entering or exiting the port. Even the warships on daily patrols, only the super-heavy warships covered in iron armor or protected by magic circles, have the courage to patrol along the coastline at this time of year.
In the military port of New Dunerker Port, a super-heavy warship with a body length of nearly 400 meters and three towers built on the deck and covered with one-foot-thick alloy armor floats lightly on the water. The newly promoted Vice Admiral Neville was standing on the top of the tallest tower in the middle, sullenly looking at the ice on the northern sea getting closer and closer.
It is an unprecedentedly cold winter. This winter, the ice surface seems to be heading directly towards the port of New Dunker.
This is not good news for New Dunerki. The rough and brutal orcs on the Odin Icefield, as well as the savage and ferocious aliens, can successfully walk on the ice directly to Dunerki. port.
During normal cross-sea operations, the northern garrison fleet stationed in New Dunerker can easily destroy the foreign troop carriers on the sea. Not many tribes can land ashore. The vast sea is the boundary between life and death.
But if the foreigners come on the ice, the Northern Guards Fleet will be blinded.
"Gather all the remaining soldiers to prepare for war!" Neville was a little annoyed and lit up a top-quality cigar sent by the upstart from Burrelli, took a heavy puff of the fragrant smoke, and then impatiently put the He spat out a puff of smoke worth dozens of gold coins.
Turning his head to look at the Vice Admiral's epaulettes on his shoulders, Neville himself was a little confused.
The upstart who gained the appreciation of the Holy Light I in Beleli and suddenly rose to great heights in just a few months, that lucky guy named Ente Marte, he was an Army Lieutenant General twenty days ago. , concurrently serving as the chief prosecutor of the Imperial Ministry. He actually directly intervened in the internal affairs of the Imperial Navy Department, after reviewing the files of all mid-level and senior officers in the Navy Department. Luck suddenly struck Neville.
Neville, who was "young and promising, loyal and courageous, and truly a pillar of the Empire's maritime borders", was promoted to Vice Admiral by the Holy Light I and became the supreme commander of the Empire's North Sea Guard Fleet. The original commander, Your Excellency, was transferred to the logistics department of the Imperial Army and served as an idle official with good fortune but no actual military power.
Along with Neville's promotion order came a batch of heavy warships purchased by the Gallic Empire from the Vias Commercial Federation and the Longshan Family's shipyard. There are as many as twenty heavy-duty warships in this batch, and the iron-clad warship named 'Light of the Empire' at Neville's feet is the largest and most powerful among them.
Suddenly had to move up. Neville should naturally be happy. But the harsh situation this winter put Neville under great psychological pressure. He didn't know whether those alien races would take advantage of the opportunity of the frozen sea to launch an attack, and he had been dealing with those alien races in New Dunerker for nearly ten years. He knew that these alien races would not give up any attack once they had the opportunity. Good opportunity.
It doesn't matter if it's just a frozen sea. If the North Sea Guards Fleet is still fully staffed, Neville is confident in protecting the safety of New Dunerker. But the fatal thing is that the inexplicable Prince Arthur of the North Sea actually forcibly removed more than 90% of the elite sailors of the North Sea Guard Fleet!
Now all the senior officials of the imperial side know it. Arthur led his staggeringly large legion deep into the highlands and entered the dangerous tunnel that led directly to the Fourth Abyss! When Neville got the news, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood - Arthur was such an idiot. This third-rate bastard, this upstart aristocrat, this stupid prince, he led the elite of the North Sea Guard Fleet into the abyss to fight! …,
In the abyss world, is there any need for sailors
The combat effectiveness of sailors who leave the battleship is no different than that of a pig. Moreover, they are still domesticated pigs. Their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a slightly larger wild boar. They are completely easy to kill on the battlefield.
However, that was a military order from Arthur, and the Imperial Ministry did not show support for the North Sea Guard Fleet at that time. The military bosses only acquiesced in Arthur's weakening of the fleet's strength and allowed him to take away nearly 90,000 elite sailors.
"It's so perfect!" Neville blew out a few puffs of smoke: "It couldn't be better! Now we have less than ten thousand people left, and they can't even move all the battleships! Damn, that Stupid guy!"
Neville has been operating in New Dunark Port over the years, and he has also developed a group of close subordinates. And these subordinates are all extremely elite officers. Before Neville had smoked out half of his cigar, his adjutant had already walked up quickly and reported the total number of soldiers left behind in the New Dunark military port.
There are only 5,400 qualified sailors left, and only 3,857 elite sailors. Are there logistics soldiers responsible for port management and maintenance? All logistics soldiers have been transferred by Arthur. Now the maintenance of the port , all taken care of by sailors and sailors from the fleet.
"Less than ten thousand people!" Neville frowned in distress.
"Including the officer corps, there are less than ten thousand people!" The adjutant spread his hands helplessly. Not to mention anything else, just the ship the two of them have now is a super-heavy warship that the Gallic Empire has just purchased and has just arrived in the North Sea. Such a warship requires five hundred sailors to operate. To fully utilize its capabilities, At full power, an additional 2,500 sailors will be stationed on the ship.
Three thousand soldiers can meet the needs of such a battleship.
Neville now holds twenty new heavy warships just sent by the empire, but to operate these warships and let them exert their due combat effectiveness, Neville needs at least 50,000 well-trained sailors and sailors. Unlike army soldiers, they only need to grab a shield and sword to kill people, but navy soldiers, this is a high-tech job!
Without about ten years of training, it is impossible to become a truly qualified sailor.
Neville let out a bitter breath: "Damn the Prince of the North Sea, if he sinks all the elites of the North Sea Guard Fleet in the Fourth Abyss, I will go to Bureilly, I will go directly to see His Majesty, and I will definitely tell you He is the same."
Just as Neville was cursing Arthur in distress, a sailor suddenly signaled an approaching fleet from the lighthouse near the exit of New Dunker Port. Judging from what the signal said, the fleet was very large, and it was a fleet of the Gallic Empire Navy.
An hour later, fifty troop carriers, packed as tightly as sardine cans, slowly docked in the military port. An expressionless Rear Admiral of the Navy saluted Neville, then showed Neville a troop movement order and asked Neville to sign his name on the troop movement order. After using his military seal, The rear admiral immediately boarded a fast ship and left the port of New Dunark.
The rear admiral even refused Neville's hospitality, his attitude seemed extremely bad.
But Neville didn't bother to pay attention to the angry-looking rear admiral. If this kind of thing happened to him, his anger would only be several times more angry than the other party - fifty troop carriers brought it from Gaul Eighty thousand elite sailors from the Empire's West Sea Garrison Fleet, Norman Expeditionary Fleet and several other major naval fleets.
The 80,000 elite sailors and the 15,000 well-trained sailors who came here by ship were all assigned to the North Sea Guard Fleet by a transfer order from the military ministry. In other words, the North Sea garrison fleet, which had become extremely empty due to Arthur's stupid actions, was now fully staffed, and its combat effectiveness was even slightly stronger than before. …,
Because all those transferred here are elite soldiers with the most experience and personal strength from other fleets in the empire. Especially the 30,000 sailors from the Norman Expeditionary Fleet. They are stationed at the Norman Battle Fort defense line all year round. They have to fight against foreign fleets almost every week. From time to time, they also invade Wudalian Island, burn, kill and loot. , so the combat effectiveness of each of them is much stronger than the three sailors of other fleets.
"Your Excellency Ent Malte!"
Neville looked at the energetic sailors who were walking off the troop ship in neat rows, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.
"I must admit that I owe you another favor! Okay, okay, a new upstart in the empire, a lucky young man who is appreciated by His Majesty the Emperor, it seems that I must form an alliance with you! I don't think anyone will I believe I have never even met you before this! But you have done so many things for me, damn, those old bastards in the military must have thought that we had colluded for a long time!"
"Then, let's do it!" Neville turned around and looked at his adjutant unceremoniously: "Send a report to the Military Logistics Department and say that the North Sea Guards needs more battleship crossbows. I need them. A large number of specially made magic crossbow bolts, don’t fool me with those ordinary ones! Well, replenish our ordnance according to the standards of the Norman Expeditionary Fleet, ha, everything must be the best!”
Neville's adjutant nodded understandingly, then grinned and ran out with an evil smile.
It seems that with the support of the newly popular general in the military department, the Beihai garrison fleet will soon have to replace its guns with cannons. At least these twenty new warships, but the Norman Expeditionary Fleet, known as the strongest fleet in the empire, were sent to New Dunerker without distribution. So in terms of other supplies, the North Sea Guards Fleet should also provide supplies to the Norman Expeditionary Fleet. Just be on par.
With new warships, elite sailors, and powerful ordnance, Lieutenant General Neville only needs to win one or two battles, and his future will be extremely bright. You must know that Lieutenant General Neville is not yet forty years old!
And as the general's status has improved, the people around him will naturally rise as well! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)