Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 590 The Era of Ironclad Battleships Begins

Claude remembers that this kingdom bought an Ironclad destroyer from the Royal Navy last year. It appears that they have encountered the same imitation problems, constrained by the manufacture of high-temperature alloy materials and propellers for marine steam-powered machinery, so that even with all the drawings of the first generation of Ironclad warships, Ironclad warships cannot be manufactured on the basis of the drawings.

The Special Envoy for the purchase of Ironclad Battleships from the Kingdom of Cameron Rain, in the name of a pelagic businessman, ordered six Ironclad Battleships. One Ironclad Cruiser, four Ironclad Destroyers, and one Ironclad Transporter form just the smallest cruise and combat unit. Six Ironclad warships, with a total value of 900,000 gold kroner, were delivered for a period of six months. Just looking at what the envoy from the Kingdom of Cameron means to purchase the ship, he is not willing to open the deal. The autonomous military region would naturally be willing to keep his secret and make a great deal of money out of it.

General Boquer believes that this envoy of the Kingdom of Cameron Lane to procure the Ironclad is likely to face the same dilemma as the Royal Navy. They accepted orders from the higher echelons to imitate the Ironclad warships, but found that they could not do so and were helpless to seek the help of the autonomous military region again in order to cross the border. Fortunately, we have just completed the Port Vibato Shipbuilding Base, which specializes in the production and sale of the first and second generation of Ironclad warships, and it solves a lot of trouble for them...

Claude was willing to allow the port of Vibato to build a ship base dedicated to producing first- and second-generation Ironclad warships for sale, mainly because of the rapid development of Ironclad warships in other countries. So far, what he has learned is that basically most countries that imitate Ironclad warships are able to imitate the full metal casings of Ironclad warships. The only difficulty is in imitating the vast first generation of marine steam-powered machinery in the basement and that propeller outside the hull, but with the investment of money and time, one day a country will crack the secret.

The Port Vibbato Shipbuilding Base sells first- and second-generation Ironclad warships, and is also designed to give trouble to countries that are determined to crack down on marine steam-powered machinery. For those who imitate it, it's really better to buy it. They invest in research and development, and if used to purchase Ironclad warships, they can buy at least 20 Ironclad warships, form an Ironclad fleet, and get the strongest protection for their maritime security.

It is important to study and imitate the ability of the country to manufacture Ironclad warships, so the funds invested in research and imitation are not insignificant. They may spend two or three Ironclad fleets to produce a so-so and affordable Ironclad warship themselves, which is simply not comparable to Ironclad warships sold in autonomous military regions.

If we are to continue to improve our home-grown Ironclad warships, it is unclear how much money will be invested. Claude therefore hopes that most countries will change their course and develop Ironclad warships in their own countries for purchase from autonomous military regions. As long as the money is paid, the Autonomous Territory guarantees that the children will not be deceived, and even if there is a war with the opposing parties in the Autonomous Territory, the Ironclad warships to be delivered will be delivered on time and will not be withheld.

In fact, for an autonomous military region, the sale of a generation of Ironclad warships is an overturned deal, and that is outrageous profitability. Even Master Byrd, who originally designed the first generation of Ironclad warships, looked at the simplified version of the design drawings of the current generation of Ironclad warships, and was somewhat embarrassed and embarrassed to fool buyers with such a simple warship design. So the first generation of marine steam powered machinery was improved to make its combustion efficiency and power more durable and fast...

A generation of Ironclad destroyers with an external sale price of 150,000 gold kroner and a production price of 50,000 gold kroner handed over by the Autonomous Territory to the shipbuilding base, the Autonomous Territory receives 100,000 gold kroner of no profit. But the cost of building this generation of Ironclad destroyers at the shipbuilding base is just over 20,000 gold kroner, and they still have double the profits.

Look at what a generation of Ironclad Destroyer has. One is the splicing and welding of metal hulls that do not contain a water compartment. The most technical content is the installation of marine steam-powered machinery and outboard bottom propeller spindles. Then there's the copper tube arrangement for the communications, and the cannon turret arrangement on the front of the command deck and on the deck, nothing else, up to a sharp collision angle on the bow...

A generation of Ironclad destroyers, 150,000 gold kroner, also spent nearly one million gold kroner on experiments underneath the sea, the first Ironclad warship of the Autonomous Territories. So building a generation of Ironclad warships with so much money is a big deal for the Autonomous Territory today, but it's really very cheap for countries that are going to develop and replicate it...

With the first purchase deal made by the Kingdom of Cameron Lane in Port Vibato, other countries will soon be purchasing Ironclad warships. Instead, the first generation of Ironclad warships previously produced by the Autonomous Territory are no longer stockpiled. This time, the six ships purchased by the Kingdom of Cameron Lane will need to be remanufactured from the shipbuilding base to produce the metallic boards.

Claude, unfortunately, has not heard back from the Special Envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands since he was quoted by the second generation of Ironclad. If they were to purchase this second-generation Ironclad Battleship, the Autonomous Territory would surely deliver faster than the six-generation Ironclad Battleship purchased by the Kingdom of Cameron Lane. Just transfer the active second-generation Ironclad from the Ironclad fleet to remove sensitive parts and refurbish it when the new ship is sold, and then give the money earned to General Muried to customize the fourth-generation Ironclad...

The Black Sail Pirate's twelve generations of Ironclad Battleships were overhauled in that remote shipyard in Port Vibato, copper skinned another sixteen Rapid Sail Battleships and loaded with a new generation of marine steam-powered machines and propellers in the bottom compartment, before Ericsson led the Black Sail Pirate out of port on a fog-cloaked night and disappeared unknowingly into the sea.

Claude was busy forming reserves for the Autonomous Territory and recruiting compulsory troops annually, arguably the biggest change in the military structure of the Kingdom of Auveras in the Autonomous Territory. Originally, the military system of the Kingdom of Orvillas was the Standing Regiment and the Recruitment for War, the Standing Regiment, such as the Guardian, the Red Dragon and the Lizard, the three famous Ace Field Regiments, whose soldiers were recruited for 15 years. Nationality is available upon expiry of the period of service, and there is also a generous salary during the period of service, which may be said to be similar to recruitment.

In the face of war, local counties forcibly recruit people of appropriate age to form new second-line regiments to supplement the front line. The fate of these forcibly recruited persons was not very good, and they failed in their fate to become an anonymous cannonball ash. Victory was just a joy, and what you were supposed to do after being forcibly discharged from service had little effect on your fate. Only a very small number of Kung Fu personnel have good luck transferring to those standing legions to become full-time servicemen...

The Overseas Autonomous Territories now have four standing regiments, plus one navy, and 12 local guard regiments, with a total strength of nearly 550,000. Since most people and horses are recruited in the same manner as the Standing Army, considerable pressure has been placed on the autonomous territorial military regions in terms of military expenditures. After all, overspending on personnel salary and welfare subsidies reduces funding for improvements in these areas of tactical weapons and materiel...

Claude was prepared to combine compulsory recruitment with a new system of conscription and reserve service in the autonomous territorial military region. Not all conscripts were willing to serve in the army for 15 years, and they were not interested in national identity, but rather were eager to return home early to be reunited with their families. Fifteen years of military service, on the other hand, is due to the fact that the nations of the Farea continent need experienced veterans and good soldiers to defend their country.

In the Overseas Autonomous Territories, a young adult who is already 18 years old is a conscript of the appropriate age. However, his enlistment would take only five years, during which he would be trained in the barracks to become a qualified soldier in an autonomous territory. If he wins the War Neutral Award and gets promoted, his military career will be long and long...

If there is no war to be waged during the five years of service of a recruit, there are two options for the recruit after the end of the five years of service. The first is to continue to serve in the military brigade, provided that this option is predicated on the fact that during the five years of service, the recruit must have become a soldier. He will be employed by the army as a soldier, from which he will receive a generous salary and welfare subsidy until he has completed 15 years of service as a national, and will be officially discharged from the army, where he can be placed directly for local training as a public official...

Alternatively, if the soldier did not wish to continue serving in the army, he could say goodbye to the barracks, marry and have children doing business without affecting anything, and the army would seal his file and record that his service had passed five years. As long as the soldier wishes to become a national before the age of forty, he may apply to continue serving in the local armed forces until 15 years have elapsed.

Military reforms to be implemented by autonomous territorial military regions have a significant impact on the future of those recruits as long as they are age appropriate recruits from overseas self-governing territories. Any young adult over the age of eighteen will enter the barracks and undergo the hammering and forging of his military career, reshaping the three-way view. Thus, even during the five-year compulsory conscription period, he would accept the discipline of the barracks and, upon discharge, become a reserve soldier, waiting for the military region to be re-recruited in time of war...

This reform of the system of enlistment and the system of registering reservists in the Autonomous Territory, chaired by Claude, has largely broken the ancient tradition of 15 years of military service. In the four standing legions of autonomous territorial military districts, it became impossible to acquire a military skill of excellence and to remain in the army for long periods of time. The flow of water was not corrupt, and the five-year compulsory recruitment system had given new vitality to the closed barracks.

The greatest benefit of this military reform for the autonomous territorial military region was the savings in military spending on labour salaries. As General Beechlin said, previous enlistment was tantamount to finding a career for life, a well-paid job that could be eaten until retirement, as long as he did not die in battle at an early age. Claude, for example, was recommended to join the Blue Feather Corps, and when his name appeared on the Blue Feather Corps roster, he had a generous salary and welfare subsidy since then.

However, during the Great War, the Blue Feather Corps was supposed to be one of the most unlucky standing regiments, several times in the wake of the Great Fall and Extinction Regiment crisis. And Claude was fortunate enough to avoid all this bad luck, and was drawn by Prince Hansburg to the guerrilla barracks to experiment with new methods of warfare. Since then, the military career has risen. As General Bitchklin said, lucky guys like Claude are rare in the military brigade...

But after five years of compulsory military service and a reserve registration system in the Autonomous Territory, lucky men like Claude will no longer be the protagonists. Because Claude was so heartbroken that he cancelled the recruits' generous salaries for a five-year recruitment period and only gave them a little benefit. This is five years of compulsory military service, not looking for a job, but doing your duty. What do you want to do with your salary?

To receive a generous salary, you will have to wait until the end of five years of compulsory military service, rely on the excellent military skills acquired, be retained in the ranks of sergeants before you can receive a generous salary and welfare subsidy, which increases with your years in the barracks, or be rewarded for your battlefield and brigade neutrality...

But this guy, General Boquer, was very straightforward in saying that Claude had changed the original 15-year pay period to a 10-year pay period, and the first five years had become compulsory military service phase-out, eliminating all those who wanted to spend their days in the barracks. Five years off my salary, and the fools who stayed in the barracks were grateful to Dade. Don't you see how hard it is to get out of the barracks and fight for yourself? Making more money doing whatever you want than staying in the barracks...

There was little movement in the Overseas Autonomous Territories of Holy Light in 607, and the rest of the time was devoted to the internal affairs of the Autonomous Territory, with the exception of the remarkable alliance with the Pamigal National Republic. Whether accompanied by rigorous action by the Autonomous Territorial Assemblies and the investigation of the rule of law, it has achieved the essence of running the dragon set. This was followed by the continued resettlement of Hicks military immigrants, the downsizing of eight Hicks Return Regiments and the formation of the Hicks Voluntary Regiment.

By the second half of the year, the Autonomous Territory was busy reforming the military system and implementing a five-year compulsory military service system and a reserve military registration system within the autonomous territory. By mid-October, the West Coast had again heard of Black Sail pirates fighting the United Kingdom's Windsurf fleet in the Fox Islands.

This time, the Black Sail Pirates took the initiative to seek trouble from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, which launched an attack on the Windsurf fleet stationed at the second colonial port, defeating not only the Windsurf fleet, but also seizing the entire port and plundering it for three days before leaving.

The Kingdom of the Fox Islands was beaten in the face this time, and the so-called mighty maritime power no longer possessed its original threat, leaving two seemingly mighty wind sail fleets. But the bright-eyed knew that the sailboat would soon fall behind, just as this time the Black Sail Pirate struck again with twelve Ironclad warships, then followed by sixteen sail warships wrapped in copper leather, which also used marine steam-powered machines, and quickly collapsed the tight defensive array laid by the British Windsurf fleet of the Fox Islands, causing the enemy to flee on its own.

The result of this naval war was that the Kingdom of Cameron, no longer under threat of a maritime declaration of war and a maritime blockade by the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, directly mobilized its army to take over the only remaining colony in the neighbouring Kingdom of Riznia and directly kicked the Kingdom of Riznia into the ranks of colonial Powers on the western coast of the continent of Nubian.

And the colony of the Principality of Leriolo, on the other side of the colony of the Kingdom of Riznia, took a step slower, moving so fast in the insane gutter of the colony of the Kingdom of Cameron, and on the other hand mobilizing troops against the second colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, next door, without hesitation.

The defensive armament in the United Kingdom colony of the Fox Islands was bad luck, first when the mighty Kingdom Windsurfer fleet was defeated by the Black Sail Pirates, and then rubbed to the ground by the Black Sail Pirates who had been plundered ashore, robbing most of their property and taking some wives and daughters. It has not yet been counted how much the loss has been, and as a result a new occupier of the colony of the Principality of Leriolo has arrived. The colony of this kingdom has disappeared and has been declared annexed to the colony of the Principality of Leriolo...

The furious Fox Islands, the United Kingdom, immediately declared war and blockade at sea against the Kingdom of Cameron and the Principality of Leriolo. At this stage, their inability to locate the Black Sail Pirate Spill does not prevent the outburst of anger to the two countries. It is good that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands also knows that the army of its kingdom is too weak to strike, nor is it too embarrassing to come forward. It is prepared to block the seaways of the two countries with two powerful wind sails, sink or capture all the ocean ships and armed warships of the two countries.

The Kingdom of Cameron and the Principality of Leriolo have similarly declared that they have joined forces to form a powerful maritime force to break the maritime blockade imposed by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on both of them. At that time, six Ironclad battleships for the Kingdom of Cameron had been delivered from the shipbuilding base of the Overseas Autonomous Territory of Port Vibato.

So when the six Ironclad battleships appeared in the combined maritime armed fleet of the Kingdom of Cameron and the Principality of Leriolo, the United Kingdom's wind sail fleet, far from confronting the Fox Islands, lost the courage to storm and could only circle in the distance without daring to approach. The so-called maritime blockade just died like this...

The Autonomous Territory has now taken over a large list of 24 generations of Ironclad warships from the Kingdom of Cameron and the Principality of Leriolo, to be delivered within one year. The Special Envoys of the two countries who purchased the Ironclad warships have just received a deposit and have welcomed the United Kingdom procurement mission to the Fox Islands.

“We're buying forty-eight Ironclad warships...” said the envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.