Macho Wars

Therefore, when the development of the second-generation monoplane fighter by Dr. Dornier is progressing smoothly, Dragon took the opportunity to propose to his superiors to build an experimental aircraft carrier and train relevant personnel in advance.

This plan was quickly approved by superiors, and is ready to be used by the Marine Corps in the future.The navy, which is full of brains, is still unswervingly committed to the "multi-turret cult", so it lacks interest in it.

Even some navy representatives sent to the shipyard to inspect the new ship ridiculed it unscrupulously after seeing the weird shape of the new ship.

"Hahaha...Look at this weird ship that doesn't even have a turret. It's just like the smashed squash, how pitiful!"

However, strictly speaking, this training ship, code-named "Nanny Class", is more like an amphibious assault ship than an aircraft carrier.

Only the upper layer of her double-layer hangar will be used to store fighter jets. It is expected that 8-11 aircraft can be parked. If there are special carrier-based aircraft with foldable wings in the future, the number of aircraft will be further increased.The lower hangar is used to store amphibious combat vehicles, carrying up to eighteen.

The fly in the ointment is that since this quasi-aircraft carrier was transformed from a half-built cruise ship, there is no rear-opening dock, and the amphibious combat vehicle can only be dropped from the four hatches on both sides of the hull with a large boom.

After more than seven months of transformation, the quasi-aircraft carrier is now almost complete, and it is expected to be launched next week for outfitting.

When Dragoon and the others arrived, the workers at the shipyard were removing the scaffolding, and the completion of the entire ship was very high.

"Lee, how do you feel about this ship?"

"Not bad. In seven months, this is much better than I expected. I was worried that the shipyards in our colony were not good enough. It seems that I was worrying too much."

"Haha, it's really incomparable with the old local shipyards, but looking at the world, our colony's shipyards don't talk about the top ten, there are always the top twenty."

A group of people walked on the flat deck, and then went down to the inside of the hangar through the elevator on the back of the island.

The person in charge of the project introduced to them that the main body of the new ship has been completed, and the next steps are launching, outfitting, and conducting sea trials. It can be delivered to the troops in five months at the earliest, and it will take a year for the formation of combat power.

Kane frowned when he heard it.And Dragon on the side noticed his expression, realized something immediately, and asked quietly.

"Brigadier, are we leaving again?"

"Yeah." Kane nodded slightly.

Dragon didn't ask any more questions. After the group of people visited, Kane didn't reveal an important military information to Dragon until the way back.

In the colonial military district, there is another battle to be fought!

It has been a whole year since the last battle of Dragon Palace Island. After a series of internal torture and diplomatic negotiations, the local side finally made up its mind to teach the sapphire Principality somehow.

It also gave a few warnings to the small countries in the Far East. Don't think that the emperor is far away, and hiding behind the Eastern Qin and the Federation can brazenly provoke the majesty of the empire.

However, although it was meant to give some "punishment" to the Sapphire Principality, the local side really couldn't get it.

Among the four local military districts, the Central Military District wants to defend the capital and cannot easily be moved, while the other three military districts each have their opponents to concentrate on.

So the adults above once again set their sights on the seemingly idle colonial military area, ready to entrust this glorious mission to them.

The Empire’s Central Military Department plans to mobilize the Royal Navy’s first and fourth fleets and transfer three to four divisions from the colonial military districts for a large-scale expedition.

The goal is to go to the Far East Continent, first destroy the main coastal cities under the control of the Sapphire Principality, and then send ground troops to land, regain part of the territory of the Tarrans Kingdom and help it recover.

It is worth mentioning that since the male heirs of the Tarrans royal family are all dead, after Tarrans is restored, Princess Karen will inherit the throne, become the queen of Tarrans, and then marry the emperor.

In this way, the empire can also include the people and the country in its own pockets, and in the future it will justify projecting its influence in the Far East, so that the Eastern Qin and the Federation will also experience the feeling of "fire in the backyard".

The operation is expected to start at the end of the summer of this year. The Far East is located in a frigid zone. The temperature in winter is extremely cold and the permafrost is very muddy in summer. It is not suitable for the deployment of mechanized heavy troops. Only spring and autumn are suitable for combat.Since the colonial military district has no time to prepare for the expedition before the end of spring, it can only wait until autumn.

The senior officials of the military region have discussed in advance, and they plan to dispatch two first-class main divisions, one second-class auxiliary division, and the newly formed Marine Brigade, no more than 50,000 people.

In addition, the Tarrance government in exile also invested all of its strength.

In the past year, tens of thousands of overseas citizens of Tarrance have responded to the call of the government in exile to come to the imperial colonies of the New World.So the government in exile formed the Tarrance Salvation Army, with Major General Levsto as its commander-in-chief.

Relying on the armaments provided by the empire, the National Salvation Army armed a 9,000-man force, and at the same time they also got in touch with the domestic resistance organizations and provided a lot of important information to the empire's military.

Chapter 259 The Marine Corps Wife

According to the information from the Far East, the current situation in Tarrance is very bad, and the occupying forces of the Sapphire Principality have adopted a very cruel and repressive rule on the local area.

Limited by the climatic environment of the frigid zone, the long winter causes only one planting a year in the Far East, which severely limits local food production.

The outbreak of the war caused a serious decline in the domestic food production of both the defeated Tarrance and the victorious Sapphire.

So in order to subsidize the country, the Principality’s army sucked blood from Tarrance in a very rude way, levied excessively and completely ignored the lives and lives of the people in the occupied area, and even deliberately used this to reduce the population of Tarrance and their will to resist. .

Therefore, in the winter of last year, Tarrance almost inevitably suffered a famine throughout the territory.Tens of thousands of citizens died tragically in famine, cold and hardship.

In the end, the East Qin Kingdom next door couldn't stand it anymore, because the famine caused a large number of Tarans refugees to try to flood the East Qin border.Under this pressure, Dong Qin took the initiative to provide Tarrans with a large amount of relief food, and barely contained the humanitarian disaster.

However, thanks to the tyranny of the occupying forces, the people of the subjugated Tarrance showed unprecedented resistance.

The people began to miss the lost kingdom. Although their king was not wise and his talents as a monarch was very ordinary, he was at least the king of the Tarrans himself. Under his rule, the people have never been so miserable as they are now. To help.

These emotions and wishes of the people in the enemy-occupied areas were quickly passed on to the government in exile in the New World through the underground intelligence network of the resistance organization.

General Levsto realized that this was an extremely rare opportunity right now.The evil actions of the occupying forces of the Principality aroused the anger of the people in the occupied areas, but this anger will not last forever. Once it drags on for too long, the anger of the people will turn into despair because of helplessness.

This is the so-called "sorrow is greater than death."

After many counter-requests from the Tarrance government in exile, the empire finally agreed to send troops, but the troops it could provide were really not many, only 50,000 to 60,000.

What the military means is that I can send someone to help you fight back to the mainland and regain a certain amount of territory so that your government in exile is not in exile, but if you want to recover the whole territory, or even push back to the Sapphire Principality for revenge, then I can It's up to you Tarances.

The empire can be based on the marriage of the two countries, providing some necessary ordnance materials for the Tarrans government in exile and the Salvation Army, as well as the instructors needed to train the troops, but none of these are free.

The aid to the empire under such conditions is itself a government in exile. Apart from grateful to Dade for signing the relevant agreement, it dared not express any other emotions.

Now that the dispatch of troops has been decided, the army will naturally begin to make preparations.The Marine Corps is the vanguard of the expeditionary force, and Dragon's Independent Regiment is the vanguard's sharp knife. They will set off with the Navy's First Fleet, and first rush to the beach to seize a landing field for subsequent troops.

In this case, Kane naturally hopes that the new ship can be put into use as soon as possible, but the time left for them is only five months, which is not enough for the new ship and related personnel to form combat effectiveness.

So Dragon thought of a way to prevent the shipyard and the navy crew from step-by-step, and try to synchronize procedures that do not affect each other.

The first is to ask the shipyard to adjust the construction period, concentrate on three shifts of manpower, and strive to reduce the time required for outfitting from the original five months to less than two months. At the same time, ask the navy to transfer skilled sailors to the ship to familiarize themselves with the operation. Sea trials and crew training are conducted simultaneously.

In this way, counting the time spent rushing across the ocean to the Far East after departure, the crew has nearly six months for training, which is enough for them to form initial combat effectiveness.

As for the carrier-based aircraft supporting the aircraft carrier, this one is a little bit more troublesome.

At present, the research and development of the second monoplane fighter has been roughly completed, and it can be boarded with a little modification.But the problem is that the plane is easy to handle, but the pilot is not easy to handle.

It is important to know that aircraft taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier is a very difficult technical task. First, the deck area of ​​the aircraft carrier is much smaller than that of land airports, and the other is that the aircraft carrier itself will move, which further increases the difficulty of landing.

Not to mention the imperial pilots who just graduated from Dragon Palace Island. Even the war maidens in the shrine have no experience in this area. After all, their two crossing aircraft carriers have been lying down for decades.

Fortunately, Dragon did not expect the aircraft to play a big role in this battle, and their opponents did not have surface power that could compete with the empire.With the strength of the First Fleet of the Imperial Navy, it is enough to send them safely to the enemy coastline.

The aircraft carrier can serve as a transportation role, with fewer aircraft, more landing craft and amphibious combat vehicles.