Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 23 The Expeditionary Fleet of the World's Second Navy

After the Xingang Fleet was renamed the Liuyun Empire Royal Navy Independent Fleet, Su Yi kept the Independent Fleet in a state of combat readiness, ready to face the navy of the Gisk Empire or the Orenza Empire at any time.

However, after more than two months passed, not only the waters near Xingang City, but even the entire coast of the Liuyun Empire, there has not been a warship of the Jisk Empire or the Orenza Empire. The navies of these two countries, They just blocked the coasts of the Skystar Empire and the Ziyue Empire respectively, as if they had no intention of entering the waters of the Liuyun Empire.

Not only did Su Yi not feel relaxed about this, but he felt more and more pressure. In the past two months, the situation in Cangyu, Tianxing, and Ziyue has become increasingly bad.

The Cangyu Empire faced the attack of the world's second most powerful country, the Sharad Empire. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was defeated like a mountain. So far, the Cangyu Empire has lost nearly 360 million army troops, of which more than 270 million were captured. Wan, four provinces were completely occupied by the army of the Sharad Empire, plus other areas captured by the army of the Sharad Empire, almost 280 million square kilometers of the Cangyu Empire fell, almost accounting for the territory of the Cangyu Empire one-tenth of the area.

The reason why the army of the Sharad Empire advanced so fast was not only the huge gap between the weapons and equipment of the two sides, but also because the army of the Sharad Empire was equipped with a large number of cars, motorcycles, and pack horses. The railway also helped the Sharad Empire army a lot.

The Sharad Empire has currently invested a total of about 320 million troops into the Cangyu Empire, with less than 25 casualties.

The army of the Cangyu Empire originally only had more than 900 million people, but it lost nearly 350 million in just over two months, and many of them were the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire with the strongest combat effectiveness. Here comes the panic.

Although the Cangyu Empire's mobilization ability is good, and it is the most populous country in the world, the total strength of the Cangyu Empire's army has risen instead of falling, and has exceeded 1000 to [-] million. The three shared a breech-loading single-shot rifle.

Now the Cangyu Empire can only hope to use its huge force and vast territory to drag down the army of the Sharad Empire.

The Skystar Empire was facing the fifth most powerful country in the world, the Gisk Empire. It had already lost more than 170 million troops, of which 120 million were captured. Almost 100 million square kilometers of land was captured by the Jisk Empire's army.

The Ziyue Empire was beaten even worse by the world's seventh most powerful country, the Orensa Empire. It lost almost 200 million square kilometers of land. The Ziyue Empire's original 350 million army now has less than 200 million left. It wasn't that the Ziyue Empire temporarily recruited more than 300 million recruits, and the Liuyun Empire sent an additional 60 troops to the territory of the Ziyue Empire, the situation of the Ziyue Empire was even worse.

If we talk about the situation of the land battle, because of the long distance, it has little to do with Su Yi, but a piece of information from the Navy Department of the Liuyun Empire a few days ago made Su Yi feel the pressure.

In mid-March, the world's second-largest navy of the Sharad Empire commissioned four new warships, and they were four super dreadnought battleships equipped with 343mm main guns. Not counting the fleet under Su Yi's command, the Sharad Empire became the second A country with super dreadnought battleships.

According to the information sent by the Cangyu Empire, the four super dreadnought battleships of the Sharad Empire, eight dreadnought battleships, eight former dreadnought battleships, sixteen ironclad battleships, hundreds of other types of warships and dozens of supplies The ships, forming a huge fleet, are moving along the coastline of the Cangyu Empire, and have crossed the largest military port of the Cangyu Empire——Huifeng Port.

You must know that most of the main force of the Cangyu Empire's navy is hiding in Huifeng Port, which has hundreds of large-caliber coastal defense guns.

Su Yi felt that since the target of the fleet of the Sharad Empire was not the Cangyu Empire Navy in Huifeng Harbor, it was likely that it was coming for the independent fleet of the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire under his command.

Su Yi couldn't figure it out. On the surface, the independent fleet only had two super dreadnought battleships, two pre-dreadnought battleships, two large armored cruisers, six light cruisers and eighteen destroyers. The other warships had been hidden by Su Yi. Come to think of it, with the strength of the Jisk Empire Navy and the Orensa Empire Navy, they shouldn't be afraid of the seemingly independent fleet. Why did the Sharad Empire's navy come here from afar?
On the morning of April 3011, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, a huge fleet was sailing from west to east on the vast sea. This fleet was the expeditionary fleet of the Sharad Empire that made Su Yi feel pressured.

On the bridge of the flagship Ares, Genis, the deputy minister of the Navy Department of the Sharad Empire, said with a sigh: "Such a long journey is simply a test of one's willpower!"

Ares is one of the four super dreadnought battleships that have just entered service in the Sharad Empire, and it is the first ship, so the four super dreadnought battleships are named Ares class, with five dual-mounted 45-caliber 343mm main guns, The standard displacement is 25300 tons, and the full-load displacement is 26700 tons.

Janice is the commander of the expeditionary fleet of the Sharad Empire and one of the most famous generals in the Navy of the Sharad Empire. He holds the title of hereditary earl of the Sharad Empire.

The royal family of the Sharad Empire is very powerful, and many hereditary nobles have joined the royal army.

The captain of the God of War next to him, Luo Feiye, hesitated and said: "Earl Genis, I have always had a question in my mind these days. Even if the Liuyun Empire has two super dreadnought battleships, it does not need the navy of our Sharad Empire." An expeditionary fleet, right? The Jisk Empire has [-] dreadnought battleships, and the Orensa Empire has [-] dreadnought battleships. Ants kill elephants. Any navy of these two countries can wipe out the Liuyun Empire. Those two super dreadnought battleships, why did our navy of the Sharad Empire rush all the way to the south of the Liuyun Empire!"

Janis smiled slightly and said, "Viscount Raffier, there is one thing you don't know yet. The reason why our Sharad Empire joined this war is because the Jisk Empire and the Orenza Empire are willing to take the Cangyu Empire and the Liuzhou Empire together. The interests of the Cloud Empire belong to our Sharad Empire, and it is our duty to destroy the navy of the Liuyun Empire."

The captain of the God of War, Luo Feiye, holds the title of hereditary viscount of the Sharad Empire.

Luo Feiye frowned and said: "I've heard about this, but the Cangyu Empire is already very large. You must know that the Cangyu Empire has a land area of ​​about 800 million square kilometers, and more than [-] billion people. population, it is very difficult for our Sharad Empire to annex the Cangyu Empire, do we still have the energy to attack the Liuyun Empire?"

"Hehe, Viscount Luo Feiye, you may not understand the meaning of interests. Our Sharad Empire is not trying to annex the Cangyu Empire and the Liuyun Empire, but to make these two countries submit to our Sharad Empire and become our The source of raw materials and the dumping of goods for the Sharad Empire."

After a pause, Genis, the deputy minister of the Navy Department of the Sharad Empire, continued: "Our expeditionary fleet, in addition to destroying the navy of the Liuyun Empire this time, also needs to seize a foothold on the coast of the Liuyun Empire. So that the army of our Sharad Empire can land on the Liuyun Empire from the sea in the future, and force the Liuyun Empire to surrender to our Sharad Empire."

"Earl Genis, on several large passenger ships, there are a total of three regiments of marines on board, and there are only 4000 people in total. Even if you can capture a port city on the coast of the Liuyun Empire, but with three Can the strength of the alliance block Liuyun Empire's counterattack?"

"That's why I'm going to take Xingang City in the south of Liuyun Empire. This Xingang City is surrounded by sea on three sides. As long as our fleet exists, Liuyun Empire will gather millions of troops, and they won't be able to take Xingang City back!"

(End of this chapter)