Orc Tyrant

The military ports of the city of Sal are independent islands, surrounded by dozens of warships of different sizes like wings to protect them from storms.

Some of these docks are also the largest and oldest docks in the city of Sal. This behemoth bears countless docks, supports, workshops, dwellings, warehouses and mooring platforms.

The First Fleet chose this as an anchorage because of its complete facilities and excellent water environment. From here, the fleet can control a large area of ​​water in the middle of the deserted sea. This control right is especially true for the current Republic. important.

Since the fall of Essex, many problems have emerged, the first of which is the soaring food prices.

Although Essex has a good industry and mining industry, it is still an agricultural state in nature. Animal husbandry and plantation are its roots. Most immigrants are farmers rather than factory owners. The state's annual crop output It accounts for 12% of the country's total annual output, and meat accounts for 24%.

After losing such a large agricultural state, it is inevitable that the prices of agricultural products everywhere began to rise, and the emergence of a large number of refugees has exacerbated the spread of this situation.

Take the city of Saar as an example. Compared with the past, the price of meat products has increased by at least 30 to 40% year-on-year, and cereals have also increased by 20%. This makes the lives of the people at the bottom of the economy even more embarrassed.

In the past, a worker’s family could eat meat at least once a week, but now it has become only once a month. Even some families can’t even maintain this level. People in slum areas have died of hunger, although only a few. , But it is an ominous signal.

At this time, the East Benedict Empire extended an olive branch to the New California Republic.

Its situation and this country are completely reversed. Before the upheaval in Cusconar, 70% of the entire Benedictine Empire’s industry was concentrated in the western provinces, while 60% of the agriculture was concentrated in the eastern provinces. Lamatia is also known as the granary of the empire, producing one-fifth of the country's food with one province.

However, after the Cusconar change, the empire was divided into two, and the East Benedictine Empire also lost almost all its industrial facilities. It could only start from the beginning and face the pressure of Ouke's step by step.

In fact, a long time ago, the East Benedict Empire wanted to negotiate trade with the New California Republic, but at that time the Republic was still swaying between the two empires, and even more inclined to the West Benedict Empire, so it ignored the establishment of diplomatic relations between the East Benedict Empire. Requests and trade suggestions.

It was not until the large-scale invasion of Ouke that the top leaders of the Republic had contact with the only East Benedict empire with experience in fighting against "Europe", and as the war progressed, the two sides had exchanges between Japan and the United States.

On the contrary, the West Benedict Empire has been defeated by the fierce assault of the Trust Council, and only two or three provinces are still struggling, and there is no value in cooperation.

The New California Republic will no longer bet on both sides, and decisively join hands with the East Benedict Empire.

The trade between the two countries has become the focus of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Agricultural products are exchanged for industrial products. This is a trade that is beneficial to both. The Republic assists the empire in establishing its own industry, and the empire fills up the declining granary of the Republic.

The key to maintaining the transaction lies in the ocean. The two sides have no land contact. Trade is completely dependent on the sea. The only good news is that Ouke does not have sea power, so the route is basically safe.

A very important task of the First Fleet is to maintain the stability of this trade route.

In the past, this was not a task at all, because the sea power of the New California Republic had an absolute advantage in the barren sea, especially when the Benedictine Empire’s fleet was destroyed by one third, and the other two thirds were split again. Later, it became the absolute power in this sea area.

But today, it has encountered its first challenger, a group of things that have never been seen by the Navy in the past.

Ok!

Xuanfeng is a fast cruiser and belongs to the second ship of the Poison Arrow class. Because the New California Republic does not have a light cruiser, all ships below the battleship and above the destroyer are called cruisers.

It has a speed far higher than that of battleships, and its firepower is much stronger than that of destroyers and frigates. It has always been the main force of the First Fleet to patrol at sea.

This time, it became the first victim.

A huge cannonball hit it and burst into light.

Boom~!

The huge impact generated by the explosion collided with the physical matter, annihilated each other, and directly gasified the side-cleaning pier, tearing the structure of the huge mooring support and another tugboat sheltering here.

The 82-meter-long Xuanfeng was cut into two sections, and the position of the ammunition bay in the middle suddenly exploded, disappearing in a rapidly expanding mass of heat and light with sixty lives.

The two workshops next to the pier were destroyed by the explosion, killing more than a hundred workers at their fingertips, and shattering the main structure of the crane, causing it to tip over on both sides, causing a chain reaction to moor. As a result, the frigate Siberia, which was a hundred meters away, collided with another frigate, the Red Crab.

The hulls of the two warships suffered catastrophic damage, and the Siberia was distorted like a used shell.

The shelling continued, while a large number of rockets roared in.

They attacked Pier 3 one after another, and those berths were carrying the battleship Duress, Ankylos, and the supply ship Blue Governor at this moment.

These two battleships are both old-fashioned battleships, and the same as the former Ridgeback Turtle, have many defensive flaws, so they suffered a huge disaster in the rocket bombardment.

The first is the ashes of the superstructure.

The chimney of the Ankylos broke like a glass ball, and fragments flying around cut into other buildings connected to it, exposing them to the sea.

Part of the duress was thrown out by the explosion, rotating and hitting the main boom mechanism of the dock, causing it to deform laterally.

The blue Governor turned into a huge fireball, and the cargo box flew out like a bead on a broken necklace, like grains of rice pouring out of a broken bag, they rolled around and scattered. Some of them plunged into the sea, bursting out a blowtorch-like blue flame.

As the shelling and rocket bombing intensified, the entire Port of Sal trembles.

The devastating trajectory of the super-large-caliber gun triggered a series of explosions inside the harbor. The residence and warehouse collapsed, the lighthouses collapsed one by one, and the crane bent and broke like a wader hit by a hunter.

The destroyer Wind and Rain Shield caught fire in the berth, and the crew residing on it were desperately rescuing, but to no avail.

The cruiser Triumph sitting on the maintenance dock was pierced by stormy debris. Its boiler compartment imploded after the name of a rocket, twisting the warship into a ninety-degree bend, like a being carried. People who hold their ankles.

It was still hit by the ship’s bow wrapped by the pier and hit the destroyer Catfish, which was also undergoing renovations at the nearby pier. The two warships crushed and torn each other during the collision. Some tumbling corpses in sailor uniforms can also be seen in the fierce air current.

But all the damage is not comparable to that of the Wild. This 149-meter-long battleship is the longest serving member of the First Fleet and the oldest of all battleships.

With its huge ammunition depot suffered fatal wounds, the battleship suddenly disappeared in a loud noise. The large burning fragments were thrown into the sky in a whirl, and then fell into the ocean below. Its momentum made the entire city Trembling.

Not all ships were waiting to be beaten. The captain of the large cruiser Taos happened to be on duty tonight. In the face of a sudden attack, he decisively ordered the warship to maneuver.

When the engine started, Tao Sihao broke free from its berth and began to slide backwards from the dock, like a weird sailing ceremony.

Not far from him, the two new dreadnoughts were unable to move. The 179-meter-long Night Veil was paralyzed because the officers were on vacation. The sister ship Maniac on the side was unable to move out of its berth due to the distance between them. , The movement of these large warships in the port area often relies heavily on tugboats.

However, the shelling from overseas continued, splattering around like meteors, and had a great potential to flatten the port. .

Boom~~!

Ten minutes after the attack, the first human counterattack was fired by the coastal defense artillery on the outskirts of the city, and then the artillery groups awakened one by one and started pouring fire onto the sea.

But at this time, the shelling had spread to the city, causing huge fires and chaos. The officers on vacation were hurriedly rushing to the dock, but they did not expect that another **** battle was waiting for them...

"Assault ship! Get on board for me!"

Looking at the harbor shrouded in smoke and fire, Jinya ignored the shells that had fallen more than a dozen meters away from the hull and the sea water spilled on him, and gave the order coldly.

Afterwards, thirteen assault ships of various shapes rushed towards the dock like an arrow from the string amidst the roar of engines, and the boys above waved their swords and guns and let out a roar of excitement.