The end of the military era

Emperor Kosno then waved his hand, "It seems that only building 12 aircraft carriers is a bit conservative. I plan to add another 24 aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 3 tons. What do you think?"

Prime Minister Salento and Secretary of the Navy Raff looked at each other with wry smiles on their faces.

Prime Minister Salento sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the empire's finances are already very tight.

What's more, the expansion of the Royal Army will consume a lot of money, and it may be difficult to build another 24 aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 3 tons. "

Emperor Kosno said decisively: "No matter how difficult the finances are, the funds for the construction of 24 aircraft carriers must be squeezed out, and I will also allocate part of the funds from the royal treasury."

As soon as Prime Minister Salento heard this, he knew that Emperor Cosno's decision could not be changed at all, so he could only reluctantly say: "Your Majesty, I will try my best to raise some funds to build 24 new aircraft carriers.

However, I don't know how long this war will last, so I plan to issue a batch of war bonds to raise military expenses. "

Emperor Kosno nodded, "War national debt can be issued, has the specific amount been determined?"

"Your Majesty, the first batch of war bonds is going to be issued with 100 billion silver coins."

"Publish more!

Directly issue 200 billion silver coins, and the interest rate can be set higher.

As long as this war can defeat the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires, no matter how high the interest rate is, our Golden Lion Empire can afford it. "

The Secretary of the Navy Raff said at this time: "Your Majesty, in addition to building special aircraft carriers, I suggest that the major shipyards of the empire immediately use merchant ships to transform a batch of simple aircraft carriers.

From the battle of Long'an Port, it can be seen that the simple aircraft carrier transformed by the three elf countries is still very effective. "

Emperor Kosno asked: "What is the performance of the carrier-based aircraft produced by the Imperial Aircraft Factory? Can it be used in actual combat?"

Secretary of the Navy Raff said: "Your Majesty, although the carrier-based fighter jets, carrier-based torpedo aircraft, and carrier-based bombers produced by the Imperial Aircraft Factory have some shortcomings, overall, their overall performance is not bad.

The Imperial Aircraft Factory has now started large-scale production of these three carrier-based aircraft. If the major shipyards of the Empire start to transform merchant ships now, perhaps two months later, the Royal Navy of the Empire will be able to have a simple aircraft carrier. "

"Can!

Your Admiralty directly places orders with the major shipyards of the empire. As long as the first batch of war bonds is issued, our Golden Lion Empire will have no shortage of military expenses! "

At this time, the guards of the palace reported that the new Minister of War of the Golden Lion Empire, Rafika, asked to see the emperor Kosno.

Emperor Kosno immediately asked the palace guards to bring the Minister of War, Rafika, into the hall.

During the last war, Luo Feika was the second deputy minister of the Army Department of the Golden Lion Empire. After more than three years, Luo Feika completed the double jump and became one of the most powerful ministers of the Golden Lion Empire .

"Your Majesty, the 400 million expeditionary troops have been prepared and are ready to go to the border areas between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Han and Tang Empires at any time." Luo Feika said loudly.

"Rofica, you've worked hard this time, I don't worry about letting other people lead the expedition."

"Your Majesty, I must minimize the loss of the expeditionary force as much as possible, so as not to disappoint Your Majesty."

Emperor Kosno said with relief: "You still understand what I mean.

According to the agreement of the Nine Events Alliance, the army of our Golden Lion Empire, together with the armies of the four nations of Black Bear, Silver Wolf, Flying Leopard, and Bull, will be in charge of fighting on the entire northern front.

For the allied forces of those four countries, you have to be more careful.

Remember, preserving strength is as important as defeating the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires. "

After the sea and air battle in Long'an Port, not only the Golden Lion Empire began to use merchant ships to transform into simple aircraft carriers, but the other five orc nations also used large merchant ships to transform into simple aircraft carriers with only wooden decks.

The interior of some simple aircraft carriers does not even have a cabin for storing fighter jets.

Although the design bureau of the Zhou family's Ganyang Shipyard has designed an aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 4 tons, this aircraft carrier still exists on the blueprint.

Even if the construction starts now, it will take about a year and a half at the fastest before this aircraft carrier can be put into service.

So Zhou Rui had no choice but to order the six major shipyards of the Zhou family to also transform some large merchant ships into aircraft carriers for emergency use.

The two Samsung lottery cards that Zhou Rui got in June and July both issued some carrier-based aircraft, which made Zhou Rui already have 150 F4F Wildcat fighters and 150 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft in reserve in the lottery system And 150 sbd dreadnought dive bombers.

In order to imitate these three carrier-based aircraft, Zhou Rui extracted 10 F4F Wildcat fighters, 10 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft and 10 SBD Dreadnought dive bombers, and handed them over to Ganyang Aircraft Factory for research.

With these three advanced carrier-based aircraft, even if the frontier defense fleet is only equipped with a simple aircraft carrier, it can still have a strong combat effectiveness.

What Zhou Rui didn't expect was that a three-star lottery card that the lottery system gave out for nothing in August actually gave out 6 American Essex-class aircraft carriers.

The Essex-class aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier built by the U.S. Navy during World War II. It has a full-load displacement of 33000 tons, a maximum speed of 33 knots, a flight deck length of 26213 meters, a width of 2926 meters, and a crew of 2750.

The waterline armor belt is 63 mm to 101 mm thick, the flight deck armor is 38 mm thick, the hangar deck armor is 76 mm thick, and the main deck armor is 38 mm thick.

装备有12门双联装127毫米口径高平两用炮、8门四联装40毫米高射炮，46门20毫米高射炮。

拥有2个战斗机中队36架f4f野猫式战斗机，2个俯冲轰炸机中队36架sbd无畏式俯冲轰炸机，1个鱼雷轰炸机中队18架tbf复仇者鱼雷攻击机。

In addition, there is one sbd dreadnought dive bomber serving as a liaison mission, three spare fighter jets, three spare dive bombers, and three spare torpedo planes, which can carry a total of 1 carrier-based aircraft.

Six American Essex-class aircraft carriers were launched, and Zhou Ruibai got 6 carrier-based aircraft.

However, it will take some time for the six US Essex-class aircraft carriers to form combat capabilities. After all, the officers and soldiers of the frontier fleet have never been in contact with aircraft carriers before.

In order to save time, Zhou Rui did not go to the Crescent Island Naval Base this time, and directly extracted the 6 American Essex-class aircraft carriers from the Ganyang Military Port.

Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the border defense fleet, was still shocked when he saw six American Essex-class aircraft carriers appearing out of nowhere.

You must know that the border defense fleet has already completely sealed off the waters near Ganyang City. How did these six aircraft carriers enter Ganyang Military Port?

Could it be that the Marshal really controls an unknown world?

Those warships that appeared out of thin air were all built in another world?

Of course, it wasn't the first time Song Limin was shocked like this, so he consciously didn't ask the bottom line.

"Marshal, our border defense fleet has no pilots. If we want these six aircraft carriers to exert their due combat effectiveness, we must transfer a group of excellent pilots from the border defense air force to join our border defense fleet."

Zhou Rui nodded and said: "I have ordered 3000 pilots to be drawn from the border defense air force to join the border defense fleet.

Although the aircraft carrier is a new type of warship, I hope that the border defense fleet can make these six aircraft carriers capable of combat in the shortest possible time. "

Song Limin said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Commander, our border defense fleet will mobilize the best officers and soldiers to make these six aircraft carriers form combat capabilities as soon as possible."

"Old Song, I still have 150 extra carrier-based fighters, 150 carrier-based torpedo aircraft and 150 carrier-based bombers, so I asked the six major shipyards to use large merchant ships to urgently transform a batch of simple aircraft carriers. .

Your frontier defense fleet also has to mobilize manpower to take over those simple aircraft carriers. "

"Marshal, the aircraft carrier transformed from a large merchant ship has almost no protection.

Now that there are already 6 real aircraft carriers, is it necessary to continue to transform those simple aircraft carriers? "

"Six aircraft carriers are still too few.