Chapter 1536： Ironclad into the army

   Qu Mao is quite satisfied with the combat response of Fenghua Principality and Taijihou Kingdom in the 18th year of Tianxuan. Under the defensive counterattack strategy given by Qu Mao, the two branch territories were handled very well, although the Taijihou Kingdom suffered slightly more casualties.

  In the past two years, the development of Emperor Yi's territory has been stable on the whole. After taking the Eastern Continent completely, Qu Mao did not push himself as much as in the past. Instead, he took time to steadily promote the development of Emperor Yi's territory.

  In fact, since Qu Mao established the Yidi Territory, most of the management of the Yidi Territory has been decentralized. He seldom interferes in the end. Generally, he just proposes a direction and hands it over to the aboriginal heroes of the Yidi Territory.

  Even if it is industrial improvement and technological innovation, Qu Mao is just a half bucket of water. He is engaged in research and development with the scientific research personnel in Yidi territory, and he does not use the lord's airs to overwhelm other scientific research personnel. It is just that Qu Mao has experienced another world, and he still has vision, and Qu Mao never speaks much in the field of research and development that he is not good at.

  After one or two years for the Yidi Territory to completely absorb, digest and transform the territory of the Principality of Pengda, Qu Maocai cautiously proposed at the end of the 17th year of Tianxuan's year-end summary meeting that starting from the 18th year of Tianxuan, the Yidi Territory will launch a plan to attack other continents, and suggested starting from the Western Continent.

  The reason is nothing more than prudence, because the Western Continent has a foundation, and the Shaliuhou Kingdom is the earliest branch of the Yi Emperor's territory. It has 15 towns, and the Fulu Empire and the Fulu Alliance of Fuzhi actually control nearly one-third of the Western Continent.

   Qu Mao also knows that to attack other continents, there are only two prerequisites. One is sufficient military strength, not only sufficient numbers of soldiers, but also sufficient combat effectiveness;

   Formally based on this consideration, even though Qu Mao is no longer running around like a cat with cats and feet like in the past, the focus of Tianxuan's work in the past 18 years has been on the army of Emperor Yi's territory, including improving the combat effectiveness of the army and changing the status quo of the army's equipment.

  On December 12th, the eighteenth year of Tianxuan, under the strong invitation of Sylvia Ocean, Qu Mao came to Wucheng Port in the Eastern Continent.

  Sylvia Ocean, Fuer Swamp, Christine Crillian, Lesa Middleton, Justin Smith, Shanks Reed and more than 30 core naval heroes from the territory of Yidi all gathered in Wucheng Port. This is Qu Mao’s impression. Ever since defeating the encirclement and suppression of the territory of Yidi by all the Lords of the Chosen players and all the aboriginal forces in the entire Continent of Hegemony, he has never seen such a complete gathering of core naval heroes.

  On the military pier of Wucheng Port, a 30-meter-high platform has been built with wood. Accompanied by more than 30 core naval heroes, Qu Mao boarded the platform, took out the binoculars in his backpack, and looked at the sea outside Wucheng Port.

  On the sea in the distance, a large number of warships slowly undulate with the waves, like giant beasts dormant among the waves.

   Qu Mao put down the binoculars, looked back at Christine Sirian, who was blushing with excitement, and asked, "Sylvia, Christine, is this what you invited me to watch today?"

  Christine Silian said excitedly: "My lord, don't you think this is not shocking enough?

  A total of 100 ironclad ships, with these 100 ironclad ships in hand, the subordinates have the confidence to unify the entire ocean! "

   Qu Mao was stunned for a moment, then raised his binoculars to look at it for a while, and continued to ask: "Sylvia has always been disapproving of the speed of ironclad ships, and now he has installed 100 ironclad ships in one go. Could it be that the speed performance has been improved?"

  Sylvia Ocean said proudly: "My lord, there is no major breakthrough in the iron-clad ship. If there is a major breakthrough in performance, I believe that the iron-clad ship research and development project team of Fukumura Shipyard on the outlying island will definitely report to you for credit.

  However, since the first ironclad shipyard on the coast of the Eastern Continent was put into production, small improvements have continued while producing. Each batch of ironclad ships rolled off the production line basically has some new performance breakthroughs and changes.

  Now the main task of the 10 ironclad shipyards along the coastline is to complete the assembly of ironclad ships, and there are almost every ironclad shipyard around every ironclad shipyard.

  In the past two years, the industrial chain of ironclad ships has been completely improved. This is also thanks to the 1 million units of steel ingots that you provided free of charge at the end of Tianxuan 16th. "

  Fur Swamp reminded: "My lord, don't bother chatting, and quickly pick up the binoculars. The formation of ironclad ships has already begun to sail towards us."

   Hearing Fuer Swamp's reminder, Qu Mao raised the binoculars to his eyes again and looked towards the sea.

   It has to be said that the core heroes of the navy put their minds to it. They were worried that Qu Mao would not be able to see the pros and cons. They specially arranged five traditional super warships, giant warships, large warships, medium warships, and small warships on both sides and in the middle of the ironclad formation for Qu Mao to observe and compare speed and performance remotely.

   Taking a closer look, Qu Mao found that the speed of the ironclad ship was not slow, and there was a faint tendency to surpass traditional medium-sized warships, but not catch up with traditional large-scale warships.

  I hope that the iron-clad ships sailing in the current formation are not just sailing with empty ships as they were during the original trial voyage, but even if they are sailing with empty ships, the speed is much higher than when Qu Mao was trial sailing at Fukumura Shipyard.

  Sylvia Ocean saw that Qu Mao was fascinated, and explained: "My lord, these 100 iron-clad ships have been formally included in the navy's order. The naval heroes unanimously agreed to name this iron-clad fleet the Iron Fist Fleet. It is a fleet parallel to the Navy's special warfare fleet, cruise fleet, and coastal defense fleet. There are 30,000 crew members on board, 20,000 shore-based support personnel, and 5% of the shore-based personnel are college graduates.

  In addition, there are 19 ironclad ships that were rolled off the production line earlier. The current technology cannot be substantially improved, so they are all placed at the Reef Chain Naval Military Base and used as training warships for the soldiers on board the ironclad ships.

  The Iron Fist Fleet has been newly formed, but the subordinates don’t want to use the Iron Fist Fleet to open up new sea routes. Now they have to hide it and wait until one day they suddenly give the enemy a huge surprise. "

   Qu Mao smiled and said: "Sylvia, congratulations to the navy for adding a powerful fleet.

  The matter of the navy is the same as in the past, you can arrange it yourself. "

  Sylvia Ocean said: "My lord, thank you for your trust. I assure you that all the oceans in the world belong to our Emperor Yi."