Chapter 477 Wolves

Chapter 477 Wolves

Chapter 477 Wolves
Dublin was not far ahead, and Sir Monty raised his telescope.

The port of Dublin was still surprisingly busy, with more than a dozen American transport ships entering the port.

As we all know, the Federation, this rebellious son, is the supporter behind the Irish. The Fenian Society, a group of Irish rebels, is actually a legal organization in the Federation.

Of course, the reason is that the Canadians, with the support of the British Empire, burned down the federal palace, and the federal government held a grudge against them.

You are welcome to watch the might of the British Empire's fleet. In this European war, one million federal soldiers participated in the war, boasting that they saved the British Empire.

When your soldiers arrived at the battlefield, they only participated in the siege of the German army and did not fight a single bloody battle, do you know that?
In the bloody European war, you are just a supporting role.

Now that the European war is over, I want to tell you that you are still just the rebellious sons of the British Empire. Don't forget your own surname just because you made a fortune during the war and have some money.

In the face of absolute military strength, the nouveau riche are nothing but scum.

The Irish are novices in naval warfare. They knew we were coming, but they didn't even know how to blockade the port with mines. Our dozens of mine-clearing boats were prepared in vain - the enemy was too incompetent, the knight shook his head regretfully.

Sir Monty slowly put down the telescope, and the moment the telescope left his hand, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

In the sea ahead, something seems to be moving underwater.

Years of experience in naval warfare made Sir Mondie unwilling to give up any suspicious movements, and he immediately raised his telescope again.

There seem to be a lot of big fish at the bottom of the water ahead. Could it be that we have encountered a school of long-finned pilot whales?
When you look at the big fish, the big fish is also looking at you.

Sir Monty saw the big fish at this time, but it was too late.

Jazz suddenly felt a shock under his feet, followed by a low explosion, and then the explosions continued.

"torpedo!"

The well-trained British captain and sailors immediately determined that they were under a torpedo attack, but - where was the enemy ship?

The surrounding sea is calm and there is not a single civilian ship. Where are the enemy's torpedo boats?

There were several thousand-ton frigates in front and on both sides of the Indomitable, and the frail torpedo boats had no chance of getting close to the main flagship.

But now, there were no enemy ships within sight. The Indomitable had indeed been hit by torpedoes, and more than one.

"boom!"

Another torpedo exploded below the waterline of the Indomitable, and the bottom warehouse of the Indomitable began to take on water and slowly tilted.

His subordinates surrounded the suspicious Sir Monty and boarded the small boat to leave the sinking flagship. The moment the Sir climbed onto the boat, he finally came to his senses.

The Irish have developed a new type of ship that can operate underwater!

The "big fish" he saw were definitely enemy ships preparing to hunt down the Imperial Fleet.

The enemy had unexpected warships, and the enemy situation was unclear. It was unknown how many "big fish" there were. Sir Mondie, who had boarded a frigate, ordered his men to raise the command flag and signaled, "Retreat!"

The ironclad ships under his command began to turn around and were constantly hit by torpedoes during the retreat, with battleships and cruisers sinking one after another.

No one knew where the enemy ships were, and there was no way to defend against this kind of attack. The morale of the British Empire fleet, which crisscrossed the seven seas, was in chaos.

When they fled back to Portsmouth Naval Port, only eight of the more than twenty ironclad ships were left, and they were all small in tonnage. The underwater enemy ships looked down on them and did not give them priority in attacking.

In the Battle of the Strait of George, the British fleet was attacked by torpedoes from dozens of warships of an unprecedented underwater fleet. It could only take the beating and was unable to fight back. Twelve main ironclad ships were sunk with a total tonnage of more than 60,000 tons, which was more than half of the losses in the Battle of Jutland.

Zero enemy ships were sunk, creating the worst record for the British fleet - no enemy was seen at all.

The main force of the British Empire Fleet suffered severe damage, morale suffered a devastating blow, and Sir Munday submitted his resignation to Her Majesty the Queen.

Queen Jessica of Ireland sent a telegram that day, condemning Britain for not keeping its previous promise and brazenly sending a fleet to attack Dublin.

Ireland's newly formed submarine force won a great victory in the naval battle, severely damaging the Royal Navy. Justice will prevail!
At the same time, it was announced that Ireland would recruit one million soldiers and put them on high alert, ready to annihilate any invading enemy at any time.

Can Ireland mobilize an army of one million? Ahem, basically a militia.

At its peak, Ireland had a population of 8 million. However, due to Britain's perverse actions in Ireland, which led to the "Great Irish Famine", a large number of Irish people emigrated overseas.

There are still five million people in Ireland, but there are tens of millions of Irish immigrants around the world.

Bulgaria has a population of three million, which can mobilize 800,000 guerrillas. The Irish have five million people, so it is no problem for everyone to become a soldier to defend the motherland.

Britain was not worried about the combat effectiveness of the Irish militia, but was worried that its own troops would not be able to cross the channel to Ireland.

Three days later, major European newspapers published photos of a large number of British warships sinking in the St. George's Channel. The Irish were well prepared and took these photos on the shore to humiliate Britain.

The British immediately launched a large-scale investigation to find out who was behind the Irish's development of so many combat-capable submarines, and pointed the finger at two suspicious parties - the Federation and Daxia.

However, the results of the investigation surprised the British. This matter had basically nothing to do with the Federation and Daxia. It was really something that the Irish themselves did.

There was a design genius from Ireland, John Holland.

Holland was one year younger than Shao Quanzhong. He started studying submarines at the age of 18. In 1873, he took his submarine design drawings to the Federation and presented them to the Federal Navy.

However, the Union Navy had suffered from submarines before. In 1872, they built their own submarine, the Wise Whale, which was wrecked and all the submarine crew members died. The Union Navy kept a distance from submarines and mocked Holland, saying, "No one would go to the bottom of the sea to die in a thing you designed."

The federal navy rejected Holland, and at this time, his fellow countrymen from the federal Fenian Society funded him. At this time, the Fenian Society was much better than before and had a strict organization.

The Fenian Society was committed to the restoration of Ireland and had long taken into account Britain's invincible fleet.

Given Ireland's national strength and financial resources, it was impossible for it to build a large fleet to compete with Britain, so it had to find another way.

The red-haired Irish fellow said, we are not afraid of death. If you dare to design a submarine, we dare to ride it, even if it means we will perish together with the British.

Holland received much larger financial support than in history and obtained sufficient technical support. It established the "Holland Torpedo Boat Company" in the federation and began to formally develop submarines.

By the time Ireland gained independence, he had already developed five generations of his own submarines, which were powered by batteries underwater. The only thing he was dissatisfied with was that when traveling quickly on the water, he needed to use a steam engine, which was not powerful enough.

At this time, Daxia's gasoline engines appeared. Ireland urgently purchased two hundred gasoline engines and shipped them to Dublin. Holland's company also moved to Ireland urgently.

In just a few months, the Holland Torpedo Boat Company produced fifty twin gasoline-engined, 33-kilowatt submarines, named the "Fenian Ram Class" submarines.

After five years of repeated revisions by the genius Holland, this type of submarine is now fully capable of being used in actual combat. It is 15 meters long, has a surface speed of 7 knots, and a cruising range of 1000 nautical miles.

The underwater speed is 5 knots and the cruising range is 50 nautical miles.

The submarine has a crew of five and is equipped with a bow torpedo tube that can launch three torpedoes. It has a stable surface navigation, fast dive, and is flexible and maneuverable.

Ireland quietly acquired fifty submarines and became famous in the Battle of St. George's Channel. All 150 torpedoes accurately hit the vulnerable parts of British warships below the waterline, and the wolf pack tactics were a great success.

This was actually invented by the Irish themselves. At most, Daxia sold gasoline engines to Ireland.

But even the Good Fruit Company really doesn't know what the Irish did with the gasoline engines, so it can't be blamed on Daxia.

God bless Ireland. At the critical moment, the Irish produced a genius to develop submarines.

Faced with the enormous pressure of the British fleet, the Irish had no choice but to take a big risk on submarines, and they won the bet.

The British Royal Fleet was severely damaged, the genius Holland became famous all over the world, and the pattern of naval warfare changed from then on.

The naval commanders of various countries who received this news had different attitudes, and most of them were eager to try. We also need submarines. With this thing, the British brother doesn't seem so scary...

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On May 1878, 5, Shao Quanzhong arrived at the port of Varna in Bulgaria on the Haiqi, escorted by four modified Saxony-class ironclad ships.

Shao Quanzhong was responsible for escorting Princess Sissi back to her country. She was accompanied by 150 transport ships carrying 200,000 soldiers.

It is impossible to declare war on the Allies. These 200,000 soldiers are not here to fight.

Generally speaking, one soldier can live comfortably on each ton of transport ship. One hundred and fifty thousand-ton transport ships can carry about 150,000 people. Wouldn't it be crowded if they could carry 200,000 people?

Not at all, because these 200,000 soldiers did not carry any equipment. Among them, only 100,000 were equipped with Mauser pistols, which were the mirror-faced bastard boxes that Europeans considered useless.

The Federation sent one million soldiers to Europe to fight in the war, and it took a full six months to transport the troops across the Atlantic.

Shao Quanzhong was not bragging when he said he would bring three million soldiers to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but three million people could not come all at once. In two months, the first batch of soldiers that arrived was only 200,000, not including Shao Quanzhong's own 6,000 Guards Brigade.

These 200,000 soldiers were not regular Huai Army soldiers. Among them, 100,000 armed soldiers were reserve Fenian members who had been trained for many years by the Red-haired Irish military supervisors and had previously received German training.

The training began after the assassination during his visit to Sarajevo in 1874. At that time, Shao Quanzhong was already preparing to send these people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The remaining 100,000 people, and the subsequent 2.8 million people who have not yet arrived, are militiamen selected from the disaster victims in the north. They will arrive on various temporarily requisitioned civilian ships under the escort of the British Far East Fleet. They are not armed forces at all.

However, it is not an armed force now, but it is in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Shao Quanzhong boarded the train at Varna Port, and 200,000 soldiers boarded the train one after another.

The train from Varna to Berlin had never been interrupted during the war, but now there were not so many tasks of transporting cargo and arms, so it was used to transport troops instead.

Two hundred thousand people entered the Austro-Hungarian Empire that day and turned into 15 fully equipped divisions in Hungary.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire had 780 million troops participating in the European war, and 120 million of them were killed in action.

Now that they have surrendered, they have plenty of equipment, and they are all made in Daxia style, most of which are imported from the Haoguozi Company.

The three million people prepared by Shao Quanzhong will be equipped with the Austro-Hungarian armed forces and will instantly become a powerful armed force.

After all, there are reservists who have been trained for more than 100,000 years as the backbone, and the militia also received preliminary training after being recruited.

How did the European warring countries mobilize eight or nine million people at any time? Where were there so many regular troops? They were just these militiamen who took up arms and went to the battlefield to fill the trenches.

Shao Quanzhong has 100,000 well-trained backbones among the 3 million people, and can already serve as the main force.

Shao Quanzhong left 100,000 men in Budapest, and also left three battalions of guards to protect his son Shao Jisi and Queen Mary, and began his rule in Hungary.

With three guard battalions and 100,000 militiamen, Princess Sissi was escorted to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on the third day.

(End of this chapter)