Chapter 523: Assault on Saarland (3)

The military port of Saarland is an independent island, surrounded by dozens of warships of different sizes like wings, protecting them from the storm.
Some of these docks are also Saar City’s largest and oldest docks. This behemoth is equipped with digital heads, brackets, workshops, residences, warehouses and mooring platforms.
The First Fleet chose to use it as an anchorage because of its complete facilities and excellent water environment. From here, the Fleet can control a large expanse of water in the middle of the barren sea. This control right is particularly important for the current Republic. important.
Since the fall of Essex, many problems have emerged, the first is the soaring food prices.
Although Essex has a good industry and mining industry, it is still an agricultural state, and animal husbandry and plantation are its roots. Most immigrants are also farmers, not factories, and the annual crop output of the entire state It accounts for 12% of the country's total annual output, and meat accounts for 24%.
After losing such a big agricultural state, the inevitable prices of agricultural products everywhere began to increase, and the emergence of a large number of refugees has exacerbated the spread of this situation.
Take Saar City as an example. Compared with the past, the price of meat products has increased by at least 30% to 40% year-on-year, and grains have also increased by 20%.
In the past, a worker's family could eat meat at least once a week, but now it has become a month to eat it. Even some families can't maintain this level. Some people have died of hunger in slums, 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 the country are completely reversed. Before the Cusconal upheaval, 70% of the industry in the entire Benedict Empire was concentrated in the western provinces, and 60% of the agriculture was concentrated in the eastern provinces. Lamatia is also known as the imperial granary, which produces one-fifth of the country's grain with one province.
However, after the Cusconal change, the empire was divided into two, and the East Benedict Empire also lost almost all its industrial facilities. It could only start from scratch. In the face of Ock’s steps, the pressure was very huge.
In fact, long ago, the East Benedict Empire wanted to negotiate trade with the New California Republic, but at that time, the Republic was still swinging 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 advice.
It was not until the large-scale invasion of Oklahoma that the high-level of the republic had contact with the only East Benedict empire with anti-European experience, and the two sides communicated with each other as the war progressed.
On the contrary, the West Benedict Empire has been defeated in the fierce attack of the Trust Council, leaving only two or three provinces still struggling to support, and there is no value for cooperation at all.
The New California Republic will no longer do betting on both sides, and decisively hold hands with the East Benedict Empire.
The trade between the two sides has become the focus of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The exchange of agricultural products for industrial products is a trade that is beneficial to both. The Republic assists the empire to establish its own industry, and the empire fills the shrinking granary of the republic.
The key to maintaining the transaction lies in the ocean. Both sides have no land contact, and the trade is entirely dependent on the sea. The only thing that is fortunate is that Oak has no maritime 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 maritime power of the New California Republic on the barren sea had an absolute advantage, especially when the fleet of the Benedict Empire annihilated one third, and the other two thirds again fēnliè Later, it became the absolute power of this sea area.
But today, it met its first challenger, a group of things that had never been seen by the Navy in the past.
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The Xuanfeng is a fast cruiser, belonging to the Poison Arrow class two ship, because the New California Republic has no claim of light and heavy cruisers. All ships below the battleship and above the destroyer are called cruisers.
It has a speed far superior to that of battleships, and at the same time is much more powerful than destroyers and frigates. It has always been the main force of the first fleet to patrol the sea.
This time, it became the first victim.
A huge artillery shell hit it, and then burst into light.
Boom~!
The huge impact generated by bàozhà collided with the physical matter, annihilated each other, and directly vaporized the side cleaning dock, tearing the structure of the huge mooring bracket and another tugboat inhabiting it.
The 82-meter long pick was cut into two sections, and the position of the dànyào cabin in the middle suddenly bàozhà, disappearing with sixty lives in a rapidly expanding mass of heat and light.
The two workshops next to the cleaning pier were incinerated by this bàozhà, killing more than one hundred workers in the fingertips, and tearing the main structure of the crane, causing it to fall to both sides, causing a chain reaction that caused the parking The frigate Siberia, a hundred meters away, collided with another frigate Red Crab.
The hulls of both battleships suffered catastrophic damage, and the Siberia was twisted and deformed like the same used cartridge case.
The shelling continued, and a large number of rockets roared.
They attacked Pier 3 one after another, and those berths were carrying the battleship Coercion, the Dragon Dragon, and the supply ship Blue Governor.
These two battleships are old battleships. Like the once-backed Turtle, they have many defense defects, so they were hit by huge disasters during the rocket bombardment.
The first is the ashes of the superstructure.
The chimney of Jialong was broken like a glass ball, and the flying debris cut into other buildings connected to it, exposing them to the sea water.
A part of the Duress was dumped by bàozhà, rotating and colliding with the main boom mechanism of the dock, causing it to deform laterally.
The blue Governor’s number turned into a huge ball of fire, and the cargo box flew out like a bead on a broken necklace, like rice grains pouring out of a broken bag, they rolled and scattered around, Some of them plunged into the sea, bursting out a blue flame like a blowtorch.
As the shelling and rocket bombardment intensified, the entire port of Saar shuddered.
The devastating trajectory of the super-caliber main gun caused a series of bàozhà inside the port. The dwellings and warehouses burst into collapse, the lighthouses collapsed one by one, and the crane was bent and broken like a wader hit by a hunter.
The destroyer Wind and Rain Shield caught fire in the berth, and the crew stationed above was desperately rescued, but to no avail.
The cruiser Triumph, sitting on the maintenance dock, was penetrated by storm-like debris, and its boiler compartment imploded after the name of a rocket, twisting the battleship into a ninety-degree bend, just like being carried People who live with ankle flick.
It was still wrapped by the bow of the pier and hit the destroyer Catfish, which was also being renovated at the nearby pier. The two battleships crushed and torn each other during the collision. The hull was torn apart. A large amount of oil was sprayed from the damaged part of the hull. Those sprays You can also see some tumbling bodies wearing sailors.
But all the damage is no less than the damage of the Wilderness. This 149-meter-long battleship is the longest serving member of the First Fleet and the oldest model of all battleships.
As its huge dànyào library suffered fatal trauma, the battleship suddenly disappeared into a loud noise, and large pieces of burning debris were thrown into the sky, and then crashed into the ocean below, the momentum of which made the entire city Shivering.
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 turbine started, Taos broke free of its berth and began to slide backwards from the dock, like a weird sailing ceremony.
Not far from him, the two new fearless ships were unable to move. The 179-meter-long Nocturne was paralyzed because the sirs were on vacation, and the sister ship Apostle on the side was due to the distance between them~EbookFREE.me~ There is no way to move out of the berth on their own. The movement of these large warships in the port area often relies heavily on tugs.
However, the shelling from overseas continued, and it was like a meteor splashing around, which greatly pushed the port flat. .
Boom~~!
Ten minutes after the attack, the first artillery of the human counterattack was first fired by the coastal defense artillery outside the city, and then the artillery groups woke up one by one and began to pour firepower into the sea.
But at this time the shelling had spread into the city, causing huge fire and chaos. The officers on vacation were hurriedly rushing to the pier, but they did not expect that another battle was waiting for them...
"Assault ship! Give me!"
Looking at the port shrouded in thick smoke and fire, Jinya ignored the shells that fell more than ten meters away from the hull and the sea water spattered on him, and gave a cold order.
Afterwards, thirteen assault ships of various shapes rushed towards the pier like the arrows of the string in the roar of the engine. The boys above waved the knives and guns in their hands and issued an excited battle roar. 11