Another World: Naval Storm

In the blink of an eye, the year has come to 1898. Vasir was assigned to the flagship of the Third Fleet, the Drake Empire, and met Leo's pen pal, the equally talented Gunvotel-Gernara. Nicolas appeared on the new cruiser Queen Merkel and became a gunnery officer. Dick stayed at the Navy Headquarters and became a staff officer of the Imperial Navy Headquarters, the adjutant of the Navy Minister, and was promoted to lieutenant earlier than his friend.

The newly rising Drake Empire and the old colonial empire Tarun Kingdom will inevitably have a war. This is the voice of all citizens of the Drake Empire. The Drake Empire is resource-poor, the domestic market is saturated, and because it has entered the ocean too recently, it has missed the best opportunity to divide the world. This has led to the rapid development of the Drake Empire's industrial and commercial output of goods having nowhere to dump.

The Kingdom of Talen controls global maritime power, and its vast colonies around the world have become the largest market for its products. If the Drake Empire wants to continue to develop, it must break the various rules set by the Kingdom of Talen relying on its own powerful strength.

Leo was not opposed to using force to seize the living space needed by the Drake Empire, but he was very dissatisfied with Piltz's somewhat conservative and unclear "risk theory."

The core idea of ​​"risk theory" is the value of the fleet. Piltz believes that the Talen Navy is spread all over the world, and the Drake Empire Navy has no need and no ability to catch up with the Talen Navy. As long as the Talen Navy can be severely damaged after the war begins, forcing the Talen Kingdom to give up its maritime hegemony. In his conception, the significance of the Drake Empire Navy's expansion is more deterrent than war. As long as Talen realizes that going to war with the Empire will result in a lose-lose situation, then Talen will compromise and give up some rights.

The memory of his previous life let Leo know that Piltz's theory was too idealistic. Using local advantages to shake Talen's global hegemony was a way to deal with the newly rising Drake Empire.

In order to avoid direct confrontation between the two countries, the government of the Drake Empire announced that the new military expansion plan was aimed at dealing with Fran and Rakshasa and would never threaten Taren's hegemony.

Unfortunately, the Drak people's rising desire for expansion still made the Taren people vigilant. Almost at the same time as the Drak Empire Navy expanded its forces, the Taren Navy also began to build warships. Unfortunately, from 1897 to 1902, all the new warships built were old battleships, which were no match for the dreadnoughts, seriously wasting a lot of Taren resources. Until the appearance of the Drak Empire's dreadnoughts, many old warships on the Taren slipway were directly outdated.

Talen's strategy to maintain maritime hegemony was to adhere to the "double power standard", that is, the total naval tonnage was not less than the total naval tonnage of the two major powers. In 1903, stimulated by the appearance of the Drake Empire dreadnought, with the support of Piltz's old enemy George Adair Bartlett, the Royal Navy caught up and began to build Talen's dreadnought.

The impact of the first-mover advantage is unparalleled. Piltz focused all his efforts on building dreadnoughts and battlecruisers, and somewhat neglected other new weapons and technologies for naval warfare.

Leo has a clear understanding of Talen's national strength. As long as the Talen Royal Navy starts to exert its strength, with the support of a century-old industrial foundation, the number of dreadnoughts will soon catch up. As for the half-built warships, they are still built. The colony needs them. Taro said that with wealth and power, who is afraid of who!

Piltz was very stubborn and ignored Leo's advice to build more submarines and auxiliary ships. The ocean fleet was his dream, and he would not allow anyone to disrupt the plan that he had been planning for more than ten years.

"What the empire needs is a fleet of dreadnoughts that can engage in decisive battles at sea and traverse the oceans. Dreadnoughts are the mainstream of future naval battles! Submarines that are like iron coffins, torpedo boats that cannot sail far in the ocean, and attack ships converted from merchant ships with a few guns and no armor, what use are they!" Piltz was very dissatisfied with Leo's disrespectful defiance.

"Weren't you a staunch battleship supporter before? You liked huge ships and big cannons. Now that dreadnoughts are out, you're a dreadnought supporter again? You're really single-minded. You just like big and thick ones!" Leo criticized in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud.

"Sir, the emergence of the dreadnought is a technological advancement! Torpedoes and submarines will not stand still either! I believe they will be able to demonstrate their superb combat effectiveness in certain situations!"

"You believe it? You believe it? Just because you believe it, the Empire will invest a huge amount of money and resources to build something that is not sure of its value?" Piltz was very angry. "Use the lives of countless soldiers to verify your words? Get out, the Empire needs pragmatism."

"Time will prove that I am right!" Leo didn't want the Drake Empire to be like the country in his previous life, where the so-called ocean fleet became a toy in the mouths of some people, trapped in the port by the siege of the Talen fleet, and sank tragically in an afternoon full of sunset.

Leo would rather all the warships sink in the war than rust in the sea, so he was so angry that he didn't care about the consequences.

The Imperial Navy Department was filled with the quarrels between the two. The fierce quarrel caused Piltz's favorability towards him to plummet. His originally bright future was ruined by Leo.

Piltz wanted to teach this ignorant young man a lesson. In June 1898, Leo was transferred from the Navy Headquarters to become the Navy Representative at the Kaili Shipyard. Just when Leo was about to retire and retake the entrance exam for the University of Platinum, in June 6, Leo was assigned to the destroyer Botuka as the gunnery officer and exiled to the Far East Fleet with the destroyer.

The Botuka is an SMS-class destroyer with a full load displacement of more than 105 tons, equipped with two 37mm main guns, six mm secondary guns, and two torpedo launchers. After months of drifting, the Botuka entered the Far East Fleet's home port of Fengqi Port.

Coming to this familiar yet strange country, Leo's performance disappointed the Far East Fleet, who felt that he was completely different from the high-spirited man at the Navy Headquarters. Apart from training and exchanging letters with his parents and girlfriend, he usually stayed in the dormitory reading books.

When the news from China reached the Far East, people knew that this was another unlucky guy who was exiled. When Leo was enjoying his life in Fengqi, the Far East Punishment War broke out!

No matter which world they are in, invaders always find a good name for their acts of aggression. In Leo's opinion, this is an unjust war, because the people of Xunyang look very similar to the Chinese people in his previous life, and they are in the same situation, so there is a different feeling.

In the eyes of other countries, a local radical organization in the Xunyang Empire brutally killed foreign ministers and expatriates. The Xunyang Empire repeatedly rejected the reasonable demands of many governments for the country to control the situation. The Xunyang Empire declared war on ten countries including Drake and Taren at the same time.

The civilized world countries will form a coalition to punish the Xunyang Empire's anti-human behavior and help the country stabilize domestic order.