Chapter 1338: 1339Morning Anchorage
The neat warships stayed at the Longgang anchorage, looking majestic. Here is the remaining fleet of the Lines Empire, including two seriously damaged battleships, seven cruisers, 12 destroyers, more than 190 transport ships of various types, and more than 100 requisitioned civilian ships.
These ships were all spoils of the Tang Navy. They all surrendered. Now these warships are staying at the port of the Tang Empire, the port they originally wanted to attack and occupied.
Blomyer, the Commander-in-Chief of the Leines Empire Navy was, after all, more honorable than the Emperor to whom he was loyal. He sank along with the Leines aircraft carrier and did not witness the fluttering of his navy's white flag.
All battleships are relatively new in age and were built in the past few years. They were all once the pride of the Lions Empire's navy, and each ship was devoted to the Lions Empire's efforts.
In order to build this large navy, the Lines Empire almost emptied its own treasury. They have used up their steel production capacity and even national construction has slowed down.
In the great era of warship technology development, every warship has some new warship equipment, and every warship has witnessed the progress and development of this era.
For example, some of the newly manufactured naval destroyers of the Lines Empire Navy are equipped with radars imported from the Tang Empire, and some are simply imported air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment.
In order to meet the needs of ocean warfare, destroyers have evolved from the original displacement of more than 1,000 tons and more than 1,500 tons to a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, or even close to 4,000 tons.
In order to deal with these big guys, cruisers were also forced to build larger and install more artillery in order to destroy enemy destroyers during sea battles.
But without the protection and blessing of missiles, these warships are fragile and unable to resist the attack of aircraft, so in the end they can only hang up the white flag and be escorted here, waiting for their fate.
There are only a few dozen Lions Empire sailors left on each battleship. Their task is to stay on board and maintain the battleships honestly, so that these battleships will not be scrapped in the anchorage due to loss of maintenance.
Tang Mo had heard of Operation Rainbow. He would not make the mistake of the British Navy and let these enemy warships sink at his doorstep.
Even though the enemy's life and death has nothing to do with you, letting these scraps of copper and iron commit suicide in your own hands is a negligible loss to the prestige of the Tang Empire.
This is like a peerless master. After defeating his opponent, he was about to kill the opponent, but the opponent spat a mouthful of **** phlegm on the master's pants... Although the outcome could not be changed, the peerless master himself felt disgusted.
Because the scale of the fleet mobilized by the Lions Imperial Navy this time was too large, hundreds of ships escaped in the end.
The ones that escaped the most were the destroyer escorts. Among these destroyers, most of them were destroyers that Tang State had previously sold to the Lions Empire.
These destroyers relied on their high speed and the advantage of being relatively far back to quickly leave the battlefield, abandoning the ships they were escorting, and fled back to Lines.
The main fleet in front was attacked by the Tang army and eventually became prisoners of the Tang navy. Now, they gather together at the anchorage and become a unique landscape.
The ammunition depots on all battleships have been locked, and all weapons have been confiscated. These ships now have no combat effectiveness. Sailor Ryans, who was washing up on the deck, looked at the oil tankers passing by in the lane and was surprised by how busy Long Island was. The port here is ten times bigger than they imagined! There are ten times more ships here than they imagined!
Every day, there are countless cargo ships and oil tankers coming and going here. The equipment produced here will be transported to the mainland of the Tang Empire, where it will be sold to all parts of the world.
This is not only the production of precision machinery, but also various research and development laboratories. One-third of the essence of the Tang Empire is accumulated here, like a huge treasure house.
But this treasure house only belongs to the Tang Empire, and no one can take it away! Because as long as you look at the terrifying aircraft carrier next to it and the guided missile destroyers parked around it, you should know that not everyone is qualified to covet everything here.
The sailors of the Datang Empire who left Longgang also looked at these warships with white flags curiously. In their impression, the Navy of the Datang Empire stopped producing such backward warships many years ago.
They looked at the huge size of these battleships with curiosity and the densely packed main guns of various calibers on them, as if they were looking at a pile of antiques.
There is really no way. They are Longgang people. They have seen Longgang build guided missile destroyers and aircraft carriers with their own eyes. It is really difficult for them to comment on artillery warships.
In their eyes, the giant gun warships built by other navies are just symbols of the old era that express the romanticism of war.
"Hey! Look! Isn't that a battleship? Our Dongwan class...has it been retired?" Looking at the dozens of sailors washing up on the deck opposite, the sailors in Longgang pointed and chatted.
“I heard that the gun barrel is too expensive.” Another sailor nodded and said. They knew the inside story. They heard that the two Dongwan-class battleships used for town-building—that is, the Bismarck-class battleships of the Tang Imperial Navy—will be decommissioned soon.
These two battleships had been supporting the battle during the naval battle to land in Mirage, destroying almost all the gun barrels in stock, so they could only retire in tears.
After all, the Datang Imperial Navy no longer continues to manufacture and produce 380 mm caliber main gun barrels. That thing is too expensive. The Datang Imperial Navy no longer needs to use such outdated weapons to ensure the penetration of enemy warships. Armored.
As a result, the two battleships with "outstanding" merits have become embarrassing existences. They had to face the problem of no guns available. In the end, these two battleships, with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, had no choice but to tearfully retire and be dismantled.
The Dongwan-class battleships, like the Yucheng-class battleships, have become the history of the Tang Dynasty Navy.
“Hello! Welcome to Longgang!” When the tanker was closest to the anchorage, the sailors of Longgang waved to the sailors of Lanes and shouted loudly.
The other party seemed to hear their shouts, raised his head, and waved...as if they were really guests.
As everyone knows, most of the Lanes sailors have been living in the prisoner-of-war camp on Dragon Island for several days.