1937 was a very important year for the Japanese, whether it was the army or the navy.
On July 7th, 1937, the Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion of China!
In the same year, the Washington and London Navy Pact, which had been signed in the early years, expired. The Japanese Navy officially entered a period of expansion.
In 1937, the Japanese Navy had 10 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers, 21 light cruisers, 2 seaplane carriers, 3 submarine carriers, and 76 first-class destroyer.
However, almost all of these warships had entered service around 1920.
As for the warships that the Japanese Navy had built, they had yet to enter the water. In fact, some of them had only just begun construction.
This year, the Japanese had as many as 66 warships under construction, and they had also begun to modify the existing warships on a large scale.
It could be said that this was a glorious year for the Japanese, and also a year of great development!
……
However!
This year, this glorious year!
A group of pirates actually gave the Japanese a tight slap, a loud slap!
The entire port had been plundered, more than ten merchant ships had been taken away, countless resources had been lost, and thousands of people had been slaughtered and captured!
What kind of humiliation was this, and what kind of anger was this?
After receiving the request for help from the TW Governor, the Japanese Navy Minister did not hesitate at all. He immediately formed a fleet and prepared to destroy this group of rampant pirates!
This was a must for the Japanese!
At this stage, the Japanese were frantically expanding their navy, but at the same time, it also meant that the current strength of the Japanese navy was not enough to dominate the world.
If the navy of the Guizi Empire were to be reported at this juncture, they wouldn't even be able to deal with a group of pirates.
Then, the impact on the international community was unimaginable.
In fact, to exaggerate, would some countries look down on the Japanese because of this?
Would they change their foreign policy toward the Japanese because of this?
No one could say for sure!
Therefore, at this critical juncture, the Japanese would never allow any accidents to happen.
Now, the biggest surprise was none other than the Skull Island pirates.
Therefore, the Japanese wanted to take down the Skull Island pirates at all costs to publicize their strength and intimidate the surrounding countries.
This time, the Japanese simply sent a powerful fleet with the Kirishima battleship as the core to TW Island!
They only had one mission, and that was to exterminate the Skull Island pirates!
The Kirishima Battleship was a Vajra class battlecruiser that was built by the Japanese in 1912 and commissioned in 1915.
Full load displacement, 36000 tons!
It was 222 meters long, 31 meters wide, and had a draft of nearly 10 meters. It was equipped with 1360 marines! Maximum speed of 30 knots!
There were four 35.6cm main cannons, 16 15.2cm five-load naval cannons, and eight 12.7cm high-angle cannons.
Of course, the most terrifying part was its thick armor.
Kirishima Battlecruiser, waterline armor, 203mm thick, deck armor 70mm, ammunition depot deck armor 70 to 102mm!
The captain of the ship was the Japanese commander, Kanazawa Masao!
Just this battlecruiser alone, not to mention the other auxiliary ships, had a displacement of 36,000 tons...
It was several times the total displacement of all the ships on the Skeleton Island!
Even if Tidas's Astriban fleet was completed, they were not on the same level at all!
Tidas probably did not expect that the Japanese would actually value him so much even though he had just paid his respects to them!
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Time flew by. It had been almost two months since the Skeleton Island robbed the Black Water Commercial Port.
The first warship of the Skeleton Island, the wooden gunboat Guang Wan, was finally completed!
On this day, everyone on the Skull Island was overjoyed.
Countless people gathered around the dock. Looking at the warship that was built by the Skeleton Island, everyone was smiling.
"Aiya, what a big ship. I never dreamed that the Skeleton Island could build its own warship!”
"Haha, Chief, you're really amazing. Look, look, such a mighty warship. If it was in the past, we wouldn't even dare to think about it!”
"Hehe, it's useless for you to be envious. Let me tell you, I'm in the top ten in cultural studies. I'll definitely be selected to drive this new ship.”
"What are you so proud of? I heard from the big-muzzled speaker that the chief said that he was going to build an entire fleet. We'll have plenty of opportunities to drive new ships in the future!”
The pirates were extremely excited. It was a great honor to be able to board Guang Wan.
Tidas had long stipulated that after the construction of the new warship was completed, those who were good at their studies would be given priority. Those with poor grades could not be counted on.
So now, those pirates who were usually serious in their studies were all smiling.
Speaking of which, it had only been two months. The pirates themselves did not have any foundation, so what knowledge could they have learned?
It was nothing more than these pirates who had better grades only knew a few more words than the other pirates who had worse grades.
In terms of combat strength, there was no difference at all.
However, what Tidas wanted was not some combat strength.
Even this Asiben fleet was picked up by Tidas and did not expect to be the main fleet.
The main reason for Tidas's arrangement was to stimulate those pirates to study harder.
Tidas was a pirate.
Even if they wanted to recruit people, they couldn't!
He was really cultured and capable. Who would be willing to be a pirate?
Therefore, Tidas could only start with the pirates on the Skeleton Island.
Nurturing talents on their own…
It was not that Tidas wanted to, but that he had no other choice.
Tidas strode towards the Guang Wan gunship. When they saw Tidas arrive, the surrounding lackeys all made way for him.
"Chief!"
"Great, Chief!"
"Greetings, Chief!"
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