Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 170 Reversing Black and White

At around eight o'clock in the evening on September 3013th, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, in a large hall of the royal palace in Feni City, the capital of the Sharad Empire, the Minister of the Navy, Gavriel, carefully reported to Emperor Herris: "Your Majesty, in the capital of the Saraad Empire, the During the naval battle near the port of Xingang City in the Yun Empire, it was confirmed that three former dreadnought battleships, one armored battleship, at least five light cruisers, six destroyers, and many gunboats and torpedo boats of the Datang Empire Navy had been sunk. At present, the remaining warships of our Royal Sharad Navy have safely left the battlefield."

Emperor Herris asked in a gloomy voice: "How much was lost in the end for the warships sent to the Liuyun Empire's navy? How many casualties were there?"

Secretary of the Navy Gavriel wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and then said bitterly: "In addition to the several seriously injured warships that we sunk when we retreated, in this naval battle, our Royal Sharad Navy has a total of Eighteen ironclad battleships, five old-fashioned medium-sized armored cruisers, 29 frigate cruisers, and 62 new-style torpedo boats were sunk, with 4000 officers and soldiers killed and missing, and nearly [-] wounded.”

"Boom——" Emperor Herris slammed his fist on the table in front of him, and then said through gritted teeth: "Your navy is quite brave. With some old-fashioned warships, you dare to go to war with the Tang Empire's navy and fight back. For sinking three former dreadnought battleships of the Tang Empire Navy, shouldn't I reward your navy?"

The Minister of the Navy Gavriel hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, calm down, this naval battle was completely provoked by the Navy of the Tang Empire. Our Royal Navy of Sharad is only passively fighting. We..."

Before Gavriel finished speaking, Emperor Herris threw a piece of paper on the ground in front of Gavriel, and said grimly: "Pick it up and take a closer look, this is the so-called passive confrontation? Am I being a fool?"

Gavriel trembled in fright at the gloomy tone of Emperor Herris, and hurriedly picked up the paper on the ground. After reading it quickly, Gavriel's face was shocked, and fear even appeared in his eyes. This piece of paper introduced in detail the real reason for the outbreak of the naval battle, as well as the general process of the entire naval battle, and even the fact that the captain of the Forester, Gracia, seized the command of the fleet, was clearly written on this piece of paper.

Gavriel immediately explained anxiously: "Your Majesty, I really didn't know what happened. I didn't expect Victoro to act so boldly and faked the illusion that the Tang Empire Navy fired first. Our Admiralty will definitely treat Victoro Take the most severe punishment!"

In fact, before Secretary of the Navy Gavriel entered the palace, he had already received a secret message from Gracia, the captain of the Forester, and knew that the naval battle was planned by Commander Victoro. However, after weighing the pros and cons, Gavriel Decided to hide the truth about the outbreak of this naval battle from Emperor Heris.

The reason why Secretary of the Navy Gavriel did this is to shirk his responsibility as the Secretary of the Navy on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is because Commander Victoro can be regarded as Gavriel's teacher. When he graduated from the military academy, he served as an intern officer on a sailing battleship where Victoro served as the captain. Later, with Victoro's help and guidance, Gavriel grew up little by little, and even surpassed the blue. Became the Minister of the Navy of the Navy Department of the Sharad Empire.

This time, Victoro persuaded the Minister of the Navy, Gavriel, on the grounds that he served the Sharad Royal Navy for the last time. The commander of the temporary fleet composed of hundreds of new torpedo boats and dozens of transport ships.

However, what Gavriel, the Minister of the Navy, never expected was that Emperor Herries knew exactly what Victor Rowe did. It seems that Emperor Herries had planted a lot of eyeliners in the Royal Navy of Sharad. At that time, the Secretary of the Navy, Gavriel, didn't care about the friendship between teachers and students, so let's save ourselves first!
Emperor Herris sneered, staring at the Secretary of the Navy Gavriel for a long time without speaking, but Gavriel didn't dare to look into Emperor Herris' eyes, lowered his head and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead with his hands.

At this time, the Prime Minister Shulik in the main hall suddenly said: "Your Majesty, no matter what the reason for the naval battle broke out, since it has already started, I feel that it is better to use this as an excuse to bite down on the fact that the naval battle of the Tang Empire The first to fire, let the Seven Nations Alliance formally declare war on the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire."

Hearing Prime Minister Shulik speak, Navy Minister Gavriel couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at Prime Minister Shulik gratefully.

Emperor Herris frowned when he heard Prime Minister Shulik's words, and said hesitantly: "But according to the agreement between the Seven Kingdoms, war will be declared against the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire at the beginning of January next year. It took more than three months to mobilize troops and raise supplies. Is it too hasty to declare war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire now? Even the forty infantry divisions newly expanded by our Royal Sharad Army currently have no Fully complete the build."

Prime Minister Shulik said calmly: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is not much difference between declaring war early and declaring war late. Even if we declare war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire now, the sea and army of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance can wait. Attack when you are ready, not immediately after a declaration of war."

Emperor Herris frowned and asked, "If war is declared now, will the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire initiate the offensive first?"

Prime Minister Shulik said with a slight smile: "If the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire take the initiative to attack, it may be more beneficial to our Seven Nations Alliance. Our Sharad Royal Army can use our strong positions to consume the vitality of the Datang Army. When our Sharad Royal Army, Yingluoba Army, and Noomi Army counterattack the territory of the Datang Empire, the resistance encountered will be weakened. a lot of."

Emperor Herris hesitated for a moment and said: "I'm not worried about the army of the Tang Empire invading the border areas of our Sharad Empire, but I'm a little worried about the Liuyun Empire. At present, our Royal Army of Sharad only has eight infantry divisions in total. You have to count the two infantry divisions that just resisted the Liuyun Empire, and the armies of the Monia Empire and the Rielan Empire have not set off from the northern continent yet!"

Prime Minister Shulik continued to smile and said: "Your Majesty, I hope that the army of the Tang Empire can attack the Liuyun Empire first. In that case, the Liuyun Empire will be completely tied to the side of our seven-nation alliance." Well, the intelligence department of the Sharad Empire has received definite news that the emperor of the Liuyun Empire is not willing to send troops to attack the Tang Empire."

Emperor Herris nodded and said, "What the prime minister said is also reasonable, then try to contact the other six countries to discuss the matter of declaring war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire in advance."

Then Emperor Herris said coldly to Secretary of the Navy Gavriel: "I don't care what kind of relationship you have with that old Victor, the Admiralty must deal with Victor seriously and seal the real reason for the outbreak of the naval battle. The truth must never be spread.”

Secretary of the Navy Gavriel nodded repeatedly and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Ministry of the Navy will definitely impose the most severe punishment on Victoro, and promise not to reveal the real reason for the outbreak of the naval battle."

On the morning of September [-]th, the Sharad Empire held a press conference to strongly condemn the unprovoked attack by the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire on the Royal Navy of the Sharad Empire, and demanded that the Tang Empire report to the Sharad Empire as soon as possible. Make an explanation and compensate the huge losses of the Royal Navy of Sharad, otherwise the Empire of Sharad will not rule out using force to avenge the officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy of Sharad.

Immediately afterwards, on the afternoon of September [-]th and the morning of the next day, six countries including Inroba, Noomi, Monia, Jisk, Rielland, and Orenza held press conferences successively , made a strong protest and condemnation of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire's attack on the Royal Navy of Sharad, and urged the Empire of Tang to apologize to the Sharad Empire as soon as possible, otherwise these six countries will cooperate with Sharad under the agreement of the seven-nation alliance. Together with the empire, they used all means to punish the Tang Empire.

At two o'clock in the afternoon on September 3013st, 21 in the Tang Dynasty, in the Xiande Hall in the Chang'an City Palace, Su Yi said in a deep voice to He Yunfei, the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, and Xu Haoming, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet of the Tang Empire: "Now the Seven Kingdoms The seven countries of the alliance have all jumped out. It seems that before our Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire and the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire launch attacks on the Liuyun Empire and the Skystar Empire respectively, the Seven Kingdoms Alliance is likely to attack our Great Tang Empire and the Heavenly Star Empire. The Purple Moon Empire has declared war!"

Cabinet Prime Minister Xu Haoming said indignantly at this time: "Your Majesty, the Sharad Empire is simply turning black and white. This naval battle was clearly caused by the Sharad Navy, but now it is falsely accused of being the first artillery fired by our Royal Navy of the Tang Empire." , is simply shameless!"

Su Yi then said: "Hao Ming, hold a press conference as soon as possible to announce to the outside world that the Sharad Navy deliberately provoked a naval battle. We, the Tang Empire, will not take the blame for this."

Cabinet Prime Minister Xu Haoming nodded and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will personally host a press conference tomorrow to expose the sinister face of the Sharad Empire."

He Yunfei frowned at this moment and said: "Your Majesty, the Sharad Empire's inversion of right and wrong is likely to be the prelude to the Seven Nations Alliance declaring war on us, the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire."

A cold light appeared in Su Yi's eyes and said, "I'm just waiting for the Seven Kingdoms Alliance to declare war on us, the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire!"

(End of this chapter)