Great Chu's Dragon Banner and the navy's Black Tortoise flag flew in the sea breeze. One steel giant after another cleaved through the waves, dazzling enough to make people squint.
These were Great Chu's Xuzhou and Ganzhou carrier strike groups. Together, they represented the most powerful armed force in the world outside Great Chu itself!
Great Chu's Aircraft Carriers had originally been named after the ancient Nine Provinces. But as the fleet grew to twenty-one Aircraft Carriers, the Nine Provinces no longer provided enough names, so later Aircraft Carriers were named after other provinces.
In any case, the names of the Nine Provinces were reserved for the most powerful new Aircraft Carriers. The Ganzhou before them displaced more than seventy thousand tons, while the Xuzhou displaced sixty thousand tons. Neither ranked among them.
After all, every one of the nine mainstay carriers displaced over a hundred thousand tons.
Even so, the Ganzhou Aircraft Carrier Battle Group alone surpassed the naval strength of most countries in the world.
The shock of two such powerful Aircraft Carrier groups heading for the Mediterranean Sea was easy to imagine. At the same time, Great Chu had made its hard-line stance clear to every nation!
In fact, the two groups had yet to reach the Mediterranean Sea, but they had already caused a tremendous stir...
The foreign media that had been denouncing Great Chu with words and ink fell silent all at once.
When the lion king lounged without showing his anger, the forest's jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, hedgehogs, rats, venomous snakes, and flies all wanted to creep closer and snatch a share.
But once the lion king roared in anger, every beast scattered. As the saying went: when spring came, if I did not speak first, which insect would dare make a sound?
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