Chapter 828: The Tangled Olisa

Once the warships of the Great Heng Imperial Navy break into the Endless Strait, then the consequences will be catastrophic!

The warships of the Great Heng Empire are fully capable of blocking shipping in the Endless Strait, while simultaneously bombarding some of the military targets of the Olisa Empire with naval artillery.

Once shipping is cut off, the Olisa Imperial Army units fighting in the Kingdom of Tanor will not be able to expect to return.

In fact, even if the main naval force of the Great Heng people could not break through the blockade and enter the Endless Strait, it was completely possible to transport some small torpedo boats to the ports along the Endless Strait through railway transportation and other means, and then put them into battle.

A small endless channel is enough for these torpedo boats to play a huge tactical role.

And once the Olisa Empire's navy is unable to ensure the safety of the convoy, the million-strong army sent to the Kingdom of Tanor will be depleted by then.

The gap in national strength between the two sides and the existence of the Endless Strait make it difficult for the two sides to supply logistics and materials at all.

In this case, if you force the fight, then what is the result?

There is a high probability that in addition to defeat, it is still defeated!

At least no general of the Orissa Empire would dare to pat his chest and guarantee that he would be able to lead the army to stop the attack of the Great Heng in the Kingdom of Tanna, even if he had the support of the entire Orissa Empire behind him, even if he was fully mobilized.

Fighting a large-scale land war with the Great Heng people on the central continent is looking for death.

In the imagination of the Orissa Empire's high-brass, if the Second Heng Ao War broke out, then it should be their own side relying on the Endless Strait to block the huge army of the Great Heng Empire north of the Endless Strait.

In all the strategic plans, in the strategic planning of the Orissa Empire in the past ten years, there has never been a plan to take the initiative to go north to the Central Continent and fight to the death with the Great Heng people on land.

If Tou Tie really wants to do this, it is estimated that people in the Krull Kingdom and other countries will wake up laughing in their dreams.

I don't know how many people are waiting for the outbreak of the Second Heng Olympic War.

The Orissa Empire has been preparing strategic plans for more than ten years, most of which are defensive operations, and the most critical core is to block the army of the Great Heng Empire to the north of the southern continent, and not allow the army troops of the Great Heng Empire to land on their own territory.

On this basis, it is through naval sorties, blockading the endless strait, cutting off the sea communication between the north and south banks of the Daheng Empire, and at the same time launching a diplomatic breakthrough operation to weaken the war strength of the Daheng Empire.

This is also why, in the past ten years, the Orissa Empire has vigorously developed a large number of short-range, low-seaworthiness, but equipped with large-caliber guns, a series of offshore capital ships with thick armor, as well as a series of torpedo boats.

They are relying on this kind of offshore capital ship, offshore torpedo boats to block the endless strait and point defense of the coastal waters of the mainland.

At the same time, they are also developing high-speed warships represented by armored cruisers, which are intended to carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations in wartime.

This kind of naval policy, to a certain extent, is also a reaction, they do not have the confidence to fight a real ocean-going decisive battle with the Daheng Imperial Navy, and the mentality of burning the war to the central continent.

As enemies of the Great Heng Empire for hundreds of years, they know the Great Heng people better than the Krull Kingdom and other countries, and they know the Great Heng people better about their war potential.

This is also the reason why they have been positioning their strategy on defense for more than a decade.

Not fear, not cowardice, but the optimal choice made out of the knowledge of the enemy.

In fact, their choice has been extremely effective, and for the past ten years, the Great Heng Empire has been vigorously developing its navy, and its naval strength soon surpassed that of the Olisa Imperial Navy.

By the time it was now, the various capital ships of the Great Heng Empire far surpassed the Orisa Empire's navy in terms of quantity and quality.

However, the Imperial Navy's Otissa Navy still firmly controls the Endless Strait.

Because even if the strength of the Olisa Imperial Navy is no longer as good as that of the Great Heng Imperial Navy today, especially in terms of cutting-edge warships, the series of old warships they built in the past can still play a great role.

Even a series of battleships they built ten years ago are now able to play a certain role in the Endless Strait blockade and coastal defense warfare, especially with the cooperation of shore defense turrets, they can play a good role.

A bunch of coastal defensive warships of the Olisa people, huddled in the endless strait and coastal ports, and carried out defensive operations under the cover of shore defense batteries, to be honest, the navy of the Great Heng Empire really couldn't do anything with them before,

Even if the naval strength of the Daheng Empire is strong, it is impossible to force the enemy's dense shore fire force and the enemy's blockade fleet to fight, you must know that the fire strike distance of the shore defense battery is much farther than the same caliber artillery of the battleship.

At a time when the effective firing range of the main naval guns of the navies of various countries was still struggling at 6 or 7 thousand meters, the 150-millimeter cannons of the armies of various countries, with the assistance of observation balloons, could easily exceed 10,000 meters, and some of them could even reach more than 12,000 meters.

The latest field long-range suppression artillery in service with the Daheng Imperial Army, that is, the 14-year-old 150-millimeter heavy cannon, has an effective firing range of more than 15,000 meters, which is the largest effective conventional artillery in the armies of various countries.

In addition, in terms of train artillery, Daheng people are also a must.

All countries generally have larger-caliber train guns converted from naval guns, but they are basically not as exaggerated as the Daheng people, and they generally dismantle the main guns on retired warships and use them as shore defense guns or train guns for coastal defense facilities.

Although the Daheng people will also do this, but the Daheng Army is also using the navy's cutting-edge naval guns to develop a new type of long-range suppression artillery for the army, for example, the army now has several 250 mm heavy train guns, using 250 mm 45 times the caliber of the barrel, after this thing raises the elevation angle, the maximum range can even reach nearly 30 kilometers, of course, the walk of the shells at such a distance will be very large.

The stubborn pursuit of artillery in the Great Heng Empire is difficult for other countries to understand.

However, the ground artillery of other countries, especially the artillery on the shore defense battery, is worse than that of the Daheng people, but it is actually not worse there, and after the naval guns are put on the ground, the effective range will be even longer.

If the Daheng Imperial Navy didn't care about directly entering the Endless Strait and resisting the enemy's fleet and shore defense batteries, even the most cutting-edge Ning Yu-class battleships would not be able to withstand it.

But then again, the people of Daheng will not enter the Endless Strait stupidly in this situation!