The Orissa Empire wants to engage in 600,000 first-line troops and 1 million second-line troops, of which the funds required for weapons and equipment alone are massive, if they Orissa Empire really have so much money, what kind of 1.6 million troops can be built, just get a bunch of battleships and be done.

Give the Great Heng Empire a hundred guts, and don't dare to force a landing without defeating the Orisa Empire's navy.

At this time, it also happened to be news that the Olisa Imperial Navy was going to expand on a large scale.

The Olisa Empire adopted a new phase of naval expansion plan, which is expected to build four new capital battleships, eight shore defense armored ships, sixteen reconnaissance cruisers, and a number of small-tonnage and heavy firepower offshore gunboats and torpedo ships.

So as soon as the empire simply counted the books, they knew that their Continental Army plan must be a bluff.

Although the army expansion of the Orissa Empire will expand, it will certainly not be on such a large scale, after all, it is now the era of breech-loading rifled weapons, and the cost of war is several times more expensive than before, just to arm 600,000 standing troops, 1 million reserve troops need weapons and reserve ammunition, that is a huge number.

If you add the huge fleet expansion plan, it is estimated that their Olisa Empire will not be able to complete the simultaneous expansion of the army and navy at the same time after spending the last copper plate.

Moreover, if the Orissa Empire wants to resist the invasion of the Great Heng Empire, the focus is still on resisting at sea, especially holding the Endless Strait, which is the most important thing.

Therefore, the focus of their expansion must be on the navy, and they must give priority to satisfying the expansion of the navy before satisfying the army.

However, the Olisa Empire is heavily inclined to naval expansion, which makes the Imperial Navy a little worried.

The fleet expansion plan of the Olisa Imperial Navy is quite large, and as soon as you look at this expansion plan, you can see that it is completely aimed at blocking the Endless Strait.

The eight coastal defense armored ships and a group of offshore heavy gunboats could not fight deep into the ocean at all, and could only wander in the coastal waters and endless straits.

This made the generals of the Great Heng Empire's navy worried about whether they could control the Endless Strait in the future!

After all, once these four battleships and eight shore defense armored ships are successfully built and put into service by them, plus the many battleships and shore defense armored ships currently in service in the Orissa Imperial Navy, this total strength is not weak.

Even if the Great Heng Imperial Navy successfully completed the early fleet expansion plan, it was estimated that it would be difficult to enter the Endless Strait to defeat them.

Even if the medium-term plan is completed, although it has an advantage, it can be said that it can stabilize the opponent in the endless strait.

As for the later plans, it will definitely be able to stabilize the enemy army, but the problem is that it will take a long time.

For a while, there were voices within the Daheng Empire Navy to change the naval expansion plan, they thought that the scale of the early cost plan was small, and the medium-term plan was also small, so it had to be appropriately increased.

Not to mention that the navy of the Krull Kingdom should be suppressed, but the fleet with the shore defense armored ships as the core of the Orisa Imperial Navy should be suppressed.

As soon as the Olisa Imperial Navy struck, there were four battleships and eight ironclad ships, and the rest of the small ships were not to be mentioned.

And our early plan is only eight battleships and four coastal defense ironclad ships, it seems that our side has the advantage of battleships, but there are still many active warships, counting these, then even if the early plan is completed, it is estimated that it will not be able to gain a numerical advantage.

And without numerical superiority, this battle will not be able to be fought for Daheng people.

For this reason, many generals of the Daheng Navy have been planning to expand the early cost plan, and this year it has been decided to start construction of two battleships and a shore defense ironclad ship, but now it seems that another battleship can be started.

Next year's cost plan should also be increased accordingly, in short, to obtain an absolute number of advantages, preferably to double or even more of the number of advantages.

And the worries and responses of Admiral Daheng are also expected by the Olisa Empire!

Why are they ready to spend a huge amount of money to build a huge fleet, and there is an obvious purpose, get a bunch of shore defense, offshore warships, and even their battleships, in fact, they also emphasize firepower and protection, and do not pay much attention to endurance, speed, seaworthiness These standards.

Their naval strategic goal was simple, to block the endless straits and protect the homeland coast.

With a powerful coastal defense navy, the idea of landing across the sea of the Daheng Empire was completely dispelled.

If you want to control the Endless Strait, then you Daheng people need to invest more manpower and materials, build a larger fleet, and have to be much larger than the size of their Olisa Empire Navy, so as to stabilize their Olisa Empire Navy, and then gain an advantage in the Endless Strait.

I, the Orissa Empire, spent one million to expand the navy, because I was fighting defensive operations at home, so I didn't have to think about seaworthiness, I didn't have to think about range, and even the speed could be slightly lower, so I could focus on firepower and protection, and finally make a bunch of turtle warships with guns with strong firepower and thick protection.

If you want to kill these coastal defense fleets of ours, you have to invest two million or even three million to build an ocean-going fleet, and at the same time, you have to build a lot of logistics supply lines, transport ships, and the like.

The cost gap is huge!

In this case, even if the double anti-anti becomes a naval competition in the end, their Olisa Empire will have a certain degree of certainty to maintain a certain proportion, and finally ensure that the endless strait and coastal defense will not be lost.

However, the Orissa Empire obviously underestimated the stubbornness of the Great Heng people, and the current Great Heng people really plan to do this, and the current fleet expansion plan is not good, so it will be expanded a little more, and if it is not good, it will be expanded again.

Fight the number, regardless of whether it is a cannon or a battleship, the people of Daheng have never been afraid of anyone!

So, although it has not yet begun, and the plans of both sides are still on paper, there is no doubt that the Great Heng Empire has officially set off a naval race with the Orissa Empire.

The strength of the navy is related to the safety of the Endless Strait, and the importance of the Endless Strait is undoubted, which is the strategic security guarantee of the Olisa Empire.

In addition to the Endless Strait itself, the Kingdom of Cassie and the Kingdom of Dynor on the northern shore of the Endless Strait are equally important.

After all, it's the other side of the Endless Strait.

For this reason, the Olisa Empire has successively increased its troops by more than 50,000 people, and is also preparing to continue to increase the Kasi Kingdom and the Danor Kingdom.

It is estimated that the total strength of the ground forces stationed in these two countries will reach 200,000!

The Orissa Empire has increased its troops to the southern two countries of the Central Continent, and the Kingdom of Cassie and the Kingdom of Dynor themselves are also frightened every day, and they are also squeezing their potential, trying to arm a larger army.

The kingdom of Cassie itself came up with a plan to build a standing army of 100,000.

The Kingdom of Tanna also put forward a plan to build a standing army of 150,000.

Although the land area of these two southern countries is quite good, both have more than 100 square kilometers of land, but most of their land is either highlands or tropical rainforests and other places that are not suitable for human survival, and only part of the coastal plains suitable for their large-scale survival are only places.

Therefore, their population is not large, the total population of the Kingdom of Dynor is only more than six million, and the Kingdom of Cassie is even less, only about five million.

The standing armies of 100,000 and 150,000 respectively were already very large for them.

The standing army plans of the above two countries, coupled with the Olisa Empire's troop reinforcement plan, once they were completed, they would be able to gather more than 450,000 troops in the southern region of the Central Continent to resist the southward advance of the Great Heng Empire.

Once the war broke out, they all wanted to keep the war out of their homeland, and it was best to burn the war to the homeland of the Daheng people.

It can't be like the last Hengao War, let the Great Heng people fight around on their own land, and finally beat most of the country into ruins.

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