With confidence in the Bowa Fortress, Leng Xiaogang Shaoqing is much stronger than the people in the navy!

The Bova fortress stockpiled so much ammunition that it could keep the defenders fighting at a high intensity for more than three years.

There is no need to worry about food and fresh water, the food reserves in the fortress are sufficient, enough for about 10,000 defenders to eat for more than five years.

At the same time, there are many underground water sources in the fortress, so you don't have to worry about water cuts.

With enough ammunition to eat, drink, and three fortresses to rely on, Leng Xiaogang really couldn't think of a reason why he needed to retreat!

Unless, the Imperial Navy is completely defeated, and even the sea supply line from the mainland to the Orr Kingdom and then to the strait of the Liedi Kingdom cannot be maintained, and it will not be possible to reopen the supply line for three years.

But he thought, although those guys in the navy are a little scum, they won't be so bad that they won't be able to open up the supply line for several years!

Even if the First Mobile Fleet is now completely destroyed, three or four years for the Empire will be enough to build a new, larger expeditionary fleet.

As one of the high-ranking generals of the Empire, Leng Xiaogang knew the war potential of the Great Heng Empire better than ordinary people.

The Great Heng Empire, which has abundant resources, a large population, a huge industrial scale, and barely enough technology, will launch a war machine with all its might, and the war strength that breaks out will be beyond everyone's imagination

Even if it is a battleship and an armored cruiser, which are the country's heavy weapons, I am afraid that they will all be made by a dozen and a dozen at that time!

With the tense situation, the Daheng Empire has urgently started construction of a number of new battleships in the past two months, including an improved version of the Luohe-class battleship and an improved version of the Fengyang-class armored cruiser.

In the past two months alone, the Reich has finalized plans for the construction of at least four improved battleships of the Lohe class (17,000 tons) and four large armored cruisers (15,000 tons). Coupled with the four Luohe-class battleships and two large armored cruisers that were finalized last year and started construction one after another, this adds up to eight battleships and six large armored cruisers.

As for the warships below 10,000 tons that do not need large docks, then more will be built, and the Daheng Empire will not lack docks of less than 10,000 tons.

The order for the Crane-class armored cruiser alone has been scattered out of eight, and the tonnage has been expanded, and it is expected to be equipped with a rapid-fire gun of 250 mm and 40 times the caliber, and the new naval gun is expected to be installed next year, but the construction time of the hull is just right.

In addition, it is also planned to divert the Crane-class armored cruisers and two battleships ordered by foreign countries after they are completed, and if the war is not over, then they will be diverted for their own use and not delivered first.

This kind of ship-building strength, looking at the entire Blue Star, can only be matched by the Krull Kingdom.

Well, well, the kingdom of Krull is even stronger......

Combined with the huge industrial scale of the Daheng Empire, Leng Xiaogang felt that no matter how scummy the navy was, it would not be scumbag to the extent that it would not be able to rescue it even after three or four years.

In terms of the strength of the empire, Leng Xiaogang is not worried about being besieged for too long, as for the past year and a half, he thinks that he can still hold it, this is his confidence in himself and the troops under his command.

However, those are the most extreme assumptions, with the current strength of the First Mobile Fleet, Leng Xiaogang believes that the Navy still has a greater advantage.

The First Mobile Fleet, which departed from the port at night, has now integrated the warships of the original Southwest Fleet and the Southern Fleet, and the entire fleet has four Jingzhou-class battleships, two Fengyang-class armored cruisers, six Klan-class armored cruisers, eleven second-class cruisers, and eighteen destroyers.

As for the Endless Sea-class battleship sent back by the Ords, because it was not suitable for ocean-going combat, it was left to guard the Ryan military base.

In addition to the main fleet, the fleet also escorted a number of cargo ships and troop carriers, including two army infantry divisions and a marine regiment reinforced with the First Mobile Fleet, totaling more than 35,000 men and a large amount of ammunition supplies.

According to the plan, the fleet was to escort the army units across the strait and land in the western port of the kingdom of Liej.

The 1st Mobile Fleet will then continue east to the Bowa Military Base, while the Army Units will travel from the ground to the Bowa Military Base via the Liej Kingdom's railway network.

Although it was out of the port in the night, the size of the fleet was too large, even if the ships watching the battle from the peripheral countries could not find out the reality, they all knew that the main fleet of the Daheng Imperial Navy had already left the port.

The news soon reached the ears of the Gaphists, and the fleet of the Gaphians began to prepare to leave the port.

There is a high probability that a major battle will break out at sea, which makes the spectators of various countries who have been waiting for a long time very excited.

It's just that even if it was excited, but this time even the navy of the Krull Kingdom didn't dare to say that it swaggered near the fleet of the Daheng Empire, and even in order to avoid misunderstanding, even the capital ships were not dispatched, and only a few cruisers were sent to follow far away on the periphery.

Otherwise, the navy of the Great Heng Empire would not be polite, but would expel it by force.

After sailing, the fleet successfully crossed the straits and reached the western coast of the kingdom of Liedy, where the army units began to land directly.

Although the Kingdom of Liej was not very happy to let the Great Heng Army land directly, they had no intention of resisting at all when such a large fleet was pressing, and besides, they still expected the Great Heng people to be able to resist the invasion of the Gafians.

For the Liej, the Great Heng Empire is not a good thing, but the Great Heng people only need a market and a military base.

But the Gaphians wanted to annex them completely.

On the balance, the kingdom of Liej still tends to cooperate with the people of Daheng.

After successfully covering the landing of the army, the commander of the 1st Mobile Fleet, Admiral Weng Zhexi, continued to lead the fleet westward.

Admiral Ong was also aware of his mission, which was to break the naval blockade of Bova, reopen supply lines, and establish roots in the Bova military base.

As for whether to fight with the main fleet of the Gaphians, it really depends on the choices of the Gaphians themselves!

If the Gafia were indifferent and let his fleet go to Bova smoothly, then naturally it would not be able to fight, and the follow-up matter was probably resolved through negotiations, and at that time, the Gafias would not expect the empire to abandon Bova, a military base in the southwest continent, in any case.

If the Gafians are not willing to fall into the negotiations, then their main fleet will have to come out and fight!

Even so, Weng Zhexi has absolute confidence!

Since the reform of the Great Heng Empire's navy seven years after the reign of Qiansheng, it is now time to reap the fruits, and the cutting-edge warships of Yishui are enough for him to gain absolute superiority in any decisive battle at sea!

Through this battle, he wanted the Gaphians to despair completely!

Let them know that the old days of the navy are completely over, and the new era, you Gaphians, have not yet kept up!

So stop struggling and obediently accept the fate of defeat!