Chapter 758: There is still hope for victory
The two great victories in the Battle of Bova raised the confidence of the Daheng Empire's navy, and even stimulated the ambitions of the Tang Empire's high-level and even the people.
After the news of the victory at the Second Battle of Beauvois reached the Empire, a large number of Imperial newspapers reported it extensively, and in addition to praising the strength and victory of the Imperial Navy, many of them also said that while the navy was strong and the army was also in its prime, it should take this opportunity to completely control the Endless Strait.
The newspapers of the Daheng Empire belong to the official media newspapers, and these voices in the newspapers actually represent the voices of some high-level people in the empire.
Otherwise, there would not be a group of ministers in the Imperial Council of Ministers discussing how to control the Endless Strait.
However, unlike the middle and low levels, who are more radical and don't even want to use their brains and directly say that they are waving their troops to the south, the top of the empire still prefers to rely on strong military pressure and cooperate with diplomatic pressure to bring about changes within the Kingdom of Dynaudio, so that the factions within the Kingdom of Dynaudio that are biased towards the Great Heng Empire come to power, and finally indirectly control the Kingdom of Dynaudio.
Emperor Lin Ziran is also more inclined to this indirect means.
After all, if you go to war directly, the cost is too great, and it is easy to cause unnecessary consequences.
In particular, many countries are very vigilant about the external expansion of the Great Heng Empire, if the Great Heng Empire directly waves its army south to attack the Kingdom of Dynaudio, the Orissa Empire may not even consider it, and directly declares war, and there is a high probability that other powers on the Blue Star will also stand on the side of the Olisa Empire.
At least the Krull Kingdom and the Gafia Empire will be 100% on the side of the Olisa Empire.
At the same time, several other countries in the Southern Continent, such as the East Coast Four-Nation Alliance, the South Coast Three-Nation Alliance, and the North Six Nations Alliance in the Central Continent, will most likely be on the side of the Orissa Empire.
At that time, the Great Heng Empire will face the situation of challenging the heroes alone.
And this kind of pattern is what the Great Heng Empire has tried to avoid in the past ten years.
Even though the Great Heng Empire is powerful, it is not willing to easily let itself fall into this situation of a public enemy of the world again.
The embarrassment of the Hengao War decades ago has taught Daheng people enough lessons!
Otherwise, the foreign policy of the Great Heng Empire since its unification seems to be strong, but in fact it is still relatively reasonable.
For several world powers, except for the Orissa Empire and the Gafia Empire, two countries with direct conflicts of interest, the relationship with several other countries is actually not bad, even if the Krull Kingdom regards the Great Heng Empire as a challenger, but the scale of trade between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger year by year, and now they are the largest trading countries with each other.
Even facing the six northern countries, which have been the sworn enemies for hundreds of years, the Daheng Empire has taken measures to ease relations, which has eased the relationship between the Daheng Empire and the six northern countries a lot in the past ten years.
Now dealing with the issue of the Endless Strait, the Great Heng Empire is also preparing to take a slightly more moderate approach, by supporting the opposition in the Kingdom of Dynaudio, indirectly controlling the Kingdom of Dynaudio, and then obtaining a military base in the Kingdom of Danna.
"We don't need to annex the entire Kingdom of Tannar, all we need is to maintain a military presence here, by supporting the opposition factions of the Tannar people, and signing an alliance with them when they come to power, so that we can legitimately garrison the army in the Kingdom of Tannar and choose a suitable port to establish a military base."
"As long as there is a suitable military base, then we can deploy heavy troops here, and at the same time deploy a large fleet, then it is enough to hold the endless strait and ensure the safety of navigation in our country, even in wartime, we will directly use the method of centralized armed escort to ensure the necessary navigation safety!"
"Yes, if you directly use military means to annex the Kingdom of Tannar, the cost is too high, and the Tannar people in the country will not be easy to deal with in the future, now the times are different, and we can't directly kill them all like hundreds of years ago."
"However, if they are integrated into our empire, there will be a lot of troubles in the future, although the Dana people have some of the blood of our Daheng people, but the current Dana people are our Daheng and Olisa people and the local indigenous people after hundreds of years of mixed blood, and our Daheng people are far away, if we let these millions of Dana people integrate into our empire, these Dana people will become a destabilizing factor within the empire in the future."
Lin Ziran listened to these opinions, and after careful consideration, he instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Military Intelligence Department to start relevant actions to win over and support the opposition factions within the Dynaudio Kingdom, and let the Dynaudio Kingdom be in turmoil first, so that their Daheng Empire could have the opportunity to indirectly control the Dynaudio Kingdom in the future.
However, these also need time to operate, and the estimate of a while and a half will not be effective, and the empire still needs to wait patiently for opportunities.
At the moment, the most important thing for the Great Heng Empire is to deal with the follow-up to the post-Boa incident.
After two naval battles of Beauvoa, the main force of the Gafia Imperial Navy has lost more than half, although it still retains part of its strength, some cutting-edge high-freeboard battleships, armored cruisers are also there, but everyone knows that the Gafia Imperial Navy has lost the ability to attack and fight the third decisive battle with the Daheng Imperial Navy.
Now that the Gafia Imperial Navy has fully retreated, its main fleet has even withdrawn from the coastal waters of the Republic of Kean, directly retreating to their western ports, and implementing strict coastal port defense measures to avoid being attacked by the Great Heng Imperial Navy.
At the same time, they also sent a lot of cruisers, armored cruisers and the like to attack, trying to attack the sea supply lines of the Great Heng Empire.
And this typical battle to break diplomatic relations also proves to a certain extent that the Imperial Navy of Gafia has completely lost confidence in the decisive battle at sea.
After all, if their naval strength still exists, they can directly break into Bova's overseas, directly block Bova's overseas, or even run into the adjacent straits of the Southwest Continent and the Southern Continent, and directly block the sea passage from the Orr Kingdom to the Liej Kingdom.
Now the maritime situation between the two sides is undoubtedly on the surface, and the navy of the Great Heng Empire has completely controlled the sea control in this sea area.
But if you want to force the Gafia Empire to make a big concession in this way, it is still not very likely!
After all, although the Gafia Imperial Navy was defeated, their land forces were still there, they were still surrounding the Beauva military base fortress, and they still had hope of victory.