Chapter 760: Southwest Bridgehead

They are a big country, even if the navy will be defeated for a while and a half, but its shore fire prevention and coastal defense measures are still strong, it is difficult for the Daheng Imperial Navy to pose any effective threat to their homeland, at most it is to block the maritime traffic in the central and western regions, but they still have the port of the Edith Strait in the east, that place is the strait, and the Daheng Imperial Navy is not so bold to enter the strait where it is inconvenient to move, and use other people's torpedo boats as targets!

Therefore, a full-fledged naval blockade is impossible.

In this case, it will naturally be difficult to get the Gaphians to submit.

In the Bowa military base, Leng Xiaogang looked at the navy that had run back after going to sea for many days, and said something like this: "If you want to make the Gafiya people completely submit, it is ultimately up to our army!" ”

I said this in front of a brigadier secretary of the navy who contacted the army......

The brigadier secretary of the Navy listened to the anger on his face, paralyzed, relying on your army?

Although the military lord was a little lower, he still said with a straight face: "This is not true, without the great victory in the naval battle of Bova that our navy has contacted twice, this Bowa fortress would have fallen a long time ago!" ”

In the First Battle of Beauvois, our navy won a great victory, driving the Gafian navy out of this part of the sea, which gave your army time to calmly deploy the defensive line.

In the Second Battle of Beauvois, our navy still won a great victory, so on the 26th and in the next three days, it was not your army that was bombarded by large-scale naval artillery, but the army of the Gafians.

In the follow-up, our warships covered the smooth arrival of your army reinforcements, and successively concentrated on escorting and sending a large number of supplies, and at the same time worked hard to maintain a long sea supply line from the mainland of the empire to the base of the Orr Kingdom of Lane, and from the base of the Orr Kingdom of Lane to the base of the Beauva base of the Kingdom of Liej.

Otherwise, with the ammunition consumption of the loser of your army's war, the ammunition in this Bowa fortress would have been exhausted long ago.

Without our navy, tens of thousands of your army would have to jump into the endless sea and drown!

However, the admiral's dissatisfaction, Leng Xiaogang directly ignored it, and even muttered: "You are so powerful, why can't you even block the sea traffic of the Gafiya, people are now fighting with us, and at the same time doing business with other countries." ”

Hearing this, the Navy Brigadier was speechless!

I want to refute something, but I really can't refute it, the Edith Strait is not so easy to blockade, and it is not even so easy to enter, the Daheng Imperial Navy really dares to cross thousands of nautical miles and run to a strait where it does not even have a military base to blockade, it will die a miserable death.

Leng Xiaogang is not a person who cares much about the navy, and after he said this to himself, he went back to meet the supreme commander of the army unit in the current Bowa military fortress.

Before the outbreak of the Second Battle of Beauva, the Daheng Empire escorted two army divisions and a marine regiment across the strait, landed in the west of the kingdom of Liej, and then reached the Beauva region through the local railway network, and under the cover of the main fleet, successfully bypassed the blockade of the Gaphians from the coastline and entered the Beauva fortress area smoothly.

The commander of this reinforcement force was Army Secretary Mei Zixiao, who served as the commander of a main infantry division during the Unification War, led the troops to participate in the Jingzhou Campaign, and was promoted to the commander of a certain army at the end of the Unification War.

After the end of the War of Reunification, the army was reorganized three times, and after it was gradually regularized, the senior generals who were still able to stay in the army were all generals with outstanding meritorious service, and Mei Zixiao was no exception.

His ability to serve as the commander of the reinforcements this time is actually related to the fact that he has very rich experience in actual combat command in the unified war, and at the same time, the military rank is relatively low.

At the end of the War of Unification, more than a decade later, all senior generals of the Imperial Army at the army level either retired or became generals.

As for Mei Zixiao's words, he was promoted to the army commander after the end of the unification war, and he was promoted less than a month ago, and he didn't have time to get familiar with the troops, and the unification war ended.

Therefore, after the end of the Unification War, he could not be further promoted to the secretary of state like other army commanders with more outstanding military achievements, he served as the commander of two armies in a row, and served in Gyeonggi for three years, but the military lord still stayed in the middle secretary.

But it's also a benefit to him!

After the end of the Unification War, he was the secretary of the army, and among the senior generals who held the position of army commander and had rich combat experience, he is now the only one who is still the secretary of the army, and the others have either retired from the profession or become the secretary of the army.

According to the decision of the Imperial Council, the dominant power in the Lieji Incident this time was on the navy's side, and the secretary of the navy Weng Zhexi was the commander-in-chief of the entire southwest war, so the army naturally could not send another secretary of the army to fight for power and profit.

In the end, after internal deliberation in the army, Mei Zixiao, who has the most experience in actual combat and is also the most senior, was recommended by the army Zhongqing.

Although he is a veteran of the army, in fact, Mei Zixiao is not very old, he is actually only forty-two years old this year, not a few years older than Leng Xiaogang, no way, he joined the army early, he was a military meritorious person during the Unification War, and he was already the secretary of the army before the end of the Unification War.

But even so, his military lord hasn't moved for twelve years!

This opportunity to lead the battle was actually the best opportunity for him to cross the threshold and further become the secretary of the army.

And Leng Xiaogang can be presumptuous in front of the admirals, but he is very honest in front of Mei Zixiao.

When Leng Xiaogang was in the period of the Unification War, he was only an army doctor, and the military exploits, qualifications and even prestige of the two were very different.

When Mei Zixiao held a military meeting, Leng Xiaogang and the two division commanders in the reinforcements and the four infantry brigade commanders were all respectful.

"Now we don't have a lot of defensive pressure, and we can implement a rotational defense strategy in the future, and focus on the construction of fortifications!"

"In this battle, our goal is not to keep the bridgehead of the Beauva military base!"

"Our follow-up mission is to continue to strengthen the defenses of the Bowa military base, and at the same time continue with the navy, let them escort the increased ammunition supply, we want to build Bova into the empire's bridgehead in the southwest continent, a thorn in the enemy's side!"

"The enemy army is also continuing to reinforce and replenish, and when they complete the reinforcement and supply, it is estimated that it will be time for them to launch the third general offensive, and what we have to do is to use the period before their general offensive to continue to strengthen the defense, hoard ammunition, and strive to wait for the attack in the third defensive operation, and kill and injure a large number of enemy troops with dense firepower, so that they can feel the pain of the skin, and let them completely realize that it is impossible to capture Beauva!"