Chapter 759: Bombardment of Boa

In the negotiations between the two sides, the negotiators of the Daheng Empire seemed to have the upper hand, but the negotiators of the Gafia Empire still stubbornly bit the bottom line and did not back down, and their confidence was naturally that the army of the Gafia Empire was still surrounding the Bowa Fortress and had this opportunity to completely take this fortress.

As long as Bowa is taken, then even if it is defeated at sea, then there is no harm at all, and it is almost impossible for the Daheng Empire to take back the Bowa military base from the Gafia through negotiations.

In fact, the top leaders of both sides are well aware of this, and the generals on the front lines on both sides are equally clear.

On May 26, the twelfth year of the reign of Qiansheng, a few days after the Second Battle of Bova, Admiral Weng Zhexi led some warships of the First Mobile Fleet to arrive at the port of Bova.

When numerous 300-mm, 250-mm, 200-mm, and more 150-mm naval guns were bombarding the land, their enormous power was simply not something that could be resisted by manpower.

Although the army of the Imperial Gafia had already prepared in advance, built strong trenches and anti-artillery facilities in advance, and even evacuated some troops closer to the sea, they still suffered heavy losses.

This large-scale naval artillery support artillery bombardment on the 26th directly smashed the first-line blockade of the Gafia Imperial Army troops on the Bowa military fortress, and it could only be to build a blockade circle in the more peripheral places, but at this time, the reinforcements of the Gafia Imperial Army also arrived one after another, and if the early troops were added to the reinforcements, the total number of Gafia Imperial Army troops sent to the Bowa area by the Gafia side had exceeded 150,000.

Of the 150,000 troops, 100,000 are native units of the Kafia Imperial Army, and 50,000 are its puppet state, the Republic of Cafia Defense Force, but in fact, these soldiers in the Kean Defense Army are also of the Gafia ethnic group in the Republic of Kean, and this force bears the name of the Republic of Cafia Defense Army, but in fact it is also part of the Kafia Imperial Army.

However, out of the total of 150,000 troops, there are actually only 130,000 left!

In more than a month of siege operations, the Gafia army has lost more than 20,000 men, of which more than 8,000 have been killed and more than 10,000 wounded.

But it is still unknown whether the current 120,000 men will be able to take the fortress of Beauvois.

After the massive artillery bombardment carried out on the 26th, the fleet under the command of Ongchesi remained in this place for another three days, until the two army divisions that had landed on the west coast of the kingdom of Liej arrived to cover the arrival and successfully entered the area of the fortress of Beauva, and then began to disperse.

Its fleet began to be divided into two, and Lieutenant Secretary Ren Zhongping led a number of armored cruisers, cruisers and destroyers to escort the damaged warships back to the Lane military base first, and those damaged battleships will be repaired urgently at the Lane military base.

Some of the intact warships led by Lieutenant Secretary Ren Zhongping will once again escort the supply fleet from the Lane military base after replenishing ammunition, fresh water, coal and other supplies at the Lane military base.

This time, instead of landing on the western coast of the kingdom of Liej, it will land directly in the port of Beauva.

When Ren Zhongping led the patrol formation back to the Lane military base, Admiral Weng Zhexi continued to lead the fleet of four Jingzhou-class battleships as the core, staying in the port of Bova, providing naval artillery support and firepower for the army at any time, and at the same time to prevent the Orissa from venturing out to attack the port of Bova again.

However, Admiral Weng Zhexi soon found that his worries were unnecessary, and learned through secret or open intelligence that although a large number of warships of the Gafia Imperial Navy escaped smoothly, almost all of the capital ships were injured, and many of them were still very seriously injured, plus the west coast of the Gafia Empire was not where their shipbuilding base was located, and several local ports only had small and medium-sized maintenance facilities, and many of their seriously damaged capital ships had to return to the east coast to be overhauled.

Not to mention just a few days, even if they are given three months, their main fleet will not be able to return to sea to fight.

Not long after, Admiral Weng Zhexi once again led a fleet of four Jingzhou-class battleships and two Fengyang-class armored cruisers as the core to leave the Bowa military base, and directly killed the coastal waters of the Republic of Kean, and once approached an important port in the western part of the Gafia Empire, and symbolically carried out artillery bombardment.

Although there was actually no result of the artillery bombardment, after the direct attack on its homeland, it still greatly shocked the entire Gafia Empire.

It didn't take long for news to come from within the Gafia Empire, its chief admiral of the navy was arrested and imprisoned, and Admiral Burbank, who had led the Gafia Empire's navy to successfully resist the invasion of the Krull Kingdom navy more than twenty years ago, came out of the mountain again and appointed him as the chief minister of the navy to coordinate naval affairs.

After Marshal Burbank was ordered to take very conservative measures, that is, to continue to hold on to the coastal ports, strengthen the coastal defense facilities of the coastal ports, and ensure coastal security, and at the same time abandon the sea traffic on the central and western coasts, and turn his sea traffic to the east coast.

But such a measure would in fact completely abandon the sea lines of communication in the western part of the country.

After the time entered June, Admiral Ren Zhongping led the escort formation to the port of Bova, bringing a large number of various supplies to the troops there, and also bringing a large number of large-caliber naval guns and ammunition to the remaining fleet.

After replenishing the ammunition, the fleet of the Secretary of the Navy of Weng Zhexi once again went to sea with the main force, in addition to leaving one Endless Sea-class battleship and two Klan-class armored cruisers to carry out escort missions and maintain the sea supply line from the Boa military base to the Ryan military base, he himself once again led the fleet straight to the central and western coast of the Gafia Empire.

This time the 1st Mobile Fleet, which was well stocked with ammunition, was ready to completely block the sea traffic in the area and at the same time look for opportunities to carry out a large-scale naval artillery bombardment of their coastal cities.

However, although this action of Admiral Weng Zhexi caused continuous turmoil within the Gafia Empire, it was still impossible to completely subjugate the Gafia Empire.