Chapter 803: The Great Heng Empire of the Head Iron
In the current Kean oil field incident, the Daheng Empire has already taken extremely fierce and tough measures in the early stage, not only sending a large fleet and army units to the Bowa military base, but even directly sending more than 1,000 troops disguised as civilian armed guards to land in the Shanmu area.
But this drastic approach has also provoked protests from major powers, and such protests are escalating.
At first, it was just a diplomatic protest, but soon the Krull Kingdom announced that it was preparing to hold a large-scale maritime live-fire exercise in the southern waters of the Endless Sea, that is, the coastal waters of the southwest continent, and this exercise would also involve at least ten or more battleships, including many new hybrid main gun battleships.
At the same time, the Keel Empire and the Walya Empire also sent fleets to the sea.
Even the Olisa Empire said that it would hold a naval exercise in the waters of the eastern archipelago of the Endless Strait.
For a time, almost all of the seven powers were sending fleets and necessary ground forces to the Kean area.
And the situation in the Kenn area escalated and became complicated in an instant!
On January 21, the 15th year of the reign of Qiansheng, a small naval fleet of the Krull Kingdom approached the coast of the Shanmu region of the Republic of Ken and was about to break into the Shanmu Harbor, but in fact this port was temporarily occupied by Daheng.
Because this port is also the headquarters of the Kean branch of the Shayangwan Petroleum Company, the escort team of the Shayangwan Petroleum Company is stationed here, and there are also a number of gunboats flying the flag of the Shayangwan Petroleum Company anchored in this port.
As for the local defenders, they have long been evacuated.
After the navy of the Krull Kingdom approached this port, because there was no main fleet of the Daheng Navy in the local waters, although it was repeatedly opposed and warned the other party not to approach, the other party's fleet still forcibly approached.
However, the Krull Kingdom was still relatively restrained, and after entering the port, it walked around and came out, and did not land or fire.
The purpose of this so-called visit to the port of Cedar in the Republic of Kenya by the Navy of the Kingdom of Krull is very obvious, that is, to demonstrate the military presence in this area, and at the same time to express strong protest with practical actions.
A few days later, under the pretext of joint exercises at the invitation of the so-called Republic of Kean, the Kingdom of Krull landed in an area about twenty kilometers east of the port of Shanmu, and under the cover of its fleet, about a regiment of troops was sent ashore to begin garrisoning.
On January 27, the Kell Empire's reinforced fleet and army units arrived, and although they did not land directly in the Republic of Kean, they landed in the leased territory of the next-door Liedi Kingdom, which they also owned.
The army they reinforced, one division was 10,000 men.
In the days that followed, the Walya Empire's reinforcement fleet also arrived in the kingdom of Liedi.
On the third day of February, a Marine Brigade of the Orissa Empire arrived in the area, and they were invited by the Krull Kingdom to land at the Krull Kingdom's archipelago base, which was located hundreds of kilometers north of the Krull Kingdom.
A regiment from the Kingdom of Orlan then arrived in the archipelago.
On 9 February, the government of the Republic of Kean, at the behest of the Gafian Empire, announced the Decree on Petroleum Exploitation, requiring that no capital, including foreign capital, should engage in petroleum-related business if it wanted to engage in petroleum exploration, extraction, refining, etc., unless it was to obtain the approval of the country's Congress.
On 13 February, the Gafia Imperial Military District Command in Kean announced that it had been ordered to hold a joint large-scale live-fire exercise with the Kean Defense Forces, with 180,000 troops participating!
But Daheng people have always been very strong!
On 16 February, the Great Heng Empire announced that the second reinforcement fleet had been assembled, including a large fleet of new battleships, and would set sail south in the near future.
By the middle of February, the Kean oil incident continued to escalate, and the seven major powers had already bared their fangs, from the sea to the land, all of which created huge pressure on the Great Heng Empire.
However, the people of Daheng showed that they were not convinced at all, but their attitude of continuing to increase troops also gave the Seven Great Powers a headache.
Public opinion within the seven major powers is also not calm, and many people are worried that this Kean oil incident will completely detonate the contradictions between the major powers and lead to the outbreak of war on a global scale.
And once the war does break out, it will be a big problem.
Even if the seven great powers join forces to confront the great power empire, who dares to say that the seven great powers will really join forces?
For example, the Keel Empire and the Valia Empire, will they really join forces with the Krull Kingdom against the Great Heng Empire, and even engage in a full-scale war?
Jokes aside, these two countries and the Kingdom of Krull are mortal enemies, and their hatred for each other is almost irreconcilable like that of the Great Heng Empire and the Olisa Empire.
In international affairs, they can still cooperate in some small things, but if they really unite with the Krull Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire and start an all-out war, they will do it like crazy.
You must know that a few years ago, they were still thinking about forming a military alliance with the Great Heng Empire against the Krull Kingdom.
Giving up centuries of hatred and basic national policy for the sake of an oil field, fighting a large-scale war with the Krull and the brutal Constant Barbarians, even risking a full-scale war?
Just kidding!
In the face of the behavior of the Daheng people, they did not hesitate to set off a world war by increasing their troops, and the seven major countries were also very entangled, they were just trying to get a share of the oil.
But I really didn't think about starting a global war for oil!
Not only are the seven great powers entangled, in fact, the Great Heng Empire is even more entangled, how to say it, now the Great Heng people find themselves a little unable to get off the stage!
Confronting the Seven Great Powers at the same time, this kind of thing will be very tricky even if it is the first big Heng people, and if it really wants to fight, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses.
In particular, the high-ranking civil officials of the empire, who were the most resolute in the past, and did not hesitate to mobilize public opinion to forcibly push the empire to increase troops in the Kean region for the second time, are now also a little back-off.
Although their attitude is tough, they are not stupid, and they also know that if they really fight, the empire will suffer!
According to the Daheng people, it is not that we Daheng people are afraid of them, but that the Ken region is too far away from the empire, and it is too difficult to project military power.
In the Lieji Incident that year, the Great Heng Empire was only against the Gafia Empire, and it was still a limited armed conflict at that time, limited to sea battles and offensive and defensive battles in the fortress of Bowa, and the war did not last long, even so, the Great Heng Empire spent a lot of effort in order to ensure the huge fleet on the front line and the logistics supply of tens of thousands of army troops.
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