Chapter 374: Not a Good Thing

The Kingdom of Raleigh is indeed a wall-weed.

Long before the outbreak of the Great War, when even the Luosha Federation had not joined, the Riman Empire proposed that it hoped that the Raloli Kingdom would join the alliance and solve a strong enemy in the Western Continent without bloodshed, ensuring that after the war, it would be able to control the entire Western Continent as quickly as possible.

At the time, it was necessary.

The point is, the Luosha Federation has not yet been convinced.

Because there is a possibility of war with the Luosha Federation, from a strategic point of view, the Empire must first deal with the threats around it.

Otherwise, the Liangxia Empire would have to undertake the main combat mission.

This meant that when the Imperial Navy faced a strong enemy in the Guia Ocean, the Imperial Army had to fight to the death with the Luo Sha army in the hinterland of the huge land.

At the beginning, it will be a two-front battle, and the future will certainly not be bright.

The center of the Luosha Federation is in the west, on the western side of the continent, so from a strategic point of view, it is definitely necessary for the Manan army to act as the main offensive force.

In this way, if the Raleigh Kingdom can be won over in advance, even if this country is a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre, it can also make the Manman Empire worry-free.

According to the plan formulated at that time, the Manman Empire even planned to drag down the Locke Republic by the Raleigh Kingdom after winning over the Raleigh Kingdom, and first send troops to blitzkrieg the Luosha Federation after the war. After defeating the Luosha Federation, go back and sweep the western part of the Western Continent.

It is precisely so, the Liang Xia Empire did not object.

Interestingly, in the end, the matter was not resolved.

The reason is also very simple, the Raleigh Kingdom is not optimistic about the Riman Empire and thinks that the Rimman Empire will be defeated again, so after the Rimman Empire made a request for an alliance, it revealed the news to the Locke Republic, which made it a lot of effort for the Booman authorities to dispel the suspicions of the Locke Republic.

Thankfully, the Manman Empire did not reveal to the Raleigh Kingdom that it had secretly formed an alliance with the Liangxia Empire.

From this incident, it can be seen that the Raleigh Kingdom is a wall grass, which is unreliable at all.

It's just that there is no way to deny the importance of the Raleigh Kingdom and the necessity of allowing the Raleigh Kingdom to join the alliance.

First of all, it is possible to send the army that was planned to attack the Raleigh Kingdom elsewhere and save a lot of ammunition and materials that are planned to be used.

According to the plan, the Empire prepared an army group, intending to send 800,000 troops to deal with the Raleigh Kingdom.

If these troops were to be used elsewhere, they would certainly be of great significance.

Secondly, the Raleigh Kingdom has the most powerful fleet in Lu Xinhai, including four old battleships, two new battleships that have been built, and two new battleships under construction. If you count the capital ships of the Locke Republic, the total strength has already surpassed that of the Bran Royal Navy's Land Heart Sea Fleet.

With the support of this fleet, it became a logical thing to march south into the Xuan Continent.

If you can master the sea control of Lu Xinhai, you can cut off the shipping routes of the Bran Kingdom, and you can even capture the Xifan Canal without even investing many ground troops.

Of course, as long as the Raleigh Kingdom is willing to contribute, there is no need for the Manman Empire to send troops.

This may be the key to the Raleigh Kingdom's willingness to join the Entente group, and the Juman Empire has privately agreed to assign the northern shore of the Xuan Continent, including the Xifan Canal, and the east coast of the Luxinhai, that is, the entire Luxinhai area, to the Raleigh Kingdom.

In this way, the Kingdom of Raleigh will be able to restore the territory of the Ancient Raleigh Empire!

The key is that under the influence of the Bran Kingdom, the alliance group will definitely not offer these prices to the Raleigh Kingdom, that is, the Bran Kingdom will never give up Lu Xinhai, let alone the Xifan Canal, which leads to the Fanyan Ocean and is of decisive value for maintaining the colonial rule in the Van Luo region.

It can be seen that after joining the Entente group, the Raleigh Kingdom will actively advocate giving priority to entering the Xuan Continent.

This is also the most worrying place.

Although the Locke Republic has long been defeated and surrendered, its colonial government in the north of the Xuan Continent has not yet surrendered, and the main force of the Locke Navy, that is, several battleships of its land and sea fleet, have gone to the colonial port, and the ownership of these capital ships has always attracted much attention.

In fact, it was the officials of the colonial government who were still waiting.

If the situation remains stable, perhaps in a few months, the ships will depart for Locke homeland, and then follow the dictates of the Yama navy.

Now, it's clearly unlikely.

As long as the Raleigh Kingdom enters the war, the first thing the Bran Royal Navy will do is to destroy the Locke warships parked in the northern ports of the Xuan Continent.

The reason is also very simple, these warships must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Manman Navy.

The Raleigh Navy is strong enough, and if you add the warships of the Locke Navy, the supremacy of the Royal Navy of Bran in Lu Xinhai will be in jeopardy.

In addition, the Royal Navy of Bran will also take aim at the Raleigh Navy in an attempt to defeat the Raleigh Navy before the Terman Navy can take action.

Will the Manman Navy sit on the sidelines?

If not, the only thing the Navy can do is to send the Prime Minister out and force the Royal Navy to focus on the mainland.

Perhaps, this is the key to the fact that the Navy proposed that the Prime Minister could be dispatched as soon as November, but proposed to postpone the operation until the first half of next year.

To put it bluntly, I want the Liangxia Empire to pay for the sortie of the "Prime Minister".

From a purely naval point of view, this is really beneficial.

The reason is that the Royal Navy of Bran needs to deal with the remnants of the Locke Navy, it needs to deal with the Raleigh Navy that is not weak in Lu Xinhai, and it also needs to deal with the Ryman Navy in the North Sunset Ocean, even if the Royal Navy of Bran is the third in the world and the most powerful existence in the Western Continent, it will not be easy, it will definitely take a lot of time, and naturally there is no way to send troops to the Van Yanyang within a few months in the next few months.

Look at the big picture, but it doesn't do any good.

There is only one reason: the Raleigh Kingdom joined the Entente Group as a vassal state of the Riman Empire, which actually forced the Luosha Federation to fall into the Alliance Group.

In a sense, the Kingdom of Raleigh is the weight that changes the balance.

In terms of military strength and industrial strength, the Manman Empire was actually stronger than the Luosha Federation.

For a long time, it was actually the Locke Republic in the west that maintained the strategic balance of the western continent, that is, under the containment of the Locke Republic, the Manman Empire did not dare to use all its forces in the east, and it was difficult to form a decisive strategic advantage over the Luosha Federation.

After the end of the Locke Republic, it became the Raleigh Kingdom that maintained the strategic balance.

Now with the addition of the Raleigh Kingdom, the Manman Empire has become a well-deserved overlord of the Western Continent!

Let's be realistic, where will the 800,000 troops that were planned to be used against the Raleigh Kingdom be sent?

If the combat operation into the Xuan Continent was undertaken by the Raleigh army, what was the value of the more than two million troops of the Manman Army and the millions of mobilized soldiers?

It would definitely not be sent to attack the Bran Kingdom, after all, there was a strait tens of kilometers wide in front of the invincible Riman Army, which only the navy could cross.

The Luosha Federation would definitely not believe that a covenant could keep it safe, let alone a secret covenant that could be annulled at any time.

Actually, there is another key point.

In the absence of a choice, the Bran Kingdom is likely to make a major compromise and cede the Boi Kingdom within the traditional power range to the Luosha Federation, or even make similar concessions in the Van Luo region, such as ceding the Ahan Plateau in the north of Van Luo, in exchange for the Luo Sha Federation's backlash and reduce its own burden.

If this is the case, the Luosha Federation's anti-water will be a foregone conclusion!