In the early morning of December 25, in the central part of the Yanhai Sea.

In the light of the dawn, a warship with a magnificent superstructure is speeding westward. Not far away, a light cruiser sounded its whistle. Farther out on the sea, there was another majestic ship, the sister ship of the fleet's flagship "Daimon", which also belonged to the "Luo" of the 1st Battle Detachment. In the nearby sea, dozens of cruisers and destroyers are scattered.

That's right, this is the main force of the permanent fleet of the Sagai Navy, to be precise, part of the main team.

Before dawn, Takano came to the corridor outside the bridge of the commander's ship.

In fact, he didn't sleep all night.

Not just because of excitement, but also because of uneasiness.

In the past 10 days, strictly speaking, in the past few months, it can be said that several major events have occurred one after another, destroying the international order established by the "Peace of Seba" and the "Hwaseong Treaty" and pushing the world to the brink of war again.

At the end of September, Takano learned that the Liangxia Empire and the Luosha Federation were plotting to plan a war.

The Liang Xia Empire and the Luosha Federation intend to join hands to challenge the world?

In fact, after the end of the last war, to be precise, the Bran Kingdom formed an alliance with the Narrow Empire, and with the addition of the Nuland Federation to the "Second Alliance Group", the Liang Xia Empire and the Luosha Federation formed an alliance to challenge the other powers back-to-back.

For this reason, the alliance formed by these two countries is also called the "continental core bloc."

It was also from this time that the three countries of the alliance set their sights on the continental core bloc.

Three years ago, when it was determined to withdraw from the "Warren Limitation Naval Armament System", the Narrow Imperial State began to actively contact with another continental bloc, namely the "Western Continental Axis Group" formed by the Rock Republic and the Empire, to explore the possibility of an alliance.

In the beginning, the Narrow Empire only hoped to offset with the help of the Western Axis bloc to compensate for the negative effects of withdrawing from the Warren system.

Who would have thought that after the Narrow-Wing Imperial State took the lead, the Alliance Group quickly came together with the Axis Group.

For a long time, the alliance group has regarded the Liang Xia Empire as the number one emperor, after all, looking at the whole world, only the Liang Xia Empire has the ability to challenge the sea hegemony of the alliance group. The Axis group regarded the Luosha Federation as a mortal enemy, because the army of the Luosha Federation could come to the city at any time.

With a common enemy, everything is easy to say.

Although the Alliance and the Axis did not merge together, after all, there were many differences, such as the Empire's insistence that the League of Nations return to her the islands in the southwestern Guia Ocean that had been given to the Narrows after the Great War, otherwise they would not sign an alliance treaty with the Narrows, but in essence, the two groups had come together and became de facto allies through cross-alliances.

It can be seen that the Liangxia Empire and the Luosha Federation are enemies of all the powers, and they are surrounded by other powers.

The Great War is certainly inevitable, and what needs to be concerned is how it will break out.

The Luosha Federation actively courted the Liangxia Empire, and it was understandable that after all, the Riman Empire in the west had formed an alliance with the Locke Republic, and the threat posed by it could not be ignored. If it is not reconciled with the Liang Xia Empire, the Luo Sha Federation will be attacked on both sides, not to mention that the Riman Empire and the Liang Xia Empire were originally allies.

The Liang Xia Empire put down its body and formed an alliance with the Luosha Federation.

Don't forget, even in its heyday, Luo Sha failed to defeat the Liangxia Empire, and the threat posed to the Liangxia Empire can be said to be minimal. Besides, the Luosha Federation held high the banner of anti-imperialism and hegemony, calling on civilians to turn over and become masters, making it clear that the empire was regarded as an enemy.

From another point of view, why didn't the Liang Xia Empire choose to continue to ally with the Empire?

After stabilizing the Locke Republic, the Manman Empire has no worries and can concentrate its forces to attack the Luosha Federation, so in the next big war, the Liangxia Empire and the Liangman Empire will open their bows left and right, and they will quickly destroy the Luosha Federation.

In addition, the Manchurian Navy can also contain the Bran Navy and the Newland Navy in the Sunset Ocean, and share the worries of the Liang Xia Empire.

It can be seen that no matter how you look at it, the Liangxia Empire should continue to pursue the strategy of forming an alliance with the Manman Empire, and should not secretly communicate with the Luosha Federation.

At first, Takano couldn't figure it out.

After more than a decade of observation, he came to a startling conclusion: the Liang Xia Empire had no intention of forming an alliance with anyone.

Don't have allies, take on the whole world alone!?

If you want to say it, the only one who has this guts, or this ability, is the Liang Xia Empire.

After twenty years of rapid and steady development, according to the estimates of private institutions, the total population of the Liangxia Empire is likely to have exceeded 500 million.

What is this concept?

Not counting the population of the colonies, the population of the five Western powers in total is not so large.

The Nuland Federation has less than 200 million, the Riman Empire has about 80 million, the Narrow Empire has 70 million, the Locke Republic has 50 million, and the Bran Kingdom has less than 50 million.

In total, it is only 450 million.

If you add the Luosha Federation, it is less than 600 million, which is less than 100 million more than the Liangxia Empire.

In addition, the Liangxia Empire was also the most industrialized in the world.

Although there are no exact figures, according to the estimates of the main industrial output value published by the Liangxia Empire, the degree of industry has exceeded 80%.

What do you mean?

Of the 500 million people, there are 400 million industrial people.

The industrial level of the Narrow Empire is less than 50 percent, the Luosha Federation is not much better, the Riman Empire and the Locke Republic are both about 60 percent, the Bran Kingdom is barely 70 percent, and the Newland Federation, which is the most rapidly developing, is less than 80 percent.

This means that the industrial population of the Liangxia Empire was greater than that of the other six powers combined!

This is reflected in the value of industrial output.

If the industrial output value of the Liangxia Empire is regarded as one hundred, the Nuland Federation is about sixty, the Manman Empire and the Luosha Federation are both around forty, and the other three powers are all less than thirty. There were at most twenty in the Sayi Empire, i.e., the industrial capacity of the Sayi Empire was only one-fifth of that of the Liang Xia Empire.

The key is that this is the industrial capacity of the Liang Xia Empire in peacetime.

Because the service industry is very developed, and a large number of people are engaged in the tertiary industry, the industrial capacity of the Liangxia Empire can be increased a lot after entering the state of war.

If the production efficiency is roughly equal, then the industrial productivity of the Liangxia Empire in a state of war is almost equal to that of the other powers combined.

It's horrible!

There is no doubt that this is the confidence of the Liang Xia Empire to single-handedly challenge the whole world.

In fact, this also illustrates the basic strategy of the Liangxia Empire from one side.

Looking at the whole world, there is only one country capable of confronting the Liangxia Empire, and this country is on the other side of the Guia Ocean, that is, the Nuland Federation.

No matter how the next war is fought, the Liang Xia Empire must first defeat its most powerful opponent.

Then, the Liangxia Empire needed a navy that could sweep the entire Guia Ocean and even dominate the world.

This was the key to the Liangxia Empire's willingness to form an alliance with the Luosha Federation in order to eliminate the threat from the ground and focus on building a navy that could sweep across the seas.