The Liang Xia Empire focused on building a navy, and the first to be threatened was the Narrow Imperial State.

For more than 10 years, hundreds of thousands of officers and men of the Satsui Navy, including Takaya, stayed awake at night and were constantly on guard against a strong enemy from the west.

For this reason, the Imperial Kingdom of Narrow-mindedness gambled on the fortunes of the entire country!

It's just that Takano is very clear.

In this gamble of fighting for the country, the Narrow Imperial Kingdom is just a pawn, and many times it plays the role of the watchdog of the Newland Federation.

In fact, this is also the key to the Nuland Federation's ongoing blood transfusion for the Narrow Imperial State.

Not to mention, after the end of the war, the Nuland Federation has been selling scrap steel to the Narrow Empire, and even handed over many decommissioned warships to the Narrow Empire's shipbreaking yard for dismantling. Just last year, factories in the Empire bought half a million tons of scrap steel from the Nuland Federation. Without this scrap steel, which could be reused without reheating, it would have been impossible for the Sagai Imperial Kingdom to build the third fleet in the Guia and the fourth in the world.

In addition, the Bran Kingdom is willing to form an alliance with the Narrow Empire, which is actually using the Narrow Empire.

With the Narrow Yi Imperial State restraining the Liangxia Empire in the Guia Ocean, the safety of the surrounding colonies in Fanyanyang can be guaranteed, at least to breathe a sigh of relief.

It is precisely because of this that the Bran Kingdom is also actively supporting the Narrow Empire.

It's just that the Bran Kingdom is not as wealthy as the Newland Federation, mainly providing technology, and does not give much material assistance.

The most representative is to send engineers to provide major equipment to help the Sagi Imperial Kingdom upgrade the four "Golden Steel" class to fast battleships.

Of course, this was enough, after all, the Narrow Empire also lacked the cutting-edge technology needed to develop its navy.

But the question is, is it worth it?

That's right, in the decades before the Great War, the Narrow Imperial State, which was subject to the Liang Xia Empire, was always treated as a third-rate state and never received fair treatment.

However, for the past few hundreds, if not millennia, the Empire has been learning from the vast land-based Eastern Empire.

Also, the fact that the Narrow Imperial Kingdom was not treated well was actually to blame.

If it weren't for the brutal intervention on the Ice Storm Peninsula, the internal strife between the two kingdoms with the surname Gao, in a vain attempt to take advantage of this, the Narrow Imperial Kingdom would not have been isolated.

To a large extent, it was actually the fear of the strong forest that forced the Narrow Imperial State to embark on this road of no return.

It was also the desire for security that led the Narrow-Empire to ally itself with two largely non-threatening states.

However, this does not change the situation of the Narrow Imperial State.

The Commonwealth of Nuland is across the Guia Ocean, more than 10,000 kilometers away. Even if the Liang Xia Navy fought chicken blood, it would be impossible to kill the other side of the Guia Ocean in one go.

According to the traditional strategy, it would take several years to advance eastward step by step, just to capture and establish strongholds along the way.

The Bran Kingdom is separated by a huge continent and the western continent between the Sunset Ocean and the Liangxia Empire, and the voyage distance is also more than 10,000 kilometers by sea.

What is this?

In front of the bullet hole is the narrow empire!

As long as the fight starts, the first unlucky one is the Narrow Imperial Kingdom.

It is precisely because of this that after taking the position of permanent fleet commander, Gao Ye changed his past position and advocated reconciliation with the Liangxia Empire.

According to Gao Ye's meaning, even if he can't form an alliance with the Liang Xia Empire, he should remain neutral and avoid being an enemy of the Liang Xia Empire.

What terrified Gao Ye was not only the navy of the Liangxia Empire, but also the factories of the Liangxia Empire.

Before the outbreak of the last war, Takano traveled to the Liangxia Empire in a private capacity for several months, visiting major cities, and had a very clear understanding of the industrial productivity of the Liangxia Empire. In the last war, Gao Ye also opposed the sneak attack on the Liangxia Empire, advocating sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

It's a pity that no one in the Sagai Navy, or even in the entire Sagai Imperial Kingdom, has this understanding except for Takaya.

In reality, it's quite the opposite.

After the end of the war, to be precise, after the Battle of the Watchman's Strait, the most excited were the officers and men of the Narrow Navy, especially the senior generals.

It seems that after this naval battle, the Sakuyi Navy became the first in the world.

It was this naval battle that made the Narrow Navy swell rapidly, become extremely confident, and regard defeating the Liang Xia Navy as an easy matter.

As a result, for many years after that, the Narrow-Sided Navy discussed how to seize absolute sea supremacy in the Guia Ocean, or at least in the Guia Ocean.

With the rhetoric of the time, in the next great war, it was possible to seize the absolute hegemony of the whole of the Guia, or at least the Guia Ocean. Even if it needs to cooperate with allies such as the Newland Federation and the Kingdom of Bran, it must ensure that after the end of the war, it will become the only power in the Guia.

Although this arrogance was suppressed after Takano became the permanent commander of the fleet, and some young officers began to think seriously about the next war, few in the upper echelons of the Sagai Navy believed that the battle in the Watchman Strait was a fluke.

If anything, it's not even a victory.

The point is, does it have anything to do with the Narrow Navy?

Do not forget that the 2nd Battle Cruiser, which participated in the battle, played soy sauce on the periphery all the time, and the four battlecruisers with fierce firepower did not play their due value.

Influenced by blind optimism, the Navy has always pursued a military doctrine of active offensive.

Interestingly, Takano is also a staunch embrace of the doctrine of offense.

Strictly speaking, Takano was the founder of the Narrow Naval Offensive School, the number one promoter and standard-bearer, and thus became the spiritual leader of the Shaozhuang School.

Takano believes in attack, which reflects helplessness.

Why?

If the war with the Liang Xia Empire could not be avoided, the stubborn defense would inevitably be defeated, and there would be a glimmer of hope for an active attack.

The point is that the Imperial State has no strategic depth.

In this regard, we can refer to the naval strategy pursued by the Bran Kingdom.

Although after the war, the Narrow-Minded Imperial State usurped a lot of war dividends, including sending troops to seize and occupy the Guia and Southwestern Guia without the support of the League of Nations, which originally belonged to the colonies of the Liangxia Empire and the Empire of the Empire, but on the whole, the Narrow-Empire was still a small country, or a typical island country, with extreme scarcity of resources, and the survival of the country was heavily dependent on shipping.

To put it simply, the national fortunes of the Saoyi Empire relied heavily on two shipping routes.

One is to the south, to the colony of the Bran Kingdom in the southwestern and eastern seas, to be precise, the territorial Ozhou. The other is the route across the Guia Ocean to the Newland Federation.

Eighty percent of the imported materials of the Imperial State of Narrow Yi had to take these two routes.

What's worse is that both of these routes can be easily cut off!

Not only because of the long distance, but also because there were not many military strongholds along the route, there were no colonies suitable for building military bases and maintaining a military presence.

According to Takano's theory, only an active offensive and the initiative after the outbreak of the Great War could it be possible to save the course of life before the allies entered the war.

If it fails to do so, the Sakuyi Imperial Kingdom will definitely be defeated before the allies can send troops!

In the face of the giant Liang Xia Navy, only an active attack can hope to drag it on.

It's just that Takano also emphasized one point.

An active offensive strategy would definitely worsen relations with the Liangxia Empire, so the Narrow-Yi Navy had to take the initiative to face the challenge and prepare for the worst.

It can be seen that if there were other options, Takano might not necessarily advocate attacking.