On April 16, 1625, the Imperial Navy fleet, which had great expectations from both the government and the public, set sail from the Marina Naval Base and sailed northeast under the leadership of Charles Lucien, the commander of the Imperial Navy.

The "Tsunami" operation carefully planned by the Imperial Navy Command can be subdivided into three layered operational steps:

The first strategic intention of the Imperial Navy fleet in this expedition was to grasp the sea supremacy along the "Coral Sea-Golden Horn" and open up a sea passage from the interior of the Empire to the Far East, so that the Imperial troops could obtain another alternative route for entering the hinterland of the Far East in addition to forcibly crossing the Turbid Wave River.

In order to achieve this, the Imperial fleet needed to sail to the Golden Horn, force Parnia to surrender, and open ports to the hinterland of the Far East for Imperial warships. Considering that Parnia belongs to the allied states of the "Far Eastern Court" led by the Kingdom of Kolas, and is likely to refuse to open the door to the Imperial Fleet, then the Imperial Fleet will use force to force this small city-state to submit, and in order to achieve this goal, it is not excluded to destroy all the warships of Parnia, and set up naval guns to bombard the harbor until the Parnians raise the white flag with interest.

After the successful capture of the port of Parnia, the Imperial Navy will implement the second phase of the battle plan, which is simply to control the entire Parnia peninsula. To do this, the Imperial Navy needed to send marines to land in the ports along the Golden Horn and exercise military control over all the important towns on the peninsula.

After completing the second phase of the combat mission, the Parnia Peninsula has actually become a bridgehead for the Empire to march into the Far East, so it is logical that the last step is to escort the Imperial Army on the troop transport ship from the Golden Horn to land on the Parnia Peninsula, and after completing the assembly, take the magic train to the north, advance from the southwest into the hinterland of the Far East, first take the second largest city in the Kingdom of Kolas after the capital, "Great Fall City", and then march to Krasburg.

When the "Tsunami" operation is advanced to the third step, it will not only be a unilateral action of the Imperial Navy, but the main forces of the army stationed in the Olevi fortress will also cooperate with the Navy to launch an offensive against the rebel groups in the Far East from two directions at the same time, forcing them to be unable to take care of their heads and tails. At that point, the Far Eastern authorities will either withdraw their expeditionary force to the Twilight Valley or be forced to fight on three fronts, either option would mean a huge defeat at the military and political levels, and would lose popular support and be close to complete collapse.

Admiral Charles Lucien, the commander of the Navy, as the chief planner of Operation Tsunami, was confident in a report to the Cabinet Defense Committee, claiming that the Imperial Fleet would complete the strategic intent of the first phase of Operation Tsunami by May, and that it would achieve the objectives of the second phase within a month. As for the progress of the third stage, it depends on the cooperation of the army, and even before the most conservative estimates come this autumn, it will be possible to end all the fighting in the Far East and restore this imperial territory, which has been stolen by the rebel group for many years.

As a result of the defeat of the Crusade in the past two months, the tide of public opinion in the holy city of Assan had changed, and the cabinet and the crown prince Frank could not help but be suspicious of General Lucien's optimism. Admiral Engel had shown the same optimism to them two months earlier, but it turned out that things were not so simple, and now that the Imperial Army was struggling on the west bank of the Turbid River, could the Navy be led astray by excessive optimism? This is a cause for alarm.

In the face of the above questioning, General Lucien had to restrain his antipathy towards the civilian bureaucrats in the cabinet and patiently explained to the National Defense Committee that his judgment was entirely based on the real balance of forces between the enemy and us, and there was no element of underestimating the enemy.

A piece of data provided by the Intelligence Service of the Imperial General Staff could provide strong support for General Lucien's views. The Imperial Navy devoted almost all of its wealth to Operation Tsunami. Not counting those old-fashioned sail warships, the magic crystal steam-powered warships participating in the northward operation mainly include three new magic guide battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, namely the "Crown Prince Frank", the "Queen Teresa" and the naval commander's flagship "Charlemagne"; Six armored cruisers with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, namely the "Lion", "Tiger", "Valian", "Intrepid", "Perseverance" and "Indomitable", the above nine large warships together constituted the main force of the northward operation. In addition to this, the fleet includes 12 frigates, 24 high-speed destroyers, as well as a large number of other auxiliary ships.

General Lucien had a unique view of naval warfare in the new era, believing that the old concept of relying on the caliber of cannons in the era of sail battleships was outdated, and now the navy must pay attention to the construction of aviation units, otherwise it will not be able to cope with bomb attacks from the air. This has been proven several times in naval battles since the beginning of this century, and the reason why the Imperial Navy has repeatedly suffered setbacks in the confrontations with the Phizhen Navy, the inferiority of the fleet tonnage to the other side is actually only a secondary factor, and the main reason is that the strength of the naval aviation is far apart. In order to make up for this shortcoming, General Lucien has invested tremendous energy in the construction of naval forces since he took charge of the Imperial Navy Command, and has received fruitful returns. The naval aviation unit that accompanied the Imperial fleet on this expedition was the brainchild of his efforts over the years, including two "Naval Navigation Knights", each with 1,000 vulture cavalry, divided into three naval aviation cavalry battalions, two of which were escort battalions and one was a bombardment battalion, and the escort troops could also carry out bombing missions when necessary.

Compared with the powerful Imperial Fleet and Naval Aviation Forces, how many catties and taels does its opponent have? The Imperial General Staff has collected a lot of information about the Far East Navy through various channels, and the data given by all sources can be mutually verified, and the credibility cannot be doubted. According to this authoritative report, General Lucien believed that the naval power of the Far Eastern authorities consisted of three fleets, including the "North Sea Fleet" of the Kingdom of Koras, the "Yanbo Fleet" of the North Sea Federation, and the Parnia Fleet stationed at the Golden Horn. Combined, these three fleets consisted of only three heavy magic cruisers, four light cruisers, twelve high-speed destroyers, and a similar number of frigates.

Judging by the overall tonnage of the fleet, the total tonnage of warships of the Far Eastern Combined Fleet is less than two-thirds of the total tonnage of the Imperial fleet; From the point of view of the performance of the main battleships, the three capital battleships in the Far East are just heavy cruisers, and the range and caliber of both tonnage, armor and naval guns are far behind the three large battleships of the Imperial Navy, and at best they are slightly stronger than the cruisers of the Imperial Navy.

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