Chapter 189
The Navy sent not only news of the defeat of the Navy, but also deduction and prediction of the development of the battle situation.
There is nothing to say on the land. The next step for Liang Xia's army is to march into Buzhou and, with the assistance of the navy, capture the entire Ice Storm Peninsula.
As for the development of the situation, the predictions made by the Admiralty are not pessimistic.
The Nayi Army suffered a crushing defeat after the war, mainly because the prediction of the enemy situation was not accurate enough. For example, the Liang Xia Army would launch an attack before the navy won, and the unexpected would launch an attack on the east and west sides of the peninsula at the same time, which led to serious insufficient early defense preparations.
To be honest, there was no preparation at all.
When Liang Xia's army launched an attack, the Nai soldiers on the ceasefire line were still daydreaming, believing that the navy would definitely win a great victory.
After the war begins, there is no situation of inadequate preparation.
When prepared, the Nayi Army will definitely guard against the enemy. Even if it has to retreat, it will use the complex terrain of the peninsula and the harsh climate in winter to block the Liang Xia Army in stages, and delay its offensive speed by consuming the combat effectiveness of the Liang Xia Army.
The more representative one is the Gaozhou offensive and defensive battle.
After losing the initiative, the Nayi army remained in a desperate situation for several days, causing a lot of trouble for Liang Xia's army, forcing Liang Xia's army to suspend the attack after occupying Gaozhou.
As you retreat along the way, the defensive side's troops will become increasingly dense, and the offensive side's supply line will become longer and longer. As one rises and the other rises, the balance will inevitably be reached at some point.
Even if they eventually retreat to Buzhou, the Nayi Army will inevitably fight against the enemy.
In any case, there are hundreds of thousands of Naoyi soldiers on the Ice Storm Peninsula.
Not to mention hundreds of thousands of soldiers armed to the teeth, even hundreds of thousands of fat pigs, it is not easy to kill them all.
As for the fighting spirit and morale of the Naoyi soldiers, there is definitely no problem.
In the last battle, the Icestorm Peninsula was the last ground battlefield, and it was also the battlefield with the most tragic battle, with the fastest casualties and the fastest casualties.
In less than two years, both sides invested millions of troops here, and nearly four million officers and soldiers were killed and missing in the Nayi Army alone. In less than one hundred days, more than one and two million officers and soldiers were killed in the last spring offensive.
In the words of a Newland war correspondent, thousands of hungry and unclothed Naoyi soldiers were rushed to the front line like pigs, and then under the crazy instigation of the commander, they rushed towards the enemy's defense line built with machine guns and barbed wire like headless flies. After the battle, heart-wrenching screams still echoed over the battlefield. Within a day, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who did not even have winter clothes were sent to the front line. They seemed to have never been fooled, no one remembered, and no one even remembered them. When the sun rose again, another group of Naoyi soldiers were sent to the front line and set off on a red battlefield made of solidified blood.
According to the Admiralty's inference, the battle on the Icestorm Peninsula will continue until next spring.
But is this inference credible?
Lofos doesn't think so.
That's ground war, can the navy understand?
Although he didn't know much about the Army, Lofoss served as assistant secretary of the Admiralty and knew the Newland Navy very well.
To be honest, if the Navy knew what ground war was going on, the Marines would not have gone independently.
Of course, the key is still on the ocean battlefield.
Here, the Admiralty made adjustments to its previous speculation.
Simply put, after the great victory of Liang Xia's navy, the possibility of attacking the volcanic islands was even greater from the north and south Sadou Islands.
There is no different reason: the possibility of a fierce battle with the Navy no longer exists, and there is no need to go south to attack the Tuk Fortress.
This is the core of the entire report.
Before this, even Lofos felt that after the Liang Xia Navy won the flag, the probability of going south to attack Tuk Fortress was greater. The key is that fighting in the southwest east-west ocean far away from the narrow land can more thoroughly and fully exert the value of the carrier-based aviation.
In addition, there are strategic considerations.
Tuc Fortress is located in the southwest and is part of Microelectronics. It is thousands of kilometers away from the South Zhu Kingdom under the jurisdiction of the Newland Federation and from the Austrian Kingdom independent of the Bran Kingdom. Therefore, from a geographical point of view, the fortress has no strategic value to the Newland Federation and the Bran Kingdom. Conversely, the fortress happens to be on the strategic route from the Nayi Empire to the Austrian Kingdom, and the Nayi Empire has only two strategic routes in total.
Historically, Microelect was once the overseas territory of the Liangxia Empire, and the Tuk Fortress was originally developed and operated by the Liangxia Empire.
Liang Xia's navy sent troops to the Tuk Fortress, which not only achieved the purpose of attacking the Naiyi Empire, but also avoided excessive stimulation of the Newland Federation and the Bran Kingdom.
On the military level, it also echoes the Army's actions on the Icestorm Peninsula.
At that time, the Minister of the Navy used an Oriental proverb: Boil frogs in warm water.
Attacking the volcanic islands would not have such an effect.
Geographically, the volcanic archipelago is located south of the narrow land, less than 1,000 kilometers away, within the combat range of the onshore-based aviation force.
The key is that the volcanic archipelago is north of the Norte Horse Islands.
Although the Northern Horse Islands were owned by the Liangxia Empire before the last war, after the last war, the Northern Horse Islands were usurped by the Nayi Empire and the Newland Federation. All the islands north of the archipelago were owned by the Nayi Empire, to be precise, the jurisdiction of the Nayi Empire. The islands south of the archipelago were governed by the Newland Federation, and were subsequently built by the Newland Federation into an intermediate station from the local area to the South Zhu Kingdom.
What's the meaning?
Guandao is on the route from the West Coast of Newland Federation to the South Zhu Kingdom!
Don’t forget that the South Zhu Kingdom was the core interest that the Newland Federation gained in the last war, and it was also the bridgehead of the Newland Federation on the east and west coast.
Liang Xia’s Navy sent troops to the volcanic islands, can the Newland Federation sit and watch?
From a military perspective, as long as Liang Xia’s navy gains a foothold in the volcanic islands, such as Liuhuang Island, it can quickly sweep the North Horse Islands and Guan Island in the south. After occupying Guan Island, it will be no challenge to attack the Nanzhu Kingdom, and it can even sweep half of the Eastern Ocean.
It can be seen that no matter how much Newland Federation concessions give in, it must not abandon the island of Guan.
It is precisely because the Navy Department clearly mentioned in its report that if Liang Xia's Navy chooses to advance eastward, it must consider the possibility of sending troops to participate in the war, and at least increase troops to Guandao and the west eastward ocean. For example, sending several large warships to the South Zhu Kingdom to strengthen the shore-based aviation troops deployed on Guandao.
Of course, this is just the view of the Admiralty.
Lofos knew very well that unless the Liang Xia Navy directly sent troops to attack Guandao or Nanzhu Kingdom, let alone the volcanic islands, even if they occupied the Northern Horse Islands under the jurisdiction of the Nai Empire, those members of the Congress who believed that they should develop behind closed doors would never agree to send troops to participate in the war.
Don’t forget that the Northern Horse Islands originally belonged to the Liangxia Empire, and even the islands under the jurisdiction belonged to the Liangxia Empire.
What's more, this time the Nayi Empire provoked a war through a sneak attack.
In addition, we must also consider the economic and trade relationship between the Liangxia Empire and the Newland Federation in recent years, especially after the outbreak of the economic crisis.
All of them were considered. As long as the commander of the Liangxia Empire was not confused and was not so stupid that he directly touched the cake of the Newland Federation, Lofos would have to worry!
Chapter completed!