Are there any better choices besides Lu Xinhai?

Go to Nanxi Luoyang?

What is indeed possible, but it is very slim.

Although after giving up the Zhiluo Fortress, the Imperial Navy strengthened its military presence in Nanxiluoyang, especially after restoring diplomatic relations with the Republic of Newland, it once shouted the slogan of "returning to the Nanxuan area", building Nanxuan's Table Bay into the largest, most complete, and most service-capable naval base in Nanxiluoyang, with essentially lacking two most important things in the expansion of the Empire in Nanxiluoyang, one is to clarify the strategic purpose, and the other is to support the economic foundation of the entire military strategic system.

To put it bluntly, the empire did not have any significant vital interests in the Nanxi Luoyang area.

There is nothing to say in the entire Xi Luoyang.

It is precisely because the Empire unconditionally gave up the Wangxi Canal shortly after the war ended, during the first wave of national independence movement.

Whether to go to the West or not will have no great impact on the core interests of the empire.

The empire's expansion actions in Nanxi Luoyang were more to prevent opponents from controlling the region, especially obtaining resources in the region.

Relatively speaking, the west coast of Xuan Continent and the Nangu Continent are the main resource production areas that non-world island countries must compete for and control.

From this perspective, whether in order to curb the old opponent Xilu Group or suppress the rapidly rising Beigu Group, the empire needs to strengthen its existence on both sides of the Nanxi Luoyang Ocean, and offset the opponent's influence outside the military through its existence in the military field.

But, for a long time in the past, this is just a beautiful idea.

In the years after the end of the Boei War, it was already very good for the empire in a strategic contraction stage to be able to preserve its traditional core sphere of influence, namely, to the east to the Hovayi Islands, to the south to the Aurora continent, to the west to the Xifan Canal, to the north to the northern end of the huge continent. As for places outside the core sphere of influence, even if there are valuable resources, the imperial authorities are unable to do so.

In fact, the empire never puts resources first.

In terms of post-war expansion, the imperial authorities valued the market more, especially a single market with a large population and huge purchasing potential.

To put it bluntly, it is actually a wealthy country with a large population.

In a sense, the driving force brought by the huge demand in overseas markets has become the decisive factor for the empire to deepen industrial reform, continuously improve industrial productivity, develop advanced technologies and maintain social vitality, and resources are nothing more than raw materials for industrial production.

The key is that the empire itself has the richest resources in the world.

Although the empire has always been a resource importer, especially energy, and has a great dependence on imports, almost all important strategic resources, even oil, have ranked first in the world in terms of reserves in the empire, and can be fully self-sufficiency during war times.

Importing in large quantities is also because imports are cheaper than self-produced.

What's more, there are many resource-producing countries within the Oriental Group.

If the empire no longer imports resources, these allies that rely on export resources to make a living will be ruined.

This characteristic at the economic level also determines that only when the national strength is strong, that is, in the period of expansion, the empire has the possibility of entering the Nanxi River.

It is precisely because after Zhou Yongtao moved into the official residence of the Chief Auxiliary, the Empire increased its investment in the Nanxuan area.

In the years before the outbreak of the war, the Empire had been expanding its naval base in Table Bay, and also built the largest submarine marina in the Nanxi Luoyang area, which could provide support services for more than a dozen large attack submarines at the same time, and at most it could allow 72 large attack submarines to dock.

This capacity for accommodation and guarantee is not ordinary.

Not to mention anything else, before the outbreak of the war, there were only 12 large attack submarines deployed in Xi Luoyang.

Obviously, the Imperial Navy was building in Table Bay, which was to think about the war.

During the war, only submarines that can enter and move in the ocean are untraceable, especially large attack submarines with self-sustainability of more than 100 days.

Of course, this is also a fact.

Before the 51st Special Mixed Fleet suffered a heavy blow, the Imperial Navy had already abandoned the Beixi Luoyang and withdrew all the surface ships originally deployed in Scapa Bay. When the Battle of Dongluxinhai and Navy ended, there were only a few large attack submarines with hidden whereabouts.

In the last few months of the 150th year of the New Calendar, four large attack submarines originally deployed in Scapa Bay and moved south after the fleet evacuated, and eight large attack submarines heading north from Table Bay after the outbreak of the war were the entire combat force of the Imperial Navy on the entire Xiluo Ocean outside the sea of ​​land.

It was these 12 large attack submarines that almost made the Royal Bran Navy and the Torman Navy capsized.

First of all, in September, after the Western Land Group officially joined the war, two large attack submarines lying outside Portsmouth Harbor ambushed the Bran Fleet.

This battle almost wiped out the Royal Bran Navy!

Although the Royal Bran Navy claimed that only three Type 22 frigates and one Type 42 destroyer were sunk by torpedoes, and other warships avoided the torpedoes launched by the submarines, after being ambushed, the Bran fleet immediately returned to Portsmouth Port and has not yet left the port.

The key is that two of its three aircraft carriers, namely the Invincible and the Contestant God, were sent to the dry dock shortly after returning to the port. The reason was that the power system had a malfunction and it had to be docked and repaired, and the Contestant God had to replace two propellers. However, there is reason to believe that these two aircraft carriers were attacked outside the port and were injured by torpedoes, so they needed to be docked and repaired after returning to the port.

As for the uninjured Ark, the Royal Ark has been staying in the port.

In addition, the Royal Brann admitted in early October that the submarines that had not been found for the sneak attack fleet, and the one that had previously claimed to have "sinked" was actually a suspected target.

The two submarines were indeed not sunk and had slipped away before the sneak attack was successful.

According to the battle reports of the two submarines, in the battle to attack the Bran Fleet, a total of 8 heavy torpedoes were fired, and the ones locked were all aircraft carriers. However, the two submarines deployed the 16 self-navigation mines they carried outside Portsmouth before the Bran Fleet left the port.

Among them, half of the self-navigation mines are near the main channel.

According to the investigation conducted later, at least two of the four Bran destroyers that were sunk were sunk by self-navigation mines, but it can also be said to be sunk.

The main reason is that the warhead of the self-navigation mine is a small torpedo with a short range and a large charge, so it is easily regarded as a mine when attacking.

In addition, the ones that injured two aircraft carriers may also be self-driving mines.

If it is hit by a heavy torpedo, the two aircraft carriers will definitely not be as simple as docking and repairing.

Judging from the situation at that time, it was actually these self-navigation mines that misled the Royal Navy of Bran.

The anti-submarine patrol aircraft that was first to arrive did not fly to the outer sea, but wandered outside the port, not only dropped hundreds of sonar buoys, but also delayed extremely precious time. As a result, when the second batch of anti-submarine patrol aircraft arrived, the two large attack submarines lying in the outer sea had already fled.

In addition, the anti-submarine patrol aircraft almost sunk two Bran submarines that arrived.

Anyway, the two large attack submarines originally deployed in Scapa Bay used 8 torpedoes and 32 self-navigation mines to block the Royal Bran Navy's door. Not only did they sink 4 destroyers in one fell swoop, but they also made dozens of warships, including three large aircraft carriers, lose their value.

To be honest, this is definitely the submarine ambush with the greatest military significance and influence during the Third Global War.

However, this is just the beginning.

In just a few days, two other large attack submarines deployed in Scapa Bay ambushed a fleet of transport ships set out from the Maple Leaf Country to the Taman Empire in the waters between the Faroe Islands and the Shetland Islands, and only 23 large cargo ships were sunk in just a few hours.

This is also the first time that the Imperial submarines attacked civilian transport ships after the war began.

In terms of influence, this ambush is no worse than the battle just outside Portsmouth.

The 23 cargo ships that were sunk were all operated by shipping companies of the Tyrannosaurus Empire, carrying strategic materials imported from the Beigu Group. Three of them were bulk cargo ships carrying 300,000 tons of selected tungsten ore, and one cargo ship carrying about 50,000 tons of tungsten rods.

These tungsten rods and tungsten ore are all military supplies, mainly used to make armor-piercing bullet cores.

The key is that not only the Tyman Empire, there are no large tungsten ore in the entire Western continent.

The lost tungsten rods and tungsten ore are enough to produce armor-piercing bullet cores for millions of tanks, or armor-piercing bullets for hundreds of millions of machine guns.

Affected by this, the front-line armored forces of the Thaman Army have not yet obtained enough armor-piercing missiles.

In addition, the ammunition factories that produce armor-piercing ammunition have switched to production of other ammunition by the end of the year, and will not continue to produce armor-piercing ammunition until the next batch of raw materials arrive.

In addition, there is a transport ship loading about 150 tons of quinine.

These drugs are actually free aid from the Republic of Newland, and all come from tropical plantations run by Newland enterprises in the central part of the orphan continent.

In theory, 150 tons of quinine is enough for a million troops to use in tropical areas for one year.

According to the relevant information disclosed after the war, the Xilu Group originally planned to launch an attack in the Beixuan area after the war started, and strive to win the crucial Xifan Canal in one fell swoop. It is precisely because of this that the Tiaoman Army did not focus on the east side, and its main forces were all on the north coast of Luxinhai. At that time, there were only three ace armored divisions on the western island in the south of the Raleigh Kingdom, and the ammunition and medicines accumulated enough to be used for several months.

As a result, because 150 tons of quinine were not shipped, the Tyman Army delayed the attack until the end of October in order to avoid the unbearable summer.

Unexpectedly, when the temperature drops, the opportunity to attack the Xifan Canal no longer exists.

Not only did the Liangxia Empire strengthen its defense deployment in the Xifan Canal, but it also had a lot to do with the situation on the battlefield, especially the changes on the mainland battlefield.

As a result, in November, all three ace armored divisions of the Tyman Army were taken to the mainland battlefield.

As for attacking the Xifan Canal, it can only be put on hold indefinitely.

Compared with the lost materials, the impact of this attack was even more serious.

Because he was worried about being ambushed by a submarine, it was not until the end of October that he prepared enough escort warships and completed the front-line deployment of anti-submarine patrol aircraft that the Great Empire organized a transport fleet to the Beigu Continent and re-engaged trade with the Beigu Group.

Don't forget that the Republic of Newland had joined the war before this.

In other words, under the threat of submarines, the sea shipping of the two major groups that communicated with each other was delayed for nearly a month!

In the modern war, this is definitely not a trivial matter.

To make full use of this month, the Republic of Newland was able to provide the Thuman Empire with enough weapons and equipment to arm 10 divisions, or supplies for millions of troops to fight for half a year.

In addition, after the resumption of shipping, escort became the number one mission of the Tsuman Navy.

Although the number one mission of the Tyman Navy is to protect maritime routes, no one thought that it would rely on the Tyman Navy to seize the power of sea control, the main force was used to perform escort tasks, and the Bran Royal Navy was huddled in the port and did not come out, so it would inevitably reduce the investment in other directions.

For example, for this, we gave up our combat operations in Lu Xinhai.

If you want to say, this is the reason why the Tyman Empire delayed its march into the Xifan Canal by one month.

Without fleet support, even if the shore-based aviation force is strong enough, it may not be able to seize sea control, let alone provide cover for the transport fleet.

After that, the 12 large attack submarines were mainly active on the Nanxi Luoyang Ocean.

This is understandable. After all, the Beixi Ocean is too far away and there is no base support. Even if the submarine can pass, the continuous combat time is very limited.

The key is logistics support.

Not to mention anything else, even large attack submarines can only carry dozens of thunder bombs. After using it, they must return to the port or meet with the submarine support ship. If they are cruising abroad for a long time, even if the thunder bombs are useless, they must find ways to supplement fresh food.

To put it simply, submarines are similar to combat aircraft, and their range of activities is limited by the "combat radius".

Of course, the combat radius of the submarine is definitely much further.

Take the largest number of "Nanjiang" class as an example. Under standard loading, it can patrol the sea area 5,000 kilometers away from the base for 45 days, and for every 1,000 kilometers shortened, the patrol time will be extended by 5 days, and on the contrary, it will be shortened by 5 days. In order to obtain the highest combat efficiency, the combat range is generally limited to within 5,000 kilometers. Even in special circumstances, submarine support ships must be arranged to cooperate.

Obviously, it is too risky to send a submarine support ship to Beixi Luoyang.

Influenced by this, the Imperial Navy's destruction and war in Xiluoyang was mainly limited to Nanxiluoyang.

Fortunately, in the early stages of the war, blocking Nanxi Luoyang was also of great value.

Not to mention anything else, because the route to the east of the Nangu Continent was blocked, when designing a new generation of aircraft carriers, the Newland Navy was still limited by the width of the Wangxi Canal lock, and could not completely let go of the way, so it was necessary to make choices on specific performance.

In addition, Xilu Group and Beigu Group cannot at least temporarily obtain resources from the west coast of Xuanda Continent.

The key is that under the blockade of submarines, the countries on the west coast of Xuan Continent and even some countries on the Nangu Continent have been affected.

In time, I will not be able to fall into the empire.

But the problem is that Nan Xiluoyang has no personal interests at all, and even if he has obtained the right to control the sea, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake.

With the current situation, do you need to add icing on the cake?
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