Twenty-five years after entering Qian Sheng, the world war that has lasted for many years has caused huge damage to various countries, especially the Western Continent, which is the main battlefield, and has been basically destroyed.
Even the Kingdom of Krul, whose homeland was not affected by the war, was exhausted after four years of high-intensity war.
Military expenditures of hundreds of billions of dollars have exhausted all the resources accumulated by the Kingdom of Krul for hundreds of years. More than one million soldiers were killed and more than two million were injured.
Every time a battle is launched, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and countless bullets are fired, and the loss of firearms, artillery, aircraft, tanks and other weapons and equipment means tens of millions or even hundreds of millions or more in military expenditures. expenditure.
These military expenditures are the wealth accumulated by the Kingdom of Krul over the years.
Now it has become a variety of ammunition and weapons thrown at the enemy's head.
If the wars of decades ago could still rely on the tactical talents of senior generals and the bravery of soldiers to offset the gap in national power.
So in today's war, although personal bravery is still important, it is difficult for individual bravery to offset the gap in national strength.
In today's war, no matter how it is fought, there will be overwhelming artillery fire, and the barrage formed by intensive heavy machine gun fire is enough to crush any infantry charge.
At this time, several key words appeared frequently in the military theories of various countries, namely coverage and barrage!
Before an attack is launched, artillery units often carry out covering bombardments on enemy positions. In some key battles, the number of artillery shells fired is enough to completely bankrupt an ordinary country.
When machine guns fire, a barrage must be formed to form an insurmountable line of death in the open space in front of the position.
In order to break through the positions, various countries began to equip and use tanks.
However, the performance of tanks these days is quite average. The reason why the Daheng Empire used tanks to achieve such great results is mainly because the Daheng Empire was the first to use tanks at that time. The Orissa Empire could not react and failed to develop and produce targeted tanks in time. Anti-tank weapons.
Even so, most of the Daheng Empire's tanks were used to break through positions, and the subsequent in-depth attacks were not actually undertaken by tank troops, but by semi-mechanical cavalry units equipped with a large number of wheeled armored vehicles, transport vehicles and a large number of war horses. To bear it.
By now, all countries have basically developed targeted anti-tank weapons, including anti-tank guns of about 15 mm and anti-tank guns between 30 and 50 mm.
Once it is hit by an anti-tank gun, given the protection performance of current tanks, it is basically a disaster.
So now, tanks and anti-tank guns have become consumables. It is very common for hundreds of tanks to be lost in a large-scale battle.
And these all cost money!
Faced with huge expenditures, all participating countries in the world have lost all their wealth. The reason why they can still maintain the war now is simply to hold on.
Now let's see who can't hold on first.
Under such circumstances, what did the Daheng Empire do?
Naturally, I will continue to make money and obtain other benefits.
Taking advantage of the excitement of their fight, unable to take action, and not daring to stop the Daheng Empire, the Daheng Empire reached an agreement with the Oran Kingdom in the Western Continent.
The Daheng Empire purchased the Eastland Islands colony under the control of the Kingdom of Oran with a one-time payment of various materials worth 100 million constant dollars.
The Eastland Islands are located in the Western Sea in the Northern Hemisphere between the Western Continent and the Central Continent.
It is about 3,000 kilometers away from the Western Continent and about 7,000 kilometers away from the eastern coast of the Daheng Empire. However, it is only 4,000 kilometers away from the Huoyangniao Islands, the westernmost naval base of the Daheng Empire in the depths of the Western Sea.
The Eastland Islands are not large and do not produce any special products. The only valuable thing is that there is a deep-water harbor on the main island of this archipelago, which is suitable for building a large-scale military base.
The natural conditions of the harbor of the Eastland Islands are better than that of the Firebird Islands Naval Base, and are more suitable for use as a large-scale military base.
The Daheng Empire spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire this archipelago to build a real military base, move the maritime defense line thousands of kilometers forward, and take advantage of the fact that the archipelago is only three thousand kilometers away from the western continent to further extend to the western continent.
And this was just the beginning. Soon the Daheng Empire reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Louhe in the easternmost part of the Western Continent. In exchange for paying a batch of supplies, they acquired one of their coastal islands: Mary Island in the name of escrow.
This island was actually not the native territory of their Kingdom of Louhe, but the territory of the Kingdom of Jialan in the north of the Kingdom of Louhe, which they captured in the last war.
Of course, the Daheng Empire is wealthy and has already spent money to settle the Jialan Kingdom in advance.
So the name was to entrust Mary Island to the Daheng Empire for custody in order to resolve the territorial dispute between the two parties.
Although it is in the name of escrow, according to the escrow agreement signed by the three countries, this escrow is indefinite...
Using this Mary Island, the Daheng Empire can build a military base here, allowing its military capabilities to begin to cover the western continent.
After such a start, several other countries, which had been exhausted by the war and found it difficult to come up with gold or other physical materials to purchase various strategic materials for the Daheng Empire, also began to think about exchanging islands for
Supplies.
The first to follow was the Kokel Empire. Their navy was at a disadvantage, and their overseas territories and colonial connections were lost. They themselves also contracted their front lines, gave up overseas territories in other places, and concentrated their naval power to maintain their maritime transportation to the Daheng Empire.
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Among the participating countries, the sea routes between them and the Daheng Empire are basically the most important routes.
The Kekel Empire is no exception. Once the sea route from the Kekel Empire to the Daheng Empire is cut off, they will be unable to obtain a large number of weapons and ammunition as well as various civilian supplies and industrial raw materials from the Daheng Empire.
Now they need more supplies, and they also need more warships to maintain the front and maintain the route.
For this reason, after discussions between the three allies, the Kekel Empire, the Oran Kingdom, and the Galfia Empire, they simply decided to move some of the islands located in the Endless Sea and the Western Sea, which are not of much concern to you and them, to comparison.
The barren colonies were sold to the Daheng Empire in exchange for large amounts of supplies.
At the same time, a number of colonies located in concessions, trusteeships, etc. in other countries were also sold.
Anyway, they can't defend these places, and they don't intend to defend them anymore.
As for the Daheng Empire, they don't refuse anyone who comes, and they offer generous prices, as if I'm the culprit and you're going to kill me!
The exchange of islands for supplies was originally done by the Daheng Empire itself, not for some economic gains from colonizing the islands, but to use these islands to establish a network of military bases around the world!
Once these islands spread across the Endless Sea and the Western Sea are used to establish a large number of military bases, the warships and troops of the Daheng Empire will be able to appear at any conflict location in the world.
Before this, there was only one country on Blue Star that could do this, and that was the Kingdom of Krul.
Now, the Daheng Empire plans to do the same.
In response to this, the Krul Kingdom reacted very strongly!