The Andorian Islands,\u001bThis remote archipelago where few people came here in the past, now has thousands of soldiers from the Daheng Empire pouring into its main island, Andorian Island, and hundreds of kilometers away from Andorian Island.
In the sea area, two huge fleets were heading towards each other.
The gun jackets on the battleships in these two fleets, especially the battleships, have been lifted and the muzzles have been raised.
There is a sign that war is imminent!
The Andorian Islands are located in the depths of the endless sea. About three thousand kilometers to the northeast is the Kingdom Island. More than two thousand kilometers to the northwest is the East Pole Island and its affiliated islands controlled by the Kingdom of Krul. A little further to the west.
It is the East China Sea Islands controlled by the Daheng Empire.
Thousands of kilometers away in the southwest and due south direction, is the southern sea. This southern sea is actually very vast. From the eastern end of the Endless Strait to the northern sea of the southwest continent, there are thousands of large and small islands scattered.
Probably some of the islands originally belonged to the Orissa Empire. After the Orissa Empire was defeated, they were handed over to the Daheng Empire. There are also a few islands controlled by the Galfia Empire and the Kokel Empire. Nowadays, the islands are exchanged for supplies.
The plan was basically handed over to the Daheng Empire.
Most of the remaining parts are controlled by the Kingdom of Krul.
Compared with the southern seas where there are many islands and a lot of fish, the Andorian Islands are different. There is no second island around this small archipelago for thousands of kilometers.
Moreover, this place is not a place that traditional routes pass through, and this place also belongs to the windless zone deep in the endless sea.
In the past hundreds of thousands of years, no human sailboat has entered and set foot in it.
The Garfia Empire discovered this place after the age of steam ships. One of their steam freighters got lost and strayed into the depths of the windless zone of the Endless Sea, and finally discovered this small archipelago.
However, although this island was discovered, because this place has no commercial value and the island is relatively small, the Galfia Empire is too lazy to deal with this small island.
In this island exchange for supplies plan, the island was directly exchanged for a batch of supplies.
But this island is of little use to other countries, not even to the Kingdom of Krul itself.
But for the Daheng Empire, this place is extremely important.
Because about three thousand kilometers away to the north of this place is the mainland of Kingdom Island.
And the sea area about 1,500 kilometers north of the island is the traditional important route between the Central Continent, the Southern Continent, the Western Continent, and the Kingdom Island.
what does that mean?
This means that if the Daheng Empire can build a naval base on the Andorian Islands, it can rely on this base to directly threaten the home waters of the Kingdom of Krul.
Although it is still 3,000 kilometers away from the mainland of the Krul Kingdom, it is still much closer than the Daheng Empire Navy's journey from the mainland's East China Sea Islands across thousands of kilometers of sea routes.
Not to mention, between the Donghai Islands Naval Base of the Daheng Empire and the mainland of the Krul Kingdom, there is the Dongji Island of the Krul Kingdom.
\u001bIf the Daheng Empire can control the Andorian Islands and build a naval base here, it can bypass the heavily defended Dongji Island of the Kingdom of Krul and directly threaten the coastal waters of the Kingdom of Krul's homeland.
This military strategic value is basically useless to other countries, because even if they have this place, they cannot afford to build a naval base, and even if they build it, they will not have a huge fleet to protect it, let alone threaten Krul.
The kingdom’s home waters.
But for the Daheng Empire, none of the above problems exist.
The Daheng Empire has the powerful national power to turn this island located deep in the endless sea into a military fortress base and station a large fleet to pose a threat to the home waters of the Kingdom of Krul.
For this reason, after the Daheng Empire Navy obtained this archipelago, it immediately began to send troops to land and began to build a military base on its main island, Andoria Island.
The archipelago consists of thirteen islands, but only the main island Andoria is relatively large. It is 16 kilometers long and 9 kilometers wide. It is a crescent-shaped island.
A small and semi-inner bay is formed in the north. There are more than a dozen large and small mountains on the island, the highest of which is more than 500 meters, and the main mountain of the Beibu Gulf is more than 200 meters.
Except for Andoria Island, the other twelve islands are generally relatively small, with the smallest even being a hundred meters in diameter.
The military base built by the Daheng Empire was naturally based on Andoria Island.
But the news that the Daheng Empire was building a military base here soon became known to the Kingdom of Krul.
When the Krul Kingdom looked at it, the Daheng Empire planned to build a large-scale construction project here, pretending to build a military base directly here. It is still possible to sit there.
If this is built as a military base here by the Daheng Empire, it will cause big trouble for the Kingdom of Krul in the future.
Three thousand kilometers may seem like a long distance, but warships these days have a long cruising range. Coupled with the supply ships providing supplies, the Daheng Empire Navy can fully extend the combat distance to three thousand kilometers.
In response to this, the response of the Kingdom of Krul was extremely encouraging. It was initially a diplomatic protest. After the protest was fruitless, it directly dispatched a fleet.
The Daheng Empire is naturally unwilling to be outdone. Now the sovereignty of the Andorian Islands belongs to the Daheng Empire. In the eyes of the Daheng people, if I build a military base in my own place, it has nothing to do with the Kingdom of Krul.
thing.
He actually dared to send a warship to stop him, he was looking for death.
As a result, the Daheng Empire Navy also urgently dispatched its main fleet.
Finally, the main fleets of both sides gathered here and formed a confrontational situation.
As the Daheng Empire further increased its troops on Andoria Island and accelerated the construction of a military base here, the Krul Kingdom finally couldn't bear this confrontation any longer.
The fleet here received an order from their homeland, requiring them to intercept the Daheng Empire and sent a group of transport fleets.
According to the information they obtained, this batch of transport fleets carried thousands of Daheng Empire Army soldiers, as well as a large amount of building materials, weapons and equipment, and mechanical equipment.
In addition to the mechanical equipment and weapons and equipment commonly used to build bases and ports, there are also a number of large-caliber coastal defense guns.
Including six 350 mm 45-caliber naval guns and eighteen 300 mm caliber naval guns.
The barrels used in these coastal defense guns are spare barrels for the battleship main guns after the unified main gun era. Their power is quite large, and the range, accuracy, and protection of the coastal defense guns have always been higher than those of the same level.
Naval guns are stronger.
Once successfully deployed to Andoria Island, the island will become an unsinkable battleship!
The Kingdom of Krul is absolutely unwilling to see the Daheng Empire successfully deploy large-caliber coastal defense artillery here.
The Kingdom of Krul wanted to intercept, and the Daheng Empire was naturally unwilling to be outdone and directly sent its main fleet to escort and maintain defense.
This resulted in a tit-for-tat confrontation between the main fleets of both sides in the waters of the Andorian Islands.
If you are not careful, a large-scale naval battle may break out between the fleets of both sides, and then trigger an all-out war between the two countries!