For the Kingdom of Krul, if it is not intercepted, the Daheng Empire will establish a huge military base on the Andorian Islands. Relying on this military base, the navy of the Daheng Empire will even be able to directly threaten Krul in the future.
The home coastal waters of the Kingdom of Er.
This is equivalent to the Daheng Empire extending a knife directly into the soft belly of the Krul Kingdom. With a little force, it can directly stab the Krul Kingdom.
If intercepted, it will detonate conflicts between the two sides, and then lead to the emergence of war.
And once the Daheng Empire joins the war, the Krul Kingdom will fall into a terrible three-front war situation.
Nowadays, the Kingdom of Krul is fighting on two fronts. On the one hand, it is on the western continent, and together with the Valia Empire, it is fighting on land against the coalition forces of the Kokell Empire and the Kingdom of Oran.
On the other hand, the Kingdom of Krul is still fighting against the Garfia Empire on the southwest continent, mainly in the Ken area and the Strait area.
If a war breaks out with the Daheng Empire, the Kingdom of Krul will be in a very dangerous situation.
Now, it is a dilemma for them.
After much deliberation, they finally decided to let the Eighth Task Force intercept, and if necessary, intercept Hengmanzi's transport ship by firing warning shots or even ramming it.
However, they are not allowed to actively fire or ram the warships of the Daheng Empire.
In short, they did not want to go to war with the Daheng Empire, but they did not give in. Therefore, they planned to intercept them by warning shots or even ramming ships to show their determination.
As the high-level officials of the two countries passed down the orders one after another, the fleets of both sides also began to take action.
The Third Mobile Fleet took the lead and headed directly towards the Andorian Islands. Behind them was a transport fleet composed of a large number of transport ships and old warships.
The Eighth Task Force of the Krul Kingdom Navy also responded tit-for-tat and began to send ships to circle around in an attempt to intercept the slow-moving transport fleet of the Daheng Empire.
Neither side dared to fire, but in fact both sides were on high alert. The warships were sailing at high speed and maneuvered to seize more advantageous positions such as the T-head. At the same time, they had loaded their shells and began to continuously
Calculate and adjust shooting elements.
At this time, in fact, as long as either side of the two sides orders to fire, dozens of warships from both sides will immediately start fighting.
But they didn't!
At least not yet!
The Krul Kingdom's Eighth Task Force dispatched a squadron to circle in front of the transport fleet at high speed, and began to send out radios and semaphores to request the Daheng people's transport fleet to turn around immediately.
But the Daheng Empire's transport fleet ignored them.
The Krull squadron had no choice, and one of the cruisers began to fire warning shots at the empty sea area.
The Daheng people were frightened at first, but when they discovered that they were shooting at the sea and sea in other directions, they ignored them.
When the Kruls saw this, the leading squadron commander ordered: "Aim five hundred meters away from the enemy transport ship and fire a warning shot."
After a burst of cannon fire, the Daheng people still didn't react. On the contrary, the Daheng people's warships were all aiming at these Krul Kingdom fleets.
Seeing this, the commander of Krul Kingdom's squadron once again ordered two more warning shots, but it was still useless.
In the end, they gritted their teeth and directly ordered an old cruiser to increase its power, correct its course and load it directly!
Since they couldn't fire and warning shots were useless, they had no choice but to resort to this impossible method.
This frightened the people of Daheng. They didn't expect these Krul Kingdoms to be so decisive and resolute, and they collided directly.
The low-speed transport ship was also difficult to evade, and it was the Daheng people who couldn't help but take action first when they saw the other side ramming directly into it.
Because this old cruiser of the Kingdom of Krul is accurate, but it is a troop transport ship with more than 2,000 soldiers on board. If this is ignored, more than 2,000 people plus hundreds of crew members will all die here.
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Therefore, Vice Admiral Song Xiang, the commander of the 36th Squadron responsible for the interception, ordered to fire on the old cruisers of the Kruls.
Several Daheng battleships that had been prepared for a long time opened fire directly on this old Krull Navy cruiser.
In an instant, multiple shells hit the ship.
But this burst of shelling was like poking a hornet's nest, directly igniting the battle between the fleets of both sides!
After receiving relevant information from the 36th Squadron escorting the rear, they learned that the Kruls directly used ship ramming tactics to ram their own troop carriers. In order to protect the troop carriers, our own forces were forced to open fire, and then dozens of old and light warships were fired.
Entered the battle.
Admiral Fang Gaojie, commander of the Third Mobile Fleet, knew that the battle would eventually break out.
No matter it was the Daheng Empire or the Kingdom of Krul, they didn't want to fight, but they didn't want to give in. In the end, their guns went off and the war started.
Now that the fight has begun, there is nothing to say next. Let’s fight first and then talk.
Immediately, Admiral Fang Gaojie ordered each squadron of the Third Mobile Fleet to immediately enter a full-scale combat state, attack the enemy in front of them, and cover the transport fleet's landing on Andoria Island.
Shortly after his order was issued, the main fleet under the Third Mobile Fleet, namely the four Endless Sea-class battleships of the Eighth Battleship Division, took the lead in entering the battle and launched a battle against multiple main battleships of the Kingdom of Krul Navy located 18,000 meters away.
A blow.
As for the navy of the Kingdom of Krul, they were well prepared. As soon as they opened fire on the opposite side, they had already given the order to fire back even before the cannonballs flew over.
As a result, the battle between the main fleets of both sides officially broke out!
And because both sides were well prepared, the fight formed an extremely fierce battle line.
The twelve battleships of the Daheng Empire formed a column and began to kill them.
The four battlecruisers, together with the four heavy cruisers, began to speed up on the periphery and tried to go around and attack the enemy's main fleet from the flank.
The Kingdom of Krul was also tit-for-tat. On the one hand, they lined up battleships for a battle line duel. On the other hand, they also dispatched battlecruisers, armored cruisers, etc. for high-speed impact.
But it was not for detour, but to intercept the high-speed formation of four high-speed battleships of the Daheng Empire Navy.
At one time, a total of more than forty battleships, battlecruisers, armored cruisers, heavy cruisers and other main battleships from both sides started fighting in the sea about 300 kilometers west of the Andalia Islands.
Along with dozens of capital ships, there were also a large number of light warships from both sides fighting. The total number of warships from both sides participating in the battle exceeded two hundred, and the total tonnage of the participating troops reached more than one million tons.
This fight directly turned the Andorian naval battle into the largest naval battle in Blue Star's history.
But at this time, the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul have not yet declared war.