The Krul Kingdom's navy has a strong aristocratic naval system, and their navy has always had a large number of noble children serving in the navy.
This also resulted in their death in battle. Among the large number of missing officers, there was also one prince, one duke, four marquis, six earls, fourteen viscounts, and twenty-five barons, bringing the total to sixty-one.
There are only over 600 hereditary nobles above Baron and above in the Kingdom of Krul. In a naval battle, one-tenth of them died!
This does not include the large number of noble heirs. If these are included, there will be even more. It may even cause some noble families to cut off their bloodline and lose their heirs.
The Krul Kingdom Navy has been promoting civilianization within the navy for a long time, but the results have not been great. This time the Daheng Empire Navy has done them a big favor...
The navy of the Daheng Empire almost killed most of the noble generals among the top brass of their navy.
Perhaps, the civilian officers in the Krul Kingdom Navy will also thank the Daheng Empire Navy!
Of course, no one pays attention to the casualties of the noble generals in the Krul Kingdom's navy now. Now almost the entire Krul Kingdom's top brass was shocked by the disastrous defeat in the Great Battle of Dongji Island.
Twenty-six battleships, seven battlecruisers, and a total of thirty-three Ningyu-type main battleships were sunk!
\bThe nine battleships recovered were also damaged and needed to be repaired in the shipyard. The most serious one was not even worth repairing because it would take longer to repair than to build a new battleship.
It costs more time and is obviously not cost-effective.
Others require months of repair time!
This means that the navy of the Kingdom of Krul will only be able to cope with the war situation with less than twenty capital ships in the future!
And these twenty capital ships not only have to deal with the Daheng Empire Navy, but they also need to deal with the Kekel Empire Navy and the Garfia Empire Navy.
Well, it's not to attack the enemy, but to protect our own maritime supply lines.
How is this possible!
Not to mention anything else, the Daheng Empire Navy alone is no longer something they can resist.
Faced with such a disastrous failure, someone must stand up and take responsibility!
However, most of the senior navy generals who previously supported a decisive naval battle died in the naval battle, and the rest were conservatives who were not willing to take responsibility.
And their civil service system and army system are extremely critical of the navy.
There are also endless disputes within the navy.
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What other outcome could there be? Of course, it would be to hold those senior generals who had died in the battle responsible.
In this naval battle, all four commanders-in-chief died, and they were all committed to the decisive battle. Before the war, each one of them patted their chests and said that after a decisive battle, Hengmanzi would be disabled even if he did not die...
As a result, they themselves died.
Therefore, it is normal for these people who should have the greatest responsibility and are also dead to shoulder their due responsibilities.
But these questions are actually not important anymore.
The focus now is what to do next?
The decisive battle in the Great Battle of Dongji Island failed. What will the Krull Kingdom’s navy do next? What will the Krull Kingdom do next?
These are the troubles plaguing the top brass of the Krul Kingdom!
However, these troubles are naturally not felt by the Daheng Empire opposite.
When the naval battle was over and the huge fleet was still on its way back, the empire had already informed the world of the great victory of this super-large-scale naval battle!
Well, the main purpose is to promote it domestically, so that the government bonds can be bought better!
At the same time, awards for meritorious soldiers are also being intensively formulated.
Needless to say, this battle will definitely lead to many people being granted noble titles and promoted to military ranks. The specific situation is already being urgently formulated based on the battle report. After subsequent verification, large-scale merit awards will be carried out.
\bNot to mention these domestic matters, let's talk about the landing fleet itself. After winning the naval battle, the landing fleet was divided into two. Some of the more seriously injured warships began to return to the East China Sea Islands under the escort of destroyers and other auxiliary ships.
Several major naval bases are undergoing repairs, and some seriously injured warships may need to return to local shipyards for repairs.
In addition, some warships that were of little use and had completely exhausted their ammunition also returned to the naval base in the East China Sea Islands for replenishment.
In addition, a large number of intact warships with minor injuries and relatively large amounts of ammunition remained on Dongji Island, replenishing some supplies through supply ships, and then escorting the transport fleet to launch formal landing operations.
After the naval battle is over, it is natural to land.
As long as several major ports on Dongji Island are captured, the Daheng Empire Navy can then use Dongji Island as a logistics base to launch a blockade operation on the coastal waters of the mainland of Kingdom Island.
The early landing was very smooth. After all, there was no obstruction from the opponent's navy, and the Daheng Empire's landing force did not stupidly rush directly to the opponent's port to land, but landed on the deserted beach on the side.
Anyway, the landing fleet has professional landing ships, as well as professional ships, equipment and materials used for temporary artificial docks.
Even if it is a deserted beach, the Imperial Navy can set up a temporary dock in a short time after launching the landing.
Directly load and unload tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery and other heavy equipment without any ambiguity.
It can fully meet the requirements for landing in the early stage, and in the later stage, it can also seize nearby small ports, and then prune and expand them to meet the material throughput of larger tonnage.
As for the big port, don't count on it. The nearby big port is Whale Harbor, which is the largest naval base of the Krul Kingdom Navy on the East Pole Island. It is also the city where they station the largest ground troops, with more than 100,000 people.
Troops were stationed in the city.
It's not easy to win this place.
The Daheng Empire's early landing force actually just landed first, occupied several small coastal cities in the surrounding areas, obtained ports, and then welcomed the mid- to late-stage landing force.
The attack will not be launched until the mid- to late-stage landing troops arrive.
And all this actually doesn't take too long. After all, the Daheng Empire has been preparing for a long time, and it also has huge maritime transportation capabilities. The transportation of troops and materials in the middle and late stages does not start directly from the mainland, but from the mainland.
Departure from Donghai Islands.
After the ground troops successfully landed, the navy also tried to shell the Whale Harbor with naval artillery. However, their shore defense artillery was very fierce. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, the navy could only evacuate first and send minelayers to mine the harbor.
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Later, I took a risk and sent a group of carrier-based aircraft to directly attack the port. The effect was not bad, and several battleships were sunk. Later at night, several night attacks by submarines and speedboats were carried out to further attack the remaining enemy fleet in the port.
strength.
There were not many battleships left in Whale Harbor, only a few old-fashioned armored cruisers and a group of old light cruisers, destroyers, patrol ships and the like.
There is no use for naval battles, but if they are allowed to smoothly serve as land support firepower, I am afraid they will cause a lot of trouble to the ground troops, so if you can deal with them, you still have to deal with them!
After this series of attacks, the remaining fleet in Whale Harbor simply abandoned the ships, dismantled some of the cannons and moved them to land, and incorporated the sailors into the ground forces.
It seems like they have to concentrate on defensive operations.