After capturing Whale Harbor, the next battle on Dongji Island will be easier.
The Daheng Empire is eager to capture the Whale Port in order to obtain a naval base, which will allow the navy to expand its scope of activities in the waters of Kingdom Island, and then better implement the blockade strategy.
After capturing Whale Port, this strategic goal has been initially achieved. Although it will be better to capture several other cities in the eastern part of Dongji Island, there is no need to be too anxious.
At least the army can have time to fight slowly, and if it doesn't work, they can besiege it. They don't have to attack forward as hard as they did in Whale Harbor.
The Army is not under much pressure and will fight the rest of the war slowly, but the Navy is not. Their tasks are still very heavy.
After capturing Whale Harbor, the Navy began to officially move the Navy's Eastern Front Command from the East China Sea Islands to Dongji Island.
The Navy's Eastern Front Command does not belong to the administrative fleet, but is a temporary combat unit set up by the Navy specifically for this war.
Coordinate and command all naval warships participating in this war, including the famous Third Mobile Fleet, Fourth Mobile Fleet, Sixth Mobile Fleet, Eighth Mobile Fleet, First Escort Fleet, Second Escort Fleet, Third Escort Fleet, etc.
There are more than ten fleets of different sizes.
The headquarters of the Navy's Eastern Front Fleet is established here, which also means that the main force of the Navy is moving forward.
Naturally, the Army also set up frontline headquarters in Whale Harbor. The Army established the Eastern Front Theater Command here, which commanded and commanded all the army units participating in this war, including the troops on the East Pole Island, the troops on the East China Sea Islands, etc.
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With the Eastern Front Headquarters of both the army and the navy being established in Whale Harbor, it also means that this place has become the strategic center of gravity and transit center of the Eastern Front of the Daheng Empire.
However, the port facilities of Whale Harbor still need to be repaired, and they are not yet able to bear the heavy responsibility.
The army and navy attacked Whale Harbor so hard that many of the infrastructure in the port area were destroyed, so now they still need to be repaired or simply install new equipment.
It is estimated that it will take at least about a month to clear the blocked channels, repair and install various port equipment, clean up the ruins in the port area, build various warehouses and other buildings, etc., so that this large port can play its role again.
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But no matter what, the navy can at least use these as a supply port to supplement the various consumption of the fleet.
This also means that the combat range of the Daheng Empire Navy extends to a large area eastward.
In addition, if a large number of fast supply ships are used for maritime supply, the Daheng Empire Navy will be able to barely cover the eastern waters of Kingdom Island.
If the port city in the eastern part of Dongji Island can be successfully captured in the future, then it will not be forced, but it will be directly covered and their maritime supply lines will be completely blocked.
At the same time, we can also rely on Dongji Island and then seize some suitable islands in the waters close to the mainland of Kingdom Island as the navy's forward supply base. Then it will be easier to blockade them.
The strategic role of Dongji Island is reflected here!
It can provide sufficient and powerful logistical support to the naval fleet going out!
After the Daheng Empire captured Whale Harbor, the scope of activities of the main fleet of the Daheng Empire's navy was greatly expanded, and it was basically able to cover the waters of Kingdom Island.
As a result, the shipping on Kingdom Island immediately faced a huge threat.
In the past month or two, although the Daheng Empire dispatched the third mobile fleet to the waters of Kingdom Island, it was actually only operating in the central and western waters of Kingdom Island.
In the eastern waters of Kingdom Island, there are actually not many Daheng Empire warships active. Only a few ships that have been replenished at sea are active in this sea area, carrying out diplomatic operations and secretly intercepting and killing the Kingdom of Krul.
transport ship.
Therefore, in the past month or two, the Daheng Empire Navy's blockade of Kingdom Island was incomplete, and the Krul Kingdom Navy was still able to maintain maritime connections with the outside world through the eastern waters.
But now, the main fleet of the Daheng Empire has been able to operate directly in the eastern waters. The Fourth Mobile Fleet, which took over from the Third Mobile Fleet and went to the waters of Kingdom Island to perform strategic blockade tasks, ran directly to the waters southeast of Kingdom Island.
As a result, the maritime transportation of the Kingdom of Krul immediately encountered a major threat.
Facing the strategic blockade of the Daheng Empire Navy, the Kingdom of Krul also tried its best.
These methods have natural effects. After all, although the main navy fleet of the Daheng Empire can come over to carry out strategic blockade, the sea is so large that it is impossible for the warships of the Daheng Empire to fully monitor and blockade all sea areas. They can always find loopholes to exploit.
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But, this is only part of it!
In the process of breaking through these blockades, it is inevitable that a large number of transport ships will be searched and sunk or captured by the blockade fleet of the Daheng Empire Navy.
The tonnage of the Krul Kingdom's transport ships began to increase rapidly!
In September, the merchant ship tonnage lost by the Krul Kingdom was only tens of thousands of tons. This was the result of simultaneous attacks by hostile countries such as the Daheng Empire Navy and the Krul Kingdom.
By October, the tonnage of merchant ships sunk or lost by the Daheng Empire navy alone in the Kingdom of Krul reached more than 300,000 tons.
By November, this number had exceeded 500,000 tons, and their merchant ship tonnage losses were still increasing rapidly every day.
In just two or three months after the Great Battle of Dongji Island, the tonnage of merchant ships lost by the Kingdom of Krul exceeded one million tons.
Such a huge loss of merchant ship tonnage cannot be sustained even if the Krul Kingdom's original merchant ship tonnage is extremely huge, reaching more than 10 million tons, and it also has strong merchant ship production capacity.
More importantly, as time goes by, especially in recent months, the Daheng Empire's navy has become more and more powerful. When the Daheng people completely capture Dongji Island and move the forward base to the eastern port of Dongji Island, then
The scope of activities of the Daheng Empire Navy can completely cover the entire waters of Kingdom Island.
If several more affiliated islands of Kingdom Island are captured as advance bases, then the naval blockade of Kingdom Island by the Daheng Empire Navy will be fully formed.
By then, even if the Krul Kingdom is willing to pay the price of hundreds of thousands or millions of tons of merchant ships every month, I am afraid that it will not be able to continue to maintain the maritime supply line.
What the Krul Kingdom is worried about is gradually becoming a reality. The army and navy of the Daheng Empire are indeed following this plan step by step.
Now the Daheng Empire is carrying out the remaining part of the Dongji Island Campaign, and when the Dongji Island Battle is almost over, it will be time to choose a suitable island affiliated with Kingdom Island to launch the landing operation.
With the current strength of the Daheng Empire's army and navy, a rash landing on Kingdom Island would probably break one's teeth, but if one only occupied a few isolated islands affiliated with Kingdom Island, there would still be no problem.
Once the Daheng Empire is allowed to complete these plans, the Kingdom of Krul will become even more passive!