In November of the twenty-sixth year of Qian Sheng, as Antuo Port, the second largest city in Dongji Island and an important city in the eastern region of Dongji Island, was captured by the army and navy of the Daheng Empire, it also announced that all the people in Dongji Island Large-scale cities have fallen under the control of the Daheng Empire.
The Army and Navy Eastern Front Command of the Daheng Empire Navy once again moved forward to Antuo Port.
Immediately afterwards, the Daheng Empire launched a landing operation on some important islands in the large sea area east of Dongji Island and west of Kingdom Island.
In the past few months, the control of the sea in this area of the sea has been controlled by the Daheng Empire Navy. If the Kingdom of Krul wants to supply the island garrison in the above-mentioned sea area, it can only use sneaky night sailing and use the local waters. There are many complex terrains on the islands to transport supplies.
Now, in order to seize several important islands in this sea area, the Daheng Empire will establish military bases, provide supplies to passing fleets, and garrison air fleets for aerial reconnaissance and surveillance.
The Daheng Empire Navy has also stepped up its naval blockade.
Because there are many islands in the sea area, the Daheng Empire Navy's blockade does not directly enter the archipelago waters within the sea area, but directly blocks the open sea area between the archipelago and the Kingdom Island.
When the Daheng Empire Navy mobilized a large-scale fleet to blockade, the Krul Kingdom defenders on several islands in this sea area naturally lost reinforcements and supplies.
\bAnd the landing troops of the Daheng Empire did not stupidly just push over one island after another. This was not necessary at all.
The Daheng Empire's army and navy conducted landing operations in the waters of this archipelago purely to seize an advance base, obtain a supply port, and strengthen the fleet's continuous combat capabilities in the waters of Kingdom Island.
They didn't come here just to seize the many islands in this sea area.
As a result, the Daheng Empire Navy ignored the most heavily defended large islands of the Kingdom of Krul in the archipelago, and instead chose Bell Island, a medium-sized island near the Kingdom Island to the east, to launch a landing operation.
In December of the 26th year of Qian Sheng, the Daheng Empire dispatched more than 30,000 marines to launch a landing attack on Bell Island, and dispatched a large fleet including six battleships to provide escort and land fire support. .
Although the defenders of the Kingdom of Krul on Bell Island fought desperately and used the mountains and existing fortifications on the island to resist, they were all rendered useless by the precise strikes of large-caliber naval guns.
The only thing worth mentioning is that in the Battle of Bell Island, the Daheng Empire Navy fell behind in terms of air power...
Because at that time the Daheng Empire Navy could only rely on the carrier-based aircraft of three aircraft carriers to provide fleet air defense and strikes.
The total number of carrier-based aircraft it carries is just over two hundred, plus dozens of seaplanes carried by other warships.
Among these carrier-based aircraft, there are only more than a hundred fighter jets in total!
However, the Kingdom of Krul originally had more than 500 aircraft on Bell Island, and this number was only the number before the battle. After the battle started, this number was actually increasing.
Even the Daheng Empire's carrier-based aircraft units and battleship air defense units shot down more than 200 of their aircraft in seven or eight days of combat.
But it's of no use.
Because they transfer more planes from the mainland every minute.
If Bell Island is not that big, the airport on the island is not big, and the Daheng Empire fleet continues to violently bombard the airport on the island, the Krul Kingdom can stock up on more than a thousand aircraft here...
Because the straight-line distance between Bell Island and Kingdom Island is only over two hundred kilometers. Although the range of aircraft these days is not very good, the combat distance of most combat aircraft is actually only one or two hundred kilometers.
But for a single flight, any aircraft can easily cover a distance of more than 200 kilometers, and even this distance is within the effective combat range of many new aircraft.
In addition, the Kingdom of Krul also has various types of military aircraft with advanced performance.
Therefore, in this battle to seize Bell Island, the Daheng Empire Navy was actually at an absolute air disadvantage.
However, this still could not stop the Daheng Empire Navy's landing operation, and finally successfully captured Bell Island.
This kind of scene of forcibly bombarding an island and landing under the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds or even thousands of aircraft is rare.
After all, the performance of military aircraft these days is very effective. It is now difficult for the carrier-based aircraft units of the Daheng Empire Navy to cause any actual damage to the battleships of the Krul Kingdom Navy. In turn, in fact, it is unlikely that the aircraft of the Krul Kingdom will cause any actual damage to the battleships of the Krul Kingdom Navy.
What actual damage is caused by the warships of the Daheng Empire Navy?
The Daheng Empire Navy is the navy that attaches the most importance to aircraft combat among all contemporary navies, and it is also the navy that attaches the most importance to air defense operations.
When the navies of various countries generally did not pay attention to air defense operations, the Daheng Empire Navy already attached great importance to air defense operations.
The new warships that have been in service in the past two or three years have all taken into account the issue of air defense operations in the design stage, and have designed and installed a large number of anti-aircraft artillery.
There is even a 120mm sea and air dual-purpose naval gun, which can be used as the secondary gun of the main battleship and the main gun of the destroyer.
Nowadays, the anti-aircraft firepower on the battleships of the Daheng Empire has formed a multi-layered combination of 120mm dual-purpose naval guns, 75mm dual-purpose naval guns, 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
Anti-aircraft firepower.
Since last year, the Navy has paid more attention to air defense operations, and has temporarily installed anti-aircraft firepower on a large number of warships, mainly 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 20mm anti-aircraft guns that are easy to install.
This also further strengthened the air defense firepower of the Daheng Empire Navy.
It can even be said that for contemporary air power, this kind of anti-aircraft firepower is excessive. Basically, as many torpedo planes as the opponent comes to kill them.
Well, the navy of the Kingdom of Krul opposite has been doing the same thing in recent months. Since they suffered losses from carrier-based aircraft in the Great Battle of Dongji Island, they have also urgently refitted and built their own aircraft carriers, and at the same time they have also urgently strengthened their aircraft carriers.
The anti-aircraft firepower of existing warships, and the anti-aircraft firepower of their current naval warships, although the medium- and large-caliber anti-aircraft firepower is not affected much by the initial design of the warships and the difficulty of modification, the small-caliber anti-aircraft firepower is quite a lot.
This also resulted in the Daheng Empire Navy's carrier-based aircraft units playing almost no role in offensive operations after the Great Battle of Dongji Island. They could only be used for reconnaissance, fleet air defense and aerial combat.
The new warship, the aircraft carrier, not only did not become the main ship type of the navy after several dozen minutes of glory in the Dongji Island Sea Theater, but it was completely reduced to an auxiliary ship type...