When the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Qian Sheng comes, one year has passed since the Daheng Empire and the Krul Kingdom declared war on each other.
In the past year, the navy of the Kingdom of Krul suffered heavy losses, losing almost more than 70% of its capital ships.
Even one of the three super battleships they finally built was sunk by the Daheng Empire Navy just after it entered service.
Although the other two ships have been built, they have not dared to come out of the Port of Bali so far because there are dense minefields laid out by the Daheng Navy outside, and there are also a large number of submarines ambushing them. More importantly, there are many submarines nearby. There is the main fleet of the Daheng people.
It doesn't take more than a day for the Krul fleet to go to sea, and it will basically be caught by the main fleet of the Daheng Empire Navy!
In addition, a very important point is that, relying on its powerful fleet, the Daheng Empire Navy continued to carry out devastating blows to the coastal industrial cities of the Kingdom of Krul, especially the shipyards.
During this process, the carrier-based aircraft unit performed extremely well.
In addition to providing air escort for the fleet to prevent it from being attacked by the air power of the Kingdom of Krul, carrier-based aircraft are also frequently dispatched to bomb the shipyards and other important industrial facilities of the Kingdom of Krul.
Although these days' bombers are unreliable against warships with tight anti-aircraft firepower, they are still very useful against fixed targets, even warships parked in military ports.
As long as one's own fighter force can pin down the opponent's defensive fighter jets, then the bomber force in the carrier-based aircraft can safely find targets and carry out horizontal bombing.
b. There are more bombings. The carrier-based aircraft units of the Daheng Empire especially like to take off in the middle of the night, and then arrive at the destination before dawn to bomb, so as to avoid being killed by enemy anti-aircraft firepower.
Wait until daybreak to return, just in time to land during the day.
At the same time, even if the enemy's aircraft is following behind, the anti-aircraft firepower of our own fleet and the direct fighter jets can intercept the opponent with a good line of sight during the day.
These days, the risk of landing at night is huge, but taking off at night is not a big problem. The big problem is determining the direction and finding the target. However, when carrying out this type of night attack, the Daheng Empire will conduct repeated reconnaissance and finalize the route.
Through carrier-based aircraft attacks, naval artillery shelling and many other means, the Daheng Empire attacked a large number of coastal shipyards of the Kingdom of Krul.
The Kingdom of Krul was forced to relocate its shipyards inland.
And this will seriously affect their shipbuilding plan.
Last year, they were still building more than ten 40,000-ton super battleships at the same time!
But by this fall, in addition to the three ships they had built, they now had only four ships still under construction, and they were in danger of being bombed every few days.
The remaining many super battleships under construction were basically destroyed on the slipway before they were completed, or simply the Kingdom of Krul itself gave up on the construction plan.
There is no way, the shipyards along the coast are under such severe attacks, they simply cannot build these super battleships with peace of mind.
As for the shipyards that have moved in-house, it is no longer possible to build such a 40,000-ton super battleship. Instead of building it, it will not be able to drive it. The draft of a 40,000-ton battleship can easily be eight, nine or even ten meters. Yes, even those big rivers generally don't have such deep channels.
At least among the rivers in the Krul Kingdom, there are no inland rivers that can support the navigation of a 40,000-ton battleship.
Not to mention the Kingdom of Krul, even the Mirror River in the Daheng Empire, which has excellent water depth conditions, cannot allow Daheng-class battleships to enter and exit. At most, the waterway of several dozen kilometers in front can be navigated.
And you have to worry about being stranded every minute.
b Under such circumstances, the construction of super battleships in the Kingdom of Krul has been greatly hindered. Except for a few well-defended port cities that can continue to build such super battleships, other construction plans have been forced to stop.
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And this is not the main result of the naval blockade of the Daheng Empire.
The main result of the Daheng Empire Navy's comprehensive blockade of Kingdom Island was not how many warships or merchant ships were sunk, or even how many of their coastal cities were hit, but that their maritime transportation lines were completely cut off.
This directly caused the Krul Kingdom's more than two million ground troops deployed overseas and a large number of overseas fleets to lose supplies.
This is actually nothing. The most important thing is that after the Krul Kingdom was cut off from overseas supply lines, their domestic food supply became increasingly insufficient.
Even though they have tried their best to expand food production and want to be self-sufficient.
However, the terrain of Kingdom Island is not suitable for the development of agriculture. Its main food-producing areas are concentrated in a few coastal plains, not to mention that their labor force is seriously insufficient.
Otherwise, they would not have implemented food rationing a few years ago.
If before last autumn, they could barely survive after implementing a grain rationing system, but after last autumn, they could no longer maintain it even if they implemented a grain rationing system.
There is only so much food, but they have a large population. The food rations are falling again and again. The food rationing system has given rise to the black market. For the sake of profit, many powerful people use their power to sell large amounts of food to the black market to obtain huge profits.
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As a result, the existence of the black market has further reduced the food rations for ordinary people, leaving many people at the bottom unable to eat enough.
Some poor Krul women would open their legs to receive guests just for a piece of bread.
There are also many people who turn to crime just for a bite to eat.
The majestic world boss, well, the Krul Kingdom, which was the world's boss at least a year ago, has actually fallen to the point where its citizens have no way to feed themselves. This is simply a joke to all the Blue Star people, and even more so to the Krul people themselves.
There was constant internal turmoil.
Today's Krul Kingdom is even worse than the economic depression caused by the Great Heng Empire's failure to gain anything in the Heng'ao War more than 80 years ago!
The Daheng Empire back then was said to be miserable, but it was just a pure economic collapse. However, there were actually not many people in Daheng who were hungry.
Later, the reason why the Daheng Empire collapsed and wars broke out was purely because the empire increased taxes, and the farmers of Daheng, who were armed with muskets, were unwilling to be taxed and revolted on a large scale... and then a lot of ambitions emerged.
The family tried to separate themselves, and in the end the Ji Dynasty was killed like this. The people of Daheng also went hungry for a rare time in thousands of years of history.
But even so, there was no shortage of food in Daheng during the civil war. The reason why the people did not have enough to eat was simply because they were squeezed too hard by the feudal towns. A large number of feudal towns collected more food and exported it in exchange for money and weapons.
During the civil war, the Daheng Empire's grain export volume was very high.
As for the current Krul Kingdom, they are simply short of food!
The food shortage is much more serious than the economic collapse of the Ji Dynasty of the Daheng Empire and the uprising caused by tax increases.
Because no matter what the Kruls do, they can't solve the problem of food shortage!
And if they don't have enough food, they will eventually starve to death. Many, many, many people!
When the war went unfavorably, there was a serious shortage of food in the country, and millions of people were about to starve to death, it directly led to distance conflicts and fights within the Kingdom of Krul.
In November of the 27th year of Qian Sheng, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, 'Duke O'Neill Ian', the representative of the Eagle Card of the Kingdom of Krul, who single-handedly promoted the Kingdom of Krul to join the war and brought the Kingdom of Krul into the world war, betrayed his relatives in public. was forced to submit his resignation to King Krul!