Another World: Naval Storm

The submarine entered the berth under the guidance of the Kaili Naval Port tugboat. Piltz and everyone else had been waiting for a long time.

Leo was extremely excited when he stepped on the land of Kaili.

"Hello, Marshal!" Piltz was promoted after the war began.

"Welcome back, they have been waiting for you for a long time!" Beside Piltz were Leo's family, and his little daughter Wenna held flowers for Leo.

"Oh, my beautiful princess, let your father hug you!" Leo held Wen Na in his arms and spun around affectionately to make the child happy.

"Hannah, is everything okay at home?"

"Fortunately, father and mother are waiting for you at home and have prepared a lot of delicious food!" Hannah looked at Leo with a smile.

"Okay, we'll go home soon." After saying that, Leo walked towards Piltz who was looking at the scenery in the naval port.

"You've done a great job. You've given the Imperial Navy the confidence to fight! You don't know how low the navy's morale would be without you fighting outside." Piltz felt a little frustrated. The Ocean Fleet was driven back to its home port many times by the Talen Royal Navy.

"Marshal, why hasn't the Ocean Fleet fought a decisive battle with the Talens yet?"

"His Majesty will not agree. He is now superstitious about the existence of the fleet theory. He will not allow the fleet to suffer too great a loss! Compared to the navy, His Majesty has more confidence in the army!"

"Also, I'm sorry Leo, you don't get any reward for coming back this time. His Majesty is not happy with your loss of several warships, although everyone knows that no one can do better than you!"

The existence of a fleet is one of the important strategic theories of the navy. It means that a naval fleet has a certain influence on a certain sea area, but never leaves its main port. Once it leaves the port, the fleet may be destroyed in a naval battle and can no longer influence the enemy's decision-making.

But if it stays in the harbor, the enemy will have to deploy military forces to guard against it, or even change strategic decisions. The existence of a fleet theory is usually used by the party at a disadvantage in the struggle for sea control. It is a means to weaken the enemy's control over a specific sea area, rather than a means to actively seize sea control.

"Marshal, this strategy is too negative. It will not lead to the victory of the Empire! It will only drag us into the abyss step by step!" Reward? Leo didn't care. He had already achieved financial freedom. If it weren't for his relatives, friends, comrades and superiors who were all in the Drake Empire, he might have retired long ago.

"Of course I know, but unfortunately we are suppressed by the Royal Navy in Kerry Naval Port!" Piltz shrugged, feeling helpless about the current situation facing the Ocean Fleet.

"What about the Russians? We have the Kaili Canal, which allows us to quickly move between the Sarmatian Sea and the North Sea!"

"Leo!" Piltz's voice suddenly raised.

"What? Marshal?"

"Don't think the navy is so bad. You are not the only smart person, and not all the Luosha people are stupid!"

The geographical locations of the Drak Empire and the Rakshasa Empire are such that one blocks the western part of the Sarmatian Sea and the other blocks the eastern part of the Sarmatian Sea.

The Russian capital of St. Petersburg, located at the innermost part of the Lapland Bay, is protected by multiple naval ports.

The Russians knew that they could steal St. Petersburg from the Sarmatian Sea. Therefore, long before the war, they deployed fleets in the four main military ports along the Sarmatian Sea, namely Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga and Liborg, and set up solid shore-based heavy artillery fortresses on the surrounding islands. At the same time, they set up minefields in the Bay of Lapland. The minefields were arranged in a mess by the crude Russians, and their own ships were sunk by mines many times.

Moreover, the existing fleet of the Rakshasa people is completely sufficient. The waters of the Sarmatian Sea are long and narrow with many bays. The fast small warships deployed by the Rakshasa people along the coast can carry out offensive minelaying and withdraw to the port under the cover of night. It is difficult for both sides to completely block the offensive minelaying of the other side. In addition, there are several dreadnoughts and pre-dreadnoughts in the Rakshasa Sarmatian Sea Fleet.

At the same time, the Russian Empire built the Kronstadt Fortress on Kronstadt Island east of St. Petersburg decades ago, which later developed into the Kronstadt Naval Base. As the last line of defense on the sea side of St. Petersburg, even the dreadnoughts were unwilling to face the firepower of the fortress directly.

The Rakshasa Empire has a larger army than the Drak Empire. Even though it has always maintained a huge military force on the northern front, the garrison in St. Petersburg has never been reduced. At the same time, St. Petersburg is the most important railway hub in the inland of Rakshasa, and troops from all over the country can quickly reinforce St. Petersburg by rail.

The disadvantaged Rakshasa Sarmatian Navy adopted the same strategy as the Drake Navy. The main fleet stayed in the harbor and did not attack, maintaining a deterrent to the Drake fleet by the existence of the fleet. On the other hand, it used light and fast warships to lay offensive mines in the Sarmatian Sea to restrict the activities of the Drake fleet.

The Drak Ocean Fleet, which had an advantage against Rakshasa and a disadvantage against Taren, was suppressed in the Kaili Naval Port by the Taren Royal Navy on the one hand, and on the other hand, due to the existence of the Kaili Canal, the Ocean Fleet could quickly enter the Sarmatian Sea to fight a decisive battle with the Rakshasa Navy.

However, a large fleet sailing on the narrow waters of the Sarmatian Sea could easily be discovered by the observation posts of the Russians along the coast, thus exposing their whereabouts. While the Drak Ocean Fleet hoped to use submarine warfare and mine warfare to blockade the Bay of Lapland to protect its own sea transportation lines, it was also constantly looking for opportunities to lure out the main force of the Baltic Fleet for a fleet decisive battle to solve the problem once and for all, but the Russian Empire was not fooled at all.

"Haha, now Draco and Rakshasa are like two turtles covered with spikes!" Leo, who was aware of the current situation of Draco's navy, said self-deprecatingly.

"The metaphor is very apt. Without the Tarens, the Rakshasas would be trapped to death. Unfortunately, the current situation is that we are caught in the middle, and we will be the ones trapped to death!"

"Yes, does the Navy have any solution to this problem?"

"No, and the Tarun people only want to blockade us. They have no intention of sending a fleet to the Sarmatian Sea!"

"It would be better if you send out warships, we can eat it!" Leo clenched his fists and gestured.

Piltz shook his head and said, "The enemy will not let you have everything you want."

"Our current actions in the Sarmatian Sea are only to protect our transportation lines, and are mainly in cooperation with the army's actions. As long as the army can occupy some key nodes, the navy will be deployed on a large scale at that time!" Piltz also began to place his hopes on the army.

"Then what should we do? Now many people say that the Ocean Fleet is the emperor's toy!" Leo said angrily.

"I know that you have brought new hope to the Navy. Your many battles have given the Navy great courage! This time I have appointed you as the commander of the First Scouting Fleet in the hope that you can lead the Navy out of its predicament!"

"I don't have that much ability!" Leo said self-deprecatingly.

"I believe in you, and so do the entire navy! I'll give you three days off, and you can take over the fleet!"

"Yes, Marshal!" Leo saluted and said goodbye, leaving Piltz alone to watch the sunset over Port Kerry.