Great Xia's attack on the Maldives caught the whole world by surprise.
Under the wave of global condemnation of Great Xia, regardless of which ocean the Maldives was in, this news was enough to strike back at those with ulterior motives. Great Xia was by no means weak.
As the news settled, the global media revealed all the information about the Maldives. Its strategic value to Great Xia was also interpreted one by one, which made the players around the world suddenly understand.
"Great Xia's attack on the Maldives was obviously a carefully planned war, and its purpose was to stabilize the Indian Ocean route. From this, it can be seen that Great Xia has not given up on maintaining the Grand Line. "Some media interpreted it as such.
The media's interpretation was still a bit one-sided.
The strategic value of the Maldives to Great Xia, in addition to being a sea supply point, was also a springboard for Great Xia to attack the Peacock Dynasty in the future.
With the destruction of the Maldives, the honor points of the China Region reached 90. As long as they destroyed another country, they would be able to accumulate 100 points and produce the second national weapon.
The national weapon of the China Region, the Xuanyuan Sword, was sent back to Xuanyuan Hill by Ouyang Shuo as soon as the month of the war ended.
Next, as long as Great Xia successfully conquered Luzon, they would be able to accumulate 100 honor points. With Great Xia's contribution in the war, it was almost certain that the second national weapon would belong to Ouyang Shuo.
In that case, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't have to go to Xuanyuan Hill to request for the sword in the month of next year's war.
Having said that, the Maldives was just a mini game zone. Great Xia's attack on the Maldives wasn't enough to reverse the negative impact caused by the unconditional opening of the Strait of Gibraltar.
There were still many people who weren't optimistic about Great Xia.
Even Jack, the initiator of the incident, smiled and didn't take it to heart. Instead, he stepped up his preparations for the Australian incident.
However, what happened next completely pushed Jack to the edge of the cliff.
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October 12th.
Australia's Lord Avila issued an edict to Great Xia, claiming that they would give priority to the supply of iron ore and could only implement a quota for Great Xia's iron ore exports.
This was the "iron ore restriction order."
With the restriction order, Australia's iron ore exports to Great Xia were directly reduced to 5%, which was simply a drop in the bucket for Great Xia.
"We have no choice. Our production capacity is limited. Please forgive us, Great Xia," Avila said hypocritically.
Surprisingly, Ouyang Shuo didn't get angry when he got the news. He just sneered, "Oh, another brave warrior who shed his blood for the Silver Hand. He really doesn't know how to write the word 'death'."
"Does Avila really think that the Great Xia can't do anything to him with the support of the Silver Hand?" A cold light flashed within Ouyang Shuo's eyes, and he'd already aroused killing intent. "Since you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, then don't blame me for being ruthless."
Ouyang Shuo did not take Australia seriously.
It was reported that the total number of players in the Australian region was only two million. Although the region was vast, it was sparsely populated. The army of Avila's territory numbered no more than a hundred thousand. Coupled with the two hundred thousand royal guards, it was still not enough to pose a threat.
More importantly, Australia didn't have a navy, so how could they be a match for Great Xia?
Furthermore, New Zealand, which was close to Australia, had already submitted to Great Xia. As long as the Great Xia army used Auckland as a springboard, it would only be a matter of time before they conquered Australia.
However, on the same day, there was another piece of news.
That afternoon, Australia's leader, Avila, and Java's leader, Uis, issued a joint statement. From that day onwards, the two territories would form an iron-blooded military alliance to advance and retreat together.
"If one party suffers a military attack, the other party will send reinforcements unconditionally," the statement said.
When Ouyang Shuo received the news, his eyes narrowed. "So this is the foreshadowing?! This means that Jack is indeed manipulating this matter from behind the scenes. Otherwise, Avila alone wouldn't be able to invite Uis to 'draw his sword to help'. "
The valiant Java was Ávila's backer.
For things to develop to this point, it had indeed caused a certain amount of trouble for Great Xia. Unlike the Australian region, Java had 20 million players and was the veritable leader of the ASEAN region.
Currently, it was impossible for Great Xia to attack Java with just the strength of Great Xia alone.
As a result, Great Xia's iron ore and coal imports were bound to be stuck for a period of time. In the short term, it seemed that it would really affect Great Xia's pillar industry, the military industry, as well as the ongoing industrialization.
However, Ouyang Shuo wasn't anxious at all.
"Jack, Jack, no matter how much you calculated, you still missed one point in the end." It had to be said that Jack's information on the Huaxia region was very one-sided. In other words, he didn't think in that direction at all.
The iron ore and coal production capacity within Great Xia's territory was indeed not high.
It wasn't that Great Xia didn't have enough iron ore and coal reserves, but with the mining technology in the game, the available mines were very limited and couldn't meet the needs of Great Xia's industrialization.
However, don't forget that Great Xia was currently attacking the Jin Kingdom.
The Jin Kingdom was located in the north of the Huaxia region. That was the traditional iron ore and coal production area of the Huaxia region. As long as Great Xia conquered the Jin Kingdom, the iron ore bottleneck of Great Xia would be easily solved.
Australia couldn't choke Great Xia at all.
"Jack, I've already taken your move, but I don't know how you're going to take mine." Ouyang Shuo stood in front of the window, his eyes unfocused.
According to the progress, the Great Xia fleet should have already started fighting with the freedom fleet of the Dawson Dynasty.
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Ouyang Shuo's prediction was right.
On the day that Australia issued the "iron restriction order" to Great Xia, the joint fleet of Great Xia's Pacific Fleet and the Cliff Mountain Fleet suddenly tore apart their disguise and launched an attack on the freedom fleet of the Dawson Dynasty.
Leading the attack were ten magic-powered submarines. They succeeded in one fell swoop and sank the three flagships of the freedom fleet. Then, two squadrons stationed in the fleet took off and bombarded the freedom fleet while braving the gunfire.
Under the double attack, the freedom fleet was immediately thrown into chaos.
At this moment, the main force of the joint fleet fiercely surrounded them and tore the first and second squadrons of the freedom fleet into pieces like hungry wolves pouncing on a tiger.
Although the freedom fleet resisted, they were powerless and couldn't escape the fate of destruction in the end. In just one day, the famous freedom fleet of the Dawson Dynasty had lost two wings.
Speaking of which, the freedom fleet was really unlucky.
While the joint fleet of Great Xia launched an attack, the third and fourth squadrons of the freedom fleet were in charge of cruising toward Hawaii. They were only one day away from Hawaii.
After receiving the news, the joint fleet didn't hesitate at all and quietly formed another encirclement.
On the 13th of October, it was almost a repeat of the previous day's battle. The third and fourth squadrons of the freedom fleet followed the footsteps of the first and second squadrons and were buried at the bottom of the sea.
In this battle, the joint fleet even captured the commander of the freedom fleet and caught a big fish.
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