With the disastrous defeat of the two successive naval battles of Bova, the main force of the navy has lost most of it, and it is no longer able to control the security of the central and western coasts.

After launching six general attacks, the army still failed to take the Bowa military base, but suffered heavy losses, with more than 100,000 casualties, including more than 50,000 killed in battle.

It also directly caused unrest in the army units, with Army General Mores being shot dead by his subordinates, and the remnants of the army withdrawing to the Republic of Ken without receiving domestic orders.

This ensued a violent upheaval within the Gafia Empire, with fierce clashes between the military generals and the cabinet of the Gafia Army and Navy, culminating in a coup d'état by the military, the arrest and strangulation of the prime minister and a large number of cabinet members, and the appointment of a new prime minister by the military-backed opposition.

With such turmoil within the Gafia Empire, this war naturally could not be fought, which was also the result of the signing of a friendly cooperation agreement between the two sides outside Bowa on July 8 of the 12th year of Qiansheng.

In this agreement, on the surface, the two countries will jointly maintain the stability and security of the southwest, central and western regions, and what is said is some nonsense, but in fact, it means that the forces of the Great Heng Empire can finally enter the southwest continent logically, especially the Lieji Kingdom and several other countries.

At the same time, the important point of the agreement is that the Gafia Empire acquiesces to the construction of a military base in Beauva by the Great Heng Empire.

At the same time, the two sides also reached a certain cooperation agreement on commerce and trade, agreeing to open a part of the market to each other, for example, the Gafia Empire will not impose punitive tariffs on the kerosene and other products of the Daheng Empire, and the Daheng Empire will also open the market for some industrial products to the Gafia Empire.

After the signing of the Hengjia friendship and cooperation agreement, it also means that the two countries will officially end the state of armed conflict.

Within a few days, the Great Heng Empire signed a supplementary agreement to the lease agreement of the Bowa military base with the Kingdom of Liej, the supplementary agreement was mainly to expand the scope of the military concession area, and the original ninety-year lease period was changed to a permanent lease.

In order to obtain this clause, in fact, the Great Heng Empire also paid a certain price, such as providing a mortgage of 20 million Hengyuan to the Lieji Kingdom to help the Lieji Kingdom restore the livelihood of its eastern region, and also paid a one-time lease fee of millions of Hengyuan.

Even so, it was possible to change the limited-term lease to an indefinite lease, and that was based on the fact that the coast of the Liej Kingdom was still under the control of Daheng, and Bowa and the surrounding areas were actually controlled by Daheng's army.

To put it mildly, this supplementary agreement was forced by the army and navy of the Great Heng Empire to point guns at the heads of the Liej.

Subsequently, the two sides signed a supplementary agreement on friendly trade, under which the two sides fully opened their markets to each other and did not impose any punitive tariffs on each other.

This treaty, which seems to be a reciprocal treaty, is actually a typical unilateral open market treaty, because the kingdom of Liej has nothing to export to the Great Heng Empire.

The main export of the Lieji Kingdom is the agricultural and livestock industry, especially the two major industries of grain and wool, but it is a pity that the Daheng Empire is the largest agricultural and livestock country on the Blue Star, and the Daheng Empire itself exports grain and meat products, wool and cotton, which will be imported there!

However, the industrial products of the Great Heng Empire were able to be exported to the Kingdom of Liej.

The kingdom of Liej is also a country of millions of people, and this market can also gain a lot of benefits if it is well run.

When the Hengjia Friendship Cooperation Agreement and the Henglie Friendship and Trade Agreement were signed, the Lieji Incident also officially came to an end.

The troops of the Great Heng Empire stationed in the Kingdom of Lieji began to withdraw gradually, and the army units stationed in the area around Bowa began to retreat to the Bowa military base, and one of the two infantry divisions reinforced over will also be withdrawn to the Ryan military base in the Orr Kingdom.

At the same time, in terms of fleets, the First Mobile Fleet officially returned to sea, and at the same time, the establishment of the Southern Fleet and the Southwest Fleet was restored.

When the First Mobile Fleet returned, a naval development plan based on the experience of the two naval battles of Bova was also submitted to Emperor Lin Ziran.

The overall thinking of the Fourth Naval Development Plan still follows the two core ideas of "global offensive navy" and "long-distance blockade" in the third naval development plan.

However, based on the experience of the two naval battles of Beauvois, the future naval battle was predicted and a series of new requirements were proposed.

One of the biggest characteristics is that the navy believes that the engagement distance of naval warfare in the future will be further increased, 10,000 meters is not the limit, and the engagement distance of 15,000 or even 20,000 meters will appear in the future.

In the two naval battles of Bova, the combat distance of the capital ships of both sides has been increased to about 5,000 to 6,000 meters, and in the eighth year of Qiansheng, the combat distance in the naval battle of Ian still stayed at a distance of two or three thousand meters, and the engagement of four or five thousand meters almost did not hit, but in the naval battle of Bowa, the capital ships of both sides generally hit at a distance of about 6,000 meters, and at the same time, both sides had the situation of firing at an ultra-long distance of more than 7,000 meters.

With the further development of technology, the combat distance will inevitably be further increased, and the combat distance of more than 10,000 meters determined in the tenth year of Qiansheng will probably be broken in a few years.

For this reason, the Navy believes that it is necessary to start studying ultra-long-range engagements in advance, specifically raising the scheduled engagements to more than 15,000 meters, and the next step is to explore the possibility of ultra-long-range engagements of more than 20,000 meters.

With the further increase of the combat distance, many corresponding things will have to be changed, for example, small and medium-caliber rapid-fire secondary guns will lose their effectiveness, and naval guns will further develop towards the expansion of caliber and the length of the barrel.

At the same time, in order to get long-range hits, it is necessary to unify fire control, so that more main guns can fire in a unified manner, and observe, and finally calculate the shooting elements.

And these experiences have finally proved that the 'unified all-heavy artillery battleship' that was officially put forward by the Daheng Empire in the tenth year of Qiansheng and gradually developed is the future.

In fact, in the tenth year of Qiansheng, the Daheng Empire began the research and development of unified all-heavy artillery battleships, but at that time the technology was still very immature, whether it was unified fire control technology, integrated turrets, 300 mm and 40 times caliber naval guns, etc., were actually still in research and development.

Finally, the transitional six-main gun battleships were chosen, that is, the Luohe-class battleships.

But now, the Daheng Imperial Navy believes that after several years of accumulation, considering that the construction period of battleships will also take several years, the time is now ripe to start designing and building unified all-heavy gun battleships.