In the early morning of January 15, east of the Watchman Strait, about 500 kilometers south of Naqiu Harbor.

It was almost dawn, but the sky was still pitch black.

The "Yokoe" had turned to sail into the wind, but it did not accelerate, and several destroyers had dispersed, keeping a distance of several kilometers from the aircraft carrier.

Inside the commander's bridge, Bai Zhizhan inquired about the situation for the third time, and the answer he received was still the same as before.

The swarm is flying in this direction.

Bai Zhizhan was a little anxious, but he couldn't be blamed.

Because several hidden dangers with serious threats were discovered, the speed of the ship had to be reduced, and the time for the ferry to pass through the Asahimi was extended by half a day.

It wasn't until dawn that the last of the shipyard's engineers and workers were transferred to the cruise ship. However, the restoration work is not yet complete. Because if we continue to go deep into the Guia Ocean, we may encounter submarines of the narrow navy at any time, and there are no extra destroyers to cover the return of the cruise ship, so we can only let the engineers and workers evacuate in advance, and the rest of the maintenance work can only be handed over to the officers and men of the fleet.

Fortunately, the maintenance plan had already been determined, and the engineer also taught a group of officers and soldiers hand in hand.

It was this that the acceptance of carrier-based aircraft was delayed by a day.

Last night, that is, to confirm that the maintenance work could be completed in the early morning, Bai Zhizhan specially sent a destroyer to the north at full speed, and then sent a telegram to Naqiu Harbor, so that the carrier-based aviation units that had already arrived there would take off in the early morning and come over to join the aircraft carrier.

Although according to the judgment of Bai Zhizhan, the telegram sent by the destroyer would not attract the attention of the Saji Navy, after all, after taking control of the North and South Sadou Islands, the destroyers of the Imperial Navy have been operating near the Watchman Strait, searching for the Sagi submarines that are trying to slip into the Asahi Sea, and these destroyers will definitely take telegrams from time to time. But no one dared to guarantee that, after all, it was a large ocean-going destroyer attached to the home fleet.

The previous patrols here were all small destroyers with anti-submarine operations in the near sea, and many of them were products of the last war.

Of course, even if it receives the attention of the narrow navy, there is no danger for the time being.

Bai Zhizhan's worries are related to the few war reports he received last night.

Yesterday, the day before Laba, or in the evening to be precise, the Psanjae army guarding Puju was completely demoralized after three days of non-stop shelling and bombardment, let alone continue fighting. With no hope of reinforcements, the commander of the garrison, Admiral Niu Man, issued an order to surrender, and then went out of the city in person, handing over the sword symbolizing command to the front-line commander of the Imperial Praetorian Guard, who had surrendered.

It was not Lian Xusheng who went to surrender, it was Li Qing.

It is rumored that when the Narrow-Yi army surrendered, Lian Xusheng happened to be not on the front line and went to the rear headquarters to report the battle situation to General Situ Jingde. Because it could not be delayed, there were hundreds of thousands of panicked and uneasy narrow-minded officers and soldiers waiting to disarm, and not all narrow-minded soldiers were willing to surrender, so Li Qing, who stayed on the front line, accepted the surrender of General Niu Man as the acting commander after calling Lian Xusheng to ask for instructions.

Obviously, this is actually a humiliation of the narrow army.

Why?

Li Qing is also a major staff officer, and the one who came to surrender is a general, and the gap is too big.

At that time, in the front command, there were actually several generals, such as the chief of staff of the armored division, not to mention the colonel lieutenant colonel.

As for the real reason, Bai Zhizhan knows it.

This is clearly to let Li Qing take the credit, maybe when the Narrow Army surrendered, Lian Xusheng was on the front line, but he didn't show up.

Either way, the battle on the Icestorm Peninsula is over.

Also, Lian Xusheng fulfilled the slogan of "go home and drink porridge".

Although it is just a slogan, even if the battle is won, it is impossible to let the officers and soldiers on the front line go home, at most it is to let all the officers and soldiers drink a bowl of hot eight-treasure porridge, but for all the soldiers who fought bloodily on the front line, and for the civilians who are waiting in the rear, a slogan like a river can come true, and it must have unparalleled appeal and encouragement, making the confidence of the imperial army and people more firm.

It's just that for the Narrow Imperial State, this is a disaster!

Just one day before the surrender, the Sagai Navy sent several destroyers to Puju overnight at the risk of being bombed. Although this amount of troops is a drop in the bucket, it can boost morale and convince the front-line soldiers that the Sagi Imperial Kingdom will defend Pusan.

Where did you think that in just one day, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers surrendered!

If it was just to lose Busan, it would be nothing, after all, it was just a foothold for the Saoyi Imperial State on the Ice Storm Peninsula, or a springboard for the invasion of the huge land. But what was terrible was that the main force of the Narrow Army, about 300,000 officers and men of the standing army, were all trapped in Buju.

There are not many standing troops in the Sagai mainland!

The Sagi Empire was a typical island nation, similar to the Bran Kingdom, in peacetime when the Sagi Imperial Kingdom did not maintain a standing army on its own territory.

If anything, the size of the Narrow Army was not too large in the first place.

After the end of the last war, the army had cut eighty percent of its strength, and almost all of what remained was used to control the overseas territories seized during the war.

The most important of these is the kingdom of Lower High at the southern tip of the Ice Storm Peninsula.

As a result, the Narrow-Sized Army placed about two-thirds of its forces, including all elite troops, in this area.

At the outbreak of the Great War, there were as many as 600,000 Saeja soldiers deployed in the Hagao Kingdom, but after several battles, only 300,000 finally retreated to Buju.

To say, this is understandable.

At the beginning, the bloody battle on the Ice Storm Peninsula and the sacrifice of millions of officers and soldiers, what did you want?

With the ambition of the Narrow Imperial State, it is obvious that he wants to assimilate the Xia Gao Kingdom through a long military occupation and make this puppet state a part of himself, so as to gain a foothold at the eastern end of the Great Land, so that he can continue to advance into the hinterland of the Great Land when the time is ripe in the future.

During the Golden Decade, the Imperial Kingdom of Narrowness had been encouraging its commoners to emigrate to the Lower High Kingdom.

For example, providing immigrants with land requisitioned during the war, giving tax incentives, and even carrying out nationwide propaganda, describing immigrants to the high kingdom and going to the lower high kingdom to cultivate and cultivate as a major event that benefits the country and the people, and has a bearing on the narrow imperial kingdom for thousands of generations.

According to incomplete statistics, in the previous 20 years, at least 3 million people had immigrated to the Lower High Kingdom, and many of them had intermarried with the locals.

In addition, the total population of the Lower High Kingdom was less than 20 million.

In other words, the immigrants of the Narrow Imperial Kingdom accounted for more than 10% of the total population of the High Kingdom!

The purpose of placing heavy troops on the Ice Storm Peninsula is to protect the interests that have been hard to come by, and to protect the narrow-minded people who have responded to the call to emigrate to the past.

Busju fell, and 300,000 officers and soldiers and 3 million immigrants all became outcasts.

After the main force of the army is all finished, how can the Narrow Imperial Kingdom continue to play?

Even if the army does not take a hundred years, it will take time to recruit and train new soldiers, not that a group of strong men can be sent to the battlefield at random.

If this is the case, it is also sent to be cannon fodder.

The impact was obvious, and after the collapse of the army, the Imperial State could only pin its hopes on the navy and do everything possible to maintain sea supremacy.

If you just take down Puju, there is no problem.

But just yesterday, two things happened that had a huge impact, and they were both sent to Bai Zhizhan in the form of war reports.

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