Colombo, Sri Lanka, Army Aviation Forward Command Center.

Because Bai Zhizhan didn't say hello in advance, he flew over directly, so when he suddenly appeared in front of him, Li Yunxiang was startled.

However, it was already evening when Bai Zhizhan arrived.

Li Yunxiang didn't ask much, and took Bai Zhizhan to the officer's restaurant.

Running all the way, I must be hungry and tired.

If nothing else, it takes 8 hours to fly from Lion Springs City, and on the navy's long-range transport plane, there may not be a few extra portions of food.

In fact, Bai Zhizhan just changed a transport plane in Lion Spring City, and the stay time was less than half an hour.

On the way to Colombo, Bai Zhizhan learned from the accompanying officers that Li Yunxiang had been at the army aviation base in Colombo for about three months.

According to the arrangement of the army command, after the capture of the Kib fortress, psychological warfare will be launched against the Van Roe area.

To put it simply, it was to arrange for bombers to drop leaflets on cities controlled by Bran's army, and to induce the local princely states to revolt.

If it works, it will be able to free the Van Luo region from the hands of the Bran Kingdom without wasting a single soldier.

As for sending troops to occupy and control the Van Luo region, it is not in the plans of the imperial authorities for the time being.

The reason is also very simple, the Van Luo area is too big, and the population is frighteningly large!

About 300 million people live on this land of more than 3 million square kilometers.

What is this concept?

If the Van Luo region is regarded as a country, then its population is second only to the Liangxia Empire, the second in the world!

What's even worse is that the Van Luo area has not yet achieved industrialization, and even the threshold of industrialization has not been crossed.

It is in this vast area that almost everyone lives a subsistence farming life.

Of course, the ability to feed so many people is possible thanks to two of the most fertile impact plains in the world, as well as abundant light and heat resources in the subtropics and tropics.

If anything, it is precisely because of the fertile soil and the unique natural environment that the Van Luo area, which is still in the agricultural era, can support so many people!

In addition to the large population, there was a reason that discouraged the imperial authorities.

Before becoming a colony of the Bran Kingdom, the Van Roe region was divided for most of its thousands of years.

Ironically, the colonial rule of the Bran Kingdom ended nearly a millennia of division and brought the Van Roe region under a single government. It was only the guns of the Bran colonists that made the unruly princes bow their noble heads.

In reality, the region is still divided into hundreds of princely states, each of which is like an independent kingdom.

Interestingly, because almost all the larger princely states had their own language or dialect, after hundreds of years of colonial rule by the kingdom of Bran, the language of the kingdom became the official language of the Van Luo region, and was accepted by the rulers of the princely states, that is, the aristocracy.

To this day, speaking Bran has become a status symbol for the princely nobility.

Obviously, after driving out the colonists of the Bran Kingdom, it would take decades, if not centuries, for the empire to establish a new ruling order.

There is no doubt that this is a very difficult project.

With the current international environment, it is simply not possible.

Actually, it was the same in the past.

In Chen Bingxun's era, the Imperial Navy dominated the Fanyan Ocean, and only forced the Bran Kingdom to open up the Van Luo region and give the imperial enterprises and merchants the same treatment, and did not seek to replace the Bran Kingdom in the Van Luo region, let alone implement the empire in the Van Luo region.

The most critical reason is actually that there is no power to do it.

It couldn't be done in Chen Bingxun's time, and it can't be done now.

If nothing else, the huge cultural differences determined that the empire could not become the ruler of the Van Luo region, and at most it could grab the resources of the region.

Moreover, the more than 300 million poor people who had no education were of no benefit to the Empire.

It was precisely in this way that the imperial authorities set up a basic strategy to lure the local princely states to revolt in order to break down the dominance of the Bran Kingdom in the Van Luo region.

Of course, the main thing is to make it impossible for the Bran Kingdom to obtain the resources of the Van Luo region.

Li Yunxiang came to Colombo three months ago to ensure that the airport and other infrastructure built around the Van Roe area can be successfully completed.

Of course, the later period also included sending bombers to carry out reconnaissance missions in the Van Roe area.

Only, that's not all.

At dinner, Li Yunxiang mentioned.

The above asked him to come to Colombo, in fact, in the hope that after the capture of Posha Bay, he could use the two rivers area and the Boi country to occupy the next country to bomb the Luo Sha Federation. After the opening of the route into Lu Xinhai, it is also necessary to consider the deployment of long-range aviation to the Republic of Ther.

As long as the shipping route is through, it is also necessary to increase the deployment of troops on the western continent and increase the intensity of bombing the Bran Kingdom.

At that time, the first to be dispatched was actually the aviation unit deployed in the North Fanyan Ocean and fighting in the Fanluo area.

The reason is also very simple, the Van Luo area is very vast, and the Wuji Mountains in the north limit the bombers, so the bombers taking off from Sri Lanka must have a combat radius of more than 2,000 kilometers, which is more suitable for carrying out bombing missions against the Luosha Federation and the Bran Kingdom.

In addition, Sri Lanka is closer to the western continent.

As for the strategic aviation units on the huge land battlefield, the number of deployments is always not very large, because of the limitation of logistical supply.

Because the center of the Luosha Federation is in the west, in the area east of the Ula Mountains, there are not many targets worth bombing, except for a few cities such as Yebao, so on the huge land battlefield, it is tactical aviation that acts as the main force, and the main task is to provide close support for armored forces.

At the tactical level, tactical aviation is the core of blitzkrieg, and its status and value are not below those of armored forces.

It is precisely because of this that the Manchurian Air Force has always been dominated by tactical aviation, and the Luosha Federation has also attached great importance to tactical aviation, but has not vigorously developed strategic aviation.

However, it has to do with the industrial strength of the two countries.

The development strategy of aviation relies on the power generation capacity, that is, the aluminum needed to produce advanced bombers, which can only be obtained by electrolysis.

Looking at the world, only the Liangxia Empire and the Nuland Federation can develop strategic aviation.

Now the elite of the Reich's strategic aviation is all on this side.

Obviously, this is also the reason why Liu Changxun reminded Bai Zhizhan to come to Colombo to find Li Yunxiang.

If you want to bomb the northwest region of Austria and suppress the Nuland bombers, then the only one you can rely on is the bomber force on Li Yunxiang's side.

There is no doubt that Liu Changxun must have known about the situation here.

In front of Li Yunxiang, Bai Zhizhan did not hide it, so after understanding the troops in Li Yunxiang's hands, he told his intentions.

In the words of the White Stop War, first of all, we must find out whether there is a way to dispatch some bombers to deal with the Nuland Army Air Force in the northwest of the Austrian continent without affecting the overall situation, reduce the threat to the Shiquan Strait, and at least ensure the normal navigation of the strait.

If you could, it would be great.

If not, there is a problem, how to solve it?