The march into Posha Bay was also very smooth.

Over the next three days, two task forces took turns to fight, and soon destroyed the Polish-based defenses built around the control and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

The point is, I didn't suffer much damage.

In addition to the fact that more than 20 carrier-based aircraft were shot down by enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft guns, the only loss was that during the day on the 15th, one destroyer was struck by a mine and sunk while performing a suppression mission.

By the 17th, the Imperial Navy had largely cleared the northern shore of the strait of the remnants of the enemy.

Because no decent resistance was encountered, army aviation did not participate in combat operations.

Although the action was timely, the Royal Navy of Bran and the Boi Navy did not have time to lay mines in the main channel, but due to the impact of the destroyer's minesweeper sinking in the mine, the Navy still arranged for the minesweeper to enter the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to clearing the main channel, and opened up several alternate channels by the way.

It was not until the 22nd that the landing fleet entered Posha Bay through the Strait of Hormuz.

If you want to say, it's actually a mixed fleet.

Although the main force is dozens of landing ships, large and small, the majority are transport ships.

In order to achieve the purpose of tactical deception, the external propaganda is that it is a landing fleet, and the fleet responsible for transporting weapons, equipment and combat materials is still in the rear.

The key point is that the transport ships that follow the landing fleet into Posha Bay are not carrying combat materials and weapons and equipment, but combat units.

To say, this is also Liu Xiangzhen's arrangement.

Based on the previous battles, Liu Xiangzhen boldly judged that he would not encounter much stubborn resistance in the Posha Bay area, so there was no need to consider the problem of logistics support for the time being, and there was no need to dispatch many armored troops, so that the troops could be lightly armed to achieve a fast enough advance speed.

To put it simply, it is to let the infantry ride in vehicles and launch a blitzkrieg.

To say, it is not impossible.

The point is that there are no decent opponents in the Posha Bay area, so there is no need to think about encountering stubborn resistance when attacking.

What really needs to be considered is actually logistical support, that is, whether the combat materials can be transported.

This is also the key to Liu Xiangzhen's proposal to use as little armored force as possible.

In blitzkrieg, the most logistical requirements are for armored troops, which not only require fuel and ammunition, but also consume a very large amount.

On the contrary, motorized infantry consumed much less.

That's not all, though.

According to the operational plan submitted by the Army, after the successful landing, it will enter the stage of ground warfare, and a completely new method will be adopted to launch an offensive.

Rely on airlift to avoid the enemy's main line of defense and directly capture strategic points behind the enemy's line of defense.

Of course, this will require the use of a sufficient number of transport aircraft, and mainly airborne troops.

After the start of the offensive, it was also necessary to deliver war materiel to the front by air.

In fact, this is also a way to do it.

The reason is also very simple, the conditions for launching a large-scale ground offensive in the country of Poland simply do not exist.

First of all, except for the plains of the southwest, the whole territory of the Boi country is a plateau, and in the east is the desert next door that is inaccessible.

It was this desert that held back the Boi army and made Gwadar the base for the Imperial Army's advance into Posha Bay.

However, the complex terrain also limits the combat effectiveness of armored forces.

If anything, it's pretty much the same as on the Icestorm Peninsula.

The difference is that the Imperial Army's attack on the Ice Storm Peninsula not only relies on the homeland to fight, but also relies on the support provided by the Shanggao Kingdom, which can greatly reduce the burden of logistics support. At the other end of the continent, the Imperial Army had nothing to rely on.

In addition, there is poor infrastructure.

This is also a problem that must be faced in remote areas.

Because of the lack of transportation infrastructure such as roads and railways, and the lack of inland waterways to use, it is difficult to provide logistical support for combat troops.

If you have to say, the tank may not be able to catch up with the camel.

Since there is no place for armored forces, and logistics cannot rely on ground transportation, is it necessary to launch an offensive in the traditional way?

The answer is clearly no.

The key is that the Poi ** team and the local Bran army are also mainly infantry.

Of course, in addition to the infantry, there were hundreds of thousands of camel cavalry.

If the enemy does not have armored forces, there is no need to think about the problem of anti-armor operations.

Back in the days when infantry was relied upon, with machine guns, trenches and barbed wire, the Imperial Army had enough airlift capacity to sustain hundreds of thousands of troops.

This tactic of relying on airborne attacks and supplying by airdrop and airlift also strictly limited the scope of operations.

To put it simply, the main purpose is to occupy transportation hubs.

Tactically, after a successful raid, the airborne troops occupied their positions and had to immediately switch from offensive to defensive, relying on defensive positions with airfields as the core to block the enemy.

As long as you build a defensive line and have enough support, you can wear down the enemy through defensive battles.

In a sense, this is also an offensive tactic with the least investment and the least losses.

It is precisely for this reason that after the successful landing of Posha Bay, the first thing to do is not to quickly advance inland, but to establish an advance base around the port with the airfield as the core, and complete the preliminary preparations as soon as possible to ensure that the attack is launched before the enemy reacts.

Obviously, such a combat operation with a limited scope, there is nothing challenging.

During the landing operation, the two task forces need to be on guard against threats from the direction of the Boi Kingdom, such as the counterattack of the Royal Air Force of Bran.

At this time, it was impossible for the Royal Air Force to fail to guess the strategic intentions of the Imperial ** team.

Although the pressure from the Euman army in the direction of the Syphan Canal was still very great, the Royal Air Force of Bran withstood the pressure and sent a tactical air force to the Polish-Ian country, with about 100 combat aircraft, and about a number of "mosquito" bombers.

This is a twin-engine bomber with a huge threat and very strong combat effectiveness.

Actually, it's the "wooden plane" mentioned earlier.

Because it was light enough, it had a maximum flight speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, faster than many fighters that entered service at the beginning of the war.

It is precisely in this way that the "Mosquito" type was also converted into a night fighter for use.

In addition, the cost is very low, and it can be mass-produced and used in equipment.

Most importantly, the twin-engine bomber was capable of carrying torpedoes to attack warships, and it was also capable of attaching bombs and dropping them in a dive.

It's a pity that there are too few of them.

It's not that the number of deployments is small, but that the operational consumption is too great.

In the defense of the homeland alone, the Royal Air Force has lost thousands of Mosquito fighters.

On 27 and 29 October, after two costly attacks, almost all of the RAF's combat aircraft were destroyed.

As for the results of the battle, it was only that the 2 heavy cruisers of the 12th Task Force suffered heavy damage and had to be evacuated ahead of schedule.

By the last day of October, the two task forces had received orders from the naval command to leave Posha Bay one after the other.

Three days earlier, on October 28, the Marine Corps had switched guards with the Army, handing over forward positions to the Army.

According to the arrangement, the next combat operations were undertaken by the army alone, and the navy was only responsible for delivering combat materials to the front line.

However, the combat operations of the two task forces did not end.