The battle that took place in Shinafye more or less surprised Ding Zhennan.

The enemy did not collapse at the touch of a button, and the impact of high-intensity air strikes on ground combat, the lack of long-range means of attack in the Imperial Army, the vulnerability of special forces in conventional combat, and the coordination and cooperation of various combat units in the execution of their tasks, as well as the problems existing in the Imperial Army, all showed themselves and had an impact on this combat operation.

Many problems have been exposed, but the characteristics of high-tech modern warfare have also strengthened Ding Zhennan's confidence.

To put it simply, after taking the bridge over the Euphrates River at Shinafyeh, Ding Zhennan no longer doubted whether the 7th Panzer Division could take down Bagh X.

On the evening of October 3, Ding Zhennan issued an operational order to "march to Bagh X".

Although after taking the Euphrates River Bridge, the 17th Armored Division behaved more actively, and Fu Weimin personally called Ding Zhennan to promise that it would strictly implement the combat orders issued by the coalition command, hoping to share more tasks in the attack on Baghdad, but Ding Zhennan was not moved, and still asked all units to act in accordance with the previously drawn up battle plan, and not to make changes and adjustments without authorization.

Ding Zhennan is very clear about Fu Weimin's thoughts.

Only a special force of more than 30 people, supported by naval aviation and long-range artillery, took the bridge over the Euphrates River in Sinafyeh. Even if the battle was very difficult and the special forces suffered huge casualties, but after this battle, no one thought that it was a difficult thing to attack BagX anymore, and marching into BagX was more like reaping the fruits of victory.

To reap the merits of war, it is natural to rush to be the first.

It's just that Ding Zhennan didn't take it lightly.

After receiving Fu Weimin's phone call, Ding Zhennan made a phone call to Shi Zhiliang and asked Shi Zhiliang to submit a request to the Navy Command for additional troops in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, that is, to ask the Navy to send three to five additional carrier-based air wings to increase the intensity of air strikes.

Strictly speaking, in fact, it is to maintain the current intensity of air strikes.

Although the coalition forces have occupied Bus X and are still gaining a foothold in Semavo, they are still unable to deploy aviation to the front line due to logistical constraints, and the Navy does not have front-line aviation in the real sense, that is, it lacks specialized attack aircraft such as the "Attack-9".

In addition, carrier-based aircraft have relatively high requirements for ground support support.

Because the support forces could not keep up, that is, they could not be deployed in advance, most of the carrier-based aircraft could not be deployed to the front-line airfields in poor conditions.

Naval aviation can only be deployed in the rear.

As the ground forces advance towards the Bag-X, the combat radius of the aviation will definitely increase, and the combat effectiveness when providing support will decrease.

In order to maintain the support level, more combat aircraft must be deployed.

It is not difficult for naval aviation to send several additional wings of combat aircraft.

Here, the mobilization system of the Imperial Navy is involved.

Compared with the army and the air force, the navy has a very distinctive characteristic, it is difficult to expand its strength in a short period of time, and it cannot be expected to rely on the wartime mobilization system to expand the size of the fleet after the outbreak of war, and it must retain a sufficiently strong combat force in peacetime.

This characteristic has always been the theoretical basis for the navy to build armaments in peacetime.

In light of this characteristic, the Imperial Navy made several armament building plans after the war, all of which emphasized the "principle of hegemony."

To put it simply, the Imperial Navy must have more strength than the potential enemy combined at all times.

At the beginning, the two houses of parliament passed a bill to limit the number of aircraft carriers to 15, which is related to this.

While each 10-year plan changes, it remains essentially the same. In the last ten-year plan, the "Fifth Post-War Shipbuilding Plan of the Imperial Navy", adopted in 149 A.D., the proportion of allies, i.e., members of the Eastern Bloc, was increased.

By the year 159, the size of the Imperial Navy's fleet in the Eastern Bloc would have been reduced from 75% to 65% by the year 159. Because the size of the navy has been expanding, within 10 years, the imperial navy will still have to add 500,000 tons of warships.

However, judging from the previous ten-year plans, not all allies have been able to complete the shipbuilding program, and the missing part will definitely have to be filled by the Imperial Navy.

All in all, the Navy pays more attention to peacetime armament building.

Although both houses passed a bill limiting the number of aircraft carriers in service to 15 in service, the bill did not limit the number of aircraft carriers in the non-service state.

In fact, this is also the result of the struggle of the admirals such as the Wei Army.

Taking advantage of this legal loophole, or the compromise obtained by the struggle, after the Polish-Iranian War, the Imperial Navy successively decommissioned large aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 60,000 tons, in fact, they were replaced by the "Chen Bingxun" class and the "Xue Yuanzheng" class, and all the decommissioned large aircraft carriers were mothballed.

By the outbreak of the Posha Bay War, there were a total of 18 large aircraft carriers built between the end of the last war and the end of the Polish-Iraqi War in the three military ports of the Imperial Navy.

It's just that it's not just aircraft carriers that are mothballed after decommissioning.

Although it is much less difficult to produce carrier-based aircraft than the construction of aircraft carriers, and it will take little time, the Imperial Navy still retains the hand, that is, carrier-based aircraft must undergo a comprehensive inspection after decommissioning, and according to the results of the inspection, decide where to go after decommissioning.

Among them, the better ones will be sealed and processed.

Crucially, the Navy's carrier-based fighters are usually 75% of the Air Force's combat aircraft of the same type.

The reason given by the Navy is that the use environment of carrier-based aircraft is more harsh, such as bearing greater external forces during take-off and landing, and it has been placed in a high-humidity and high-salt environment for a long time, and the intensity of use during deployment is higher, so the usable life of carrier-based aircraft is certainly not as good as that of shore-based aircraft.

However, the Imperial Navy deliberately ignored a problem, and when the carrier-based aircraft was designed, it had made necessary adjustments for the harsh deployment environment.

It is precisely in this way that the carrier-based aircraft is certainly inferior to the same type of aircraft of the Air Force in terms of key performance.

Take the "Zhan-9B" that the Navy is proud of, for example, its fastest flight speed, maximum ceiling, and acceleration performance are not as good as the "Zhan-11A" of the Air Force. Because it is heavier, even if it is replaced with an engine with higher thrust, the vertical maneuverability of the "Zhan-9B" is not as good as that of the "Zhan-11A".

The fundamentals, in addition to ensuring the advanced performance of the aircraft group, are also aimed at increasing the level of combat readiness.

The most representative ones are the "Attack-6" and "Battle-12".

As mentioned earlier, the positioning of the "Zhan-12" in naval aviation is different from that of the "Zhan-10", not to form a high-low match with the "Zhan-9", which has advanced performance but is also expensive, to enhance the fleet's air supremacy combat capability, but to replace the "Attack-6".

To put it simply, the "Zhan-12" is a multi-role fighter that is more suitable for carrying out attack missions.

The same is true in actual deployment and use!

During the Bosa Bay War, the Navy deployed more than 400 Battle-12s, and 90 percent of their time was spent on ground support missions.

It has been proven in actual combat that the "Zhan-12" is not an excellent fighter, but a very good attack aircraft!

Compared with the "Attack-6", the "Zhan-12" has an overwhelming advantage in other aspects except for a slightly shorter combat radius. The most crucial point is that when carrying out attack missions, there is no longer a need for other fighter escorts, and it is completely able to rely on the self-defense weapons it carries, such as combat missiles, to deal with enemy planes it encounters, thus greatly reducing the combat burden of naval aviation.

If needed, it is also possible to throw away ground attack munitions in advance and change the nature of the mission in the middle of the flight.

But the problem is that the average service time of the "Attack-6", which was replaced by the "Zhan-12", is less than 20 years.

The last batch of "Attack-6F" was delivered in 141 of the new calendar, and it was in service for less than 10 years.

As a result, in addition to more than 200 early models that have reached the service life of the direct retirement, either as scrap destruction, or after the life extension treatment dumped at a low price to the allies, the retreat of the "Attack-6F" have been sealed, and all of them have been tested before sealing, of which some of the longer service time has also been strengthened to the main load-bearing structure to ensure that it can be put into use immediately after unsealing.

By the outbreak of the Poshawan War, there were as many as 500 mothballed "Attack-6Fs".

With the start of the global war, all these carrier-based attack aircraft were re-activated and directly integrated into the new carrier-based aviation wing.

That is, relying on mothballed combat aircraft, the Imperial Navy added 10 new carrier-based aviation wings.

Of these combat units, four wings have reached operational status and are ready to be sent to the front. The other six will also complete the training within half a year and reach the state of being ready for deployment.

To say that the mobilization efficiency of naval aviation surpasses that of the Air Force.

According to Ding Zhennan's understanding, counting the active carrier-based aviation wings that could be mobilized before, at least eight wings are in a state of deployment.

It's just that the focus of the Navy is in the Guia.

On the Khowaii side, at least three additional wings will need to be added to deal with the increasingly obvious threat.

In addition, the Guia side of the southwest should also be strengthened to ensure that when the Sixth Task Force leaves and rushes to the aid of the Fourth Task Force, it will be able to cover the strategic route from Austria to the mainland of the Empire, guarding the island chain defense line with a length of more than 10,000 kilometers and covering the entire Southwest and Guia Ocean.

As a result, there are very few carrier-based aviation units that can be deployed to the coalition forces.

It was precisely because of this that Ding Zhennan called Shi Zhiliang.

The result did not surprise Ding Zhennan.

The Naval Command agreed to Shi Zhiliang's request, but only to concentrate its forces on the threat from across the Guia Ocean, so it could send up to two additional wings.

Before receiving a reply from the Navy Command, Ding Jin-nam went to the supreme commander of the Goju Kingdom, Admiral Park Tae-hee.

In order to convince the Goju Kingdom, Ding Zhennan did not beat around the bush and directly told Park Tae-hee that he could consider handing over the southern region of Iraq to the Goju army to occupy, and the Goju army would be responsible for the management of Basra and Faw and other ports to ensure that the Goju Kingdom could get the corresponding war dividends.

However, the premise is that the Kingdom of High Ju has to increase its troops. Not only ground forces, but also air power.

The key, that is, air power.

If you want to say anything, among the coalition forces, only the Kingdom of Gaoju still has the ability to increase troops to Posha Bay.

Almost all of the major member states of the Eastern Bloc are involved or about to be involved in war. Needless to say, the core area of the mainland has fallen, and whether it can hold the current defense line is a question. Pakistan faced the southern subcontinent and concentrated its efforts on dealing with the kingdom of Van Luo. To the east, the Imperial State of Narrows, with its modest fleet and relatively large air power, was primarily responsible for protecting strategic routes to the Khowaii Islands. As for Austria, which is on the other side of the southwestern and eastern oceans, it is even more responsible for the strategic defense of the entire southwestern and eastern oceans.

Only the Kingdom of High Giant has no worries for the time being.

It's not surprising, though.

In the strategic system of the Eastern Bloc, the Kingdom of High Ju itself is one of the strategic reserves, responsible for providing support to the Narrow Empire.

To put it simply, in the strategic system of the Eastern Bloc, especially on the Guia side, the Kingdom of High Giant is the second echelon.

Only now, the Guia War has not broken out.

In addition, the Imperial Navy had entered a state of war, intensified its deployment in the Guia, and the Imperial State of Sakuyi had begun to prepare for war.

In the short term, it will not be the turn of the High Giant Kingdom to charge.

The point is that the Kingdom of Tall Giant cannot resist the temptation that comes its way.

It's the oil of Posha Bay!

If the Liangxia Empire was able to achieve self-sufficiency in oil-based energy by controlling social consumption and expanding the scale of local exploitation during the war, then the Gaoju Kingdom, which did not produce a drop of oil, was more dependent on imports during the war.

The Kingdom of Gaoju was able to develop and quickly complete industrialization after the war, relying on imported processing trade, which had nothing to do with resources.

Obtaining oil from the southern region of Iraq is the perfect result that the Kingdom of Great Great dreams dreams of!

Of course, it is impossible for the imperial authorities to refuse the reinforcement of troops in Posha Bay by the Kingdom of Goju.

Long before launching the ground war, Ding Jin-nam approached General Park Tae-hee, hoping that the Goju army would be able to undertake more combat missions. It's just that at that time, Park Tae-hee rejected Ding Jin-nam very tactfully on the grounds that he did not obtain domestic permission, but in fact, the conditions were not negotiated.

As far as Ding Zhennan knows, Park Tae-hee, who serves as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Guard, is basically an existence under one person and above ten thousand people in the Goju Kingdom.

If anything, he is the regent of the Kingdom of Goju!

The key is that the king of the Gaoju Kingdom is now addicted to and pleasure, and has not been involved in political affairs for more than ten years, and the power of the country has long fallen into the hands of the commander-in-chief of the Royal Guard.

Of course, Park Tae-hee's identity is not blown out.

Among the many generals of the Kingdom of Goju, he is one of the few who has actual combat experience, that is, he has been to the Boi Kingdom more than 20 years ago.

Although the performance of the Goju army in the Polish-Iranian War was lackluster, Park Tae-hee's Wong Kar Guard was a rare main force.

At the time of the war, Park Tae-hee was only a second lieutenant officer.

By the time the war was over, he was already a major general of the Royal Guard!

In just ten years, the rank has risen by more than ten levels.

It was during this war that he thought of the former king, who was the crown prince at the time and served in the Royal Guard, and formed a deep friendship.

After that, he married his only daughter to the eldest son of the former king and supported her to the throne of the crown prince.

As a result, he became the father-in-law of the current King of Gaoju, his daughter is still the only queen of the Gaoju Kingdom, and his grandson is the crown prince.

To say, this guy is definitely a great character.