Relatively speaking, the offensive in the direction of the Toe Peninsula presented the exact opposite.

Also at the end of November, the Army set out from the mainland and invaded the Toe Peninsula to launch a campaign to march to the southernmost city, Lion Springs.

In the complete opposite of Nanzhu, on the Toe Peninsula, the army plays the leading role, and the navy only provides maritime support.

This meant that the army had to push as far south as possible along the coastline to facilitate resupply.

This, of course, is also at the heart of the entire offensive plan.

Until the end of the last war, the Toe Peninsula was an overseas territory of the Empire. At that time, the Toe Kingdom was still a country, and like the Kingdom of Gaoju, it was a vassal state of the empire. Its main towns are located along the coastline and extend inland by regional railways and roads.

It is precisely in this way that the country of toes has become so "slim".

It's just that the country of toe was split in two after the last war. North Toe gained independent status, but remained nominally a vassal of the Empire. The Nantoe region became a colony of the Locke Republic, or rather, fell back into the hands of the Locke Republic and lost its independence.

Because of the failure to ensure its integrity, after the war, the Kingdom of North Toe complained about the empire.

It should be said that the vast majority of the people of the North still regard the empire as an enemy, believing that it was the defeat of the empire that caused their country to be divided into two.

In the early years after the war, riots broke out in the Kingdom of Beizhi, and hundreds of thousands of imperial expatriates were uprooted.

To this day, there are still more than 100,000 expatriates living in the "guest villages" north of the border.

Obviously, the people of Beizhi never thought that they would be able to get rid of the control of the Locke Empire and establish their own kingdom with the support of the empire!

In any case, the relationship between the Kingdom of North Toe and the Empire has not been very good.

Before the outbreak of the Great War, Beizhi also took the initiative to make overtures to the Newland Federation and the Narrow Imperial State, trying to rely on the support of the Western powers to counter the empire.

It was that, after the start of the offensive, it did not go well.

It was not until 9 December, the day before Task Force 41 reached the board, that the army had completely captured the capital of the Kingdom of Beizhi.

The slow pace of progress is also related to the harsh natural environment and poor traffic conditions.

Most of the time, the officers and men of the Imperial Army were fighting the rainforest.

In the words of officers and soldiers of the front-line troops, they spent ten times more time using jungle machetes to open the way than they did with rifles to fire at the enemy.

In addition, there are tropical diseases.

Malaria alone gave the Imperial Army a headache.

If anything, before the outbreak of the Great War, the empire imported quinine from the Malai region in an almost hoarding manner, which was associated with tropical infectious diseases.

Fortunately, after the capture of the capital of the Beizhi Kingdom, the bitter battle came to an end.

On December 10, the Empire sent back the king of Toe, who had been in exile for more than 20 years, and formed a provisional government in his capital.

More than 20 years is not a long time, and most of the people of Toe still remember this king of Lianliang and Luo.

As the saying goes, the name is right.

With the king of the toe country, it is not too difficult to let the ** team of the king of the north toe along the way disarm and surrender, to be precise, change the flag and obey the command of the emperor's ** team. If you really want to encounter someone who is not smart enough, pull up the heavy artillery, or call the aviation.

As long as you bomb a few shots, or a round of bombing, you can basically get it done.

On the 10th, the Imperial Army swept the towns near the capital of the Kingdom of Beizhi in this way.

According to the plan drawn up by the Army, the next step was to skip half of the Toe Peninsula directly, take a Navy transport ship to the south of the peninsula, to be precise, land on the north side of Dayman Bay, control the East Toe Railway, and prepare for the next crossing of Dayman Bay and landing at the southern tip of the Malai Peninsula.

Anyway, it's to avoid pushing on the ground as much as possible.

This is something that cannot be helped, after all, there is only one East Toe Railway, and this railway came to an abrupt end after entering the Kingdom of Daiman.

In addition, the Malai Peninsula is very long and narrow, and there are no decent roads in the north!

It was basically impossible to advance from the ground to the southern tip of the Malai Peninsula and reach the north of Shiquan City.

Not to mention now, even in the past, no army has done it.

In two steps, the main thing is to take into account the combat radius of tactical aviation, that is, to ensure that aviation can cover the entire process.

Because the Navy could not send large warships to provide support, and there were not even many landing ships, the Army had to rely heavily on aviation.

This was highlighted in the development of the plan.

Before the capture of Lion Springs, the Imperial Navy would not invest too many troops on the Western Front, and the army could only rely on itself, so it had to invest enough aviation.

What the Imperial Navy can guarantee, that is, sea transportation.

Fortunately, the Imperial authorities have done enough to solve the number one problem.

In late last month, the day before the Imperial Army's offensive in the northern part of the Toe Peninsula, the Foreign Service secured the Kingdom of Daiman.

According to the secret agreement reached between the two parties, the Daiman Kingdom remained neutral during the war, provided that the Empire guaranteed the independence of the Daiman Kingdom.

It must be a tendentious neutrality.

In order to show his attitude, Prince Daiman, who came to the empire to negotiate, stayed in the imperial capital and lived in the palace.

The neutrality of the Daiman Kingdom means that there is one less enemy, and the Imperial Army can directly attack the Malai Peninsula after sweeping the South Toe area, to be precise, after gaining a foothold in the South Toe area, without wasting more troops and more valuable time on the Toe Peninsula.

No matter how bad the Daiman Kingdom is, it still has 300,000 standing troops, and it still fights on its own soil.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake.

The point is, one more friend is definitely better than one more enemy.

If you want to say, the combat effectiveness of the Daiman army is not bad, and it can be regarded as the strongest existence in the Toe Peninsula.

More than 100 years ago, the Daiman Kingdom defeated the invading enemy through arduous struggle, and only when the entire Toe Peninsula became a colony of the Western powers, it still maintained its sovereignty integrity and became the only independent kingdom in the entire Nanyan region.

The Daiman Kingdom was also one of the first countries to recognize the Liang Xia Empire and establish diplomatic relations with the Empire.

Until the last war, the Daiman Kingdom had been a quasi-ally of the Empire, and its relationship with the Empire could be said to be extraordinary.

Even after the defeat of the Empire, the Kingdom of Daiman remained close to the Empire and helped it in many ways.

The most representative is the unconditional support for the construction of the East Toe Railway after the war.

Without this railway, the empire would have to rely on the navy to return to the Toe Peninsula, and the powerful imperial army would have no place at all.

Of course, with the support of the Daiman Kingdom, the East Toe Railway is fully connected, and the logistics are fully guaranteed.

It was precisely in this way that Peng Huaisheng vouched for Xue Yuanzheng that he would definitely be able to capture the Malai Peninsula before the Spring Festival, and launch a combat operation to attack Shiquan City after the Spring Festival.

If all goes well, it is expected that the Lion Spring City will be laid before the Qingming Festival.

Peng Huaisheng also mentioned that he hoped that the navy would complete the preparations for entering Fanyanyang in a timely manner.

In other words, I'm still worried about the navy.

Stimulated by the army, the navy temporarily set the time to march into Fanyanyang around the Qingming Festival next year, after the army captured Shiquan City.

At that time, the Imperial Navy will have 3 fleet carriers and 4 large aircraft carriers available!