After arriving at the naval headquarters, Bai Zhizhan didn't even drink a sip of water before he was called by Yu Zhixing, that is, Zhu Shijian's secretary.

Subsequently, Bai Zhizhan learned from Yu Zhixing that half an hour ago, Liu Xiangdong, Li Hengjia and Liu Xiangzhen had arrived.

Because they were all transport planes going to the naval base in the south of the empire and transferring there, it can be inferred from this that if they all set off immediately after receiving the telegram, the Second Air Task Force commanded by Liu Xiangdong must be in the north, and the distance is within 300 kilometers.

They also intended to take advantage of the approaching cold air currents and had taken advantage of them in advance.

If the confrontation continues, the First Air Task Force will not be defeated!

Conference center, the discussion has been going on for several hours. Because they had not yet arrived at the White Stop, it was up to the Southern Fleet to make their point first.

What to discuss?

It's a cliché, and it's a question that comes up with a quarrel every year.

Last month, there was already a quarrel at the preparatory meeting before the start of the fleet exercises.

Basic Naval Strategy.

Is it to go south to sweep the Fanyan Ocean, or to go east to dominate the Guia Ocean?

Now, this is still a matter of military strategy at the imperial level.

For decades, the military strategy of the empire was as much a struggle between the army and navy as it was a struggle of direction, a difference between marching to the northwest and marching to the southeast.

The Battle of Nanjiangkou, which determined the imperial state, took place in the southeast and was dominated by the navy.

The Battle of Atai, which made the empire a blockbuster, took place in the northwest and was dominated by land forces.

Although even the army generals admit that the future of the empire lies in the Guia Ocean and the Fanyan Ocean, and only by controlling the sea can it control the whole world, but the huge threat from the Luosha Empire, like an axe hanging over its head, makes the empire have to focus on consolidating the defense of the northwest.

Reconciliation?

As long as the Luosha Empire is still there, there is no way to reconcile!

Don't forget, after the Battle of Atai, the Luosha Empire was forced to sign an alliance with the Liangxia Empire, and through a peace treaty, it ceded half of the country that had been fought hard for hundreds of years, lost the outlet to the sea in the Guia Ocean, and thus became a second-rate power. In the decades that followed, several emperors of the Luosha Empire were determined to reform, literally trying their back, in order to one day take revenge.

Fortunately, the Luosha Empire is history.

The greatest benefit of reconciling with the Rosa Federation is that it eliminates the threat from the northwest, allowing the empire to concentrate its forces on operations in the southeast.

Thus, the decades-long land-sea dispute came to an end.

Although the status of the army has not been reduced, after all, in addition to the northwest, there are also southwest and northeast, but no one denies that in the next war, the navy is the absolute main force, and the strategic choice of the navy is actually the strategic choice of the empire, so it must be cautious.

In fact, this is the key reason why the Navy holds fleet exercises every year.

Only through confrontation exercises that are close to actual combat can we find out the strength of the navy and what kind of war it can fight.

However, the fleet exercise has been carried out for more than 10 years, but the overall strategy has never been determined.

Not to mention anything else, every year before the start of the fleet exercise, during the preparation stage, that is, during the determination of the exercise plan, the Home Fleet and the Southern Fleet will quarrel over the scenario setting. When the situation is about to get out of control, the command of the Navy will throw out an ambiguous plan that no matter how you explain it. For more than ten years, there has been no exception, and the scenario setting, which should have been concise and clear, has become more and more complex.

Are you sure?

Apparently not.

It is undeniable that there must be two elements of the family in this. However, it is still fundamentally closely related to the overall strategy of the empire.

To put it simply, it is what kind of war you want to fight and what kind of goal you want to achieve through war.

Speaking of which, there is a lot of knowledge in it.

Not to mention others, even Bai Zhijian has only figured out the difference between the southward strategy and the eastward strategy in recent years, and has understood Zhu Shijian's hardships.

What's the difference?

The difference between a limited war and a full-scale war!

The southward strategy, fundamentally speaking, is actually to march into the Fanyan Ocean and capture the crescent belt located at the western end of the huge continent, adjacent to the Western Continent and the Xuan Continent, known as the "crossroads of the world". If you can revitalize the entire battle situation in this way, you can at least ensure that you are invincible.

Crucially, it also controls the world's largest oil producer: Posha Bay.

Actually, it is enough to have oil.

Although the Liangxia Empire also had oil and was one of the largest oil producers in the world, it simply did not produce enough oil to make it the world's largest oil importer. During the last World War, the empire was highly dependent on imported oil. So far, the situation has not only not improved, but the dependence on imports has increased. In peacetime, about 40 percent of the oil needs to be filled by imports.

In times of war, control measures can be taken to reduce civilian consumption, and imports from the Rosa Federation can also be expanded. In addition, coal can be used to replace oil in power generation and some petrochemical industries, thereby reducing dependence on oil and compensating for the impact of reduced imports.

However, these are not long-term solutions.

Even under the best of circumstances, this strategy of thriftling could last for two years. If imports cannot be expanded within two years, the empire's economy will be affected, and many oil-related industries will be affected, which will have an impact on military operations.

If nothing else, petrochemicals are needed to produce explosives.

This is the main reason why the Southerners support going south.

As long as you can control the Fanyan Ocean and capture Posha Bay, oil is not a problem. When the time comes, it will even be able to get rid of its dependence on the Luosha Federation.

In addition, the southward strategy is very much in line with the appetite of the army.

For more than ten years, the army has been emphasizing that the Luosha Federation is not credible and must not sit back and relax, because those who established the Luosha Federation are essentially nationalists, and the first consideration is the interests of their own country and the nation, and they will never forget the shame of the city back then.

Who can guarantee that when the situation suddenly changes, the Luosha Federation will not turn its guns on the Empire?

In the last war, the lesson of the Narrow-Sized Imperial State's rebellion at a critical moment is still vivid.

There are 100 good things about this strategy, but there is one drawback that cannot be ignored and is extremely serious.

Didn't find the right target!

Who is the greatest threat to the Empire, or who is the number one enemy?

That's definitely the Nuland Federation!

At the beginning, if it weren't for the Nuland Federation sending troops to participate in the war, the Liangxia Empire would have leveled all the other powers and completed the great cause of global domination.

The southward strategy, the empire is aiming its guns at the Bran Kingdom!

Even if it can win quickly, it will take more than half a year, and the Nuland Federation is fully capable of completing the war mobilization in such a sufficient time.

To the east, there is also the Imperial Kingdom of Saji.

All in all, if you want to go south, you can't deal with the Newland Federation and the Narrow Imperial State.

When the Nuland Federation completes its war mobilization, even if the empire uses all its strength, what can be achieved in the end is only a limited victory.

Of course, it is more likely that in an extremely unfavorable situation, that is, before the sweep of the Van Yanyang and the capture of Posha Bay, a war with the Newland Federation will be started.

So, is it worth missing the post-war opportunity for the sake of Posha Bay's oil?