After calming down, Bai Zhizhan also felt that his worries were a bit unnecessary.

Although the alliance successfully landed in the Beixuan region, the Riman Empire had to make strategic adjustments, but with the current situation, it is more like a return to the past.

The forces are insufficient, and it can even be said that the strategic initiative is completely lost, and any counterattack launched by the alliance bloc will not have a good result.

Forcibly landing in the Beixuan area is actually a dangerous military move.

The point was that the fleet was used in one direction, so that there was no way to cope with the attack of the Entente bloc in other directions.

Several adjustments made by the imperial authorities have a very clear purpose.

In addition, it is necessary to take into account the combat attrition.

Don't look at the Nuland Federation has the most powerful industrial system in the world, even compared to the Liangxia Empire, it is not much better, but it does not have a powerful ally.

Not to mention the narrow-minded imperial state, it has already been defeated.

The kingdom of Bran is just yesterday's yellow flower, or rather, it is gnawing at its old roots, relying on colonial blood transfusions, and it can barely compete with the super hegemon. After losing the most important colony, the Van Luo region, the kingdom of Bran, which had no old roots to gnaw, was at best a second-rate country.

The Luosha Federation is only slightly better than it was during the Imperial period, but it is still not strong compared to the two powerful neighbors on the same World Island. The point is that 20 years is too short a time period for the Luosha Federation to move from a serf society to an industrialized one.

The allies are too weak, and no matter how strong the Nuland Federation is, it will be difficult to support it alone.

If anything, the problem of material shortage has always existed, but it was not obvious in the past, and only the Bran Kingdom and the Luosha Federation were affected.

If this reckless consumption continues, the Nuland military and civilians will soon taste the taste of material shortage.

On 17 November, the Army launched a combat operation into the country of Poland.

In addition to sending airborne troops to seize airfields behind enemy lines, as planned, the armored forces of the army launched an offensive from the front.

For the Boi army, which is seriously lacking in anti-armor weapons, the only thing that can be relied on is the rugged and complex terrain.

On the same day, the army's assault forces began to advance westward.

However, the vanguard was the cavalry unit of the Republic of There.

Actually, that's part of the plan.

According to the original plan, the advance to the Canal by land was only to contain the enemy.

Now, it has become the main direction of attack.

Fortunately, the Republic of There did not oppose such an adjustment.

In any case, it was a matter of life and death for the Hindan Empire, and the Tyre Republic joined the Entente in the hope of maintaining relations with the Hindan Empire.

If anything, the Republic of Thell did not attach much importance to the relationship with the Liangxia Empire.

At a time when the Terman Empire is facing a severe test, there is no reason for the Republic of There to sit on the sidelines, and it must take into account the overall situation.

On the side of the Kib fortress, the offensive operation was also relatively smooth.

On the night of 22 November, the army's assault force, uncharacteristically, launched a surprise attack without any preparations, especially artillery preparations, breaking through the last line of defense of Bran's army in the northwest of the fortress and opening a circuitous southward passage.

By the early morning of the 23rd, the army had expanded the breakthrough and routed the Bran army, which had launched a counterattack.

Because the Somali Peninsula was just to the south, and there was no danger to defend, Bran's army began to shrink in the direction of the fortress on the 23rd.

It's a pity that the retreat was too slow.

The fierce battle continued until the 25th, when the army assault force, under the cover of the artillery fire of the support fleet, or rather the support fleet opened the way with artillery fire, broke through the last line of defense set up by Bran's army on the south side of the fortress, achieved a complete encirclement of the fortress, and won the most crucial victory.

At this point, the Kib fortress was completely surrounded.

The last time a similar situation occurred was after Chen Bingxun's martyrdom!

Prior to this, less than 50,000 Bran had withdrawn to the fortress in time, so the total strength of the fortress would certainly not exceed 100,000.

There are at least 200,000 of them blocked outside the fortress!

The fortress is besieged, and the shipping routes are completely cut off, not to mention that there are only 100,000 defenders, even if there are millions of troops, don't want to hold the fortress!

What's more, the imperial army came prepared.

Having completed the general siege of the fortress, the army did not rush to attack the fortress, but began to build fortifications and build a temporary port to the south of the fortress.

After the transport ships were able to dock, the army first pulled up the heavy artillery that could not be transported from the ground.

Although supported by the navy's fleet, the army preferred to use its own artillery, especially heavy mortars specially developed for attacking fortifications.

It's a large-caliber mortar.

This super killer comes from the Empire.

Before the outbreak of the Great War, in order to be able to break through the defense line set up along the border of the Locke Republic in one fell swoop, especially the fortress in the Ardennes Forest, open up the ground communication line, and ensure that the logistics support of the assault force would not be cut off, the Empire spent a lot of effort to develop special weapons for attacking the fortress.

As a result, it is this super artillery cannon that can fire 1 ton of special shells.

Because the barrel is forged separately, each siege gun has a different caliber, and when it is used, it is necessary to equip the shells with belts that are polished according to the caliber

It's a bit of a hassle, but it's nothing compared to value.

After the Luosha Federation countered the water, the empire got the design drawings of the siege artillery, and then copied a few and sent them to the northwest battlefield for actual combat testing, and the effect was surprisingly good.

The point is that the ballistics of the siege guns are very curved.

This, of course, is also characteristic of mortars.

Relying on high-throw ballistics, siege guns can directly bombard enemy fortifications, and are most effective against fortifications when equipped with shells that use delay-time fuses.

In an ideal world, a 1-ton shell would fall almost vertically.

Obviously, this is something that the heavy artillery of the Navy cannot do.

Because it is attacked directly from the top, it cannot be stopped even by a strong fortress.

If anything, it is the psychological pressure that arises from it.

Beginning on 30 November, after the first siege guns were in place, the bombardment of the Kib fortress began at a rate of one round per hour.

From this moment on, the fortress was no longer safe.

The power of the siege artillery is very great, but the accuracy is not very good.

The main thing is that the barrel is short, and each shell has to be covered with a cartridge belt, and the cartridge belt is made improvised, and there must be a big error.

For the Bran soldiers guarding the fortress, no one knew where the next shell would explode.

At this point, there is no longer any need to storm the fortress.

Theoretically, as long as the sea control is still in the hands of the Imperial Navy, then it is only through the siege that the Bran army in the fortress can be forced to disarm and surrender.

In fact, it was through the siege that the fortress was captured.

The point is that there is not enough water in the fortress, and there is no way to have much in stockpiles. Combined with the constant shelling, the defenders would have been able to hold out for a few months at most. Even if you are fully prepared and persist for half a year, you can only hope for a miracle.

It was this that after the siege of the fortress by the army, the navy took a new action.

Since 23 November, the Navy has sent dozens of minesweepers into the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to clear mines laid by the Royal Navy in Buran.

By the last day of November, a safe passage had been cleared for the fleet to pass through.

It was precisely for this reason that on the evening of the same day, the 11 th Task Force was the first to enter the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the assault formation headed by the "South Zhuhai" took the lead and rushed to the front.