Shortly after dawn, while having breakfast, the Shiquan City Garrison Headquarters sent a final report.

The speedboats and patrol planes that flew out at night have found the wreckage of the Newland bomber, captured more than a dozen pilots, and learned that these pilots are indeed from Austria, flying B-17 bombers, and carrying out the mission of going to the Shiquan Strait to drop mines.

In addition, stationed in the Ojau was a bomber wing.

According to the wartime establishment system of the Newland Army Air Force, the wing is the highest level combat unit, and below it is the detachment, brigade and squadron, as well as the tactical level of the squad, if necessary, the detachment can also be set up on top of the detachment, so the actual strength of a wing is usually between 500 and 1,000 aircraft.

Of course, there are definitely exceptions.

For example, the Expeditionary Air Wing sent to the Kingdom of Bran has more than 2,500 bombers!

According to this speculation, there must be more than 300 heavy bombers near Darwin, at least 500, and possibly even 1,000.

According to the judgment of the sixth game, if the Nuland authorities try to use airdrop mines to block the Shiquan Strait and force the empire to send troops to attack Ozhou, they will deploy enough bombers.

How much is enough depends on the minelaying efficiency of the bomber.

The B-17 can airdrop 2 mines at a time, and counting the combat losses, in order for the minelaying to play a role, that is, to achieve a sufficiently high minelaying density, the deployed bombers cannot be less than 1,000 aircraft. If you take into account the sortie rate of bombers, at least hundreds more will have to be added.

This means that the Nuland army will definitely continue to send bombers to the city of Lion Springs to lay mines.

"What do you think about this?"

"Do you still need to ask?"

Liu Changxun smiled bitterly and sighed, but didn't answer.

"The Nuland Navy has made so many famous achievements, without exception, to force us to attack Austria and strive to gain more than 2 years of respite."

Bai Zhizhan knew that Liu Changxun was pretending to be confused, but this was also his style.

"That's true, but no one can turn a blind eye to what is said outside."

Bai Zhizhan sighed and said, "Especially with the current situation, if the Shiquan Strait is threatened with being unnavigable due to mines, even if Shousuke is unwilling to compromise, we must consider taking the necessary actions to ensure that the route to the Fanyan Ocean is unimpeded. ”

"Li Yunxiang should still be in Sri Lanka."

Hearing Liu Changxun say this, Bai Zhizhan's brows quickly jumped a few times.

Obviously, Liu Changxun is still sophisticated.

If Li Yunxiang can be persuaded to deploy long-range bombers in the southeastern region near Austria and contain the mine-laying operations of the Nuland army through bombing, it will be possible to eliminate, or at least reduce the risk of the Shiquan Strait being blockaded by mines, so as to avoid sending troops to attack Austria at this critical juncture.

"That's just one of them."

"Don't worry, I'll make the relevant arrangements." Liu Changxun said very cheerfully.

Liu Changxun said so, Bai Zhizhan didn't say much.

What the Navy can do at present is to deploy more minesweepers to ensure that the main shipping lanes are unimpeded and to avoid and reduce unnecessary losses.

In addition, there is a need to deploy more night fighters and, if necessary, to form their own night units.

Compared with passive defense, arranging night fighters to intercept mine-laying bombers is the most effective means of defense.

Thankfully, none of this is a problem.

Bai Zhizhan did not delay, and left the imperial capital by transport plane in the evening.

After sending Bai Zhizhan away, Liu Changxun was not idle, and after the secretary sorted out the information received, he went to the Shoufu Mansion overnight.

The fact that the transport ship struck a mine and sank in the Shiquan Strait certainly cannot be concealed, and there is no need to conceal it.

In fact, when he sent a secretary to the airport to pick up Bai Zhizhan back, Liu Changxun had already called Xue Yuanzheng and reported the relevant situation.

"I've already asked Bai Zhizhan to find Li Yunxiang."

"This matter is not simple!"

After finishing speaking, Xue Yuanzheng sighed heavily.

Liu Changxun also sighed, but didn't answer.

"We have just solved the problem of strategic direction, stabilized the army by attacking the Boi country, and assigned enough tasks to the navy, and the situation will not be one-sided for the time being. Unexpectedly, before this could be relieved, the Nuland army came to our soft underbelly. ”

"Maybe it's a coincidence." Xue Yuanzheng said so much, Liu Changxun was not good to continue to remain silent.

"You believe in coincidences?"

Liu Changxun was speechless, but he didn't argue with Xue Yuanzheng.

"If it's really a coincidence, it's great. My fear is that this is not a coincidence, but something to do with something within us. ”

"Shoufu ......"

"I don't want to admit it, but we have to face the dilemma and be brave enough to admit and accept the reality."

Liu Changxun hesitated for a moment before he said, "Even if we believe that this is true, there is no way to prove it, let alone find evidence." ”

"Either way, this matter must be investigated."

"The current situation ......"

When Xue Yuanzheng's gaze turned, Liu Changxun closed his mouth in amusement.

Actually, before coming over, Liu Changxun had already thought of it. At this time, the Nuland army deployed bombers to Austria, and also sent bombers to carry out mine-laying missions, trying to blockade the Shiquan Strait with mines.

To put it simply, there are traitors within the empire.

It was because of such worries that Liu Changxun came to the Shoufu Mansion overnight to find Xue Yuanzheng.

Obviously, Xue Yuanzheng had similar suspicions.

If anything, it is actually the appeasers who are playing tricks.

Fundamentally, there is only one point.

If the Imperial Navy had to send troops to attack the Oja, then after the war on the Great Land, that is, after defeating the Locksha Federation, it would be possible to force the Nuland Federation to surrender. At that time, the Nuland Federation will most likely propose to exchange Austria and the Southwestern Guia for peace.

In this situation, even if Xue Yuanzheng insisted, he might not be able to continue the war.

Don't forget, even in the era of Emperor Shiwu and Chen Bingxun, the highest goal of the empire was only to attack and occupy the continent of Austria.

If you can take the continent without blood and rule half the world, why do you want to fight?

Such a great achievement, even if it has not surpassed the Emperor Shiwu, it is not much different.

As I said before, this is only a temporary victory, and the flames of war will not be extinguished, but will be suppressed and re-ignited in twenty or thirty years.

So, in 20 or 30 years, will the Empire be able to triumph again?

If nothing else, the plans drawn up before the war were aimed at completely defeating the allied blocs of the Western powers and achieving a complete victory in the war.

Giving up halfway is definitely not Xue Yuanzheng's style.

To avoid half-asses, you first need to eliminate insider threats.

In a sense, the only thing that can bring down an empire is internal hidden dangers.

"You go back and arrange this. I personally approached Peng Huaisheng and used the army's combat operations as bait. Once the evidence is obtained, it will be searched again. ”

"What do you need us to do?" Liu Changxun stood up, knowing that Xue Yuanzheng said these words, indicating that the conversation was over.

"Whatever happens, we must ensure that the advance to Posha Bay and the assault on the Kib fortress proceed as planned, and there must be no delay."

"Okay, I'll go back and arrange it right away."