By 25 July, the fears of a white cease-war had become a reality.

If the two fleet aircraft carriers sail at cruising speed, they will be able to reach the Wangxi Canal by July 24 at the latest, and the Sixth Bureau has already made arrangements.

However, no information had been received until the 25th.

In addition, the three ocean-going submarines sent by the Navy to the Wangxi Canal did not send a telegram indicating that the Nuland aircraft carrier coming from the canal had not been found.

2 fleet aircraft carriers did not go to the Wangyu Canal, where else can they go?

On the same day, Bai Zhizhan sent a telegram to Liu Changxun, hoping that Liu Changxun would personally come forward and let the 11th Task Force stay within the cover of shore-based aviation as much as possible.

If you can, it would be advisable to postpone the march to Posha Bay for the time being.

All in all, don't be careless.

Fortunately, there was still plenty of time to complete the deployment adjustments.

Extrapolating from the time when the Nuland aircraft carrier departed from the port, even if it sailed at full speed in the past few days, it would not be able to bypass the Xuan Continent and reach the northwest sea of the Fanyan Ocean until around August 10.

As for taking the land-centered sea route, the possibility is not very high.

The Terman army had already captured Malta and had also seized air supremacy, the Raleigh navy had become more active, and the Nuland fleet could not pass through Lu Xinhai without being detected.

As long as it is discovered, it will lose the suddenness of the battle, and don't think about sneaking up on the 11th Task Force. 、

If you don't do it well, you may be attacked by the 11th Task Force.

In fact, what really needs to be guarded against is the destruction of the combined fleet.

Prior to this, the Sixth Bureau had provided a great deal of information indicating that the fleet was still active in the Fanyan Ocean and had sunk several submarines of the Imperial Navy.

On 21 July, a convoy bound for Sri Lanka was also bombed.

As for the reconnaissance planes and patrol planes operating in the North Fanyan Ocean, they suffered even heavier losses, with more than 40 of them missing in the course of their missions alone.

Affected by this, the Imperial Navy also made adjustments, using long-range fighters to carry out patrol missions, and it was composed of 2 fighters to form a patrol formation. Even if the performance of a long-range fighter is not good, it may not be an opponent of a carrier-based fighter, and there is enough time to send a message.

This set of tactics had an immediate effect.

Although long-range fighters were shot down every day, the Nuland fleet avoided several hundred kilometers south under the threat of shore-based aviation.

It is undeniable that the threat of the Nuland fleet remains.

The Broken Fleet did not go north again, in fact, the Imperial Navy did not send any more transport fleets to Sri Lanka and Gwadar, and there were no targets worth attacking in the Northern Fanyan Ocean.

If anything, because of the presence of this broken fleet, the advance of the Imperial Navy into Posha Bay has been postponed several times.

A large number of transport ships gathered in Lion Springs, because the Imperial Navy was temporarily unable to send warships to escort the escort, and the escort fleet could not cope with the bombardment of enemy aircraft, so it was unable to send combat troops and equipment to Gwadar, so it had to constantly postpone the launch of the attack.

For this reason, Liu Changxun has clearly told Bai to stop fighting.

The Empire's top brass had already begun to consider whether to send a task force to take out the broken fleet.

In any case, it can't be dragged on like this.

However, on July 29, a war report from afar immediately made all the analysis and speculation made before the war in vain.

On the afternoon of July 28 local time, Malta was bombed!

In fact, long before that, on July 26, there was a lot of intelligence that the Royal Navy of Bran sent 2 fleet aircraft carriers to Lu Xinhai.

Presumably, the Royal Navy of Bran was preparing to storm Malta.

The reason is also very simple, if Malta cannot be taken, then Bran's army will not be able to hold the Shivan Canal in any case.

In addition to aircraft carriers, the Royal Navy also mobilized 2 fast battleships, 2 treaty battleships and at least 4 old battleships, and assembled 2 marine divisions at Zhira Fortress, arranged dozens of transport ships, and prepared enough ammunition and supplies.

At the time, White did not think it had anything to do with the Nuland Navy.

However, according to the information sent by the Hindan Empire, at least 200 enemy planes flew over Malta in two successive waves of bombardment in the afternoon.

Obviously, this is much more than the number of aircraft carried by 2 Bran aircraft carriers.

In addition, the escort, that is, the one who went out to seize air supremacy, was a new type of fighter that had never been encountered before.

According to the message sent by the Hindman army, it is likely to be F6F.

Obviously, these fighters certainly belonged to the Nuland Navy.

The F6F is still in the trial production stage, the production is very small, and the Nuland Navy itself is not enough, and it is simply impossible to provide large-scale assistance to the Royal Navy of Bran.

In addition, the "Sea Fire" of the Royal Navy of Bran is about to be mass-produced, and its performance is not much worse than that of the F6F.

The key is the number of enemy aircraft.

There is enough reason to believe that the 2 fleet aircraft carriers of the Nuland Navy are in the heart of the land, and perhaps that small aircraft carrier is also included.

Actually, it's not hard to understand.

Only by recapturing Malta and controlling the sea power of Luxinhai and suppressing the Raleigh Kingdom and the Empire of Ranman can the value of the combined fleet be maximized.

To put it simply, it was actually to force the Liang Xia Empire to shift its focus to the west.

Three days later, on 31 July, Bran's army launched a landing operation.

Because of the loss of air supremacy, the Raleigh Navy relapsed into its old problems, withdrew its precious fleet, and refused to provide cover for the Maltese army.

For this reason, the Empire had to temporarily suspend its offensive operations in the Beixuan region, or more precisely, to temporarily suspend preparations for the attack on the Xifan Canal.

All of a sudden, Malta was once again a strategic point of contention.

It was also on this day that the expeditionary group of the Imperial Army Air Corps confirmed that there were indeed four fleet aircraft carriers northwest of Malta, and preliminarily judged that they were the "Ark Royal" and "Fury", "Endeavour" and "Lek", in addition to several capital ships.

Because it was not able to approach the reconnaissance and was intercepted 20 kilometers away, the reconnaissance report provided by the expeditionary team was also very uncertain.

In other words, the possibility of the Royal Navy of Bran performing strike missions with escort carriers cannot be ruled out.

As for those F6Fs, perhaps from the expeditionary forces of the Nuland Navy.

By 1 August, the landing force of the Royal Navy of Bran had established itself on the beaches of Malta.

At this point, the White Stop War had to admire the commander-in-chief of the Nuland Navy.

In such an unfavorable situation, he can still play tricks, and have the courage to fight guerrilla warfare, avoiding a battle to the death with the Imperial fleet on the frontal battlefield.

This kind of courage is by no means possessed by anyone.

Of course, this also proves from one side that the Nuland Federation is indeed a powerful opponent worthy of attention and needs to use all its abilities to defeat!

In addition, it is the Raleigh Kingdom that is too nested.

In the past few months, the Raleigh Kingdom had not expanded its military base in Sicily, even if it was a good thing to build a few more airports.

It's a pity that the Raleigh Kingdom didn't do anything.

Otherwise, the Hindan army would not have been so passive.

Just, what can it be?

On the evening of 1 August, Liu Changxun sent a telegram urging Bai to seriously consider whether it was necessary to make timely adjustments to the combat operations of attacking the transit island.

The implication is that it's not too late to pivot.

But did you just give up?