If you just send Bai Zhizhan to the airport, just send a driver over, and you don't need to let Zheng Jiangming make a special trip.

Not to mention, Zheng Jiangming is now a busy man, and he is also a big celebrity in the Navy Command.

Last month, before the attack on the island, Zheng Jiangming issued a warning that the Nuland Federation might have sent heavy troops to defend the island, and suggested that the naval command reformulate the battle plan and at least immediately increase the number of troops to the front line, such as sending the Marine Division as a reserve in advance.

At that time, there was indeed 1 Marine Division on standby in the Volcanic Islands.

It's just that instead of acting as a reserve, it is preparing to attack the pipeline after the occupation of the island, that is, to act as a reserve for the combat operation of attacking the island.

At the time of the development of the plan, no one thought of using a marine division to occupy the island.

As a result, the 6th Marine Division, which was sent at that time, was tasked with two tasks. The first mission, the attack on the island, is actually a secondary mission. It is precisely because of this that when they landed on the island, the first batch of troops to land was a regiment, and it was a regular infantry regiment.

As for the rest of the division, half remained on standby in the Volcanic Islands.

Even another infantry regiment that followed the landing fleet remained on the landing ship to ensure that it could immediately attack the island when the opportunity arose.

Anyway, no one felt the need to commit more landing troops.

When Zheng Jiangming issued the warning, Liu Changxun was still in Daban, Bai Zhizhan was in the 41st task force, and even Li Yunxiang went to the Imperial State.

At that time, it was Gui Boyong who was in charge of the Navy Command.

Of course, it is only temporary.

Although he knew that Zheng Jiangming was Bai Zhizhan's sworn friend and an intelligence officer sent by the Sixth Bureau, Gui Boyong did not give Bai Zhizhan face on the issue of whether to increase troops on the island, or did not adopt his opinion because Zheng Jiangming was Bai Zhizhan's sworn friend.

In fact, this is also related to the fact that Gui Boyong does not have the right to transfer troops.

To adjust the battle plan and increase troops to the front line, Liu Changxun must give an order, and what Gui Boyong can do is actually send a telegram to Liu Changxun and ask Liu Changxun to return to the imperial capital in advance.

Herein lies the problem.

If Zheng Jiangming's warning is accurate, it is nothing.

But the problem is that if it turns out to be a false alarm, then it is not only Zheng Jiangming who needs to be held responsible, but also Gui Boyong, who is the temporary director.

Liu Changxun will definitely not embarrass Zheng Jiangming, after all, Zheng Jiangming is doing his duty.

But for the chief of staff of the Navy, it is not so easy to shirk responsibility.

Screening and selecting the best of the staff officers' suggestions and whether or not it is necessary to adopt the suggestions put forward by the staff officers is itself a command decision.

Even if the command decision is wrong, what qualifications do you have to be the chief of staff?

As a result, Zheng Jiangming repeatedly warned that Gui Boyong remained unmoved.

Later, the bloody battle on the island proved that Zheng Jiangming's warning was not groundless.

In fact, Zheng Jiangming found some clues by sorting out the movements of ground forces such as the Army and Marine Corps deployed by the Nuland Federation in the Guia Ocean in the past few months. Several units were missing, numbering about 20,000 troops, and had been to the island before they disappeared.

Later, Zheng Jiangming received a medal for his performance.

Because the enemy's troop movements were discovered in time, even if they did not help the war situation, they could be proven, so at the beginning of the month, Zheng Jiangming became the chief of intelligence of the Imperial Navy Command, promoted to the rank of naval colonel, and managed the newly established naval intelligence department.

This agency later evolved into the Naval Intelligence Directorate, which merged with Army Intelligence to become the Military Intelligence Directorate.

Of course, unlike the previous Military Intelligence Directorate, that is, the Sixth Bureau.

It is for this reason that it is customary to refer to the former Military Intelligence Directorate as the Sixth Directorate, in order to distinguish it from the new Military Intelligence Directorate established after the war.

To this end, Zheng Jiangming became one of the founders of the new Military Intelligence Bureau.

But that's all for later.

Zheng Jiangming came to send Bai to stop the war, and there was indeed something important.

An update on the news.

It has something to do with the purpose of the White Stop War, that is, the Kingdom of Bran, or the Royal Navy of Bran.

Just yesterday, the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy of Bran left Spa-Fyn, led by a handful of battle cruisers and fast battleships.

Not to come to Fanyanyang, but to deal with the "Prime Minister" of the Manman Navy.

"The Prime Minister has been dispatched?"

"Not yet, but soon. According to the information sent by the Manman Navy, the 'Prime Minister' can depart as soon as tonight. After joining up with two large cruisers, it will be killed in the North Sunset Ocean. However, its combat mission has been adjusted, and it will attack the convoy on the North Sunset Ocean. ”

Bai Zhizhan was stunned, but then he frowned.

That's right, it's to intercept the convoy sent from the Newland Federation to the Luosha Empire!

The Empire had been keeping an eye on the Bran Kingdom before, and all the submarines were sent to blockade the Bran Kingdom, and there were not many submarines operating in the direction of the North Sunset Ocean and the Ice Ocean.

Now, the number one enemy of the Manman Empire has become the Luosha Federation.

In order to encourage the Luosha Federation to launch an attack, and in order to destroy the Manman Empire as soon as possible and end the fighting on the Western Continent, the Nuland Federation mobilized dozens of freighters to form a large-scale transport fleet, ready to send a total of 1 million tons of strategic materials to the Luosha Empire.

Among them, in addition to equipment such as aero engines, there are about 50,000 tons of aluminum ingots.

This stuff is very valuable!

All of them can be used to build thousands of fighter jets.

Before the advent of better performing materials, aluminum alloys were the preferred aerospace material, mainly used to make advanced combat aircraft.

During the war, in addition to fighter jets, there were also the most advanced bombers, all of which needed electrolytic aluminum.

It is precisely for this reason that electrolytic aluminum was regarded as the most valuable strategic resource during the war, and its military value was higher than that of oil.

After the outbreak of the war, the price of aluminum ingots on the international black market skyrocketed dozens of times, and it was priceless for a long time, and money may not be able to buy it!

The key is that looking at the world, there are only two countries with sufficient electrolytic aluminum production capacity, the Liangxia Empire and the Nuland Federation.

In order to control the Luosha Federation, or to take precautions, the Liangxia Empire has been restricting the export of aluminum ingots to the Luosha Empire through unofficial means.

For most of the year, the export volume was less than 1,000 tons.

In the warehouses of the Empire, there were at least 150,000 tons of aluminum ingots, and at the beginning of the year, 15,000 tons of impermanic aid were given to the Empire.

If I want to say anything, it was the Liangxia Empire's precautions that made the leaders of the Luosha Federation suspicious and played a role in fueling the Luosha Federation's anti-water.

In any case, the Hindan Navy must hold off this convoy.

If the Locksa Federation adds a few thousand fighters, perhaps by next summer, the Empire will lose the war due to the loss of air supremacy.

As for how important air supremacy is, there is no need to elaborate at all.

It's not that it's enough to send submarines to sink a few freighters, but to prevent the fleet from reaching the ports of the Locksha Federation in the Ice Ocean.

Then, the "Prime Minister" can only be dispatched.

There is only one powerful fleet that can intercept the fleet on the stormy North Sunset.

As long as the "Prime Minister" leaves the port of Rimman and goes to the North Sunset to set the ocean, the Newland Federation will not risk sending the convoy out.

If you want to ensure that the route is unimpeded, you have to let the Royal Navy of Bran intervene.

The reason: only the battlecruisers and fast battleships of the Royal Navy of Bran could catch up with the Chancellor, whose fastest speed was close to 30 knots.