In the following days, Bai Zhizhan, accompanied by Du Kang, went around several front-line bases and basically grasped the situation of the front-line troops.

Relatively speaking, the officers and men of the unit are in good condition.

In Du Kang's words, the southern toe area was quickly swept away, and the Daiman Kingdom also changed its mind, opening its borders to the imperial army and providing military bases, and the second half of the combat operations became "battlefield tourism", and most of the combat troops recovered from the initial fierce fighting.

In order to boost morale, the army also arranged for the main force to rotate to the cities of the Daiman Kingdom to rest.

As for land aviation, it is even more like a fish in water.

In order to make it easier for officers and men to go to the tourist resorts of the Daiman Kingdom for vacation, the Army Airlines specially arranged for several transport planes to open up military flights nicknamed "War Zone Express." Before the arrival of the White Stop, the law enforcement forces of the Janissaries had arrived in the Kingdom of Daiman to maintain social order in the vicinity of the army station.

As Du Kang said, the biggest problem is that the infrastructure has not kept up.

Not to mention the airfields where combat planes are deployed, even the barracks are seriously insufficient, so that the army has to spend a lot of money to rent houses in civilian areas for officers and men to live temporarily.

When it comes to combat operations, the Navy has the primary responsibility.

For the time being, the Army remained at the southern tip of Toe Peninsula, because it was Deman Bay to the south, and the Navy needed to send a landing fleet to send combat troops to the Malai area.

Here, Du Kang focused on the battle plan for attacking the Malai region to Bai Zhizhan.

In fact, it is also related to the Kingdom of Daiman.

According to the original plan, because there was no consideration of being able to borrow the Daiman Kingdom, there was only one way to go, and to land directly in the Malai region.

The battle was very difficult, and it was necessary to seize the forward base.

However, there are serious differences between the army and the navy on how to fight the war.

The Navy advocated seizing forward bases, such as an island to the east of the Malai area, and landing in the Malai area after the air force was deployed.

The army did not consider it necessary to go ashore directly in the northern part of the peninsula.

The reason is this: Bran's army focuses on defending Lion Springs City, and there are not many garrisons on the peninsula, so it will not be too difficult to land in the northern part of the peninsula, which is far away from Lion Spring City.

It's just that these two schemes have the same problem.

Too much time was wasted.

According to the navy's plan, even if it is not difficult to capture a desert island, the construction of airfields and wharves and the deployment of shore-based aviation forces will not be possible in half a month.

Taking the logistics into account, it would take almost a month.

The same was true for the army's plan, which would take a lot of time to march south after landing in the northern part of the peninsula because there was no road for the armoured troops to advance.

According to the most optimistic estimates, it would take twenty days to reach the southern tip of the peninsula, followed by a few more days to prepare for the assault on Lion Springs.

It is precisely because of this that the battle plan has not been decided.

If you want to save time, you have to land directly in the southern part of the Malai Peninsula.

It's just that the difficulty is very high, and the risk is not small.

It was mainly too close to Lion Springs, so it would definitely be blocked by Bran's army when it landed, and it would not even be possible to ensure the safety of the landing fleet.

In addition, the Royal Air Force of Bran has deployed more than 100 combat aircraft in Lion Springs!

Because it has to fly over the entire Daiman Bay, the combat radius is more than 1,200 kilometers, and the number of forward airfields is too small, so the ground air bombing of Lion Springs has been intermittent, and the bombing effect is not very good, so far the local Bran Royal Air Force has not lost its combat capability.

In fact, this is also related to the radar deployed locally.

According to Du Kang, the Army has been bombing the radar stations of the Royal Air Force in Bran, but it has never destroyed those air-to-air search radars.

If anything, the Royal Air Force has accumulated a lot of combat experience in the battle to defend the homeland.

In Du Kang's words, the Royal Air Force relied on advanced radar to defeat the powerful Ran Air Force in the home air defense operation.

Without radar, perhaps the Kingdom of Bran would have been defeated before the Locksa Federation rebelled.

If it is not possible to defeat the Royal Air Force of Bran in Lion Springs, then landing in the southern part of the Malai Peninsula will have to be covered by the navy.

Without cover, the landing fleet used to be tantamount to death.

In addition, the Marines also need air support once they are ashore.

All in all, the Navy has to send aircraft carriers.

This is also a problem that the army has repeatedly mentioned, and it is hoped that the navy will complete the deployment adjustment as soon as possible and send a task force to participate in the combat operation of attacking Shiquan City.

Even if the Daoman Kingdom is borrowed, the navy still has to be strong.

According to Du Kang's introduction, the number one task of the army during this period was actually to carry out strategic deception, to make the enemy believe that the imperial army would start from the southern region of the Daiman Kingdom, such as Songkhla in the middle of the Malai Peninsula, and deploy aviation here to block the throat strait on the west side of the peninsula.

Of course, it also used it as a springboard to attack Lion Spring City.

To put it simply, it is to skip the Malai area, and after blocking the throat strait, directly attack Shiquan City.

The biggest advantage of this move is to avoid ground combat and save time on the ground.

To this end, the army has sent an engineering unit to Songkhla.

After the infrastructure is completed, the army will deploy an airborne unit in Songkhla, and the posture will be prepared to carry out airborne operations in Shiquan City.

If the Royal Bran Air Force can be defeated and air supremacy can be seized, airborne operations are not impossible.

Of course, it must be carried out in conjunction with the amphibious landing.

For this reason, it is still necessary for the navy to send a task force over, and it is also necessary to assemble a landing fleet in the southern part of Yanhai and make preparations for launching an amphibious landing.

In all operational plans, amphibious landings are the absolute main force, while other means, such as airborne and bombing, are only auxiliary.

The reason is that only through an amphibious landing can heavy equipment be sent to the battlefield, and it will be possible to take down the city of Lion Springs, which is guarded by more than 200,000 Bran soldiers.

Without heavy equipment, let the infantry storm?

Even if the commander's head was caught in the door, he would not do such a stupid thing.

The battle against the Imperial Kingdom of Narrows on the Icestorm Peninsula has long proven that if a city must be attacked, it must be equipped with sufficient heavy equipment for the attacking troops. Especially tanks.

Overall, after being able to take advantage of the Daiman Kingdom, there are more options for attacking Lion's Springs.

How to fight in the end has to be decided by the top.

Bai Zhizhan knew very well that the plan proposed in the end was actually the most feasible.

The key is to be able to use the air force deployed in Songkhla to blockade the Throat Strait.

If time is sufficient, a continued strategic blockade can crush the defenders of Lion Springs.

Unfortunately, not only was there not enough time, but it was also very tight.

As for dispatching airborne troops, it can be regarded as a means that can be used, but it is only a means, and at most it can play a certain role in the combat operation of landing in Shiquan City.

Fundamentally, the navy still has to fight the main force.

It was also reflected in the battle plan, with the Marine Corps taking the lead and sending the Army to the ground after successfully seizing the beach and establishing a landing ground.

On the last day of the 100th year of the new calendar, on the eve of New Year's Day, a New Year's party was held at the Jianzhuwen Army Aviation Base, where the Imperial Army Front Command was located.

Because it was in the Daiman Kingdom, many members of the royal family were invited, as well as the generals of the Daiman royal army.

Bai Zhizhan also went, and attended the banquet as a representative of the Imperial Navy, mainly to communicate with the generals of the Daiman Navy and discuss cooperation.

In any case, the Kingdom of Daiman has become a quasi-ally of the Empire, and it must be taken more seriously.