The fleet did not go to the port of Naqiu, but went directly to the port of Puzhou, mainly 2 large aircraft carriers and 2 fast battleships needed to return to the shipyard for the necessary inspections.

It was only on the day I arrived at Puzhou Port that I received reliable news.

The fleet that had previously departed from the Kingdom of Bran and headed for the fortress of Zhira did not go south, but turned around in the Bay of Biscay and returned to the Kingdom of Bran.

After that, the Royal Navy began to lay mines in the Strait of Dover.

Strictly speaking, it is about expanding the scope of minefields and increasing the density of minefields.

Shortly after the outbreak of the war, the Royal Navy of Bran laid mines in the Strait of Dover and used mines to prevent the Men from launching a landing operation.

Of course, the effect is very good.

It's just that the minesweeping capabilities shown by the Imperial Navy must have surprised the Royal Navy of Bran, and it was enough to prove that there were not enough mines laid in the Strait of Dover before.

The point is, almost all of them are old-fashioned mines.

What happened in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Shivan Canal has long proved that the old mines produced during the last war could not be difficult for the minesweepers of the Imperial Navy.

Even if there is a certain threat, it will not deter the minesweepers.

The Naoraku Fortress is about to fall, the Raleigh fleet has entered the sunset ocean, and the Imperial Navy's task force is in the West Continent Heart Sea.

Perhaps in a few months, a campaign against Bran itself will be launched.

Not to mention how many troops would have to be invested, or the difficulty of the battle, it would be completely unimaginable to let the Entente forces cross the Dover Strait and go ashore on Bran soil.

Obviously, it was no longer the Royal Navy of Bran that could prevent the Entente forces from crossing the Dover Strait, but the mines that could prevent the Allied forces from crossing the Strait.

In addition, the fleet could no longer go to the Zhira Strait.

Those tens of thousands of mines, you have to find a place to use them!

This means that the assault on the fortress of Zhira does not need to be delayed any longer.

On this day, the well-prepared Rangman army launched an attack on Telok Fortress, and the Siban army also entered the battle.

If anything, the performance of the Span army, or at least the combat enthusiasm, far exceeded that of the Raleigh army.

The reason is this: the strategic bombardment of the Kingdom of Sban by the Kingdom of Bran and the Newland Federation has made tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the kingdom hate the same enemy.

Although the equipment was very poor, and the skills and tactics of the officers and men were not very good, the courage shown by the Span army really deserves admiration and respect.

In the vanguard, it is still the Imperial Navy's task force.

It is not that the investment of the Manman Air Force is insufficient, but that the combat efficiency of carrier-based aviation is higher.

In order to increase the sortie rate of carrier-based aircraft, Liu Xiangzhen arranged for the 32 nd Task Force to sail forward to the sea area less than 100 kilometers away from Telok Fortress, and the 31 st Task Force followed about 100 kilometers behind, so as to control the round-trip flight time of the carrier-based aircraft within one hour.

The key is also to allow carrier-based aircraft to carry out patrol missions with ammunition.

To put it simply, it is to carry bombs to patrol the sky over the battlefield, and drop bombs to launch attacks after discovering targets.

Obviously, this is something that the tactical aviation of the Manman Air Force cannot do.

Because the base is on the Balearic Islands, hundreds of kilometers away from the Zhiluo Fortress, and it is mainly a field airfield with poor conditions and poor facilities, the tactical combat planes of the Manman Air Force must drop bombs as soon as they arrive at the battlefield, otherwise they will not be able to fly back.

As for the heavy bombers with a longer range, there is a problem that the bombing accuracy is not high enough.

Telok Fortress was a narrow military fortress built on a peninsula with an area of less than one square kilometer, and there was no need for a massive bombardment.

In Li Yunxiang's words, let the heavy bombers drop bombs at high altitudes, and most of the bombs will fall into the sea.

Otherwise, the Imperial Army Expeditionary Brigade would have started long ago.

In addition, there were not many heavy bombers in the Manman Air Force.

Don't look at the Imperial Army Aviation Strategic Aviation has long proved the power of strategic bombing, and it has also proved the value of heavy bombers, and the Empire itself is a victim of strategic bombing, but until now, the Empire has not made many heavy bombers, relying more on the Imperial Army Aviation Expeditionary Group.

It's not that the Empire doesn't pay attention to strategic bombers, it's that it doesn't have that kind of capability.

The difficulty of developing a strategic bomber is not inferior to building a task force.

In addition, it is also related to the situation of the Hindan Empire.

Whether it is in the west, in the east, or even in the battlefield around the land and the sea, what the Manman army needs most is actually tactical aviation.

It was the blitzkrieg launched by the armored forces that allowed the Riman Empire to sweep across the Western Continent, withstand the crazy attack of Luo Sha's army, and expedition to the Beixuan region.

However, how many people know that the soul of blitzkrieg is not only armored forces, but also powerful air assault forces.

That's right, tactical aviation!

To put it bluntly, in the offensive of the Hindan army, the loudest was the whistling of the "Stuka".

It is precisely for this reason that the Manman Air Force has always been dominated by tactical aviation.

In a sense, tactical aviation and armored forces are two forces that complement each other in modern warfare, and neither can do without them.

Of course, the fact that the Manman Air Force did not focus on the development of strategic aviation was also related to the assistance provided by the Empire.

The electrolytic aluminum aided and sold by the empire to the Empire was not large enough to develop strategic aviation, and it was dominated by strategic aviation.

It is in this way that the Imperial Army Expeditionary Air Brigade will be expanded to its current size.

According to incomplete statistics, the Imperial Army Aviation has successively dispatched 4,500 combat aircraft to the expeditionary group, including more than 3,800 heavy bombers. So far, more than 1,800 heavy bombers are still capable of taking off and fighting in the western part of the western continent.

This scale is also the result of logistical constraints.

In order to operate on the Western Continent, the bombers of the Expeditionary Air Brigade were modified to ensure that they could use bombs produced by the Empire.

Part of the combat aircraft also received replacement of aviation machine guns.

With the opening of sea routes, the Imperial Army will inevitably deploy more heavy bombers.

Not only against the Bran Kingdom, but also against the Luosha Federation.

Of course, these are all off-topic.

Although they fought on the home turf of the Manman Army, they met in the first few days, and it was actually the Imperial Navy's task force that played the main role.

When Bai Zhizhan returned to the imperial capital, the battle over there was still going on.

According to the latest news, the Riman Empire has officially sent troops to the Kingdom of Span and launched an attack on the Zhiluo Fortress through the Kingdom of Daosban.

Obviously, this is also to avoid over-reliance on the Imperial Task Force.

After completing the initial deployment, the Mans will launch a strong attack from the north.

In order to be able to successfully take the fortress, the Manman Army also specially prepared 5 siege guns, and sent a large number of shells through the Rock Country.

It's just that the command of the Navy did not give the order for the fleet to be withdrawn.

If the Hindan army failed to capture the fortress, or if the siege guns did not work, the main guns on the battleships of the task force would have been useful.

For this purpose, the Imperial Navy also sent a batch of special artillery shells over.

What Bai Zhizhan is concerned about now is not the battle on the other side of the World Island.

The moment he returned to the imperial capital, to be precise, on the way to leave the airport and take the car home, Bai Zhizhan clearly felt that the atmosphere in the imperial capital was a little weird.

If nothing else, there are far fewer pedestrians and vehicles on the streets than usual.

This is obviously not normal!