On the first day of June, Bai Zhizhan set off for Liuhuang Island to make final preparations for the attack on the transit island.

According to the arrangement, the two marine divisions that acted as the vanguard had arrived at Liuhuang Island in early May and announced to the outside world that they were preparing for the attack on Guandao.

In addition, Liuhuang Island has always been the main staging place of the landing fleet.

During the attack on Saidao, the landing ships and transport ships assembled at Liuhuang Island, and then went to Saidao under the cover of escort warships.

In the later stages of the campaign, no ship was allowed to go alone as long as it was not accompanied by an escort warship.

The reason is also simple: the Nuland submarine is too rampant.

If anything, the combat operation of attacking the transit island began in earnest at this time.

Of course, there is still about a month before the launch, and there is a precondition that the two fleet aircraft carriers of the Nuland Navy are still in the shipyard for repairs.

It was also on this day that in the Beixuan region, the Riman army also officially launched a combat operation to march into the Xifan Canal.

As promised, the Imperial Navy's 11th Task Force returned to Mua on the same day, and also sent carrier-based aircraft to bombard the Kib fortress.

As for the attack on Socotra, the opposite is not very important.

On 25 May, the Imperial Navy raided the port of Gwadar in the northern part of Mua'a and easily took control of several nearby towns and villages.

There are a few fishing villages, and the nearest city is hundreds of kilometers away.

Because there were no roads, let alone railways, this natural harbor was never developed and never taken seriously by the colonial authorities.

In addition, there is no shortage of natural harbors in the Van Roe area, and Karachi is a few hundred kilometers to the east.

Obviously, there is no need to develop two ports within a radius of several hundred kilometers.

From an economic point of view, this is a completely loss-making business.

A shrewd colonizer will certainly not trade at a loss.

If it was in its heyday, the Bran army in the Van Luo region would definitely come over, and it would be able to easily kill the landed emperor's ** team.

It's a pity that the heyday has long passed.

The Royal Navy of Bran had retreated to the Kibu Fortress and abandoned most of the Brahman Ocean, and the Bran army in the Van Roe region had lost the motivation to fight.

Not to mention taking the initiative to attack, it would be good to be able to hold the existing position.

The capture of the fishing village by the Imperial Navy was not to challenge the local tribes, let alone to take the opportunity to enter the Van Luo area, but to prepare for the march into Posha Bay.

When choosing Gwadar Port, what you value is the natural deep-water harbor.

It is also one of the few natural deep-water harbors in the northern part of Muahai.

If there were enough inhabitants nearby, such as a large river or an oasis, the port of Gwadar would have developed into a strategic location on the northern shore of the Mua Sea.

This place, what is missing is people.

Interestingly, in the Van Roe region, there is no shortage of people!

Although it cannot support fleet operations, it can provide services for transport fleets, and can also be used to deploy escort warships and patrol aircraft, becoming an important support point on the route.

In addition, ground forces can be deployed here.

If you want to storm Posha Bay and finally send troops to occupy it, you can send troops over in advance, so that you can flexibly mobilize and deploy.

All in all, it was only a matter of time before the Imperial Navy came ashore in the Van Roe area and marched to Posha Bay.

In fact, judging from the situation at that time, at least from the standpoint of the Bran Kingdom, it would definitely be worried that the Imperial Navy would attack Posha Bay in the near future.

That's right, it doesn't really matter whether you attack Socotra or not.

As long as the Imperial Navy attacked Posha Bay as planned, or assumed the posture of attacking Posha Bay, it would be able to play a better diversion role than attacking Socotra.

This move also produced an unexpected result.

On June 3, Bai Zhizhan received a telegram from the naval command.

On the day he left the imperial capital, on June 1, shortly after his departure, the ambassador of the Republic of There went to the residence of the chief assistant.

The next day, the Republic of There officially announced its membership in the Entente and declared war on all the countries of the Alliance!

Of course, the Republic of There did not enter the war for no reason, but received the huge benefits offered by the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire.

In fact, on June 1, the ambassador of the Republic of There also went to meet with the prime minister of the Empire.

According to the negotiated results, after the end of the war, both the Liangxia Empire and the Terman Empire would recognize the hegemony of the Ther Republic in their traditional sphere of influence during the imperial period, and the Ther Republic promised that the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire would exploit the oil in Posha Bay.

Of course, there is still a problem that has not been resolved, and in the area of the Eastern Continent Heart Sea, there is a clear conflict of interest between the Republic of There and the Kingdom of Raleigh.

However, this did not prevent the Republic of There from entering the war.

In any case, the Raleigh Kingdom is a second-class member, and it is impossible for the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire to be the Raleigh Kingdom and keep the traditional allies out.

Besides, what happened before seriously weakened the Raleigh Kingdom's voice in the Entente bloc.

The first benefit of the Republic of Theres entering the war was that it was easier to march into Posha Bay.

In addition, a third front was opened in the direction of the Luosha Federation.

However, the most important thing is to reconnect the Liangxia Empire with the Empire.

After marching into Posha Bay, the Liang Xia army only needed to go north to capture and control the Boi Kingdom to open up the communication line to the Republic of There, which was separated by only a few small neutral states from the Republic of There, and most of them preferred to ally with the Terman Empire.

Of course, the surrender of the Republic of There to the war was to launch an attack on the Boi State.

To be precise, the Kingdom of Bran has been supporting this puppet state to resist, suppress and weaken the influence of the Republic of There in the traditional sphere of influence, in order to achieve hegemony in the region.

The sudden declaration of war by the Republic of There was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Prior to this, there may still be a glimmer of illusion among the people of the Bran Kingdom, believing that by first defeating the Riman army in the Beixuan region and then recapturing the island of Malta, they will be able to regroup, at least be able to control Posha Bay, where they will fight to the death against the Liang Xia army from afar.

But now, with the Republic of There entering the war, there is no hope of turning defeat into victory.

The first is that the Boi State will definitely not be able to hold out and will inevitably be defeated quickly, and the only option for the Bran army deployed in the local area after losing its biggest backer is to retreat westward, that is, to the Xifan Canal to avoid being surrounded. In doing so, it is tantamount to voluntarily abandoning the oil fields in Posha Bay.

Crucially, the Bran army of the assistant Boi State was less than 5,000 people in total.

If you don't withdraw, stay and fight hard, all the heroic deaths will not change the result of the fall of Posha Bay.

Perhaps, what Bran's army can do is to blow up the oil fields before they leave, or even set them on fire, to make as many problems as possible for those who come after them.

If nothing else, it takes a lot of time to just extinguish the fires in the oil fields.

This also means that in the short term, the Imperial Navy will have to increase its investment in the direction of the Fanyan Ocean, which will inevitably have an impact on combat operations in the Guia Ocean.

At least, from the point of view of where the White War is, this is not necessarily a good thing!