In the next few days, Bai Zhizhan, accompanied by Lian Xusheng, Li Qing and others, went around various places.

It was the experience of these few days, especially what he saw and heard, that gave Bai Zhizhan a new understanding of the army and the ground war.

To sum it up, it's just one sentence.

Conquering and capturing are two completely different things!

To say, the situation on the side of the Xia Gao Kingdom is much better, after all, before the last war, there was only one Gao Ju Kingdom on the Ice Storm Peninsula, and it was still a vassal state of the Liang Xia Empire, and the people had long recognized and accepted the identity of the Liang Xia Empire's vassal state, but they were unwilling to be ruled by the Narrow Yi Empire.

It is the same country, the Gaoju Kingdom and the Sayi Imperial Kingdom are on an equal footing, and when the Hajj is made, the envoys all stand together.

Even so, the Imperial Army still had to face and solve a variety of problems.

In many places, the occupation forces' number one task is to help the local population survive the harsh winter, which has cost a staggering amount of resources.

For example, in Tianzhou and the whole city, the Imperial Army set up dozens of ration stations to distribute relief supplies to war refugees.

To say that the resettlement of immigrants from the Imperial Empire is a great trouble.

The Imperial Army has built five resettlement camps in Gaozhou and other places, and has taken in nearly 2 million narrow immigrants, almost all of whom are old and weak, women and children, as well as many deserters and wounded. Because they were not the people of the Kingdom of Goju, they could not be resettled in the same place as they were with refugees.

These two million migrants, even by the minimum ration standard, eat about a thousand tons of flour every day!

In just over a month, 100,000 tons of food were consumed to help refugees and host migrants.

All in all, many combat units are bogged down in the tedious task of maintaining local law and order, and are simply unable to carry out combat missions.

Fortunately, there is no combat mission for the time being.

This is still in the Lower High Kingdom.

When you get to the Sagi Imperial Kingdom, there will definitely be more troubles!

In Lian Xusheng's words, it doesn't take much force to attack the Narrow Yi mainland, but the military occupation after that will definitely require a million troops.

At the beginning of the war, where did the Imperial Army go to draw a million troops?

On March 9, Bai Zhizhan arrived in Gaozhou, which was also his last stop on the Ice Storm Peninsula.

More than two months have passed, and Gaozhou has basically returned to normal.

According to Lian Xusheng's introduction, after the merger of the Shanggao Kingdom and the Xiagao Kingdom, the capital was moved, so the reconstruction of Gaozhou was put in the first place.

Historically, Gaozhou has always been the royal city of the Gaoju Kingdom, but it was occupied by the narrow army in the last war, and later became the capital of the Lower Gao Kingdom. To the north, the Shanggao Kingdom, also known as the Gaoju Kingdom, was forced to move the royal city to Dancheng. It's just that Dancheng has always been called the accompanying capital, and Gaozhou is still regarded as a royal city.

In addition, Gaozhou was also the terminus of a railway line that continued from the empire.

The railroad, built before the outbreak of the last World War with a loan from the Imperial Bank, was intended to strengthen its control over the Icestorm Peninsula. It was only after the Great War that the railway was cut off in Kaeju, north of Gaoju, that is, it lost its existing value.

After more than two months of fighting, the engineers of the Imperial Army had built the railway.

It is precisely in this way that the supplies can be sent by rail, so that millions of civilians on the Gaozhou side will not go hungry.

According to the arrangement, Bai Zhizhan will take the train back to China here, and after arriving in Dancheng, he will make a short stop to meet the king of the Gaoju Kingdom as a quasi-horse of the imperial royal family. Although there is no need to talk about anything important, it is also important to connect with the relationship on behalf of the royal family.

Unfortunately, Bai Zhizhan was unable to board the train to Dancheng.

When he arrived at the train station, a telegram arrived, and he went to the airport, where he boarded a transport plane that flew directly back to the imperial capital.

The telegram was sent from the command of the Navy.

Yesterday evening, yesterday morning of imperial time, three armored cruisers of the "Lu Zuo" class of the Yamaman Navy, accompanied by three light cruisers and a large ocean-going oil tanker, sailed out of the Kiel military port under the cover of night, and the long journey began.

Why?

According to the secret agreement reached in the caves, go to the south and set the ocean to stand by!

This means that the upper echelons of the Empire are ready to go to war, and they will declare war on the Bran Kingdom.

Similarly, the Imperial Navy had to act accordingly.

During the negotiations in the caves, Bai Zhizhan made a guarantee that he would send a few oil tankers to the Nanxi Ocean to ensure that the fleet would enter the Fanyan Ocean when necessary.

This arrangement is not a matter of fuel.

In the world, only the Liangxia Empire had enough fast tankers, many of which were built to military standards and used as fuel supply ships in wartime.

The Yama Navy simply did not have oil tankers capable of following the cruiser's movements.

What's more, the one-way voyage from the mainland of Homman to the sunset in the south is thousands of nautical miles, and it is basically impossible for the oil tankers sent out to return to the mainland of Tamman.

If there is a place to go, it is also the Liangxia Empire, so it is natural for the Liangxia Navy to arrange oil tankers.

If it's just a couple of fast tankers, it's nothing.

At any time in peacetime, there were dozens of oil tankers flying the flag of the Liangxia Empire on the Fanyan Ocean, even now.

The key is, should you arrange a battleship escort?

If necessary, how many battleships were arranged, and how large?

Moreover, who to send to command?

These must be determined in advance.

In fact, this is also the reason why Liu Changxun sent a telegram and asked Bai Zhizhan to return to the imperial capital immediately.

Maybe arranging the battleship and arranging the command staff is a simple matter, but after making the arrangement, it will definitely take time to prepare. Even if you are ready, you will set off immediately, and it will take more than ten days to sail from the port in the south of the empire mainland to the south of the sunset!

This is still an ideal situation, but there must be a lot of problems in reality.

For example, recruiting volunteers and arranging crews for oil tankers can be cumbersome.

Draw the officers and men of the fleet?

Even if the Empire was never short of seamen, there was no reason for well-trained naval officers and sailors to harness oil tankers and carry out near-hopeless death-defying operations.

If anything, the fleet officers and men of the Imperial Navy have always been insufficient.

In Puzhou and Thornzhou alone, there are four large aircraft carriers and four fast battleships that will be delivered within a few months, and tens of thousands of fleet officers and soldiers are needed!

Obviously, there is no time to lose.

The six cruisers of the Manman Navy will surely reach the South and the Evening within this month.

Unless something drastic happens, the Empire will definitely officially declare war on the Kingdom of Bran before that.

From this, April 1 should be the deadline.

Then, it is even more necessary to speed up.

When he received the telegram, Bai Zhizhan was also very emotional.

When the Empire enters the war, the war will officially escalate into a global war.

It's just that the Riman Empire entered the war a month early, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

The reason is also very simple: after the Riman Empire entered the war, it was equivalent to tearing the skin, and the Newland Federation and the Buran Kingdom could not continue to play with intrigues.

It would then be easier to convince the Army to compromise on the Narrow-minded territory.

From another point of view, the Empire sent a fleet south, intending to declare war on the Bran Kingdom in advance, which is probably more than just fulfilling the covenant.

In any case, if there is a war, there is no need to continue to fight soy sauce everywhere.