The key to this series of strategic offensive actions, and even the most important part, is to fight feints according to the main attack routines and specifications to attract the attention of the Newland Navy and create the most favorable conditions for marching into Fanyanyang. The key to this series of strategic offensive actions is that it determines the future of the empire!

The proposal was not about the war in vain, nor was it about Liu Changxun or Xue Yuanzheng, nor was it about anyone, but the result of collective efforts.

The key is: after the Luosha Federation reversed, the empire must put oil first!

Although there are several oil fields in the empire and there are also oil fields in Poluozhou in the southern part of the Yanhai Sea, the oil produced is not enough.

It’s not that the output is insufficient, but that the empire’s daily consumption is too high.

For the Liangxia Empire, which has more than 500 million people and has achieved industrialization, oil is the most important and indispensable strategic resource.

Long before the outbreak of the war, the imperial authorities organized experts in military, economic and social aspects to conduct strategic deductions around oil.

If the strictest control measures are implemented and civil consumption is minimized, how much impact will it have on industrial production and social order?

The deduction was carried out several times, but the result was without exception, which was very bad!

Although the maintenance time of strategic reserves can be increased by half a year through strengthening control, the empire's industrial output value will be reduced by at least 30% within the next two years. After ensuring heavy industry and military industry, light industry directly related to people's livelihood will be completely shut down.

The rationing system is implemented according to wartime standards, and the people can endure it for up to two years.

Two years later, even if the oil supply returns to normal, it will take a year to redevelop the light industry related to people's livelihood.

Strengthening control is a waste of one year.

In addition, it is necessary to enter a state of total war in advance and implement the rationing system in accordance with wartime standards to reduce oil consumption.

This means that the empire must achieve a comprehensive victory within five years after the war begins.

In the first three years, I was almost playing soy sauce.

Defeat all enemies in the last 2 years?

This is obviously impossible!

During the pre-war planning stage, no one below Xue Yuanzheng thought of implementing comprehensive control after cutting off import channels.

What everyone is considering is to seize and control oil production through military operations as soon as possible!

To be concerned with the difficulty, it is definitely much easier to march into Fanyan Ocean and capture the Posha Bay than to defeat the Luosha Federation and capture the Baku.

Related war games have been performed many times. Even under the most unfavorable circumstances, entering Posa Bay is the easiest victory to achieve.

There was a common strategic turning point in the strategic plan formulated before the war, namely whether the Luosha Federation joined the hostile camp.

Before this, the Imperial Navy focused on the east and tried its best to expand its strategic advantages.

After that, we have to turn to Fanyan Ocean.

The next turning point is after capturing and controlling Posa Bay.

In other words, only after a stable oil supply was obtained can the Imperial Navy return to the East and fight to the death with the Newland Navy.

There is no secret to this strategy itself, but the imperial authorities have never made a big splash.

Before the war, the imperial authorities promoted threats from the East Ocean, especially the Naoyi Empire, and rarely mentioned Fanyan Ocean.

This is also to confuse and paralyze the enemy, and the effect is pretty good.

After the war broke out, especially after the Tyman Empire joined the war, the Kingdom of Bran did not immediately go to war with the Empire, but felt that the Empire would not immediately enter Fanyan Ocean.

From another perspective, if the Kingdom of Bran went to war with the Empire in the first half of the year and cut off the route from Posa Bay to the Empire's homeland, the Empire would lose about 24 million tons of oil, which means that it would import so much less oil, which is equivalent to the consumption of three months under the control state.

Without this oil, the empire's situation will become even more embarrassing after the Luosha Federation reverses.

In the words of Bai Zhizhan, this is a trap set by the enemy, don’t get into it yourself.

Fortunately, Zhou Yongtao is not stupid.

After Bai Zhizhan pointed out, he immediately understood.

At 7:30 that night, the 41st Special Mix fleet turned to sail towards the Volcanic Islands, and before that, the telegram that had already turned was sent.

In the second half of the night, the 41st Special Mix fleet turned again and rushed to Serbia in the Norte Horse Islands.

By the early morning of the 26th, more than 100 heavy bombers deployed in the volcanic islands took the lead and the combat operation to attack Seyit Island officially began.

The 41st Special Mixed Fleet entered the battle in the morning and dispatched carrier-based aircraft to bomb the proven permanent fortifications.

Because the militarization level is not high and there are indeed not many targets worth bombing, the bombing operation ended that afternoon.

After nightfall, the fire support fleet that accompanied the landing fleet operation was actually two heavy cruisers and four light cruisers.

The shelling lasted almost all night.

To be precise, it is to suppress the Newland army on the island.

All night, seaplanes carried by cruisers wandered over the island of Serbia, dropped flares regularly, and after discovering the target, they called the warship to open fire.

After dawn, early in the morning on the 27th, the bomber group of Land Airlines visited again and dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the landing ground in the southeast of the island.

Subsequently, carrier-based aircraft from the 41st Special Mixed Fleet focused on clearing suspicious targets near the landing ground.

Finally, a round of cover shelling was carried out by the fire support fleet.

The landing operation started at 9 a.m., with a standard amphibious beach landing.

Although the Marines carried out amphibious landings in previous battles, including the capture of Ji Island, the attack on the volcanic islands, and even the capture of Changqi, the Imperial Marines did not have rich combat experience, and those battles were not very challenging.

Even the most tragic battle, attacking Liuhuangdao, is not very difficult.

At that time, after the permanent fleet commanded by Lan Yun was completely wiped out, the Nayi soldiers guarding Liuhuangdao were completely desperate and then surrendered one after another.

To be tragic, it was just a few days before that, I repeatedly fought with the defenders for the beachhead.

Before this, no one felt that attacking the island was challenging.

The information provided by the Sixth Bureau was very detailed. There were only a few thousand indigenous people on the Serbian Island. The defenders were an infantry battalion of the Serbian Army. The main task was to maintain order. After the Newland Federation joined the war, the Newland Navy sent a group of officers and soldiers to prevent the local Serbian soldiers from surrendering.

According to this intelligence, the enemy on Seyat Island is between 500 and 600.

The key point is that the defenders do not have heavy weapons, and there are not many machine guns. After all, there is no need to deal with the indigenous people and maintain public order.

According to most people's understanding, the biggest trouble after landing on the island is actually to properly settle thousands of indigenous people on the island.

These indigenous people who have not yet been civilized and still eat raw meat and drink blood have been treated as troubles by the imperial authorities.

The reason is also very simple: in order to create reasons for expansion, imperial scholars claimed that the indigenous peoples on the major islands in the East Ocean were descendants of the Empire.

In this case, we must treat it as a compatriot.

Anyway, in the past few decades, the imperial governments have not been willing to be involved in colonial operations against the indigenous peoples.

On the first day, the login operation went very smoothly.

Before noon, all the land regiments that served as the vanguard went ashore and were only symbolic resistance. Moreover, more than 100 Nayi soldiers guarding the beachhead raised the white flag after being shelled, then surrendered to the imperial soldiers, and walked out of the defensive positions one after another.
Chapter completed!