On the first day of June, Bai Zhizhan set out to Liuhuang Island to make final preparations for attacking the Transit Island.

According to the deployment, the two Marine Divisions acting as vanguards arrived at Liuhuang Island in early May and announced that they were preparing to attack Guan Island.

In addition, Liuhuangdao has always been the main assembly place for the landing fleet.

During the attack on Seyat Island, landing ships and transport ships gathered on Liuhuang Island, and then headed to Seyat Island under the cover of escort warships.

In the late stage of the battle, no ship shall be dispatched alone as long as there is no escort warship accompanying it.

The reason is also very simple: Newland submarines are too rampant.

If you want to say, the combat operation to attack the Transit Island will officially begin from this time.

Of course, there is still about a month before starting, and there is a prerequisite that the two fleet aircraft carriers of the Newland Navy are still repaired in the shipyard.

On this day, in Beixuan area, the Tiaoman army officially launched a combat operation to march into the Xifan Canal.

According to previous promises, the 11th Special Mixed Fleet of the Imperial Navy returned to Muahai on the same day and dispatched carrier-based aircraft to bomb Kibu Fortress.

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

On May 25, the Imperial Navy raided the Port of Gwadar in the northern part of the Muahai and easily controlled several nearby villages and towns.

To be said, there are only a few fishing villages, and the nearest city is hundreds of kilometers away.

Because there are no roads, let alone railways, this natural port has never been developed and has never been valued by the colonial authorities.

Besides, the Vanluo area is not short of natural harbors, and Karachi is a few hundred kilometers east.

Obviously, there is no need to develop two ports within a range of hundreds of kilometers.

From an economic perspective, this is a loss-making transaction.

The smart colonists will definitely not trade at a loss.

If it was at its heyday, the Bran army in the Vanro area would definitely come over and could easily kill the landed imperial army.

Unfortunately, it has passed its heyday.

The Royal Bran Navy has retreated to the Kibu Fortress and has given up most of the Fanyan Ocean. The Bran army in the Fanluo area has also lost the motivation to continue to attack.

Not to mention taking the initiative to attack, it would be nice to be able to defend the existing position.

The Imperial Navy captured the fishing village, not to challenge the local tribes, nor to take the opportunity to march into the Vanluo area, but to prepare for the march into the Posar Bay.

When choosing Gwadar Port, the natural deep water harbor is the focus.

To be said, this is also one of the rare natural deep water ports in the northern Muahai region.

If there were enough residents nearby, such as a big river or an oasis, Gwadar Port might have long developed into a strategic location on the north coast of the Muahai.

What is missing in this place is people.

Interestingly, in the Vanluo area, the most in short supply is also people!

Although it cannot support fleet operations, it can provide services to the transport fleet 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 attack Poshawan and finally send troops to occupy it, you can send troops in advance so that you can flexibly mobilize and deploy.

In short, it is only a matter of time before the Imperial Navy landed in the Varo region and entered the Posa Bay.

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

That's true, it doesn't matter whether or not to attack Socotra Island.

As long as the Imperial Navy attacks Posa Bay as planned, or takes the initiative to attack Posa Bay, it can play a better role than attacking Socotra Island.

This move also produced an unexpected result.

On June 3, Bai Zhizhan received a telegram from the Navy Command.

On the day he left the capital, on June 1, to be precise, the ambassador of the Republic of Ter went to the official residence of the Chief Minister.

The next day, the Republic of Ter officially announced its joining the Allied Group and declared war on all countries in the Allied Group!

Of course, the Republic of Ter did not participate in the war for no reason, but instead obtained the huge benefits offered by the Liangxia Empire and the Tiaoman Empire.

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

According to the negotiation results, after the war ended, both the Liangxia Empire and the Torman Empire would recognize the overlord status of the Republic of Ter in the traditional sphere of influence during its empire, and the Tor Republic promised that the Liangxia Empire and the Torman Empire would mine the oil from the Posar Bay.

Of course, there is another problem that has not been resolved. In the eastern land and the heart sea area, there is a clear conflict of interest between the Republic of Ter and the Kingdom of Rale.

However, this did not prevent the Republic of Ther from participating in the war.

In any case, the Raleigh Kingdom is a second-class member, and the Liangxia Empire and the Tsuman Empire cannot block traditional allies for the Raleigh Kingdom.

Besides, what happened before seriously weakened the Kingdom of Raleigh's right to speak in the Allied Group.

The first benefit of the war between the Republic of Ter is that it reduces the difficulty of entering Posa 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 Tiaoman Empire.

After entering the Poshawan, Liang Xia's army only needed to go north to capture and control the Boyi Kingdom to open up the transportation line to the Ter Republic. From the Ter Republic to the Ter Man Empire, there were only a few neutral small countries in the middle, and most of them were inclined to form alliances with the Ter Man Empire.

Of course, the letter of surrender in the war between the Republic of Ter was to launch an attack on Boi.

To be honest, the one who brought the Republic of Ter to join the Allied Group was the Kingdom of Poe. To be precise, the Kingdom of Bran has been fighting by supporting this puppet state, suppressing and weakening the Republic of Ter in the traditional sphere of influence in order to achieve hegemony over the region.

The Republic of Ter suddenly announced its participation in the war, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Before this, there might be a trace of fantasy in the Kingdom of Bran, believing that first defeating the Great Army in the Beixuan area and then regaining the Island of Malta, it is expected to regroup, at least control the Poshawan, and fight to the death with the Liang Xia army from afar.

But now, with the participation of the Republic of Ter, the hope of turning defeat into victory no longer exists.

First of all, the Boy country will definitely not be able to hold on and will inevitably be defeated quickly. After losing its biggest backing, the only option for the Bran army deployed in the local area is to retreat westward, that is, the Xifan Canal to avoid being surrounded. Doing so is equivalent to taking the initiative to give up the oil fields in the Bossa Bay.

The key is that the Bran army of the assistant Boy country has a total of less than 5,000 people.

If you don’t retreat, stay and fight to the death, all of you will die bravely, and you will not change the consequences of the fall of Boshawan.

Perhaps what the Bran army can do is to blow up the oil field before withdrawing, or even ignite the oil field, causing trouble for the latecomers as much as possible.

Not to mention anything else, it takes a lot of time to put out the fire in the oil field.

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

At least, from the perspective of Bai Zhizhan, this may not be a good thing!
Chapter completed!