Unlike in the past, the Baizhi Zhan did not stand on the "Pu", but used the "Qinling" as the flagship.

In fact, this is giving Li Mingbo face.

Although the officers and soldiers of the 21st Special Fleet knew who Li Mingbo was, everyone treated him as the chief of staff, and few people thought he was the commander.

If Bai Zhizhan still stays on the "Pu", it will be very embarrassing.

In the eyes of many veterans, Bai Zhizhan is their commander, and only Bai Zhizhan is qualified to serve as their commander.

If you want to say it, the current team of the 21st Special Mixed Fleet is Bai Zhizhan's direct line.

Many officers, especially middle and senior officers of the captain level, have given up their promotion opportunities many times in order to be able to follow Bai Zhizhan.

Bai Zhizhan stayed on the "Pu" number, which would only make Li Mingbo's title of commander a decoration.

Of course, the space on the Qinling Mountains is more spacious and is more suitable for serving as a fleet flagship.

The most important thing is that there is basically no secret to this combat operation, it must be a tough battle, and the requirements for confidentiality are not too high.

This is the inevitable result of delays for several months.

The Imperial Navy made great preparations. Not to mention Niz and Sp, even idiots could think that the next one was attacked was the Hovay Islands.

However, the delayed months have not been wasted.

During this period, Bai Zhizhan summoned the guards, Li Jie and Jin Hong and other special mixed fleet commanders, as well as Zhou Yongtao and other young and promising staff officers, to repeatedly negotiate on the attack on the Hovayi Islands, and formulated a complete set of combat plans, to be precise, several sets of combat plans.

All of these combat plans focus on the situation of "strong attack".

Of course, how to attack is art.

When he started to formulate a combat plan, Bai Zhizhan discovered that the difficulty of attacking the Hovayi Islands was actually not as high as expected.

This is the credit of the Guards and understanding, especially the Guards.

When Bai Zhizhan led the fleet to expedition to Lu Xinhai, the Guards and Li Jie did not take a break, seized the limited time and worked hard on the transfer island.

At that time, the guards proposed to attack Laisan Island and Gardner Island.

If you want to say it, this is also the key to Bai Zhizhan's preference for the Guards.

This guy never misses the opportunity to make achievements. As long as he arrives on the battlefield, he will be very active.

In Liu Changxun's words, it is simply a hunting dog released.

After gaining a foothold in the transit island, the first thing the guards did was to mobilize the Marines and attack Laisan Island and Gardner Island in the east before the Newland army made adjustments.

This operation fully reflects the command style of the Guards.

Simply put, there are always fines.

Before launching the attack, the guards arranged a task for the Marines who were fighting hard on the transit island at that time. They used patrol aircraft to transport a reconnaissance team to Laisan and Gardner Island at night to figure out the situation on the two islands and determine whether they could capture the two islands through raids.

It was this arrangement that made the guards discover that the two islands had not many garrison troops and their combat power was extremely weak.

The key point is that the Newland army only uses these two islands to support the forces operating at night, and has not thought about deploying defensive forces on these two islands.

At that time, the Newland army's defense focus was on the transfer island, and believed that even if they could not defend the transfer island, they could not defend the small island to the east.

The Newland Navy has been defeated and its delivery capability has been greatly reduced. The Newland Army can only give up the secondary islands and concentrate its forces to guard the large island in the east.

It was precisely this that the guards decided to raid Laisan and Gardner Islands.

In order to seize the opportunity, before obtaining permission from the Navy Command, he issued an order to the Marine Corps as the former commander-in-chief.

This style was obviously learned from Bai Zhizhan.

Of course, his decision was fully supported by Li Jie.

That's why in the direction of the Hovay Islands, the Imperial Navy has three footholds and has built three large forward bases.

In the next few months, the Imperial Navy and the Army Airlines deployed nearly a thousand combat aircraft here.

Usually, long-range fighters arranged by the Navy's shore-based aviation are deployed on Laisan Island, while heavy bombers of the STA are deployed on the transit island, and further west Gardner Island is deployed as a batch of fighters and serve as backup landing sites for other aircraft.

The strategic bombing that lasted for several months had greatly weakened the Newland army's defense deployment on the eastern islands.

According to statistics from the Imperial Navy, from October 102 to March 103 in the total of 6 months, the air force deployed on the transit islands dispatched 150,000 orders, of which more than 40,000 heavy bombs were dropped on the eastern islands of the archipelago.

Although the total amount of bombs is not very high, the density of bombs is amazing.

More importantly, about 60% of the bombs were dropped on Honu Island, and the centralized bombing of Zhenbao Port and several naval air stations.

The direct result of high-intensity bombing is to zero in on the investment of the Newland army in the direction of the Hovay Islands.

According to the latest reconnaissance report, the Newland Navy basically gave up Zhenbao Port. Not to mention large warships, even auxiliary ships went to Yoton Port.

In order to avoid being bombed, all Newland ships entered the port at night and used small ships to ensure that they could complete loading and unloading operations at night.

Obviously, compared with large ships, small ships are much less efficient in transport.

Because Zhenbao Port has lost its ability to be the home port of the fleet, the Newland Navy's Viagra Fleet transferred its home port to its local San Diego.

For security reasons, the Newland fleet all retreated to the waters east of the Hovay Islands.

This is also done to cover the route from the local west coast to the Hovay Islands.

In addition, this also involves the Imperial Navy's destruction of war.

After taking over the transit island, the Imperial Navy's ocean-going submarines were able to obtain supplies on the transit island, thus shortening the round-trip time by half a month.

The extra half month will allow more ocean submarines to move to the eastern waters of the Wangxi Canal.

That's why the number of submarines operating in the East Ocean increased from less than 10 to about 50.

The direct result of this is that the route from the Wangxi Canal to the Hovay Islands has become very dangerous.

In order to reduce the loss rate of ships, the Newland Navy could only allow the transport fleet to go to the local west coast first along the offshore route, and then to the Hovay Islands.

In this way, at least the cover of the shore-based aviation force can be obtained.

However, the route from Newland's native west coast to the Hovay Islands became extremely busy.

In any case, when Bai Zhizhan was preparing to launch a combat operation to attack the Hovayi Islands, what he had to face was actually a group of opponents who had long lost their fighting spirit under the bombing.

Although it is not a mob, the morale of the Newland army is definitely not as good as before.

But no one cares about underestimating the enemy.

Even if the Newland army was only one step away from being defeated, it would not be defeated.

More importantly, there are at least 1.5 million armed soldiers on the islands in the eastern Hovay Islands, of which the total strength of the combat troops exceeds 1.2 million.

This will be the most difficult landing operation that the Imperial Navy has to face since the war began.
Chapter completed!