"The safest way is to return to the transit island and wait for the 61st special fleet to arrive before considering the decisive battle with the Newland fleet."

Although his eyes were always on the chart and he looked at concentration, Bai Huawei did not focus on it at all.

As for Liu Zunling's tactical analysis, he didn't listen at all.

It is easy to return, but after returning, it is not so easy to make adjustments.

The key is that no matter where you go, it takes time.

Although the fleet has strong maneuverability and was once a unique strategic assault force, its maneuverability itself is relatively relative. In the past, the advantage was definitely outstanding compared to the army, but now compared to the air force, the fleet's maneuverability is not worth mentioning at all.

The fleet sails for 1 day, and the plane only needs to fly for 1 hour!

In addition, strategic bombers have long had the ability to fly across the ocean.

As for the ability to strike, there is no need to say much.

Not long ago, the Tsuman Air Force used operations in Dongluxinhai to prove that strategic bombers have strong sea strike capabilities. Using ultra-long-range anti-ship missiles, bombers can launch attacks hundreds of kilometers away, and only 20 bombers are needed to reach the scale of saturated attacks.

Relatively speaking, the bomber's anti-ship combat efficiency ratio exceeds all naval ships.

The total value of 20 bombers, plus 120 long-range anti-ship missiles, is not as valuable as an aircraft carrier, and is even cheaper than a cruise missile submarine equipped with hundreds of missiles.

Obviously, compared with the aviation force, the fleet's speed is too slow.

That is why the commander must consider it clearly when performing large-scale maneuvers. In other words, the commander must make long-term plans for each deployment adjustment, and even without considering the impact on the final result, he must also think of the possible harm.

This is the issue that Bai Huawei considered.

The biggest benefit of taking the fleet back to the transit island is nothing more than joining the 61st Special Mixed Fleet to fight the Newland Fleet together.

However, this strictly limits the tactical flexibility of the 41st Special Mixed Fleet.

To put it bluntly, after returning to the Transit Island and joining the Sixty-first Special Fleet, Bai Huawei's only choice was to take the fleet to the Northeast Ocean to find the Newland Fleet to fight to the decisive battle.

So, is this the ideal choice?

In Bai Huawei's view, since the commander of the Newland Fleet dared to make a desperate bet and sent all five aircraft carriers to the Northeast Ocean, he would definitely be fully confident. In addition to decisively decisively, the Imperial Navy would not send a fleet to the Northeast Ocean immediately, he was also prepared to fight the Imperial Fleet in the Northeast Ocean.

In fact, from the perspective of time, it is not so appropriate to go to the Northeast Ocean to find the Newland Fleet to fight the decisive battle.

As mentioned earlier, the shore-based aviation forces in the Hovay Islands will lose their combat capabilities around October 15, and the 61st Special Mixed Fleet will not arrive on October 16.

In addition, the defenders on the transit island could only persist until October 17.

In other words, when they meet with the Sixty-first Special Fleet and enter the Northeastern Ocean together, they must face the Newland army deployed on the transit island, such as the shore-based aviation force, and they will not be able to obtain support from the Hovay Islands when fighting in the Northeastern Ocean.

Of course, don't count on the Aliu Islands.

Even if the 41st Special Mixed Fleet returns early, it can provide support to the troops guarding the transit island, so that it can last longer. However, after being attacked, even if the transit island has not fallen, it is impossible to deploy shore-based aviation troops to the transit island immediately.

It can be seen that if we really get to this point, the Imperial Navy does not have much chance of winning.

There is no doubt that the next fleet battle will determine everything.

Going desperately to fight the Newland fleet?

If you win, you will naturally be easy to say.

But if you lose, you will definitely lose the Hovayi Islands, thus losing the strategic initiative of the East Ocean.

If you want to do it, the Imperial Navy's situation is even more passive than the Newland Navy, which has already been desperate and has no way to retreat.

This is even more true for Bai Huawei.

If you do not consider the losses suffered by your personal reputation, you will actually be a more appropriate choice in front of Bai Huawei.

A war of attrition with the Newland Navy around the transit island!

To put it bluntly, after the arrival of the 61st Special Mixed Fleet, it still stays on the west side of the Transit Island, dispatches carrier-based aircraft to support the Transit Island defenders and bomb the landed Newland army. It is also necessary to maintain a sufficient distance from the Transit Island to try to avoid entering the strike range of the Newland Fleet.

As for the fleet's decisive battle, it will be at the end of the year at the earliest, and after the three super aircraft carriers that are still under maintenance return to the team.

If necessary, you can postpone it until the beginning of next year, and wait until a large number of sealed large aircraft carriers are re-entered and have an absolute advantage in military strength.

Although this style of play is ugly, it is very useful.

In less than half a year, as long as it delays for 3 months, the Newland Navy will take the initiative to withdraw before the Imperial Navy launches a counterattack.

However, this choice was unacceptable to Bai Huawei.

Although he has passed forty years and his personal abilities have been recognized, in the eyes of others, his surname is Bai and he is the son of Marshal Bai Zhizhan.

As the saying goes, a tiger father has no dog son.

Even if everyone knows that it may not take until 100 years before the coach who surpasses Bai Zhizhan will appear, but he still cannot change his expectations for Bai Huawei.

Just like, among the Imperial Navy, Bai Huawei is the strongest existence today.

There is nothing wrong with what to say.

At least in the Imperial Navy, Bai Huawei was the most prominent among the young generals, and was frequently proven during fleet confrontation exercises.

However, this cannot cover up something that made Bai Huawei feel very embarrassed.

In terms of command style, he has no similarities with his father. In many aspects, he is closer to Marshal Liu Xiangzhen, who competed with Bai Zhi Zhan at that time.

Actually, there is nothing strange about this.

Liu Xiangzhen was the principal of the Imperial Naval Academy for 30 years. It was not until Bai Zhizhan retired that he returned to the Navy Commander-in-Chief and served as the acting commander-in-chief for several months. After Li Mingbo was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Navy by the Chief Supervisor, he chose to retire like Bai Zhizhan. Bai Huawei studied at the Imperial Naval Academy during his time as the principal, so he was deeply influenced by Liu Xiangzhen in many aspects.

From another perspective, this is not really a cause for Liu Xiang.

After the end of the Second Global War, the Imperial Navy was not only the world's number one, but also dominated the global ocean, without even an enemy worth facing seriously.

The key is that the external expansion of the Imperial Navy has come to an end.

That is why the Imperial Navy's mission has changed from expansion to preserving the establishment, that is, how to protect the interests distributed around the world.

In this way, it is natural to adjust military ideas, that is, to turn from offense to defense.

To be said, the transformation of the Imperial Navy did not come quickly enough.

In the post-war era, Liu Xiangzhen, who dominated the Imperial Navy, was not Liu Xiangzhen, who was the principal of the academy, but Bai Zhizhan, who was in charge of the commander in the Navy Command.

Because of the two during the war, many people think that Liu Xiangzhen was deliberately sing a counter-tune with Bai Zhi.

As a result, his proposal became even less popular.

That is, under the promotion of the Baizhi War, the Imperial Navy maintained a positive offensive posture after the war.

The result was that the Imperial Navy actively promoted and participated in the Boei War and paid an extremely tragic price for this war that suffered a crushing defeat.

Although no one thinks that Bai Zhizhan should be responsible for the Bo-Iran War, from a strategic perspective, Bai Zhizhan is indeed the main driving force behind the Empire's participation in the war.

In the situation at that time, the reason why Bai Zhizhan did this was not only closely related to the authorities of the Republic of Ter, but also related to maintaining the dominance of the navy. At least in the years after the war, the navy's status far exceeded that of the army and the air force, and was the first branch of the empire.

To maintain this position, or to obtain enough grants, not only does it require maintaining a strong fleet, but it also needs to prove the significance of doing so.

To be more straightforward, it is necessary to prove the ability to defend the core interests of the empire.

Then, a war that is not too difficult and is almost certain to win is naturally the ideal choice.

In fact, this decision based on the interests of the military and military groups also determines that the empire will inevitably suffer a crushing defeat in the Boei War.

Not to mention anything else, at least in the early stages of the war, the Imperial Army and the Air Force were not very powerful.

From a post-event perspective, at least in the first half of the year, the Army and the Air Force were unwilling to send troops to participate in the war, but were affected by other factors and did not want to stand up and sing a counter-tune with the Navy. For example, the Air Force Commander-in-Chief Li Yunxiang is a life-and-death friend of Bai Zhizhan, and he will definitely not fight against Bai Zhizhan. The Army is unwilling to cooperate with the elected civilian chief on military issues because Lian Xusheng lost the election.

Affected by these factors, the empire missed the initial, and the most favorable half a year.

If the past six months have been made full use of the rebellion in the Boy region, at least it will be able to quell the rebellion in the Boy region and not give the Newland Republic the opportunity to do something behind their backs. As long as the situation stabilizes, in a few years, at most it will be a referendum to make the Boy region independent and establish a country. At that time, even if the Boy country still falls into the arms of the Newland Republic, it will never be as hostile to the empire as it is now.

The key is that without the crushing defeat in the Boei War, the empire's national power could last for at least 10 years.

If we push back 10 years, unless the Western Mainland Group falls apart due to the economic crisis, a three-legged situation may be formed.

In this way, at least the roughly peaceful situation can last for decades.

Of course, if the empire had not been involved in the war in the Boei region for independence from the beginning, but instead mediated and coordinated as a third party, it would also be possible to maintain the situation for a few more years, so that the Boei region would pass a referendum and decide whether to stay in the Republic of Ther.

It can be seen that there were extremely serious contradictions within the empire at that time.

As the saying goes, flies do not bite seamless eggs.

In fact, judging from some semi-official news disclosed later, the empire's policy disorder in the Boi region, to be precise, was too serious internal struggle, which allowed the Republic of Newland to take advantage of the situation and put the Boi region on the road of armed struggle by providing weapons and equipment.

At least at the beginning, the Newland authorities had no idea of ​​getting involved in the conflict in the Boy region, or had no courage to challenge the empire.

However, these are all later stories.

As for Bai Huawei, what he hates the most is that others compare him with his father, so he developed a habit.

Most of the time, he will deliberately show his own existence, or sing a contradictory tune with public opinion.

Specifically, when commanding the fleet to fight, he will be relatively low-key and will often focus on passive defense in the early stage.

But the problem is that he is fundamentally more willing to be recognized.

In this way, the situation will change, or when the time is right, you will turn passive to active, and achieve the final victory through a refreshing attack.

In any case, Bai Huawei is a person who cares a lot about face.

To put it nicely, it means having a strong sense of honor.
To be continued...