This intelligence played a decisive role.
As early as October, when Bai Zhizhan proposed using the Saiyi Imperial Kingdom's surrender ceremony to lure the Newland Navy into action, he mentioned that the target was not the Empire's warships, but the personnel attending the surrender ceremony; therefore, there was no need for the fleet to approach Saiyi's mainland too closely. If medium bombers were loaded, the Newland Fleet could launch an attack from more than 1,000 kilometers away.
To prove this hypothesis, the Empire's Navy conducted specific tests, with significant assistance from the Sixth Bureau.
The first was to demonstrate that twin-engine medium bombers could take off from carriers under certain conditions, though they could not land on them.
On the last day of October, the Empire's Navy conducted a takeoff test on the "Peijing" using a Type 96 land attack aircraft provided by the West Saiyi Regime.
