In the battle plan drafted by Ding Zhennan, the real support for a large-scale ground offensive is naval transport.
The key is that the roads and railways connecting the Empire and Bakistan have very limited transportation capacity and must also bear the responsibility of supplying the Northwest Battlefield, making it impossible to support the Southwest Battlefield. Moreover, transportation within Bakistan is hard to ensure smooth passage, making the task of transporting supplies southward quite challenging.
For this reason, on October 17, the day after returning to the front line, he went to Silan with several staff officers and found Liu Zunshan, who was preparing for the offensive operation there.
He is now a Colonel in the Marine Corps and also one of the few senior officers personally named by Ding Zhennan to stay.
