Chapter 597: The Value of Allies

If anything, whether or not the Nuland Federation can be completely defeated has always been the main disagreement at the top of the empire on the question of "whether it can achieve a complete victory".

This problem is also the main cause of contradictions within the empire.

As mentioned earlier, it will be too difficult to defeat the Nuland Federation completely.

Before the outbreak of the Great War, especially after the arrival of the Great Depression, the top of the empire organized the army and navy to conduct strategic-level war games every year, in fact, they wanted to find a foolproof strategy, relying on limited investment, to completely defeat the Nuland Federation in a limited time.

Although the results of the deductions were inseparable, they had a huge and decisive impact on the overall strategy of the empire.

The most representative is that the top management of the empire has strengthened its contacts with the Rimman Empire, and once again regards the Rimman Empire as an indispensable ally.

The reason is also very simple, in the case of fighting alone, even if the empire can achieve the final victory, or even annex the Newland Federation through military occupation, it will pay an extremely heavy price, which is completely more than worth the loss, and thus lose the opportunity to dominate the world.

In one instance, the empire even broke out into civil strife due to the military occupation of the Newland Federation, which eventually fell apart in a large-scale civil war.

Although it is just a deduction, it is by no means alarmist.

At a huge cost, it is pointless to fight a war even if it is won, let alone a war with benefits to be gained, and the military and people of the empire will definitely not agree.

Obviously, with allies, it's different.

More importantly, if you can attack from two or even three directions at the same time, it will be much easier to attack Nuland proper.

By deduction, in some cases, it was even possible to force the Nuland Federation to surrender unconditionally.

It's just that, no matter how you fight, the key is in the Manman Empire.

Looking at the world, if you can cooperate with the Liang Xia Empire, and the strength is strong enough, only the Riman Empire remains.

In addition, after the Empire gains hegemony in the Western Continent, it can also set off from the east coast of the Sunset Ocean, using the Bran Kingdom and Snow Island, as well as other islands as a springboard to enter the isolated continent and attack the east coast of the Nuland Federation, such as carrying out large-scale strategic bombing.

As for the number of troops, it is obviously not too much of a problem.

With the strength of the Manman Empire, after sweeping the Western Continent and defeating powerful enemies such as the Locke Republic, the Luosha Federation and the Bran Kingdom, it is fully capable of mobilizing about 10 million troops to attack the Nuland Federation. If the client states such as the Raleigh Kingdom and the Spann Kingdom are sufficiently powerful, even if they are only responsible for logistics, they can allow the Empire to devote more troops to frontal attacks.

As for what the Empire lacked, such as warships and freighters to send troops and supplies, the Liangxia Empire was able to provide them.

In addition, after defeating the Bran Kingdom, not only can you control the shipyards of the Bran Kingdom, but you can also capture the fleet of the Bran Kingdom in the future.

In this way, the Empire may be able to stand on its own.

In addition, the influence of the Rimman Empire in the Isolated Continent region is also very valuable.

The Empire had maintained good relations with Mexico, south of the Nuland Confederacy, and might be able to persuade Mexico to enter the war.

To say, among the Latin-speaking Western countries, the influence of the Empire far exceeded that of the Liangxia Empire, and it had irreplaceable value.

Until now, it is almost all the credit of the Riman Empire to let the Raleigh Kingdom and the Republic of There and other countries that are not too weak participate in the war.

If Mexico can enter the war, it will be equivalent to opening a third front against the Nuland Federation.

Crucially, Mexico was also a two-ocean country, so Imperial troops could land on the west coast of Mexico and avoid storming Nuland proper.

If you can go ashore in Mexico and then go north to attack Nuland proper, the battle will be much easier.

And, of course, Mexico's ports and airports.

All in all, if you can really convince Mexico, it must be the Empire of Man, not the Liangxia Empire.

In addition, the Kingdom of Span still has some influence in the Southern Lonely Continent, at least to be able to provide some help.

For example, the island of Cuba, also south of Nuland, across the sea from the Florida peninsula, speaks the Spann language, even if it is no longer a colony of the Kingdom of Spane.

In fact, even in the Newland Federation, especially in the southern region, there are many immigrants from the southern continent.

Those who persuaded the Kingdom of Span to enter the war and play an active role in the war against the Lonely Continent also had to rely on the Empire.

It is precisely because of this that the Empire has always maintained good relations with the Empire, and has once again allied itself with the Empire.

In addition, the strategies implemented by the empire before this, such as marching into Luxinhai by storming the Kibu fortress after stabilizing the war situation in the Guia Ocean, and sending an expeditionary aviation brigade to fight in the Empire under great pressure after the war, and unconditionally providing assistance to the Empire, etc., are all related to strategic purposes without exception, so that the Empire can do more in the direction of the sunset ocean.

To put it another way, it's also serving itself.

Interestingly, before the outbreak of the Great War, or more precisely in the years after the end of the last Great War, there was no thought of the entire empire trying to form an alliance with the Empire again.

According to the view at the time, the main reason for the defeat of the Entente in the last great war was because the Empire did the wrong thing at the wrong time.

One of the most serious mistakes was to make the Nuland Federation abandon its neutrality and enter the war as a member of the Alliance.

In the words of the time, if the Nuland Federation had entered the war a few months later, the Entente would have been able to defeat the Locke Empire and the Locke Republic and win a complete victory.

Of course, these are all afterthoughts.

In this situation, the greater the threat posed by the Empire to the Newland Federation on the setting ocean, the less resistance the empire will encounter in the Guia Ocean.

In fact, the impact has already been felt.

In order to support the Bran Kingdom and weaken the Bran Empire, the Newland Federation sent a large number of pilots to the Bran Kingdom in a voluntary way before entering the war, and then exported thousands of combat aircraft to the Bran Kingdom under the banner of Lend-Lease, with more than 4,000 heavy bombers alone, and also assisted a large number of materials mainly used to make combat aircraft, including electrolytic aluminum, which is regarded as a strategic material.

If it weren't for the Nuland Federation, the Kingdom of Bran would have been killed by the Empire.

But the problem is that it is the continuous blood transfusion of the Bran Kingdom, coupled with the later Luosha Federation, that makes it impossible for the Nuland Federation to invest enough strength in other directions.

The most typical, that is, strategic bombing.

To put it bluntly, if it had not been for the deployment of thousands of bombers to the Kingdom of Bran, and the loss of thousands of bombers in the strategic bombing of the Empire, but for the deployment of these bombers in Austria, or in other directions, such as the Imperial Kingdom of Narrowness before the surrender, the situation of the war would certainly not be the way it is now.

Bombers were used to lay mines in the Shiquan Strait a year in advance, and even if the strait could not be completely blocked, it would definitely be able to paralyze the strait, allowing the Imperial Navy to spend more time capturing Shiquan City, and then it would have to postpone the attack on the transit island, or temporarily abandon the plan to march into Posha Bay.

All this illustrates the importance of the Empire.

However, it does not mean that with the support of the Empire, the final victory will be achieved.

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