With the political system of the Empire, if you have the support of the entire cabinet, you will definitely be able to win the majority support in the Legislative Yuan of the Empire.

The reason is also simple, Reinhardt leads a coalition government of multiple parties.

Of the 27 cabinet ministers, 13 are from Reinhardt's "Democratic Revitalization Party" and the other 14 are from six political parties, which hold 78 percent of the seats in the Legislative Yuan and are sure to provide a two-thirds majority for Reinhardt's war proposal.

In fact, it only takes the support of 4 coalition parties for Reinhardt to be able to start a war.

What worries Reinhardt is not whether he can obtain a war authorization, but whether he is sure to win the war, or achieve the intended goal.

It was in this way that after sending off the cabinet ministers, Reinhardt asked the secretary to arrange for the generals of the military to come and negotiate the war.

Fundamentally, Reinhardt did not expect to win on the battlefield.

Obviously, he still has a little bit of self-knowledge.

Not to mention the Juman Empire, even if you take the entire Western Continent Group, you can't compare to the Liangxia Empire. Besides, between the Western Continent Group and the Liangxia Empire, there was a vast and almost impassable huge land. On a military level, the probability of defeating the Liangxia Empire through a ground war is almost zero.

This is definitely not to increase the prestige of the enemy.

To be said, the situation of the Liang Xia Empire in the direction of the huge land is dozens of times better than before the outbreak of the last war.

The point is to push the "border of power" thousands of kilometers westward, all to the east bank of the Volga.

Any attack from the west to the east would have to cross the Volga River, then climb over the rugged Ural Mountains, storm Yebao, which is known for its strong defenses, and then cross thousands of kilometers of plains and deserts to reach the Liangxia mainland. Even if you rush here, you are very far away from victory, because there are still thousands of kilometers to the core area of the Liangxia Empire!

If anything, no ground force can complete an expeditionary operation spanning nearly 10,000 kilometers in a single war!

Even the Mongol cavalry, which conquered the World Island at the beginning, spent decades and fought hundreds of battles.

Even just crossing the Volga was difficult.

Before the end of the last war, to be precise, before the surrender of the Luosha Federation, the Liangxia Empire did not hesitate to spend more materials and sacrifice more soldiers to advance to the east bank of the Volga River before the Yama army crossed the Volga River, in order to control the land west of the Ural Mountains.

Simply put, in order to make the Ural a real strategic line of defense.

From a military point of view, in order for the Ural Mountains to become a strategic line, it is necessary to advance westward and control the Volga Plain to the west.

Simply put, let the eastern Volga plain become a buffer zone for strategic defense.

As a result, the enemy from the west would first have to cross the Volga, and then advance hundreds of kilometers east to reach the western part of the Urals.

Actually, it's easier to understand from another perspective.

If the plain on the eastern bank of the Volga was abandoned, the army of the Empire would be able to face the Ural Mountains directly, and there would be no question of crossing the river first.

For the defending side, this means guarding the entire mountain range, at least along the Urals.

With the plain on the eastern bank of the Volga, the defending forces were able to hit and deploy in fortresses such as Yebao, and after the enemy attacked, they could be adjusted according to the actual situation.

This set of defensive strategies has been adopted by the Liang Xia army for the past few decades.

The entire area on the east bank of the Volga River was a defensive buffer zone for the Liang Xia army, and this set of defensive tactics had a huge impact on the equipment construction of the Liang Xia Empire.

The most representative is the range and combat radius of the helicopter.

The average distance from the forward base in the west of the Urals to the Volga River is about 300 kilometers, the maximum combat radius of the armed helicopters of the Liangxia Army is 300 kilometers, the range of general-purpose helicopters under full load is not less than 300 kilometers, and the design index of large helicopters is 600 kilometers.

As soon as war broke out, the Liangxia Army Aviation was able to rely on the forward base on the western side of the Ural Mountains to strike at the enemy from across the Volga.

In addition, the only long-range support firepower of the Liangxia Army, that is, tactical ballistic missiles, has a maximum range of only 300 kilometers.

This geographical factor, even the Liangxia Air Force could not avoid it.

The main attack aircraft of the Liangxia Air Force have a combat radius of between 500 and 700 kilometers, precisely because the forward base is on the eastern edge of the Urals. To take off from these bases, the attack aircraft needs to fly over the Ural Mountains, which also consumes more fuel and requires a longer combat radius.

In terms of defensive deployment, the entire eastern bank of the Volga River, as well as the northern shore plain of the wide sea, are all strategic buffer zones.

According to the deduction made by the General Staff of the Men and the Headquarters of the Western Continental Army, with the current strength, even if it is fully forced, it will at most advance to the front line of the Ural Mountains.

In order to continue to advance eastward, more troops must be committed, which will also lead to the emptiness of the rear line.

To put it simply, when the Liangxia Army launches a counterattack, the Western Continent Group may not even be able to hold the mainland.

It is precisely for this reason that in the several sets of strategic plans drawn up by the Western Continent Group, in fact, all of them are mainly aimed at sweeping away the Federal Republic of Luosha.

After the completion of the capture of the Federal Republic of Losha, that is, after the expansion of the strategic line of defense, it is necessary to immediately switch from offensive to defensive.

Next, it's up to the allies to perform.

Only when the Republic of Nuland enters the war and launches an offensive in the Guia Ocean to contain the main force of the Liangxia Navy, and at the same time seizes the sea dominance of the Sunset Ocean, opens up the sea route to the Western Continent, and provides strategic assistance to the Western Continent Group through sea transportation, will it consider continuing to advance eastward on the huge land battlefield.

Of course, it would be great if the Nuland Republic sent troops to participate in the ground war!

Because the probability of the Nuland Republic entering the war immediately is almost zero, in the strategic plan of the Western Continent Group, it is necessary to fight the Liangxia Empire on a huge land battlefield.

A total victory?

Obviously, that's just a dream!

Based on this set of strategic plans, in the case of a unilateral war with the Eastern Bloc, the most ideal outcome that the Western Continent Group could strive for was to force the Liangxia Empire to recognize the Luosha Democratic Republic and annex the Luosha Federal Republic, and thus complete the reunification.

However, it is more likely that after a counterattack by the Eastern Bloc, the forces of the Western Continent will withdraw to the west bank of the Volga.

At this point, it's nice to be able to hold the homeland.

Of course, Reinhardt also did not think of achieving a complete military victory, or did not expect to defeat the Liangxia Empire through war.

In fact, his purpose is only to divert the internal contradictions of the Western Continent Empire, to strengthen the rule of the Western Continent Group through war, and to fight against those separatist forces that are trying or are already challenging the Rimman Empire and want to get rid of the control of the Rimman Empire, so that the current situation can continue to be maintained.

However, the situation is obviously not that simple.

In the words of several high-ranking generals, after the flames of war were ignited, it was not up to Reinhardt to decide what kind of battle it would be and how large it would develop.

If we can win, it's okay to say.

As long as you are willing to make appropriate concessions, you can bargain with your opponent as a winner, and you can be sure of reaching an outcome that is acceptable to both parties.

If the war is defeated, or if it does not grasp the initiative, I am afraid that there will not even be a chance to negotiate!

To put it bluntly, Reinhardt can't end it if he wants to.

Herein lies the problem.

Dozens of previous military meetings have all discussed the scale of the war, and Reinhardt has always wanted to control the scale of the war.

It's a pity that all the generals of the military think it is impossible!

To this end, the Chief of the General Staff, General Henkel, also gave a detailed explanation to Reinhardt, who did not know much about military affairs.

The key is, in fact, war mobilization.

Although it has been developed for several decades and the time for completing the basic military mobilization has been shortened from the previous months to one month, the mobilization itself has not changed, and it is still necessary to assemble combat troops on the front line, and it is still necessary to mobilize transportation forces to transport equipment and ammunition.

In this way, mobilization for war becomes a signal for war.

In peacetime, the three superpowers are all monitoring the armed forces of their opponents, and the first thing they pay attention to is whether the other side is secretly carrying out military mobilization.

In addition, the military notification mechanism established by the Big Three after the war is also linked to mobilization.

To put it simply, either party has the right to give an explanation within 24 hours in the form of an ultimatum to the subject of suspicion. The party receiving the challenge must not only give an explanation within 24 hours, but also immediately stop the relevant military action.

It is precisely in this way that a mutual trust mechanism has been formed, which must be notified in advance.

Before deciding to send troops to Posha Bay, the Liangxia Empire had already informed about the relevant matters, especially the scope and duration of the military mobilization.

War without mobilization?

That's impossible.

Even if there is never real peace, in normal times, no one will put the army in a state of combat readiness, after all, there is a limit to what a soldier can bear.

The key is that in normal times, there is no way to maintain too much combat strength.

Relatively speaking, the situation of the Western Continent Group is not bad.

Because the overall strength is inferior to that of the Eastern Bloc, in the decades after the Great War, the Western Continent Group has maintained a high state of combat readiness, or is more afraid of a surprise attack, so it is necessary to deploy more troops and put more combat units in a combat state.

This is actually the same thing as the long-term offensive posture of the Western Continent Group.

Of course, this has to do with the strategic depth of the Western Continent Group, from the Volga River to the west, hundreds of kilometers away is the capital of Mosa, the capital of Luosha.

Comparatively speaking, with its strong strength and vast strategic depth, the level of combat readiness of the Eastern Bloc in the huge land direction is much lower.

After the end of the Polish-Iranian War, the Liangxia Empire reduced the ground forces deployed in Dongluosha to 400,000.

The point is that at its peak, there were 500,000 Liangxia troops stationed in Yebao alone!

According to information provided by intelligence agencies, it will take at least three months for the Eastern Bloc to complete the mobilization for the war, to be precise, to commit sufficient troops to the Eastern Luosha.

Obviously, that's the key.

It only takes one month for the Western Bloc to complete the mobilization, so it is possible to achieve a major victory before the Eastern Bloc completes the mobilization with a full two months.

Undoubtedly, this is the core of the military strategy of the Western Continent Group!

As long as the situation gets out of control, it is necessary to strike first and use the two months gained by first completing the mobilization to win enough victories to influence the course of the war.

According to the deduction made by the General Staff of the Man, this is the only strategy that has any hope of winning on a huge land battlefield.

Of course, the so-called "victory" is only to take Dongluosha, and then force the Liangxia Empire to accept reality, or wait for the Nuland Republic to enter the war.

Here's the problem.

Even if you prepare in advance, it will take one month to complete the mobilization for war, to be precise, to prepare the combat troops for the offensive.

In this month, even if a miracle happens, it can be shortened by a few days at most.

The reason is also very simple, a large number of main forces are deployed in the rear in peacetime, and the main battle equipment of the main forces is also stored in the rear in peacetime.

And, of course, there are vital war materiel such as ammunition and fuel.

As for the one-month preparation time, it was the result of careful calculations, and it was deduced every year during the joint exercises of the Sairiku Group.

The Western Continent Group began to mobilize, and the Eastern Group would turn a blind eye?

Apparently not!

The Liangxia Empire has been working hard to build a reliable and continuously operating strategic reconnaissance network, and has not hesitated to launch dozens of large reconnaissance satellites, and even invested heavily in the development of carrier rockets weighing more than 1,000 tons in order to send these reconnaissance satellites weighing more than 10 tons into space.

Isn't this just to monitor the enemy's every move?

What's more, who can guarantee that there are no spies of the Liang Xia Empire within the Xilu Group, or traitors who have been bribed by the intelligence agencies of the Liang Xia Empire?

As soon as the Western Continent Group begins to mobilize, the Eastern Group will certainly increase its combat readiness.

After the Liangxia Empire issued an ultimatum, then stop mobilization?

This is clearly a joke.

Coming here, a total war will be inevitable!

In Henkel's words, will the Western Continent still be able to reduce the level of combat readiness when the Eastern Bloc begins to mobilize for war?

From the perspective of strategic games, as long as we enter the stage of war mobilization, we will not be able to stop.

The reason is also very simple, no one will believe that the other side is only mobilizing for defense, and it will definitely prepare for a defensive counterattack.

What's more, the Western Continent Group is also preparing to attack.

So, after the start of the war, there is still hope to stop?

Not to mention Henkel, even Reinhardt knows that as long as the first shot is fired, the winner must be decided.

This is also the key to the fact that the results of the opening vote scared Reinhardt.

It is not a question of whether war will break out or not, but whether anyone will be able to prevent it from breaking out.

Reinhardt knew very well that even if he used his prerogatives to veto the Cabinet's vote on war, the ministers who wanted war would kick him out of the chancellor's house and let a minister who was willing to wage war move in. If Reinhardt were to try to prevent the outbreak of war by other means, such as dissolving the Cabinet and the Legislative Yuan early and holding early elections, it would likely be a criminal bullet waiting for him.

In fact, Reinhardt did not think about preventing the outbreak of war.

He was just worried.

After the outbreak of the Great War, will the Nuland Republic really fulfill its promise, that is, in other directions, to instigate military operations against the Liangxia Empire?