Chapter 532: Towards the Goal
It wasn't Xue Yuanzheng and Liu Changxun who really got into trouble, it was Lofus and Niz.
After returning to the mainland, Niz did not stop, and the transport plane took off again after refueling, arriving in Hwaseong the next day.
Getting off the plane, Nitsu went straight to the Gray House.
Not only did he have to explain the situation to Lofos in person, but he also had to find a way to convince Lofos to make adjustments to the overall strategy.
If you don't adjust, you will inevitably lose.
So, how exactly do you tune it?
If he hadn't thought it through, Nyze wouldn't have rushed back.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, that is, when the naval battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean was lost, and the last fleet aircraft carrier was sent to the shipyard for repairs, Nitsu was prepared for the worst, and thought of a solution at that time, but did not tell Lofus.
Since then, Niz has not had a chance to talk to Lofos about it.
The key is just one.
Use all means to induce the Liang Xia navy to send troops to the southwest and east, and it is best to attack Aozhou.
At the strategic level, only the Guia and Aozhou were large enough to accommodate enough troops and play a role in containing the Liangxia Empire.
In other directions, there are too few troops that can be accommodated.
If anything, even the Luosha Federation is not qualified.
As long as the Liang Xia Empire shifted its focus to the huge land battlefield, then it would only need to invest a maximum of 3 million troops to sweep the entire Luosha Federation.
In addition, the consumption of the army is much inferior to that of the navy.
It is also much easier to fight with your back to your homeland than to go on an expedition of 10,000 miles.
With the industrial strength of the Liangxia Empire, as long as the oil problem is solved, combat operations in the huge land direction will not have much impact on the Guia side. In other words, as long as the oil can be managed, the Liangxia Empire has the ability to launch a strategic offensive on land and sea at the same time.
It can be seen that the only thing that can contain the Liang Xia Navy is the Southwest and East Guia and Austria.
To say, it can also contain the Liangxia Army.
If the Liang Xia Empire decided to attack the continent and occupy this continent, in addition to the naval fleet, it would also have to invest millions of ground troops.
The key is to fight inland.
No matter how capable the Marines are, they are only good at fighting on islands where the fleet can provide support, and when they go deep inland, they still rely on the Army.
Because it was fighting tens of thousands of kilometers away from the mainland, the actual number of troops used was definitely more.
In addition, Austria's poor infrastructure has to be considered.
So, how can you induce the Liang Xia Empire to march into the Southwest Guia and attack Aozhou?
If I want to say, after losing the Battle of the Guia Sea, the Nuland Navy has been working in this direction, hoping to make the Guia the next major battlefield, and has done a lot of articles on this, but the effect is not very obvious, or it has no effect at all.
Up to now, except for sending submarines to carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations, the Liangxia Navy has no intention of sending troops to the southwest and east.
Feelings, that place doesn't matter at all.
Of course, if the purpose is to win this war, that is, to defeat the main opponent, the southwest and eastward and Austrian continent are really of little value.
The era of opening up colonies and seizing overseas territories is long gone.
Regardless of which side wins the war, the post-war world will inevitably be different, and the colonial era will certainly not work.
In other words, one side of the war is unlikely to gain global benefits by plundering as it has done in the past.
In this way, there is no reason to go to the southwest, the Guia and Austria to spend troops.
To put it bluntly, after the battle is taken, it cannot be taken for itself, and the troops must be withdrawn in the end, so why capture it through military action?
War is bound to kill people.
If the flames of war are burned to the continent of Ozhou, then even if they are occupied, they can only be enemies of the locals.
Even if the population of Ozhou was sparse, it was impossible for the Liangxia Empire to obtain the land of Ozhou by exterminating the indigenous population, as it did in the Middle Ages.
In fact, the Liangxia Empire, as a rising old power, has never had a tradition of brutal expansion.
On the contrary, instead of fighting Ozhou, but by defeating the Nuland Federation to achieve the final victory, not only can you also reign on Ozhou as a victor after the war, but also will not make enemies with the local natives, so that you can control Ozhou after the war and obtain the resources produced by this continent.
If you want to say it, the Liang Xia Empire is probably only interested in the resources on the Continent of Aozhou.
From the fact that the Liangxia Navy has not sent troops to the Southwest and Eastern Oceans, and the Nuland Navy has been making a fuss about the Southwest and Eastern Oceans, it can be clearly seen that both sides are advancing towards their own strategic goals, and they are trying to lead the rhythm and force the opponent to follow their own rhythm.
It's just that, so far, it is the Liangxia Navy that has the initiative.
The Nuland Navy made three decisive naval battles, all of which ended in failure.
The key is that the Liang Xia Navy has never been confused, let alone carried away.
If the current situation continues, perhaps within two years, the war will end with the complete defeat of the Alliance.
Can you turn the tide of battle?
Of course, there are no solutions.
Nyze has always valued Austria, and has always advocated the investment of sufficient troops in Austria, and even made huge concessions to the army, including making Mack the commander-in-chief of the Austrian Army, responsible for combat operations in the southwestern and southwestern Guia, and directly supervising ships under the Third Fleet.
Fundamentally, Ozhou is very close to the southeast region of the huge continent, and it is not far from Lion Springs City.
In the past, more than 2,000 kilometers may not be close, but even very far away.
However, in the era when the air force shines and bombers dominate the sky, the distance of more than 2,000 kilometers is not far away at all.
If nothing else, the main bombers of both sides have a combat radius of more than 1500 kilometers.
In addition, the newly developed super-bomber, with a combat radius of 2000 km, will definitely reach 2000 km, and there is even hope for a further extension to 2500 km.
The key is that the long-range fighter developed for strategic bombing is also gradually on the right track.
Then, the strategic aviation based on Aushiro is definitely a combat force that cannot be underestimated, and may be able to become a key factor in forcing the Liang Xia Empire to attack Aushang.
Not to mention anything else, if a strategic bombardment can be carried out against Shiquan City, blockading the Throat Strait through bombing, cutting off the main sea artery connecting the East and the West, even if it is just to lay mines into the Shiquan Strait, it can make the high-level of the Liangxia Empire make the decision to attack Aozhou.
In the last war, the Confederates did just that, but at the time it was the Overwatch Strait that was blocked.
In order to blockade the Shiquan Strait, it is necessary to have a combat radius of at least 2,500 kilometers, or even farther bombers, and several heavy bombers in service, such as the B-17 and B-24, cannot fly so far after hanging a few mines, and can only count on new bombers that are still being developed.
To say, this is also the key to Niz's special return to Hwaseong and come to the Gray Palace to talk to Lofus.
The use of new bombers to carry out mine-laying missions is tantamount to stealing food from the army aviation, and even if the political and strategic aspects are not considered, the army aviation must be dealt with first.
Niz is only an admiral and has no authority to dictate the army aviation.
Because the matter of the independence of the army aviation into an army was basically decided, the army aviation gained a lot of autonomy, so even the chief of staff of the army did not have much say.
This matter has to be handled by Lofus.