Pakistan Railway, Peshawar Air Base.

The largest, most well-equipped and technologically advanced air base in the Southern Subcontinent is located on the outskirts of Pakistan's railway capital.

It is less than half an hour's drive from the central railway station in the capital of Pakistan Railway and the Imperial Embassy in Pakistan.

In order to facilitate the daily life of the garrison, Pakistan Railway also opened up a secular special zone outside the base and arranged for military and police to guard it.

In fact, this also reflects that Pakistan is indeed the only hardcore ally on the same level as the Gaoju Kingdom.

The relationship between Pakistan and the Empire has developed to this extent only half a century ago.

Before the Second Global War, the Liangxia Empire pursued mainly commercial interests in the Southern Subcontinent, and the means adopted were also mainly trade.

During these decades, the Liangxia Empire has always held high the banner of national independence.

According to folk rumors, after the end of the First Global War, in order to restore its influence and eliminate the impact of defeat, the Liangxia Empire secretly funded several independent movement organizations, including the "Great Van Luo Independent Liberation Movement Organization" founded by Gan Reni, the founding father of the Van Luo Kingdom.

It's just that the rumor has never been officially confirmed.

Of course, even if the rumors were true, it was to compete with the Bran Kingdom, which ruled the Southern Subcontinent at the time, and to recognize the rights and interests of the Liang Xia Empire in the Southern Subcontinent.

This situation lasted until the end of the Second World War.

After the defeat of the Bran Kingdom, especially the Imperial Navy, which seized all the military fortresses on the Fanyan Ocean and controlled the all-important Xifan Canal and the Zhiluo Strait, the Liang Xia Empire rightfully replaced the Bran Kingdom as the only suzerainty among the many princely states in the Southern Subcontinent.

In the post-war years, as the Mizi flag fell and the Yanlong flag fluttered in the wind, the Empire's authority in the southern subcontinent reached an unparalleled level.

However, the empire's colonial rule in the southern subcontinent did not last long.

If anything, there have always been different voices at the top of the empire on the question of whether to take over the southern subcontinent.

As early as before the end of the Great War, that is, during the period when the Kingdom of Bran was defeated and the Nuland Republic had not yet surrendered, there were voices within the upper echelons of the empire to return the southern subcontinent to the Bran Kingdom, at least by acquiescing to the dominance of the Bran Kingdom and maintaining the current pattern.

Since some people have put forward this view, there is some truth to it.

Fundamentally, it is the value of the Kingdom of Bran in the global system.

To put it bluntly, a declining Bran kingdom is really beneficial to the Liang Xia Empire?

In the past few hundred years, the Kingdom of Bran has been the "Limit Wide Gate" of the Western Continental powers, and its main role is to attack and weaken the land powers. Any land power that grows and grows will clash with the Bran Kingdom and be attacked by the Bran Kingdom.

The rapid rise of the Liang Xia Empire has something to do with this.

At the beginning, Emperor Shiwu dared to challenge the powerful Luosha Empire, because in the previous decades, the Bran Kingdom had always regarded the Luosha Empire as the number one threat. According to folk rumors, the first arsenal of the Liang Xia Empire was built with a loan from the Bran Kingdom.

Under the circumstance that the Riman Empire will inevitably dominate the Western Continent, a Bran Kingdom with sufficient strength can share the pressure for the Liangxia Empire to the greatest extent.

As long as the Bran Kingdom is still there, and it is still across the sea from the Western Continent, the Juman Empire will not want to dominate the Western world, and it will be difficult to obtain the capital to challenge the Liang Xia Empire.

In addition, the kingdom of Bran is also a typical sea power country, and it is based on the northern sunset of the ocean.

This means that the Kingdom of Bran must have a conflict with the Republic of Nuland, which also has the attributes of a sea power.

Obviously, the same can be exploited.

To put it simply, if the Bran Kingdom, with the support of the Empire, is still a sea power power in the North and Falling Oceans, and has a decisive influence, even if it is to protect its own interests, it needs to consolidate its relationship with the Empire, and it will have to help the Empire contain the Nuland Republic.

In this way, the pressure on the Guia side of the Liang Xia Empire will be greatly reduced.

It can be seen that from a strategic point of view, it is not advisable to weaken the Bran Kingdom excessively.

In fact, from a business point of view, it is the same.

Prior to the outbreak of the First Global War, the colonization of the Bran Kingdom in the Southern Subcontinent was largely mutually beneficial to the Liangxia Empire.

The kingdom of Bran gained access to the abundant resources produced in the colony, many of which were strategic resources that were lacking in its own territory.

The military presence on the southern subcontinent also ensured the strategic security of the shipping routes through the Fanyan Ocean, strengthening the rule of the Bran Kingdom over Austria.

Without the support provided by the Southern Subcontinent, the colonization of Ozhou by the Kingdom of Bran would have ended half a century earlier.

The Liang Xia Empire gained access to a market of hundreds of millions of people and a huge profit from trade.

Objectively speaking, it was the huge profits made in the southern subcontinent that enabled the empire to complete the process of industrialization in just a few decades.

The same industrialization, it took 200 years for the kingdom of Bran!

Crucially, the empire did not bear the costs of colonial rule.

In fact, it is no less profitable in diplomacy.

Whether the emperor is willing to admit it or not, after the end of the Second Global War, the alliance between the Liangxia Empire and the Empire will inevitably come to an end.

The most crucial reason for the alliance between the two traditional empires at the east and west ends of the world island is to challenge the traditional powers together, overthrow the old world order established by the traditional powers to safeguard the interests of the traditional powers, and establish a set of international orders that are beneficial to themselves.

To put it simply, it is to replace the traditional powers.

But the problem is that in any given period, there is only one global hegemon.

In the era of hegemony by traditional powers, the global hegemon was the Kingdom of Bran, and the Locke Republic and other powers recognized and accepted the hegemony of the Kingdom of Bran.

Then, after defeating the traditional powers such as the Bran Kingdom and the Locke Republic, the Liangxia Empire and the Juman Empire will part ways.

At this time, if you can make friends with the Bran Kingdom, you will be able to seize the diplomatic initiative.

Seizing the opportunity, it is possible to construct a new order with the Liang Xia Empire as the overlord, which can exist stably, so that the peace situation can be maintained for a longer time.

With so many benefits, why not do it?

Unfortunately, the reality has gone in the other direction.

Because of his active advocacy for reconciliation with the Bran Kingdom, including the exchange of rule in the Southern Subcontinent, Xue Yuanzheng was expelled from the Shoufu Residence.

At that time, in order to avoid political turmoil due to impeachment, Xue Yuanzheng chose to resign voluntarily.

After Xue Yuanzheng left the residence of the first assistant, the two houses of the debate forcibly passed a bill aimed at occupying the southern subcontinent and imposing colonial rule on it.

When Lian Xusheng moved into the Shoufu's official residence, what was in front of him was the bill waiting for the Shoufu to sign.

Lian Xusheng was able to live in the official residence of the first assistant because he had reached a compromise with the two houses of parliament before this, that is, he agreed to sign this bill.

After that, the empire sent troops to occupy the southern subcontinent.

Although Lian Xusheng inherited the political mantle of Xue Yuanzheng, for example, shortly after the end of the war, he improved relations with the Kingdom of Bran by acknowledging that the Kingdom of Bran was not an ordinary defeated country, and created a honeymoon period that lasted for nearly 20 years, but on the issue of the Southern Subcontinent, the Empire was already mired in a quagmire and could not extricate itself at all, and no country could replace the Empire's dominance in the Southern Subcontinent.

At this point, even the Kingdom of Bran lost interest in the Southern Subcontinent.

In the years when Lian Xusheng first served as the first assistant of the empire, he was all dealing with the problems of the Southern Subcontinent, and finally planted a problem on it.

After the war, two global national independence movements originated in the Southern Subcontinent.

After the outbreak of the first national independence movement, Lian Xusheng did something far-reaching.

Let the many princely states of the southern subcontinent choose between independent statehood, the formation of a unified state, and the formation of a united state according to custom.

This decision directly gave birth to Pakistan Railway.

At that time, several states located in the western part of the southern subcontinent chose to unite according to custom to form a single country, which is now Pakistan Railway.

This choice is actually made for self-preservation.

Because there are huge differences with other princely states in terms of customs and beliefs, and they are more barren and backward, and the population is far inferior to that of the neighboring princely states, if they are founded alone, they are certainly not the opponents of the neighboring princely states, and may even be invaded and annexed by other princely states, so these relatively backward princely states decided to unite to form a country and deal with the threat of other princely states by uniting together.

Of course, this is not enough.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Pakistan Railway not only took the lead in establishing diplomatic relations with the Liangxia Empire, but also took the lead in applying to join the Eastern Bloc.

For this reason, Pakistan also became the first country in the southern subcontinent to join the Eastern Bloc.

There is no doubt that the leaders of Pakistan and the Railway have long been clearly aware that only by relying on the powerful Liangxia Empire can the independence and integrity of the country be maintained.

As for past grievances, in the face of reality and future interests, they are not worth mentioning at all.

A true politician must be a true realist.

Crucially, the Liangxia Empire also needed to create a "model" state to demonstrate its superiority in order to regain its influence in the southern subcontinent.

To put it bluntly, the Liangxia Empire can give up its colonial rule over the Southern Subcontinent, after all, the Liangxia Empire has always been unswervingly opposed to colonial policy, but the Liangxia Empire will never give up its economic interests in the Southern Subcontinent, and it must be maintained by establishing authority.

In fact, the Liangxia Empire originally obtained economic and trade privileges in the southern subcontinent through authoritarianism.

It was in this way that the Liangxia Empire formed an alliance with Pakistan.

However, this is not an alliance of interests.

After the end of the first national independence movement, the southern subcontinent was divided into dozens of large and small countries, most of which were small ones.

It's just that a few powerful princely states, to be precise, the states established by the princely states, do not want to allow this division to continue.

The most representative is the state of Van Luo, which was formed on the basis of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

The founding slogan of the country is to realize the great unification of the whole nation.

It was for this reason that there was a second national independence movement.

If external factors are excluded, it is not very difficult to unify the entire southern subcontinent with the strong strength of the Van Luo Kingdom.

If you want to say anything, the only one who can compete with the country of Van Luo is Pakistan Railway.

In fact, it was because of the great threat of the Fanluo Kingdom that Ba Tie formed an alliance with the Liangxia Empire after independence and relied on the Liangxia Empire to fight against the Fanluo Kingdom.

It's just that, obviously, it is impossible to completely exclude external factors.

Although the second national independence movement soon swept the world, dozens of countries were born in just a few years, and the colonial system that had been maintained for hundreds of years collapsed, but it was actually the unification war launched by the Van Luo Kingdom that had an impact on the global pattern.

This war once again pushed the Liangxia Empire to the forefront.

At that time, the choice in front of the Liang Xia Empire was very cruel, or there was no choice at all.

If the Liangxia Empire refuses to intervene, Batie will definitely be destroyed by the Van Luo Kingdom, and the entire southern subcontinent will be unified under a single government.

If anything, in the past thousands of years, this continent has never been unified, at least never with a truly unified regime.

Of course, the Liang Xia Empire would not tolerate such a thing happening.

Among other things, Pakistan was already a member of the Eastern Bloc at that time.

In addition, Lian Xusheng has returned to the official residence of the first assistant, and the ability to deal with the Polish-Iranian war has made his reputation skyrocket.

The Empire's hasty end to the Bouish-Iraq War had to do with the Southern Subcontinent.

Even if the country is rich in oil, its strategic value is not comparable to that of the southern subcontinent.

As a result, after the war was waged by the Van Luo Kingdom, the empire provided timely assistance to Pakistan to help Pakistan stabilize the already shaky front.

Later, Pakistan also launched a counterattack with the assistance of the Empire.

After months of fierce fighting, the authorities of Van Luo finally recognized the situation and knew that they would not be able to defeat the Pakistan Tie, which was supported by the Liang Xia Empire, no matter what.

In addition, also with the support of the Liangxia Empire, several other small states in the southern subcontinent, such as Bangladesh to the east and Nepal and Bhutan to the north, remained independent and were not annexed by the Brahma Kingdom, and all became friendly countries of the empire.

This short but fierce war also completely changed the strategic pattern of the southern subcontinent.

After the end of the war, Van Roe threw himself into the arms of the Nuland Republic without hesitation and became an unofficial ally of the Nuland Republic.

The reason is the same, in the war with Pakistan, the Riman Empire has been pretending to be deaf and dumb, without any expression!

In addition, the Boi Kingdom, supported by the Nuland Republic, had just gained its independence and defeated the invincible Liangxia Empire on the battlefield.

The Van Luo authorities also understood that even with the support of the Nuland Republic, they would not be able to defeat the Liangxia Empire.

In addition, whether it can dominate the Southern Subcontinent and control Fanyan Yang depends not on how powerful the Fanluo Kingdom is, but on when the Liangxia Empire will decline.

As long as the Liangxia Empire remains a global hegemon, it is impossible for the Van Luo Kingdom to become a regional hegemon.

All in all, the Liang Xia Empire was the number one enemy of the Fanluo Kingdom to dominate the Southern Subcontinent and Fanyan Yang.

As for Pakistan, it goes without saying.

After the victory over the Van Luo Kingdom, Ba Tie became one of the most reliable allies of the Liang Xia Empire, and actively participated in the foreign operations led by the Liang Xia Empire.

In addition, it is to open the base to the Liang Xia Empire.

During this period, the Liangxia Empire was granted permanent access to the Peshawar Air Base and invested in the expansion of the base.

After more than ten years of construction, Peshawar has become the largest and most complete integrated base in the entire southern subcontinent.

Theoretically, up to a thousand combat aircraft can be deployed here.

Of course, the actual number of parts is certainly not that much.