The exorbitant price of the Republic of There at this time can be seen as the tip of the iceberg of contradictions within the Entente bloc.

Whether it is the Raleigh Kingdom, which has always been half-hearted, or the Kingdom of Span that has suddenly become active, and the Republic of There, which is now about to liquidate history, the core problem reflected is the contradictions within the Entente bloc around the distribution of war dividends.

However, such contradictions cannot be avoided at all.

In the words of Zheng Jiangming, it is "the trouble of victory".

It must be admitted that Zheng Jiangming is rarely optimistic.

It's just that Bai Zhizhan has always felt that it is not yet time to be optimistic.

Is the Great War really coming to an end?

Obviously, it's far from the end of the story.

Among other things, the three main enemy states, the Nuland Federation, the Locksa Federation, and the Bran Kingdom, are still fighting, and none of them have been defeated.

Even the Locke Republic was not so peaceful, dragging down the million-strong army of the Empire.

The Imperial State of the Narrows is slightly better, but the problem of eating and drinking for tens of millions of Narrows is also a heavy burden on the shoulders of the Empire.

Even if victory is within reach, there is still an essential difference between victory and victory.

As in the last war, in the final months of the war, almost everyone believed that the alliance was in good hands, and that it would definitely be able to achieve the final victory. As a result, after the Battle of the Watcher Strait, the Alliance had to accept the reality and negotiate with the Liangxia Empire.

If anything, even if the Locksa Federation and the Bran Kingdom have been defeated, as long as the Newland Federation has not surrendered, it cannot be said that the victory has been achieved.

An expedition across the ocean is not just a matter of fun.

Before the outbreak of the Great War, the Imperial Navy conducted joint war games with the Army on the strategic level every year for the next global war.

More than ten deductions before and after, even if the methods and processes are different, the results are the same.

Even if it fought alone, the Empire was able to achieve a decisive victory on and around the World Island, but its transoceanic expeditions almost always ended in failure. In the deduction in the following years, the elements of the Riman Empire were also added, that is, through the Booman Empire, they marched into the isolated continent from the side of the sunset and opened up a second front. It's just that the results of the deduction are not much different, and the expedition still ends in failure.

It's not that the Imperial army isn't strong enough, it's that the difficulty of the expedition across the ocean is too great.

If we start from the Guia Ocean, even if everything goes smoothly in the early stage of the operation, and we have gained foothold in the North Malaysia Islands and the Khowaii Islands, and the shipping routes that provide logistical support are unimpeded, and we will invest 1.5 million to 3 million troops to expedition to the Nuland mainland, we will also use about 2,000 10,000-ton cargo ships, arrange thousands of escort warships, and deploy thousands of patrol planes to carry out anti-submarine missions on the islands along the way.

In order to control these ships and guard the military positions along the route, about 1 million troops were involved.

In addition, there are still great doubts about whether the Nuland Federation, which has a population of nearly 200 million and a territorial area of more than 8 million square kilometers, can be conquered with an army of 3 million. If anything, this is one of the most debated issues during the deduction.

From the Navy's point of view, the expeditionary operation proposed by the Army is too optimistic.

Even if the most capable generals were to command the combat operations of the expedition against the Nuland Federation, this number of troops would not be enough.

In fact, the Army is not blindly optimistic.

In the last few exercises, the army adjusted the battle plan, 1.5 million to 3 million, which was only the force needed to capture the west coast of the Nuland Federation. After advancing eastward and entering the hinterland of the Northern Lonely Continent, that is, after crossing the Rocky Mountains, it will increase the number of troops several times.

If the purpose is military occupation, it is likely that more than 10 million troops will be needed.

Here, the Army mentions a key factor.

The Nuland Federation is the only major country in the world that does not ban guns, and the guns owned by the people not only far exceed the army, but also account for half of the total number of guns in the world.

If anything, the Newland Federation is almost all soldiers.

Of course, at least the ability to be a soldier for all.

When attacking Nuland itself, it will be necessary to face not tens of millions of Nuland soldiers, but tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of armed Nuland citizens.

Strictly speaking, it should be called a militia.

This is the main reason why it is necessary to increase the investment of troops.

Herein lies the problem.

According to the Army's pre-war plans for attacking Nuland, even the most optimistic one mentioned the need for no less than 10 million troops.

In the early days, more than 20 million troops were invested.

For this, an all-out war mobilization of the empire was required.

In fact, this is the key to the fact that the imperial authorities have not implemented a full-scale war mobilization.

According to the strategic plan drawn up before the war, it was necessary to decide whether or not to carry out a full-scale war mobilization according to the situation after the battle against Nuland mainland began.

Until then, there can be no full-scale war mobilization as long as it can hold on.

The reason is simple: even in the case of full mobilization, it will take about four years to capture the entire territory of Nuland.

Of course, how long it will take to capture the entire territory of the Nuland Federation has been disputed.

In more than a dozen deductions, there was a big difference in the time it took to capture Nuland proper.

The shortest took less than 1 year, and the longest took nearly 6 years.

Four years is just a compromise, or a result that everyone can accept.

In a sense, the ability to postpone all-out war mobilization until the attack on Nuland itself will determine whether a total victory can be achieved.

Here, the key is actually logistics.

Even according to the most optimistic estimates, 10 million troops could be used to capture Nuland proper, and in order to ensure that 10 million soldiers and soldiers fought at the front, at least 25 million soldiers and civilians would have to be mobilized to take care of logistics, and millions of troops would need to be mobilized to control the entire Guia Ocean.

The action on the other side of the sunset has not yet been taken into account here.

In addition, material consumption must also be taken into account.

To put it simply, of the 10,000 tons of materials produced in the rear, only about 3,000 tons were sent to the front line, and the other 7,000 tons were consumed in production and transportation. If you also take into account the losses in transit, for example, a cargo ship is sunk by a submarine, and even fewer supplies are transported to the front line.

This is not speculation.

The Nuland Federation has been assisting the Kingdom of Bran and the Locksha Federation, and the supplies that have arrived at the Locksa Federation are unique.

In this way, to support the 10 million army to fight on the other side of the world, Nuland soil, it is necessary to squeeze the industrial productivity of the empire.

Logistics supply lines with a length of more than 10,000 kilometers and even 15,000 kilometers are a barrier that even the imperial army can hardly cross.

So, can it still be said that victory is within reach?

In a sense, the difficulty of defeating the Newland Federation is not lower than defeating the Liangxia Empire.

There are only two superpowers in the world.

The Liangxia Empire became a superpower, relying on a huge size, such as the world's largest population, the most extensive territory, and the most abundant resources.

And, of course, the oldest history and the core culture that has been shaped by the heritage.

Another superpower, the Newland Federation, has a geopolitical environment that is not available in any other country in addition to its huge size, and has a coveted geopolitical environment.

It was precisely because of this that Bai Zhizhan felt that it was not yet time to celebrate the victory.