In the negotiations between the caves, the most prominent contradiction and the most divisive issue was how to deal with the Locke Republic, or how to deal with the Locke Republic.

This contradiction has nothing to do with the Liangxia Empire, it is a matter between the Riman Empire and the Luosha Federation.

In the beginning, the Empire advocated co-opting the Locke Republic, even if it did not allow the Locke Republic to join the alliance and keep it neutral.

The position of the Locke Federation was the opposite, and it was necessary for the Empire to eliminate its worries and take decisive military action to defeat the Locke Republic.

The differences between the two sides are so great that they are completely understandable.

The Locke Republic has long reconciled with the Empire, and is not only an ally of the Empire, but also a backer of the Empire.

Although from the standpoint of the Liangxia Empire, this backer of the Liangxia Empire is not worth mentioning at all, after all, the navy of the Locke Republic is just an ornament, and it is separated by more than half the world, but for the Luosha Federation, it is a real threat that must not be ignored.

After Pitt the Great established the Luosha Empire, there was only one enemy who captured the capital of Luosha, the former Locke Empire.

In the eyes of the Luosha Federation, the alliance between the Manman Empire and the Locke Republic is an uncertain factor, and it poses a huge threat to the secret treaty of the three parties.

Because of this problem, the secret talk almost gave up halfway.

The reason is also very simple, the Manman Empire has this backer, and it still cares about the tripartite secret agreement?

The key is that the Empire used the threat of the Luosha Federation as an excuse to take the olive branch of the Locke Republic and form an alliance with it.

If the Riman Empire breaks the treaty because of this, the first unlucky one will be the Luosha Federation.

During the negotiations, the army representatives of the Luosha Federation made it clear that with the support of the Locke army, even if it was only temporarily exempted from the threat from the west, the Manman Army could invest heavy troops in the east and launch a strategic offensive sufficient to destroy the country, so the Luosha Federation would not relax its vigilance just because of the conclusion of a secret treaty.

The implication is that as long as the alliance between the Riman Empire and the Locke Republic exists, the Locke Federation will not withdraw or weaken the forces deployed on the Western Front to guard against the Riman Empire. Under these circumstances, it was clear that the Empire would not be able to concentrate its forces against the Bran Kingdom.

If that were the case, the tripartite alliance would be meaningless.

It's just that if you want the Luosha Federation to eliminate your concerns, it is not as simple as letting the Riman Empire break the alliance with the Locke Republic.

The safest way to do this is to send troops to attack the Locke Republic and carry out a military occupation.

In this way, without allies to the west, the Riman Empire will focus all its attention on the Tripartite Alliance.

The intervening days of the negotiations were almost exclusively devoted to dealing with this issue.

In the end, both sides made compromises.

The Empire pledged that if the Locke Republic was not resolved in a proper manner before entering the war, or more precisely to eliminate the negative effects of the Locke Republic, it would definitely blitzkrieg the Locke Republic after the war, that is, attack and occupy the Locke Republic first.

If needed, the Empire will also sweep through the western part of the Western Continent.

In addition, the so-called "proper way" is for the Locke Republic to join the Triumvirate as an entourage.

According to the agreement, the Empire of Romans would provide a guarantee for the Republic of Locke.

The implication is that the Empire is responsible for the actions of the Locke Republic after its accession, and bears all the consequences associated with it.

Before entering the war, the Empire would regularly report to the Luosha Federation and the Liangxia Empire.

In order to convince the Luosha Federation, the Liangxia Empire also had to act as a guarantor for the Manman Empire.

This is also the main reason why in the strategic plan, the Liangxia Empire provided weapons and equipment to the Luosha Federation in the name of military assistance during the first phase of the offensive.

It is said to be aid, but it is actually collateral for security.

To say, the worries of the Luosha Federation are a bit superfluous.

No matter how much the Hindan Empire tosses, there is one thing that cannot be denied. The Liang Xia Empire has always been secretly allied with the Liang Xia Empire, so unless the Liang Xia Empire intends to deal with the Luo Sha Federation, even with the support of the Rock Republic, the Luo Sha Federation will never be attacked by the Luo Sha Federation.

It's amazing, it's very simple.

The Manman Empire was able to coexist peacefully with the Liangxia Empire, and the alliance relationship remained unchanged for decades, and the most important thing was that the two countries did not share a border.

As for the common enemy and common interests faced by external expansion, they are secondary factors.

After the end of the Luosha Federation, even if a few puppet regimes were supported, the Empire would have a direct conflict of interest with the Liangxia Empire.

Compared to the Liangxia Empire, the Luosha Federation is a small witch.

You can't offend a big witch just to deal with this little witch!

To put it more thoroughly, the Luosha Federation is actually a buffer zone between the two empires.

It is a pity that the Luosha Federation obviously does not look at it this way, or does not look at issues related to vital interests from the perspective of a third party.

To this end, in the Army's Joint Operations Plan, there is a set of alternate plans specifically for dealing with the Locke Republic.

Bai Zhizhan is a representative of the Navy, and he does not know much about the plan, only an approximate one.

The Eternal Army will emulate and adopt the Imperial Army's tactics of attacking the Icestorm Peninsula and launch a blitzkrieg to defeat the Locke Republic as quickly as possible.

How exactly to fight, that's the Army's business.

This is also the key to allowing Li Qing to go to the caves to participate in the negotiations on behalf of the army.

As far as Bai Zhizhan knows, before the capture of Gaozhou, Li Qing had been charging in front with Lian Xusheng, and once led the armored troops to launch an assault. After capturing Gaoju, that is, when he marched to Puzhou, Li Qing went to the Eastern Front to take charge of the situation and took the lead in attacking outside Puzhou.

Although there is some moisture, after all, the main force led by Lian Xusheng has attracted most of the enemy's forces on the Western Front, but it must also be admitted that Li Qing has absolutely no problem in the ability to command the armored forces to fight, otherwise even if he is the eldest prince, Lian Xusheng will never dare to let him take the lead alone.

This backup plan also included sweeping the eastern part of the Svya Peninsula, the kingdom of Weijing.

Say, this part is the key.

The attack on the Kingdom of Weijing was related to the next combat operation against the Kingdom of Bran, that is, the Riman Navy needed to face the sea entrance to the North Sunset. Only after the capture of the Kingdom of Weijing can the ships of the Yamaman Navy smoothly enter the North Sunset Ocean and impose a strategic blockade on the Kingdom of Bran.

It is precisely because of this that the Liang Xia Empire also put pressure on the Empire in the negotiations, and only then did it have a backup plan.

The point is that it is impossible for the Riman Empire to send troops to sweep and capture the Kingdom of Weijing while maintaining good relations with the Locke Republic.

All in all, backup plans are more complex, more difficult to implement, and harder to predict the consequences.

Even Li Qing felt that the Empire did not have the capital to blitz the Rock Republic for the time being, and the probability of winning through blitzkrieg was not great.

It would have been nice to have been able to convince the Locke Republic to maintain its tendentious neutrality.

It's just that now it seems that there is not much hope.

It's not that the Empire didn't do its best, but that time was running out for the leaders of the Locke Republic to realize the urgency of the situation.

In the golden decade after the war, especially after the reconciliation with the Empire, the entire Locke Republic had long since relaxed its vigilance.

It has not reached the point where the horse is put into Nanshan and the sword is put into storage, and it has long been disarmed ideologically.

Rearmament?

Obviously, that's not possible!

It is easy to build guns and cannons, but it is not so easy to change ideological concepts.