Five days is not too long. It's not too short. Han Shaofeng went to Santiago, in western Panama, the next day, to command the Marine Corps at the Marine Front Command. Before leaving, Han Shaofeng arranged for several staff officers to be Tan Renhao's guides, and took the three generals, as well as important generals and officers of the First Fleet, to have a good time in Panama City for a few days. Tan Renhao did not refuse Han Shaofeng's hospitality, after all, this kind of thing of taking public funds to travel is very common in the navy, and no one will blame them, how to say, this is also to understand the situation on the front line. And in the past few days, Tan Renhao has not relaxed much, he has not understood. Why did the naval command change the arrangement of the fleet's operations at this juncture, did it enter the North Atlantic. Wouldn't it be important to force Britain to surrender and encircle the United States?

Tan Renhao's doubts were quickly answered before the convoy arrived. He had already roughly thought of the reason for the temporary change of the combat plan of the naval command, and there was only one force that could force the naval command to change the operational plan, and that was from the cabinet, or the pressure of the prime minister, and the prime minister would only directly intervene in the army's combat operations under one circumstance, that is, this combat operation had very great political significance.

The battle plan and orders sent by the naval headquarters were directly handed over to Tan Renhaodi, and the officer who sent the letter did not go to Han Shaofeng. The document is divided into three parts, one is the joint combat mission of the Marine Corps and the fleet, the second is the next combat operation of the fleet, and finally, and most importantly, a copy of a confidential document is given to Tan Renhao, which finally explains Tan Renhao's doubts.

"Do you need to inform Hao Dongjue and the new general?" Zhu Rongzhe happened to be in the port at that time to deal with some fleet affairs.

"No, let's wait for Han Shaofeng to come back." Tan Renhao knew that the top-secret document could not be shown to others, "By the way, didn't you say that a batch of maintenance equipment has arrived?" Let's take a look first, if you can. Arrange the maintenance work as soon as possible. Also, the new fighters and the pilots of the additional ground should also be arranged."

"Then I'll take care of these things." Zhu Rongzhe said goodbye and left very interestingly.

After the chief of staff left, Tan Renhao instructed Duchenne not to let anyone in, then closed the door and came back to open the top-secret document. After spending two hours carefully reading this document, Tan Renhao no longer felt doubtful.

The order is indeed issued directly by the Prime Minister, and the mission is indeed to occupy the entire Central American region, annihilate all the American troops here, and ultimately aim to solve the threat to Mexico. Or rather, to put pressure on Mexico, which eventually brought Mexico into the war and became a major force attacking American soil.

The document is divided into several parts, the first of which is only its general outline, and there is still much to be done to make Mexico a force in the fight against the United States.

The first is to convince the Mexican government and convince the Mexican president. Sooner or later, the United States will be defeated, and after the defeat, the United States will lose its influence in the Americas. If Mexico continues to surrender to the United States, it will not gain any benefits, and it will become an enemy of the Tang Empire, and will eventually be destroyed. It was wiped out before the United States. This is a work that belongs to diplomacy as well as covert diplomacy. The army has not yet been able to intervene . However, judging from the Prime Minister's arrangement of the naval attack on Central America, there may have been a problem in the secret negotiations with Mexico, or in other words, Mexico has been shaken, but it has not completely turned, so the Imperial Navy must launch a large-scale military operation in Central America, which can prove that the United States is in decline, and second, it can also make Mexico feel a real threat, and finally make a choice between the Tang Empire and the United States.

Achieve the goal through military pressure. This is the simplest and most straightforward means. After the United States entered the war, Mexico repeatedly declared its neutrality, but in reality, Mexico was never a neutral country like Brazil. From the ground intelligence collected by the imperial intelligence agencies, from 21 to 26 years, Mexico provided a large number of strategic materials to the United States, and even to the United States 10,000 laborers, not including labor entering the United States through illegal means such as smuggling. A document from the U.S. government at the time was enough to illustrate this during the war. Mexicans account for about 40 percent of the workers in the U.S. textile industry! Although the Mexican army never participated in the war. There were also no hostilities during the war either. But Mexico has been helping to do so

The members turned abusive, which made the Tang Empire a little unacceptable.

As a country founded by descendants of Tang and India, Mexico should be pro-Tang, not pro-American. There are many reasons for such a huge disagreement between the Tang Empire and Mexico, and the most important one is that the Tang Empire twice sacrificed the interests of Mexico, and finally made this most powerful country in North America a second-rate or even third-rate country, losing its potential to compete with the United States. Perhaps, many Mexicans consider themselves abandoned orphans, and under strong pressure from the United States, Mexico is either completely destroyed by the United States, or it is secretly living. There is no doubt that Mexico has opted for the latter over the former.

Because of its extremely unpleasant history, it is impossible to convince Mexico to enter the war at this time by diplomatic efforts alone, or even by signing several treaties that protect Mexico's interests. Military pressure is a very common method. Mexico's submission to the United States is due to fear of strong military pressure from the United States. If the military pressure of the Tang Empire is stronger than that of the United States, Mexico will reconsider its own front.

In addition to military pressure, that needs to be very good. After all, national interests are the most basic driving force. This. It is also mentioned in the document, but it is not fully stated. In Tan Renhao's view. The real impetus that can make Mexico change its mind is interests, or in other words, the Tang Empire to fulfill the promise that was not fulfilled more than 200 years ago, to help Mexico regain lost territory and restore Mexico's status on the American continent.

During the two Mexican-American wars, the United States plundered millions of square kilometers of land from Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada. Utah and Colorado were partly taken from Mexico by the United States, which was also the greatest humiliation in Mexican history, and the Second Mexican-American War broke out because Mexico wanted to regain these lands, and the United States took the first step. It can be said that Mexico would probably have become a natural ally of the United States if it were not for the land issue, and it is these land conflicts that would have been the case. Mexico cannot be a true ally with the United States. At least under the circumstances, Mexico would not be completely willing to become a vassal of the United States.

If the Empire agrees to return the land forcibly occupied by the United States to Mexico after the war. Then Mexico will become the most powerful country in North America, thus becoming the new hegemon of the American region. This temptation is quite enormous, but the question is, will the Tang Empire recognize a new overlord? Even if the situation in North America is very different from that of Europe, the Tang Empire cannot tolerate the emergence of a country similar to the United States here that has the ability to challenge the Tang Empire. There is no explicit mention in the document that Mexico will recover the lost territory after the war, which may be a key factor in Mexico's lack of attitude until now.

This is just a conjecture. If you want to defeat the United States in a short time . Then the attitude of Mexico is extremely important. As long as Mexico declares war on the United States, the United States will have to deploy a large number of troops in its southeastern region to disperse the American military forces. Further, if the United States were to be able to penetrate the United States from Mexico, then the United States would not be able to evacuate its strategic industrial bases in the eastern region and combine it with large-scale strategic bombing. At that time, there may not be a need to fight a grueling landing operation on the east coast of the United States, and the United States will be defeated.

And that's just from a military point of view. But war is not decided by the soldiers, but by the politicians. Xue Xiyue's attitude towards Europe is very clear, so his attitude towards North America is similar. Even if it takes 10,000 steps back, the Tang Empire promises to help Mexico recover the lost territory and return the land forcibly occupied by the United States to Mexico after the war, and it will take a lot of work to make Mexico a powerful force to attack the United States, the most important of which is military assistance.

There are two types of military aid, one is to send troops directly, and the other is to provide war materials such as weapons and ammunition.

It is more difficult to send troops directly. Even if the empire will send troops to Mexico, it will not be possible to undertake the main combat mission, mainly because Mexico does not have too many military bases, and at the same time the logistics support is quite difficult, the daily consumption of an infantry division of the Imperial Army is more than four times that of the same troops in Mexico, if millions of troops are invested, it will be a disaster for logistics support. In addition, the Empire does not want to lose too many men here, and perhaps even the army is not willing to spend too much effort in Mexico. There are also many other problems. For example, the impact of terrain conditions on ground combat. Problems that may be exposed in the coordinated operation of the two armies. There is also the greatest possible land value from the Mexican invasion of the continental United States, and so on. Therefore, it is unlikely that the Empire will be able to invest heavily in the Mexican front, and at most it will only be able to play a supporting and reinforcing role.

In terms of war material aid, the problem is much simpler, Mexico has enough human resources, and most of the ordinary materials, such as food, clothing, medicine, etc., can be obtained directly locally, and do not need to be transported from the empire itself, so the empire only needs to provide equipment and ammunition, in addition, it has to train the Mexican army, so that the Mexican army can defeat the more elite U.S. army on the battlefield. This also requires a lot of logistical support forces, especially maritime forces, but the pressure to provide material aid is much less than sending troops directly to participate in the Mexican battle, and anyway, the number of people sacrificed by the Mexican army has little to do with the empire.

By these means, Mexico has a high probability of falling to the Empire, fighting for the Empire in 28 years. This is still speculation, after all, it takes a lot of work to get Mexico into the war zone. Now, they have to take the first step to take out the American troops in Central America. Advance the front to near the southern border of Mexico. When the time comes, Mexico will definitely soften on the issue of where to negotiate, and Mexico will have to choose the former when it chooses whether to be attacked by the empire or by the United States.

After reading the document, Tan Renhao went and brought a map and studied it carefully.

It was indeed very difficult to attack from Panama to the north, and the Loki Mountains, which stretched all the way to the eastern part of Panama, were the biggest obstacle for the imperial army to attack from the ground, which was even more troublesome than the American resistance. It is precisely with the help of this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain that the U.S. military is making trouble for Han Shaofeng. So that the Marines did not reach Costa Rica for several months, and they lost a lot of local officers and soldiers.

Relatively speaking, it is easier to defeat the US army by landing directly in the area of the border with Nicaragua in the north of Costa Rica. It is already located behind the US military line, and with Lake Nicaragua as the center, the terrain of the area is mainly plains, and the river network is relatively dense. Suitable for Marine offense. If you can put a few divisions of the ground marines here. And if you strengthen the ground armor strength of the Marine Corps, you will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

After this step, the Marines do not need to advance directly to the north by land, and can launch several more landing campaigns. For example, in the southern part of Honduras, in the Gulf of Fonseca, in the coastal areas of El Salvador and the southern part of Guatemala. The main objective of these landing operations was to seize ports. Establish front-line airfields in preparation for the next offensive . Finally, the Marines could land in the southern part of Mexico on the border with Guatemala. It is best to land directly in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Honduras between Guatemala and Belize, where the terrain is flatter and more suitable for Marines.

After these steps, the U.S. forces in Central America will be divided into several parts, and as long as the fleet enters the Caribbean Sea, these U.S. forces will be alone, and they will have to surrender to the Imperial Marines without any aid or supplies.

Thinking of this, Tan Renhao already had a relatively complete battle plan in his mind, and the biggest problem in the entire combat operation was time and the combat materials needed. The landing operation requires a lot of time to prepare, and at the same time, the consumption of ground materials is far more than that of regular ground combat, if there is not enough time, and sufficient material support, Han Shaofeng will not be able to complete the combat operation within four months!