With the support of Gan Yongxing, Tan Renhao's work was quickly put on track, and the most important thing was the timely intelligence.

Before the outbreak of the war, both the Imperial Navy and the 6th Army had their own intelligence agencies, which was also caused by the long-term discord between the Navy and the 6th Army, and the lack of a unified military organization in the Empire (the Navy and the 6th Army each had their own military departments, and both were ministerial-level government agencies, while the Ministry of Defense was established in the later stages of the war). After the outbreak of the war, the imperial intelligence agencies were complicated, the intelligence collection capacity was lacking, and the huge waste was so much that Xue Xiyue first rectified the intelligence systems of the two armies, and integrated the intelligence bureau of the 6th Army and the naval intelligence bureau into the imperial affairs bureau, which was responsible for all military intelligence. This integration was not easy, and in the first year of the war, the reform of the intelligence department led to a significant reduction in the Empire's intelligence-gathering capabilities, which eventually led to the failure of the Imperial Navy and the 6th Army in several battlefields. This phenomenon was curbed in the second half of '22, and the Military Intelligence Bureau gradually moved to the official operational orbit; The Intelligence Service, formerly located in the Naval Staff, was not abolished, but was retained and was responsible for obtaining information from the Military Intelligence Agency and transferring it to the Naval Staff. Tan Renhao obtained the information from the intelligence department, and after Gan Yongxing gave the order, the intelligence department sent the information over as soon as possible.

On September 18, the first important piece of information arrived.

"This is from MIS!"

Hao Dongjue was directly responsible for getting back information from the military intelligence department, and he went there almost three times a day in the morning, noon and evening. "Russia is definitely aware of the danger on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, and this is their new military mobilization plan, which is ready to invest 45 new divisions on the Eastern Front to strengthen the defense of the Eastern Front. This part of the force has now reached Volgograd from Moscow, and the rest will probably be in place by October 10. At that time, the number of troops that Russia will put into the battlefield on the Eastern Front will reach 18o divisions! ”

"It seems that Lao Maozi has finally realized the danger, and our military movement has not hidden it from them."

Tan Renhao took over the information. After a quick glance, the question immediately appeared: "Russia directly transferred reserves on the Western Front to strengthen the defense of the Eastern Front?" ”

Hao Dongjue nodded, then cocked Erlang's legs and lit a cigarette. "Directly from Minsk. Originally, Russia planned to devote 12o divisions of troops to launch a strategic offensive against Germany on the Western Front, and the time was planned to be at the end of this year. At present, Marshal Yan Dingyu has sent an additional 55 divisions to the northwest battlefield. It is also planned to send another 75 divisions by the end of November and prepare three months of offensive supplies. At that time, our investment in the northwestern battlefield will reach 24o divisions, and if Russia does not strengthen the defense of the Eastern Front, then they may not see next winter. ”

Tan Renhao stood up and walked back and forth in the room.

After the outbreak of the war, Russia did not rush into the war, but first carried out domestic mobilization. Later, Russia joined the anti-Tang alliance and secretly negotiated with Japan. After the Japanese army landed on the 6 Korean Peninsula. Russia would declare war on the Tang Empire and contain the Tang Empire on the Eastern Front so that Japan could capture the Korean Peninsula. East and West flanked the Tang Empire. But in fact, the Japanese army has been doing nothing on the Korean Peninsula, and it has only created a lot of trouble for the Tang Empire. The Russian Empire soon shifted its focus to the European theater of war, which it fought with Germany over the Vistula River for several months. They then broke through the German lines and began to advance towards the German mainland (not the German-occupied zone after World War I).

From here on, Russia has been focusing on the Western Front. This choice was not wrong, the Tang Empire was vast, and the northwest region had always been the most remote region of the Tang Empire, and the depth of defense of thousands of kilometers made it impossible for the Russian Empire to defeat the Tang Empire quickly. On the contrary, Germany controlled the area west of the Vistula River after World War I. It stretches hundreds of kilometers to the east, but Dublin in Germany is only a few hundred kilometers east of the country. The depth of this strategy is not enough to ensure the security of the homeland, let alone the security of the capital. Therefore, in the early stage of the war, Russia overwhelmed Germany, cooperated with Britain, France, Italy, and Spain, first killed Germany, and then went south to encircle and suppress the Persian Empire, and after eradicating all the "henchmen" of the Tang Empire. Finally, concentrate on taking out the Tang Empire.

In fact, this was the basic strategy of the Tang Alliance during World War I. The territory of the Tang Empire was too vast, and its center was in the eastern and southern coastal regions. If you attack from 6 lands, no country can defeat the Tang Empire on the territory of the Tang Empire. The only way to do this was to first destroy all the barriers in the western part of the Tang Empire (mainly the Persian Empire), disintegrate the Tang Empire's allies, and finally isolate the Tang Empire, seize sea supremacy, threaten the eastern and southern coastal areas of the Tang Empire, and force the Tang Empire to surrender or destroy the Tang Empire.

Similarly, the Tang Empire recognized this problem as early as World War I. Germany was able to survive the most difficult three years of World War I (1298 to 13o1 in the Tang calendar) entirely thanks to the strong assistance of the Tang Empire. After World War I, the Tang Empire also allocated a large amount of money to repair the intercontinental railway between the Tang Empire and the German Empire (passing through the Persian Empire on the way), and completed the construction of 6 strategic arteries. After the outbreak of the war, this strategic artery became the lifeline of Germany, and in the first two years of the war, seventy percent of the war materials supplied by the Tang Empire to Germany were transported through this railway line. At present, the Tang Empire, the Persian Empire, and the German Empire are making every effort to build a double railway line, striving to double the transportation capacity of the railway to meet the huge consumption on the European battlefield.

In fact, this 6-way artery not only saved Germany, but also the Tang Empire. Without this artery, the supplies of the Tang Empire could only be transported to Germany by sea. After the Nanyang region fell into the hands of Japan (one of the main purposes of Japan's occupation of the South Seas was to cut off the sea lines of communication between the Tang Empire and the German Empire and the Persian Empire), the Tang Empire's supplies could only be sent by road to the ports of the Persian Empire and South Asia, and then loaded onto ships to the German Empire, and in the first year of the war, the Japanese navy was active in the northeastern Indian Ocean, which was not only inefficient but also very unsafe. As a result, during the first two years of the war, the German Empire's most scarce strategic resources (oil, aluminum, rubber, grain) were almost exclusively transported through the six major arteries.

Germany was able to survive the brutal fighting in the first two years, and the benefits to the Tang Empire were also very huge, otherwise the Tang Empire would not have desperately provided strategic materials to Germany when it was seriously lacking in strategic materials (the transportation cost of Route 6 was very high, taking oil as an example, every ton of oil sent to Germany needed to consume three tons of diesel fuel on the road. Or eight tons of coal) because of Germany's insistence, Britain, France, Italy, and Spain have not been able to divide their troops south. The significance is enormous. The frenzied attack of the German submarine force in the North Atlantic forced Britain and France, the two traditional European naval powers, to concentrate most of their escort warships on their sea routes with the United States (which is also the maritime lifeline of Britain and France), in addition, the German high seas fleet has not been destroyed, and it may be killed out of the Baltic Sea at any time, creating a huge threat to Britain and France (especially in the first World War, Germany's high seas fleet almost killed the British Grand Fleet and seized the control of the North Atlantic, and if Britain lost the sea supremacy, it would be completely finished), and as a result, the British and French naval fleets all remained in the North Atlantic。 And he didn't dare to go south to clean up the small fleet that the Tang Empire deployed in the South Atlantic Ocean was not large in scale and many warships were about to break down. It was impossible to go out to the Indian Ocean to assist the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy against the main fleet of the Tang Empire.

Perhaps the servicemen could not understand the significance of the great assistance provided by the Don Empire to the German Empire. But politicians are well aware of the significance of strategic assistance. Whether it was Xue Xi, Yue Xiang, or Zonghan, Qin Dynasty, and Tang Empire, they all supported the German Empire. Mutual assistance in the "Big Three" has crossed the boundaries of states.

Of the three allies, the Tang Empire was undoubtedly the most powerful, and if necessary, the Tang Empire could even shoulder the burden of war alone. From the point of view of the comparison of industrial strength, if the Tang Empire was 1oo, then the Persian Empire was 55 and the German Empire was 7o. Judging by the total amount of strategic resources, if the Tang Empire is 1oo. Then the Persian Empire was 65 and the German Empire was 45. In terms of population (another extremely important strategic resource), if the Tang Empire was 1oo, then the Persian Empire was 3o and the German Empire was 38. Judging by the strength of the 6 armies, if the Tang Empire was 1oo, then the Persian Empire was 5o, and the German Empire was 75. Judging by the naval strength, if the Tang Empire is 1oo. Then the Persian Empire was 4o and the German Empire was 55.

These are enough to show how important the Tang Empire's position in the "Big Three Alliance" (which was a name given after the war for the position of the "Reverse Tang Alliance") is, but this does not mean that the Tang Empire does not need allies. On the contrary, the Tang Empire needed allies, especially such strong allies as the Persian Empire and the German Empire. This is directly related to the survival of the Tang Empire and whether the Tang Empire can continue to maintain its status as the world hegemon. Similarly, in the "Triumvirate Alliance", the Persian Empire and the German Empire had an irreplaceable position.

Of the three countries, the Persian Empire was the weakest in terms of military resources and manpower, and its tasks were the most minor. However, the status of the Persian Empire is second only to that of the Tang Empire, firstly because of its important strategic position, and secondly because of its extremely rich oil resources.

The Persian Empire connected the Tang Empire with the German Empire, and its position was irreplaceable by other countries. And the most important is the oil resources of the Persian Empire. During World War I, the most important energy source was coal, and after World War I, the emergence of heavy oil boilers and internal combustion engines not only gave the navy a more powerful power, so that the 6th Army had a large number of mechanized equipment, so that fighters could fly into the sky, but also made oil the most important strategic resource. At that time, several large oil fields in the Persian Gulf region have now solved this problem. The Persian Empire was the largest oil producer of the three countries and was tasked with supplying oil to the Tang and German empires throughout the war.

The German Empire was the point of support for the "Big Three" in the West. What role did the Tang Empire play in the east of the world, and what role did the German Empire play in the west of the world. The German Empire was an important weight to hold back the other European powers, and it was an important guarantee that the Tang Empire could free up its hands to clean up Japan first.

This important strategic relationship between the "Big Three Alliance" actually determines the outcome of the war. The Tang Empire would not abandon the German Empire, and now that Japan had fallen, the Tang Empire should shift its attention to help the German Empire stabilize the situation first, and then consider the next step of the war.

"It seems that in the short term the focus of the empire will turn to the European theater."

Tan Renhao stopped, and after thinking about this, he also felt that his eyes were brighter, "But this is exactly what the United States wants to see, and the more we shift our focus to the west, the greater the benefits to the United States." ”

"Here's the problem, if Russia holds out for a few more years like last time, then we're not finished?"

Hao Dongjue shook his head: "Maybe we should concentrate on cleaning up the United States first, and then go to deal with Russia." If Germany can't do it, it will be enough to hold out for two or three years! ”

"The question is, will we be able to get rid of the United States in two or three years?"

Tan Renhao laughed, "And this is decided by Lord Xiang, not by us." ”

"If it continues to be fought as it is now, the Big 6 War will last for two or three years, which is equivalent to giving the United States two or three years of respite!"

"It's none of our business, and we can't influence it, all we have to do is let the Navy know how to fight the United States as soon as possible."

Tan Renhao sat down: "As long as the United States enters the war, the focus of the empire will shift back." We have always regarded the United States as our biggest imaginary enemy, and although the United States is far away across the ocean, it is the most formidable enemy we have to face. As long as we start a war with the United States, the first two or three years of war are the most crucial, and as long as we and the United States grasp the initial initiative, then we can control the course of the war and win the final victory. It's like a master's move, and often the winner or loser is between one or two hits! ”

Both laughed, but both laughed a little bitterly.