For the U.S. Navy, or even for the U.S. for 7 years? The moon and the day are all disaster days that the ice and children forget. [No pop-up novel network]

In the early hours of the same day, after the U.S. Navy's combat fleet voluntarily withdrew from the area of engagement, the U.S. Navy ships operating near the Cape Verde's Islands suffered unprecedented losses.

In the words of some Western war historians, after this day, the U.S. Navy was wiped out.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. In the battle that day, the navy fleet, air force, and army air force of the Republic of China, which had seized sea and air supremacy, sank and captured more than four US warships of various types, and less than four of them were captured, with a total tonnage of more than 10,000 tons, killing nearly 10,000 US officers and men, and rescuing as many US officers and men as many as they did in the next week. More than one person.

War is brutal. And the winner gets it all, and the loser loses everything.

Although the US Navy did not lose many large warships in this naval battle, two of the three main fleets slipped away, and the air fleet did not lose a single one, almost all the auxiliary ships on which the US Navy combat fleet depended, especially the combat support ships that supported the fleet in conducting ocean-going operations, were almost all sunk. In the words of a British naval historian, after the "Battle of the Cape Verde Islands," the U.S. Navy was reduced to a "North Atlantic Navy," and its combat fleet could only operate in the North Atlantic, close to the American continent, and lost the ability to compete with the Republican Navy for sea supremacy in the open oceans.

It can be seen that even if the US Navy retains many large warships, it has lost its ability to counterattack.

Of course, for the republic, the outcome of this naval battle can definitely be described as unexpected.

Not to mention strategic decision-makers like Pei Chengyi, who did not know much about naval warfare, even Hua Jianfeng, who planned this naval battle, and Zhang Xuefeng, who coordinated and commanded in the rear, did not expect that the US Navy would make such a stupid move, preferring to lose more valuable support ships than to fight a decisive battle with the fleet of the Republic of China. You must know that before the battle began, even Hua Jianfeng and Zhang Xuefeng did not doubt the final result, thinking that the US Navy would undoubtedly lose, but both of them believed that the US Navy would fight to the death, and even if it could not fight, it would have to buy time for many auxiliary ships, especially the several sea bases that had been deployed in place, to retreat and avoid suffering greater losses.

Suffice it to say, no one thought at that time that the US Navy would turn into a coward.

Importantly, this. The result was more favorable for the republic.

Strategically, in the event that the US Navy loses its combat mission to the other side of the Atlantic. It was inevitable that the U.S. Army would lose the war in the Middle East. More importantly, the United States will not only lose the war in the Middle East, but also the entire North African region, and there will be no need to continue to defend the Strait of Gibraltar.

To put it simply, if the Republic Navy can occupy the Cape Verde Islands, it will be able to use the Cape Verde Islands as a springboard to enter the Caribbean Sea. In addition, the republic has a general African relationship with several countries on the southern coast of the Caribbean, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, so as long as the republic proves capable of entering the Caribbean. It will make these countries that did not dare to offend the United States before and stayed outside the battlefield become intensive bloc allies. It became a springboard for the Republic to enter the North American continent. In this way, the Navy of the Republic can march into Panama from three directions, south, east and west, and after controlling the Panama Canal, it will be able to send supplies to the Caribbean from the Pacific side, which is slightly shorter than the route to the Caribbean Sea through the Indian Ocean and then around the Cape of Good Hope, and only slightly longer than the route to the Caribbean Sea through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar, and there is no longer a need to cross North Africa and the Strait of Gibraltar with the United States.

Politically, this allowed the republic to bypass Europe and thus marginalize Europe.

It can be said that this is the fundamental reason why the authorities of the Republic have conquered the Cape Verde Islands even at the expense of heavy losses.

In any case, a world war is different from a general war in that it is a collection of multiple local wars, so the political factor in a world war is much more important than the military factor.

Although Sino-European cooperation accelerated the course of the war to a great extent, it even had a great impact on the final outcome of World War III. But fundamentally, the authorities of the republic certainly do not want to be like the United States many years ago. After winning the world war with hard work, it will have to face a formidable opponent, even if it is almost impossible to rule out that Europe will definitely replace the United States as a great power with the strength to challenge the republic.

Preventing the rise of Europe was basically the main purpose of the republican authorities in the later stages of this war.

It must be admitted that even if the war is won. The Republic was also devastated.

Although throughout the war, thanks to the strategy of land first and then sea, that is, first concentrating forces to attack Russia to ensure land security, and then turning to the ocean to compete with the United States for global hegemony, plus Russia was too weak to win, it was much worse than expected before the war, and it did not even have the strength to resist in front of the Republic Army, and soon lost the war. It could not pose a serious threat to the Republic itself, so the Republic itself was basically not threatened, and even if it was bombed, the losses were not large. However, no one can deny that in order to win this war, the republic has exhausted all the capital accumulated over the years, and its national strength has been greatly affected.

According to a document declassified nearly 100 years after the end of the war, it was back then, that is, when the dawn of victory in the Pacific War could be seen. The authorities of the republic set up a secret agency responsible to the Yuan to assess the losses caused by the war and the basic conditions needed to restore the strength of the two forces after the war. And what resources should be used in the name of war to focus on reserves. More importantly, these proposals had a common purpose, that is, after the end of the Great War. Restore the country's strength as quickly as possible and seize the benefits of war.

Among the recommendations put forward by the agency is to contain Europe.

According to the declassified data, whether or not it can successfully curb the rising momentum of Europe has become the key to whether it can obtain the benefits of war and dominate the world.

In this report, which has been sealed for almost a hundred years. The anonymous drafters explicitly mentioned that if Europe could not be marginalized during the war, the republic would face a post-war dilemma: either prepare for World War IV with the West or share the fruits of victory with a united Europe.

In a sense, there is no choice at all.

To put it bluntly, even if the authorities of the republic are willing to take a step back. Share the fruits of victory with Europe. As the Western world unites again with Europe at its core, the republic will inevitably face even greater challenges. In other words. This only delayed the explosion of the Fourth World War.

If we want to avoid a fourth world war, we have to marginalize Europe.

This can be clearly seen from the strategy of the republic.

It can be said that in the matter of Europe's participation in the war, the authorities of the republic made full use of Europe. Although almost all Europeans see Russia as an Eastern country, and Russians as Orientals. But in terms of basic culture, Russians are more like Europeans than Asians, or more inclined to Christian civilization. Europe's entry into World War III by declaring war on Russia was in itself a strategic blunder. The biggest effect is to make Europe lose the possibility of an alliance with Russia. In the short term, this is beneficial to Europe, because the presence of Russia avoids the danger of being a direct neighbor of the republic, and thus wins a broader space for Europe to develop. But in the long run. As long as the republic achieves the final victory in the Great War. It will land on the American continent and try to control the Pacific Rim, thus forming a situation of sandwiching Europe between the two sides, so that Europe will lose the opportunity for large-scale expansion. In other words, even if Europe can control the European continent, control North Africa in the south, and control the North Atlantic, it will be a regional power at most, or a world power with very limited influence. But it can become a great power like the United States.

If Europe wants to change this, its only chance is to expand into the American continent.

In other words, Europe should take advantage of the opportunity of the republic to defeat the United States, gain a firm foothold on the American continent, and gain the opportunity to march from the Americas to the Pacific Ocean, so as to break the blockade of the republic and become a power with global influence that is no less powerful than that of the United States.

Knowing this, one can understand what the republic is going to do.

On the other hand, the protracted procrastination of the authorities of the Republic on the Middle East battlefield is that they do not want Europe to play a greater role in the Middle East issue.

In the case of having already achieved superiority in troops. The fact that the authorities of the republic did not make a decision to march into North Africa is also related to this.

Of course, the question of whether to enter Morocco is obviously not so simple.

From the point of view of containing Europe and stopping its global expansion, the ideal way is certainly not to build a wall around Europe. You must know that before the outbreak of World War III, the United States had spent more than 40 years proving it. Containment can only lead a powerful power to the extreme. However, it cannot fundamentally resolve the contradictions between major powers.

It can be said that before cultural integration, the effective solution is to create problems for the subject and make the subject unable to expand.

In fact, this was also before the year of force. The basic way in which the United States treats the Republic. If it weren't for the fact that the Republic had mastered the key technology of the electric revolution, the trouble created by the United States for the Republic would have become a stepping stone to the rise of the Republic, otherwise in the case of the Republic, let alone 40 years, even if it came for another 40 years, it would not necessarily be able to gain the strength to challenge the United States, let alone replace the United States.

The most effective way for a republic to prevent the rise of Europe is to create problems for Europe.

To create contradictions between Europe and Russia is to create problems for Europe.

The problem is that, after all, Russia is not an authentic European country, and it has never been recognized by European countries, so Russia can only be regarded as an external contradiction in Europe at best. To deal with Europe. It is necessary to grasp the internal contradictions of Jizhou.

The problem is that there are not many internal contradictions in Europe, and even the national contradictions that led to the first two world wars have disappeared in the decades since the establishment of the European Union. More importantly, European countries also attach great importance to internal problems, and the countries of the European continent, such as France and Germany, have been trying to use war to resolve internal contradictions, such as trying to get Spain to change its mind after the outbreak of the Great War. Distanced itself from the United States and joined the group of countries of continental Europe. Norway on the Scandinavian peninsula has been not a member of the European Union for about 2 years, adding a member state and consolidating the EU's northern flank defense. By the middle of the anvil year, Belarus was drawn into the arms of Moldova, and a pro-European regime was established in occupied western Ukraine. When the Republic's Navy fought the U.S. Navy in the waters of the Cape Verde Islands, Europe was ahead of the Republic. The end of military control in the Russian-occupied territories and the establishment of a predominantly Russian-dominated provisional government

Importantly, Europe pursued the secret agreement and joined its other countries, the United States, in condemning Britain's post-war belonging. That is, before the war came to talk about the end. Europe has consolidated its home defenses.

You're welcome. If the republic wants to make a fuss in Europe itself, the only option is to go to war with Europe.

It is not impossible that, at least according to that secret document, the authorities of the Republic considered this issue several times from the second half of the year to the middle of the year.

According to some unconfirmed rumors, at the beginning of the year, the Supreme Command of the Republic instructed the General Staff Headquarters to draw up a general war plan for the combat operation of attacking Europe, and to make a rough estimate of the security of victory, the number of troops to be invested, and the duration of the battle. This strategic plan was handed over to the Yuan government in the middle of the period, but it was not turned into actual action until the end of the war. Even so, it can be seen. By the second half of the following year, the authorities of the Republic had placed their European strategy in a very important position. It was not until the second half of the year, as the march into the Atlantic approached that the authorities of the Republic abandoned their intention to venture in Europe. Understanding this truth, it is not difficult to understand the strategic actions of the Republic after the Battle of Cape Buddha's Islands.

In the early part of the year, when the Navy of the Republic supported the landing of the marines on the Cape Verde Islands. The Army of the Republic of China used the military base in West Africa as a springboard to carry out the combat operation codenamed "Longbow", and in one fell swoop crossed many kilometers to capture Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco by surprise attack.

Although the Republic's attack on Morocco had long been expected by the U.S. military, even Duchway did not expect that the Republican Army would be so impressed and attack three large port cities at the same time. What's more. These are three of the most important ports in Morocco!

Affected by this, only the defenders of Casablanca put up a stubborn resistance.

Judging by some of the materials published after the war. At that time, the U.S. military firmly believed that the Republic Army would march into Morocco, and the target of the attack was Casablanca, mainly Casablanca, a large port south of Rabat, with a throughput capacity of hundreds of millions of tons. From a military point of view, after capturing Casablanca, the Republican ** team can use it as a base to control the Atlantic coast of North Africa, without seizing more ports, let alone attacking heavily guarded Rabat without a stable foothold, reducing the operational risk. It is precisely for this reason that the US military has formulated a relative operational strategy. That is, after the attack on Casablanca. The defenders of Rabat immediately moved south to block the Republican Army, while the American troops who stayed on the offshore transport vessels would enter Rabat within an hour. Strengthen the defenses, counterattack when the offensive of the Republic Army is frustrated, and drive the unstable Republican ** team out of Morocco.

The plan was ideal, but it lacked flexibility.

What's more, the Moroccan army in Rabat moved south to attack Casablanca, which gave the Republican Army the opportunity to assault Rabat. As a result, the defenders of Rabat were surrounded and annihilated on their way south.

The U.S. military did not get the required mouth hours. Before the first troops could go ashore, Rabat was occupied by the Republican **.

Because Tangier was also attacked, the US military immediately abandoned the idea of counterattacking Rabat. It is important to know that Tangier, located on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, has a more important strategic position. If the Republican ** team is allowed to occupy this port. Not only would it provide a reliable anchorage for the Republic's fleet passing through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and then on its way to the Atlantic, but it would also be able to easily control the Strait of Gibraltar.

It's a pity that when the U.S. military came over and prepared to counterattack Tangier. The Army of the Republic has already sent a main combat unit over with great speed.

The result can be imagined: Unless the U.S. military gathers more than 10,000 ground troops and invests sufficient naval and air support forces, it will not want to defeat Tangier, which is guarded by a main combat unit. Then. There will be no fewer US ground troops in the waters off Morocco than there will be in the old 10,000, but the naval and air forces that can provide support to the ground forces are pitiful.

Not to mention a shrewd commander, even the stupidest commander will know the odds and retreat.

The U.S. military was forced to abandon Morocco, which was tantamount to abandoning the millions of troops on the battlefield in the Middle East.

Militarily speaking, the strategic detour of the Republic Army around the African continent created a miracle of war. When the door closed, many people realized that all the actions of the Republic on the battlefield of the African continent were in the service of combat operations on the battlefield in the Middle East. Anyway. The cost of sweeping the West African theater and marching into Morocco is much lower than the decisive battle against millions of American troops in the Middle East.

For the millions of beauties who are trapped. All that's left is to surrender to whom.

At this point, Europe has no choice but to get involved in the Middle East war as soon as possible and save millions of American soldiers, otherwise the entire Western world will fall apart.

Strategically, the republic won very beautifully this time.

Of course, this is just the beginning, and it would be a mistake to think that the focus is on the east coast of the Atlantic

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