The Occupy and Nationalist Marines successfully obtained the new bite of Lidonia, and waited for the cadres to be on the U.S. Haiji Road. [Full text reading]

Although the infrastructure of New Caledonia is not perfect, there are even fewer that can be used by the army. For example, Noumea International Airport can only accommodate dozens of transport planes, and there is not enough electricity supply, and as the largest deep-water port among the many archipelago in the southwest Pacific, Noumea Port can only accept several merchant ships at the same time. The annual throughput capacity is about 10 million tons. However, such rudimentary infrastructure did not change the strategic position of New Caledonia, and in a matter of months, the engineers were able to build a temporary air base on the island that could accommodate thousands of aircraft, increase the throughput capacity of the port of Noumea several times, and even build a comprehensive military base large enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of marines on nearby islands with superior conditions, such as Tyerbol Island to the east.

Relatively speaking, the most important thing is the geographical concubine of New Meledonia.

Noumea is about a kilometer from Brisbane to the location of the U.S. Southwest Pacific Theater Command, the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet Command, the U.S. Army's 8th Army Command, and the U.S. Marine Corps Southwest Pacific Theater Command. It is also Australia's largest commercial port and economic center. kilometers to Melbourne, Australia's administrative capital, the second largest city after Sydney, with a population of about 40,000 kilometers, to Adelaide, the largest city in southern Australia, with a population of about 10,000. Kilometers to Lord Howe Island, the home port of the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet in the Southwest Pacific, and the U.S. Navy's main base in the Southwest Pacific, is the only one. It can be seen from this that with the Republican ** team based in New Caledonia, shore-based aviation can cover the southeastern region of Australia and provide support and cover for combat operations in this direction. More importantly, the activities of the main fleet of the Republic Navy in the waters east of Australia can be fully covered.

Considering that Noumea to Wellington New Zealand is only about a kilometer away, the main fleet of the Republic Navy does not even need to go deep into the South Pacific, and about a kilometer south of Noumea, Norfolk Island, patrolling the waters near Australia, can bombard southeastern Australia, Lord Howe Island, and most of New Zealand with heavy shells projected by large-caliber electromagnetic guns.

Leaving aside for the time being how much the main fleet is intent on bombarding the shore, the impact of the loss of sea supremacy is enough for the US Navy to resist desperately.

In any case, Australia is a country without "depth". Although as the largest "island" in the world. "Or the smallest continent, the Australian continent covers an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, but except for the southeast, about eighty percent of the area is desert. Affected by this, more than eighty percent of Australia's population is concentrated in the southeast region, and almost all large and medium-sized cities, most of the industrial facilities, major ports, and major economic centers are all in the southeast region. To put it figuratively, the south-east, with an area of 40,000 square meters, basically encompasses the whole of Australia. Elsewhere, the vast deserts are more like oceans that cannot be navigated.

Strategically speaking, after the Republican Marines gained a foothold in New Caledonia, the significance of attacking Australia was also much reduced. Other words. If the risks and costs of landing in Australia are too great, the Republican ** team can completely use strategic blockade and strategic bombing to defeat Australia.

The US authorities have a very deep understanding of this.

As early as the second half of this year, the Pentagon conducted a simulation exercise. This includes the way in which the Republic will control the Southwest Pacific after Europe enters the war and France opens New Caledonia to the Republic. According to the conclusions of the calculations, if Europe had only entered the war and supported the Republic's combat operations in the Pacific, it would have been very likely that the authorities of the Republic would abandon the landing in Australia and instead attack New Zealand, which would then be used to blockade Australia and use the air forces deployed in New Meledonia to carry out strategic bombing of Australia and destroy Australia's self-sustaining capabilities. Although this is not enough to completely conquer Australia, after all, as a country with an area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers and a population of more than "B". Australia is self-sustaining, and with its vast agricultural production capacity, it can keep society afloat even in the face of blockades and bombings. But do it. It will certainly deprive Australia of its strategic value, that is, it will not be able to support the combat operations of the US military in the direction of the South-West Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

The key, of course, is bombing, not blockade.

For a country like Australia, it will certainly not be able to achieve its goals with a strategic blockade as it did with Japan in the first place.

As mentioned many times before, when it comes. The war mobilization of the republic will be complete. In fact, this is also the time when the US authorities are making deductions. The key reasons why we should set the time point in the year of Shi. Judging from some materials collected after the war, in the middle of the four years, the US intelligence services came to the conclusion based on the information available to them that the Republic would be able to complete the entire war mobilization within two years, so that the country's war productivity would reach its peak. This means: In this year, in addition to producing 10,000 old main battle platforms, 10,000 tactical fighters, 10,000 tactical transport planes, 10,000-ton warships, 10,000-ton merchant ships, and 40,000 tons of ammunition of various types, the military factories of the Republic can also produce 10,000 strategic bombers for the space army! Counting the four strategic bombers produced before this, even if the battle damage and damage are removed. In addition to the loss of many bombers in the continental and Middle East theaters, the Celestial Army of the Republic was able to put in tens of thousands of bombers one after another in the field year.

There is no doubt that on any battlefield, this is a devastating strike force that no one dares to ignore.

According to the estimates of the US authorities, it only takes four bombers and about 10,000 tons of ammunition to force the US troops to withdraw from Australia in about six months, making Australia completely lose its war potential and become the largest isolated island in the world.

As a result, when the Republican Marines landed in New Caledonia, the U.S. military was also adjusting its deployment and looking for countermeasures.

From the aforementioned point, Zi wants to blockade Australia. It's not enough to control the new bite of Ridonia, Bixiong Kou Shan prays for Cislam. Because theoretically, the U.S. military could use New Zealand as a springboard to make the fleet detour through the South Pacific. Outside the strike range of the naval aviation of the Republic with the fleet, went to Australia. In this way, there is a good chance that the republic will land in New Zealand before it lands in Australia. To this end, on the same day that France announced that it would lease the military installations and state-owned assets on New Caledonia to the Republic for a fee, the United States authorities sent to New Zealand two Marine Divisions originally planned to be sent to Australia, and reached an agreement with the New Zealand Government; During the war, the United States exercised the right to defence on its behalf, while the United States was responsible for providing New Zealand with the basic guarantees for maintaining social stability.

I have to admit that New Zealand is a country that is so weak that it is difficult to defend itself.

Although it has a land area of 10,000 square kilometers, a population close to Quwan, a very good agricultural and animal husbandry, many of New Zealand's natural agricultural products are well-known in the international market, a well-established tourism industry, and the economic strength of Oceania is second only to Australia, but New Zealand is still a small country, and it is one. A small country in a corner of the country. If it weren't for its colonial history, New Zealand would well have become a country founded by Maori. It is precisely because of its extraordinary history with the West, especially the United Kingdom, and its close relationship with the United States after the Second World War, that New Zealand is a founding member of the Western Treaty Group and one of the main allies of the United States.

For New Zealand, the greatest benefit of the alliance with the United States is nothing more than the large amount of military spending saved in peacetime.

As a remote country, New Zealand has never been under a real military threat, and even during the Second World War, it was one of the safest countries in the world. In the more than four years since the Second World War, New Zealand has remained one of the safest countries in the world, with the exception of occasional earthquakes and meteorite deaths. It can be said that this unique geographical location and natural environment allowed New Zealand to enjoy all the benefits of peace, but also made New Zealand very vulnerable in the war and had to take refuge in a certain level of power.

To put it mildly, if New Zealand does not keep up with the United States, the United States will even send troops to occupy the island nation.

In any case, New Zealand's own defence is so weak that it is basically negligible, and it is capable of preventing the Republic from occupying New Zealand. Only American GIs.

The question is. The key to keeping New Zealand is not how many additional troops are sent to New Zealand, but sea supremacy.

To put it bluntly, if there is no sea supremacy. Even if the United States deploys a million-strong army in New Zealand. It is also impossible to get the Republican ** team to abandon the landing in New Zealand.

Affected by this, when increasing troops to New Zealand. The U.S. Navy is also carrying out strategic counterattacks in Tseli.

It can be said that by this time, there is no room for the US Navy to choose.

To put it mildly, even if the U.S. Navy continues to retreat, the Third Fleet, which retreats to Spencer Bay and St. Vincent Bay to the east of Spencer Bay, will be withdrawn to southwestern Australia. The Republic Navy will also take the initiative to destroy the military base that the US Navy has built with great effort on Lord Howe Island, and then greet all the large and medium-sized cities in the southeastern region of Australia with shells and bombs, remove obstacles along the way, and chase the US Navy's Third Fleet into the Indian Ocean. Chase all the way to the South Atlantic until you drive the U.S. Navy back to its lair.

Obviously, the U.S. Navy cannot retreat all the time and must rise up to resist. In order to make it worthwhile to resist concubines. After forcing the Republican Navy to abandon its plan to go south through a counterattack, the U.S. Navy launched a large-scale combat operation that involved not only the entire strength of the Third Fleet, but also about four combat aircraft, a sea-plated base, and dozens of submarines.

More importantly, the U.S. Navy decided to send eight capital ships that had just been incorporated into active service to New Zealand and form a sister fleet with them as the core. As for whether or not to allow this fleet, which has just formed combat effectiveness, to participate in the war, the US Navy may have to think again.

All of a sudden, the southwest Pacific was stormy.

Until 2 song years! Later in the month, in addition to the three combat fleets of the Third Fleet, namely the First Fleet, the First Fleet, and the First Great Fleet, which entered the Tasman Sea through the Bass Strait, the Dibi Fleet had also reached the southwest Pacific, and the four sea bases formed a sea base group south of Lord Howe Island, and hundreds of American warplanes traveled from the west coast of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, and then to the south of Hawaii on Christmas Island. The "Strategic Air Corridor in the Pacific", which belongs to the Republic of Kiribati, Avarua in the South Cook Islands, New Zealand, and finally Australia, has arrived one after another.

The big war was imminent, but the Republic Navy was not alarmed.

By the end of the month, except for the transfer of the "Taiping Island" sea base to the waters south of Vanuatu, the Republic Navy only allowed the fleet to operate in the waters north of Nucoredonia and did not go south to the Tasman Sea. In contrast, the Republican Marines were also not very active, after sending troops to take over the military facilities in New Caledonia. Only brigades of engineering troops were sent to the front, the port and airport were expanded in Noumea, and a comprehensive Marine camp was built on the unsettled coral island of Tierpole to the east, which belonged to French state-owned assets. It can be seen from this that the Republican ** team did not mean to immediately move south from New Caledonia.

The problem is that the Navy of the Republic must go south in advance to seize sea supremacy, otherwise there is no need to send a fourth sea base.

Judging from the situation at the time, there must have been disagreements within the Republican team on how to go south.

It is conceivable that there will certainly be serious disagreements on whether or not to attack Australia.

It must be admitted that even if the army is sent to attack Australia. Nor is it for Australia's resources. Although Australia is very rich in resources. In particular, mineral resources. As early as four years ago, some people were amazed that God favored the people of this continent too much, and that he had given Australia such a rich mineral resource with his miraculous ability. Geologically, Australia is made up of several tectonic plates, with many mountains and valleys formed by plate accumulation, and the interplay of tectonic plates brings minerals from the ground to the surface. Taking iron ore as an example, the world's highest-grade, largest-yielding, and most exploited open-pit iron mines are said to be true to the Republic. Australia seems too dry, too distant, too illusory. In fact, "many years ago, Japan did not intend to acquire resources by occupying Australia, but set its hopes on the more realistic Southeast Asian region."

Of course, on the grounds, there must have been a reference to Australia's resources.

From a practical point of view, even if the Republic sends troops to occupy Australia, it does not mean that it can use Australia's resources. The reason is simple, whether it is the US military or the Australian army. It will certainly destroy all mineral production facilities before the fall or surrender, and will even prevent the Republic from exploiting Australia's valuable resources by planting mines, time bombs, blowing up mines, etc.

All in all, the occupation of Australia is not for resources.

Strategically speaking, and especially from the special circumstances of wartime, the sole purpose of the Republic's occupation of Australia is to prevent the United States from using Australia's ports and naval bases to send attack submarines into the Indian Ocean and pose a threat to the Republic's northern Indian Ocean routes.

When the end is clear, there is not necessarily only one means to the end.

The occupation of Australia would serve that purpose, as would the loss of Australia's ability to be a military base.

Obviously, this is the main reason why the US authorities fear that the Republic will let Australia go and attack New Zealand.

In fact, this was the main disagreement at the time.

Interestingly, both the Navy and the Marine Corps advocated attacking New Zealand, believing that there was no need to waste precious troops and more precious time in Australia, and the Celestial Forces also believed that New Zealand should be attacked rather than Australia. After all, this will provide an opportunity for the growing strategic bomber force of the Space Army to perform on stage. The only one who opposed it was the Republican Army, which had just been withdrawn from the continental battlefield.

According to the relevant records of the authorities of the republic. In the middle of the month, Yuan Chenhao threw the aftermath of the mainland battlefield to Su Jinhui. One returned to the country and resumed his status as chief of the General Staff. At this time, the authorities of the Republic were planning a combat operation to attack New Zealand, and the main person in charge was Hua Jianfeng, who was supported by Pei Chengyi. After learning that Hua Jianfeng did not plan to let the Marines land in Australia, Yuan Chenhao immediately approached Pei Chengyi and asked for the Army to undertake the combat operations of attacking Australia.

What's more interesting is that if he was going, Pei Chengyi would definitely immediately reject this kind of nonsense that was clearly for the sake of grabbing credit, and would even "match Yuan Chenhao with the frontier" again, but when Yuan Chenhao made this request, Pei Chengyi not only did not refuse, but asked Yuan Chenhao to do the preliminary analysis, and in the month. Japan's high command is headed by the Yuan Government and is composed of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Propaganda Department, and other government departments, as well as the General Staff, the headquarters of all services and arms, the theater commands, and other military organs.

Although many people believe that this is Yuan Chenhao's coercion, or that he wants the army to gain a place in the Pacific theater dominated by the navy, so as to ensure that the army is the big brother in the republican team. But judging from the situation at that time, even if Yuan Chenhao's prestige in the army was further improved after his victory on the mainland battlefield, under the influence of Su Jinhui, he still did not have the ability to call Pei Chengyi, let alone shock Pei Chengyi. It can be seen from this that Pei Chengyi put forward the plan of attacking Australia by the army at the highest decision-making body, in addition to borrowing Yuan Chenhao's mouth. It certainly has a lot to do with his own strategic intentions.

This point can be seen from the reason for war mentioned by Yuan Chenhao.

At that time, Yuan Chenhao's main reason for attacking Australia was to consume a large amount of US military strength on this battlefield far from the US mainland. It can be said that this statement also makes sense. Geographically, Australia's relationship with the United States is like that of the Republic with Argentina, i.e. at opposite ends of the globe. In this way, no matter how many troops the United States has deployed in Australia and how complete the logistical support facilities are, the United States will have to cross half a ball to send troops and weapons to Australia, even if it is a pistol bullet. It can be said that the biggest enemy of the US military fighting in Australia is not the Republican ** team, but the long logistics support line. To put it bluntly. If we can make use of this long line of logistical support, we will not only be able to consume a large number of the US military's vital forces. It can also produce heavy depletion of the US military's war potential, thereby affecting the US military's combat operations on other battlefields.

Thus. Yuan Chenhao also proposed an army attack on Australia in order to intervene in the Pacific.

From another point of view, if Australia becomes the home of the U.S. Army and fights the Republican Army here, then the U.S. Army's combat operations in the Middle East theater on the other side of the Indian Ocean will inevitably be affected. Leaving aside for the moment how many U.S. troops the Republican Army was able to wipe out on the Middle East theater and how much benefit it could gain from it. Imagine if the Republican Army could take this opportunity to turn defeat into victory in the Middle East theater. And use all kinds of superior forces to win quickly. It will allow Egypt and other North African countries that are still outside the battlefield to take a stand, and then the Republican Navy will be able to enter the Mediterranean. Even if the European nations kept their promise not to go to war with the United States, the Republican Navy would be able to advance westward with the Marines or Army forces from Egypt and burn the war to the North Atlantic, and if they could obtain a port in the North Atlantic, the Republic Navy's submarine forces would be able to turn the North Atlantic into a graveyard for American ships. The resulting repercussions, especially the enormous pressure on the war strength of the United States, certainly cannot be ignored.

It is clear that Yuan's aim is to turn Australia into a hot battlefield and create opportunities for other theaters.

In the same way, this is likely to be the main reason why Pei Chengyi took out Yuan Chenhao's proposal for discussion. The problem is that there is a very obvious and huge problem in Yuan Chenhao's proposal. To put it simply, it's putting the cart before the horse.

You know, the main battlefield between the Republic and the United States is the Pacific, not the Middle East.

Of course, some people will say that if, as mentioned earlier, the main force of the US Army can be contained in Australia, so that the Republican Army can hit the east coast of the North Atlantic in one go, then the Republic Navy will be able to enter the North Atlantic, thus posing a threat to the US shipping routes in the North Atlantic. Prosperous... Let's here. Even if it is possible to get a submarine to the North Atlantic to carry out a diplomatic breakage operation. What's the point?

Russia has been defeated, and the United States no longer needs to deliver supplies to the cold Arctic Ocean. By the time the North Atlantic breeze could reach the armored units of the Republican Army, the United States would have no military presence in the Middle East and North Africa, and there would be no need to send troops and supplies to the front lines.

On the other side of the Atlantic, of course, there is another that has essentially dissociated itself from the countries of continental Europe. Britain completely surrendered to the United States. The problem is that, in the case of a promise not to go to war with the United States, the Germans and Italians were very annoyed by the betrayal of the British. It was not possible to send troops across the English Channel to the island of Great Britain, but would do everything in their power to protect Britain so that it could be "co-opted" after the war. United Kingdom. In other words, the situation at this time is completely different from that of many years ago, and the United States does not need to desperately protect the North Atlantic route to the United Kingdom, even if all routes across the North Atlantic are cut off. Britain won't be finished, and the United States won't be affected much.

For the United States, the real route of life is the sea route to Latin American Dididan through the Andreas Islands, which divide the Greater Andreas in the north and the Lesser Andreas and the Caribbean Sea in the south. Unless the Republic Navy can send its main fleet into the North Atlantic and seize sea supremacy in the North Atlantic, it is unlikely that it will pose a mortal threat to this route with the use of submarines alone, and at most the United States will build more escort warships.

Of course, the republic could also choose to attack westward. That is, a direct attack on the East Coast of the United States. The problem is that you have to cross the Atlantic to enter the United States after crossing the entire Eurasian continent, even Africa. What reason should the Republic not choose to march from the Far Pacific, which is completely opposite, and more convenient, and whose logistical support line is several thousand kilometers shorter? Even if the eastern part of the United States had to be conquered, the Caribbean Sea could be accessed through the Panama Canal. Instead of circumnavigating more than half the world from Africa and Europe to the United States.

All in all, after clarifying the key points, it can be seen that Yuan Chenhao's proposal actually has no value.

To put it bluntly, it is not Australia that should become a hot spot, but the Middle East battlefield. In other words, the Republic Army should launch a strategic offensive on the Middle East theater to contain the main combat forces of the US Army, and strive to get the United States to form a force to put those main forces withdrawn from Russia on the Middle East theater instead of sending them to the Pacific theater, so as to cover the Republic Navy's advance into New Zealand and occupy New Zealand at the minimum cost. Here's what to do. It is to let the Celestial Army carry out a continuous strategic bombardment of Australia. Another blockade of Australia with a fleet that is not too large will make Australia useless within the next year.

During the discussion, Hua Jianfeng bluntly mentioned this point, thinking that Yuan Chenhao was messing around.

Of course, there is only one key issue, that is, no matter how to fight, we must first do one thing well, that is, to seize sea supremacy in the southwest Pacific.

It can be said that only after seizing sea supremacy can we be qualified to talk about combat operations that have been brought to the level.

Affected by this, at the end of the month, Pei Chengyi first approved the Navy's combat operations in the southwest Pacific, which took a few months to annihilate the US Third Fleet, seize sea supremacy, and create conditions for the next advance operation. As for whether the army should go to attack Australia, Pei Chengyi did not give a clear answer, but asked Yuan Chenhao to do a good job as chief of the general staff, and let Li Dongshi carry out several impressive attacks on the Middle East battlefield when the navy went south to fight a decisive battle with the US Third Fleet, so as to reduce the combat pressure on the navy.

It is obvious that Pei Chengyi vetoed Yuan Chenhao's proposal in a very tactful way. Of course, with Yuan Chenhao's ability. It's impossible not to understand what's at stake. Arguably. Before proposing that the army attack Australia, Yuan Chenhao should have known that this proposal could not be adopted, and his personal reason for putting forward this proposal was just to find something to do for the many army officers and soldiers on the mainland battlefield, especially those generals who had just been promoted. And not to leave millions of armies idle.

It can be said that how to accommodate millions of troops on the battlefield on the mainland is indeed a very thorny problem.

Because it was an attack on Russia in the name of an intensive bloc, and because the bloc member states contributed troops during the war, the occupation task fell to all the bloc member states after Russia announced its surrender. Even if the republic had long been alive within the bloc, it would have been able to remain in Russia by occupying the Russian Far East and the Western Siberian region east of the Ural Mountains alone, and sharing the gains with the bloc members only in the European, Central, and Eastern Siberian regions of Russia. The republican ** team used to carry out the occupation task is only about 10,000.

Excluding this part of the army, there are still about 340,000 officers and soldiers to settle down.

Although the Middle East battlefield continued to increase troops, due to the limitation of the combat area, Li Dongshi only needed 10,000 officers and soldiers at most. In addition to veterans who have reached the service standards, that is, can be retired, there are about 10,000 officers and soldiers who need to find things to do. Of course. In the short term, this is not a big problem, because many officers and men need to rest and recuperate, and some veterans have to return to the city training ground in China to adapt to the combat tactics in other meteorological environments.

The problem is that this accounts for 10,000 officers and soldiers, which is enough to support a combat operation on the battlefield.

Considering that the republic has completed mobilization for war. Weapons and equipment and war materials are being sent from factories to the front line and warehouses, and the problem of lack of equipment and shortage of materials can be greatly alleviated in the following year, so the Republic Army is also capable of waging a new war in the field year.

At this time, it is necessary to consider opening up a new battlefield.

Ear Yi said that this is the real reason why Pei Chengyi is willing to listen to Yuan Chenhao's proposal and discuss it at the decision-making meeting.

If objective factors are not taken into account, the most worthwhile opening up is definitely the South American battlefield. The reason is simple, South America is the backyard of the United States.

Like the Republic, the United States has to rely on overseas resources. Although the United States does not have the problem of population aging in the Republic, and the total population of more than 700 million is only 100 million less than that of the Republic, the social labor force is comparable to that of the Republic, because there is no serious pension problem, so the social surplus labor force in the United States is obviously more than that of the Republic. In fact. Benshi USA is not short of resources. Its holdings are on par with those of the Republic. However, before the outbreak of the war, the United States adopted a national development strategy comparable to that of the Republic, that is, to support its high-tech industrial chain through a huge overseas market and a large underserved market, so as to ensure its economic development. When the Republic took control of India, which had a population of 100 million people, the population of India was already more than one trillion at the outbreak of the war, and the total population of Latin American countries under the control of the United States was also more than 100 million. Thus. There is simply no need for the United States to exploit domestic resources. It is entirely possible to use overseas resources to support the war attrition.

Imagine what would happen if the Republican team could reach South America.

Anything else is uncertain, but at least it will make the Americans, who still have a glimmer of hope for victory, completely despair.

The problem is that before victory in the Pacific, the Republic can only advance into South America from the South Atlantic Ark, and in order to enter the South Atlantic, it must first control South Africa at the southern tip of the African continent. In other words, if you want to open up the South American battlefield, you must first make a fuss in the southern Africa.

At this point, the problem is already very obvious.

Although South Africa announced that it would strictly maintain people-to-people exchanges after the Battle of the Maldives, South Africa still favored the United States. It is also well understood that the United States still controls Australia and controls the whole of West Africa, except Nigeria. It also controls all of Latin America except Argentina. Even if the Republic gained access to South Africa by controlling Seychelles and Madagascar. Nor does it pose as much of a threat to South Africa as the United States. As the saying goes, the lesser of two evils. When threatened by two, class powers. South Africa has no choice but to act on the opportunistic.

What's the problem? How can we get South Africa to change its mind?

The answer is simple: it will be a battle in the Southwest Pacific. If necessary, appropriate actions could also be taken on the African continent, such as sending troops to Chad, opening a ground route from the Sudan to Nigeria, and thereby deploying an elite ground force to Nigeria. Dismantle the U.S. encirclement and suppression campaign against Nigeria. All in all, the key is not on the continent. Rather, it's Australia across the Indian Ocean.

Now, the problem is back to square one, that is, until the victory in the Southwest Pacific is won, everything else is hands-free.

The problem is that "the issue of the resettlement of 10,000 officers and men of the fallen army cannot be put on hold for a long time."

The war with Russia is over, even if Lee Dong-seok immediately launches a strategic offensive on the battlefield in the Middle East. It can't absorb so many troops, and on the battlefield of the African continent, a logistics support line across the African continent supported by a road line and a low-level road line can support a single battle at most. It can be seen that victory in the Southwest Pacific is already an urgent matter.

It is precisely because of this that Pei Chengyi only gave the Navy a month.

Although the abandonment of landing in Australia would have an impact on victory in the Southwest Pacific, it is well known that in the maritime theater, sea supremacy is everything, and as long as the Republic Navy can gain sea supremacy, it can blockade Australia and prevent the U.S. Navy from entering the Indian Ocean from Australia. Thus South Africa felt the pressure, coupled with the strategic offensive operations of the Republic Army in the Middle East and the African continent, as well as the efforts of the Republic's diplomatic department, enough to convince South Africa that the Republic would not only win the final victory, but also that the war would soon end, and that if South Africa still favored the United States in its position, let alone gain benefits from the war, it would be fortunate not to be marginalized after the war.

In fact, in the middle of the month, that is, after Russia declared defeat. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic has launched an operation in South Africa.

At that time, the attitude of the South African authorities had wavered.

On the day of the flight, the South African authorities made an exception to allow a convoy carrying food, medicine, tents and other humanitarian relief supplies to enter Port Elizabeth, and sent warships to provide escort cover in territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone. The fleet came from the Republic and its destination was Nigeria. Among the supplies delivered, in addition to those mentioned earlier, humanitarian relief supplies. There are also quite a few military supplies specifically for the Nigerian army. In fact, supplies such as food and medicine are also military supplies. What's more, the South African authorities did not disclose to the media that attack submarines of the Republic Navy, which had specially escorted the slow fleet, entered South African waters, took them outside Port Elizabeth for an hour, and then went north with the fleet. Although South Africa did not provide assistance to the submarine, ships of the belligerent countries were allowed to enter territorial waters. And to facilitate military operations, which have already undermined South Africa

The US authorities have expressed strong protest against South Africa's actions. The problem is that the United States can only protest. With Australia on the verge of being unable to defend itself, the US authorities have no way to suppress South Africa, let alone make a big deal for the sake of this distant country.

All in all, at the beginning. Although the overall situation on the battlefield is very favorable for the republic, which not only seized the strategic initiative but also saw the dawn of victory after the surrender of Russia, there is still a long way to go before victory can be achieved, and there are still many challenges on the way forward. The most urgent thing for the authorities of the republic is how to make full use of the mobilized national war forces to make the most of the largest war machine in the history of mankind. For the republican team, the most important thing is nothing more than to open up the situation, link the originally relatively isolated battlefield, and gradually transform the strategic advantage and initiative into the fruits of victory.

To this end, on February of the same year, the 1st Main Fleet, the 2nd Main Fleet, and the 3rd Fleet of the Republic Navy, which had been swimming for many days in the eastern waters of the Coral Sea northwest of Novakaredonia, formed a large fleet group, and under the light of the early morning dawn, they moved south from the east of the Noarte Islands. The route goes straight to New Zealand. At the same time, the four sea bases operating in the north were also scattered south, following the fleet to the Tasman Sea.

On the rolling sea, the US Navy's Third Fleet sounded the battle alarm.

Since the outbreak of the Great War, the largest naval battle is about to explode!