The morale of the troops on all sides of the Chinese army was high and the supplies were sufficient, while the Cossack army was exhausted after several months of fighting, and lacked weapons, ammunition, food, cotton clothing, and its morale was extremely low, so the Cossack army broke out at the first engagement.

The commanders of the Cossack corps at all levels could no longer control the troops, and many of the routed soldiers were chased and fled frantically to the north, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, most of them did not survive the winter, and the pursuing troops of the Chinese army did not search deeply, but quickly occupied the towns and cities along the Far Eastern Railway, and captured the reserves of the Cossack army.

Fang Xiaoyu was overjoyed by the victory over the Cossacks, and he immediately ordered to reward the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle, and at the same time ordered the construction of a more imposing martyr's shrine opposite the imperial palace in the new capital city of Beijing, to show the royal respect for the martyrs, and the spiritual seat of the officers and soldiers who died in the foreign war will be enshrined here.

The victory over the Cossack army allowed the Chinese army to deploy a large number of troops to other battlefields, and also caused the internal political situation of the Cossack Empire to begin to be unstable. The entire territory of the Eastern and Central Continents was occupied, and more than 2.3 million troops were surrounded and annihilated, such losses were beyond the upper limit of losses that the Cossack army could tolerate.

The defeat of the Cossacks was a great surprise to the Saar and Nantes governments, and they immediately stepped up their attack on the Yaman Empire, but the threat from the east was reduced, allowing the Yaman Empire to reassure them to allocate troops to the Western Front, which greatly alleviated their lack of troops.

With sufficient reserves, the Yaman army still barely withstood the attack of the other side, and a large number of Golden Eagle 1 fighters of the Chinese Empire arrived, so that the Yaman Air Force had a strength that was not weaker than the air force of the Entente.

Compared with land and air battles, the naval side still made the Entente very reassuring. Due to the fact that the Chinese Empire has always built its army on quality, coupled with the lack of personnel, the size of the navy has always been small. So even if the Chinese Empire has joined the war, it will not put too much pressure on the Thar Empire at sea, but they don't know that Sun Xiaohu, the commander of the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy, is planning a big operation.

The contrast in naval strength in the Mediterranean Sea is extremely large, and the Chinese ships of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Habfsburg Kingdom both started relatively late, and it was not until the eve of the war that the two countries jointly designed the 'Joint Force' class Chinese ships, with a total displacement of only 19,000 tons, and only seven of them were built in total, and in addition, the navies of the two countries only had eleven old battleships and ten cruisers, and the naval strength was very weak.

Originally, the two countries had inflicted heavy losses on the Nantes Empire, and they were still fantasizing about controlling the Mediterranean, blocking the Entente fleet in the stormy ocean, and claiming hegemony behind closed doors, and when the remnants of the Nantes Empire's navy were wiped out, they could land on the southern subcontinent from the sea and occupy the vast colonies of the Entente bloc countries.

It's a pity that they thought too simply, because of the strength of the Nantes Empire in the Mediterranean, the Thar Empire, which was unwilling to offend its allies, was unwilling to send a fleet to avoid misunderstandings. Now that the allied fleet has been severely damaged, it is a good opportunity for the Sahr to enter the Mediterranean, and they will naturally not let go of such an opportunity.

The Nantes Empire's southern coastline was exposed to the attack range of the opposing fleet, which alarmed its government, and they quickly applied for reinforcements from the Thar Empire. The request of the Nantes Empire made the Saar Empire fall into the favor of the Saar Empire, which had long coveted the interests of the Mediterranean, and immediately sent a huge naval fleet.

The strength of the Saar navy is not comparable to that of the Archduchy of Sardinia and the Habfsburg Kingdom, which are the last second-rate navies, and with their weak fleets, it is an extravagant hope to resist the attack of the Saar Empire, which has the world's largest navy.

As soon as the Saar navy entered the Mediterranean, the two countries of the Central Powers fled in a small contact battle, and the two countries were sunk in just a small contact battle, and even the Combined Forces-class Taranto was hit by three bullets and barely returned to port.

The fleets of the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia retreated into the harbor, and the newly formed Mediterranean Fleet of the Saar Navy gained complete sea supremacy. At this time, the Sahr navy had the meaning of dominating the Mediterranean, relying on the protection of shore-based aviation, running rampant in the Mediterranean, often attacking the transport fleets of the Central Powers.

After the Chinese Empire occupied the Sinai Canal, the Southern Ocean Fleet could enter the Mediterranean Sea at any time, and the area around Cairo was occupied by the Imperial Army, and the Chinese Air Force's land-based fighters could be stationed in this area, and they were able to cover the entire sea area east of the Habfsburg Kingdom.

After the strong intervention of the Chinese Empire, the Saar navy relented a little, and in order to fear that the Chinese air force would attack its navy, they also set up the main naval base in the port of Tunis, which is outside the range of the Chinese land-based aviation.

The Saar Empire's navy has always been much stronger than the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, so the fleet of the Chinese Empire does not dare to leave the protection of shore-based aviation, and can only protect its own transport fleet between the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Istanbul Empire within a safe range, and transport necessary strategic materials, weapons and ammunition for the three countries of the Central Powers.

In the face of this grim situation, if only battleships were used for a decisive battle, Sun Xiaohu would not be sure of victory, once the Southern Ocean Fleet suffered too much loss, and the Eastern Ocean Fleet was pinned down by the Boston Empire and did not dare to move, the entire theater around the Southern Ocean would be threatened by the Allied Navy, which would greatly limit the strategic play of the Empire.

Considering these circumstances, Sun Xiaohu decided to rely on naval aviation to carry out a surprise attack on the Entente fleet, using asymmetric strikes to destroy the opposing battleships in order to break the imbalance of power at sea. After a detailed argument by the fleet staff, a bold battle plan was released, and after reporting to Su Zhizhen, Sun Xiaohu decided to act.

In order to confuse the Saar spies, Sun Xiaohu sent an aircraft carrier squadron dominated by the 'Eagle's Nest' to secretly sail in advance, ostensibly to escort the transport fleet, but in fact, when he was relatively close to the port of Tunis, he took the opportunity to use the Exocet reconnaissance plane on the ship to conduct reconnaissance, and with the high-altitude and long-endurance performance of the Exocet reconnaisance plane, the reconnaissance process was very smooth, and they took a large number of aerial photographs.

A word to readers:

Recommend Mo Haoju's "The Change of Da Luo", a good book recommendation.