The passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean has been blocked, and the re-breakthrough of South Africa is not a combat mission that can be completed overnight, and the United States has begun to seek a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, although it may be more difficult than the South African channel, but if it can take down this Pacific-Indian Ocean shipping lane, it will be able to play a greater strategic suppression. The Tai-India shipping lane, located at the southern end of the South China Sea, will directly threaten China's southern route and thus China itself, which is much more threatening than in South Africa or even India.

This is also because China suffers from its own complex geopolitical environment, unlike the United States, there are no powerful countries around it, and the geopolitical composition is very simple and concise.

The Americans designed a number of routes from Hawaii to the Philippines through Guam and then through the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca into the Indian Ocean, this route is also a more common civilian route in the world before the outbreak of the war, but the difficulty can also be imagined, first from Guam to the Philippines route, it may face the attack and interception of China's blue water navy, there are also a large number of Chinese submarines active here, especially after the war, China rebuilt a large number of AIP submarines for offshore operations, The new model is the Type 041 conventionally powered attack submarine, which uses a new graphene battery, and has a continuous combat capability of more than a month, and is also equipped with heavy supersonic anti-ship missiles that were originally only equipped with attack nuclear submarines. Ships traveling through this route would be extremely dangerous, and the U.S. Navy, even if it was confident, was not optimistic about opening this route, not to mention that the struggle for sea supremacy could be a long and difficult process.

The second route, Guam through the Greater Sunda Islands belonging to the South Seas Republic, is relatively safer than the first route, but it is also limited in safety, and it is also China's sphere of influence, to control so many small islands, to avoid the deployment of shore-to-ship missiles by the Chinese, the United States may need to deploy a large number of troops here to hold the channel, relatively speaking, it is not very cost-effective.

The third route, which is also the route finalized by the US military, is from Hawaii through the Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands, bypassing Papua New Guinea, and entering the Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea from the Torres Strait, and into the Indian Ocean. This route is basically outside of the countries controlled by China, and the only trouble is Papua, where there are military bases established by China, although the scale of the establishment is not as large as those of Gwadar, but it is definitely not weak. There are also countries along the route such as Indonesia and Malaysia that do not deal with China and the South Seas, and the southernmost is Australia, a staunch ally of the United States, so relatively speaking, the United States has more cards to play and has a better chance of winning.

The U.S. military planned to seize a stronghold in Papua while co-opting Indonesia, Malaysia, and other small states on the island of Sumatra to maneuver with the Chinese and Nanyang coalitions that might land on the island. Once these areas are settled, the US military will be able to smoothly enter the Indian Ocean, thus aiding India, which is already dying.

Since Europe's allies are unlikely to travel tens of thousands of kilometers to assist the US military in combat, the Americans intend to summon a new combined fleet and allied forces, and under the establishment of George W. Bush, NATO has established the Asia-Pacific Theater Command, and the commander-in-chief is naturally American, with Admiral Fargo as the commander-in-chief, and the armies of the countries participating in the Asia-Pacific Theater Command are the Australian Navy, the New Zealand Navy, the Canadian Navy, the Chilean Navy, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Because the Pacific region is the forefront of the U.S. military's confrontation with China, the strength of the Seventh and Third Fleets here, together with naval powers such as Japan, surpasses that of the expeditionary fleets participating in the South African operation.

In the course of the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Theater Command, Japan has rapidly changed from a country bound by the pacifist constitution to a country that has restored its war capability, or to be precise, a country that has the right of collective self-defense.

"Japan has undergone profound and radical changes since World War II, becoming a model of democracy in East Asia, and has made great contributions to world peace and development, and the people of the free world have respect for Japan's achievements, and the crucial war in the free world cannot be fought without Japan's participation, and we hope that Japan can become an important force in maintaining world peace, democracy and freedom." Bush Jr. personally went to Tokyo to make such a speech, which greatly encouraged the Japanese political circles, and except for the left-wing Japanese CP, who was greatly opposed, the other middle-wing and right-wing parties all supported it one-sidedly.

Japan quickly completed its own path of constitutional amendment, giving the country the power to go to war, and although the name of the Self-Defense Forces was not changed all at once, it began a large-scale national mobilization to prepare to start the war following the United States.

Japan, which experienced the Ebola and Aum Shinrikyo incidents in the 90s, was severely traumatized, especially during the one-year period of national isolation, China squeezed out many industries in which Japan had a dominant position, and Japan's development in the second half of the 90s was also stumbling and much worse than before. High unemployment, economic setbacks, inflation, and class contradictions have all enabled Japan to rapidly transform from a prosperous and advanced country to an unstable country.

Considering that in the Shinrikyo incident, China took the opportunity to recover the Diaoyu Islands, and at the same time, China's economic rise was an important element to overturn the Japanese economy, coupled with the deliberate exaggeration of the right wing, the Japanese people's hostility and hatred towards China have increased day by day in recent years. In addition, in the brainwashing propaganda, China is an evil country, and Japan is the key force in maintaining freedom and democracy, which makes many people willing to go to the battlefield and defeat China, an evil country.

Another factor that Japan's mobilization and recruitment is relatively smooth is that the unemployment situation in Yan zhòng makes many people unable to find jobs, and even relief is difficult to receive, joining the army can exchange for the benefits of not much but stable dìng for their families, and they can also eat well, and they also feel that they will be lucky and will not die in the war, so such people have joined the Self-Defense Forces.

The US military dispatched the latest cutting-edge aircraft carrier USS Ford and a Kitty Hawk-class Constellation, and after leading the navies of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile to converge on Guam, they sailed to the Solomon Islands and berthed at Honiara, the main port of the Solomon Islands, and confronted each other at China's Rabaul Naval Base on the island of New Britain.

Such a large-scale military movement of the US military naturally could not escape the eyes of the Chinese, and the military quickly judged that the US military was going to launch a campaign in the southwest Pacific, preparing to open the Torres Strait, threaten the South Seas Republic, and open the Tai-India shipping lane. In order to cope with this situation, the Chinese Navy has sent two aircraft carrier battle groups, the Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier Jilin, and the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Shangri-La, to Papua New Guinea, along with two amphibious battle groups, because the war will not only be limited to naval battles, but also the capture of islands scattered in the southwest Pacific will also be a key point of the war.

Seeing that a new Pacific war was about to break out, the Navy was gearing up to teach the Americans another lesson, but considering that the US military still had a considerable military presence in Japan and the Indian Ocean Fleet was also quite tight, it was already very difficult to send two aircraft carriers to participate in the campaign in the southwest Pacific.

After thinking about it again, Qi Yiming felt that it was no longer necessary to cover up this matter, so he sent a surface ship battle group in his hands to Rabaul to assist the navy's aircraft carrier battle group in combat. This surface ship combat cluster includes two general-class nuclear-powered battleships (Liu Renliang and Zhou Yu), four dreadnought battleships (Tianma, Tianquila, Tianyan, and Tianlong), eight Naginata-class cruisers, and 16 raid destroyers.

Because battleships and arsenal ships have not been officially hired by the navy, so the names are not in the nomenclature of the navy, Qi Yiming directly named the battleships after the generals of the ancient Chinese navy, and the dreadnought battleships were more casual, named after the animals that did not exist in zài. As for the battleships below the cruiser in the Red Alert fleet, they are directly called without the name of the ship, and are called by number.

In particular, two battleships and four arsenal ships, the battleship's electromagnetic guns, and the arsenal ship's more than 700 missiles, combined with a power that may be even more terrifying than that of an ordinary supercarrier, and their combat methods are unprecedented for the US military before, and the deterrent and dominance they produce on the battlefield are absolutely satisfactory.

Because a sub-base had already been set up in Rabaulzi, the Red Guard fleet didn't even need to sail to arrive here, and their sorties would be even more elusive, and the Red Police fleet would give it a fatal blow if the U.S. military didn't even realize it.

At the same time, China has also pulled up its own allied fleet, and Nanyang has also sent more than a dozen surface ships and submarines to Rabaul to help in the war, and the ships in Nanyang are basically variants of Chinese naval warships, and the two sides have also conducted joint exercises many times, full of tacit understanding, even better than the cooperation between Japan and the United States.

Feeling that a major war would break out from its doorstep, the Nanyang Republic of Nanyang had begun its full mobilization, and the Nanyang Republic, which had a small army, would raise an army of more than one million by mid-2002 to assist China in the war. After all, 90 percent of the citizens of the Nanyang Republic are Chinese, so this war is not a foreign thing for them, but also a war for them to fight for the future destiny of the nation. Ethnic minorities are also fighting for the country with enthusiasm under the propaganda, because of the wartime regulations, so the negative voices are muffled, and the so-called democrats who lead the way will not make any trouble at this time.