The army faction, on the other hand, refuted the navy's view on the grounds that the supply lines were too long to carry out a landing operation, and they believed that it would be safer to first rely on the support of the army and the allies of the western continent, such as the Nantes Empire, to attack the Allied bloc by land, and then to launch an attack on the NATO bloc from the western continent when there was a land border with NATO.

The Navy believes that if the NATO alliance intervenes while the war between itself and the Allies is in full swing, it will be very passive, while the Army believes that it will take several years to build up its armaments, especially the Navy's shipbuilding, which will take too long to destroy the Allies.

If NATO is attacked first from the direction of the eastern ocean, it will naturally be dominated by the navy, while the first attack on the allies will be dominated by the army.

Once the direction of the offensive is determined, military spending in the next few years will naturally be tilted toward which major branch of the armed forces will be, so the dispute over the offensive direction of the two branches of the armed forces will actually be a dispute over the share of military spending.

And among the allies outside the Boston Empire, it is to look at their own interests. The Nantes Empire was afraid that the war against the Central Powers would affect the country, so it was naturally willing to attack NATO first, and the Sahr Empire, an island country, in order to intervene in the affairs of the Western Continent as soon as possible, naturally strongly recommended the benefits of attacking the Allies first.

The two sides have their own opinions on the direction of the offensive, and the army and navy congresses of various countries have been arguing and arguing endlessly, but they have no right to speak no matter how much they make trouble, and it is the Boston Imperial Government that really calls the shots.

The Boston government, out of its own considerations, wanted to eliminate the St. Martin Empire with which it had land ties first, so they implicitly supported the naval plan. With the support of the Boston government, the navy's plan gradually prevailed, and even some army generals began to consider the possibility of landing on the Eastern Continent.

Because of the existence of Le Cheng, this secret polemic within the Axis was learned by Fang Ruijun at the beginning, and when he learned that the Axis countries had the intention of solving NATO first, he was really scared into a cold sweat.

Originally, the Chinese Empire so connived at the development of the Axis bloc in the western continent in order to lead the war to the Allied bloc first, which could not only consume the strength of the Axis powers, but also buy time for its own development of armaments, but now he found himself suspected of shooting himself in the foot.

In order to make the other party dare not fight his own idea for the time being, Fang Ruijun summoned Lin Feng and other cabinet members, as well as Zhang Haiyang and other senior military officials. After discussion, they decided to show their military strength to make the Axis powers afraid to attack NATO easily.

A few days later, Imperial Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Guilin summoned the Boston Imperial Ambassador, who briefed the Boston Empire on naval exercises to be conducted by the NATO bloc on the high seas east of the Oahu Islands this year. In addition, he also said that in order to enhance relations between the two countries, he hopes to send a naval fleet to San Diego, the home port of the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Imperial East Ocean Fleet in Boston, after the military exercise.

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine Fang Ruijun bought in his gourd, the Boston Imperial Government gladly accepted the other party's request to visit, after all, it was good to find out the truth of the other party before starting the war.

After informing the Boston Empire, the Joint Command sent a telegram to the Navy and various allies ordering that a fleet of battleships and aircraft carriers of the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, led by Vice Admiral Li Weiguo, the deputy commander, would go to the Oahu Islands for military exercises.

For this military exercise, the Chinese Empire has secretly sent a note to the allies, asking them to send the most powerful fleet to participate in this military exercise. At the request of the Chinese Empire, the main naval forces of various countries poured out, and various countries such as the St. Martin Empire, the Latin Kingdom, and the Istanbul Empire all sent their main naval forces, and even the newly restored Cossack Empire also sent only three cruisers to enter the Eastern Ocean through the canals of the St. Martin Empire to participate in military exercises.

The lineup of the exercise was unusually strong, with a total of six Governor-class aircraft carriers, three General-class aircraft carriers, twelve Naoli-class battleships, eight Shannan-class battleships, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers participating in the exercise.

For this exercise, the Chinese Empire still has reservations, the Nanming-class aircraft carriers did not show up, the cruisers only came to ten Hongyuan-class, and the Meishan-class cruisers carrying missiles had too much sensitive equipment and did not participate in the military exercise, but the military still sent two Wasp-class amphibious assault ships with a displacement of 50,000 tons as a counter-submarine force for the fleet.

The Chinese Empire has always been at the vanguard of military change, so when the news of the Chinese Empire's upcoming naval exercises with its allies spread, all countries applied to observe it, and the Chinese Empire, which was trying to deter the Axis powers, naturally agreed to let them take a special visiting airship to observe in the nearby airspace.

Originally, these airships were mainly used to save fuel and leave empty for a long time, as a warning airship, but in the study, the researchers found that after completely solving the harm of the high-altitude current to the airship, the advantages of the airship with low energy consumption and high load capacity were revealed, and the cost was surprisingly low for long-distance transportation that did not require transportation speed, so in some areas within the Chinese Empire where ground transportation was inconvenient, the airship was applied again.

For airships, a means of transport that had been eliminated in the Western Continent, the Chinese Empire was widely used, which aroused the curiosity of the representatives of various countries. As they approached the giant airship, they realized that the new airship was a little different from the one they had used before.

In the past, the airships used by various countries were all long cigar-shaped, and the surface of the airbags was quite smooth and flat, but the shape of the new airships of the Chinese Empire was somewhat strange. The shape of this new airship is also roughly the same as before, except that there is a layer of compartments outside the large number of internal airbag compartments, which are divided into more than a dozen layers for personnel to enter, the inner layer of the compartment is the airbag, in which personnel can inspect and maintain the airbags, and the outside is an aluminum alloy plate, which is used as an outer frame and armor.

What's even more peculiar is that in addition to the aluminum alloy frame, there are six long airbag groups. Six airbags are arranged in a straight direction, extending from the head to the tail of the airbags, and are evenly divided around the airship, and their presence can greatly stabilize the airship's state in the air.

If there is a cross wind blowing to the airbag from the side, the airflow will flow along the direction of the airbag group, towards the bow and stern, and at the same time, because of the groove between the airbag group, the airflow is exerted in three directions, which can effectively prevent the airbag from tumbling and ensure the safety of the personnel in the airship.