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Yes, Wendesi wants French New Caledonia, not only for the sake of the strategic security situation, but more importantly, for the sake of the resources here.

In 1865, the Frenchman Garnier first discovered nickel silicate ore in New Caledonia, and later renamed it silicon-magnesium-nickel ore by him, which was the world's first ore to be smelted in a blast furnace. Then the French began to mine the mine in 1875, due to the lack of local fuel, flux, and lack of labor, the amount of ore mined here is very small, far less than that of later generations, and can only be sent to France for smelting, or directly exported to foreign countries, and China is currently the largest seller.

Although the French have been mining here, they did not know at this time that the nickel ore reserves here are as high as 20 million tons, ranking second in the world, second only to Australia, accounting for about 25% of the world's reserves. In the later generations of the original time and space, it was the world's largest iron-nickel production area, which could produce more than 30,000 tons of nickel per year. In addition to nickel ore, there are also abundant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, iron ore and other minerals.

Nickel is a very important raw material, and China is very short of nickel, so for these 20 million tons of nickel, Wen Desi has to start. was targeted by Wen Desi, a resource maniac, so can there be any good?

"I remember Linden was in New Caledonia...... Wen Deji smiled.

"Yes, Mr. Wen, Lin Dengtu's Huasheng Mining Company is the largest mining company in the region, and there are currently about 4,450 miners in New Caledonia in China. Vice Premier Ban Chuanzhi replied.

Admiral Liu Yiqiang immediately understood what Wen Deji meant, and he took the opportunity to introduce: "After the outbreak of World War II, France greatly reduced its overseas military strength, except for Africa, most of the troops in other colonies were transferred back. At present, the French army in New Caledonia has only one battalion of land forces, 500 men, and a colonial militia composed of locals, with a strength of about three battalions, about 1600 people, and very little heavy equipment, only a few 105 and 75 guns. The Air Force has 12 combat aircraft, and the Navy has five or six torpedo boats and patrol boats. Oh, the only thing to note is the Nouméa fortress, on which they laid out 6 380mm heavy guns......"

He paused, then added: "However, there are now 18,000 more Australian and New Zealand officers and soldiers on the island, and although most of their weapons have been lost, the Americans have replenished them with a batch of the latest equipment." These people are all veterans of the North African battlefield, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated......"

"Okay, then let Linden plot and make something happen. Wen Desi said to Huo Jinsi, the head of the big secret service.

Huo Jinsi smiled: "Yes, Mr. Wen, it just so happens that there are 18,000 defeated Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the island now, and I guess they will all make trouble themselves......

Wen Desi said to the commander-in-chief of the navy, Wang Tiezhu: "Tiehammer, you prepare two marine brigades, and when the time comes, Lin Dengtu will move there, and take it down for me." Rosie, your army also sent a mechanized infantry division. ”

"Yes, Mr. Wen. The two marshals hurriedly agreed.

Next, everyone just made a big deal about the phalanx to attack French New Caledonia. Then it was handed over to the gang of the General Staff to work out a concrete plan.

In fact, this work is not a difficult task for the staff officers of the General Staff. These people are professional brain-openers, they don't know how many kinds of plans and programs they have formulated, not to mention hitting targets on the earth, even plans for extraterrestrial operations, of course, some of these plans are too big to be used, and they may not be used for a lifetime, and they have been kept in the archives to eat ashes.

Naturally, there was also a plan to attack French New Caledonia, which had been drawn up many years ago. Now it's just a matter of taking it out and revising it according to the current background and actual situation.

In less than a week, the plan, codenamed "Iron-Nickel Storm", was released.

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While nickel ore is important, it can be obtained through trade, and for many years China was the largest importer of nickel ore from the region. Moreover, China thought that their development was too slow and inefficient, so it sent people to open a Huasheng mining company, specializing in mining and mineral processing.

Moreover, there are many sources of nickel ore in China, although the number of New Caledonia is quite large, but because France does not develop here enough, the output is far from being comparable with later generations, so it only accounts for one-tenth of China's total nickel ore imports. Belarus, Canada, the United States, Brazil and Cuba are all important sources of nickel ore in China.

If it was in peacetime, or a few months ago, Wen Dehe's style would definitely not be so blatant to pit the French, because the French rooster has already had a lot of blood in World War I, and his strength has been greatly damaged, and he is still counting on the big rooster to pull a good hatred in Europe and contain Erdezi. The European continent alone has decided that Britain alone will not be able to withstand the strengthened version of the second German son, and the French rooster is the mainstay of Europe.

France is different from the British, the British eat too much, they can't digest it themselves, and at this rare time period of time, if they don't kill cattle and eat meat, how long will they stay? And the meat of the big French rooster has been gnawed almost as much, and it is too late to add blood to France at this time, how can they be bloodletted? A New Caledonia is not worth turning against them.

But now the situation is different, the Yankees have officially entered the war, and once they wade into the troubled waters of World War II, the balance of power between the two warring sides will change greatly.

Atlantic Treaty Organization + Entente Organization VS Allied Organization + Third International Organization.

That's what you have to do. Although on the whole, the Allied Organization + the Third International Organization is weaker, but don't forget the super nurse of the People's Revolutionary Union, as long as you give the Soviet-German camp a sip of milk from time to time, the Western forces led by Britain and the United States will not have the upper hand.

Therefore, at this time, China will bleed the British and American camps, so as to balance the strength of the two sides and let them play more happily. This is also the code of conduct that Wen Deji has conceived for a long time. If the side is too strong, let it bleed, or give the weak a mouthful of milk.

This is one of the main factors why Wendesi chose this time to launch an attack on Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. In addition to taking the opportunity to occupy more territory and resources and strengthen China's strategic security posture, the most important purpose is to bleed the British and American camps.

The General Staff called this strategy a "blood-sucking strategy", which means sucking the blood of the West, weakening the West on the one hand, and replenishing itself on the other. Now that he is further planning an attack on New Caledonia, it is naturally a further development of this strategy.

"It's very rare to have a good opportunity like this, and it's almost impossible to have it again, so we can't let it go," he said. In the second half of this year, we will end the war in Australia and New Zealand and effectively control this area. Laying the groundwork for our next strategy!"

"Yes, Mr. Wen is right. This world war is the last chance for a massive territorial expansion on the planet. If you miss this time, you will have to go to an alien planet to expand in the future. If you don't make a lot of money, how can you be worthy of the motherland and the people?" Zhang Lizheng said with a smile.

"Hahahaha......" everyone laughed.

Yes, there will not be many opportunities for such a big fishing in the future, or even completely gone. Why don't you have a big meal this time, so worthy of this crossing?

"All departments must be ready, according to our plan, ready to digest the results of this Australian, New Zealand and Malaysian feast as soon as possible, and prepare for the next expansion ......" Wen Desi finally gave an order to all departments.

Before the start of the Nanyang War, the total territory of China, which had seized the whole of Somalia and two-fifths of Kenya, reached 30,277,800 square kilometers.

Why? Quite simply, because of the "30 million square kilometers", almost 6 million square kilometers belong to the Siberian tundra, and about 2 million square kilometers of land are directly within the Arctic Circle (north of 66°34 north latitude), and the land utilization rate of such places is really low.

You say the Arctic is rich in resources? Yes, that's true, but you have to be able to open up the resources to be useful. And the development of this kind of alpine region is too difficult, and the funds spent are a bottomless pit, even if Mr. Wen is not bad for money, it is not burned like this. The most important thing is that such an area is not suitable for human production and life.

People who live in the Northeast are probably the most experienced, and only a little more than half a year can do outdoor work. Not to mention the higher latitudes of Siberia, where outdoor work is good for half the year. Not to mention the impact of cold weather on life, after all, human beings are temperate creatures, just look at the decreasing population of Russia in Siberia in later generations, you know that only a few people are willing to run here and put down roots.

Therefore, although the new China led by Wen Desi formulated a large number of preferential policies for immigrants from the north, until now, the people who are willing to immigrate to Anbei and Andong are far less than other regions. But immigrants are not too coercive, otherwise they will make the people's emotions unstable, which will not benefit the country in the slightest, and there will be no way for these people to take root. In this case, the territory is still unstable, and it still cannot be "since ancient times", which is contrary to the idea of Wen Dehei.

Therefore, it is better to be voluntary in such a thing as immigration.

Therefore, the development of Anbei and Andong regions (Central Siberia, Eastern Siberia and Outer Northeast China) is a long-term strategy, and it will not be effective and profitable in the short term. In recent decades, there has been a lot of investment, and the output is far from being comparable to the expenditure.

In other words, these two regions are basically losing money at the moment.

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