Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 146 Stepping Stones
After Li Cunxun introduced the situation, Pei Chengyi had to be amazed at the military intelligence bureau's ability.
"Part of the content is a reasonable speculation based on the information we learned when we contact the United States, and it has not received any support from intelligence." Li Cunxun paused for a moment and said, "Before contacting you, I talked about this matter with Prime Minister Yan Shanglong. He also believes that the US authorities have no sincerity in negotiations and just want to take this opportunity to buy time."
"No matter what, this can be considered a significant improvement."
"It's true. At least the US authorities thought of the armistice negotiations." Li Cunxun smiled and said, "Besides, we have to put ourselves in the shoes of Landes, Mrs. Lobring and other American politicians. The war is so strong that it is not the US federal government that cannot be defeated in the face. After all, Landes only has a few pounds in the White House. Months can completely shift the responsibility to the previous Democratic government. As one of the most powerful military forces in the world, the US military not only failed to win, but also failed to grasp the initiative, but also lost a fleet. No matter what, the Joint Conference
The general's revenge mentality is very strong. Landes and Lady Lobring is in the White House. Even if Mrs. Lobring is extremely courageous, she must consider the feelings of the soldiers when she is not stable. Although the American political system is almost zero, and considering the political awareness of the American people, American soldiers will not be stupid enough to overthrow the federal regime with guns, but Landes and Lady Lobring must leave enough room before tightening the ropes on the army's neck and must not be within the attack range of this beast. In other words, we have to work harder on whether to make a ceasefire."
"In this way, we must be prepared to promote peace through war."
"It's not just about fighting to promote peace." Li Cunxun frowned slightly and said, "The situation is very clear. The US authorities have realized that it is impossible to achieve all victory, and they also know that we will not take Israel on the southern front. Therefore, the US authorities, especially the White House and the State Department, are very happy to truce with us, and hope to realize the national interests of the United States through negotiations rather than through war. The key is that the US federal government has a step forward, rather than forcing the Americans to a dead end. Based on the information already possessed, the US military took the initiative to retreat on the northern front and conveyed a very important message to us."
Pei Chengyi nodded slightly, indicating that he understood what Li Cunxun meant.
"There is no doubt that our army has achieved a victory far exceeding expectations on the northern front." Seeing Pei Chengyi's thoughtful look, Li Cunxun said without saying anything. "According to the current situation, after occupying Maratia, I suggest adjusting the military deployment on the northern front and turning off attack to defense. And make full use of the two Iraqi troops
"Two Iraqi troops?"
Li Cunxun nodded and said, "You also know that there are not only tens of millions of Kurds, but also about five million Turks and Armenians in the occupied area. Although according to the battlefield situation we have mastered, nearly one million Turks had fled to Ichel, Elazze and Erzurum before our army launched a total of 1 million Turks, but there are still millions of Turks in the occupied area, and these Turks will definitely have an impact on the future regional situation. As we all know, the reason for our troops to send troops to Turkey is to rescue the Kurds who were cruelly persecuted by the Turkish authorities, rather than creating another national problem, so it is very necessary to lay a good foundation for this before the end of the war. The Kurdish issue is not only a problem of Turkey, but also a problem of several surrounding countries. It is also necessary to let these countries put in some effort.
Pei Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief and heard what Li Cunxun meant.
"What should I do specifically? I'll let Zhang Xiaolong arrange it, and you don't need to interfere." Li Cunxun paused for a moment and said. "What you have to do is grant Zhang Xiaolong enough authority to mobilize the resources he needs."
"Since Iran and Ireland are allowed to play a black face, I don't think there is any need to let the Joint Command come forward."
"What does it mean?" Li Cunxun said directly.
"Our work is just to provide assistance and cooperation, and there is no need to mobilize much manpower and material resources. So I think that letting the General Staff send a special force over here can not only keep it confidential, but also not involve personnel issues of the Joint Command, but also give full play to the advantages of the Military Intelligence Bureau.
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Li Cunxun smiled and shook his head, saying, "It seems that Xiang Yinghui has not read you wrong."
"Old Li, how sure is the negotiation? Pei Chengyi doesn't want to joke with Li Cunxun, after all, the battle on the front line is still going on fiercely.
"It's almost impossible." Li Cunxun sighed and said, "For this matter, I specifically consulted Prime Minister Yan Shanglong. According to the Prime Minister, we cannot refuse the request for a ceasefire negotiation by the US authorities, even if it's just a secret negotiation that is not public, and we cannot prevent the US military from adjusting its military deployment during this period. That is to say, in terms of diplomacy, we don't have many ways to deal with it. When we clarify relations with the United States diplomatically, the war will probably be over. The Prime Minister's advice to us is to fight as much as we should. As long as the United States does not make concessions on the key issues of the ceasefire negotiation, that is, let Turkey and Israel, and Iran and Syria join the negotiations, and make the negotiations open, we don't have to have much hope for the negotiations."
"That is to say, we have to teach more Americans more deeply."
"There is no need for a deeper and more profound slaughter. It only needs to let the US authorities know that no matter how much effort they make, it is impossible to change the miserable situation on the northern front. The new address of this website has been changed to: Sishan, adds 8,4, and asks Sha Lu Li to read the threat." Wang Chengshi. Of course, it also needs to let the US authorities believe that we do not intend to curse the old" on the front to achieve a decisive victory.
Pei Chengyi nodded slightly and said, "Even so, we should make a difference on the southern front."
"That's your business."
After hearing what Li Cunxun said, Pei Chengyi immediately frowned.
"I mean, you let go, but from now on, the military action must be coordinated with diplomatic negotiations, Li Cunxun guessed what Pei Chengyi was thinking and said, "If someone needs to come out to take responsibility, it is definitely not you. The war should end at this time. No matter what the result is, there is no need for us to continue to waste the United States on the battlefield. As long as we can end this war, even losing some benefits is not a problem."
"It's better to get the biggest victory."
Li Cunxun smiled and shook his head, saying, "I'm looking for you for this matter."
After our secret contact with the US intelligence agencies, officials from the Foreign Ministry will conduct secret negotiations with US State Department officials. According to Prime Minister Yan Shanglong, it is best to take appropriate actions before the secret negotiations begin so that the US authorities can understand our bottom line and strive to take the initiative in the negotiations. To put it simply, military actions must be coordinated with the armistice negotiations.
"I understand, I'll take action
"Let's just talk about it here if there is no other thing. If there is new news, we will contact you."
After the call, Pei Chengyi sat in the conference room for a while before calling Dongfang Wen in and asked him to summon several other major staff members to prepare to call a meeting of senior staff members.
Li Cunxun has already made the words very obvious. From this time on, war will no longer serve the war itself.
In fact, what Pei Chengyi is most worried about is not how to make the US authorities admit defeat, but how to grasp the standard of using war to promote harmony. It can be said that this is also the key to Li Cunxun's strong initiative to let Pei Chengyi command this war. Among the many generals of the Republic's army, there are not many politically wise, many talented, and many able to convince the public. However, only Pei Chengyi is the only one who has these three talents. Looking at the battles in the past few days, it basically has nothing to do with Pei Chengyi, or it has little to do with Pei Chengyi, because most tactical and combat-level combat operations were planned by the front line command, and there is not much laughing with the joint command where Pei Chengyi is in charge. Even if the overall war plan was formulated by the joint command, it is mainly the credit of the staff.
If you reward merit, the contributions made by Yuan Chenhao and Su Jinhui at the front line command were not inferior to Pei Chengyi. In other words, when the war was about to end, Pei Chengyi's role was revealed. Although in the eyes of many people, Yuan Chenhao already has the ability to command wars. Moreover, his political mind is not worse than Pei Chengyi. His years of hard work in the South Asian War Zone have accumulated rich experience for him. Everything proves that he is a very outstanding soldier. However, when dealing with certain major matters, Yuan Chenhao's ability is still not as good as Pei Chengyi, especially when the two armies confront each other and inferring the opponent's tactics and battle attempts, Yuan Chenhao is much worse than Pei Chengyi. These gap thugs are the main reason why Li Cunxun decided to use Pei Chengyi, and it is also the main reason why Pei Chengyi is difficult to replace.
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Of course, when it comes to practical issues, Pei Chengyi still has to treat every issue as carefully as an ordinary soldier. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishan Ao plus 8 Si, please log in to read
While waiting for the meeting to begin, Pei Chengyi made some thoughts on the situation on the battlefield in his mind
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Although there is no evidence that Duqiwei voluntarily gave up the Northern Front, judging from the information provided by Li Cunxun, even if Duqiwei does not intend to give up, Mrs. Lobrin will let him give up. Of course, there is only one key point, that is, the US-Turkey coalition must gain a foothold on the defense line from the Torros Mountains to the Jayhan River, and cannot allow the Republican army to advance towards Ankara. Because Duqiwei has already expressed this intention by actively shrinking the defense line, it is unlikely that Pei Chengyi will continue to make a fuss on the Northern Front. To put it simply, this mutual compromise is an unwritten rule on the battlefield.
Strictly speaking, the Middle East War is still the spokesperson war between the Republic and the United States. Although the troops of both sides are fighting on the battlefield and are the absolute main force on the battlefield, both sides send troops in the name of assisting allies in the battle and do not declare war on each other. In this way, the Republic and the United States are not willing to fight face to face. In this case, in order to avoid the unlimited expansion of the scale of the war and eventually evolve into a world war, both sides must abide by some important rules on the battlefield. For example, after one side makes concessions equivalent to defeat, the other side should stop when it is better, rather than pursuing and fighting for unrealistic purposes.
Pei Chengyi cannot be unclear about this rule.
Duqiwei took the initiative to retreat on the northern front: First, to invest more troops into the southern front to ensure that another battle will not be lost. Give the US authorities a chance to step down and avoid developing into a world war; second, to clearly tell Pei Chengyi that the battle on the northern front has been confined, and if you want to distinguish the superiority, transfer the troops to the south. If Pei Chengyi continues to launch a fierce attack on the northern front at this time, the greater the victory, the greater the risk. To put it bluntly, the US military is on the northern front
The retreat has shown that the US government can tolerate a dismembered Turkey, but it will never tolerate a Turkey controlled by the Republic. If the Republic's army continues to move north and overthrows the Turkish regime, even if the US authorities are willing to hold a ceasefire negotiations with the Republic, because there is a lack of the subject of negotiations, the US Congress will reject any results obtained by Feitan's judgment, which will be severely sluggish in the relationship between the Republic and the United States, and the seven states will also make the world war that should have been in strength or even after the New Year.
In any case, Pei Chengyi could not take this risk.
The question is how big it is to win on the southern front, or to achieve the most basic ones
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Pei Chengyi is indeed not very optimistic about this.
Although according to his estimate, with the end of the battle on the Northern Front, when the Republic and the United States are unwilling to continue to consume precious troops, even if the Turkish authorities are not convinced and want to turn the tables on the Northern Front, Pei Chengyi can make full use of the two Iranian troops. At most, only two combat units are needed on the Northern Front, or even one combat unit is needed to make the Turkish army give up the idea of counterattack. In this way, 6 combat units can be invested in powerful troops on the Southern Front. Even if at least three of them require a long-term rest for more than one week, and there are two combat units that require short-term rest, it is difficult to launch a large-scale attack at the end of July or even early August, and can also gain enough rest time for the main combat troops through the tactic of stabilizing the defense line. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishan Ao plus 8 Si, please log in to read
In other words, when the decisive battle on the southern front began, Pei Chengyi was able to invest about 20,000 ground troops.
There is no doubt that this is a military force that is strong enough to destroy the entire Israel.
The question is, is there enough space on the southern front for the six combat units to exert their full combat power?
Facts have proved that not to mention a combat unit, even if two combat units are invested in southern Syria, the battlefield is crowded, and only about half of the troops involved in the combat force is invested. If 6 combat units are invested, the troops who are about to be in the rear will be basking in the sun.
The problem is here. This is definitely not the style of play that Pei Chengyi is good at.
To be honest, if we really become like this, the Middle East war will become a meaningless war of attrition. And it is a war of attrition that the US authorities are willing to see.
Thinking of this, Pei Chengyi had to be more careful.
Because the Republic's army has won the Northern Front and will soon be able to transfer troops to the Southern Front. With Duqiwei's ability, it is impossible not to know that on the Southern Front, hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides cannot be deployed, and even more impossible to let hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides fully play out. Therefore, Duqiwei's main purpose on the Southern Front is likely to be to force the Republic's authorities to make concessions in the armistice negotiations through a war of attrition, and to let the US federal government cope with the anger of voters, and finally gain the support of voters as the commander who ends the war. In other words, what Duqiwei needs is a meaningless war of attrition.
If this is true, we cannot fight a war of attrition with the US-Israeli coalition on the southern front.
Of course, Pei Chengyi didn't think this was an unsolvable problem.
Perhaps the United States has the ability to fight a war of attrition with the Republic that lasted for several years, but as another main body of this war, that is, Israel, which has only a few million people, it is definitely impossible to accompany two pounds. Superpowers fight a war of attrition, and are even unwilling to bear the heavy casualties caused by the war. You must know that the Israel Defense Forces have always been the army in the world that attaches the most importance to protecting officers and soldiers, otherwise they would not have created the only "Mekawa" series main battle tanks that set the engine in front, and will attack those enemies that endanger the lives of Israeli soldiers at all costs.
As long as Israel is unwilling to fight a war of attrition, there is a way for the United States to make concessions in the armistice negotiations.
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No matter what, no matter how you say it, you can't shoot it.
After abandoning Türkiye, the United States will never abandon Israel.
Thinking of this, Pei Chengyi suddenly felt much more relaxed.
It is obvious that Li Cunxun gave him a task that was as simple as possible. What he had to do was to put on airs on the battlefield, and, if necessary, use one or two active and proactive campaigns to dismantle the large-scale attacks of the US-Israeli coalition forces on the southern front, and constrain the pace of the troops with appropriate strength. Of course, it would be better if the land that Syria lost in this war could be recovered. Even if this goal could not be achieved, as long as the current front could be stabilized, it would be an acceptable result.
In short, this is a very simple task and does not even need to worry Pei Chengyi.
After introducing the situation to several main staff officers, Pei Chengyi began to deploy his work and did not seek advice from the staff officer as before. In fact, there was no staff officer who thought it was necessary to express his opinions.
After arranging the matter of the Joint Command, Pei Chengyi first contacted Yuan Chenhao and asked him to hand over the front command work to the main deputy who went down from Malatia and then returned to Guadal Port. Then he contacted Su Jinhui. He asked him to adjust the deployment as soon as possible, so that the second battle and the ninth battle would stabilize the front line, and do not rush to launch an attack.
After completing this series of things, Pei Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!