Zhanhe Marines successfully obtained the new Lidonia and waited for the generals of the United States.

Although the infrastructure of Xinluoridonia is not perfect, there are very few that can be used by the military. For example, Noumea International Airport can only accommodate dozens of transport aircraft and does not have enough power supply. As the largest deep-water port among the many archipelagos in the southwest Pacific, Noumea can only accept multiple merchant ships at the same time. The annual throughput capacity is about tens of millions of tons. However, such a simple basic condition has not changed the strategic position of Xinluoridonia. It only takes a few months for engineers to build a temporary aviation base on the island that can accommodate thousands of aircraft, increasing the throughput capacity of Noumea Port several times, and even building a comprehensive military base on nearby islands with superior conditions, such as the Tyerpool Island in the east, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of marine officers and soldiers.

Relatively speaking, the most important thing is the geographical concubine of Xinronglidonia.

Noumea to Brisbane, the US Southwest Pacific Theater Command, the US Navy Third Fleet Command, the US Army 8th Army Command, and the US Marine Corps Southwest Pacific Theater Command, the only super-large city in Sydney, with a population of more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00

The base is the largest city in southern Australia with a population of about 1,000. Kilometers. It is the home port of the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet in the Southwest Pacific Ocean to Lord Howe Island, and it is also the only total base of the U.S. Navy in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It can be seen that the Republic's army uses Xinkoridonia as its base, and the shore-based aviation force can cover the southeastern region of Australia and provide support and cover for combat operations in this direction. More importantly, the activities of the main fleet of the Republic's Navy in the eastern waters of Australia can be covered throughout the journey.

Considering that Noumea is only about 1,000 kilometers from the capital of Wellington, the Republic's Navy's main fleet does not even need to go deep into the South Pacific. About 1,000 meters south of Noumea, Norfolk Island, can use heavy shells projected by large-caliber electromagnetic guns to bombard southeast Australia, Lord Howe Island, and most of New Zealand.

Let’s not talk about how strong the main fleet is to bombard the other side of the strait, the impact of losing sea power is enough to make the US Navy resist to the death.

In any case, Australia is a country without "deepness". Although as the world's largest "island" or the smallest continent, the area of ​​the Australian continent is more than 10,000 square kilometers, except for the southeast region, about 80,000 square kilometers are deserts. Affected by this, more than 80,000 Australian population is concentrated in the southeast region, and almost all large and medium-sized cities, most of the industrial facilities, main ports, and main economic centers are in the southeast region. To put it vividly, the southeast region with an area of ​​40,000 square meters basically includes the entire Australia. The vast deserts in other regions are more like oceans that cannot be shipped.

Strategically speaking, after the Republic Marines gained a foothold in New Korridonia, the significance of attacking Australia was reduced a lot. In other words, if the risk and cost of landing in Australia were too huge, the Republican army could completely defeat Australia with strategic blockade and strategic bombing.

The US authorities have a very deep understanding of this.

As early as the second half of the year, the Pentagon of the United States conducted a Sanre simulation deduction. This included the way the Republic would control the Southwest Pacific after participating in the war in Europe and opening up New Korridonia to the Republic. According to the conclusions drawn from the deduction, if Europe only participated in the war and provided support for the Republic's combat operations in the Pacific, the Republic's authorities were likely to give up landing in Australia and instead switched to attack New Zealand, and then use New Zealand to block Australia and use deployment in New Zealand.

The air force of Meridonia carried out strategic bombing on Australia to destroy Australia's self-sustaining ability. Although this is not enough to completely conquer Australia, after all, as a country with an area of ​​nearly 10,000 square kilometers and a population exceeding "B". Australia has sufficient self-sustaining ability and huge agricultural production capacity, even if it is blocked and bombed, it can keep the society running. However, doing so will definitely cause Australia to lose its strategic value, that is, it will not be able to support the US military's combat operations in the southwest Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Of course, the key is bombing, not blockade.

For a country like Australia, it is definitely impossible to achieve its goal with strategic blockade like it did when dealing with Japan.

It was mentioned many times before that when the war mobilization of the Republic will be completed. In fact, this is also the key reason why the time is set at Shi Nian when the US authorities are doing deductions. Judging from some information collected after the war, in the middle of the four years, the US intelligence department concluded based on the information it has mastered that the Republic can complete all war mobilization within two years, so that the country's war productivity will reach its peak. This means that in this year, the Republic

In addition to producing old 10,000 main battle platforms, 10,000 tactical fighter jets, 10,000 tactical transport aircraft, 10,000 tons of warships, 10,000 tons of merchant ships, and 40,000 tons of various types of ammunition, the military factories can also produce 10,000 strategic bombers for the Tianjun! Including the four Tianjun produced before this, even if the war damage and damage were eliminated, many of them were mainly used to lose a lot of bombers on the mainland battlefield and the Middle East battlefield, the Republic's Tianjun was able to invest tens of thousands of bombers in Tiannian.

There is no doubt that on any battlefield, this is a devastating blow that no one dares to ignore.

According to the US authorities' estimates, only four bombers and about 10,000 tons of ammunition are required to force the US troops to withdraw from Australia within about 6 months, causing Australia to completely lose its war potential and become the largest isolated island in the world.

With this influence, when the Republic Marines landed in the new Korridonia, the US military was also adjusting its deployment and looking for countermeasures.

As mentioned earlier, Zi wanted to block Australia. It was not enough to control New Zealand. Bi Xiong Kou Shanqian. Because theoretically, the US military could use New Zealand as a springboard to make the fleet detour through the South Pacific and travel to Australia outside the strike range of the Republic's naval aviation and fleet. In this way, the Republic is likely to land in New Zealand before landing in Australia. To this end, the US authorities, on the day when France announced that it would lease military facilities and state-owned assets to the Republic for a fee, sent two land combat divisions originally planned to be sent to Australia to New Zealand and reached an agreement with the New Zealand government. During the war, the United States exercised its defense rights on its behalf, and the United States was responsible for providing New Zealand with basic guarantees to maintain social stability.

It has to be admitted that New Zealand is a country that is so weak that it seems difficult to defend itself.

Although it has a land of 10,000 square kilometers, close to Quwan's population, very developed agriculture and animal husbandry. Many natural agricultural products in New Zealand are very famous in the international market, perfect tourism, the economic strength of Oceania, second only to Australia, etc., New Zealand is still a small country, and a small country in a corner. If it were not affected by colonial history, New Zealand would likely become a country established by Maori. It is precisely because it has an extraordinary historical source of history with Western countries, especially Britain, and its close relationship with the United States after World War II, so New Zealand is a founding member of the Sieves Group and one of the major allies of the United States.

For New Zealand, the biggest benefit of tying with the United States is nothing more than saving a lot of military spending during peacetime.

As a country that is in a corner, New Zealand has never been under real military threats. Even during World War II, New Zealand was one of the safest countries in the world. In the past four years after World War II, in addition to occasional earthquakes and a few people killed by meteorites, New Zealand is still one of the safest countries in the world. It can be said that this unique geographical location and natural environment allowed New Zealand to enjoy all the benefits of peace, and also made New Zealand very vulnerable in the war and had to surrender to a superpower.

To put it bluntly, if New Zealand did not follow the United States' pace, the United States would even send troops to occupy the island country.

In any case, New Zealand's own defense is so weak that it is basically negligible that it is capable of preventing the Republic from occupying New Zealand. Only the American soldiers.

The problem is that the key to saving New Zealand is not to send more troops to New Zealand, but to control the sea power.

To put it bluntly, if there is no sea power, even if the United States deploys a million troops in New Zealand, it is impossible to make the Republican army give up its landing in New Zealand.

Affected by this, while increasing troops to New Zealand, the US Navy was still conducting a strategic counterattack in Zeli.

It can be said that by this time, the US Navy is no longer allowed to choose.

To be honest, even if the US Navy continues to retreat, it will retreat to Spencer Bay and St. Vincent Bay, the Third Fleet, located east of Spencer Bay, to withdraw to southwestern Australia. The Republic's Navy will take the initiative to attack, first destroying the military base built by the US Navy on Lord Howe Island, then use artillery shells and bombs to greet all large and medium-sized cities in southeastern Australia, remove obstacles along the way, and chase the US Navy's Third Fleet into the Indian Ocean. Then chase the US Atlantic all the way until it drives the US Navy back to its nest.

Obviously, the US Navy cannot retreat and must rise up and resist. In order to make the resistance valuable, forcing the Republic's Navy to give up its plan to move south through counterattack, the US Navy's huge combat operation not only needs to invest all the troops of the Third Fleet, but also needs to invest about 4 combat aircraft, sea-plated bases, and dozens of submarines.

More importantly, the US Navy decided to send the eight main ships that had just been incorporated into the active force to New Zealand and form the sister fleet with it as the core. As for whether to allow this fleet that had just formed combat effectiveness to participate in the war, the US Navy probably has to consider it again.

For a moment, the southwest Pacific was surging.

By the end of the month, in addition to the three combat fleets of the Third Fleet, namely the Draft Fleet, the Draft Fleet and the Draft Fleet entered the Tasman Sea through the Bass Strait, the Draft Fleet had also reached the southwest Pacific Ocean. Four sea bases formed a maritime base group on the south side of Lord Howe Island, and hundreds of thousands of U.S. fighter jets were along the west coast of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, and then to the south of Christmas Island. Avalua, New Zealand, belonging to the Republic of Kiribati, the South Cook Islands, and finally arrived in Australia's "Pacific Air Strategic Channel".

The war was about to break out, but the Republic's Navy was calm.

By the end of the month, in addition to transferring the "Taiping Island" sea base to the southern waters of Vanuatu, the Republic's Navy only allowed the fleet to operate in the waters north of New Korredonia and did not go south to the Tasman Sea. In comparison, the Republic's Marines' actions were not very active. After sending troops to take over the military facilities of New Korredonia, they only sent engineering troops to the front line to expand ports and airports in Noumea, and on the unsettled Coral Island of Tyrpool to the east, they belonged to France's state-owned assets to build a comprehensive Marine camp. It can be seen that the Republic's army did not intend to go south from New Korredonia immediately.

The problem is that the Republic's Navy must go south in advance to seize sea control, otherwise there would be no need to send a fourth maritime base.

Judging from the situation at that time, there must have been differences within the Republic's army on how to move south.

It can be imagined that there will definitely be serious differences on whether Australia needs to be attacked.

It must be admitted that even if the troops attack Australia, it is not for Australia's resources. Although Australia has very rich resources, especially mineral resources. As early as four years ago, people were amazed that God favored the people on this continent too much and actually gave Australia such abundant mineral resources with his magical ability. From a geological point of view, Australia is composed of several large plates and has many mountains and valleys formed by the backlog of plates.

The mutual movement of the ground and plates brings underground minerals to the surface. For latte mines, the world's highest grade, largest reserves and most mining several open-pit iron ore are the most comprehensive. For the Republic, Australia seems too far and too illusory. In fact, Japan, many years ago, did not intend to obtain resources by occupying Australia, but instead placed its hopes on the more realistic Southeast Asian region.

Of course, for reasons, there must be someone mentioning Australia's resources.

From reality, even if the Republic sends troops to occupy Australia, it does not mean that it can utilize Australia's resources. The reason is very simple. Whether it is the US military or the Australian army, it will definitely destroy all mineral production equipment before falling or surrendering, and even use landmines, time bombs, blowing up mines, etc. to prevent the Republic from mining Australia's valuable resources.

In short, occupying Australia is not for resources.

Strategically, especially from the special circumstances during the war, the only purpose of the Republic's occupation of Australia was to prevent the US military from using Australian ports and naval bases to send attack submarines to the Indian Ocean, posing a threat to the Republic's North Indian Ocean route.

When the purpose is clear, there is not necessarily only one way to achieve the purpose.

The occupation of Australia can achieve this goal, and it can also achieve this goal by losing Australia's ability to serve as a military base.

Obviously, this is the main reason why the US authorities are worried that the Republic will let Australia go and attack New Zealand.

In fact, this was the main difference at that time.

Interestingly, the Navy and Marine Corps advocated attacking New Zealand this time, believing that there is no need to waste precious troops and more precious time in Australia. The Sky Army also believed that it should attack New Zealand instead of attacking Australia. After all, this could provide the growing strategic bomber unit of the Sky Army with the opportunity to perform on stage. The only objection was the Republic Army, which had just been drawn from the mainland battlefield.

According to relevant records of the Republic authorities, in the middle of the month, Yuan Chenhao threw the aftermath on the mainland battlefield to Su Jinhui. He returned to the country alone and restored his identity as Chief of Staff. At this time, the Republic authorities were planning a combat operation to attack New Zealand, and the main person in charge was Hua Jianfeng, who was supported by Pei Chengyi. After learning that Hua Jianfeng did not intend to let the Marines land in Australia, Yuan Chenhao immediately found Pei Chengyi and asked the army to undertake the combat operation to attack Australia.

What is more interesting is that if you go together, Pei Chengyi will definitely immediately reject this nonsense behavior that is obviously to grab credit, and will even "spread Yuan Chenhao to the frontier" again. However, when Yuan Chenhao made this request, Pei Chengyi not only did not refuse, but instead asked Yuan Chenhao to do preliminary analysis. He also proposed relevant plans at the meeting of the Supreme Power Organization of the Wartime War, which was mainly composed of the Head of State, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Publicity Department and other government departments, as well as the General Staff, the Army Command, the various military commands, and other military institutions.

Although many people think that this is Yuan Chenhao's threat of merit, or that he wants the army to gain a place in the Pacific battlefield led by the navy, so as to ensure that the army is the big brother in the Republican army. However, judging from the situation at that time, even if Yuan Chenhao's prestige in the army further increased after winning the mainland battlefield, he was influenced by Su Jinhui and he did not have the ability to challenge Pei Chengyi, and it was even more impossible to shock Pei Chengyi. It can be seen that Pei Chengyi proposed a plan to attack Australia by the army in the highest decision-making body, in addition to borrowing Yuan Chenhao's mouth. It must have a lot to do with his own strategic intentions.

This can be seen from the reasons for the war mentioned by Yuan Chenhao.

At that time, Yuan Chenhao proposed to attack Australia as the main reason for consuming the US military's vitality on this battlefield far away from the United States. It can be said that this statement also makes sense. Geographically speaking, the relationship between Australia and the United States is like the relationship between the Republic and Argentina, that is, at both ends of the earth. In this way, no matter how many troops the United States deploys in Australia and how complete logistics support facilities it has, the United States will send troops and weapons to Australia, even a pistol bullet, it will have to cross half a ball. It can be said that the biggest enemy of the US military's combat in Australia is not the Republican army, but the long logistics support line. It is a bit straightforward to say that if this long logistics support line can not only consume the US military's vitality, but also produce and consume the US military's war potential, thus affecting the US military's combat operations on other battlefields.

It can be seen from this that Yuan Chenhao did not propose that the army attack Australia in order to make a move in the Pacific.

From another perspective, if Australia becomes the home court of the US Army and fights the Republic Army here, then the US Army's combat operations will inevitably be affected on the Middle East battlefield on the other end of the Indian Ocean. Not to mention how many US troops the Republic Army can eliminate on the Middle East battlefield and how much benefits it can get. Imagine that if the Republic Army can take this opportunity to turn defeat into victory on the Middle East battlefield and use various advantageous forces to win quickly. It can still stay outside the battlefield.

North African countries such as Egypt have expressed their position that the Republic's Navy will enter the Mediterranean Sea at that time. Even if European countries keep their promises and do not start war with the United States, the Republic's Navy can advance westward with the Marines or Army starting from Egypt, and burn the war to the North Atlantic. As long as you can obtain a port on the North Atlantic, the Republic's Navy's submarine forces can turn the North Atlantic into the grave of American ships. The impact caused by this, especially the huge pressure on the strength of the United States, must not be ignored.

It is obvious that Yuan Chenhao’s purpose is to turn Australia into a hot battlefield and create opportunities for other battlefields.

By the same token, this is also likely to be the main reason why Pei Chengyi brought out Yuan Chenhao's proposal to discuss. The problem is that there is a very obvious and huge problem in Yuan Chenhao's proposal. To put it simply, it is to put the cart before the horse.

You should know that the main battlefield between the Republic and the United States is the Pacific, not the Middle East.

Of course, some people will say that if, as mentioned earlier, the main force of the US Army can be restrained in Australia, so that the Republic's Army can attack the eastern coast of the North Atlantic in one go, then the Republic's Navy can enter the North Atlantic, thus posing a threat to the US route on the North Atlantic. What's the point of this?

Russia has been defeated, and the United States no longer needs to transport supplies to the cold Arctic Ocean. When the sea breeze in the North Atlantic can blow to the armored forces of the Republic's Army, the United States has no military presence in the Middle East and North Africa, so it will no longer need to transport troops and supplies to the front line.

Of course, on the other side of the Atlantic, there is another country that has basically defined a relationship with the European continent and completely defected to the United States. The problem is that when the promise is not to start a war with the United States, even if France and Germany are very annoyed by Britain's betrayal, it is impossible to send troops across the English Channel to the Isle of Britain. Instead, it will do its best to protect Britain so that it can "incorporate Britain after the war. In other words, the situation at this time is completely different from the evil years ago. The United States does not need to desperately protect the North Atlantic route to Britain. Even if all routes across the North Atlantic are cut off, Britain will not be finished, and the United States will not be affected much.

For the United States, the real life route is to pass through the Greater Andres Islands to the north and the Little Andres Islands and the Caribbean Sea to the south, and to the Didan Lame. The problem is that this route is completely protected under the cover of the US Navy and the shore-based aviation force. Unless the Republic's Navy can send its main fleet into the North Atlantic and seize the sea control of the North Atlantic, it is unlikely to pose a fatal threat to this route when only submarines are used, and at most the United States can build more escort warships.

Of course, the Republic can also choose to attack westward, that is, directly attack the east coast of the United States. The problem is that when it spans the entire Eurasian continent, even needs to span the African continent, and then cross the Atlantic Ocean to enter the United States, what reason does the Republic have to choose not to go from the completely opposite and more convenient way to the logistics support line that is several thousand kilometers shorter than the Pacific advance route? Even if it is necessary to capture the eastern part of the United States, it can also enter the Caribbean from the Panama Canal. Instead of going around half of the earth, it can enter the United States from Africa and Europe.

In short, after clarifying the key points, we can find that Yuan Chenhao's proposal is actually of no value.

To put it bluntly, it is not Australia that should become a hot topic, but the Middle East battlefield. In other words, the Republic Army should launch a strategic offensive on the Middle East battlefield, restrain the main combat troops of the US Army, and strive to allow the US to form troops to place the main forces withdrawn from Russia on the Middle East battlefield, rather than sending them to the Pacific battlefield, so as to cover the Republic's Navy's march into New Zealand and occupy New Zealand at the lowest cost. What we need to do next is to let the Sky Army carry out continuous strategic bombing on Australia. Then block Australia with a not-too-large fleet. In less than a year, Australia will lose its value.

During the discussion, Hua Jianfeng mentioned this bluntly, believing that Yuan Chenhao was making a fuss.

Of course, there is only one most important problem, that is, it is not about how to fight. First of all, one thing must be done well, that is, seize the sea control power in the Southwest Pacific.

It can be said that only after seizing the sea power can we be qualified to talk about the battle actions that come to the level.

Affected by this, in the late month, Pei Chengyi first approved the navy's combat operations in the southwest Pacific. It took months to annihilate the US Third Fleet and seize the sea control power to create conditions for the next march. As for whether the army should attack Australia, Pei Chengyi did not give a clear answer, but asked Yuan Chenhao to do a good job as the Chief of Staff. When the navy headed south to fight the US Third Fleet, Li Dongshi made several vivid attacks on the Middle East battlefield to reduce the navy's combat pressure.

It is obvious that Pei Chengyi rejected Yuan Chenhao's proposal in a very tactful way. Of course, with Yuan Chenhao's ability, it is impossible not to understand the powerful relationship. It can be said that before the army proposed to attack Australia, Yuan Chenhao should have known that this proposal could not be adopted. The personal reason for his proposal was to find some things for the many army officers and soldiers on the mainland battlefield, especially those newly promoted generals, rather than leaving millions of troops idle.

It can be said that how to resettle the mainland battlefield to be subjected to millions of troops is indeed a very difficult problem.

Because it was attacking Russia in the name of an intensive group, and the member states of the group sent troops during the war, after Russia announced its surrender, the occupation mission fell on all the group members. Even if the Republic had long lived within the group, it would occupy Russia's Far East and the West Siberia region east of the Ural Mountains alone, only in Russia's European region, Central Siberia and East Siberia region shared the results with the group member states, and could remain in Russia. The republic army used to perform the occupation mission was only about 10,000.

Apart from this part of the army, there are still about 340,000 officers and soldiers who need to settle down.

Although the Middle East battlefield continues to increase troops, due to the limitations of the combat area, Li Dongshi only needs tens of thousands of officers and soldiers at most. In addition to veterans who meet the service standards, that is, they can retire and repatriate, there are also about tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who need to find things to do. Of course, it is not a big problem in the short term. Many officers and soldiers need to rest, and some veterans have to return to the domestic market to adapt to combat tactics in other meteorological environments.

The problem is that this accounted for 00,000 officers and soldiers, which was enough to support a combat operation on the battlefield.

Considering that the Republic has completed war mobilization, weapons and equipment and combat materials are being sent from factories to front lines and warehouses, and the problems of lack of equipment and shortage of materials can be greatly alleviated the following year, the Republic's Army is also able to launch a new war in Tiannian.

At this time, we have to consider opening up a new battlefield.

I can say that this is the real reason why Pei Chengyi is willing to listen to Yuan Chenhao's proposal and get it to the decision-making meeting for discussion.

If objective factors are not taken into account, the most worthy of opening up is the South American battlefield. The reason is very simple, South America is the backyard of the United States.

Like the Republic, the United States also has to rely on overseas resources. Although the United States does not have a population aging problem in the Republic, and the total population exceeds 700 million is only 100 million less than the Republic, the social labor force is equivalent to that in the Republic. Because there is no serious pension problem, the surplus labor force in the United States is obviously greater than that in the Republic, so the proportion of some industries can be appropriately increased. In fact, the United States does not lack resources. Their capital ownership is equivalent to that of the Republic. However, when the war broke out

Previously, the United States adopted a national development strategy that was comparable to that of the Republic, that is, it supported its high-tech industrial chain through a huge overseas market and a large population of underdeveloped markets, thereby ensuring its economic development. When the Republic controlled the Indian War, which had a population of 100 million, the population of India had exceeded one trillion, and the total population of Latin American countries under the control of the United States was also more than 100 million. It can be seen that the United States had no need to exploit domestic resources at all. It can completely use overseas resources to support war consumption.

Imagine what would happen if the Republican army could attack South America.

Other things are not sure, at least they can make the Americans who still have a glimmer of hope for victory completely desperate.

The problem is that before winning the Pacific Ocean, the Republic could only march South America from the South Atlantic Ark. To march into the South Atlantic Ocean, it would first have to control South Africa at the southern end of the African continent. In other words, if you want to open up a battlefield in South America, you would have to make a fuss in the southern part of Feiran.
To be continued...