Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 118, Marching into Cuba
Ju Jun Gu, it can be said that it is the ultimate goal of the Republic in this war scarf Dishan.
As early as Yo-year, when the Republican authorities began to prepare for the war and began to formulate a plan for war, they predicted the outcome of the war. To be precise, they planned the way to end the war. Based on rumors that could not be verified, the Republican authorities summarized the possible outcomes and divided them into five categories according to their severity, and planned them for all of these five outcomes.
The worst thing is to fight a devastating world war with the United States. In the situation at that time, there is only one situation where such an ending occurred, that is, the war broke out early, and the strategic defense systems of the Republic and the United States were not formed, and they did not have the ability to intercept the opponent's strategic ballistic missiles. They could not guarantee their own safety in a nuclear war. Although the chances of such a possibility are slim, after all, the Republic and the United States are unlikely to launch a war without a chance of victory, but as long as they appear, the world will be destroyed.
Obviously, in this case, no one is the real winner.
For the Republic authorities, if war breaks out before the fierce years, the first thing to consider is not to defeat the United States, but whether the hope of the nation can be preserved, that is, whether some people can survive. Live until after the war, live until the nuclear winter passes, and then rebuild Chinese civilization.
This is a very heavy topic, but it is a question that has to be considered.
According to rumors, the National Physical Experimental Center of the Republic exists for this purpose. In the outside world, even if the world is destroyed, even if the nuclear winter lasts for a thousand years, the National Physical Experimental Center can ensure that 200,000 people can survive with the most advanced controllable fusion nuclear power plant and a large number of supporting facilities. In theory, only a few hundred people are needed to continue the reproduction of a race. Two or three generations can be used to rebuild civilization in a completely desolate world to ensure that humans can continue to control the earth.
Of course, there are many supporting facilities related to it.
In addition to the National Physical Experimental Center, there are also "Qionglou Space Station" and "Guanghan Palace and Moon Base. The former can accommodate and maintain the survival of four people for decades, while the latter can provide permanent living space and do not require additional resources within fifty years.
Although the Republic's authorities have never admitted that the "extinction" has been prepared, some things can prove that the Republic's authorities have indeed made preparations and are very sufficient. For example, before the Daogou Year, the male-female ratio of staff of the National Physical Experimental Center was about 3. There were 3 men among the staff of Zhiming. Starting from the Tian year, the proportion of female staff began to rise to almost half of the year, and by the past years, it was fought 70%, which is more than twice that of male members. Not to mention the working ability of men and women, just in terms of survival and reproduction in extreme cases, women are much more important than men.
In short, the Republic's authorities have definitely prepared for "smashing", but they have not been external.
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Compared to the worst result, the second is the destruction of one side. Of course, from the standpoint of the Republic, it naturally refers to the destruction of the United States in war.
The destruction mentioned here is absolute destruction.
From a military perspective, after the Republic withstood the strategic strike of the United States, the United States was unable to withstand the strategic strike of the Republic, and its homeland was baptized by nuclear warheads and almost completely destroyed.
There is no doubt that this is definitely not a good result.
Although theoretically speaking, destroying the United States only requires about 0 million-ton nuclear warheads, and this level of energy spread will not cause serious nuclear winters, and even if it will have an impact on the climate, it will last at most one to two years. This level of climate change will not have much impact on human civilization and will not develop to the point of extinction. However, the United States is not Japan, and the nuclear warheads that explode in the atmosphere are not bombed nuclear power plants. If the United States is hit by a nuclear strike and is destroyed by a nuclear strike, the first thing the Republican authorities should consider is not war, but post-war rescue.
Mu Yong doubted that after the devastating nuclear strike, the United States would be completely defeated.
Because it has a relatively vast territory and is a mainland country, the United States will not collapse like Japan, but will import chaos and turmoil into neighboring countries, causing regional turmoil, and even throwing the entire American continent into war.
If the Republic cannot stop this turmoil, the Western Hemisphere will become hell and the victory will lose its meaning.
The only way to change the results is naturally to quickly help the United States get out of the predicament, save those desperate Americans, let them see hope, and restore them to their sanity.
The Republican authorities have also made corresponding preparations for this result.
According to some information declassified after the war, as early as the year of Tiannian, the Republic had made preparations for war. In the form of commissioned production, India was already the world's largest "synthetic grain producer" with several Indian grain companies at that time, with seven of the world's top ten grain producers. The grain produced by industrial production each year feeds more than half of the Indians and exports it to dozens of countries, especially the requirements for quality of life. African countries that needed a large amount of food to resolve the famine signed contracts to expand production, and the Republic's authorities promised to purchase all surplus food at an agreed price. Because the execution time of these contracts was set in previous years, that is, from this year, the grain produced by Indian grain companies will be shipped to the Republic, so the US intelligence aircraft
The government has always believed that the Republic will launch wars over the years. Although these amounts, "the small amount of food was consumed in the border areas. For example, before the land in the year, the Republic Hail State provided hundreds of millions of tons of food to African allies, helped more than a dozen African countries to solve the problem of famine and also helped the Republic's combat operations on the African continent. The Republic's authorities subsequently provided large amounts of food assistance to Colombia and Bolivia in South America, and Bolivia eventually joined the war as an allies, which was related to these food assistance. However, in the case of the fierce years, the Republic's authorities ordered so much food, which was definitely not to aid poor countries in Africa and Latin America, but to prepare for larger plans, including helping American war refugees through difficulties.
Fortunately, this did not happen.
After eliminating the threat of nuclear war, the third possibility is to fight a large-scale ground war with the US team on the United States before victory comes. There is no doubt that this will not be a simple war.
Because the possibility of the first two situations is very high, when formulating a war plan, the Republican authorities first considered this situation.
According to some news released after the war, in the first war plan formulated in Yo-year, the Republic’s authorities put a ground war on the United States in the first place. Yuan Chenhao also mentioned in his memoir that from the very beginning, the Republic was ready to land on the United States.
It is obviously not easy to defeat the US team in the United States.
Not to mention the United States, even landing in Australia is enough to make the Republic retreat. According to conservative estimates before the war, if a ground thief fight must be fought on the United States, the ground troops alone need to persuade 10,000. This does not include air and maritime forces, as well as a larger support force. If all forces are included, at least 10,000 people are needed to occupy the United States!
It can be said that this estimate is very conservative.
You should know that by the year of the year, the United States' population was about to exceed 800 million, making it the third largest country in the world, second only to India and the Republic. In order to capture Russia, which has only a large population, the Republic dispatched more troops than Xinkou. Among them, the front-line combat troops have more than 10,000 troops. Although Russia has a wider territory, most of the Far East are sparsely populated, and the real combat area is only about one-third of Russia's land area. The United States is different from Russia. Except for the central and western regions, the population distribution in most areas of the United States is relatively balanced. In other words, the actual combat area on the local battlefield of the United States exceeds Russia. Including more than three times the population, even if the combat effectiveness of the Republican team has been greatly improved, it is necessary to use a force equivalent to capturing Russia's three times.
In other words, the forces needed to be dispatched to occupy the United States are at least 40,000, of which the combat troops are no less than those of the old Tian Wan.
According to the information released after the war, at the beginning of the fourth year, the General Staff of the Republic, according to the instructions of the Supreme Command, locked the investment of troops to the United States as a fierce 10,000 yuan. Because the United States is very far away from the Republic, even if sea transportation is more convenient than land transportation, the proportion of logistics support personnel is higher than that of fighting against Russia. Therefore, when the combat troops increase by twice, the total investment of troops will only be more than 40,000 yuan.
Affected by this, the Republic adjusted its war plan from the second half of the year.
In any case, fighting a large-scale ground war on the United States is definitely a disaster for the Republicans, especially the Republic Army. According to unconfirmed news, when Pei Chengyi approved the combat operations against the United States at the end of the year, he did not reject the use of weapons of mass destruction. That is to say, if the war is fought too fiercely, it is out of protecting the Republicans. The Republicans are likely to use weapons of mass destruction, including tactical nuclear weapons, on the battlefield to accelerate the war process.
If we really want to develop to this point, this war is not only a tragedy for the Republicans, but also a tragedy for the Americans.
As a suboptimal choice, ending the war with strategic bombing without landing on the United States became the ending of the Western style.
In a sense, this is also the main direction of efforts of the Republican authorities.
Although there are many problems that can be defeated by strategic bombing, and the difficulty can not only allow millions of officers and soldiers to go home alive, but even the biggest problems must be overcome.
The biggest problem with strategic bombing is that the United States is too large.
Practical combat has long proved that for countries with too vast territory, strategic bombing is not of obvious significance, and it will even cause the bomber to pay unbearable losses. Historically, the bomber has only been bombed to destroy some small territory. And it is mainly isolated island countries. Not to mention dealing with countries like the United States with a complete local air defense system, even if it was in power many years ago, the Republic did not defeat India, which is about one-third of the United States, through a large-scale strategic bombing, but instead dispatched a million troops to defeat India with a large-scale ground war. At that time, the Republic did not intend to defeat India with bombing, nor did it want the army officers and soldiers to make sacrifices, but after weighing the pros and cons, it made the decision to fight a ground war.
Strategic bombing is more difficult to deal with countries like the United States.
Not to mention, in order to destroy the United States, at least tens of thousands of bombers need to be mobilized and hundreds of millions of ammunition is needed. According to the information released after the war, just by turning the old mouth of the eastern United States, east of the Alpachia Mountains into ruins, tens of millions of bombers need to be dispatched, and the destruction of 10,000 tons is based on the average loss rate of bombers during the war. This means that the average loss rate of about 30,000 bombers is lost, that is, the average loss rate of one thousand bombers is three thousand, that is, the loss of three thousand. There is no doubt that such a huge loss makes bombing more than worth the cost. You must know that the Republic is in full swing, and the bombing produced annually
There are only more than 20,000 aircraft. Relatively speaking, the consumption of ammunition is even more amazing. Not to mention how much resources are needed to produce B-ton ammunition and drug supplies, just transporting these ammunition and drug supplies to the front line requires the sailing force of merchant ships with a cargo of 10,000 tons, that is, a fleet of blades composed of blade merchant ships sailing back and forth. Because there will be losses during shipping, the merchant ship itself also needs to consume materials. In addition to the materials consumed by other troops, the ammunition sent to the United States only accounts for about the actual consumption of ships, that is, the materials that need to be transported are not B-ton, but B-ton. In this way, even if the Republic invests in the fleet, it must ensure that each fleet will run back and forth within the year.
Organizing, transporting, allocating and managing so many materials is definitely something that can make people crazy
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That's why before entering the United States, the Republic successively occupied Digo Garcia, controlled the Seychelles Qunum, allowed South Africa to sell the Bay of Falls, swept the West African region, captured the Cape Verde Islands, marched into the Little Andres Islands, and attacked Puerto Rico. All of this was to prepare for the march into the United States.
The problem is that from an ideal perspective, the best base for advancement to the United States is Cuba, not Puerto Rico.
Not to mention anything else. If large-caliber electromagnetic guns with a range of more than a thousand meters can be deployed in the northwest of Cuba, they can use artillery fire to destroy all the towns in Norfolk, Virginia to Nashville, Tennessee, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Houston, Texas, all the towns south of the line, making the richest and most populous areas in the United States into an unmanned land.
This is definitely not a bragging. When bombing Australia, the Republic's Navy used its actions to prove the power of long-range artillery.
More importantly, the strategic bombers deployed in Cuba can take off with maximum bomb load. They bombard all US states except Alaska and Hawaii, and are guaranteed to be dispatched at an average rate of one flight per day, and continue to operate for several months.
Cuba can also serve as a base for escort fighter jets to cover strategic bombers deployed on maritime base groups.
If necessary, Cuba can even become a base for the advance of the Republic's ground forces.
In short, whether it is strategic bombing or ground war, the Republic must enter Cuba and use Cuba as a springboard for its march into the United States.
That's why Cuba is one of the ultimate goals of the Republican action.
Although there is still a fifth situation, that is, before the strategic bombing is fully started, as long as the Republic can prove victory that can be won through strategic bombing, the US authorities will accept the surrender conditions offered by the Republic under the huge pressure of war, especially the pressure of total destruction, and end the war in the form of US surrender. However, this possibility is not very high. After all, it is difficult for a country with a population B to surrender before it tastes the pain. Moreover, to make the United States feel the pain and to make the Americans believe that the United States has lost the war, the most effective way is strategic bombing. To put it bluntly, strategic bombing is to teach the United States and work hard to avoid ground war.
As the Republican team entered Puerto Rico, there was no sign of surrender in the United States, the fifth possibility was basically a bubble.
In this case, the Republican authorities can only consider the fourth possibility, which is to allow the US authorities to surrender before they have to dispatch ground forces.
To this end, the Republic must march into Cuba. And the faster the better.
At the end of the short year, the Republic's Navy took the lead in entering the southeastern waters of Cuba through the Jamaica Strait, and before leaving, shelling the US military base in Guantanamo.
Although the battle in Puerto Rico was not over at this time, the US authorities have realized that Cuba is a strategic place that must be defended. Affected by this, the US authorities made an extremely bold decision to allow the four main fleets that had formed a short time to move south to meet with the two main fleets that had participated in the naval battle of the Cape Verde Islands, and stand by in the Florida Strait north of Cuba, preparing to face the Republic's Navy fleet to the north.
Because it is backed by the local government, the US Navy did not dispatch an aviation fleet and did not deploy maritime bases to the south.
Faced with the challenges of the US military, the Republic's Navy had no choice but to go north to fight. To put it simply, the existence of the US fleet blocked the Republic's pace of marching into Cuba. Until the threat of the US fleet was eliminated, the Republic could not risk sending troops to Cuba, and Cuba would not risk participating in the war.
Only by seizing the sea power can the action of entering Cuba become meaningful.
To this end, the Republic's Navy dispatched almost all combat forces on the Atlantic Ocean, namely, 8 main fleets, 4 aviation fleets and 6 maritime base groups.
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