The government is still very satisfied with the question of whether to fight ground war.

For the leaders of the Republic, the greatest risk of fighting ground war is to increase casualties in the war. In a sense, after the war progressed to Tiannian, the primary issue for the leaders of the Republic is to reduce casualties, rather than paying a greater price for victory.

Some people may think that war will kill people, and citizens of the Republic have a stronger ability to withstand.

It is undeniable that influenced by national culture, the citizens of the Republic are indeed much better than those of Western countries in terms of suffering casualties in war. For example, in the Indian War in Shu, the Republican team paid a heavy price of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, exceeding the total number of casualties of the US military in the Iraq War that lasted for many years. As a result, the Republic did not cause serious social problems, but the United States had to withdraw its troops from Iraq.

The problem is that any country and nation has an upper limit to the ability to withstand war.

More importantly, the upper limit of this catty will decrease with the social and economic progress of a country, which is inversely proportional to the development of a country.

The reality is that since the year of force, the economic development of the Republic has always been on the fast lane. Even during the Great Depression that swept the world, the relative development speed of the Republic ranks among the major economies in the world. To put it simply, during the Great Depression, Western economies led by the United States declined in a comprehensive recession, but the Republic continued to grow at a rate above the gills. Compared with the United States, the growth rate was even higher. More importantly, since four years of involvement in the Fourth India-Pakistan War, in just a few years, the Republic has been involved in many old wars and countless places.

District conflict. According to the data released by the Republic, by the time the Third World War broke out, about 10,000 officers and soldiers died in foreign wars, with more than 40,000 disabled people. No one can draw a precise conclusion on how much impact these 40,000 casualties had on the country and society. Take the pension expenses of the Republic authorities as an example. About 10,000 yuan of death pensions were paid in the year of injury alone. By the time of the island, the expenses used for disabled soldiers were as much as 10,000 yuan, and the staff of the "Doctoral Soldiers Administration of the Central Government.

Citizens of the Republic are not afraid of war, but will not sacrifice for this for no reason. When they arrived at the Cang Bin, social problems caused by casualties in the war had become the main problem in the Republic, and it was a problem that the leaders of the Recommended State cannot ignore.

Perhaps, some numbers best illustrate the severity of the problem.

According to the data released by the Republic authorities year by year, by the end of the year, that is, the year of the war. The Republic's Army, the three armies, the Marine Corps and other independent troops were killed in a total of powerful soldiers, missing and captured three Jizhou people, and disabled jumping blades. In addition, most of the casualties of Liwanzhun military personnel were crew members on sunken merchant ships and those engaged in aid work abroad. In other words, the war lasted for the year. The Republic paid a heavy price of tens of millions of casualties.

You know, at this time, the total population of the Republic is only a little over 800 million!

The heart is full of casualties, and there is one among individuals. You should know that on average, individuals have social relations with people. That is to say, on average, four of the relatives, classmates, friends and colleagues of citizens of each Republic have casualties due to war. Among them, how can people die in the fire of war!

This is definitely not a small proportion. It can be said that the impact of war on the Republican society has reached the most basic level!

From another perspective, if we can defeat the United States by relying on the strategic strike with the least casualties, why should we let thousands of republicans die?

Even if Pei Chengyi does not consider re-election, he must consider the stability of the Republic.

The problem is that as the country's top leader, Pei Chengyi cannot be unaware that the possibility of a US surrender by relying solely on strategic strikes is very slim, and no excellent leader will place his hope of victory on his slim hope, and will be prepared for second-hand.

In fact, from the very beginning, Pei Chengyi did not rule out the possibility of defeating the United States with ground wars.

That is why, before entering the New Year, the Supreme Command of the Republic approved the strategic deployment plan submitted by the Marines to deploy more ground troops to the Caribbean. Although the purpose of this was to attack Puerto Rico, occupy the island used to solve the Jewish problem, and control Cuba in the following combat operations, prevent the United States from raiding Fonba in extreme circumstances, and establishing a forward base for the strategic bombers of the Sky Army. However, in the year of Lijiu, especially after the Republic's Marines had landed on Cuba, the Supreme Command did not withdraw the ground troops deployed on the Atlantic Ocean, but instead allowed the Marines to reorganize on the spot to prepare for the next round of attacks.

In other words, at this time, Pei Chengyi had already realized that it is very likely to use a ground war to solve the problem.

The key is not whether to fight or not, but when to fight and where to fight.

According to the information disclosed after the war, Pei Chengyi's main energy was spent on this at that time, that is, how to use a ground war of not too large to defeat the United States' will to resist.

There is no doubt that Europe's actions in Britain have become a different body clam that the Supreme Command of the Republic approved.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Supreme Command approved the Marines' combat plan, stipulating that if the force is not more than 40,000, including fleets and aviation, but not logistics support forces, a limited-scale ground war was launched, with the landing location in the northeast of the North American continent, with the purpose of forcing Canada to surrender and preventing Europe from entering the US continent. In terms of the time of the attack, the attack shall not be later than the end of the month at the latest.

Of course, the Republic's authorities did not disclose this news in a timely manner.

To be precise, it should be to confuse Europe. The strategic strikes between the Republic's Navy and the Sky Army are still continuing, and the intensity of the strike has not been reduced. More importantly, in late April, the Republic's authorities agreed to the request made by France, Germany and Italy on behalf of Europe to have early contact with Europe on the issue of US armistice negotiations and plan to conduct high-level consultations in the month.

In early morning, ministerial officials from both sides held their first meeting in Beirut.

Since it is a high-level meeting, it is not just about the issue of armistice negotiations.

The attitude of the Republic's authorities is very clear, that is, the armistice negotiations with the United States do not mean giving up the basic requirement of unconditional surrender, that is, the Republic still insists that only if the United States surrenders unconditionally, the war can end early. In order to express this position, the Foreign Minister of the Republic also came up with a document supported by multiple intensive group members, that is, the intensive group will not accept any conditions for surrender proposed by the United States. Of course, if there is no room for revolving around, the high-level contact between the Republic and Europe will have no meaning. According to the Foreign Minister of the Republic, it is not that the conditions for surrender of the United States cannot be accepted, but it cannot exceed the scope of humanitarianism, that is, it will only consider conditions related to ensuring the fundamental interests of the American people. It will definitely not negotiate with the United States on issues such as war criminals, regimes, political systems, military forces, etc.

Obviously, the leader of this negotiation was not Europe but the Republic, so Europe did not raise any objections to the conditions proposed by the Republic, nor did it rush to make bargaining chips. The reason is very simple. At that time, France, Germany, Italy and other countries had realized that the Republic was likely to be preparing to launch a large-scale landing operation and then occupy the United States in the form of ground war.

Although there is no evidence that Europe has obtained the Republic's combat plan, that is, it is unclear about the preparations of the Republic's Marines, there are sufficient reasons to believe that with the Republic sending troops to control Iceland and defending the Azoreans, France, Germany and Italy must know that it will only take sooner or later for the Republic's Marines to land on the American continent.

It is not difficult to find out that consultation is just a cover, and the Republic needs time.

There is no doubt that for countries such as France, Germany, Italy, and have little ability to intervene in the actions of the Republic, that is, there is no way to change the reality of the Republic's Marines landing on the North American continent.

Of course, European countries have ways to cause trouble.

According to the information released after the war, on the old day, that is, when bilateral consultations were still in progress, France, Germany and Italy conveyed information to the United States and Canada that the Marine Corps of the Republic were about to land on the North American continent through the ambassador to Switzerland, and this intelligence fell into the hands of the Swiss officials during the transfer process. Although the information on this intelligence was very limited, it did not mention the detailed login location, the accurate login time, and even the basic information of the landing force, the force of the landing force, the way of initiating the landing operations, etc., the warning issued by European countries naturally has extraordinary significance and is of great help to prepare for anti-logining between the United States and Canada.

Obviously, the negotiations will not achieve any results.

Fortunately, the eastern coastline of the North American continent is not rugged, and there are not many beaches suitable for landing. More importantly, the Republic's Marine Corps has entered the era of three-dimensional landing operations. Landing operations are affected by geographical factors and are based on maritime bases, so there is no need to occupy the forward base. For the passive defense of the United States and Canada, it is almost impossible to set up defense lines on the coastline that lasts thousands of kilometers long. That is to say, after receiving the alarm, the United States and Canada can only selectively strengthen the defense in certain regions.

Among them, naturally, there are Nova Scotia Peninsula and Newfoundland Islands in the north and south of the Cabernet Strait.

Because the Nova Scotia Peninsula connects Brunswick, and Brunswick is next to Maine in the northeast of the United States, the first thing the US and Canadian authorities are guarding against is the Nova Scotia Peninsula. Of course, Newfoundland is just an island. Even if it is very close to Quebec in the north, the Republic Marines still have to make a second landing after they land on Newfoundland Island before they can set foot on the North American continent and make it possible to enter Canada. Both the US and Canadian authorities believe that the possibility of the Republic Marines landing on Newfoundland will not exceed that of the Nova Scotia Peninsula, so the defense forces deployed on Newfoundland are far less than those deployed on the Scotia Peninsula, and even not as good as the north bank of the St. Lawrence River.

Of course, the actions of the US and Canadian military have not been able to escape the surveillance of the Republic.

Because when the Republic marched into the United States, the first strategic strike was to deal with the United States' space capabilities, so by the time the Republic Marine Corps was preparing to land, the United States had lost its control over the heavenly power. The threat to the spacecraft launched by the Republic's Sky Army was reduced to a minimum. This is why, in the three years of strength, the Republic's authorities strengthened the space launch and built a basic military satellite network before the month. That is to say, even if the reconnaissance planes are not deployed, the Republic's Sky Army can accurately grasp the situation on the east coast of the United States and Canada.

Affected by this, negotiations are even more unlikely to gain anything... "The worst impact of military reconnaissance is the landing operation" ※

Mingdao Ri, when the negotiations were fruitless, the Republican authorities took the initiative to end the negotiations.

Judging from the information on the post-war bus, the first thing European negotiators did after receiving the news of termination of the meeting was to contact the US ambassador to Switzerland and sent the news.

At that time, almost everyone believed that the Republic Marines would land on the North American continent in a few hours.

In fact, the landing battle was not officially launched until the Ming Blade Day.

The reason was that the landing operation was originally planned to be carried out on the morning of the month of the month due to the sudden change of climate, and finally to the Blade Day. The landing operation was not officially started until the storm on the North Atlantic weakened and allowed the vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft to take off and land safely.

The Republic Marines landed not on the Nova Scotia Peninsula, but on the Island of Newfoundland.

Obviously, this is completely contrary to what the US and Canadian military expected.

The problem is, this is just the beginning.

Just as the US and Canadian troops gathered on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River to prepare to deal with the Republic Marines that were landing in Quebec, the Republic Marines launched a second landing at the fastest speed, and the landing location was not Quebec, nor the Nova Scotia Peninsula to the south, but Anticosti Island in the center of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

At the same time, the two main fleets and fire support fleets of the Republic Navy entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the Capat Strait, and defeated several transferring US and Canadian troops with fierce artillery fire.

By this time, the US authorities had to believe that the Republican team's daily location was not Washington, but Yataihua.

The best route to march into Nirtahua is definitely not on land, but along the St. Lawrence River north. In other words, the main purpose of the Republic Marine Corps to land on Newfoundland and Anticosti Island is to lure away the US and Canadian troops and expose the enemy hiding in solid fortifications to artillery fire. Then use fleet artillery fire to kill the vitality of the US and Canadian troops. In this way, when the Republic fleet goes upstream, it will not be threatened by the defenders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Affected by this, June, the third day after the Republic Marine Corps lands, the US military ignored the strong opposition of the Canadian authorities.

, several dams on the St. Lawrence River were blown up, and more than 20 large ships blocked in the river were to the estuary of Quebec, blocking the estuary by self-sinking. In order to strengthen defense, in the following days, the US military deployed tens of thousands of mines in the river and set up multiple blasting sites along the river. As long as the Republic's fleet went upstream, the US military would block the entire river by blasting with hundreds of millions of tons of silt and sand. Anyway, the US military had only one purpose, to prevent the Republic's fleet from entering Yataihua and also to prevent the Republic's fleet from entering the Great Lakes.

The problem is, this crazy move has no practical effect.

The US military forgot one thing, that is, the Republic's Marine Corps does not need to operate along the river at all, and with the support of vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, it can attack targets within a radius of thousands of kilometers in a three-dimensional assault. In other words, the Republic's Navy only needs to deploy its maritime base in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to allow the Marine Corps to attack Yataihua and occupy southeastern Canada, which is also the most developed and most concentrated area in Canada.

In fact, the Republic Marines did.

After two landings, the Republic Marine Corps did not rush to launch a third landing, but instead used a large-scale attack to consume the combat effectiveness of the US and Canadian troops and assisted the fleet in attacking the long-range artillery of the US and Canadian troops.

On June 4, the first sea base entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

In the next few days, another sea base entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and formed a sea base group.

It was not until this time that the Republic Marines began to consider landing in the North American continent.

The problem is that the Marines have completely different views from the Supreme Command in terms of offensive purposes.

The meaning of the Supreme Command is very clear, that is, the Marines should choose Yataihua and occupy the capital of Canada. Although this may not necessarily lead Canada to admit defeat, Canada is not a country like the United States, and this country with a population of just over 100 million cannot choose another city as the capital like the United States. More importantly, the eastern region where Shitaihua is located is the core area of ​​Canada, and two-thirds of the country's population is in this area. In other words, as long as the Republic Marines prove that they are capable of defeating Yataihua, Canadians will make rational choices.

Suddenly, the Marines don't think so.

In the eyes of the Marines, capturing Nirtahua can only make the Canadians united in hatred of the enemy and resist more fiercely. Even if they take a step back and the Canadian authorities are willing to surrender, the United States will not let the last ally Mexico announce its separation from the SAT group at the end of the year and withdraw from the war forever. They will definitely find ways to make Canada continue to fight, so they will hostage the Canadian government and may even support a shamed regime.

Affected by this, the Marines believed that a large-scale deep attack should be used to invade the United States!

Of course, how to fight depends on the actual situation!
Chapter completed!