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Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 109, Battlefield

The sixth year of the war is entering. The situation is particularly promising for both sides of the war.

The West just passed Christmas. The second fleet, the main fleet of the second fleet, which had been active in the waters near the Seychelles for several months, went south at full speed and drove south through Mauritius to Falls Bay in South Africa. On the morning of the fourth day of the New Year, it arrived at this natural line between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, the temporary anchorage of the southernmost Indian Ocean was the Cape of Good Hope. Because it was east of the Cape of Good Hope, Falls Bay geographically belonged to the Indian Ocean. More than ten days before that, the Navy of the Republic took over this natural harbor from the South African government. Strictly speaking, Falls Bay is not a natural deep-water port.

Before the end of the century, Falls Bay was not a harbor, and Table Bay, north of Cape Town Port, was the harbor. It was not until the rise of super-large freighters with displacement of more than 10,000 tons, surpassed the traffic capacity of the Suez Canal and Panama Canal, and the rapid growth of sea freight from the Republic to South America, mainly Argentina, that Cape Town's position in international maritime trade was rapidly improved, and Table Bay's capacity was increasingly unable to meet the needs. In the early days, the South African government and the Cape Town local government decided to develop Falls Bay and build the southern part of the country.

The largest port at the intersection of Africa and the two oceans. And attract investment for this grand plan. It can be said that the South African government was ambitious at that time and wanted to take this opportunity to become a major shipping power and make a fortune using the two oceans routes. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. First, the Egyptian government decided to invest 400 million US dollars to approximately USD 100 million, most of which was the investment of international consortiums. The financial group of the Republic invested about RMB 100 million to expand the Suez Canal and increase the navigation capacity of the Grand Canal. Then the Panamanian authorities announced that they would join forces with several consortiums in the United States.

In this year, the second waterway that can provide navigation for 10,000-ton super cargo ships is expensive, so it was finally changed to widen the original waterway and improve navigation capacity by building super large locks. In this way, the market foundation for building a Falls Bay shipping transit center in South Africa will no longer exist. Although it is from the Republic to some parts of South America, such as Buenos Aires in Argentina, the shortest and safest route from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic Ocean through the Cape of Good Hope, and the Falls Bay is still the shortest and safest route from the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope.

It is the main transit station on this route. However, such a relatively single route, even Table Bay is not satisfied, so there is no way to make the area larger! The 0-fold Falls Bay has commercial value. Affected by this, by the mid-Blade era, when the investment was not smooth, the South African authorities had to change their plans and build a breakwater between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Hanklep on the south side of Falls Bay. According to the regulations of the South African authorities, after the construction of this breakwater, Falls Bay will become the most ideal tourist destination in South Africa.

What plays a role is the wave embankment about 10,000 kilometers long at the sea at high tide, which is about 10,000 kilometers long, which changed the fate of Falls Bay. From what was mentioned above, we can know that the South African authorities wanted to turn Falls Bay into a tourist destination, using the Cape of Good Hope as a sign to attract tourists from all over the world, especially from the Republic. You should know that in the early Blade era, the Republic tourists who went to African countries to perform every year had already broken through their hearts. Ten thousand visitors, and it is expected to increase to more than ten thousand visitors within 0 years. The Republic is also likely to become the world's largest tourist exporter before the year. The average annual tourist output of the United States in the early Blade era exceeded 40,000 visitors. Although it is impossible to build Falls Bay into a shipping center, if this bay can be turned into a tourist destination that can attract thousands of overseas tourists, South Africa's investment will not be at a disadvantage, and it can even obtain better benefits.

Interestingly, this breakwater dike has turned Falls Bay into an excellent harbor.

It can be said that this is just that if you are willing to plant flowers, you will not be able to plant flowers, but if you are unintentionally plant willows and willows, you will become shade.

As early as the end of the Blade era, shortly after the end of the Second Cambodian War, the Republic's Navy took a fancy to Falls Bay in order to march into the South Atlantic Ocean. The Republic's authorities also contacted the South African government and hoped to rent Falls Bay. To this end, the Republic's authorities not only gave a considerable rent, but also proposed other preferential conditions, such as encouraging tourists to travel to South Africa through tax refunds, and opening special direct high-speed tourism flights with a straight-line flight distance from Guangzhou to Pretoria is up to 4 kilometers; the actual flight distance is more than 4 kilometers. If an ordinary electric passenger plane is used, the flight time is more than 2 hours, and the flight time is more than 6 months. If you use the latest high-speed passenger plane with a flight speed of more than Mach 6, the flight time can be controlled within 4 hours and there is no need to stop in the middle. It can be said that citizens of the Republic are unwilling to travel to South Africa, which is the most important.

The reason is that there is too much time spent on the road. For example, the travel time is spent on the old days, and the time spent on the round trip alone is as much as 3 days, which greatly reduces the value of tourism. If the time spent on the road can be shortened to a day, it is equivalent to increasing the actual travel time by 30%, and it will naturally be very popular. It can be said that the conditions offered by the Republic are not low. If the Republic can attract tourists, the South African tourism industry will increase its income by hundreds of billions of yuan every year and create millions of jobs. The South African authorities can also obtain tens of billions of yuan in fiscal revenue. The problem is that the South African authorities did not rent Falls Bay to the Republic. The reason is that the reason why the South African authorities did not rent Falls Bay to the Republic is very simple, which takes great political and diplomatic risks. At the beginning of the era, especially after the Middle East War in the year, the South African authorities no longer had secret contact with the Republic, and even did not mention the issue of renting Falls Bay.

Of course, the issues related to Falls Bay are not over here.

Before Yo-year, the Republican authorities had been working hard to improve relations with South Africa. Even though the South African authorities did not lease Falls Bay to the Republic's Navy, the Republican authorities also encouraged citizens to travel to South Africa with various policies, and encouraged major domestic tourism companies to open more South African tourism routes. Of course, the Republican authorities did not forget to do the most important thing, namely, to open direct high-speed tourism flights. These efforts continued until around the Western New Year. As the comprehensive arms race broke out before the war broke out, almost all countries believed that the Republic had contacted South Africa again and proposed to rent Falls Bay. In order to prevent the Republic from entering the Great Western Ocean, it was possible that it would be a big show in South Africa. The problem is

.The Republic did not reiterate the issue of Seoul Swan, nor did it make a big move into the Atlantic Ocean. Although in a sense, it can be seen that the binding provisions of the Stockholm Agreement restricted the development of the Republic's navy and restricted the scope of activities of the Republic's navy. If the Republic's navy is unable to enter the Atlantic Ocean, there is no need to control the Falls Bay in advance, but this can also be seen as the main manifestation of the Republic's early deployment that has been in place and does not need to control the Falls Bay before the war. The "pre-deployment" mentioned here mainly refers to the Republic's tourism investment in South Africa between the year of Likou to Lijun, which includes the creation of Falls Bay into the southern hemisphere.

The largest natural bay bathing site. Because it is located in the southern hemisphere, South Africa is summer, and the Republic is the coldest winter of the year, so there must be many wealthy Republic citizens willing to go to South Africa to "get away from the cold." To sunbathe on the beach of Falls Bay. In this way, in addition to the construction of a large amount of ground infrastructure, most of them are concentrated in the northwest of the bay, that is, the south of Cape Town, and the basic functions of the bay are also needed, such as allowing cruise ships sailing around the world to dock in the bay. The tourists on the cruise ship can enjoy the sun beach in the most convenient way. In other words, several places on the breakwater in the south can supply and discharge water in the old ten thousand tons, even

By the time larger ships reached the age of the century, most global cruise ships had a displacement of more than 10,000 tons. Super cruise ships with a displacement of about 10,000 tons were not uncommon. The tourism companies of the Republic and the United States were still envisioning building maritime cities with global navigation capabilities, that is, active island waterways similar to marine bases. These waterways can be used by cruise ships, so they can naturally be used by warships with a small difference in waterways. In other words, with these waterways completed before the year, the Republic's authorities did not have to control Falls Bay before the outbreak of the war, but could decide how to control Falls Bay during the war, according to combat needs, especially strategic needs.

It is precisely because of these early efforts that the Republican authorities demanded that South Africa open the Bay of Falls at the end of the year.

Because South Africa was still established. In the Mengkou year, this would be established as a basic national policy by the constitutional amendment, the Republic did not force South Africa to rent Falls Bay to betrayed according to international law, permanent territory and territorial waters to betrayed to the belligerent countries, but it opened its own territory and territorial waters for humanitarian aid. It was not within this scope, but obtained the right to use Falls Bay in the name of humanitarian rescue. Because the war has not yet ended, the fleet transporting humanitarian aid supplies needs security, so the Republic's Navy has reason to arrange warships to escort it, and can deploy escort warships to the Falls Bay. It is obvious that the Republic's authorities have learned from international law.

Hole.

No matter what," on the moon and on, three combat fleets of the Republic Navy drove into Falls Bay.

Arriving with the combat fleet, there is also a large transport fleet. According to Jigo. In the next three months, the engineers of the Republic's Navy will establish a longitudinal dock in Falls Bay, including a port for large warships to dock, which can serve large warships of Zhao's main battleships at the same time, and 24 horizontal docks for large ships to dock, which can also serve large ships with a capacity of 10,000 tons, cobalt berths, and warehouse areas that can stock up on all kinds of materials.

If time is sufficient, a naval air station will be built in Pringel Bay, southeast of the bay, by early July of the short year. In short, when entering the Atlantic Ocean, the Republic's Navy did not forget to lay a solid foundation.

Because the scale of infrastructure construction in Falls Bay was too large, many people believed after the war that the Republican Navy was deliberately wasting war resources, and some even believed that the Republican authorities were deliberately consuming excess war resources. This is also easy to understand. By the age of the year, when the United States was unable to launch a strategic counterattack and the Republic's ** team did not launch a strategic offensive, the Republic's military capacity was severely overcapacitated, so naturally, it was necessary to find a place to use up all kinds of materials that had accumulated. Of course, this does not mean that the military construction in Falls Bay is meaningless. In any case, the cost of military construction during the war was very low. Not to mention anything else, the thousands of engineers who built the Comprehensive Naval Base in Falls Bay were only

If you get ordinary allowances, if it is a peacetime period, the expenses of these personnel alone will cost hundreds of billions of yuan. More importantly, the result of large-scale infrastructure construction is far from obtaining a temporary naval base. Although in name, Falls Bay is indeed a temporary naval base of the Republic's Navy. The South African government can recover the loaned bays and land at any time, as a military base stationed with tens of thousands of soldiers, it is definitely not something that the South African authorities can close if they want. In the decades after the war, Falls Bay is not only the largest comprehensive military base of the Republic in southern Africa, but also an important bargaining chip in the relations between the Republic and South Africa. It can be said that this is the direct result of large-scale infrastructure construction during the war.

The problem is that in war, Falls Bay has little significance.

As mentioned earlier, the US Navy has retreated to the north of the Cape Verde Islands. Even if the US Navy intends to fight the Republican Navy on the Atlantic, it will not run to the southern end of Africa where the Republic's forces are densely populated. Instead, relying on the Cape Verde Islands, waiting for the Republic's fleet to come to the door in the middle of the Atlantic. It can be seen that during the war, the greatest value of the existence of Falls Bay was to serve the fleet.

Although the Republic Navy used the deployment of submarine carriers to Falls Bay to turn Falls Bay into an activity base for attack submarines before the beginning of the 3rd year. At one point, the Republican authorities have not recognized that Falls Bay is a military port for political reasons, and most submarines docked on submarine carriers, and submarine officers and soldiers rested on submarine carriers. By the fourth quarter of the year, as the port of Lagos in Nigeria became the main force of the Republic's Navy in the South Atlantic Ocean

Yixun Shushushangjiaoshan's different body clams. When Dianhe Guo Navy fleet talked about the Atlantic Ocean, it rarely took place in Falls Bay. At the beginning of the year, after the infrastructure on Asuncion occupied by the Republic's Navy was restored, the Republic's Navy turned Falls Bay into a simple transit station, that is, only providing services for transport ships. Fortunately, the Republic needs to march to the American continent, so it needs a large enough fleet and material transit center. Falls Bay plays this role. Starting from the second half of the year, all fleets heading to West Africa and South America had to dock in Falls Bay, and there were only two main criteria for reallocating cargo to measure the transport capacity of ships, one was the load tonnage and the other was the cargo hold capacity. Generally,

In the case, cargo can only be prepared by a certain standard. In order to maximize the utilization efficiency of ships, it is necessary to allocate the cargo transported, that is, to meet two standards at the same time. To put it bluntly, the cargo transported to the maximum load tonnage while filling the cargo hold. The problem is that the object position transported to a certain location is often relatively single and cannot be distributed. In this way, when the transport ship, especially the container transport ship and bulk cargo ship, will load the cargo transport to several areas when leaving the Republic, and then redistribute the cargo near the separation point of the "way" line to improve transportation efficiency, especially the use efficiency of transport ships. It is precisely this that a material transit center needs to be set up near the front line.

Because the construction of Falls Bay is still in progress, the combat fleet of the Republic's Navy only stayed for 2 days. After conducting joint maritime search and rescue training with the South African Navy, it headed north to Lagos, which is also carrying out civil engineering and the environment is worse.

Strictly speaking, Lagos is the ideal base for the Republic's Navy to march into the North Atlantic.

It must be admitted that "the Gold Coast is the most concentrated area of ​​natural harbors in the world. From Port Harcourt at the mouth of the Niger River to Abidjan at the mouth of the Comoe River, on this coastline of about 1,000 meters in length, there are approximately 1,000 harbors and harbors. On average, there is a harbor per 1,000 meter in total, and half of them are excellent harbors that can accommodate large ships of 10,000 tons.

These bays include Lagos in southwestern Nigeria. Before the outbreak of the war, the Republic was so enthusiastic about West African affairs and spared no effort to support Nigeria, which had a lot to do with Lagos.

According to the vision of the Republic Navy, after Argentina gained its foothold, in order to protect this bridgehead in South America, it is necessary to establish a new bridgehead in adjacent areas. Although, in terms of geographical location, Venezuela on the southern coast of the Caribbean Sea is more ideal, this Latin American country has too much fantasy about Russia and is not willing to get too close to the Republic in military cooperation, so it will not be possible to become a barrier for Argentina. In addition, political, diplomatic, historical and other factors, in the entire Atlantic region, the Republic's Navy can choose only Nigeria, which has always been in conflict with Western countries, and Lagos is one of the several natural ports in Nigeria. The Republic's Navy chose Lagos instead of choosing the Harcourt Port with better basic conditions. The main reason is that Lagos is far away from the oil-producing area at the mouth of the Niger River. It is much further away from the United States' active support.

The problem is, Nigeria is not Pakistan, and Lagos is not Guadal.

Although as early as the late 1920s, the Republican authorities signed an agreement on the intention to lease Lagos with Nigeria. According to this agreement, the Republic will build Lagos into Nigeria's largest comprehensive naval base by aiding construction, and both sides will have equal rights to use it. However, affected by the three West African wars, especially in these three wars, Nigeria was blocked by the maritime blockade of Komeron because it did not have a strong enough naval force, and the construction of the Lagos military port was delayed again and again until the Third World War.

The first phase of the project broke out and the first phase was not completed. In the first four years of the war, the Republic's Navy did not make plans to enter the North Atlantic. The Army did not show its strength on the African battlefield, so the infrastructure construction in Lagos was still very slow and even interrupted several times. It was not until the second half of the year that as the Republic's Army entered the West African battlefield, it defeated the United States-supported Leumelong, which was supported by the United States, and marched westward, swept the entire West African region in just a few months, and the work of building Lagos into a military port was restarted.

Yan Ran, time is too hasty, and it is impossible to complete the construction work before the fleet enters.

Affected by this, when the three combat fleets headed north, there was also a large supply fleet with multiple supply ships and maintenance ships and a larger transport fleet with hundreds of large ships of various types. According to the Navy's plan, the supply fleet will use Lagos as a base, in two batches, and take turns to provide support to the combat fleet. The transport fleet will send the personnel, equipment and materials used to expand Lagos. It will fulfill the promise of the Republic authorities to provide Nigeria with a batch of emergency aid supplies, help the Nigerians who have suffered more than four years of war to overcome difficulties and live a normal life, at least not hungry.

You should know that by the end of the year, Nigeria has become the largest "war-torn country in the world."

According to data released after the war, at the end of the West African War, about the misty Nigerians lost their homes, and there were almost all the misty Nigerians living below the food and clothing line. Even among the remaining macaque Nigerians, less than 10% could obtain enough living supplies. According to this calculation, at the most, Nigeria's war refugees exceeded 40,000, the number of people in a state of hunger exceeded 10,000, and the number of people in a state of hunger exceeded 10,000, and the number of people under malnutrition exceeded that of Zerliwan. Only about 10,000 Nigerians' lives were guaranteed. Among these ten thousand people, except for about 80,000 soldiers, the rest, Owan was the ruling group of Nigeria.

In any case, what Nigeria needed most at that time was not the fleet, but supplies, especially food and medicine.

In the words of a war journalist who has been to Nigeria, if the survival problem of Nigerians cannot be solved before the first quarter of the 2012 years has passed, even if the war is won, the Nigerian authorities will be overthrown by hungry war refugees. If the Republic wants to avoid snatching the notch and shoving the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of the umbrella of

It is not difficult to provide food. It only takes about 10,000 tons of grain to allow trillions of Nigerians to survive to the next harvest season. The Li-10,000 tons of grain only needs to be dropped by a fleet of 10,000 tons of red grain. That is, a fleet of ships composed of fallen cargo ships sails back and forth three times within 4 months, or one time by three fleets.

Because the Republic has achieved bumper harvests in the fields and anvils each year. Moreover, the expanded agricultural factories in India are also in full swing, reaching the maximum annual production capacity. By the beginning of the year, the intensive group's grain wealth reached 200 million tons, surpassing the SIO Group for the first time in Cats. In 2018, Canada suffered a cold wave, Mexico suffered a drought, and insect disasters broke out in many places in the United States, which greatly reduced the grain output. In addition, Australia and New Zealand were bombed, and agricultural output dropped by more than 70%. Therefore, at the beginning of the grain year, the SIO Group's grain wealth dropped from 200 million tons, which was less than 300 million tons at the beginning of the year. Therefore, there is no big problem in providing enough food to Nigeria. As for drugs used to treat malaria and influenza, there will be no problems.

The key question is how to ensure that these materials are distributed to the people.

It can be said that this is also the reason why the Republic's army increased its troops to Nigeria but did not launch a large-scale strategic offensive on the battlefield in West Africa, that is, most of the troops are in Nigeria, and the task is to rebuild social order and establish food distribution stations in a military control manner. In order to avoid unrest, in the end of the year, the Republic also demanded that Nigeria reduce the size of its army by 60%, that is, disarmament of 00,000 fields. Let these laborers return before the rainy season arrives.

As compensation, the Republican authorities promised to provide reconstruction assistance to Nigeria and ensure the interests of the Nigerian authorities. Of course, only a few, the old tens of thousands of Republicans in combat units certainly could not control Nigeria, which had a large population. Therefore, at the end of the 20th, African countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya successively sent military forces to Nigeria in the name of group member states to maintain social order to assist the Republican team in establishing a rescue station.

It was precisely with these preliminary preparations that the Republic Fleet was able to lead the fleet north together at the beginning of the second year.

In the fleet of four merchant ships, the bulk cargo ships of 10,000 tons are transported by grain, mainly high-quality rice produced by Indian agricultural public products, and the large box-class container cargo ships carry medicines. In addition, the 20,000 large roll-to-roll cargo ships carry 10,000 vehicles and engineering equipment for post-war reconstruction. Because they operate with the fleet, the fleet was not threatened during their voyage. In any case, even if they encounter attack submarines from the US Navy on the way, the first one is the fleet, not the fleet. Of course, the captain of the US submarine with some experience and minds should know that attacking the main fleet and the fleet protected by the main fleet will not only take the initiative to die, but also take the initiative to die without meaning.

Of course, after arriving in Lagos, the fleet's "escort mission" ended.

Because the infrastructure in Lagos has not been completed, the conditions are very bad, and even the supplementary fresh vegetables and fruits have to be transported by small boats, so the three main fleets only stayed in Lagos for 3 days, and then went to Douala in Gormeron to show off their military power to the newly surrendered Leumelong, which also made the authorities of Gormeron know that it is not the American fleet that dominates the Gulf of Guinea, but the Republic fleet. After completing this round of show, this huge fleet went to Sao Tome, and welcomed this Tsubasa here to change his mind and decorate the leaders of the island state that had formed an alliance treaty with the Republic, so that the leaders of the island states who had formed an alliance treaty with the Republic,

They experienced the powerful strength of the main ships and aircraft carriers with an old displacement of more than 10,000 tons. In the next few days, the fleet had been active in the eastern waters of the Gulf of Guinea and did not rush to sail westward. This was also easy to understand. This was the first time the surface fleet of the Republic Navy's Navy's surface fleet reached the Gulf of Guinea during the war. Although before the outbreak of the war, the Republic's Navy sent fleets to the Gulf of Guinea through global navigation, military visits, etc., to grasp the situation in the area. However, before going to the decisive battle with the US Navy fleet, the Republic's Navy officers and soldiers needed time to become familiar with the unfamiliar environment and adjust their mental state.

In fact, there is another reason to stop the fleet from advancing.

It was not until the end of the month that three combat fleets operating in the Gulf of Guinea sailed westward to the Cape Verde Islands.

At this time, the naval base sent by the Republic Navy to the Atlantic Ocean was in place. Among them, the fifth-generation sea base of the "Fuxi" was originally the third. It should have been built before the "Shennong", but affected by the two module ship construction factories, the service time was later than the "Shennong" and several months later than the "Huangdi". It became the fifth-generation sea base to be completed and put into service. After it was established in the waters south of Principe Island, it will sail to the western waters of the Gulf of Guinea south of Côte d'Ivoire at the speed of the ridge. Several other sea bases will arrive before February to form a maritime base group with the "Fuxi".

Corresponding to the maritime base is the work of the Republic's Army Engineers on the shore.

Although the Navy and the Army have always been in disagreement, especially after Lin Xiaolei became the Chief of Staff, the conflict between the Navy and the Army rose to the surface, the operation to march into the Atlantic was decided by the Supreme Command and was directly related to the interests of the navy and the army. In addition, Yuan Chenhao and Hua Jianfeng were in charge of the operation, so the cooperation between the Navy and the Army was very good in terms of the details of the march.

When the naval fleet arrived in the Gulf of Guinea, the Republic's Army launched operations on the mainland.

At that time, the Army only made one thing to take off the romance. That is, to set up the field airports originally planned to be used on the Middle East battlefield in West Africa to form a huge network of aviation bases. Although each field airport can only support one tactical aviation team to approximately dissuade combat aircraft, and to maximize the combat efficiency of the aviation force, it has to reduce the deployment density, that is, to deploy the romance aircraft at each base. Therefore, the ability of field airports to support aviation is not as good as deploying the base at the westernmost end of half of the field airports, and it has the ability to support fleet operations, and it can also provide combat aircraft with romance. This is definitely a combat force that cannot be underestimated.

In a sense, the importance of Army operations is no less important than that of Navy.

As mentioned earlier, the key factor in whether the US Navy will come to the decisive battle is whether the Republic will send troops to capture the Cape Verde Islands and then use the Cape Verde Islands to north to capture Morocco. Obviously, at this time, the fleet's factor is secondary. The key is still ground troops. As the Republic's Army is carrying out construction in the West African region, it set up a field airport in one go, and it is like launching a strategic offensive. In addition, at the beginning of the month, the Republic's Army had already launched an attack on the Middle East battlefield. By the time the Republic's Navy fleet was heading towards the Cape Verde Islands, the ground troops commanded by Li Dongshi had already broken through the US defense line and were steadily advancing towards Syria.

After combining these factors, it is not difficult to find that the Republic's Army's actions in West Africa will definitely have an impact on the United States that exceeds that of the Navy.

From another perspective, we can better understand the great significance of the Republic Army's move.

At the end of the second year of Judea, the US authorities had not made a decision to withdraw troops from the Middle East. The US troops on the Middle East battlefield exceeded Jinwan, which did not include troops deployed in Malta and fleets and fleets operating in the Eastern Mediterranean. If all included, the total number of US officers and paramilitary personnel east of Morocco was between Evans and Qin 00,000. Although theoretically, Li Dongshi's ground troops could not reach the Jordan Valley overnight, and the Republican authorities would not be as good as

Furomeron made Turkey surrender, but with the Republic's army launching a strategic offensive and investing in the sacrificial combat force at one time. Including the allied forces, the total strength of the intensive coalition forces fighting on the Middle East battlefield was even higher. Jinwan Iraq and Iran mobilized about sacrificial combat personnel. It can be said that the final outcome of the Middle East War has been determined, and the only thing that has not been determined is when the United States will be defeated, and this is the most critical and most worthy of consideration by the US authorities.

Imagine if the Republic Army, with the support of the Navy, took Morocco in one fell swoop, and then jointly blocked the Strait of Gibraltar with the Navy. What would happen? In order to save millions of Jews, Israel would definitely surrender early, and without even waiting for the Republic Army's armored troops to drive onto the Golan Heights, Israel would have the conditions to surrender to the Republic and accept the post-war arrangements decided by the Republic and Europe. Of course, Turkey would also be defeated. Unlike Israel, Turkey's fate would definitely be very tragic. Because Europe is in Jude

If the Tairen issue has already taken advantage, it is unlikely that the Republic will fight against the Republic on Turkey. For Turkey, the best result is to be dismembered by the Republic and Turkey like Russia, establish a coalition government after the war, or the emergence of two Turkeys in the East and West. The worst result is naturally that the Republic will throw its burden after suppressing Europe and leave the Turkey issue to the allies within the group, such as letting Iran, Iraq, Syria and Kurdistan work together to resolve the problem, and the final result is likely to make this Turkic country history.

In fact, none of these have anything to do with the United States.

For the U.S. authorities, no matter what the war is, the first thing to consider is the 10,000 soldiers, especially the more than 00,000 officers and soldiers on the ground battlefield. You must know that if these officers and soldiers were allowed to surrender to the Republican team, the United States would not be far from defeat, and it is very likely that they would be defeated before the Republican team landed on the continent of the United States. The reason is very simple. The blow to the morale of the United States will be far greater than the loss of the US military. More importantly, the US military on the Middle East battlefield is far from being out of ammunition and food, and the possibility of surrender is not very high. In the case of unfavorable frontal battlefield, the US military must find a way out, but only

One way out is to attack westward from Israel and retreat westward through Egypt. Or to open up a new front from Egypt to open up a new front and disperse the Republic's military power. Theoretically, the US attack on Sudan will definitely force the Republic's army to divide its troops, and may even delay the Republic's army's offensive operations on the Middle East battlefield, but it is unlikely to change the final result of the Middle East War. The problem is that if you do so, the US military must attack Egypt, that is, send troops to the Republic to Egypt, control this key country located at the junction of the Asian and African continents, and thus obtain access to the Central Sea. Of course, the impact on Europe cannot be ignored.

Going back to the previous question, the only option for the US authorities is to block the Republic's advance in the Atlantic Ocean.

To be precise, it was through a naval battle that made the Republican authorities abandon the plan to march north to Morocco.

Some people may say that even without the support of the navy, the Republic's Army can go north to assault Morocco. Although in theory, there is no problem saying this, and with the Republic's Army's assault capabilities, even if the United States sends troops, it is very sure to control important port cities such as Casablanca. However, after occupying these ports, the fleet still has to provide sufficient combat supplies to the army, and it has to rely on the fleet to seize the power of sea control. In other words, whether the Republic's Navy occupied the Cape Verde Islands is not important. What is important is to seize the power of sea control and drive the US Navy to the opposite shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Obviously, this is also the challenge facing the US Navy.

Without a choice, the US Navy can only send a fleet to fight in a decisive situation in a less favorable situation. Fortunately for the US Navy, the Republican Navy only sent three combat fleets, and only two of them were the main fleets. Judging from the situation at that time, if the Republican Navy sent three main fleets and air fleets, the US Navy's chances of winning would become very slim. If the main fleet was added, the US Navy would be likely to voluntarily give up the Cape Verde Islands and, after the end of the month, it would be possible that the US Navy would voluntarily give up the Cape Verde Islands and withdraw troops from the Middle East battlefield at the end of the month.
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