While the Germans were busy using the last period of peace to strengthen their military, the Allies were not idle, and they began to plot how to curb the expansion of the Allies by fighting a limited war with the Allies without China. The fierce trench warfare on the Western Front in World War I terrified the French, and in the face of this more powerful Germany, although France still stood firmly against the Germans, it was mainly defensive. The British did not lose much in population in World War 1, but the material losses were the most among the Entente, and the once powerful Fleet consumed most of the two battlefields in the Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea, coupled with Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, the British accumulated hundreds of years of family wealth in this war, so the British did not want the scale of the war to be too large. As for the Americans? Although their vision has expanded to the whole world, whether it is the Allies led by Germany or China, it is an existence that the United States must face. Germany is an unquestionable enemy. And Huaxia is not a potential competitor? So the Americans don't want to pay too much in this war.

Driven by common interests, the Entente triumvirate decided to define the battle as a battle supplemented by land defense and dominated by naval and air warfare. In the Atlantic, the three Allied powers guaranteed sea supremacy and a blockade of the German mainland, while in the Indian Ocean, the Allied navies needed to first suppress the Allied navies, threaten their sea lines of communication, and then completely crush the adversary's naval power in a massive naval duel.

After this war, the Entente also discovered the weakness of the Germans in the Middle East, and the German land combat effectiveness was indeed not comparable to the three giants of the Entente, but their supply relied heavily on sea routes, even if they opened up land passages, sea transportation still occupied an important position in logistics and transportation. As long as the German High Seas Fleet can be defeated, then the German army in the Middle East will collapse without a fight. In the Iran War, the Germans had no more than 10 divisions on the front line, and if they were to attack India, the size of the force would certainly be larger, even if the Germans used this time to build a railway across Iran. Then the increased land capacity will still not be enough to offset the huge increase in troops. And if the Germans' strategy in South Asia was frustrated, the Allies could consider how to win over the less determined countries of the Central Powers, such as Spain and Russia.

The former is who is strong and who is strong, while the latter has made a lot of small moves under the noses of the Germans. For example, the Russian regiment in Huaxia is an example, and the Americans determined after many investigations that the core of this unit is the Russian ** team! The Americans were very dissatisfied with Russia's siding with the Chinese, which is why in the end the United States chose the latter between the Chinese and the British, if until then the United States had only leaned towards the British. If it is generally neutral, then after establishing an extraordinary relationship between China and Russia, the Americans really sided with the British. Wars have always been fought for the sake of interests, if the French are for self-preservation, the British are for the preservation of crumbling maritime rights, then the Americans are to change the world pattern, an Entente under the leadership of the United States can allow the United States to have an advantage in the competition with the Allies and China, and the younger brother of the United States should have three powers, they are Britain, France and Russia!

Russia will play a very important role in the future chess game, because it still has a large population and a vast territory. and key geographical locations. Population and territory are the foundation of a country, determining its potential for future development, and Roosevelt agreed with this very much, and even admired the words of the dwarf who once made the world tremble. Napoleon had predicted the rise of the ancient empire of the East. When the whole of Europe is despising or falling into the old gaze and blindly admiring this ancient country, only he can clearly see the disadvantages and potentials of this country, if China can rise, then Russia can also rise, but between the heavy losses suffered in World War I, Russia's recovery will be limited, and this is in the interests of the Americans. Isn't it best to have a strong, but controllable ally?

If Russia's potential has given the United States eight reasons to woo and support this country, then Russia's geographical location also makes the United States aspire to win. The position of the Russians was so good that to the west they could form a pincer offensive against Germany together with the United States, Britain and France, and to the east. It can threaten the distant and vast western frontier of China, and although China occupies it, it is still too far away from the east, where China is the most central. Moreover, the Russians have every reason to do so, and territorial disputes have always been the best trigger for tensions between the two countries.

Now this plan is proceeding in the direction that Roosevelt envisioned, at a time when the actions and interests of Britain and the United States in Europe and South Asia can be described as highly overlapping, and the British need a strong national power and army of the United States. And the Americans need Britain to provide forward bases. Both Britain itself and India will be the front line against Germany! Even the United States could get some additional benefits from the British, such as exchanging some supplies for the British colonies. Of course, this plan cannot be implemented yet, and the United States needs to wait, waiting for the war to begin, and the British will offer this deal.

According to Roosevelt's vision, the French should be the main force in future land warfare. Roosevelt didn't care much about the attrition of equipment and resources. But it is very sensitive to casualties. Or rather, the American people are sensitive to casualties. Fights like the Verdun meat grinder are simply unbearable in the eyes of most Americans. One of the important reasons why the United States finally agreed to make peace with the Allies in World War I was the huge human casualties. After 1917, Britain and France showed signs of exhaustion. Naturally, the United States had to resist at a critical moment, although it still ranked last among the three major powers in terms of total military strength. However, thousands or even nearly 10,000 casualties a day still make the US government and the people cry out that they can't stand it! In the future, France will be the main battlefield in Europe. The United States needs the French Army to go up. In addition to the fact that France has the largest army among the three giants of the Entente, reducing US casualties is also one of the important reasons!

But so far the project has not gone very well, and the French are still doing their own thing on the technical level. They don't really care about the experience that the United States and Britain have bought with their blood. The focus was on defensive lines and fixed offensives, rather than on building a mobile corps that could contain the offensive of the Confederate ** team. Although the northeastern part of France was not very suitable for armored forces, the defensive line was very useful in the 1st World War. But times are changing, and technology is developing!

Strategically, the French were very conservative, they did not want to deploy their forces outside of Europe, and their homeland was mainly defensive. They focused on building their own army, but lacked an offensive air and navy. Especially the latter. After Huaxia helped France complete three aircraft carriers, in the four years since the last battleship was put into service, the French actually did not start a new aircraft carrier! As for the former? The French have a large number of aircraft, but they are slow to update. What's more, they lack bombers. Offense is the best defense, and if the French Air Force is only passively beaten, then it is difficult to imagine how long the French Air Force can hold out in the face of the Allied bloc, which is several times as powerful as France. "It may be that the Germans' strategic bombing in Italy frightened the French, but in fact, everyone knows that the best way to curb the other side's strategic bombing is to blow up their airfields and factories with bombs!" Li May of the Air Force once said this about the French. And mock the French Air Force like the shell of a turtle.

Relations within the Entente were actually very well handled. When Roosevelt neatly cleaned up Britain and France, he had to face up to another problem. That is the relationship between the United States and China. Although in the Iran war, the cooperation between the front-line troops China Xia and the United States was relatively smooth, and on the surface, they took care of each other's face. In the eyes of ordinary people, the relationship between China and the US military is even better than that between the United States and Britain. But in fact, Roosevelt was most worried about Huaxia. Both sides have a lot of ideas about the Middle East. The only difference is that China used Iran as a springboard, while Roosevelt used British India as a springboard. The latter seems to have a greater advantage, after all, British India is much stronger than Iran, and the British are also on the side of the Americans.

Roosevelt had also heard about the armistice agreement between China and Germany in Iran. After all, both sides are great powers, and if they don't make some mutually acceptable concessions, how can the two great powers give up? And in fact, it is. Although the full content of the agreement between the two sides is not known, Huaxia did withdraw its troops into the valley of the two rivers, and the Germans spit out a piece of land to eat. The three giants of the Entente were very dissatisfied with this, but after all, they could not accuse China of unilateral peace talks, first of all, Huaxia was not a member of the Entente, and the two sides did not even sign a document to form an alliance. Secondly, the British gave up first and destroyed the foundation of cooperation between the two sides, the British did the first year of junior high school, and Huaxia could naturally do fifteen!

Roosevelt knew that China would not trust the United States either. At least until the situation is serious to a certain extent, the two sides are more like two hedgehogs covered with sharp thorns, keeping a certain distance from each other. However, this does not prevent the United States from making use of China's power as much as possible. Technical cooperation and arms sales between the two sides are still necessary. There is also a need for the exchange of information and the discussion of tactics. The various kinds of help that Huaxia began to promise to the Entente should be fulfilled, such as the aircraft carriers that Huaxia had agreed to build for the British. Of course. If Huaxia wants to continue to fulfill this promise, I am afraid that there will be some additional costs to pay.

But Roosevelt had to stop the Chinese infiltration of the Middle East. Until now, the Americans want Iran to remain that way. If the United States and the British can recover the southern part of Iran, then Iran has only two options, one is to watch its former south become a new country. The other option is to re-side with the Entente, either outcome would be a fatal blow to China's Middle East strategy. After the Iranian problem was settled, then there were the Ottoman Empire and the small states of the Arabian Peninsula, and it was natural to type the former. In the case of the latter, the Americans believed that the latter could be brought to its knees through diplomatic means.

As for the question of how to prevent the Chinese from coming in to pick peaches when the Germans were about to die, the Americans had already thought about it. If you want to pick peaches, you also need an army, and the springboard of northern Iran is really not suitable for large-scale military deployment, and the small economic and material base of northern Iran makes it difficult for it to afford the consumption of a large army, and if everything has to be transported from the Chinese mainland, then the cost is too huge, if only from this point of view, the political interests of China to keep northern Iran are greater than the military interests. As for India? The British did not want China to get too involved in Indian affairs, so all the new military facilities and related supply standards were formulated in accordance with the American and British standards. Even if the United States and Britain agree to the stationing of Chinese troops in India, then these supply and logistics support systems of different standards can have a great impact on China.

At the same time, the Americans did not forget to win over the Russians while maintaining relations with Britain, France, and Latin America and intriguing with China. The U.S. ambassador to Russia has had several private contacts with representatives of the Russian government. During the contact, the Russians acknowledged the cooperative relationship with Huaxia, but also suggested that the Russian-American units that appeared within the Huaxia Legion were in fact regular Russian troops. According to the Russians: "We need to find a better partner now, and we will help whoever is the higher bidder between China and the United States." Although the credibility of this statement is doubtful, the idea of the Russians is revealed. The Americans are not afraid that the Russians will have this kind of thinking, because in the eyes of the Americans, the United States is actually more credible than China, which borders Russia and occupies a large territory from Russia, and also hopes that Russia will become stronger!

"The Americans have made contact with the Russians, and it seems to be going well." At the end of a meeting, Peng Yi, who had returned to the Northern Military Region, sent a document to Xu Jie's desk. There was a hint of worry in his words. He didn't want the Russian army, which Huaxia had worked so hard to cultivate, to contribute to the Americans.

"It's about taking some action, but not too drastic. Are the Americans still too confident that they can solve the Allies by themselves and Britain and France, plus a Russia that has shrunk several times? Xu Jie sneered. When the war really starts, the Russians will realize who will really control the fate of Russia! ”

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