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Chapter 231: Are enemies or friends

The emergence of the European Federation has caused a great impact on China.

At that time, China did formulate a combat plan to invade Europe, but it was still in the filing cabinet of the Ministry of War and was not handed over to Huang Hanlin for approval.

Mu Haoyang ordered the formulation of this plan.

As a soldier, Mu Haoyang's primary task is to defend national interests, and as the Minister of War, Mu Haoyang must consider national interests after the war.

You know, after the end of the Australian Battle, you can already see hope for victory.

As a result, at the end of May, Mu Haoyang asked Zhou Yusheng to organize a group of staff officers to secretly formulate a combat plan to invade the European continent.

At that time, the plan was still in its prototype stage, and many details were not resolved, and there was no participation from the Army.

To put it bluntly, Mu Haoyang's doing these things is related to the most worrying issue of France, Germany and Italy, that is, in order to prevent a powerful Western country from appearing after the war, China will definitely completely defeat the Western alliance group, and collapse the Western alliance foundation, so that the West will remain divided. Although European countries have not been involved in this war and even Britain remains neutral, a unified Europe is definitely a potential threat, and may even surpass the United States and become China's biggest threat. No matter from any perspective, China should prevent European unification, especially when China has mastered its strategic advantages and firmly moves towards the final victory, it must focus on Europe.

For Mu Haoyang, if diplomatic means cannot play a role, military means are the only choice.

With the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army and the state of Europe, occupying the European continent is definitely not a problem and it is not difficult.

According to the information disclosed after the war, in early July, Mu Haoyang made a special trip to find Wei Chenglong who returned to Beijing and asked him several questions related to Europe, that is, how short it takes to conquer the European continent, how many troops it needs to be invested, and whether there are any unsolvable problems. At that time, Wei Chenglong gave positive answers. If the troops on the mainland battlefield were used, there would be no unsolvable problems.

In fact, it was at this time that Mu Haoyang began to seriously consider European strategy.

According to Zhou Yusheng's recollection, from the end of June to the beginning of July, Mu Haoyang even temporarily put down his combat operations to attack the Hawaiian Islands.

In other words, if necessary, Mu Haoyang would choose to attack Europe first.

This can also be seen in the deployment of the Chinese Army.

By early July, Wei Chenglong did not withdraw his troops from Russia in large quantities, and maintained forty armies on the front line, of which twenty armies were deployed in the western region of Russia, facing the three Baltic countries, Belarus and Ukraine. In addition, in the Volga and Ural regions, twenty armies were on standby. In other words, as long as the Chinese senior management made a decision to march into Europe, the Chinese army could invest 60 armies, and the first batch of participating troops would have more than twenty armies, which was enough to ensure the rapid defeat of the European Federal Defense Forces.

It can be said that the situation was extremely tense at that time.

There is evidence that between the end of June and the beginning of July, Huang Hanlin listened to Mu Haoyang's military report and must have considered the issue of entering Europe.

It can even be said that Huang Hanlin was a little moved at that time.

According to some diplomatic information disclosed by the European Federation after the war, in early July 2055, the European Continental War had reached a point of impending breaking out.

At that time, none of the European Federal leaders could sleep peacefully.

The strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese army on the battlefield exceeded everyone's expectations, especially the amazing strategic offensive capabilities. You should know that strictly speaking, Russia showed its defeat after the Battle of Kazakhstan, and it only lasted for a year and a half. During this period, the Chinese army also achieved major victories on the Pacific battlefield and the Middle East battlefield, winning the Iranian War and the Northeast Africa War, capturing the Mariana Islands and the Solomon Islands, and sweeping the Australian continent. If the Chinese army did not invest heavily in these directions, but instead concentrated its forces to attack Russia, Russia would probably be defeated in mid-2054.

There is no doubt that the newly unified European Federation is not as powerful as Russia in terms of military strength.

More importantly, the European Federation does not have the support of the United States.

In fact, even if the European Federation forms an alliance with the United States, it will be difficult to obtain American aid, because the Chinese army will definitely launch an attack immediately. By the time a large number of US troops arrive on the European continent, Berlin, Paris and Rome will probably have fallen. Of course, the European Federation will not place hope on the United States, because the United States is crossing the river with clay Buddhas and has no extra troops to defend Europe.

Now, the European Federation has only one way left: to form an alliance with China.

From a time point of view, at the end of June, before the European Federation was established, France, Germany and Italy were actively engaged in diplomatic contacts with China and actively proposed alliances.

However, in the initial stage, the European Federation's strategy was to procrastinate.

To put it bluntly, it is to stabilize China as much as possible, so that China believes that Europe is not threatened, so that it does not pay much attention to Europe and gives Europe time to complete unification.

However, when the European Federation was launched, the policy of delaying was useless.

You should know that no matter how many countries join the European Federation, this big country composed of Europeans is a potential threat to China.

As long as there is a threat, China will regard the European Federation as its enemy.

If it really goes on, China will soon lose patience and will kill the European Union in the cradle for the interests of the post-war period.

If you can't delay, you can only showdown with China.

On July 2, the ambassadors of France, Germany and Italy to China submitted a joint note to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or the diplomatic note of the European Federation, and formally proposed that the European Federation continue to remain neutral on the basis of alliance with China, but provide China with all convenient conditions, such as allowing Chinese troops to transit, opening ports and military bases to China, providing material support for the Chinese army, etc.

However, this secret photo did not arouse Du Xiaolei's interest.

Interestingly, the day before, Du Xiaolei and Mu Haoyang discussed the situation in Europe, so they should be very clear about the military's attitude.

From this perspective, Du Xiaolei's cold attitude must have been influenced by Mu Haoyang.

Of course, even if he was not influenced by Mu Haoyang, as a diplomat, Du Xiaolei knew very well that only by maintaining a cold attitude could he find the trump card of the European Federation.

In fact, this does have an effect.

On July 3, the interim president of the European Federation personally spoke with Huang Hanlin and proposed to send a presidential envoy to discuss the alliance with China.

As a result, Huang Hanlin's attitude was also very cold.

It is obvious that the problem lies in the conditions of alliance proposed by the European Federation.

If the European Federation does not participate in the war, why do you want to form an alliance with China?

Huang Hanlin had long as the head of state assured all countries around the world that China would not invade neutral countries during the war, nor would it take the initiative to ask neutral countries to do things that undermine neutrality, such as providing military bases to China, so if Europe remains neutral, it will be safe to obtain security. As for the benefits provided by Europe, it is of little significance to China, because China has not yet considered pushing the front to the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, even if the Chinese army advances to the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean, it does not necessarily rely on Europe. It can still obtain ports and military bases in western North Africa, and dealing with countries such as Morocco is obviously much better than forming an alliance with the European Federation.

As a result, China's cold attitude almost disintegrated the European Federation.

At that time, France and Germany advocated participating in the war, believing that only by participating in the war could the European Union achieve a high enough international status after the war, but Italy opposed participating in the war, believing that it was enough to form an alliance with China, and there was no need to shed blood and sacrifice for this war that had no direct relationship with Europe.

The problem is that Italy's position is simply impossible to achieve.

China's attitude made the French and German authorities believe that China is preparing to invade Europe, and the European Federal Defense Forces will definitely not be able to defeat the Chinese army, and not participating in the war will be equivalent to destruction.

Finally, Italy made concessions, or realized the urgency of the situation.

On July 7, the European Federal President's Special Envoy arrived in Beijing secretly and formally proposed to Huang Hanlin that the European Federation would participate in the war after completing unification, and only proposed one additional condition: Only when there are more than ten states can the European Federation be considered to have truly completed unification.

What the European Federal Envoy did not expect was that Huang Hanlin made a suggestion.

This suggestion is: France, Germany and Italy complete unification by force, and China is willing to provide assistance to this, such as sending troops to assist the European Federal Defense Force in combat.

There is no doubt that this European Federal envoy was very scared.

The question is, can the European Federation reject China's help?

During the meeting on the second day, the European Federal Envoy first thanked China for supporting the great cause of European reunification, saying that the European Federal Government would consider China's suggestions, but hoped that China could give the European Federal more time to gain more states.

Huang Hanlin was not aggressive and said that he could wait patiently, but he would not wait forever.

It was not until the third meeting that Huang Hanlin formally proposed that December 31, 2055 was the deadline, because China planned to end the war in 2056, so it was impossible to delay the alliance with the European Federation until 2056, and this matter must be handled before that.

There is no doubt that this is the ultimatum issued by China to the European Federation.

Subsequently, Huang Hanlin asked Wei Chenglong to withdraw twenty armies from Russia and allowed the troops deployed in western Russia to retreat 200 kilometers.

It can be said that this is China's expression of sincerity.

Of course, this does not mean that the problems between China and the European Federation have been resolved.

On July 10, Huang Hanlin formally instructed Mu Haoyang to start formulating a combat plan to enter the European continent and complete it before the end of the year.

To put it bluntly, the ball hit the European Federation, and where to go will be decided by the European Federation.

The problem is that this arrangement stumped Mu Haoyang.

Chapter 231: Are enemies or friends
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