This Liu Zunshan is completely a fool.

Just like fighting after a young age, fighting is also a kind of cruel character who is desperate for life.

In fact, among the three of them, only Liu Zunshan has gone to the battlefield.

It’s not that Liu Zunshan is even more powerful, but that he is benefited from the Marine Corps.

At the beginning, when the Army Air Force was independent and formed the Air Force, because they did not want the Navy to be the number one winner, and in order to balance the military, the Marine Corps was upgraded from an independent military under the Navy to an independent military led by the cabinet, and almost built an independent military force.

The reason why the Marines have to rely on naval ships is that they have to rely on naval ships.

This incident also gave birth to the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff, nominally affiliated with the Ministry of National Defense, which is essentially independent, is directly led by the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and is responsible for the Privy Council.

At that time, no one expected that the Marine Corps would thus develop into a small army that was well-equipped with both land, sea and air.

The Boy War that gave birth to all this was the Boy War.

In the late stage of this war, the Marines were almost on their own. By the end, the Marines had formed their own armored forces and aviation troops, and also a fleet of inland gunboats. If they were not strongly opposed by the Navy, they would have divided several small aircraft carriers for the Marines to use.

To date, the Marine Corps has a force of up to 400,000, with hundreds of ships of various types, nearly a thousand combat aircraft, and as many as 2,000 helicopters. In addition, there are thousands of main battle tanks, hundreds of self-propelled artillery, about 1,500 amphibious combat vehicles, and nearly 1,000 armored vehicles of various types.

If the Imperial Marines are regarded as national armed forces, they are among the top 20 in the world.

Judging by combat effectiveness, the Imperial Marines are second only to several super hegemony and military powers.

The key to the rapid development and growth of the Marine Corps is to be directly led by the cabinet, obey the cabinet's chief minister, and not be controlled by the Privy Council and the House of Discussions.

Of course, the key is to get rid of the control of the two houses of discussion.

To put it bluntly, whenever a major event occurs, military action must be taken, or the interests of the empire need to be protected through military actions, the first thing that the empire's chief minister must think of is the Marine Corps, and the only one that the empire's chief minister can directly mobilize is the Marine Corps.

That's why in the following few small-scale regional conflicts, the Marines were the ones who acted as vanguards.

The latest war happened four years ago.

At that time, the pro-Vanluo youth officers in Sri Lanka launched a coup, controlling the capital Colombo overnight. They then sent troops to surround military bases such as Tengmali, demanding that the Liangxia Empire hand over the fleeing elected president and withdraw troops from Sri Lanka unconditionally.

Because the president's family was controlled by the rebels, the situation was very critical and could be out of control at any time.

After three consecutive ultimatums and the failure of diplomatic efforts, the imperial authorities had to admit that military operations were the only solution.

In order to avoid the situation from escalating, the imperial authorities did not mobilize the army, but the Marines took on all ground operations.

In just one night, the Marine Corps relied on helicopters and used air assault tactics to control Colombo International Airport, and then the Air Force initiated strategic air transport.

By the morning of the next day, as Marine armored troops entered the city, the anti-insurgency operation was declared over.

In this conflict, the "October-11" stealth attack aircraft, nicknamed "Phantom", was not very concerned about the role played by the Marine Corps.

"Occasion-11" was able to use 4 laser-guided bombs to destroy the rebel headquarters and kill all senior personnel of the rebels. It was not because they were not discovered by radar, but because the Marine Special Forces were deployed in advance, and the situation of the rebel headquarters was determined, and the target was illuminated with laser indicators.

As for sending "October-11" to perform bombing missions, we just want this new fighter that has just entered service to undergo actual combat inspection.

Sri Lanka does not have several decent air defense radars, and whether stealth attack aircraft are dispatched to perform bombing missions will have no significant impact on the results.

It can be seen that the number one hero in Sri Lanka's anti-insurgency operation was the Marine Corps.

At that time, the armored force that escorted the elected president back to the presidential palace was commanded by Liu Zunshan.

In his words, the only battle in the entire operation was to use tank guns to bombard the barricades outside the presidential palace.

That's right, as long as the Marines appear, they will not be far from the battle.

Liu Zunshan was also honest. After sitting down, he told Lian Mingyang and Bai Huawei bluntly that he had received an order from the Marine Command to fly to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, tomorrow morning. It was just a specific task, and the Marine Command had not arranged it yet.

However, this is enough to prove that the top leaders of the empire are indeed considering the possibility of military operations, and can also be seen as preparing for the situation to get out of control.

If Hussein did not plan to stop the horse, the first thing to do was to protect the land of Saudi Arabia.

Kuwait is too small and has no natural dangers to defend, so the fall is an inevitable result.

If Hussein was brave enough, or if the Tauman Empire and the Newland Republic were ready to launch the third global war, then after sweeping Kuwait, Iraq's millions of troops would definitely continue to advance southward and attack Saudi Arabia.

The key is that the empire was not prepared for this war.

Whether it is carried out in the form of local wars or developing in the direction of global wars, in the direction of Poshawan, the empire will take at least several months to mobilize and deploy troops, transport combat materials to the front line, and mobilize allies to send troops to the war.

Before this, the Iraqi army must be blocked from Saudi Arabia.

In other words, a line of defense is needed to be built in the north of Saudi Arabia to ensure that the oil fields located in the northeast of Saudi Arabia, that is, the Posar Wan, are not threatened.

To be said, the bottom line of the empire is that oil fields of Poshawan oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia will not be threatened.

Although the Second Global War has ended for more than 40 years, the Empire is still the world's number one oil consumer and importer.

For decades, everything the Empire has done in Posa Bay has been to ensure oil supply and ensure the country's energy security.

In the outside world's words: The Third Global War will begin the day after the Empire was driven out of Posa Bay.

This is also the reason why Liu Zunshan was sent to Saudi Arabia.

Because the war has not yet broken out, there is no authorization from the two houses of discussion, so the only one that the Imperial Chief is able to mobilize is the Marine Corps.

In the current situation, the two houses of discussion will definitely not authorize the Chief Secretary for War.

After chatting for a while, the three of them returned to the command center.

The meeting entered the combat planning stage, and according to Shi Suliang's intention, it was still claimed that the joint military exercise of "150 Westward Advance" was carried out as planned.

The discussion was in midnight and Shi Suliang decided the plan. Several plans were retained and each drafted corresponding plans.

As for which plan to adopt, it depends on the actual situation.

Naturally no one objected to this kind of happy arrangement.

Actually, this is also a convention.

Even though the atmosphere has become tense, everyone knows that there is still some time before the actual work is done, so there is no need to determine the specific combat plan.

However, the meeting did not end there.

After arranging the task, Shi Suliang launched a new topic.

Early investigation.

Simply put, whether it is arranging the Air Force's stealth attack aircraft, the Navy's cruise missiles, or the Army's armed helicopters to perform the first round of assault, which is commonly referred to as the "door kick" mission, it is necessary to search for suitable targets through reconnaissance and grasp the target situation.

In several combat plans, no early reconnaissance was mentioned.

That's why Shi Suliang clearly requires that the officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force who are responsible for formulating the plan must first determine the part of the preliminary reconnaissance operation.

Afterwards, Shi Suliangcai announced the end of today's meeting.

At this time, it was already past 1 a.m.

After Shi Suliang left, Bai Huawei hurriedly left the command center, and even ignored Lian Mingyang who ran over to find him.

At first, we had agreed to see Liu Zunshan off after the meeting, but Bai Huawei ran away by himself.

In fact, when Shi Suliang mentioned the early investigation, Bai Huawei thought of something.

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At this time, the west bank of Posa Bay, southern Iraq.

A large armored force is gathering in the desert hinterland about 20 kilometers southwest of Basra and about 40 kilometers away from the border of Ico.

The most eye-catching one is the Hammurabi Armored Division of the Republic Guard.

Last year, the division completed the dressing change and obtained nearly 200 T-72 main battle tanks imported from the Democratic Republic of Luosha, with explosive combat effectiveness.

In fact, this division is the only armored division equipped with T-72 in the southern region.

In order to allow this elite force to secretly arrive at the frontier base near the border, that is, the offensive position without being discovered, it took a lot of effort.

A few months ago, the Iraqi Defense Forces and the Republican Guard began to frequently mobilize troops, disrupting military deployment in the southern region and covering the Hammurabi Armored Division. In order to avoid being discovered by reconnaissance satellites, the main combat equipment of the Hammurabi Division was transported at night.

In addition, the officers and soldiers of the division temporarily changed into the uniforms of the National Defense Forces.

All in all, it's all for confidentiality.

Of course, in addition to the main combat equipment such as tanks, thousands of logistics support vehicles were also mobilized to ensure that they could advance hundreds of kilometers south in one breath.

Kuwait is just a small country with no strategic depth at all.

In addition, Kuwait's defense power can be completely ignored.

More importantly, the Kuwaitian authorities destroyed the Great Wall two years ago, sent away the military advisory group of the Liangxia Empire, and refused to provide a base for the Liangxia army.

One beat can be played!

Major General Ali has full confidence in this.

In his opinion, there was no need to even use other combat troops, and as long as the Hammurabi Division was given enough support, it could sweep the entire Kuwait.

In addition, if the logistics support could keep up, he would even be confident that he would rush all the way outside Riyadh.

If you have any worries, it is to expose your strategic intentions in advance.

In this small desert, in addition to the Hammurabi Division, there are also the Nebuchadnezzar Mechanized Division, which belongs to the Republic Guard, and the 5 infantry divisions of the National Defense Forces.

Nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers gathered together!

If the Liangxia Empire had been prepared and decided to take the initiative first, I am afraid that the three aircraft carriers cruising in Poshawan and Muahai had already sent carrier-based aircraft.
To be continued...