After a long period of silence, the most hot-tempered Commander of the Six Armies broke the air.
"Boss, no wonder that old fellow Gulan Rahman was so generous, giving away two world-class oil fields with barely a word. It turns out these two oil fields are no longer under his control, but have fallen into the hands of the American forces. If we want them, we have to send troops to retake them first."
"We offered our good intentions to help, but he's plotting against us, wanting us to fight his battles for him. He's truly dishonorable!"
"He is indeed a bit dishonorable, but," the Minister of the Long Country's Commodity Trading Department said, patting his shoulder with a smile, "if he were to give us two national-level oil fields for free, we might not dare to accept them."
The Commander of the Six Armies nodded slightly, "Indeed, it's not like pies fall from the sky. Even without our intervention, it wouldn't be easy for America to completely conquer Shat Arabai."
"With scorched earth tactics combined with guerrilla warfare, even if they can't completely defeat the Americans, they might be able to make them pay a heavy price, just like the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan, making it not worth the effort in the end."
"Of course, until the last resort, Shat Arabai would never engage in such a loss-making deal that costs them ten thousand to kill eight hundred enemies."
"Indeed, so," the Minister of Commodity Trading nodded slightly, "I don't understand war, Old Li. Let me ask first, in your opinion, how long and how much money would it take if we were to send troops to capture these two oil fields?"
The Commander of the Six Armies frowned deeply, "It's hard to say. According to intelligence, the American army has two brigades stationed there, plus an artillery regiment, and twelve heavy tanks, totaling over fifteen thousand men."
"Now our entire army is equipped with the new mechs invented by Professor Jing. If we were to fight, with ten thousand men, I could flatten them in at most three hours."
"But let's not even talk about how to transport so many people and their equipment. Even if we win, if the other side finds they can't win and directly destroys the oil field's production facilities, or if the American forces send reinforcements, it will bring enormous trouble."
"Indeed! This matter is difficult to handle," the Minister of the Long Country's Commodity Trading Department turned to look at the supreme leader, "Boss, what do you think we should do? Fight or not fight?"
"We definitely cannot fight! As the two strongest countries in the world, if Long Country and America confront each other rashly, regardless of victory or defeat, other countries will only benefit."
"However, the two national-level oil fields gratuitously gifted by King Te cannot be abandoned either."
"You must know that although our country has several large oil fields, with the rapid development of the domestic manufacturing industry, the amount of crude oil consumed annually is rising sharply. The domestic oil fields alone cannot supply it, and we can only import from abroad."
"This not only causes a large outflow of funds but also creates dependence on other countries. Once they stop supplying crude oil, many factories will fall into chaos."
"Crude oil is the lifeline of industry. We must grasp it with all our might!"
After the supreme leader's impassioned speech, the bitterness on others' faces intensified.
The Minister of the Long Country's Commodity Trading Department said with a bitter expression, "Boss, we can't fight, but we want them. Where in the world is there such a good thing? We can't just pray that America will hand over these two national-level large oil fields and give them to us!"
"Don't worry,"
"I only said we cannot fight directly, I didn't say we can't use other means to deal with America. You should know that it's not just us who don't want to confront America head-on, America also doesn't want to confront us head-on."
"Otherwise, after we just publicly announced the development of weather weapons not long ago, and the Black House, the political center of America, was bombed into ruins, they wouldn't have played dumb and pretended not to know it was us, forcibly attributing this attack to Shat Arabai."
"If we were to act directly, it wouldn't be impossible. Wasn't Ming Qiu leading a team to confront the Americans in Afghanistan not long ago?"
"As long as the number of people is not large, we can fool them by posing as peacekeeping forces or international mercenaries. Of course, as Old Li said, directly airlifting ten thousand regular troops is absolutely not feasible."