The merchants and workers of the concession reached a compromise with the East China government, and the most disappointed were naturally the merchants of Britain, France, Japan, and Russia. However, the East China government decided to auction off a number of foreign factories and shops, so that a group of foreign businessmen saw hope again. If you let comprador businessmen who are familiar with you come forward and take pictures of these factories and shops, or simply pay for them and find a comprador as a white glove, you can ensure that these factories and shops are actually still under your own control, or can continue to operate normally according to your own plan, and after the British and French forces defeat the East China government, you can take back these industries from the comprador businessmen.

Although the entire class of compradors is dependent on foreign capital, personally, there are still conditions for reciprocal negotiations between some comprador businessmen and foreign businessmen, and the current situation is also favorable to comprador businessmen, so it is natural to strive for more interests for themselves.

First, there are not many businessmen who can play this kind of white-glove game, after all, most of the shops have been shut down; second, if this white-glove game is to succeed, it is based on the premise that the British and French armies will eventually defeat the East China government, and if the British and French armies cannot defeat the people's army, there will be no way to talk about it. However, the traversers were full of confidence in the victory of the People's Army, so naturally they did not take these things to heart.

Of course, more businessmen were disappointed and had no hope, and could only pin all their hopes on the British and French troops. But then came the exciting news that the combined British and French forces had finally been formed and were about to set off.

After the East China government launched the campaign to attack Shanghai, the progress of negotiations between Britain and France to form an alliance was significantly accelerated, because the rulers of both countries were mature statesmen who knew when to fight for each other and when to compromise with each other and put a bottom-up posture. The KPA's attack on Shanghai brought Britain and France to their senses, and all the colonies and concessions in the Far East were under the threat of the KPA, so it was necessary to complete the formation of the coalition forces as soon as possible. Although it will take four or five months to reach the Far East after the formation of the coalition forces, the establishment of the coalition forces can boost the confidence of the colonies and concessions in the Far East and make the East China government hesitate to act.

So the two countries first agreed that the name of this army would be the United Far Eastern Expeditionary Force, or Expeditionary Force for short. A total of four countries Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands participated, and after the army arrived in the Far East, Japan would also participate, and the expeditionary force would be divided into two parts: navy and army, but there would be no unified command, and the naval commander would be the British, and the army commander would be the French, who would respectively command the naval and army battles. In addition, a coalition coordination group was set up, with six staff officers each from Britain and France, and one from Russia and the Netherlands, to coordinate the cooperation and coordination of the navy and army.

The navy is naturally dominated by the British, and the commander is Admiral Phillips of the United Kingdom, and the British will dispatch 14 battleships, including 2 Edward VII-class battleships, 3 Dreadnought-class battleships, 4 Duncan-class battleships, and 5 Majestic-class battleships, and will form 3 detachments.

These 14 battleships are the main warships of the British Navy at present, among which the Edward VII class battleships are the latest British battleships, all of which were commissioned in 1905, and the first ship, Edward VII, will serve as the flagship of the expeditionary fleet; The Mikasa-class battleships were all built on the basis of the Majesty class; the Dreadnought-class battleships were an improved version of the Majesty class, which had better maneuverability than the Majesty-class ships; and although the Duncan class was designed on the basis of the Formidable class, the overall strength was the weakest of all British battleships, mainly sacrificing armor for the sake of speed, and the displacement was also reduced by about 1,000 tons, but the speed was 1 knot faster than other battleships.

In addition to these 14 battleships, Britain will also dispatch 5 large armored cruisers, 8 protective cruisers, 22 destroyers, and 30 logistics ships.

Originally, the French navy has always been a strong enemy of Britain, but in the middle and late 19th century, the idea of building the navy once went astray, and the construction of large ships and destroyers was neglected, and the result was left behind by the British, although at the end of the 19th century, the French navy woke up and built 12 battleships and a number of large armored cruisers with strong industrial strength, and the strength now ranks second in the world, but it is less than 1/3 of the British navy.

This time, France also made a bloody move, dispatching a total of 5 battleships, 4 large armored cruisers, 6 protective cruisers, 15 destroyers, and 12 logistics ships. All French warships were formed in separate detachments, the commander of which was Vice Admiral Chamont.

The Russian Navy was originally ranked 3rd in the world, but in the Far East War, the Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet were all wiped out, and it is estimated that it will now retreat to the 6th-8th position, but now the Russian army still has a Black Sea Fleet, so it can still make up a few warships.

This time, Russia dispatched three battleships, the Glory, the Pentlemont, and the Rytasrov. Although there are not many warships, they all have their own stories, the Glory is the fifth of the Borodino-class battleships, the first four were all incorporated into the Second Pacific Fleet expedition to the Far East to participate in the war, but the result was sunk and captured in the Battle of Tsushima, when the Glory was not completed, so it was not incorporated into the Second Pacific Fleet. Now that the Glory has finally been completed, as the only cutting-edge battleship of the Russian Navy, it has also been pinned on high hopes by Russia.

Originally known as the Potemkin, the Potremon was completed in 1903 and entered service with the Black Sea Fleet in 1904. But on June 27, 1905, the ship's crew went on strike in support of the Russian workers' demand for better living, political rights, and the reorganization of the government, carried out an uprising, and drove the Potemkin to the port of Odessa, where a general strike was held. On 30 June, the Russian government sent a fleet to suppress it, but failed to intercept the Potemkin. On the evening of July 1, the Potemkin sailed to the Romanian port of Constanta. Unable to get supplies, the rebels handed over the ship to the Romanian authorities. In August, the Romanian authorities returned the Potemkin to the Russian government, which still incorporated the Potemkin into the Black Sea Fleet, but renamed it the Pantlemont.

The Rytasrov was a second-class battleship, with a full water capacity of less than 10,000 tons and a main gun of only 254 mm, because Russia really couldn't send any decent warships, so it had to take out this warship to make up the numbers. In addition, Russia sent 6 destroyers.

Originally, except for the Glorious, the other warships belonged to the Black Sea Fleet, and according to the current provisions of the 1870 [London Agreement], foreign warships were prohibited from exiting the Dardanelles Strait through the Black Sea, so the warships of the Black Sea Fleet should not be able to sail out of the Caspian Sea, but this time Britain and France came forward, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had sovereignty over the Dardanelles, had to let it go.

The Dutch participation in the expeditionary force was entirely to retaliate against the East China government's Javanese defense of overseas Chinese in 1903, of course, they also believed that Britain and France would win the battle, so they also wanted to follow to pick up fruits. Moreover, in 1903, under the pressure of the East China government, the Netherlands was forced to cede a large number of rights to the overseas Chinese in Java, and they also wanted to take this opportunity to take back these rights.

After 1903, the Netherlands also felt that its naval strength was limited, so it also increased its naval construction, but after all, the Netherlands was small and weak, and the experience of building ships was insufficient, so it had to buy the design drawings of the protective cruiser from the British Armstrong Company, that is, the prototype of the Japanese Yoshino and the Haitian and Haiqi newly purchased by the Beiyang Naval Division after the First Sino-Japanese War, and built 6 4500-ton protective cruisers and 8 destroyers.

However, the industrial capacity of the Netherlands was not strong, and it could only build medium-sized protective cruisers and destroyers, so it sent two Garibaldi-class armored cruisers to Italy, named Utrecht and Republic.

At the end of 1903, Chile's two battleships, the USS Liberty and the USS Constitution, were abandoned due to financial constraints in Chile. At that time, Japan and Russia were looking for new ships, although these two battleships were second-class battleships, the armor protection was relatively thin, and the main guns were smaller, but they had powerful secondary guns and high speed, and after all, they were the foundation of battleships, so they still had considerable combat effectiveness. In addition, there were not many finished ships to buy at that time, so Japan and Russia sent delegations to Britain to negotiate. However, the Russian delegation was the first to depart, and the distance was relatively close, so it was certain that the Japanese delegation would arrive in England before the Japanese delegation.

In order to prevent these two battleships from falling into the hands of Russia and strengthen Russia's strength, Britain once wanted to buy these two warships, and at this time, the Netherlands proposed to buy these two warships, so Britain also pushed the boat and bought these two battleships to the Netherlands. After the Dutch acquired these two warships, they named them Wilhelm I and the Seven Provinces, William I was the leader of the independent state of the Netherlands, and the Seven Provinces was the official name of the Dutch state, the United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands. Therefore, these two names are enough to see that the Netherlands had high hopes for these two battleships.

This time, the Netherlands sent both battleships and two armored cruisers, as well as four newly built protective cruisers, the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, and St. Martin. and 5 destroyers, which can be regarded as betting all the capital.