The Expeditionary Force's navy consists of a huge fleet of more than 37,000 men with 24 battleships, more than 90 combat warships, and auxiliary ships, totaling more than 150 ships of various types. Moreover, Britain and France also have strong navies in the Far East, and Britain alone has deployed 8 battleships in the Far East, and if the expeditionary force arrives in the Far East and includes the fleet of the Far East, then the number of battleships alone will reach 32 of today's terrifying.

Compared with the navy, the land force of the expeditionary force is much shabby, because the distance is too far, so the army of the expeditionary force cannot be too large. Naturally, France was the main force of the army, with a total of 2 divisions, an artillery regiment, and a cavalry regiment, while the British sent 2 regiments and a cavalry battalion, and the Netherlands also sent a regiment of land to join. The total army was 52,000 and more than 5,000 horses.

At the same time, France also promised that after the expeditionary force arrived in the Far East, it could also recruit 10-12 regiments in the Cochin region of India, and Britain could also recruit the same number of troops in India and the Indochina Peninsula, and the Netherlands also said that it could also recruit 1-2 regiments in the Java region, so that the expeditionary force could mobilize about 22-25 regiments in the Far East, with a number of 6-70,000.

In this way, the total army of the expeditionary force can exceed 100,000, and as an expedition that will span a distance of 25,000 kilometers, this is indeed a powerful force, but to fight against a regional force like the East China government, the strength of 100,000 troops is obviously absolutely insufficient. Because no matter how strong the navy is, it is useless, after all, warships are not equipped with wheels and cannot go ashore, and the war will eventually need the army to solve it.

Britain and France are not unaware of this truth, but sending 50,000 troops from their homeland is almost the limit of the two countries, and Bijing and the two countries are only fighting a short-frequency and fast battle to force the East China government to surrender to defeat and retreat, rather than wanting to fight a full-scale and protracted war with the East China government. In the colonies, no more troops could be recruited, and the quality of the colonies' armies was inferior to that of the native armies, so they could not be of great use. However, Britain and France also have two allies in the Far East, Russia and Japan, and the war on land actually depends on the strength of these two allies.

Although Russia, another member of the expeditionary force, did not send its army to participate in the war, Russia could directly use its army to participate in the war in the Far East through the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since Russia had received economic aid from Britain and France at this time, the domestic economic crisis had been greatly alleviated, and it was also able to transport troops and supplies to the Far East on a large scale. Russia promised to send 18-20 divisions to the Far East with a total strength of 300,000 troops, and to prepare 4-5 divisions in reserve.

Japan also reacted very aggressively to Britain and France, promising to send six divisions to join the expeditionary force and not pursue the command of the expeditionary army, and to send another 12-15 divisions from the Korean Peninsula to attack the Liaodong Peninsula again.

Britain and France were also very happy to receive a strong response from Japan and Russia, because in this way, Japan and Russia will send 40 divisions, with a total of more than 600,000 troops, which can make up for the lack of land strength of the expeditionary force, and also allow the expeditionary force to make many tactical choices.

After the fleet arrives in the Far East, it will first find the main force of the KPA Navy and conduct a decisive battle at sea to destroy the main force of the KPA's Navy and gain sea supremacy. After gaining sea supremacy, or the KPA navy retreated to avoid war, the expeditionary force combined with six Japanese divisions, landed in Shanghai, occupied Shanghai to gain a foothold, and used Shanghai and Inchon as home ports to blockade the KPA navy. In this way, Japan could get rid of the naval blockade of the KPA, massively increase its forces on the Korean Peninsula and launch an attack on Liaodong.

With the addition of six Japanese divisions, the total strength of the expeditionary force will exceed 200,000, so the army will use Shanghai as a base to launch an attack on Shandong. At the same time, we can also look for opportunities to launch landing operations in Lushun, Tianjin, Yantai, Weihai, and other places.

In this Far East War, the People's Army launched three landing operations, all of which achieved tremendous results, and as an old maritime superpower, Britain is very interested in this new mode of operation, because it can allow the army to make full use of it and give full play to Britain's maritime superiority, so in this war, it naturally wants to find an opportunity to practice its skills.

Landing in Yantai and Weihai can burn the flames of war directly to the Shandong region, the home of the East China Government, and directly threaten the safety of the East China Government; while landing in Lushun, it can cooperate with the Japanese army attacking from the Korean Peninsula and cut off the Northeast People's Army's supply line, so that the People's Army will completely collapse in the northeast region; landing in Tianjin will not only control the Bohai Bay, but will also be able to control Beijing and pull the Qing court into the chariot of the expeditionary force. Occupy the moral high ground.

Of course, if the landing of the army there also depends on the situation and the battlefield environment at that time, if it is to force the East China government to surrender, of course, it is best to land in Shandong; if the war has a tendency to become protracted, it will land in Tianjin, control the Qing court, and let the Qing court endorse the expeditionary force, so that the expeditionary force can rely on the Qing court to obtain aid, which is conducive to long-term warfare, and so on.

These battle plans also made Britain and France very satisfied, believing that this war was sure to be won. After the news of the successful formation of the expeditionary force came out, it caused a huge repercussion in the world, because the scale of the expeditionary force's navy was too large and too scary, it can be said that in addition to Britain, there was no second country in this era that could send such a large fleet, so the British and French merchants in China were first in China, and finally waited for hope, the original merchants of the Shanghai concession wanted to return to China, but decided to stay for the time being, waiting for the arrival of the expeditionary force, to regain what they had lost.

In other concessions in China, some people were also worried at this time, but after learning about the scale of the expeditionary force, they also settled down a lot, thinking that they could no longer worry.

At the same time, the French envoys in Beijing also began to move, on the one hand, they proposed to the Qing court that after the arrival of the expeditionary force, the Qing court would issue a statement welcoming the expeditionary force, and at the appropriate time, join the expeditionary force to fight together against the East China government.

In the international arena, public opinion was also overwhelmingly believing that the expeditionary force would win, and the United States and Germany had specially organized personnel to conduct military chess exercises, and the results of military chess exercises at this time were all obviously unfavorable to the East China government, and the most ideal result was to keep only Shandong and Henan, while Northeast China, Tianjin, Shanghai, and other places were completely lost, and the worst result was complete annihilation. The reason is that the size of the expeditionary force's fleet is too terrifying.

The original beauty, The number of battleships of the expeditionary force navy was set at 12-15 ships, because the distance between the East China government and Britain and France was too far, and the more battleships dispatched, the greater the consumption, although Britain and France were both powerful countries, they might not be able to withstand such huge consumption, because it was in Europe and the rise of Germany, which directly challenged the interests of the two countries, making it impossible for Britain and France to devote most of their energy to the distant Far East, and 12-15 battleships were enough to achieve absolute superiority over the People's Army Navy, according to estimates, the number of battleships owned by the People's Army Navy should be between 5 and 8。

However, in this way, although the expeditionary force navy has absolute superiority over the KPA navy, the KPA navy is not completely vulnerable, and it can still rely on shore-based artillery fire and the expeditionary force to maneuver, and in addition, it can also send a small number of warships to attack the expeditionary force's maritime supply line.

However, no one expected that the expeditionary force would dispatch 24 battleships, plus the original eight battleships in the Far East, and the People's Army Navy would not be described as an absolute superiority, but an overwhelming superiority in all directions; in the comparison of strength, the expeditionary force could completely block the People's Army Navy in the harbor and not give the People's Army Navy a gap to drill, and there would still be spare strength to support the Army in launching one or two landing operations, plus the Japanese and Russian armies, so it can be said that the East China Government will be at an absolute disadvantage.

Therefore, the US military suggested to President Roosevelt that at this time, it could consider the invitation of Britain and France to join the expeditionary force and fight against the East China government, so as to share the fruits of the expeditionary force's victory and expand US interests in the Far East. However, Roosevelt considered that it might not be advantageous for the United States to join the expeditionary force at this time. Because militarily speaking, the expeditionary force actually does not need the United States, so if the United States wants to join the expeditionary force, it may have to make a big economic bouting and bear most of the military expenses of the expeditionary force. It is difficult to say whether the benefits reaped by the United States will be worth it after the end of the war, and Britain and France will certainly take the lion's share of the fruits of Bi Jing's victory, and Japan and Russia are not good people, so how many fruits of victory can the United States snatch from them? It is better to make a fortune in silence and sell all kinds of goods and personnel to the warring parties, and even arms; anyway, after the war is over, it still needs to be rebuilt, and the United States can get a piece of the pie by virtue of its strong economic strength.

Germany, on the other hand, had other plans, and there was no need to think about entering the war, because the relations between Britain and France and Germany were not very good, but the cabinet suggested to Kaiser Wilhelm II that while Britain and France were turning their attention to the Far East, they should reach an agreement with the two countries on the handling of the Moroccan crisis as soon as possible.

At this time, the East China government also issued a statement, declaring that the East China government did not reject the expeditionary force and had full confidence in defeating the expeditionary force, and at the same time warned the Qing court not to fantasize about taking advantage of foreign countries to gain self-respect. Of course, most countries just dismissed the East China government's statement as a bluff and did not pay much attention to it.

On March 30, 1906, the United Far East Expeditionary Force set off from the port of Manchester, England, and more than 150 ships lined up in a long line of more than 20 kilometers and sailed to the Far East.