Time is the most important part of making a strategic plan, I don't understand the magic of time is not able to make an excellent plan, why did Xiao Letian dare to arrogantly fight this shot in the Indian Ocean, to put it bluntly, it is to calculate the reaction time of both the enemy and the enemy and even the third party. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Zhiyuan opened fire and injured the French flagship, which in international law does represent a declaration of war, and there is no room for maneuver if it goes down with a knife.

But does this mean that the war will be going back immediately? The answer is no.

The war between countries is definitely not as simple as a ruffian who drinks too much and fights with his fists, any national war requires a long preparation time, even if you have to go to war, you have to prepare supplies in advance, formulate strategic plans, conduct diplomatic mediation, and gather troops...... Then the two sides will have to engage in several fierce negotiations, and in short, they must have their own way in the international arena, and then they can only formally exchange fire after they have the certainty of victory.

In fact, even the nomadic peoples such as the Turks and the Mongols, who were known as all soldiers thousands of years ago, had to go through several months of preparation time to start a war.

Cattle, sheep, horses, and warriors want to gather together, and it takes time for the tribal chieftain to formulate an offensive route.

If you understand this truth, you can understand the reason why Xiao Lotian has no fear, because he knows very clearly that in 1870 France was destined to fall into a war that must be lost, and it was less than a year away.

And Xiao Letian understands that because of the flapping of his wings as a butterfly, Prussia is more fully prepared for war than in the original history, not to mention the secret arms trade between Xiao Lotian and Prussia, which made Prussia make a lot of money.

In addition, he will personally join the battlefield, no matter how small the force is, it is also power, and Bismarck has more resources in his hands than in history, so the timetable of the war will definitely be advanced.

In less than a year, could the French Emperor Napoleon III declare war on the Chinese? He did not even have time to prepare for war, believing that under the mixture of British diplomacy and mud, diplomatic negotiations alone would have to be delayed for more than half a year.

By the time Napoleon III had made up his mind to attack the Chinese, the Prussian army would have been approaching Paris.

This cannon in the Indian Ocean looks very dangerous, in fact, as long as you can figure out the trick, you can know Xiao Letian's insidiousness, which is completely not for nothing, and for nothing.

When the Franco-Prussian War is over, I am afraid that the colonies in the Bay of Bengal will have to be divided between Prussia and the Chinese, and they still want to take revenge?

The big and small foxes in the cabin finally came to their senses, laughed all night, opened four or five bottles of fine wine, and after a night of hangover, the combined fleet finally saw land, which was Galle, Sri Lanka.

Galle was originally an important stronghold built by the Portuguese, and was later conquered by the British, and now Galle Castle is an important base for the British to garrison the Indian Ocean.

Located at the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka, Galle was not only a supply point for fleets crossing the Indian Ocean, but also an important military and commercial city.

Nearly half of Sri Lanka's most famous gemstone industry is sold here, not to mention other cash crops.

The ship arrived here at the first place where it needed to enter the port to rest, and the previous stop in Borneo was completely unplanned, and the Lion City of Singapore was where due to the large number of Chinese, and the British colonists did not dare to let the emperor and Chinese head of the Qing Dynasty go ashore, which was very detrimental to the British rule.

But after arriving in the Indian Ocean, there are no such concerns, this is the base camp of the British, the strength of the Chinese is extremely weak, and the cultural coverage is also very weak, so there is no need to be afraid of Xiao Letian making small moves when staying here.

Another important reason is that it is necessary to replenish fresh water, food and coal here.

At daylight, the British fleet in the port of Galle had already begun to disperse the harbor, dispersing unrelated merchant and civilian ships, and requisitioning the few trestles to the Combined Fleet to stay.

Due to the large size of the Zhiyuan and other large warships, the draft is too deep, they cannot get close to the trestle bridge, so they can only anchor in the open sea, and then the personnel take the ferry boat back and forth.

The supreme commander of the British army in Galle is a lieutenant colonel, and his rank is not as good as Xiao Lotian, even in the face of the captains of the navy, it is a small role. So the burden of hospitality was all on his shoulders.

Almost all the cargo ships in Galle were emptied, and truckloads of coal began to be transported from the docks to the sea, and the cranes of the Zhiyuan coal bunker kept taking off and landing, and tons of selected anthracite were replenished.

There are also ships that replenish fresh water, and they are even more busy and can't find the north, basically every warship needs a minimum of five or six tons of fresh water, and such a huge fleet can imagine how much fresh water needs to be mobilized.

Not only that, but there are also more foods, vegetables, fruits, medicines...... Daily necessities, these supplies need to be prepared by the fleet and then prepared by the British on the shore.

All commercial activity and the normal rhythm of life of the people throughout the city of Galle were thrown into disarray, and all British troops and government officials put aside all their affairs to devote all their energies to the reception of the Combined Fleet.

Xiao Letian looked out the window at the endless flow of transport ships, and sighed in his heart: "It must also be worth the favor of the British! With such a large-scale escort mission, and being responsible for all supplies along the way, the British really spent a lot of money......

This is not wrong at all, in the current world, the United Kingdom is the only country that can carry out global escort, and the United Kingdom is the only country that can have a strong supply capacity in the world.

This is the strength of invisibility, in the war these inconspicuous details are the key to victory, especially the prolonged war, the longer the time is fought, the more this anti-heaven supply ability can influence the war.

When the British occupied all the strategic positions in the Indian Ocean, and all the ports where the enemy ships replenished fresh water were under the control of British artillery, how do you think this battle should be fought?

"Now is not the time to turn against the British! The Empire of the Sun Never Sets is not something that the Chinese can challenge at this time, and they have to admit it when it is time to admit it!"

Xiao Letian sighed and changed into civilian clothes with the help of the orderly, this time it will take at least three days to moor, and it is time to go to the shore for a walk.

However, as soon as they arrived on the foredeck, they found a conflict, and although the British received them carefully, they did not go to the point of foolproofness, and in the end they still quarreled.

"What's the matter, why did our people quarrel with the British?" Xiao Letian asked in surprise.

"Report to the Führer, the cooks on our Zhiyuan want to go ashore, but the British don't arrange a ship, these masters are angry and are shouting!"

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