934 Core Strategy
The Ryukyus were still not calm in the rainstorm, and the horses of the soldiers on the street were staring at the torrential rain and galloping forward, and the hot air from the horse's nose was rushing into the rain.
Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, Luo Huo...... There is even Pierre, a French gold medal intelligence analyst who has been learning Chinese and the situation in East Asia, these core aides around Xiao Lotian began to converge to the Prime Minister's Mansion despite the heavy rain.
Everyone's faces were ugly, and an emergency meeting was called in such weather, indicating that something big must have happened. When everyone saw the latest telegram on the stone table in the small flower hall, everyone was dumbfounded.
Xiao Hexin rubbed his injured leg and said that it was not good to say: "What a big boldness, what a big boldness! Let's prepare with both hands, on the one hand, notify the Prussian side to mediate as much as possible, and on the other hand, start preparing for war, shrink our various plans, and concentrate resources to prepare for war!"
Luo Huo rubbed his eyes, and clapped his hands together excitedly: "It's good, it's really good! It's kind, it's so kind! Don't extinguish your prestige first, you should look at the good side! The new tactics that we have been studying on paper before have actually made these children's experiments successful today...... Congratulations to the Prime Minister, congratulations to the Prime Minister!"
Wang Huaiyuan was able to stabilize his emotions and said lightly: "Yes, using the battleship as a heavy artillery output platform, so that we have the most powerful firepower output, and the army's artillery can't fight against us at all...... Then the infantry and naval artillery effectively cooperate in three-dimensional cross-combat ......"
"A soldier is the eye of a naval gun, and a naval gun is a gun in the hands of a soldier! This kind of tactic has taken the lead in the world, and the prime minister is indeed a genius! But ...... But offended France, and by the way, also caused concern to Britain, can we have a second or third battleship in the future?"
Ay...... Wang Huaiyuan sighed: "No matter how good the tactics are, how can we fight without warships? Even if the Zhiyuan breaks through the encirclement and returns home, with this one battleship alone, how can we fight against Britain and France?"
Luo Huo, who was sprayed with a basin of cold water, was stunned for a moment, and Wang Huaiyuan said with palpitations, "I really shouldn't have let these children lead the team at the beginning, I really should have let the prince personally bring the boat back to China, and there was no old man to escort him...... Look, what's going on now, right?"
"The Marine Corps and new warships are related to the strategic layout of the prime minister in the next few decades, how we protect the special economic zone, how to establish a dominion within the Qing Dynasty, rely on warships!"
The people present are all figures in Xiao Letian's inner circle, and they have access to the core strategy with the highest machine density, and some people may wonder why the Frenchman Pierre can also join in.
That's because Pierre has been convicted of treason by France, he has become a desperate person who cannot return to China, and now the whole world can only rely on Xiao Lotian.
More importantly, Xiao Letian's future plan is inseparable from an accurate judgment of the situation in Europe, so this spy who is familiar with the inside of Europe has naturally become a core member of Xiao Letian's shogunate.
People didn't speak, Xiao Letian set his eyes on Pierre, and at this time he found that Pierre's eyes were a little scattered, and he was holding the information in his hand, but his eyes became hollow.
Everyone knew he was thinking, and sure enough, ten minutes later, Pierre spoke, "The information is too general, and the key data is completely absent, so it is difficult for me to make a judgment......"
Just when everyone was disappointed, Pierre suddenly changed his words: "But...... But I look at the whole process of the whole incident, the whole battle should be under our control!"
"With all due respect, this group of children who go to study in Europe are all elites who are selected by thousands of people, and they are not only smart but also have received military training for up to half a year, and they have become very pragmatic through strict discipline, and they are not the kind of nerds who study hard at all!"
"So, I don't think it's as serious as everyone thinks...... Only one ironclad ship, 180 soldiers rushed to the beach, and only 36 were killed in the end...... What does this mean? This shows that the whole battle is under control, and the baton of the battlefield has always been pinched in Xiang Ying's hand!"
"My advice is to hold down the message first and wait for the subsequent telegram...... I just read it, this telegram was sent to the Intelligence Bureau this morning, and it took two hours of translation and verification before it was delivered to the Prime Minister," Pierre took out his pocket watch and looked at it.
"It's already noon, and according to the efficiency of the Prussian intelligence services, they should have an updated telegram coming at an interval of six hours, I think it should already be on the way......"
Pierre was right, it now takes about fifteen days to send a telegram from Europe to Asia, because there are some nodes in the middle that need the telegraph operator to re-transmit, and even some backward areas need to be quickly transported back and forth between different telegraph offices.
Fifteen days is already a very fast speed, thanks to the smooth laying of the submarine cable from Ryukyu to Shanghai to Hong Kong, some areas are already in use, otherwise this information would have taken at least two months.
Fifteen days is enough for a big change in the situation, and now is not the era of global information networking in the future, and it is completely impossible to attempt the headquarters to directly control the army tens of thousands of miles away.
However, the Prussian side has always been rigorous, and in such emergencies, according to the regulations, new information will be gathered at any time and sent to the headquarters, usually at maximum intervals of six hours.
That is to say, fifteen days ago, after the first telegram was sent, a second telegram should have arrived in about six hours, and it should have been in duplicate.
Before the words fell, a guard standing in the wind and rain ten meters away from the Xiaohua Hall pulled his neck and shouted, "The CIA has received the latest cable, and the password level is top secret...... Now in the midst of an intense translation process......"
With a bang, Wang Huaiyuan pushed the door of the flower hall, "Let them come to the Prime Minister's Mansion with a telegram, and translate here, we will wait to see it, go and ...... quickly"
"Yes!" the guard saluted, turned his head and ran out.
Hearing a new telegram coming, the nervousness of the people present eased somewhat, and Xiao Letian ordered lunch to be prepared for everyone, and while waiting, the topic once again shifted to the top secret of the Ryukyus.
What is Xiao Letian's future strategy is not only a secret that all politicians in the Qing Dynasty and East Asia want to explore, but also a secret that the entire European and American world is eager to know.
And this secret is now known to these few people in the flower hall all over the world, even Fan Yao, the old shopkeeper, and Xiao Letian's daughter-in-law.
"I reiterate once again, my core strategy is immutable, you have to implement what you understand, you still have to implement if you don't understand, and there is no right to withdraw...... I know you all don't understand it in your hearts, but I'll say it again!"
"I, Xiao Letian, will never be the king, let alone the emperor...... If your ideal is to follow me to lay down the country and then share dividends, then this old road will be difficult for you to see in this life!"