Modern warfare is not a war in the era of cold weapons, you can start fighting when you prepare food, grass and military salaries, and at most prepare some bows and arrows, tents, war horses, and so on.

Every minute and every second of modern warfare is a huge bottomless pit that devours money, and no one dares to act rashly without careful and scientific preparation.

Without five or six million rounds of artillery shells, who would dare to use artillery? An army of more than one million troops must not prepare one billion and eight billion rounds of ammunition? There are also first-aid medicines, individual rations, field tents, and telegraph lines for communications......

These materials are not conjured out of thin air, they need to be produced in large quantities of arsenals, procured by society and then transported and assembled, everything takes time. This is the main reason why the Glorious Revolution of Spain broke out in 1868 in real history, but it was not until 1870 that the two countries started fighting.

Just as there is always a period of extraordinary calm before a storm, this is what Europe is like now.

The media in countless countries have been given a silent order, the newspapers are consciously unwilling to provoke each other in this time, the scolding of the common people has also been consciously ignored, and only the intelligence officers and diplomats of various countries are busy.

Europeans are always focused on their own one-third of an acre, even if the sun never sets on an empire like Britain, and colonial interests account for 80% of their entire national output, but when there is turmoil in Europe, they cannot stand idly by.

Warships from the overseas colonies began to return to Europe, bringing not only weapons and soldiers, but also urgent taxes imposed by the colonies.

All intelligence systems don't care about how the South American Pacific War is fought, they can't manage the friction between the United States and Mexico, and they are not in the mood to deal with the growing power of Xiao Letian. All eyes are on this coming war, and if Prussia and France go to war, it will definitely be a major battle that will affect the whole of Europe and even the world pattern.

"In the jungle of wild beasts, tigers and hungry wolves have begun to prepare for a civil war, now is the best time for other animals to expand their living space, take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen yourself depends on your ability......" When Xiao Lotian received the latest information from Europe, on the one hand, he was praying that the Zhiyuan could return home safely, and on the other hand, he also made a judgment on the current international situation.

"Brothers, the time of great development has finally come, while the tigers and hungry wolves are fighting among themselves, it is the sheep that hastened to grow sharp horns, and the oxen hastened to grow thicker hides...... The opportunity to close the gap between us and Europe has finally arrived!"

"The French are pulling forces from the colonies to Europe, and the British are starting to collect warships in the Indian Ocean to control the North Sea, and now Asia is the power vacuum of the Westerners, and now we have to do something meaningful......"

In the Ryukyu Prime Minister's Mansion, all the generals gathered, Xiao Letian was dressed in a military uniform and exuded a unique taste before the war, the veterans were too familiar with this taste, they felt it during the Ryukyu riots, they also felt it during the Austro-Prussian War, and they felt it even more when they attacked Beijing City and Osaka City.

The prime minister is going to war, this is the only thought in everyone's hearts!

Wang Huaiyuan stood up and ordered the entire conference room to close the windows and close the thick black curtains, and outside were heavily armed guards to protect the place.

Only the huge map hanging on the wall was lit with countless bright large candles, which made everyone's eyes focus on the map.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after changing the name of the Torture Hall to the CIA, Prime Minister Zun ordered us to secretly send countless spies to the Guanwai area, one-third of which was used to collect the deployment and population distribution of the Manchu Qing in the Guanwai area, and the other two-thirds of the forces were invested here...... Our Vladivostok!"

"In 1860, that is, eight years ago, a Sino-Russian "Beijing Treaty" assigned nearly 400,000 square kilometers of land east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, to Tsarist Russia, that is, from that day on, the Chinese on this land actually became foreigners, and the Manchus completely abandoned them......"

"Perhaps because of a clear conscience, in the Treaty of Beijing, there is such a note: 'Russia is not allowed to occupy any place where the Chinese live and where the Chinese occupy fishing and hunting, and the Chinese are still allowed to fish and hunt as usual. 'This is also the last bit of people's hearts......"

"This distant land is actually not even developed by the Manchurians themselves, this is a real wild land, people used to say that Ningguta and armored people are slaves, and the Ningguta area includes this ceded land!"

"At the time of the signing of the treaty, the Russians were still very weak in this land, and when the Russians established their first military station in Vladivostok in 1860, there were only 40 soldiers, and they were not able to effectively control the land at that time......

"These outcasts of the Celestial Empire found that their lives had not changed in any other way, so although they were resentful, they did not turn into effective resistance, and the two sides were at peace......

"But as time went on, the Russians began to rest the roads and build telegraph lines, and the number of soldiers gradually increased, and gradually the Russians began to prohibit the Chinese from cutting down precious oak trees and panning for gold, which angered the people on the east bank of the Ussuri River, and in 1866, the local Chinese leader Yu Hai led three hundred armed forces to expel Russian soldiers and demand autonomy!"

"It's a pity that Yu Hai's uprising was bloodily suppressed at the beginning of this year, and only Yu Hai and ten other people were captured in the end of the three hundred warriors, and the rest were all sacrificed, and Yu Hai didn't know whether he was alive or dead at the moment, and the CIA used countless dark lines to find it but couldn't find it...... According to our analysis, Yu Hai should have been killed!"

When the conference room was buzzing, everyone's emotions were agitated, Xiao Letian's subordinates were all fanatical militants who had been indoctrinated with nationalism, and every word Wang Huaiyuan said deeply pierced their hearts.

"What are you waiting for...... Why don't we act sooner?" the fist slammed into the hardwood table, and the teacup overturned.

Xiao Letian sneered: "Why? Because we are weak, because we have no righteous name! If we send troops to attack the Russians directly in the Ryukyus, it will definitely anger the entire Tsarist Russia, and when a full-scale war breaks out, we will not have much chance of winning...... We must admit that the current Ryukyu is simply not able to defeat the huge Russia!"

"Don't expect to solve this problem through diplomatic negotiations, because we in the Ryukyus have no say in the land outside the Guan, and no one can solve this problem from the negotiating table unless the Manchu government in Beijing fights a war and negotiates with the Russians to the end!"

"Then what should we do? Just do it......" Luo Huo's hands were dripping with blood, and the freshly broken teacup cut through his fist.

Xiao Letian shook his head, "No, we've been watching it for several years, and now that a god-given opportunity is in front of us, I'm afraid we'll lose this last good opportunity if we continue to look at it!"