Chapter 25: Impasse
Because of the accession of the Americans, Yuan Datou has confidence, and the Americans joined under the banner of peace. Why did Ben send troops to occupy it?
Reynes held on to this, but did not let go, but proposed that if you didn't take it back from China, then the United States could use it as a neutral country, especially all the German islands in the Pacific Ocean. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This next day. I blew up, and directly found Yuan Shikai to start coercing and luring, but Yuan Datou was not given for nothing, he directly used the Americans to maneuver, and the three parties were not lively when you came and went.
In such a case, time in this universe has changed. The island issue dragged on until October. I was already a little out of breath, and the British side was in a hurry, mainly because of the problems on the European battlefield. The Battle of the Marne was over, and both sides suffered heavy losses, but relatively speaking, the losses of the Anglo-French army were greater than those of the Germans, but on the whole they were quite good, after all, the battle line was stabilized.
However, after stabilizing the front, the problem came, Britain and France were not well prepared, in fact, not only did they make the whole of Europe unprepared, both sides thought that the time could be over in a few months, but now it seems that it is simply impossible, and it has completely entered the stage of stalemate. Trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, and mines began to spread over the positions of both sides, and the two sides were completely deadlocked.
Britain began to want the United States to place an order, and this time the United States directly came forward to take the order, and then distributed it downward, receiving Wesley's opinion in its entirety, and limiting the unlimited expansion of capital, the parliamentarians surprisingly did not object, because what Wesley foresaw happened, so they were quite convinced.
So when Europe and Asia were in a stalemate at the same time, the United States finally made a force, and all the battleships in a hurry were completed and directly delivered to the Navy, this time it was eight, because the latter four were also added by the Navy, and Wesley concentrated on manpower to build, because of the use of common parts and modular production mode, Wesley took out gantry cranes and container cranes, for which ports across the United States want to introduce.
And Wesley's company is not staring at British orders, but staring at the domestic market, at this time many people grab orders, and give up the domestic ones, this is a good time, but Wesley can also make money, especially the US military arms and sea transportation, these two aspects of others want to grab can not be snatched.
With truckloads of containers and large quantities of oil and coal, the Atlantic route is now the safest route.
Next came the 5th and 6th Brigades of the Marine Corps, with the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 1st Engineer Brigade departing, and troop carriers came into use, and then the main forces of the new Pacific Fleet were dispatched, with eight battleships, eight heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and eight destroyers, accompanied by two tankers and two freighters, which were ships of the Wesley Transportation Company.
"Mr. Reyns, the United States must give us an answer, and it will not be good for everyone to continue like this." Zhu Erdian waited for several months, but did not wait for someone from the United States.
"Mr. Zhu Erdian, this is not a matter for me to consider, I can only act according to the instructions of the country, you must know that I am just a minister who is not taken seriously, and I have no right to speak." Reyns began to complain.
Zhu Erdian frowned and thought about it, he had not asked for help in China for this matter, he was used to being in China to be windy and rainy, but now day. Ben and the United States are messing with themselves, do they really ask for help at home?
"Mr. Zhu Erdian, but don't worry, my latest news has arrived, and someone has been sent from China, and I think the matter will be resolved soon." Renes said with a smile. He was happy now, because it was not a negotiating team that had been dispatched in the country, but a fleet, and although he did not know for what purpose, he believed that she would soon raise her eyebrows.
"Well, I hope it's true this time." Zhu Erdian left depressed, he still had to appease those little men.
January 1, 1915, the first day of the new year, of course, is not so important to the Chinese people, and it is not the Spring Festival, but today's day is very special, a fleet appeared on the sea of Shanghai, a huge fleet, 32 large and small warships, protecting dozens of supply ships and troop carriers to come to the sea outside Shanghai.
This made all the countries startled, such a huge fleet is coming, there is no news at all, and the fleets of various countries are also nervous. Benson was still very happy. He deliberately sailed with the fleet, because the training time of the fleet was too short, and there was continuous training day and night along the way, and the shipyard technicians were also on board, who were responsible for teaching the navy soldiers to deal with some minor problems, of course, there were no problems, Wesley's design was very powerful.
The consul of the British concession hurriedly sent a telegram and Zhu Erdian, and the American fleet shook off and drove away directly, and the consul hurriedly asked the fleet to send warships to follow and see where the other party went. Now is a critical period, what if the United States were to go to war against Britain? Their Far Eastern Fleet is not an opponent at all, looking at the battleships of the Americans, it seems that they are the latest, triple main guns?
The fleet went directly north and sailed to Qingdao. Island, and Reynes was negotiating with the German minister at this time, they had already agreed, the United States took over, and then guaranteed the safety of their personnel, as a neutral country, the American German minister was also acceptable, otherwise they planned to fight to the end.
The normal situation should be the day. Ben and the British frantically attacked for almost three months to take it down, and now they have no chance, because of the intervention of the United States, Japan. Although I organized an army, I never dared to send it out, and as Wesley estimated, Britain did not want to send it. This provocation of the United States would be very detrimental to the Entente.
The deadlock was suddenly broken, and as soon as the powerful American fleet appeared in Shanghai, then everything was clear, and the Americans were stalling for time, and Zhu Erdian angrily went directly to Reins.
Such a large fleet of the US Navy suddenly came, Zhu Erdian was really scared, did the Americans drive all the fleets? He did not know that this was only a little more than a year to build, and that the old battleships were being sold, all packaged and sold to small South American countries, and all the money obtained was used to increase destroyers and light cruisers, and heavy cruisers and battleships were not added again, because of financial problems.