…… How did this war start?

The war did come without warning.

When Prime Minister Li Jintang handed over the declaration of war document submitted by the ambassador of the East Frankish Kingdom to the emperor, the emperor of the empire, Li Miao, appeared very calm.

"What should come is always coming." He just sighed softly, "At least we won't lose, will we?" The testament of the ancestors is: I Datang will never cede land, never pay compensation, although my Datang is rich all over the world, but every inch of land is not superfluous. ”

His words reassured the prime minister at once.

It is clear that the countries of Europe are already united.

As a rising industrial country, when the Europeans woke up and looked at the world again, almost all the resource areas had become the territory of the Tang Empire.

They want to develop, they want to expand, they need more resources, but unfortunately there is no room for them to expand outward in this world. On this planet, three-fifths of the land and most of the sea have become the territory or territorial waters of the Tang Empire. The territorial waters 200 nautical miles from the coast of the island have made most of the world's oceans the territorial waters of the Tang Empire.

This aggressive empire controlled all of the Americas, most of Asia, and half of Africa, and the rest of the country was confined to a few small areas. The Great Food Empire has been staring at the behemoth that has cut off five-sixths of the territory of the old empire with a hostile gaze, and has been using the Fang Tian Sect to create chaos all these years, but it has not been able to shake the foundation of its opponent at all, but it has almost collapsed itself.

Over the years, European countries have been backing separatist forces in the Americas, hoping to separate the New World from the Tang Empire and then indirectly control the region.

Unfortunately, among the nearly 500 million Americans, there are still minorities who support or favor independence.

During the last war, the Tang Empire finally won the war against the European Union, which ultimately put down the rebellion in the Americas. And this time, the European Union is ready to take another risky attempt.

Unlike the last war, this time they were much better prepared and resorted to very shameless "tricks".

They first sent a fleet to put pressure on the South American region, and when the Tang fleet concentrated its main forces in the area of Port-au-Prince, they launched a surprise attack on the Tang fleet during the negotiations.

While the 1.8 billion Tang people were still arguing and dividing opinions over whether to send troops to quell the "rebellion" in the Americas and give them "the right of self-government", overnight, after the country was suddenly attacked by the European fleet, this seemingly scattered country suddenly turned into an angry collective eager for war.

Prime Minister Lee Geum-tang presented to the Diet a huge battle plan and a military budget proposal, which was completely unthinkable before the outbreak of war. The Tang Empire was too large, and the old Tang people in East Asia and the New Tang people in North and South America, the Tang people in Europe, the Tang people in Central Asia, the Tang people in Southeast Asia, and the Tang people in Southeast Africa were constantly quarreling and quarreling for their own benefits. However, after the outbreak of war, a resolution to declare war and a long-planned and staggering resolution on military spending were passed almost unanimously within a few hours.

The European Union nearly destroyed the adversary's North Atlantic Fleet, temporarily gaining military superiority in this sea area, but it awakened the world's most powerful and fearsome war machine.

Only on the third day after the destruction of the Tang North Atlantic Fleet, Prime Minister Li Jintang proposed on behalf of the imperial government a huge naval expansion plan to build 24 battleships and 50 fleet aircraft carriers, and in addition, to increase the annual production of military aircraft to 50,000 planes, and after a month, the number of aircraft produced was revised and adjusted to 100,000 per year.

The Tang Empire began their usual way of warfare again: not seeking quality, but quantity, and then relying on the quantitative superiority of equipment and personnel, completely dragging down the opponent.

Historical suspicions arose, which have not been completely dispelled until later generations, that is, the suspicion that the defeat of Port-au-Prince was orchestrated by Lee and his senior aides.

Historians who hold this view argue that Lee's "New Economic Policy" did not achieve its intended goals, that the country's increased investment in infrastructure did not lift the vast empire out of recession, and that the prime minister's top aides had been planning a world war to deplete the country's excess production capacity.

From this point of view, they did achieve this purpose.

During the war, the economy of the Tang Empire did quickly return to its past prosperity, and it lasted for more than a decade after the war.

In addition, it is doubtful that although the North Atlantic Fleet concentrated one-third of the empire's maritime power and had eighteen battleships, these main warships were old antiques built around the end of the last war and were about to enter the shipyard for dismantling.

However, none of the 12 cutting-edge battleships they built in two batches in the Republic Year served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and none of the eight aircraft carriers of the Tang Imperial Navy were assigned to the North Atlantic Fleet. Based on this view, Li Jintang concluded that dragging the Tang Empire into war was more important in a political and economic sense than the loss of a few battleships militarily. Of course, this kind of despicable behavior can be done by Li Jintang as a politician.

But if the Tang Navy had won a battle in the Caribbean, the outcome would have been much better than a disaster. Repelling the enemy's attack would have reduced significant losses, and the defeat of the North Atlantic Fleet, combined with the destruction of the American Canal, put the Tang at a disadvantage in this sea area for a long time.

This has also greatly strengthened the independent armed forces in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of European "volunteers" have entered the Americas.

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At four o'clock in the morning, the Ninth Fleet was sailing east of the island of New Luzon in eastern Australia.

The Ninth Fleet is resting and resupplying at North Port in New Luzon and is heading to the Falklands Naval Base in South America as planned.

"What should I do?" Ling Wencha, chief of staff of the battlefleet who was on duty on the "Yunling," was the first to receive the telegram, and he did not even need a messenger to send a message, but personally ran to the captain's room in the stern compartment to wake up the fleet commander who had fallen asleep.

Because of the congestion of space on aircraft carriers, Vice Admiral Chen Shiying, commander of the fleet, generally liked to use the battleships of the Screen Fleet as his flagship.

"Don't worry, Wencha, the Franks can't get to the Pacific." Vice Admiral Chen Shiying said as he hurriedly walked towards the bridge, "Oh, inform the fleet to strengthen anti-submarine maneuvers. ”

When he boarded the bridge, he ordered the fleet to adjust to an anti-submarine formation.

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