Chapter 843: A Dilemma
Guoxing's agitation was very fast, except for the Qing court, which was also cautious, all other directions were quickly implemented. As soon as the global offensive of the Manchurian Empire was implemented, the British immediately became one head and two big, and they had always been the British, who had always been other people's-stirring sticks.
For the British, the huge interests of Asia could not be dispensed with, so the Manchurian Empire, a rival, naturally could not be left alone. If Britain wants to withdraw from solving the Asian problem, it must settle the chaos in Europe as soon as possible, and then it can withdraw from the battle with Goxinga. Losing Asia will make the British have a pain in their livers, but how to say Europe is fundamental, so before looking for Goxinga, the British must settle their own home.
The situation in the Balkans is very chaotic, and several major forces now see that the British are tight in Asia, so they do not sell the face of the British. Germany kept adding fuel to the back, Austria-Hungary was clamoring for war, and Russia did not want to suffer losses for its Slavic buddies, but it was difficult to die the British who were bent on being peacemakers. The British pulled their old comrades-in-arms, the French, to make continuous concessions, and promised Russia countless benefits, and the situation in the Balkans finally eased a little, everyone seemed to see the hope of peace, and then Goxinga's global strategy was laid out in front of them.
India's lazy bugs began to strike intermittently, causing great volatility in the British industrial chain, and London's stock market was on a roller coaster. The mountain bandits in Afghanistan are even more deadly, these guys are fierce and brave, not only not afraid of death, but also a little full of yearning. In the past, the British army had already been full of money, and this time the advanced weapons support even invaded the territory of India for a time. The big army duel that the British army is good at is in Afghanistan and northern India, and there is no room to play at all, these mountain bandits are all guerrillas, and there is no place to catch them when they shoot at one shot.
South Asia was a pot of porridge, and South Africa did not stop, and the Boer-controlled Transvaal and Orange had become completely independent, forming their own Boer Republic, and began to counterattack the British-controlled areas to regain their lost lands and minerals. The descendants of these German immigrants inherited the rigor and warfare of the Germans, and their early nomadic life exercised their physique and survival ability. In the face of this group of militias, the only thing that the British army in South Africa, which was accustomed to pampering, was to retreat one after another.
Under the influence of the Boers, the black uncles also became active, independent statehood or something, the black uncles didn't understand at all, but all the black uncles who suddenly got weapons became robbers. In the place near the sea, the black uncles rowed a small boat to become pirates, and where there was no sea, the black uncles began a happy life of blocking the road and robbing. The British army struggled to fight the Boers, and it was still very easy to clean up Uncle Black, but Uncle Black was everywhere, and there were bandits and people, and it was an incomparably huge project to find them out.
After the Manchurian Expeditionary Force violently beat Colombia and almost slaughtered Panama into a no-man's land, the Panamanian independence movement was completely defeated. Moreover, with the stationing of the Nanyang Fleet in Panama and the end of the Manchurian-British naval battle in the Yellow Sea, all the friends of the great powers who wanted to eat a piece of cake all honestly retreated. The Panama Canal was the tip of the heart of the Manchurian Empire, and whoever dared to move would fight with whomever it would, and the great powers who were waiting for Manchuria and Britain to lose were naturally not going to come out at this time to be the big culprit. So Colombia was forced to withdraw all its expatriates in Panama, formally ceding Panama to the Manchurian Empire. Then Ma San of South Manchuria took action, and the Manchurian Empire, which had just forced Colombia to pay reparations and cede land, single-handedly launched the so-called second Latin American independence movement.
Most of Latin America was originally colonized by Spain and Portugal, but with the decline of these two old empires, the big ones were just becoming independent at the beginning of the century. It's a pity that you sang and I appeared, Spain and Portugal withdrew, and the Manchurian Empire and Britain were killed again. The two sides had a slightly different approach, with the Manchurian Empire being violently liquidated, and the British being puppets of economic and political control. Now Latin American countries seek to become independent again, and there is no impact on Manchuria. South Manchuria and Panama are both part of Manchuria, and all the people living in the territory are Chinese, and for the Chinese who are accustomed to great unification, independence or something is simply taking the wrong medicine. Then the British were embarrassed, and Argentina, which was most heavily controlled by the British, was the first to break out in the anti-British movement, followed by Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru and other countries, all of which also participated.
The sects in West Asia also demanded independence, but they were not anti-British, and their target was the British-backed Ottoman Turks. The British did not have to send troops to suppress these death squads, but the economy was greatly affected. After the big brother of West Asia raised the army, the move was very strange, and there was no way to see the number at all. They shouted that they were all against Ottoman Turkey, but in fact they were in a mess, some people attacked each other to avenge their personal revenge, some united to fight Turkey, and a group of big brothers in North Africa joined forces with Turkey to fight the Italians. No one could figure out what they thought, but it turned out that North Africa and West Asia were in a mess, and the British industry in the area was completely ruined.
These are very chaotic, and of course there are some places that are not chaotic, and the British have completely failed to play around, such as New Zealand. After the argument that the Yin merchants had drifted south for a while spread in New Zealand, the Maori felt it made sense, and then they were uncomfortable with the white man. Instead of going to war directly against the whites, the Maori came up with the insightful idea of severing ties with Britain and making New Zealand completely independent. The white people in New Zealand didn't agree with the Maori people, and then the Maori danced a haka dance for them, and then there were no white people in New Zealand. The British army in Australia is preparing to counterattack New Zealand, but these fierce and warlike Maori really make the British army a little weak. Moreover, the pressure on Australia is not small, Goxinga's younger brother Ding Fuzhou (New Guinea) Governor Erdenbu personally took command, gathered more than 200,000 troops in Ding Fuzhou, and was ready to fight across the sea at any time, how dare Australia not guard against them. At the same time, because of the unfavorable immigration control over the years, Australia's northern desert area has more than 400,000 Chinese, which is a one*.
The measures taken by the Manchurian Empire made Britain very uncomfortable, and the British with islander thinking were really not suitable for this kind of global routine. And the most immoral thing is that the Manchurians put everything on the bright side, did not do anything to hide their own trouble-stirring actions, and even printed Chinese characters on the weapons they supported, and even the trademark of the Changchun Arsenal. This impact is too bad, and the troublemakers have the bottom in their hearts, and if they mess up, the Manchurian Empire will give them a back. What hasn't made a fuss for the time being is also ready to move because of the big signboard of the Manchurian Empire, which is the diffusion effect.
At the same time, the Manchurian Empire itself was not idle, and Manchuria itself, East Manchuria, South Manchuria, Nanyang, Dingfuzhou, and other places all completed the war mobilization, and the first phase of the assembled force has exceeded 3 million. Pi Runmin, the head of the Manchurian Empire's cabinet, even shouted a terrifying slogan: if war broke out in full force, the Manchurian Empire could get 30 million people to take up arms within a month. Pi Runmin is a lot of braggarts, and the British have no way of knowing, but the statement of 30 million troops is really too scary, which is already more than half of the British population.
Even the current strength gathered is enough for the British to have a headache, and the Russian death squads can only contain about one million troops of the Manchurian Army, and the rest has to be carried by the British themselves. Today, the Manchurian Army is no longer on the defensive, but has taken a very active offensive, and is constantly increasing its troops in Nanyang, Dingfuzhou, and East Manchuria, and Britain is facing tremendous military pressure in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Canada.
The output of the Changchun Military Industrial Group in one day is roughly equivalent to the output of all the arsenals in Western Europe, and there are twelve such arsenals in Manchuria that are in full swing. British Prime Minister William had to lament: "The Manchurians are stockpiling arms for a ten-year war, they are preparing for a world war, they are going to send an entire generation to war." ”
If this is the case, the British still have a way to deal with it, after all, as long as the sea belongs to Great Britain, the world is still in the hands of the British. But the Manchurian shipyards on the Pacific Rim are producing warships like dumplings, and this terrifying Chinese speed is far beyond the expectations of the British. New destroyers and cruisers of the Sea Tiger and Sea Wolf classes are launched almost every day, and the South Sea Fleet, the Yellow Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, the North Sea Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the Japanese Combined Fleet, the East Manchurian Fleet, and the South Manchuria Fleet are all frantically expanding, and the Panama Fleet is also officially put into business. What is especially terrifying is that the Manchurians are still producing battleships at the speed of terror China, and these terrible monsters of huge tonnage will be launched on a large scale within a year, and the British will have no maritime superiority.
In order not to be killed by the Manchurians who were crazy and built ships, the British had to march east as soon as possible, block the Manchurian terror army at home, and wipe out their warships in the shipyard, otherwise everything would be irreparable. Seeking peace by war is already the only option for the British at present, and the unlimited potential after the rise of the continental power has made the island countries feel hopeless. Britain didn't have that much population and not that many resources, and he had to let the continental countries that had lost their checks and balances die in their infancy.
But the world is always full of suffocating despair, and Britain sees the crisis, as does Germany and Austria-Hungary, and they certainly will not let go of this good opportunity. The mediation between Britain, France, and Russia suddenly failed in a quiet afternoon, Austria-Hungary brazenly declared war on Serbia, and nine countries, including Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, the Chinese Manchurian Empire, the Qing Empire, the Chinese Lanfang Republic, the Kingdom of Korea, the Kingdom of Vietnam, and the Kingdom of Burma, issued a joint statement declaring their support for the Austro-Hungarian Empire's righteous act of avenging the Empress. The only fly in the ointment is that there are only two representatives of the six countries with the prefix of China in Berlin - Manchurian Minister Bi Lige and Qing Minister Zeng Jize, and the others are represented by the eldest brother and the second brother.