The Chinese regular army entered the Crimea to fight, and the current Chinese army is not the same as in the past, and after the Napoleonic Wars, it was fully carried out according to the French model.

Gou Quan was a blessing in disguise, but he was promoted, and the biggest difference between the army he built and the traditional army was at the spiritual level. He desperately promoted modern military ideas such as nationalism, loyalty and glory in the army, and then he was promoted, which made a group of old officers quite dissatisfied, and ridiculed Gou all by relying on the emperor who had no bottom line to climb up, Hong Jiuzhi and a group of other old officers, they also thought they were loyal, but said that they couldn't do that kind of thing that completely disregarded their face.

The new army formed by Gou Quan looked down on the dead and rigid thinking of the old army, regarded it as lacking vitality and enterprising spirit, and called it just a group of walking corpses who served as soldiers and ate food.

After the new army defeated the old army, and after the war with Russia, Zhou Lang ordered Gou Quan to comprehensively reorganize the army, and it happened that the construction of military academies was already quite large-scale at that time, and all officers could receive military academy education, and the level of specialization was greatly improved. The name of the old army is still there, but the organizational thinking has been completely different, because Gou Quan's set of French-style army thinking was the first to be popularized in the regular military academy, and as groups of officers who graduated from military academies entered the old army and replaced the retired officers one by one, the organizational thinking of the entire army has completely changed in ten years.

The group of old men who first followed Zhou Lang to raise troops, except for Ma Dalei who was also the commander of the battalion, everyone else had already left the army, and they were richly rewarded, Zhao Wen, Hong Jiuzhi and others were all named dukes and became imperial magnates, but there was no place for them in the army, and even Gou Quan no longer held military positions, but was responsible for training generations of officers in the new era as the principal of the military academy.

The new generation of senior generals is the young and powerful Huang Qiuhuan and others, China's active combat corps, maintained at 13 corps, and the arms are more than in the past with one more shooting corps, equipped with rifled rifles, responsible for accurately shooting valuable targets, not forming separate armies, but scattered in various battalions.

As the commander's battalion of the emperor's Praetorian Guard, it was also expanded to three armies, a cavalry corps, an artillery corps, a shooting corps, a cuirassier corps, a cuirassier cavalry, the archers were all equipped with rifled rifles, and the artillerymen were mainly heavy artillery, that is, the independent artillery corps of that year was included in the command of the marshal battalion.

The new organization method has increased the number of a war army to 15,000 people, and the total strength of the war army is 230,000 people, which is a fairly large army for Western countries, but it is still too small for China. However, because of this small size, the soldiers who choose to train officers are all very good, and the weapons and equipment are even more sophisticated, and they are by no means inferior to the armies of any European country in terms of firepower and technical and tactical level, even the most strictly trained Prussian army, which can also be compared.

Moreover, in some fields, it is even more advanced than the idea of building the army of the European army, such as the hospital system, the current hospital system, the logistics supply system, and the engineering system combined, the number of people is as high as 100,000, and the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of these auxiliary systems is huge. It was first proposed by Zhou Lang, and then it was formed by the army's exploration and optimization in long-term operations.

I dare not say anything else, at least in terms of army construction and management thinking, Zhou Lang firmly believes that his army has stood in the forefront of the times, not comparable to the European army, but surpassing the European army.

This is the reason why he dared to press on the all-out hegemony with the British, although the hegemony was carried out at this time, it was still a little abrupt, but due to Russia's request for mediation, in the end the British refused, Zhou Lang decided to seize the opportunity to press with all his might, missed this opportunity, and it is unlikely that he will encounter such a good opportunity next time.

What kind of opportunity is this? The British have been consuming four years with the Russians, Britain's national strength is already inferior to China's, and it has been consumed for another four years, and now that China has joined the war, not to mention anything else, the relay consumption alone will also consume Britain to death. At this time, the developed financial system and advanced manufacturing industry did not work, and Britain had no chance of winning in the confrontation between an empire with a population of nearly 400 million and a population of more than 10 million.

Despite the choice of the best timing, the course of the war was still painful, and the British were not so easy to deal with.

African companies are generally weak in the race for India. The control of the Indian Ocean has been in the hands of the Chinese Governor's fleet and the joint operation of the African Company and the European Company, but the British India has the ability to fight independently, they do not rely on British material assistance, and the military industrial system built by the East India Company in India even has the ability to export weapons on a large scale to the British mainland, so even if India is blocked, they can still fight independently.

The regular soldiers sent 100,000 men into the Crimea to fight, and when they encountered the combined forces of Britain and the Ottoman Empire, they were still at a disadvantage at first, but after a short period of familiarization and adjustment, they had begun to fight against each other, and even faintly had the upper hand.

This status quo is generally satisfying, because in terms of the organizational ideology of the Chinese army, Zhou Lang is confident and ahead, but the European army has been growing up in battle, but the Chinese army has not fought for nearly ten years, and the gap in combat experience between the two is very large. Zhou Lang needs a new generation of officers to be trained.

Zhou Lang is not worried about the situation of the army, even if he keeps losing and retreating at the beginning, he is not worried, because in the case of a complete overall military system, as the battle progresses, the Chinese army will only get stronger and stronger, and he is most worried about the navy.

The British Royal Navy's prestige is not blown out, although the British are good at hype, but there must be genuine records for them to speculate, the British Army is blown into flowers, and it is a Waterloo, sadly, the Battle of Waterloo is famous not because the British fought well, but because it was Napoleon's last battle. In terms of importance, the Napoleonic army of the Waterloo era is no longer what it used to be, and the army is basically composed of new recruits, and the number is still very limited, and it is normal to lose.

The Royal Navy, on the other hand, fully deserved their honor, and they never gave Britain a chain and won every battle that had to be won.

For this reason, Zhou Lang endured Britain for many years, otherwise as early as ten years ago, he would not have been polite to the British. You still need to exchange to get Australia. After ten years of forbearance, the size of China's foreign naval division has been twice that of the British, with a total of 200 first, second and third class battleships, and all captains and professional positions are all graduates of regular military academies, which are completely organized in accordance with the British Navy and fight against pirates all year round.

But just like the army before encountering the European army twenty years ago, it lacked the experience of fighting head-on with European powers, and suddenly pushed it in front of an opponent of the level of the British Navy, Zhou Lang said that he was not worried was false.

In recent years, the scale of the naval division has stopped expanding, and even if new ships are built, most of them are used to replace old ships, and a large number of semi-finished warships are placed on the slipway to slowly release stress, and if necessary, more than 50 large battleships will be launched into service within a year.

Keeping twice the level of the British fleet, Zhou Lang no longer has confidence, and feels that it is more than enough, if twice the number of equipment can not defeat the British, then there is really no need to think about how to compete with the British for hegemony, so he can only give up the idea of competing with the British at sea.

After the start of the naval battle, the Chinese fleet was almost all dispatched, and the fleet of the European company was withdrawn from the Mediterranean and retreated to Egypt, and an agreement had been reached with the Ali dynasty of Egypt to form an alliance to jointly defend the Suez Canal. The fleets of the two major companies in Africa and Australia jointly cruised the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope, and cooperated with the Kingdom of South Africa to capture the Cape colony. The home fleet sailed into the Indian Ocean for the most part, completely blockaded British India, and sought an opportunity to completely annihilate the British Indian fleet.

The annihilation of the British Indian fleet was not completed, and after several skirmishes at an absolute disadvantage, the enemy retreated to Indian ports, but the blockade was fully enforced. Not only India, but also the two British colonies of Sumatra and Ceylon were blockaded. The army began to cooperate in the capture of the British colonies, and Zhou Lang had already decided that Nanyang would be separated from the territory of the Australian company and directly included in Chinese territory, setting up states and counties. After conquering Sumatra and Ceylon, it will also be incorporated into the province of Nanyang.

With absolute strength, soon Sumatra and Ceylon were captured, and China completely controlled the Strait of Malacca. At this time, the subject state of Burma also promised China to send troops to British India and launched an offensive against Bengal. The agreement with Burma promised that Bengal to the east would be ceded to Burma as the boundary of the Brahmaputra River.

At this time, Burma was a fairly large country, encompassing not only the entire territory of later Burma, but also controlled the Assam region (including the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland in later India).

If, after this war, the territory of Bangladesh is half of what will be later and more than one-third of the current state of Bangladesh, it will be twice the size of Burma in later life.

In particular, part of Bengal will be included in Burma, and the population of Myanmar will be greatly increased, Bengal has a large population, under British rule, in 1770 during the first famine, 10 million people starved to death, and in 1783 another famine, but more than 40 years later, the total population still recovered to more than 30 million, Zhou Lang decided to hand over to Burma Bengali land accounted for one-third of Bengal, which would increase the population of the Gongbang Dynasty, with a total population of less than 5 million, to more than 15 million.

If such a Myanmar would become a superpower in South Asia, wouldn't China be worried about the subject country getting out of control?