Chapter 363: The Oros Conspiracy
"Your Highness, in this war against the Chinese Empire, our main goal is to get the Chinese Empire to cede the land north of the Yellow River and a large amount of war compensation, if we take its capital, the goal will be half the success, so the main task of the Far Eastern Front is to cooperate with the actions of the Baikal Front."
At this time, everyone found that the Minister of War Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin was not just a mouthpiece for the Tsar's Crown Prince, otherwise he would not have become the Minister of War, and he still had two brushes in strategy.
"However, the strength of our Baikal Front is seriously insufficient, and so far, even if all the reservists are gathered, I am afraid that we will not be able to raise 200,000 troops, and the weapons and ammunition are not enough to support the fight to the capital of the Chinese Empire? Moreover, the commander of the Front, Grand Duke Nicholas, has not yet arrived in the Baikal region, and preparations for this have not yet begun? ”
When Nicholas II spoke, he clearly felt the reason why Witte insisted on waging war against the Chinese Empire after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and that if it were not for the transportation of this railway, the heavy weapons and ammunition from the industrially developed areas of Oros would have been transported to the Far East.
Alexei gritted his teeth and said: "Your Highness, since we have decided to start a war at the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, then we must make up our minds to use all resources to fight the war well, and if there is not enough weapons and ammunition, we will immediately collect all the horses and camel vehicles in Siberia to transport them, and if the troops are not enough, we will immediately mobilize them." Therefore, I suggest that the Siberian Front not launch an offensive against Xinjiang and Tangnu Ulianghai of the Chinese Empire for the time being, but concentrate resources to support the Baikal Front in launching a fierce assault on the capital of the Chinese Empire! As long as the capital of the Chinese Empire is captured, remote and desolate places such as Xinjiang and Tangnu Ulianghai will sooner or later belong to the Great Oros Empire! Grand Duke Nicholas, commander of the Baikal Front, is going to Baikal today, and the train is too slow, so he will take an airship like the Chinese Empire. ”
After hearing this, Nicholas II suddenly became bright: "Very good, this is the best strategic plan I have ever seen in the War Department!" It's decided, and it's up to you to take command and mobilize all the resources of the entire Oros Empire to carry out this strategic operation! You say, what more could you ask for? ”
"Your Highness, I have one more request, that is, this strategic plan must not be mentioned on all telegraph lines, and the telegrams sent to all the armies are only asking them to complete their tactical tasks, and not to mention this plan for half a word, just to teach this plan in person before the departure of Grand Duke Nicholas!"
The man who could become the Minister of War of the Great Gors Empire, although he took the words of the tsar and the crown prince as a creed everywhere, was certainly not a fool, and in the telegram exchange between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Empire, Alexei smelled a hint of something wrong in it.
It's just that Alexei didn't expect that Hu Zhen, a traverser, already had the ability to decipher the world's telegraph codes, and thought that it was the troublemakers of the powerful countries of England, Germany, and France, which led to the Chinese Empire mastering a certain ability to decipher telegrams.
Nicholas II, who had traveled the world and was well-informed and knowledgeable, immediately noticed the problem as soon as the Minister of War said: "You mean that there may be a problem with our telegraph lines?" ”
"Your Highness, yes, according to top-secret intelligence rumors, the English and the Chinese Empire cooperated to develop something about wireless telegraphy, and my country's professor of physics at the Kronstadt Institute of Marine Engineering in St. Petersburg has started research on wireless telegraphy, and he has confirmed the existence of wireless telegraphy, since this rumor may be true, then, our telegram may also be deciphered by others, so it is better for us to keep this plan in our hearts."
"Okay, it's up to you to arrange everything about strategic action!"
Nicholas II was shocked, he did not expect that this technological progress would bring about such a change, the military minister's eyes became different, and he couldn't help but ask a question that had little to do with the army: "Then how can our navy cooperate with this operation?" ”
When Alexei heard this, he secretly complained in his heart, he knew that this kind of royal meal was not the more managed, the better, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked, and had to answer: "Your Highness, our fleet in the Far East Pacific has only six battleships, not the opponent of the nine battleships of the Chinese Empire, and we need immediate reinforcements to face the challenge, we must first order the Pacific Fleet not to leave the port of Vladivostok casually, and wait for reinforcements." However, our reinforcement fleet, battleships must not be less than twelve, if less than this number, according to the historical records of the Chinese fleet and the Spanish fleet, it is not necessarily the opponent of the Chinese fleet. ”
Nicholas II lowered his head and thought for a moment, and felt that he had a point, so he said: "Transfer all our Baltic Fleet and Black Sea Fleet to form the Second Pacific Fleet and immediately reinforce the Far East!" Didn't the English want us to fight to the end with the Chinese Empire? Then they will open the channel of the Suez Canal in the Black Sea to our reinforcement fleet, pass through the Suez Canal, and rush to the Far East to fight the fleet of the Chinese Empire! ”
The newly appointed Foreign Secretary Robertov, who had been standing by in a daze, finally got the opportunity to make a meritorious service, and he said: "After negotiations, the British Empire fully supports our war with the emerging Chinese Empire, and it is estimated that it will also agree to open the Suez Canal and the Black Sea to our fleet." ”
In the Russo-Japanese War in another time and space, due to the troubles of the British, although the Oros fleet was strong, its Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet could not pass through the Suez Canal and the Black Sea Route, among which the Baltic Fleet, which was organized as the Second Pacific Fleet, was forced to make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope, walked an extra distance of tens of thousands of nautical miles, delayed the time to reach the battlefield, and caused the supplies to be almost exhausted, unable to get effective supplies from the port, and the officers and men were exhausted, and they were defeated in the Battle of Tsushima to the combined fleet of the Japanese countries, which had fewer warships than the Oros fleet.
"Your Highness, if you have diplomatic support from England, France, Germany and other countries, before the fleet arrives in the Far East this time, you can ask the British and French German Far East Fleet to hold joint military exercises in the South China Sea, which will put tremendous pressure on the Huaxia Fleet, at least attract part of its main force to go south to protect the Nanyang industrial base, and reduce the pressure on China's Vladivostok base and the Pacific Fleet."
Before Nicholas II could speak, Foreign Minister Robertov, who was in a hurry to perform, hurriedly said: "This is no problem, it is estimated that the whole of Europe will unite against this yellow non-Christian Chinese Empire......"
Nicholas II nodded, but he didn't speak, these unreliable remarks that the whole of Europe united to deal with **** originated from the Germans, but he didn't have a good impression of this German cousin emperor.
But Robertov's next sentence stirred his mind: "...... Diplomatically, we can also unite with one country, that is, the Wa State, which is about to be forced to collapse by the Chinese Empire, and let the Wa State mobilize its forces on the Goryeo Peninsula and cooperate with our army to besiege the Huaxia Army......"
Alexei also greatly appreciated this: "The Japanese will definitely join us, as long as we give these poor Japanese some infantry weapons, they will definitely do their best, I estimate, at least we can mobilize millions of yellow-skinned monkeys on the Goryeo Peninsula and the army of yellow-skinned monkeys of the Chinese Empire to fight!" ”
"That's right, what a brilliant idea to have millions of yellow-skinned monkeys fight more yellow-skinned monkeys!"
Some of the ministers who participated in the meeting couldn't help but admire.
"Your Highness, we only need a very small commitment to the Wa State, such as guaranteeing the independent national status of the Wa State, and even Goryeo can't give it to the Wa State, and the Wa people will be desperate to get rid of the Chinese Empire!"
When Nicholas II was traveling around the world, he was assassinated in the Wa Kingdom, and he had always had no good feelings for the Wa Kingdom, saying: "As for the Wa Kingdom, we can only agree that it will be free from the control of the Chinese Empire, and the Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Ocean of the Goryeo Peninsula will be in the hands of the Oros Empire." ”
This means that even if the Wa Kingdom dies hundreds of thousands or millions, it will get very few things, but is there any way for the Wa Kingdom to go?
The Japanese people will definitely do their best to seize this opportunity!
(To be continued.)
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