Hu Zhen motioned to Chen Zichao: "Can you tell everyone what the situation is?" ”

"We have obtained information from four sources, and after mutual corroboration, it has been confirmed that the Oros and the Japanese have organized a joint fleet, and the thirteen capital ships of the Oros, together with the four capital ships purchased by the Japanese in England, Italy, and France, are assembling in the Mediterranean Sea for adaptation training, and they can pass through the Strait of Malacca in about sixty days and enter our controlled sea area......"

Before Chen Zichao finished speaking, Liang Kunri, who had already finished the war in the Northeast Theater and was idle in the capital, couldn't help jumping up and said: "These two defeated generals are still looking for death, then we will satisfy them, what is there to be afraid of!" ”

Hu Zhen waved his hand and said: "Everyone said that your kid has calmed down, why are you still so frizzy, after listening to the intelligence report, you can talk about it!" ”

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Chen Zichao continued: "...... The combined fleet of Oros and the Japanese is not terrible, but behind them there is also an eight-nation combined fleet in Europe and North America, ten capital ships of England, four capital ships of Germany, six capital ships of France, one capital ship of Spain, two capital ships of Italy, one capital ship of Austria-Hungary, one capital ship of the Netherlands, and two capital ships of the United States, a total of twenty-seven capital ships, which are now assembled in the Mediterranean, and the goal is also to reach the waters controlled by China in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The number of capital ships of the combined fleet of ten countries is three times that of our country! ”

After Chen Zichao finished speaking, everyone gasped when they heard this amazing number of fleet warships, and the audience immediately fell silent.

Hu Zhen sensed everyone's nervousness and said, "Okay, that's the basic situation, let's talk about our opinions!" ”

Li Hongzhang is the prime minister of the empire, although he is not in charge of military work, but he is worried about this: "Then it is obvious that the spearhead of the eight-nation alliance in Europe and the United States is aimed at our Chinese Empire, such a powerful coalition force, can our navy withstand it?" ”

Zheng Dingbang, deputy chief of the general staff and commander of the main fleet, replied: "The strength of our navy is counted in the 15 capital ships captured from the Hubei army, the Thunderbolt and the Victory, which are still being renovated and repaired. ”

Everyone didn't hear Zheng Dingbang's sentence "If you rely on the main warship strength of our fleet alone", they only heard that they could not defeat the coalition fleet, and the scene was even more terrifyingly quiet.

If the navy is insufficient, then the overseas territory will be forced to give up, and the Chinese army will have to retreat to the mainland of China, and a great empire across the Pacific will be compressed into a corner of the East Asian continent, which the newly established Chinese empire cannot bear.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Li Hongzhang asked Su Wenzhen: "In such a grim situation, can the General Staff Headquarters in charge of the overall situation have a good strategy to defend against the enemy?" ”

Su Wenzhen replied softly: "Our navy and army have already begun to prepare for defense in the major ports in the South China Sea, and our army is ready to fight a decisive battle with any invading enemy in the South China Sea and block the enemy in the South China Sea......

Although Zhang Zhidong's position is only the Minister of Industry, many times, Hu Zhen will listen to his opinion, he listened to Su Wenzhen's words, and was taken aback: "Decisive battle with the enemy? Didn't Deputy Chief of Staff Zheng just say that the strength of our fleet is not enough to defeat the combined fleets of various countries? Does it make sense for our army to fight the enemy so easily? ”

The achievements of Nanyang's economic construction are full of the painstaking efforts of Liu Dingzhuang, deputy prime minister of the Chinese Empire, and the war with the coalition fleets of various countries will inevitably destroy the economic construction of Nanyang, he is very heartbroken, and he can't help but say when he hears Zhang Zhidong's words: "Yes, such a decisive battle, it is better to use the method of defending the ports to defend the major ports, although the coalition navy is strong, but it is not easy to transport land forces from Europe to land!" ”

Li Hongzhang pinched his gray beard and said: "From the old man's point of view, the Huaxia army fleet should temporarily avoid the edge and shrink its strength on the mainland of China. ”

"That little Japanese country never planned to let go of the Qing court, do you think that if you avoid the war and protect the ship, those ghosts in Europe will let us go......" Liang Kunri was very disdainful of Li Hongzhang's strategy in the First Sino-Japanese War, and now he doesn't forget to take it out and mock it.

Hu Zhen glared at Liang Kunri and told him to stop quickly.

Zheng Dingbang smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I just said that it was difficult for our fleet to win a decisive battle with the enemy, but I didn't say that the Huaxia Army was not capable of winning a decisive battle with the enemy!" ”

"Could it be that the Huaxia Army has any more powerful secret weapon to deal with the coalition fleet?" Zhang Zhidong immediately thought of the airships and airplanes that the Huaxia Army was alone in the world, and perhaps under the guidance of the emperor, he had come up with some new weapons that were even more awesome.

Su Wenzhen continued: "That's right, under the guidance of the emperor, we do have new weapons and tactics, but they have never been verified in actual combat in the world, and I don't know how effective they are, so we may have to use them this time!" ”

"Ahh The ......old man Li Hongzhang's brain was suddenly insufficient, and the Chinese army's unbelievable weapons such as airships and airplanes made this veteran from the era of cold weapons really insufficient in his brain.

Everyone turned their eyes to Emperor Hu Zhen, hoping to get an answer from him.

Hu Zhen said: "That's right, we have a lot of high-tech weapons that are ahead of the world and will be used at the right time, but these technologies are not very mature, and there may be certain risks, we can't blindly rely on these weapons to fight, we must be prepared for the worst and work hard in the best direction!"

As for the possibility of joint intervention by the European powers, I thought about it from the moment the Huaxia army landed on the Huaxia continent, and I had secretly arranged to prepare to deal with it, in fact, a few years before the Huaxia army landed on the Huaxia mainland, this preparation began, and many industrial enterprises investing in Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Shanghai were secretly arranged by me! ”

Hearing Hu Zhen say this, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong secretly screamed ashamed, when they were in a high position in the Qing court, why didn't they find out about the secret investment of the Nanyang Guild? But fortunately, I didn't find out, otherwise it would be bad to delay the major events of the Chinese Empire!

Hu Zhen said: "But to this day, this preparation is far from being completed, I have summoned everyone here today to do two things: first, militarily we must step up preparations for a decisive battle with the enemy, which is led by the General Staff; Second, in order to prevent unforeseen circumstances and speed up the transfer of key heavy industries from Nanyang to the mainland, Prime Minister Li Aiqing and Ministry of Industry Zhang Aiqing took the lead in organizing this matter to ensure that the Huaxia Army would have sufficient support from the arms industry for any time it would fight.

In short, no matter what, this hurdle of the European coalition fleet must be rushed through, so that the Chinese nation can stand tall among the nations of the world from now on! I don't want to see a situation where foreigners say that the Chinese nation is the sick man of East Asia! (To be continued.) )