The formation of the Dragoon Regiment in the Chinese Empire quickly caused a new round of tension and worry among the great powers of the world.

Especially in the Tsarist Empire, the newly succeeded Tsar Alexander III immediately summoned the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to St. Petersburg to inquire about the intentions of the Chinese Empire to form a dragoon regiment and expressed concern about this matter.

In this regard, the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Russia explained: "This is just a normal military reform experiment of the Chinese Empire, and it is not aimed at other countries. China and Russia are friendly, don't worry. ”

At the same time, the ambassadors, consuls, and commissioners of the Imperial Chinese Empire in Europe and the United States also explained in this way.

However, the Chinese Empire is so powerful that its military strength is the largest in the world, and no matter whether it is aimed at a certain country or a certain military bloc, no matter how large the scale of military reform, even if it is just a military movement, it will affect the nerves of all countries in the world.

This time, the dragoon regiment formed by the Chinese Empire in one go, with a scale of 12 towns and a total strength of 180,000 troops, is equivalent to the entire standing force of a second-rate military power in Europe.

I don't know what the Chinese Empire wants to do, and the representatives and military attaches of various countries in China are constantly asking questions.

As a result, the Chinese Empire had no choice but to appease these frightened friends of various countries and hold a special press conference to disclose the military purpose of the dragoon regiment.

"The Chinese Empire is a vast territory, stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Antarctica in the south, to Alaska in the east, and to the Caspian Sea in the west, with a total area of more than 26 million square kilometers. With such a vast territory, ordinary people can't walk for a lifetime, and it takes 8 months to ride a horse and boat from north to south and east to west at the earliest. Once the war breaks out, by the time the troops of our Chinese Empire arrive, the enemy will have already run away, or be ready for defense. Therefore, His Majesty the Great Guanghua the Great of the Chinese Empire made the most wise decision in history, establishing the Dragoon Regiment of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army, using semi-mechanized equipment, from south to north and from east to west, and it only took three months to complete the deployment. The military purpose of the Dragoon Regiment was only to react quickly and prevent a sudden and large-scale invasion of the Chinese Empire by the enemy, and it was not aimed at the surrounding other countries. ”

The explanation of the Chinese Empire only appeased some countries that did not understand semi-mechanized equipment, as well as some countries that lacked military strategic foresight, and for Britain, France, Russia, Germany and other military powers that were good at marching and fighting, the explanation of the Chinese Empire must be a cover-up.

The German Empire, as an ally of the Chinese Empire, naturally did not say much, they would only secretly imitate the dragoon regiment of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army to build the German Empire's own mobile troops.

The Tsarist Empire, as a neighbor of the Chinese Empire, felt a great military threat.

It has been an open secret throughout the world since 1865, when the Russian Empire lost the Far Eastern Primorsky States, the entire Tsarist Empire has been actively preparing for revenge.

Since the core area of the Tsarist Russian Empire was in Europe, after the Chinese Empire sent troops to recover Heilongjiang, Sakhalin Island and other places occupied by Tsarist Russia, it swallowed the entire Far Eastern coastal area around the Tatar Sea (Sea of Okhotsk) in one go, extending the Chinese Empire mainland all the way to the Bering Strait in the Arctic Circle, and connecting Alaska purchased by the Chinese Empire.

At that time, Li Weiguo's strategic goal was very clear, that is, to completely cut off the illusion of the Tsarist Empire's Far East Pacific outlet to the sea, and not allow the Tsarist Russian Empire to have an outlet to the sea in the Far East Pacific region and threaten the Chinese Empire from the sea.

Although the Tsarist Empire was very angry at that time, due to the vast and sparsely populated Siberian region, the Tsarist army transferred troops from Europe to the Far East was too long, the supply was difficult, and there was no foothold in the Far East to the sea, and it was impossible to carry out sea transportation, so the Tsarist Empire could only temporarily endure and began to build the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The strategy of the Russian Empire was that once the Trans-Siberian Railway was built, it would be the time of war with the Chinese Empire. It is a pity that a Trans-Siberian railway was built for more than ten years.

Originally, the historical Tsarist Empire could build a railway along the southern shore of Lake Baikal to Vladivostok, but now that the Chinese Empire has seized Lake Baikal, the Russian Empire can only build a railway along the northern shore of Lake Baikal to Yakutsk.

You must know that Lake Baikal is the source of cold currents in the northern hemisphere, and the railways of the Tsarist Empire are often destroyed by the Baikal cold currents, which seriously delays the completion date of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

It took more than ten years for the Tsarist Empire to reluctantly build the Trans-Siberian Railway to Yakutsk in the Far East

However, the Chinese Empire used these ten years to rapidly develop industry, boost the economy, and its military strength skyrocketed, and completely seized the world hegemony after the Sixth Sino-British War.

Now, although a Trans-Siberian Railway of the Tsarist Empire has been completed, it has also deprived the Tsarist Empire of the best opportunity to recover the Far East, and now it is necessary to go to war with the powerful Chinese Empire, whether it is economic, industrial strength, or military ability, the Tsarist Russian Empire is far inferior to the Chinese Empire, and Tsar Alexander III asked himself if he did not have the courage to start a war.

However, the fact that the tsar did not have the courage to go to war against China did not mean that he was not guarding against the Chinese Empire.

Seeing that the railway construction speed of the Chinese Empire has increased by an average of 10,000 kilometers per year, the total length of railways in the Chinese Empire has now exceeded 200,000 kilometers.

The Chinese Empire built the Western Xinjiang Railway from the Central Plains to the Caspian Sea coast, the Northern Xinjiang Railway to Lake Baikal, and the World Railway to the Bering Strait in the Far East.

If we add the Dragoon Regiment recently established by the Chinese Empire, all automobiles, motorized infantry, chariot infantry, cavalry, etc., the mobility ability will be beyond imagination, and the pressure on the border defense of the Tsarist Empire will be unprecedented.

Therefore, the formation of the dragoon regiment against the Chinese Empire caused tension throughout the Tsarist Russian Empire.

At the same time, there are also tensions in the British, American, and Japanese Triple Alliance.

The British Empire's colonies in Asia now are only India, and the last Sino-British war lost the entire Himalayan defense zone, which is not fortified within 200 miles to the south. Now that the Chinese Empire has built the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, it has solved the problem of logistical supply difficulties.

At this moment, India is a key colony of the British Empire to maintain the raw material production area and consumer market, and the Chinese Empire must not be allowed to take it away or destroy it.

During the last Sino-British War, the Indian colonies were almost overthrown by the Chinese Empire, and in the end, if it were not for the British Empire's tricks, booby-trapping the Indian king and destroying the last spiritual pillar of the Indian rebels, I am afraid that the whole of India would be out of the control of the British Empire.

Britain and Russia both felt a great land threat from the Chinese Empire, so they had to choose to join forces.

At the beginning, Li Weiguo carried out the mechanization reform and came up with the dragoon regiment, just to verify the concept of mechanized infantry divisions, and at the same time to verify whether the theory of blitzkrieg could be implemented without tanks.

But he never imagined that this move would push the Tsarist Empire into the arms of Britain.

If the Tsarist Russian Empire had chosen to be neutral in the face of the Chinese Empire and the British, American, and Japanese blocs, then after the appearance of the Dragoon Regiment of the Chinese Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire completely turned to the British Empire and sought an alliance with Britain and the United States.

Because the Tsarist Russian Empire found itself too lonely, with the powerful Chinese Empire to the east and the equally powerful German-Austrian alliance to the west, it was not pleasant to be caught in the middle.

The intelligence organ of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D., immediately monitored the telephone and telegram exchanges between the Russian Empire, the British Empire, and the Confederate States of America, and immediately reported them to Li Weiguo for information.

After Li Weiguo learned the whole story and the reason, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

I can't imagine that history has changed so much, and I'm afraid that the Entente will be born ahead of schedule!

The historical Entente was formed in 1907, formerly known as the Anglo-French Entente and the Anglo-Russian Entente, both to fight against the German-Austrian alliance, and finally Britain, France and Russia established the Entente military bloc based on the common enemy, the German-Austrian alliance.

But now the rise of the Chinese Empire has made a great change in the situation in Asia, and the Chinese Empire is no longer a weak country that is bullied and enslaved, but has become the strongest empire in the world in one fell swoop, the hegemon of the Eastern world, and is infiltrating the Western world, ready to completely subvert the Western world and become the sole hegemon of the entire earth.

This is the key reason why history has changed dramatically.

Historically, Britain and Russia competed for interests in the land of the Qing Empire, and Britain even supported Japan to resist the military penetration of the Tsarist Russian Empire into East Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, and even the South Asian subcontinent, so the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and the driving force behind it was the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire.

Because of the long antagonism between Britain and Russia, it was not until 1907 that the two countries formed a military alliance to deal with their common enemy, the German-Austrian alliance.

But now that the Chinese Empire has driven both the British Empire and the Tsarist Empire out of East Asia and the Pacific, there will be no more long-term Anglo-Russian military hostility.

At the same time, the British Empire pursued a policy of glorious isolation, because the British Empire was the hegemon, so it disdained to form an alliance with the French and Tsarist Russian Empires, and it was not until the German Empire shook the British Empire's maritime world hegemony that the British Empire allied with France and Russia.

And now the British Empire's world maritime hegemony has been completely shaken by the Chinese Empire, so the British Empire can no longer pursue a glorious isolation policy, so there is the British, American, and Japanese Triple Alliance ten years ago, which shows that the British Empire is so weak that it has to form a gang to deal with the Chinese Empire.

These factors eventually led to the early emergence of the Entente group.

Britain and Russia are about to form an alliance, which means that Britain, France and Russia will be aligned in the future, while the United States and the Japanese Empire, which did not join the Entente until after the outbreak of World War I, have allied with the British Empire in advance.

As a result, Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and Russia are about to form an alliance, and the most powerful Entente in history will be born ahead of schedule.

The initiator of all this, Li Weiguo, was only surprised, but not afraid.

"Your Majesty, please decree that the Anglo-Russian alliance must be prevented. Because once Britain and Russia formed an alliance, soon based on the Anglo-French alliance and the Anglo-American-Japanese Triple Alliance, the five countries finally formed a unanimous alliance, which was a great threat to the empire. ”

Foreign Minister Zhang Peilun said with a heavy expression that he wants to immediately use diplomatic means to put pressure on Britain and Russia to prevent Britain and Russia from forming an alliance, but only if he is fully authorized by Li Weiguo, because there is a possibility of an exchange of interests, otherwise it will be difficult to stop the Anglo-Russian alliance.

"This matter, you just need to do your best to stop it!"

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, and did not make hard and fast rules.

With or without the Chinese Empire, Britain and Russia would form an alliance, and this was the only event in all the changed history that maintained a strong inertia.

The German Empire, which only really rose ten years later in history, is now rising strongly in Europe ahead of schedule with the help of the Chinese Empire.

Under the influence of the butterfly effect, it is natural that Britain and Russia formed an alliance in advance, and the Entente appeared in advance.

Even, the outbreak of the First World War ahead of schedule is not impossible!

And the initiator of all this, Li Weiguo seems to be looking forward to it, he knows that only by letting the entire Western world fight, can the power of the entire Western world be weakened to the greatest extent, and only by completely sweeping away the Western powers can the Chinese Empire finally dominate the world.

Of course, war is risky, and if one is not careful, he will suffer a crushing defeat in the Battle of Chibi like Cao Cao.

However, Li Weiguo was not afraid, and he believed that his foresight and the wisdom and bravery of the people of the Chinese Empire would definitely be able to realize the great ambition of the rise of the Chinese Empire.

It's just that for historical aborigines like Zhang Peilun, they don't have that farsightedness.

Their self-confidence all comes from their fanatical belief in Li Weiguo, and as long as Li Weiguo does not fall, they firmly believe that victory belongs to their side.

"If necessary, the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. will ask for instructions to assassinate the British and Russian negotiators to prevent the two sides from forming an alliance, please make it clear to Your Majesty!"

Cheng Kun suddenly asked, he had the same mind as Zhang Peilun, he had to know where Li Weiguo's bottom line was on this matter, and then he could arrange actions and cooperate with diplomats to put pressure on Britain and Russia.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "There's no need to do that!" If the matter is exposed, it will strengthen the determination of Tsarist Russia and the British to form an alliance! Just let it be, even if Britain and Russia form an alliance, it is impossible to immediately target our Empire, but the German Empire. I believe the Russians know this very well, and you just need to warn the Russians. ”

The Tsarist Russian Empire is now out of a strategic defensive posture, fearing that the Chinese Empire will invade Tsarist Russia militarily, so it has thrown itself into the arms of the British Empire. But the current tsar is the calm and shrewd Alexander III, not the irascible and brainless Nicholas II, as long as the Chinese Empire does not take the initiative to invade the Tsarist Empire, then the Tsarist Empire will not join the Anglo-American-Japanese alliance.

In the same way, Tsarist Russia signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and formed an alliance with France, only to defend against German military invasion. If Germany does not attack the Tsarist Empire, then the Russo-French alliance is also a piece of waste paper.

The same idea applied to Germany, where Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck had the same vision as Tsar Alexander III, which led to the signing of an insurance treaty to avoid war.

As for why the First World War began, it was mainly because the successor of the German Empire, Wilhelm II, and the successor of Tsarist Russia, Nicholas II, were two political idiots with irascible personalities, twisted hearts, and desperate for face, who refused to sign the German-Russian reinsurance treaty, which led to complete hostility between the two countries.

Now William I and Alexander III are still in power, so there is no need to worry at all.

This was Li Weiguo's self-confidence, but the civil and military ministers of the Chinese Empire were nervous for a while. They are not afraid of an alliance between Britain and Russia, let alone a war that will break out in the future, they are really worried about money.

Because once a big war breaks out, the money is worthless, tens of millions of yuan, and the wealth created by the people of the empire will be lost by the army in minutes.

Seeing that Li Weiguo didn't care, the civil and military officials were quickly relieved, this is absolute trust, the emperor of any dynasty cannot reach the level of making the courtiers trust the monarch so much, Li Weiguo is enough to be as famous as Emperor Qin and Han Wu in this regard.

Next, the officials of the various ministries of the Chinese Empire should do what they should do, and they will not be alarmed by the Anglo-Russian alliance negotiations.

Only with strong strength and not afraid of the Anglo-Russian alliance will he be so calm.

Of course, the Chinese Empire still has to prove its strength.

Subsequently, the Imperial Court of China sent separate notes to the British and Russian ambassadors to China, expressing solemn protest against the Anglo-Russian alliance against the Chinese Empire, and demanding that the two countries refrain from making a cooperation agreement against the Chinese Empire.

The ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Tsarist Russia and the ambassador to Great Britain also lodged the same protest against the Russian Empire and the British Empire, respectively.

Questioned and concerned by the Chinese Empire, both the Tsarist Empire and the British Empire were very careful to deny it, saying that the Anglo-Russian alliance was not directed against a third country.

Due to the political and military pressure of the Chinese Empire, although the Russian Empire and the British Empire finally signed a military alliance, Tsar Alexander III was still very shrewd, and in the face of Britain's agitation for Tsarist Russia to join the military alliance of Britain, the United States and Japan, the Russian Empire refused, but said that if necessary, it could consider joining.

This is a compromise tactic, which is the best outcome for the Tsarist Empire at present, otherwise it will not be beneficial for Tsarist Russia to get involved in the military confrontation between Britain, the United States and Japan against China.

It was precisely because of this ambiguous attitude of the Tsarist Empire that the Anglo-American-Japanese alliance of the Anglo-American and American alliance against the Tsarist Empire temporarily failed.

However, since Britain and Russia are already allies, sooner or later Tsarist Russia will be drawn into the Anglo-American-Japanese alliance.

Therefore, Britain, the United States and Japan also spared no effort, as well as the French Empire, the arrogant Napoleon III said that he disdained it, but he was still very afraid in his heart, and the Anglo-French alliance would sooner or later become a five-nation alliance between Britain, the United States, Japan, Russia, and France.

At the same time, the German Empire also sent commissioners to negotiate with the Chinese Imperial Government to discuss countermeasures against the Anglo-Russian alliance.

The reply of the Chinese Empire was that an alliance between the great powers could avoid war, because both sides knew that if a war broke out, it would be reckless, so it would generally refrain from it, and it would not be easy for war to break out.

In fact, the Chinese Empire still has a sentence to say, that is, it is not easy to break out in the short term, but contradictions are constantly brewing, and once war breaks out in the future, it will be a catastrophe for mankind! (To be continued.) )