Chapter 506: Panic in the Entente

The sudden outbreak of a world war has shocked the whole world. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Within half a month of the war, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was completely destroyed, and the two-ocean fleet of the United States Navy was completely destroyed.

Both the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy's Interoceanic Fleet were wiped out by the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

For a time, the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy shocked all countries in the world, and they felt quite frightened.

In particular, the members of the Entente bloc suddenly regretted that they had rashly declared war on the Chinese Empire.

I knew that the Chinese empire was so awesome, and it should not have been bewitched by the United States in the first place, and letting China and the United States fight to the death was the royal choice.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.

Britain, France, and Russia hurriedly sent messages of condolences to the White House through their respective embassies in the United States, in fact, to test Roosevelt's tone and want to know whether the United States could survive this catastrophe.

If the United States can't hold on, then Britain, France, and Russia will not dare to fight any longer, admit defeat early, pay reparations, and save the war from losing even worse in the end.

This is a game method, the lesser of two evils, and the governments of Britain, France and Russia are also frightened, otherwise this idea would not have appeared.

Roosevelt had aged a lot overnight, and since he learned the news yesterday, he has not even made a drop of money, and he has been discussing countermeasures with senior officials on both the military and political sides.

The destruction of the U.S. Navy's two-ocean fleet completely failed Roosevelt's dream plan. He originally thought that Dewey led the U.S. Navy to successfully attack Pearl Harbor and destroy the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy, so Roosevelt once thought that the era of American hegemony over the world had finally arrived.

However, the result was the opposite, and the U.S. Navy was in turn completely annihilated by the Imperial Chinese Navy.

This change from heaven to hell in an instant made the hearts of all Americans almost burst.

However, Roosevelt was not without a plan, and when he decided to attack Pearl Harbor, he thought that the failure of the attack would be retaliated against by the Chinese Empire. Although he did not expect to be completely annihilated so soon, it was not enough to make Roosevelt surrender on his knees.

According to the previous battle plan, the naval sneak attack was successful, and the US forces took advantage of the victory to occupy Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska, and then marched on the mainland of the Chinese Empire. If the sneak attack fails and the Chinese and American navies are tied, the US Navy will confront the Chinese Imperial Navy in the Pacific Ocean, and the military operation will only be fought on the American continent, seizing Alaska, recovering Rhode Island, Key West, seizing Cuba and other Caribbean territories, and then crossing Central America, marching into South America, destroying the Allied Brazilian Empire and the Federation of Colombia, and dominating the entire American continent.

However, now that the main force of the US Navy has been completely wiped out, Roosevelt has lost the control of the sea in the Pacific Ocean, and he cannot regain it at least in a short time, so he can only carry out strategic defense in the Pacific theater.

This was the worst plan of the US General Staff at the beginning, and it was unexpectedly fulfilled half a month after the start of the war.

When Britain, France, and Russia sent people to test the situation, Roosevelt pretended to be indifferent and made it clear to Britain, France, and Russia that the United States would fight to the end. Asked if the United States could hold off the offensive of the Chinese Empire, Roosevelt said there was no problem.

Britain, France, and Russia also hinted that they would surrender if they didn't work, and Roosevelt explicitly threatened that whoever surrendered would be the sworn enemy of the United States.

The ambassadors of Britain, France, and Russia were also taken aback, even if they offended the Chinese Empire and the entire Allied Powers, if they were offending the United States, they really couldn't turn over.

Now that the United States wants to continue fighting, Britain, France, and Russia can only bite the bullet.

However, the British, French, and Russian navies had given up on sending fleets to the Pacific to find the Chinese Empire, because they still had the powerful German navy in front of them, as well as the second-rate Austro-Hungarian navy, the Italian navy, and the Ottoman navy, and they had no time to separate.

At present, Britain, France, and Russia are all worried that the Imperial Chinese Navy will go out of the Pacific Ocean and go to Europe to cooperate with Germany in attacking the British, French, and Russian navies.

Of course, the United States is also afraid, after all, the main force of the US Navy is gone, and the remaining warships are all old-fashioned warships, although there are still a number of super-dreadnought battleships in the dock that are being built intensively, but far from quenching their thirst, if the Chinese Imperial Navy suddenly comes to the North Atlantic and destroys the major shipyards and industrial bases on the east coast of the United States, it will be miserable.

Fortunately, Roosevelt still has a follow-up move, that is, the Japanese Empire in East Asia, although the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy has also been eliminated, Japan has always been a nail, and the wolf dog guarding the door of the Chinese Empire can be used to contain the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, there is also a US Navy fleet in Japan, which is the Asian fleet, although it is very weak, but it is also a complete fleet, with battleships and battlecruisers, and if it can't be beaten, it can also be harassed and contained.

The most important thing is that with Japan here, the Chinese Empire should not be in a hurry to attack the American mainland, at least destroy Japan first.

Therefore, Roosevelt quickly communicated encrypted telegrams with Ito Hirobumi, providing Japan with large sums of military aid and supplies, asking Japan to contain the Chinese Empire and wait for the construction of new battleships of the US Navy to be completed.

Ito Hirobumi was also worried all day long, worried that the Chinese Empire would attack Japan in the next step, although he knew that Roosevelt was not at ease and let Japan be cannon fodder, but he had no choice, since he had already boarded the thief ship of the Entente, then he could only go all the way to the dark.

Japan is carrying out territorial defense, and without waiting for the retaliation of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the major industrial bases and shipyards along the coast of Japan have been withdrawn to the inland and Seto Inland Seas, especially the naval factories, and the Kure Naval Works in the Seto Inland Sea are in full swing, mainly producing submarines for strategic defense.

In fact, Ito's fears were completely unwarranted, at least for the time being, and the Chinese Empire had no immediate intention of attacking the Japanese mainland.

In Li Weiguo's view, Japan is already a toothless tiger without a navy, and there is no difference between cleaning up one day earlier and one day later.

What really worries Li Weiguo is the United States, with the powerful industrial strength of the United States, even if it loses the main fleet, it can recover within two years and pose a huge threat to the Chinese Empire again.

Therefore, Li Weiguo needs to make good use of these two years to destroy the shipyards and industrial bases on the east and west coasts of the United States and prevent the United States from rebuilding its navy.

At this moment, the Chinese Empire, whether it is the mainland or overseas territories, thousands of large and small shipyards are repairing warships for the Chinese Imperial Navy.

Large warships such as the Fury-class, Bingyang-class, and Thor class can only be repaired in large shipyards such as Jiangnan, Dalian, Dagukou, Mawei, and Huangpu in China, as well as Sydney in Australia and Pearl Harbor in Ezo Wai, and replace the main guns and other wear and tear parts. Ships of other tonnages were repaired at shipyards of the corresponding tonnage.

With the industrial strength of the Chinese Empire, the repair of hundreds of warships took less than a week, and all the repairs were completed, the main guns and auxiliary guns of each ship were replaced with brand new barrels, the hull was demagnetized, and the bottom and propeller were cleaned of rust and algae, and the maximum power was restored.

Soon, one after another, the battleships with gray livery sailed out of the dock one after another, and then assembled in Ezo Tail.

Lin Jiyun has returned to Wuhan, Great Kyoto, and the Pacific Fleet has been handed back into the hands of Li Weijun, who will lead the fleet to begin attacking and destroying important naval bases, important ports, and important naval factories on the east and west coasts of the United States.

Just as the Imperial Chinese Navy was secretly departing, the situation in the entire world theater was also tilting towards the Allied bloc.

Thanks to the strength of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese Navy and the US Navy were wiped out in just half a month, which greatly increased the confidence of the Allied member states, and the Allied soldiers fighting on the front line screamed as if they had been injected with hormones.

On the Western Front in Europe, the German offensive became more intense, although the French army dug deep trenches, distributed radium everywhere, built a large number of heavy machine gun pillboxes, and heavy artillery fire support, but it was still very difficult, the German army's crazy attack, although it paid a huge price for casualties, but the effect was still good, breaking through more than a dozen lines of defense of the French army on the Verdun line, approaching Paris, forcing the French Emperor Napoleon IV to order the relocation of the capital.

Although the German Army did not invade Paris, it forced the French Emperor to move the capital, which was also a huge result and achievement, although it was not as majestic as the Chinese Empire, but in the camp of the Central Powers, it was also a bit of face.

Of course, for Kaiser Wilhelm II, this was not enough, and he demanded that the German Empire's high seas fleet also defeat the British and French navies as soon as possible.

For this reason, the German Imperial High Seas Fleet had to look everywhere for the British Royal Navy to fight, and at one point entered the North Sea to look for traces of the British Royal Navy.

However, since the British learned that the Chinese Empire had completely annihilated the American and Japanese fleets in the Pacific, the Royal Navy of the British Empire was frightened and always avoided a decisive battle with the main fleet of the German High Seas Fleet.

The German Navy actually has no bottom in its heart, and the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet benefit from the technical help of the Chinese Empire in terms of performance, which is stronger than the warships of the same class in the Royal Navy of the British Empire, but they are much worse in number. The German Empire was founded late, the navy developed late, and the domestic lack of excellent seaports and shipbuilding bases, so it was far worse than the British Empire, an old maritime power that had been in the country for hundreds of years.

The scale of the British Imperial Navy's shipbuilding is aimed at the Chinese Imperial Navy, competing with the Chinese Imperial Navy, so almost Germany builds one capital ship, and the British Imperial Royal Navy will build two or three capital ships of the same class.

Therefore, although the British Royal Navy was inferior to the German warships in the quality of similar warships, it had a numerical advantage, and hundreds of years of coercion also made the German Navy fearful.

For these reasons, the German High Seas Fleet did not deliberately want to fight the British Royal Navy, and both sides had their own fears, so a decisive battle did not break out.

However, in the Mediterranean direction, the Italian Navy is fighting with the French Royal Navy.

This was by no means the result that the French Empire and the Kingdom of Italy wanted to see, because some French officials and some Italian officials secretly colluded and reached a secret agreement that the two sides would not go to war for the time being.

But this is not a situation that the Chinese Empire and the Allied Bloc are happy to see, Li Weiguo is the most vigilant about Italy, and has already caused the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. to operate secretly, deliberately creating friction on the border between France and Italy.

Finally, in the Mediterranean direction, a submarine belonging to the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Tigerfish, successfully provoked the wrath of the Imperial French Navy and the Imperial Italian Navy, causing a fierce battle between the two sides, thus provoking a war between France and Italy.

The operation of this matter is very dangerous and requires close cooperation between the Chinese Imperial Military and the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. to complete.

S.H.I.E.L.D. used special channels to bribe a French Navy captain and an Italian Navy captain and deliberately arranged their patrol routes, causing them to meet unexpectedly in the Mediterranean.

At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Navy sent a submarine from the Cyprus naval base to follow the Italian Navy in advance, and when the French Navy and the Italian Navy met, the Tigerfish submarine suddenly launched Fish Radium and sank a frigate of the French Navy.

At this time, the commander of the French naval fleet and the commander of the Italian naval fleet both understood in their hearts that they should avoid an exchange of fire as much as possible and break the secret agreement between France and Italy to declare no war, and both of them separately ordered their respective fleets to exercise restraint.

At this moment, the French captain and the Italian captain who were bribed by S.H.I.E.L.D. suddenly ordered to open fire, and those unwitting French and Italian naval officers and sailors quickly opened fire, which instantly caused the situation to get out of control and caused a fierce battle between the French Navy and the Italian Navy.

The sudden fierce fighting resulted in the loss of two dreadnought battleships, one armored cruiser and six frigates, and more than 1,000 casualties. The French Navy lost four armored cruisers and four frigates, and more than 300 people were killed and wounded.

Italy suffered heavy losses, and immediately hated the French Empire, so the officials of the two sides held a secret meeting and quarreled fiercely.

At the same time, S.H.I.E.L.D. provoked incidents on the border between France and Italy, causing a ground military conflict between France and Italy, and then a full-scale war.

In this way, Italy, the wall-headed, finally had to get involved in the world war and become a real part of the Central Powers.

As a result of the sudden entry of Italy into the war, a defensive hole appeared in the southwestern line of France.

Unfortunately, the Italian army's combat effectiveness was too weak, and a great opportunity was missed, giving the French a chance to mend the holes in the defenses.

In the end, the two sides stabilized on the Alpine front.

Although France blocked the attack of the Italian army, it was also pinned down a large number of troops, which caused the French army to be attacked on both fronts, and the French people were panicked for a while.

On the Eastern Front of the European Theater, the war mobilization of the Tsarist Empire completed the first stage, and about 1 million Russian troops were thrown into the war.

700,000 Russian troops marched to the East Prussian battlefield, and the pressure on the German army on the eastern front increased sharply, and it had to mobilize troops from the western front to block the Russian attack.

300,000 Russian troops went to the Silesian battlefield and fought with 1.2 million Austro-Hungarian troops, and there was no distinction between victory and defeat, and the combat effectiveness of the Austro-Hungarian army became a laughing stock all over the world for a while. (To be continued.) )