The foothills of the Himalayas, the dividing line between East Asia, the South Seas and Central Asia, the high mountains on the roof of the world, Mount Everest with an altitude of 8,848 meters, stand on the top of the world. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Today, it is all part of the territory of the Chinese Empire.

At the southern foot of the Himalayas was a British Indian colony. Although Li Weiguo repeatedly tried to support the independence of Indians, but unfortunately all failed, the British Empire, which was declining day by day, and still had a trace of national fortune, actually held the Indian colonies to the death, so that several Indian leaders supported by Li Weiguo collapsed.

Since the end of the Sixth Sino-British War, the defeated British Empire had to cede the entire Himalayas to the Chinese Empire, and even turned it into a demilitarized zone within 200 kilometers from the Indian side of the Himalayas, and banned the garrison of troops.

As the Chinese Empire pressured the British Empire on the Kuwait issue, the Kuwaiti War seemed to be on the verge of breaking out, and Prime Minister Rus, as the supreme ruler of the British Empire, was anxious every day to think of a solution.

As the hawkish leader of the British Empire, Ross knew that he could not make concessions, and that the withdrawal of troops from Kuwait would definitely not work, which would disappoint the British Empire citizens and chill the people who supported him. But if the troops are not withdrawn from Kuwait, in the face of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army, it is possible to attack Kuwait and detonate the Sino-British war, or even a world war, with unimaginable consequences, at least at this stage, Rus does not want to go to war, because the British Empire is not ready.

Soon, a man appeared.

His name was Chamberlain, who was transferred back from the British Cape Town colony and became an important member of the Ross cabinet, to whom he brought the Ross a solution.

Chamberlain's return to London and joining the Cabinet of Downing Street Ross was largely due to his heroic performance and superior command in the Battle of Cape Town, which kept Cape Town while defeating the frantic offensive of the Boer army.

In today's Boer battlefield, hundreds of thousands of British troops landed from the Cape Town stronghold, counterattacked the Boer army, and defeated the Boer army one after another.

Therefore, out of political goals, Ross needed to establish the status and confidence of the British Imperial military in the hearts of the people, so he transferred Chamberlain back to London to publicly commend Chamberlain's merits, so as to boost the morale of the people of the British Empire, which was sluggish.

During a few days of contact with Chamberlain, Ross discovered the excitement of the New World, and he saw that Chamberlain had a very high strategic vision, so he kept Chamberlain by his side and became a member of the Prime Minister's advisory group.

Chamberlain did not live up to Ross's expectations, and soon gave Ross an idea to solve the Kuwait problem, that is, to attack the West.

The Chinese Empire was aggressive in Kuwait, and Ross had no intention of going to war with the Chinese Empire, so Chamberlain suggested that Ross stir up trouble on the border between India and the Chinese Empire to divert the attention of the Chinese Empire.

This is a common political trick, just like the East China Sea and the South China Sea issue in the 21st century, when the East China Sea issue is serious, it will stir up trouble in the South China Sea, divert the attention of both the enemy and us, and cool down the East China Sea. The reverse is also true, when the South China Sea issue is serious, it stirs up trouble in the East China Sea to divert public attention.

Today, Chamberlain's advice to Ross is this kind of political trick.

At the instigation of Chamberlain, Ross ordered the British Viceroyalty of India to station troops in the demilitarized zone at the southern foot of the Himalayas on the Sino-Indian border.

When the British army and the British Indian Corps entered the demilitarized zone, it immediately aroused strong protests from the Chinese Empire, and ordered the British and Indian troops to withdraw from the demilitarized zone immediately, otherwise it would be regarded as a war provocation against the Chinese Empire.

In the face of the movements of the British Imperial Army, although the Chinese Empire strongly protested and even threatened war, it was thunder and rain.

Li Weiguo met an opponent, but Chamberlain's strategy made things tricky because he was armed.

If it weren't for Li Weiguo's ulterior dedication to the First Sino-Japanese War, he might have chosen to attack the British Empire first, and Kuwait was a very good excuse.

However, if the British Empire is taken first, then Japan will inevitably be on guard, which is not the result that Li Weiguo wants to see, because he hopes to directly kill the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, just like the Japanese Combined Fleet sneak attack on the Beiyang Naval Division in history, Li Weiguo is like using the method of returning the other way to deal with Japan.

This is a willfulness of Li Weiguo, and he swears that this is the only willfulness, and he will not do it again in the future, and will choose enemies according to the needs of the country.

Because Li Weiguo did not give up attacking Japan first, the Chinese Imperial Army could not attack the British Empire first, so in the face of the British Empire's troops entering the demilitarized zone, the Chinese Empire only protested, but did not take military action.

In this way, in the face of international public opinion, it was undoubtedly a diplomatic victory for the British Empire.

Ross immediately negotiated with the Chinese Empire over the Indian Demilitarized Zone, hoping to exchange the Kuwaiti affair.

However, this did not affect the overall strategy of the Chinese Empire, which continued to negotiate with the British Empire, both sides were nervous and restrained, neither fired the first shot, but only bargained at the negotiating table.

Li Weiguo's original intention was to stall for time, so strategically, as long as both the British Empire and the Entente continued to focus on the Kuwait issue and the Indian demilitarized zone issue, then it would have no effect.

As for the British Empire, Ross was very happy at the moment, he thought that the Chinese Empire was just thundering and raining, and he was not willing to go to war.

Ross thought that he had won the Sino-British game, because he had successfully killed the prestige of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire was so frightened that he did not dare to make a move, so he was majestic.

China and Britain are fighting each other, attracting the world's attention.

In August of 1894, Li Weiguo's schedule became more and more compact, basically related to the military.

On this day, Li Weiguo came to the snowy plateau to inspect the combat readiness of the western theater.

Before the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and even for a considerable period of time, the Western Theater will be in the stage of strategic defense, and the overall defense will be the mainstay.

On the surface, the Chinese Imperial Army's strategic defense in the west was concentrating its forces for the Eastern War and a decisive battle with Japan and the United States, and Li Weiguo had no intention of attacking the west until he defeated Japan and the United States.

In fact, this is a deliberate attempt to make the European theater of war a little more intense. If the Chinese Imperial Army is strategically defended on the Western Front, then the Tsarist Russian Empire and the British Empire will devote heavy troops and more energy to the European theater of war, fighting with Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy to weaken the strength of the whole of Europe.

Li Weiguo personally ascended the Shimla Pass, which was the main transportation route from the Chinese Empire to India, and from the mountains on both sides of the pass, he could directly look out over the Indian plain to the south and New Delhi, the capital of India.

Although over the years, the Chinese Empire has built railways to the bottom of the Himalayas, and roads have also been built to passes, where military supplies and supplies can be transported directly to the pass barracks.

However, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army still thought that it was more reasonable to build a permanent fortress fortification. 、

Due to the permafrost here, it was not completed during the Sixth Sino-British War, and it was not completed until recently, and fortress artillery of various calibers was installed, and there were permanent fortifications of heavy machine gun pillboxes at the commanding heights.

Except for the pass, radium was buried on other slopes to prevent a sneak attack by British and Indian troops.

After there are permanent fortifications, a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies can be stored here, and it is usually enough to replenish them once every six months.

"Your Majesty, let's go down the mountain for dinner!"

Liu Zhe, commander of the Western Theater who accompanied him, made a speech to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Today I will have a meal with the soldiers here, and I will live in the barracks dormitory at night!" ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Liu Zhe hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, the food here is not suitable for Your Majesty's body, and it may hurt Your Majesty's dragon body." And the temperature here at night is too low, dozens of degrees below zero, too dangerous. ”

Li Weiguo suddenly frowned and asked, "Then how did the soldiers here do it?" I am also from a military background, so I am not afraid of this hardship! ”

Liu Zhe then explained, and Li Weiguo realized that the defenders here could not be stationed for a long time, and they had to be rotated every other month to ensure that the health of the soldiers was not affected.

Although the defenders here can also eat rice, white flour, vegetables and meat, but unfortunately the altitude here is too high, and the cooking pressure is not enough to cook it, and it is generally half-cooked meals, and eating for a month is already the limit, especially to deliver food to the sentinels in the distance, and the food will be cold halfway through.

Only the most elite warriors in the Chinese Empire's Shence Army could hold on, and then they had to be quickly rotated, allowing the defenders to go down the mountain to recuperate for a while and then come back to rotate again.

"I see!"

Li Weiguo quickly understood that there was a pressure cooker in later generations to solve the problem, but in this life, although the pressure cooker was invented, it was not popular, because the cost of material technology is very high, and the most critical of which is aluminum.

Fortunately, the Chinese Empire has secretly begun large-scale industrial detoxification of aluminum, and the cost has been greatly reduced, and the cost of producing pressure cookers will be greatly reduced. At the same time, the number of troops stationed on the snowy plateau is not very large, and it is worth it even to spend a lot of money on the production of some pressure cookers, and there are no problems at all on the financial side.

However, Li Weiguo thought of another way.

"Go get some quicklime and water!"

Li Weiguo's method is very simple, it is the popular self-heating lunch principle in later generations, using quicklime and water, which instantly generates a large amount of heat, which is enough to cook the meal.

And quicklime and water, for the great industrial power of the Chinese Empire, were abundant resources, and can even be described as simply insignificant.

Seeing that Li Weiguo cooked the meal after mixing quicklime and water, Liu Zhe and the others were immediately surprised. Especially the soldiers of the guards of the pass who were on duty around them, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they knew very well that if they had that thing, they would be able to easily eat hot meals in the future.

As long as there are hot meals, then the physical fitness of the fighters will be guaranteed, and it will not affect the combat effectiveness.

"Your Majesty, you are really a god!"

"The principle is very simple, that is, when quicklime and water react chemically, it releases a lot of heat, but it is enough to cook food."

"And the cost of this material is low, and the logistics can be fully supplied!"

Li Weiguo paused, and suddenly thought of another kind of food - instant noodles.

If you have instant noodles, plus seasoning packets, and add self-heating quicklime and water, then you can quickly replenish the strength of the soldiers.

Of course, the instant noodles of later generations were not nutritious, but it was impossible for Li Weiguo to ignore the nutritional problem of the instant noodles provided to the army, and the seasoning packets, meat packets, and vegetable packets must be guaranteed to be large and sufficient, and only in this way can the soldiers' physical strength and health not be affected.

Coupled with canned food, it is enough to ensure the nutrition and health of the officers and men.

Therefore, Li Weiguo ended his inspection, returned to the mountain, and called the person in charge of the logistics department of the Western Theater to give a face-to-face lecture.

Soon, the Chinese Imperial Army conveniently established an instant noodle factory to specialize in the production of military instant noodles. At the same time, a special plant has been set up for self-heating quicklime and water.

Soldiers' physical strength is limited, and it is necessary to take into account the problem of soldiers' individual weight, so the military has to conduct a series of tests, and then reasonably arrange the weight distribution ratio of quicklime and water, so that it can not only cook rice, but also minimize the weight of soldiers.

Instant noodles were invented in this way, but they are not widely known to the outside world, and they are currently only special munitions for the imperial Chinese military. If the hostile country is made aware of this method of fast food, it will greatly improve the enemy's battlefield survivability, so it needs to be kept secret.

Li Weiguo invented instant noodles and instant food methods, which made the officers and soldiers on the snowy plateau very grateful, and swore that they must guard the western gate of the Chinese Empire and repay Li Weiguo's grace with practical actions.

Back at the palace in the western capital of Yili, Li Weiguo received a new report that made him frown.

"Your Majesty, our intelligence shows that the Tsarist Empire has discovered a large oil field in the Baku area of the Caspian Sea, and if Tsarist Russia is allowed to exploit it successfully, it will not only meet Tsarist Russia's own oil consumption, but I am afraid that it will be sold to Britain, France and other Entente countries in wartime."

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "Baku is rich in oil reserves, which can not only meet the needs of Tsarist Russia itself, but also export to Britain and France and other Entente countries. ”

Li Weiguo came to the window, stood with his hands in his hands, and said, "Inform the Ministry of War to reformulate a battle plan for the Baku area!" ”

The discovery of the Baku oil region by the Russian Empire was also many years ahead of history, making future wars even more confusing.

But Li Weiguo is not afraid, even if history completely changes the trajectory and he loses the ability to foresee, he can rely on the foresight of the future people to resolve the problems one by one and make them develop in a direction favorable to the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )