The Ottoman army lost one battle after another, and the countries of the world were stunned. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Once a superpower straddling the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has now been reduced to being beaten by a coalition of several small countries the size of the Balkans, and the Entente group is even more laughable.

If the Allies were all military prowess like the Ottoman Empire, then the Entente could rest easy.

Regarding the incompetence of the Ottoman army, Li Weiguo immediately talked to the German Emperor Alexander on the phone, and reached an agreement on sending troops to the Balkan Peninsula, suppressing the Balkan Alliance, and resuming the operation of the world's railways as soon as possible.

China and Germany are going to jointly send troops to the Balkans, and although the Ottoman military is very faceless about this, it is already a fact that they have been defeated repeatedly. The safety of the world's railways is not only very important to China and Germany, but also to the Ottoman Empire, which is also a trade transit point, and a day of suspension will cause huge losses, so the Ottoman government quickly agreed to the request of China and Germany to jointly send troops.

In the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo convened an imperial meeting to discuss the countermeasures for sending troops.

"This time the outbreak of the Balkan War, there must be the Entente bloc behind the instigation, now the Entente has come out to support the Balkan Alliance, once Your Majesty decides to send troops, please be prepared for a full-scale war!"

"Although the Entente bloc has come out to support the Balkan Alliance, in terms of the overall military strength of the Entente, there is no possibility of a full-scale war with the Allies, because if we go to war now, we will certainly suffer losses, but the Entente bloc will suffer heavy losses."

"That's right! Under the premise that the Entente bloc does not have the ability to control the sea power, it will definitely not go to war with the Allies! Although this day will come sooner or later, it is not now! The empire is now sending troops, but the Entente countries can only watch with blank eyes, at most two words of protest, but they dare not directly send troops to war. ”

"This time for the Imperial Shence Army, it is also a combat test, after all, the Imperial Shence Army has not fought for many years, there are more grassroots recruits, although the training is hard, but without the baptism of blood and fire, it is difficult to become an elite, just take advantage of this Balkan War, to have a real combat training, in order to deal with the world war that will break out in the future."

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Everyone said a word, and in the end, the main battle side dispelled the worries of the other parties.

Li Weiguo finally agreed: "Since we want to let the recruits participate in actual combat, let's have a national military training!" We talk about mobile warfare every day, but so far we have not really conducted a nationwide troop transfer and training! In a future war, the scale and time of our troop projection will absolutely win or lose the war, so this time we might as well take turns to transfer troops from all major theaters across the country and take turns to go into battle, so as to win new recruits from all major theaters and give them a chance to fight in real combat. ”

This proposal made the military personnel's eyes brighten up one after another, and they applauded, while the civilian clique cried one after another.

However, seeing Li Weiguo's supportive attitude, the civil officials could only shake their heads.

"In addition, from this point of view, the Entente group has noticed the importance of the world railroad to the Allied bloc, whether it is economically, or militarily, the destruction of the world railway, the blow to the Central Powers is very huge, so we need to consider the outbreak of World War I, if we protect the smooth flow of the world railway, prevent the Entente bloc from sending troops to sabotage."

Seeing that Li Weiguo had advanced the safety of the world's railways, Liu Mingchuan, chief of operations staff of the General Staff, quickly went out of the ranks.

"Your Majesty, the General Staff has formulated a series of operational plans to prevent the Entente bloc from raiding the world railway!"

Li Weiguo glanced at Liu Mingchuan, and was wary and skeptical of this old subordinate of Li Hongzhang for a long time.

However, later, as the Chinese Empire continued to expand its territory, Liu Mingchuan, as a general, did not complain even if he was not welcomed, but repeatedly made military exploits, relying on his personal ability to work hard until now, and sat on the important post of chief of operations staff of the General Staff.

At that time, Li Weiguo simply sent a large number of generals under Li Hongzhang and sent them to the frontier to fend for themselves.

But for Liu Mingchuan, after all, Li Weiguo is still very impressed, knowing that Liu Mingchuan has made meritorious contributions and made outstanding contributions in the history of Taiwan, so in consideration of Taiwan's strategic value, as well as the fact that the local aborigines have repeatedly refused to change their religion and disobey the king's situation, he directly sent Liu Mingchuan to Taiwan, and asked him to serve as the commander of the Taiwan Military Region and assist the governor of Taiwan in governing Taiwan.

Originally, Li Weiguo had forgotten about Liu Mingchuan, but he never thought that a few years later, the governor of Taiwan reported the news, saying that Liu Mingchuan exterminated the local indigenous people in Taiwan in one fell swoop and assisted the governor of Taiwan in relocating a large number of nationals from the mainland to live in Taiwan, thus reversing the situation of Taiwan's disobedience to the king in one fell swoop.

Liu Mingchuan made great contributions, but because Liu Mingchuan was Li Hongzhang's subordinate, the military did not give Liu Ming a great biography, but simply praised him.

Li Weiguo then ordered the Homeland Security Bureau to secretly investigate Liu Mingchuan, and found that Liu Mingchuan did not complain about anything, serving as the commander of the Taiwan Military Region, setting an example and working hard.

Time can test a person's character, so Li Weiguo changed his opinion of Liu Mingchuan greatly, and no longer regarded him as a person from Li Hongzhang's faction, but promoted and appointed him exceptionally.

At that time, it was a time of rapid expansion of the Chinese Empire, and the local natives of Luzon, Lanfang, and East Indies often rebelled, attacked the citizens of the Chinese Empire, and affected the local economic development, especially the East Indies, as the main crude oil supply base of the Chinese Empire, suppressing the local indigenous rebellions had become a top priority.

Therefore, Li Weiguo considered that Liu Mingchuan was very capable of suppressing the indigenous people, so he promoted him and successively transferred Liu Mingchuan to Luzon, Lanfang, East India and other places as the minister of the Qincha, and full-time suppressed the local aborigines.

This Liu Mingchuan is more ruthless in dealing with the natives, preferring to divide the aboriginal alliance, and then break them individually, or Zhao'an the natives, let the natives fight the natives, and after they are both defeated, finally the Chinese Empire's Shence Army swarmed up and exterminated and suppressed them all.

Liu Mingchuan made great contributions to this area, and he showed an astonishing talent for military command and strategy, so after completely suppressing the indigenous forces in Southeast Asia, Li Weiguo promoted Liu Mingchuan again and made him the governor of Australia.

This appointment is a bit big, and the power given to Liu Mingchuan is very large, and millions of square kilometers of land in Australia are under the jurisdiction of Liu Mingchuan.

Liu Mingchuan is very grateful to Li Weiguo, the soldier died for his confidant, if he still had some views and dissatisfaction with Li Weiguo before, now he is completely loyal to Li Weiguo, and with the stability of the Chinese Empire's rule and the glorious hegemony that has attracted the attention of the world, Liu Mingchuan loves the Chinese Empire more in his heart, far exceeding the previous Qing Empire, unconsciously, he has taken the initiative to alienate Li Hongzhang, and even drew a clear line with Li Hongzhang's faction.

After Liu Mingchuan became the governor of Australia, he quickly transformed his experience in suppressing indigenous people into suppressing white rebellions in Europe and the United States.

Britain, the United States, France and other countries have always been resentful of Australia's annexation by the Chinese Empire, so Allied agents often cause sabotage in Australia. Since most of the Australian population is white Europeans and Americans, this has caused Liu Ming a problem, and it is difficult to catch the agents of the Entente.

However, Liu Mingchuan is still very methodical, on the one hand, he implemented the system of protecting armor and sitting in Australia, and found that a spy appeared in one household, and sat in ten other households. While the family members were imprisoned, the male enlisted in the army, killing a rebel enemy and freeing a family member.

In this way, after being pitted by fellow spies, other Australian natives were forced to go to prison in a row, and naturally they were dissatisfied, and their husbands or fathers and sons joined the army, killing an enemy could release a family member, making them grateful to the court, and at the same time, they completely offended the rebels because they killed the rebels, and it was impossible to sincerely help the rebels in the future.

Liu Mingchuan recruited local whites to join the army on a large scale and formed a pure white army, called the Imperial Cooperation Army, which was specially cooperated with the Chinese Shence Army to fight the rebels. The rebels and the Entente called this white army a puppet army, a traitor army.

As a result, the Australian Imperial Alliance Army was scolded as traitors by their European and American counterparts, and they were very disgusted at first, and they did not sincerely help the Chinese Shence Army, nor did they really fight the rebels.

But over time, as the rule of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army in Australia became more and more stable, the Australian Imperial Alliance Army often slaughtered rebel prisoners under the deliberate arrangement of Liu Mingchuan, and was publicly exposed after being photographed by newspapers.

As a result, the rebels and the Entente became even more angry with the Royal Allied Army, saying that they could not forgive them.

In this way, the officers and soldiers of the Australian Imperial Association have no way out, and their families want to live or live happily, so they have to do things for the Chinese from now on.

After two years of war, the combat effectiveness of the Australian Imperial Allied Army has become stronger and stronger, the number of Australian rebels killed is increasing, and white people are used to kill white people, even if the Entente bloc accuses the Chinese Empire of having no human rights, the Chinese Empire can also say that no matter our business, it is you white people who kill themselves, and finally shut up the Entente bloc.

Three years later, Liu Mingchuan successfully suppressed the Australian white rebellion, using the Australian Imperial Alliance Army to slaughter millions of white Europeans and Americans, completely deterring other white people in Australia, so that they did not dare to rebel against the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, under the vigorous policy support of Liu Mingchuan, millions of citizens of the Chinese Empire moved into Australia from the mainland to replenish Australia's lost population and adjust the proportion of Australia's population.

After ten years, Australia was finally thoroughly digested by the Chinese Empire and became a continuous supply base of raw materials for the Chinese Empire.

Liu Mingchuan made great contributions, and Li Weiguo issued a decree to confer on him the title of first-class loyal and brave man, and transferred him back to the Imperial General Staff as the chief of the operational staff, responsible for formulating military combat plans.

"Your Majesty, there are only two dangerous places in the world's railways under the control of the Empire, namely the section from Baghdad to Ili, which is vulnerable to being flanked by the Russian army from the north and the English army from the direction of India; The other is the Alaska-Primorsky State Railway, which is vulnerable to Russian troops from the north. ”

"The world railway in the direction of Alaska, although the total economic and trade volume is not high, but after the outbreak of the war, Alaska will be threatened by the Anglo-American coalition from Canada, and the imperial military needs to use the world railway to transport troops and materials to ensure the safety of Alaska, so it is necessary to prevent the Tsarist Russian army from launching an attack from the Far East."

"The Persian Empire is not under the control of the Empire, there are Tsarist Russian troops in the north, and the British army in the south, which is easy to be cut off by the British and Russian troops in wartime, so the land communication line between the Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the German Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy will be broken."

After hearing this, Li Weiguo asked rhetorically: "Do you have any way to deal with this situation?" ”

Liu Mingchuan replied: "The minister thinks that instead of sitting back and waiting for the British and Russian troops to attack the railway, it is better to take the initiative and set up a permanent military fortress on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, so that if the Russian army wants to attack the world railway in the south, it has to worry about the military threat from the Caspian Sea fortress." At the same time, this time to send troops to the Balkans, the minister suggested asking the Ottoman Empire for a naval base on the eastern side of the Red Sea, preferably near Djibouti, where the Red Sea outlet was guarded. After obtaining this base, it will be used as a springboard to attack Ethiopia and seize the Djibouti naval base on the other side of the Red Sea. Previously, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia had failed, and the empire could justifiably send troops under the banner of helping the Allies. As long as the port of Djibouti is captured, it can hold the Red Sea choke point and make the Suez Canal useless for the British. In times of war, the British army will inevitably mobilize heavy troops to fight for Djibouti, and there will be no energy to go north to attack the world railways. ”

"Not bad! One ring hook one ring, one ring interlocking! Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal! ”

Wu Yong, who was on the side, nodded again and again after hearing this.

Li Weiguo's eyes also lit up, and after careful analysis, it made sense, so he ordered the military department to formulate a detailed strategy and introduce an operational plan as soon as possible.

At the same time, news of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire's invasion of the Balkans quickly spread throughout the world.

The Entente bloc immediately became nervous and issued warnings to the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, demanding that they not get involved in the Balkan War.

However, the Chinese Empire did not bird the Entente bloc, and the next day it dispatched the Naval Mediterranean Fleet from the base in Cyprus, entered the Aegean Sea, and shelled Athens, Greece, and at the same time, the 17th Mixed Brigade of Cyprus under the cover of the naval fleet, rushed to attack the Athenian gateway Caricia, although the Greek defenders completely resisted, but the Chinese Imperial Navy fleet artillery was fierce, and the army was strong, and in less than a day, Calicia was lost, and the Chinese Imperial Army invaded Athens, destroyed the Greek rebel command center, and captured the Greek king, The Greek king was then forced to order the recall of the Greek troops in the Balkan coalition and withdraw from the crusade against the Ottoman Empire.

The Mediterranean Fleet of the British Imperial Navy and the Mediterranean Fleet of the French Navy arrived in the Aegean Sea on the third day, although the strength of the two navies exceeded that of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy by a lot, but they only issued a warning and did not dare to really open fire, and watched as the Chinese Imperial Navy transported a large number of troops and military supplies ashore and took control of Athens.

Subsequently, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy went north, passed through Constantinople and entered the Black Sea, where it continued to shell the Bulgarian troops on the Black Sea coast.

Five days later, the recruits from the various theaters of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire were assembled in Ili, with a total of more than 50,000 people in the first round, forming five temporary towns of recruits, and then taking the world railway to fight in the Balkans.

At the same time, the Imperial German Army also assembled a division, which also rode on the World Railway, and entered the Balkans to fight.

The direct intervention of the Chinese and German armies in the Balkan war immediately made the whole world nervous, for fear that the Entente and the Central Powers would immediately go to war and a world war would break out.

However, in the end, it turned out that the Entente still did not dare, and Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries only verbally threatened war, but did not take action, and watched the Chinese and German armies continue to ravage the Balkan Allied forces. (To be continued.) )