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Imperial General Staff, Li Weiguo sat and waited for news from the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was what he was most concerned about in recent times.

However, as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chen Shaoyi's actions really made Li Weiguo nervous for a while and surprised for a while, and kept brushing his heartbeat.

"What the hell is this Chen Shaoyi doing?"

Wu Yong, the secretary of the military department and the part-time chief of staff of the Minister of Military Aircraft, couldn't help but be angry, as the second person in the military after His Majesty the Emperor, Wu Yong couldn't guess Chen Shaoyi's intentions, so he could only ensure the correctness of his tactical actions in front of Li Weiguo several times, so that Li Weiguo should not worry.

"I've guessed his intentions!"

After Li Weiguo repeatedly studied the movements of the Pacific Fleet, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, isn't this Mao Taizu's famous tactic of crossing the Chishui four times! In the face of the strong military strength of the Grasshopper Army, the supply army could not be defeated at all, and when life and death were at stake, Mao Taizu formulated the famous tactic of crossing the Chishui River, which completely disrupted the battle plan of the Grasshopper Army, thus turning the tide.

Now Chen Shaoyi has made several trips between Guam and Australia, and has circled the British Royal Navy through the complex waters of the Solomon Islands several times, making the British Navy exhausted, while the Chinese Imperial Navy has taken the opportunity to repeatedly attack the British troops in Guam and sack the Australian coastal cities, this tactic not only destroys the rear supply lines of the British Navy, but also consumes the morale and energy of the British Navy.

"Your Majesty, please give me instructions!" Wu Yong looked at Li Weiguo with a little surprise, even he couldn't see through Chen Shaoyi's tactics, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor actually saw it.

Li Weiguo smiled. So he told Wu Yong what he had just thought.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the old minister admires! If Chen Shaoyi really adopts this tactic, then the Sino-British naval battle will have a few more chances of winning! Wu Yong's eyes lit up and said excitedly.

Li Weiguo is also a lot more relaxed, if Chen Shaoyi really adopts this tactic, then there will be great hope of victory in the Pacific Theater.

"Now the pressure on Guam has finally eased. Two Marine Brigade reinforcements arrived, and there was no problem defending Guam for a few months, but the soldiers in the western frontier fought too hard! Zhang Xiaoliu, the head of the Ministry of War, Minister of National Defense, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, said suddenly.

In recent months, Zhang Xiaoliu has lost more than a dozen pounds, and the general's belly, which was originally protruding, has now shrunk back.

The entire Chinese Empire was fighting war all around, the Western Xinjiang Battlefield, the Burma-India Battlefield, the Southeast Asian Battlefield, the Guam Pacific Theater, the Ryukyu Battlefield, and the Sakhalin Island Battlefield, involving more than one million troops of the Chinese Empire. If we are not careful, we will not properly handle the problems of military supplies, replenishment of troops, and punishment of officers who are unfavorable in combat, and will affect the morale of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, and even directly lose the battlefield. These are the areas where the Chinese Empire's Shence Army directly participated in the war, as well as the Korean battlefield and the Annam battlefield, although the Chinese Empire did not participate in the war, it has been acting in secret, and it has to worry about the same.

But the biggest headache for Zhang Xiaoliu is the Guam battlefield and the Western Xinjiang battlefield. The former has now received reinforcements, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being. However, the battlefield in Western Xinjiang is still tense. The main problem is that supplies cannot be delivered, especially near the Himalayas, where it has been snowing and roads are impassable, so it is all up to local Tibetans to consign livestock and deliver supplies to the battlefield. It's tough.

Wu Yong comforted: "Don't worry too much about the battlefield in Western Xinjiang, our soldiers fought hard, and the British army is no better!" ”

Li Weiguo has been paying attention to the Pacific Theater recently, but he has ignored the situation in Western Xinjiang, so he asked: "How is the situation in Western Xinjiang?" ”

Zhang Xiaoliu then replied: "In order to reduce the pressure of defense." We took the initiative to give up some places, shrink our defensive line to defend the Krausu area with all our might, and let the British troops in to fight. ”

Li Weiguo nodded, it is the best policy to let the British army in to fight, because if the battle is fought on the high mountains and mountains on the border, the logistics supply of the Chinese Imperial Army is extremely difficult, while the supply of the British army is very convenient, which is not good for the Chinese Imperial Army. The Chinese Imperial Army took the initiative to abandon part of the mountains and mountains along the border line and retreated to relatively low-lying areas, so that the supply would be relatively easy, and after the British army was put in, the British army's battle line would be lengthened, and their supply line would no longer be easy to cross the mountains.

Zhang Xiaoliu continued: "Now the supply is similar to the Imperial Army and the British Army, and it is not easy for both sides. Although there are still hundreds of thousands of reserve troops in the Central Plains that can be replenished, because the problem of altitude sickness is very serious, nine out of ten out of ten troops in the past cannot be adapted. Most of the British troops were Indian highland soldiers, and altitude sickness was almost non-existent. After three months of fighting on the battlefield in Western Xinjiang, the British army lost twice as much as ours, but the British army replenished its troops much faster than ours. ”

Li Weiguo understood that because the Chinese Empire had ruled Western Xinjiang for a short time, although there were more than one million elite Shence troops, only one percent of the soldiers could adapt to altitude sickness, which also caused the Western Xinjiang Military Region to have only one town of troops stationed in these years. Now that the war has begun, once the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army in the western Xinjiang are wounded or killed, it will be difficult to replenish them.

In other words, the more you fight, the smaller the British army will be, but the size of the British army can always be maintained, and over time, the numerical superiority of the British army will become more and more obvious.

Li Weiguo suddenly frowned and asked rhetorically: "Where did the Burmese front army fight?" Why did the British army still have the strength to increase troops on the battlefield in the western frontier? ”

Wu Yong hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, although the imperial army has been fighting in the South Asian subcontinent for a long time and has attacked Calcutta a few days ago, the problem has also come. Although the warriors of the empire were brave, the tropical rainforests of South Asia were harsh, and the cold conditions of the western frontier were exactly two extremes. In the rainforest, mosquito bites were severe, and the non-combat attrition of the Imperial army was severe. ”

Li Weiguo was stunned, this was a question he ignored, just thinking about the cold and bad weather on the plateau in western Xinjiang, but forgetting that the environment was as harsh as the tropical rainforest operation. And even more. Because the battlefield in Western Xinjiang is just a cold temperature, people can't pull the trigger, but fighting in the tropical rainforests of South Asia, the weather is hot and rainy, and many soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army can't adapt to it, especially the soldiers from the north, they can't stand the high temperature. Two heads in three days suffered from heat stroke. But that's not the most dangerous, the most dangerous is the mosquito bites in the rainforest, which spread diseases.

So Li Weiguo asked: "Can't medical devices and drugs keep up?" ”

Wu Yong smiled bitterly: "This is the second difficulty that the minister wants to say!" There are a lot of medicines, but there are more than 100,000 square kilometers of tropical rainforest between Burma and Bangladesh, the terrain is dangerous, almost all of them are no man's land, and our supply transportation is very difficult, which is the real reason why the Burmese front has not been able to advance quickly. ”

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly again, he really took it for granted. It is believed that the Chinese Empire has vigorously built railways and highways in recent years, and the army has purchased a large number of military vehicles for transporting troops and transporting supplies, which has made the Chinese Imperial Army extremely mobile in the country. But other countries were not as rich as the Chinese Empire, and they built railways and roads everywhere. Myanmar was a vassal state, and the Chinese Empire only had diplomatic power and garrison troops, and did not interfere in the internal affairs of Burma, and Myanmar had only one railway connecting the Chinese Empire over the years. But once out of Burma, British Bangladesh let alone railways. There were no decent roads, which led the Chinese Imperial Army to go abroad. There are no railways, no roads, and military trucks are not as effective as mules and horses walking in the rainforest.

"And what happened to the Indian rebels? Can't they pin down the British? ”

Wu Yong smiled bitterly again: "Your Majesty, although the Indian rebels have taken the advanced weapons and equipment provided by us, they really dare not compliment them when they fight. Often tens of thousands of people could not defeat the positions defended by 2,000 British troops in a month, and even many Indian rebels were defeated by the British army. The advanced weaponry we supplied to them fell into the hands of the British. ”

Isn't this Nima the Indian version of the transport captain?

Li Weiguo immediately remembered the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the supply army called Lao Jiang the captain of the transportation brigade, because a large number of advanced weapons and equipment that the United States aided Lao Jiang were finally handed over to the supply army. Now the Chinese Empire has provided a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment to the Indian rebels, and they have also given them to the British army.

"This group of Ah San is really a waste!" Li Weiguo couldn't help but scold.

There was a pause. Li Weiguo asked again: "Then what can be done to reduce the pressure on the battlefield in Western Xinjiang?" ”

Wu Yong and Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at each other, and the former said: "There are two ways, one is to secretly dispatch a force to attack India from the sea and land, and directly join the Indian rebels. But this is too risky, after all, Britain still has a cruising fleet in the Indian Ocean, and we only have a small convoy fleet, which cannot defeat others, and once the troop carrier is intercepted at sea, the losses will be large. ”

"And what about the second option?" Li Weiguo asked.

"The second option is to borrow from the Russian Empire, and we will send an army from Kazakhstan to Kashmir, just in time to attack the flank of the British army in the western frontier. Once successful, it can completely annihilate the British army in the western Xinjiang, and even reverse the entire situation in South Asia. ”

Li Weiguo's eyes lit up, and then they darkened again, and he shook his head and said, "Tsarist Russia will not lend us the way!" ”

Li Weiguo knew very well that Tsarist Russia had already held a grudge against China if it had not been for the outbreak of the Ninth Russian-Turkish War, and Tsarist Russia would have focused its energy on dealing with the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Wu Yong suddenly proposed: "What if the empire is allied with Tsarist Russia? ”

"Alliance?" Li Weiguo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, and said: "The alliance is too whimsical, don't forget that we have already formed an alliance with the German Empire." ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Although the German Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire are full of contradictions because of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has Your Majesty not forgotten that the German Empire has signed a non-aggression insurance treaty with Tsarist Russia?" The minister heard that this treaty was only valid for ten years, so why didn't the empire sign a five-year or ten-year non-aggression pact with Tsarist Russia? The minister thought that the advanced weaponry and economic strength of the empire would definitely be a great temptation if it was opened to Tsarist Russia. ”

Li Weiguo fell into deep thought, this is a very thorny political issue that needs to be considered comprehensively.

After thinking for a while, Li Weiguo suddenly asked: "If we form an alliance with Tsarist Russia, then the Ottoman Empire will regard us as a mortal enemy, and the empire's interests in the oil fields of the Middle East will be seriously attacked and threatened in the future." Also, if they are at odds with the Ottoman Empire, they will encourage the Yishilan people to engage in sabotage and rebellion within the empire. There are a lot of rebellions in the history of the empire, and the recent rebellion of Hezhuo during the Qianlong period directly pulled down the prosperous Kangqian Dynasty, and it has to be guarded against! ”

At this time, Zhang Xiaoliu also said: "Your Majesty considers that the minister also thinks that an alliance with Tsarist Russia is unlikely, after all, the empire occupies the Far Eastern Primorsky State of Tsarist Russia, and Tsarist Russia will fight a decisive battle with the empire sooner or later in order to seize the Pacific Ocean estuary." If an alliance is formed, Tsarist Russia will have an excuse to ask the empire for advanced weapons and equipment technology, and when the time comes, will we give it or not? If you don't give an alliance, it's impossible, and if you give it, you will have endless troubles in the future. ”

Li Weiguo and Wu Yong were both stunned, looking at Zhang Xiaoliu, I don't know when it started, Zhang Xiaoliu has grown to the point where he can see the future strategic issues at a glance, which is surprising.

Li Weiguo nodded, he was afraid that others would say that he was nepotistic, Zhang Xiaoliu was a retainer of the Li family, and he had no culture, but now he was the Minister of War and held the command of the entire empire. Many army talents with much higher ability than Zhang Xiaoliu inevitably have ideas, and Li Weiguo is worried that Zhang Xiaoliu will not be able to withstand this pressure.

Wu Yong laughed dryly, he didn't expect Zhang Xiaoliu to have such a vision, so he had nothing to say at all.

Just when the atmosphere was awkward, suddenly there was an urgent report from the staff officer of the telecommunications room.

"Report to Your Majesty, Lord Shangshu, Alaska is urgent, the Canadian army has raided Alaska!"

"What?"

Li Weiguo stood up suddenly, a little surprised and angry.

This Nima's Canada also dares to stand up and be arrogant, it would be good that Lao Tzu didn't invade Canada, and he even dared to take the initiative to cause trouble!

"Your Majesty, Alaska's troops are less than a thousand, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the attack of the Canadian army!" Wu Yong said suddenly.

Li Weiguo was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Isn't there a town of troops in Alaska?" How come there are only a thousand left? ”

Wu Yong and Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at each other, and the former replied: "A few days ago, I learned that Chen Shaoyi led a fleet to loot in Australia and obtained a huge amount of wealth, so I applied for the Ministry of War to transfer troops to him and cooperate with him to continue to loot Australia." Considering the Japanese navy in the East and the British navy in South Asia, it was inconvenient for him to transfer troops from the mainland. So he transferred the 58th Town, which was stationed in Alaska, to join Chen Shaoyi. ”

Zhang Xiaoliu also explained: "Alaska does not have any worthy economic goals, and even if it is temporarily occupied by Canadian troops, it will not cause serious losses to the empire." The minister then transferred troops from Primorsky State to reinforce Alaska. ”

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said: "Forget it, Alaska really doesn't have much value now, and the defenders can be defended if they can, and they will withdraw if they can't." ”

Wu Yong suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, Canada suddenly sent troops at this time, I don't know what the intention is?" Alaska barren land, what purpose do they have? ”

Li Weiguo snorted coldly and said: "That's not simple, the British want to provoke a world war, then we will have a good time with them!" ”

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