"Your Majesty, Lord Lin Jiyun Lin is calling!"

In the Wuhan Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Li Weiguo was discussing with the cabinet ministers, and after hearing the news of Lin Jiyun, he stopped. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Let's just say it, what's the matter!"

Zhang Xiaoliu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took the telegram, read it, and said directly: "Your Majesty, Lord Lin said that the US naval base San Diego is well defended and difficult to sneak attack. After attacking Pearl Harbor, the main fleet of the US Navy encountered our fleet on its way back to San Diego. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden exclamation in the hall.

The civil and military officials looked at Zhang Xiaoliu in unison, and their nervous expressions were written on their faces.

The main fleet of the American Navy is very strong, and Lin Jiyun only has less than half of the Pacific Fleet in his hands, and once it encounters an encounter, I am afraid that it may not be cheap, and it may even be defeated, causing the Chinese Imperial Navy to suffer heavy losses.

Li Weiguo's heart was also tight, and he looked at Zhang Xiaoliu and waited for the following.

"Our fleet has water reconnaissance aircraft, which avoids the main fleet of the American Navy. However, last night, taking advantage of the heavy rain, a submarine formation was dispatched to carry out a sneak attack, damaging two US battle cruisers, sinking an armored cruiser, and several frigates. ”

Hearing this, the civil and military officials immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that the Imperial Chinese Navy had water reconnaissance aircraft, which could be the first to detect enemy fleets at sea, so as to evade them in advance.

Lin Jiyun's fleet did not encounter the main fleet of the American Navy, but it did come to a sneak attack and achieved some results.

Zhang Xiaoliu's mood was the same as everyone else, he was also worried about it, and he was much more relaxed at the moment, so he continued to read.

"After dawn today, our fleet sent six battleships to participate in the battle, planning to deplete the ammunition reserves of the US fleet. It is expected that after the US fleet made a long journey to attack Pearl Harbor, its ammunition and supplies would be exhausted, and if it took the opportunity to fight a war of attrition, our fleet could achieve major results. ”

When Li Weiguo heard this, he nodded, and the other civil and military officials also felt that it made sense, even if the American Navy was stronger than Lin Jiyun's fleet, no matter how powerful the battleship was, it would be a pile of scrap metal without shells.

"At 8 o'clock in the morning, six battleships of our fleet fought a naval battle with the main force of 18 battleships and battle cruisers of the enemy fleet.

"In actual combat, the ministers found that some of the so-called battleships in the US fleet had very weak armor protection, and they seemed to be impersonated by battlecruisers. Therefore, the ministers and others had a bold idea, hoping to delay the return of the US fleet to San Diego, and hoped that Lord Li Weijun would lead the fleet to join the fleet as soon as possible, annihilate the US navy, and avenge the soldiers who died at Pearl Harbor. ”

Finally, Zhang Xiaoliu said: "This is a joint report by Lin Jiyun and Lin Taizeng. ”

Li Weiguo nodded and asked, "Where is Li Weijun?" ”

Zhang Xiaoliu replied: "Li Weijun and the Pacific Fleet have returned to Pearl Harbor and are carrying out resupply, while dealing with some post-war reconstruction of Pearl Harbor. ”

Li Weiguo said: "Let him set off immediately, join Lin Jiyun, and annihilate the main force of the American Navy together, there must be no mistake." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu received the order, and immediately an official of the military department quickly conveyed the emperor's will.

The meeting continued, the general mobilization for the war in the country was completed, and heavy industry fully resumed production, reaching the largest production capacity in history, and it is possible to continue to expand production capacity in the future as the world war intensifies.

Previously, the heavy industry of the Chinese Empire was too large, and there was a surplus of production capacity for a time. At that time, Li Weiguo's strategy was to expand domestic demand and stimulate national consumption, and at the same time gradually adjust the production capacity of heavy industries such as steel, cement, and petrochemical industries, and gradually reduce production.

However, the effect was not very good, so Li Weiguo had the idea of starting a war from then on, and only by waging a war could it be crazy to consume industrial resources, change the overcapacity of domestic heavy industry, and even the adverse consequences of an economic crisis.

History has proved that the best and fastest way for every country to have an economic crisis is to wage war against the outside world, which is almost a universal international law from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.

When the arrival of the First Wu Year directly stimulated Li Weiguo's nerves, and finally made him determined to start a war and provoke a world war.

However, at this imperial meeting, the cabinet ministers were at loggerheads over one thing.

"There are different views on the full transfer of the national light and heavy industries to a wartime mechanism. Now that the empire itself has not been attacked militarily, the premature transfer of all industry to a wartime mechanism will have a serious impact on the economic development of the empire. In particular, the ministers opposed the implementation of military tickets, the introduction of a rationing system for daily necessities, and the suspension of the circulation of the renminbi. ”

After Fu Xuexian finished speaking, more than a dozen ministers agreed, and their attitude was the same, not wanting all the national industries to be transferred to the wartime mechanism. Because once it is transferred to the wartime mechanism, the prosperity of the market economy will be lost, and all materials will be consumed for the sake of war, which will lead the economic growth of the Chinese Empire to stagnate or even regress.

"Master Fu, don't forget, this is a time of war, the whole world is at war, and if the national industry is not transferred to the wartime mechanism, it is still producing those luxury goods and unnecessary civilian materials, which is a great waste. You know, if the two sides are exhausted, whoever shoots the last bullet first will decide the victory, but we found that the copper needed for our last bullet has been used to make faucets, so we lost the war, ceded the land and paid reparations, and became slaves for generations, is this the result that Master Fu wants? To produce a faucet, and to lose the war? ”

In the face of Wang Kaitai's rebuttal, more than a dozen ministers also held a supportive position.

Both sides made sense, and argued with reason, and for a while the court quarreled like a vegetable market.

Li Weiguo also had a headache, he knew that Fu Xuexian's statement was reasonable, after all, the Chinese Empire had prepared for this war in advance, and had stored a large number of strategic materials, which were enough to consume for a considerable period of time. Especially at the moment, the Chinese Empire itself has not been attacked, and it is indeed a waste of resources to transfer all industry to a wartime mechanism, which is better used to develop the economy.

And Wang Kaitai's statement is not wrong, for the sake of war, make all preparations, maybe the last bullet can determine the victory. In particular, this world war may not end in a short period of time, which has already appeared on the German and French battlefields, so the Chinese Empire must be prepared for a long-term war, so the strategic materials must be more reserved, the sooner all the industry is transferred to the wartime mechanism, the more materials will be reserved, and the more confidence it will have to start a war.

The two sides argued, and finally the ball was kicked to Li Weiguo's side again.

Well, Li Weiguo had to make a decision, which was about the strategic deployment of the Chinese empire in the coming years.

However, Li Weiguo still compromised the ideas of the ministers of the two factions, and finally decided to transfer half of the national industry to the wartime mechanism, speed up the reserve of strategic materials, and prepare for long-term warfare. The other half of the national industry continued to sustain the daily necessities of the people and keep the empire's economy running.

Military stamps will not be issued for the time being, and the market will still trade in yuan, but the exchange of yuan with gold and silver will be suspended, and gold and silver, which are imperial reserves, will only be used for international trade settlements.

With this issue settled, the rest of the agenda is very smooth.

Civil officials like the three walnuts and two dates, and the military generals speak crunchyly.

When discussing the war situation on the Western Front, it was mainly faced with the border raids of the British and Russian armies, of which the Russian army was mainly concentrated in Siberia and West Asia, and the mobilization speed of the Russian army was too slow, and the reserve army could not keep up, so after declaring war on the Chinese Empire, the Russian army was frightened for the first few days, worried that the Chinese Imperial Army would launch an attack, but a few days later it was found that the Chinese Imperial Army had no intention of attacking, but was in strategic defense, which confirmed some previous rumors about the military strategy of the Chinese Empire.

The Russian army was happy, since the Chinese Imperial Army did not take the initiative to fight, then the Russian army had enough time to deploy troops and send generals to compete with the Chinese Imperial Army and regain the land and dignity lost by the Tsarist Russian Empire.

The eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and the western shore of Lake Baikal were the first places where the Sino-Russian War broke out, and Tsarist Russia mobilized local garrisons, with 50,000 troops in the Caspian Sea and 80,000 troops in the direction of Lake Baikal.

However, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army had already taken precautions, digging trenches, barbed wire, and burying radium, and the Russian army launched many large-scale attacks, which were directly beaten back by the heavy machine guns and howitzers of the Chinese Imperial Army.

Several attacks, the Russian army had no effect except for the corpses.

The fortifications built by the Chinese Imperial Army were like iron walls that could not be breached.

Although the Russian army was unwilling, it could only give up temporarily when the supplies were insufficient before the reinforcements arrived.

Britain and Russia agreed to attack the Chinese Empire at the same time, and after the Russian army launched an attack, the British army also concentrated 200,000 British troops in India and 500,000 Indian troops.

Since the Chinese Empire carried out several large-scale uprisings in India one after another, the British army has strengthened its control over India, and the garrison has been maintained at the size of 200,000, and has also developed millions of Indian troops who are loyal to the British Empire, in order to be able to compete with the Chinese Empire in the event of a war against China.

It was not until the moment when the Japanese Combined Fleet was wiped out that the British understood why the Chinese Empire had deliberately stirred up trouble in the demilitarized zones of Kuwait and India, which had been premeditated. Had it not been for America's sudden decision to attack Pearl Harbor, I am afraid that the British Empire would have lost even more strategically.

Therefore, as the prime minister of the British Empire, Ross had to take a preemptive attack, and if the Chinese Empire was allowed to send troops first, I am afraid that British India would be embattled.

To the left of British India was Bengal, which had been ceded to the Chinese Empire in the last Sino-British War, and now the Chinese Empire had troops stationed there, ready to invade British India.

To the south of India is Sri Lanka, which was ceded to the Chinese Empire a few years ago due to the British Empire's policy of non-resistance. It has now been used by the Chinese Empire as a bridgehead for attacks on the Indian subcontinent.

To the north of India was the majestic Himalayas, on which the Chinese Empire was condescending, and built a large number of fortifications on it, putting great military pressure on the British army in India.

Also to the west of India, the Chinese Empire could send troops from Aiuhan (Afghanistan) to pose a threat to India.

It can be said that British India was surrounded by the Chinese Empire on all sides, so the British army could only be worse if it was passively defended, so it also took the initiative to attack.

Unfortunately, to the collapse of the British army, the Chinese Imperial Army had the most advanced rifles, heavy machine guns and artillery, but only defended and did not attack, so that the British and Indian troops could only keep attacking, leaving nothing but piles of corpses.

At first, the generals of the Chinese Imperial Army were very disgusted by this tactic of only defending but not attacking, and they thought that the powerful Chinese Imperial Shence Army should be killed and beat the British and Russian troops to the ground on the frontal battlefield.

However, when they saw the results of each day, they gradually understood.

Whether it is the Russian army or the Anglo-Indian army, as the attacker, they pay the lives of thousands of soldiers for every large-scale attack, on the other hand, the defenders of the Chinese Empire, with advanced weapons and equipment, relying on strong fortifications, the casualties are very small, every 1,000 Russian troops or 1,000 British and Indian soldiers killed, the Chinese Imperial Army will sacrifice a soldier, this kind of battle loss ratio, if the Chinese Imperial Army takes the initiative to attack, it will never be reached.

Seeing the crux of the problem, the generals of the Chinese Imperial Army immediately smiled, and they understood that the British and Russian troops had suffered heavy losses, and when they reached a certain scale of casualties, when the British and Russian troops had no illusions about victory, it was the time for the Chinese Imperial Shence Army to counterattack.

In the court, Li Weiguo did not have to worry too much about the situation on the battlefield on the Western Front, unless the British and Russian troops could come up with tanks as weapons as soon as possible, they would not be able to break through the defensive positions of the Chinese Imperial Army composed of barbed wire, trenches, ground radium, machine gun bunkers, and artillery positions.

The Imperial Chinese Army only needed to deploy 500,000 troops on the Western Front, which was enough to block the fierce offensive of the British and Russian troops and free up more troops for the Eastern Front.

At this moment, Li Weiguo is worried about the Sino-US naval war on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is focusing on Alaska, Rhode Island, and Key West.

Alaska was the foothold of the Chinese Empire on the northern continent, facing British Canada.

At this time, Alaska has gathered 500,000 Chinese Imperial Shence Army, and they will launch an attack on Canada and fight all the way to the United States.

Rhode Island is a nail planted by Li Weiguo for the United States many years ago, stuck in the throat of the United States. For this reason, Li Weiguo transferred Shi Dakai to Rhode Island as the governor, in order to hold back the offensive of the American army after the war started.

As for Key West, it can also play a role in containing the American army, but it is much worse than Rhode Island.

Through the windows of the imperial palace, piercing through the sky, and crossing the Pacific Ocean and the American continent, Li Weiguo seemed to have seen the gunpowder smoke over Rhode Island, and seemed to hear the rumbling sound of cannons. (To be continued.) )