"What? The Japanese Combined Fleet was completely annihilated? ”

The official residence of the Prime Minister on Downing Street, when Ross learned about this, he also pulled out the crotch of his pants. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Damn Roosevelt, he was pitted by him again, he didn't destroy the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy at all, otherwise the Japanese Combined Fleet would not have been wiped out."

Hearing Ross grumble, as chief of staff, Chamberlain knew it was time for him to say something.

"I am afraid that the form of the Pacific theater is not optimistic, Roosevelt's plan to propose that the British, American, and Japanese combined fleets go to the Pacific Ocean to destroy the coastal industrial areas of the Chinese Empire needs to be canceled, and even, Roosevelt may then propose a plan for the British and American navies to go to the Pacific Ocean, and you must refuse."

Refuse?

Ross was puzzled and stared straight at Chamberlain.

"Let us not forget," Chamberlain said, "no matter how close our ally may be, the core interests of the British Empire are the most important." Roosevelt went to attack Pearl Harbor, and whether it succeeded or not, the Chinese Empire would fight to the end with the United States. Japan has no combined fleet, it can only defend at home, and the Chinese Empire has time to clean up the Japanese, if it were me, I would let Japan go first and go all out against the United States. The most tragic war between China and the United States will break out next, the United States itself may be in ruins, and the Chinese Empire will also be broken, and it may not have the strength to intervene in the European war. ”

Rose frowned and said, "Are you sure the Chinese Empire will do this?" ”

Chamberlain smiled and said, "Didn't you see the deployment of the Chinese Empire in the Western Theater, the Northwest Theater, the Northern Theater, and the Southwest Theater?" They are actively defensive, that is, they are heavily armed in the Pacific theater at the beginning of the war and will not intervene in the European war. ”

Ross nodded, feeling that there was some truth, and looked at Chamberlain with eagerness.

"According to you, we don't care about the Pacific theater, so what measures should we take in the European war?"

Chamberlain replied: "You should think of it this way, China and the United States fought to defeat both sides in the Pacific theater, Germany, Austria, Turkey, France and Italy fought to defeat both sides in the European theater, and in the end only we were the British Empire, as long as we held the English Channel, we won the war and were the biggest beneficiaries." ”

Ross understood Chamberlain's intentions, but he was worried: "But now that Germany's fast offensive has invaded France, the French army is retreating one after another, seeing that Verdun cannot hold it, and Paris is probably about to be lost, and our British Empire may have to send troops to the war!" ”

The German Empire completed the general mobilization for the war ahead of schedule and took the French Empire by surprise, and now on the German-French battlefield, the German army is winning and the French army is retreating.

Emperor Napoleon III urged Rus to send troops to France to help in the war, and Rus's attitude had been relaxed, although the British Empire had not completed the general mobilization for the war, but planned to send the only 100,000 local standing troops to France first.

Chamberlain thought for a while and said: "If I were you, let the Tsarist Empire suspend the fortifications on the Eastern Front, transfer all its troops to the Western Front, oppress Germany, force Germany to divide troops from France, and relieve the pressure on France." ”

"Very good, just follow your strategy and make the base camp come up with a plan as soon as possible."

Rose's eyes lit up, this Chamberlain was really a top strategist, and such a complicated situation could be solved so easily.

Chamberlain did see through the war strategy of the Chinese Empire, but the war was changing from time to time, and even Li Weiguo's plan for a sneak attack on Japan's Edo Bay had to be changed halfway.

It can be seen that the inability of the plan to keep up with the changes has always been the biggest variable in the war.

Chamberlain saw only the tip of the iceberg of the world war and wanted the British Empire to be the biggest winner in this war.

As everyone knows, every country participating in the war, their leaders, no longer think about how to make their country the biggest winner in this world war.

Therefore, every country wants to be the biggest winner, which brings the most uncertain factor and the biggest variable to the world war.

Paris, Versailles, Napoleon III has already burned his ass, and he is not sitting or standing.

The German army attacked all the way, attacking the French army from the two directions of Luxembourg and Lorraine, of which the direction of Lorraine was to contain a large number of French troops, and then the main German army took advantage of Luxembourg to attack the French territory in one fell swoop, approaching Verdun.

If Verdun is lost, then Paris is not in danger at all.

"Damn, when will the reinforcements from the British arrive?"

Napoleon III, who is nearly 90 years old, is also a figure in history who survived unexpectedly, he even outlived his son, Napoleon IV in history, his son Joseph died five years ago, and the current crown prince of the French Empire is his grandson, that is, the historical Prince Napoleon V.

After all, Napoleon III was ninety years old, his energy was not as good as before, and he knew very well that his life was short, but he was unwilling, unwilling to be defeated by the German Empire, unwilling to be ceded Alsace and Lorraine, and wanted to come back in his lifetime, otherwise he would not die.

"Grandfather, the British have agreed to send troops, and fifty thousand British troops will soon cross the Channel de France (English Channel) and come to the aid of the war!"

The historical Napoleon V, the current grandson of the Emperor of France, the future Napoleon IV Napoleon? Victor? Jérôme? Frederick replied that although he had not yet succeeded to the throne, he was already doing what the emperor was supposed to do, after all, his grandfather, Napoleon III, slept most of the day.

"What? Only 50,000 British troops? Damn Rus, doesn't he know the current situation of our French Empire? ”

Napoleon III was so angry that he almost turned his back on it, he had a good agreement with Ross before, once the war started, the British Empire would mobilize two million troops to go to France to fight, and the Anglo-French army would reach eight million, directly crush the German army, and cut Wilhelm II's little Tintin in the Berlin Imperial Palace.

However, now, the British Empire only sent 50,000 British troops to the war, so it is no wonder that it is not angry.

However, there is a reason for it, and Ross cannot be blamed entirely.

Victor explained: "Grandfather is angry, and it takes time for Britain to mobilize for war. They didn't have much standing army in the first place, and it was already very good to be able to send 50,000 soldiers to the empire in a week. ”

Napoleon III didn't listen to it, but when he heard it, he immediately said angrily: "Damn Germany, why did they mobilize millions for the war in less than three days, and it took us a week to mobilize 300,000 people, who can tell me why?" ”

Whenever he thought about the speed of mobilization for war in the German Empire, Napoleon III was very angry.

Victor shook his head helplessly and said, "Maybe the German Empire has been preparing for war for a long time, and they have done a general mobilization for war in advance!" ”

"Bastard! It's all Roosevelt's bastards! He attacked Pearl Harbor and drew us into the war, and that's not all, this cousin didn't even notify us in advance......"

The more Napoleon III spoke, the more angry he became, and soon he turned his back on his back and fainted to the ground.

Victor breathed a sigh of relief, this old guy finally fainted, and all the next rights will be in his own hands.

True, Victor was already impatient, and he was annoyed that his grandfather was still alive, outlived his father.

Victor's health was not good, he didn't want his grandfather to live a few more years, he wanted to control the supreme power of the French Empire, even if it was a time when the French Empire's survival was in danger.

I gave the treating doctor a look, and the other party immediately understood.

The next day, Napoleon III never woke up, so Victor succeeded him as Emperor of the French Empire and became Napoleon IV.

The coronation took place simply and in a hurry, as the German army's bullets and artillery were already approaching Versailles.

In the early morning of September 27, 1894, the German army launched the 15th Grand Offensive and fought a bloody battle with more than 200,000 French troops at Verdun.

The battle was earth-shattering, with both sides mobilizing more than a million people, 2,000 artillery pieces, and more than 400 heavy machine guns.

The French were beaten by the Germans and could only defend passively, holding on to defensive positions along Verdun.

In the face of the madness of the German army, the French army has been fighting very hard these days.

However, the rabbit was anxious and wanted to bite, although the French army was abused by the German army, but when they knew that Paris was behind them and could not retreat, they broke out with strong combat effectiveness.

This was only ten days after the start of the war, and the will of the French army was not broken, so the fight was relatively tenacious.

However, the Germans were fully prepared, with more than twice as many light and heavy artillery pieces as the French, and their strength was also superior, so the Germans had the upper hand in the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides.

It's just that the French army didn't have the best of Jiang Lang to stop the German army, they quickly remembered the Battle of Havana in the Spanish-American War, which was a classic battle in the world, the battle that almost dragged the United States down, and the radium, trench, and barbed wire tactics taught by the Chinese Empire to the Spanish army made the powerful American army helpless.

The French army and the Spanish army looked like the French army was naturally stronger.

Even the Spanish army could do something, the French army was naturally not to be outdone, so they quickly planted a large number of ground radium on the Verdun line to delay the German offensive, while the French army behind rushed to dig trenches, repair machine gun pillboxes, pull barbed wire, and bury radium in the ground, and finally reluctantly repaired the rear defense line before the German army broke through the front defense line.

So, in the next few days, the German army and the French army fought on this battlefield full of pillboxes, barbed wire and ground radium, the madness of the German army, tens of thousands of deaths every day, the French army also suffered heavy losses, but blocked the German army's edge, so that the German army could not break through Verdun and attack Paris.

This day in history should have been the day when the people of Paris fled frantically, but in this life, history changed, and the German army failed to approach Paris, which also relieved Napoleon IV, who had just succeeded to the throne.

Wuhan Imperial Palace, Great Kyoto.

With Li Weiguo's return to the court, the court that had been arguing for many days suddenly quieted down.

Of course, in the harem, there is no need to complain.

However, as Li Weiguo drank the Ten Perfection Tonic Soup for a few days and fed these harem beauties, everything was quiet.

"Your Majesty, in the past few days, Germany and France have fought fiercely in Verdun, and they have won and lost each other, but the defense lines of the two sides have not changed much, although the German army has taken advantage of a little, but it is only a few kilometers of land. The French trench warfare was difficult for the Germans to break through in a short time. ”

Hearing Mingyue's report, Li Weiguo was just smiling bitterly.

All this was caused by him, in order to seize Cuba, he had to help the Spanish army against the US army, but the Spanish army was too vegetable, Li Weiguo could only use the trench radium tactics in advance, although in the end Li Weiguo got the Cuba he wanted, but also let the world know this new tactic prematurely. Even later in the Boer War and the Venezuelan War, this tactic was used.

It is also an inevitable result that the French army now uses this tactic against the German army.

"What about Italy?"

"Italy has no intention of sending troops yet, and the Imperial Court and the Foreign Ministry of the Allied Countries have sent many notes to the Kingdom of Italy, but the Italian side replied that the number of standing armies is too small, and it can only be defended for the time being, and it takes time to mobilize for war, and once the mobilization is completed, it will immediately send troops to fight with the allies."

Li Weiguo frowned suddenly, he knew that Italy in history had rebelled, betrayed Germany and Austria-Hungary, and stabbed the knife at a critical moment, so that the Allies, who had a very high victory rate, were finally defeated by the Entente.

In this life, Li Weiguo has promised a lot of benefits to Italy, but Italy still does it, which makes Li Weiguo very angry.

"To find a way to provoke a war on the Italian-French border, Italy must be dragged into the water! In addition, pay close attention to possible secret contacts between the Italian and British and French governments, and if they do negotiate, they must be sabotaged with all their might. ”

Mingyue was stunned, she didn't understand why Li Weiguo was guarding Italy like a thief.

"Your Majesty, do you mean that it is possible for Italy to turn against the water? It's - unlikely! ”

Li Weiguo smiled, he couldn't tell Mingyue that Italy in history was such a philistine, and whoever gave milk would be a mother.

"There's nothing wrong with being careful! It would be best if Italy did not have a backlash, but Italy has not moved until now, and it must have ideas. ”

Mingyue said: "The minister will closely monitor the movements of Italy!" ”

Li Weiguo said again: "Send a telegram to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, telling them to be careful of Italy's backlash, and it is best to redeploy troops on the border with Italy and beware of it." ”

Seeing Li Weiguo say this, Mingyue was almost certain that there must be something wrong with Italy.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans were also taken aback when they received this secret telegram from the Chinese Empire, and although they did not want to believe it, Italy did not move, which really aroused suspicion.

As a result, the Allied member states kept their troops on their borders with Italy.

Historically, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire transferred troops from the border because they trusted Italy too much, and as a result, the Italian army that suddenly rebelled against the water attacked and disrupted the battle plan of the entire Allied bloc.

Now with Li Weiguo's reminder, the German Empire and Austria-Hungary are on guard, even if Italy really turns against the water, it will not be caught off guard again. (To be continued.) )