In February 1911, which once again became a key point in the situation of the entire European war, the intensive and confidential movement of the German Army, although extremely successful, the Chinese military attache in Berlin, Feng Guozhang, on the fourth day of receiving the news, integrated the information of a large number of officers of the Chinese advisory group on the front line, and sent to China the preliminary forecast of the entire Eastern Front.

On the entire Eastern Front, on the vast German-Russian contact in Poland, Russia arranged two frontal defense units of the armies according to the echelon structure, while on the Eastern Front when Russia and Austria-Hungary were fighting, General Ivanov, who controlled the entire Eastern Front, invested more than three army groups in order to implement the plan of attacking the two flanks of Austria-Hungary.

Judging from the defensive posture of the entire Eastern Front, Feng Guozhang reported news very favorable to the German army. Admiral Hindenburg's Russian fortifications were confined to the old fortress defenses, and the Russian General Previ, who was in charge of the Polish front, apparently had not learned anything from the French battlefield, and the weak trenches and the rarely applied barbed wire gave Germany a great opportunity.

"Germany mobilized elite troops from the Western Front and the rear to complete the recuperation, and the entire Eastern Front German army has been in a state of passive defense, which has also caused the defense of the Russian army on the Polish front line to be negligent, so we believe that Germany can at least achieve the tactical advantage of the Polish front, in view of the fact that von ? The steady command of General Hindenburg, the capture of Warsaw in the next three months, will be a predictable result! ”

The capture of Warsaw meant that Germany would be able to drive Russian forces out of Poland, but the question was whether Austria-Hungary, which flanked it, would be able to turn to a counterattack at a critical moment and regain the Golpaqian Mountains on the Eastern Front, which had been broken into by Russia......

February 7th. The cabinet in Beijing convened an emergency meeting on the position of the European war. Participants are not only cabinet members. In view of the strategic changes that Germany has made, Xu Shoushan, chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs, made a report on the prediction of the battle situation for more than two hours, and the conclusions reached also made everyone worried.

The military fully predicted that Admiral Falkingham's operations on the Western Front had already invested more than 500,000 troops on the French battlefield on the Western Front in the past year, thanks to the full involvement of Britain and the United States. The United States had quickly become the most powerful foreign aid on the ground for France, and by the end of January, General Pershing's American Overseas Legion had swelled to an unprecedented 300,000 men, surpassing the British Expeditionary Force.

This meant that the German campaign on the Western Front was no longer limited to the demoralized French...... At the same time, the situation in Bordeaux, which was suddenly stalemate on the Western Front, also showed the weakness of the German offensive, and the final blow to France, which was originally expected to be completed within two months, has now dragged on for four and a half months, and General Falkingham is obviously unwilling to completely bury his army in Bordeaux, a meat grinder with trenches and barbed wire.

But at the same time. Admiral Falkingham apparently had no more way to precipitate a swift victory on the entire Western Front. This was also confirmed by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the German General Staff's eagerness to launch the Eastern Front campaign, and the German side even began to consult China privately, hoping that China would join the Allies in order to form a new external advantage.

This is obviously not in line with China's current national policy, so Beijing has made it clear that it refuses!

Zhou Ruidong's judgment and control of the general situation, is now quite good, the European war has been going on for more than a year, the impact on the Far East is actually very huge, especially the economic stimulus, not only military products, but even the civilian trade industry, foreign trade almost reached more than 70% of the huge growth that year, which for the Allied countries, the Entente and other neutral countries, almost all reached this increase.

This means that the longer the European war drags on, the greater the help to the domestic economy, which he naturally sees clearly as a rich experience, but all this needs to maintain the balance of power in the European war in order to obtain the maximum benefits, and it is precisely because of this interest that the United States is now driven to quickly choose to join the war, because this will enable the United States to maximize the acquisition of orders from Europe.

The Far East, which has quickly become a vassal of the Chinese market over the past two decades, has been so generous with Beijing that it has agreed to a series of free trade terms that have even opened up large swathes of Southeast Asia into ever larger free trade zones...... But it is clear that China's strong and unexpectedly strong industrial production capacity has quickly become a huge advantage in defeating European and American products, and the free trade zone has promoted the economic chain of the entire Pan-Asian Greater China to a certain extent.

Those free trade ports became the focus of the whole world trade, but more benefits were left within the entire vast Chinese empire, Britain tried to get far less benefits from dumping low-end industries in India and Africa, but the United States was able to reap good benefits from the huge population base of the Far East with its strong industrial capacity.

On the night of the 7th, Qin Kai received a phone call from Zhou Ruidong, and after a brief and pleasant discussion between the two, the German minister to China, Brück, quickly sent an urgent secret telegram to China, and on the morning of the 10th, the Beijing government had received a response from the German side, and immediately sent a note to the ministers of various countries in China, and Xu Shoushan, the cabinet boss and chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs, announced a news that shocked the world, but was obviously not abrupt.

The news that the Chinese government has agreed to upgrade Port-au-Prince, an important military port in the Caribbean, to significantly increase the original 1,500 troops stationed there, including a conventional fleet and 15,000 marines, immediately shocked the world and made the U.S. government feel the enormous pressure of China's entry into the Atlantic.

You know, and the original garrison is not only Chinese, in fact, the original Chinese overseas projection force in the Americas is almost all arranged in the most important Panama Canal mouth Colón City, although there are Chinese overseas legions in Port-au-Prince, but mainly for domestic trade through Panama or support, and the real military force stationed there is the German American fleet.

However, since the start of the war, the German American fleet, which only has 2 large armored ships and 7 destroyers, is obviously extremely nervous, and the Yankees, who are close at hand, although they are only the new talents of the world's naval club, and their record is also lacking, but ...... The speed at which the United States has launched its battleships and the battleships built in more than ten years, as long as it takes out one-tenth of it, is enough to completely destroy the sea power of Port-au-Prince arranged by Germany!

The most important reason why this overseas military port of joint defense can survive is undoubtedly because of the existence of China's military force, and in addition, Spain is at odds with the United States because of the Cuban crisis, and it completely disagrees with the US Navy to enter its own American territory, which is also an important reason.

In less than two days after that, British Minister to China Colwell and US Minister to China Willie both called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing to consult with the Chinese Government on the issue of improving the defense of the Caribbean Sea.

17th, Washington, William? President Taft held a closed-door meeting with the British envoy, Lord Wilson, and the Americans expressed to their allies great concern about the unstable situation on their doorstep, and this threat came precisely from China in the Far East, which the United States had not been able to confront alone. Stimson proposed a package of three solutions to China's problems.

But Sir Wilson, who is close to the ruling British Liberal Party, is clearly more concerned with British interests than with American feelings, and the veteran British gentleman has not offered any endorsement of the American proposal, except for the promise of an alliance from Prime Minister Asquith!

"Britain could not stand the pressure from the Far East on its own, especially since Germany still dominated the European continent, and any kind of conflict with China would create a favorable international situation for the Allies! But Britain will not sit idly by and watch the United States get caught up in a conflict with China! Under the intense questioning of President Taft, he finally brought the British statement.

After the British left, Secretary of State Knox met with Chinese Ambassador to the United States Huang Zunxian with a message from President Taft, who raised several concerns about the Caribbean, especially the concern that China's military intervention would affect U.S. interests there, and at the same time tactfully and implicitly stated that the United States would not sit idly by and watch such a change, especially the obvious bias towards Germany.

Huang Zunxian told the lawyer-turned-US Secretary of State very clearly and calmly that "China must and has the strength to protect its overseas trade routes and strengthen the armament of Port-au-Prince, which is just a small move by China to protect overseas trade, and it is certainly not aimed at the United States or the United Kingdom!" ”

Huang Zunxian's diplomatic rhetoric has obviously been in full swing, and he made it clear behind the euphemistic wording that the US government also has to recognize the fact that China's military intervention in the Caribbean is not a fact that has only happened now, but that China has already laid a chess piece after the Cuban crisis, but today, China has finally used this chess piece!

War Secretary Stimson gave President Taft an even worse response, "Your Excellency, Chinese agree with us, but China is obviously not going to make any changes to China's concerns about increasing Port-au-Prince's defense forces, because it is China's internal military behavior, and China wants to ensure its rights and interests to the Atlantic...... And we have to face that the United States of America has fallen into China's maritime encirclement network! ”

Just as the White House was under intense pressure from China, another piece of bad news came again, (to be continued. )