S.H.I.E.L.D. was responsible for instigating a war between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, and if it succeeded, it would inevitably contain the military power of the Tsarist Empire and inevitably reduce the military pressure on the Northwest Frontier of the Chinese Empire.

After solving the problem of Tsarist Russia, Li Weiguo and the civil and military officials put their energies on dealing with the British Empire.

"The British army that came from the direction of India to attack the western frontier, can we also draw a gourd in the same way and provoke a war in India to reduce the military pressure on the western frontier?"

Li Weiguo drew inferences from one case and immediately thought of conducting a military operation in India to relieve the pressure on the defenders in western Xinjiang.

"What Your Majesty said is reasonable, and the minister also thinks that he can create some military conflicts around India!" Li Hongzao immediately echoed his words.

"Your Majesty, you can transfer the elite of the southwest theater into Burma and launch an offensive against British Bengal, which will definitely alarm the British and Indian authorities, and if the offensive of the imperial army is fierce and can cause the enemy to panic, then the enemy will inevitably suspend the fortifications in the western frontier and transfer troops south to Bengal to block the imperial army." Wu Yong, as the Minister of Military Machinery of the Ministry of War, immediately came up with a plan.

"During the Third and Fourth Yapian Wars, caste rebellions broke out in northern and central India, with an army of 200,000 led by Queen Zhangxi, which not only destroyed the last stronghold of the East India Company, but also nearly overthrew British rule in India. The reason was that the Fourth Yapian War ended quickly, resulting in the 200,000 British troops in Singapore not being sent to Luzon to fight, but were transferred back to India in time to suppress the rebellion of Queen Jangsi. ”

Li Weiguo asked: "Do you mean that this time the Sino-British War broke out, will the Indian caste war break out again?" ”

Zhang Peilun replied: "Your Majesty, the minister is not sure, but this possibility is very high, after all, Queen Zhangxi was executed. But her descendants remained, and two hundred thousand rebels were suppressed, but only more than a thousand were executed, and the others were exiled. If the Empire sends an envoy to contact the descendants of Queen Zhangxi to come forward and gather the old department, the Empire will give them advanced weapons and financial support, and the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. will provide information from it. It is not impossible to detonate the Indian civil war in one fell swoop. Coupled with the Imperial Army's dispatch of troops from Burma to attack India and contain the main force of the Indian army, it will inevitably cause great panic in Britain. ”

Li Hongzao immediately said: "Your Majesty, this plan is feasible!" ”

Other ministers seconded the proposal.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then order the three divisions of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Rites to implement this strategy. ”

The ministers are commanded.

Li Weiguo turned to Wu Yong again and asked, "Then can the Western Xinjiang War Department be sure next?" ”

Wu Yong replied, "Your Majesty." The minister did not dare to say that the British army launched an offensive against the western frontier from the South Asian subcontinent, and the time and place chosen were just right, and it was very convenient for the British army to attack the western frontier from the direction of India. On the other hand, our army's highway leading to western Xinjiang is blocked by wind and snow, and altitude sickness will also affect the replenishment of troops, so in the early days of the outbreak of the war, our army may only be able to defend passively and will lose part of its territory. Please don't worry, the Ministry of War has already formulated a strategic policy. Shrink your defenses first, then counterattack. ”

Li Weiguo knows very well that since ancient times, wars in Tibet have always been resolved only by peaceful means, and they will pay a heavy price if they are resolved by war, and even in the Sino-Indian border conflict in the sixties, the PLA can only take the initiative to retreat in the case of victory. The reason is very simple, the supply can't keep up, and the era of hot weapons is all about supply and consumption, and a border conflict will consume the total revenue of five years, and it will not work without retreating with the national conditions at that time.

Although today's Li Weiguo has been prepared for a long time. But it's a pity that the railway couldn't be built, so he was very mentally prepared, and he didn't blame the military department for this tactical arrangement.

"I only look at the results, the war in the western Xinjiang is bound to be difficult, spread my will, the military salary and welfare in the western theater will be doubled, and we must defend the western Xinjiang!"

Wu Yong hurriedly said: "All the officers and soldiers of the Western Theater thank Your Majesty for your understanding!" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "Western Xinjiang is the strategic commanding heights of the empire, if it is lost, it will be a heavy price if you want to get it back, if you really get to that point, you can use the last resort!" ”

A group of civil and military ministers were confused, what is the use of last resort?

Everyone looked at Wu Yong, but Wu Yong didn't say anything, and directly received the order.

Li Weiguo didn't tell the other civil and military officials what they meant, and directly changed the topic, saying: "The military situation in the northwest is like this for the time being, let's discuss the war situation in the northeast, southeast and the Pacific below." ”

Hey, what an eventful time!

Li Weiguo lamented bitterly in his heart, it is really not easy for a country to really rise, and when he thinks of the rise of the United States, it is also the world hegemony that was achieved after enduring two world wars and using Germany and Japan to drag down Britain, France, and Russia.

Now the Chinese Empire wants to rise, but it has been exposed too early, so that it has been counterattacked so strongly by the British that it has almost laid an ambush around the Chinese Empire.

The Northeast Military Intelligence refers to the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, the three northeastern provinces, and Sakhalin Island in the Far Eastern Primorsky Prefecture, and Japan, as an ally of Britain, will naturally cooperate with Britain in military action. The Japanese army launched attacks on Sakhalin Island, the Korean Peninsula, and the Ryukyu Islands, and at present, the 38th town of the Chinese Empire in Heilongjiang and the 45th town in the Ryukyu Islands have exchanged fire with the Japanese landing force one after another.

At the same time, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy also blocked the Korean Strait to support the landing operations of the Japanese Army against Korea, Sakhalin and the Ryukyu Islands.

This time, the Japanese navy was very cunning and only operated in the coastal waters around the Japanese archipelago, because the Japanese mainland was too close to the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands and Sakhalin Island, and was only separated by a strait, and the Japanese navy was backed by coastal fortresses behind it, and was not afraid of the imperial Chinese navy.

After all, the real opponent of the Imperial Chinese Navy is the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and it is impossible to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese Navy without defeating the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

To the southeast, in Lan Fong, the British Malayan army set out from Singapore and launched an attack on Lan Fong. Due to the menacing British Navy, the Qizhou Ocean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was worried about being surrounded by the main force of the British Navy, so it temporarily avoided the enemy's edge and retreated to Taiwan. Waiting to join the Northern Ocean Fleet, the Eastern Ocean, and the Southern Ocean Fleet, the Pacific Fleet is organized to prepare for a decisive battle with the main fleet of the British Royal Navy.

In the Pacific Ocean of Guam, the 7th Marine Brigade under siege of Guam is fighting hard.

When all this appeared in front of Li Weiguo's table, Li Weiguo suddenly found that he was expanding so fast that his troops were strained.

Of course. This is also because Britain adopted Benjamin's strategy to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese Empire as soon as possible, and did not allow the Chinese Empire time to prepare, because Britain actually gave up its maritime supremacy in other parts of the world and transferred more than 90% of its navy to the Pacific Ocean, so that the original local superiority of the Chinese Imperial Navy was wiped out.

"Your Majesty, North Korea doesn't have to worry about them, and letting the Japanese army beat the Korean state will be beneficial to the empire's control of Korea in the future. As for Sakhalin, it is sparsely populated and resourced. Even if it is occupied by the Japanese army in a short time, it is not the overall situation. The Ryukyu Islands were unlikely to be occupied by the Japanese army in a short period of time, and the empire could increase its troops from Taiwan to the Ryukyus. Lanfang Prefecture in the southeast was not something that the British army could occupy in a short period of time, and the minister thought that the top priority was to defeat the main force of the British navy, and only by defeating the British navy would the problems of the other battlefields be solved. ”

Admiral Minister Lin Jiyun was the first to say that his attitude has always been to seek a decisive battle with the British Navy, and he has lobbied Li Weiguo many times for this.

On the North Korean issue, Li Weiguo and Lin Jiyun have the same views. That was the time to sit and watch Japan invade Korea and fight the Korean king Yi Hee. The Chinese Empire took control of Korea in one fell swoop.

In the battle of Sakhalin, the army was not afraid of the Japanese army, and a single Japanese division could not defeat the 38th town of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, and the Japanese army clearly attacked the east and the west, focusing on Korea and the Ryukyu Islands.

And the Ryukyu Islands were the place that the Chinese Empire was most concerned about, once occupied by the Japanese army. The combined British navy would threaten the coastal areas of most of the mainland of the Chinese Empire.

To this end, the Eastern Theater of the Chinese Empire mobilized the troops of the Three Towns to reinforce the Ryukyus and block the Japanese army.

The Japanese Army was only eight divisions, and with the combat strength of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, the strength of the four towns was enough to defend the Ryukyus.

As for Lanfang Prefecture. On a large island of more than 700,000 square kilometers, the defense of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army was a little difficult. However, the Imperial War Department had already mobilized garrisons from Nanzhang and Cambodia to take the Malayan Peninsula and attack the rear of Singapore, which was expected to relieve the military pressure on Lan Fang State.

With the combat effectiveness of the British Army, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire was not afraid at all, so even if the Qizhou Ocean Fleet withdrew, it could withstand it in a short time.

Finally, and most critically, whether Guam can be defended.

In the Pacific Ocean around Guam, it was the main fleet of the British Empire, and reinforcing Guam meant facing the British Navy and fighting a decisive battle.

The British navy undoubtedly had an overwhelming numerical superiority, while the imperial Chinese navy had an overwhelming qualitative superiority, and each side had an overwhelming superiority, which made the outcome of the decisive battle between the two sides uncertain.

And if this variable had been placed five years ago, then the Imperial Chinese Navy would not have been afraid at all, because no matter how many British naval warships there were, their artillery could not penetrate the armor of the Imperial Chinese warships. But now there is a variable, and that is the birth of the Fish Radium weapon, which was equipped with Fish Radium on all ships of the British Navy, which was enough to pose a lethal threat to the warships of the Chinese Empire.

In particular, in the Battle of Guam a month ago, the four Hsiungfeng-class battleships of the Chinese Empire did not fall behind against ten British warships, but sank one of the opponent's warships and severely damaged two of the opponent's warships, which is enough to prove that the Chinese Empire's warships have an overwhelming advantage in quality.

However, in the final stage of the Battle of Guam, the British Navy adopted a special tactic, they planned to sacrifice a few cruisers at high speed to get close to the Chinese Imperial warships, and release the fish and radium at close range.

This tactic eventually forced the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had already gained the upper hand in naval warfare, to abandon the attack on the British warships and choose to evade and retreat.

It was precisely because of this incident that the military strategists of the Chinese Empire became cautious, and they were 100% in favor of a decisive battle with the British Navy, but now more than half of them are worried.

After all, if the British Navy also used such tactics in a decisive battle, it would have been fatal for the Chinese Imperial Fleet.

There is no other reason, there are too many cruisers and frigates in the British Navy, more than 200 ships, and even a pile of corpses can pile up the Chinese Imperial Navy.

The numbers are the advantage at this moment!

Li Weiguo regretted that he paid too much attention to the quality of the construction of naval warships, thus ignoring that quantity can also play a huge role under certain conditions.

If the warships had been built in a one-to-one ratio with the British Navy, the situation it is today would not have existed.

One of the reasons why Li Weiguo did not build large-scale warships was because Li Weiguo knew that as soon as the former dreadnoughts appeared, the ironclad ships would become obsolete overnight, and if he built more ironclad ships, it would be a loss and a waste of time. Li Weiguo also knew that after the appearance of dreadnoughts, the former dreadnoughts would become obsolete overnight, and it would also be a huge loss and a waste of time to build more dreadnoughts.

This kind of thinking caused Li Weiguo's miscalculation, which made the Chinese Imperial Navy too conservative in building the Hsiungfeng-class battleships, and only built nine, because Li Weiguo thought that it would not be long before the Chinese Empire could build more powerful dreadnoughts, and it would be a waste of resources to build more former dreadnoughts like the Hsiungfeng-class.

Li Weiguo's thoughts were thought about for a long time, until the civil and military officials exchanged him back.

"I wonder what Your Majesty thinks?"

"Uh...... What did you just say? ”

Li Weiguo was distracted and did not listen clearly to the discussion of the ministers.

Wu Yong then repeated: "Your Majesty, the ministers and others unanimously believe that under the guise of reinforcing Guam, they made the false impression that the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy was preparing to go to Guam to fight a decisive battle with the British Royal Navy, and made a detour to raid the Australian Sydney Garden Island Naval Base on the way, and sent a Marine Corps to forcibly land and destroy the British Navy's supply depots there. In this way, the main force of the British navy, which was waiting for us in Guam, would inevitably panic and would go all out to return to rescue Sydney, while the Imperial Navy would wait for work and hide and set up an ambush near the Solomon Islands to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the British navy. ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "This tactic is good, the main force of the huge British naval fleet, the daily material consumption is astronomical, once the Australian supply base is lost, it will definitely be a fatal blow." The Solomon Islands have complex terrain and numerous islands, and ambushing and attacking the British naval fleet there can achieve unexpected tactical results. ”

"It turns out that Your Majesty also knows that the terrain of the Solomon Islands is complicated!" Wu Yong, Lin Jiyun and other military ministers were stunned, they didn't remember to mention the situation in the Solomon Islands to Li Weiguo.

"I've been eyeing Australia for a long time, so naturally I'll notice the Solomon Islands!" Li Weiguo smiled, where did he see the terrain of the Solomon Islands, it was purely inspired by the classic naval battle between the United States and Japan in the Solomon Islands in later generations.

"What's going on in Guam now? Will it be able to hold out until the Imperial Navy completes its strategic deployment? ”

Li Weiguo suddenly asked the most crucial question, if Guam is lost, then it will be useless to attack Australia's Sydney Garden Island naval base.

Wu Yong replied: "According to intelligence, the British army has mobilized three more divisions from Australia to go to sea, and the target is Guam, which proves that the British army has encountered stubborn resistance and suffered heavy losses on Guam, otherwise there will be no large-scale increase in troops." ”

Li Weiguo then said: "The imperial soldiers on Guam must be very hard, we have to hurry up and not let their blood be shed in vain." ”

The ministers immediately received the order, and then actively carried out their work, and a counterattack of unprecedented scale began. (To be continued.) )