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And Li Hui is different, his understanding of the West is unparalleled, but at the same time he still maintains unparalleled self-confidence, even if his intelligence may not be comparable to those top elites in China today, but as long as things involve Western powers, including Li Hongzhang, those so-called talents in China are far from being able to match, which is also his biggest advantage in addition to the foresight of the traverser.

Even the system that surprised Li Hui at the beginning may not be able to compare with it now. If there is no national self-confidence, even if there is systematic help, Li Hui will not want to revive China in advance; As long as this self-confidence remains, even without the help of the system, Li Hui will succeed sooner or later, but whether it is revolution or construction, it will take more time, and it is likely that he will not be able to see the day when China will be fully rejuvenated

Considering that it was difficult for Li Hongzhang to restore his national self-confidence in a short period of time, Li Hui did not immediately come up with facts and analysis to dispel his illusions, but chose to continue his own interruption by Li Hongzhang first, "Even if Britain intervenes, it may not necessarily lose, and in this kind of proxy war, the background will not end up in person, so the only enemy we need to face directly is Japan." Besides, since Britain supports Japan, then the challengers will inevitably support us China-for-tat, although they dare not intervene openly, but they have done it by finding some agents to sell us some arms cheaply and increase our chances of victory in this war, and in my personal opinion, the 'venture capital company' should be such an agent."

After listening to Li Hui's words, realizing that he was at least not alone, Li Hongzhang calmed down a little, Li Hui could finally say his own in-depth analysis, but in order to take care of Lao Li's emotions, he still started with comfort, "Actually, Lord Zhongtang doesn't need to worry, there is no eternal enemy between countries, only eternal interests, as long as this war can defeat Japan, the British will not only not retaliate against our country, but are likely to encircle and even support"

Li Hongzhang was really in good spirits, but he was a little unconvinced, and asked Li Hui, "Will you show favor if you lose?" Why is that? ”

"In recent years, the Rakshasa has expanded its power in the Far East, which has not only directly damaged British interests in the Far East, but also greatly reduced the pressure on Germany in Europe, and the balance of power in Europe, which the British have worked so hard to maintain, is at risk of collapse. Therefore, the British had to drive the Rakshasas back to Europe anyway, but this empire on which the sun never sets has now expanded to the limit, and they cannot afford to fight the Rakshasas in the Far East in person, so they can only support a new power in the Far East to stand up for themselves. Of the only two options, the British chose Japan, which was easier to control and had much less potential threat, but if Japan was defeated in this war, the British would be left with the only choice", Li Hui actually did not believe that Britain would really vigorously support China with unlimited potential, but in order to restore Li Hongzhang's confidence, he could only copy the strategic analysis in some online articles

After hearing this, Li Hongzhang suddenly felt enlightened, and most of the pressure in his heart dissipated, although Japan is not easy to fight, but it is much better than directly facing Britain. After recognizing Li Hui's remarks, the origin of the venture capital company is difficult to understand, the magic power is vast, and the price of the profit margin is obviously too low have a reasonable explanation, and the doubts in Li Hongzhang's heart have been dispelled.

But then again, even if the venture capital company has ulterior motives, Li Hongzhang, who is now strapped for cash, can only continue to cooperate with them, because the temptation of "cheap and good" is really irresistible, as for Li Hui, who has already saved himself more than two million taels of silver, Li Hongzhang is also reluctant to get rid of him, even if he has ulterior motives for mixing into the Beiyang system, Lao Li just intends to beat him and let him not think of himself as a fool.

But what Li Hongzhang didn't expect was that his warning made Li Hui, who had never been mixed with officialdom, a frightened bird, and in order to grasp the initiative, Li Hui had decided to make preparations for the rebellion greatly ahead.

In any case, with the construction of the printing press, the progress of the literacy work could be greatly accelerated, and the issuance of currency after the establishment of the regime was no longer a problem, and when these two problems were solved, he was confident that a solid secessionist regime would be established quickly

And Li Hongzhang was completely unprepared for this, although the more than 50,000 miners were all excellent soldiers, but where did the officers come from? Where do the weapons and ammunition come from? Where does the money come from? No matter how powerful Li Hui is, Li Hongzhang doesn't think he has the ability to solve these problems in a short period of time.

However, he did not know that every time he made a deal with a venture capital company, Li Hui's strength would increase, and when he chose to order various military supplies with a total value of more than 2 million taels from a venture capital company after the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War (Note 1) in order to save money, Li Hui's strength had grown far beyond his imagination

Li Hui, who had greatly increased his financial resources, recruited more than 1,000 biochemical soldiers in September, doubling the total number of biochemical soldiers under his command, but in order to expose them as late as possible, most of them were sent by Li Hui to the Flying Tiger Army, and by the way, he also brought a large number of advanced weapons and ammunition supplies, which made the latter's strength suddenly increase.

However, the Flying Tiger Army did not immediately go out to expand the base area, on the one hand, considering that it was now during the foreign war and did not want to help the devils, and on the other hand, it was to further consolidate the base area.

However, the main reason is that there are too many newly acquired advanced technology and equipment, and it is necessary to further educate and train the troops so that they can truly transform them into the combat strength of the Flying Tiger Army.

While key positions such as marksmen and observers can be temporarily replaced by biochemical troops, even low-skilled jobs such as loaders cannot be filled with a day or two of assault training

Among these advanced weapons, the heavy machine gun that greatly improved the combat strength of the Flying Tiger Army was naturally the heavy machine gun, and Li Hui also considered the particularity of the cavalry, and drew on the practice of the Soviet Russian Red Army in history to create a machine gun carriage, and produced 100 vehicles for the Flying Tiger Army at once.

This number has exceeded the total number of heavy machine guns equipped by the armies of all countries in the world at present (only the perfect model with smokeless ****** bullets), and the performance of the Jiawu heavy machine gun is also much more advanced than the current Maxim heavy machine gun, and its firepower can be imagined.

In addition to the unparalleled density of firepower, the heavy machine gun has the advantage of stability, the shooting accuracy is not comparable to that of the rifle, and it has the advantage of bursting, and the ability to snipe long-distance targets is stronger, which can be said to complement the excellent shooting skills of the biochemical shooter.

Once the enemy within 400 meters is targeted, he will definitely die; Even at a distance of 600 meters, the probability of a successful sniper is quite high.

If it is paired with an optical sight that can already be produced (it is a naval sub-technology in the system technology tree, and the main product is also a sight used in naval guns, but Li Hui was worried that it would leak out too early and trigger a revolution in Western naval gunnery, so he did not provide it to the Beiyang Naval Division. Then even if the enemy is hiding 1000 meters away, he must be careful to hide to ensure safety

Note 1: Most of them were army ordnance and ammunition, and there were also 20 cargo ships (Li Hui adopted the method of directly building new ships for delivery in order to avoid being intercepted by the Japanese Navy, and two batches of 20 cargo ships were sold to the steamship China Merchants Bureau after unloading and used as transport ships during the war. and some of the key components in the list of embargoes imposed by the Western powers.

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