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Obviously, the British did not think that Deshou was able to withstand the attack of the Han army.

Although the British do not know what the real strength of the Han army is for the time being? But three years ago, the British still knew something about Wang Sirui.

If the combat effectiveness of today's Han army can be guaranteed to be the same as it was back then, even the British Army will not be able to stop the Han army, which is not alarmist.

In the eyes of outsiders, the British are arrogant and blindly arrogant.

But in reality? That's exactly what happened.

It's just that in Britain, there is a group of people who are not confused by the strength of Britain, and at the same time, they are the only group of people in the world who maintain their sanity.

Needless to guess, the group was divided into two groups, one of which followed the prime minister and the other who advised the royal family.

They can see the weaknesses of the United Kingdom, they can see the gap between themselves and the enemy, so their advice always allows the royal family to find a solution to the problem in time.

The Han army is powerful.

Although they don't know why the Han army suddenly became so powerful, they were no longer so depressed when they learned that the Han army had purchased a large number of industrial facilities from the United States.

If the war three years ago was too far away from them, and the recent war of the Han army going south could not provide them with meaningful reference value.

Then the Second War between Qing and Japan that occurred last year is the best reference case.

In that battle, the Japanese were completely defeated by the Han army.

Although the strength of the Japanese still cannot enter the eyes of the British, as an Asian army power, there is no objection to the fact that the Japanese army ranks the leader in Asia.

Although there has been no change in the ranking of the Asian Army, in fact, many people have silently ranked Wang Sirui's Han Army in the first place. As soon as Wang Sirui announces his independence, he will immediately surpass Japan to become the first.

Therefore, in the current situation, if the British want to rely on Britain's own strength on land, they will absolutely not be able to stop Wang Sirui's footsteps.

Moreover, the Far East is so far away from the British mainland, Britain just won the Boer War last year, and it is still silently licking its wounds, and the anti-war public opinion in the country has suppressed the government a little breathlessly.

However, the British could not ignore this matter.

At this time, the British were caught in infinite contradictions.

In the first place, it was because Wang Sirui guaranteed their interests, and the countries did not have the ability to send more troops to fight in the Far East, so it could be regarded as acquiescing in Wang Sirui's approach.

Later, Wang Sirui began to kick his nose in the face, and the Americans began to be ashamed to not even want face for money, which caused the current situation.

For Britain, three years ago, a complete Qing state was in the interests of Britain.

However, it was only three years later, and it became a divided Qing state, which was more beneficial to Britain.

As a result, the active-minded British finally began to act, once again proving to the world what it means to be the most powerful empire in the world.

In early September 1903, the Fourth Army of the Han Army captured the entire territory of Hubei, the northern part of Hunan, the western part of Anhui, and the northern part of Jiangxi.

The Fifth Army captured the eastern part of Anhui, the whole territory of Jiangsu, Shanghai, and most of Zhejiang.

The Third Army occupied Shaanxi and Gansu.

In October, the Fourth and Fifth Armies made slow progress, mainly to wait for the reserve forces behind them to take over the territory, so the Han army continued to move south in late October.

In mid-November, the Fifth Army occupied the entire territory of Zhejiang, the eastern part of Jiangxi, and the entire territory of Fujian.

The Fourth Army occupied the entire territory of Hunan and the western part of Jiangxi.

At this point, the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army, with a total of 13 divisions and a total of more than 230,000 officers and men, surrounded Guangdong from the north and east.

Don't look at the fiery plan of the Han army's southward movement, but in fact, the Han army has come to the end of the crossbow until now.

The territory of Huaxia is so large, just the normal garrisons in various places need as many as one million.

These do not need to participate in any war, only need to maintain a stable army in the local area, and the Han army currently has only more than 600,000 regular troops, less than 400,000 reserves, and 600,000 recruits in the new barracks, and the earliest ones can only enter the reserve after the New Year.

In other words, with the current strength of the Han army, there is simply no way to occupy more areas. It is to occupy Jiangxi, Hunan, and Fujian, which are all risky decisions.

Because the Second Army in Shengjing basically didn't move much, this time the plan to go south only drew two divisions of troops from the Second Army, where there are still six regular army divisions and ten reserve divisions.

With the frantic expansion of the army, the benefits were obvious, and in just a few months, Wang Sirui controlled the richest areas of China except Guangdong.

And through the raiding of the homes of those fleeing officials, it also allowed the Han army, which had bottomed out its treasury, to continue to survive for a while.

But the disadvantages are also obvious, first of all, they do not have enough troops to carry out other tasks, at least before the recruits enter the reserve, the current five armies of the Han army must honestly stay in the current station.

Similarly, although the arsenal of the Han army was able to make rifles frantically, the production of heavy machine guns was always limited, even with the adoption of assembly line production methods and the large number of skilled craftsmen from Europe and the United States.

They even built several production lines on their own with existing equipment, but so far, the annual output of the Han army's heavy machine gun factory is still less than 1,000.

This is obviously not enough for the huge Han army.

Similarly, the Han army was weakened by more than one level in terms of firepower.

Those newly formed reservists later, even a regiment, could only be equipped with one heavy machine gun. In addition to the First and Second Armies, the heavy machine guns of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Armies were directly transferred from one company to one, and now only two heavy machine guns can be guaranteed for one battalion.

But even so, the firepower of the Han army, even the firepower of the reserves, still exceeds the current Qing army, and even the armies of most powers.

Of course, with the rapid expansion of territory, the Han army also had to face a problem, that is, long supply lines.

There were no flat roads, no developed rail transport network, and not even heavy trucks for transportation.

The supply of the Han army can only rely on land transportation, relying on pack horses to transport little by little.

It's okay to say that food or something, but weapons and ammunition can only be transported from the capital. As everyone knows, according to the current theater of operations, it takes at least two months for a rifle to be replenished from the factory to the hands of the Fourth or Fifth Army.

The consumption on the way is even more terrifying, and although the Hanyang Arsenal, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places have all fallen into the hands of the Han army, those equipment still need to be changed if they want to produce the equipment of the Han army.

Therefore, according to the current progress, the Fourth and Fifth Armies will not be able to obtain the weapons and ammunition produced by these three arsenals until at least the beginning of next year.

If that's all there is to it, then the British will definitely do whatever it takes to help Deshou train an army with strong firepower, at least let them kill each other, the British are just giving out some weapons and ammunition, these things the British have.

But the British know very well that what they lack most is time.

In the same way, Wang Sirui is more lacking in time than them.

If the most ideal deployment is followed, then when the British are ready, the Han army will also be ready, and at that time, with the advantage of the Han army in numbers, Deshou will have no power to resist.

As everyone knows, in the process of the Han army going south, it is almost like no one's land, and every time the army arrives at a city, although it is not said to immediately open the city and surrender, it is not too much.

The Han army's policy towards the people was also deeply popular, and the high military salary of the Han army attracted a large number of young people to join the army.

If the British dare to delay for half a year, then the British will have to face at least 500,000 Han troops.

And this is only a mobile force that the Han army can use for combat, and the garrisons in various places are not counted, and if some troops are drawn from the provinces where the inland powers have less influence, then the British will be faced with at least 600,000 Han troops.

With such a large number of Han troops, even if their firepower density decreased, it was still not something that the British could bear.

The British have already suffered a lot from Wang Sirui, so they know very well that Wang Sirui must not be given any respite.

Therefore, the British made a whole new plan in response to the changing 'bad' situation in the Far East. And this plan was called the destruction of the king and Fuqing by the British.

So, the British found the Japanese, the Russians, the Americans, the Germans, the French, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the representatives of the Seven Nations negotiated in London for more than two months, and finally reached an agreement on November 1.

The development of the Han army had touched the bottom line of the European and American powers, so they had to intervene forcefully. Even the Americans, who were once in the honeymoon period with Wang Sirui, finally couldn't sit still this time.

Because, the British offered more and more attractive prices than Wang Sirui gave them, and the Americans had to lose Wang Sirui, a 'friend' who might backfire on them, for their own interests.

Of course, it is useless to say a thousand things and ten thousand, the main reason is that Genghis Khan's Mongolian iron cavalry has left a deep imprint in the hearts of Europeans.

To put it further, the Huns, who were defeated by the army of the Han Dynasty, could only flee to Europe in the end, and then ...... Then the Roman Empire was destroyed by the Huns.

Therefore, Europe will never allow the Chinese Han people to rise again, even if it increases the strength of its enemies, and it will never allow the rise of this feuding enemy who has brought disasters to itself several times.

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