341: Chaotic situation in the Far East
It is true that talents cannot always be accustomed to superiors, and for a long time, real talents will be distorted. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Hu Ke was not the best chief of staff in the whole army, and his achievements were not outstanding, even a little mediocre. But among the millions of Royal Army, since he can achieve the position of chief of staff of the Eighth Army, it proves that he still has his own advantages.
Hu Ke can't do anything earth-shattering, but Hu Ke has a pair of eyes that can see everything, and he can always hammer and carve certain people at the right time, so that they can truly become talents.
It stands to reason that Hu Ke's attribute should go to the military academy to serve in this attribute, but then again, not long after the empire was first established, there was a shortage of high-level officers, and after weighing the pros and cons, Hu Ke was still allowed to stay.
That night, Cai Ye received an order from Cao Kun, and Cai Ye led a platoon of headquarters guard troops to rush to the front line overnight to supervise the movements of the three divisions on the front line.
This is the favorite thing for the Japanese army to do.
In the First Sino-Japanese War nine years ago, the Second War last year, and the current Third War, in fact, fundamentally speaking, Japan did not issue a war order, and even they did not know that the deployment map given to them by the Second Army was fake.
It is precisely because of the imperfection of the supervision and management mechanism, and the fact that the high-level has tasted the sweetness, and they do not want to suppress the morale of the soldiers so bluntly, so it is tantamount to acquiescing in this kind of thing.
However, the Japanese could allow this to happen, but the Chinese Empire absolutely did not allow it, and even no country in the whole world would allow this to happen except for the Japanese.
Just thinking about it feels ridiculous, a super-large war with a scale of hundreds of thousands of people, and the cause of the war is not because of the war order issued by the domestic chief, but from a series of actions of several grassroots officers.
I wonder what these Japanese who took the initiative to provoke the war would think when they saw those dead. Is it embarrassing?
At the same time, Komura Shoutaro, the Japanese minister of the Imperial Mission in the capital, had just learned that the Royal Army had invaded Korea, and because of the backwardness of the means of communication, the specific situation at the front line was not yet clear to Komura Shoutaro.
But one thing is certain, the Japanese Army did not commit any provocative acts, and the Chinese Empire initiated the war on its own initiative without warning.
As a result, Komura Shoutaro immediately lodged a solemn protest with the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire overnight, demanding that the Chinese Empire must immediately withdraw its troops from Korea and explain the incident.
On the other hand, Komura Shoutaro immediately contacted the representatives of the other powers, hoping that they would come forward together to put pressure on the Chinese Empire.
However, there were even fewer representatives of the great powers who responded to Komura Shoutaro that night, and anyway, regardless of their affairs, who would offend the Chinese Empire, which is now in full swing, for the sake of the Japanese?
You must know that this emperor of the Chinese Empire is not easy to deal with at all, and if he doesn't do it well, he may even get caught on fire, and on this basis, they have to think carefully before agreeing to the Japanese.
Anyway, the Americans will definitely not agree, and they wish that the Far East would be dark, so that they can take advantage of it. Although the Russians were also concerned about this matter, they were more concerned about the outcome and process of the battle between the Royal Army and the Japanese Army, and at the same time weighed whether the battle could be won if it was a Russian army.
The attitude of the Germans is more ambiguous, because there are their iron ore mines in Shandong, and there are some rare metals sold to them at low prices in other regions, plus there is some military cooperation between the two sides, and the Germans will naturally not jump out to find trouble with the Chinese Empire at this time.
The British were in a hurry to jump, but they could only jump twice, Britain's land military power in the Far East was not strong, and if there was no strong naval fleet, it was estimated that no country in the Far East would bird the British.
Therefore, after begging grandpa and grandma to find a long circle, among the dozens of powers, only the British agreed to mediate.
However, it is clear that the relationship between the British and the Chinese Empire was not very friendly, and the British had previously chosen Japan as an ally, although due to various factors, the two sides did not sign a real alliance, but the British did not completely abandon Japan as an ally.
The Prime Minister's Office refused Komura's visit and told him that he would talk about it after he went to work tomorrow morning.
And after leaving the British embassy area, the British Chin Chasa Daoyi also frowned deeply.
He had been instrumental in the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but some people in China were always concerned about the left and right, arguing all day long, and finally because of the decline of Japan's international status in the Far East, the alliance negotiations were temporarily put on hold.
Sa Daoyi no longer knows how many telegrams he has sent to China, how many times he has said things like the threat of the Chinese Empire, but the big men in China have always had difficulty making decisions.
The rise of the Chinese Empire really touched their hearts, and even made Britain feel the atmosphere of danger thousands of miles away.
The most direct question is whether the Chinese Empire will forcibly recover Hong Kong by force.
Treaty restrictions? This was not safe in the eyes of the British, it was a Lend-Lease treaty with the former Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese Empire had so far not recognized the legitimacy of any of the treaties signed by the former Qing Dynasty.
Although the British were robbers, if the Chinese Empire played a shameless game and refused to recognize the previous treaty, the British had no choice but to send more troops to deter the Chinese Empire by force, but except for the navy, the British Army had no confidence to resist the advance of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.
"Those fools at home, can't they still see the ambitions of the Chinese Empire? There are even people who propose an alliance with the Chinese Empire, and I think their big men are all rusty in their brains, which is simply unreasonable. Sa Daoyi scolded angrily.
If Britain had signed an alliance treaty with Japan earlier, it is estimated that there would not be so many things now.
And once Japan is driven out of Korea by the Chinese Empire, it will be a major blow to Britain's deployment in the Far East, and it will even affect their careful deployment in the previous years, more than ten years, and it is more likely to upset the balance in the Far East, which will be a disaster for Britain.
"Sir, they are not in this environment, so they will never be able to appreciate from your description how terrible the Chinese Empire really is? Perhaps, in their opinion, it is more prudent to limit the Russians.
The Japanese had not yet entered their sights, and with Japan's narrow territory, population inferior to that of the Chinese Empire, and lack of war resources, Britain would lose more if it formed an alliance with Japan.
Perhaps, those people still have the dream of the Chinese Empire and Russia fighting to the death in the Far East. An elderly man dressed as a servant beside Sa Daoyi sighed and said.
"Those people only saw the strong war potential of the Chinese Empire, and saw that the Chinese Empire had the absolute ability to drag the Russians to death in the Far East, but they did not see that if a war broke out between China and Russia at present, the Russians would not be able to keep up with the rhythm of the war at all, and rashly provoking a war between China and Russia would only make the Chinese Empire stronger and stronger. When the time comes, what they have cultivated will no longer be a dog of the British Empire in the Far East, but a formidable enemy who can shake the British Empire's world hegemony. Sa Daoyi secretly hated.
Sa Daoyi has been in Huaxia for some years, although it cannot be said to be a Huaxia pass, but it can be regarded as half a Huaxia pass.
From the victory and weakness of the former Qing Dynasty to the rise of the Chinese Empire now, in just a few years, Wang Sirui has run the country well, if he is given a few more years, will the British still have a status here?
The Westernization Movement, which had been carried out for decades in the former Qing Dynasty, did not achieve as good results as the results of the Chinese Empire in two years.
Now, even what Sa Daoyi knows, it is already very shocking.
The four megaton steel plants, with an annual output of nearly six million tons of iron and 500,000 tons of steel, are not as good as those of the United Kingdom, although this is the result of their maximization of production capacity, although it will take at least two years to maximize capacity.
But at present, the Chinese Empire is basically self-sufficient in steel demand, which means that the great powers can no longer impose any sanctions on the Chinese Empire on raw materials.
Two large rifle factories with an annual output of half a million rifles, two heavy machine gun factories with an annual output of 30,000 rifles, and the ammunition factory Sadaoyi has not yet been found, but according to observations, he knows that the Royal Army is not short of ammunition.
This kind of military industrial capacity, even the British can only sigh, their output has far exceeded the British Army and the total military industry.
What's worse is that they got the authorization of the damned Germans, all the rifle production is the latest Mauser rifle from the Mauser factory, and the machine gun is the production authorization of Maxim, and now even if the British ask Maxim to ask him to withdraw the authorization, it is too late, and the machine gun technology or something has been eaten up.
With such a huge Chinese empire, those big men didn't even hinder his development in detail, but wanted an alliance, isn't this a bad brain?
"No, I have to stop the Chinese, no matter what the cost." Sa Daoyi finally made up his mind that he would not watch the Chinese Empire drive Japan out of Korea.
And on land, he has no certainty, the only thing he can rely on is the navy, the Chinese Empire has no navy, he must find a way to put pressure on Wang Sirui, let him order the Royal Army to withdraw from Korea.
"Help me contact Philmantle and ask him to conduct a naval exercise outside Tianjin in the near future, and the momentum must be big enough."
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