In the office of the Governor-General Lin Daxin, Lin Daxin, Wu Peifu and Jiang Hui, the two chiefs of general staff of the navy and army, chatted while drinking four dishes and one soup made in the kitchen, and Wu Peifu told Lin Daxin that tomorrow, June 20, the area of Krasnoyarsk, an important town on the Yenisei River in Russia, should be a sunny day, so that the five field armies gathered outside Krasnoyarsk can finally attack again.

This is not easy, you must know that the five field armies of the Dingbei Army have been outside Krasnoyarsk for 10 days, during which they caught up with one day of sunny days, so that the five field armies attacked Krasnoyarsk City for a whole day, and the remaining nine days were rainy days, because the planes could not take off to provide air support, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the five field armies had to stay honestly in the rainy days.

After Lin Daxin, Wu Peifu, and Jiang Hui drank another glass of wine, he put down the wine cup in his hand and said: "The current battle of Krasnoyarsk City on the Northern Front is the key, if we can take the entire Krasnoyarsk City and the railway bridge over the Yenisei River, our next battle will be much easier." I was going to talk to you about the situation on the battlefield on the Southern Front, and it just so happened that the two chiefs of general staff of your navy and army were here, so you can tell me if you have any plans for the battlefield on the Southern Front? ”

After the naval battle in the Taiwan Strait, the Northeast Navy sank and captured many British, French, and German warships in Hong Kong, including two seriously wounded Majesty-class all-steel battleships of the British Navy, one wounded large fast armored cruiser of the British Navy and one French Navy, and seven fast protection cruisers, nine destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats of the three countries of Britain, France, and Germany.

There is no longer an opponent of the Northeast Navy in the seas of the whole of Asia. The sea control is completely in the hands of the Northeast Navy, where can Lin Daxin miss such a good opportunity. So he set his sights on some long-coveted territory.

Wu Peifu also put down the wine cup and said, "Principal, according to the plan of our General Staff. On the southern front, the Ninth Field Army was about to launch an attack on Fuzhou City under the cover of the navy, and the Tenth Field Army had also begun to move from Taiwan Island to Hong Kong one after another, and was about to launch a pursuit of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army that had entered Guangdong Province. Headmaster, has the 10th Field Army been pursued into the territory of Vietnam? ”

Jiang Hui, who was next to him, continued: "After our navy occupied Hong Kong, it has cut off the sea passage into the land forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Guangdong Province. If they dare to stay in Guangdong Province for a longer period of time, and wait for the main force of the 10th Field Army to move from Taiwan Province to Hong Kong, and then enter Guangdong Province, then the 80,000 or 90,000 Eight-Nation Alliance Army will not want to escape, and fleeing to Vietnam is their only choice. ”

After a pause, Jiang Hui continued: "Marshal, Sun Xitao of the First Fleet sent a telegram that the warships that broke through from Hong Kong will flee to Da Nang in Vietnam according to the confession of the prisoners, and it seems that the naval and land forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Hong Kong will run away to Vietnam. That's right, Dashuai. Sun Xitao's telegram also said that Da Nang has newly installed a batch of 40 times caliber 305 mm coastal defense guns, because they are built on the cliffs on the shore, so that the range of these coastal defense guns is 30,000 meters away, even if it poses a certain threat to our seven super dreadnought battleships. Our General Staff of the Navy plans. Ignoring Da Nang, he prepared to take advantage of the weakness of the British navy to seize the British Straits Settlements in Asia. That is, the three port cities of Singapore, Penang and Malacca, which control the Strait of Malacca. According to the intelligence intelligence provided to the Navy, these three ports do not have any shore defense guns that can threaten our seven super dreadnought battleships. ”

The French equipped Da Nang with these long-range coastal defense guns. It is because the strength of the French Navy in Asia is not strong compared to the Northeast Navy, so the French spent a lot of money to get this batch of 40 times the caliber of 305 mm coastal defense guns, in order to ensure the safety of Da Nang, the home port of the French Asian colonial fleet, the British fleet in Asia has always been very strong, second only to the Northeast Navy in terms of scale, so that the British coastal defense guns in Asian ports are not strong, after all, before the war in the Taiwan Strait, they have always been the hegemon of the world's navy, and no one thought that anyone would think about their ports.

Lin Daxin nodded and said: "The Tenth Field Army must enter Vietnam, Singapore, Penang and Malacca, the three important port cities, we also happened to take the opportunity to take over, I am ready to send the Third Guards Army to reinforce the southern front battlefield, I hope to take advantage of this naval victory to occupy more territory in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia in France, Malaysia in the United Kingdom, Kalimantan Island and Sumatra Island in the Netherlands can be grabbed!" If the number of troops is insufficient, it just so happens that we will form a second batch of 100 new divisions of 20,000 people, and we can completely draw enough troops to devote to the battlefield on the southern front. ”

Wu Peifu and Jiang Hui glanced at each other, they didn't expect Lin Daxin to have a very big appetite this time, but how could he even count the Dutch colonies!

Jiang Hui interjected: "Marshal, we can rob the colonies of France and Britain, but the Netherlands is not a country of the Eight-Nation Alliance, we have not declared war with the Netherlands, and it is not a bit unkind to rob the Dutch colonies like this." ”

Lin Daxin waved his hand and pouted at the same time and said: "What kind of kindness, Westerners have never been kind, they can grab wherever they want, as for the problem of not declaring war, just find an excuse, the area of Lanfang Province is too small, it's time to expand, I think it's very good to turn the entire Kalimantan Island into Lanfang Province, it just so happens that the chiefs of general staff of your navy and army are here, let's study the battlefield on the southern front, how to cooperate with the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, this opportunity to grab territory must not be missed." ”

If the Dutch heard Lin Daxin's words, they would definitely cry, you said that we Dutch honestly stayed on our own territory, and we didn't provoke you, it was the Eight-Nation Alliance that provoked you, why are you still worried about our Dutch territory, where can you be reasonable!

Wu Peifu pondered for a moment and said, "According to the principal's strategy, the problem of troops should not be very big, Fuzhou City is just an isolated city. Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of imperial court troops near Fuzhou City, and the Ninth Field Army only needs to cooperate with these hundreds of thousands of imperial court troops. Coupled with the support of the navy, it should not be a problem to eliminate the 100,000 British, French, and Japanese armies there. In this way, the more than 100,000 people of the Ninth Field Army can be thrown into the battle to attack the French colonies, and together with the Tenth Field Army, there should be no big problem in occupying the entire French colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in Asia. The Third Guards could be engaged in the occupation of Malaysia and the Dutch colonies, with the cooperation of the navy, and perhaps no further reinforcements would be needed. Those territories were taken by the Third Guard. ”

Jiang Hui said: "Our navy has mastered absolute sea supremacy, and we must cooperate with the army on the southern front battlefield, take down the territory that the marshal wants, and add a few new provinces to us." ”

Lin Daxin nodded with satisfaction and said: "Plus the Qinghai, Tibet, and Gansu that the imperial court just gave me, we now have 17 provinces, and after this war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, we have to add 5 or 6 new territories in the provinces, otherwise we will play all the cards this time, and it will not be cost-effective to grab less." ”

Qinghai, Tibet, and Gansu have all been taken over by Lin Daxin's troops. Like Qinghai and Gansu, there were no twists and turns, and they were taken over by 1 independent cavalry division, Shun lì, only Tibet was different, and some Tibetan noble serf owners. Of course, they were unwilling to give up the rights in their hands, they even ignored the Qing Dynasty in the past, and they were even more unwilling to be occupied by the Dingbei Army in the whole of Tibet. So the noble serf owners of Tibet united and launched a battle to defend Tibet. They even contacted the British, who were close at hand, in the hope of getting their support.

The answer from the British has not yet arrived. The Dingbei Army, with 1 independent cavalry division and 5 garrison divisions, and 120,000 well-armed troops, had already directly entered Tibet from Xinjiang Province, and the resistance of all the aristocratic serf owners was like a mantis arm blocking the car, and the Dingbei Army began to sweep across the entire Tibet.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty and Lin Daxin had officially declared war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the British certainly did not want to meddle in Tibet, the most important British colony in Asia, India, and other colonies such as Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma, were all connected to Tibet, and if Lin Daxin's troops occupied Tibet, it would not be a good thing for the British.

However, the speed of the Dingbei Army was too fast, because the provinces under Lin Daxin's command had been connected to the train, and the troops entering Tibet were quickly assembled in Xinjiang Province, and then brought a large number of mules and horses into Tibet.

However, when the British gathered a large force, 1 independent cavalry division and 5 garrison divisions of the Dingbei Army had occupied the whole of Tibet, and in southern Tibet, the vanguard of the Dingbei Army and a British army that entered here from India fought a battle, and the vanguard of the Dingbei Army was more than 2,500 cavalry of one regiment of the independent cavalry division. The British Army was an Indian division of 15,000 men, but the result was a fiasco for the Indian division of the British Army, and in the end less than 6,000 people fled back to India, nearly 10,000 people were either killed or captured, and the total losses of this regiment of the cavalry division were less than 300 people.

Most of the British Army's troops in India are composed of Indians, and only a small number of British officers serve as officers, and this Indian division is like this, belonging to the servant army of the British Army, because of the nature of the Indians, the combat effectiveness is really not strong, otherwise it would not have been defeated so badly.

At present, there are only 120,000 Dingbei troops in Tibet, and the entire British army in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma has nearly 500,000 troops, but almost all of them are servant troops, and Britain's regular army is only a small part.

Speaking of these servant armies of the British Army, only the troops composed of the Gurkha from the mountainous areas of Nepal are stronger in combat effectiveness, and even not inferior to the regular British Army, but the troops composed of the Gurkha are not many, and the total is less than 10,000 people, and most of the servant troops are composed of Indians with relatively weak combat effectiveness.

In this way, the British had no intention of attacking Tibet, which the Dingbei Army had already controlled, and the Dingbei Army in Tibet did not attack these colonies of the British, and the British were very happy, and Lin Daxin was not ready to open another front, so now the Dingbei Army and the British army were only guarding each other on their respective borders.

Wu Peifu and Jiang Hui accompanied Lin Daxin to finish dinner, and left in a hurry, but the two of them couldn't go home to rest, they were ready to lead the personnel of their respective general staff departments overnight to work out the attack plan for the southern front battlefield, and in the end, the two of them had to coordinate the cooperation of the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy together, so don't think about resting tonight.

Compared with the 2 busy subordinates, Lin Daxin has nothing to do, as long as he formulates the goals he requires, as for how to complete them, he doesn't have to worry about it, and goes leisurely to accompany his wife and children.

In the British Prime Minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London, England, British Prime Minister Arthur? Balfort had already received reports of the naval losses of Britain, France, and Germany in the breakout of Hong Kong, as well as the surrender of Hong Kong, and by this time the emergency meeting of the Eight-Nation Alliance had already ended, and he then had the Admiral Fisher and the Foreign Minister Marquis Lansdowne found in his office.

Arthur? Balfour smiled bitterly and said to the two people: "You should already know the situation in Hong Kong, right?" ”

Fisher and Lansdown both nodded gloomily, and Fisher sighed and said, "We Britain have lost many more warships, and our navy's power in Asia has been further weakened. ”

"The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Brie, surrendered because there is too much difference in strength, but fortunately, nearly 90,000 troops have entered Guangdong Province, and as long as they arrive in Vietnam, they will be safe," Landsdoorn said. ”

Arthur? Balfour shook his head and said: "It may not be safe to enter Vietnam, I am very worried now, according to Lin Daxin's greedy character, now the sea control of the whole of Asia is equivalent to controlling the hands of the Northeast Navy under his command, and he will definitely take action against our British and French colonies in Asia, so we must be mentally prepared to lose some of our colonies." (To be continued......)

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