Hummels, the provisional commander elected by Germany, listened to the words of Di Luofo, commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in Hong Kong, smiled a little noncommittally, and did not say anything more, because he did not think that it was a good idea for Di Luofu to let the 90,000 troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Hong Kong invade Guangdong Province.

The failure of the naval battle in the Taiwan Strait is equivalent to the Eight-Nation Alliance's sea dominance over the entire southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty, which has been controlled by the Northeast Navy, and there is no difficulty for the 90,000 army of the Eight-Nation Alliance to invade Guangdong Province, except for the Dingbei Army of the Qing Dynasty, the other armies are not worth mentioning, if there is no Dingbei Army, the 90,000 army of the Eight-Nation Alliance is from Guangdong Province to Beijing City, there is no problem, but, please remember, will the Dingbei Army watch the army of the Eight-Nation Alliance attack the city in Guangdong Province?

On the island of Taiwan, however, there are hundreds of thousands of Dingbei troops eyeing the island, and now the control of the sea is in the hands of the Northeast Navy, which is tantamount to cutting off the support of the army of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Hong Kong; of course, the armies of Britain, France, and Japan in Fuzhou are also in a situation of isolation and helplessness, and the Dingbei Army on the island of Taiwan may be able to strike in the next few days.

Hummels made up his mind not to participate in the troubled waters here, and he had sent the situation of the naval battle in the Taiwan Strait back to Germany by telegram, but there were no specific instructions in Germany, maybe the bigwigs in Germany and the German Emperor Wilhelm II were also frightened by this news, Hummels decided that as long as there were no instructions from Germany before tomorrow morning, he would withdraw from Hong Kong with the fleet and the army, and try to bring the remaining German warships and the 8,000 German elite troops who came to Asia with the navy, safely brought back to Germany, as for what Germany will decide on the G-8 alliance in the future. It's not up to a small man like Hummels to decide.

Bridget, the commander of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and one of the British naval commanders, saw that Hummels no longer said anything. And looking at his expression, Hummels' heart to evacuate Hong Kong is extremely firm. Bridget shook his head helplessly, no longer persuading, anyway, everything that should have been said has already been said, and people insist on leaving, but they can't stop it, so Bridget went on to talk about the theme of bringing everyone together, "Now the top priority is the defense of Hong Kong port, and we must hold Hong Kong until there is no specific order in China." General Carragher, what is the situation with the Hong Kong coastal defense artillery? ”

Carragher smiled bitterly and said: "The port where our warships gather is located in Victoria Bay, and we only have 4 fixed batteries in Victoria Bay, because the strength of our Chinese fleet in Hong Kong has always been relatively strong, and the construction of the shore defense artillery is lagging behind, and the 4 batteries add up to only 8 40 times the caliber of 210 mm coastal defense guns, which is still somewhat powerful, and the other coastal defense guns can be ignored, and there are some shore defense guns or breech guns in the batteries, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined." ”

Bridget heard about the harbor shore defense guns. Knowing that they couldn't count on it, several other people couldn't help but smile bitterly, 8 40 times caliber 210 mm coastal defense guns were really weak in the face of the kind of dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy that could fire guns from a distance of 30,000 meters. It doesn't work at all, if the Northeast Navy sends those dreadnought battleships to Hong Kong, it's really a bit incomprehensible!

In the living room of the Hong Kong Governor's Palace, several British and French generals were extremely entangled. In the face of the dreadnought battleship with combat effectiveness, there was no result after discussing it for a long time. There is really no good way, but to take one step at a time. Hopefully, the UK and France will come up with something good.

Germany's Hummels saw the tangled British and French, opened his mouth and didn't say anything, he thought that the best way now is for everyone to leave Hong Kong as soon as possible and flee all the way back to Europe, but it is obviously impossible for the British and French to do this, they still have many colonies in Asia, and it is impossible for them to give up such great interests.

In the end, the discussion between the generals of Britain, France and Germany did not come out of the discussion, and the Germans were still preparing to leave early tomorrow morning, but the British and French still couldn't think of any good way to resist the Northeast Navy's attack on Hong Kong.

The unexpected result of this naval battle in the Taiwan Strait was quickly transmitted to Europe by radio waves, and the countries that got the news were all messy, what happened? The Joint Expeditionary Fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy, which gathered more than 100 all-steel battleships, was defeated, and it was a fiasco, right?

However, when the bigwigs of several European countries saw the specific naval battles, they were all silent, dreadnought battleships! The Northeast Navy actually has dreadnought battleships, and it's not 1 or 2, it's a formation, a total of 13 ships, and there are monsters that can accurately fire the main gun salvo from 30,000 meters away, you must know that the effective range of the British Dreadnought battleship is only close to 20,000 meters, so that the navies of other countries in the world will have to play?

At the official residence of the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in London, England, British Prime Minister Arthur? Balfour hastily sent Fisher, Lord of the Admiralty, and Marquis Lansdowne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to find the place.

Arthur? Balfour said to the two with a wry smile: "The telegram from Hong Kong, I think you all already know, what do you say we will do next in Britain?" Oh God, I wish it was April Fool's Day! ”

Navy Minister Fisher said with a very solemn face: "Prime Minister, the Northeast Navy suddenly appeared 13 dreadnought-class battleships, plus the loss of our British Royal Navy in this naval battle in the Taiwan Strait, now the most powerful navy in the world is no longer our British Royal Navy, but the Northeast Navy, and the strength of the Northeast Navy is currently the sum of all the forces of our European naval powers, and it is not capable of being the enemy." I don't think it would be useful to send more warships to Asia now, unless we can conjure up a fleet of more than 15 dreadnought battleships at once, and then we can change the tide of war on the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty. I think...... We, the British, had better end this war as much as we can! ”

The Marquis of Lansdowne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said with a gloomy face: "With Lin Daxin's greedy character, if the war ends now, we in Britain will definitely pay a heavy price." Now that the war in Russia is still going on, and the navy of the Eight-Nation Alliance has been defeated, can we think of some ways to do it to the army, if we can achieve a certain advantage on the northern front, that is, we want to negotiate peace, and we can also have some bargaining chips to negotiate, and we will not be blackmailed by Lin Daxin, the greedy military strongman in the Far East. ”

Prime Minister Arthur? Belfort thought about it for a while and said: "This war with Lin Daxin and the Qing Dynasty is not our own business, Marquis of Lansdowne, you immediately contact several other European countries in the Eight-Nation Alliance, we should deal with this crisis together." As for what choice we will make in the UK after that, let's take a look at the opinions of several other countries! ”

The Elysee Palace in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the office of the French president, French President Faure, Vice President Lubet and Navy Minister Grevy, the three of them looked very ugly, and no one spoke for a long time, and there was a telegram on the desk in the room, this scene seems to be a repetition of a few years ago, when the French naval expeditionary fleet was almost wiped out, they received a similar telegram, if it were not for a few people working together to tide over the difficulties, the three of them would have been ousted long ago.

3 French political bigwigs, never thought that the powerful and unparalleled eight-nation alliance naval joint expeditionary fleet was defeated, and the losses were very heavy, the commander of the French naval fleet François sent a telegram, now the French Navy warships participating in the naval battle, only 2 all-steel battleships and some other types of warships left, you must know that there are 16 French all-steel battleships participating in the naval battle, and 14 were lost at once, which definitely made the French Navy, which has just recovered for a long time, It is equivalent to another heavy blow.

Minister of the Navy Grevy said with a wry smile: "I really didn't expect the Northeast Navy to hide so deeply, and suddenly took out 13 dreadnought battleships in a naval battle, and the British only had 1 dreadnought battleship. With this variable, it is reasonable that the joint expeditionary fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy will be defeated, but I did not expect the loss to be so large, and it seems that before the navies of our European countries did not have a large number of dreadnought battleships, the Qing Dynasty's sea supremacy on the southeast coast was not to be recaptured. ”

Vice President Lube frowned and said, "The key is what do we do next?" There is no victory at sea, and the fighting in Russia and the ground forces of our eight-nation alliance are also at a disadvantage, and I think there is no point in continuing this war. ”

French President Faure sighed and said: "I think it's better to communicate with the British, the Germans, and other countries of the eight-nation alliance, and then decide what our France will do next. ”

Vice President Lube and Secretary of the Navy Grevy's faces suddenly became even more difficult to look at.

When the news of the failure of the naval battle in the Taiwan Strait reached Germany, the German Emperor Wilhelm II was shocked, and he angrily threw several delicate water glasses, and immediately sent someone to summon Prime Minister Hohenlohe to the Berlin Imperial Palace.

German Emperor Wilhelm II said angrily: "Lin Daxin's clown is so shameless, he has 13 dreadnought battleships hidden, if he had already put 13 dreadnought battleships on the table, where would there be this war!" ”

Prime Minister Hohenlohe couldn't help but smile bitterly, it's not like you have to join the Eight-Nation Alliance, take the initiative to provoke others, and don't allow others to have a hole card or something.

On the Yellow Peril map given by the German Emperor Wilhelm II to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, the clown symbolizing the Yellow Peril is an allusion to Lin Daxin, so Wilhelm II called Lin Daxin a clown. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm a little sick today, but I still insisted on writing 2 chapters, more than 7000 words, and I'm a little embarrassed to beg for tickets, quack quack~

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