"His Majesty the Emperor of China to the Tsar of Russia." Beginning in May, Liu Xian's letter of state traveled tens of thousands of miles by train to the new Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. It was a letter that bordered on a declaration of war. Liu Xian's appetite was greatly opened, and he directly asked Nicholas II, who had just been promoted from the crown prince, for the Western Siberian Plain and the remaining western half of Central Asia! There is also a threat in his tone, if Nicholas II doesn't give it, don't blame him for robbing it! There is even Cao Agui-'Imaji's naval army of 800,000 people, and Fang and the general will hunt in Wu. '' ambition.

The day after the credentials arrived in St. Petersburg, the Chinese envoy was sent to the summer palace by Nicholas II.

The envoy came out of the summer palace and sent a telegram to Beijing, but there was no indignation in his heart. Nicholas had just died of his father, and Alexander III did not live until the end of 1894, as in history, but just after the beginning of the spring. Nicholas II, who was not yet married, was successfully promoted, but he had just taken over the Tsar's throne and obviously did not secure his position. Liu Xian came to Russia at this time, and Nicholas II was already very sensible when he went crazy without anger.

It was impossible for the Tsar to accede to Liu Xian's request. Liu Xian was not prepared not to fight at all. After receiving a telegram from St. Petersburg, China officially declared war on Tsarist Russia. This is the first time since the beginning of the war that China has taken the initiative to declare war on a foreign country. With this order, it is now the entire Western Front of nearly a million troops!

Qi Lin and Zhou Jun both sat in the north and south of the western front, Xiangfa sat in Beijing and Tianjin, and Zhang Zhongkui went to the southeast. The Nanyang strategy was handed over to Liu Mingchuan, and the battle of the Malay Peninsula had Liu Yongfu, a man who had been in the tropical mountain rainforest for half his life, to help the Taiping army.

Kong Lingren is located in the southwest. Huo Guangzheng returned from Beijing to Songhu after a four-year absence!

The Navy is fully mobilized, all coastal bases, batteries. Level 1 combat readiness. Especially Hawaii and Lanfang!

In just five days, the whole of China began to move around the war. Although it will take another half a month for the troops on the Western Front to start a real war, the fighting should break out in early June. The Wehrmacht has been preparing for war before, but in the end, it is not possible to prepare for the war, these will take time to adjust!

Liu Xian continued to stay in Beijing, and he would not go to the Western Front anytime soon. If he doesn't take care of the battle in the east, he can't sit still in the west. Besides, there are airships, armored units and mechanized units. Qi Lin and Zhou Jun can fight even if they are elm brains, and Tsarist Russia will cry and call for mother.

These old people who started with Liu Xian are old, but their combat thinking has not been solidified. With the upgrading of the Wehrmacht's weapons and the change in the thinking and mode of warfare, these people are also improving.

Moreover, there is a staff system in the army, and there is Liu Xian behind them. The front-line combat command may no longer work. But grasp the overall situation, manipulate the overall situation, and stabilize the war situation. Each is qualified.

In late May, Britain and France declared the failure of the mediation of the fourth outbreak of war between China and Russia, followed by France declaring war on China, and then the so-called secret treaty between Russia and France.

Then the Netherlands declared war on China. Spain declared war on China.

China also fearlessly declared war on France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

At the end of May, the Chinese and American fleets clashed off the coast of Hawaii, and the Chinese sank a 500-ton frigate. Twenty-three officers and men of the Navy were killed and wounded, and China declared war on the United States the next day!

The main force of the Beiyang Fleet is headed for Hawaii! Seven capital ships of China. One was a second-class ironclad ship purchased from France that year, and the other was an improved Garibaldi-class armored cruiser with a displacement of 8,200 metric tons.

The flagship was a small battleship that had recently been launched for less than half a year. With a displacement of 11,000 metric tons, it is the third largest in the Chinese Navy. It is also the strongest warship that China can build today. In the final analysis, the country has a weak foundation, and it has inherited so much technology and experience from Germany and Italy, and it has accumulated more than ten years, but it is still difficult to grasp when it can manufacture tens of thousands of tons of big guys.

During the three-year naval expansion, even though China had sufficient funds, it only ordered three 10,000-ton ships, and a battleship with a displacement of 12,500 tons was parked in the dock of the Jiangnan Shipyard.

The captain of this small battleship, named Dinghai, is Fang Boqian, and he is also the right wing commander of the current Beiyang Fleet, and the deputy commander of the fleet.

The next four capital ships were four or five thousand tons of armored cruisers and dome cruisers. Then there was a group of supply ships, transport ships and frigates, torpedo boats, high-speed destroyers. The number of the latter, the Chinese Navy has quite a lot. The Beiyang Fleet, which made this sortie, brought out half of its self-formation. Their opponent is the U.S. West Coast Fleet, which just last year was part of the USS Houston armored cruiser.

It was the latest generation of American armored cruisers, although still in the exploratory stage, and could be armed with six 203mm/L-35 guns, in addition to a twin turret in the bow and stern, and a single gun mount on each side of the amidships. The firepower is ferocious.

Only Britain is still dragging its feet. Just when Liu Xian thought that the British might not go into battle naked and naked, the British ambassador to China submitted a proposal to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the restoration of the Kingdom of Sarawak in Borneo and the restoration of the Bangkok Dynasty in Siam, but Zeng Jize sternly rejected it. Then the war between Tokyo Japan and Southwest Japan began. Tokyo Japan issued a recruitment notice, the amount is a staggering 300,000!

The warships left behind by the Beiyang Fleet merged with a Saxony-class ironclad ship allocated by the Korean Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet, and gathered at the Jeju Island Naval Base and Busan, North Korea, putting great pressure on the Japanese government in Tokyo.

On the last day of May, in the Tsushima Strait, an unexpected artillery bombardment between a North Korean warship and a Japanese patrol warship was launched, and neither side showed up to sink the ship, but Korea declared war on the Japanese government in Tokyo, and then China itself declared war on Japan in Tokyo. The British jumped out at this time, waving the 'Anglo-Japanese Treaty', clamoring that Tokyo Japan was an ally of the British Empire, and that China and North Korea declared war on Tokyo Japan, which was a provocation to the British Empire, and the British Empire decided to declare war on the Chinese Super League.

Then, in the space of a day, the British Foreign Office in London received six declarations of war from the Ryukyus, the Nguyen Dynasty, Phnom Penh, Luang Prabang, Champasak and the Southern Heavenly Kingdom.

Liu Yongfu led the Guangxi garrison, joined part of the new army of the Nguyen Dynasty, and marched towards the Malay Peninsula. Liu Shengzao of Tibet began to gather troops into Tibet, and the Tibetan army, which numbered only 3,000, was also mobilized. The former has been in Tibet for 15 years, and there are a large number of lieutenant generals in the National Defense Force who are more capable than Liu Shengzao, but it is estimated that there will not be a single lieutenant general in the national defense force who is familiar with the geography and topography of the Tibet-India border.

In fifteen years, Colonel Liu Shengzao became a lieutenant general, and he was old and only familiar with geography. Moreover, he has a friendly and intimate relationship with the two living Buddhas, and also has a good reputation in the hearts of Tibetans.

It's just that Tibet has no railways, and there are only gravel roads in the border areas. Transportation mainly began to rely on livestock, and the performance of cars was inferior, and it was too easy to stall in this high-pressure area of the plateau, especially when climbing the slopes, which would kill people.

Liu Shengzao's first task was to prevent possible misfire and friction on the Tibet-India border, but if the British and Indian troops really wanted to stir up trouble, they had to return it ruthlessly. Then the second task is to look at the Gurkha and take it if necessary.

"The Chinese are crazy!"

On the first day of the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the headline of The Times in London used such a headline. It's very eye-catching. Many ordinary people in Britain knew the news that China was going to war with Britain, France and the United States, so the news about China in British newspapers was very popular at this time.

After seeing the headlines in The Times, 'China declared war on the British Empire?' The exclamation satisfied everyone's hearts, and the news spread like a whirlwind throughout the British Isles. The Times is one of the most important newspapers in the United Kingdom, and it is distributed throughout Europe.

"Take South Africa's gold!" The cheers from the folks quickly made the whole of Britain boil. Yes, taking the opportunity of declaring war between China and Britain, is it a godsend for Britain to take the Rand gold mine?

Although there are many Chinese there and a very effective mine protection force, it is not a problem in front of the British Empire.

The Rand gold mine is crazy, and the equal sharing of the gold mine proceeds between China and Britain has already dissatisfied the British who ended the Second Boer War. They paid so many casualties and expenses to get only half of the Rand gold mines, which was unacceptable to the British.

In their view, without the Boer War waged by the British Empire, China's Hejian County could not have survived in the Great Dividing Range. Although the Chinese lost half of the gold mine revenues, they did not really participate in the war, but only provided part of the military supplies for the British army. China is enjoying it!

It's like a taboo in Sino-British relations. At a time when Sino-British relations are friendly, no one can touch this taboo. But now that Sino-British relations have broken down, this is a godsend for the British Empire to take all the gold of South Africa.

"And Indochina. Siam, Phnom Penh, Nguyen Dynasty...... "There was no shortage of colonialists in Britain.

And Indochina was originally a place coveted by the British. At the beginning, they waged war in Burma, and the French waged war in the Nguyen Dynasty, although they were looking at the southwest of China, and even in order to reassure each other, they kept a two-sided Siam in the middle of the two countries, so that it could serve as a buffer between the two countries.

However, Indochina is rich in products, and both Britain and France are jealous. The British were able to receive millions of pounds of wealth from Burma every year, while Siam and Nguyen were even richer than Burma.

No European dares to covet China's own territory now, but the Siamese and Nguyen dynasties, which are peripheral brothers in the nature of client states in China, can eat them. This is just as no European would doubt that the final victory in this war belongs to Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Spain and the Netherlands!

The Chinese are too arrogant. They are challenging half of Western civilization! (To be continued......)