[276] Sino-British War

In the spring of 1886, Miyun Reservoir, Beijing.

The wind was slightly cold, the breeze was refreshing, the willows had just pulled out their buds, and they couldn't wait to dance with the wind, and the daisies and their friends emerged from the soft new soil, looking at the new world with sleepy eyes.

Yao Fan and his nine-year-old daughter, Yao Yutian, and cadres of the central government carried shovels and saplings to Beijing's Miyun Reservoir, which was initially completed in the winter of last year, and they wanted to plant trees on the barren slopes nearby.

These comrades, old and young, have white hair and hairless mouths, and have different appearances, but they have one thing in common, they are all smiling, like the children of the family on a spring outing, pointing to the completed Miyun Reservoir, full of pride and happiness.

The motherland has made such brilliant achievements in the Second Five-Year Plan, how can the people not be proud? How can you not be happy?

In 1886, when the Second Five-Year Plan was completed, the People's Republic of China had 12 million tons of crude steel production, which was equal to the total steel output of other countries in the world except China, and about three times the steel output of more than 4 million tons in the second-place Britain. At the same time, the People's Republic of China also has a production capacity of 13 million tons of pig iron, 16 million tons of cement, 30 million tons of crude oil, 70 billion kilowatt-hours of power generation capacity, 500 million tons of raw coal production capacity, 7 million tons of sulfuric acid production capacity, 50,000 kilometers of railway lines, 1,000 kilometers of electrified railways, 20,000 kilometers of civil aviation lines, more than 1.5 million civil cars, and an annual consumption of 16 million tons of pigs, beef and mutton. The population has swelled to 590 million, with more than 70 million primary school students, more than 1 million college students in various colleges and universities, and more than 20 million students enrolled in TV teaching colleges and universities......

In addition to most of the indicators reaching the level of the 60s of New China, some indicators such as power generation have reached the level of the 70s by leaps and bounds.

China's state-run economy accounts for more than 85 percent of the entire national economy, and the private economy has also developed rapidly, filling the gaps in the state-run economy in all corners, not only increasing the number of jobs, but also improving the overall efficiency and scale of the national economy, the rapid development of animal husbandry and feed industry in rural areas, the raising of pigs and cows has become a common practice in rural areas, the shipbuilding industry is incomparably prosperous, the aircraft manufacturing industry is in the ascendant, and the country also has 281 shipyards of all sizes, light tanks and armored vehicles are equipped with major group armies. Fighters and bombers began to join the battle sequence, 10,000-ton gunboats and missile frigates appeared in the navy, and the construction of aircraft carriers was also put on the agenda of the Third Five-Year Plan.

With the completion of the Second Five-Year Plan, the People's Republic of China has become like a muscular giant, overlooking the whole world from the height of Mount Everest.

Now China, stomp lightly, the whole world must tremble!

"Chairman, here, the hill ahead is here." The guards reported Yao Fan.

Yao Fan's face was pale, which had nothing to do with his mood, mainly because he often lost blood. Frequent space-time teleportation, even if there is a blood transfusion every time, it is still a little unbearable. Now his body always feels heavy, and since the birth of his third child with the golden warbler, his body has become more and more thin.

"Comrades, let's get to work!" Yao Fan picked up the shovel in a dashing manner, went down with a shovel, and plunged deep into the soil.

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At this time, the arms race in the world has entered a white heat.

After China exported the technical process data and a batch of production equipment of the Mauser 98 rifle to Germany, it took only one year for the Germans to produce the qualified Mauser 98.

The British delayed the imitation of the 56 semi-automatic rifle, not only has it been unable to master the industrial precision machining of high-winding rifling and the metallurgical formula of the barrel steel to prevent overheating and deformation, but even the imitation of the bullet can not break through, and the shell jamming rate of the cartridge case produced is amazing, and the firing pin in the gun is also broken from time to time, which makes the discouraged British Army have to give up the ambitious plan and choose the backup plan that is carried out simultaneously. It is equipped with a Lee-Metford bolt rifle with a magazine invented in China, but it completely copied the 56 semi-automatic in terms of sights, butts, gun straps, bayonets and other details.

Following China, various countries have put smokeless gunpowder into use on a large scale, so they have not only tightened their belts and put on horseback bolt rifles on a large scale, but also invested great efforts in developing stronger artillery and machine guns.

Following Germany, Britain also made its own powder detectors, which were glass tubes filled with metal shavings, which were 108,000 miles away from vacuum tubes, but they were the first step towards wireless telegraphs.

However, after the discovery of wireless telegraph technology, the two countries did not put it into production, except for building a few prototypes, engaging in a few elaborate long-range communications, and blowing a lot of noise in newspapers.

This is mainly due to the quality and performance of Chinese products on the market, leaving behind the powder detectors and radios they manufacture themselves, and there are more than 10,000 streets, and instead of producing unreliable domestic products, it is better to reserve a large number of Chinese goods for war preparation.

In the summer of 1881, the Socialist #Liberation Movement led by the Labour International broke out in the British colony of Burma, and the Chinese People's Republic took it upon itself to form a peacekeeping force involving China and Siam. Of course, according to the original liberation constitution, Siam has no armed forces other than the police at all, but pays military expenses to China every year, and China helps to provide military protection.

The formation of the Socialist Republic of Myanmar was completed within a month of the influx of United Nations troops into Burma, and Myanmar joined the United Nations at the outset, both diplomatically and militarily, following Siamese's example.

At this time, Britain finally reached the point where it could not bear it anymore and brazenly declared war on China.

Prior to this, Britain had been preparing for five years, and was stunned to raise an army of 200,000 in the Indian colonies. The Royal Navy has been reorganized on a large scale, and the East India Fleet has become the largest fleet outside the British Home Fleet, with 139 warships of various types and sizes, and a number of sets of coordinated fighting styles and tactics have been trained to target the Chinese fleet!

In order to interrupt China's rise by force, Britain and the United States signed the Atlantic Agreement, proposing that the two sides jointly govern the Atlantic. Leaving aside Ottoman Turkey, an agreement was signed with Russia to give Cyprus and Bosphorus outlets# to Russia, so that Britain combined the North American Fleet, the Atlantic Fleet, and the Mediterranean Fleet into one and became the home Grand Fleet. The South African Fleet, the East African Fleet, the Cape Fleet, the East India Fleet, the West India Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet were combined and called the Overseas Grand Fleet.

The Empire of the Sun Never Sets chose to take a desperate gamble when faced with the arrival of the sunset.

Almost at the same time that Britain declared war, China chose to respond to the war, and the Kunming Theater of Operations was dispatched, roaring westward from Burma, assaulting Dhaka and Calcutta.

The newly built Tashkent theater of operations rushed all the way south to Kabul, Islamabad, and Lahore.

The Chengdu Theater, which had been reorganized into the Lhasa Theater, moved south from the two regions of Shigatse and Ali, crossed the Himalayan Pass, and attacked Kathmandu and Chandigarh.

The South China Sea Fleet, which had already built its forward base in Banda Aceh, led its Marines to attack the ports off the coast of the East Indies.

Before the current allies of Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Spain, could react, and the revolutionary army had already stormed India, extending the Indian liberation campaign to the entire border.