The biggest change in the pattern of the world is the incident of several countries such as the Saar Empire breaking away from the Allies and joining the Axis bloc, after which, there is a certain gap in the strength of the two major military blocs, but the Boston Empire still does not dare to start a war, and the big problem is Fang Xiaoyu.

Fang Xiaoyu's experience is too legendary, although the governments of various countries do not say it, but they are very jealous of him, in the archives of the intelligence bureaus of various countries, Fang Xiaoyu has become a god-like existence, and it is precisely because of his existence that the Boston Empire does not dare to act rashly.

Fang Xiaoyu is also well aware of this mentality of various countries, his own reputation is outside, so that the pressure on all governments is huge, if all countries are so cautious, the plans of the Chinese Empire will not be able to be launched, and other countries will choose to unite under this pressure, and the peaceful evolution of the Boston Empire will be inevitable.

In order to appease the Boston Empire and give them the courage to start a war, Fang Xiaoyu resolutely decided to abdicate and let his little-known young son take over, while replacing the efficient monarchy with an inefficient constitutional monarchy, which avoided his son's mistakes while giving the other countries the impression that the Chinese Empire intended to defend rather than advance.

Fang Xiaoyu himself returned to Zhonghua Island, and then deliberately revealed the news that the China Consortium had been able to carry out manned space flights and began to develop alien planets. And the news of his own entry into space was also secretly revealed by Fang Xiaoyu to the high-level leaders of various countries through the other party's intelligence network.

Although I was extremely surprised that the Chinese Consortium could carry out cosmic immigration, but with the news that Fang Xiaoyu was no longer looking at the hometown star, the Boston Imperial Government was finally relieved, not to mention that I heard that the Chinese Consortium had such an ability, which made the Boston Empire salivate, if they could take the Chinese Consortium for themselves, the national strength and scientific and technological strength of the Boston Empire would become an existence that could not be surpassed in this world.

In order to gain the ability to compete with NATO as soon as possible, the Boston Empire did not dare to delay time this time, so they hurriedly expanded the situation of the border conflict between the Nantes Empire and the Habfsburg Kingdom, thus opening the prelude to the decisive battle on the Western Continent.

With Lecheng spying on intelligence at the top of the Imperial government in Boston, Fang Ruijun knew the actions of the Axis powers well. Although there was no threat of war in NATO for a short period of time, the Imperial Cabinet still demanded that the armies of the Chinese Empire and all its allies be on increased alert and training, and that they should be ready for war at any time. In addition, the Chinese Empire also came to the aid of the Allied bloc, hoping to strengthen its strength and better deplete the war strength of the Boston Empire and its allies.

As soon as the Allies declared war, the Boston Empire, which had been prepared for a long time, sent troops directly into the Moss Kingdom without saying a word, and joined forces with the local government forces, and the Axis forces launched a fierce attack on Dracula's Primordial Autonomous Region.

In just half a month, most of the autonomous army was annihilated, Dracula secretly left the kingdom of Moss on a foreign cruise ship, and the Primorsky Autonomous Region was once again controlled by the Moss royal family. The combined action of the Boston Empire and the Moss government forces frightened Caljes, who immediately appealed to the Empire of St. Martin and the Chinese Empire.

Imperial Prime Minister Lin Feng knew very well that the Axis bloc would no longer set up a big enemy like NATO before defeating the Allied bloc, and Caljes's southern SAR was still quite safe.

However, in order to meet the needs of future operations and appease Calgess's emotions, the Imperial Cabinet instructed the Empire of St. Martin to equip the troops of the Southern District with automatic rifles, self-propelled guns and Grizzly 2 vehicles. In addition, a medium-sized air force, consisting mainly of Lightning fighters and albatross dive bombers, was established, and a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications began on the northern border of the Southern Special Administrative Region and in some vulnerable coastal areas.

With the material support of the Boston Empire, except for the Boston Empire, which left eight aircraft carriers of four aircraft carrier groups in the Eastern Ocean to monitor the movements of the Chinese Empire, the thirty-six aircraft carrier groups belonging to the other Axis powers, a total of 72 aircraft carriers, all gathered on the stormy ocean and launched operations against the Alliance group.

After the division of the Habsburg Kingdom was declared, the country's economy plummeted, and in order to save money, the size of his fleet was correspondingly reduced, with only three old Chinese ships and more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers, and the eight submarines of the submarine force were still purchased from the Seawolf 1 type during the First World War of the Chinese Empire, and the combat capability was not strong.

The Grand Duchy of Sardinia is a very traditional country, their government and military are still pursuing the doctrine of cannons and giant ships, so although the Grand Duchy of Sardinia has six Chinese ships, there is no aircraft carrier, of course, its domestic economy has just improved in the past two years under the support of the Chinese Empire, they have no money to build new warships, so these battleships are also all old models.

To the slight relief of the Allied bloc, the coastlines of both countries were in the relatively closed Mediterranean, and the protection of land-based aircraft was barely enough, not to mention that half of the Strait of Gibraltar was in the hands of the Yaman Empire, which could prevent the entry of the Axis fleet. But the worst thing is also due to the closed nature of the Mediterranean, so the navies of the three major Central Powers cannot be used centrally.

The fleets of the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia were both in the Mediterranean, while the fleets of the Yaman Empire were far north in the North Sea region.

At this time, although the Yaman Navy already had 23 aircraft carriers, as many as 200 combat ships of various types, and more than 100 submarines of various types, and its combat effectiveness was quite strong, it was still a little powerless in the face of the Axis Navy, which could be completely twisted into a rope. After the start of the war, except for submarines, they did not dare to attack rashly, and the main fleet could only live under the protection of shore-based aviation.

"Direction 060, speed eight knots, No. 1 torpedo tube preparation, No. 2 torpedo tube preparation." Major Manning carefully operated the periscope in his hand, observing the merchant ships traveling alone more than a thousand meters away, and with the recent tightening of the Boston Empire's escorts, such good opportunities have been scarce.

"Torpedo No. 1 launched." Major Manning gave the order decisively, and five seconds later, he gave almost the same order, and the two torpedoes, one in front of the other, slid quickly towards the merchant ship at a speed of seventeen knots. This powerful weapon, which has long been disputed by the country of its inventor, has become the most threatening existence of submarines.

In the dark night, the merchant ship that was sailing peacefully on the sea did not know that the danger of the road was approaching, and with two violent explosions, the merchant ship of more than 20,000 tons was blown into three sections and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

"Let's go up and have a look." It was the middle of the night, and there were no Axis escort ships nearby, so Major Manning had time to look at the remains of the merchant ships. As the submarine approached the still burning wreckage, Major Manning and a kind of sailors looked around, trying to find anything valuable, but after searching for a long time, they found nothing.

"It seems that there are steel ingots or cotton or anything like that on board, and there is no cargo floating at all." A sailor looked around, unaware of the heavy cost to the Boston Empire with the blow he had just made.

"The merchant ship Wisconsin was sunk and it did not arrive in Portsmouth on time." A telegraph operator hurried into the manager's office and placed a telegram in front of Wesley, the manager of the White Star Shipping Company.

"What?" Wesley stood up in shock, the Westcon Star was leased by the Imperial Government from the White Star Company in order to support the upcoming war in the Western Continent. A large number of heavy guns were secretly loaded on this transport ship, including more than 30 heavy guns of 203 mm caliber alone.

At first glance, these 203 mm guns sound not much bigger than 155 mm guns, but in fact the cost of the former is ten times that of the latter, because the manufacture of 203 mm guns needs to take into account the wear of the gun barrel and the chamber pressure bearing capacity of the combustion chamber.

Among these indicators, the requirements for 203 mm heavy guns were several times higher than those for 155 mm guns, which had reached the limit for the Boston Empire, whose steel smelting was not as advanced as the Chinese Empire, and its cost was naturally much higher.

After the Chinese Empire completely cut off the sale of specialty steel to various countries, the manufacturing cost of these cannon steels skyrocketed, and even the Boston Empire could not afford it, and the production was extremely low.

The steel raw materials used in the more than 30 heavy guns on the sunken cargo ship this time were already the entire output of the Boston Empire in two months, so the sinking of this merchant ship made Manager Wesley so sad that he immediately called the army and reported the situation.

"What? All this batch of heavy artillery was sunk into the sea? Marshal Pershing stood up angrily, this veteran who was nearly sixty years old, serving as the Minister of Defense of the Boston Empire at this time, as soon as he spoke, the officers of the navy, land and air forces next to him lowered their heads one after another, and they did not dare to come out.

"General Dewey, you said that the navy did not escort the navy." Field Marshal Pershing was the first to point to Admiral Dewey, the Secretary of the Navy.

Dewey was frightened, this veteran who was known for his iron and blood was born in the army, and he had a great affinity for the army, and now the army's equipment was sunk in the ocean because of the navy's mistakes, and if this sin was slapped on himself, I am afraid that he would be demoted.

Dewey carefully considered the words in his heart, for fear that saying the wrong thing would cause Marshal Pershing to be furious. "Most of the warships of our Storm Ocean Fleet are gathering towards the Nantes Empire, and there are not many destroyers left, so each escort is half a month. Each time, it was necessary to assemble a large number of merchant ships and go to the Western Continent under the escort of destroyers. ”