"Your Majesty, the British have to make a big move." Yuan said to Yang Feng with a long look that he was now more and more in line with the image of a traitor.

"Aren't they moving big enough right now? With an army of 1.5 million, nearly 600 chariots, more than 500 aircraft, 40 airships, and 10,000 artillery pieces were used. Yang Feng said inexplicably.

"They're going to land in Germany!" Attendant Yuan hurriedly said.

Emperor Yang immediately gasped, but he immediately reacted, his chief attendant must have been carried away by the excitement after receiving the information, and the British would not be able to land in Germany under any circumstances until the high seas fleet was resolved.

"Did they assemble the landing ships?" The guy then asked.

"Our intelligence officers in Britain report that the British have assembled all the landing ships in a few small ports in the east that no one usually notices, and together with the more than thirty-two ships they built after the start of the war, if they carry out a beach rush, it will be enough to transport two integrated infantry divisions at once, and there are already infantry massing in these ports." Yuan Shikai said hurriedly.

"Yes, it seems that they are going to play really, I will say, how can the British be so stupid, knowing that the result of attacking the German defense line can only be a head-to-head and bloodshed, but what kind of attack is there to attack on all fronts, it turns out that it is playing the plank road in the open, and the darkness is Chencang! However, it is certainly impossible to land in Germany, and it is very possible to land somewhere else. Yang Feng stood up and looked at his huge map and said.

"Your Majesty, you mean Belgium? Probably not, right? Prince Leopold had a well-defended defense along the Belgian coast, and his army group had six corps, and until now the front line was like that, the Fourth Army in Bruges, in western Belgium, and the Sixth Army in Ghent had not moved. Moreover, he has built a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications along the Belgian coast for more than a year, and the British have grabbed the beach at most two divisions. Not to mention the fact that such a landing will inevitably lead to the gathering of a large number of people on the beach. The Germans only need to transfer the airship over and throw a few hundred tons of coagulation qiyou bombs, and I am afraid that the British will have to burn more than half of them to death. Yuan Shikai said, I have to say that His Excellency the Chief of Chamberlain has been good at military affairs over the years.

But what he said is also the truth, Prince Leopold's First Army has built Belgium like an iron barrel over the years, and the Germans have followed Yang Feng to play many frontal attack flank landing tactics, and from the very beginning they have guarded against the huge British landing fleet, and the main task of the First Army is to do this.

"Why land in Belgium? Couldn't it be from somewhere else? Yang Feng said, the expression on his face was very happy, and it was clear that the British were striding towards the road they were looking forward to.

"Somewhere else, Holland? Impossible. The Netherlands is a neutral country. Yuan Shikai said suspiciously.

"Nothing is impossible, the current predicament in Europe has been formed, neither side has the ability to break it, if you want to end the war as much as possible, then you have to take some special measures, although the Netherlands is a neutral country, but who will put its place there? It was too difficult for the British to land in Germany, the High Seas Fleet was in Wilhelmshaven, and the Helgoland Bay was locked like an iron barrel. Unless the main fleet of the British Navy is freed, it will fight hard with the Germans.

Now the strength of the two sides is also clear compared to the British, even if they can win, the result will be a heavy loss, not much. Now that the British Navy has lost half of its battleships, even if it wins the war, the result will also be the loss of global supremacy, and not only our thoughts on their colonies. The Russians are also worried that the Eastern Front has now been fought like that, and the Russian Baltic Fleet is still hiding in the military port to watch the excitement. Didn't Nikolai's mind the British still understand?

In this case, they must try to avoid a decisive battle with the Germans at sea, but if they want to land in Germany, they will only have to fight a decisive battle with the High Seas Fleet, and if they do not land in Germany, in the form they are now on the land battlefield, I am afraid that they will never be able to win the war.

The landing in the Netherlands is different, it is too close to Germany, and the Dutch army can almost be ignored, if Britain wants to force a landing in the Netherlands, I am afraid that it will not encounter any real resistance, Queen Wilhelmina and the Dutch government have been trying to maintain their neutrality, because Germany needs the Netherlands as a neutral country to import food, Britain and the Netherlands have always had friendly relations, so in order to show that the Netherlands has no intention of participating in either side, it has not even expanded its army, although the Dutch navy still has a certain strength, But in front of the British Navy it is not worth mentioning.

What's more, the British are doing this, I'm afraid it is impossible not to have some behind-the-scenes actions. Yang Feng said with a sneer.

He guessed correctly, Britain's target was the Netherlands, although invading a neutral country was indeed a very shameful thing for the self-proclaimed gentleman British, especially since this neutral country has always been a good friend of Britain, but now there is no other choice, if you want to end the war in the short term, there is only one breakthrough for the Netherlands.

Although the British casualties are not much, a total of only a little more than 500,000, compared with France, which has more than 2 million casualties, Russia, which is almost 3 million, Germany, which has more than 1.5 million, and Austria-Hungary which has 2 million, is not much, but the problem is money! Flowing out in an uproar, hundreds of years when the accumulation of pirates and robberies was stuffed into the pockets of the Chinese, the heart was dripping blood, and even if it continued like this, even if it was won, Britain would become a poor egg, the hegemony of the British Empire, to put it bluntly, was the hegemony of the gold standard, the gold ran into the hands of the Chinese, how to play the gold standard after the war, can't play the gold standard, will anyone want the pound?

So now in order to win the war, they have to do whatever it takes, originally hoping to lobby Guò to pull the Netherlands into the camp of the Allies, but Queen Wilhelmina did not enter, and did not agree to join the war against Germany anyway, so the British had to make this decision, anyway, according to their estimates, even if the British army really invaded the Netherlands, the Dutch would not really resist, after all, the Netherlands at this time was no longer the era of sea coachmen.

At a time when the two sides of the French battlefield were fighting bloodied but still refused to give up, in several small ports in Norfolk in the east of Britain, which were usually deserted, two divisions of British troops were boarding 32 large landing ships respectively, and in the military ports of Edinburgh in the north and Portsmouth in the south, the huge main fleet of the Royal Navy was departing, heading south and north respectively, and at the same time, the two armies that had originally withdrawn to the country for rest had also begun to assemble in various ports to prepare to board troop carriers, of course, under the banner of reinforcing the French battlefield.

"Winston, I really don't know if it's right or wrong to do this, and while we have no choice but to win, I'd rather lead the lads and the Germans to a decisive battle at sea." Admiral Wilson, Britain's First Sea Lord, at Great Yarmouth Harbor, said somewhat helplessly to his immediate superior, Churchill, the new Admiral in Bannerman's cabinet.

Qiu Fatzi is now in high spirits, although in the Boer War people were imprisoned in prisoner of war camps, but with the legendary experience of escaping from it, coupled with the performance of jumping up and down in order to promote Britain's entry into the war, of course, it is mainly his noble background, and now he is like a rising bright star in the political arena, originally Prime Minister Bannerman wanted him to be the Minister of Colonial Affairs, but he himself had to run to be the Minister of the Navy.

"Admiral, like you said, we have no choice for victory, there are too many enemies in the British Empire, we can't take any risks with the fleet, do you know how many Hongwu-class battlecruisers the Royal Chinese Navy is building at the same time now? Sixteen ships, six in China and ten in Sweden, all of them were new toys of His Majesty the Emperor. Although their battle cruisers were thinly armored and their guns were small-calibre, if you think about it, why didn't the emperor refuse to use this caliber of guns for his own capital ships, when he could build a battleship with three-five-six-millimeter guns for the Austrians? It's very simple, I'm sure that the power of the 280 main gun he uses is not much worse than the 356 main gun, and there is armor, even we import his armor steel, do you still think that the armor steel he uses for his own use will be the same as the one sold to us?

I can assure you that if we really want to go to war, our latest battleship will probably not be much better than his battle cruiser.

There was also a whole winter before, Liaodong Bay was completely closed for military exercises, what kind of exercises can be carried out for a winter? It has been almost eight years since the port of Arthur was closed, and as soon as His Majesty the Emperor seized his empire, it became a forbidden area for anyone to enter, and all countries that tried to enter without a permit issued by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense were directly arrested, even people from their own countries, and even balloons floating past were intercepted by planes.

So do you think that there is such a thing only because it is a base of the Beiyang Fleet?

If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid that there is a shipyard dedicated to the construction of a new type of warship that you and I cannot imagine, and now that such warships have been built and sea trials have begun in Liaodong Bay.

This is the biggest enemy of the Royal Navy in the future, in the far reaches of Asia, there are too many things we need to protect, look at the current United States to know what kind of person this emperor is, insidious, cold, cunning, cruel, like a hippopotamus who plays himself harmless, staring at the world with a gloomy gaze, ready to show his terrifying fangs at any time, in order to deal with this powerful enemy, we must do everything possible to keep our fleet. Qiu Fatzi sighed and said. (To be continued......)