On the first day of the Nine-Power Conference, the eight representatives of the Entente, the Central Powers, and the United States, in addition to agreeing on the scale of the second Combined Expeditionary Fleet, also selected the commander-in-chief of the Second Combined Expeditionary Fleet.

After discussions among the representatives of the eight countries, coupled with the communication with the heads of the countries, it was finally decided that the commander-in-chief of the first joint expeditionary fleet, Admiral Bridget of the British Navy, would continue to serve as the commander-in-chief of the second joint expeditionary fleet. But Bridget can be said to be the most familiar with the senior admiral of the Chinese Imperial Navy in the West, and if Bridget hadn't retreated decisively in the recent naval battle, the first joint expeditionary fleet of the entire Entente and Allied Powers would have been left in the sea area of that naval battle by the main fleet of the Chinese Empire.

After a pause, the representatives of the nine countries still felt that Admiral Bridget was the most suitable to be the commander-in-chief of the second joint expeditionary fleet, and none of the senior admirals of other countries had the rich experience that Bridget had in the face of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and those rich experiences were all exchanged for the sinking of warships.

The Entente and other countries of the Allied Powers also tried their best to let the commanders of their own naval fleets in the First Joint Expeditionary Fleet re-lead the naval fleets of various countries this time, after all, they had fought with the current main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of the Chinese Imperial Bomber Group, it would not be certain who would die in the end!

These naval fleet commanders can only say bad luck. In the face of unrivaled air power, the responsibility for the fiasco although they need to bear. But the fiasco of the first joint expeditionary fleet was really inhuman.

Now on top of the ships of the navies of various countries. Not only Britain, France, and Germany, which developed these new anti-aircraft weapons, but also other countries of the Entente and the Central Powers, as well as the United States and Japan, are installing new anti-aircraft weapons on their warships. It will not be because of the fighters of the Chinese Empire, which makes the naval battle show a one-sided situation.

On the first day of the Nine-Power Conference, the US-Japan Combined Fleet, which was planning to fight the second joint expeditionary fleet, was also formed, and the entire combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was incorporated into the US-Japan Combined Fleet.

The Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy currently has 2 Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleships purchased from the United Kingdom, named the Hyuga-class dreadnought battleships by the Japanese, 2 Lone class dreadnought battleships purchased from France, named Kako-class dreadnought battleships by the Japanese, and 4 Hanoi-class dreadnought battleships and 3 Amagi-class dreadnought battleships built by the Japanese themselves. A total of 11 dreadnought battleships.

The combined fleet of the Japanese Navy also has 1 Fuji-class all-steel battleship, 3 Kongo-class all-steel battleships and 3 Kumano-class all-steel battleships, as well as 12 large fast armored cruisers, 22 fast protection cruisers, 27 destroyers, 48 torpedo boats and 8 submarines, and the sixth place in the world navy is not for nothing.

However, although the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy joined the joint fleet of the United States and Japan. However, it will remain on Japanese soil, and the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet will come to Japan itself. Rendezvous with the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, after all, the Japanese mainland is very close to the territory of the Chinese Empire. Japan's ports also have a large number of shore defense guns and anti-aircraft guns, and the combined U.S.-Japan fleet is in Japan. If you can attack and retreat, you can defend it, and you can contain a considerable part of the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The main force of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet includes 2 New York-class super dreadnought battleships, 6 Delaware-class dreadnought battleships, 2 Florida-class dreadnought battleships and 2 Wyoming-class dreadnought battleships, a total of 2 super dreadnought battleships and 10 dreadnought battleships, in addition to 2 Chishach-class all-steel battleships, 1 Illinois-class all-steel battleship, 4 Virginia-class all-steel battleships and 4 Connecticut-class all-steel battleships, a total of 11 all-steel battleships.

In addition to dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet has 2 ironclad battleships, 8 large fast armored cruisers, 18 fast protection cruisers, 26 destroyers, 36 torpedo boats, and 8 submarines.

The warships of the US Navy are currently all concentrated in the Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, and there are no other decent warships in the US Navy, so this time the Americans took out the main forces of the Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet and put them into the war, which is definitely a desperate rhythm, and it seems that the Americans really covet the interests of the Chinese Empire in the Pacific Ocean.

The combined fleet of the entire Japanese Navy, together with the main fleet of the US Navy in the Pacific, is definitely a very strong force.

On February 11, 1909, early in the morning of the second day of the Nine-Nation Conference, the representatives of the nine countries gathered in the conference room of the German Foreign Office in Berlin, and last night the German Prime Minister Hohenlohe held a dinner to entertain the representatives of the other eight countries, and the dinner lasted until late at night.

German Prime Minister Hohenlohe said with a smile to the other eight delegates: "Yesterday's meeting was very successful, we have assembled an unusually powerful joint expeditionary fleet, as well as the combined naval fleet of the United States and Japan in charge of countermeasures in the Pacific, I believe that we will be able to defeat the main naval force of the Chinese Empire this time and open the door to victory in this war." ”

Jean Nontro, the minister of the French War Department, also said with a smile on his face: "This time we are fully prepared, the warships of all countries will be re-installed with new anti-aircraft weapons, that is, during the naval battle, if they are bombed by the fighters of the Chinese Empire, the navies of our countries will not be helpless." The range of these new anti-aircraft weapons can definitely knock down the flies that used to wreak havoc in the sky. ”

Representatives of other countries also nodded. There was a smile on his face, especially the two representatives of the United States and Japan. The smile on his face is even stronger, as a supplementary benefit of the United States and Japan joining this war, the technology of new air defense weapons developed by Britain, France, and Germany has been handed over to the United States and Japan, and even in order to enable the United States and Japan to produce new air defense weapons as soon as possible, Britain, France, and Germany have also directly sent some of the necessary machinery and equipment for the production of new air defense weapons to the United States and Japan, which has accelerated the production of new air defense weapons by the United States and Japan a lot, and now the new air defense weapons of the two countries have been produced. Replacing the old anti-aircraft weapons on warships.

German Chancellor Hohenlohe continued: "Now that the naval question has been discussed, we should now discuss the land problem, and on land, the most important thing for us at present is the Russian battlefield, and in order to capture the defensive line established by the Imperial Chinese Army in the Ural Mountains, we may need to continue to strengthen the Russian army forces." ”

Hearing Hohenlohe's words, the expressions on the faces of most of the representatives of the Entente and the Central Powers suddenly became solemn, in the battle of Ufa City. The Allied and Allied forces had gathered more than 7 million army troops, but after the Battle of Ufa, the coalition forces barely had 3 million troops left on the line from Ufa to the Ural Mountains. More than 3.5 million people were killed and hundreds of thousands wounded, and the bodies of coalition officers and soldiers covered almost the entire battlefield of the fighting.

Although the remaining 3 million army units of the coalition are not small. However, the morale of the coalition troops on the front line did not improve because of the so-called victory in Ufa City, and even because the losses of the national armies in the Battle of Ufa City were too heavy. The morale of the coalition forces on the front line was greatly reduced, and the attack on the defensive line established by the Chinese Empire in the Ural Mountains was blocked. The morale of the coalition forces at the front line was even worse, and the current commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Hindenburg, had ordered the coalition troops on the front line of the Ural Mountains to temporarily stop the offensive on the defense line of the Chinese Empire, and millions of physically and mentally exhausted coalition officers and soldiers entered the stage of recuperation.

Hindenburg sent a telegram to the top brass of the Entente and the Allied Powers after the Allied forces stopped the offensive, Hindenburg believed that if he wanted to conquer the defense line of the Chinese Empire in the Ural Mountains, he needed the seven countries of the Entente and the Allied Powers, and he needed to add no less than 2 million army troops, and he needed to transfer a large number of artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, new anti-aircraft weapons, and enough ammunition to ensure the consumption of 4 million troops for one month, if he wanted to recover the territory occupied by Russia in this war, At least add 3 million to 4 million more army units to him, and the weapons and equipment needed must be doubled on the original basis.

Anyway, Hindenburg means that the more troops, the better, and the weapons and equipment must be sufficient, and the strong combat effectiveness of the Imperial Chinese Army and Air Force in the Battle of Ufa City made Hindenburg have to admit that in order to defeat the army of the Chinese Empire, the coalition army must have a 3 to 4 times the strength advantage, which is still a conservative estimate of Hindenburg.

In the battle of Ufa City, the Entente and the Central Powers have done their best to be honest, and the losses are so great that they have exceeded the ability of each country to bear, although there are still a lot of land forces in each country, but each country also needs to leave some army units to guard their hometowns, that is, Russia also needs to retain a certain amount of Russian army troops on the border line with several countries of the Central Powers, and now everyone is an ally, but no one can guarantee that the other party will not suddenly turn around, and the necessary precautions are still necessary.

In this way, the Entente and the Central Powers discussed several times, but they did not discuss how much reinforcements each country should add to the Russian battlefield, that is, the Russians themselves, and because in the battle of Ufa City, all the troops that could be used had been transferred to Ufa City, and they could not take out many more troops to Hindenburg in a short time.

The current meeting of the Nine Nations just decided on the number of additional troops of each country, and the representatives of various countries had no opinion on this, and the war still had to be fought, and reinforcements from various countries would always have to be sent, and this time there would be new allies, which would also reduce the pressure on the Entente and the Central Powers, that is, the Japanese Army could not enter the Russian battlefield, but the US Army had no problem joining the Russian battlefield, and the US Army could directly cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat, then land on the European continent, and then enter the territory of Russia, and arrive at the front line of the Russian battlefield.

On the question of how many troops each country should add to the Russian battlefield, the representatives of several countries blushed in dispute, and after a day of verbal warfare, they finally reached a plan that the countries reluctantly agreed to, and also carried on the plans for the increase of the allied forces in other theaters.

As a new force, the U.S. Army will send 800,000 troops to the Russian battlefield, the German Army and the French Army will each send 300,000 elite troops from China to the front line of the Ural Mountains, and the four countries of Britain, Italy, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish Empire will send an additional 100,000 army troops to the Russian battlefield, and the Russians themselves will provide no less than 500,000 newly formed Russian Army troops to the front line of the Ural Mountains in a short period of time.

In this way, the Entente, the Allies and the United States will add 2.3 million troops to the coalition army, since the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, Hindenburg, believes that an additional 2 million army troops are needed to break through the fortifications of the Chinese Empire on the front line of the Ural Mountains, and this time 2.3 million army troops are transferred to Hindenburg, which should be able to fight through the Ural Mountains!

In addition, the Ural Mountains, where the 3 million coalition troops currently need weapons and ammunition will be replenished by the United States, Britain, France and Germany.

Germany and France will also send 100,000 elite armies, together with the 300,000 armies of the British, to follow the second joint expeditionary fleet to India on transport ships, and these 500,000 coalition troops will strengthen the British Indian defense force to resist the Chinese Imperial Army's re-attack on India.

Japan's millions of land forces will continue to stay on the Japanese mainland, and after the victory or defeat of the major battle at sea, the navies of nine countries will control the sea supremacy, and the millions of Japanese land forces will study where to send them.

As for Australia and New Zealand, which are currently being attacked by the Chinese Imperial Army, nine countries, including the United Kingdom, have temporarily refrained from sending reinforcements to these two Commonwealth countries, and everything will be discussed after the sea control is in hand. (To be continued.) )

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