In the bridge of the second joint expeditionary fleet gathered in the port of Herakrion on the Greek island of Crete, the Orion-class super-class dreadnought battleship Orion, the commander-in-chief of the British naval fleet, Admiral Bridget, who was the commander-in-chief of the British naval fleet, continued to say to the commanders of the naval fleets of the other seven countries: "The route of our expedition to Asia this time is still the same as the last one, and the 500,000 allied forces that followed us to Asia will land from the port of Mumbai to the Indian mainland after our fleet arrives at the port of Mumbai, India. The British forces that converged in India resisted the Chinese Empire's attack on India. Our fleet continued along the coastline of India and headed straight for the Chinese Empire's Malacca Naval Base, where our fleet would attack the Chinese Empire's Malacca Naval Base if the main naval forces of the Chinese Empire did not fight a decisive battle with our fleet as they did the first time. ”

Sampson, commander of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, said at this time: "General Bridget, if we attack the Chinese Empire's Malacca Naval Base, shouldn't we let the 500,000 coalition forces divide up and continue to advance with our new Combined Expeditionary Fleet, otherwise it will be difficult to conquer a military fortress of the Chinese Empire with only our naval strength." ”

Bridget quickly shook his head and said: "We don't need to capture Malacca, the port fortress of the Chinese Empire, we only need to use naval guns to bombard the Malacca Naval Base, and there is no need to send land forces to land at all, the purpose of our shelling of the Malacca Naval Fleet is to draw out the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy, defeat them and gain sea supremacy in the Asian seas, and it is very likely that before our new joint expeditionary fleet arrives at the Chinese Empire's Malacca Naval Base, The main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, just like last time, chose a sea area and once again launched a decisive battle at sea with our joint expeditionary fleet. ”

When Bridget heard Sampson's suggestion to lead some Army, he immediately vetoed it in his heart. You must know that the 300,000 British Army, 100,000 French Army and 100,000 German Army who accompanied the second joint expeditionary fleet to Asia this time were to support the British army in India and help the British defend India. Then his Bridget fate is likely to be very miserable in the future.

After all, although India still has more than 2 million troops, its main components are the armies of the British colonies, that is, the Indian divisions formed by the local Indians, these Indian divisions are very weak, and they can slightly support the façade of the British Imperial Army in India, that is, less than 100,000 British Army regular troops, and India urgently needs these 500,000 coalition troops with strong combat effectiveness. Resist the next attack of the Chinese Empire.

If Bridget had drawn a part of the coalition forces that followed the second joint expeditionary fleet, and in the end India did not hold under the onslaught of the Chinese Imperial Army, Bridget would not have been able to carry this black cauldron in the end.

François, commander of the French naval fleet, said: "According to the character of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, he will definitely let the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy take the initiative to meet our new joint expeditionary fleet, and the decisive battle will probably be in the Strait of Malacca, the Andaman Sea, and the Indian Ocean." ”

Vladilenovich, commander of the Russian naval fleet, followed: "General François's words are very reasonable, the emperor of the Chinese Empire is in addition to greed in character. He was also very self-serving, and he absolutely did not want our new Combined Expeditionary Fleet to launch an attack on the ports of the Chinese Empire. It will definitely put the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy against our new Combined Expeditionary Fleet! ”

Sampson, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, frowned and asked, "What if that Emperor of the Chinese Empire doesn't care about our new Combined Expeditionary Fleet attacking the port city?" We can't bomb all the ports along the coast of the Chinese Empire, in that case, we don't need to fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, our entire Joint Expeditionary Fleet will run out of shells, and we will not even be able to fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy earlier, and there will be a shortage of other supplies for our entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet. No matter how much war material is loaded with our supply transport ships, they will not be able to withstand such consumption. ”

Bridget waved her hand and said, "It doesn't matter! As several other generals said, Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, will definitely let his main naval fleet fight a decisive battle with our new joint expeditionary fleet outside the waters of the Chinese Empire. I'm pretty sure of that. If the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy is really a shrinking turtle, then our new joint expeditionary fleet can at least bomb more than a dozen important ports of the Chinese Empire into a pile of ruins, and I believe that Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, will not be able to bear the destruction of so many important ports of the Chinese Empire. ”

The other commanders, including Sampson, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, nodded in agreement, saying that after their second joint expeditionary fleet arrived in Asian waters, there would definitely be a decisive naval battle with the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Bridget looked at the watch on his wrist and said: "It's 10 o'clock in the morning, and it's lunch time in more than an hour, and today I won't leave the generals to dine on the Orion, and after the lunch of the officers and men of the navy of various countries is finished, our entire fleet will set off in the direction of the Suez Canal, may God bless us in this expedition to Asia to defeat the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy and seize absolute sea supremacy in the Asian seas." ”

The second joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente, the Central Powers, and the United States set sail from the port of Herakrion on the Greek island of Crete at 1 p.m. on March 15, 1909.

On the wharf of the port of Heraklyon, the people of various countries watching the excitement, including the Greeks, who accounted for four-fifths, couldn't help but cheer loudly when they saw the huge fleet starting to set off, after all, this is a fleet dominated by Europeans, and it is going to Asia thousands of miles away to expedition against an extremely evil country in Asia, and in the eyes of the entire Europeans, the Chinese Empire is very evil.

According to the logic of Europeans, modern civilization originated in Europe. The whole world should be centered on Europe, and the rest of the world should become colonies of Europeans, and now there is such an Asian country that jumps out to challenge the order established by the whole of Europe in the world, then this Asian country must be the embodiment of evil. If it weren't for the fact that the strength of the Chinese Empire was a bit as strong as the sky, maybe there would be several countries in Europe who, like Britain, France and Germany, would choose to declare war on the Chinese Empire, eliminate the evil country of the Chinese Empire, and reap some benefits from the Chinese Empire by the way.

Among the cheering crowd on the docks of the port of Herakrion was a man with a West Asian face, quietly leaving the docks, not long after. The Military Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese Empire received the exact information that the second joint expeditionary fleet had departed, and after receiving this information, Li Kun, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, immediately entered the palace to meet Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Daxin summoned Li Kun in the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, and after hearing Li Kun's report, Lin Daxin sneered and said: "I have already prepared a big meal for the second joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente, the Allies and the United States, and my three aircraft carrier battle groups will definitely give these countries a lifelong memory." ”

Li Kun said with a smile: "The nine emperor-class aircraft carriers that the emperor gave to the Royal Navy can dispatch 1,400 fighters at once. Launching an air assault on the Combined Expeditionary Fleet formed by the Entente, the Allies, and the United States, trusting the commanders of the Second Combined Expeditionary Fleet. When you see the fighter planes in the sky, your expression must be very exciting. ”

Lin Daxin also smiled, this time the aircraft carrier he stole in the future time and space has a very huge displacement and a large number of fighters, which is the emperor-class aircraft carrier of the Song Dynasty with the smallest displacement. That is, in the future, the Midway-class aircraft carriers of the US Navy can carry 144 fighters of various types made by the Chinese Empire, so that the scale of fighters that 9 Emperor-class aircraft carriers can dispatch at one time will be extremely large, which is also where Lin Daxin's confidence lies in the confidence of defeating the second joint expeditionary fleet.

Lin Daxin asked Li Kun: "How is the situation in India?" ”

Li Kun said with a wry smile: "The rainy days in India have not stopped, although the daily rainfall is not large. But every day, all the roads in India have become muddy, and the heavy equipment of our Royal Army does not want to use the Indian roads to move forward quickly in such weather. ”

The Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire mobilized the Fifth Field Army, the Sixth Field Army, the Seventh Field Army, the Nineteenth Field Army, and the Twentieth Field Army, and mobilized 250,000 garrison troops from the southwestern provinces, adding up to more than 1 million troops of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, so that the 500,000 coalition troops can reach India, and they will not play much of a role.

Otherwise, once the 500,000 coalition troops and the more than 2 million British colonial troops in India converge, they can completely play the role of the backbone, and the power of one plus one will definitely exceed two at that time, and the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire will have a lot more waves when it attacks India.

After all, there are less than 100,000 regular troops in the more than 2 million British Army, and the rest is composed of Indians and the British colonial army with very weak combat effectiveness.

I didn't expect God to give face this time, after the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire of more than 1 million gathered in several places along the Sino-Indian border, before they could cross the border line and launch an attack on the British army in India, it began to rain continuously in India, making the already poor roads even worse.

Lin Daxin sighed and said: "A while ago, the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army attacked India, and the reason why they finally withdrew was because India's roads were too poor, coupled with the deliberate destruction of the British army, the heavy equipment of the two main armies could not be transported to the front line, and the supply was very difficult. ”

Li Kun suggested: "Your Majesty, now our Royal Army has no big moves in the Russian battlefield for the time being, so that we can transfer some airships and transport planes, which can be put into the Indian battlefield, if we let the troops on the Sino-Indian border launch an offensive now, after entering the Indian territory, we can rely on the air channel to transport heavy equipment and supplies in a short time, and when the weather improves, I believe that the road situation in India will be much better." ”

Lin Daxin shook his head and said: "Forget it, don't let the troops on the Sino-Indian border attack for the time being, the airships and transport planes on the Russian battlefield cannot be transferred to the Indian battlefield, now on the front line of the Ural Mountains, we have gathered 17 main forces, most of the combat materials are sent by airships and transport planes, the Russian battlefield is much more important to us than the Indian battlefield, to be honest, there are too many Indian natives in India, and our Chinese Empire has occupied the whole of India, and there is not much benefit, After all, we can't just emigrate to the sparsely populated Siberian region of Russia. ”

Li Kun nodded, he knew that Lin Daxin was more interested in the occupied territory to carry out a thorough Chinese empire, that is, to immigrate to the top, so that the occupied territory became a Chinese-dominated society, for this reason Lin Daxin even used a lot of cruel means to deal with the aborigines on the occupied territory, in order to reduce the number of aborigines, such as the indigenous policy adopted in several provinces in Nanyang with the goal of reducing the population.

Lin Daxin touched his chin and said: "But we can't let the 500,000 troops of the coalition army land in India so smoothly and join up with the British colonial army!" I think we can let the Royal Navy's three aircraft carrier battle groups directly fight a decisive battle with the second joint expeditionary fleet in the Arabian Sea, so that after the victory in the naval battle, the 500,000 allied troops can only be captured. (To be continued.) )