Chapter 170: Xu Bin who stepped up his preparations for war
With the acceptance of the Qiantang Naval Base, the battle against Qiantang launched in the name of the thieves has officially ended. This means that the governor of Gannan, who has been dormant for three years, has added another place under his command. In the face of the attack of the Xu family army, which occupied a place in less than a month, no one dared to say anything more about Xu Bin. After all, this stunned young man can't be provoked casually!
Perhaps intimidated by the powerful attack power of the Xu family's army, the surrender and peace faction that originally announced Xuan Xuan surprisingly did not make the so-called alarmist remarks about the war with the Sun Country and the death of the country.
In fact, Xu Bin knew that it was not that he took Qiantang Dao, but that the most arrogant traitors were wiped out by the special operations team and the intelligence department personnel under him, so that they really scared this group of traitors who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not hesitate to be dogs for the sake of profit.
Of course, there are also traitors who say that these people who dare to tell the truth were assassinated by Xu Bin, a stunned young man. But he couldn't come up with any evidence against Xu Bin, and even the traitor who said such things definitely became the protagonist of the accidental death soon after.
Without the troubles of these capitulation factions, Li Shichang made the decision to declare war on the Sun Kingdom, and soon obtained the consent of the warlords of the main battle faction led by Xu Bin. In view of the anger of the people in Longhua Kingdom, the government of Eagle and the government of Mi, who were worried about really causing a war between the two countries, began to act as lobbyists for both sides. It is hoped that the dispute will be resolved in a peaceful manner as much as possible.
The Sun Nation troops, who also urgently needed time to digest the fruits of victory, also seemed to be intent on making concessions and preparing to march into the northern Liaozhou army. When the two countries proposed peace talks to settle the dispute, they took the initiative to retreat into the territory of Heihe Prefecture and once again confronted the receiving Beiyi army. For a while, the national war that the people of Longhua were looking forward to seemed to be unable to be fought again.
In fact, sitting in this position now, Xu Bin really understood. Sometimes not everything can be solved by fighting. Now the current situation of Longhua is in front of them, and the warlords of various provinces are forced by public opinion to issue a national war order in support of the national government. But there are not many warlords who are really willing to send troops to the war, and there are too many troops of various warlords, and Li Shichang, who is also worried about others grabbing territory, is not at ease. In the final analysis, Longhua has not yet formed an atmosphere of real concerted efforts to go to the national disaster.
Xu Bin, who had the intention of finding these little devils to be angry, was thousands of miles away from Beiyi because of his own territory. Even if Li Shichang took special care of him, he agreed to send a main division of 20,000 people into the battle, but such a main division. lost the really strong and perfect logistics supply of the Xu family's army. It's really unclear how long it will last.
Out of this helpless situation, Xu Bin also held his sulk, and in the face of the representative of the peace talks of the Eagle Country, he hoped that he could serve as the representative of the peace talks on the Longhua side to resolve the dispute with the Sun Country. Xu Bin, who only wants to talk about the level on the battlefield with these different time and space, does not accept it in the eyes of others at all. Rare negotiator opportunity.
Xu Bin's refusal to buy it made the people of the Eagle Country a little clear. This Longhua warlord who began to gain strength. Seems to really hate those dwarf mules. But they hated it just as much, but in order to ensure their dominance in the East, they didn't want too much chaos in the East at this time. You know, the economies of various countries are finally seeing some signs of recovery.
As a major dumping country of goods from various countries, if the situation in Longhua is in chaos, who will buy the things they produce? And what they want most is. The longer this seemingly inevitable war drags on, the better, so that they can sell their own weapons and equipment to the armies of these parties that are about to fight a national war.
It is the foreigners who know that the interests are paramount, so they will not care if you are a business partner or not. When national interests are at stake. Any friendly partner is an empty phrase. If it weren't for the current international confrontation between the two countries, I am afraid that Xu Bin would not have allowed the two countries to win each other over.
This governor of Longhua, who has the least qualifications and the strongest strength, both the governments of Yingmi and Mi feel that he may not have no hope of unifying Longhua. Out of political considerations, they hoped to delay Xu Bin's unification of Longhua, and at the same time, they could not make Xu Bin feel that they had bad intentions, let alone let him really fall to either side.
This means that when the two countries deal with Xu Bin's political countermeasures, they must grasp a way that will make Xu Bin grateful and not let Xu Bin grow beyond their control.
In fact, they know that Xu Bin, who has worked in the special forces and the criminal police team in his previous life, has become a qualified political and military strategist in his gradual growth. He has a clear understanding of what the two governments are planning, and why the current government of the United States regards him as Longhua's most haode business partner.
The biggest reason is that after the Eagle Country government's dreadnought-class battleship entered the water and was learned by the United States government. Xu Bin sold a design of a warship similar to the Dreadnought class to the US government at a high price.
is worried that there is no kind of warship against the Mi people who may form a naval supremacy, after getting the warship drawings provided by Xu Bin. After discovering that the design drawings of the warships provided by Xu Bin to them could compete with the dreadnought-class warships. The favorability of Xu Bin naturally increased greatly, and the money Xu Bin spent selling the design drawings of warships was mostly used to offset a large number of machinery and equipment purchased from the United States.
This kind of benefit of getting the drawings and flooding the country's machinery and equipment into Xu Bin's industrial base, how can the people of the United States not do it! So with the Eagle people behind his back, Xu Bin also became the target of the US government. This is also the reason why both countries feel that Xu Bin should be given a representative qualification in this peace talks.
Now that Xu Bin did not want to participate in such talks, the representatives of the two countries naturally did not want to force it, so they invited Guo Tianyou, the party leader of the revolutionary army, to participate. I was worried that I didn't have a chance, and Guo Tianyou, who came to the front desk again, gladly accepted the invitation. Together with other influential politicians in China, he joined the unpleasant President Li and attended the peace talks meeting between the two countries held in Longcheng.
As the first peace talks ended in failure, Xu Bin knew that there was nothing practical to be said about such peace talks. For those greedy Oriental dwarves, they will never spit out what they eat in their mouths without hitting. And the current public opinion in the country is also very simple, that is, let the army of the Sun Country withdraw from Heihe Prefecture and return to the previous military demarcation line between the two sides.
This kind of bottom line, which is almost impossible to negotiate, naturally made the first peace talks fruitless. In addition to the disappointment of all parties, the two representatives of the Yingmi government, who acted as ambassadors for peace, naturally ran at both ends. It is hoped that the two sides can make some concessions and minimize the impact of this incident.
So much so that Xu Bin, who was still interested in paying attention to the situation of the peace talks at the beginning, Zuihou directly instructed the Ministry of Intelligence not to focus on the peace talks. With this effort, it is better to focus more energy on the intelligence and reconnaissance work of the Sun State Army stationed in Heihe Prefecture.
As for Xu Bin, who was upset, he handed over the work of the Governor's Mansion to Situ Baili, who was used to controlling the overall situation for him. I went to the Nanyang Shipyard, which was being established and renovated, and at the same time met with a group of captains of the Qiantang Navy who were studying and renovating at the Nanyang Naval Academy, which opened at the same time.
After personally talking with Deng Lichang, who was the first candidate for the Minister of the Navy, the former Qiantang Navy, who was studying at school the next day, was the captain of two thousand-ton cruisers. On the pretext of other arrangements, he left the theory school and took a ferry. Gathering a group of former Qiantang Navy officers and sailors and officers and sailors from the Jiangdu Navy Branch, they went to Eagle Country to receive two completed 8,000-ton dreadnoughts.
It is clear that after the negotiation breaks down, Xu Bin, who still has to fight this battle, urgently needs to strengthen his own shortcomings now. Although he has a force of nearly 20 submarines, he does not want to take the initiative to show this kind of killer feature that will make the navies of all countries vigilant at this time. Therefore, it is imperative to improve the strength of the bright face.
As for Rear Admiral Deng Lichang, the Minister of the Navy, who had already been officially tasked with the mission, he was transferred to the Jiangdu Shipyard and began to familiarize himself with the 15,000-ton Han-class battleship that had completed the hoisting of weapons. This battleship, which was ordered by Xu Bin to be the Zhenxing, was only an experimental ship used to accumulate shipyard workers.
However, the power system and artillery system of its device are all the crystallization of the wisdom of various scientific research ladies under Xu Bin's jurisdiction over the years. Although it was built a bit differently, its super speed and defensive attack capabilities were enough to allow it to fight against the 18,000-ton Taihe battleship of the Sun Country.
In addition to the revitalization ship, which is about to be completed and launched, the other four 10,000-ton main warships based on the revitalization ship will be laid out at the Nanyang Shipyard, where the machinery has been installed. Therefore, after Xu Bin talked with Deng Lichang this time, he also asked Deng Lichang to help dig up the corners of the navies under other warlords.
Anyway, in these years, everyone knows that the navy is a second-rate service, and most of them are unsatisfactory. Xu Bin didn't believe it, and gave them a big warship and a high salary, but they still refused to come. At least through talking with Deng Lichang, he knew that there are many more soldiers in the navy who are willing to dedicate themselves to the country than the army.
So, when the warlords on all sides were attracted to the attention of this peace talks, those who had a naval establishment. Suddenly, after discovering that they had returned, groups of outstanding captains and officers and men of the navy fleet had left one after another in the blink of an eye.
Many of them didn't even say hello and began to disappear. Leave those old fritters who are waiting to die, and guard the warships left over from the previous dynasty to sit and eat empty. It wasn't until soon after that the navies of the Sun Kingdom invaded in a big way, and these navies were defeated. The Xu Jiajun Navy, which was born out of nowhere, actually dealt a heavy blow to the Sun Country Navy in such a short period of time.
At the same time, this Xu Jiajun navy, which was born out of nowhere, attracted the shock of major naval and military powers as soon as it appeared. It's just that at that time, they want to wipe out this Longhua Navy composed of Longhua naval elites, unless they are willing to risk the strength of the whole country to fight. Otherwise, they can only watch as this eastern navy reappears in the coastal waters of their country. (To be continued......)