"I don't mean to be jealous of the Navy."

Seeing that Zhang Yao had no silver three hundred taels in front of him, Liu Bailiang took advantage of the situation and his party to go to the sky: "Isn't that enough?" The key to opening the land bridge is not in the troops, but in the logistics, too many troops will suffer from it, the South China Sea and the East China Sea have shipping to maintain, the mainland has to rely on the railway, the Siberian railway can only support 60 divisions to the limit, and one more division will have people to starve. ”

Zhang Yaoqian shrugged his shoulders and exhaled a puff of Platinum Hardman smoke: "Because of this, I think this war is still too risky, if we can't open the land bridge before the United States and Europe work together to break through Germany, we will have to face the siege of the whole world alone - but if you look at the map, Russia is too big!" ”

"Well, so what?"

"If the Americans abandon the defense of the west coast and send the remnants of the main naval force and the most elite army units to Europe, and cooperate with Britain in carrying out the Baltic Sea landing plan, which has not been realized in history......"

Liu Bailiang glanced at Zhang Yaoqian obliquely, and his fingers flicked lightly on the steering wheel: "Fisher's old madman......"

It turned out that as early as 1905, when Britain and France began to formulate a joint plan, Sir John Fisher, then the British Secretary of the Admiralty, strongly advocated that Britain must focus on naval warfare. He despised the French military prowess, believing that the Germans would quickly defeat them on land, and therefore considered it useless to send the British Army across the Channel to suffer defeat together. The only land action he favored was a bold assault on the back of Germany:

As the German Ocean Fleet confronted the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea, leaving only a few old ships in the Baltic Sea, if the Russian Baltic Fleet, which had begun to recover from the nightmare of the Russo-Japanese War, was fully engaged in the painstaking management, supplemented by a powerful ad hoc British squadron, a large number of British and Russian elite troops would be forced to land in the Pomern area in one fell swoop. Only 82 miles from Berlin, it is the closest point to reach the German capital by sea, and it is not enough to call it a choke point.

Taking a step back, even if this move does not end the war in one fell swoop, in any case, the pressure on the Western Front will be greatly reduced, and while Germany is disrupted by this surprise attack, the French army and the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front can recover their decline and attack on the banks of the Rhine. Taking a step back, in the event that the landing force is heavily damaged or even routed, anyway, the main force of the landing force is not the British army but the Russian army, and the main losses are others anyway, and it is the enemy who is confused, and this does not harm the attack from the Western Front.

As for the confrontation at sea, after the implementation of this operational plan, the main force of the German navy will inevitably pass through the Kiel Canal to aid the Baltic Sea, if so, the British Grand Fleet can go all out to kill Scapa Bay and Rossayth, and block the main German fleet in the Baltic Sea in one fell swoop, and at the same time sweep away the remaining inferior enemy fleet in the North Sea, sail freely in all corners of the North Sea, and carry out sea support on all coasts of the Western Front as it pleases. It was bound to fight a decisive battle with the British Grand Fleet in an even more unfavorable situation than the Battle of Jutland that would take place later.

And beyond that, the Army's operations must be "absolutely limited to ...... a surprise attack on the coastal strip, the recapture of Helgoland, and the garrison of Antwerp". Fisher believed that the Army's plan to fight in France was "a foolish act of self-destruction," that the War Department's ignorance of war was unexpected, and that the Army should be at the disposal of "a subordinate force of the Navy." Fisher was knighted at the age of sixty-nine in early 1910 and relieved of his duties at the Admiralty, but his role in the country was far from over.

In October 1914, there was a wave of opposition in British society over the Germanic origin of Prince Louis of Battenberg, First Sea Lord, and Churchill, Secretary of the Admiralty, proposed that the energetic Admiral Lord John Fisher take over the post. Some admirals disagreed, and the king also considered Fisher's advanced age to be unfit for the post, but at Churchill's insistence, the appointment was approved on 29 October, and Fisher took up the post of First Sea Lord, equivalent to Chief of Staff of the Navy, at the age of seventy-four.

Historically, when the immortal Fisher returned to the Admiralty in October 1914, he immediately began to revisit the long-stalled plan for offensive operations, which he considered necessary to build some special ships for the purpose of the operation. Although Britain had already developed a large wartime shipbuilding plan at the time, Fisher's absolute prestige for the British Navy led him to energetically readjust the shipbuilding plan. In addition to the destroyers and minesweepers that have already begun to be built, other new types of ships full of personality such as shallow water heavy gunboats have also been added, and the total number of ships scheduled for Baltic Sea assault operations has reached 162, including three super perverted cruisers with 15-inch or even 18-inch guns and a speed of 32 knots. Later, the "Fury" in the "Brave" class was refitted and became the first all-deck aircraft carrier in the whole world in the history of another time and space, which became a story that later generations of naval fans talked about.

Although in the history of that plane, Daddy Fei's shocking plan to attack the Baltic Sea eventually disappeared with his resignation, it is not completely impossible to implement in this branch plane that has been recreated—especially in the context of the early entry of the United States into the war.

The red light turned on, Liu Bailiang stepped on the accelerator, and his faint expression was reflected on the windowpane: "It doesn't matter, the Americans really dare to give up the Pacific Ocean and the West Coast, we will implement the plan in advance, concentrate the sea and land elites to carry out the Indian strategy, and open up the connection with the allies from the Indian Ocean. ”

Zhang Yaoqian smiled coldly, and pressed the cigarette holder into the ashtray that he found out of nowhere: "Why didn't you land in America?" ”

Liu Bailiang shrugged his eyebrows: "Landing in the Americas? Storm Washington and burn down the White House? Not bad, how many divisions are you going to send up. ”

"It doesn't need to be to the point of conquering Washington, so that the Americans can't get out of their way to Europe — I need 60 divisions."

"Do you think we can supply these 60 divisions across the entire Pacific?"

"I don't think it's harder than supplying 60 divisions across the whole of Siberia." Zhang Yaoqian shook his cigarette case studded with gold lily patterns, and picked out a platinum hard door with exquisite workmanship.