The countries of the anti-Han coalition pinned all their hopes on the Far East United Fleet in this great war in the Americas, which had lasted for ten years, and the ten years of war had already caused serious economic regression in the participating countries. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The bourgeoisie, which was still under the suppression of the monarchy, had a huge amount of wealth through the development of this war.

The most terrible thing is that because the countries participating in the war have already emptied their treasury and have to borrow money from those bankers, as a result, under Zhao Dutian's tough posture, the war is going on endlessly, and the countries of the anti-Han alliance are all in high debt, especially the assets of the British royal family have shrunk seriously, and the balance of power between the parliament has long been out of balance!

Today's British royal family has basically little participation in British politics, and even the will to persist in war has become shaken, because many members of parliament are creditors of the royal family......

If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Dutian's empire practiced a self-sufficient closed economy, there was not much room for cooperation for European capitalists, and I am afraid that European countries would have surrendered long ago under the premise of financial difficulties!

The situation of the War of the Americas is very interesting, in the early stage, the monarchs and aristocratic forces of various countries were the main initiators, instigating the war of extermination of the Han Empire, but later it became a war led by capitalists and bankers!

Naturally, the hostility of European countries to the Han Empire did not decrease at all, but it created an opportunity for capitalists and bankers to infiltrate political power!

As a result, except for the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Austria, the Kingdom of Russia and other European countries that did not participate in the war, all the countries in the anti-Han alliance unknowingly greatly weakened the rights of the monarch and nobles, and even many capitalist bankers turned into nouveau riche upper-class aristocrats!

It's not that the monarchs of European countries don't want to take a salary from the capitalists, but without capitalists and bankers, finance will inevitably cause turmoil, and the supply of weapons will also be a problem.

However, in the forty-sixth year of the Han Dynasty, the kings of the anti-Han alliance had no choice but to find that even if they wanted to suppress the capitalists and bankers now, they did not have that power, and these rich bigwigs had completed a comprehensive penetration of the economy, military, and politics of the entire country in a few years, and the feudal aristocratic system was already full of holes, and a large number of traditional nobles were bought, becoming 'rice worms' who shouted the sanctity of personal wealth!

Of course, the royal families of Europe are not in a position to reproach the traditional aristocracy who have abandoned the honor of the nobility, because even they themselves do not know how much money they have received from capitalists and bankers!

These are the price to pay for the war in order to pay off the debt!

Therefore, today's anti-Han alliance seems to be glamorous on the outside, but in fact there is only one breath left, and the kings and nobles of European countries who have lost too much power and wealth have long been tired of the endless wars, as for those capitalists and bankers, they do not like Zhao Dutian, after all, the market of the Han Empire, Zhao Dutian is too powerful, and the tariffs alone can make European capitalists gasp several times......

What's more, the Han Empire itself also had its own industrial system, which did not need the import of industrial products from Europe at all, and was more conservative than the self-sufficient small peasant economy of the Manchu Empire!

If this time the Far East Combined Fleet can't get the results it intended, I'm afraid those capitalists and bankers won't let this loss-making war continue, anyway, the Americas are far away, and the big deal is to make less money, who says that they can't beat Zhao Dutian?!

In this way, the Far Eastern Combined Fleet, which had high hopes, came to the waters of Japan!

Their first goal was to blockade the Japanese archipelago and bomb all the coastal cities of Japan and the few Han Imperial Navy into sawdust!

No port fortress in Japan could withstand the onslaught of hundreds of battleships!

The anti-Han alliance knows very well that the interests of the Han Empire in Japan are in the coastal cities, and the inner mainland of Japan has long been turned into a no-man's land and a daughter country by the Han Empire......

At that time, only a few 4 or 5 class warships need to be left behind, and the Japanese that have lost their resistance can be completely blocked, as long as the Far East Combined Fleet is not defeated, tens of thousands of elites of the Han Dynasty in Japan will be trapped to death!

It may not be possible to starve to death, but it is absolutely possible to degenerate into a group of farmers, which is tens of thousands of elites who have fought old battles, and it is definitely earned by scrapping them with a few ships!

The Far East Combined Fleet originally thought that the Han Empire would withdraw the elite of Japan in advance, but he didn't expect Zhao Dutian to have no intention of withdrawing troops at all, but instead concentrated the main naval force of the Han Empire in the Japanese waters!

This is the proper meaning of fighting a decisive battle at sea!

Where did Zhao Dutian get his confidence?

The commanders of the countries of the Far East United Fleet can't find even the slightest possibility of victory for the Han Empire after thinking about it, after all, the sea is not land, what they fight is more ships and more artillery, and the hard power is frontal steel, and there is no submarine wolf pack tactics in this era, such a big difference in strength, even if the main naval force of the Han Empire is cowering in the port fortress, the Far East United Fleet can also bombard them together with the fortress!

It's just a big loss!

In the Far East Combined Fleet, almost all the first-class and second-class battleships of the countries of the Anti-Han Alliance were assembled, as well as two British-made special battleships!

It can be said that in the era of sail battleships, this fleet was a symbol of invincibility!

This is also related to the fact that the European countries offended by Zhao Dutian are almost all naval powers, and the real landlocked countries of the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Austria, and the Russian Empire have no meaning to compare with Zhao Dutian.

This is a war between interests, and only countries with good naval strength have enough interests on the American continent to support the war!

In the summer of the forty-sixth year of the Han Dynasty, the main forces of the fleets of the two sides officially met!

Whether it is the Far East Combined Fleet or the main force of the Han Empire's navy led by the Zhenyuan ship, there is no intention of avoiding war!