The situation in Southeast Asia has just stabilized, while the situation in the Far East has changed dramatically.

The Far East, which was already covered with war clouds, turned into a huge powder keg at the moment when the talks between Japan and Russia broke down, which could be ignited at any time.

Japan and Russia have repeatedly negotiated with Russia on the issue of the northern colony of Korea to no avail.

Especially with the intervention of the camps of both sides, the negotiations eventually broke down and the parties left the negotiating table.

As soon as the war between Britain and Fan Yize was peaceful, Japan announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia.

At the same time as severing diplomatic relations with Russia, Emperor Meiji of Japan immediately secretly convened an imperial council and began to deploy military operations.

The Japanese Navy and Army also began to quietly and actively prepare.

On the other hand, although Nicholas II knew that Russia would definitely have a war with Japan, he did not believe that Japan would strike first.

Russia is full of domestic contradictions, and although it has an alliance with France, France wants to ally with Russia against Germany.

Germany, on the other hand, is very supportive of Russia's efforts in the Far East and Japan.

However, Russia is far from preparing for war, and if it wants to fight Japan, according to Russia's estimates, it will need at least another five years to prepare.

Five years, not five months, this is the most sure estimate of Nicholas II.

Although the Russian military has always looked down on Japan and clamored for an imminent war against Japan, the political circles hope that the war will be postponed indefinitely.

Nicholas II, who overrode the two opinions, gave an estimate of five years.

Improve the Far Eastern Railway, ensure that the Russian army and supplies can quickly reach the Far East.

The total strength of the Russian Army's standing forces is about 1.05 million, with 3.75 million reservists. Among them, 90 percent of the troops are deployed in the western region, and in the Far East there are only more than 100,000 regular army troops, and there are only 148 artillery pieces, and all the army forces together have only 8 machine guns.

Russia does have the ability to call on millions of troops in a short period of time, but these millions of troops are thousands of kilometers away from the Far East.

The most optimistic estimates are that in the Far East, Russia was able to gather 400,000 troops, which is already remarkable.

Moreover, these 400,000 troops will also be seriously short of ammunition, and I am afraid that there will be two or three people sharing seven or eight rifles.

If you want to deal with Japan with confidence, under Russia's Shen Ke's finances, five years is already a very optimistic time.

And this is the reason why Japan wants to act immediately, and the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it will be to Japan.

The Russian government is not all stupid, although the whole of Russia is permeated with a kind of mentality that little Japan will never dare to provoke me, but the Russian government is also constantly speeding up the construction of the Far Eastern Railway.

And all the time sending military supplies to the Far East, by the time the negotiations broke down, Russia had strengthened the Pacific Fleet to a full sixty warships.

Although compared with the 80 Japanese warships, the total tonnage of 260,000 tons is still 20 less and the total tonnage is 80,000 tons less, but it has been strengthened a lot compared to before.

Subsequently, the Russian government also plans to send more warships to strengthen the Pacific Fleet in the Far East.

Therefore, Japan cannot wait any longer.

If Japan gives up the golden opportunity to take action against Russia now, Russia will definitely not give up its annexation of Korea in a few years.

Japan is not gambling, but has no choice but to risk attacking.

Fan Yize, who is far away in Jakarta, is also paying attention to the situation in the Far East all the time, and when Japan severed diplomatic relations with Russia, Fan Yize knew that war would break out soon.

It's just that due to the lack of sufficient professional intelligence personnel, it is difficult for Fan Yize to grasp first-hand information.

However, through the movements of the Japanese army, a lot of information can be analyzed.

Once a war breaks out between the two sides, it will inevitably start with the struggle for sea supremacy.

And the Japanese army, which was ready to attack at any time, could not destroy the Russian fleet in one go, and it was very irrational to start a decisive battle from the beginning.

After all, the Japanese Navy has this little bit of a family background, and the Russian Navy, on the other hand, has 200 warships, and once the Japanese Navy suffers too many losses, there is no need to fight the war again.

This Russo-Japanese naval battle is completely different from history, at least in time and place.

At this time, the Russian Pacific Fleet had only one ice-free port in Vladivostok in the Far East, and the main warships of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy were all docked in the military port in Vladivostok.

Don't look at the total number of navies on both sides is often dozens, in fact, the real main warships are those few.

As soon as the main battleship loses its combat effectiveness, then the entire fleet is scrapped.

When Fan Yize was concerned about the situation in the Far East, Xu Yanwu also sent a large amount of relevant information to Fan Yize's hands in a steady stream.

"According to General Xu's latest information, the Japanese naval fleet is beginning to conduct live-fire training, and the intensity of the training will be further improved." The housekeeper took the information and reported to Fan Yize.

"Which subject is the main training?" Fan Yize asked.

"At present, the main training content of the Japanese Navy is torpedo attack, and the destroyers practice the accuracy of torpedoes, and the intelligence content points out that several Japanese destroyers will also conduct accuracy training on live torpedoes in addition to firing training torpedoes." The butler replied.

"It seems that the Russian Pacific Fleet is really going to be a tragedy." Fan Yize took the information and looked at the detailed information in his hand.

The content of the intelligence is very detailed, and the movements of the Japanese fleet are basically on it.

In order to obtain detailed information, the soldiers in charge of collecting will disguise themselves as fishermen and exchange them for being far away from the Japanese fleet.

At the same time, it also monitors the movements of all Japanese military ports.

Some of the advantages of the Japanese are worth learning, and Fan Yize does not deny this.

In order to deal with the Russians, every warship of the Japanese Navy has undergone very targeted training, especially live firing.

The Japanese Navy has been stockpiling a reserve of bombs for ten years, and has already ordered them from the British at great expense.

In order to deal with the Russian Navy, the Japanese Navy used half of the artillery shells in its inventory for live-fire training.

Training soldiers with live ammunition, and for this alone, the Russian Navy is far behind.

On the other hand, the officers and men of the Russian Pacific Fleet are still happy in the bars of Vladivostok.

Although there are many differences between this time and space and history, Fan Yize is still optimistic about the current Japan, and with the performance of the Russian government and army, Fan Yize does not think that the Russian Far East military force can defeat Japan, which is preparing for war with all its strength.

The end result was the inevitable defeat of Russia.