Chapter 311: Battle for Supremacy 4
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In the present situation, Russia certainly cannot rashly offend Britain and France, and it is the wisest move to perfunctory and paralyze them.
Aside from getting those high-tech weapons and equipment for free, Russia has little interest in defeating the rebels on the island.
There is only one thing that has attracted the attention of successive tsars, and that is land, especially when calculated in units of "10,000 square kilometers"!
War Minister Colonel-General Vanovsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Army Nikolai ? Grand Duke Nikolayevich and His Majesty the Supreme Nicholas II are planning a large-scale ground offensive in the northeast or west of the Qing Dynasty.
It is planned to invest 100,000 troops to seize parts of Xinzhuang, or the northeast, in order to realize the first step of the "Huang Russia" grand strategy!
The specific timing of the implementation depends on the scale of the New Tang rebels entrenched in the Liaodong region to inflict heavy losses on the Qing court.
Now that the situation in East Asia is changing, and the fleets of Britain and France have just been attacked, it is just right for Tsarist Russia, which is sharpening its knives, to fish in troubled waters.
Emperor Kosho, who is like-minded with His Majesty Nicholas II, also thinks so.
He had planned to seize the island first, but the rebels used it as a base to greatly expand abroad.
The strategy of going north from Bangdao was seriously threatened by the rebels of the New Tang Dynasty, and it was difficult to achieve the desired effect.
The battle plan drawn up by the base camp to attack the capital and Shangyan was disrupted by the temporary cooperation with the Qing state.
Now that the rebels have captured Shanghu, it will be difficult for Japan to defeat even if it gathers ten divisions.
Mainly because the Combined Fleet was not sure of seizing sea supremacy, the troop carriers would be sunk by the rebel warships.
If Tsarist Russia has no rut at sea, it can still think of a way to fight the autumn wind from the land.
Then Japan has no way to go north, and there is no way to go south, so it can only nest in the south of Bangdao Island and the mainland to do a hurry.
Fortunately, I swindled some "pocket money" from the British a while ago, otherwise even if the army commanded these hundreds of thousands of rice buckets, the base camp would not be able to support them.
Regardless of what the Western ghost beasts think, on June 15, at the behest of His Majesty the Emperor, a brigade of Kim Hans and a brigade of the Imperial Allied Army landed on Hainan Island.
Haikou and Sanya, two strategic points on the island, were quickly occupied, one in the south and one in the north, and the engineering troops began to build airfields and wharves in these two places.
After the completion of the military installation, the combat radius of the tribal bombers will be able to cover the northern part of French Indochina.
Even though their eyebrows have been burned, the European masters still go their own way, and express a strong hostile and arrogant attitude towards the nation.
"We demand that you immediately release all our personnel in custody and compensate us for economic losses of 300 million taels of silver!" The French minister to the Qing Dynasty, Charles Allan, put forward Paris's demands in the tone of a victor
While this is a counter-reality, the French believe that the rebels' current victories are the result of luck.
At that time, the Taiping army was able to win consecutive battles against the Qing army and the foreign gun team, but due to the internal struggle for power and profit, coupled with strategic judgment errors.
As a result, the good situation that occupied half of the south of the Yangtze River failed to hold, and finally flourished and declined, and went downhill until it was completely destroyed.
The current Baodao rebels have not even reached the level of the military victories achieved by the Taiping army, and it is empty talk to still want to claim the king and hegemony.
ββ¦β¦ We demand that you cede the whole territory of French Indochina and Madagascar, and compensate us with 5,000 tons of gold or platinum! β
As the chief queen, she promised not to easily let go of the arrogant and rude French on issues such as land reparations.
France is now a protectorate of Madagascar, and it will be a French colony until next year.
But that magical island across the sea from South Africa is a great strategic springboard.
"Madam, my Government will not agree to any matter concerning the cession of land and compensation to you, and please understand that what you have done has angered France, and indeed to the whole of Europe. If you continue to go your own way, you will be besieged by the whole world! This is a powerful offensive that you will never be able to withstand, so please consider it carefully! β
After the expeditionary fleet sent by Paris was completely annihilated, Lord Shi Alan, as a civilian official, could only launch a green, environmentally friendly, and pollution-free mouth cannon attack.
In addition to Britain, France, and Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary were all watching the excitement in Europe, and the Russians released this group of idiot pigeons.
"Please note that you have also provoked us, and our army intends to attack French Indochina immediately!"
Xu Nuo suddenly felt that his husband was right, a doer is always better than a mouth gunner, no matter day or night!
Without the support of the fleet, French Indochina became a solitary enclave, and Paris was beyond the reach of the Far East.
"Nono, does my husband have a plan to attack there?" As an newly resurrected An Ya, he soon became familiar with the main business.
She, Bai Xingnai, and Lu Ci are the third batch of girls who have traveled to this time and space, and after being baked by missiles, they are finally reborn.
After driving away the idiot minister, Promise explained, "Even if he doesn't, that guy can do as he pleases, and this place must be included in our territory!" β
His Majesty the Clan Emperor is not very interested in recovering the entire territory of China, and besides, aren't there Li Mu and Liu Feng, two traversers with strange muscles and talents?
Soft braids, the task of reviving China will be handed over to them, and when they have enough manpower, the young people of the second goods will go to South Africa to dig for gold as soon as possible!
The gold mines below Johannesburg alone have mineable reserves of up to 50,000 tons!
Although there are a large number of Boers of Dutch descent watching, in front of the armored forces, they are all just a lump of soaring!
In Huaxia, His Majesty the Emperor thought that the approximate territory of the state of Wu when there were three kingdoms would be sufficient.
It is enough to reach Lianghuai in the north, Hunan and Guizhou in the west, and French Indochina and British Malaya in the south.
If you want to unify the panorama of China, you have to go to war with Li Mu's Tang army and Liu Feng's Han army.
Spending valuable manpower, material resources and other strategic resources on low-value-added battlefields is really more than worth the loss.
In order to upgrade the German weapons and equipment, the chicken has already consumed 800 points and spent more than 2,000 tons of gold in this plane.
Even if you go to South Africa and mobilize millions of people to mine with all your might, it will take at least five or six years to pay off.
If you buy another ship or plane during this period, the time to recover the cost will have to be extended.
However, it has only been fifty years in this time and space, and it has taken so much energy, if you don't earn tens of thousands of tons of gold, you will definitely lose money.
"Boom...... Task Force under the command of Nina began shelling the Vietnamese port of Haiphong
Since no local species need mercy except for French-Vietnamese half-breed beauties, the clan warship guns can bombard indiscriminately.
The dozens of French merchant ships anchored here have become good targets for the crews to test fire.
The hundreds of British merchant ships that had taken refuge from the port of Naki had no chance to run away again, and those who did not carry the white flag were all sunk by artillery fire.
The offensive formation composed of four small cruisers of less than 1,000 tons, 18 gunboats, and 12 torpedo boats, which were responsible for defending Haiphong Port, also displayed a 10-minute "French pig assault."
As a result, after losing nearly half of their ships, they realized that they could not be defeated, and they had to abandon this fearless resistance and surrender to the clan fleet.
"My dear, even if we occupy this land, it doesn't seem to have the gold you need!" Nina had not heard of the abundance of gold in French Indochina
The young man smiled slightly, pointed to the other side and explained: "Of course there is no gold here, but there are tens of millions of cheap miners!" Black Africans have always been lazy and slacker, so I had to transport these monkeys over to mine! β
Don't think that digging for gold will make you dig up big pieces of gold, or even doghead gold.
In fact, even a high-content bonanza like Mponeng in South Africa contains only 10 grams of gold per ton of ore!
That's right, it's ten grams!
To extract one ton of gold, you have to dispose of at least 100,000 tons of ore.
If you want to get 100 tons of gold, it means that you have to dig out 10 million tons of ore first, and then sift and smelt it......
Under the premise that you can't play giant minecarts in this plane, you have to use trucks and strong men to make up for the lack of mining and transportation capacity.
The scariest thing is that the gold content of the average gold mine is about one to three grams per ton, so there is a lot to prepare.
The young man can even imagine the spectacular scene of 10 million livestock mining at the same time, and he must take pictures when the time comes.
"How many troops do we need to commit to occupy here?" Nina didn't care how many miners her husband was going to catch
Considering that the uncivilized monkeys are not yet capable of guerrilla warfare, it is enough to deal with the French: "About fifteen to twenty brigades!" β
The two major rivers in North Vietnam are the Red River and the Tuo River, but they are all insignificant small ravines.
The mountainous border with the Qing State was inconvenient for the deployment of armored forces, but His Majesty's goal was not there.
Just catch all the monkeys from Hanoi to Hai Phong and head south along the Vietnamese coastline to catch the miners.
"When~!" The bullets fired by the French soldiers hit the front armor of the No. 3 tank, and the sparks flew and looked very joyful.
The Louis stationed here had never seen such an impregnable machine, and not only did they ignore their attacks, but they could also kill themselves with the cannons on them.
It took only five minutes for the vanguard of fifty No. 3 tanks to consolidate the beachhead, help the infantry to come ashore, and then begin to push flat towards the city of Haiphong.
As the most important port and city in northern French Indochina, two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment were stationed here.
Among them, the commander of the 53rd Infantry Regiment was the famous Joseph? Jacques? CΓ©saire? Xia Fei, that is, the commander-in-chief of the French army in World War I.
Although he had just been transferred back to Vietnam by the Army Headquarters, Xia Fei was no stranger to it, as he had participated in the invasion of Vietnam eleven years earlier.
Speaking of which, this product is also a "Vietnam War veteran", and participated in the French invasion of the Qing State, for which he was also awarded the Cross of Honor.
Although Xia Fei appears to be silent and slightly sluggish, he has a tough and calm personality and is especially good at defense.
At least his infantry regiment did not suffer a massive rout under the flat push of the tanks of the clan army, but used the familiar houses of his side to resist.
"Push the field guns into the house, fire from the windows and behind the doors, and try to knock out the enemy's tanks (tanks)! A battalion held off the enemy on the front, blew up bridges, slowed down their advance, and cut down trees to make makeshift barricades. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions outflanked from the left and right flanks in a roundabout way, fighting to attack the flanks of the enemy's infantry! In view of the characteristics of the incoming enemy, Xia Fei hurriedly made tactical adjustments.
"Woo~~~Boom~!" As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp roar sounded in his ears, followed by a violent explosion that frightened everyone in the room.
It was the masterpiece of the "Stukka" dive bomber, and a 250-kilogram bomb had just taken out a French firepower point, sending a squad of French soldiers with a 75-mm field gun to God.
On the battlefield in Vietnam, the defenders had never seen such a terrible flying machine, especially the roar it emitted, at close range, it was simply unbearable, and even psychologically broken.
This inflexible "stupid bird" could only be used when its own side gained absolute air supremacy, but now the French army's anti-aircraft firepower is almost zero, which comes in handy.
In this era, the French army was not equipped with many machine guns, and it was still in the post-Napoleonic era 2.0 version of the rifle and cannon matching stage.
If it weren't for the trench warfare of World War I, when the Germans woke up the allied forces on the Western Front with the "Maxim" machine gun, I am afraid that the stubborn French would have continued the infantry artillery combination.
The Bf-109T also joined the feast, firing wildly at ground targets with two 7.92mm MG17 machine guns and two 20mm MGFF cannons.
"Gentlemen, for the sake of France, we must also persevere, may God bless us!"
In the face of the precarious situation, Xia Fei still has to continue to fight.
"Damn the rebels!" Viceroy of French Indochina? Morality? Larsen angrily crumpled the telegram from Haiphong
The year before, the French Third Peacemaker won the Franco-Siamese War.
The French not only defeated the Kingdom of Siam, but also forced it to cede Laos.
In this way, France officially became the strongest ruler of Indochina.
Governor Lassen controlled seventy-four square kilometers of land and 24 million people, the equivalent of the king of the colony.
However, the destruction of the expeditionary fleet at the port of Nama suddenly made the entire French Indochina high-level nervous.
Although Lieutenant General Gallieni retreated to Qing territory with more than 20,000 army soldiers, intending to engage the rebels for a long time.
However, the loss of sea supremacy left the east coast of French Indochina completely exposed to the rebels' naval guns.
"I have ordered the coastal troops to retreat to the inland strongholds, and not to clash head-on with the rebels!" Francis? Oscar? Lieutenant General Nigri judged the situation
The enemy was covered by large-caliber naval guns, and if the French insisted on preventing the beach-rushing landing, they would inevitably suffer heavy casualties and might reach an unbearable level.
"If they occupy Haiphong, it will threaten the security of Hanoi, Mr. Lieutenant General, what should we do now?"
The fall of Haiphong was a very probable thing and a reality that had to be accepted, but Governor Lassen did not want to cede even Hanoi to the rebels.
"Block at all levels, delay time, and wait until you find out the strategic intentions of the rebels, and then make plans!"