Outside the port of San Diego, Lime pulled Simmons and smiled. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Simmons, you really don't think about buying one?"

"No money."

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"You see my wife is here, you can buy one, as long as there is one, the Chilean Navy will be a powerful presence in South America*......"

"No money."

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", the old saliva is dry, and you don't think about it?"

"Considered*......" Simmons was pestered: "But I know you must still have good things, and buying them now is equivalent to experimenting with you, do you think I'm two?" ”

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Young Master Li, who was seen through his thoughts, did not let Chile order a Chinese-type battleship until he boarded the Oriental Princess, but this can not be blamed on others, after all, South America is not a European rich man, there is not so much money to toss, Chile is rich, but most of the wealth has flowed into the pockets of investors like themselves, who control a large number of saltpeter and copper mines here, so they can only wait for Europe to become popular and will play with it.

When the huge body of the Dongfang Princess slowly sailed away from the harbor, the smile on Li Mo's face suddenly disappeared, replaced by a solemnity.

The country has finally reached a critical moment, although Chen Ping and Li Enfu are in charge, and they have already unified the thinking of this war, but who knows if anything will happen?

The battle in the southeast is too crucial for me, and the reunification of China means that I can let go of my hands and feet, but what is extremely resentful is that Chile is too far away from China, even if it arrives in Honolulu, it will take more than 20 days, and then return to China from Honolulu, which is enough to make people crazy!

It's a pity that my plane is still a lump of wood, let alone fly directly from Honolulu to Chile, even if it is not enough to fly around Hawaii, so it will take a long wait.

"Why don't you get an aircraft carrier first?" After a few days, Young Master Li was finally suffocated to death, and began to think crankily, but after pondering for a long time with his arms propped up, he finally gave up, it is not very difficult to modify the aircraft carrier, the problem is that the plane is not powerful, and even the bomb cannot be hung at present, is it possible to bring grenades to blow up the battleship?

Besides, now the eyes of the whole world are staring at themselves because of the appearance of the Zhonghua-class extension, if they build aircraft carriers now, people will definitely follow suit, and it is not good to expose tactical thinking too early, so we have to wait a little longer.

It will take more than a month to return to China, and during this time, I still need to inspect Daxia and Honolulu, so even if I am anxious, I can only wait patiently, since I can't sit in person, it is better to think more about the future. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Thinking of this, he quickly spread out the large map, but when his eyes fell on the southeast Pacific Ocean, the bare sea was very resentful.

Despite all these fears, domestic unification has become an irreversible trend, and Britain is no longer willing to fight a huge ground war with him before the end of the Boer, or he can only watch tens of thousands of troops continue to move south.

Once reunified, it will inevitably arouse the attention of all countries in the Pacific, especially the United States, which has just emerged from Cuba and classified as the world's number one economic power, but has not received the corresponding status, will be its main opponent in the future.

The competition with the United States will be a long one, and with the unlikely direct outbreak of war between the two countries, the battle for the corners of the game will be crucial.

And the key to the competition is in South America, and the focus is on the Panama Canal, which has not yet been completed!

Whether they intervene or not, the French will eventually abandon this difficult canal, because it is so close to the United States, and the countries of South America, especially the small countries of Central and South America, will not be able to resist the infiltration of the United States.

Once France really gives up the Panama Canal, even if it holds secret shares, it is impossible to hand over the canal to itself to dig and Germany, so only Britain and the United States have the strength and capital to take over.

British interest will certainly not be great, because it is impossible for British businessmen to make a detour to the United States to the Pacific, and the Suez Canal is something that the British must protect to the death, so it is inevitable that the United States will take over.

The best way to deal with the canal is to block it, find a place to settle at both ends of the canal, and then garrison troops, so that you can deter the entire canal, just like the United Kingdom, after stationing nearly 100,000 troops in the territory of the Suez Canal, still blocked the Strait of Gibraltar and the island of Cosotra, blocking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea at both ends of the Suez Canal into stuffy tanks.

A real naval power is not to see how many warships he has built, but to see how many key places he has occupied, Hua is doing well now, all strategic passages in Northeast Asia have been controlled in his hands, but the problem is that only one Northeast Asia is not enough to become a maritime power!

The Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope, the Malvinas Islands and the Drake Strait are all under British control, which means that if his fleet wants to leave the Pacific Ocean and go around other places, it will come into the British sight.

This was intolerable, so Li Mo started the idea of the unfinished Panama Canal.

Now, it is very difficult to completely control the canal, so the best way is to learn from the British and occupy the key places at both ends of the canal, but the problem is that compared with the Caribbean Sea, the southeast Pacific Ocean is really empty, and there are only a few islands, all of which are still occupied, which is really infuriating.

"Coco Island, Malpelo Island, Colón Islands, ......." Li Mo's fingers slowly swiped across the map, and he didn't even notice Yan Fu and Tang Shaoyi walking in. Emperor. What are you? ”

"Enclosure*......"

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Yan Fu and the two of them have a black line in their heads, the emperor is the emperor, and they don't care about the hot fight in the country, and they still want to enclose the world for my Chinese children, which is really worthy of admiration.

"Come on!" Li Mo glared at the two of them and said, "If you want to say that I don't do my job, just say it, don't make your face swollen like a bag......."

"Poof." Fang Xianqi, who was walking in with a plate of fruit, heard this, and immediately couldn't hold back his laughter, and hurriedly put down the fruit plate and ran out again. Then I'll accompany Xianqi to play a game of chess first. ”

"Playing chess? As for the liar, since you hit the boat, you have been playing chess for several nights! The two of them had dark faces, and hurriedly stopped their hands to look at the machine}*аpo~. Li Mo said: "Your Majesty, I just received a telegram from Truk that on September 3, the Russian cavalry was found outside Kulun! ”

"Russian cavalry?" Li Mo's heart jumped: "I found it on September 3!" ”

The two were not surprised by this question, because the long-wave signal forwarded from China was not stable, and sometimes they could not be contacted for a few days, so Li Mo had to spend a lot of money to repair the radio station.

On September 3, six full days have passed since this moment, which means that if this Russian army is coming to attack, then Cullen should have exchanged fire, but is the army under Nicholas II really that efficient? A month ago, an order was issued to transfer troops, and now it has killed Cullen?

No, "Definitely not!"

This is certainly not the main Russian force, perhaps just a small force of cavalry passing by.

"What do you think*......" Li Mo asked after thinking for a moment.

"The follow-up telegram has not yet been received, but I have just studied it with Shaochuan, and I feel that it should not be the main Russian force, at most it is the first batch, and it should not pose too much of a threat*......" Yan Fu immediately said his answer*.

Li Mo nodded, the same as he thought, even if it was really a large force of Russian troops, "With the means and careful thinking of Chen Ping and Li Enfu, they should be able to deal with it, right?"

"Report, the fifth division and one regiment reported that they had successfully passed through the city of Nanjing and had not encountered large-scale resistance."

"Report" The reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Division heard gunfire outside the city of Changsha, and it is estimated that the rebel troops have launched, and they are organizing a rendezvous of forces......."

"Report ......."

Since the advent of radio, every time there is a war, such a scene will appear once, so Chen Ping, Li Enfu and others are not surprised.

For the ground battle in the southeast, "neither of them was very worried, and it was not even as good as the Russian cavalry that appeared on the shore of Lake Berga before, so that everyone was worried, but fortunately, according to the report of the Jianghu masters in the Nighthawk, it was only a small force of about 5,000 people brought by Kuropatkin" It is not a threat.

Now the local armies in the southeastern provinces have long been disheartened, and under the powerful propaganda and psychological offensive, many local officials have also resigned, or even simply come to take leave, plus Li Hongzhang is already bedridden, and Zhang Zhidong has been blocked at home by the Nighthawk if nothing else, so the southern provinces that lack the backbone can't stop themselves at all.

The Ministry of Intelligence also went out on multiple fronts to rebel against a large number of officers and local officials, among whom Hunan was the focus of the attack, and more than half of the Hunan army had already agreed to the uprising.

Moreover, in order to form a thunderous momentum, this operation not only adopted the method of advancing in parallel with regiments as units, but also over the past year or so, the northern military industrial enterprises with Liaodong and Shenyang as the core have never stopped for a moment, not only in three shifts, but also in scale several times, and 50,000 artillery shells have been prepared for the army alone, not including the air force and navy, not to mention grenades and shells.

In addition to Shanghai and Hong Kong, which need to be cautious, because there are nearly 20,000 British troops in these two places, Britain and France in other places combined are less than 10,000.

What the army really has to worry about is not Hunan, nor Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangzhou, Guangxi, but the Yunnan-Guizhou region, because the terrain there is dangerous, the Tusi is powerful, and how to destroy and eradicate the serfdom system that parasitizes the broad masses of the people and push Huazheng there is the main thing.

However, this is the water mill work that the government has put an equal emphasis on in the later period, and what really worries people is the sea!

Philettman deserves to be a veteran naval commander, and as early as the moment before Li Enfu issued an ultimatum to the southeast mutual insurance, he smelled the danger, so he immediately withdrew all the warships in the Yangtze River, and led a huge fleet of five battleships and five first-class armored cruisers, as well as six other cruisers and several destroyers, to leave Shanghai, but he did not go through the Taiwan Strait as usual, but drilled into the Sundial Song Sea from between the Ryukyus and Taiwan, And at night by releasing a large amount of smoke to evade the tracking of the Hurricane reconnaissance ship.

Luzon also said that it was not big, but it was not small, and it was extremely difficult to find a lurking fleet on the vast sea, so it was extremely crucial to determine what he was going to do while Huā was making great efforts to find it!

"Does he want to go south to rendezvous with the remaining fleets stationed in Hong Kong and Gapo, or,." Looking at the map, Chen Ping's heart suddenly rose a little bad, "Does he want to attack the Ryukyus or go straight to the Ogasawara Islands and Honolulu?!" ”

Turning his head, Li Enfu was already full of solemnity!