"Wake up, master, wake up. General Staff phone! ”

"Wake up, husband, wake up. Something big seems to have happened! ”

Zhuge Weidao was woken up in a sweet sleep by his "big maid" Ah Li and the big black sky in the side room, and in a trance, he heard the words "General Staff Telephone" and "Something Big", and he was suddenly startled, and suddenly sobered up a lot.

He sat up on the big bed, rubbed his eyes, and then felt a dazzling light, squinted his eyes and looked around, and found that the big black sky who served him last night had removed his blindfold and knelt beside him in a pajamas. Ah Li held a tray and held a "wired mobile" in front of him.

"What time is it?" Zhuge asked for the Tao casually.

Ali replied: "Master, it's half past eleven o'clock in the evening, and ten minutes ago, the Secretariat of the General Staff called. ”

Because I was afraid of affecting myself and Natalie, Da Heikong, and Nalandili, there was no phone in Zhuge Weidao's big bedroom. However, a phone is installed in the personal maid room where Ah Li lives, and if there is an important call coming in at night, Ah Li is responsible for answering it, and then decides whether to wake up Zhuge Weidao.

Hearing that it was the call of the General Staff, Zhuge didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly picked up the receiver, and the voice of the secretary of the General Staff immediately came from the other end of the phone: "Is it Deputy General Director Zhuge ?" ”

"Yes, I'm Zhuge Weidao."

At about 5 o'clock this afternoon, the airships and reconnaissance fishing boats of the Persian Gulf Fleet discovered the main force of the Indian Grand Fleet in the Gulf of Oman about 100 nautical miles from Muscat, and it can be determined that there are 10 battleships, 8 armored cruisers, 15 cruisers of the second and third rank, more than 30 destroyers, and more than 50 transport ships and auxiliary ships of various kinds. Deputy Chief on Duty, please come to the General Staff for a meeting immediately! ”

Zhuge Weidao put down the phone and was silent for a while before muttering: "It's started, it's started."

"What started?" Big Black Sky asked.

"The world war is about to begin!" Zhuge Weidao suddenly thought of something, and then said to Ah Li, "Put down the phone, go and call Mrs. and Di Li here!" ”

"Yes." Without saying a word, Ah Li put the telephone on the coffee table, turned around and went back to her maid's room—her maid's room had four doors, one to the third hall, one to the pantry, one to the master bedroom, and one to the lady's room.

Seeing Ah Li leaving, Zhuge Weidao said to Da Heikong again: "Ah Kong, call Edo Castle and tell your adoptive father that the big war with the Indian Empire is about to begin, let him get ready!" ”

The fact that the main force of the Indian Grand Fleet is rushing towards Muscat is not something that can be hidden, and Zhuge Weidao asked Daikoku to notify Edo at the first time, just to make a position to the Tokugawa shogunate - the Zhuge family regards the Tokugawa family as their own!

And she asked Ah Li to call Natalie and Nalandili over for this reason - she had to let Nicholas I and Daoguang know that Zhuge Weidao treated them as his own! Of course, whether they believe it or not is another matter.

In addition, Natalie should also make a move to the Rakshasa Kingdom to contact a few of her brothers, and then give more money to those hot-headed groups of Great Slavs!

Zhuge Weidao has already helped Natalie apply for hundreds of thousands of silver yuan from the military division group, and it's time to spend it!

After explaining to Natalie, who was wearing a thin loose nightgown and a good body looming inside, Zhuge Weidao, who had already put on a military uniform, left the big bedroom and went to his study, where he had to talk to several top-ranked military divisions of the Zhuge family to determine the position of the Zhuge family - the current situation was of course in the calculation of the military division group for a long time, so the countermeasures had already been discussed.

On the first day of November in the ninth year of Taiping, it was one o'clock in the morning.

The office building of the General Staff Headquarters on Chang'an Avenue was brightly lit, and cars drove into the compound of the General Staff one after another, and the generals wearing army, navy, and brocade uniforms all got out of the cars, and then walked into the building with rapid steps, and after a short time entered the conference room of the General Staff and sat down at a long table.

Zhuge Weidao was also among them, sitting next to one of his cousins, Li Tiedan, chief of staff of the army. Before Liu Quanzhong, the secretary of the War Department, who was also the commander-in-chief, appeared, several deputy commanders had already started to discuss it.

"Hehe, there are more than 30 battleships, armored cruisers, and second- and third-class cruisers alone, it seems that Kaiser Wilhelm has made up his mind!"

"It is said that Kaiser Wilhelm was among them. The royal conquest! ”

"Really? Riding on a battleship? This Kaiser Wilhelm is very fierce! ”

"Really, the intelligence officers in Bombay have sent a secret telegram, and Kaiser Wilhelm has indeed boarded the ship and gone to sea."

"Speaking of which, the main forces of the Indian Grand Fleet went to the Gulf of Oman. Is Temasek empty? ”

"Emptiness is emptiness, but it's not so easy to take. From Pettani in Siam to Temasek Fortress in Peninsular Malaysia, there are nearly 600 kilometers of jungle in between, which is not easy to navigate. ”

"Yes, the Japanese mercenaries have only arrived in 2 divisions, one Sendai Division and one Aizu Division, both of which are rural divisions in the northeastern region of Japan. I'm afraid I didn't adapt to the rainforests of Southeast Asia so quickly. ”

"Daozi, how is your navy prepared? How sure are you? ”

Just when Li Tietan asked about the preparations of the navy, Liu Quanzhong, the secretary of the War Department and chief of the general staff, had already walked in step by step.

"Stand upright!"

All the deputy chiefs of staff stood up and saluted Liu Quanzhong.

Liu Quanzhong returned the salute, and then asked everyone to sit down with a straight face, and he also sat down in the seat of the chief of the General Staff.

"Ladies and gentlemen," General Liu Quanzhong first swept the conference room with blazing eyes, and then continued, "Just now, the old man has already talked on the phone with the left minister, the right minister, and Lin Shangshu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what they mean is that issuing an ultimatum now may not be fully supported by the people, so they tend to take the initiative to step on the red line of the Indian Empire by the navy, let the other side take the initiative to issue an ultimatum, and then our side refuses, triggering a declaration of war!" After the declaration of war, our Emperor and the Queen Mother, the female emperor of Japan, will also announce the imperial expedition to boost the morale of the three armed forces! ”

The current Ming Dynasty is a monarchy and constitutional system under the control of the Eight Great Families, although the Eight Great Families have a strong ability to control the market, and the four political parties in the Council are controlled by the Eight Great Families, but they cannot forcibly declare war on the Indian Empire regardless of public opinion.

And more than 100 years of peace and development, while the people of the Ming Dynasty have eaten many peace dividends, they are also reluctant to go to war. For the middle and lower class people of the Ming Dynasty, the British Empire was far away, and their lives were very comfortable, so why did they have to fight a big war?

In fact, these people sitting in the conference room of the General Staff Building today did not want to fight any world war a few years ago. It's just that the current situation has come to the point where you might as well fight. However, they still know the hearts of the people below, so taking the initiative to declare war will not be supported by public opinion.

This war can only be declared by the Indian Empire!

"As for the navy, is there a corresponding plan?" Liu Quanzhong asked.

"Yes!"

Zhuge Weiyi, chief of staff of the Navy, immediately took over the question and replied: "The Nanyang Fleet is already in a state of first-class combat readiness and can force its way into the Strait of Malacca at any time!" ”

"What about naval aviation?" Liu Quanzhong glanced at Zhuge Weidao again.

This break between Daming and Daying is inseparable from the eighteenth army division of the Zhuge family!

Zhuge Weidao replied: "Commander, the fleet directly under the HNA is currently conducting daily training near the Ryukyu Kingdom, and it can join the Nanyang Fleet at any time and participate in the military operation to break into the Strait of Malacca!" ”

"Are you participating?" Liu Quanzhong asked again.

"Yes," Zhuge nodded for the road, "Because the naval aviation and carrier-based aircraft units are currently experimental troops, so the admiral of the navy and the commander of the fleet directly under the navy, I will immediately rush to Shanghai to board the destroyers of the fleet directly under the navy of the navy." ”

"Good!" Liu Quanzhong touched his gray beard and said with a straight face, "Then the old man wishes you a victory!" ”

(End of chapter)