"Your Majesty, Australia is actually an island."

The Duke of Wellington looked at Emperor William, who was unwilling to lose the incomparably sweet fruit of power, and said, "Although we have deployed a strong army in Australia, they cannot rely on war horses and sabers to fight forever.

According to the statistics of the Rakshasas, they consumed an average of 70,000 rounds of large and medium caliber shells per day during the Battle of Adriappla, and in total they destroyed more than 15 million rounds of artillery shells and mortars of 75 mm caliber and above, and more than 1 billion rounds of bullets of various calibers during the months of engagement. The reason why Nicholas I gave up the attack on Constantinople was not because he was afraid of casualties, but because his ammunition depot was empty. And the ammunition consumption of the defending Turks was also very staggering, almost a third of the Rakshasas. If it weren't for the full supply of our British, the Sultan would have lost everything long ago!

In addition, the warring parties also need a large number of guns and barrels, barrels of a cannon, even if not destroyed, its barrel has only the life of firing a few hundred rounds to a thousand rounds of ammunition. If 70,000 shells are fired every day, it means that 100 barrels will be scrapped.

If our thirty divisions in Australia were to fight with the ammunition consumption of the Adrianople Rakshasa Army, they would have to consume two million shells and more than 100 million rounds of ammunition every month, in addition to the replacement of thousands of barrels and countless barrels, and at least hundreds of cannons and tens of thousands of rifles, machine guns, and all sorts of other supplies that could not be produced in Australia. This translates into tens of thousands of tons of transport every month! If we don't have sea supremacy, how are we going to get tens of thousands of tons of supplies to Australia? ”

Emperor William, of course, was very dissatisfied with the Duke of Wellington's explanation, and he asked with a calm face: "Have we never considered maintaining the Australian battlefield in the event of a supply interruption?" We have so much time to send supplies and people to Australia without hindrance, and in fact we have transported more than 300,000 troops to Australia, and even a lot of livestock and coolies from India. Didn't we prepare enough supplies in Australia to sustain 30 divisions for a year or even two years? ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, in fact, we have prepared enough materials for the Australian and New Zealand Corps of the Army to sustain 12 months of combat according to the standard of 1,000 tons of various combat materials consumed by a division in a month." The Duke of Wellington hurriedly explained to Kaiser William, he paused, and said, "But what about 12 months later?" ”

Kaiser Wilhelmine turned his gaze to Sir Hardy, First Sea Lord, "Sir, I would like to know the plans of the navy!" ”

"Your Majesty," said Sir Hardy, "the Royal Navy had intended to inflict heavy damage on the Ming Navy in a well-planned decisive battle, and then rely on the Solomon Islands, the New Guinea Islands, the East Indies, and the New Hebrides to create an absolute defensive ring to defend the Australian mainland. ”

"Haven't you considered failure?" Kaiser Wilhelm asked, "Has the Royal Navy never considered a day of failure?" ”

Hearing this, Sir Hardy was really speechless.

Britain is an island nation after all!

In today's era of strong ships and cannons dominating the oceans, if an island country loses its strong sea power, it is a problem to even defend the absolute security of the mainland. In this case, what else can be done besides to sue for peace with the new hegemon of the seas? France and Rakshasa can still seek to dominate the continent without sea power, and Britain, which is alone outside the continent, still wants to send troops across the sea to land on other people's coastlines if they do not have sea power?

Seeing that Sir Hardy was speechless, Emperor William just snorted heavily and said: "Although Britain is an island country, the British Empire is also a world empire, and she has not only the British Island and the island of Ireland, where the United Kingdom is located, but also the empires of Canada, Australia and India!" Indian Empire! Indian Empire! ”

Say the important thing three times!

So Emperor Wilhelm said "Indian Empire" three times, and this means, of course, obviously. He, Emperor William, could not lose the Indian Empire, because without the Indian Empire, he would no longer be an emperor.

The Indian emperor is the real emperor! Do whatever you want, what you want!

And according to the constitution of the Indian Empire, he, the Indian emperor, has the right to deprive Princess Victoria of the right to inherit the throne, and then designate his illegitimate son as the crown prince of India - in fact, the local nobility of India, regardless of whether they are Hindus, Celestials or Sikhs, believe that the sons born to the "little wives" are more qualified to inherit the Indian throne than their nieces

And the elites and capitalists in Britain cannot afford to lose the cash cow of India. Without the market and wealth from India, Britain would not have been able to maintain its current position as Europe's leading industrial nation. And after losing the status of Europe's number one industrial country, the security of Britain itself will also be lost. And a Britain that has lost its absolute security can still become a paradise for European capital and talent?

Or. In the future, Britain will become a small European Ming Dynasty that relies on the protection of the Great Ming Dynasty? If it does come to this, who will rule Britain? Is it King William IV? Or Queen Victoria?

Therefore, once the British Empire admits defeat and begs for mercy from the Ming Dynasty, Victoria will definitely be put on the throne and become the queen of the United Kingdom and the queen of India!

Because for the British Empire, it must be more advantageous for the Zhu family's daughter-in-law Victoria to sue for peace than for Kaiser Wilhelm to sue for peace.

But then Kaiser Wilhelm will lose everything. Even life!

How good is it to be killed? This is much more than being abdicated to give Xian a lot of face, and there can be a beautiful funeral, maybe Queen Victoria can be a filial niece, find a feng shui treasure for Emperor William in India, and build a tomb of Emperor William.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, of course we have a plan for the most difficult situation!" Sir Hardy already knew His Majesty's intentions, and the Royal Navy had prepared a plan that Emperor Wilhelm was unwilling to die after a major defeat. Oh, of course not to help His Majesty the Emperor "decent", according to the British "case law", that is the duty of the Army, the British Navy is the Royal Navy, and cannot do such a thing.

"What's the plan?" Kaiser Wilhelm hurriedly asked.

Sir Hardy stole a glance at the Duke of Wellington, who had a sad face—this duke was a white-faced, treacherous face, and at first glance a shameless rebel and thief! Sir Hardy of the Navy withdrew his loyal gaze, looked at Emperor William and said, "Your Majesty, the plan of the Royal Navy is to let the Ming army land in Australia, and then dispatch our latest type of rapid destruction aircraft cruiser to attack the logistics line of the Ming army.

The War Department estimates that if the Ming Empire wants to defeat the 30 divisions that have arrived in Australia, it will have to dispatch at least 50-60 divisions, and even if it is the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult to maintain a comfortable logistics line. So as long as we can strike at their tight logistical lines, victory on land will be expected. ”

"Quickly break the aircraft-carrying cruiser?" Kaiser Wilhelm immediately became interested, "What kind of ship is that?" How come I haven't heard of it in the past? ”

"Your Majesty," said Sir Hardy, "I'm talking about the Fury Class, which is an upgraded version of several converted aircraft-carrying armored cruisers, with a tonnage of more than 20,000 tons, equipped with the latest power system of kerosene mixed boilers and steam turbines, and can output up to nearly 50,000 horsepower!"

In addition, the aircraft-carrying cruiser has two triple 12-inch backpack-style bow turrets, a 180-meter-long flight deck, and a hangar that can accommodate 48 carrier-based aircraft.

With such a design, the Fury class has extremely high speed, powerful firepower, and enough carrier-based aircraft to carry out a variety of attack missions, and it is expected that it will be the best shipbreaker the world has ever seen. ”

(End of chapter)