"I haven't listened to the voice of the Secretary General for a long time, but now that I hear it, Your Excellency is still healthy, and you can rest assured that you are here. ”

"Your Excellency is worried. ”

After the unnutritious but necessary opening remarks, Albion's retainers went straight to the point.

"Your Excellency the President should remember the agreement when the partnership was established. ”

In the event of a war between Albion and Charlemagne, the consortium would revolt north of Charlemagne and split Charlemagne - a precondition for the partnership between Albion and the V.E consortium.

It was with a common enemy, Charlemagne, that the two sides were able to establish a relatively equal cooperative relationship. The consortium provided intelligence, economic and technical support, and Albiang provided access to resources and intelligence sharing - so many years of cooperation without incident, each taking what it needs.

"It's almost time to keep the promise. ”

Inside the ruby, there was a sound as hard as steel.

This was an extremely abrupt request, with no room for respite, not even a pause, and Walsingham continued to ask:

"Your Excellency President, there should be no problem, right?"

"Yes. ”

Seeing no timidity or humility, Li Lin hung the corners of his mouth.

"Is your country ready?"

“......”

Receiving an unexpected blow, Walsingham paused for a moment and returned the salute.

"It is precisely after all kinds of preparations have been made that I deliberately put forward a request to the president to fulfill the agreement, why do you have other plans?"

"How is that possible? But if it's just to cover up the fact of secret preparations. At the same time, throwing crucial pieces in order to weaken the opponent is not a clever move. ”

"The timing is up to the player, and the piece only needs to move to the designated position - whether he wants it or not. ”

"Oh, that's terrible. Walsingham, it may not be nice to say this to a younger generation, but please note that impulse is the devil. People who are swayed by intense emotions can't succeed, whether they play chess or whatever, what is needed is rational thinking that is separated from feelings. ”

“......”

There was silence for about a dozen seconds. Ruby's breathing slowed down. The icy cross-examination came again.

"So, what is your answer?"

"A year. ”

Fingers knocked on the table, Li Lin said unhurriedly.

"To draw up a battle plan without attracting the attention of the Charlemagne government. It will take at least one year to complete the transfer of personnel and materials, as well as the stockpiling. After the above work is done. Only then can we make sure that things go smoothly. ”

"It's been too long. 4 months is enough to complete the above work, you must know that Charlemagne is divided into four places, and the country is empty. Now is the perfect time to start a campaign. ”

"Your Excellency, Richelieu and the Dauphin are staring at us, and hasty action will not achieve the desired results, and dispersing forces is not the desired state of affairs in your country. ”

“...... I see, a year, right?"

"Admittedly, this is the minimum time span we need. Didn't you contact us specifically to confirm this?"

"Then please hurry up and prepare, anything can happen during the year, I hope you will not be caught off guard. ”

"Rest assured, we will hurry up and prepare. ”

"Then I'm looking forward to it. ”

The ruby representing Walsingham swayed, the light of Mana fammed and finally disappeared, the lights in the liaison room came back on, the staff removed the communication gems, and Brunhill, Nidhogg, and other henchmen stood on either side of the desk.

"Thanks to the generous Lord Walsingham, who not only gave us another 10 months, but also gave us 2 more months. ”

"Indeed, he is such an honest man. ”

Brunhill took the lead, and the elves laughed in unison.

The date set by the Yellow Project is around the beginning of the Muki month next year, and now it is the end of the fruit month, which is two months more. In case something happens, it's perfectly possible to adjust to that.

"Don't be mean, guys. The Secretary General is actually a very good person, really very good in terms of human beings. ”

Walsingham is not a reckless man, and it is impossible for him to suddenly come to the consortium for a moment of hot-headedness, and the one he just played was his carefully choreographed performance.

As soon as he came up, he demanded the performance of the contract with a strong attitude, which seemed reckless, but it was a very practical test trick. No matter how happy the cooperation is, there is no room for negotiation on the general principle. If Li Lin's answer just now showed any hesitation or disregard for him, I am afraid that the Secretary General of the State would not hesitate to disseminate the relevant information about the "consortium's covert anti-Charlemagne operation", no matter how much of the true elements are there, it will be a godsend for those who are bent on bringing down the consortium. At that time, in the worst-case scenario, the war can only start early, and even the better situation will strictly hinder the war preparations.

is worthy of the ruthless secretary general of state in Albion, and it is a trick to force people to get on the thief ship, and if you are not careful, you will fall into his way.

It is true that it is excellent and outstanding, but after all, it is only the level of human beings.

A sudden series of questions will make people fall into a blank state of thinking, but it will not work for artificial life.

Without emotion, naturally he will not be guided to pause in thinking because of the impact, and there is a huge difference in the efficiency and speed of thinking, in the 1 second that Walsingham waited for an answer, Li Lin's thinking circuit not only sorted out the cause and effect, but even calculated the impact on the details of the plan.

To put it simply, Albion has decided to have a showdown with Charlemagne.

Walsingham was well aware of Charlemagne's situation, and through spies investigating the movement of supplies and the entry and exit of barracks, he was well aware that Charlemagne's army was moving. Then, as the elven camp had predicted, Walsingham and Her Majesty no longer had any hope of the negotiations, but decided to continue the negotiations in order to prepare for the time and also to prove "who is at fault".

In the meantime, make a bit of a mess for Charlemagne. It is better to have an advantage at the negotiating table, to weaken the opponent, and to buy time by the way - this kind of good thing of killing three birds with one stone is better than being handed over to the consortium.

In the final analysis, in their eyes, the consortium is just a pawn that can come in handy at a critical moment, and the meaning of the chess piece is just to act according to its own value and the player's thinking.

"Walsingham had a very good assessment of the chess pieces and the players, and I felt the same way, but he was clearly mistaken. ”

It is precisely because we are human beings that we will be blinded by emotions and will wishfully believe certain information and preconceived opinions, and what we should see cannot be objectively analyzed.

The reality of the world. own positioning. The real strength of the partners, and even the changes in the old rivals - Albiang, who should have a complete knowledge of these, saw only part of it.

"'The chess pieces only need to follow the path planned by the chess player' - Walsingham and his country are really good at this. ”

Taking the teacup from Nidhogg, the Archon froze a smile on the 16-year-old's face, with an uncanny sense of approachability.

However. There was no tenderness in the words that came out of his mouth.

"The scene of two blind prehistoric beasts fighting in the swamp is certainly pleasing to the eye. But Charlemagne is not a fool. They also have their own ideas for playing chess. ”

The performance of the two countries is both serious and ridiculous, and both sides know that the negotiations are just a front, but both are making military preparations in private. But Albion, out of cunning, passively waited for Charlemagne to fire the first shot, hoping to take the position of righteousness and provide moral support for future actions. Charlemagne was doing the same thing, except that they decided to strike first, and to strike a blow from where Albion didn't expect it.

Just as Albion knows Charlemagne's mentality, Charlemagne's strategic thinking against his rivals is also very accurate. Albion has always pursued the strategy of "uniting the second land power and other small countries to besiege the first land power", and based on historical and practical factors, Charlemagne has occupied the position of being besieged all year round. With the progress of the times and the long-term development of economy and technology, Albion now implements this strategy with a strategic concept that is increasingly biased towards the so-called "Limited War", that is, the subsidy system to finance Charlemagne's enemies, such as Castile, The Rus' united with the principalities and so on, so that they could fight Charlemagne on land, while they themselves focused on naval warfare and blockade, and if they could destroy Charlemagne's fleet in a decisive naval battle, they could only admit defeat if they could not obtain the overseas resources necessary for a long war. Based on this strategic concept, the strategic decision-making, tactical formulation, and training program of the Royal Albion Navy are obviously inclined to seize the supremacy of a certain decisive narrow sea (Narrow.Seas) and maintain the idea of advancing and retreating freely.

Charlemagne's top brass and navy were well aware of this, but because Castile had split Charlemagne's coastline in two, the overall size of his fleet was not far from that of Albion, but it had to be split in two. In addition to the colonial fleets stationed overseas, the capital ships were stationed in the North Sea in the northwest and the Great Green Sea in the southeast. In wartime, the Great Green Sea Fleet, which departed from Marcelia and Toulon, wanted to join the North Sea Fleet in a large circle along the coastline of Castile, and in the middle passed through Brittania under the control of Albion. In this case, it was undoubtedly an impossible task to assemble a fleet and engage in a decisive battle with an evenly matched fleet with Albion.

Ultimately, whether or not Charlemagne complied with the Naval Arms Control Agreement, its inherent geographical shortcomings prevented it from concentrating its maritime forces against its main adversary. In the event of an all-out war, no matter how much he struggles, Charlemagne will eventually fall into the fate of being attacked in both directions at sea and land. It was against this background that, despite the fact that Archbishop Li was angry at Titans' "southward advance", there was little opposition within the navy. After all, this is a great opportunity to improve the strategic dilemma of the Navy and connect the coastline, and they are happy to see it in their hearts.

However, the "southward advance" of Titans was halted by the international column and the Castilian army, and the land battlefield was tending to stalemate. The navy can only start to think of a way to defeat Albion in the predicament of a strategic problem. Marshal Tourville's strategy of "one-hit peace". It was in this environment that it was born.

Admiral Tourville, who was known for his high-intensity training in the form of "Silver Altar Experiments" and "Moon, Moon, Fire, Water, Wood, Gold, and Gold," belonged to the militant faction in the Navy, and he made waves at the Admiralty all day long, demanding that the "Naval Armaments Control Agreement" be torn up and that more warships be built, and that "the Charlemagne Navy must regard the Royal Albion Navy as its main enemy and be ready to destroy it at all times......." However, he was a well-known cautious in terms of strategy and tactics, and in addition to the decisive battle of the fleet, he also admired the so-called "fleet-in-being" strategy.

I don't know if it's the long years of life at sea, or the terrifying strength of the Wang family's navy, which has created such a contradictory personality. In short, in the face of the royal navy, Marshal Tourville never dared to slack off. After a careful analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the navies of the two countries. The marshal proposed: as soon as the war began. Charlemagne should have made a surprise attack with all his might in a short time, even if it was an undeclared war on an indefinite basis, and the scale of the initial campaign should be expanded. It is necessary not only to destroy the military forces of Brittania and Normandy, but also to deprive the royal naval fleet based on the important military port of Spaca Bay, an important military port in Albion, of its ability to counterattack. So. Charlemagne was able to cut off Albion from its overseas colonies. If possible, you can also directly seize those colonies. And Albion loses its overseas colonies. After weighing the costs of the strategic counteroffensive, it will accept peace with Charlemagne, recognizing the fait accompli that Charlemagne will monopolize interests on the mainland and abroad.

Li Lin and his senior staff scoffed at this extremely wishful thinking. However, Tourville's specific tactics still have a lot of bright spots in their eyes.

The core of Marshal Tourville's strategy was to raid Sparka Bay and crush the main fleet of the royal navy in the shortest possible time. To achieve this, it was clear that large, bulky and sluggish warships were not the best tool, and Tourville had his eye on miniaturized floating assault boats.

Adhering to the tactical principle of long-range strike and winning with one blow, Tourville planned to form an air strike force composed of 4~6 motherships carrying at least 200 assault boats, secretly approaching Scapa Bay under the cover of night, and dispatching assault boats at dawn to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy fleet. The order of targets of attack was battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates. There are two tactical implementation plans, the first plan is "total bombing", under the escort of the griffin troops, all assault boats are loaded with heavy bombs, and the guò repeatedly bombs to destroy the enemy's capital ships. Plan 2 is a combination of air and explosion, and some assault boats are equipped with "Sakura" special attack aircraft and the latest Hale rockets to form horizontal and vertical cross-dimensional strikes. Relying on his own powerful influence, the vision of the admiral is secretly and slowly approaching reality.

"Pretty creative, isn't it? ”

The red eyes blinked a few times, and this playful gesture amused the officers, and the generals and colonels, who had been keeping their faces straight, showed a knowing smile.

The Wehrmacht is also designing similar tactics, but they use torpedoes, and the platform is an attack aircraft equipped with 88 guns, after removing those bulky cannons, those 4-round big birds can easily mount 2 torpedoes to attack water targets, in order to solve the problem that air-dropped torpedoes attack shallow harbors are easy to bottom out in advance, engineers designed a wooden tail fin that can be quickly installed in order to adjust the attitude of the torpedo after entering the water. Compared with human-operated special attack rockets, this torpedo is more destructive to the underwater part of the battleship and is safer to use - at least not at the risk of a pilot's life. In addition, it can also be changed to bomb for dive bombing according to needs, within the bomb load of 2 tons, 1000 kg ~ 50 kg aerial bombs can be selected.

"Anyway. ”

Regaining his expression, Li Lin said word by word:

"Due to the inclement weather at sea in the coming autumn and winter, Charlemagne and Albion will not take action lightly, and even if they do, it will not be earlier than April next year. There is only one thing we have to do, and that is to seize the last brief gap and prepare for the war. Then give the world a new order, so that the people of Yalfheim will get the land under the sun and the living space for our motherland. ”

"One qiē for the motherland!"

The sound of shoe heels coming together and a low roar echoed through the room, and the eyes were filled with frenzy and thirst, and the air in the air-conditioned room was suffocating. (To be continued......)