? "What you said is reasonable!"

After Cai E finished speaking, he stopped talking, frowned and stood in front of the map and kept wandering in the Baikal area. "If you don't capture Irkutsk, the defenders here will threaten the Yigang area at any time. In principle, I don't agree with such a risky plan.-<  >- . The burden on the Eastern Route Army on Chita is too great. After taking down Chita, in addition to leaving a guard, the main force of the army must travel a long distance to Irkutsk without any rest in a very short time! But General Wu said one thing very well. Baikal is getting colder and colder. He cannot command the army to capture Irkutsk in a short time. If time is delayed, it will be detrimental to our war in the northwest!"

The two were having a lot of disagreements. At this time, the battle report sent by Renqin Longbo finally arrived.

"Report, Renqinlongbo Telegram!" A confidential secretary rushed over with the telegram.

"read!"

"Our army attacks four rounds, and the number of killings and wounds should be more than 1,400. Our army lost more than 400 people. The enemy is now violently bombarding Renqin Longbo and launching a general attack on our position from the fourth line. At present, we observe that our formation may not be defended, and we have issued retreat instructions according to the orders..."

"Oh?" This is not good news. Ji Yulin took a few steps and took the telegraph from him, and sighed after reading it, "Maybe General Wu is right. You can't delay the northwest border. Unless the president sends a first division to Outer Mongolia to station on Kobdo and Ulya Sutai, this battle will be difficult to fight!"

Seeing Ji Yulin's attitude softened, Cai E also advised the president's confidant general with kind words: "Commander Ji, although General Wu's new proposal has changed the original combat plan, it seems to me that it is not undesirable."

"Please give me some advice!"

"There is no point in pointing out. You see, General Wu's plan is actually roughly in line with the president's instructions. If we want to end the Sino-Russian conflict as soon as possible, we must deal a heavy blow to the Russians on the front line. So how can we deal a heavy blow to the Russians. The Eastern Route Army has basically ended the war. Vladivostok city is high and the defense is thick. The president is unwilling to take it down for our defense army to pay heavy losses, and then leave a chance for the Japanese who are eyeing one side. In addition, if the Russians come from afar, they cannot break through our middle route, and they will not be able to attack the Northeast. The situation in Central Asia is also very complicated, because it involves the interests of the British. The Western Route Army's actions must stop now, mainly to defend and protect the areas they are controlled. The Western Route Army cannot fight either. Therefore, the burden of ending the Sino-Russian conflict falls on the shoulders of the middle route army. For a hundred years, the world has been power as king. If our country wants to win respect and peace, it must imitate Japan to hurt Russia!"

His hands circled a big circle on the map, "Northwest border, Tanuwulianghai, Outer Altai region, even Outer Begir, East and West Siberia, this is our main battlefield. Only by annihilating the main force of Russia's expedition can we force Russia to negotiate with us! So if the reinforcements on Chita can catch up in time, General Wu and his mission will continue to defend Irkutsk. His proposal is indeed very feasible. Winter is coming!"

Ji Yulin felt nervous, Yes, winter is coming. After staying in Kulun for a few days, he had experienced the weather outside the pass. September was in Xi'an, Beijing, Shandong and other places in the pass, and the hottest time of the year. However, there had been a light snow in Kulun, and the temperature was even lower in some places north. If winter really came, although the country was prepared for this big battle, there was a possibility of poor material transfer under the ice and snow, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the front line.

"Now I order immediately to be responsible for the troops in the surprise attack on Ukinsk, the troops immediately check their equipment and take a rest. Tomorrow, it will be dawn, and I will receive good news from Ukinsk in the shortest time!"

It was dawn, and it was only vaguely over four o'clock. In the Siberian region, thousands of miles away in the north, a national defense force was launching a surprise attack towards Xiawujinsk, thousands of miles away. In the south, the surprise attack was also underway.

After the typhoon in early September passed, the South China Sea is now calm and the sea is now filled with calm waves. A few unknown seabirds are flying happily under a clear sky, enjoying the hot temperatures and gentle sea breezes in the tropical areas.

A whistle whistle sound came from afar from the sea. The large black smoke column soared into the sky. The elves in the sky were startled and waving away from here, flying towards nearby islands and other places where they could stop.

As the water waves continued to get closer, a huge fleet gradually appeared on the vast South China Sea. The leading giant steel ships were flying a sunrise flag, which was a fleet from Japan. At this time, they were lined up in a row and sailing south at an average speed of fourteen knots.

The core Japanese ship located in the front-end square formation is the main battleship of the Japanese Navy - the USS King Kong battleship. Not far behind is its sister ship "Hire". Later on, they are lined up in the left order. The battleship of Anyun, Asahi, Mikasa, Ikoma, etc. A fleet actually covers more than half of the main force of the Japanese Navy, as well as a large number of various transport ships and supply ships. Because the navigation speed of the entire fleet is quite considerable when traveling with these transport ships.

Seeing that the coastline was about to come, the speed of the fleet gradually increased.

Fleet Commander Soo Shimamura is now standing on the bridge of the "Kingang", holding a telescope to look at the distant coastline.

There is Sumatra. As a large island across the sea from the British Strait colony, Sumatra's strategic position is also quite dumb. Therefore, Britain and the Netherlands, which actually controls the island, once had a conflict to compete for control of the island. Although the Netherlands finally saved the colony, Britain also had special rights here. Now, the Japanese fleet is sailing on the east side of the Indian Ocean. With only one more hour, their fleet will arrive in Jakarta. When they think of what he is going to do, Shimamura Suzuo trembled excitedly!

"Oh God, how unfair you are to me, Yamato nation! Why did you give the rich and vast land to China and the country, and even give the rich East Indies to these lowly races, but you are unwilling to give Japan a beautiful and rich place to live and reproduce!"

Called the "father of Japanese Navy's strategy" and the "person behind Hirahachiro Togo," Shimamura Too, who has a huge influence in the Japanese Navy, is also one of the most determined expansionists.

Since Japan defeated the Beiyang Fleet and established the name of Asia's first navy, the development of the Japanese navy has been on the right track. In the Russo-Japanese War ten years ago, Japan defeated Russia, known as the world's second navy, and successfully joined the ranks of powerful countries. The development of the navy has accelerated significantly. Now, Japan has built and owned the fourth largest navy in the world.

In the following years, although the Navy was still obsessed with Shimamura's plan to advance south, there was not much market under the suppression of the army. It could only be seen that the United States occupied the Philippines, Britain controlled Malaya and Brunei, and Germany controlled some islands in the Central Pacific. Japan's advance southward territory shrank by half in just over twenty years.

But it's not too late now. Shimamura Soo comforted himself more than once. Like Hirahachiro Togo, after the end of the Japanese-Russian Naval Battle, he was afraid of Emperor Meiji's influence in the navy and secretly descended. It was impossible for Shimamura Soo to say that he had no complaints in his heart over the years. However, now, in order to reject the navy's request that Hirahachiro Togo himself commanded the southward direction, Yama Prefecture had to invite him from the Navy University again and appointed him as the commander of the Southward Fleet.

Seeing the opportunity to keep the name in history forever, the little resentment in my heart had long disappeared.

That's right, in Shimamura's opinion, he is now leading the most powerful fleet in Japan's history, even stronger than the combined fleet of Hirahachiro Togo's fight against the Russian Pacific Fleet. In the face of such a powerful fleet, even the United Kingdom, the United States and China in the Far East may not be able to defeat them, let alone the country was destroyed by Germany. In the panic of the Far East, there were only more than 30 gunboats and light destroyers, and the Dutch East India fleet dominated by the teacher cruiser.

The southbound fleet no longer needs to hide it. Although they have been marching day and night because of the attitudes of Britain and the United States before, and avoiding the sight of Britain and the United States as much as possible. However, they are not without any excuses. In the face of inquiries from the British fleet, Shimamura Soo used the excuse of assisting in clearing the German fleet, and in the face of inquiries from the United States, he used the reason to handle the conflict between South China and Japan and the Netherlands to escort the people.

Since Germany captured the Netherlands' land in 1914, the Queen of Dutch fled to Britain with the royal family. In order to regain the territory, the Dutch royal family asked Britain to send troops to help repel the German army. Britain agreed to the Netherlands' request, but asked some Dutch colonies in the Indies east of the Netherlands and South America and the Caribbean Sea as the price.

Although the Netherlands was unwilling to do so, the young Queen Wilhelmina, who was so beautiful and European in the Netherlands, accepted the humiliating demands of the British, agreed to send troops to help them restore the Dutch royal rule, and repelled the German team and transferred the East Indies and some overseas colonies to Britain. The British originally thought they had made a profit, but they expected that when they used their powerful navy to force a battlefield in the Netherlands at the end of 2014, they only persisted for four months. In February 2015, because the German Navy blocked sea levels, the troops of seven British divisions could not be replenished. They eventually ran out of ammunition and food, either fled to France or surrendered to Germany.

After discovering the idea of ​​the Dutch royal family's intention to restore the country, Germany arrested and massacred the royalists in China, which shook the foundation of the Dutch royal family's rule in a short time. After the strategy of sending troops to help regain the Netherlands failed, Queen William Minna refused to transfer the East Indies and overseas colonies to Britain, and repeatedly asked Britain to send troops to help her restore the country again.

The two countries were so stagnant for more than a year, which was one of the reasons why Japan was not in a hurry to attack the Dutch colonies. Please visit us when you see the first release without any advertisements -<  >- .

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