Although Liu Jinggui also participated in World War I, he was just a major at that time. The gap between him and Zhang Xiaohuai as commander of an army in the Sino-Soviet War was still very obvious.

Ability is one aspect, mind is one aspect, and experience is one more important aspect.

Song Biao thought for a while and sighed to Zhang Xiaohuai and others: "Our goal in the southwest is still relatively large, and it may be a matter of time before a fierce military confrontation broke out with the United Kingdom. Now there are two problems, the first one

The question is what we want to do, whether we are taking the opportunity to fight a war to gain more territory. The second question is how should we fight once China and Britain start war? These two issues are a bit too early for the current situation.

But the military has always been like this. It is better to think further than to have no preparations and always make the worst plans."

Is it because Britain sent two armored brigades to China's southwestern border that China was so scared that Emperor Song Biao, who was wise and powerful, was going to return to the capital to convene a regular meeting of all the National Defense Committees?

Of course not.

There are only two reasons for this. First, the Empire is guilty of being a thief. The Empire is a real troublemaker in the territorial disputes on the southwest border. Britain has made many concessions before and after World War I, making the Empire stable in the southwest border.

The empire continued to move forward by about 300 kilometers. Even so, the empire continued to take the method of eroding step by step and actively creating new disputes. Second, the empire could not find it.

At this time, the Chinese Empire was not afraid of provoking the British Empire, but was afraid that the British Empire would adopt a defensive policy of calming things down. If Britain wanted to expand the incident into a war between the two countries, China would really be reluctant to do so.

For China, the possibility of losing is very low. If you win, take the opportunity to occupy the southwest Assam region and continue to expand the actual occupation and control area to the Bay of Bengal region. At the same time, it can completely defeat the British Empire and first decompose the British Empire.

, and then decompose India, so that the empire has no enemies that are enough to challenge the empire in the southwest, West Asia and Indochina Peninsula.

If you want to fight the British navy in the Indian Ocean, the Empire is actually sure to win, as long as the Empire first stabilizes the sea defense operations, advances from Central Asia to land, uses its military strength and mechanization advantages to eliminate the British military base in India, and then uses the air force to use the air force to eliminate the British military base in India, and then use the air force to

By cooperating with naval operations, Britain will completely bid farewell to the Indian Ocean.

In addition, the Imperial Navy, Army and Air Force are in a state of high preparation for war, and their military strength is at the peak of the empire's history. Not only does the navy have a certain advantage over the UK, but the Army and Air Force have maintained an absolute advantage over the UK several times.

If Britain fights back, the empire will not be able to seek it, and they are afraid that Britain will not fight back.

Taking advantage of Japan's current situation, there is no direct military conflict with the Soviet Union and Germany. Taking advantage of the opportunity of about a year to attack Britain and annihilate the main force of the British naval force in the Indian Ocean, that is of course the best thing to do. Take advantage of the opportunity to

The Asian League supports Myanmar, decolonization of India, and overthrow the British Empire, which is obviously the best thing to do.

Although Britain is arrogant, they obviously know that China is not only not afraid of military conflicts with Britain, but even seeks it.

At the regular meeting of the National Defense Commission, Emperor Song Biao communicated with all the National Defense Commissioners, and the internal opinions were still very unified. If the UK wants to provoke a small-scale military operation during this period, it would take the opportunity to expand the situation.

If Britain stops provocation, it will also take the opportunity to expand its control in Assam and northern Myanmar. The main navy will go south, threaten Malaya and Singapore, and induce the British navy to go to Southeast Asia to fight the empire.

Either don’t cause trouble, or do big things if you want to do it.

Maybe the British think they have been tolerating China for a long time, but in fact, China has also been tolerating Britain for a long time?

Emperor Song Biao spent half an hour to hold a brief and direct National Defense Committee meeting, asking Zhang Xiaohuai to go to Kunming to supervise the army, responsible for coordinating the Central Military Department, Kunming Military Region and Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau, and prepare for combat with Britain, and the Navy.

Four aircraft carriers and their formations were drawn from the Central Air Combined Fleet to the south to Seribagawan Port, while the Air Force drew its main force from the Northeast to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Sichuan, and Xikang.

The empire has always maintained the division of Xikang Province. On the one hand, it is necessary to control the Tibetan areas separately, and on the other hand, it is also because the conditions of Xikang Province are relatively suitable for establishing a modern economy and can serve as an air force base to threaten the entire Southwest Asian region.

In addition, the empire's main military forces in Southwest Asia were concentrated in the Yeshan area, that is, the Kachin Autonomous Government was established in 1937. The administrative jurisdiction of the Kachin Palace not only conflicted with the Kachin State in Myanmar, but actually also

Continue to advance gradually to Kachin State.

Judging from the past twenty years and the long-term future situation, China and the UK are indeed in a state of rising one after another in Southwest Asia.

In order to deal with the situation where Britain sent two armored brigades, Emperor Song Biao also started to ask the Central Military Department to send two mountain divisions and a light armored brigade to Kachin Prefecture and the Yeshan Construction Corps to give warning arrangements to the British army.

The UK has determined to continue to provoke the situation and intensify regional tensions. The Empire will further send air forces and more field troops to station.

From this point of view, the wise idea of ​​how Britain tried every means to prevent the construction of the Kunming-Myanmar Railway, but Britain ultimately failed to limit this matter. To this day, the empire has basically built many railways to the Kachin area.

And highways and local military facilities have also been completed, and the conditions for carrying out large-scale operations in the area.

After the National Defense Committee's meeting ended, Song Biao kept the Minister of Defense Chen Houfu and the Chief of Staff of the Navy Chen Jiliang and asked them about the navy situation separately.

Song Biao only asked one question, that is, if the Imperial Navy fights the British Navy to the decisive battle, what are the chances of victory or defeat.

Faced with this simple and direct question, Chen Houfu was silent for a moment, and then replied to Emperor Song Biao: "Your Majesty, I think if you are fighting the British Navy at the moment, you can win the battle if you are fighting in the South China Ocean, and if you are fighting in the Indian Ocean, you can

There is a 60% or 70% chance. In other words, as long as you don’t go to Europe, you will definitely win the decisive battle with the British Navy in Asia. I believe the British Navy is also aware of this, but if the British Navy considers itself very highly, he will risk sending the main force to

If the Indian Ocean confronts our navy, the opportunity cannot be lost. We should fight immediately and take the lead in destroying the main force of the British navy. If the British navy is very proud of itself but only sends a small number of navys, there is no need to break up with the UK."

Song Biao nodded slightly. He also made a similar judgment, but he needed to confirm it from Admiral Chen Houfu.

He and Chen Houfu and Chen Jiliang sighed and said, "In principle, the battle between China and Britain can be avoided, but it is better to fight to defeat the British Navy at one time. Otherwise, we will have to confront Britain for a long time in South Asia and West Asia.

Long-term war will surely perish, but necessary wars are also the cornerstone of the empire's rule of the world. After preparing for so long, it is time to completely push Britain off the throne. Since ancient times, new and old overlords will have a battle."

Chen Houfu once studied in the British Navy for a long time and knew a lot about Britain. As a naval general of this era, he and others were envious of the past glory of the British Empire's navy and yearned for it.

Now that he finally realized that the glory of the British Empire's naval overlord was to end in his own hands, Chen Houfu couldn't help but sigh a lot.

Chen Houfu and Chen Jiliang, two of the Imperial Navy, Chen and Emperor Song Biao, analyzed the strength comparison between the Chinese and British navy in the early days. The Imperial Navy was able to narrow the gap between the Chinese and British navy in the early days, which was completely thanks to the Washington Navy Treaty, and the treaty ended.

Later, the overall strength of the Imperial Navy was about half that of the British Empire Navy. In terms of aircraft carrier development, the Imperial Navy was on par with Britain.

To this day, the total size of the Imperial Navy on battleships is only half that of the British Empire. However, the Imperial Navy has 12 main aircraft carriers and 10 escort aircraft carriers, while the British Navy has only 7 aircraft carriers in total, of which 4 are

Only three of the old models from the Treaty Age were newly built in the past five years.

With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Naval War, the British Navy, who realized that the era of aircraft carriers and the era of battleships, immediately began to adjust its naval plan. Since last year, Britain has successively purchased several naval cases and is building four aircraft carriers, and the Empire is also

Accelerate the scientific research work of the new generation of aircraft carriers.

As the development of J-602 carrier-based aircraft engineering and steam catapults approaches its end, the empire's third-generation large-scale aircraft carrier plan with a displacement of 75,000 British tons has also entered the final stage of development and research.

Until the development of a new generation of large aircraft carriers is successful, the Empire will not build new aircraft carriers for the time being. The current number of aircraft carriers is enough. Continuing to expand will also be a very large pressure on the Navy's military expenditure. Even so, Britain wants to surpass the Empire.

The navy is also very difficult and cannot be achieved in a short period of time.

The British navy's military expenditure is about 40 less than that of China, but the annual expenses of the British navy for battleship maintenance are very amazing. Compared with battleships, the cost of aircraft carriers is much lower. The maintenance cost after calculating the carrier-based aircraft is roughly

quite.

For the British Empire Navy, which has the largest battleship group in the world, they are in a very embarrassing situation. Unless the UK has largely reduced the number of existing battleships, the existing military expenditure of the British Navy is not enough to support it.

A fleet of aircraft carriers as large as the Chinese Navy.

In addition, the British Navy also needs to train a large number of carrier-based aircraft pilots, have better carrier-based aircraft, and put them into production in large quantities. These tasks themselves can only be developed after long-term implementation. Even if the British Navy is now turning at all costs, 5

It is difficult to compete with the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier formation within.

These five years are the best time for the decisive battle between the Chinese and British navy.

Chen Houfu talked his ideas very clearly. He was not so willing to see the decline of Britain from the bottom of his heart. However, for the dream of the Imperial Navy to dominate the world from now on, he hoped to launch a large-scale decisive battle with the British Navy.

In these five years, the British Navy was pushed down from the kingly throne.

Navy Chief of Staff Chen Jiliang has no objection to Chen Houfu's analysis and inferences. In fact, they have discussed this many times privately and have the same viewpoint.

Emperor Song Biao was not in a hurry to make a statement, and he also wanted to find this opportunity. The key is that the British navy is not stupid, the other party will not do this, and the empire is not suitable for posing an aggressive formation. If it takes two to three years It is also difficult to gradually intensify the contradictions, because two or three years later, the empire is likely to be launching a final attack on Nazi Germany.
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