De Luyins, who was sitting by the fireplace, handed a document into the hands of Jerome Bonaparte with a solemn expression, and then reported to Jerome Bonaparte while he was reviewing the contents of the document.
"Your Majesty, this is a telegram from our embassy in the Ottoman Empire!" De Luyins said to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte was reading the contents of the telegram while muttering under his breath, "Interesting! Persian envoy Faroh Khan Amin was in Constantinople with Carol Spencer, the American ambassador to the Ottomans.
meet!"
After that, Jérôme Bonaparte raised his head and asked De Luyins seriously: "Can you tell me what happened to the Persian envoy? I remember they are at war with Britain! Why are you so idle?
In cahoots with the United States of America!"
"That's it!" De Luyins hurriedly explained to Jérôme Bonaparte what had happened recently.
Since the ambitious Qajar dynasty declared war on Herat in October this year and quickly occupied the Herat government in less than two weeks, the Duke of Cambridge, who had been stationed near the Persian Gulf, immediately launched an attack on Qajar on behalf of the British government.
The dynasty declares war.
His declaration of war was so fast that he caught the Qajar Dynasty completely off guard.
Originally, the Qajar Dynasty thought that it would take at least two or three months for the British Kingdom to react. However, less than a month later, the British Kingdom quickly declared war on the Qajar Dynasty.
This made all the plans that the Qajar Dynasty had to prepare for the British invasion turned into useless paper.
(Although the Qajar dynasty's plan to defend Britain is itself a piece of waste paper, if Britain proceeds according to the Qajar dynasty's plan, it can still be regarded as a useful piece of waste paper.)
The Qajar Dynasty had no choice but to dispatch some soldiers to the southern front in a hurry to resist the attack of the British Kingdom.
However, when calculating the strength gap between the enemy and ourselves, the Qajar Dynasty overestimated itself and underestimated the Kingdom of Britain.
Under the leadership of the Duke of Cambridge, the British fleet in the Persian Gulf quickly began to take action. They first launched an artillery bombardment on the Persian island of Khark with lightning speed. The entire bombardment lasted for nearly 3 or 4 hours.
As time passed, the guards on Halk Island were completely on the verge of collapse due to rounds of shelling, and then the "lobster soldiers" responsible for the landing quickly sent troops to land.
Fortunately, there was still a Russian military attaché among the Qajar dynasty guard force responsible for defending Khark Island. Encouraged by them, the demoralized Qajar dynasty guard force launched an attack on the invading British Kingdom.
Under the not very dense firepower of the dynasty, the British lobster soldiers once again used the tactics they had used in the Crimean War. They lined up in a row and attacked the positions garrisoned by the Qajar dynasty.
When some soldiers fell, soldiers from the next row quickly filled up, without delaying the advance of the troops at all.
In this way, after losing dozens of people in Britain, they quickly approached the defenders of Halk Island. After seeing the desperate tactics of the lobster soldiers, the morale of the defenders of Halk Island collapsed instantly, and they all
Drop your weapons and surrender to Britain.
Nearly a thousand people, including Russian military attachés, were captured by the British Kingdom, and it took less than six hours for the British Kingdom to begin its offensive and occupy Khalk Island.
After the Battle of Khark Island, the Duke of Cambridge quickly ordered the troops to regroup without taking a moment's rest. The second location he wanted to attack was the Port of Bursh located to the west of Khark Island.
The Duke of Cambridge, who arrived near the Port of Bolsh, repeated his old tricks and launched a bombardment of the Port of Bolsh, and then used infantry to conduct landing operations after the bombardment.
Under the powerful firepower of the British Kingdom, the entire Port of Bolsh only lasted less than 2 days before it was declared to have fallen. (Historically, Port of Bolsh lasted for 5 days, because Britain declared war on the Qajar Dynasty in November.
On the 1st, the Qajar dynasty had more than half a month to deploy the port of Bolshevik.)
By capturing the port of Bolshevik, the Duke of Cambridge finally gained a foothold in Persia.
From the beginning of the war to the present, the total number of deaths and injuries in the British army has been less than 200. This impressive record has greatly increased the morale and warlikeness of the British Kingdom.
Many generals began to ask the British army to continue to advance inland, and the Duke of Cambridge also obeyed the soldiers' opinions and continued to attack.
After a day's rest, the troops continued up the Karun River and captured Ahvaz in late November.
All the soldiers of the Qajar Dynasty along the way were defeated by the British Kingdom. When the war progressed to this point, the Qajar Dynasty no longer had the strength to organize a field army to compete with the British Kingdom.
Except that they mobilized their field troops who were occupying the Herat government to fight hard with Britain.
However, this seems to have no other effect besides giving heads to the Kingdom of Britain.
Unable to bear the defeat, the Qajar dynasty quickly dispatched its soldiers to find a country capable of mediating.
Under the orders of King Nasser al-Din of the Qajar dynasty, Farroh Khan Amin went to Constantinople to seek help from the consuls of various countries.
Farroh Khan Amin arrived in Constantinople in early December and met with Carol Spencer, the American ambassador to the Ottomans.
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When De Luyins finished talking about the causes and consequences of the current war, Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help but ask De Luyins: "Minister Luyins, where did your information come from! Especially the Bolsheviks
The information about the port and Halk Island is like being there!"
"Your Majesty, this paragraph is actually part of the deduction made by me and the General Staff!" De Luyins replied to Jérôme Bonaparte, "The General Staff believes that this is the most likely tactic that Britain will adopt!"
"What happened to the captured Russian officer?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked again.
"Your Majesty, these are actually what The Times reported!" De Luyins replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"The Times! That's it!" Jérôme Bonaparte suddenly realized.
If there is any organization in the world that can understand the movements of the British army at the first time, then it is The Times.
Especially after the invention of the telegraph, The Times' grasp of the movements of the army and the course of the war was even more accurate than that of the British War Department.
The bureaucracy with British characteristics makes them unprecedentedly inefficient when not in full-scale war.
De Luyins and The Times obtained first-line information about Persia, and there was no major problem.
"What's going on with the Persian envoy's exchange with the United States?" Jérôme Bonaparte gently nodded at the contents of the document with his hand, and said with disbelief: "They don't think that those who only recognize money and not people
The cowboys will do justice to them!"
De Luyins responded awkwardly to Jérôme Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, your guess is not wrong! The conclusion reached by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also the same!"
"Do those guys understand the international situation?" Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help but continue to complain: "The special envoy of the Qajar Dynasty actually pinned his hopes on a country with the least hope!"
"Your Majesty! Perhaps the special envoy of the Qajar Dynasty values the reputation of the United States of America!" De Luyins said to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"The United States of America still has a reputation? Haven't they always played the role of hyenas following us!" Jérôme Bonaparte's expression became even more confused. He didn't understand that there were still countries worshiping hyenas these days.
"It is precisely because the United States of America rarely engages in wars that they are rated much better in some countries than we and the Kingdom of Britain!" De Luyins explained to Jérôme Bonaparte, "After all, we
We just fought side by side with Britain in Crimea some time ago.
In the eyes of others, our two countries are still close and friendly allies!"
Jérôme Bonaparte also realized that not much had changed between the 19th century and the 21st century. In the eyes of some people, the Kingdom of Britain in the 19th century, like the United States of America in the 21st century, was able to single-handedly destroy the earth.
All forces were suppressed.
Therefore, there are only two states of countries on this earth. The first state is a country directly controlled by the British Kingdom - a colony or a satellite state. The second state is a country that resolutely resists the British Kingdom - Russia.
Empire, United States of America.
In addition, there is no third state in the country.
Therefore, in the minds of some countries that do not understand diplomacy, the French Empire has degenerated into a lackey of the British Kingdom and is not worthy of trust.
"In that case, why should we care about Persia?" Old God Jérôme Bonaparte said to De Luyins on the ground, "The Persian envoy believes that the United States of America can rescue them, so let the United States of America act as the savior!"
"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that it is absolutely impossible for the United States of America to become an enemy of Britain for Persia!" De Luyins said categorically to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"So?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked rhetorically.
"The Persian envoy will definitely come to us! We should be ready to mediate at any time!" De Luyins responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Why do we have to mediate? Isn't it good to let them dog eat dog?" Jérôme Bonaparte shrugged his shoulders and said to De Luyins.
"The Kingdom of Persia is definitely no match for the Kingdom of Britain! If we are unwilling to help, then Britain will inevitably put a harsh yoke on the Kingdom of Persia!" De Luyins explained to Jérôme Bonaparte, "
By then, Britain will have more energy to turn its attention to Europe!"
