"Your Majesty, the British are going to make big moves.%" Attendant Yuan said to Yang Feng grumblingly. He is now more and more in line with the image of a treacherous minister.
"Isn't their current action big enough? With an army of 1.5 million, nearly 600 tanks, more than 500 aircraft, 40 airships, and tens of thousands of cannons are used. This kind of action is not big enough.
?" Yang Feng said inexplicably.
"They are going to land in Germany!" Chief Yuan said quickly.
Emperor Yang immediately took a breath of air, but he quickly realized that his chamberlain must have been carried away by excitement after receiving the information. Before the High Seas Fleet was dealt with, there was no way the British could land in Germany.
"Have they assembled the landing ships?" the guy asked immediately.
"Our intelligence personnel in the UK reported that the British have assembled all the landing ships in several small ports in the east that are usually not noticed. Together with the ones they built after the war, the total number is more than thirty-two. If they are to seize the beach, it will be enough to transport them at once.
Two infantry divisions have been reorganized, and infantry are already gathering at these ports." Yuan Shikai said hurriedly.
"Yes, it seems they are serious about it. Let me just say, how could the British be so stupid? They know that attacking the German defense line will only result in a bloody encounter, but they still want to launch a full-scale offensive. It turns out that
It's just a plank road built openly and a secret visit to Chencang! But it is definitely impossible to land in Germany, but it is very possible to land elsewhere." Yang Feng stood up and looked at his huge map and said.
"Your Majesty, you mean Belgium? You shouldn't, right? Prince Leopold has complete defenses along the coast of Belgium. His army group has six armies. Until now, the front line is like this. He is stationed in Brussels in the west of Belgium.
The Japanese Fourth Army and the Sixth Army in Ghent have not moved. Moreover, they have built a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications on the Belgian coast for more than a year. The British can only seize the beach in the size of two divisions at most. With the combat power of the German army, I am afraid they are
If the landing is successful, the result will be that the German army will charge into the sea. What's more, such a landing will inevitably lead to a large number of people gathering on the beach. The Germans only need to send an airship and throw a few hundred tons of coagulation qi decoys, and I am afraid that by then the British
Most of them will be burned to death." Yuan Shikai said, and it must be said that His Excellency, the Attendant, has improved his military quality in recent years.
But what he said is also true. Prince Leopold's First Army has built Belgium like an iron barrel over the years. The Germans have followed Yang Feng and used many frontal attacks and flank landing tactics. They have been guarding against the British from the beginning.
A huge landing fleet, the main task of the First Army is to do this.
"Why did we land in Belgium? Couldn't it be from somewhere else?" Yang Feng said, with a very happy expression on his face. It was obvious that the British were marching towards the path they expected.
"Other place, the Netherlands? Impossible. The Netherlands is a neutral country." Yuan Shikai said doubtfully.
"Nothing is impossible. Europe has now formed a dilemma. Neither side has the ability to break it. If you want to end the war as soon as possible, you must take some special measures. Although the Netherlands is a neutral country, who can put it in its position?"
Where is it? It is too difficult for the British to land in Germany. The High Seas Fleet is in Wilhelmshaven, and Helgoland Bay is locked like an iron barrel. Unless they risk their lives to fight the Germans with the main fleet of the British Navy.
Now the strength comparison between the two sides is very clear to the British. Even if they can win, the result will be heavy losses. Needless to say, the British navy has lost half of its battleships. Even if they win the war in the end, the result will be the loss of global hegemony. Not only us.
They are thinking about their colonies. The Russians are also thinking about it. The Eastern Front is still fighting like that, and the Russian Baltic Fleet is still hiding in the military port to watch the fun. Don't the British understand Nicholas's thoughts?
In this case, they must try to avoid a decisive battle with the Germans at sea, but if they want to land in Germany, they will have to fight a decisive battle with the High Seas Fleet. If they do not land in Germany, given the current situation on the land battlefield, they may never be able to fight.
Win the war.
Landing in the Netherlands is different. It is too close to Germany, and the Dutch Army can almost be ignored. If the British want to forcefully land in the Netherlands, I am afraid they will not encounter any real resistance. Queen Wilhelmina and the Dutch government have been trying to maintain
Their neutral status is because Germany needs the Netherlands as a neutral country to import food, and the relationship between Britain and the Netherlands has always been friendly. Therefore, in order to show that the Netherlands has no intention to join any party, it did not even expand its military. Although the Dutch navy still has certain strength, it is in front of the British navy.
Not worth mentioning anymore.
What's more, if the British did this, it's probably impossible without some behind-the-scenes actions." Yang Feng said with a sneer.
He guessed correctly. Britain's target is the Netherlands. Although invading a neutral country is indeed a very embarrassing thing for the British who call themselves gentlemen, especially since this neutral country has always been a good friend of Britain, but the current situation
There is no other choice. If we want to end the war in the short term, the only breakthrough is the Netherlands.
They are also in difficulty now. Although the British casualties are not many, only a little over 500,000 in total, France has more than 2 million casualties, Russia has almost 3 million casualties, Germany has more than 1.5 million casualties, and 2
The Austrian and Hungarian millions are not much in comparison, but the problem is the money! It is flowing out loudly, and the accumulation of hundreds of years of pirate robbery is stuffed into the pockets of the Chinese. It makes my heart bleed.
Even if the war continues like this, Britain will become a pauper. The hegemony of the British Empire is, to put it bluntly, the hegemony of the gold standard. All the gold has gone to the hands of the Chinese. How can we play the gold standard after the war? There is no way to play the gold standard. There will still be people in the pound.
Do you want it?
So in order to win the war, they had no choice but to use any means. They originally hoped to draw the Netherlands into the Allied camp through lobbying, but Queen Wilhelmina was unwilling to join the war against Germany. In this way, Britain
The people had no choice but to make this decision. Anyway, according to their estimation, even if the British army really invaded the Netherlands, the Dutch would not really resist. After all, the Netherlands at this time was no longer the era of sea coachmen.
Just when the two sides were fighting bloody battles in France but still refused to give up, in several usually deserted small ports in Norfolk, eastern England, two divisions of British troops were boarding thirty-two ships respectively.
Large landing ships, and in the military ports of Edinburgh in the north and Portsmouth in the south, the huge main fleet of the Royal Navy is setting out, heading south and north respectively. At the same time, the two armies that originally retreated to the country for rest have also begun to move to various ports.
Assemble and prepare to board the troop transport, of course under the banner of reinforcing the French battlefield.
"Winston, I really don't know whether this is right or wrong. Although we have no choice in order to win, I would rather lead the boys to fight the Germans at sea." British First Sea Lord Wilson in Great Yarmouth Port
The admiral said somewhat helplessly to his immediate boss, Churchill, the new Admiralty Secretary in Bannerman's cabinet.
Fatty Qiu is now in high spirits. Although he was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Boer War, his legendary experience of escaping from it, coupled with his jumping up and down performance in order to promote Britain's participation in the war, is of course mainly due to his nobility.
With his background, he is now a dazzling rising star in the political arena. Originally, Prime Minister Bannerman wanted him to be Secretary of Colonial Affairs, but he himself insisted on becoming Lord of the Admiralty.
"Admiral, as you said, we have no choice in order to win. The British Empire has too many enemies. We cannot take any risks with the fleet. Do you know how many Hongwu-class battlecruisers the Royal Navy of China is building at the same time? Ten
Six ships, six shipyards in China, and ten shipyards in Sweden, are all new toys of His Majesty the Emperor. Although their battle cruisers have thin armor and small caliber artillery, think about it that His Majesty the Emperor can build three to five ships for the Austrians.
A battleship with a six-millimeter main gun, why is he unwilling to use a main gun of this caliber for his own battleship? It is very simple. The power of the 280 main gun he uses is not much worse than the 356 main gun.
There is armor, even if we import his armor steel, do you still think that the armor steel he uses for himself will be the same as the armor steel he sells to us?
I can guarantee that if we really go to the battlefield, our latest battleships will probably not be much better than his battle cruisers.
Also, for a whole winter, Liaodong Bay was closed for military exercises. What kind of exercises can be carried out for a whole winter? It has been almost eight years since the port of Lushun was closed. The empire that was seized from the Emperor has become inaccessible to anyone.
In the restricted area, all countries trying to enter without a pass issued by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense will be directly arrested, even people from their own country. Even balloons floating over will be intercepted by planes.
So do you think it is like this just because it is the base of the Beiyang Fleet?
If my guess is correct, I am afraid that hidden there is a shipyard that specializes in building a new type of warship that neither you nor I can imagine. And now this kind of warship has been built and has begun trial trials in Liaodong Bay.
This is the biggest enemy of the Royal Navy in the future. In distant Asia, we have too many things to protect. If you look at the United States now, you will know what kind of person this emperor is. Insidious, cold, cunning, cruel, just like
Like a hippopotamus that plays itself as harmless as humans and animals, it stares at the world with cold eyes, ready to show its terrifying fangs at any time. In order to deal with this powerful enemy, we must do everything possible to retain our fleet."
Fatty Qiu sighed and said. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels are better and updated faster!