Chapter 337 South and North 5

God!

Damn Li Mo, what on earth is he going to do? Before the northwest was calmed down, it actually attacked Borneo again! Is his hand stretched too long? Does he think that the Russian army that entered Xinjiang will be defeated like last time?

Felitman stroked his forehead, looked at his hand to sort it out, and prepared the information to be submitted to the ambassadors of various countries later. He frowned.

Ten days ago, the Xinhua Army officially fought in Borneo on the pretext of protecting the expatriates. The two infantry regiments in the early stage landed in Kundam and Sammalinda respectively, and more infantry regiments in Luzon were preparing to leave.

The Dutch couldn't sit still and officially invited countries to prevent the New China Army from continuing to land. As a small neutral country, it is obviously too difficult for the Netherlands to control such a large territory as the East Indies! They have no ability to face the attack of the Xinhua Army alone.

At the same time, Li Mo also began to gather the Nanyang Chinese with great fanfare. With the slogan of self-help and self-improvement and defending the Chinese, he began to form two volunteer infantry divisions. Based on his understanding of Li Mo over the years, this is obviously the trick of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. The two infantry divisions will definitely be upgraded to regular troops in the end, and the required equipment is also It must have been built in accordance with the standards of the regular army.

Six months ago, he had formed four new infantry divisions in the north, which were training at night. He also recruited 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, plus some other troops. The total army in his hand will reach 350,000!

If it's just the army, it's not uncommon for him to make 500,000 or even a million. The problem is that he still maintains two fleets at the same time!

The navy is not an army that can be armed with a rifle and hundreds of bullets. It requires a huge cost of money. Based on the capital ships of his two fleets and as many as seven or eight huge bases, it needs to invest at least three million pounds a year in maintenance alone! This does not include the storage of ammunition, the training of soldiers, scientific and technological research and the payment of wages. If you add them, you need to invest at least 7 million yuan a year.

And this does not include the most expensive new ship procurement.

Recently, their shipyard has delivered four new Jinghai-class cruisers and four new large torpedo ships in a row. According to the calculation of the Admiralty, the unit price of that kind of cruiser is at least 700,000 to 800,000 pounds, and the enlarged torpedo ship also needs at least 80,000 pounds!

Maybe this is nothing. The British Empire invests several times more money in the navy every year, but the question is whether Xinhua can compare with the empire, which has global interests?

How Li Mo made a fortune is still a mystery being discussed all over the world. The upper class of all countries is trying their best to trace his original source of funds. From now on, his gold mine in Canada is obviously the earliest income.

But what can I do even if I know? Felixman disdains this kind of question. At this moment, he is not concerned about how Li Mo made a fortune, but how he supported such a huge military logistics!

After Honolulu was almost moved away as a whole, the political axes of various countries have sent people to have an in-depth understanding of the two largest equipment manufacturing bases in Li Mo's hands at this moment. Although Ryukyu has strict restrictions and little is known to the outside world, from the perspective of geographical environment, it is impossible to support such a huge logistical needs, so all countries pay attention to it. The force is concentrated in the equipment manufacturing center with Fengtian as the center.

Two large shipyards have been built, with a large number of steel mills, military factories, machinery factories, airship manufacturing plants and automobile factories, etc. It can be seen that Li Mo has also used it as the most important logistics support base, but what he can't understand is that although Li Mo is under construction It was well planned at the beginning, and it should even be called perfect, but a backward agricultural country to become an industrial power in just a few years can't be done by building a few cars or one or two new warships.

Li Mo may have the best technology, but he doesn't have the best workers, and most of the workers have been trained in recent years, which is much worse than that in Europe and the United States.

With such a group of people, but they have to maintain the logistical support of more than 300,000 troops and two fleets, it can be imagined that Li Mo is under great pressure, but it seems that he is not afraid of this dangerous tightrope-up game. He still continues to expand the size of the army, and even keeps launching wars to give him a weak logistics system. Create pressure!

Has his arsenal always been working without resting at night? Otherwise, how could he build another after building one? You know, according to the current equipment of the Xinhua Army, one of their infantry divisions needs 20,000 rifles, a hundred Maxim machine guns, 76 cannons and small cannons that are very convenient like iron pipes.

And this is just equipment. As for the huge amount of ammunition consumed, how did he do it?

Filitman shook his head. He finally gave up the idea of continuing to explore how many arsenals Li Mo had, whether it would start work at night, and what kind of production method could be used to improve efficiency so much, and returned to the current situation.

But when he looked at the current chaotic Far East again, he couldn't help but feel bitter in his mouth. He reached out to touch the cigar on the table. He found that the acon prepared Luzon cigar for him this time.

He is not the kind of aristocrat in China who only loves Cuban cigars, but as the commander of the Far East of the Empire, he wants to recruit soldiers and horses for the madman Li Mo and expand the army, which is really true.

He shook his head and smiled bitterly. Perhaps this kind of cigar that began to fill all corners of Europe, and the low-priced cigars made by machines were the reason why Li Mo got so much money.

The strong fragrance of the cigar began to concentrate his thoughts again.

If he attacked Mongolia, collected 30,000 cavalry, and built four new infantry divisions in the north, all to prepare for the war against Russia that is sure to break out again, then why did he provoke the Southern Ocean conflict again? Moreover, he also set up ten regiments at a time, and all 50,000 people were pressed north of the Yangtze River. Does he really want to fully challenge the British Empire's hegemony in the Far East?

In the northwest, the southern ocean and the southeast, does Li Mo really want to fight a full-scale war? Does he have any other killers? Are you going to clean up the leadership of the British Empire and other countries here?!

Impossible!

His fleet is very powerful and has been tested in actual combat, but it still can't be compared with the Empire. The shipbuilding capacity of Portsmouth in a year alone is ten times higher than that of Xinhua at this moment!

So Li Mo will never do it now. He suddenly fought against Borneo and sent more troops to cross the river to the southeast, in order to force the British Empire and himself to stop interfering!

But this time, he obviously made a mistake!

This time, Britain is no longer ready to avoid it step by step, and it is no longer able to tolerate this kind of face-to-face provocation. No one wants to tolerate it anymore!

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, His Excellency Ambassador Dou Maile and the ambassadors of other countries have arrived." At the urging of the adjutant, Fellitman quickly closed the document, extinguished the cigar and walked out. It was time to listen to the opinions of the ambassadors. Maybe it was a good choice to teach Li Mo a head-on lesson!

More than ten minutes later, Philippeman came to the conference room on the third floor of the Shanghai Club in the British Concession. Today, it was particularly lively. Almost all the ambassadors of European countries to China came here. The reason for this was that everyone began to tolerate the provocations of the spoiler again and again.

The Indian waiter wrapped in a headscarf opened the chair for Fellitman and arranged for the most powerful force owner in the Far East to sit down. After serving black tea, he quietly put away his eyes staring at the documents in his hand and stood in the corner, as if it were a silent shadow.

With the footsteps of the British Empire ruling the world, many Indians went out of the country and became waiters and servants, so ambassadors of various countries have long been surprised that there are one or two waiters wrapped in headscarves in the conference room.

"Guys, the Netherlands needs our help!"

After everyone sat down, Dou Maile, the British ambassador to China, said bluntly: "Li Mo once again provoked the Nanyang conflict. His army is constantly landing in the Dutch protectorate. Gentlemen, this is not only a matter of the Netherlands, but also a matter for all of us. The important surnames of the Strait of Malacca are self-evident. Let him control it. It's far better in the hands of our Britain than in the hands of others!"

Dou Maile's words made representatives of various countries nod one after another. Only Russian Ambassador Kasini disagreed and said, "Mr. Dou Maile, we Russia think that the northwest is Li Mo's focus, so we do not agree to intervene in the Nanyang conflict at this time, which will distract our attention from the northwest!"

"His Majesty the Great Tsar has made a decision to give Li Mo and his Xinhua Army an unforgettable lesson. Our first batch of army soldiers have arrived in Ili, and more troops are gathering, so I suggest that we immediately order the troops of their respective countries to go north from the Yangtze River, in addition to your navy Immediately shell the northern coastal cities and let Li Mo experience the power of Europe!"

After Kashini's words were finished, all countries closed their mouths and despised from the bottom of their hearts. This was an opportunity to attack Li Mo, which was simply to distract the attention of the Xinhua Empire for Russia's invasion of Xinjiang!

However, no one objected. At present, the only thing that can really threaten Li Mo is the Russian and British Far East Fleet. Even the German ambassador Haijing has not spoken. He still can't consume Russia's military power in the Far East, so that Germany, which is under the attack of Russia and France, is much less pressure.

"Gentlemen, I think what Mr. Kasini said is very reasonable. In addition to the north, we should strongly urge the southeast army to launch the Northern Expedition immediately. They have received so much assistance from us and should not continue to wait here!" France immediately responded positively to Casini's words, and France has always held a grudge against Li Mo's expulsion of France last time.

"Mr. Haijing, I don't know what your country plans to do." Dou Maile turned his head and aimed at the German ambassador. Over the years, it was precisely because of Germany's hook-up with Li Mo that countries could not trust each other. At this time, Germany stationed more than 13,000 troops on Kyushu Island, which was the largest army force in Europe in the Far East except Russia.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Dou Maile, if all countries are determined to fight this battle, then we Germany will send troops immediately, but if we can't trust each other, then I don't think my [***] team will be dragged into the mainland battlefield of Xinhua."

"Mutual trust?" Dou Maile seemed to have known this answer for a long time, and immediately asked, "I don't know what kind of mutual trust Mr. Haijing needs?"

"It's very simple. Please tell your country immediately to release the naval blockade against Boer and allow our merchant ships to enter and exit freely." Haijing took a sip of tea and suddenly made trouble.

This proposal immediately made Dou Maile people angry, allowing your merchant ships to enter and exit Boer freely? Isn't it obvious to support the Boer armed forces? What's more, yours is also called a merchant ship?! The Royal Navy has expelled no less than three German [***] fireships off the coast of South Africa, plus Dutch and French munitions, a full seven!

Now the Royal Navy has finally taken control of the outer sea and expelled the third-party forces. If it is completely released because of the deal with Li Mo, it will be a great disaster for the British control of Transvaal and Orlands!

Dou Maile shook his head quickly: "Your Excellency Haijing, your request is too much for me to agree. But I want to tell you that if Li Mo finally controls the whole of China, then you Germany can't have a foothold here!"

Haijing held a teacup and didn't seem to hear Dou Maile's words. He smiled and said, "Mr. Ambassador, I'm just a diplomat and can't make decisions instead of China. As far as I know, Li Mo has decided to visit Europe in five months. Before that, China needs a comprehensive evaluation of Far East policy, so I still say that, unless All countries have made up their minds to declare a full-scale declaration of war with Li Mo, otherwise there is nothing I can do.

Full declaration of war!

Is it possible?!

Just as Dou Maile was about to continue to speak, the silent Fellitman suddenly stood up, looked around the audience and said coldly, "Guys, no matter what we have done before, or we have conflicts in other parts of the world, this is the Far East. I believe that your interests here are the same, so I suggest that we should follow the law. The method proposed by the country is to urge the army in the south to attack the north immediately. We can send officers to supervise and wisdom. At the same time, we can hand over the northwest to Russia to deal with it and attack Li Mo from both sides!"

"We can't make him so comfortable!"

"What about Nanyang? Our country needs your help!" The Dutch ambassador hurriedly reminded that he was afraid that all countries would focus on the mainland and see Borneo occupied.

"Your Excellency the Ambassador can rest assured that Li Mo must be prevented from continuing to expand there this time, so I have sent three cruisers to Sarawak. In addition, our Far East Fleet has also..." Fillettman waved his arm and was about to explain his plan to everyone, but the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open.

He turned around and saw his adjutant rushing into the room. When the adjutant saw him, he immediately went to his side and whispered: "Middle General, Boer is at war!"

Philitman's hand suddenly froze in mid-air, and his body became hard. He could hardly believe his ears. Didn't the Navy send a telegram before that it wouldn't go to war? Why did you start fighting in less than half a month?!

Looking at the representatives of the countries in front of him who were waiting for him to continue, Felitman only felt bitter at the corners of his mouth. He believed that if the news spread, the plan just agreed would definitely be full of branches.

Isn't Li Mo's luck great?

(to be continued)