Chapter 371 Worried about the sea

Outside the port of San Diego, Li Mer pulled Simmons with a smile.

"Simons, you really don't think about buying one?"

"There is no money."

"..."

"Look, my wife is here. You can buy one. As long as one, the Chilean navy will be the most powerful one in South America!"

"There is no money."

"..."

"Fuck, I'm drooling, don't you think about it?"

"Considering!" Simmons was annoyed: "But I know you must have something good, and buying it now is equivalent to doing an experiment for you. Do you think I'm andiot?"

"..."

Master Li, who was seen through, did not let Chile order a Chinese battleship until he boarded the Oriental Princess, but this is not to blame others. After all, South America is not a European millionaire. Without that much money, Chile is rich, but most of the wealth has flowed into his own control here. Investors of saltpeter and copper mines are in their pockets, so they can only play with it until it is popular in Europe.

When the huge body of the Oriental Princess slowly left the harbor, the smile on Li Mo's face suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a solemnity.

The most critical moment has finally arrived in China. Although Chen Ping and Li Enfu have been in charge and have already unified the ideas of this war, who knows that something will happen?

The battle of the southeast is too critical for you. The unification of Xinhua means that you can let go of your hands and feet, but what is extremely resentful is that Chile is too far away from China. Even if it takes more than 20 days to arrive in Honolulu, and then return to China from Honolulu is enough to drive people crazy!

Unfortunately, my plane is still woody. Not to mention flying directly from Honolulu to Chile, it is not enough to fly around Hawaii, so it will take a long wait.

"Why don't you get an aircraft carrier first?" After a few days, Master Li was finally suffocated and began to think nonsense, but he finally gave up after thinking for a long time. It is not very difficult to modify the aircraft carrier. The problem is that the plane is not powerful, and even the bomb can't be hung at present. Is it possible to take a grenade to bomb the battleship?

Besides, now the eyes of the whole world are staring at themselves because of the appearance of the Chinese level. If they are engaged in aircraft carriers now, they will definitely follow the trend. It is impossible to expose tactical ideas too early, so we have to wait.

It will take more than a month to return to China, during which you still need to inspect Daxia and Honolulu, so even if you are in a hurry, you can only wait patiently. Since you can't sit in person, it's better to think more about the future.

Thinking of this, he quickly spread out the big map, but when his eyes fell on the southeast Pacific Ocean, the bare sea was very resentful.

Although there are such and such worries, domestic reunification has become an irreversible trend. Even if Britain is unwilling, unless he wants to fight a huge ground war with him at the moment when Boor is not over, otherwise he can only watch tens of thousands of troops keep going south.

Once unified, it is bound to arouse the attention of all countries to the Pacific Ocean, especially the United States, a country that has just got rid of Cuba and is classified as the world's number one economic power, but has not received the corresponding status, and will be its main opponent in the future.

The competition with the United States will be a long competition. In a situation where it is unlikely that a direct war conflict between the two countries will break out, the competition for the edge of the game is crucial.

The key to the competition is in South America, and the focus is on procrastinating the Panama Canal, which has not yet been completed!

Whether they interfere or not, the French will eventually give up this difficult canal, because it is too close to the United States. South American countries, especially small countries in Central and South America, can't resist the infiltration of the United States at all. Even Cuba, which has just tied with the United States, still admits that the United States is in Cuba. It's a legitimate interest.

Once France really gives up the Panama Canal, even if it holds secret shares, it is impossible to give the canal to itself, let alone Germany, so only Britain and the United States have the strength and funds to take over.

Britain will certainly not have much interest, because it is impossible for British businessmen to take a detour from the United States to the Pacific Ocean. The Suez Canal is the life-death guarantee for the British, so it is inevitable for the United States to take over.

The best way to deal with the canal is to block it, find a foothold at both ends of the canal, and then station troops, so as to deter the whole canal. Just like the United Kingdom, after stationing nearly 100,000 troops in the Suez Canal, it still sealed the Strait of Gibraltar and the island of Cosottra, and gave the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea at both ends of the Suez Canal. It was blocked into a stuffy jar.

A real naval power depends not on how many warships he has built, but on how many important places he has occupied. Xinhua has done a good job now. All strategic channels in Northeast Asia have been controlled, but the problem is that only Northeast Asia is not enough to become a maritime power!

The Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope, the Malvinas Islands and the Strait of Drake are all under British control, that is to say, if Master Li's fleet wants to leave the Pacific Ocean and turn around elsewhere, it will enter the British line of sight.

This is intolerable, so Li Mo came up with the idea of the unfinished Panama Canal.

Now, it is very difficult to completely control the canal, so the best way is to learn from Britain and occupy the strongholds at both ends of the canal. But the problem is that compared with the Caribbean Sea, the southeast Pacific Ocean is really empty, and there are only a few islands that are still occupied, which is really annoying.

"Coke Island, Malpero Island, Colon Islands..." Li Mo's fingers slowly crossed the map, and even Yan Fu and Tang Shaoyi didn't notice when they came in.

"Your Majesty, what are you?"

"Where's the enclosure."

"..."

The two Yan Fu have a black line in their heads. The emperor is the emperor. They don't care about the heat in China, and they also want to encircle the world for my Chinese sons and daughters, which is really admirable.

"Come on!" Li Mo stared at the two and said, "If you want to say that I'm not doing my job, just say it directly. Don't swell your face like a steamed bun."

"Puff." When Fang Xianqi, who was walking in with a plate of fruit, heard this, she couldn't help laughing. She quickly put down the fruit plate and ran out. Master Li took advantage of the topic and straightened his waist and curled his lips: "No words? Then I'll play chess with Xianqi first.

"Do you play chess? It's a liar. Since you got on the boat, you have played chess for several nights!" The two of them' faces became darker. They quickly stopped Li Mo and said, "Your Majesty, I just received a telegram from Truk. On September 3rd, Kulun found the Russian cavalry!"

"Russian cavalry?" Li Mo's heart jumped: "I found it on September 3rd!"

The two were not surprised by this problem, because the long-wave signal forwarded from China was unstable and sometimes could not be contacted within a few days, so Li Mo had to spend a lot of money to repair the radio station.

On September 3rd, it has been six days since this moment. That is to say, if this Russian army is coming to attack, then Cullen should have exchanged fire, but is the army under Nicholas II really so efficient? The transfer order was only issued a month ago, and now it has killed Cullen?

No, definitely not right!

This is definitely not the main force of Russia, maybe it's just a small group of cavalry passing by.

"What do you think?" Li Mo thought for a thought and then asked.

"I haven't received the follow-up telegram yet, but I just studied it with Shaochuan and think it should not be the main force of Russia. At most, it is the first batch, which should not pose a big threat." Yan Fu immediately said his answer.

Li Mo nodded. As he thought, even if it was really a large group of Russian troops, they should be able to cope with the means and meticulous thoughts of Chen Ping and Li Enfu, right? ——

"Report, the first regiment of the Fifth Division reported that they have successfully passed through Nanjing City and have not suffered large-scale resistance."

"Report, the reconnaissance battalion of the first division heard gunfire in the city outside Changsha. It is estimated that the initiating forces launched, and they are organizing a rendezvous."

"Report..."

A loud report made the combat command center of the Ministry of National Defense more and more busy, and the staff were almost busy. Since the radio appeared, every time there was a war, such a scene would appear, so Chen Ping and Li Enfu and others were not surprised.

Neither of them is very worried about the southeast ground war. It's not even as good as the previous Russian cavalry's appearance on the shore of Berga Lake to make everyone worried. Fortunately, according to the exploration of the Jianghu masters in the Nighthawk, it was just a small force of about 5,000 people brought by Kuropatkin, which was not a threat.

Nowadays, the local armies in the southeastern provinces have long been lax. Under the strong propaganda and psychological offensive, many local officials have also resigned one after another, or even simply came on leave. In addition, Li Hongzhang is already bedridden, and Zhang Zhidong has been blocked at home by the night eagle if there is no accident, so there is a lack of backbone. Fang Zhusheng can't stop himself at all.

The Intelligence Department also came out on multiple fronts, rebelling against a large number of officers and local officials, including Hunan's key care. More than half of the Hunan army has agreed to the uprising.

What's more, in order to form a thunderbolt, this battle not only adopted a regiment-by-side approach, but also for more than a year, the northern military enterprises with Liaodong and Shenyang as the core have never stopped for a moment. Not only three shifts were rotated, but the scale has also expanded several times. The army has prepared 50,000 shells alone, and It doesn't include the air force and navy, let alone grenades and bullets.

The previously worried multinational coalition forces are unlikely to appear at present due to the lack of ground troops in Britain. In addition to Shanghai and Hong Kong, which add up to nearly 20,000 British troops, the total number of Britain and France in other places is also less than 10,000. In the case of key care, it is no longer a big threat.

What the army really needs to worry about is not Hunan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangzhou and Guangxi, but the Yungui area, because the terrain is dangerous and the strength of the Tusi is strong. How to destroy and eradicate these parasitic serfuses on the people, and push the Xinhua New Deal to That's the most important thing.

However, this is the heavy water mill work in the later period. What really worries people is the sea!

Filetman deserves to be an old naval commander. As early as Li Enfu issued an ultimatum to the southeast mutual protection, he smelled the danger, so he immediately withdrew all the warships in the Yangtze River and led five battleships and five first-class armored cruisers, as well as six other cruisers and several drives. The huge fleet of ships left Shanghai, but he did not walk the Taiwan Strait as usual, but drilled into the Luzon Sea between Ryukyu and Taiwan, and dodged the pursuit of the Hurricane reconnaissance ship by releasing a lot of smoke at night.

Luzon also said that it was not big, but not small. It was extremely difficult to find a lurking fleet in the vast sea, so while making great efforts to find it, it was extremely critical to judge what he wanted to do!

"Do he want to go south to join the remaining fleets stationed in Hong Kong and Singapore, or..." Looking at the map, Chen Ping's heart suddenly rose a little bad. "Do you want to attack Ryukyu or go straight to the Ogasawara Islands and Honolulu?"

Turning his head, Li Enfu's face was already solemn!

(to be continued)