Chapter 790 Unexpected
A marriage with yourself?!
A few days later, Emperor Li still had a feeling of crying and laughing. Ten years ago, he might still be moved. Who doesn't like the ocean horse, not to mention the European royal blood, but now he is too old enough to hunt for beauty. What's more, if he really wants to experience this feeling, there are three Russian princesses around him, and it's not necessary to come together. Question.
However, looking at the photo, Alfonso XIII's sister is not bad-looking.
Emperor Li sip his lips, falling on the chessboard, looking absent-minded.
His appearance made Fang Xianqi, who was playing with him, smile secretly. His beautiful eyes glanced at the absent-minded Emperor Li, and deliberately smiled and said, "Is the emperor thinking about making peace with the king of Spain? I see that the little girl is also handsome.
"How come." How can this be admitted? Emperor Li raised his eyebrows and deliberately changed the topic and said, "I'm thinking, after you lose, what posture should I choose at night?"
"I know how to play tricks on our sisters." After Fang Xianqi looked at Li Mo, she suddenly asked leisurely, "Does the emperor still remember the eldest princess of the Russian Orga?"
"Huh? I said, Qier, what's wrong with you today? As I said, I'm not interested in those women. I just need the four of you to accompany me in my life. Li Mo stopped playing chess, picked up the teacup and looked at Fang Xianqi. She was a little surprised at what she meant today. Did she have to get a big ocean horse for the emperor?
"Your Majesty, what do you think!" After staring at her eyes, Fang Xianqi got up and smiled and said, "A few days ago, when you went to Shaanxi, I went to see the Russian emperor's family on your behalf. I saw that the eldest princess of Olga had nowhere to go in the courtyard all day, and I saw that she was very good at Chinese literature, so I arranged for her to come to teach the children Russian in the garden."
"But." Fang Xianqi narrowed her eyes, like a beautiful little fox, biting her ear and said, "Your Majesty, don't you always say that there are few people around you who know Russian and things in Russia? Olga is the eldest princess. Before coming here, she was very familiar with the Russian aristocratic circle. If you want to accept her to make Russian documents, you should tell us in advance.
"Have you received the paperwork?" This is too ambiguous. With Fang Xianqi's ambiguous look, even people like Emperor Li can't help but think of the "secretary" of blonde hair and blue eyes and OL wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, which are common in later generations.
"Dead girl!"
It's hot. I don't care that there are so many maids around to watch. Emperor Li patted the plump ** and shyly hid back behind the house, and his ears were much clearer.
"Documents? Secretary? Well, Xiufeng is just the general manager and secretary. It seems that he really doesn't have a royal secretary. Do you want to find one? Looking at the chessboard, Emperor Li couldn't concentrate and knew that he was completely confused
.. Just because of a relative's proposal to make the new garden a small mess, the whole world was also in chaos. Because the battleground took place in the Ionia Sea in southeast Italy, it was called the news of the victory or defeat of the Ionia sea battle, which swept the whole world like a storm.
This is a naval battle that determines the surname!
Throughout the naval battle, the Allies and Combined Fleet, led by Xinhua, lost a total of 2 old-fashioned battleships, 6 cruisers and 13 destroyers, while the opponent lost 11 battleships, 11 cruisers, destroyers and other ships reached 66, with a total tonnage of 1.35 million tons. More.
Among them, Italy suffered the heaviest loss. Before the war, the Italian navy, which had a total of 13 battleships, was almost completely destroyed. Only five old battleships with injuries could only hide back to the depths of the Adriatic Sea. Cruisers and destroyers were also seriously damaged in one fell swoop. The former Mediterranean overlord has become a third-rate navy that can't even guard its home now.
Britain is also uncomfortable. Although Li Xiuyan finally chose to eat three Count Cappur-class battleships first, giving David Betty a glimmer of life, because the three Xinhua aircraft carriers were active in the Ionia Sea at that time, and the scattered battleship USS Taiwan was blocked in Tunisia with German and Ottoman fleets. In the strait, with almost no possibility of forced passage, Betty had to choose to hide in the coastal islands of Greece.
Unfortunately, Greece has no comparable aircraft, and even the Italian Air Force, which can rank in the top three in Europe, can't block the wolf-like dragon wings. The poor Greek planes didn't even fly at all, so they broke the sand off the coast of Greece with David Betty's fleet, and even David Betty himself was seriously injured and fled into Greece. Mainland China.
Without the containment of maritime forces, the allied joint fleet with the Xinhua Seventh Special Fleet as its team began to attack Malta and Italy, causing a sharp decline in the situation in the Mediterranean, which was originally under the control of the Union.
The strategic location of the Maltese Islands is important, guarding the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. It is known as the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, and the big port on the island is one of the few natural ports in the Mediterranean Sea. Although it has always been a British colony, after the large-scale contraction of British forces, Malta's defense itself has been very weak. Coupled with the lack of strategic depth, the whole archipelago is under the range of naval guns, so the fall is only a matter of time.
Once Malta is lost, it not only means that the communication channel between North Africa and Europe is cut off, but also makes Britain have the last barrier in the Mediterranean, known as the Gibraltar fortress that will never fall.
Previously, Singapore was also known as the Eastern Gibraltar, and the combined defense capabilities of the three major ports in California in the United States were no worse than those of Gibraltar. However, they were also defeated before the strong Xinhua Airlines, so even the British themselves did not have the confidence to stick to it for a long time.
As the most naval power in the Mediterranean before the war, France had to shrink completely in the port of Marseille without the help of Italy and Britain after a series of heavy losses. Similarly, what the French are thinking now is not to defend the Mediterranean Sea, but whether the Xinhua Army will land in France.
Of course, the most tragic thing is Spain. After Spain, which was not strong in its navy, lost three battleships, the navy only had two front fearless battleships and a few old-fashioned ironclad ships left in the navy. Seeing that the powerful Italian and British joint fleets in their own eyes were ashes, they were already scared and trembling, even Ah Fang The thirteenth generation of Suo all lost face in an attempt to avoid the heavy artillery of the Xinhua Navy by marriage.
If the previously rapidly rising Xinhua hit only the periphery of Britain and the United States in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, then the battle of the Ionia Sea was almost a humiliating result. In addition to officially announcing that the Eastern forces began to counterattack Europe, it also seriously shook the other pillars of the Allies.
After Italy lost its navy, Archduke Delfino seized the opportunity to lead the Austro-Hungarian navy out, and all the depression of nearly three years was returned to his opponent. The shells were thrown on the Italian coast like no money, and even a small fishing port could be destroyed. Attack, Albania and Greece have changed from the previous offensive posture to full defense. The domestic revolutions and riots in Spain have been one after another, and the situation has become more and more noisy. The whole agreement has reached the verge of disintegration.
What's more serious is that after receiving the news of the Ionian Sea victory, the German navy, which had been trapped in the Gulf before, began a new round of assembly. Kaiser Wilhelm II even gritted his teeth to accelerate the construction of the York-class battleship and once again put on the posture of entering the North Sea. At the same time, the German army was in Hindenburg and Ruden Road. Under the command of her husband, he also began to prepare a new round of comprehensive attack plan, trying to break the current anxious Paris war and push the war to the south of France in one fell swoop, so as to completely occupy the whole of France.
Even the old Austria-Hungary, Osman and Bulgaria suddenly announced that they would concentrate all the country's strength to launch a comprehensive offensive against the Ally.
In the case of stormy and chaos in Europe, bad news came from the other side of the Atlantic at the same time.
After nearly half a month of seesaw strangulation and paying the price of 150,000 deaths and injuries, the U.S. military still failed to defend Albuquerque, the important town of the Rio Grande, New Mexico.
On May 13, after taking Albuquerque, Sun Jiugong, the commander-in-chief of the North American Theater of the Allies, really invested in three Xinhua Army Group, one Japanese Army Group and three newly formed Mexican Army groups with a total of 1.5 million troops, with 800 tanks, 1,200 armored vehicles, 680 fighters and 50 With the cooperation of more than 00 cannons, they launched a full-scale attack on New Mexico and Texas. Although Pershing changed its tactical fortifications, the U.S. military still failed after the military began to dissipate.
On the last day before the end of May, when the Xinhua 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions occupied Dallas and Houston respectively, Pershing had to issue a retreat order after a total of more than 370,000 losses, and the remaining 2 million U.S. troops withdrew into Arkansas and Mississippi respectively.
At the same time, the fall of Galston Bay, located 30 kilometers outside Houston, means that the most urgently needed temporary anchorage in the Gulf of Mexico by the Xinhua Navy has finally arrived.
The news that the Xinhua Army successfully entered the Gulf of Mexico completely plunged the United States into despair. Although Jelico told reporters in Miami that he had the ability and confidence to hold the Caribbean line, which was already considered to be the last line of the Atlantic Ocean, the situation in front of the Royal Navy of the New China, which was constantly sending more troops to Panama. Still not optimistic.
The fall of Texas means that the combat radius of the Xinhua Air Force can already cover the seven states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi and Oklahoma. From now on, the southern part of the United States will tremble under the wings.
The news of continuous defeats eventually led to the second major migration of the United States. A large number of refugees began to appear in seven states under the wings of Xinhua bombers. Countless people left their homes and fled to the north. With more and more people, security and riots became more rampant. Dozens of large-scale anti-war riots occurred in just a few weeks. Move.
May is a sunny and vibrant season, but it is full of gloom and decay in the eyes of the Allien States.
A few days later, when an amazing news came out, the turmoil and uneasiness reached the most **!
On June 3, the Canadian political axe suddenly announced that it would recall Canadian soldiers from the Allies around the world. At the same time, Shi Zhaoji, the diplomatic envoy of the Xinhua Empire, and Heinze, the German ambassador to Canada, arrived in Ottawa respectively and began closed-door negotiations with Canadian political axe representatives.
No one expected that even Li Mo was surprised. Although he knew that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been lobbying and threatening to ask Canada to withdraw from the war, before Spain and Italy fell, he didn't expect that Canada would fall first!
What will be the result of the negotiation?!
The whole world is holding their breath!
(to be continued)