The civil war broke out in Australia, which immediately attracted the attention of countries around the world.

Previously, the Chinese Empire supported Afghanistan, India, Myanmar and other resistance forces attacking British Asian colonies everywhere, which has annoyed the British government. The diplomatic relations between the two sides have been demoted from minister to consular level, but neither of them issued a letter of breaking up because neither side was ready.

Now that a civil war breaks out in Australia, the British authorities suddenly realize that the Chinese Empire intends to open up a new battlefield in Australia. Once the Australian Democratic Party wins, Australia will become the world of Chinese and become a vassal state of the Chinese Empire.

The British government held an emergency meeting to discuss strategies against China. However, it was the time of the British general election. The Conservative Party had failed in the past four years. Britain was restrained everywhere on China, British colonies caught fire everywhere, and the British economy had a serious trade deficit with China. These series of problems caused the Conservative Party to be defeated by the Liberal Party in the 1905 midterm elections, and the parliament was controlled by the Liberal Party.

At this time, there is still one month before the final election of the Prime Minister. Conservative candidates Stanley, Baldwin, and Liberal candidates Henry, Campbell's team of Sir Nenan are at the most fierce battle. Once the British government improperly deals with the Australian issue, it will lead to the direct collapse of the Conservative Party. For this reason, British Prime Minister and Conservative Party Belfort believe that war with the Chinese Empire should be avoided and they should wait and see on the Australian issue. However, some Conservative Party members believe that the Conservative Party is doomed to fail this time, and it is better to hand over the mess to the Liberal Party. The Conservative Party prepares for the next election in four years.

The latter's proposal received most of the support from the Conservative Party, so Belfort had to adopt their opinions and intervene in the Australian civil war by force, further transforming the Sino-British conflict, and throwing the mess to the Liberal Party that is about to take office.

At this time, on the Australian battlefield, the East Australian troops had been defeated by the Western Australian troops. The Western Australian troops had occupied the capital Melbourne, and the East Australian troops retreated to Sydney and Canberra.

The Western Australian Army was well-trained and well-equipped. It was basically composed of retired soldiers of the Chinese Empire and had strong combat effectiveness. In contrast, the Eastern Australian Army was backward and the training was even worse. In addition, the Australian government has always been disgusted with the British army intervening in Australian defense, so the original British army was abolished and the Australian police force acted as the national defense force. In this way, the Eastern Australian Army was far less powerful than the Western Australian Army. After six consecutive defeats, the Eastern Australian Army lost its capital and Victoria, and most of Queensland was lost, leaving only a few important cities in South Wales.

As a last resort, the East Australian government had to seek help from the UK.

On October 1, 1905, the British government issued a declaration supporting the Labor leader Adams, elected by the three eastern states of Australia, and refused to recognize the Democratic Party General Holmes, elected by the three western states of Australia, and ruled that the three western states of Australia were illegal and would provide military aid to East Australia and even forcefully introduce the British army to...

After the British Command issued an order, the British Asian Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet respectively dispatched more than a dozen warships to form a fleet of aid to Australia, and carried more than 30,000 British Army personnel to land in Sydney on October 8. At the same time, British warships bombarded coastal cities controlled by Western Australian troops such as Melbourne, Wayala, and Jones, causing a large number of casualties between the Western Australian troops and locals, most of whom were Chinese.

The British Navy bombarded the Chinese Empire's expatriates, which immediately caused the Chinese Empire's government to protest strongly, but the British government ignored it.

On October 8, Emperor Chen Hao of the Chinese Empire convened a meeting of imperial fronts, and important civil and military officials arrived together to discuss the feasible issue of fighting against Britain.

At this time, after 34 months of preparation, the combat plan against Britain formulated by the General Staff of the Chinese Empire had basically been realized.

The Chinese Empire Navy has successively served nine Xia Dynasty-class battleships, nine Western Zhou-class battlecruisers, nine Fengxian-class light cruisers, and six hunting ship brigades have all replaced the northwest wind-class hunting ships. 82 new Han-class submarines, and nine Daji-type heavy cruisers are under construction on the ship platform. The plan formulated by the Imperial General Staff...the strategic plan has been completed 80%.

The newly added Han-class submarines are actually different from the previous Han-class submarines. During the construction process, Holland and Lake continued to improve. In the end, the newly produced Q82 Han-class submarines were actually an upgraded version of the previous Han-class submarines. The Navy Department called it the Eastern Han-class submarine, while the previous one was divided into Western Han-class submarines.

The upgraded Eastern Han-class submarine has increased its displacement, with a water surface of 640 tons and a water surface of 780 tons. The main engine uses 2 Diesel-type 4-stroke diesel engines (for surface navigation), 2 motors (for underwater navigation), and dual propulsion shafts. The speed is slightly increased, and the surface speed reaches 10.1 underwater.

Festival. Considering entering the Atlantic Ocean to combat, the endurance of the Eastern Han-class submarine increased to 10 festivals of 3,600 nautical miles.

The equipment is 5 450mm torpedo tubes (including 4 on the bow and 1 stern torpedo tube), and is loaded with torpedo mouths. The original 47mm rapid-fire gun was changed to a 76mm rapid-fire gun, and the increase in the caliber resulted in the reduction of the number of missiles to 200 rounds. However, a heavy machine gun of 1 millimeter was added to the stern of the ship, for attacking enemy personnel. The submarine was equipped with a more advanced radio system, which made the submarine's underwater communication distance reach 500 kilometers, and it could communicate with nearby submarines and surface fleets to coordinate and coordinate unified combat. The depth of safe submarines increased to 75m. The artillery of British cruisers at this depth could not threaten the submarine. The number of submarines increased by five to forty.

The Eastern Han-class submarines can be said to be specially designed for Atlantic combat. The speed, endurance, submarine, surface rapid-fire gun fire, etc. are all attacking the British transport fleet.

For this reason, the Chinese Empire has built large submarine bases at the Weidong Island Naval Base, Guam Naval Base and Bō Rico San Juan Naval Base respectively for this purpose, and has specially developed semi-submarine submarine carriers for submarines. One submarine carrier can tow four submarines and provide supplies to submarines at sea.

At this time, the Chinese Empire had deployed fifty Eastern Han-class submarines to the Atlantic Fleet at the San Juan Naval Base.

The Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Empire was established in January 5, Guanghua. The fleet commander General Du Xigui, and the fleet chief of staff Li Dingxin Ping. It is under the jurisdiction of the Atlantic Fleet nine battlecruisers, nine light cruisers, thirty-six hunting ships, fifty submarines, and seven large supply ships. The entire fleet is divided into the first squadron, the second squadron and the third squadron.

The fleet flagship King Wu of Zhou, the first team of the first squadron: King Cheng of Zhou, King Kang of Zhou, King Zhao of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou: Second team: King Yi of Zhou, King Xiao of Zhou, King Li of Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou.

The second squadron: the flagship Fengxian. The third squadron: Fengling, Fengling, Fengtao,

Fengting: The Fourth Team: Fengwan, Fengwang, Fengwei, Fengxian.

The Third Squadron is under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Battalion of the Destroyer and the Sixth Battalion of the Destroyer, with a total of 36 Northwest Wind-class Hunting Ships.

The supply fleet is 15 large Taihu-class supply ships numbered Taihu No. 1, and the submarine fleet occupied the number is fifty Eastern Han-class submarines.

The main combat mission of the Atlantic Fleet is to protect the safety of the Panama Canal and enhance the maritime power of the Chinese Empire in the Caribbean Sea. During the war, the number of Atlantic ships will enter the North Atlantic Ocean, and the first goal is to break the war as the main combat means to attack the enemy's maritime life supply line.

All nine Western Zhou-class battlecruisers were rated to the Atlantic Fleet, which was officially said to be nine battleships, and the military has kept it strictly confidential and only advanced at a speed of 11 knots during its passage through the Panama Canal.

The weakness of the Western Zhou Dynasty battlecruiser is that its armor is only 254 mm, but the UK cannot obtain the technical parameters of trust. It cannot be seen from the onlookers alone, which makes the whole world, especially the British navy, believe it.

In terms of the Pacific Fleet, General Lin Jianzhang continued to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, and Lieutenant General Ye Zugui was appointed as the first and second teams of the Pacific Fleet after serving. The fleet flagships were also converted from the Dengyun to the Diqi. The nine Dengyun-class battleships were assigned to the Third and Fourth teams of the Second Squadron. The other teams of the third and fourth teams were also divided into the back rows in turn.

At the same time, the British Navy's expansion plan was only half completed, and most of the newly built warships were on the ship. Although the British Navy launched the USS Fearless battleship in June 2004, the sea trial work was not progressing until September 1905 and served in the British local fleet.

Since the Edward VII-class battleships, Nelson-class battleships, fast-class battleships, etc. that were previously built by the British expanded naval construction are not opponents of the Xia Dynasty-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, and they are even unable to confront the Dengyun-class and Jianwei-class battleships.

After testing the Xìng power of the USS Fearless battleship, the British Navy truly understood the combat capabilities of this new concept battleship. Thinking of the Chinese Empire completing the relevant testing of the new concept battleship of the Divine Bow three years ago, and three years later, the British Navy was immediately panicked.

In the summer of 1905, the British Navy reported that the Chinese Empire's divine bow battleships would become a nightmare for the British Navy's active battleships. The British Navy only had the Fearless to fight against it, but it was definitely not a match for the Chinese Empire's navy in terms of quantity, because the Chinese Empire's navy had successively received eighteen divine bow battleships.

The British Parliament cursed the Navy for a group of money. The huge shipbuilding expenses that allocated 50 million yuan three years ago were wasted. The warships built have been outdated since the day of design. Now these warships are a pile of outdated scrap iron in front of the Chinese Empire Navy.

However, although the parliament cursed the Admiralty, it had to accept the reality and urgently added 30 million shipbuilding fees to the British List, and ordered the Admiralty to build a batch of fearless battleships as soon as possible to fight against the Chinese Empire's divine bow battleships.

Starting from the month of the mouth, major British shipyards have started construction of 18 Berrero intermediate battleships. Due to the tension in ships and platforms, at most six can be started to be built at the same time.

The Bellero Intermediate Battleship is just a slightly improved version of the Fearless, and 95% of the design has not changed, because the British Navy has no time to carry out large-scale transformations, so it can only be built and transformed, because the British Navy has felt the huge maritime threat from the Chinese Empire for the first time.

However, as the British naval fearless shipbuilding plan had just begun, the Chinese Empire was ready to start a war against Britain, so that the subsequent construction plans of the British group of fearless battleships were all broken, and the only ones that were finally completed were the six fearless battleships that were built at the beginning.

At the imperial meeting chaired by Emperor Chenhao of the Chinese Empire, Navy Minister Deng Shichang swears to Wang Chenhao that the Imperial Navy already has an advantage and can fight against the British Navy and win by confidence.

Minister of the Army Department Feng Guozhang also said that the Guangzhou Military Region has made a military plan to recover Hong Kong Island. The Central Pacific Province, the Guam Fortress of the Bō Dorico Province and the Ryukyu Province, the Bō Dorico Fortress and the White Beach Fortress have all completed land reinforcement work, which is enough to resist the British army's island invasion.

Air Force Minister Xue Xiangguang also said that the Imperial Air Force has completed the production tasks of 300 combat cattle aircraft, 20 reconnaissance aircraft, 20 airships, and 1,000 airshot reconnaissance balloons. The Air Force can fully control the air supremacy in the combat zone, and provide reconnaissance for army and naval operations, and even provide direct attack assistance.

The Minister of Defense Wang Shizhen finally concluded: "Your Majesty, the soldiers of the three armies of the Empire have been prepared and are confident that they can recover the lost territory and defeat Britain."

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "The soldiers of the three armies are very lucky to be the country and I am very lucky." Then, Wang Chenhao turned to Zhang Feng and said, "Before the troops and horses move, the food and grass come first, how are you preparing?"

Zhang Feng replied: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has raised 500 million dragon coins as reserve for war." Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said: "British is not as strong as Russia. Britain is the most powerful country. It is very rich. If they make up their minds to play a protracted war with us, this money is not enough." Zhang Feng replied: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have a second plan. Once the Sino-British war enters a protracted war, the empire will raise 2 billion dragon coins in war bonds within half a year." Wang Chenhao nodded and suddenly asked: "You are not trying to defeat my treasury, right?" Zhang Feng smiled and said: "Your Majesty's treasury does have more than 2 billion dragon coins in reserve funds, but I can raise this fund without using Your Majesty's treasury."

Wang Chenhao laughed and said, "I am also keeping my treasury, so it is better to take it out and make money. This way, my treasury will be your third plan, so that there will be an extra layer of insurance." The ministers immediately said in unison: "Your Majesty's Holy 1"

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Warning with the British may not be able to make any profits. If you don't accompany you, you will be lucky."

Ruan Zhongshu took the lead and said: "Your Majesty, I think it would be better to expand the war and burn the war from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean, the African coast, and the Indian Ocean coast to comprehensively attack British colonies around the world."

Yang Shi suddenly shouted: "I agree with Lord Ruan's opinion. Britain claims to be the Empire of the Sun and the Sun is never set. Its colonies are spread all over the world. Although the British navy is powerful, if it is dispersed, a single navy is no match for the Imperial Navy at all."

Zhang Peilun also listed: "I attached the suggestions of the two masters. I thought that Britain's attack on British maritime transportation lines was a good strategy. If Marines were sent to attack important British colonial cities and the British were busy putting out fires everywhere, they could receive miraculous tactical effects." Wang Chenhao asked: "What does Lord Zhang mean?" Zhang Peilun explained: "I thought that South Africa is rich in gold and diamonds. After the British war in the UK, Britain plundered thousands of tons of gold and a large number of diamonds in South Africa. It is said that most of the UK was not transported back to London under international public pressure and had been stored in the Bank of England in Cape Town for post-war reconstruction for South Africa. If the Empire sent a Marine to raid Cape Town and seized this batch of gold and diamonds, it could attack Britain's war endurance and supplement the Empire's war costs."

"Good idea!" Wang Chenhao's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "This matter is discussed immediately!" Wang Shizhen said, "Report to your Majesty, if you want to raid Cape Town, you only need the Imperial Navy Atlantic Fleet and a powerful and capable Marine Corps. The Atlantic Fleet is only half a month away from Cape Town. Long-distance raids can quickly eliminate the British cruiser stationed in Cape Town. The Marine Corps can dispatch a capable land brigade to capture Cape Town before the British army can react."

Feng Guozhang said: "Occupying Cape Town, quickly transporting gold, diamonds, English lists and other items from the Bank of England's Cape Town branch. This plan is bold, but it is indeed feasible." Deng Shichang smiled and said: "If it succeeds, the British will go crazy."

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Any plan that can make the British crazy is beneficial to us. We can adopt this plan... but we must plan in detail, and we must try to hit it with one blow, and we must not drag the British."

"I obey the order!" Wang Shizhen immediately received the order.

Then, Wang Chenhao looked at Wu Tingfang and said, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately launched a public opinion offensive to cover the three imperial armies to carry out operations."

"I received the order!" Wu Tingfang continued: "Don't worry, your Majesty, we have the experience of public opinion on the Russian war last time, and this time we will definitely fulfill our mission."

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Everything is ready, but the east wind is not allowed. Since everything is ready, then find an excuse to act!" "I will obey the order!" The ministers immediately took the order.

After the imperial meeting ended, the civil and military ministers returned to their respective offices one after another, and the war machine of the Chinese Empire suddenly started to operate.

On October 17, 1905, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire angrily scolded the British Navy for intervening in the Australian civil war, killing and injuring hundreds of Chinese people in Australia, and destroying a large number of possessions held by the Chinese Empire. Therefore, the Chinese Empire announced that it would break off diplomatic relations with the UK and expel the British Embassy staff in China.

Starting from the 18th, the Chinese Empire carried out evacuation operations within the jurisdiction of the British around the world, and this move immediately stabbed the British government. The senior British military strategist Bacon immediately commented that this was a precursor to the Sino-British war, warning the British government and the British army and navies around the world to be wary of the sudden attacks of the Chinese Empire.

However, the British government has been the eldest brother for many years, and Britain has taken the initiative to declare war on other countries. No country has dared to declare war on Britain, let alone the dare to take the initiative to attack Britain. Most British politicians and officers think that it is impossible...
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