There are two main reasons why Lin Youde dared to use submarine warfare to threaten Britain.
In this era, due to the influence of factors such as navigation and shipbuilding technology, navigation was still unsafe. The U.S. Navy once had a tragedy in which an entire destroyer detachment deviated hundreds of thousands of miles and broke into a reef area, resulting in the entire army being annihilated. The Navy still has
In this way, one can imagine the condition of ordinary merchant ships.
In fact, at the time of the Titanic, shipping safety was still not fully guaranteed. The captain of the Titanic was popular for his shipping safety, but the old man actually encountered several accidents - even so, he was still considered a
Serve as the protector of safe navigation.
Therefore, Lin Youde's biggest worry when launching a submarine war was that the British did not realize that the missing ships were under attack. Therefore, Lin Youde ordered the submarine fleet to only choose lone British merchant ships to attack, and be careful not to rely on them during the attack.
Being too close allowed the British to discover the periscope, and immediately put the periscope away after the attack. On the other hand, he took great pains to make the British understand that he had been calculated: he ordered the intelligence department to collect operational information on several regular shipping routes.
, after confirmation by the spy ship, a submarine is called to attack, so that no ship in these routes successfully reaches the end point for a month. In this way, even a fool will know that there is something fishy here.
In addition, he also asked journalists who bribed British newspapers in Singapore, Myanmar and India to fabricate a bunch of reports about the East Asian sea monster Godzilla, and also cooperated with these reports to build a boat on the coast of Vietnam.
The craftsmen hired by Lin Youde made a terrifying "claw mark" on the side of the ship that was stranded after being attacked by Godzilla. The shape of the claw mark was designed with reference to the opinions of a naturalist under Lin Ji's disciples. At the same time, this naturalist also
He wrote a paper specifically to examine the claw marks and presented it to the academic community...
In this way, everyone knew that Lin Youde was causing trouble here, and the British just had no evidence to accuse Lin Youde; even better, because ordinary people in this era still have an unusual enthusiasm for technological progress and various adventures, they firmly believe
There are still undiscovered mysteries in this world. As a result, the story of sea monsters carefully concocted by Lin Youde became very popular among ordinary people in the West. Many hereditary nobles who were too idle took their wives to run to East Asia, eager to experience an adventure novel.
Such an adventure.
In this way, Lin Youde not only beat the British, but also successfully diverted the attention of the British people to the sea monster, so that the British government did not have to face the pressure of public opinion...
The second reason why Lin Youde dared to launch a war against Britain without declaring war was: his submarine technology is now much better than the average level in the world. Although his submarine is a tragedy in terms of silence and other aspects, the overall level is only
This is equivalent to a World War II submarine whose submersible time has been greatly extended. When the British come to their senses and start equipping sonar, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
As for radar, another major anti-submarine weapon during World War II, the British had already bought the technology related to the Sky Eye from Lin Youde. However, Lin Youde was careful and did not sell them the miniaturized Sky Eye. Therefore, the British could only sell the Sky Eye to them.
It is installed on newly built battleships and battlecruisers, unlike Lin Youde who directly installed the Sky Eye on the cruiser.
In short, Lin Youde's submarine is actually not that scary, but the British have overestimated him. Now that he is carrying out submarine attacks so unscrupulously, the British will definitely be afraid of his submarine power and cannot easily break up with him.
The combination of these two reasons made Lin Youde's strategy an unprecedented success. In January 1906, the British Royal Navy agreed to launch a joint operation with the Chinese Federation Navy to search for and annihilate the sea monster that had caused panic in Southeast Asia.
The farce, which everyone knew what was going on, reached its climax under the watch of the crowd who did not know the truth...
Behind this climax, Isabella put the Birmingham in Russia to wait for the weather to get warmer, and returned home on a special train provided by the Tsar. Britain's arms and financial support to Russia also stopped.
At the same time, the Federation's diplomatic activities in Austria also achieved results. Austria began to increase its troops in the Balkans. For this reason, Lin Youde had to agree to sell a batch of technology to Austria.
Although Lin Youde is very reluctant, his unique technology is still spreading in various forms.
Because of Austria's actions, Tsarist Russia had to transfer back some troops that had been transferred from the Balkans, but at the same time, Tsar Nicholas II still did not give up his plan to attack Xinjiang.
Lin Youde has more and more intelligence pointing out that Nicholas II may want to use a victory in a battle to gain an advantage at the negotiating table.
At this time, the federal army was firmly stuck near Chita by more than 200,000 Russian troops, unable to escape at all. Therefore, the federal central government had no choice but to ask Lin Youde's Marine Corps to send troops to cooperate with the newly formed local border defense forces to block the imminent attack by the Russian army.
attack.
But at this time, the construction of railways within the federation had just begun. Lin Youde's troops were all deployed on the first and second island chains. Far water could not save nearby fire.
At the end of January 1906, the Russian army crossed the Sino-Russian power dividing line stipulated in the Ili Treaty. Although the strength of the Russian army on the western front was much weaker than before the British withdrawal, the local federal troops in Xinjiang still collapsed at the first touch. Zuo Zongtang was
The foundations left behind have long since decayed and are unable to compete with the elite Russian troops transferred from the Balkans.
Seeing that the Russians were about to occupy Urumqi, at the request of the federal government, Lin Youde issued an extermination order and used the thermobaric bombs in reserve.
After the bombing, Lin Youde transferred the Navy's Shenji to the front line. Tsarist Russia lost a large number of Shenji in 1905, and they definitely did not dare to take risks with the remaining Shenji in their hands. In addition, Lin Youde released the Shenji through various channels.
Based on the intelligence that "Marines were gathering towards Xinjiang", Tsarist Russia finally agreed to a ceasefire in March 1906 and sat down at the negotiating table.
During the negotiation process, Yuan Shikai's federal army regrouped and launched a land offensive, approaching Chita City. This forced Tsarist Russia to agree to the federal plan. Both sides retreated and restored the situation before the declaration of war in 1905. In addition, Tsarist Russia would recognize
For the Red Russian regime in the Far East, the corresponding Chinese Federation promised not to provide free support to the Red Russian regime.
After a package agreement was reached, the second Sino-Russian War came to an end.
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"British newspapers are all saying that China's desire for expansion has been severely frustrated."
Josephine put down the public opinion report sent back by the European Bureau and looked at her husband who was playing with his son.
"Actually, they are right. The expansion attempts of those guys on the mainland were indeed thwarted. For them, the direction of expansion is nothing more than north, south, and west. The south is the territory of France and the United Kingdom, and the west is the territory of the United Kingdom. They also
If they can't afford a navy, they have no choice but to attack Russia. Now that their attempt to expand to the north has failed, they can only continue to build at home."
Lin Youde paused, and then continued in a slightly unhappy tone: "However, the British reports were indeed exaggerated, making it seem as if we were completely defeated."
Lin Youde was only slightly unhappy. Although the failure of expansion caused the war bonds he bought to be tied up, he also obtained a means to blackmail the central government. In the future, whether he wants to pass a bill that is beneficial to him, or
It becomes much more convenient to place ministers in charge of relevant areas, which is not entirely a bad thing in the long run.
Correspondingly, Lin Kee's progress in all aspects was quite smooth. Throughout 1905, Lin Kee delivered a very impressive answer sheet in terms of economics...
In mid-1905, Lin Ji basically completed the digestion of Japan's shipbuilding capabilities and built a total of thousands of steam-powered ships. In mid-1905, the Navy also received 7 new armored cruisers equipped with small sky eyes and torpedo launch tubes.
, several destroyers, and self-built first-generation battleships are also being designed.
In 1905, steel production in Lin Kee and the Lin Kee controlled area continued to rise, basically providing all the steel needed for the domestic railway construction boom. Lin Kee's development of Western Australia also achieved initial results, and high-quality iron ore was continuously supplied.
It was transported to Horangaha and Kitakyushu and put into the smelting furnace.
In addition, due to the acceptance of Japanese production lines and industrial workers, as well as the addition of production lines imported from Germany, including people and machines, Lin Ji began to produce heavy industrial products such as cars, locomotives, and tractors. The production model of assembly line operations and Lin Youde's skill halo
With the dual support of , Linji's products have achieved a balance between cost and quality, basically squeezing similar European products out of the Chinese market, and counterattacking the trend in Europe and the United States.
Especially for cars, Lin Youde copied the industrial design of the future and made the luxury cars produced by Lin Kee popular, directly eclipsing Ford, which had just been founded, in the US market.
All these brilliant achievements were now placed in the annual summary report on Lin Youde's desk. It was this report that enabled Lin Youde to still be in the mood to entertain his son when the foreign war was not going well.
"Unsuccessful times are only temporary. As long as our strength continues to increase, we will be able to regain our position one day." Lin Youde said to his wife, "Until then, we will continue to work hard."
"It would be nice if that could be done, but dear, do you still remember the theory you told me in the past? According to your theory, a world war is about to begin."
Lin Youde didn't answer immediately. He picked up his son from the chair and handed it to the wet nurse who had been waiting nearby. Then he made a gesture to the wet nurse to take the child away.
On the way out, Xiao Shenhe poked his head out of the nanny's arms, waved his little hand and said to Lin Youde: "Dad, goodbye."
This made Lin Youde smile.
"Well, see you at dinner, little one."
After the nanny left, only Lin Youde and Josephine were left in the room.
Lin Youde walked to the large globe in the corner of the room and turned Europe in front of him.
"Have you read the latest comprehensive report from the Intelligence Department?"
"See, it's shocking." Josephine nodded. Lin Youde's two wives have the highest level of viewing authority and can see all reports.
"Although it is not yet certain whether the German doctor is Sophie's same race, it is not important. What is important is his achievements. Once something like a real flying battleship becomes a reality, it will be matched with the power of Shen Ji
It’s no small matter.”
"But we have rx don't we?"
Josephine also stood up. She came behind her husband, hugged his waist from behind, and comforted him with the soft touch of her breasts.
Lin Youde held his wife's hand.
"We can't rely on rx forever. This failure in Russia made me realize that the world is also trying its best to catch up with us. There is an old saying that if you don't advance, you will retreat. It's time to increase research funding for Sophie and others.
"
"We need to add more..." Josephine's voice sounded a little surprised, "The money you gave them is enough to buy some small countries."
"Technology is the primary productive force. As long as the ability allows, no amount of investment is too much." (I'm trying to update twice a day today, but I don't know how long I can keep it up)