On June 14, 1908, the three most powerful battleships of the Chinese Federation Navy gathered in the waters west of Luzon Island, preparing for a gorgeous amphibious landing performance.**
The ostensible purpose of the performance was to please Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, but the real purpose was naturally to demonstrate the power of the federal navy and marines to provide support for Lin Youde's upcoming role in international politics.
Lin Youde is a realist. He firmly believes that peace is based on force.
Of course, Lin Youde is not really a pacifist. He just wants to gain international reputation by occupying a moral high ground in the name of a peace messenger, and by the way, he can please his wives. Be it Josephine or Isabella, they
They all knew Lin Youde's thoughts. Josephine just hoped that Lin Youde would use his energy as much as possible to try to prevent the war. Isabella was more simple. As long as she didn't fight the British, it didn't matter.
In short, Lin Youde is ready to flex his muscles and strengthen his voice in international affairs - the international community has always tended to regard the Netherlands, which is financially independent and has independent military command, as an independent political system, and fu.
are on equal footing.
Although now Yuan Shikai's army is getting stronger and stronger thanks to Lin Youde's blood transfusion.
The venue for the combat performance was chosen on an unnamed island in the South China Sea. Lin Youde's flagship White Trojan was used as a large aerial stand, filled with military attachés and reporters from various countries hovering over the side of the island.
Lin Youde himself sat next to Wilhelmina and personally acted as the queen's commentator.
"What is going on now is the firepower preparation before landing. My battleship can guide the armored cruiser detachment to carry out precise attacks on the coast at a distance of 10,000 meters. All the artillery shells are equipped with delay fuzes. The violent bombardment will destroy the beach.
All strong fortresses.”
"Wow." Although Wilhelmina held the telescope in her hand, she did not use it to watch the firepower display under her feet. Her blue eyes were looking at Lin Youde, "It's really shocking. I
Guess even the British don’t have such ability.”
As she spoke, Wilhelmina glanced at Isabella, who was standing behind Lin Youde.
In return, Lin Youde glanced at Wilhelmina's half-naked breasts, and then said: "The British also have technology that we don't have. For example, we still can't build a gas turbine."
"You can't make it?" Wilhelmina looked a little surprised.
Lin Youde nodded and replied: "Yes, we are still lagging behind the great powers in terms of metallurgical technology and the forging process of large workpieces. We are just ahead in electric welding and electric stamping. (.) Because of this, we cast
There is a certain gap between the precision of large-caliber artillery and that of Britain, France, and Germany. Moreover, we have not yet developed super-heavy artillery of more than fourteen inches."
Wilhelmina stared at Lin Youde's face, looking half-smiling for a long time, then stretched out her index finger and shook it at Lin Youde, then smiled and said to him: "You are lying, right? If you are really not good at these aspects, you
Never tell it to me. This is your plan."
"Oh no, your beautiful Queen, you have misunderstood me." Lin Youde responded with a smile, "I always tell beautiful and noble ladies what I have to say and never hide it."
Lin Youde's flattery was obviously very effective, and Wilhelmina looked extremely happy.
At this time, because it was just a performance, silence returned to the beach after the fierce fire attack. The formation of the fleet on the sea began to change, and a small fleet broke away from the large fleet and sailed toward the beach.
"This is the landing fleet. Those with shallow drafts are the landing craft used to seize the beach. Those with longer and deeper drafts are landing support ships. The firepower they carry will provide a barrage cover before the infantry can land."
As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, the landing support ship began to use ship-borne rocket launchers to attack the landing beach held by the imaginary enemy. The landing craft rushed towards the shore at full speed. Finally, it rushed to Qiantan and ran aground there.
After the hatch was opened, a large number of soldiers rushed off the landing craft and quickly dispersed towards the beach.
Of course, Wilhelmina was not interested in these. She continued to look at Lin Youde with blue eyes and listened to Lin Youde's explanation with relish. At this time, Catherine von Bismarck, who had been staring at the beach with a telescope, put down the telescope and turned around to look at Lin Youde.
"Mr. Lin, can I interrupt you to ask a question?" The expression on Catherine's face made Lin Youde understand that she would ask questions no matter what he said.
So Lin Youde nodded.
"I saw generals' armor mixed in with the landing troops. Don't you think your general's armor painting is too exaggerated?"
Lin Youde opened his mouth wide and said "Ah", the subtext of which was "What did I think you were going to ask? But you asked this."
He quickly changed his expression and asked Catherine: "Don't you like it?"
"I don't like this flashy thing at all..." Catherine frowned, looking like she really hated Lin Youde's painting of the wind armor.
This aroused Wilhelmina's interest, so she picked up the telescope and began to observe the beach. However, it took the Queen, who was not familiar with the use of telescopes, a long time to find the big guys that aroused Catherine's displeasure.
"It's indeed quite exaggerated." Wilhelmina did not put down the telescope. She commented while looking at it, "It is simply more ostentatious than those knights in the Middle Ages."
Lin Youde smiled.
At this time, the military attachés from various countries also began to discuss in low voices those "knights" on the beach. It could be heard that everyone was puzzled by the sudden appearance of "retro" paint.
It’s no wonder they are like this, because Lin Youde gave Helang Yabo’s first batch of self-produced land warrior wind armors a certain paint job, which came from the famous tabletop war chess game "Warhammer 40k" in the last time and space. This batch of general wind armors are in
When designing and manufacturing it, it was strictly modeled after the Dreadnought in Warhammer according to Lin Youde's instructions. The main body was square and shaped like a freezer with arms and legs. Lin Youde added many religious decorations to the surface of the "freezer", and also plugged in the back.
The eighteen-star battle flag, some of them have a gold-plated iron plate on the outside of the rune armor on the front of the armor, with ancient texts such as "The Analects of Confucius" engraved on it.
Lin Youde did this mostly out of the personal interest and self-satisfaction of a Warhammer fan, but on the surface he made up a rhetoric that seemed to make some sense: "These weapons painted like this can bring fear to the enemy."
, the morale that inspires our army is the same as that of the general who personally raised the flag and charged in the past wars."
Lin Youde's words made all the foreign military attachés present look at each other. Obviously everyone thought this was nonsense.
Lin Youde shrugged and didn't explain much. Anyway, this action was indeed to satisfy his personal interests.
At this moment, Xun hurriedly walked into the lower deck of the White Trojan, which was used as a viewing platform, and whispered a few words in Ba's ear.
Then Ba stood up, walked to Lin Youde, bent down and whispered in Lin Youde's ear: "Austro-Hungarian troops are gathering, and the European Bureau judges that Austria-Hungary will invade Bosnia and Herzegovina within a few weeks."
Lin Youde touched his chin and murmured: "It took the Austrians less time to convince the Hungarians than expected. Do they have any signs of general mobilization?"
"No, but the European Bureau confirmed that the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry is coordinating domestic entrepreneurs. They believe this is a signal that Austria-Hungary wants to adjust its military production."
"Are you prepared to use the troops at hand to solve the problem...Conrad is really not ordinary confident."
According to Lin Youde's memory, the 1908 crisis should have ended peacefully. The Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, which stimulated the emotions of Serbian nationalists and laid the fuse for the subsequent Sarajevo assassination. And then
In a few years, the first Balkan War will occur. The Ottoman Empire will be defeated by a group of little Balkan brothers and completely withdraw from the Balkans. Then there will be a war between these little brothers, and finally the Austria-Hungary Empire versus Serbia will lead to the outbreak of World War I.
The war in the principality.
Of course, Lin Youde knew that the historical trend of this time and space here must be different from the previous time and space, so he said at the staff meeting before that if the Austro-Hungarian Empire carried out general mobilization, the situation might cross the critical point. If they did not carry out the
General mobilization, then the situation is not that bad.
Now, the situation is clearly under control.
"Don't worry." Lin Youde said to Josephine who looked at him with worry after hearing Ba's report. "Without general mobilization, there is no way to fight a war between modern industrial countries. Europe is still safe.
."
"I hope so." Josephine breathed a sigh of relief, and the worry on her face was obviously reduced. Obviously, she trusted Lin Youde's judgment very much.
Ba asked Lin Youde: "Do we need to take any action?"
Lin Youde waved his hand: "Take another look."
So Ba nodded, straightened up, bowed to the Queen, apologized for the possible offense her actions had caused, and then returned to her place next to Josephine.
Wilhelmina asked Lin Youde curiously: "What trouble happened?"
Lin Youde shrugged, smiled at Wilhelmina, and replied: "It's nothing. The Austro-Hungarian Empire wants to bully the Turks and Serbs. It's another Balkan crisis. That's it. There's nothing to worry about."
As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, there was an exclamation among the military attaches - it turned out that VF had joined the battlefield.
Lin Ji's only eight variable-speed flying armors dropped from the sky. While deforming in the air, they fired a large number of rockets towards the target point with a red flag on the ground.
"This is our Lin Ji's new weapon, the general's wind armor for air combat." Lin Youde turned his attention to the explanation again, "In addition to helping Shenji's troops gain air supremacy in air combat mode, it can also switch to land combat mode to provide ground troops with
support."
Lin Youde did not explain why VF had to slow down after deformation before launching rockets to the ground. It is better for outsiders not to know these details.
"What a surprising new weapon." Wilhelmina praised sincerely, and at the same time, military attachés from various countries also had a heated discussion about the debut of this new weapon.
Only Catherine looked at the VFs on the ground who were supporting the infantry in a walking posture, and murmured in a low voice: "The wave of rockets just now can also be used to attack our flying battleships..." (To be continued...