After more than ten years of painstaking development and a large amount of financial investment, the British already had the military technology to compete with North Manchuria, and in terms of diplomacy, Britain had a great advantage. Although the British have never been very authentic, and they have done the business of selling teammates again and again, because they have insisted on pulling people for a long time and can feel the pulse of others every time, there are still many allies. The Manchurian Empire, because of the problem of national policy, has been conquest everywhere all the year round, and almost all sides are enemies, even if they are fraternal allies with the same Chinese title, they also have a lot of bitterness with each other.

Britain's policy toward Manchuria has always been based on suppression, and the use of force has never been an option for the British. The size of the Manchurian Empire was already very huge, and the military level had always been in the leading position in the world, and Britain rashly started a war against Manchuria, and it would never be able to please good fruit to eat, so it was the best option for the British to stir up trouble behind their backs. But after the annexation of Japan by Manchuria in the trenches of the Far East, everything went out of the plans of the British, and they rushed in the direction that the British least wanted to see.

The establishment of East Manchuria and South Manchuria extended the tentacles of the Manchurian Empire to the two continents of North America and South America, and the position was far better than that of Canada and Argentina controlled by the British. The huge territory and rapid development of East Manchuria and South Manchuria made them the center of geography, and their influence spread geometrically, and the British were all in a suppressed position in North and South America. Hurd's departure allowed the Qing Dynasty to break away from the influence of the British and directly plunge into the arms of Manchuria. This is even more terrifying, the Manchurian Empire, which controls East Asia, North America, and South America, will definitely grow rapidly in strength, and if the British don't react, they will have to go back to Europe.

The Strait of Malacca, the Panama Canal, Hawaii, Midway, New Guinea, etc., these key nodes are even more difficult for the British to sleep. The Manchurian Empire had taken control of the North Pacific, entered the Atlantic, blocked the gates of the Indian Ocean, and Britain had no way back. The Qing Dynasty was the last bastion of Britain, and if the Manchurian Empire and its suzerains were to join forces, it was only a matter of time before South and Central Asia fell.

The British will not be stupid to come to Goxinga desperately, they still have to find a few teammates to sell first, and the first choice is naturally the Russian Empire, which has a deep hatred with the Manchurian Empire. The eloquent pressure of Shanda II had been assassinated four years earlier, and now it was Alexander III who loved his wife in the hands of the Russian Empire. Alexander II left behind a huge political fortune, so that Alexander III, who had little ability, could have a powerful Russian empire lying down. Alexander III did not do much, but he became the first choice of the British.

Alexander II did several things, one of which was the policy of Russification against aliens. This policy was originally intended to persecute the Jews, and Alexander III wanted to drive these nasty fellows to Israel, a small country in the Far East, but it almost caused a war between Russia and Manchuria. Goshinga recaptured Eastern Siberia and the Baikal region, but there were still a large number of Mongols living in Russia, and Russia wanted to assimilate them, and Manchuria was naturally very dissatisfied. All kinds of strongly-worded notes went a wave, and even increased troops to the border one after another, although they did not really do it, but they also forced Russia to be very uncomfortable.

The second thing Alexander III did was to occupy Turkmenistan in Central Asia, which also exacerbated the contradictions between Russia and Britain, but the most uncomfortable people were still the Qing Dynasty and Manchuria. Russia's infiltration into Central Asia always carries the meaning of pushing hard into Xinjiang, so the Qing Dynasty and Northern Manchurian are also very sensitive to Russia's invasion of Central Asia. Manchuria even drew a line for Russia, as long as Russia dared to offend the countries surrounding China, Manchuria immediately went to war against Russia, and the angry Alexander III almost did not turn his back.

And I don't know how it was arranged, Alexander III actually married a Danish daughter-in-law. Denmark was defeated in the Prussian-Danish War and forced to cede the Schleswig-Holstein region, and all Danes were unhappy with the Germans. Alexander III, because he loved his wife very much, naturally resented Bismarck and Wilhelm I's German Empire. Although the six previous Russian monarchs were of German descent, the process of Russification of the Russian court and aristocratic society began from Alexander III onwards. And due to the deterioration of Russian-German relations, Russia also began to get closer to France.

William, who had eliminated the first war between Manchu and Britain, became British Prime Minister again, and gloriously defeated the original self of yesterday and adjusted the national policy of the British Empire to take the strongest attitude towards Manchuria. Prime Minister William went to St. Petersburg to meet Alexander III in person, signed the "Anglo-Russian Treaty of Alliance", and pulled the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Ottoman Turkey and other children into his camp. However, William knew that if he wanted to defeat the thriving Manchurian Empire, he would need the help of his old friend France.

However, William's process of winning over France was not smooth, and the French, who were beaten up by the Germans, and who had ceded land and paid reparations, were already decadent. It's okay to bully a small and fragile and backward country, but they don't have any confidence in an opponent whose comprehensive national strength is equal to or even stronger than their own. As for the British planning a political-military alliance to suppress the Manchurian Empire, the French were very much in favor, but they were in no way involved.

William waited foolishly for two years, and Jouferi, who vigorously promoted colonial activities, came to power, and the bigwig's plan to enter Southeast Asia almost euthanized William to death. Although France still refused to ally with the British, and stubbornly believed that it was attacking Vietnam and the Qing Dynasty, and would never provoke the Manchurians to intervene, the British knew that the French would definitely play a bag in Southeast Asia, and then obediently step on their chariot.

When the Qing Dynasty declared war on France, the French army invaded the island of Taiwan, and Hurd was forced to leave office, when all this came, William knew that he had to give Goxinga a little color. Whether it was William's people, building momentum, or arming for war, they were all actually a means of pressure, and he still hoped to suppress Manchuria by diplomatic means. But the sudden departure of the Nanyang Fleet to Panama gave the British a good opportunity, and the Great Wall of the Sea that had blocked them for twenty years suddenly disappeared, and a God-given opportunity was already in front of them.

"The departure of the Nanyang Fleet to Central America means that the maritime gateway of the Manchurian Empire is open, and our superior fleet can force its way through the Strait of Malacca, enter the China Sea, and even directly enter the Yellow Sea, directly to the Liaonan Economic Zone of Manchuria itself. If we can defeat the native guard fleet of Manchuria, we can land in Dalian and go all the way north to Changchun, the capital of Manchuria, and force Goxinga to bow to us! "The Ministry of Defence in William's cabinet has a very beautiful plan.

"Manchuria has more than 400,000 troops on the mainland, and we simply cannot afford to transport enough troops to land, let alone defeat them, and it is only a fantasy to take Changchun directly. Moreover, there are many fleets near the mainland of Manchuria, such as the Yellow Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the North Sea Fleet. The Conservatives didn't have a good opinion of William, who had been prime minister many times, and although they were glad that he had finally taken a hard line on Manchuria, they didn't believe William's so-called plan.

"Yes, our odds are slim, but we don't have to go to war to get there! As long as our powerful fleet enters the China Sea, the Manchurians will inevitably fall into panic, and if we exert diplomatic pressure, we will inevitably make the proud General Goxinga make concessions on issues such as the sharing of the Panama Canal and the rights and interests of the Qing Dynasty! "William doesn't want to fight, his purpose is to force Goxinga to negotiate.

"The top of the Manchurian government is stubborn and tough, they will not back down because of a fleet!" Conservative lawmakers felt that William was a little naïve, and that Goxinga was not a very good talker.

"It is true that the Manchurians will not back down on our fleet alone, but we have many friends besides us. The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Ottoman Turkey, and other countries will join us in sending a note to the Manchurian Empire to exert strong diplomatic pressure on them. At the same time, the French friends who are attacking Taiwan, and the Russian friends who will cooperate with our reinforcement of troops in Siberia, will also exert great military pressure on the Manchurians. "William was very thoughtful, and his approach was a combination punch.

The British army was open to sea, the French army attacked Taiwan, and Russia put pressure on the northern frontier, and the Manchurian Empire was in a state of being attacked by the enemy on its back. The note issued by many European countries is a kind of international public opinion and political pressure, and the Manchurians can only make concessions unless they want to be the enemy of the mainstream countries of the world. The political and military pressure, William believes that he will definitely not be able to withstand it. If this pressure came to the British, William would have regressed.

After William's plan was fully revealed, there was no opposition in London, and everyone thought it was a good choice. In order to avoid such a disadvantage, the British transferred all the main forces of the other nine fleets except for the Atlantic Fleet, and formed a Far Eastern Fleet with 68 warships. This fleet can be said to be the work of the British for 20 years, and the brand-new battleships and cruisers have been comprehensively improved in terms of tonnage, armor, mobility, artillery, etc., and everyone has high hopes for him, expecting him to let the Manchurians see the strength of the world's first naval power.

Of course, this huge fleet arrived in China, and that was half a year later, and now the focus of the world's attention is still on the Qing-French War. After the declaration of war by the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army and the French army fought endlessly on the southeast coast and northern Vietnam, and the French army was invincible in naval battles and won and lost each other in land battles. Li Hongzhang, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally came up with his killer weapon Beiyang Fleet, and the French army also had more than ten cutting-edge warships to come to reinforce it, and a decisive battle at sea was about to break out on the southeast coast.