Chapter 1132: Looting the Golden Belt
On the one hand, most of Britain's main forces are entrusted to Europe, and the situation in France is already quite endangered, as long as Britain withdraws, I'm afraid France will not be able to hold on, even if Britain is strong, facing Germany, a land power, if there is less of France as an ally and an important fulcrum, I'm afraid it's also very passive, the Entente actually failed, and it is necessary to consider stopping the war.
On the other hand, Britain and India are far apart, and the Suez Canal itself allows Britain to travel to India and the Far East, saving a lot of travel, but now, not only Germany is in the navy, forcibly challenging Britain, but the coalition forces formed by Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Italy are also provoking the Mediterranean Fleet of the Entente countries.
In the entire Mediterranean, the Allies have the advantage in the east, the Entente has the advantage in the west, and the passage of the Suez Canal has not been completely cut off, but it has been cut off by ninety percent.
If the Suez Canal could not be passed, it could only go through South Africa, and with the vast sea and the Scheer fleet outside, Britain really realized for the first time that the vast territory did not seem to be a good thing.
Large quantities of arms have already been supplied to the Netherlands. Not only are there not enough people in India, but there are not even enough firearms. Barely concentrated 10 divisions in India, of which only one was in the British army. The rest were Indian colonial troops.
The British had no hope for the combat effectiveness of these armies, and when Scheer's fleet came from the east, along the Indian seaport near Malacca, all the way to the seaport, all the ports could not withstand such a beast, and then Lan Fang's army landed, went deep along the port, and ran into the defending Indian army.
This is the first collision between India and China. However, because China was too strong, it came to an end, and it was only a regiment of troops, and when it encountered a division of colonial troops, a division was chased and fought by a regiment, and even besieged and annihilated. However, because of the combat effectiveness of the Lanfang Army, the Indian and British armies were annihilated again and again, and port cities were occupied one by one.
Britain has been in control of India for more than a hundred years. From the very beginning of raw material plundering, product dumping, gradually changed to the current state. For example, industries that used to be China's advantage. Tea, cotton. Even silk was introduced to India, and India's share of tea in later generations was even higher than that of China.
After so many years of development, especially when Britain began to invest here, it is really rich, Lan Fang has joined the Allied Powers, and is a part of the Allied Powers, he followed Scheer's fleet to attack India is really at ease, almost at the speed of a city in 3 days, a series of conquered more than a dozen important cities along the coast, and plundered a lot of resources.
In exchange for Scheer's fleet, there is no way to bring so many things, tea, cotton, cotton, and even all kinds of basic materials, these things alone are not of high value, but the quantity is extremely huge, but Lan Fang is a vegetarian, just received strong domestic support, in the future, to increase the number of Chinese in the entire Southeast Asia, also need a huge capacity, the island country has the natural advantage of developing shipping, this, Lan Fang has noticed.
There is a fleet of at least 1 million tons, going back and forth between India and Malacca, and the distance between them is very close, so that a fleet can make a round trip in two or three days, and bring back all the valuable and worthless things, if it is not for some unfortunate time, even the city will have to be demolished and the wood, bricks and stones will be transported back.
Scheer and Lan Fang are cool, but India is a big crime, the British are easy to build dozens of cities on the coastline of India, and suddenly return to the pre-liberation period, the loss is afraid to be calculated in hundreds of millions of pounds, and the fleet of Lan Fang and Scheer, who returned with a full load, shared almost 300 million US dollars worth of wealth, which is 60 million pounds.
Killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, this sentence is not bad at all, Scheer is interested, and even regardless of the fatigue of the sailors, he wants to continue to do it in western India, but he was stopped by Xiao Jianfeng, and he can have such a big harvest in the east, on the one hand, because of the surprise, although the British thought that they would attack, but they didn't expect it to be so fast, on the other hand, gold, precious metals and property have been transferred, the British didn't expect it, Lan Fang and Scheer, they want everything, a lot of property losses, are some of the value is not high, Huge quantities of things, for example, more than a million square meters of wood, a large amount of tea, grain, iron ore, and even ordinary industrial products.
These single pieces are very meager, but when they are put together, the overall price is very amazing, after the East Coast has done this, India and Britain must have reacted, and when the time comes, on the West Coast, there will not be so many harvests.
Sher is also old in the army, Xiao Jianfeng is a little thorough, he also understands, if he continues, the danger will increase, but the harvest is not much, after stopping the greed, he began to calculate, this looted things, because this is a cooperation between the two sides, Northwest and Lan Fang just want raw materials, to not pit him in the price, are the price of more orthodox international bulk goods, the number of 62.5 million pounds, let him feel a lot, as he knows the fantasy cost insider, just this once, You can buy about 12 Fantasy classes.
At present, the Germans have a lot of places to spend money, and Scheer personally manipulates the Fantasy class, and then lets him go back to operate the Nassau class, he is really not used to it, whether it is speed, protection or the power of the artillery, the Fantasy class is not much stronger than the Nassau class, even if one ship is more expensive than two Nassau classes, it is acceptable, the navy, with hard power.
It's a pity that the country doesn't know, the fantasy level has never gone back, and only relies on the telegram, which describes the battle report and parameters in detail, and it is impossible for the people in the country to know the true power of the fantasy level, which is also when Scheer is helpless.
More than 60 million pounds, of course, can not all to Germany, according to the agreement between the two sides, fifty-fifty, more than 30 million is enough to do a lot of things, Germany can not transport raw materials back, the total price of these things is huge, but the price alone is a little small, after the start of the war, even in the northwest construction, double line, even 3 lines of 3B railway, has been in the busiest state, and now has found the northwest engineering team, on the side of the 3B railway, to build the same double track railway, to alleviate capacity.
If these things are urgently needed special materials, such as copper ore, non-ferrous metal ore, or tungsten ore, no matter what, Schell will let these things be shipped back, but unfortunately these things are just cotton, tea, and even some wood, especially the latter, maybe when building a position, some wood will be used, but for Germany, it is enough to use local materials or wood, and these things are also everywhere in Europe.
Since the Northwest has purchased these items at a relatively reasonable price, and even the money cannot be brought back, it is better to directly replace them with various products, and Germany currently has a huge shortage, high-grade alloys, steel, engines, guns and weapons, which need to be imported in the Northwest.
India's harvest made Germany rejoice, it took half a year, millions of troops, and even tens of thousands of sacrifices to conquer Paris, and the final harvest was a little more than this, but how long did it take to sweep India, less than a month's effort, counting before and after, almost 2 months, it was so much harvested, and Germany also had other ideas.
India is so rich, but what about elsewhere? For example, South Africa, for example, Australia, especially South Africa, is a gold producer, and a considerable share of the world's gold production is produced in South Africa every year.
The northwest, of course, would not know that this successful raid had actually caused Germany's mind to deviate, and it was ready to let Scheer's fleet return to Germany, and the idea of a decisive battle with Britain was extinguished, and Scheer continued to take Malacca as the center, consolidating control in Asia on the one hand, and seeking to attack South Africa or Australia on the other.
India was attacked, the news of the huge losses of the British came, other countries did not feel much, war time, nothing will happen, but the Japanese were afraid, before daring to invade China, even after the northwest became strong, did not let go, after the final defeat, also with the idea of cooperating with Russia, jointly carving up the northwest, relying on the geographical advantage, Japan's unique island environment, even if there are millions of troops in the northwest, no ships to transport over, these millions, equal to zero.
At present, the Scheer fleet is strong, and under the protection of the fleet, China's transportation capacity of millions of tons may be transported to the Japanese mainland at any time, and the combat effectiveness shown in the northwest of the Shandong Battle, not to mention much, 500,000 troops have come, and Japan, which has not yet recovered, will definitely be destroyed.
Under the threat of annihilation, Japan began an unprecedented general mobilization, as long as the age is more than 15 years old, less than 50 years old male in the prime of life, 30% will be recruited into the army, the remaining 70%, will also receive military training at any time, the whole army is the true portrayal of Japan at present, just like that, Japan is not at ease, Japan's diplomatic envoys, almost like a net sent abroad, in a few months, respectively, with Britain and France, Russia, the United States, on the basis of the Entente treaty, and signed several mutual protection treaties, It can be said that I was in a hurry to the extreme. (To be continued.) )
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