During the Washington Conference, the National Government and the Portuguese Government had made many representations. It can even be said that even Li Liang and his team did not have as much energy to negotiate with the Portuguese in the "Far Eastern Peace Treaty".

Naturally, Li Liang and the others also know very well who is behind the scenes―――――― obviously not Portuguese. The Portuguese may not have been reluctant to return Macau to China, but again, they did not have the guts to offend the current China.

So there's only one reason why the Portuguese will suddenly take a sharp turn, and that's because someone is behind them. Or maybe someone is behind them instigating and even forcing them to do so.

Around the world, the most justified reason to do so is undoubtedly the British. And this is indeed the case, at least according to the information obtained by the Special Affairs Bureau, it is indeed the British who are behind the scenes.

It was also because of this relationship that although they knew that even if they negotiated with the British, it might not be of much use, Li Liang and others still made some hints with the British during the "Far East Peace Treaty".

Implication, just a hint, but in fact, there is not much difference from an explicit statement.

It's just that when communicating with Li Liang and them, the British are clearly pretending to be stupid...

Apparently, the British definitely did it on purpose, because they were not at all afraid of retaliation from the Chinese.

Especially in Southeast Asia, although there are many resistance groups in Southeast Asia that are directly controlled by the national government. But since they are not yet able to drive the British away from Burma and other places, this means that there is still a gap between their strength and the British after all.

And the British, who have been prepared for a long time at the moment. But it has already laid a wide net in Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula. As long as the Nationalist government mobilized resistance groups in these areas, the British were sure that they would not be able to eat and walk, and even planned to take advantage of this opportunity. Take care of these resistances...

It can be said that unless the Nationalist government takes direct action on the Sino-British border, the British are not worried about some small actions Chinese at all―――――― at least if they have already prepared.

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"There is no doubt about it..."Standing in the conference room, pointing to the Far East military map hanging on the wall, Jiang Baili looked at Yan Shao and a few other people and said. Today's international situation is not suitable for our country to directly engage with the British in the above-mentioned areas. ”

"Indeed, at present, our country has an advantage on the border, both in terms of troops and equipment. Especially the British troops in Burma and the Malay Peninsula region. A lot of them were colonial troops, which I had seen when I was in Europe. The elite combat effectiveness among them may be comparable to that of European armies, but even if there are twenty or thirty such troops, they may not be able to produce one. The others are the ones with relatively poor combat effectiveness, which are roughly equivalent to the Cheng dù of China's militia forces―――――― of course, at present, China does not have a militia force with a scale of more than 10,000 people. That's one of the biggest differences between us and them..."

"According to the calculations of the Ministry of Defense. If you only want to occupy Burma, only one army is enough without strong reinforcements from the British. Even if the British were to reinforce the colonies in Southeast Asia, one legion would be enough to crush any British force in Southeast Asia..."

This Jiang Baili is not joking, after all, the combat effectiveness of the colonial troops is poor, which is also famous. Even when evaluating the combat effectiveness of the colonial troops, Jiang Baili still had some reservations.

That's right. There were some elites in the colonial forces, but they were usually only brave. As for the soldiers' own skills, etc., they are usually poor. When encountering an ordinary opponent, such a unit is naturally relatively strong, but if it encounters a strong will to fight, especially the one with very strong equipment in hand and very rigorous training...

That's more handsome!

Think of the Battle of the Somme, where the Germans cost Britain and France almost 60,000 casualties in one day!

That's a death sentence!

Therefore, the Ministry of Defense's evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the British colonial forces is only equivalent to the militia level.

Of course, given that the Communist Government now has a very large reserve, the so-called militias and other organizations usually exist only in rural areas, or in new provinces, such as the Urals or other newly occupied provinces.

In order to ensure that the people who have just moved to the above areas can live peacefully, it is natural that they can have a certain ability to protect themselves―――――― and the local defense forces naturally have them, and they are sparing no effort to exterminate these resistance groups, but compared with the vast land area, the number of defense forces is too small at present, and naturally it is a little insufficient...

After all, in later generations, when China's territory was only one-third of its previous size, the army already had more than 2 million. Even so, there are people who shout that it is not enough.

Moreover, in the future generations, transportation will be much more convenient than it is now.

In later generations, railways and roads were basically spread throughout the country, and there were also air transports and other means, even if something really happened, troops could be transported to their destination in a short time. At the same time, the troops have basically completed mechanization and motorization, like the original situation of needing to walk on two legs, except for the bad terrain and the wheels of the cars cannot be lifted, the vast majority of the troops are no longer needed...

And in this era, the Wehrmacht clearly did not have such superior conditions.

After all, even if it is not mentioned for technical reasons, military spending alone is too far from that of later generations. After all, China in later generations is also the world's second largest economic country, especially the GDP is more than twice that of the third place―――――― speaking of which, I think of an interesting anecdote, that is, in Yan Shao's era, there was once a big man named Xueliang Saber who posted an article in Tianya, which was published in 2005. It is believed that China will surpass Japan, which is in second place, in terms of GDP, and become the world's second largest economic power by 2030.

And then. A benevolent brother jumped out and criticized the article, thinking that the article was too optimistic. All in all, he thinks that China will definitely not catch up with Japan in 2030―――――― of course, from a certain point of view, he is actually right. Because China did not catch up with Japan in 2030, but in 2010. And in 2015, it successfully doubled its achievements with Japan.

This was undoubtedly a jaw-dropping event in 2005.

After all, at that time, even if it is 2030, it will be able to catch up with Japan in terms of total volume. It's something that many people don't want to believe and can't believe at the same time...

It can be seen that many times we really need to believe in miracles...

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In any case, today's China is certainly not comparable to later generations, after all, China's transportation has been very developed in later generations. This is especially true of those vehicles.

And what about this era? No matter how hard the government plays. This is only a part of the main route. And because the general plan has been completed, the situation of three shifts in the past is rare, and in order to reduce the financial pressure, most of the works are carried out at a normal pace...

Therefore, in fact, the current 2 million national defense forces are very reluctant to control the current national territory. At present, the Ministry of Defense is making demands almost every year, hoping to expand the army again, and expand the number of troops to 3 million, at least the number of the army needs to reach 2.5 million! That's the only way. can barely maintain the current shape, but this was vetoed by the national government. The reason is also very simple, the national government cannot afford to pay so much.

Not to mention anything else, the 2 million national defense forces now need almost 300 million yuan a year in salaries alone, while the current fiscal revenue of the national government is only 2 billion yuan a year.

If the number of the Wehrmacht were to be expanded to 3 million, the government would need to spend about 400 million yuan a year on the salaries of the army alone. The pressure is just too much, too much...

Of course, for the most part, in most cases, there is usually a very large area, and there are actually very few troops stationed there. In many cases, local self-protection still requires militia.

Yan Shao also knew that the Ministry of National Defense's request was very reasonable, after all, the current land area was too large. Don't say three million, even if it's three and a half million or even four million, this is a very reasonable request, because only in this way can the existing fruits of victory be completely preserved―――――― so much in Soviet Russia, then there are more than 5 million troops in the population, right?

However, this matter may be possible in the future, but it must not be done now, after all, the pressure on the Nationalist government is too great now. What's more, increasing the figure of one million is definitely not as simple as increasing the military salary of one million people, but also requires a large amount of weapons and equipment and daily consumption, etc., which is a very troublesome thing...

Therefore, in Yan Shao's view, unless the financial revenue of the government can reach 3 billion yuan, it is absolutely impossible to increase the number of troops.

Fortunately, this condition is not very difficult, at least according to the current growth rate of the national government, it will not take too long to take three billion.

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Although in order to protect local relations, the national government allowed a large number of militia units to be set up in the local area. However, unlike the colonial troops, these militia units are usually based in villages or towns, and each unit is not very large, some even have only a dozen people―――――― of course, if it is only to protect the local area, it is enough.

After all, unlike the government army in history, today's Wehrmacht is not a dry meal. It is impossible for a large resistance group to stock up on the ground, and only a few smaller groups will survive.

Against these people, a dozen people seem to be enough, at least to be able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements.

The most important thing is that although there are some good citizens who have moved to those areas today, let's not forget what China was like before the establishment of the Nationalist government, or even before the rule of the Nationalist government was stable. What kind of life they experienced.

For these people, who are accustomed to war, there is nothing to panic about in this situation. After all, compared to the situation when bandits were everywhere, and there were often more powerful armies and officials than bandits. At the moment, the situation is quite approachable.

And because of this experience, many of the villages that have migrated here can even achieve the process of all the people being soldiers―――――― anyway, the current government does not prohibit the trade of guns, but only prohibits the trade of heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns or artillery.

And, of course, grenades ...

However, the situation here is different, so the government can turn a blind eye, and the heavy machine gun will also be counted. Light machine guns ...

It can be used as an automatic rifle, which is allowed to be purchased by local people, as well as grenades and the like...

All in all. Although the number is worrying, especially in terms of establishment, there are only a dozen, dozens, and at most more than a hundred. But taking into account the issue of equipment. Even these militias. In terms of combat effectiveness, it will definitely not be inferior to the colonial troops of Europe, after all, the gap in equipment is too great.

What's more, many of these militiamen were actually retired from the National Defense Forces in those years, and they have very rich experience in actual combat. In particular, the militia in some villages is simply made up of veterans...

If there is a real fight, the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

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"A legion?"

Xu Shichang believes in Jiang Baili's judgment very much, on the one hand, Jiang Baili is also one of the most famous military gods in the National Defense Army, and he also knows Jiang Baili very well.

That's right. Jiang Baili is indeed very loyal to Yan Shao, and can be regarded as a person of Yan Shao's family. But on the other hand. Jiang Baili is definitely not a person who talks nonsense, so since Jiang Baili said that he only needs one army to sweep the whole of Burma, then Xu Shichang believes that Jiang Baili is definitely not lying, and he is definitely not exaggerating anything.

"That's right!"

Jiang Baili nodded. "The British forces in Burma are very weak, especially the combat effectiveness of the troops is even more worrying, and the strength of an army is already too much. As for the reinforcements―――――― perhaps the British troops would be more combat-ready, but no matter how fast the British were, it would take at least two months to transport the combat troops from the British mainland to Burma. In two months' time, as long as we plan to go smoothly, maybe we can already occupy the whole of Burma. ”

"It's just that, although militarily, we have a great deal of confidence that we will be able to occupy Burma, but considering the current international situation, let alone launching an offensive against Burma, even if we take the initiative to provoke friction on the Sino-British border, I am afraid it will attract extremely large external pressure, which is why I don't mind this."

"Because the Far East Peace Treaty is currently being negotiated, it is too easy to make a sudden move at this time, and it is too easy to attract pressure."

"So I'm more optimistic about Ling's plan, that is, to find a way to put pressure on the British, as a response to the British, to force the British to make concessions on this matter..."

"In India, for example..."

India, the most important colony of the British Empire, even if it is the whole of Burma plus the Malay Peninsula, and even some colonies, its importance may not be comparable to that of India.

In a way, it was only after taking control of India that Britain began to embark on the road of world domination. In the same way, Britain, which lost India, will also be completely devastated ―――――― which has been confirmed by history, that is, after losing India, Britain has indeed changed from the original superpower that dominated the world to a second-rate commodity, and it looks like it is getting more and more mixed.

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Let's not mention what kind of second-rate goods Britain has become after the loss of India in later generations.

Hearing Jiang Baili's words, Xu Shichang said with a little interest.

"Oh? What are you going to do? ”

"It's simple." After a deep groan, Jiang Baili replied directly. "At present, China has not yet gained a firm foothold on the other side of Tibet, that is, in southern Tibet, and there are many reasons for this, including logistical reasons, transportation reasons, and diplomatic reasons."

"But now that the British have decided to make things difficult for us, it seems that there is no need for us to continue to care about the face of the British, and of course, we don't necessarily have to do this in southern Tibet, but in other areas bordering India, such as Turkmenistan, etc., and northern Iran, where we have a lot of actions to do, many actions that can make the British sleepless..."

Jiang Baili's idea is very simple, don't you want to disgust me? Well, since you did the first year of junior high school, then I also did the fifteenth.

Haven't you always been worried about India's security, and even wanted to occupy Tibet for this reason, and even occupied the southern part of Iran bordering Pakistan, making it your sphere of influence?! Then I will build some military camps or fortifications in the border area with India, and even station a considerable number of troops there, and in turn disgust you! Look at who the hell is disgusting between the two of us! (To be continued......)