At the Kemarang base

Li Fushou and his entourage watched the drill of the latest models of transport planes, fighters, and bombers, and they were greatly inspired, and they added confidence and confidence to participate in international competitions and world wars in the future.

He personally laid out the next step of the aircraft development plan, focusing on a transport plane with a stronger carrying capacity and a longer range, the development of a dive bomber, the development of a new fighter with stronger combat capability and faster flight speed, and the development of a special reconnaissance plane, rather than a fighter plane continuing to make cameo appearances, so as to further strengthen the superiority in the aviation field.

For strategic reasons, he vetoed the postal system's request for 120 transport planes.

It was not easy to keep it secret, and with the military sensibilities of the Germans, it was easy to associate it with the change of transport planes into bombers, which posed a serious threat to the front-line positions.

There is no reason why the British could not think of anything that the Germans could think of.

At that time, the international situation will become more complicated, and if you consider it carefully, it is not appropriate to show your hole cards for the time being.

The aviation sector continues to maintain the production of old-generation fighters and "shrew" light bombers, mainly for export to earn huge profits, and all new aircraft are kept in strict secrecy.

The government has allocated special funds to open the large-scale production of aviation piston propeller engines and the production reserve of major aviation aluminum plates, so as to prepare for the explosion of production capacity in the future.

At this stage, it is to immerse itself in research and development, focusing on confidentiality.

After viewing the new type of ranging radar, Li Fushou put forward a request, hoping that scientific research personnel would be able to develop a detection radar capable of detecting air targets, an artillery radar capable of detecting artillery shells, and a precision radar capable of detecting the source of radio signal transmission, so as to lead the world's scientific and technological progress and further consolidate its leading position in the field of electronics.

It's time for that

Li Fushou has not much prescient knowledge in his mind, one in the aviation field, one in radar electronic equipment, and one in wireless communication equipment.

With a clear R&D direction and needs, it is much easier to do without groping in the dark.

The more than month-long inspection in the south has come to an end, and it is already at the end of the year.

On the occasion of his parting, Li Fushou held a grand commendation meeting as usual, and awarded rich rewards to dozens of scientific and technological leaders who had made outstanding contributions, and conferred the title of academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences at the same time.

On the royal train back to the Red River Valley metropolitan area, Li Fushou waved goodbye to the senior military and political officials of the state government and representatives of the people who saw him off, and turned around and returned to the carriage.

A long whistle sounded

The train slowly moved off the platform, gradually accelerating towards the north, and soon disappeared at the end of the horizon.

In the carriage

Li Fushou sat on the luxurious palace seat, holding a glass of French sparkling champagne in his hand and sipping quietly, looking at the beautiful scenery outside the window with deep eyes, showing a look of relief.

The empire has grown to this day

There are basically no people living in extreme poverty, and as long as they are willing to do something, even if they are illiterate, they can find a job and live a good life on the farm, ranch or dock.

There are not many Chinese immigrants and their descendants who can make up their minds to cross the ocean to the future, and even if there are some, they will soon disappear from the edge of the city.

In the cities of the empire mainland and overseas states, the civil affairs department has special shelters for the homeless, and the specific homeless people will be treated in different categories, the displaced will be sent back to their hometowns, the elderly and helpless will be sent to charitable nursing homes, and the mentally deranged will be sent to mental hospitals.

Young and middle-aged men who have the strength to do so but live by begging will be sent directly to the mine for labor education as long as they have three detention records and do not obey the resettlement work, and after a year, no one dares to wander the streets again.

As for homeless women, they are basically extremely rare.

Even homeless women with mental problems have a lot of men who are willing to raise them, regardless of whether they can communicate or not, as long as they can have babies.

Many of them are because of the quarrel with the family, and the girls who go out in a negative mood, the police and the city shelter staff will help them return to the family as soon as they meet, which is a very important shining point in the evaluation of work.

After several decades of building the legal system, the Ocean Empire and its overseas states have formed a situation in which life is stable and prosperous, the public security environment is excellent, and the social customs of the people are simple.

Decades ago

It's rare to see an Australian cowboy draw a gun in a tavern, and under imperial law, whether intentional or not, as long as the gun is pointed at the person, whether in self-defense or not, is a misdemeanor.

If the gun owner is found to have said something that threatens the safety of another person, the judge can find guilty of "causing trouble with a gun in public", which is a serious criminal offense that starts with a three-year prison sentence.

It is precisely because of the very severe crackdown on gun crime that gun owners should first think about whether they can bear such serious consequences before pulling out their guns.

The door of the carriage slammed slightly

Li Fushou turned his head to look, it was Secretary General Cai Tinggan who walked in with light steps, and replied; "Your Majesty, this is the briefing on the war situation in Europe that I just received today."

"Well, I'm too lazy to look at it, you can talk about it."

"Wechen obeys the holy oracle;

After the Battle of the Marne broke out on the Western Front in Europe, the Anglo-French forces repelled the ferocious German offensive and won a long-awaited victory, consolidating their defenses along the Marne, and the Germans were forced to retreat to the line of the Aisne.

The two sides of the confrontation formed a new continuous front along the Oise River to the Swiss border, and both sides spent great efforts to build trenches and pillboxes, and after more than a month of recovery, the smaller Battle of the Aisne began.

By the end of the year

The Anglo-French and German armies were still fighting on the banks of the Aisne, and small and medium-sized battles were held every day, but large-scale battles did not take place for the time being.

According to the research and judgment of the Army General Staff Headquarters,

After the heavy losses at the Battle of the Marne, both sides of the war were accumulating strength and redeploying domestic resources and troops, a process that could take as little as three or four months or as long as half a year, and would inevitably lead to a decisive battle that would be even more tragic than the Battle of the Marne.

The longer the preparation, the more severe the severity of the war.

The serious defeat of the German army in the Battle of the Marne heralded the bankruptcy of the "Schlieffen Plan" for a quick victory, and strategically, the German army inevitably fell into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, east and west.

meanwhile

In order to alleviate the critical war situation on the Western Front, Britain and France strongly urged the Tsarist Russian Empire to send troops as soon as possible and launched a large-scale offensive on the Eastern Front to relieve the pressure on the British and French coalition forces.

At this point, Tsar Nicholas II was still very trustworthy and took the money to do things.

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front

The 450,000 troops of the Russian First and Second Armies hastily took the lead in attacking East Prussia on August 16 without being prepared at all, when the German army on the defending side was only 210,000, and the forces of both sides were 2:1, and the Russian army had an absolute advantage.

Even so, no one is betting on the Russian army to defeat the elite German army.

The results were unsurprising

The Battle of Tannenberg broke out, the Russian Second Army was annihilated under the encirclement of the German army, the German army eliminated 145,000 Russian troops and captured 92,200 people at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, and Samsolov, the commander of the Russian Second Army, was defeated and committed suicide.

The troops commanded by German Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff won this brilliant victory, and the First World War was crowned a god, which greatly boosted the morale of the German army on the eastern and western fronts, and was highly commended by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

In September, the Russian Northwestern Front launched an offensive against the German 8th Army, but was defeated, suffered heavy casualties again, and had to withdraw in disgrace, never stepping into East Prussia again.

Although the Russian offensive suffered a failure, it also dispersed the German forces and affected the fighting on the Western Front, which achieved the expected goal with heavy casualties.

meanwhile

The Russian army expelled the Austro-Hungarian army from Lemburg and forced it to retreat to the Carpathians, finally defeating Germany's little brother Austria-Hungary and saving a little face.

On 29 October, the situation in Europe changed again

The Ottoman Empire declared its entry into the camp of the Central Powers and launched a war against Britain, France, Russia and other countries, and then waged a war of a certain scale with Britain in the Middle and Near East, while the British instigated the Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of Mecca to launch a great Arab uprising and harass the rear of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The war spread from Eastern Europe and Western Europe to the Balkans and even the Near East, and more countries and a wider area were involved in the war, so the current European war has been called a "world war".

In early November, the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides, and the Austro-Hungarian invasion army suffered annual setbacks and performed unsatisfactory.

By the end of the year, Russia suffered 1 win and 1 defeat, but this did not shake Russia's huge military superiority, and the "European steam roller" lived up to its name.

After the outbreak of the war in Europe, from noon on July 30, the tsar signed a general mobilization order and began to mobilize a large number of troops;

In the western part of Russia, there are 30 armies, with a total of 96 infantry divisions and 37 cavalry divisions, totaling about 2.7 million men, which will be successively engaged on the Eastern Front.

In addition, with the addition of 900,000 special reserve troops and fortress troops, the total number of troops is 3.6 million.

On the 13th day of mobilization, the troops originally stationed in Asia joined the sequence, so that the total number of Russian troops increased to 1,830 battalions, 1,250 cavalry squadrons and 6,720 artillery pieces, totaling about 5 million people, about two-thirds of this number were combatants.

The former Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, General Schlieffen, expected the mobilization of the Russian army to take six weeks, but in reality it took them only six days.

Today, the millions of Tsarist Russian troops on the eastern front are just appetizers, and Tsar Nicholas II is ready to mobilize 15 million troops for the war in Europe, and he does have the ability to do so. ”

After the debriefing

Cai Tinggan put away the folder and stood on the side with a respectful expression.

Li Fushou was silent when he heard this, and only said after a while; "It's a great achievement, and this is the king of the last days."

After speaking, he sighed lightly and waved his hand to let Cai Tinggan retreat.