Fisher knew that this battle was very difficult to fight. The first naval strategy he formulated for Britain was to eliminate the weeds and resolve them quickly, without any delay.
But the Prime Minister has the same difficulties as the Prime Minister, especially the Prime Minister who has to satisfy the appetites of the greedy capitalists in the country!
It is not easy to launch a war, and he is very determined to ask for military expenses. To this day, Benjamin does not dare to publicly issue a war proposal in parliament.
One is to ensure the suddenness of the attack and to paralyze the Chinese. On the other hand, Benjamin also knows very well that the parliament is not monolithic, and there are also many capitalist members who are close to the Chinese.
Once it enters the voting stage, who knows what will happen? We must know that among the British capitalist group, there are many people who make money from the Chinese. They are a community of interests, so how can they ruin their golden jobs?
Therefore, Benjamin and Fisher can only engage in intrigues and tricks, and can only frame the blame, let the Chinese fire the first shot, and then automatically transform the war into a passive defensive war!
This is the only way to bypass parliamentary mandate!
Soldiers are valuable and quick, but their movement is dangerous! This battle was very difficult to fight, and after the war Benjamin had to fulfill many promises. In the previous military appropriation meeting, he used Chinese industries as trophies to seduce the big capitalists.
Only then did the proposal to increase military spending pass!
"Constraints! There are constraints everywhere! Now the French are also restricting... All my plans have been rejected. Damn it, this battle is so disgusting!"
Benjamin denied Fisher's planned plan. It was impossible to eradicate the enemy quickly. He could only act in accordance with the Prime Minister's plan, which was to occupy the country step by step.
Try to protect the Chinese industrial base as much as possible, and finally retain these factories, mines, ports, docks, railways, and infrastructure.
Then wait for British capital to carve it up after the war!
This modification made Fisher very unhappy. Fisher knew that such a strategy would require more troops, especially more armies.
The navy also has to divide its forces, which increases the risk of war!
Why do we have to bring the French fleet in? In fact, I was worried that this strategy would divide the troops too much, so I roped in the French to join in the robbery, just like the British and French coalition forces back then.
But are the French so easy to control? Although the French agreed to send troops secretly, they also had their own little plans!
They just stuffed the Crown Prince Eugene in. This is the action of the French royalists. If the UK doesn't agree, it won't work!
The British originally thought that they would trick the French into coming in, fight the war first, and then discuss everything after the war.
Who would have known that Prince Eugene was also a little fox, and before he left European waters, a restoration operation came on the first day!
Publicly announced the establishment of the French Third Reich, and even fired off a public salute, publicly putting pressure on Fisher!
Crown Prince Eugene has kicked the ball at Fisher's feet, making it clear that you must express your stance, "Do you, Fisher... do you support me ascending the throne and proclaiming myself emperor?"
"If you don't support it, I will immediately take the battleship back to France! And I will reveal all your British secrets!"
"What do you think the UK will do? Or you can hack my French battleships on the sea. I'll just have these four battleships and you can fire on them!"
"If you sink an ally's warship, go to Asia yourself! My Bonaparte family is willing to take this life. Are you, Fisher, willing to fail in this operation?"
The bachelor met the mud-legged man, and Fisher was as disgusted as eating a fly at this moment!
Pooh! After spitting into the sea, Fisher cursed in a low voice, "I curse you! Curse you that the Bonaparte family will be extinct forever!"
"Send the order! Prepare the salute! 21 shots to celebrate the accession of our French Emperor to the throne! Congratulations to Napoleon IV!"
Fisher finally compromised. He could not bear the responsibility for the failure of the military operation. At this moment, he could only act urgently and recognize the French Emperor's accession to the throne!
The flag bearer passed the signal, and then in the dawn, with the rising sun, the British fleet battleships collectively saluted 21 times to celebrate the French Third Reich!
Prince Eugene... No, no, no, now he is going to be called Napoleon IV. He finally smiled!
Napoleon IV took off his Napoleon hat and waved it gently to the British allies, his eyes filled with the glory of the victor. When the French officers and soldiers heard the British congratulatory cannons, their cheers became even hotter.
Napoleon IV turned to his subordinates and said, "Order the signal ship to approach the nearest telegraph office... and send telegrams to all French colonies within the route!"
"Send a secret message according to my list! Just say that the French Third Reich has been established and the new emperor needs their allegiance!"
"Ask the governor of my French colony to immediately prepare coal, water, munitions, food, money and other war materials... secretly form a Marine Corps to join our expedition!"
“The more people on this expedition that spans half the world, the better!”
A captain whispered, "Are these...these governors reliable? Will they leak secrets?"
"Haha... don't underestimate the influence of the Bonaparte family! On the list I gave you, the governors on it were all appointed by my father and promoted by him!"
"Only when the empire exists can their titles be protected and recognized! At this moment, the Republic has not yet secured its position, so it has not spared its hands to deal with them!"
"Once the Republic stabilizes the domestic situation, those Republican congressmen will definitely attack them, and those people will deprive them of their aristocratic privileges bit by bit!"
"Who do you think these governors will be loyal to?"
"Haha... The birth of a country is so easy!"
In the era before radio technology, communication on the sea had to rely on fast communication ships. This fast small boat quickly approached the nearest land with important intelligence, and then found a reliable telegraph to send the war message.
After Napoleon IV gave the order, one of the fastest destroyers in the British fleet quickly left the fleet and sailed towards the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula.
The nearest port is A Coruña, Spain, where there is a telegraph network controlled by British intelligence warfare!
At this moment, these telegraph battles are on high alert, and there are always fast patrols of small boats in the open sea. This is all planned in advance.
Any intelligence operation can roughly estimate the specific time of the fleet's approach. That is, within a few days of the fleet's approach, the intelligence station will dispatch several patrol boats to approach the route.
Sometimes they can receive the latest communication telegrams without the fleet's signal ship docking!
An expedition would compete with the national power of the British Empire. Communications alone would have to mobilize the entire coastline of the empire on which the sun never sets.
