"Wake up, Master, wake up. General Staff Headquarters phone number!"
"Wake up, husband, wake up. Something big seems to have happened!"
Zhuge Weidao was woken up from his sweet sleep by his "big maid" Ah Li and the side room Da Heikong. In a trance, he heard the words "General Staff Headquarters phone call" and "Something big happened". With a sudden start, he suddenly became more awake.
He hurriedly sat up on the big bed, rubbed his eyes, and then felt a dazzling light. He squinted his eyes and looked around, and found that the big black sky who served him last night had taken off his blindfold and put on a suit. Pajamas knelt down next to him. Ah Li, on the other hand, held a tray and held a "cable mobile" in front of her.
"What time is it now?" Zhuge Weidao asked smoothly.
Ah Li replied: "Master, it is now 11:30 in the evening. Ten minutes ago, the Secretariat of the General Staff called."
Because he was afraid of affecting his "happiness" with Natalie, Daheikong, Nalandili, etc., there was no phone in Zhuge Weidao's big bedroom. However, there is a telephone installed in the maid's room where Ah Li lives. If there is an important call coming in late at night, Ah Li will be responsible for answering it and then decide whether to wake Zhuge Weidao.
Hearing the call from the General Staff, Zhuge Weidao did not dare to neglect, and quickly picked up the receiver. The voice of a Secretary of the General Staff came from the other end of the phone: "Is it Deputy Chief Zhuge?"
"Yes, I am Zhuge Weidao."
"Deputy Commander Zhuge, we have just received an urgent call from the Persian Gulf Fleet. At around five o'clock this afternoon, local time, the Persian Gulf Fleet's airships and reconnaissance fishing boats discovered the main force of the Indian fleet in the Gulf of Oman, about 100 nautical miles away from Muscat. They can currently The confirmed ones include 10 battleships, 8 armored cruisers, 15 second- and third-class cruisers, more than 30 destroyers, and more than 50 various transport ships and auxiliary ships. The deputy chief on duty asks you to come to the General Staff for a meeting immediately!"
Zhuge Weidao put down the phone and was silent for a while before murmuring: "It's begun, it's begun."
"What started?" Daheikong asked.
"The world war is about to begin!" Zhuge Weidao suddenly thought of something, and then said to Ali, "Put down the phone and call Madam and Dili here!"
"Yes." Without saying anything, Ah Li put the phone on the coffee table, turned around and went back to her maid's room - her maid's room has four doors, one leading to the three halls and the other leading to the tea room. , one door leads to the master bedroom, and the other leads to the lady's room.
Seeing Ah Li leaving, Zhuge Weidao said to Daikokukong again: "Akong, call Edo City and tell your adoptive father that the war with the Indian Empire is about to begin. Let him prepare!"
The fact that the main force of the Indian fleet is rushing towards Muscat is not a secret that can be concealed. Zhuge Weidao asked Daikoku Kong to notify Edo as soon as possible, just to express a position to the Tokugawa shogunate - the Zhuge family He regards the Tokugawa family as his own!
And she asked Ali to call Natalie and Nalandili for this reason - to let Nicholas I and Daoguang know that Zhuge Weidao regarded them as his own! Of course, whether they believe it or not is another matter.
In addition, it's time for Natalie to go to the Rakshasa Kingdom to connect with her brothers, and then give more funds to those hot-headed Slavic groups!
Zhuge Weidao has helped Natalie apply for hundreds of thousands of silver dollars in activity funds from the military division, and it's time to spend it!
After explaining something to Natalie, who was wearing a thin loose nightgown, with her good figure looming underneath, Zhuge Weidao, who had already put on his military uniform, left the big bedroom and went to his study, where he had to be Make a phone call with several top-ranked military advisors from the Zhuge Family Military Advisors to confirm the Zhuge Family's position - of course, the current situation has already been calculated by the Military Advisors, so countermeasures have been discussed long ago.
It was one o'clock in the morning on the first day of November in the ninth year of Taiping.
The general staff office building on Chang'an Street was brightly lit. Cars drove into the general staff compound one after another. Generals wearing army, navy and royal uniforms all got out of the cars and walked in quickly. Building, he soon entered the General Staff Conference Room and sat down at a long table.
Zhuge Weidao was also among them, sitting next to one of his cousin uncles, Army Chief of Staff Li Tietan. Before Liu Quanzhong, the Secretary of the Ministry of War who also served as the commander-in-chief, showed up, several deputy commanders were already discussing it.
"Haha, there are more than thirty battleships, armored cruisers, second- and third-class cruisers together. It seems that Emperor William has made up his mind!"
"It is said that Emperor William is also among them. He is going to conquer it personally!"
"Really or not? Sitting on a battleship and marching in person? This Emperor William is quite fierce!"
"It's true, the intelligence agents in Bombay have sent secret messages. Emperor William has indeed boarded the ship and gone to sea."
"Then speaking of which, the main force of the Indian fleet has gone to the Gulf of Oman. Is it empty at Temasek?"
"The emptiness is empty, but it is not that easy to capture. From Pattani in Siam to Temasek Fortress in the Malay Peninsula, there is nearly 600 kilometers of jungle in between, which is not easy to pass."
"Yes, the Japanese mercenaries have only arrived in two divisions, one Sendai division and one Aizu division. They are both rural divisions in the northeastern region of Japan. I am afraid they will not adapt to the rain forests of Southeast Asia so quickly."
"Daozi, how prepared is your navy? How confident are you?"
Just when Li Tiedan asked about the navy's preparations, Liu Quanzhong, Secretary of the Ministry of War and Chief of the General Staff, had already walked in at a rapid pace. Looking at him like this, you knew that this battle was very certain!
"stand at attention!"
All the deputy chiefs of staff stood up and gave Liu Quanzhong a military salute.
Liu Quanzhong returned the salute, then asked everyone to take their seats with a straight face, and he also sat down in the chief of general staff's seat.
"Everyone," General Liu Quanzhong glanced around the conference room with his piercing eyes, and then continued, "I have just had a phone call with the left prime minister, the right prime minister, and Lin Shangshu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. What they meant is to send out the message now. The ultimatum may not be fully supported by public opinion, so they tend to have the navy take the initiative to step on the red line of the Indian Empire and let the other party take the initiative to issue an ultimatum, and then we reject it and trigger a declaration of war! After the declaration of war, our emperor and queen mother , the female emperor of Japan will also announce her personal expedition to boost the morale of the armed forces!"
The current Ming Dynasty is a constitutional monarchy controlled by the eight aristocratic families. Although the eight aristocratic families have strong control capabilities, and the four political parties in the political council are controlled by the eight aristocratic families, they cannot forcefully declare war on the Indian Empire regardless of public opinion.
More than a hundred years of peace and development, while the people of the Ming Dynasty have reaped many peace dividends, also made them less willing to go to war. For the middle and lower class people of the Ming Dynasty, the British Empire was far away, and their lives were very comfortable. Why is it necessary to have a big war?
In fact, even these people sitting in the conference room of the General Staff Building today did not want to fight a world war a few years ago. It's just that the current situation is getting closer to the point where it's time for a war. However, they still know the hearts of the people below, so taking the initiative to declare war will not gain public support.
This war can only be declared by the Indian Empire!
"Does the Navy have any corresponding plans?" Liu Quanzhong asked.
"have!"
Chief of Naval Staff Zhuge Weiyi immediately took the question and replied: "The Nanyang Fleet is already in a state of first-level combat readiness and can forcefully break through the Strait of Malacca at any time!"
"Where is the naval aviation force?" Liu Quanzhong glanced at Zhuge Weidao again.
The break between Daming and Great Britain this time is inseparable from the Zhuge family's 18th military advisor!
Zhuge Weidao replied: "Commander, the fleet directly under Hainan Airlines is currently undergoing daily training near the Ryukyu Kingdom. It can join the Nanyang Fleet at any time and participate in military operations to break through the Strait of Malacca!"
"Are you participating too?" Liu Quanzhong asked again.
"Yes," Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Because the naval aviation and carrier-based aircraft units are currently experimental units, the admiral of HNA is also the admiral of the direct fleet. I will rush to Shanghai immediately and board the HNA direct fleet in Shanghai. destroyer."
"Okay!" Liu Quanzhong touched his gray beard and said with a straight face, "Then I wish you a successful start!"
(End of chapter)
