bookpower Chapter 409
Chapter 409
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: 0.043s Scan: 0.045sAs an ally of the Foot Basin, what is the attitude of the British Empire towards this war?
Fog City, the capital of the British Empire.
An emergency cabinet meeting is being held, and the main topic of this meeting is the war that broke out in the Far East!
“Ladies and gentlemen, although you are our allies, our alliance does not stipulate that we must participate in a war that the Foot Basin participates in, especially when the war is initiated by the Foot Basin. If we are involved in the war at this time, then we will become guns in other people’s hands, kidnapped to their chariots, and used as guns by them!”
As a long-established world hegemon, the British Empire is very good at political intrigues.
So although the alliance signed with the Foot Basin stipulated that the two sides must support and help each other in the war, if one country is at war, the other must help.
But that clause can only be used when they have a common enemy or one of them has been invaded by another country.
At other times, the other party’s allies have the right to choose to participate in or not participate in the war.
Just like this time, the Japanese army took the initiative to provoke a war, and it was an unjust war to invade other countries.
At this time, they asked the British Empire to join the Foot Basin and fulfill their responsibilities as allies.
This is obviously a bit beyond the line!
The British Empire could completely reject the Foot Basin’s request based on the alliance signed at the beginning.
After all, the Celestial Empire is neither their common enemy nor the Foot Basin has been invaded.
There is no need for the British Empire to waste people’s money and work for the Foot Basin for its own interests!
“You are right, so I have asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs to reject the request of the Foot Basin people. We may be able to sell them a batch of arms at a low price, but we will never send troops to help them fight this unjust war!”
In fact, for the British Empire, if the Foot Basin was not their ally, they would definitely strongly oppose the Foot Basin’s invasion!
Because once the Foot Basin annexed the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire, then this place would say goodbye to the British Empire forever.
It would become a colony of the Foot Basin, and become an area for the Foot Basin’s resource supply and commodity dumping.
The products of the British Empire and other countries would never be able to enter here again!
Although the commercial interests of the British Empire in the northeastern region are not great, once the Foot Basin takes the lead, they will continue to occupy more land in the same way in the future.
Although the Celestial Empire has more than 10 million square kilometers, no matter how large its area is, it cannot withstand the encroachment of the Foot Basin.
At this rate, it may take less than 20 years for the
Foot Basin to conquer the Celestial Empire.
The Foot Basin can swallow up all of China. By then, China, a huge market with a population of 400 million, will have to say goodbye to the British Empire!
Moreover, after swallowing up China, the national strength of the Foot Basin will surely grow rapidly. They will become the largest country in the Far East. It is hard to say whether they will maintain the alliance with the British Empire at that time. Once they do not renew the alliance, the Foot Basin may turn its guns to attack the British Empire.
Therefore, the British Empire is very reluctant to see the Foot Basin invade the northeastern region of China. They hope that the Foot Basin will develop its navy, expand in the Pacific region, drive out the forces of the Eagle Sauce, and then provoke conflicts between the Foot Basin and the Eagle Sauce. In this way, the Foot Basin can complete the mission given to them by the British Empire: to contain the energy of the Eagle Sauce!
“Let’s put this matter aside for the moment. How should the League of Nations respond? If Hans really proposes a motion in the League of Nations, how should we express our stance?”
The statements made by Hans and the Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow had spread throughout the world. In fact, countries around the world did not know much about the situation in the Far East, because China was a very weak agricultural country and had no say in the world. So even if they were beaten, as long as no one reported it, they would have been beaten in vain. People in other countries in the world might not even know that such a thing happened.
However, after Hans made his statement, the impact of this incident spread.
Needless to say, Hans himself, as soon as they did, the whole of Europe knew Hans’ attitude.
And Russia’s influence in Eastern Europe The influence is also very large, so some countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have also heard about this matter.
However, if we talk about the country with the strongest propaganda ability, it must be the United States.
Because the Foot Basin is also one of the imaginary enemies of the United States, so after the news of the Foot Basin’s invasion of China came, the United States also promoted this matter at full speed!
At this time, the United States was already very nervous because the British Empire sent 2 million workers to the Maple Leaf Country, and then heard that the British Empire’s ally, the Foot Basin, directly launched an invasion war against a weak country!
Therefore, the people of the United States were suddenly in an uproar, and everyone couldn’t help but think: Since the sun never sets… If allies can launch invasion wars against other countries in order to divert conflicts, will the British Empire do the same? No one except the British Empire can give a definite answer to this question.
So this concern quickly spread throughout the United States, and they also had strong sympathy for the country in the Far East that they didn’t know much about – China!
Although humans all respect the strong, they also sympathize with the weak, especially when they see other strong people bullying the weak, they will have the urge to speak for the strong and support the other party.
If Hans hadn’t taken the initiative to stand up and express his position, , took the lead in condemning the Foot Basin, even if other countries wanted to support it, they probably wouldn’t dare to risk offending the Foot Basin to do so.
However, now that the Foot Basin and the Russian Bear have taken the lead, everything is easily resolved. Everyone just needs to follow their two countries in condemning it!
Therefore, after Hans and the Russian Bear expressed their views, this matter had a wide and bad impact internationally. If a vote was held within the League of Nations at this time, the Foot Basin would most likely be sanctioned!
Although the target of the sanctions is not the British Empire itself, as an ally of the Foot Basin, it is still necessary for the British Empire to help them.
“This matter is very tricky, we can only mobilize our own forces to help Jiaoben, but I think it will be difficult for us to change this public opinion, because this is indeed an unjust war!”
It’s not that the British have more conscience, but this matter is recognized by everyone, so even if they make an effort, they may not be able to help, and Jiaoben will most likely be sanctioned!
“If Jiaoben is really sanctioned because of this, it will probably become the first country in the League of Nations to be sanctioned!”
The people of the Sun Never Sets actually have the mood to gloat over other people’s misfortunes!
“Ahem, should we remind the people in the foot basin to restrain themselves? Since they failed to end the battle in the first time, the risk of external interference will become greater and greater if they continue to fight. Their situation will only become more difficult at that time. Instead of this, it is better for them to defend decisively and withdraw their troops now!”
The people of the British Empire could not understand what the people of the British Empire wanted to do. It was obvious that they had initiated the war.
However, looking at their performance in the battle, it seemed that they were not ready for the battle.
After the Liutiaohu Incident, the British Empire’s army clearly launched the attack first, but a large number of their weapons and equipment, especially heavy artillery and other equipment, failed to keep up with the troops in time, resulting in the Japanese army’s lack of heavy weapons at the beginning, and it was difficult to bite off the positions of the Celestial Empire’s army. Instead, they suffered heavy losses under the Celestial Empire’s bombardment!
To be honest, the people of the British Empire did not understand this performance.
From the fact that the Japanese army sent four divisions of troops to participate in the war within a short period of time after the war broke out, and launched a fierce attack on Fengtian from multiple directions, it can be seen that they must have planned for this war a long time ago.
So this war can be said to be a long-planned one of the British Empire!
However, there was nothing wrong with the deployment of the big strategy, but there were huge loopholes in the specific implementation.
The weapons and equipment of the British Empire were seriously out of touch, and And the artillery shells were not stored enough. When they attacked Beidaying, they were bombarded by the 7th Brigade of the Northeast Army. Soon, they mobilized a heavy artillery regiment with 36 150mm heavy howitzers to join the counterattack.
With this configuration, they would definitely win the artillery battle. After all, they had more artillery and larger caliber, and their advantages were very obvious! However
, what was astonishing was that this heavy artillery regiment was silent after firing a base number of shells. They actually had no shells!
Then the entire artillery regiment had to stop and wait for the shells to be urgently transferred from the Pingrang area.
During this process, the Japanese army had no way to launch an attack on Beidaying. They failed to destroy the enemy’s artillery, and their own artillery was not strong. If they attacked under the enemy’s fierce artillery fire, their own losses would be very huge!