1890 King of Southeast Asia

At about the same time as Britain responded, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria all responded.

Oh! And Russia.

The first three countries can produce airships themselves, and have a certain number of active airship units. They immediately started research on how to replicate the results of China's air raid on Tokyo.

The last two countries cannot make airships themselves, so they immediately asked their allies for airship assistance.

Finally, Russia did not get entangled in the airship issue, because Russia's climate is not suitable for large-scale use of airships, and airships consume a lot of materials.

The most important thing is that the Tsar has a better toy, the "Ilya Muromets" four-engine heavy bomber.

This aircraft can carry 800 kilograms of bombs and seven machine gun positions for seven crew members. It has a range of 540 kilometers, a practical ceiling of 4,000 meters, and a maximum speed of 137 kilometers per hour in level flight.

After learning about the results of the Chinese Empire in Tokyo, Tsar Nicholas II excitedly asked to speed up the construction of the "Ilya Muromets" heavy bomber.

Nicholas II hoped to use heavy bombers to give the Germans a hard time, and of course the most important thing was to set fire to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After the war had been going on for so long, the Russians had basically determined that bombers far surpassed airships in all aspects except for the amount of bombs they carried.

For Nicholas II, if there were not many bombs, he would pile up the number. As long as the number of bombers was large enough, the defect of insufficient bombs could be made up.

The most important thing was that Vienna was also an ancient city. Once a city was old, wooden buildings were indispensable.

(Although there were many stone buildings in ancient Europe, they were absolute numbers rather than relative numbers. Most of the buildings were still wooden and stone structures, especially for civilians.)

In addition to the air force arms race, these countries also started fire prevention preparations in a unified manner, and at the same time accelerated the development of air defense equipment.

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"The results of the battle were very good, and there was no loss of personnel. It can be said to be very beautiful." Liu Yiming said leisurely while holding the battle report.

In fact, the damage caused by bombing these people is not comparable to that of bombing schools and factories, but Liu Yiming has no choice.

The congenital defects of airships are there. They are too big, too slow, and too easy to be hit. Once they are hit, huge problems may arise.

They can only adopt the method of night bombing, but there is nothing in the school at night, and the factory has stopped working due to lack of fuel.

"If the bombing continues, even if the Japanese are prepared and the efficiency is halved, they can force the Japanese to withdraw from the war within half a year." Xu Hui laughed on the side.

It is much cheaper to dispatch airships than to dispatch navy. The cost is nothing more than gas, fuel, bombs, and maintenance.

Compared with the navy, airship maintenance is not difficult, and fuel consumption is also very small. The unit price of bombs is not cheap, but the total price is not worth mentioning compared with naval shells.

The most important thing is that a little more than 300 tons of bombs can achieve such a large goal, while the shells required by the navy in one battle may not be less than 300 tons.

Not to mention the huge cost of various small-caliber rapid-fire guns, the large-caliber heavy guns on the battleships, each shot is a special shell, weighing hundreds of kilograms.

In terms of the cost of shells alone, it must be higher than that of bombs of the same level, because bombs can be made of cast iron, while shells must be made of special steel.

Cast iron shells are probably deformed directly under strong chamber pressure.

"The idea is good, but it is not feasible." Liu Yiming shook his head.

"After suffering such a big loss, if the Japanese are not fools, they will definitely be prepared. The airship is too slow and can be easily damaged."

"Then give up like this? What a pity..." Xu Hui said with a look of pity.

"Although there will be no large-scale bombing, the night bombing will not stop, keeping pressure on Japan, which can increase their material consumption." Liu Yiming shook his head.

"I heard that Japan is trying to persuade Britain, France and the United States, hoping to get them to come forward and lower the conditions?" Xu Hui put down the war report and asked with concern.

As I said before, Japan is not unwilling to surrender, but unwilling to accept the conditions of the Huaxia Empire.

The conditions of the Huaxia Empire were not harsh in the eyes of many people. The cession of territory and compensation were easy to negotiate, and long-term compensation was also recognized.

However, Japan was required to demilitarize and not have a navy. Any military, police or potentially military ships could not exceed 3,000 tons, and the caliber of artillery could not exceed 150 mm.

It also required the abolition of the emperor and aristocracy system, the abolition of samurai culture, the cessation of military and political schools, and university discipline restrictions.

It was a bit harsh, but the Huaxia Empire promised compensation, which was also acceptable internationally, after all, China was under the banner of peace.

In the war years, people were extremely eager for peace, so the Huaxia Empire stood firm.

But Japan could not accept it. How could this be possible? How could the samurai class be abolished? How could the emperor and aristocracy be abolished? No!

"They are dreaming. They hope to cancel military restrictions and all conditions against the aristocratic ruling class."

"That's not impossible. I've made it very clear. As long as they can pay enough benefits, I can make concessions."

"But they are still eager to maintain a symbolic compensation of several hundred million yen, not to sign an unequal treaty, and want us to provide assistance, on the grounds that Japan's current situation is caused by us."

Liu Yiming shook his head with a disgusted look on his face.

"Are they living in a dream? Apart from anything else, the war was provoked by them. This is a fact. Maybe we have guidance, but if they don't intercept the Chinese fleet, will they have this day?"

"Several hundred million? Or Japanese yen? It's disgusting. I spent more than this." Xu Hui was also disgusted after hearing this.

Maybe this is the beginning of the Japanese bargaining, but Liu Yiming and Xu Hui don't care about this.

"I have asked Lin Anmin to quote. It's okay not to cause trouble for the nobles, and even not to militarize."

"As long as Japan cedes Hokkaido, pays 50 billion Chinese yuan in compensation, and can only impose most-favored-nation tariffs on Chinese goods, as long as they agree to the above three points, we will agree to a ceasefire." Liu Yiming shook his head.

"But 50 billion Chinese yuan, can they take it out?" Xu Hui asked doubtfully when he saw that Liu Yiming was not joking.

"Of course not, so I provided an evaluation company that can use Japan's resources and factories to offset it." Liu Yiming shook his head indifferently.

As for the loan, who will lend it to it? Isn't that giving it a chance?

Liu Yiming's attitude is very clear. No matter what, to eliminate the threat of Japan, either militarize or let the Huaxia Empire control your national economy and people's livelihood.

No matter which one you choose, Liu Yiming is sure to make Japan drunk and dreamless.

[Author's digression]: Brothers, I was outside and was pulled out to play, but I have saved the manuscript for two days, but the quality is average.