Expedition to Europe

The bombing of Vladivostok lasted for fifteen days.

During these 15 days, the bomber unit of the Northern Expedition Corps dropped more than 5,000 tons of bombs on Vladivostok, including incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs.

Since the defenders were determined to die, Chen Kangjian no longer risked the lives of the soldiers. It was a good idea to consume incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs instead of the lives of the soldiers, and it was also beneficial to improve the weaknesses of these two weapons.

For example, poison gas bombs. In fact, as early as the beginning of the World War, the British knew how to mix phosgene and chlorine. Until the emergence of mustard gas, mustard gas became the most used poison gas bomb on the battlefield.

The Northern Expedition Corps was initially equipped with mustard gas, but during use, the researchers accompanying the army found that the effect of using it was not good, so they began to improve mustard gas. After a variety of ratio studies, the effect of using mustard gas and chlorine gas was the best, so this became the standard equipment of the Lan Fang troops.

The same is true for incendiary bombs. The initial incendiary bombs of the Northern Expedition Corps only added asphalt to the shells to help combustion, but in actual combat, it was found that the combustion effect was not very good, so under the suggestion of Qin Zhiyuan, the researchers began to use thermite and yellow phosphorus...

Qin Zhiyuan used to be an agent, so it was easy for him to make an incendiary bomb, and the materials used were all available in supermarkets.

The emergence of new weapons greatly improved combat effectiveness, so Vladivostok, as the first fortress in the Far East, became a tragedy.

At the beginning, when incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs were thrown, people could be seen staggering out of the target, and then fell to the ground without any movement.

In the end, no matter how many were thrown, those fortresses were silent, but sporadic explosions would still occur.

So Chen Kangjian ordered again that the infantry squad accompanying the tanks was mainly composed of demolition experts, and all buildings within sight were blasted, regardless of whether there were people inside or whether they were still useful.

This method was simple and crude, and finally made the Russians who were defending Vladivostok completely desperate.

In mid-May, on the 21st day of the Northern Expedition Corps' attack on Vladivostok, the defenders began to blow up all the buildings including the port facilities, intending to perish with Vladivostok.

Chen Kangjian did not hesitate and immediately ordered the bomber unit to go out again to set fire to all the buildings visible to the naked eye in Vladivostok.

The fire burned for ten days, and the explosions lasted for ten days.

Vladivostok finally became a ruin.

How ruined was it?

So much so that military observers from Britain, France, the United States and other countries who accompanied the army unanimously determined that Vladivostok could not be restored to its original state within ten years.

Although Japan was also an Allied country, it did not send a military observation group. It was not that the Japanese did not want to send it, but that the Lan Fang government disagreed.

From the first day of its establishment, the Lan Fang government clearly showed its hostility to the Japanese government and did not conceal it at all.

During the Dutch East Indies period, there were still some Japanese living in the land under the rule of Lan Fang, but after the establishment of Lan Fang, the number of Japanese people in Lan Fang is now 0.

It seems a bit incredible, but this is the fact.

The Japanese government immediately cried at the Paris Peace Conference that Lan Fang had carried out a brutal massacre of the Japanese population, but unfortunately it did not arouse widespread sympathy. Only the British said a few words indifferently, and the French and Americans chose not to hear it.

Lan Fang's attack on Vladivostok also caused an uproar in Japan. The Japanese opposed Lan Fang's northward march in various ways, and even proposed that the Japanese army could replace Lan Fang's northward march, but was collectively rejected by France, the United States, and Britain.

Lan Fang's northward march was part of the northward march of the Foreign Legion. The two are inseparable, and it is also one of the conditions for the Foreign Legion to attack Moscow.

With the capture of Vladivostok by the Foreign Legion, the Russian rule in the Far East quickly collapsed.

Almost within a few days, Amirsk, Amuga, and Turom were successively occupied by the Northern Expedition Corps, and the speed of occupation was equal to the speed of the Northern Expedition Corps' advance.

Before that, Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka Peninsula were already under the control of the Northern Expedition Corps.

By the end of May, the actual control area of ​​the Foreign Legion had exceeded 1.5 million square kilometers, even reaching a level that made Britain and the United States worried.

The French understood this. From the perspective of the Allies, although the French did not want Lan Fang to be too powerful, in the eyes of the French, Siberia, which looked like a barren land, was really useless and did not play a big role in strengthening Lan Fang's national strength.

Siberia is really too big!

How big is it?

Even if some kind of mineral deposit is discovered in the Siberian region, it has no actual mining value, because the cost of transporting those ores has far exceeded the value of the ores themselves.

So everyone knows that Siberia is rich underground, but the surface part is a wasteland of thousands of miles.

However, for the Chinese, even if the mineral deposits cannot be mined, as long as there is land, it means everything.

So in Lan Fang's latest immigration policy, if you choose to immigrate to Siberia, the government can provide loans to buy machinery. Within one year, the right to use all the land reclaimed by farmers will always belong to the farmers themselves. No matter how much land is reclaimed within ten years, no fees are required.

My God, there is actually a place in the world where you can reclaim land unlimitedly?

And the government can also provide tractors?

Don’t think that illiterate people can’t use tractors. They may not be able to repair them, but if they just operate them, if they try, they will find that it is not much more troublesome than driving a bullock cart. At least tractors do not require communication.

In the vast Siberian wilderness, you can drive a tractor and have fun at will, without worrying about hitting people or cars.

The first batch of immigrants to Siberia totaled more than 5,000 people. After they entered Siberia, it was like throwing a handful of pebbles into the sea, and there was not even a splash of water.

By the way, just like when the Russians captured Siberia, the Northern Expedition Corps did not "discover" any Russians during its march northward.

Of course, the reason was not because of the massacre of the Northern Expedition Corps, but because all the Russians had fled. They did not dare to live under the rule of the Northern Expedition Corps, because the burning Vladivostok had illuminated the entire Siberia, and everyone knew what happened in Vladivostok.

What happened in Siberia basically did not cause any waves, because throughout April and most of May, the world's attention was focused on the "Black Swan" Royal Cruise.

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Just by listening to the name, you can tell that the "Black Swan" Royal Cruise belongs to the Lanfang Royal Family.

This was not built specifically for the Lanfang Royal Family, but a cruise ship ordered from the UK by a French shipping company.

The outbreak of the World War delayed the delivery of the ship. Because of the rush to build naval ships, the progress of the cruise ship was repeatedly delayed. When the cruise ship was finally launched, the shipping company that ordered it had gone bankrupt, so the cruise ship became ownerless.

When Qin Zhiyuan heard the news, Qin Zhiyuan contacted his old friend, Gary Parker, sales manager of the Portsmouth Wanderers Union Shipyard.

So Qin Zhiyuan got this 23,000-ton cruise ship.

23,000 tons, does it sound a little small?

But Qin Zhiyuan was very satisfied, because 23 is an auspicious number, not because of Michael Jordan, but because Qin Zhiyuan is 23 years old this year.

Since October last year, the cruise ship has been converted into a cruise ship. Because it does not need to provide services to too many people and does not need too many rooms on board, more functional facilities have been added, and the survivability has been greatly enhanced. After the modification, the "Black Swan" also has certain air defense and anti-submarine capabilities. This looks a bit out of place, but it fits Qin Zhiyuan's military identity.

In fact, the weapons on the "Black Swan" are estimated to have little chance of being used, because the "Black Swan" returned to the Far East with 12 destroyers, two aircraft carriers converted from freighters, and a battleship donated by the French government.

That's right, in order to express gratitude and friendship to Qin Zhiyuan, the French government presented a battleship to the Lanfang Navy, the Courbet-class battleship "Paris" built in 2009, launched in 2011, and just commissioned in 2014.

Of course, this battleship is not called "Paris" now, but "France", which has the same name as one of its sister ships, another Courbet-class battleship, to prove the friendship between Lanfang and France.

"France" is the first battleship of the Lanfang Navy, with a length of 166 meters, a width of 27 meters, a draft of 9.04 meters, and a full load displacement of 25,579 tons.

As for the two aircraft carriers - now it is more customary to call them "aircraft carriers" - they are all converted from cargo ships, which is also a common method at this time.

For the navy, aircraft carriers are still in a subordinate position and have not attracted enough attention.

Qin Zhiyuan does not intend to remind governments of the importance of aircraft carriers. On the contrary, Qin Zhiyuan is also preparing to jointly build a battleship of Lanfang origin with France - the "Legion" class.

Lan Fang's shipyard is under construction. When the shipyard is built, Qin Zhiyuan will join hands with the French to build a new battleship. For this purpose, Qin Zhiyuan has reached an agreement with Navy Minister George Leger, and various basic data of the "Legion" class battleship have been determined.

The standard displacement of the "Legion" class battleship is 35,000 tons, the draft is 9.1 meters, equipped with 4 twin-mounted 410 mm caliber main guns, and the maximum speed is 25 knots.

Based on the experience of the Battle of Jutland, the defensive armor design draws on the concept of key protection, strengthens the key area defense armor, especially the horizontal defense armor, to resist the impact of long-range artillery battles and large-angle bombs, and the non-key area defense armor is reduced or cancelled.

It seems that the data of the "Legion" class battleship is very powerful, but it is actually not realistic.

Qin Zhiyuan has never set his sights on battleships. Even if the "Legion" class is on the itinerary drawings, this is just a cover for Qin Zhiyuan to provoke an arms race. Qin Zhiyuan's real goal is submarines and aircraft carriers, which are the weapons of future wars.

As early as the beginning of April, Qin Zhiyuan returned to Lanfang with his wife - no, now it should be the princess - Julie, as well as Foch, old Renault and others.

This attracted the attention of the whole world, because the overlord from the Far East was finally returning to his own country.

Just like a lion returning to the grassland, like an eagle flying into the blue sky, like a giant shark entering the deep sea, what the Far East overlord will do next has become a topic of great interest in the media around the world.