Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Li Fu took the statement submitted by Leinster and went directly to the Longxiang Army headquarters to find Lin Yi.

At this time, Lin Yi had been promoted to Army General. Above him, only Pan Chengzhang of the Imperial Military Department could be a head above him, and the leaders of several other military services only had the rank of General.

However, for general Lin Yi, even Pan Chengzhang, the nominal generalissimo of the Great Xia Empire Military Department, must be polite to him.

There is no way, who made Lin Yi's identity a prince? Of course, this issue also has Lin Yi's own abilities. Otherwise, even if he was a prince, Pan Chengzhang would still have the capital to ignore Lin Yi, and Zhao Xu would not be able to promote Lin Yi to general.

After all, no matter how much Zhao Xu doted on Lin Yi, he would never joke about such a key position.

If Lin Yi was just doing nothing, then Zhao Xu would allow him to set up some kind of Longxiang Army in a small way.

However, he would never be given the rank of general, let alone promote Lin Yi to the rank of first person under marshal.

Of course, these are off topic.

Today, Li Fu came to Lin Yi instead of Pan Chengzhang or Zhao Xu. The main reason was that a month ago, after Milician announced his participation in the war, Zhao Xu established a general headquarters on Lin Yi's suggestion, codenamed "Dragon's Cave".

The members of this "Dragon Cave" general headquarters include the Military Department, the Longxiang Army, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Among them, Pan Chengzhang of the Military Department is inspecting armies in various places to ensure that armies in various places have combat effectiveness in future wars.

Therefore, Li Fu can only discuss with Lin Yi now regarding the official documents of the Hans Empire.

When Lin Yi saw the sharp-tongued letter submitted by Leinster, a smile appeared on his face.

"It seems that our friend Hans has lost his composure."

"It seems so, but the Hans Empire is indeed quite powerful. It almost fought against the three Allied Powers with the power of one country, and it lasted more than two years."

"This actually bought us a lot of time." Li Fu also had a relaxed expression when he heard Lin Yi's words.

When Lin Yi heard Li Fu's words, he didn't say anything more, but lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then asked: "Over in Southeast Asia, the John Empire still hasn't mobilized its troops?"

"No, John's Empire has dispatched three rounds of reinforcements to Australia and Maple Leaf Country, but there is no movement at all in Southeast Asia."

"I now suspect that John's empire is always on guard against us." Li Fu said while looking at Lin Yi.

"Precaution? They must be on guard, but can they guard against it?" Lin Yi chuckled.

"There are only [-] Allied troops in Southeast Asia, including Tianzhu's garrison."

"Although they have also formed colonial divisions, the soldiers of those colonial divisions are Southeast Asians. Their combat effectiveness can be imagined."

"In addition, the troops around Southeast Asia have been almost completely mobilized by the John Empire. It cannot be completed in a short time to form new armies from these places."

"So, now I think it's a good opportunity." Lin Yi said slowly.

"What does the prince mean? Start a war?" Li Fu asked tentatively.

"The war is definitely going to start, but the specifics require His Majesty's decree."

"Although His Majesty will definitely agree, the proper procedures still need to be in place."

"Let's go and tell Leinster that the empire is making final preparations for the war and it will take a month to let them hold on." Lin Yi thought for a while and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Fu nodded when he heard Lin Yi's words, indicating that he understood.

Then Li Fu said goodbye and left Lin Yi's office.

After Li Fu left, Lin Yi took out a document from the drawer on the side.

He turned to the first page, which read "A Summary of the Great Xia Empire's Longxiang Army's Operational Policy in Southeast Asia"

This outline plan was delivered to Lin Yi yesterday. As early as after America announced that it would join the Entente and declare war on the Central Powers, Lin Yi knew that the war had reached a fever pitch.

For the rest, no powerful country would intervene in the war. Therefore, Lin Yi issued an order to the General Staff of the Longxiang Army and asked them to make a plan for conquering Southeast Asia.

The General Staff moved very quickly, and it took less than a month to come up with a plan.

Strictly speaking, this plan has a high execution rate and is very detailed, including when, which division will arrive at which position, what targets will be launched, and the extent of the attack that needs to be carried out to force the enemy to retreat.

It can be said that this plan has taken into account all aspects of the Southeast Asian war situation, but there is only one thing missing, and that is the Millennium Navy.

Lin Yi knew very well that the reason why Long Xiang's army was in such a situation was because Wang Hongchang and the others did not pay enough attention to Milician's navy.

The Imperial Navy, or Wang Hongchang and others, have always regarded the John Empire's navy as an imaginary enemy.

As for other countries, perhaps only Sakura Country's navy can make them pay more attention to it.

After all, Wang Hongchang suffered heavy losses at the hands of the navies of the Sakura Kingdom and the John Empire.

But with the rise of the Imperial Navy, especially the emergence of the Yinglong Fleet, the Empire successively defeated John, the Gallic Empire's combined fleet and the Sakura Empire's fleet.

In particular, the Yinglong fleet has destroyed the Sakura Kingdom fleet, making the Sakura Kingdom fleet a thing of the past.

This made Wang Hongchang and the others a little arrogant.

As the saying goes, arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and Lin Yi did not want the imperial fleet to suffer another disaster.

You know, Millican's navy is not weak.

First of all, the Millennium Navy was inherited from the John Empire, and their soldiers' combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the army.

Even though the Milician army in this era was very weak and had a small number of people, with a total size of only [-] people, their naval strength was definitely ten miles ahead of the army.

It's just that Millikin has always believed in isolationism and is not willing to participate in international affairs, so Millikin looks relatively weak and has no record of success.

But if you want to say that he is weak, you are totally wrong.

Not to mention other things, the ridiculously strong industrial strength of the country alone can allow the Millennium Navy to replenish its fleet at the speed of launching one capital ship a month.

He can even start building multiple battleships at the same time.

This construction speed alone is enough to make many countries feel numb.

Therefore, if you want to underestimate Millikin's naval strength, you are destined to suffer a big loss.

Lin Yi was not like his Southeast Asia plan, which failed because he ignored this point. Therefore, he felt that he needed to talk to Wang Hongchang and let him pay attention to the American Navy.

After all, in later generations, more than one family would despise the Millennium Navy and suffer a disastrous defeat.

Lin Yi didn't want to follow in their footsteps, so he prepared to make a new plan.

Bring forward the importance of the Millennium Navy.