Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

1913 8 Month 20 Day.

Li Jinji led the Far East Army of the Daxia Empire to the Rakshasa Empire, joined the White Wolf Army that was besieging the city of Britya, and further suppressed the city of Britya.

Currently, the main force of the Siberian Legion in the Rakshasa Empire is stationed in the Britya and Krasnoyar areas.

As long as they can win these two areas, it can be said that Daxia will win the Siberian area.

However, these two areas are not so easy to win.

First of all, Britya and Krasnoyar are both in the hinterland of Central Siberia.

The transportation here is not as convenient as in later generations. These areas have a cold zone climate and the trees here are all pine forests.

For thousands of years, these areas were inaccessible. Among the pine forests, there are a lot of swamps.

It has become extremely difficult for the army to move.

In order to strengthen its control over Siberia, the Rakshasa Empire built a large east-west railway here.

This is the Trans-Siberian Railway.

But now, in order to prevent the Bactrian Empire from directly attacking Europe through the Trans-Siberian Railway, Nicholas II ordered the railway to be demolished.

As a result, the entire railway is now almost completely paralyzed, with only a small section of railway still functioning.

As a result, the Far Eastern Army, which was equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, became unable to move even after entering Central Siberia.

Even Zhang Yanyu's Fifth Armored Cavalry Division had its tracks trapped in the swamp many times and could not get out.

Various situations made Daxia soldiers who were accustomed to rapid transfers suffer a lot.

In the end, it took nearly a month for the Far Eastern Army to arrive near Britya.

In fact, although Siberia is said to be rich in materials, to be honest, that area is not very suitable for human survival.

Especially Siberia, which is still undeveloped.

Most of the time throughout the year, it is covered with ice and snow. Only during the short months of summer does the ice and snow recede.

But after the ice and snow melt, puddles of varying sizes will form on the grass.

The soil that was originally frozen solid will become soft and eventually turn into swamps.

Therefore, marching in this area is a very dangerous thing.

Of course, in addition to the Far Eastern Army preparing to attack Buryatia in August 1913, the empire also achieved considerable results in other aspects.

The first is the Yinglong fleet that was the first to start the battle.

Now the Yinglong fleet has firmly controlled the west coast of Millikin and destroyed all the heavy industrial factories in the coastal area of ​​Millikin.

Then they blocked the Panama Canal and the Drake Passage, completely blocking the American East Coast Fleet from the Atlantic Ocean.

The imperial fleet took control of Malacca and blocked the Strait of Malacca.

It can be said that in the entire Pacific Ocean, except for three very small fleets in Australia, Canada and Luzon, there is no fourth fleet.

Moreover, even if these three fleets unite, they are no match for Daxia.

It can be said that in terms of navy alone, the Empire is far ahead in the Pacific region.

Moreover, the total number of imperial warships is still launched at the rate of one battleship per month.

Therefore, if Daxia wants to do so, the empire's advantage in the Pacific will become greater and greater.

However, Lin Yi knew very well that this advantage was actually a very illusory advantage.

Mainly because of the powerful navy of the John Empire.

If the Empire cannot take the opportunity to develop while the John Empire is dealing with the Hans Empire's navy, once the John Empire defeats the Hans Empire and then joins forces with the Milician East Coast Fleet to attack, then even Daxia will not be able to take advantage.

Therefore, the empire's navy seems to have an advantage now, but this advantage is likely to turn into a disadvantage in a very short period of time.

For this reason, Lin Yi still invested a large amount of military expenditures in the construction of ships.

And of course, there's the Empire's newest aircraft carrier.

There are still about two months left until the empire's first aircraft carrier is launched for sea trials.

Moreover, three aircraft carriers built by the empire were built at the same time, and the difference in time would not exceed one month.

In other words, by the end of 1913 at the latest, the empire will have three aircraft carriers.

Then after half a year of adaptation, by June 1914 at most, the new combined fleet, with aircraft carriers as the main force, would be able to have considerable combat effectiveness.

And by that time, the empire would truly have the strength to challenge the dominance of the John Empire as the largest maritime power.

Before that, the empire just wanted to maintain the current situation.

In Southeast Asia, the Dongchuan Army, the Yizhou Army, and the Longxiang Army have completely captured the five Southeast Asian countries and established new pro-Daxia regimes in these five countries.

Of course, apart from Annan, the remaining kingdoms of Siam, Khmer, and Taungoo were all conquered by the empire.

Therefore, the original kings were replaced by the empire one after another, and those who were closer to Daxia among their relatives became kings.

As for Annan, it was purchased by the Gauls for 500 million imperial silver dollars through negotiation.

Therefore, the empire was relatively polite to Annan. Annan's upper echelons of power were hardly touched, but Annan was asked to follow the old rules and open the domestic market.

The whole country in Annan still has a relatively welcoming attitude toward the empire, its former suzerain state.

After all, Annan has been Daxia's good son for thousands of years, and now that he is back in Daxia's arms, he is quite satisfied.

Daxia also showed special feelings towards Annan, a large country in Southeast Asia.

This can be seen from the fact that the empire established the newly formed Governor-General of Southeast Asia in Hanoi, Annan.

It needs to be mentioned here that the Annan Kingdom has admired Daxia since ancient times and claims to be Little China. This can be seen from this.

However, Gao Li expressed that she had something to say about the term "Little China".

But now that Goryeo has been integrated into the empire, no one can compete with the Annan Kingdom for the title of "Little China".

The Annan Kingdom expressed its happiness.

And those who also expressed happiness and satisfaction were Fuso Kingdom and Sakura Kingdom.

These two countries also earned a lot of imperial silver dollars by serving as mercenaries for Daxia.

According to the agreement between the empire and the two countries, in addition to providing some supplies, the empire also needs to give each soldier three imperial silver dollars a month as military pay.

This amount of money is two silver dollars less than the minimum five silver dollars for imperial soldiers.

In addition to the soldiers' equipment and material supplies, the empire is only responsible for a small part. Taken together, one empire soldier can feed two to three Fuso soldiers and three to four Sakura soldiers.

After the two countries received the money, they would withhold part of it. In the hands of the soldiers, it was probably between 1.2 and 1.5 imperial silver dollars.

Of course, military officers, especially senior military officers, are not included in this category.

After the two countries received the money, they directly used the money as their foreign exchange reserves, preparing to accumulate the little money and purchase equipment from Daxia.

To put it bluntly, the money given out will still return to Daxia's hands.

As for why Daxia wants to pay soldiers from both countries, this actually involves several other reasons...