Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

On February 27, there was still the last day of the exercise. Just when Nicholas II, Taft and their citizens were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they thought that as long as tomorrow passed, the military exercises of these four major powers could be carried out. After that, when we broke up to decompress, we didn't expect that something unexpected would happen that day.

The first four days were a four-nation army exercise on Sakhalin Island, followed by a four-nation naval exercise on the Gulf of Terpenia on the 27th. On the 28th, there will be a naval exercise in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk north of Sakhalin Island, and then the exercise will continue through the Tatar Strait on the way back, all the way to the Sea of ​​Japan. After exiting the Korean Strait between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, they will separate outside Kagoshima, where Japan's deep-water port is located.

This is the procedure set during the Japanese exercise. The United States knows that, and Russia understands it even more clearly. This is held in front of their home, so it is impossible not to pay attention to it.

"The magnificent scene is very shocking. It is different from the cold weapon era of more than a hundred years ago. Instead of just holding a sword and waiting to kill the enemy, now there are hot weapons such as guns and cannons. This can In an era when you can kill enemies on a large scale without getting close to your body, I personally interviewed the military exercises of our four countries on Guam a few days ago. It was really shocking. Of course, this is when I am in the enemy's position. From a perspective, from our own standpoint, what we should be most proud of is being a citizen of the Kingdom of Great Britain. I guess this four-nation exercise will be just the beginning. If necessary, after the four-nation exercise Similar exercises will be held again. As for the duration, it depends on the outcome of everyone's negotiation. Powerful countries such as Russia, the United States and France may even be brought in tomorrow to perform together. I...what, wait a minute, the latest report. , Hello everyone, I am Candice, the host of the Financial Times' "Current Affairs Commentary". I have just received a major piece of news. Once again, I want to overturn what I just said, because it was not until now that I discovered that I actually had a serious illness. My thoughts went backwards, because just now, my colleague sent a telegram. A war is being launched in the Far East because of something. The target of the war is Russia. It challenges the four major powers of Britain, Germany, West and Japan. The reason is still there. It’s unclear, but we have been following up with all our strength. We hope to know the latest situation. I hope everyone will continue to pay attention to our news in the Financial Times. Thank you everyone!”

"Huh. I'm so surprised that a fight started. Call Far East immediately and ask him to find out clearly. See what's the reason why the fight started like this. This bitch Dibiase didn't even know such important information. I haven't gotten it yet. Is it worthy of our salary, this bastard?" Candice just put down the microphone of the radio and came to the office and roared dissatisfied. Today's news came too suddenly. There was no sign of it on his face. , but what he had planned in the show just now was overturned by this news. This is really embarrassing.

This war came without any warning. Like Candice Yiyang, everyone in the world was stunned by the arrival of this news, and the scale has reached the level it has reached in recent years, except for the war between Japan and Russia after 1905. The biggest war in the world. You can imagine the shock this news brought to the world.

The most shocking thing was Nicholas II and his government.

"Crazy, are they really crazy? They actually attacked us?" Nicholas II overturned the table with force, his face full of anger.

Witte's face was also pale. None of them thought that this matter would develop like this. When there was news of military exercises in the four countries, Plevi asked them if Russia needed to take precautions, but he was like this. He strongly advocated that such a thing would not happen, so His Majesty only asked the armies in the Far East to only slightly tighten their defense and did not make too many preparations. But now, it really happened. In addition to cursing Previ's foul mouth in his heart that he is really a good but not a bad spirit, he was also thinking rapidly in his mind. Wait a minute, His Majesty's storm is coming. time, how can I escape.

Thinking of this, I secretly glanced at Pobedonoschaif, who happened to also look over at this time, looking at him begging for help.

After seeing Pobedonoschaif's nod, he felt relieved. However, he did not dare to take it lightly. Instead, he organized his response language more seriously. After all, His Majesty is not that easy to fool, especially when Stolypin, the Russian Prime Minister, is here next to him. When he started to look up, he jumped because what he saw was Nicholas II's staring eyes looking at him.

After a long time, Nicholas II asked: "Witt, should you give us an explanation?"

Witte didn't know at this time that this was his best moment to explain. He quickly said: "Your Majesty, you also know that with the current international environment, who could have guessed that these four countries would go home and invade us with such ambitions? Ah, and the plan is so thorough, no news has been revealed for such a long time. Also, I even think that our intelligence department is too incompetent and useless, and it has not even explored such information at all. Every year, we have to allocate a large amount of money to them from the Ministry of Finance. This is simply a waste of the country's money. Your Majesty, I think the most important thing to improve now is that our intelligence department should conduct more in-depth research. Reforms, just look at the efficiency of equivalent institutions in Spain and other countries, we can't help but doubt the capabilities of our intelligence agencies.

Also, I think the military also has a certain responsibility. Vladivostok, the largest city in the Far East, was captured so quickly. You must know that there are 50,000 of our soldiers there. It was defeated in just two days. This has to make people wonder whether there is really a talent defense there. Years of forged defense projects are so ineffective.

According to the news coming back from the attack on Vladivostok, it was the German Empire. No less than 80,000 troops of the German Imperial Army participated in the siege, while the British attacked some areas of the Soviet Port and it was said that they had specially Attack on the city on the Amur. And Japan landed in the Horzko Sea, while Spain landed in the Magadan Oblast and the Kamchatka Territory in the north. What does it mean to proceed in such an orderly manner? Your Majesty, this has already illustrated an incredible story. The problem that can prevent us from feeling sad is that these four countries have been planning to invade us for a long time. Such a detailed and delicate division of labor shows that they have even prepared to carve up our territories in the Far East. preparation,. Now, we"

"What you want to say is that we are sending reinforcements to the Far East right now, right?" Pobedonoschaif glanced at Witte, then bowed to Nicholas II as a monarch, and then said:

"Your Majesty, I think that Witte's statement makes some sense. To be honest at the beginning, I also thought that it was impossible for the four countries to continue military invasion of us, so I did not stop his statement. However, in the end, it is obvious that we They all guessed wrong, but the four countries attacked us unexpectedly. Witte's final statement is right. What we should do most now is how to remedy the situation. The Far East is the most important territory for our Asian expansion, and that is our Tsarist Russian Empire. We have obtained it after hundreds of years of careful planning, but now it is being taken away by the four countries. The result is unacceptable to us. Therefore, now we should first call them to garrison here. The ambassador protested, and then gave a speech to the world, strongly condemning the four countries’ ambitious and aggressive actions, and finally called on them to withdraw.”

Stolypin listened to Pobedonoschav's speech word by word, but secretly admired Pobedonoschav's talent in his heart. With one move and two moves, Werther was saved from being scolded by His Majesty. The position suddenly changed to what Werther wanted to say at that time was actually what everyone was thinking at that time. Even Nicholas II could not deny this statement. After all, everyone is sensible, otherwise, he would have stood up long ago. He objected, and then said that Werther wanted reinforcements to support the Far East. This showed that Werther was worried about the situation in the Far East. In this way, Nicholas II would not be embarrassed to deal with such a worried and patriotic person of his own. Stolypin had to say that this was not something that ordinary people could do by reducing the pressure invisibly, and that Werther was indeed a confidant of Nicholas II.

Finally, it was his turn as Prime Minister, and of course he had to stand up. In fact, he didn't have much opinion on Witte, because he knew that everyone who was doing it supported Nicholas II's expansion policy. This is why the international community Some people call the Russia now led by Nicholas II an expansionist government.

Everyone supports Nicholas II. In this case, the disputes are actually just trivial matters, so everyone can tolerate the existence of the other party.

"I think there is nothing wrong with being special. Military-wise, Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin is a capable and efficient military administrator, as he has done since he was the Minister of War. It can be seen that he is also a competent staff officer, but his weakness has been exposed from the last Russo-Japanese War, that is, he is too passive and cautious, and always likes to use static methods, but in the end he loses. It's quite miserable, because it gives people the impression that they lack confidence and positivity. This incident has proved this again, so I think it would be better for him to come back to St. Petersburg."

Pobedonoschaev also rarely nodded in agreement, but Nicholas II fell into deep thought and hesitation.

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