Modern warfare is no longer limited to the field; most of the time, the games outside the field are often more intense.
From the beginning of the hegemonic war, Britain fell into a passive state, but it was only limited by the war mentality, and was caught by surprise by the Holy Roman Empire.
For the entire war, it can only be regarded as a first-mover advantage, and cannot directly determine the final result. Just as Germany swept Europe first in World War II, and finally exited in a daze.
The only difference is that the Soviet meat shield has not yet been born, and the American wet nurse is still a little girl.
The allies are not strong enough, and Britain can only endure the test alone. Fortunately, Britain is at its peak, not the "fading west" during World War II.
But no matter how solid the family is, it will be affected by the war. The rise in prices is nothing, the key is that the maritime trade line is affected, resulting in insufficient domestic material supply.
In the short term, it may still be supported by inventory, but the war cannot be over in one or two days, and the inventory will be exhausted sooner or later.
There is no way. In advance, everyone's expectations for the Royal Navy are too high, and the issue of trade line security has not been considered at all.
If it wasn't for the capitalists who sensed the war in advance and hoarded some supplies, I'm afraid it would not be as simple as raising prices now.
Navy Secretary Swinding: "The Navy will escort merchant ships, but we have a limited number of warships, and we have to suppress the Continental Alliance, so the number of warships that can be taken out is limited.
In order to ensure the safety of the merchant ships, it is better to let the merchant ships concentrate on their actions. We dispatched warships to protect the safety. "
The Royal Navy's performance in the Malacca naval battle has already caused a domestic uproar. Although they repeatedly preached the tricks of the enemy, losing is losing.
Compared with the Japanese Navy, the Royal Navy is lucky. The British people call them waste at most, and they have not been labeled as "national thieves".
Whether it is to win the war, or to take off the hat of "trash", the Royal Navy must perform well in the next operation.
Performance can be attributed to performance, and the practical problems faced still need to be solved.
Thousands of ships go in and out of the British Isles every day, and the Guangyang steamship is no less than three digits. Even if the Royal Navy is dispatched together, it will not be able to protect it.
In particular, the enemy's current tactics of breaking the engagement will not fight them decisively at all.
Those involved in the attack were all high-speed warships, regardless of their combat effectiveness, at least their speed was top-notch.
To deal with these enemies, ordinary warships are useless at all, and only a few warships can participate in the war.
Submerged submarines are even more troublesome. In this age of no sonar detection equipment, unless it is a distance contact, otherwise it will not be detected at all.
In this context, even if the merchant ships can concentrate their actions, the escort pressure is still heavy.
Commerce Secretary Burns: "Sir, it is only theoretically possible to bring the merchant ships together to act together.
Not all commodities can be shipped at the same time, and centralized action will seriously drag down the speed of transportation.
Especially for some unpopular routes, there are not many boats in a month, so we can't let people run once a year, right
Our transportation resources are not unlimited and cannot afford such a waste. "
War is cruel, and the British in the original time and space also played the trick of centralized transportation, but the result was a little touching.
Except for the particularly important materials, which need to be transported and escorted by warships, everything else is how to get there quickly.
There is no way, the centralized transportation of warships to escort does solve the problem of safety, but the concentration of the fleet drags down the transportation efficiency, and some commodities that are not suitable for long-term storage are directly rotten in the warehouse.
Other issues are easy to talk about, but it won't work if it affects everyone's money. During the war, human life is the least valuable, but the sea has caught up with the most profitable time of maritime trade.
As long as the profit is large enough, the risk is not a problem. There is no need to escort the transport in person, and the capitalists naturally don't care about taking risks.
You can earn almost one-third of a ship by running an ocean-going route. No matter how severe the enemy's attack is, it is impossible to intercept all the ships, not even one-tenth of them.
The probability of encountering an enemy attack every time you go out to sea is only a few percent at most, and you can bet on luck.
As long as you run four times without being sunk, you will earn blood. Even in the event of an accident, the insurance company is still there.
Of course, insurance companies are not free. After the war broke out, insurance premiums rose steadily, anyway, the wool came out of the sheep.
After listening to the words of the Minister of Commerce, Swinding waved his hand helplessly: "If the fleet cannot be concentrated, then we can only express regret.
The enemy's colonial branch was very wide, and they withdrew as soon as the Royal Navy moved out. Unless the colonies are unplugged first, there is no way to get rid of the mice at all. "
Picking up
No, this is politics. Unlike in the past, political slogans can be shouted at will. Now is the time of war. Once the promises made cannot be fulfilled, it is equivalent to actively sending the handle to the political opponents.
Don't look at everyone sitting together now, it looks like a grasshopper on a rope, but there is also competition between grasshoppers.
If there is really a problem, everyone will throw the pot faster than anyone else. It is unrealistic to share weal and woe, and it is the normal operation in politics that a dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist.
Unplugging the enemy's colonial port is easy to say. If it is really implemented, it will not be accomplished overnight.
Britain's energy is limited, the existing colonies are barely defended, and it is obviously embarrassing to open up new battlefields.
Minister of the Army Marcus: "The Cape of Good Hope is in jeopardy, the East African battlefield is even more eroded, and the empire's business achievements in Africa are being eroded by the enemy little by little.
In Asia, the enemy launched an attack on Persia and the Indo-China Peninsula at the same time, and the enemy's ambitions for India were not concealed in the slightest.
According to the intelligence gathered on the front line, the Russians have also increased their troops to Afghanistan, and may launch an attack at any time.
The Persian government has asked us for help for the seventh time. If no reinforcements are sent, it is only a matter of time before Persia is defeated.
Of course, we are not without counterattacks. Through the tireless efforts of the Canadian Corps, we have taken most of Alaska.
Due to the national policy, the army has always maintained a relatively low troop strength, and now using troops on multiple lines at the same time has exceeded our limit. "
The reason is all too good, because the Royal Navy has not been able to play its due role, and now the Lobster Soldiers take on the main combat role.
At the same time, five fronts were opened up, and even one of them was completely victorious. This achievement is completely worthy of the British Empire's investment in the army.
As for the water content in it, there is no need to delve into it. The British government needs good news to stabilize people's hearts, and the British people also need good news.
Against this backdrop, any victory deserves the hype.
Conquering Alaska is a good theme. More than 1.7 million square kilometers is more than the occupied land of Britain combined. After offsetting each other, the British Empire still made a profit.
As for the difference between land and land, just ignore it. As long as the newspapers don't say it, how can ordinary people figure it out
What's more, Alaska's popularity in Britain is not low at all, and there is also a "Golden State" among the people.
Therefore, the armed parade of the Canadian Corps cannot be a parade, but a great victory.
Shameless, and it can also be crowned as a "turning battle". Anyway, it is used to appease the hearts of the people, and it's okay to blow a little cowhide.
"Isn't the army already expanded to two million, and there are still many colonial legions, why are they still..."
Before the Admiralty could finish speaking, Marcus interrupted: "It will take time for Your Excellency to expand the army, and two million is only data on paper.
It has only been over a month since the war broke out, and there are only two or three countries in the world that can mobilize two million troops in such a short period of time, not including Britain.
The army is different from the navy. You have sufficient military expenditures and maintain a large establishment in normal times.
Just over a month ago, the Imperial Army had only 137,000. Now it has directly expanded to 2 million, which is equivalent to a fourteen-fold increase.
We do not have enough reserves for such an expansion, whether it is officers, or weapons and equipment.
On a more optimistic note, it would be a remarkable achievement to have each of the recruits recruited in the next two months receive a gun.
It is God's blessing to be able to initially form combat power within the year. In the short term, there are not many mobile forces that we can use. "
Anyone can take the blame. The Navy does not want to take responsibility, and the Army is also unwilling to take the blame. Everyone's reasons are very good, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The navy cannot guarantee the smooth flow of sea trade lines, mainly because the enemy's colonies are there, and there is no way to kill the enemy's broken fleet.
The Army is more straightforward and sells badly when they come up directly. The expansion of the army means expansion, but most of the recruits have not yet entered the military camp, and there is no guarantee of a rifle. How can they have combat effectiveness
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.
Prime Minister Campbell was stimulated. What was once the world's factory could not guarantee even a single rifle.
There is no way. The size of the British Army has always been only a few hundred thousand. Even if there is a weapon reserve, it is amazing to have more than one hundred thousand guns in the sky.
Even if they thought of expanding the army, no one could have predicted that it would need to expand so much. Especially in the last hundred years or so, there have been too many international conflicts, and most of the time they ended in trouble.
According to past experience, Britain has always attacked other countries, and has never been attacked by other countries, at least not in recent decades.
When the situation became tense, everyone reacted. But it's too late, not to mention which gang of parliamentarians are holding back, light production capacity is a big problem.
In normal years, Britain only needs to have a production capacity of more than ten or two hundred thousand guns per year to meet the needs of the local army and the colonial army.
Now that the local army has expanded, and the colony has also expanded, there has been a gap of five or six million rifles. How can it be filled in a short period of time
During the First World War, Britain was forced to place orders from the Americans because its military expansion was too fast to keep up with the speed of weapons production.
Not to mention now, the only difference is that the industrial production capacity of the United States has not increased, and the military production capacity is not even as good as that of the British.
The military industry of the United States is not good, and the industry of the other member states of the Ocean Alliance is even more rubbish. Most of them, weapons and equipment are purely imported.
Almost all those with military production capacity these days are nestled in the European continent, and now they are all enemies of the British Empire.
In this context, where did the British Army get so many guns? Even if it is smuggling, there is no smuggler with such great energy.
What's more, it's not only weapons and equipment to be bought, but also a lot of subsequent ammunition.
With the military production capacity of Britain, I am afraid that even the daily training ammunition of millions of troops will not be produced.
If these problems cannot be solved, it would be a joke for the Army to launch a counter-offensive. To be able to stabilize the situation, it is all hanging up.
Looking at the world map on the wall, Prime Minister Campbell sighed deeply, and swallowed the words that were on his lips.
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In the Near East, with the start of the Shinra Army's attack on Persia, the Tsarist government also quietly added troops to the border areas.
Whether these troops are used to guard against the Persian invasion, or whether they are ready to jump out to pick peaches at a critical moment, cannot be jumped to conclusions for the time being.
At least Colonel Seacrest had no idea what the country wanted to do. In the recent period of time, he has repeatedly petitioned the country for war, but has been rejected.
It is not easy for the small and medium nobles these days. Without a prominent identity background, if there is no military merit, it is not easy to get ahead.
Forget the Far East battlefield, it's a chore. Not to mention the bad weather, the key is that there may be logistical problems.
The most tragic thing is that the military merits of the Japanese must be discounted. If you win, you should, but if you lose, it is a heinous crime.
Even if the government can measure the suffering of front-line officers and soldiers and do not pursue relevant responsibilities, the parties themselves are embarrassed to mix in the aristocratic circle.
On this point, you can see from the battle reports sent back from the Far East that the Russian officers and soldiers really worked hard.
Hard work was not liked by everyone, and Colonel Seacrest was no exception. It takes time to make merit and establish a career, not all battlefields can be blended, it is best to find soft persimmons to pinch.
After finally waiting for the hegemonic war to break out, the Russian Empire joined the Continental Alliance and the British-led Ocean Alliance to start a war, but unfortunately it was not declared.
For further opportunities, the Russian army is also competing with each other, and the Afghan front line is naturally the most popular.
Although the number of enemies is large, it is easy to achieve a record when there are many enemies. The Indian colonial army is flying the British flag, and the officers are all British.
Rounding it up, that's roughly equal to all British troops. It is really not too cool to step on the shoulders of the British.
It's a pity that Colonel Seacrest was one move short of chess. Due to his identity and background, he unfortunately lost to his competitors and came to the front line of Persia.