The Rise of the Empire

"The US fleet has suffered heavy losses and cannot go north immediately?" If this news reaches the ears of the Americans, they will probably laugh out loud, right? In the room specially arranged for Sevilla by the French, a sneer appeared on the corner of Sevilla's mouth. "Although my revenge may not have any effect on the United States, Japan and Britain, but for those colleagues who died in vain and Spain who was betrayed, Sevilla started his own revenge! And the first move is to provide the Japanese with wrong information. information!

Sevilla may not be able to fight a war, but he never really thinks that his fleet can cause any harm to the Americans. The two sides collapsed as soon as they touched the Spanish fleet, and the rest of the time is completely garbage time. Americans have nothing to lose except consumption.

Although there is not much information, Sevilla has already been able to analyze the situation in the Philippines. The Spaniards have been out early, the Americans have occupied the southern part of the Philippines, and the Japanese must have occupied the north. Needless to say, Sevilla is also very clear about Manila Bay It has become the territory of the Japanese. He doesn't know whether the United States and Japan want to monopolize or share equally, but Sevilla still hopes that the United States and Japan can fight, and the bigger the fight, the better!

"There are also the British, and we must not let them go! I must make the conspiracy of Britain and Japan public!" In the eyes of outsiders, this is a meaningless action, but in Sevilla's view, it is the resistance of the weak Way!

"After the end of the Qing-Japanese War, because of the interference of Russia, Germany and France, Japan, a hungry wolf that had just grown up, did not get much benefit from the sick and decaying empire next to it. What the war brought to Japan was not prosperity but A heavy burden, in order to satisfy its endless greed, Japan surrendered his eyes to a colony in the Far East of a country that has already faded away. The Philippines is the best prey, its master has fallen, and no other country is willing to uphold justice .”

"In order to avoid the recurrence of the three countries' interference, the Japanese focused on strengthening its naval construction, and this move was approved by its master! The British need Japan to fight against the increasingly powerful Russia, and in order to achieve this goal, the British It gave Japan a lot of help, whether it was funds or diplomacy, and it was Britain who persuaded the Brazilian government to help Japan purchase powerful warships originally made in Germany. It cleverly avoided the agreement between Russia and Germany, so the Japanese won the first batch Armored cruiser!"

"Then the Russians made a wrong decision to make things happen. The Russians gave up the Russia and the Grombay. And Spain was ready to buy. At this time, another country that had a lot of ideas about the Philippines also joined the competition. Among them, the Americans have been fighting the Spanish colonialism for a long time, not only Cuba, but even the Philippines thousands of miles away are also in their calculations. The United States will naturally not let these two warships fall into the hands of Spain. He himself They think they are very smart and think that Japan is an easy country to get along with. In the end, in this game, they chose to help Japan. In the end, it turns out that the Americans used their own power to help their enemies. How ridiculous it is What a stupid thing!"

Why did Savilla choose to go to a third-party colony? Can you really not trust the guarantee of the British? There are reasons for this, but the most critical issue is that he must make his views public before the formal conflict between the United States and Japan! Let alone whether it will affect the war situation, at least it will have a very bad impact on the relationship between the United States, Britain and Japan! If war breaks out, the United States and Japan will be completely broken, and when this report is exposed, it is impossible for the British to clean themselves up!

How can Japan persuade Brazil to buy for itself without the help of the British? When Spain and Japan competed for these two warships,

As the person involved, Sevilla can be sure that the British played a very bad role in this competition. I don’t know whether it was intentional or not. The hotels Sevilla stayed in Munich and Berlin were very far away from the residences of the British and Japanese representatives. close! And as a competitor, Sevilla will naturally record the opponent's every move and leave a photo! From the photos, some representatives of the British can be clearly identified! Sai Weila is 90% sure that Japan and the United Kingdom will be tied together!

After the Spanish-American War ended, Cervela published a series of books specifically on the game and war in the Philippines, which talked about the game between the United States, Britain and Japan around a series of issues on the eve of the outbreak of the war. It is about the impact on the situation in the Far East after the end of the Philippine War. Instead, it talks about the battle process of the parties involved in the war.

Of course, these are all things for later, let’s not mention them for the time being, but what Sevilla didn’t expect was that before his series of reports were sent out, his false information first caused the Japanese a big loss. By mistake, the possibility of the last point of negotiation between the United States and Japan was completely wiped out along with the rumble of gunfire. To some extent, Sevilla should bear considerable responsibility for the series of things that followed. For example, thousands of Japanese army officers and soldiers and thousands of tons of various materials were killed and injured in Manila Bay... .

Because the Japanese concluded that the U.S. fleet will not go north in a short period of time, let alone attack the Japanese army. The reason is very simple. The landing points of the United States and Japan in the Philippines are far away from each other, and there is no declaration of war between the United States and Japan. According to the Japanese thinking, The Americans will not fight against themselves without declaring war. Relying on the shipboard radio, the Japanese can get in touch with Tokyo more conveniently by continuously forwarding the radio. Telegram of war.

But the Japanese, who are accustomed to living a poor life, suddenly found that after going out for a while, they could get a 9,000-ton high-quality armored cruiser, and immediately towed the Carlos V to Tainan without saying a word, and then repaired it. This battleship is too meaningful for the current Japanese navy. It is not only a ship, but also a warship! So Huashan Ziji took the entire Japanese fleet north to escort the battleship!

And what are Americans doing at this time? At this time, the U.S. fleet did not know that Japan had declared war on Spain, and the U.S. government did not immediately notify the Far East of the news. On the one hand, objective conditions did not allow it. Excluding the notification ship to notify the fleet, this process will take time even if it is very smooth. On the other hand, the U.S. government did not recognize Japan’s declaration of war on Spain. The U.S. Foreign Ministry’s note to the Japanese government clearly stated that the Philippines was a spoil of war between the U.S. and the West and had nothing to do with Japan, and demanded that Japan immediately withdraw from the Philippines! And in the midst of the wrangling, the American fleet went north!

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