v3 Chapter 382： The sword points to North Vietnam

"It is difficult to advance, Your Majesty should know that the weapons supported by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are continuously imported through the British-occupied Burma, and the Netherlands has sent training instructors to help the Kingdom of Siam train new recruits, making the Kingdom of Siam's population of 7 million people. The new troops have a certain level of combat power, but it makes it difficult for us to move an inch in the Tonle Sap Lake and the Mori River in the north. You know, it starts in the tropics, and our soldiers are in front of well-trained Siamese soldiers who are familiar with the weather and geography , born at a disadvantage"

Napoleon III naturally understood what his prime minister said, but he was still not reconciled.

Napoleon III unwillingly asked: "How much military strength do we have in the Far East at present?"

Olivier had already guessed His Majesty's thoughts, so he said: "120,000"

Napoleon III frowned and said, "120,000 is already a lot. How to distribute it?"

Olivier replied without hesitation: "Among them, there are 70,000 in Cambodia, the Kingdom of Siam, 20,000 in southern Laos, and 30,000 in South Vietnam. The navy has deployed a fleet of 3,000 men totaling 20,000 tons in South Vietnam."

Napoleon III asked again: "What about the Kingdom of Siam? How are they distributed?"

Olivier took a breath, and then said: "The Kingdom of Siam currently has 200,000 troops, 80,000 people are deployed around Bangkok, and there are more than 50,000 troops in Madwang, Bodhisattva, and Siem Reap in the west of Tonle Sap Lake. More than 40,000 people are deployed in western Myanmar, and more than 40,000 are deployed around Vientiane, Laos in the north.”

"It actually has 200,000 troops, and one of the 35 people joins the army, and it is deployed so closely? It seems that the Kingdom of Siam intends not to give in an inch." Napoleon III did not expect that the Kingdom of Siam actually had 200,000 troops, even in the Europe, with a force of 200,000 troops, currently only has the Tsarist Russia Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, French Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire and other countries in the regular army, and Spain is the only country where all the people are soldiers. , Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands. Millician's current regular army is only 80,000.

A small kingdom of Siam has reached an astonishing 200,000, which made Napoleon III as disgusting and uncomfortable as if he had just eaten a fly.

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Siam, I think, if we insist on winning it, we may be hurt."

"My Healing Game"

Olivier looked at Napoleon III and saw his expressionless face, so he dissuaded him with a little apprehension: "I think we might as well stop, I think the state of Siam Kingdom is unsustainable. , after all, they also need to produce on a large scale to ensure the sowing and harvest of food, if the strong people are wasted on this, there will inevitably be a famine in the coming year, and that is our chance to make a move."

Napoleon III shook his head and interrupted: "The victory of the Netherlands has caused many people in the French Empire to criticize your cabinet government, and the opposition has begun to attack you and me. It will be very bad going down.”

Olivier naturally knew this, but the current situation of the Kingdom of Siam, it was obviously difficult for the French Empire to win quickly, so he was also very worried about it.

He seemed to see Olivier's helplessness, which made Napoleon III proud of himself. He said, "Everything is easy before it is difficult. Since the Kingdom of Siam is not easy to win now, why don't we win the easier place first?"

"Your Majesty?" Olivier's heart moved, and then he thought of a place.

Seeing Olivier wake up, Napoleon III nodded to him, "There are many forces in North Vietnam in chaos"

Olivier got a clear answer, hesitated for a while, and asked carefully: "It's a vassal of the big country in the north, will it arouse their dissatisfaction?"

"Don't worry, a few days ago, I just received news that one of their generals surnamed Zuo has already sent their most powerful army to the west of their empire. According to the telegram sent back by our missionaries in their country, It is said that it may take about 10 years. So don't you see, the UK is already attacking North Burma, which is also a vassal of the northern power. Obviously, London is also the reason for this fearless."

Seeing that Napoleon III was so sure, Olivier breathed a sigh of relief, and then was overjoyed.

So they hurriedly entered the thinking of Napoleon III, and the two conspired together to change the strategy of the next Far East offensive.

On April 30, 1868, the sixth day after Lincoln, the former president of the Commonwealth of Millikin, was assassinated, a move by the French Empire immediately diverted a lot of attention from North America, even William IV and Queen Victoria of England couldn't help it. He frowned at the telegram in his hand.

"The French Empire actually gave up attacking Cambodia, the Kingdom of Siam in the west, and instead attacked North Vietnam together with amphibious land and sea?"

William IV was shocked when he saw the news, which was different from history. The French Empire attacked the north without waiting for the whole of Cambodia to be taken.

Don't they fear the Far Eastern superpower in the north?

William IV is very puzzled. Now is not thirty or forty years later Although the current great country has just experienced ya-pian-zhan-zheng, its national strength has not weakened much, and ri is still There was no rise, and the Meiji Restoration had just been issued. At this time, this island country was only an indigenous country, although the major Western powers had already infiltrated it under their plundering-xing- exchanges.

I have never experienced the Tai-ping-tian-guo-movement. At this time, even if the United Kingdom was in Myanmar, it was only after they signed the contract that the country did not care about Western Burma and Lower Burma, and the United Kingdom dared to do it openly. Obviously, it is the strongest. Great global power, the United Kingdom is so reluctant to offend the superpower in the north. Could it be that Napoleon III, relying on the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Far East of the French Empire, wanted to take over a vassal of others for hundreds of years?

He was puzzled, so he recruited Haysbet Feng. Asked about the movements in the Far East, he wanted to get a glimpse of where Napoleon III's courage came from.

He did not believe that Napoleon III was a reckless man.

"What, you said, there is a rebellion at the northwestern end of the superpower in the far northeastern continent? The left general of that country gathered the strength of the whole country to go to the west."

William IV suddenly understood where Napoleon III's confidence came from.

That old boy of Napoleon III actually saw that he was ready to be dealt with in a short period of time, so he wanted to make a quick solution, and then cook the rice with raw rice. When the superpower returned from the Western expedition, France had already consolidated its rule, and at the same time, Napoleon would take the lead. The cunning of the French people such as the Third World, don't think about it, maybe they will join other countries to test the pressure on the north, while the north was disabled due to the western expedition, and its vitality was greatly damaged. The pain of recognizing the French Empire's status as a colonial suzerainty in North and South Vietnam.