The situation in Southeast Asia has just stabilized, and the situation in the Far East is a sudden change.

The already cloudy Far East, in the moment of the rupture of the Japanese-Russian talks, has become a huge barrel of gunpowder, which will be detonated at any time.

Japan and Russia have repeatedly made incontroverted negotiations on the issue of the northern Korean colony.

Especially with the intervention of the two sides, the negotiations eventually broke down and the two sides left the negotiating table.

When the British war with Fan Yize was just at peace, Japan announced that it would break diplomatic relations with Russia.

At the same time as severing diplomatic relations with Russia, the Japanese Emperor Meiji immediately secretly convened a royal meeting and began to deploy military operations.

The Japanese Navy and Army also began to quietly and actively prepare.

In Russia, on the other hand, although Nicholas II knew that Russia would definitely have a war with Japan, he did not believe that Japan would do it first.

Although there is an alliance with France, France wants more alliance with Russia to confront Germany.

Germany, on the other hand, is very supportive of Russia in the Far East and Japan.

But Russia is still far from preparing for war, and if it wants to fight a war with Japan, it will take at least another five years according to Russian expectations.

Five years, not five months, was the most certain estimate of Nicholas II.

Although the Russian military has always looked down on Japan and clamored for an immediate war against Japan, politicians want the war to be postponed indefinitely.

Nicholas II, who is above two opinions, gives an estimate of five years.

Improve the Far East Railway, ensure the rapid arrival of the Russian army and supplies to the Far East.

The total strength of the Russian army is about 1.05 million, and the reserve army is 3.75 million.Among them, 90% of the troops were deployed in the western region, with only more than 100,000 regular army units in the Far East, and only 148 artillery pieces, all of which combined had only 8 machine guns.

Russia does have the ability to call millions of troops for a short time, but these millions of troops are thousands of kilometers across the Far East.

The most optimistic estimate is that in the Far East, Russia can assemble 400,000 troops, it is already remarkable.

And these 400,000 troops will also be seriously lacking ammunition, and I am afraid that two or three people will share seven or eight rifles.

If you want to deal with Japan with certainty, five years of Russian cashy finances has been a very optimistic time.

And this is also the reason why Japan wants to act immediately, the longer it takes, the more unfavorable it will be for Japan.

The Russian government is not all stupid, although the whole of Russia is full of a small Japan absolutely does not dare to provoke me, but the Russian government is also constantly accelerating the construction of the Far East railway.

And it has been sending military supplies to the Far East, and by the time the talks broke down, Russia had strengthened the Pacific Fleet to a full range of sixty warships.

Although the total tonnage is 20 less than Japan's 80 warships, the total tonnage is 20 less, and the total tonnage is also less than 80,000 tons, but compared with the previous, has been strengthened a lot.

In the future, the Russian government also plans to send more warships to strengthen the Pacific Fleet in the Far East.

Japan cannot wait any longer.

If Japan gives up the perfect opportunity to do its part with Russia now, Russia will never give up on its annexation of North Korea a few years later.

Japan is not gambling, but has no choice but to take risks.

As far away as Zhang Yize in Jakarta, he was always concerned about the situation in the Far East, and when Japan broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, Fan Yize knew that war would soon break out.

It is only because of the lack of sufficient professional intelligence personnel that Fan Yize is also difficult to grasp the first-hand information.

However, through the movement of the Japanese army, a lot of intelligence can also be analyzed.

Once the war between the two sides breaks out, it will inevitably start from the struggle for maritime power.

As the Japanese army that could attack at any time, it was very irrational to eliminate the Russian fleet in one breath and start a decisive battle at the beginning.

After all, the Japanese Navy on this basis, in contrast to the Russian Navy, there are two hundred warships, once the Japanese Navy suffered too much losses, the war is no longer necessary to fight.

This war between Japan and Russia is completely different from history, at least the time and place are very different.

At this time, the Russian Pacific Fleet had only one Vladivostok unfrozen port in the Far East, and the main warships of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet were docked in the military port of Vladivostok.

Don't look at the total number of navies on both sides is dozens, in fact, the real main warships, that is, those.

Once the main battleship lost its combat effectiveness, the entire fleet was scrapped.

When Fan Yize paid attention to the situation in the Far East, Xu Yizhong also sent a large amount of relevant information to Fan Yize's hands.

“According to the latest information from General Xu, the Japanese naval fleet is beginning to conduct live-fire training, and the intensity of the training will be further improved.”The butler took the information and reported to Fan Yize.

"Which subject is mainly training."Fan Yize asked.

“At present, the main training content of the Japanese Navy is torpedo attack, the driving ship to practice the correctness of torpedoes, and the intelligence content points out that several Japanese destroyers will conduct the correctness training of live torpedoes in addition to launching training torpedoes.”The housekeeper replied.

"It seems that the Russian Pacific Fleet is really going to be a tragedy."Fan Yize took over the information and looked at the detailed information in his hand.

The content of the intelligence is very detailed, and the movement of the Japanese fleet is basically above it.

In order to obtain detailed information, the soldiers responsible for collecting them will be disguised as fishermen, and the exchange will be far from the edge of the Japanese fleet.

At the same time, it also monitors the movement of all Japanese military ports.

Some of the advantages of the Japanese are worth learning, which Fan Yize does not deny.

In order to deal with the Russians, every warship of the Japanese Navy conducted very targeted training, especially live fire.

The Japanese navy has a reserve of bombs for a decade and has been ordered heavily from the British.

In order to deal with the Russian Navy, the Japanese Navy used half of the artillery shells in stock for live-fire training.

Using live ammunition to train soldiers, and on this alone, the Russian Navy was far behind.

In contrast, the officers and men of the Russian Pacific Fleet are still in the bar of Vladivostok.

Although this time and space has many differences with history, Fan Yize is still optimistic about the current Japanese, with the performance of the Russian government and the army, Fan Yize does not think that the military forces of the Russian Far East can defeat Japan, which is preparing for war with the whole country.

In the end, Russia will inevitably fail.