Ceuta.

After leaving Stockholm Moore, Jiang Xianyun first went to Cornisburg to contact Duan Yi, and then rushed over by boat. Within twenty days, he spent most of his time on a diplomatic ship, but when he appeared in front of Li Junwei, he still showed high fighting spirit.

As the Imperial Ambassador to Sweden, Sweden is now trapped in war, which means he has a huge stage to show his abilities.

"Cross the original report, send it back to Shen Jing, and send it to Lisbon and Xijin." Li Junwei just read the diplomatic report quickly and handed it to the servants beside him.

Seeing that King Yu just took a random look, Jiang Xianyun felt a little nervous, but when he saw King Yu sending the original to Shin Jing, he became happy, thinking that it was not that his work was not recognized, but that King Yu did not like to read these report documents as rumored.

"Lieutenant Colonel, I heard that you wrote a military report on the way here. Why didn't you send it?" Li Junwei signaled Jiang Xianyun to sit down and chat.

Jiang Xianyun said: "It's just a draft, it's not finished yet, so I dare not waste the prince's time."

As the ambassador to Sweden, Jiang Xianyun had to submit a diplomatic report, but he was still a military officer and the head of the military delegation to Sweden, so he had to issue a military report. The military report written by Jiang Xianyun had a very big topic, that is, military mobilization.

The key is Sweden's conscription system, which of course also involves the military service system of other European military powers.

Jiang Xianyun has been in Europe for many years and has investigated and demonstrated the military service system and mobilization system of major European countries, believing that in this regard, it is more advanced than the imperial system.

The military service system of the empire was still the recruitment system, the army, navy and marines were all the same, while the military service system of the Lifan Academy was still the military household system. In Europe, the conscription system was not the only one in Sweden. Combining recruitment, conscription and militia system was the norm for most countries.

Seeing that Jiang Xianyun had such an attitude, Li Junwei smiled slightly, and did not obsessed with looking, but took out a folder from his desk. This was a standard document to submit a report to Shen Jing, but there was no content and a blank space.

Li Junwei wrote down his name on the cover, stamped it with a seal, and left a message: Send it to the Army Department for review and submit it to the imperial court.

Then, the blank report was pushed to Jiang Xianyun. Li Junwei said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you chose a new topic. Although I think the conscription system is difficult to implement in the empire in the short term, any research on new things should be supported. So when you think your report is written, it can be copied on this part, which may be easier to pay attention to."

Jiang Xianyun knew the significance of this blank report and thanked him repeatedly.

Li Junwei said: "Tell me about Sweden. You are in Ceuta at this time. What are your students doing?"

"If I'm not wrong, King Carl is attacking Denmark, or on his way to attack Denmark," said Jiang Xianyun.

"Did he reveal anything to you?"

Jiang Xianyun shook his head: "As a king, Carl is competent in confidentiality, but Sweden needs professional officers to help them formulate strategic plans. Although the plan has been done a lot, Russia's participation in the Northern Alliance is also outside the topic, but this does not affect those plans.

In fact, whether it is the plan formulated by the Imperial Advisor, the military delegation, or the plan formulated by the Karl, the first step is the same, that is, once a war breaks out, the attack on Denmark will be launched immediately and the Strait of Sond is controlled in his hands."

Although Li Junwei knew nothing about military command, he was a real master of strategy. Obviously, he also believed that taking the lead in attacking Denmark was the only option.

Jiang Xianyun then said: "And I also got two news. One was that when I set out from Stockholm, Carl had sent two legions of more than 7,000 people across the sea to the West Pomeranian region, directly posing a threat to the Danish territory.

The second is some gossip I got from the merchants when I passed through the Danish waters and the Netherlands, saying that former Danish Secretary of State Fidel initiated a rebellion in the Jutland region. There was already a war there."

"What can these two news prove?"

Jiang Xianyun pointed to the island of Zeland on the map and said: "In all war plans, the way to deal with Denmark is to use Sweden's naval advantage to attack Denmark's capital Copenhagen. However, the navies between the two countries are larger than the army between the two countries. Although the Swedish army has good combat effectiveness, the Danish army has geographical advantages, fortresses, forts and castles systems are still things that are difficult to solve quickly in this era.

Therefore, it is very necessary to transfer the Danish army from the island of Zeland as much as possible before starting the war."

In fact, Carl did act according to the report submitted by the Imperial Advisor, but he had a richer approach in terms of means.

What Jiang Xianyun didn't know was that two days after he left Stockholm, Field returned to Denmark with a large amount of cash given by Carl and launched a rebellion on the Jutland Peninsula where the family land was concentrated. Because Field did not go to Sweden for a long time, and it was not until the end of the war that the Denmark king realized that Field's rebellion was assigned by the Swedish king. He always thought that Field had left Copenhagen and went directly to Jutland.

Moreover, King Carl also played a trick of "returning his body to him with his own way". The Northern Alliance deceiving Sweden diplomatically. King Carl simply followed suit, pretending not to know about the Northern Alliance, and regarded the sending of troops to West Pomerania as a pressure on Denmark. Carl also took the initiative to contact the Denmark king, saying that Denmark should have a new king and a new diplomatic atmosphere.

Carl XII also wrote a handwritten letter, which is a rare handwritten letter with clear handwriting and neat handwriting. You should know that Carl XII had a disadvantage, that is, his writing was very sloppy and he would not change the words if he wrote the wrong words. Even if the ink invades some fonts and makes it impossible to see clearly, he would not rewritten it. Once, he wrote a letter, and the ink bottle was knocked over and covered part of it. Carl did not rewritten it, and it was sent after it was dried.

Such a serious letter gave the Danish king a solution to the problem, that is, Sweden could give up its support for China, the Netherlands and other countries on the Sonde Strait issue in exchange for Denmark's withdrawal and resolving the territorial dispute between the two countries.

While Carl XII personally led the Swedish navy and elite army to the island of Zeland, he also sent a delegation to visit Moscow again to promote friendship between the two countries and sent troops to block the roads in England and Livonia. This move led to Tsar Peter receiving the news of Denmark's defeat and surrender before seeing the Denmark's long-awaited envoy for help from Saxony and Poland.

"Lieutenant Colonel, do you think Carl will successfully conquer Denmark?" Li Junwei asked.

Jiang Xianyun thought for a moment and said, "It should be possible. King Carl himself is full of confidence in this. I personally believe that Sweden has an advanced navy with our support. Although the Danish Navy is huge, it is no longer on the same level as the Swedish Navy.

Just as the Empire's fleet easily defeated the British-Dutch fleet in Ireland, the Swedish Navy could also be the Denmark's navy. More importantly, although Denmark has many allies, all of them have no navy."

Speaking of this, Jiang Xianyun added a few more words: "I think that Sweden will defeat Denmark, the difference lies in time and the price paid. In fact, King Carl sent several ministers from the Privy Council this time, with the main purpose of this hope of getting the support of the empire. Although he has put Sweden into a state of full-scale war, Carl still believes that by introducing the empire's advanced technology and tactics to reform the army, he can gain more advantages.

Therefore, the war that Carl hopes is to defeat Denmark at the fastest speed, occupy or force Denmark to withdraw from the war, and then to allow the rest of the Northern Alliance members to choose a truce in a way that they allied with the empire."

"Do you think this is possible?" Li Junwei asked.

"It is possible to defeat Denmark quickly, but it is almost impossible to form an alliance with the Empire."

Li Junwei nodded with satisfaction, feeling that although Jiang Xianyun was a military officer from the Imperial Guard, he was also very politically savvy. He said: "In fact, whether he can form an alliance with the empire depends entirely on Sweden itself."

"Please give me advice." Jiang Xianyun thought about it all the way to Ceuta, but he didn't think of any way to make Sweden form an alliance with the Empire.

Li Junwei said: "If Sweden paid a great price in the war with Denmark that it could not resist Poland, especially in defeating Russia, then the empire would have to intervene and force Russia to withdraw from the war by forming an alliance with Sweden and prevent its expansion in the Baltic Sea."

Jiang Xianyun understood what Li Junwei meant, but he also knew that Carl would never want such an alliance. The young man would rather die on the battlefield than accept such humiliation.

"But in fact, for the empire, it is best for Sweden to quickly defeat Denmark." Jiang Xianyun said.

Li Junwei smiled and said, "You can teach me."

In fact, the interests of the empires are different around the world. For example, in the Nanyang region, the empire has several vassal states. If there is conflict between these countries, the empire will take the initiative to mediate to prevent them from falling into war.

The reason is that the empire has a lot of interests in these vassal states. Over the past few decades, the empire has been promoting the opening up of these countries. The empire's merchants invested a large number of investments in these countries. The vassal states also purchased the empire's goods in all aspects. War will only promote the development of a small number of industries such as arms, steel and food.

But it is different in Europe. The trade between most countries and the empires is still at the level of commodity exchange, and there are various trade protections. They do not accept investment from the empire at all. Even Prussia is only willing to let its own enterprises borrow from the empire's capital development. Although the Netherlands is close to the empire's economy, it also controls the entry of empire capital because of domestic interest groups.

This has led to the empire's strategy towards Europe that tends to break out of war. The history of nearly fifteen years has proved that every war can make the participating countries more open to the empire and need to purchase more materials from the empire. Without war, Xijin would not have developed so quickly.

Baltic Sea, the seas of Zeland.

Fog is easily generated in the southern Baltic Sea in summer, and the long-term prevalence of westerly winds has caused the Swedish Navy fleet to sail against the wind.

The Swedish Navy had introduced steam power for twelve years, but in the early years it was mainly tugboats. It was not until six years ago that it had the first batch of steam-assisted warships. By the thirty-six years of the empire that was about to go to war with Denmark, the Swedish Navy had a total of seven steam-powered warships, five of which were improved versions of the three-deck battleships, and two were single-deck gun decks and equipped with ninety-pound gun cruisers.

At this time, seven steam-powered warships formed the first fleet, and twelve two-deck sail battleships formed the second fleet, while the rest were responsible for protecting the troop transport ships.

The Swedish king was standing on the Stockholm in military uniform. It was a steam-assisted sail battleship with a total length of more than 70 meters, sixteen meters wide, and a full load displacement of more than 6,500 tons. It was built by the Penang Naval Shipyard, and the captain of the Stockholm was a Chinese man wearing a Swedish naval uniform.

This young officer, who was less than 30 years old, was named Wei Yunfan. He was a serious imperial navy and a member of the military delegation sent by the empire to Sweden. After Duan Yi replaced Jiang Xianyun, in order to ensure that the Swedish Navy, especially the steam-powered warships of the First Fleet, could play their due role, he had to retain some military advisers. Wei Yunfan was one of them, but he wanted to temporarily join the Swedish Navy as a volunteer soldier.

Wei Yunfan agreed because he didn't want to lose this important opportunity. As a naval officer of a civilian background, there were too few opportunities.

In the early morning, Wei Yunfan personally raised a sextant to report the latitude and longitude in the open-air command post. Originally, the second mate should have been to do it at this time, but the second mate has now gone to another warship to serve as the captain, and Wei Yunfan doesn't really believe in the Swedes.

After breakfast, it was calm. The gun windows on the artillery deck opened from top to bottom according to the regulations. The sailors on duty began to maintain the large pipes on the artillery deck, a thirty-six-pound short heavy cannon in one water. Clean the barrel of the gun, renovate the gun machine and the gun chariot, and check the launching medicine bags.

Wei Yunfan was very kind to these silk medicine bags during the inspection because he was trained with this type of ammunition when he first joined the navy.

After the day shift maintained the weapons, I started to eat breakfast. Today I have entered the battlefield, so the breakfast is very rich, with two canned foods for each person, one canned meat, the other canned fruit, and hot soup. Everyone lined up to get their meals, and the order of the Stockholm was very good.
Chapter completed!