Wild North America 1846

Chapter 808 Decoy
Regarding the third South American War, Richard did not pay too much attention. Apart from winning, there could be no other outcome.

After the fall of the Brazilian Empire, the successive Brazilian republican governments that came to power shouted lofty slogans, but in fact there were a lot of corrupt elements, colluding with politics and business to make money crazily.

Over the past 40 years, more than a dozen governments have been changed, and it has always been a virtue.

There are no tigers in the typical mountains, and monkeys dominate.

The Brazilian government is riddled with ills, with various states and localities entrenched in large and small forces, making the situation quite complicated.

Economic development has been stagnant for decades, and the country's structure is still a typical agricultural one.

Although the country is large, it is really not strong at all.

Paraguay, the former military power in South America, with a total population of only 10,000+, dared to challenge Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay at once, and almost won the war in the early stages of the war.

Now that Brazil is being attacked six-on-one, it is difficult to lose this war.

To know

Based on the strong strength of the automobile industry, the regular troops of the Tang Empire Army are now widely equipped with armored vehicles and automobiles, and their combat strength has been improved by more than one margin.

When it comes to bulletproof armored vehicles, we have to turn our attention back to Europe.

The Tang Empire was the first country in the world to use bulletproof armored vehicles in war. They were first used in the North American Eastward Expansion War and the East Indies War, and achieved extremely significant land battlefield advantages.

This kind of bulletproof armored vehicle is also called a tank in the United Kingdom. Great army powers such as Britain, France, and Germany have their own tank projects, which have been applied to the battlefields of the European War.

This was earlier than in the original history, but the number of tanks put into the war was not large, the effect was not great, and the European armies did not pay enough attention to it.

Why is there such a situation?

Represented by tanks
At the end of the last century, the new trend of innovative development of world army weapons originating from North America was quickly noticed by European powers and developed their own tank series.

No European power has imported large-scale tanks and armored vehicles from the Tang Dynasty, even if their performance is more advanced and mature, and they have proven their capabilities on the battlefield.

Still not favored by the European army powers, it was excluded from the entire European arms race.

There are three main reasons;

First, the safety factor of military equipment.

Every major European country attaches great importance to the security of military equipment and will never rely on others in the important field of military equipment. This is the core of the problem.

The field of military equipment is related to national security and stability, and independence and controllability are the bottom line of security policy.

For example, in the artillery equipment of the three powerful countries of Britain, France and Germany, the British Royal Navy has the famous Armstrong artillery, and the Army has the Vickers series of artillery, ranging from 3 pounds to 5 pounds, 7 pounds to 12 pounds.

The French Army is proud of its M 1898 75mm "Miss Paris". In the first Battle of the Marne, in which more than 160 million people participated, it relied on fierce and intensive firepower to cause devastating damage to the German attacking infantry, killing the German army. More than 27 people.

Both the German Royal Army and the Navy use the Krupp series of artillery. This is a series of German autonomous artillery with strong Tang-style blood. It is also one of the world's famous weapons products.

Among infantry weapons, the British used Lee-Enfield rifles, France used Lebel rifles, Germany used Mauser 98K, Italy used Carcano rifles, Austria-Hungary used Mannlicher rifles, and Tsarist Russia used Mosinna. Gan rifle.

Whenever possible, try to make your equipment as autonomous as possible.

Second, financial factors.

No matter which country develops and produces tanks, no matter what their performance is, among the world's army equipment in the early 20th century, they are among the top land warfare weapons, and naturally they are expensive.

It's okay to buy a small amount of armored equipment, but no one can afford large-scale imports.

No one is stupid, this is related to the development of related domestic industries. No industrial country is willing to spend money to make wedding clothes for other countries, including traditional friendly countries.

Third, the issue of applicability of new equipment.

Countries have different environments and different equipment requirements. Imported products with good comprehensive performance may not be the best choice.

After 30 years of development, the Imperial Tank of the Tang Dynasty has developed two mature generations of products, and is developing newer medium-sized tanks, taking the lead in the development of armored forces in the world.

Following the T-1 "Wild Wolf" tank, the T-2 "American Buffalo" tank has begun to be equipped with the Tang Empire Army and the Royal Guards on a large scale. It is especially famous for its excellent quality and good durability.

The T-2 "American Bison" tank adopts a proven and solid chassis and can maintain up to 320 motorcycle hours without failure. This level is an order of magnitude higher than tanks developed by European countries.

This is because the Tang Empire had a vast territory and placed extremely high requirements on the durability of tanks, even at the expense of armor and firepower.

Therefore, the armor of the T-2 "American Bison" tank is not thick, and its 40mm short-barreled main gun and weighted machine gun configuration have poor firepower. More than [-]% of its power is used on the armored chassis.

Such a product does not meet the needs of large-scale wars in Europe, but feels a bit tasteless.

This is because European countries generally have small territories and little room for maneuver. In large group operations, the pressure of artillery fire per square kilometer is terrifyingly high.The more developed railway facilities on the European battlefield allow them to transport tanks closer to the battlefield, so the requirement for motorcycles to be trouble-free per hour is lower.

Countries such as Britain, France, and Germany mostly focus on 30 to 50 motorcycle hours. They neither focus on durability nor speed, but focus more on fire suppression.

Take the Mark I and II tanks developed by the United Kingdom, the French Saint-Chamont tank, and the German A7V tank as examples. They are all huge in size.

Its tank equipment ranges from 7 to 14 people, and is often equipped with 1 to 3 artillery and 3 to 6 machine guns. The speed is below 10 kilometers per hour, like a clumsy and slow moving steel fortress.

The British Mark tank is known as the "Land Cruiser" and is divided into male and female types.
The male Mark 1 tank has a total weight of 28 tons. It is equipped with two 57mm 6-pound cannons and 4 Kazakhstan machine guns. The tank has a crew of 14 people and its firepower is extremely fierce.

The female Mark 2 is only equipped with 6 machine guns and no artillery equipment. It is a steel fortress on the open front.

in actual combat
This weapon caused great psychological pressure on the German army as soon as it appeared on the battlefield. German soldiers saw black ones on the battlefield.The "steel monster" that made a strange roaring sound, although it rose up to resist, seemed very powerless in front of this huge "monster".

These steel monsters drove smoothly through the muddy bomb craters, overwhelming the barbed wire fences that had blocked countless infantrymen, crossing the trenches, and crushing the German fortifications to pieces.

As soon as he appeared on the scene, he achieved a good record.

But it didn't take long for the weaknesses of this tank to be known to the German side, and corresponding measures were quickly taken to combat them.

The clumsy and slow Mark tanks were living targets in the face of intensive direct artillery fire, and were turned into countless burning ruins on the battlefield.

The highlight moment was too short, and the rest still had to rely on traditional infantry to kill. The era of tanks had not yet arrived.

Later in the Battle of the Marne

The fierce offensive momentum of the German army was curbed, and they had to delay the offensive and retreat to the front line of the Marne River to organize defense repairs and prepare for the next round of attack.

At this point, the battlefield on the Western Front entered the trench stalemate stage.

The British, French and German forces began to dig hundreds of kilometers of trenches, erect barbed wire and lay mines in the northeastern provinces of France, forming a stalemate.

Both sides deployed thousands of artillery and more machine guns on the front, completely blocking the strategic detour space and entering the stage of a war of attrition.

In this new situation, 1915 was ushered in.

Richard, who was living in Paris, received good news from the empire on the occasion of the New Year. The third South American War ended successfully, and the six countries joined forces to carve up Brazil.

In just two and a half months, Brazil, which covers an area of ​​758 million square kilometers, was torn to pieces.

The six-nation armies of Datang, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Peru poured into Brazil like a pack of wolves, frantically robbing people and territory, and the process was lackluster.

Brazil, with its great power ambitions, was a complete novice. It collapsed under the attack of the coalition forces and soon became torn apart.

The Tang Empire used its overwhelmingly superior Royal Navy to carry out point-hopping operations and almost wiped out all the coastal areas of Brazil, thus obtaining the most fertile parts.

Other countries that have cooperated in the operation have also achieved their own results, and it is difficult to go into details one by one.

As for the final division and post-war arrangements, it will take a long time to balance the interests of all parties and bargain with each other before finally reaching a consensus.

It is expected that this process will be more time-consuming than the war, but this is no longer the focus of the moment.

The Tang Empire's military conducted a sandbox simulation of the current European war and believed that the war would expand to the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula, including the Ottoman Empire.

The spread of war seems to be inevitable.

As for the duration of the entire war, the General Staff Headquarters of the Tang Empire believes that it will be between one and a year and a half, involving major European countries, the Near East, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

This strategic judgment was optimistic. No one expected that this all-out European war would evolve into World War I, with unprecedented breadth and intensity.

The first to bear the brunt were the German overseas colonies.

Latest news from the Imperial Government;
The British used German East Africa as bait, trying to persuade the Tang Empire's colonies in Mozambique to jointly send troops to occupy neighboring German East Africa.

Thus

The Tang Empire publicly gave up its neutral status, declared war on Germany and joined the Allied Powers. This would greatly reduce the military and economic pressure on the Allied Powers.

Richard had no involvement in the matter at all, and the imperial royal family and government were not induced by the British, so they turned to Tai Chi and refused.

Today's two big chunks of fat, Mozambique and Brazil, are enough for the Tang Empire to digest for 20 years. How can they look at poor places like the barren and arid German East Africa.

To be honest, it's not attractive at all.

(End of this chapter)