Wild North America 1846

Chapter 824 New situation

Early 5 month

Expeditionary forces from the Tang Empire successively arrived in Bordeaux, France, and Italian ports along the Mediterranean and other southern ports brought the first batch of more than 3 officers and soldiers from three divisions.

Along with the officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire, there will also be a large number of armored vehicles, artillery, trucks and other equipment that will be tested on the battlefield.

The arrival of the reinforcements from the Tang Empire was warmly welcomed by the local people, and the scene was quite lively.

Particularly excited were the local French and Italian women, who screamed when the soldiers arrived. They were so excited that they couldn't understand it.

The Datang Empire Expeditionary Force is indeed different from the armies of Britain, France, Germany and other countries. They wear strong and durable dark gray military uniforms and Type 15 steel helmets. On the front of the helmet is the Datang Empire royal emblem, indicating their identity as the Datang Royal Army.

The soldiers were tall, wearing suede leather boots, and equipped with advanced bolt-action rifles and carbines. They looked well-groomed and had an iron-blooded temperament.

Such outstanding appearance won a lot of applause.

As World War I enters its fourth year, what does Europe lack most today?
Lack of men.

There is a shortage of young and strong men.

The Kingdom of Italy has paid a heavy price of more than 280 million casualties in the war so far. It still can only be called a "rookie" and has become a role bullied by the world's powers.

He was beaten severely by the Germans, beaten severely by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and beaten severely by the Bulgarians. It was a typical example of a bitch bullying a weakling.

Since the first Battle of the Izonzo River was launched on June 1915, 6, the Italian army has launched ten Battles of the Izonzo River. Each time it gathered two, three or even four times the military strength, but it has never been able to break through. The defensive line of the Austro-Hungarian army.

The Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire face each other across the Alps. In peacetime, the beautiful Alps are a resort for skiing and tourism.

when war comes

The Austro-Hungarian Empire built strong fortress defense lines along the Alps to build fortresses to defend against military invasions by the Allied military groups.

The Izzo River Basin in the southeastern part of the border between the two countries is a lowland valley terrain. It is also the only plateau and mountainous area where large-scale troops can be used. It is the easiest direction for the Italian army to break through.

Therefore, the Italian commander-in-chief Cardona formulated the strategy of "defending in the west and attacking in the east" and determined the breakthrough area to be the "Isa River area". This is already known to everyone.

In the 5th Battle of the Izo River that just ended in early May, the Italian army once again suffered a shameful defeat, suffering more than 10 casualties without making any progress.

The Italian commander-in-chief Cardona was forced to seek help from allies in Britain and France. At exactly this time, the Tang Empire signed the Treaty of Bordeaux to join the alliance.

Nowadays, the major participating countries such as Britain and France are completely held back by Germany and cannot spare any troops to join the southern battlefield.

This important task fell on the head of the First Expeditionary Corps of the Tang Empire.

The First Expeditionary Corps of the Tang Empire has a total of more than 36.5 people. It has four corps and 17 divisions, including three field heavy artillery divisions and two armored divisions. It will be mainly used on the southern battlefield in Europe.

It is estimated that it will take 4 to 5 months to arrive.

In other words, plus the rest time, it is expected that around October this year, the Datang Empire Expeditionary Force and the Italian Allied Forces will be able to launch a fierce counterattack on the southern front of Europe to reduce as much pressure as possible on the Western and Eastern Front battlefields.

The remaining more than 20 people form the Second Expeditionary Corps, which is expected to be deployed on the Western Front battlefield dominated by France. The date of all arrivals will be around the end of the year.

Actually

The Tang Empire also assembled an army of approximately 8.6 troops in the Middle East battlefield to prepare for a counterattack on the Iraqi battlefield.

At the end of last year, the British army suffered a complete defeat on the Iraqi battlefield. The British Expeditionary Force led by General Townsend surrendered when the city of Kut was surrounded and was occupied by the Ottoman and German coalition forces.

On the Syrian front, as early as the summer of 1916, the Ottoman Empire launched the Battle of Suez in an attempt to capture the important canal zone.

Under the tenacious counterattack of the British and French troops, the attack of the Allied forces was finally repelled.

Nowadays, the Red Navy Zone of the Datang Empire has assembled heavy troops, and plans to form a coalition with the remaining British and French troops in the Suez Canal Zone. After replenishing the force, the total number will be about 22, and will once again counterattack the city of Kut and the Iraqi area.

Entering 1917

The Allied Powers Group and the Central Powers Group fell into a brief silence. They were in a state of returning to blue after the war.Too many people died last year, and no one is able to start a new round of million-level battles.

From the overall situation

There is no doubt that it is beneficial to the Allied Powers. After the Tang Empire joined the alliance, it further consolidated its comprehensive military and material blockade against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, Bulgaria and other Allied Powers, making its situation increasingly difficult.

In terms of strength comparison, the Allied Powers Group has a total strength of 425 divisions, while the Central Powers Group has only 331 divisions, which is 94 more divisions.

In all aspects such as weapons, equipment and supplies, with the strong support of the Tang Empire, the Allied Powers Group was far stronger than the other party.

However, the war situation did not appear to be one-sided. There were many internal problems in the Allied military group, but it looked more like a weak party.

Under the influence of serious casualties, the British and French troops on the Western Front have refused to take the initiative to attack. In order to avoid military instability, the top leaders of the coalition had to abandon the new battle plan.

The same was true on the Italian battlefield on the southern front. The 10th Battle of the Izzo River that had just been conducted failed as expected, and it was bloody again.

This triggered a strong war-weariness in the Italian army, as if the bowstring had collapsed to the tightest point, and a strong rebound would occur at any time.

This situation was even more widespread in the Tsarist Russian army, which was in urgent need of weapons and supplies. New resistance trends surged, forming a huge anti-tsarist force.

The Allied Powers have a larger population, a wider territory, and greater war potential, but this is not the case on the battlefield. It is difficult to fight on the Eastern Front, Western Front and Southern Front battlefields.

The "unrestricted submarine warfare" launched by the German army at sea reversed the huge disadvantage in material supply in one fell swoop, causing irreparable massive losses to the Allied Powers, and often facing supply difficulties.

The competition at this time is to see who has more endurance.

The United Kingdom, France and Italy are all countries that require a large amount of imported supplies and are extremely dependent on the Atlantic transportation line.

Leaving aside Britain and France for the moment, before the outbreak of World War I, the Kingdom of Italy was a typical agricultural country that had just entered the process of industrialization.

In 1914, Italy's per capita income was only half that of France and one-third that of the Tang Empire. More than half of adult men and nearly [-]% of women were illiterate.The Italian economy is still highly dependent on foreign trade imports, while coal and grain are subject to international prices, because not only is Italy's steel production extremely low, but it also needs to buy coal from the United Kingdom, and it cannot even be self-sufficient in food.

Its agricultural production is extremely backward, and crops such as wheat must be imported.

After the unification of the Kingdom of Italy, even with the support of the northern Lombardy industrial area, Italy is still a country mainly based on agriculture, with more than 60% of the population engaged in agricultural activities, and the overall industrial strength is at the bottom of Europe.

The war caused millions of Italian male casualties, which caused a huge setback in Italy's agriculture and handicraft industries, which were in urgent need of supplementary imports.

The same is true for countries such as Belgium and Serbia. They all rely on industrial and agricultural products imported from the Tang Empire. It has become increasingly obvious now.

The biggest problem came from the German Navy's "unrestricted submarine warfare", which immediately caused serious losses to the Allied Powers.

In 1917, the frenzied attacks by German submarines caused the losses of Allied merchant ships to increase from 1 tons in January to 30 tons in February, then to 2 tons in March, and to 40 tons in April. Shows a straight upward curve.

On average, one in every four British merchant ships going to sea has been sunk. By the end of June, 4 merchant ships had been sunk, which was close to half of the British merchant ships.

Countless cargoes sank in the icy North Atlantic, causing huge losses to the Allied Powers and delaying the Tang Empire's fortune.

This was one of the important factors that contributed to the Tang Empire's eventual joining of the Allied Powers.

From June

Under the escort system initiative strongly advocated by the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, the British Royal Navy worked closely with the Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty and sent most minesweepers and light ships to participate in the escort fleet, which greatly reduced losses.

Amid the turmoil in the world, Richard arrived at Fubo City, the Pearl of the Red Sea, at the end of June with Sevilla, mother and son, and started his new journey.

to him
With the signing of the Treaty of Bordeaux, the interests of the Tang Empire were officially recognized by international treaties. This benefit was firmly in the bag, and no one could make the Tang Empire spit it out again.

Even if there are no other benefits in the post-war division of the international pattern, it is completely sufficient.

Today, Tang Dynasty Malawi and Tang Dynasty Mozambique in Africa add up to more than 110 million square kilometers, and are adjacent to South Africa to the north. They are the largest colonial areas of the Tang Empire in Africa.

It has been more than 20 years since it started, how is the construction going?
The East African Governor-General of the Tang Empire is now gathering 2.3 troops to attack Tanzania in German East Africa southward with the British, and the German colonists are retreating steadily.

According to the consistent urine behavior of the Tang Empire,

In the Tang colonies of Mozambique and Malawi, local black people were enslaved to build large-scale infrastructure, including railways, roads, bridges, towns, ports, power plants, dams, etc., and invested large sums of money to implement comprehensive industrial and agricultural development in coastal areas. .

Over the past 20 years, the region has been built into one of the regions with the deepest industrialization and the most complete infrastructure in Africa, second only to Yunzhong Province.

The proportion of black people in the area has also dropped rapidly. The more than 170 million black tribesmen who originally lived in the area have only been counted as more than 30, mostly in remote mines or road, bridge and dam construction sites.

It won’t be long before blackness is achieved.

The process of immigration from the imperial North America and East Asia to the East African colonies has continued. The Chinese population has become the local mainstream and will adhere to the immigration policy for 30 or even more than 50 years in the future.

Nowadays, the number of immigrants from East Asia to North America has been greatly reduced. They are mainly Chinese independent immigrants, and the government no longer bears the costs.

More encouraged immigration directions are directed to various South American vassals and Brazil, Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Paradise Province on the southwest Pacific islands, and Yunzhong Province on the Red Sea coast. , the six new provinces of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as Malawi and Mozambique within the scope of the colonial governor-general of Tang East Africa.

It is expected that new destinations such as Tanzania will be added in the future to continue to enhance the influence of the Chinese.

According to the different destinations of immigrants, the preferential subsidies provided by the Tang Empire government are also different. The ship ticket subsidy ranges from 10% to 100%, and the living subsidy ranges from six cents to one cent and a half per day. Preferential policies are used to guide the direction of immigrants.

The final destination is Chinese immigrants in North America, and now there is not even a dime of preferential policies.

Only this one

This blocked 9% of the Chinese immigrants with empty pockets outside North America. Their new destinations were the Southwest Pacific Islands, South American countries and East African colonies.

Fubo City

When he came to this Pearl of the Red Sea city again, Richard was surprised to find that the city had undergone earth-shaking changes, making it somewhat unrecognizable to him.

In just a few years after the war broke out, countless European capital poured into this Red Sea star city, contributing to the city's take-off.

In the originally desolate western suburbs, countless tall new buildings have risen from the ground. There are countless high-rise buildings with dozens of floors. Set against the wide roads and beautiful street gardens, they present a modern city style.

In just over three years
The scope of Fubo City has expanded by two and a half times, with the built-up area reaching 1432 square kilometers, and it is still growing at a very high rate.

该城市的水泥厂从原本的6家剧增到22家，城市人口从不足80万剧增到191万余人，即将突破200万人口大关。

In the suburbs of the city, new buildings and new roads can be seen everywhere, and the built-up area of ​​Fubo City is rapidly approaching Yunzhong City in the center.

The distance between the two places was originally 67 kilometers, but now it is less than 35 kilometers, showing a trend of the integration of the twin cities.

Accompanying the influx of a large number of people was a reversal of the social structure. Whites accounted for 59.63% of the population in Fubo City, and they accounted for nearly half of the population in Yunzhong City.

A massive influx of European capital into the region has contributed to the rapid development of Yunzhong Province. The national economic output has even soared by more than 43% every year, which is almost the same every year.

Here you can see the architectural features of various European countries, including Apennine architecture on the Mediterranean, elegant French architecture, simple and charming Victorian architecture, and unique Han and Tang-style architecture.

This is the material transshipment center for the entire Arabian Peninsula, and it is also the center for smuggling to the Allied countries, thus obtaining a steady stream of huge profits.

Although the Tang Empire imposed an embargo on the Allies, its enforcement was not strong and the measures were not strict.

The six provinces of the Arabian Peninsula have long borders with the Ottoman Empire, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jerusalem. It can be said that there are too many smuggling channels.

No one can defend the long desert and Gobi border, which is more than 3000 kilometers long. They can only selectively garrison a few key points, but what is the use of that?
The history of smuggling in smuggling cities, led by Kuwait, can be traced back to more than 60 years, and mature smuggling channels have long been developed, making it almost impossible to guard against.

Among them, there are many active German immigrants, and there are many entangled interests. It is impossible to block it.

(End of this chapter)