After entering autumn, the Western Ocean seems to be like the seas off the coast of East Asia, and it will soon enter a time when normal navigation is not calm, and while the weather at sea is barely suitable for long-distance sailing, the fleet led by Wang Yuan certainly does not intend to waste too much time in the clearance of the eastern coast of the New World. Not only in Wang Yuan's view, but even in Xiao Xuan's view, although the North American region in the later generations has the potential to surpass the entire Europe, but at this time, many places are still dense forests, and the foundation that can be opened up in a short period of time is not large, and it is reasonable to consolidate the rule of the western part of Taixi.

After nearly two years of fierce fighting, with a total of 450,000 men arriving on the European continent, the remnants of resistance in France, Spain, and even Russia, where the resistance was the most intense, were gradually suppressed. The upsurge of resistance brought about by the withdrawal of the expeditionary army lasted for another two years, and then gradually came to an end.

With the help of many small chariot boats improvised in the European continent, the troops gathered in the Dutch area began to gradually have more than enough strength to reinforce the British Isles. The campaign to clear the British Isles, which had been regained in the turmoil of two years earlier, was once again launched.

This expedition was limited in the number of troops that were carried by small boats one after another, and there were no too elite troops, and after recovering the central and southern regions, it still encountered considerable resistance in sweeping the northern highlands, and it seemed that there were not enough troops to clear the enemy in Ireland in the face of increasingly bad sea conditions in the north.

It was not until a total of 7,000 available elite land forces led by Wang Yuan came over to reinforce the British Isles that the appearance of the clearance operation on the British Isles finally took on a new look, and in the case of overwhelming combat superiority, the encirclement and suppression forces could be carried out in the form of strengthened super squadrons or condensed brigades to carry out operations independently, which greatly strengthened the efficiency of the clearance and suppression while also increasing the concealment of the operation to a large extent, so that many operations that could only be fought into a rout war because of the local civilian base also began to transform into a war of annihilation.

In this way, when the cold winter is approaching and the waves on the sea seem to be starting to become sinister, the resistance of the once resurrected British Isles finally comes to an end.

At this moment, there seem to be some remnants of resistance throughout the continent, either waging naval guerrilla warfare in the Mediterranean Sea with the North African continent as its core base, or using the cold western part of Russia as its base. Resistance was also common in the interior of the country, but as the forces became more and more consolidated and the occupation areas began to take advantage of the relatively abundant arable land resources of Europe at this time, the scale of such resistance activities began to become smaller.

From the Old World to the New World, the climax of the war brought about by the large-scale rebellion that lasted for two years finally began to come to an end. The news of the victory was transmitted at a speed of thousands of miles a day on the gradually perfected post road, and in less than a month, some of the more detailed information was transmitted to the southeast, which was twenty or thirty thousand miles away. At this time, in the blink of an eye, the eleventh year of Chongzhen was about to pass.

After reading some detailed reports from the upper and lower lines, Xiao Xuan's heart also roughly relaxed at this time. Looking back on the past 12 years, I seem to be a little anxious for quick success in many aspects, and I have carried out a big showdown at any risk, and I have faced assassinations or rebellions many times before finally "daring to change the sun and the moon for a new day" in such a short period of time, and I have achieved the goal of seven or eight times out of ten in the late Ming Dynasty.

However, looking back on the entire process of conquering the West since the expedition that year, Xiao Xuan was still able to determine that this action that had cost a lot of resources was correct. And by all means, the maximum results were obtained. Although the total cost of casualties and losses was close to 250,000, as many as 6.7 million troops were used. However, if the climax of the Thirty Years' War in Europe is missed, and the reforms of Gustav and Morris have not yet been rolled out in the armies of various countries, the costs of future operations will be increasing.

Without the huge wealth obtained from this expedition as a hole card, many domestic innovations would have been unimaginable.

It's just that Huang Dou, another traverser who often chats with Xiao Xuan at this time, doesn't seem to think so: "I think you're still a little too anxious, but it's not necessary at all." The power of our reforms and changes at home has always grown faster than in Europe, which already has a lot of foundations. In the past, I played strategy games like Victoria, and as long as the East completed an effective transformation, thousands of brigades could be mobilized anytime and anywhere... I believe that even if you don't have a lot of progress that far ahead, a China with normal development will still be in modern times... ”

Xiao Xuan didn't have that much confidence after thinking for a while, and said: "There are no time-travelers who have made extraordinary changes, how likely do you think that a modern China that is synchronized with the development of Europe will be higher in terms of social progress and mobilization than China during the Liberation War - I am talking about the mobilization power of the two warring sides in China during the Liberation War?" What did the officers and soldiers of the Republic of China eat and wear? What is the level of mule and horseing? Is it clearly beyond the huge military force of two or three million army in the whole of Europe during the war era, and even millions of tons of merchant ships and millions of tons of warships? Obviously, war is not a game, and too little arable land and too complex terrain make mobilization not so easy in modern times. If in many respects it was only synchronized with the natural course of Europe, because of the limitations of expanding colonial and indigenous conditions, it would be nothing more than an early civilized version of Russia. The involvement and influence on European history is not necessarily to the extent of Russia... ”

Unlike many later generations of Internet nationalists, Huang Dou still does not agree with Xiao Xuan's opinion, but the rebuttal and reasons that he can think of are either too lacking in "dry goods" or he is not fully convinced.

Xiao Xuan said disapprerovingly: "In fact, just like the history of the other side, perhaps in the 21st century, the technological pattern depends on new energy and the new economy, and it is possible for East Asia to get rid of the dilemma of resources and even energy." ”

However, at this time, Xiao Xuan recalled the domestic order that had gradually improved over the past year, but he seemed to have a bad premonition, feeling that things should not be able to improve so easily.

(End of chapter)