"It's not a big hurry, it's the American troops stationed in Shimonoseki, more than 2,000 people. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xuan Jianzhang reported to President Meng.

"One regiment can solve it!" President Meng said in a low voice, thought for a while, and ordered: "Order a regiment to quickly pounce on Xiaguan, without occupation, to kill and seize weapons, and to deal with the American army." ”

Xuan Jianzhang was overjoyed to see President Meng decide to fight so quickly, he had long been tired of the Americans, and he had long wanted to fight, the Americans were jumping up and down in Japan, and they were even more active than the British and French.

In fact, these Americans do not represent the US government, but just a group of soldiers who are not good at home, and businessmen with colonial ambitions collude with each other to create a group, similar to a pirate group!

Located at the westernmost tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, Shimonoseki is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with beautiful scenery, and has been famous for its sea and land transportation since ancient times, and has developed commerce, fisheries, and agriculture.

There is a beautiful island surrounded by turquoise waters.

At about 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, the first regiment of the first field division of the Chinese army set off, which was the trump card among the aces of the first-level combat units of the Chinese army, and there were even more than a dozen people in it who were with President Meng when he was still in Tianjin.

Some people learn things quickly, some people grow slowly, and Huajun has only been established for five or six years, and many people around President Meng were only fourteen or fifteen years old at the beginning, and they are not yet twenty years old after five years.

The first regiment of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army received an order to quickly go to Xiaguan, and the establishment of the First Division, to be precise, the military establishment of the Chinese Army is larger than that of the mainstream countries in the world, a regiment of about 3,000 people.

Even among the first divisions, the combat effectiveness and quality of the first regiment were the highest.

The soldiers were a little tired from the continuous trek, but unlike cars and other means of transportation, the train was relatively comfortable, and after a little reorganization, it began to depart at about 12 o'clock in the evening.

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Trains, transportation, these are the forces that belong to mechanization.

Originally, the distance of thousands of miles seemed to be an invisible moat that cut off military operations, but now, the distance between Nagasaki and Shimonoseki has become within reach.

The troops began to march, the telegram was sent directly to President Moe, everything went well, and the communication with the special forces was also smooth, some of the commanders returned to Nagasaki, and the headquarters of the 1st Division, from Nagasaki to Busan, the communication was also smooth.

A lot of news can be fed back in real time, and President Meng really knows the current situation of Shimonoseki, the combat effectiveness of the US military is very strong, but these US troops are stronger, and the US troops who dare to come out to be pirates are all ruffians.

"If we defeat the US military this time, we will be tied with the Americans." Princess Katrina Kafu reminded President Moe a little uneasily.

President Meng smiled slightly, "It's not that we want to tie up with them, it's that they find us to tie the knot themselves." ”

"Yes, these people have been used to reaping benefits in Asia for a long time, and they will fight wherever they fight, because they can make war money." Princess Katrina Kafu smiled.

President Meng smiled: "Americans have this tradition, they started by making war money!" ”

Before World War I, the U.S. economy was already in recession, and before the outbreak of the war, the stock market had to be closed due to a sharp turnover, and the prices of many agricultural products plummeted.

But World War I soon presented opportunities for the United States.

France was an important producer of agricultural products and could export grain, but by 1917 France was only able to supply 40% of its wheat needs, and in the first three years of the war, there were 100 million fewer livestock in Europe, and by the eve of the war, France had lost 16.5% of its cattle, 33% of its sheep and 38% of its pigs, and its sugar crop production had fallen by 60%.

Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare led to the Allies, in order to save more ship capacity and shorten the cargo transportation cycle, so the Allies had no choice but to interrupt the trade in the Eastern market, withdraw the ships transporting supplies from Australia, India and South America, and obtain supplies from North America instead.

The figures released by the U.S. government in September 1917 showed that "a rough estimate of 5.7 billion bushels of bread and fodder grains would be supplied to Europe," and it was estimated that Europe would still need to import more than 1.2 billion bushels of grain from the United States over the next 12 months. At the same time, it was noted that the United States exported nearly 500 million pounds of meat products to Europe each year in the first three years of World War I (this figure does not include pork products), and pork exports increased from 1 billion pounds a year before the war to 1.5 billion pounds; Before the war, an average of 4.5 million pounds of butter, 3.75 million pounds of cheese and 18 million pounds of condensed milk were exported to Europe each year, but after the war this figure increased to 27 million pounds of butter, 66 million pounds of cheese and 260 million pounds of condensed milk. European data show that more than 50% of wartime food came from North America.

At the same time, the price of grain rose sharply during the war, and the United States reported on July 15, 1917 that "corn flour rose by 115%, flour by 110%, potatoes by 110%, lard by 81.5%, cured pork by 70%, pork chops by 66%, and beef hind leg meat by 65%", basically the wholesale price of grain in 1916 increased by more than 100% compared with 1914.

In terms of arms exports, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, during World War I, Britain and France ordered more than $1.6 million in arms just in October 1914, and in 1914 they exported more than $40 million to Europe, and in 1915 this figure rose rapidly to $330 million, and in 1916 it rose to $1.29 billion.

Total U.S. exports totaled $2.5 billion in 1913 and $5.5 billion by 1916, and the value of industrial production was $24.92 billion in 1914 and $63.971 billion in 1916.

In 1914, the United States borrowed $100 million from the French government, by 1915 it exceeded $500 million, and by 1917, this figure had risen to $2.3 billion.

Before the United States entered World War II, it had greatly increased the production of major weapons, including more than 10,000 aircraft, more than 20,000 tanks, more than 180,000 artillery, more than 10,000 mortars, more than 600,000 machine guns, more than 1.2 million rifles, more than 80 large combat ships, and more than 500 merchant ships.

Due to the depreciation of many countries' currencies during the war, the United States demanded that transactions be made in dollars or other hard currencies, and a large number of countries paid for goods in gold.

So much so that after the end of the war, the United States had more than two-thirds of the world's gold reserves, and it also exchanged many islands from Britain through plans such as exchanging warships for small islands, and also established the hegemony of the dollar.

Therefore, the most powerful people do not go to war, but hide behind to make money.

Of course, President Moe has no way to tell Princess Katrina Kafu about these things, so he can only say them in a subtle way.

Princess Katrina Kafu nodded, "Indeed, it is better to fight a war than to provide arms to others to fight, which is more profitable than fighting a war yourself." The point is, we don't have anyone to offer. ”

"Yes." President Moe smiled.

When President Meng was chatting here, the first regiment of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army was already very close to Xiaguan.

By the time President Moe goes to bed, the war is about to start.

Now for President Moe, the war can no longer affect his emotions, let alone let President Meng stay up all night waiting to know the news of the war, he hopes to get good news when he wakes up.