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Although Roosevelt resisted, he held tight control of several states near the mountains and deserts of the West, and the industrially developed coastlines of the East and West, as well as the Great Lakes, were all under the military occupation of the Chinese Empire.

Although the Cleveland government nominally continued to exercise the power of the American state, it was only executive power, and to put it bluntly, it was a cow raised by the Chinese Empire, providing blood transfusions and supplies for the Chinese Imperial Army.

As for the Chinese Empire's promise to withdraw from the United States two years after the end of the war, the devil knows that it will not end the war until the Year of the Monkey, and it is unknown whether the Chinese Empire will actually withdraw its troops at that time.

Roosevelt would not believe it, and even the Cleveland government was skeptical, but the Americans in the occupied areas did, and their resistance to the Chinese Imperial Army was greatly weakened.

Of course, this is directly related to the values of the Americans, which is a society in which people are warm and warm, the world is cold, and everything is oriented to interests, and the Chinese Empire is strong, and the Americans will naturally give in, and even be willing to be slaves, as long as they are allowed to live and make money.

In the entire battlefield of the world war, there were basically only two places where the Chinese Imperial Army was really fighting, one was the Japanese archipelago and the other was Africa.

As for South Asia and Northwest Asia, the Chinese Empire still adopted a defensive posture and did not take the initiative to attack, so the Tsarist Russian Empire and the British Empire also knew each other and did not take the initiative to attack, and the two sides were at peace for a while.

On the other hand, in the European theater, the fierce competition between Britain, France, Russia and Germany, Italy and Austria has intensified.

The reason is that the German Empire wants to end the European war as soon as possible and completely defeat the British, French and Russian blocs, due to the surge in military spending, the high-intensity war devours endless resources, especially the appearance of tanks and aircraft on the battlefield, which aggravates the consumption of war resources and makes the German Empire's industry seriously unbearable.

Although Wilhelm II tactfully prevented the Chinese Empire from intervening militarily in the European war, in fact, Wilhelm II did not want the Chinese Empire to gain benefits in Europe to expand its influence, and Li Weiguo did not intend to really help Germany, so the two emperors tacitly agreed.

However, Britain, France and Russia could not be willingly defeated by the German Empire, they knew very well what the consequences would be in the event of defeat, huge war reparations, loss of territory, loss of overseas colonies, and once defeated, it would not be so easy to stand up again.

Therefore, Britain, France and Russia are also desperate, even if their national economy is about to be unable to support it, they are not willing to admit defeat and surrender easily.

The T23 tank and F15 fighter that appeared on the European battlefield were simple in structure, and the weapons experts of the Entente countries had a general direction of study and imitation as long as they looked at the battlefield from afar, and as the major battles progressed, they also captured a lot of tanks and planes of the German, Italian and Austrian armies.

Especially in this era, the aircraft did not fly fast, the flight altitude was not high, and they had to dive down to strafe the ground soldiers during the battle, and they were easily concentrated by the heavy machine gun fire on the ground, and the explosion produced all kinds of fragments, and even many planes were more than 90% intact, which greatly facilitated the analysis and copycat of the military experts of the Entente.

If in peacetime it takes a year to knock off a T23 tank and an F15 fighter, then during the war it takes only three or five months, or even less.

The structure of the F15 fighter is the simplest, just pretending to be a Thunderbolt heavy machine gun in the nose, this weapon Entente has its own, such as the Weeks heavy machine gun, and even the imitation of the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun of the Chinese Empire can be made in less than two months.

The only difficulty is the HF-120 engine used in the F15 fighter, with the engine technology of Britain, France and Russia, it is not possible to completely crack the aero engine of the Chinese Empire, but Britain, France and Russia also have aircraft, but the horsepower is a little smaller.

France took the lead in developing the Newburgh fighter, the overall shape completely imitates the F15 fighter of the Chinese Empire, but the engine uses the Newburgh V80 engine, the thrust is only 80 horsepower, which is a full 40 horsepower less than the HF120 engine of the Chinese Empire, and then equipped with the French Vics heavy machine gun, because the weight of this heavy machine gun is relatively large, so it can only reduce the amount of ammunition, With only 100 rounds of 7.92 mm bullets, the firepower is far inferior to the 200 rounds of 12.7 mm bullets carried by the F15 fighter, and the weight and thrust affect the speed and ceiling of the Newburgh fighter, making the Newburgh fighter completely inferior to the F15 fighter in the early stage, causing heavy losses to the British and French forces.

However, the Newburgh fighter was the savior of the Anglo-French army, because at the beginning of the war, the Anglo-French army did not have a decent fighter to fight against the F15, in order to stop the German offensive, the Newburgh fighter was only rushed into service, but it restrained a large number of German aircraft, reduced the casualties of the Anglo-French army on the ground, and thus bankrupted the German army's plan to quickly destroy France.

During the war, the research and development speed was too fast, and the British and French forces that were out of breath developed confrontational fighters at any cost, and soon many models of Newburgh fighters were developed, among which the Newburgh 4 fighter had the ability to confront the F15 fighter.

Of course, the actual Newburgh 4 fighter is still inferior to the F15 fighter in terms of performance, and the reason why it can create a situation of parity is because the German pilots suffered too many casualties and gradually lost their advantage, while the British and French pilots also suffered heavy casualties, but the British and French have a large population and have more reserves in pilots than Germany.

In the past, Germany focused on the construction of a large navy and a large army, but now it has suffered a loss, and most of the pilots in emergency training have little experience, and they are generally in the air after seven days of training.

In this way, even if the F15 is more advanced than the N-4, the pilots are on the same level, and there is no generation difference between the two fighters, so they will not be able to give full play to their performance, and the outcome of the battle will depend on the luck of both sides.

Also in the ground battle, the German T23 tank also achieved a large tactical advantage in the early stage, and soon the Entente group had its own tank.

The French Mark II tank soon entered the battlefield and was also inferior to the T23 tank in terms of performance, but it played the role of a mobile pillbox.

The Mark II tank traveled at a speed of only 2 kilometers per hour, and the French did not expect this tank to charge, but used it for defense.

When the German tanks attacked, the moving Mark II tank was basically difficult to destroy, and the German T23 tank had a very low shooting accuracy, even if it was known that the French tank was as fast as a snail, it was difficult to hit accurately.

In this way, if the French Mark 2 tank could not be destroyed at the first time, the infantry behind the German tank would be strafed by heavy machine guns and suffered heavy casualties.

As a result, the German tanks had to defeat the French tanks first, and the two sides could only break out in a tank battle to decide the winner.

However, it is very difficult for the tankers on both sides to destroy each other's tanks directly, and it often takes several hours of mutual fire to destroy each other, but during this time, the two sides will add new tanks in the future, so that the battle will continue until dark, and the two sides can only truce.

In the past, it was the trenches that prevented the infantry on both sides from advancing, but now they have become an obstacle for tanks, and there is a similar effect.

For a time, the European battlefield entered a relative stalemate.

Fighting tanks and planes soon became a way of fighting for Britain, France, Russia and Germany, Italy and Austria.

It was difficult to decide the winner of the European battlefield for a while, and this echoed Li Weiguo's wishes.

Let the Europeans continue to bite each other!

With the export of T23 tanks and F15 fighters to Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and even the Brazilian Empire and the Colombian Federation in South America began to import them.

Before the outbreak of the war, the inventory of T23 tanks and F15 fighters that Li Weiguo ordered to start hoarding was quickly sold out, and the T23 production line and F15 production line were also working overtime to produce, but they were no longer supplied like the Imperial Chinese Army and Air Force, and only supplied to the allies of the Allies to arbitrage gold and foreign exchange.

At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Army and Air Force also began to replace them with new tanks and fighters.

The Army's T23 tanks were replaced with the latest T25, and the tonnage was increased to 50 tons, mainly with increased armor protection and main gun caliber. Since Britain, France and Russia have begun to use 20 mm caliber anti-tank rifles on the European battlefield, it is already difficult for the armor of the T23 to withstand such armor-piercing attacks.

Thus, the armor of the T25 tank reached 50 mm, and the main gun was upgraded from the 37 mm short-barreled smoothbore gun of the T23 to 47 mm, the weight increased significantly, and the engine power also increased to 200 horsepower.

However, the speed has not changed much, probably because the battlefield environment faced by the Imperial Chinese Army has changed, and there is no need for high-mobility tanks without blitzing a country, but instead requires strong offensive and defensive capabilities.

Of course, Li Weiguo only reequipped the Imperial Chinese Army with 500 T25 tanks, and Li Weiguo still continued to sell the remaining T25 tanks to the allies, ostensibly to support the allies, but in fact to continue to pit the allies.

Li Weiguo ordered the production of 5,000 T25 tanks in the next three months, and still intends to sell them to allies, including Germany, as long as Germany continues to purchase tanks from the Chinese Empire, then Germany's own tank development will be hindered.

Of course, Li Weiguo did not know that Wilhelm II and Bismarck had already seen through his plan and had secretly begun to develop advanced tanks in Germany.

In terms of the Air Force, Li Weiguo also gradually phased out and replaced the F15 fighters currently in service in the Air Force, and began mass production of more advanced F16 fighters.

The F16 fighter has not changed much from the F15 in terms of overall appearance, the only change is that the engine has been replaced, using the HF-150, that is, the thrust reaches 150 horsepower.

The thrust of the aircraft engine is not the same as the thrust of the engine of the tank, the tank can easily use 200 horsepower or even more, but the aircraft is different and the weight needs to be taken into account.

The same 150 horsepower engine, the tank engine can not be used on the aircraft, because it is too heavy, the engine used in the aircraft must be light.

So, don't look at the engine thrust of the F16 fighter is only 30 horsepower higher than that of the F15, but these thirty horsepower can make the F16 fly faster, reaching a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, which is 20 kilometers faster than the speed of the F15 fighter.

Similarly, the ceiling was significantly increased to 4,000 meters, an altitude that the Entente's Newburg fighters could not reach.

Once engaged, as long as the F16 fighters flew high, the British and French Newburg fighters could only stare dryly, and there was nothing they could do.

Li Weiguo had already dug the hole, waited for the European battlefield to change, and then began to sell tanks and planes to the allies at high prices.

Since defeating the United States, Li Weiguo's sense of urgency is not so strong, and as long as the United States continues the civil war, it will be impossible for the United States to turn over and rise again.

As for the European battlefield, although the German Empire is a huge threat, it also has a fatal shortcoming, that is, the population is insufficient, as long as Germany does not unify Europe, then it cannot pose a threat to the Chinese Empire.

As for Britain, France and Russia, Li Weiguo is even less worried, one Germany can beat the three of them, and it is not the opponent of the Chinese Empire.

As a result, after a world war, provoked by the Chinese Empire, it has now become a situation of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

War ruthlessly devours earth-shattering resources, don't look at the strong national strength of the Chinese Empire, after a year and a half, the strategic reserves have basically been exhausted, and the industrial resources have also been consumed.

The domestic economy was not greatly affected, mainly due to the fact that there was no full-scale war mobilization from the beginning, but only half of the national industry was mobilized to the military, and the remaining half of the national industry continued to produce civilian goods and sustain the daily life of the people of the empire.

With the basic defeat of the United States, the scale of fighting on the front line of the Chinese Empire has also been greatly reduced, and the defensive strategy of the Western Front has also greatly reduced the number of battles with Britain and Russia, all of which have greatly reduced military consumption and casualties, and the domestic industrial pressure is basically only left with the mass production of tanks and aircraft.

Tanks and planes, on the other hand, are mostly used to trap allies such as Germany and other allies, and will be exchanged for huge amounts of gold.

In this way, the transfer to the military industry is no longer a consumption that can only be imported and exported, but a large-scale profit from the export of arms.

As a result, a strange phenomenon has emerged in the world, where the Western world is fighting frantically, while the Eastern world is relatively calm. The European and American powers are frantically consuming their national strength and consuming the resources accumulated over hundreds of years, while the Chinese Empire is making a lot of war money.

As a result of this, the Western powers were originally far behind the Chinese Empire in terms of national strength, and this gap will widen even further in the future.

When the world war ends one day, the Western powers will find that their world is in ruins, and the Chinese Empire has become a paradise on earth.

Everything seemed to be going according to Li Weiguo's established plan, but only one thing exceeded Li Weiguo's expectations.

On February 6, 1897, after more than half a year of excavation, with the concerted efforts of thousands of experts in architecture, mechanics, metallurgy, physics, chemistry, and astronomy, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was finally opened, but everything inside was shocking and unbelievable. (To be continued.) )