Chapter 514: The Frightened Americans
When the Xia empire rejected the proposal to relocate to Liberia, not only President Theodore Roosevelt was horrified, but also the other cabinet members were in a state of panic, looking around in a daze, not knowing where the United States was headed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
With the current situation of the United States, it is impossible to achieve security protection at all, and the Han Kingdom can land anywhere along the Amazon River and along the coast, while the United States does not have so many forces to defend against the Han Kingdom, and they must set aside enough troops to deal with the counteroffensive of the Brazilian army.
After another meeting with the cabinet members, President Roosevelt decided to send Taft as governor of Liberia and lead 50,000 troops to Africa to open up a retreat base for the United States, and at the same time, to ask the families of the cabinet members to evacuate with the troops.
This time, the Cabinet happily supported the president's decision and instructed the military to act quickly.
Luke Edward Wright took over as Secretary of War.
The president then sent Secretary of State Elihue Rutter to visit European countries, hoping that the white countries would unite closely and unite against the Xia Empire. He sent Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon to visit the Xia Empire and the Jewish D.C., hoping to gain the support of the Xia Empire and the Jews, after all, Robert Bacon was a shrewd financier, served as a director of the Morgan consortium, had been of great help to the Jews, and had a very close relationship with the Jews.
However, the subsequent blow to the United States plunged the American top brass into an even greater panic, and more than two-thirds of the Liberian merchant ships were sunk by unknown forces, and less than a third of them survived, and even the warships that went to escort the convoy were sunk, and they did not even notice the shadow of the enemy.
The families of many high-ranking officers were killed in shipwrecks, and a large number of officers and men with combat experience were swallowed up by the sea in the dark night, and even warships could not protect their safety.
They also found a problem that merchant ships within 300 kilometers of the coastline would not be attacked.
Summarizing all the information, Roosevelt came to an inference that he definitely knew that this was the Xia Empire's troublemaker, and the purpose was not to want them to withdraw and continue to fight against Brazil, but he could not do anything about the Xia Empire.
The news that came then made the Americans even more desperate, the army of the Tang Kingdom destroyed Chile in less than a month with the cooperation of the powerful fleet of the navy, and encircled Argentina from all sides, and it was only a matter of time before Argentina was destroyed, and this time will not be very long, and it will come soon.
Elihue Root, Secretary of State on a trip to Europe, sent back a telegram saying that the British were only morally supportive of the Americans, and that they had not taken concrete action to support the Americans; The British obviously still hate the Americans for being accomplices of the Chinese in the first place, helping the Xia Empire capture so many territories and making the Xia Empire stronger.
When he visited France, because the United States sent troops to Liberia, which seriously threatened the security of France's sphere of influence in Africa, he lodged a serious diplomatic protest against the Americans, let alone join forces with them to fight against the Xia Empire.
Now that the colonies of every European country are decaying very much, and the African colonies are their last commodity dumping grounds, they all take it very seriously, how can France let the Americans get their hands on their colonies? This contradiction is unsolvable for the Americans, and if Liberia is not expanded, it will not be able to feed so many Americans, and if Liberia is expanded, it will inevitably produce irreconcilable contradictions with European countries.
In the minds of the Americans, it was much better to fight against the French than against the barbaric and powerful Chinese, and as long as they did not provoke the British, they were safe, and the French army and navy were not yet opponents of the United States.
Since the French did not consider the big picture of the white people, their protests were ignored by President Roosevelt, who ordered Governor Taft to accelerate the expansion of territory in all directions and continue to increase the number of troops sent to Liberia.
President Roosevelt asked the Navy to send a fleet of battleships to escort the convoy this time, hoping that the 50,000 officers and men would reach Africa safely, expand US influence in Africa, and occupy more territory.
The subsequent visit of the Secretary of State to Germany and Austria-Hungary was warmly welcomed, giving Roosevelt a little comfort.
Germany was only willing to form an alliance with the United States to protect their interests in Europe and Africa, but was unwilling to send troops to fight in South America, which made the Americans a little disappointed, but I think this is already a good ending.
As long as there are countries such as Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy as allies, it will be easier for them to protect their territory in Africa and expand their sphere of influence in Africa.
President Roosevelt reluctantly approved Secretary of State Elihu Rutter's alliance with Germany to protect the living space of white people.
The news sent back by Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon is very unsatisfactory, but it has no hindrance to the overall situation, since the United States has decided to withdraw to Africa, and the Xia Empire does not support it, then the United States will break out, and how many people can survive depends on the will of God, anyway, the families of cabinet members have either died in the vast Atlantic, or have reached Liberia, and the lives of ordinary Americans are not worthy of being valued by these political predators, that is, only half of the people have broken through and there are still tens of millions of people, which is enough for the United States to dominate Africa, What's more, they also have an elite army of millions and a powerful naval fleet.
However, then the Americans were even more tragic, the German General Staff secretly ordered the German commanders in the Brazilian army to increase the intensity of the attack on the Americans, and at this time the warships purchased by Brazil had already arrived in South America, and the army equipment purchased from the Han Kingdom had already been sent to the army, and the Brazilian top brass felt that the time had come to counterattack, so they complied with the application of the commanders and fighters at the bottom to fight, and ordered the naval and land forces to start counterattacking.
With the help of the Navy, the Brazilian Army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, recovering São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro one after another, and completely annihilating the US army in these two states, but the Army alone was annihilated by 5 armies, more than 300,000 people, as well as several battle cruisers and destroyers of the Navy, and most of the American battleships escorted to Africa, and let them escape.
The combat effectiveness of the Brazilian army has increased so much at once, not only did the German General Staff be surprised, but the Americans were also frightened, the Xia Empire only tilted slightly towards Brazil, and the Americans were defeated and lost their ground, if the Xia Empire's army went out in person, how strong should the combat effectiveness be? The U.S. Cabinet and other high-ranking military and political leaders were completely frightened this time and began to move to Africa regardless of losses.
The German General Staff instructed the commanders planted in the Brazilian army to find out the reason, and found that the weapons supported by the Han Kingdom to Brazil were very advanced, at least more advanced than the Germans, and the rifles were the same as those of the Germans, but the workmanship was more fine.
Of course, the army equipment purchased from the Han Kingdom is the equipment of the mercenaries, and the lowest-grade artillery equipped by the mercenaries is after 1917, which is of course more advanced than the German artillery in service.
Taking advantage of the victory, the Brazilian army pursued and recaptured the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais one after another; The strong combat power made the Americans really afraid, especially the navy of the Brazilian Empire, and the American navy was powerless to fight back.
The Atlantic Fleet sent a total of five submarine squadrons to frantically hunt down US merchant ships, and even anti-submarine patrol planes occasionally launched air-to-ship missiles to attack US ships, so that less than half of the merchant ships could successfully reach Africa.
By the end of 1911, the American top brass was completely insane, with a fierce counterattack by the Brazilian army and a frenzied sneak attack by the Xia Imperial submarines, and all Americans were in a state of high panic.