Chapter 365: The Great War Begins

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As the time for war in Europe drew nearer, Zhang Wei felt an invisible sense of urgency, and the empire now wanted to expand its territory in the Americas, occupy Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and other places, and regain the territory occupied by Russia.

Especially after the departure of Zhang Yilu, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire, Zhang Wei felt that this sense of oppression was even stronger, as Lu Weimin said, if the Russian Empire handed over the Far East to the Chinese Empire, where should the Xia Empire go?

Since then, Zhang Wei has realized more clearly that he is not the emperor of the Chinese Empire after all, his thoughts cannot replace the thoughts of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and he cannot decide the fate of all Chinese, even if he strives for the overall interests of the Chinese, not all Chinese are grateful to him, so he wants to occupy Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Empire as soon as possible.

Brazil and Argentina in South America, after receiving the ultimatum from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire, were quite cooperative, dealt with the smashing incident in a timely manner, and gave reasonable compensation to the victims.

In order to put pressure on the Americans and to let the Americans enter Brazil as soon as possible, Zhang Wei sent a telegram to Feng Guohua, demanding that the United States must enter Brazil by September and hand over Mexico by October, otherwise this year's aid will be canceled.

The Americans also knew that they were procrastinating, and at this pace, it would be difficult to guarantee that the immigration would be completed next year if the immigration began immediately, and under the pressure of the Xia Empire, President Roosevelt had to order Arthur MacArthur to speed up the offensive.

Arthur MacArthur must obey the president's orders, and it has been more than 3 months since he besieged Mexico City, and not only him, but also the soldiers below are in a hurry; Finally received the order from the superiors, the prepared heavy artillery began to shell Mexico City, the original Mexicans regarded as a sharp weapon to defend the city, in front of the heavy howitzers are scum, surrounded by nearly 3 months of Mexico City, not even 3 days, occupied by the US army.

Mexico's dictatorial President Porfirio Díaz was killed by a howitzer, Finance Minister Rimantour and others surrendered, and democrats such as Madero were secretly arrested.

At the same time, the U.S. army intensified its efforts to clear the rebel army, and the larger rebel organizations included the Chihuahua Peasant Army led by Pancho Villa and the Morelos Peasant Army led by Emiliano Zapata.

Feng Guohua was very satisfied with the progress of the US army, and in order to allow them to enter the Americas, he delivered them some rifles and ammunition, as well as 75mm mountain guns and shells, and the rest of the aid depended on their performance.

Feng Guohua has already received a telegram from Lu Weimin, and now he does not really support the US military to occupy Brazil, but just let the United States muddy the waters of the Americas, let the Americans and Brazilians consume each other, and the Xia Empire can fish in troubled waters.

Besides, Feng Guohua was also unwilling to support a new hard-line force in South America, and the order of the General Staff was exactly what he wanted.

The U.S. government also asked Feng Guohua for instructions, hoping to obtain energy and food supplies at Guyana's coastal ports; In order to muddy the waters of South America as soon as possible, Feng Guohua approved the Americans' request to obtain supplies in Port George, but they had to be settled monthly, and these supplies could not be counted in the scope of aid.

Americans can only endure the pain. For the U.S. government at that time, Lu occupied three colonies in the West Indies and Guyana, and even if they did not immigrate to Brazil, they would not be able to get any benefits, and it was not pleasant to be completely surrounded by the Xia Empire; After moving to Brazil, at least there was a huge strategic depth and the strength to fight with the Xia Empire, so Roosevelt decided to continue the previous policy of immigrating to Brazil.

At this time, the Americans did not know that Britain and France had begun to support the Brazilian government.

At the same time as recruiting new soldiers, the Brazilian government replaced the old units with new rifles and new artillery purchased from Britain and France, and equipped the troops with a large number of light and heavy machine guns at the suggestion of the British.

Feng Guohua sent a telegram to Zhang Wei, requesting that the naval forces of the North American High Command be strengthened, and that the islands now occupied were numerous and that they must be strengthened, and that they hoped to send at least 4 heavy cruisers, 8 light cruisers, 30 destroyers, 50 fast torpedo boats, and 5 submarine squadrons.

Zhang Wei's reply was to wait for a later date.

At present, only the island of Cuba, the island of Haiti and Puerto Rico in the West Indies are not under the control of the Lu State, Zhang Wei ordered the establishment of the Caribbean Province, the provincial capital is temporarily located in Kingston, Jamaica Island, and Feng Guohua sent a major general and staff officer to serve as the governor, temporarily exercise military management, under the jurisdiction of 3 national defense divisions and 3 brigades of mercenaries; The Guiana colonies of Britain, France and the Netherlands were merged into the Guiana colony, with Gao Changshui as the governor, and the governor's palace was stationed in Georgetown, under the jurisdiction of 2 defense divisions and 2 brigades of mercenaries.

With Feng Guohua in charge of the Americas, Zhang Wei was not very worried, and now he is fully cooperating with Lu Weimin to strive to occupy Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and other places as soon as possible, and expel the British and French forces from South Asia.

This time, Chief of General Staff Lu Weimin personally participated in the formulation of the battle plan, and after the plan was released, Zhang Wei was taken aback, if this plan was put in place, Britain would have to fight with the Xia Empire even if it abandoned the threat of Germany in Europe.

Luk's plan was not only to occupy the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, the northern part of Kalimantan, the French colony of Indochina, Thailand, Singapore, and Burma; It also arranged for the Pacific Fleet to occupy the islands of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga in the central Pacific Ocean; It is also necessary to send the Central Fleet to occupy Sri Lanka, Maldives, Tongue Ser, Mauritius and Madagascar in the entire Indian Ocean, and expel the navies of Britain and France from the Indian Ocean; It is hoped that Zhang Wei can use the system warehouse to load the sand and gravel and directly block the Suez Canal, so that Europeans can only make a detour to South Africa if they want to enter the Far East in the future.

Zhang Wei vetoed Lu Weimin's plan and demanded to grasp the key points, as for those small islands, they can be slowly occupied in the future, and it is not appropriate to scatter troops and energy now, after fighting Britain and France, he also plans to fight Russia as soon as possible, if Russia is sent back to the west of the Ural Mountains, the Xia Empire can temporarily stabilize for a period of time and wait for a war in Europe.

Lu Weimin also felt that the scene was too big this time, those islands in the Pacific Ocean were not occupied, Britain and France and other countries lost the supply ports on the periphery of the Pacific Ocean, and they had no way to enter and exit the Pacific Ocean, so they could only be trapped there.

However, he still wanted to send the Central Fleet to occupy many islands in the Indian Ocean in order to enhance the strategic depth of the Xia Empire; In the end, Zhang Wei had no choice but to say that after achieving the objectives of this campaign, he could consider occupying some islands in the Indian Ocean as the forward guard posts of the empire, and in this war, the responsibility of the Central Fleet was to monitor the British Far East Fleet stationed in Mumbai, and if he dared to move, he would destroy the Far East Fleet again.

For blocking the Suez Canal, Zhang Wei feels that it is feasible, but not now, if a full-scale war breaks out with Europe, and he is at a disadvantage, he can use this method, if he is in an advantage, there is no need to block the Suez Canal, and he also considers bringing the Suez Canal into the control of the Xia Empire in the future.

If Zhang Wei is to Lu Weimin, he must be ready for war before 20 August, and launch a general offensive at any time in late August.

Lu Weimin's operational orders were quickly issued to the general staff of all military regions, and all the troops who received the orders were ready for battle before the specified time.

The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been idle, and has been communicating with Britain, France, Spain, Italy and other countries on the issue of compensation, this anti-China caused heavy economic losses to overseas Chinese and merchants of the Xia Empire, and caused hundreds of casualties; The Xia Empire demanded that these countries must pay reparations and severely punish the participants in the violence and the propagandists and instigators of the "Yellow Peril" theory.

Britain, France and the Netherlands demanded that the Xia Empire withdraw from the West Indies and the colonies of Guyana, declaring the Xia Empire's occupation of cities illegal; They believe that the Xia Empire has occupied so much territory and is ready to make up for their losses, and besides, the instigator of the "Yellow Peril Theory" is their government itself, so do they want their cabinet to step down?

Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries did not severely punish the perpetrators, and the Xia Empire suddenly launched the "Overseas Chinese" operation and occupied many colonies of Britain, France and the Netherlands, so that the people of their countries thought that the government was weak and could be bullied, and they should be sent to counterattack the Xia Empire, and they must deal the most severe blow to the shameful behavior of the Xia Empire to safeguard the national interests of the colonial empire.

For the militarily powerful Xia Empire, the British and French governments and armies have not yet come up with a way to deal with it, and this time it is indeed the fault of the white country that was seized by the Xia Empire.

The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire was that since Britain and France were unable to control the safety of the lives and property of the Chinese in the colony, the Xia Empire sent troops to control it; The Kingdom of the Netherlands was directly ignored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire.

The reason why the Xia Empire dared to start a war at this time was to seize the entire European countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries, and now they are making every effort to expand their land forces and build their navies, and they are engaged in an arms race in full swing, and no country is ready; They are not like the Xia Empire, Zhang Wei has a system, as long as he has points, he can exchange for a powerful army and a newer navy at any time; The armies of European countries have to be trained and their weapons and equipment have to be produced, while the production and construction period of naval warships is longer, and the training time for naval officers and men cannot be completed in a short time.

While the diplomatic department was still arguing, the Xia Empire was already preparing for a new war, and all the troops were moving to the designated positions, and the war could start at any time. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.