Chapter 234: The Last Battlefield
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Now, Munich will become the capital of the German Confederation. The little king of Bavaria was depressed and obsessed with building his Swan Castle with all his financial resources, and no longer had any interest in politics, and he did not dare to think of such a thing as resenting the Marquis of Munich, who was a great devil who could not be countered by the forces of the world. His cousin, Sissi, was very sorry for this, and asked Downing for a lot of resources to help the little king of Bavaria who had abdicated just a few months from the throne to build his fairytale castle.
In fact, Ludwig II was a bit like Song Huizong, full of enthusiasm for art, but had little means for politics, and in the most critical stage of the coup, he did not even have a decent resistance. This is not to blame for the little king, when he first ascended the throne, this little king had a very magical old friend - Bismarck, Bismarck once warned him: "Do you know who the real king of Bavaria is?" ”
The hidden murder of this strange word is that all the companies under the Windsor consortium pay about one-third of the entire government of the Kingdom of Bavaria, which shows that the money made by the Windsor Empire is actually a real rich country. According to this logic, Downing was actually the real king of England, Japan, Italy, India and many other countries.
At that time, little Ludwig didn't take it to heart, he thought that Downing was Sissi's husband and father's friend, and it should not be as dangerous as Bismarck said, but unexpectedly, the old fox Bismarck was really right. After the coup, Sissi was upset and asked why Downing did this? Downing replied: "Elephants are not carnivores and are not aggressive, but if a lion stands in its way......"
The Windsor Consortium is an elephant, it just wants to be free to find its own food, water, and protect its fellow citizens. Now, only the belligerent Russian nation is left who do not know the times, preferring to fight guerrillas rather than give in.
Brazil has expressed its willingness to hand over forestry policy to Windsor imperialism, but Vale has financed diplomacy, war, and public opinion, and the matter is no longer in order. As a result, Vale proposed an even more brutal "resource policy" plan, in which not only forestry, but all natural resource policies in Brazil had to be decided by Vale's cabinet-level "Ministry of Resources", and the proposed policy could only be rejected by a referendum. What is even more intolerable for Brazilians is that the Ministry of Resources will also have a police system that is superior to that of the Brazilian government.
The war in Europe had stopped, and it turned out that the expeditionary force of the Windsor military group could crush any enemy, and Argentina was intimidated and did not dare to interfere with Paraguay's invasion of Uruguay with Brazil, and even allowed the Paraguayan army to pass through Argentine territory to attack the territory of southern Brazil.
Despite the cold watching of elephants, Brazil also had to react to Paraguay's attack, and a big war broke out in South America. The large forces of the Windsor Group are still resting on German soil, but they can send an air force to support Pelos Jr.'s army.
The airship reconnaissance plane, which has the ability to fly long distances, was the first to reach the South American theater to help Pep gather military intelligence and assign reliable offensive coordinates for Paraguay's artillery, which alone made the Brazilians particularly uncomfortable. When the helicopter-carrying heavy cruiser arrived at the South American battlefield, the Brazilian army was even more miserable, and the soldiers on the front line were fighting, and suddenly found that there was no food to eat, because the helicopter could go straight to the supply line in the rear of Brazil, and use machine guns to sweep away the grain escort army.
With the direct supply of fuel cell engines, countries with strong industries have developed their own truck models, which is actually the most important logistics backbone. Light trucks are the mainstay of these non-Windsor manufacturers, while heavy trucks are monopolized by Windsor. So there are also some light trucks in the Brazilian supply team, sometimes people turn over on their backs.
Despite the experience of the submarine defeat in the Baltic Sea, the U.S. Navy still wanted to try its luck, and their submarines helped their allies in Brazilian waters, and in two tentative attacks, the two submarines were overturned one by one, confirming that the navy of the Windsor Empire had fully mastered the technology of restraining submarines, and the only chance for NATO to counterattack was lost.
In other words, the Brazilians are hopeless.
The Paraguayans, with the combined efforts of advanced rifles, artillery, and air force, fought very easily, and were so excited that they wanted to march to São Paulo, the economic center of Brazil, and said to Downing: "Otherwise, I will help you conquer Brazil, and then the territory will be divided with me a little more." ”
Thank you, or I'll do it myself. Downing politely rejected Pelos Jr.'s "kindness", lest the Brazilian territory in his pocket be further weakened. There are still Japanese who are very enthusiastic about fighting Brazil, however, Downing also politely rejected the "kindness" of the Japanese, there are already many Japanese troops in California, in order to balance the power overseas, this time the Japanese army retreated to a secondary position, the 100,000 troops who went to Europe only allowed 10,000 to go to the South American battlefield, and the rest stayed in the Czech Republic to stabilize the situation, and the 50,000 expeditionary forces of the Qing Dynasty were all put into Brazil.
The 60,000-strong army formed by the Qing Dynasty and Japan was used to attack the most important ones, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In addition, the 50,000 American regiments under the command of Stonewall Jackson were used to attack the area centered on the hot ports of Fortaleza and Recife in the north.
Stonewall Jackson was one of the most courageous generals of the Confederate Army, almost tactically invincible, and some even consider his life and death to be a turning point in the Civil War. He was wounded by friendly forces while fighting in Virginia, but this time he did not die as in history, but was rescued by the Windsor Military Hospital, and has been recuperating in Richmond, and then after the Civil War was over, he recovered and volunteered to join the Windsor Consortium's European Expeditionary Force, and this time he was very active in fighting Brazil. Downing needed the East India Army to maintain the newly formed German Confederation, so he agreed to his request.
On the side of the Allied States, because this is no longer fighting for the country, the 50,000 people voted for the volunteer army, and those who do not want to fight can return to their hometowns. Because of the enjoyment of fighting the Windsor Consortium, only 10,000 people left the army, and these people were replenished by the East Indies Army, so the Northern Theater of Operations in Brazil was still 50,000 men. Downing arrogantly said that the conquest of Brazil was enough for 110,000 people in this north-south theater.
Brazil's Southern Army found that as long as their food corps were disguised as civilians, they would not be attacked, because the commander of the Southern Theater of Operations was Don Sara, known as General Glassheart, who fought according to his own values as long as he was not directly instructed from above. This discounted the offensive effect of the Qing-Japanese coalition forces, and the Japanese commander Saigo Takamori was very dissatisfied with this. He followed Tang Ning to fight in the south and the north, and his qualifications were much older than Tang Sala, but this time the southern theater was dominated by the Daqing ** team, so he could only be subservient.
Even so, Saigo-kun, who was as belligerent as Jackson, still hurriedly brought 10,000 Japanese troops to fight in Rio de Janeiro. In the past few years, France and Prussia have been defeated, and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to fight in the future.
The artillery on Jackson's side of the northern battlefield was rumbling and already fighting happily, and the southern battlefield of Tangsala still did not start, but kept looking for a landing site near Rio, waiting for the infantry fighting vehicles to come over. Don Sara believed that the war must minimize casualties on both sides, and civilians on both sides should also suffer as few casualties as possible, and he was surprised to find that the Japanese samurai had a spirit of wanting to die on the battlefield, but fortunately they were not enemies......
Saigo Takamori, who had lost his command, was extremely depressed, and often personally went to reconnoiter the enemy's rear, and he thought that he used airships to sissy guns, and he liked to drive attack helicopters to reconnoitre, which was a good thing, regardless of the fact that the comfort of attack helicopters was completely inferior to that of multi-purpose helicopters.
Since helicopters were far more useful for war than airships, Downing decided that it was time for the sissy to be open to friendly countries, and of course, it was still the Windsor consortium's signature rental method, and the pilot could also be rented. Finally, the annual rent of an airship is £600, which is £100 more expensive than the most expensive car, the Continental GT. Both the military and the Bigwigs are very interested in renting airships.
Since the birth of the airship, there has never been a serious flight accident, and those rich people who cherish their lives also trust the technology of the Beluga Airship. These friendly countries actually included Prussia. At this time, Prussia was already the husband of Princess Victoria, Frederick III with strong liberal ideas, so Prussia turned into a friendly country of the Windsor consortium, and the royal family successfully applied for permission to rent airships.
The new king of liberal Prussia was called "forgotten the shame of war" by the liberal and open Prussian press. Of course, Americans are also good at forgetting shame, and anyway, Lincoln will be gone after another term, and it will be quite cost-effective for him and his people not to have to fight. Only the French and Russians do not forget their national shame, and the state-controlled media daily promote anti-Windsor rhetoric, "we have been bullied", "we want revenge" and so on.
Such forgetful Yankees quickly won the favor of capital, and the pace of post-war reconstruction was quite fast, and the Pacific Railroad and the South Pacific Railroad, led by the Windsor consortium, secretly launched a speed race. In fact, in the era of railways, only the highway did not keep up, because of the limitation of transportation, and now this limitation has been broken by the emergence of fuel cells, and various cheap cars based on fuel cells have begun to appear, so the rise of highways has also become an important event in the history of transportation. (http://.)。
The difference between the South and the North is that the Windsor consortium has taken the lead in laying high-grade interstates with prefabricated concrete technology, which has not yet been taken into account by the capital of the North.
According to Downing's oil theory, there is a very high probability that there will be oil in the Gulf of Mexico, so there are airships operated by Universal Exploration Company along the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. When the war in Brazil began to break out, the first oil field in Texas was discovered, and the reserves were not small, greatly expanding the territory of Windsor's oil empire. After preliminary measurements, the helium content of the Texas oil and gas field is high, and this Texas oil and gas field will greatly reduce the cost of producing helium again.
This exploration was conducted by Rockefeller, the Texas government, Charles Morgan (and J. Morgan). p。 Morgan has nothing to do with Morgan), Vanderbilt and other joint investments, so the Texas government, which was originally so poor that it clanged, began to widen. The Texas government is debating whether to sell its shares to Texans or continue to let the government hold shares.
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