Chapter 448: The People's War
The news of Mexico's uprising and the seizure of the capital shocked the world, and even US President Theodore Roosevelt did not expect the Chinese government to be so shameless as to kill its allies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info But he has to admit that even though there are a lot of negative effects in the long run Chinese, but as far as the current Three Kingdoms War is concerned, it does make the US government very uncomfortable, Dias is unpopular in Mexico, the United States only needs to support Dias's opponents to form a new government to easily control the country and pull it from China, but now that Dias is dead, this force will be divided, and the rebel army that is obviously Chinese can pull the anti-American people in it as long as it can be co-opted, It was enough to continue to cause problems for the US First Army that invaded Mexico.
Soon after, Theodore Roosevelt found the situation even more troublesome than he had thought, and although Pershing seized the opportunity of the civil strife in Mexico to lead his army all the way to take Mexico City, and as instructed by him to install a new government that was completely subordinate to the United States, the Mexican Romanais was not only eliminated, but further developed, because their roots were not in the cities, but in the vast countryside......
Mexico is not an advanced industrial country, most of the population lives in the countryside, and the conditions for guerrilla warfare are naturally available, and the high concentration of land in Mexico allows the Mexican Pax to quickly gain the support of the vast majority of the peasants through the agrarian revolution, and the Mexican civilian class has always been anti-American, which is a match made in heaven. The instructors from China brought weapons and tactics tailored to guerrilla warfare, and taught the Mexican peasants the anachronistic military theory of people's war......
You must know that Mexico is a big country in Latin America, and its total population has almost reached 15 million, which is very different from the vast and sparsely populated western United States, and the US military does not have the strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, nor does it lack the theory and experience to deal with people's war. In addition, Mexico is also a member of the Western cultural circle, and it is difficult for the US military to completely tear off its face and come up with the means to exterminate the Indians back then, so it will naturally be difficult for this guerrilla force to be wiped out.
Well, the Americans have done a lot of shameless things, so it is not bad, they did not adopt a policy of extermination against Mexicans, in the final analysis, it is because the gains outweigh the losses, no matter how many Mexicans dare to resist the US military, they are still a minority, but if they really carry out indiscriminate massacres, the United States will have to face a Mexico where everyone takes up arms to resist bravely. If Mexico really mattered, the U.S. government might still be able to make that decision, but it wasn't......
There will be a great threat to Mexico being controlled by China, so there is nothing wrong with the US military sending troops, but even if the US government really occupies Mexico, it can only prevent China from benefiting Mexico's manpower, financial and material resources to deal with the United States, and it is simply impossible to use Mexico's power against China in turn. Because the border between Mexico and the current Chinese occupation zone is either a vast desert or a lofty mountain, the large army cannot pass at all, and the only thing that may have some value is that the population of Mexico may be used as coolies and cannon fodder. But since the population of Mexico is needed, there can be no genocidal slaughter, and the problem comes back......
As a result, the US First Army could only make a few fierce intimidations from time to time, just like the devils who invaded China in history, but it was impossible to solve the problem fundamentally because of its own needs; encouraged by the victories of the Pax Romana guerrillas again and again, the Mexican people were not only not frightened by the atrocities of the US military, but hated the Americans more and more, and the size of the guerrillas increased rather than decreased, and soon formed a trend of burning the prairie into flames.
You must know that the Mexican guerrillas have the support of China behind them and have received a large amount of weapons and ammunition captured from the US military, and they are not like the "turtles" of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in history, but are more similar to the guerrillas of Yugoslavia during World War II and North Vietnam after the war, and their combat effectiveness, especially their ability to attack positions, is much stronger.
How vast is the area of Mexico, a group army of hundreds of thousands of people looks like a lot, if it is dispersed throughout the country, it is not enough to put down one battalion and one camp, and now that a regiment of the US army does not dare to leave the railway line and act alone, how much territory can it control? As a matter of fact, the US military later abandoned almost all the small and medium-sized cities, and the cities were the concentration of talent, wealth, and industry, and once the guerrillas occupied many cities, they would not only have soldiers and food, but would not only be able to hold on hard under the encirclement and suppression of the US troops, but would have the possibility of recovering the lost territory and driving out the US invaders.
Later, many military historians in the world believed that if Theodore Roosevelt had not been able to afford to let go and order the First Army to withdraw to the country before the situation completely collapsed, the number of Americans who died in Mexico would have been not just 780,000, but 450,000......
In addition to the tenacity of the Mexican people and the strong organization of the Mexican Pax Party, the generous support from China also played a crucial role, in addition to handing over a large number of unused guns and ammunition captured in the war against the United States to the Mexican guerrillas (some of which had been secretly transported to Mexico even before the war), and sending thousands of officers (mainly political workers) and technicians, of whom no less than 1,000 died on foreign soil. The sacrifice was no less great than that of his comrades on the frontal battlefield.
Later, the Mexican government also built a monument to remember their internationalist spirit, but the remains of the martyrs were all brought back to China for burial on the grounds that "the Chinese pay attention to the return to their roots".
As for China's previous "borrowing" from the Díaz government, both sides have intentionally or unintentionally ignored it, only those Western media that have a bad relationship with China have been holding on to it, but they cannot deny an objective fact - the Chinese government has not actually signed a formal alliance with the Díaz government at all, and it can only be said that Díaz was tricked by the Chinese government's tricks (after the excuse, it blocked Mexico's way to the United States, and then even if China deliberately delayed, Díaz could not do anything, Unless he goes crazy and declares war on two great powers at the same time...... But it cannot be said that the Chinese government is not keeping its promises...... (To be continued.) )