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Under the blazing sun and blue sky, the Caribbean Sea is so beautiful and charming. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo╔╗

On the island of Cuba, known as the pearl of the Caribbean, people are busy transporting local specialties such as sugar, cocoa and tobacco to the wharf, where they are loaded into huge containers, which are soon lifted by the huge gantry cranes on the wharf and loaded onto huge cargo ships.

Since the Sino-American War, Cuba has become the third overseas colony of the Chinese Empire in the Caribbean. But its contribution to the Chinese Empire far exceeded that of the other two colonies, Puerto Rico and the West Indies.

The island of Cuba is tropical, and until the 20th century, it was known as the sugar pot of the world, because the island is rich in sugar cane, and the sugar industry is very developed, 65% of the world's cane sugar comes from here, and another 30% is produced in Hawaii. As a global luxury, cane sugar was once only affordable for the wealthy. But as sugar beet was gradually cultivated on a large scale in temperate zones, sugar quickly became dominant in the world.

By the thirties of the twentieth century, the global sugar industry was booming, and the position of sugar in sugar products had declined significantly, but because of the strong global demand for sugar products, the sugar industry in Cuba had not only not declined, but continued to expand.

There are 305 sugar cane plantations on the island of Cuba, more than 250 of which were originally controlled by the Americans or taken from the Spanish after the Spanish-American War. After the Sino-American War, all of these American-controlled plantations were seized by sugar merchants in the Chinese Empire. Similarly, the 20 sugar mills on the island of Cuba have changed owners, all of which have been taken over by Chinese. Most of the sugar produced on the island of Cuba was also shipped to the Chinese Empire for further processing and made into various sugar products. It is then sold all over the world.

The export of sugar was the largest source of revenue for the Cuban colonial authorities, followed by tobacco. The first recommended tobacco produced in Cuba is cigars, and Havana cigars are the most famous. Experts around the world who know cigars agree: Only Cuba's fertile red soil can produce the best tobacco in the world, and handmade cigars from Cuba are the best cigars in the world.

The ultimate flavour of Cuban cigars is made by a special process. In order to allow people to enjoy cigars with a gap for smoke to pass through, the cigarette core of Cuban cigars is manually torn by hand, tearing the tobacco leaves into two pieces vertically, and then making the filler, which is also the characteristic that handmade cigars can have. The filler of a Cuban cigar. It is made from the following three types of tobacco leaves, which are mixed in different proportions to create the unique flavor of each brand.

Ligero – Although ligero literally translates to "light", on the contrary, it is a dark and flavorful tobacco. The Rig Road tobacco leaves are made from the fastest-growing and strongest parts of the top of the tobacco plant, and require at least three years of storage before they can be used.

Sego tobacco leaves - made by picking the middle part of the tobacco plant. It is lighter in color and drier in texture, and can be used eighteen months after ripening. The smoke is much lighter than that of Rig Road tobacco.

Volado, which originally means "front leaf", is actually a leaf harvested from the base of the plant and can be used nine months after maturity. The smoke is very light and is mostly used to help the cigar burn. The tobacco leaves used for bundling are mostly leaves close to the bottom of the plant, similar to and Lado tobacco leaves, and the smoke taste is very light.

These three top-of-the-line cigars from Cuban brands. After the Sino-American War, it was also seized from the hands of American tobacco merchants by the tobacco merchants of the Chinese Empire and re-registered as the brand cigar cigarettes of the Chinese Empire. In the decade of the treaty era, these three cigars quickly became the world's top cigar brands, becoming the most famous men's luxury goods after women's perfumes.

In addition to these three large tobacco companies, Cuba has more than a hundred other small and medium-sized tobacco companies. In order to monopolize this tax-rich industry, the Chinese Empire first imposed heavy taxes on foreigners operating in the tobacco industry in Cuba, forcing foreigners to withdraw their investment, and then resuming normal taxation and replacing it with Chinese. ╔╗In the thirties of the twentieth century, the tobacco industry in Cuba was monopolized by the Chinese. Among the top 50 cigarette brands in the world, the Chinese Empire monopolizes 45 of them, just as the Chinese Empire monopolizes the world's women's perfume production industry, and thus also monopolizes the tobacco production industry, which is the privilege of men in the world, and contributes as much as 5% of the Chinese Empire's financial revenue every year.

In addition to cane sugar and tobacco, Cuban cocoa and tropical fruits were also exported vigorously, which became one of the important financial revenues of the Cuban colonial authorities of the Chinese Empire.

For the local Cubans, neither Spanish nor American, there is no significant impact on their lives. They still work 10 hours a day and receive a salary of less than two dragon coins. On the contrary, after the Chinese became the masters, the life of the Cubans improved, and the average daily wage rose to three dragon coins. Under the rule of the Chinese, they were given a certain degree of democracy and freedom, and compared with the time of the Spanish and American rule, the Cubans received the minimum medical security from the Chinese, and as long as they worked for the Chinese, they enjoyed the favorable conditions of reimbursement of medical treatment and medical treatment. This health care is very important for Cubans, who often suffer from diseases.

It can be said that Cuba under the rule of the Chinese Empire has greatly improved the lives of the Cuban people, so that the ruling role of the Chinese here has quickly gained a firm foothold. Except for the years after the takeover of Cuba, when some Americans who were unwilling to lose their companies and plantations continued to stir up trouble, by the thirties, Cuba's social order had been quite stable, and protests, demonstrations, or riots basically ceased to occur.

Like Hawaii, Cuba became an important producer of industrial and agricultural raw materials in the overseas colonies of the Chinese Empire. The vigorous development of luxury goods such as sugar and tobacco in the Chinese Empire relied on the large-scale import of cheap raw materials from here. The Chinese Empire erected high tariff barriers in colonies such as Cuba and Hawaii, and foreign companies that wanted to import industrial and agricultural raw materials from there faced extremely high tariffs, resulting in high production costs and meager profits in the sugar and tobacco industries, making it impossible for foreign companies to compete with similar companies in the Chinese Empire.

Although the Chinese Empire has taken some measures to stabilize the colonial economy and improve the democracy and freedom of the colonies, it has eased the contradictions between the colonial people who want to be the masters of their own affairs and the Chinese Empire. However, in order to strengthen its control over the colonies, the Chinese Empire strengthened its military presence in Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines and other colonies, and built a large number of land, sea and air military bases.

On the island of Cuba, the integrated land, sea and air bases of Guantanamo Bay and Onda Bay and Onda Gulf have been established respectively. Strengthen the rule of Cuba.

On the morning of September 2, 1934, the sky over the Guantanamo base was sunny and cloudless.

The two large air force airfields in the base are densely packed with all kinds of fighters, bombers, reconnaissance planes, transport planes, and gliders, and thousands of air crew members are carefully inspecting each plane in an intense and orderly manner to ensure that it can perform its tasks normally.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, all the officers and men of the 11th Regiment of the Third Airborne Division of the Chinese Empire, which had been transferred to the Guantanamo base three days ago, sang the imperial national anthem and military anthem, and assembled around the runway of the airport to stand by.

They sat neatly on the lawn to rest, and their gear was neatly placed ten meters away from them. Helmets, backpacks, parachute bags, weapons, and other items are all in the same place.

None of them knew why they had assembled here, and the officers, including the regimental commander, thought it was just another military exercise.

"Look over there! It's our heavy gear! ”

A soldier suddenly pointed to a large line of transport planes parked not far away. The hatch of the transport plane was opened, the track was demarcated, and the heavy weapons and equipment such as combat vehicles, artillery, and heavy machine guns of the airborne division, as well as supplies such as ammunition boxes, medical boxes, and military ration boxes were also loaded into the transport plane.

"It doesn't look like an ordinary drill! These heavy equipment are also going to be airdropped! ”

"Lots of ammunition! There are also medical kits and ration crates! It can't really be a war! ”

……

A group of soldiers began to talk about each other. ╔╗

"It's all quiet! What are you yelling about? Take a break! ”

The battalion commander Li Liande suddenly shouted, stopping everyone's discussion. But then Li Liande quietly walked to the side of Chen Kexian, the chief of staff of the regiment. He asked, "Your Excellency, there is a lot of movement this time." Even the heavy equipment participated! ”

Chief of Staff Chen Kexian understood what he meant, and immediately said: "Don't ask me, I don't know anything!" ”

It's waiting for this time. Suddenly, someone shouted: "The regimental commander is back!" ”

Chen Kexian suddenly got up, tidied up his military appearance, and walked forward. Li Liande also followed in a hurry, and several other battalion and company commanders also moved closer to this side.

With a creak, a military vehicle stopped less than 10 centimeters away from Chen Kexian. The regiment commander, Xiao Nanying, jumped out of the military jeep.

"Okay, Lao Chen! Courage. Powerful! This is my chief of staff! ”

Chen Kexian smiled: "Until your technology is so fearless!" ”

Xiao Nanying came closer, Chen Kexian looked at his face a little solemn, and asked, "How is it?" What is the instruction of the division headquarters? ”

Chen Kexian glanced at Li Liande, who was following him, and said, "Go and go, stay and go!" ”

Li Liande still wanted to hear some whispers, but was immediately driven away by Chen Kexian.

"I just received an order that our Third Airborne Division is going to carry out an urgent combat mission! This is not a drill! ”

Xiao Nanying emphasized that it was not a drill, which immediately made Chen Kexian nervous, and hurriedly asked, "What task?" Is there really going to be a war? ”

Xiao Nanying nodded, and said with a straight face: "The Mexican army has been defeated again and again, and the US army is moving south, which means to destroy Mexico in one go!" ”

Chen Kexian was confused and asked, "Didn't the U.S. military stop going south before?" I heard that Roosevelt had accepted the mediation of the empire and was ready to negotiate peace with Mexico, why did he suddenly fight again? ”

"Just say it!" Xiao Nanying sighed and said, "Originally, the Americans were forced by the pressure of the empire, and Roosevelt had agreed to peace talks with Mexico. However, Mexican President Kiir thought that the empire would firmly stand on the side of Mexico, so he ordered the main force of the Mexican army to counterattack three days ago, thinking that he could take the opportunity to fight a major counteroffensive against the Americans. Unexpectedly, the Americans had been prepared for a long time, and the Mexican army's counteroffensive failed, and the US military launched an attack on all fronts under the pretext that Mexico was not sincere. In less than three days, the Mexican army lost hundreds of thousands of people, Arizona and Louisiana were all occupied by the US army, and the US army has now advanced to the line of the Rio Grande, and the empire asked the US army to stop the offensive to no avail, so the general staff is worried that the situation is out of control. It was decided to intervene to prevent the US troops from moving south. ”

It turned out that when the Mexican army completely collapsed the defense line on the Mississippi River. The Chinese Empire sent a number of aircraft carrier battle groups and battleship battle groups to approach the east and west coasts of the United States, and sent a note to the Roosevelt administration to stop military operations. At that time, the Roosevelt administration was worried that the alliance between the Chinese Empire and Mexico might enter the war, believing that the US military could not defeat the Chinese Empire at all, and once the Chinese Empire intervened, I was afraid that the United States would repeat the tragic scene of more than ten years ago. Therefore, the Roosevelt administration ordered the U.S. military to stop its march and agreed to the Chinese Empire's request for an armistice and peace with Mexico. ╔╗

However, the Mexican side is not willing to negotiate peace with the United States in this way, because it means that Mexico will be defeated by the United States again. From the President of Mexico Kiel downward. The entire Government and people of Mexico are not reconciled. As a result, the Mexican military decided to rearm under the guise of peace talks, planning to surprise the US military and reverse the situation of the Mexican-American war.

On 3 July, amid a ceasefire between the US and Mexican forces, representatives of the United States and Mexico held peace talks in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, an overseas territory of the Chinese Empire.

At the suggestion of the Chinese Empire, the United States and Mexico signed an armistice first. Military action is prohibited during peace talks. The Chinese Empire then negotiated separately with the United States and Mexico, mainly to hear the terms of the peace talks between the two sides. The U.S. side demanded the complete withdrawal of Mexican troops from U.S. territory, referring to the U.S.-Mexico border as stipulated in the New York Treaty. To compensate the United States for the loss of the national economy and casualties of 1,850 billion US dollars, the exchange rate of 1934 was about 8 billion dragon dollars, and Mexico was required to give up all the privileges of the United States under the New York Treaty. The territorial issues of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas should be decided by referendum on the will of the locals to decide whether to join the United States or Mexico. The Mexican side, on the other hand, proposes a return to the status quo ante to the outbreak of the Third Mexican-American War, in which Mexico continues to occupy Louisiana. Compensate Mexico for military spending and the economic and casualty losses caused to the Mexican people in the anti-Mexican riots in the United States 23 billion pesos, the exchange rate in 1934 was about 2.8 billion yuan, and the other conditions were to demand that the United States restore the content stipulated in the "New York Treaty", mainly requiring the US military to disband the air force and the Ground Self-Defense Force to restore the status of 200,000 people.

The United States and Mexico had serious differences during the peace talks that followed for more than a month. The negotiators of the two countries basically did not relent, and did not make concessions, resulting in a stalemate in the talks.

At the same time, both the United States and Mexico are actively engaged in military preparations. Although the United States was worried about the military intervention of the Chinese Empire, in the face of the country's peril, the Roosevelt administration believed that if there was no way out, it would only start another war with the Chinese Empire, so the US military actively carried out military preparations and focused on how to prevent the military intervention of the Chinese Empire. On the one hand, the U.S. military stepped up the pace of military expansion, rigorously trained its soldiers, and studied strategies for dealing with situations that might break out into conflict with the Chinese emperor. On the other hand, the US military has stepped up the import of large quantities of advanced weapons and equipment from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries to raise the overall equipment level of the US military. He also discussed with German military advisers whether the existing equipment could constitute an advantage over the equipment of the Chinese emperor or whether it could have a fighting force.

And Mexican President Kiir was also unwilling to be defeated by the United States in this way, and instructed the Mexican military to rearmament. In a little more than a month, the Mexican army mobilized 1 million young people to join the army, while spending 3.2 billion dragon coins to buy advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, including advanced fighters, bombers, tanks and artillery. Especially in terms of fighter jets, the Mexican Air Force's active Hellfire and Thunderbolt fighters suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Washington, and were beaten by the US military's FW190 fighters without fighting back. The Mexican military blamed the defeat on inferior equipment to the U.S. military, demanding the purchase of the most advanced J-10 Black Hawk fighters from the Chinese Empire. Similarly, the purchase list also includes the purchase of the H-5 medium-range bomber and the H-6 long-range bomber of the Chinese Empire, as well as the M28A2 main battle tank, the W30 wheeled infantry tank, and the Thor series of rocket launchers, which are known as the king of land warfare.

Sensing the threat of a series of advanced Western weapons and equipment equipped by the US military, the Chinese Empire also considered exporting advanced weapons and equipment to the Mexican military to counter the US military. However, what the Chinese Empire wanted most at this time was for the Mexican-American War to end and restore the two countries to their pre-war status. Now that Mexico has been devastated by both the economic crisis and the military defeat, it is no longer possible for Mexico to dominate the American continent alone, and the hidden danger has been eliminated. There is no need to export more advanced weapons and equipment to Mexico, so that Mexico can grow stronger again. Therefore, the Chinese Empire did not intend to export the most advanced weapons and equipment to Mexico, but in order to appease Mexico. After earning 3.2 billion dragon coins in Mexico's hands, the Chinese Empire decided to provide Mexico with an export version of the J-10 with reduced performance, which is the J-8 fighter. It is used to counter the German-made FW190 fighter in the US Air Force. On the ground, the M28 main battle tank, which has reduced its performance, was exported to Mexico to counter the No. 2 main battle tank imported from Germany by the United States. In addition, for other military equipment in Mexico, the Chinese Empire decided to "upgrade" it to fool around for a while, mainly to scoop up the money.

The Mexican military was overjoyed and obediently paid for it, but the Chinese empire soon said that the "needed" equipment was being produced and that delivery was expected to take one to two years. ╔╗The Mexican military was dumbfounded, the purchased equipment took too long. The Mexican military simply can't wait, because the Chinese empire is putting pressure on both the United States and Mexico to reach an agreement as soon as possible to end the war.

By the end of August, the Mexican Army, which had been besieged by American troops in Miami, Florida, had safely withdrawn to its homeland under the cover of the Chinese Empire. The other side. Mexican troops in the Demilitarized Zone of California are also withdrawing to their homeland, according to Mexican military commander Carlos. At present, there are still 700,000 main forces of the Mexican army, and the total number of newly recruited soldiers is more than 1 million, and the total strength of Mexico has reached 2 million. With 1,100 aircraft, 780 tanks, and 9,800 artillery pieces, it is possible to launch a large-scale counterattack. Carlos believes that the reason why the Mexican army was defeated by the US military was due to the advanced FW190 fighter jets of the US Air Force. As long as these advanced fighters of the US military can be destroyed at the first time, the Mexican army can successfully counterattack.

In order to annihilate the US Air Force, Carlos concentrated more than 1,200 H1N1, H2N1, O-400, and other bombers of the Mexican Air Force, preparing to blow up all 72 airfields in the entire territory of the United States in one fell swoop, and destroy all the US fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes on the ground, thus seizing air supremacy in one fell swoop.

This plan is extremely bold, if it succeeds, then the United States will not have planes to take to the skies, and the Mexican Air Force will be able to cover the Mexican ground forces to launch a counterattack, and it is very likely that the US military will be defeated.

However, if it fails, then the consequences will be devastating.

On August 26, the Mexican Air Force launched a large-scale military operation, codenamed "Sandstorm". On the morning of that day, more than 1,200 bombers of various types, carrying more than 3,000 tons of aerial bombs, took off from 53 airfields on the Mexican mainland, escorted by more than 1,000 fighter planes, and pounced on airfields all over the United States like a sandstorm, preparing to blow up all the US planes on the ground in one fell swoop.

The U.S. Air Force actually didn't realize that the Mexican Air Force dared to launch a sudden and massive air strike, but the U.S. military had just introduced a radar system from Germany and was testing it. As a result, the radar suddenly discovered that a large-scale group of planes in the sky was coming, and the US Air Force realized that it was a sneak attack by the Mexican Air Force, but it did not know where the target of the Mexican Air Force attack was, so the US military quickly sounded the alarm at all airports, the bombers were transferred, and the fighters took off and took off for combat.

More than 1,400 US fighter planes took off from more than 20 airfields and quickly intercepted the incoming Mexican Air Force bomber group and exchanged fierce fire with the escort fighter group.

Due to the advanced performance of the fighters of the US Air Force, the results speak for themselves, and the fighters escorted by the Mexican Air Force were shot down one after another, and the remnants of the fighters soon returned home. And the bomber group was also attacked by American fighters, losing more than 900 aircraft. The scale of the air battle on this day was huge, and it became the largest air battle in the post-war treaty era, but because the battlefield spread over more than 40 regions in the southern United States, the number of warring planes in a single area was only a few dozen, and the scale of the local air battle was not large. On this day, the Mexican Air Force lost more than 920 fighters and 844 bombers, while the U.S. Air Force lost only 333 fighters, 12 airfields were bombed, 23 bombers were lost and 242 people were killed and wounded, and several other oil depots were destroyed.

Carlos did not expect the Mexican Air Force to be defeated, so when the Air Force set off, he also ordered a million-strong Mexican army to attack the American forces on the opposite side.

Although Mexico's battle plan was extremely secret, and even the Chinese Empire was kept in the dark, the movement of a million-strong army naturally touched the sensitive nerves of the commander of the US Ground Self-Defense Force, and MacArthur judged that the Mexican Army might take action, but because the Chinese Empire was around, the US military could not take the initiative to provoke an armed conflict. Therefore, it can only be defended passively.

At this time, MacArthur had already learned the valuable experience of the U.S. army in the early days of the Mexican-American War when it was defeated by the Mexican army's armored forces, and knew that once the Mexican army attacked. It would certainly be a thunderous blow, so MacArthur ordered the main force of the US military at the Line of Actual Control of the United States and Mexico to retreat, deploying only a small number of troops, and moving large troops and important military supplies back to avoid being destroyed by the Mexican army's artillery fire at the first time. In this way, the danger of being hit by another blitzkrieg attack by the Mexican army was eliminated, and at the same time, the sincerity of the US military was demonstrated to the Chinese empire and the international community, killing two birds with one stone.

Carlos's surprise attack on a million-strong Mexican army was still lightning tactics, but it failed to achieve the expected strategic effect. Only several second-line infantry divisions of the US army were severely damaged.

Although the sudden attack of the Mexican army shocked the whole United States, Roosevelt saw it as an opportunity. Because Mexico did not abide by the agreement first, when the U.S. military launched a counterattack, the Chinese Empire had no reason to stop it. At the same time, Roosevelt wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to move troops into the Demilitarized Zone of California. caused the fact that the US military is in control. At the same time, the U.S. military will seize the Mexican-occupied states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in one fell swoop. Restore the original territory of the United States.

Roosevelt immediately launched a call to the international community to condemn Mexico's untrustworthy behavior. Call on the U.S. team to completely defeat the evil Mexican army and recover the lost territory of the United States.

The Mexican army, which lost air supremacy, was soon carpet-bombed by the US Air Force, and the US military dispatched 500 Messersmit bombers to drop 20,000 tons of aerial bombs on the hundreds of thousands of Mexican troops in Houston in three days, blowing up Carlos's headquarters. Destroyed the last remaining elite Second Army of the Mexican Army.

Subsequently, the US Army Group South Carolina crushed the Mexican Sixth Army in the San Antonio area, crushing the offensive of the Mexican Army's Left Army Group. With Carlos wounded and unable to command the battle, the Mexican army was in disarray. Army Group Left chose to retreat after being attacked head-on by the American troops. However, Army Group Right did not receive an order to retreat and continued its march to Tulsa, as a result of which it made the mistake of going deep alone.

On 30 August, more than 1.3 million troops from the US Army Group Iowa, Maine Army, Pennsylvania Army, and Kansas Army Group encircled the lone Mexican Right Wing Army Group from all directions, encircling the main force of the 660,000 Mexican Army within less than 300 kilometers east of Tulsa.

Subsequently, the US military dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb the encircled Mexican army indiscriminately, causing heavy casualties to the Mexican army. At this time, all the officers and men of the Mexican Right Wing Army Group had learned that the Left Army Group had abandoned them and retreated, and they had become a lone army, surrounded by countless American troops, with no morale and a serious decline in combat effectiveness.

At dawn the next day, the U.S. army launched a full-scale attack, more than 1,000 tanks broke through the Mexican defense line from all directions, and then hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops launched an attack in echelons, and in less than two days, 660,000 Mexican troops were annihilated, the vast majority of which surrendered voluntarily, and more than 400,000 were captured.

After the U.S. forces completely annihilated the Mexican Army's right-wing army group, the Mexican Army on the left flank panicked even more, quickly abandoned Texas, and ran to the south bank of the Rio Grande River in one go. The U.S. military pursued the victory, occupying Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico in three days, restoring the territory of the United States since 1848. At the same time, U.S. troops also entered the Demilitarized Zone of California.

Because Mexico took the initiative to provoke the war, the Chinese Empire was forced by international public opinion to not intervene in the Mexican-American War. But as the U.S. military regained the territories seized by Mexico under the New York Treaty and marched into the Demilitarized Zone of California, the Chinese empire gradually became unable to sit still.

Soon, Mexico took the initiative to sue for peace, asking the U.S. military to stop the attack. The Chinese Empire then again called for an armistice and peace talks between the United States and Mexico, but did not want the United States to delay in responding.

Roosevelt believed that the Chinese Empire had no reason to stop the U.S. military now, and that the U.S. military should expand its gains so that it could gain more bargaining chips in the next negotiations, so the U.S. Army prepared to launch the Battle of the Rio Grande to defeat the Mexican Army in one fell swoop and approach Mexico City. However, Roosevelt misjudged this time, and the Chinese Empire found that the United States was stronger than Mexico, which had upset the balance of power between the United States and Mexico, so the Chinese Empire soon decided to stop the American military and fulfill the Sino-Mexican Security Treaty.

In this way, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire issued an order to prepare for armed intervention in the Mexican-American War. But the Chinese empire needs to consider the scale of its involvement, whether it wants to fight an all-out war with the United States. The proposal for all-out war was rejected by Congress, because the international community at this time had a view of the Chinese empire because of the economic crisis. In addition, the Mexican-American War was provoked by Mexico, and if the Chinese Empire launched a full-scale war against the United States, it would be strongly condemned and dissatisfied by the international community. In particular, the United States was very close to Britain, France, Germany, and Italy during the war. Germany and Italy even sent "volunteers" to the war. This suggests that the United States has become a link between Britain and France, Germany and Italy, and that if a full-scale war breaks out between the Chinese Empire and the United States, it will lead to a collective fear of the Chinese Empire in the Western world.

Just as Emperor Wang Chenhao worried, the Western world should not be allowed to unite with the Chinese Empire. It was the strategic purpose of the Chinese Empire to instigate war between the Central and Entente powers.

The all-out war plan submitted by the General Staff was rejected by Congress, but in order to stop the American invasion of Mexico, the Chinese Empire had to give the United States a little color and let it retreat. Therefore, it is in the interests of the Chinese Empire to wage a local war against the United States on a manageable scale.

Until then, though. Congress asked the Imperial Government to resolve the matter politically first. As a result, almost the entire European countries, including Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, opposed it, and even Spain gave up Mexico and chose to stand with Germany, Italy, and the United States.

After this incident. The Chinese Empire has clearly sensed the hostile attitude of the Western world towards the Chinese Empire, and is therefore even more certain that it is not prepared to launch an all-out war against the United States. But to the rescue of Mexico. The Chinese Empire decided to start a local war, and it was only necessary to stop the American army from moving south.

However, the Mexican army was too disappointing to the Chinese Empire. In the face of the attack of the American army, the Mexican army could not scoop up any decent counterattack. Just like the Mexican-American War more than half a century ago, the U.S. military would go all the way to Mexico City.

The Mexican army could not hold out for a week, and the Chinese Empire needed at least a month to prepare for mobilizing 200,000 standing troops from the mainland and sending them to Mexico to participate in the war. And. The main airfields in the depths of Mexico were destroyed by American bombers, and the airfields could not allow the large transport planes of the Chinese Empire to take off and land in a short period of time, making the plan of the Chinese Empire to directly airlift troops to the Mexican front line unworkable.

Time was pressing, so the Imperial Chinese General Staff decided to take a risk and use the 3rd Division of the Imperial Airborne Forces, which was conducting exercises in Hawaii, to quickly parachute it to the front line of the American and Mexican armies. As long as Roosevelt had not made up his mind to go to war with the Chinese Empire, he would not attack the Mexican Army again. Of course, if Roosevelt had made up his mind to go to war, then the Airborne Third Division, which had been dropped by the Chinese Empire, would be in danger.

However, the Imperial General Staff decided to do so, so it ordered the 3rd Airborne Division in Hawaii to quickly transfer to the major airfields at the Puerto Rico base and the Cuban base in the Caribbean Sea to prepare for a large-scale airdrop, hoping to use this large-scale airborne landing to deter the United States.

Chen Kexian learned about the incident from Xiao Nanying, and immediately frowned: "Then we are going to land in Monterrey this time, and there are 400,000 US troops on the opposite side!" ”

Xiao Nanying sighed and said, "Yes! A place of nine deaths and a lifetime! However, we are soldiers, and even if we know that the number of enemies is dozens of times that of our own, we must not be intimidated. ”

Chen Kexian showed a resolute look and nodded: "That's nature!" ”

Xiao Nanying suddenly smiled and said: "Don't be too nervous, maybe our large-scale airborne landing will suddenly scare the US military!" ”

"That's the best, of course!" Chen Kexian smiled bitterly: "Do you remember what Your Majesty said when he inspected our Airborne Army? ”

"Paratroopers are born surrounded!"

The two blurted out at the same time, and immediately laughed.

"Assemble!"

At the sound of the order, the officers and men of the whole regiment immediately stood up and, under the leadership of their respective company and platoon commanders, sorted out their weapons and equipment.

Prior to this, Xiao Nanying and Chen Kexian had already made pre-war mobilization speeches with the officers and men of the regiment, but did not mention that they were fighting alone. Everyone thought that it was the outbreak of the second full-scale war between China and the United States, and they were full of confidence in defeating the United States, so they were all high-spirited.

Xiao Nanying shouted at the end: "What is our slogan? ”

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win!"

All the officers and men replied in a neat and loud voice.

Xiao Nanying looked at his subordinates, both happy and a little worried. The joy is that the soldiers are born for war, and today they are finally going to the battlefield. What worries us is that if we fail to deter the US military, then this parachute landing is very likely to be dead, and it is estimated that very few of the more than 2,000 people brought out will be able to come back alive.

"Get on board!"

The short thought did not affect Xiao Nanying's command, and he quickly gave the order to board the plane.

At the same time, at more than a dozen other airfields, other units of the 3rd Airborne Division were mobilized one after another and began to board the aircraft. Coincidentally, none of the regimental officers told their subordinates the truth.

The Third Airborne Division of the Chinese Empire is subordinate to the First Airborne Group Army of the Empire, and was originally stationed at the Jinling Air Base on the mainland of the Chinese Empire, with an establishment of about 12,900 personnel. It has 3 airborne brigades, 1 aviation brigade and 1 divisional artillery team. There are 9 combat battalions, 54 M28A2 main battle tanks, 54 M16A5 light tanks, 128 M30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, 36 Z29 anti-tank combat vehicles, 180 Raytheon-1 rocket artillery fighting vehicles, 36 75-mm infantry guns, 36 105-mm howitzers, 54 60-mm mortars, 36 81-mm mortars, 3 electronic reconnaissance vehicles, 2 radar command vehicles, 6 communication command vehicles, as well as various military assault vehicles, medical ambulances, Hundreds of grain and oil supply vehicles.

The 3rd Airborne Division typically conducts joint combat operations with the Air Force, which is responsible for providing airlift, close air support, and airdrop resupply.

On the whole, the Third Airborne Division is a completely mechanized and modern armored force, and its weapons and equipment are the most advanced in the Chinese Empire at present, especially those heavy equipment have achieved airdrop capabilities, which is incomparable to other arms. At the same time, the training of the airborne troops is also one of the most severe branches of the Chinese Imperial Army, and basically all airborne troops have a training procedure similar to that of special forces, that is, they have maintained the group combat capability of the army at the division and regiment level, and also retained the ability of special forces to fight individually. It is precisely because the airborne troops are born surrounded by this factor that the airborne troops of the Chinese Empire have been trained from the very beginning to survive and win under the condition of being surrounded by enemies from all sides, so the combat effectiveness of the imperial airborne troops is extremely strong, as long as the air force can continue to provide them with supplies, they will fight tenaciously. It can be said that the airborne division is a unit of more than 10,000 quasi-special forces gathered together, and its combat effectiveness is self-evident.

Around 9:35 a.m., the weather forecast from Monterrey indicated that it was a good day to parachute.

At 9:40 a.m., paratroopers and gliding units of the 3rd Airborne Division of the Imperial Chinese Airborne Forces took off from 24 airfields on the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, respectively. The cover was 500 J-10 Black Hawk fighters of the 19th, 23rd, 24th, 33rd and 45th Air Wings of the Imperial Air Force, and 500 J-10 carrier-based aircraft of the four aircraft carrier battle groups of the Imperial Naval Air Force.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the 3rd Airborne Division carried out a large-scale airborne landing in the open plain area west of Monterrey. Personnel and equipment began to be airdropped almost simultaneously, and the entire blue sky was filled with white parachutes, stretching for more than a dozen kilometers, which was very spectacular. This was also the first time that the airborne troops of the Chinese Empire had been airborne during the day, and it was also a large-scale airborne landing at the division level, and the ground personnel of the US and Mexican troops within a radius of 100 kilometers could see it clearly, and they were all stunned one by one.

The airborne landing lasted 50 minutes, and the fighters of the 3rd Airborne Division all adopted the parachute landing method, and the gliders landed all logistics support personnel. In addition to the equipment and supplies of the 3rd Airborne Division, the Air Force also airlifted 50 combat vehicles, 568 artillery pieces, 1,927 vehicles and 5,230 tons of combat materiel. These were delivered to the nearby Mexican Army in the expectation that they would be able to cooperate with the 3rd Airborne Division to hold Monterrey. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point. Voting for recommendation votes, monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. )