Chapter 383 The end of World War I and the peace meeting with Beijing

After the Battle of Wallaz, the Chinese Empire sent troops from the Americas to the south and swept through the cities of southern Mexico.

The main Spanish force was completely annihilated in the Battle of the Colorado Wilderness, and the loss of the city of Huaruiz opened the door to the south-central region of Mexico, and the Spaniards were powerless to stop the military invasion of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

Like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, the jaguar and leopard rode straight into the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Royal Army, leaving behind the Gulf coast and heading straight for Mexico City, the heart of Mexico.

Because He Zhi and the others learned that the Imperial Sixth Army was about to go to the battlefield in Mexico, they were afraid that they would be captured by their juniors, so they boldly decided to go straight to Mexico City and end the Mexican colonial war.

Although it is a bit bold to make this tactical action, and it is a bit risky to go deep alone, but He Zhi has the support of the Royal Air Force in his hands, and he can anticipate the enemy's first opportunity, and the main force of the Mexican army has been eliminated, so the risk is not great.

At the turn of autumn and winter in the twelfth year of Shenmu, the Americas sent troops to the city of Mexico City and surrounded the Mexican capital, and the Battle of Mexico City broke out.

As a matter of fact, as early as summer and autumn, the Chinese Imperial Americas dispatched troops had already set foot on the lacustrine plain of Lake Texcoco in the southern part of the Mexican Plateau, where Mexico City is located. With the support of the RAF hot air balloons, the Jaguar and Panthers were able to easily defeat any Mexican cavalry regiment from nearby, successfully forcing the Mexican army into Mexico City.

However, the climate of the Lake Texcoco Plain, where Mexico City is located, was not conducive to the operation of the Royal Army Infantry Division of the Imperial Chinese Army, because the rainy season from June to October every year did not allow the Imperial Firearms to play normally, so it was not until the autumn and winter that the Imperial Army began to organize infantry divisions to surround Mexico City, preparing to launch a general attack and give the Spaniards the final blow.

Mexico City was built on the basis of the Aztec city of Tinochitlan, which was largely destroyed by Spanish artillery fire, and was a Spanish-style castle built in 1536.

On 7 October, the Imperial Chinese American Dispatch completed the construction of four artillery battalion positions of the 3rd Division at the foot of the Po*catepetel Hill at the southern end, and four artillery battalion positions of the 4th Division on the ruined walls of the ancient city of Teotihuacán built by the Aztecs in the north.

At the same time, the Royal Air Force used the Altar of the Sun God and the Altar of the Moon God of the Indians in the north as a base to conduct reconnaissance in Mexico City, as well as the surrounding area.

And the headquarters of He Zhi and the others is also located on the altar, because they stand high and see far away.

This sun pyramid is 65 meters high and has a volume of 1 million cubic meters, which is the place where the Indians worshiped the sun god, and here you can have an unobstructed view of the situation in Mexico City.

The Spaniards retreated into the city, not knowing that one day they would be attacked by other invaders, so the tall building outside the city was not destroyed, and it became a fortress for the enemy.

On October 8, the Chinese Imperial Brigade burned down all the houses and buildings outside Mexico City, clearing the way for the Imperial Infantry to attack the city.

He Zhi and others stood on the altar of the sun god, and the main defensive positions of the Spanish army and the main artillery deployment positions in Mexico City were unobstructed.

More than 600,000 soldiers and civilians gathered in Mexico City at this time, and the streets and alleys were crowded with people inside and outside the houses. Among these soldiers and civilians were about 50,000 Spanish troops, and the rest were civilians who had originally lived outside the city, or even residents of towns hundreds of miles away.

Originally, this Mexican citadel could only accommodate 120,000 soldiers and civilians, but it was already overcrowded. Anyway, in the rainy season for a few months, the Imperial Infantry Division was not conducive to combat, but it was not idle, riding war horses and carrying sabers to drive away the Spaniards nearby, driving the nearby Spaniards into Mexico City, the purpose was to consume the food and water in the city, causing the materials in the city to quickly fall into panic. Spanish civilians who did not eat or drink soon began to consume the logistics of the Spanish army, and even rioted several times, which severely affected the morale and status of the defenders of Mexico City.

"How many times have you made trouble?"

He Zhi, who was looking at Mexico City from the altar, suddenly asked, and the staff officer next to him hurriedly replied that it was the thirty-sixth civilian riot.

"I'm about the same?" Li Kai said with a smile: "These days, it is estimated that their supplies have been almost consumed, and the frequency of food and water grabbing in recent riots has become higher and higher."

"I want to wait two more days"

"After waiting for two days, it is estimated that the Sixth Army will be almost here, and we can share the credit when the time comes."

He Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, let's shell for two hours today, and then let the Air Force send them leaflets to try the effect?" ”

Li Kai said: "After preparing for so many days, I really want to see the effect, if we can take the initiative to surrender the riot that the Spaniards were scared into, I think our record will be improved to a higher level."

He Zhi seemed to have made up his mind, let out a long breath, and ordered: "The shelling begins"

The command came from the altar of the sun god, and the sound was transmitted very clearly, and I didn't see that the sound effect of this altar was quite good.

Knock knock

The sound of artillery rang out loudly, and it immediately spread throughout the entire Lake Texcoco plain.

In addition to the artillery battalions directly under the division headquarters of the 3rd and 4th divisions, a total of eight artillery battalions with 122 guns fired a fire salvo. Because He Zhi was in a hurry to move south to capture Mexico City, they did not have time to replenish and repair the artillery, and the remaining 38 guns were damaged in battle and could not be replenished.

However, only 122 artillery pieces fired a salvo from the north and south, and the overwhelming formation still fiercely shocked the Spanish soldiers and civilians in Mexico City.

In an instant, the sound of cannons resounded in the sky, surrounding the surrounding mountains, and it was endless. The smoke of gunpowder filled the clouds and obscured the sky.

He Zhi and the others standing on the altar of the sun god soon couldn't see the situation below, and the entire pyramid seemed to be filled with clouds and mist, reflecting the brilliance of the sun, as if it was a fairyland on earth.

But beneath the smoke, there was a sea of life.

Most Spaniards had already experienced such heavy shelling, but they were still terrified.

The sound of the cannon pulled a long whistling sound, and the hot shells fell into Mexico City, and suddenly the sand and gravel were splashed, and the dust was flying, and it was difficult to see.

Since the Spaniards failed to destroy the altars built by the Indians, and did not control the nearby hills, the artillery fire of the Chinese Empire was fired directly into the city from a high place, and the damage was huge. After several rounds of shelling, the city was already full of wailing, rivers of blood, and corpses were everywhere.

The defenders in Mexico City could have taken refuge for a while, but the civilians were untrained and scattered during the shelling, and the crowding led to chaos throughout Mexico City.

He Zhi and the others on the altar were blinded by the thick smoke, and they couldn't see the situation below, so they could only sit down and listen to the sound of cannons.

After two hours, the shelling stopped.

At this time, the city was full of flames, and thick smoke rose into the sky, no less than hundreds. One by one, the smoke rushed into the sky, twisting into several huge pillars of smoke, forming a large black mushroom cloud in the sky, as if the dark end was coming.

The city was in chaos, and it was no longer possible to distinguish between the military and the civilians.

At this time, the Air Force hot air balloons flew into the sky and scattered handfuls of leaflets written in Spanish to persuade them to surrender.

Leaflets fluttered in the wind and flew everywhere.

Soon, many Spaniards picked up the leaflets, and soon a few of them began to make trouble, and then more and more crowds gathered outside the Doge's Palace, demanding that the Mexican governor, Reynosa, surrender.

Reynosa's guards soon couldn't stop the panicked crowd, and Reynosa came out to try to stop it, but the effect became more and more chaotic, and Reynosa finally gave up resistance in the face of the crowd of excited Spanish civilians.

At this point, Reynoldsa had no way to save Mexico City. If you go out of the city to fight in the field, you can't beat the jaguar and leopard cavalry of the Chinese Empire, and in the case of artillery battles, people's artillery will be mounted on the high ground and can't hit people. And the hungry mob in the city is more dangerous than the enemy outside the city.

Reynosa really had no choice but to surrender in Kaejo.

He Zhi and the others on the altar immediately cheered after learning that the Spaniards had surrendered, and this new tactic made them feel excited.

"There are so many hungry people in the city, we don't think we have enough food"

He Zhi nodded and said, "Let's control the castle first, as for whether it is enough, it can only depend on their luck."

Everyone looked at each other and knew what to do.

On October 8, the twelfth year of Shenwu, the Chinese Emperor ** army occupied Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, ending the colonial rule of the Spanish Empire in Mexico.

Four days later, the Sixth Army arrived in Mexico City. Then march to the periphery to clear the remnants of the Spanish army.

At the end of the twelfth year of Shenwu, the Chinese Empire America sent troops to the Florida region on the Atlantic coast of Mexico and New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, and some ships of the Mexican fleet surrendered to the Chinese Empire. On December 30, the imperial army occupied the entire territory of Mexico, the Spanish colonial rule in North America ended in the winter of the eleventh year of Shenwu, with the signing of the contract of the Kingdom of Denmark to withdraw from the First World War, Sweden dominated Northern Europe and seized the Baltic Sea control from the new sea, so that the Swedish invasion of the German region of the Holy Roman Empire was resupplied with new supplies, and the initiative in the Nordic battlefield fell back into the hands of Sweden, and the Holy Roman Emperor ** was defeated and retreated.

In January of the twelfth year of Shenwu, the Swedish army defeated the Holy Roman Emperor in the Battle of Bohemia, and disabled the German Legion, one of the three main trump cards of the Holy Roman Emperor, destroying more than 27,000 German legions, forcing the Holy Roman Empire to lose its military superiority in the German theater.

In February of the same year, on the battlefield of Western Europe, the French army, equipped with the advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire, defeated the Alsace Legion, one of the three main trump cards of the Holy Roman Emperor, in the Battle of Naringen, forcing the Holy Roman Emperor to give up a large part of the territory of Alsace, so that most of the territory of the Holy Roman Empire in the German theater was occupied.

At this time, the Holy Roman Emperor asked for an armistice, which was rejected by the French and Swedish armies, who had just won a great victory.

In May, France and Sweden pursued the victory, and formed an alliance to defeat the Prussian legions, the main army of the Holy Roman Emperor, at the battles of Chusmashausen and Reims. At this point, one of the three main armies of the Holy Roman Empire was disabled, one was defeated, and the other was severely damaged, completely losing the initiative on the entire battlefield.

But by this point, both sides of the war had suffered a great loss of vitality. The two sides fought for 27 years, killed and wounded millions of soldiers and civilians, and the northern part of France and Germany were almost in ruins, and the material resources were exhausted, plus the consumption of more than 6.2 billion francs, basically returned to the primitive society.

Neither side wanted to fight, and as a result, the Holy Roman Empire was the first to lose its breath and received a nod of approval from the kings of France and Sweden after making a third request for peace.

France, Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire reached a reconciliation agreement in October of that year, concluding two peace treaties - thus ending the twenty-seven year war between France and Sweden against the Holy Roman Empire.

The truce between the three parties contributed to the early end of the war in the Northern and Western European theaters of World War I, and accelerated the process of ending the entire world war.

The Swedish king acquired a large area of land on the Baltic coast of Germany, and thus became a prince of Germany, intervening in the internal affairs of Germany at any time. Sweden also received 5 million ducaten in reparations, and has since become a Nordic power.

France, on the other hand, acquired two developed mineral regions from the Holy Roman Empire, Alsace and Lorraine, and received 1.7 million francs in compensation. Since then, France has abundant mines, which has made the French economy rise rapidly, laying a solid economic foundation for France to dominate the European continent and become the first army power in Europe.

In the Western European theater, two other direct beneficiaries were the independence of the Dutch United Provinces and Switzerland. Swiss independence was achieved in consultation between Sweden and France, because with the victory of the two countries in the war against the Holy Roman Empire, the two countries occupied large swaths of German territory, and in order to avoid conflict between the two countries, Switzerland became independent and made it a military buffer zone between the two countries. France hoped to use Switzerland to cut off Sweden from intervening in Central Europe, while Sweden hoped to use Switzerland to cut off the French army from invading Sweden northward.

The Netherlands, on the other hand, relied entirely on the help of the French army to defeat the Spanish army in the Netherlands and gain independence.

This small republic successively destroyed the Spanish Armada and defeated the Spanish Army with the help of the French army, turning from an unknown weak man into a powerful country, which made European countries look up to it with admiration.

However, the night of the war exposed the shit luck of the Dutch Navy and Army. The French saw the level of garbage in the Dutch Army, salivated over the wealth of the Netherlands, and buried the hidden danger of the Franco-Dutch war. At the same time, as the first British Royal Navy to defeat the Spanish Armada that year, the British Navy was not convinced by the shit luck of the Dutch Navy, and secretly dissatisfied with the Dutch Navy, which increased the maritime friction between the British and Dutch navies, intensified, and slowly planted the bomb for the outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch War.

In the theater of Central and Southern Europe, with the Holy Roman Empire** withdrawing from World War I, the Spanish Imperial Army was defeated in the war against the French army and suffered repeated defeats.

In March of the 12th year of Shenwu, the main force of the Spanish army was defeated in the Battle of Toulon, and the 170,000 Spanish army was forced to retreat to the Mediterranean Sea by 30,000 French troops.

The original intention of France to participate in the First World War was not to allow the Holy Roman Empire to point fingers within the Catholic countries, at this time it had already seized Alsace and Lorraine from the Holy Roman Empire, and the territorial purpose had been achieved, and at the same time, France's economy was severely consumed, and it owed a lot of debts to the Chinese Empire, and it could no longer afford to fight the war, plus considering the influence of the Protestants and the Netherlands on France, so it finally reached a compromise with Spain and spared the hundreds of thousands of Spanish remnants on the Toulon Sea, Left a little incense to the Spanish Empire.

The Spanish Empire was the most aggrieved, for the Holy Roman Empire to come out is to lose his wife and soldiers, the twenty-seven years of war consumed most of the national strength, but the Spanish Empire's overseas colonies on which the Spanish Empire depended were frantically looted by the Chinese Empire, the Spanish Empire's treasury was impoverished, the grain depot starved to death, the prestige of the world's first power is gone, and both the navy and army have been reduced to the status of a second-rate country, so the Spanish Empire, which should have been able to hold out for a few years in history, fell down in advance.

On 3 April, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Barcelona, in which France received from the Spanish Empire an indemnity of 300,000 Spanish dollars, as well as Toulon and some islands in the Mediterranean, and allowed the French navy to be stationed in the Mediterranean.

In West and Central Asia, the war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire has reached a stalemate, and the two sides have been fighting for more than ten years, and both sides have fought for more than ten years, whether it is financial, material, or manpower. Originally, the Russian Imperial ** team was equipped with a lot of advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, and its combat effectiveness on the battlefield increased greatly, but the cruel natural Black Death broke out again in the Russian army, which made the Russian Imperial ** soldiers non-combat attrition. After such a long war, the Russian youth and strength have been severely consumed, which even the Chinese Empire could not buy for them with any amount of money, so the Russian Empire was exhausted.

After the Ottoman Turkish Empire stopped expanding in Europe, North Africa and West Asia, it invested its remaining financial, material and human resources in the Russo-Turkish war, and it was almost consumed at this time. In addition, at this time, the internal affairs of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were extremely unstable, and the harem curtain listened to the government and the relatives changed the commander of the front line several times, and there was no offensive ability, so he could only end up in the star-shaped fortress and defend it.

The two sides were also exhausted, and when the flames on the European battlefield gradually died out, the Russian Empire and the Turkish Empire were worried that the European powers would take advantage of the opportunity to expand westward, so they hurriedly transferred troops back from the front line to defend, which made the two countries unconsciously abandon the war and negotiate.

On June 23, the 12th year of Shenwu, Russia and Turkey signed the "Peace Treaty of Bakhchisaray", and Turkey recognized the reunion of left-bank Ukraine with Russia.

During the negotiations, the Russian Empire and the Principality of Poland signed the Andrew Sovo Armistice, and Russia seized Ukraine east of the Dnieper River (including Kiev). The Turkish Empire did not agree, attacking Polish Ukraine and capturing Portoliye. As a result, in the battle in which Turkey used Doroshenko to attack Russian Ukraine, the Turkish army was defeated and defeated. Negotiations had to resume, and in September the Russian-Turkish Peace Treaty of Bakhchisaray was formally ratified, and the Dnieper River was finally determined to be the border between the two countries.

In South Asia, the Chinese Empire migrated to the Indian colonies on a large scale, and because most of the coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent were under the control of other feudal lords and blocked by the Himalayas in the north, the migration rate was very slow, causing the South Asian Dispatch Command of the Chinese Empire to abandon the idea of fighting with the surrounding countries and make every effort to consolidate the existing colonial rule.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Imperial Chinese Navy's international ship viewing ceremony, the envoys of various South Asian countries gathered in Beijing to discuss negotiations on the division of the Indian subcontinent.

In July of the 12th year of Shenwu, the Chinese Empire signed the Treaty of Beijing with Britain, France, the Netherlands, Persia, Afghanistan, Nepal, Rajput, Gujarat, Marat, Orissa, Coromandel, Marat, and Ceylon, recognizing the actual occupation of the Indian subcontinent by various countries.

Because the strongest Yugoslav bloc in the South Asian subcontinent favored Gujarat, a member state of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the division of interests, and assigned a large part of the southern territory of the independent Rajput state to Gujarat, resulting in a serious territorial dispute between the two states. Persia and Afghanistan supported Rajput, but the Yugoslav bloc led by the Chinese Empire was huge, and they supported Gujarat, which made Persia and Afghanistan temporarily submit and accept the "Beijing Treaty", but they did not accept it, thus laying a hidden danger for the outbreak of the South Asian War in World War II.

This is also a deliberate act by the Chinese Imperial Government, that is, it does not want to make peace in the South Asia and leave them with disputes, so that it can provoke war again after being fully prepared, and then expand the interests of the imperial colonies.

In the Americas, the Chinese Empire occupied all of Mexico, as well as most of the Pacific coast of North America. In addition to a few small colonies in the east by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and other countries, about one-third of North America is terra nullius.

All the countries of these lands understood that they needed to rely on immigration to complete their occupation, but it was clear that the European countries were far inferior in speed and scale to the speed and efficiency of the Chinese Empire.

Since most of North America is still unexplored and occupied, there are few territorial disputes between countries in North America, and for a long time, countries remain at peace.

The Spanish Empire had no bargaining chips at all, but still hoped to reach a treaty of reconciliation with the Chinese Empire.

In the first month of the thirteenth year of Shenwu, the government of the Chinese Empire believed that it was impossible to eat a fat man in one bite. At this time, the wars around the world were basically over, and for the sake of the long-term plans of the empire, it was necessary to take care of the feelings of the European powers and prevent them from forming a comprehensive alliance. To this end, the Chinese Empire accepted the Spanish Empire's request for peace.

On 7 January, the Chinese Empire and the Spanish Empire signed the Sino-Spanish Treaty of Peking, according to which the Spanish Empire renounced the colonies of the Philippines, Mexico, and Peru and recognized the Chinese Empire's rule over these colonies.

With the signing of the Treaty of Beijing between China and Spain, the Chinese Empire and the Spanish Empire formally established a ceasefire, thus ending the American War and declaring the end of the First World War.

The First World War lasted 27 years and affected dozens of countries around the world, causing tens of millions of casualties and trillions of silver dollars. After World War I, the Chinese Empire, France, Russia, and Sweden rose, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries became independent, the Holy Roman Empire existed in name only, and Germany was divided. The Spanish Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire declined, and the Mughal Empire, Japan and other countries perished.

After the reshuffle of the world, various crises and contradictions are hidden, and all countries are recuperating one after another, but most of them are fighting vigorously, and a new round of world arms race set off by the Chinese Empire is quietly unfolding. X