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In order to reach a deal as soon as possible, Situ Nan had to bring in Charlie Ferrald, the British purchasing representative in the United States. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

If this happens, it is estimated that the $300 million US Treasury bonds in the hands of the British will turn around and fall into the hands of Situ Nan.

Situ Nan is confident enough to believe that London will agree, because several of his large enterprises are large suppliers of materials to the British side.

"Needless to say, canned flour and the like supplied by the food company to the British ** team, as well as mortars produced by the mortar factories for the Entente, oil supplied by Western Petroleum to the British, as well as steel, clothing, medical supplies, lighters, etc., as long as the British need it, Situ Nan can provide them with it.

The car factory that Situ Nan just bought in Los Angeles does not produce very good products, but it is not a problem to run and engage in transportation or something, and it is a big deal to sell it to the British cheaper, and the British don't want France! Since the Frenchman Xia Fei tasted the large-scale use of automobiles for logistics transportation, automobiles have also become an important tool for military logistics transportation.

The British even made tanks and threw themselves into the war, if they welded a few steel plates on the car and loaded it with a machine gun, wouldn't it be an expert car?

I just don't know if the British want it? If you want, it doesn't matter if it's cheaper, you should use it to train your own workers. Well, I'll have to ask Charlie Ferard about that.

Situ Nan thought of another good idea, now the British are so poor that they are so poor that they only have money left, waving cheques to buy supplies all over the world, and there is nothing they don't need.

With a good cooperative relationship with the British side, almost all of Situ Nan's industries have become the designated units of the British side's material supply, and there is no problem with credit.

For the British, cash was not the most important thing, and their purpose was to purchase supplies from the United States. Finally, in order to increase Ferguson's persuasiveness, Robles assured that Robles Securities would invest a sum of money to lobby the U.S. government to declare war on Germany.

This guarantee made Ferguson as sweet as eating ginseng fruit, and now that the war had reached a critical moment, the British and the French were looking forward to the stars and the moon hoping that the Americans would join their ranks, but the American profiteers just did not study, and hid on the other side of the ocean to earn the money of the Entente without mercy.

Robles's decision to facilitate the entry of the United States into the war was undoubtedly a great support for the British, and Ferguson even regarded Robles and Stuart South as his own.

From the very beginning of the war, Wall Street has been lending money to the Entente countries to purchase American materials, and this is not the first time, if the amount is not too large, Britain is a little painful, and it is reluctant to let such a large amount of money be easily earned by the Wall Street gang, and the negotiations will not be deadlocked.

However, the British have been cornered, the Battle of the Somme River that occurred in France in July today, from July to November, both sides suffered heavy losses, and the warring sides lost more than 1.34 million troops, including more than 450,000 British troops, more than 340,000 French troops, and 538,000 German troops.

Now even if the Entente has the upper hand, Britain and France are no longer able to attack, and as for the Russians, after the upcoming 1917, they are almost a soy sauce player. Grey cattle are not enough bullets fired by the German Maxine heavy machine gun!

In the end, Ferguson still succumbed to Wall Street, but until then, it did not prevent him from assigning a piece of fat to Robles Securities (he could also drink a sip of soup from it, which was the key), not to mention that Ferguson had every reason to persuade London after Robles's strong guarantee that the US government would declare war on Germany.

Situ Nan believes that Morgan's gang has nothing to say, they have made too much, and in the case of this Treasury bond transaction, although Robles Securities ate a piece of meat, most of the meat fell into the hands of Morgan's gang. When it comes to slaughtering people, Morgan is no different from Robles, except that the size of the knife is different, and the meat cut is also different.

Those people also have a big killer called the Federal Reserve in their hands! The dollars are all printed out of this big killer. After the United States entered the war, the government borrowed heavily from banks in order to raise military spending, and a large part of these tens of billions of dollars in national debt fell into the hands of Wall Street bankers.

This is a crazy era, there is nothing more lucrative than speculative wars, anyway, there are fast hands and slow hands, in order to grab a piece of the pie, Situ Nan and Robles have to take the risk of this big gamble.

"Here, cheers to our happy cooperation!" In the gloomy study, three wolves raised their glasses to the adulterous man.

Glow-in-the-dark glass of wine. Under the illumination of the light, why did Situ Nan feel that the red wine in his hand looked particularly bloody?

As Situ Nan expected, a week later, good news finally came from London and the deal was officially approved.

According to Situ Nan's thinking, this matter should not be too public, lest Robles Securities become the target of public criticism. Even if it can't be stopped, try to delay the announcement. But how could the shrewd British let Situ Nan make money and make it so happy!

In order to put pressure on other banks on Wall Street, at the request of Ferguson, Robles Securities had to announce the cooperation plan three days later.

Of course, the details of the contract must be kept confidential, especially the regulations on the exchange of national debts for materials, which are not easy to make other enterprises red. As for Robles Securities' commitment to win the US government's declaration of war on Germany, it can only be understood that it is impossible to put it into the contract.

For this promise, Situ Nan is also beneficial, it should be said that he did what he said, and he got the kind of cheap and obedient, because even if Robles Securities did not spend money to lobby, the US government would still enter the war, and the time was already very tight.

Now that the blood of both the Entente and the Central Powers has been left almost left, American industry is ready for war after more than two years of mobilization.

In the summer of 1916, the British offensive on the Somme in France became the bloodiest battle in history, costing thousands of soldiers in blood with each advance. On August 30, the first batch of 50 "Mark" 1 tanks was secretly transported from Britain to France. At the beginning of September, the helpless British General Haig believed that the stalemate in the trench warfare on the Western Front must be broken, and ordered the "Mark" 1 tank, as a new weapon, to be put into operation on September 13.

This was the first time in the world that tanks were used in combat. In total, the British threw 49 "Mark" 1 tanks to the front. However, after the tank formation that participated in the battle set off on September 13, before it reached the front battlefield, 17 of them broke down halfway for various reasons. In this way, almost 1/3 of the armored formations lost their combat effectiveness without firing a single shell. The remaining 32 tanks, having driven to their destination not far from the German positions, dispersed on an 8-kilometer front and began to bombard the German positions with 57-mm guns. In order to achieve the attempt of a surprise attack, General Haig ordered all tanks to break through to the German positions in the early hours of September 15.

In the early morning of September 15, the battlefield was smoky. The British "Mark 1" tanks began to creak towards the German positions and soon disappeared from the sight of the British commanders. However, 32 tanks had not yet reached the German positions, and 14 more were lying on their stomachs: either there was a technical failure, they got stuck in the mud, or they fell into the crater. In this way, only 18 vehicles remained in the world's first tank battle. The tanks were moving slowly towards the German positions like old scalpers.

The German soldiers who were waiting in the trenches suddenly heard an extremely strange metallic noise coming from the direction of the British position, and they did not know what the mystery was, and they stuck their heads out of the trenches to peep. The German soldiers suddenly noticed that the strange-looking mechanical device had emerged from the no-man's land in the fog and crawled straight towards the German position. Before the German soldiers could figure out what was going on, the "monster" suddenly erupted into flames. Some German soldiers immediately collapsed in pools of blood. The rest of the German soldiers were terrified and fled from the trenches, scrambling to the rear. As a result, the British quickly occupied the trenches. British tanks began to pursue German deserters. 3 tanks advanced to a village, drove into the streets, destroyed several German fortifications. Nearby Germans fled one after another. Just as the British tanks were trying to move on, they ran out of fuel and had to stop moving. In this way, the British tanks, having crossed the German trenches, advanced only about 13 kilometers before having to terminate the military operation. Thus, although the British tanks broke through a section of the German defensive line, they failed to force the Germans to abandon the entire defensive line.

Encouraged by the success of the first tank operation, the British army began to vigorously engage in tank combat, gradually changing the stalemate in ground warfare. Due to the advent of tanks, trench warfare, which was prevalent in World War I and was devoted to infantry, gradually declined. At the same time, the Germans, suffering from tank strikes, had to begin to think about new anti-tank weapons.

But in the first war, there were only two moves, artillery bombardment, infantry charge,

Then he was killed by the machine guns of the opposing side, and the body hung on the barbed wire.

If the opponent's counterattack approaches your position, the opposing soldiers will then be swept down by your machine guns.

A serious protracted battle!

You punch me, I punch you, see who is hard, see who has more blood, nothing technical, it is really boring, the two sides compete, see who has more people, more shells, more bullets, and persist until the end is victory.

Especially after several brutal tug-of-wars, the other party was so tired that they stopped to rest, and did not dare to attack lightly. After all, flesh and blood are no match for bullets and cannons forged from steel, and in positional warfare, if the attacker lacks the assault force, their losses will be much greater than that of the defender.

In fact, now the strength of the two sides is similar, and neither can help the other, but the position of the Entente is better than that of the Central Powers, and from a geographical point of view, Britain, France, and Russia are like three zigzag sharp knives stabbing at Germany and Austria.

So the Germans had to strike first on the Western Front, but unfortunately after the front was pushed to Versailles near Paris, their offensive momentum was curbed.

The Germans were somewhat comforted by the fact that they had pushed the battlefield into France, so their industry was not destroyed, unlike the French, and the industrial areas of the north were destroyed by both sides.

In his previous life, Situ Nan watched a movie called "No War on the Western Front", at first glance, he thought that there was really no war, who knew that after watching it, he was almost going to vomit, the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder spreads, the trenches that don't be flattened, the scattered weapon parts, the broken limbs, and the dark red soil, almost making people in hell.

Now, in addition to constantly firing artillery at each other's heads, the infantry stayed in the trenches and prayed to God that the shells would not fall on their heads.

However, with the arrival of Christmas, it is said that the smell of gunpowder smoke on the front line has faded a lot.

"Let yourself live and let others live!"

This is a slogan, but also a tacit understanding, a kind of respect for life.

Since Christmas Day 1914, every Christmas day on both sides of the front line will hold up the free battle card, and the soldiers on both sides will even greet each other. This adds a touch of warmth to the brutality of war.

Although it was short-lived, a faint warmth would remain in the memories of those soldiers forever until the next wave of more brutal battles began.

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