The signing of the alliance, the establishment of the Joint Command, and the commitment not to separate the armistice with the United States of America can be regarded as a unity of position and understanding, and the next thing is for the Joint Command to assign combat missions, after all, the participants understand that no matter what they want, if they do not defeat the United States, it is nonsense.

With regard to the war against the United States, the Allied Powers hoped that China, Britain, and France would immediately send troops into the war, and that each country would have at least 100,000 additional troops and a navy.

In other words, the Allied Powers demanded that China, Britain, and France increase their troops by at least 300,000 troops, and that they also provide a strong navy to help protect the Allied Powers' coastlines and maintain the Allied Powers' foreign trade channels.

However, China, Britain, and France have the same opinion in this regard, that is, it is unlikely that the army will continue to increase its troops, and that will be too much of a burden on them, at least not for the time being, so the troops sent by China, Britain, and France in the Allied countries are their greatest sincerity at present.

Although China, Britain and France are not prepared to continue to expand the scale of the army, but on the naval side, they can agree to the request of the Union Powers, that is, to form a joint fleet composed of China, Britain and France, to wage war against the navy of the United States of America, as for the combat objectives, not only to protect the coastline of the United States and ensure the trade routes between the Union States and overseas, but also to blockade the coastline of the United States, destroy the main naval force of the United States, and make the United States completely cut off from the outside world and unable to continue to trade with the outside world.

The purpose of China, Britain and France is obvious, that is, for the time being, they are not prepared to spend too much of their own lives to fight with the United States, and only intend to let the Allied States continue to fight to the death with the United States, that is to say, in terms of land warfare, it is mainly dependent on the Allied States, and China, Britain and France will at most guarantee to help in naval warfare and repel the coastal blockade of the United States.

But to be honest, due to the different economic shapes of the north and the south. Although this naval blockade is worse for the Union States, for the United States, the effect of the naval blockade is not great.

The reason is very simple, most of the countries of the Federal Republic of the South are plantation economies, and there is almost no industry, especially heavy industry, so they cannot produce their own weapons and equipment, and must rely entirely on imports, and this import is mainly by sea. So once the sea passage is blocked, it is equivalent to removing the half-life of the Union State.

In fact, the United States has long known this weakness of the Union Powers, so very early on, they formulated a python plan, that is, to build a strong navy, and then use the navy to block the sea lanes of the Union States and cut off their sources of arms, which is a kind of strategy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

Before. The United States' navy has been following this plan, but because the United States' navy was originally small, and it was not an overnight task to build a large navy, it was not possible to implement this plan at present.

In addition, the Confederates bought quite a few sharp warships from the British. At least for the time being, the naval power is not much worse than that of the United States, so the United States Navy can now only harass the coast of the Union with fast warships, but cannot completely block the coastline of the Union State. In this way, it will not be possible to completely cut off the channel for the Union countries to import weapons from foreign countries.

Maritime trade lines, so to speak. It is the lifeline of the Union State, and once there is no sea line of communication, then the defeat of the Union State will be a matter of time.

As a result, the Confederates were a country that was heavily dependent on maritime trade, as they relied on the sea trade routes to sell their produce and buy the goods they needed. If the sea lines of communication are cut off, then they can't buy what they need, they can't sell their own things, and sooner or later they will be finished.

On the other hand, the United States of the North are different, and although the United States is still very much focused on commerce and maritime trade, they have a more developed industrial system, especially heavy industry such as ironmaking, so that they are not only self-sufficient in terms of arms and materials, but can even be exported.

It can be said that the United States of the North can produce both food and weapons, and even if the maritime trade is blocked and the country is closed, it can still maintain a strong fighting capacity with its industrial and agricultural base and population base.

Therefore, the naval blockade is a fatal blow to the Union State, but for the United States, it is only a temporary trouble, and it may not work for a long time, after all, it will have a serious impact on the economy, but in a short time, such as for four or five years, it is still completely fine.

Although the blockade of the coastline of the United States will have little impact on their economic system in the short term, the impact on the strategic side will be significant.

The best parts of the United States are almost exclusively by the sea, which means that they have a long coastline and many excellent ports. As soon as the coastline of the United States was completely blocked, then the Four-Nation Coalition would have the initiative at sea.

From then on, in the face of the coalition fleet that held the initiative, the rear of the United States was no longer a safe zone, and it was necessary to face the naval assault of the coalition fleet at all times.

It is conceivable that if the navy of the United States is completely annihilated, and the coast of the United States is completely controlled by the coalition fleet, then the coalition fleet wants to hit that coastal city, and they can choose to destroy it by simply shelling, or they can choose to use the Marine Corps assault and destroy it ashore, and they can also carry a large number of land forces to land and attack the core cities of the United States from the rear.

In this way, what the United States will have to face is no longer a simple southern line, but even the eastern coastline must be fully defended, and this alone can drag the opponent's army of at least 300,000 troops, so that they do not dare to fight the south with all their might.

Although the approach of China, Britain and France is reasonable and necessary, in any case, their purpose is obvious, that is, they do not want to exert too much effort for the time being, and still want the alliance countries to be in the front.

Among them, China is quite sincere, at least it has sent troops to participate in the war, both navy and army, and has successively achieved heavy strategic victories, which has fundamentally reversed the unfavorable situation of the Allied Powers, plus China has been providing cheap arms and materials to the Allied Powers and purchasing agricultural products from the Allied Countries, so the Allied Powers are still quite grateful to China.

Relatively speaking, Britain and France were a little insincere, and they were not only slow to act, but only now sent troops. And the only troops sent over were those 30,000 coalition troops, which made the people of the Union quite disappointed.

Perhaps it should be said that 30,000 people is actually a lot, and the Chinese only have 30,000 army, and in terms of navy, the fleet of the British and French forces far exceeds the Chinese task force at least in the number of ships, how can the Chinese be sincere, and the British and French are not sincere?

The reason is simple, although the size of the Chinese task force does not seem large, they are all advanced steel warships. It was not at all comparable to the wooden sail warships of the Anglo-French army, and it had already achieved great success, not only regaining control of the middle and lower reaches of the Mississippi River, but even the sea route from the port of New Orleans to the port of Havana in Cuba.

In fact, before, the navy of the United States also wanted to regain the right to control the river and the right to control the sea, but after several battles, every water battle ended in a crushing defeat for the navy of the United States, so the navy of the United States did not dare to fight the Chinese fleet at all.

And speaking of the Army. China's 30,000 army is an elite army equipped with ironclad vehicles, and it has achieved many heavy victories and has played a majestic role. Lian Zhan Lianjie has never been defeated, which has already terrified the entire Northern Army, and it does not dare to fight the Chinese Army at all, and has consolidated the central and western fronts of the Allied States in disguise.

Therefore. The meaning of the Chinese army is completely different, and in terms of combat effectiveness, their 30,000 army can be regarded as at least 300,000 regular northern troops. And their task force is enough to confront the entire navy of the United States of America head-on.

Many people say that the Chinese are small in number, and the logistical pressure may be too great, so they cannot continue to advance to achieve greater results, otherwise if the Chinese are given better logistics, with the combat strength of the Chinese, this civil war does not need to be fought, and relying on the Chinese alone is enough to end the war.

Compared with the strength and outstanding results of the Chinese army, the new arrival of 30,000 troops in Britain and France is different. Although they are also regular troops with rich combat experience and are not miscellaneous, their weapons and equipment are far from the Chinese, and their combat effectiveness is also very different, and there is no battle result or merit at present.

In fact, in all fairness, Britain and France are already very sincere in fighting against the United States, after all, 30,000 soldiers and horses is not a small number, and the combined fleet of Britain and France with a total of 28 warships is even more powerful to make people tremble, which in other regions, even in Europe, this is completely a powerful force that can subvert a country or control a heavy battle.

Not to mention the naval fleet of the Anglo-French coalition, the 30,000 army alone, but all of them are regular armies composed of whites, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than the Anglo-French coalition army that entered Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace in another time and space history, even against the army of the United States of America, these 30,000 people can be regarded as at least 60,000 American soldiers.

But what is afraid to compare, without the Chinese expeditionary force as a reference, the Anglo-French alliance may be quite good, but once compared with the Chinese, let alone the people of the allied countries, even the Anglo-French alliance itself, they feel that they seem to be a group of Hanako.

You must know that the 30,000 people of the British and French coalition forces are still front-loading guns, although they are all rifled Mini rifles that fire Mini bullets, but the power is actually more powerful than the mainstream rear-loading guns at this time, plus the British and French coalition forces are well-trained, so on the whole, the combat effectiveness is still quite good.

However, the Chinese Expeditionary Force is generally equipped with Type 81 assault rifles and Type 97 assault rifles, and the two sides are not at all the same era.

As for artillery, although the Chinese did not actually display their more advanced rocket artillery, machine guns and other heavy weapons, their small mortar (mortar) and recoilless guns were enough to make the British and French forces heavily equipped with front-loading Napoleonic guns ashamed.

Because the firepower of their entire artillery battalion is not comparable to the firepower of a mortar squad, not to mention the rate of fire, even the range and power are not comparable, and the lightness is not comparable.

There are also mounts, and the Chinese soldiers all ride in motor vehicles, assault vehicles, trucks, etc., and not only their people rely on these vehicles to transport, but even the supplies are transported by vehicles.

The biggest advantage of these cars is that they can walk autonomously, and they only need to fill some fuel at that time, which will take three to five minutes at most. There is no need to drink water and feed the horses frequently, and there is no need to be careful, but they can walk as soon as they start, and in terms of convenience, these vehicles are much more convenient than horses.

In addition to being easy to use, these vehicles are not comparable to horses in terms of marching speed, marching distance, or ride comfort.

Anyone who has ever ridden a horse knows that walking on a horse can theoretically be ridden for several days in a row, but riding a horse is also a work of strength and skill. No matter how good the saddle is, that kind of bump is enough for people to bear, so once it is at least one day in a row, no, not for a day, as long as you ride a horse for two or three hours, ordinary people will not be able to stand it, and you must take a little rest, otherwise your body will fall strictly.

And because of that. The cavalry of this era had a distance limit for long-distance running, and if the distance was too long, the cavalry would fall halfway, so if it was a long-distance attack. Before arriving at their destination, the cavalry would find a nearby place to rest for a while before resuming their horses and raiding.

But riding in an assault vehicle is not the same as a truck, these are military vehicles made in the 21st century. The turf and suspension technology have come a long way compared to the twentieth century, so the passenger comfort is quite good. Even if you sit in the car all day, you can maintain a strong body, and you can even sleep peacefully in the car.

In this way, as long as the road surface is suitable, these vehicles can run for a whole day in a row, run from a distance of 200 kilometers, and do not need to rest halfway, and as soon as they arrive at their destination, the soldiers can get out of the car and fight, without affecting their combat effectiveness in the slightest.

Such high mobility, coupled with their powerful firepower, the two are simply perfect to envy, and with this alone, they can achieve a fast fight, with very few people to fight more enemies than themselves, so that the enemy can only follow the rhythm of the Chinese, passively cope with their attacks, and cannot grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Even the cavalry is inferior to them Chinese, not to mention that only a small part of the 30,000 people of the British and French coalition troops are cavalry, most of them are pure infantry, and the march has to rely on walking, so in terms of mobility ability, it is completely the same as the Chinese.

If that's all it takes, the worst thing is that the food of the Anglo-French army is not comparable to that of the Chinese.

The food of the British and French troops was very simple, that is, toasted bread, baked potatoes and salted fish, from Mexico to Cuba, and then from Cuba to New Orleans, they have been eating this, and they have eaten it for at least half a year, almost until they vomit, it is the kind of thing that makes them sick to their stomachs when they see it, but they have to eat it.

As for the Chinese, they usually have special catering trucks, which can make all kinds of exquisite and delicious Chinese dishes. Each of their companies has a cooking class, which can ensure that every soldier in the company can have a combination of one dish, one soup and one staple food for every meal, and it is not the same almost every day, it is still meat and vegetarian!

And in addition to these, what other self-heating instant noodles are Chinese, self-heating instant rice, self-heating canned meat, etc., once the march and battle reach a fierce juncture, it is inconvenient for them to cook and eat by themselves, they will eat these portable convenience foods.

Since these convenience foods Chinese have been eating since the training period, and after eating for most of the year, they have long been tired of eating crooked, so they don't feel anything, but everyone is eager to eat the small stove of the cooking class mobile car, or eat some local toast and baked salted fish.

However, these canned foods and convenience foods that are tired of eating crooked in the eyes of the Chinese are delicious in the eyes of the British and French forces that they have never tasted in their lives, especially those canned foods!

Whether it was canned pork, beef, fish, or peaches, hawthorns, oranges, or other canned vegetables, all of them surprised the soldiers of the Anglo-French army, because each of them seemed to them something that could only be eaten by the aristocracy.

And when they heard that these Chinese have to eat at least three or five kinds of canned food for a meal, and usually can't eat them at all, in order not to waste, they often distribute the canned food to the nearby people in exchange for toasted bread, baked potatoes, roasted pumpkin and other things, they were even more dumbfounded.

There are also clothes, before the British and French troops were laughing at the Chinese's colorful clothes, but when they found that the Chinese actually everyone has several sets of clothes, the kind of colorful clothes are just combat uniforms, they also have winter clothes, summer clothes, military dress dresses, etc., a lot of bits and pieces, and their military dress is many times better than their own clothes.

Even those combat uniforms, after actual contact between the two sides, also found the benefits of their kind of thing called camouflage uniforms. From a little distance, you can't see their appearance clearly, but their clothes are bright and deadly, and they are obviously a live target in the mouth of a group of Chinese.

Of course, these things are still things that the Chinese can make public when the two sides communicate, some things that cannot be disclosed and cannot be contacted, such as those well-known ironclad combat vehicles (armored vehicles). They could only see from a distance, but they could not observe closely, but they could only see from a distance, and they knew that a car with a lot of big tires and artillery was not easy to mess with.

Therefore, due to the luxury and discipline of the Chinese, it is normal for the natives of New Orleans to dislike the Anglo-French army. After all, the Chinese brought a lot of supplies to the locals, and also boosted the local economy, so that the Confederates near the port of New Orleans began to serve the Chinese. Moreover, the discipline is quite good, and there has not been a single incident of clashes between Chinese soldiers and locals.

On the contrary, when the Anglo-French troops came, they asked the Confederates for everything. There are even many soldiers who are not well disciplined, and they have clashed with the locals in the local area, and they have injured people, so even though everyone is white. And the language is similar, but the people of New Orleans Port do not like the Anglo-French army, and instead offer courtesy to the Chinese.

In fact, the British and French forces were also helpless. After all, they don't have Li Yongji's golden finger, and they can't get the materials of modern society in time to come over as supplies, so in terms of material logistics, they can't compare with the Chinese at all.

The supplies of the British and French forces, especially the munitions, had to be transported from the rear, and if even food and drink had to be delivered from the rear, it would be too heavy for the British and French transportation capacity, and the cost would make the two governments frown.

Therefore, the Anglo-French alliance could not achieve such a luxury as the Chinese, and they could eat toasted bread and grilled salted fish, which was already a very good treatment.

However, the locals of the Allied countries will not understand the distress and helplessness of the British and French soldiers, they only look at the facts, the fact is that after the Chinese came, they all got rich, and after the British and French troops came, they would only ask for things and make trouble.

All in all, because of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a local tyrant army with outrageous extravagance, the locals of New Orleans did not talk about it, and the soldiers of the Confederate and Anglo-French forces also began to be dissatisfied.

The local people of New Orleans were dissatisfied with the stinginess and unreasonableness of the Confederate and Anglo-French forces, believing that this group of people would only cause problems for the local area.

As for the allied forces and the Anglo-French coalition forces, they were dissatisfied with the differential treatment of Chinese soldiers, especially when the four countries signed the alliance, established a joint command, and announced concerted actions to the outside world, the dissatisfaction between the allied forces and the Anglo-French forces became even more severe.

The soldiers of these three countries believe that since they are allies, they should be treated the same, so they strongly demand the same treatment as Chinese soldiers, even if they cannot be the same in terms of weapons and clothing, at least in terms of food.

If it was just ordinary soldiers complaining, there was still a way to suppress it, but the problem was that it was not the soldiers who complained the most, but the officers, so in the end, the Four-Nation Joint Command had to hold a military meeting because of the issue of food consistency to discuss the treatment of the coalition forces, or the treatment of food.

At the meeting, the military representatives of the Allied Powers and Britain and France all opened fire on the Chinese military representatives at the beginning, demanding that they lower their food standards and stop continuing the unpleasant ostentatious eating and drinking.

Obviously, the military representatives of these three countries know that they cannot make their officers and soldiers the same as the Chinese in terms of food, and it is not a problem that there is no problem, after all, the Chinese said that they are happy to provide them with the same rations in kind, as long as you are willing to spend money to buy them.

The problem is that the food of the Chinese is too rich and too expensive, and a 900-gram canned peach can cost two Chinese yuan!

Nowadays, the silver content of one Chinese dollar is a standard 37 grams of silver, and it is a very sought-after trade currency in the international currency market due to its exquisite production and precise silver content.

To convert, if it is a regular international currency exchange market, one Chinese dollar is equal to 2 US dollars, which is equal to 1.5 Spanish silver dollars, so that two Chinese dollars is equal to 4 US dollars or three Spanish silver dollars.

In fact, before the start of the Civil War, people from both the North and the South of the United States liked to trade with the Spanish silver dollar, and after the war, the status of the US dollar plummeted, and the hard currency of both the North and the South of the United States was the Spanish silver dollar, and the status and value of the Spanish silver dollar also rose steadily.

Therefore, one can is equivalent to three Spanish silver dollars, which is almost equal to the monthly salary of an ordinary soldier of the Union State, and one can is only one of the meals, and it is the cheapest can.

Chinese on the subject of eating, on average, every three soldiers have to eat a can, that is, three Spanish silver dollars, and if you add the consumption of other foods, every soldier Chinese consume at least one and a half Spanish silver dollars after a meal!

An average Chinese soldier eats one and a half Spanish silver dollars in a meal, which is two dollars for a meal...... Such extravagance, not to mention their soldiers, even their senior officers can't do this extravagant way of eating, no wonder they have difficulty doing it.

Of course, it is necessary to be tight, ignoring ordinary soldiers and matching senior officers with this standard, and the other three countries are not impossible to do, but the problem is that it is really just the standard of ordinary Chinese soldiers, and other officers do not eat those, it is a higher standard configuration!

In fact, the food of Chinese officers is not much different from that of ordinary soldiers, the main difference is the amount of canned food. For example, ordinary soldiers are the standard for a five-person combat team to open a can for a meal, and you don't have to say what kind of canned food you want, the person in charge of logistics has the final say, and it is the logistics person who distributes the canned food.

But if you are a Chinese officer, you can eat canned food for every meal, and as you move up in rank, you can also choose the type of canned food or increase the number of canned food.

For example, a second lieutenant can eat a canned vegetable for a meal, a lieutenant can eat canned fruit of a higher level, a captain can choose to eat canned fish, and a lieutenant can choose to eat canned meat. Of course, if you have enough level, you can choose low-value canned food downward, for example, you can eat canned fish, but you don't choose canned fish, you have to eat canned fruit, that's fine, but it's still just a canned configuration.

When it came to the colonel-level officers, they only increased the quota of canned food, and they could eat instant noodles, and the others were not much different from the captain-level officers.

But no matter what, it is a fact that the price of food for officers is very different from that of ordinary soldiers, generally speaking, the food level of a second lieutenant is at least the level of five ordinary soldiers, and it is said that just for this food subsidy, many Chinese soldiers want to be officers and want to go crazy, so Chinese soldiers are particularly crazy in war, killing enemies and capturing prisoners are extremely fierce!

Because in their eyes, the first rank and the captives are the military merit value one by one, and with the military merit value, they can be promoted, and if they are promoted, they can get the officer's subsidy and eat more delicious food.

Therefore, because the food of the Chinese is too good and the price is too high, the military representatives of the three countries do not think about how to buy these foods with the Chinese for their own officers and soldiers, but to let the Chinese lower the food standards, and everyone will lower it to the same level, so as not to make others look red.

A lot of things are like this, not suffering from widowhood but suffering from unevenness, everyone is nibbling dry bread and stinky salted fish, occasionally drinking a potato and salted fish soup and crying happily, but you eat at least two dollars a meal alone, do you want to be so showy? Do you want to be so extravagant? Can we continue to work together happily? (To be continued......)