Chapter 386: Recovering North America
Just when the world revolution on the European continent was in full swing, after 5 or 6 years of recuperation, the Han Empire, under the order of the warmonger Zhao Dutian, once again showed its greedy and bloodthirsty minions!
For the Han Empire, which suffered huge demographic and economic losses in the American War, five or six years was only to restore Mexico and California, which had not been affected by the war, to their pre-war state. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Even so, Zhao Dutian barely achieved it by sacrificing the development of the South American continent and forcibly conscripting a large number of Japanese laborers.
During the period from the end of the American War in the 47th year of the Han Dynasty to the 53rd year of the Han Dynasty, almost ninety percent of the ships of the Han Empire that were unimpeded in the Pacific Ocean became ships transporting Japanese laborers.
Due to the huge economic losses during the war of the Han Empire, there was no surplus food to entertain the Japanese laborers who went on ocean voyages, and as a result, the trip to the Pacific became a death trip for the Japanese young men who were forcibly conscripted!
Every time a slave ship arrived on the West Coast, nearly half of the Japanese laborers were lost!
The Han Empire officials didn't care too much, because the cost savings of this mode of transportation were much higher than the cost of abducting and forcibly conscripting Japanese laborers!
You must know that in Japan, which is starving everywhere, it only takes a few nests to pull a Japanese young man!
However, for the Japanese laborers, the road to death in the Pacific was not over, and when they arrived in the Han Empire itself, they realized that they were really just being used as free slaves!
Dangerous work, high-intensity work day and night, and even a whip that will be whipped at the slightest slack, this is the environment in which Japanese workers live!
Until this moment, they knew that they had been deceived!
Japanese laborers belong to the official property of the Han Empire, and the people below naturally don't care about losses, the black slaves of that year were actually not so bad as imagined in the white colonies, after all, the white slave owners regarded them as private property, and they would not treat them badly, even if they were sick, the white master would also diagnose the black slaves!
It's not that white people are kind, it's that they treat black slaves as property, and they feel sorry for every one of them!
On the other hand, the officials of the Han Empire never asked about the loss of Japanese laborers, and the government only cared about the progress of the project, and only cared about the results!
As long as the assigned tasks are completed on time and with quality and quantity, it doesn't matter if the Japanese workers die, if they can be completed in advance, there will be additional rewards!
Of course, the rewards are only for those who are overseers below!
One can imagine how hard those low-level overseers will work in order to ensure their own interests!
Anyway, there are not enough Japanese laborers, just make a report!
In this way, in just 5 or 6 years, the Han Empire stepped on the corpses of black slaves and Japanese laborers, and recovered to the pre-war level as quickly as possible, even stronger than before the war, because the official Maxine heavy machine gun had been fully equipped with the Han Imperial Forest Army!
At the same time, the scale of the Han Imperial Forest Army has also been further expanded, reaching as many as 50,000 people!
However, the size of the American garrison has not expanded in the slightest, and almost eighty or ninety percent of the Indo-European mixed blood left in South America has died, leaving only Mexicans and purebred Indians from the California region......
Therefore, the American garrison, which is purely indigenous soldiers, has lost its source of troops, after all, the Indians still have to reclaim wasteland and work in factories and assembly lines!
In addition to the 100,000 American garrisons and 50,000 Han Imperial Forest Army, there were about 60,000 field troops stationed on the island of Japan, that is, the elite Indian soldiers who had been drawn from the American battlefield, and reorganized into the Far Eastern Front!
This unit will be the main vanguard of the future landing of the Manchu Empire!
Due to the trapped financial deficit, Zhao Dutian did not popularize the Dreiser rifle, after all, the European continent that has now become a pot of porridge still uses cheap flintlock guns, and he does not need to be in such a hurry to install breech guns in the whole army, the Imperial Research Institute is by removing the weapons on the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, and is making every effort to develop more advanced bolt rifles, intending to develop a cheap individual rifle that can shoot accurately at a long distance and increase the amount of ammunition in one step!
At the same time, the research and development projects of rapid-fire artillery and mortars have also entered the right track, and the Han Empire, which has no enemies on the ocean, has invested most of the funds in the research and development of land combat weapons, with the advanced weapons dismantled on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan as samples, Zhao Dutian's leapfrog scientific and technological leap has become possible!
However, the Han Empire has regained its military strength, and the European continent has been reduced to ruins, such a good opportunity, Zhao Dutian naturally can't help it!
Weapons such as rapid-fire guns were developed, and 100,000 American garrisons and 50,000 troops armed with Armstrong field guns and Maxine machine guns advanced to the colonies of the thirteen North American states, which were the largest in number!
Zhao Dutian knew very well that the white militia in the thirteen states of North America were not fools, and they would not engage in a head-on battle with them, and their only chance of victory was to use the complex terrain such as mountains and forests to snipe and consume the strength of the Han Empire layer by layer!
The unfamiliar Han Imperial Army will inevitably suffer in this regard, but Zhao Dutian's army has an absolute technological advantage, he mixed the Han Imperial Forest Army and the American Garrison, a small number of Han Imperial Forest Army squads with most of the American Garrison troops, each detachment of the Han Imperial Forest Army, will carry at least one Maxine heavy machine gun, and the American Garrison is responsible for assisting reconnaissance, as well as preventing militia forces from taking advantage of the terrain to carry out white-edged raids!
These small detachments were used by the Han Empire to deal with the attacks of the white militia, and the real ones used to attack the fortifications were the large Han Imperial Forest Army, carrying Armstrong cannons and Maxine heavy machine guns with excellent city-breaking ability, to carry out a hard attack on the city!
Zhao Dutian did not have the heart to fight guerrilla warfare with the militia, and it was difficult for Zhao Dutian to consume more than 2 million white militiamen who took up arms!
Zhao Dutian's coping strategy is only one, to break the trick!
Whether it is a jungle sniper or a mountain attack, it will not be able to stop the advance of the large army after all, and when the time comes, the urban offensive and defensive battle will inevitably occur, and perhaps the white militia with the same enemy will stubbornly resist to the end in the city, so what?
In this era, there is no complete urban warfare routine that has been refined by the wars of later generations!