Chapter 69: Empty Shot
Time flies, Zhao Dutian took advantage of the gap in the war for the Spanish throne to successfully integrate all the Indian forces in California, and establish a unified and effective regime, which initially excavated the human resources of the Indians and had a certain amount of self-preservation!
Yes, the current Zhao Dutian is not the first time he came, fantasizing all day long about how to seize wealth from the white colonists, don't look at Zhao Dutian's two victories against the Spaniards, but that was achieved when Zhao Dutian took advantage of the geographical advantage!
Moreover, what Zhao Dutian eliminated was just a small claw stretched out by the Spanish colony, and the overall strength of the Spanish colony did not reach the point of breaking the muscles and bones!
And the most important point is that Zhao Dutian, who once targeted the Spaniards in the coastal cities of California, found that if he wanted to go to war with the Spaniards, then it was likely to raise the war between countries to the level of a national war!
Those white immigrants were not ignorant Indians, and the Spanish government would immediately gather almost all the civilian armed forces in the colony under the banner of resistance to the Indians!
The colonial cities with at least tens of thousands of white people, as long as Zhao Dutian attacked, they would instantly become large barracks!
One might think that the Indians have it, and the few whites who slowly wear out the numbers can also be, but!
Those colonial cities are not far from the coastline, and even many cities themselves are developed from ports, in the face of the Han Empire, the navy is about equal to nothing, Zhao Dutian can figure it out with his ass, if it really falls into a protracted war, the white army will definitely fight more and more!
There are few whites in the Americas, but there are quite a few whites in Europe!
And all of them are elite soldiers who have gone through the war!
The Han Empire may still have a chance of victory, but if it is a protracted war, it is almost certain that the Han Empire will be pushed back by the white army......
This is Zhao Dutian, who has a system bug, and he can also obtain the wealth accumulated by the white people through a quick victory, so as to feed the war by fighting, if he is an ordinary force, he will not be able to defeat the white people in the Americas no matter what!
The reason is simple, the gap in the industrial base!
The first industrial revolution has been perfectly transformed in Europe, and this indicator of industrial hard power is not something that can be surpassed by an America that is still in a primitive society!
To put it bluntly, as the form of war gradually enters the era of hot weapons, the factors of victory or defeat in war depend more and more on the overall strength of the country, rather than as in the era of cold weapons, as long as a great conqueror, or a great wise man, military strategist, general, or something appears, using strategy to achieve one or more victories, you can defeat the enemy country!
This is on the battlefield in the era of thermal weapons!
China, a country as big as China and full of talents, why was it pushed down by small Japan with hundreds of thousands of troops?
Could it be that the Chinese do not have that kind of strategic genius, and they don't have that kind of people with great intelligence?
Obviously not, it's just that because of the change in the mode of war, victory no longer depends on strategy, but is replaced by a decent staff system, no matter how powerful the thirty-six tactics are, they can't beat other people's aircraft and artillery!
Looking at World War I and World War II, almost all of the examples of winning more with less are based on the generation difference in equipment, and the only thing seen on the battlefield is simple tactics such as conventional roundabouts and outflanking, and the kind of miraculous skills that made people shine in ancient times have completely disappeared......
Even in the era of queuing up to be shot, the backward side defeated the advanced side, relying not on a strategy, but on the blood of the soldiers, and with ten or even a hundred times the casualties, it was possible to defeat the other party in exchange for a moment of peace......
Therefore, Zhao Dutian, who felt that his strength was insufficient and planned to farm well, was in a tempered mood and carried out rectification and armament within the Han Empire!
However, time waits for no one, and the Han Empire has only been established for more than two years, which is commonly known as the second year of the Han Dynasty, and the battle for the Spanish throne in Europe has come to an end!
The French defeated Galway's forces at Almansa, Spain, and occupied Valencia, Murcia, and Aragon, with Philip V effectively ruling over vast areas of Spain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Subsequently, the combined forces of the French generals, Duke Vendôme and Philip V, thwarted the forces of Archduke Charles at Villaviciosa.
The tide of the war was turned around by Louis XIV of France, and it was in this situation that Archduke Charles of Austria succeeded to the thrones of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his brother Joseph I, known as Charles VI. This caused Britain and the Netherlands to change their attitudes, fearing that the power of the Austrian Habsburgs would be too powerful and detrimental to them, and no longer supported his claim to the Spanish throne, and signed the Treaty of Utrecht with France and Spain in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the Peace of Rastatt the following year.
From then on, Philip V, supported by the French, was recognized as King of Spain, inheriting Spain proper and overseas colonies. However, the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), which was part of Spain, and southern Italy were under Austrian jurisdiction. Since then, Spain has lost most of its territory in Europe and lost its traditional status as a European power.
After this war, the Spanish Empire experienced a great loss of strength, but it really got rid of the quagmire of war and could set its sights on the American colonies!
And Louis XIV of France, who won the final victory, felt very good about himself, believing that he had maintained his position as the hegemon of Europe, but the war had been fought for a long time, and France's finances tended to collapse......
Of course, this little flaw is nothing in the eyes of the great lord Louis XIV, and no matter how bitter the French people are, no one dares to oppose Louis XIV, who has achieved such great things!
It's a pity that the old man Louis XIV is a little old, and the court life is too erosive, the eldest is not small, and he rolls the sheets with a 20-year-old girl all day long, and the result is ......
Less than two years after the victory in the War for the Spanish Throne, Louis XIV went to see his God......
Just after the death of Louis XIV, the sequelae of the French war broke out, the political situation was chaotic, the finances were on the verge of despair, and the people's lives were in dire straits and began to decline!
It was at this moment that the British began to compete with France for supremacy in the European mainland and colonies, and even the Seven Years' War!
Well, the British picked the timing very well!
Of course, these are all later words, and what Zhao Dutian is concerned about now is that the Spanish colonies have made a free hand and have begun to target the rising Indian empire in California!