It has to be said that the Argentines have a super ability to die, and they have successfully attracted the thunderous wrath of today's saints, and the consequences are quite serious.

Nowadays, the Holy Saint has always been very concerned about immigration affairs, and there is zero tolerance for incidents that infringe on the interests of immigrants.

The Argentines are mad and no one can save them.

After discussing some relevant war arrangements and major matters related to the international people's livelihood, the court meeting ended, and a group of cabinet ministers left the Dongji Hall one after another to go about their own affairs, and only Zhang Li, the minister of finance, was left behind to make a separate edict.

Li Fushou inquired in detail about some wartime financial arrangements and fiscal expenditures, and preliminarily agreed to issue war bonds at the end of the year, totaling 500 million gold oceans, worth about 250 million pounds sterling, or 1.25 billion US dollars.

In preparation for the war for two and a half years

Li Fushou finally agreed to Major General Bian Chunsong's plan for the establishment of armored divisions, and equipped the Royal Praetorian Guard and the Army with an extremely strong armored division, namely the 4th Armored Division of the Royal Praetorian Guard and the 1st Honorary Armored Division of the Army.

The strength of each armored division is 15,600 soldiers, a total of 400 tanks, more than 120 light armored vehicles of various kinds (modified from the wolf light tank), more than 1,200 automobiles, complete light and heavy artillery, reasonable allocation of armor and infantry firepower, and can carry out a variety of combat missions, costing more than 12 million dollars.

Besides

The Ocean Empire has a tank armored battalion for every Class A division in active service, a total of 11 armored battalions, and is not equipped with expensive T2 tanks considering the cost.

The tank and armored battalions under the infantry division are each composed of two light tank companies, equipped with a total of 44 wolf light tanks, and one heavy tank company, equipped with 22 Cheetah medium tanks, with a total of 66 tanks in the battalion, which are used to strengthen the armored assault force of the infantry division.

The veteran Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Wolf cavalry divisions have also been reorganized, each with a tank armored regiment, two cavalry regiments, a supplementary corps, and a regiment directly under the division, including an automobile battalion, a training battalion, a communications company, an engineer company, a repair company, a motorcycle company, a divisional hospital, and a guard battalion, with a total number of more than 19,000 soldiers, and the combat capability has been more than doubled.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned equipment goals, the Wolf light tank, the Cheetah medium tank and the T-2 tank have been expanded two years ago, and a large number of new equipment has been continuously equipped with the army units, and the surplus part has entered the strategic reserve.

Today, the annual production of Wolf light tanks reaches 1,360 units, the annual production of Cheetah medium tanks reaches 350 units, and the annual production of T-2 tanks reaches 175 units.

Among them, the first two are widely equipped with armored tank battalions belonging to infantry divisions, and armored tank regiments belonging to armored tank divisions under armored modifications.

The T-2 tank, as a high-end equipment, was equipped with only two armored tank divisions.

Among the army units that are about to go to North America, the figure of the Army's Honorary Armored Division No. 1 has suddenly appeared, which is the fist unit of the whole army, and will shoulder the heavy task of overcoming difficulties all the way.

The Royal Praetorian Guard's 4th Armoured Division is still on the mainland, ready to respond to calls.

presently

Tank and armored vehicles are being transferred to completely transform the old armored dragoon division, from a semi-mechanized and semi-cavalry unit to an armored tank division.

The Armored Dragoon Division will also serve as the third armored division of the Empire, carrying out strategic strike missions.

You're welcome

The Ocean Imperial Army has achieved the goal of semi-mechanization, which has not only greatly improved the army's long-range mobility capability, but also greatly improved its combat effectiveness, and each division can cope with complex combat missions on its own, and its flexibility has been greatly increased.

More than 10,000 trucks have been equipped with the whole army, and 24,000 military trucks of 5 and 10 tons have been ordered to further improve their mobility capabilities.

Military trucks have some improvements over civilian trucks, mainly because the steeplechase is made of 8.5 mm cemented carbide steel plate, which has the ability to intercept rifle bullets after attaching 15 cm thick wooden planks.

In addition, the roof of the cab is equipped with a heavy machine gun swivel base, which can be equipped with a Maxim heavy machine gun with a steel shield. Outside the glass window of the cab, there is a steel armor guard, which can be lowered to cover it during combat, and the effect is better than nothing.

The chassis of the military truck has also been slightly improved, and the tires have a more concave and convex off-road pattern, which makes them more capable of wading in water and coping with muddy backcountry roads.

The main improvements are these points, and the price has also been increased by half.

The automobile industry of the Ocean Empire is very developed, and with the sharp increase in production, the price has also dropped significantly, so this price can still be afforded, and it can be mass-loaded with troops.

Motorcycles are produced by the introduction of technology, and are mainly equipped with communication detachments and divisional guard battalions, replacing the use of animal power such as mules and horses, and the effect is quite good.

Among the infantry divisions of the Ocean Empire, there is another special equipment that must be mentioned, and that is bicycles.

Since the automobile has not yet been fully popularized, the large-scale mobility of the infantry division mainly relies on bicycles, these heavy military bicycles can carry a large number of individual equipment and ammunition, water, and the average daily mobility capacity reaches 50~60 kilometers, and can reach up to 80 kilometers at most, which is a pretty good ability.

Especially in the vast territory of North America, it is simply a hot wheel for infantry divisions.

After asking some financial questions, Li Fushou waved his hand to let Zhang Li, the Minister of Finance, step down, and saw that it was already dusk, so he stood up and walked to the harem.

After dinner and bathing, Li Fushou was thinking about the current war, so he came to the study in the East Pavilion again, and was ready to rest here at night.

Night was falling

The diamond chandelier in the inner study is located at a height of more than 7 meters, illuminating the surrounding area, surrounded by rosewood bookcases that are more than 4 meters high, neatly placed as many as 12,000 precious books, and a huge hand-drawn world map.

Li Fushou lit a cigar cigarette, letting his figure loom in the thick and mellow cyan smoke, a pair of deep eyes staring at the world map thoughtfully, letting his thoughts diverge, considering the turbulence of the world today.

The European powers, entangled in the Bosnian crisis, have no time to be distracted and will not have the heart to make a fuss until the crisis is resolved in June next year.

This period of time is a good time to determine the overall situation of the "wool war".

For this large-scale war involving the whole of the Americas, Li Fushou has no illusions that it will be resolved within half a year to a year, otherwise he would not have issued war bonds of up to 500 million gold oceans, which is to prepare for a long-term war.

Ideally, it would be nice to be able to solve it within three years.

Others thought it was a war caused by Argentina's misresponse, affecting Citigroup and the countries of the Western Pacific. In fact, Argentina was only the source of the war, and the goal of the Ocean Empire was the Citigroup from the beginning to the end.

More than a dozen response plans have been prepared for Citigroup.

If it wisely does not intervene, then the "Monroe Doctrine", which Citigroup has adhered to for 85 years, will be completely bankrupt, and the Ocean Empire will turn Argentina upside down, stomping on Citigroup's face again and again, until it is completely trampled into the mud......

If it intervenes, it is divided into four situations: large, medium, small, and all-out war, and the smallest is the intervention of the US Navy, which immediately admits defeat after suffering a setback and pays reparations to cede land.

Given President Roosevelt's hard-line personality, combined with the white supremacy and impetuosity that prevailed in Citigroup, it is unlikely that he will be willing to fail and admit early defeat.

Then, the ensuing course of the war is not up to Citigroup to decide.

From the very beginning, Li Fushou rushed for an all-out war, and his purpose was not simply to defeat Citigroup, promote its secession, seriously weaken its strength, and undermine the self-confidence of Citigroup people that swelled with economic growth.

When everyone thinks that the target of the Ocean Empire is Citigroup, it can only show that it is superficial, and Li Fushou has a deeper strategic intention~ that is, to lay out Europe.

The purpose of the far-reaching strategic layout is twofold;

The first is to balance the balance of power in the world today, after the emergence of the two great powers of the United States and the United States, the military alliance with Germany, Italy and Austria as the core seems to be weak, and they all belong to the ranks of English-speaking countries.

All things considered, if Germany has even a little bit of sanity, then the Sanajevo incident may not be enough to detonate World War 1 with careful choice.

And this is something that Li Fushou can never accept.

Therefore, he wants to take action to seriously weaken the military and economic potential of Citigroup, interrupt its vigorous and upward national fortunes, break its monopoly on North America, and dominate the two oceans, so as to expand the full room for the rise of the Ocean Empire as one of the world's great powers in the next 10 years.

The second goal is to fully demonstrate strong strength and sell at a price.

Since he wants to play bigger, although Li Fushou is congenitally closer to the UK, it does not mean that he has put all his chips on the UK, after all, he now has the capital to say "no", and the German side is not impossible to consider.

In the original historical time and space

The Russian Empire was shattered in 1918, and the Bolsheviks swept through the northern empire, and the nascent regime made peace with Germany, conceding defeat and ceding large tracts of land, promising a staggering amount of war reparations.

The terms of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty signed by Germany and Russia were unprecedentedly harsh, with three main provisions;

Article 1, the demobilization of the entire Russian army;

Second, Russia renounced Poland and Lithuania and recognized the independence of Ukraine and Finland.

Third, Russia paid Germany 6 billion marks in war reparations.

What does this mean?

First of all, it means that Tsarist Russia has lost 1 million square kilometers of land, which is not inaccessible Siberia, but the European region of Russia, which belongs to the essence of its territorial essence.

Among them, the population alone is more than 50 million, accounting for more than 1/3 of the total population of Tsarist Russia.

In 1910, Mendeleev, who invented the periodic table, predicted that in another 40 years, Russia's population would grow from the current 155 million to 600 million.

But a Brest Treaty basically abolished Tsarist Russia completely.

It meant that Russia had completely lost its industrial base on the 1 million square kilometers of land, and although Russian industry was far behind that of European countries, it had already improved before World War I because of French financial and technical assistance and Stolypin's reforms, and the industrialization process was mainly concentrated on this European land.

However, on the land that was ceded out, there were 90% of Russia's coal, 73% of iron ore, 54% of industrial capacity, plus an additional one-third of the arable land, which directly returned to the state of serfdom.

Thus, the Peace of Brest-Litovsk did not remove one arm from Russia, but one arm and two legs, and thus returned to the primitive agricultural state.

In particular, coal and iron ore are two very important resources. Nowadays, the competition of industrial capacity is coal and steel, without these two, Tsarist Russia is still playing a fart!

In the First World War, the German-Italian-Austrian Triple Alliance was not without a chance of victory, and 1918 was the best opportunity and the closest to victory, when the German Empire had achieved complete victory on the Eastern Front.

Imagine a comeback at a critical time......

Hehehe...... That's a lot of fun!

It is not unusual for Li Fushou to have such an idea, and he doesn't mind secretly communicating with the Germans to make a living in this world, who doesn't have a few friends?

Say a thousand, say 10,000, traditional friendship is all a fart, for the country, the most exciting thing is the real benefits.

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