The stakes are high

After confirming the basic intentions, Katsura Taro and his entourage immediately returned to Japan by speedboat, and the matter required the approval of the imperial elders to determine the major policy through the Emperor's Imperial Council.

Prime Minister Katsura Taro is a proud disciple of the elder Yama Prefecture Aritomo, a staunch defender of the Imperial Daoist faction, well aware of the ambitions of his mainland policy, and will never refuse this poisonous pie.

The olive branch extended by Li Fushou, the emperor of the Ocean Empire, added another option of "eastward expansion" to the expansion policy of "going north and south" of the Fusang Kingdom.

The northward policy was to occupy and colonize Korea, and then to fight for the three northeastern provinces of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberian Krai to the north.

The biggest obstacle to the southward policy was the Ocean Empire, followed by the British Empire, the Netherlands and France, which was almost a dead end.

The policy of eastward expansion is wonderful, crossing the wide Pacific Ocean to North America, and operating a 600,000-square-kilometer land in New Mexico, with the smallest cost and the weakest enemy.

There has never been a good thing in this world that is not earned for nothing, and Li Fushou, the emperor of the Ocean Empire, used the Fusang country as a gunman and used the Fusang people to stand on the front line against North America, and the Fusang people knew all about these.

But so what?

Fuso was poor in resources, had many people and little land, and the contradictions between population and land were extremely acute, and after the victory of the Russo-Japanese War, it was burdened with huge debts, and several "rice tides" had broken out, and the poor middle- and lower-class fishermen and urban residents could not even solve the problem of one rice ball a day.

In this case

Democracy activist Sukako Kanno explicitly pointed out that the emperor was "the chief of economic plunder, the root of political evil, and the source of ideological superstition." ”

Millions of Fuso women went to the South Seas to earn valuable foreign exchange for the country with their bodies.

According to statistics;

Within the Ocean Empire alone, there were no less than 1.3 million Fuso women engaged in lowly work, earning tens of millions of gold and remitting them back to China every year, which effectively supported the crumbling economy of Fuso, supported the development of armaments, and alleviated acute social contradictions.

And behind all this, there is the tragedy of millions of Fuso women, beautiful girls still hope to become concubines or maids, relying on the mercy of their masters to get a thin guarantee for naturalization, if they can give birth to a boy and half a girl, naturalization is stable.

Those with an average appearance can only manage the cheap business, and the youth is passing away in the ushering send-off, and the delicate face is no longer ......

Men sacrifice their lives and deaths on the battlefield, and women go to foreign lands to sell their youth and flesh, and everything they do is for the rejuvenation of the Yamato nation, and they endure humiliation and carry the burden forward.

Prime Minister Katsura Taro and the top political circles of Fuso have a consensus that they will sacrifice a generation in exchange for national progress and national rejuvenation, and become one of the world's great powers.

In order to fight for the position, Fuso has already blocked the British gun once.

For the sake of this poisonous pancake in the New Mexico region, Fusang does not mind blocking the muzzle of the ocean empire again, and in terms of sacrifice and pioneering spirit, the people of Fusang are no less than the Chinese people, and they have more perseverance and tenacity.

The northern part of New Mexico is located on the Colorado Plateau, where the famous Grand Canyon is located, and the south is a barren Gobi and high mountains, and only the narrow strip near the east side has large forests and a few plains.

Once Fuso occupies New Mexico, it will bear the brunt of a serious military challenge from the United States, because it has two northern neighbors, and the Rocky Mountains, which run through the north and south, geographically divide the northern neighbor in two. One is the Northern Federation, and the other is the United States.

The Northern Union and the Republic of California aside, which are allies on which Fuso depends, the key is that there are 830 kilometers of Pacific Railroad lines in New Mexico, which go west to the depths of the Rocky Mountains, which is the front line of the military confrontation with the United States.

Without occupying this place, the United States will not be able to continue to threaten Salt Lake City deep west in the Rocky Mountains.

Without the 830-kilometer Pacific Railroad artery, Fuso could not maintain its military presence in northern New Mexico, and half of the country fell.

This is because in New Mexico, there are often one or two thousand kilometers of highways that pass through the uninhabited Gobi and mountains, and the distance is too far for supplies from the south to be transported to the north.

Without the Pacific Railroad, a major transportation artery, a firm grip on northern New Mexico would be an empty phrase.

Therefore, the 830-kilometer-long Pacific Railroad line in the north is the lifeblood of New Mexico, and it must not be missed.

Look around

New Mexico is landlocked, and the Pacific Rim metropolitan area of San Francisco, the Pacific Coast South Los Angeles, and the Pacific Coast North Seattle.

It can be said that as long as you get on the thief ship of the Ocean Empire, the dependence of Fuso will become deeper and deeper, because the route from the mainland of Fuso to North America needs to pass through Midway, Hawaii, and then arrive at the northern ports of Newport, Salem, Portland or Seattle in the Pacific Pacific, where the goods are disembarked and transported along the Northern Railroad to Salt Lake City, and continue east to the northern region of New Mexico, which is all under the direct control of the Ocean Empire.

The central and southern ports of the Republic of California on the Pacific coast are also indirectly controlled by the Ocean Empire, or capital participation or control of docks and warehouses, control shipyards and international trade channels, and control the foreign trade of the Republic of California in disguise.

If the Fuso Kingdom wants to immigrate to the New Mexico region on a large scale and develop its economy and exploit minerals, it must first do without the support of the capital of the Ocean Empire, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch.

Even in the face of these many difficulties, before Katsura and his entourage arrived in Tokyo, the elders of the Fuso Kingdom and the political forces of all parties had reached an agreement;

That is, no matter how difficult it is, the whole country must swallow this piece of fat.

I can't help it, I'm scared.

Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I have to touch the tiger's buttocks.

July 26th

Fuso made the decision to increase troops to North America, and the first to set off was the 5th Division, which would arrive at the port of Portland half a month later on a large number of migrant ships and freighters provided by the Ocean Empire, passing through Midway and Hawaii.

After a short break at Portland's port, they'll take a train southeast to Salt Lake City, Utah, where they will turn east, cross the winding Rocky Mountain Railroad line, and finally take a six-day train east to the Omaha frontline.

In other words, it will be able to enter the battle by the end of August at the earliest.

As for the New Mexico region, there is no hurry now, and we have to wait until we defeat the resistance of the American army before we can collect the spoils, and then we will get the next year.

Before that

The Eastern Army of the Expeditionary Force had taken the lead in launching an attack on the American forces on the Washington Line, opening the prelude to the Battle of Washington.

As of early July

The U.S. military grew from 260,000 to 340,000 troops on the Washington Line, which stretched 78 kilometers long and 106 kilometers wide, and built thousands of reinforced concrete forts as the main fire support points. The 1,550-kilometer-long criss-crossing trenches were excavated, the dense barbed wire fence was layered over 10,000 kilometers, and more than 1,730 artillery pieces of various calibers were arranged.

If it really pushes all the way over, the hundreds of thousands of people of the Thirteen-Nation Alliance really don't see much.

No matter how poor the training of the Mi militia is, it is still no problem to squat in the trenches to defend, plus the Mi cowboy has a strong personality and a relatively tenacious will to fight, so it is not a bone to gnaw on.

In the face of the US army, the 4th Armored Division of the Royal Janissary Guard of the Ocean Empire, together with the Shangri-La Division, totaled 41,200 men and concentrated all the trucks of the whole army to carry out a large-scale mechanized roundabout operation.

From July 14th

Abandoning the rigid tactics of confronting the U.S. forces head-on, he followed the wide road west through the town of Charlotte, turned north to break through the Luray area, and rushed into the southern part of Maryland with a furious momentum, leaving behind the entire Washington defense line.

More than 20 large and small battles occurred along the way, breaking a total of 9 interceptions at or above the regimental level of the US cavalry, the largest of which was a movement war in the Luray area.

At that time, the U.S. Army assembled two cavalry divisions and a separate cavalry regiment of South Virginia, together with some infantry units totaling 27,500 men, to intercept the armored corps that was ferociously advancing on the Luray Plains.

In this battle, armored vehicles against cavalry staged an extremely tragic one-sided massacre, known as the "Battle of Lulei" in history.

The battle lasted six and a half hours, and at dusk, the mobile regiment did not hesitate to fight after completely defeating the enemy in front of it, and quickly escaped and headed north, leaving behind tens of thousands of corpses on the Luray plain, a scene that seemed like the end of the world.

According to post-war statistics, the U.S. army suffered heavy losses in the "Battle of Lulei", with more than 14,000 casualties, of which more than 7,700 were killed and countless were seriously wounded.

The Southern Virginia Independent Cavalry Regiment blocked the front of the impact of the Fourth Panzer Division of the Praetorian Guard, and encountered a frantic strangulation of fierce machine-gun fire, the cavalry commander and officers above the squad leader were all killed on the spot, and less than 240 people escaped from the whole regiment, a small half of them suffered from severe battlefield stress, and when they saw the troops of the Ocean Empire, they frantically shouted "The devil is coming, ......", and then fled in all directions, no matter how they couldn't pull it.

4 consecutive days

The Mechanized Mobile Corps threw a ferocious left hook, taking advantage of the well-developed transportation system of the eastern Great Plains of the United States, to implement a large detour tactic from the west, and in four days it made a 477-kilometer detour into the southern part of Maryland.

Detoured from the front of the Washington Line to the back of the weak defenses, then returned with a blow, a ferocious breakthrough from the northwest of the District of Columbia.

In three days, it broke through seven urban interception positions in a row, and encountered a US armored unit in Arlington, a northwestern suburb of Washington, and the world's first armored battle broke out, known as the "Battle of Arlington" in history.

This US armored unit is an elite force supported by the Great Lakes region, with a total of more than 330 strange armored vehicles, which are home-made armored vehicles modified from various trucks, tractors, and car chassis, and are equipped with heavy machine guns, various small and medium-caliber artillery, as well as 60-mm and 80-mm mortars that have only recently appeared.

Accompanying this armored unit were more than 30,000 US troops, all of whom were urgently drawn from the nearby defense line of several tens of kilometers and urgently transported back to Washington through various means of transportation to participate in the "Battle of Arlington."

The Ocean Empire Mechanized Corps came too fast and fiercely, and in a few days it went around from the front of the Washington Line to the back of the ass, and it was overwhelming and irresistible along the way.

Lieutenant General Taftto, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Washington Line, was exhausted, and just as he was about to withdraw troops on the defense line to defend Washington, the enemy on the front side launched another offensive, breaking through the two lines of defense in front of him in one day and advancing 12 kilometers.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Taftor sat down.

The front of the Washington line of defense could not only not be weakened but also strengthened to prevent a major rout caused by successive breakthroughs, but this armored corps that had attacked from the northwest also had to deal with it, so it could only draw troops close to the rear defense line of Washington, urgently return reinforcements, and mobilize the only armored force in the hands of the US army to resolutely block the enemy.

The Royal Praetorian Guard's 4th Armoured Division (owing one T-2 Tank Regiment) is one of the two genuine armoured divisions of the Ocean Empire, and one of the Army's mechanized experimenters exploring new equipment and tactics.

The other is the Honorable Red 1st Division (owing a T-2 tank regiment) that landed on the west coast of North America, which shined in previous wars and is now on the Omaha front, seriously threatening the Great Lakes, a major industrial city in the United States.

The Fourth Division of the Royal Praetorian Guard has two armored regiments, each of which can be responsible for fighting in an independent direction, and its strength is very strong.

The armored regiment has an armored communication platoon at the regimental headquarters, including 2 Cheetah command tanks, 2 battle tanks, a reconnaissance company, 12 wolf light tanks, a regimental guard company, and a military police platoon, equipped with 12 trucks.

4 battalions under each armored regiment;

A motorized infantry battalion of 955 men is equipped with 570 semi-automatic rifles, 72 machine guns, 9 60-mm mortars, 6 80-mm mortars, 6 60-mm field infantry guns, and 140 vehicles.

The three armored tank battalions were the same; Each subordinate has 2 armored tank companies, equipped with a total of 44 Cheetah tanks, one heavy tank company (temporarily missing), and 22 T-2 tanks (temporarily missing), for a total of 66 tanks (44 actual tanks) in the battalion.

The tank battalion has 2 battalion command vehicles, and the command company includes a communication platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, and an engineer platoon, with 8~10 wolf light armored vehicles. 8~10 trucks.

Each tank company consists of 2 tank companies, 4 tank platoons, each platoon is equipped with 5 tanks, and the whole company is equipped with 22 tanks.

The 4th Armored Division of the Royal Janissary Army is additionally equipped with a motorized artillery regiment, which has 2 light artillery battalions of 525 men and 12 105mm howitzers.

1 heavy artillery battalion with 650 people, 4 105-mm cannons (towed), 150-mm howitzers (towed), a balloon observation company, a guard battalion (720 people, equipped with 550 semi-automatic rifles, 32 machine guns), the regiment is equipped with 260 vehicles of various types.

The strength of the Fourth Armored Division of the Royal Praetorian Guard is 12,400 soldiers, a total of 280 tanks, more than 80 light armored vehicles of various kinds (modified from Wolf light tanks), more than 1,200 vehicles, complete light and heavy artillery, reasonable allocation of armored and infantry firepower, and can carry out a variety of combat missions.

Needless to say, the Shangri-La Division is an old powerhouse, with more than 25,000 infantry divisions (including supplementary corps and reinforced armored units), one of the ace units of the Royal Army.

In addition, Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy and other multinational forces also participated in the raid.

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