One noon three days later.

A shady area next to a road construction site.

John and René wore two white hats, lay on the rocking chairs, and drank the new drink of the Hero Company from time to time, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water.

John drank this is mandatory for Tom, even if it's in Mexico in January,

Due to its tropical location, the midday temperature is also in the mid-twenties.

Not to mention the scorching sun.

Tom demanded that all employees, from John to the most ordinary site workers, must drink a small bottle at noon every day.

René was very fond of this new alcoholic drink with its pungent taste.

"Mr. Muller, I know that among the 'knights' squires, the more senior squires also need a certain number of people to be responsible for the logistics of these squires, but you have too many logistics personnel. ”

"Is that more? If you want to quickly build a concrete road from here to Texas, you don't have enough people! ”

"Is it really not enough?"

René looked at the Chinese workers in front of him, wearing yellow hats and building roads under the scorching sun, and he didn't understand Tom's war strategy.

What is the understanding of building roads while fighting a war?

René completely did not understand the "road-building tactics" that Tom learned from the "island-hopping tactics" of MacArthur and Emperor Mac, the only real emperors of the Neon Nation in later generations.

Unable to figure it out, René simply didn't think about it, and shook the never-before-seen rocking chair under his body, feeling that this rocking chair was much more comfortable than the "Windsor rocking chair" of the English sissy.

Finding a way to get a few more of these new rocking chairs from John Mill is what René is most concerned about right now.

The island hopping tactic is that in World War II, the U.S. military jumped over the neon key islands, chose to use absolute air supremacy to attack the weak islands, and finally cut off the supply lines of the key islands, and finally won the fastest victory at the minimum human cost.

"Road building tactics" is a kind of tactic that Tom thought of building as many kilometers as the army advances to ensure follow-up supplies, which is a tactic of steady and steady, step by step, and never rushing.

What are the similarities between these two tactics?

The islands that the neon army does not focus on guarding are all islands that are not conducive to development or have no strategic significance, and only the powerful industry of the United States can forcibly transform this kind of island, which is worthless to other countries, into "transit islands" for island hopping tactics regardless of the cost.

Moreover, the "transit islands" that were renovated for MacArthur's island-hopping tactics were basically abandoned after the war, and the material consumption of island-hopping tactics was far greater than that of a frontal war.

To put it bluntly, MacArthur's island-hopping tactics require the support of the United States' extremely strong industrial and scientific and technological strength, and it cannot be achieved without a national strength that is so strong as to crush its opponents.

Tom's "road building tactics" are the same, relying on the huge profits of the hero company in the United States and all of Europe as a support, and concentrating the materials in these areas to "lead to all directions" and "artillery to the four seas"!

They all rely on technology and national strength to crush their opponents, and there is no breakthrough thinking at all.

Since Tom is rich, very rich, super rich.

So, why compete with the other side in terms of military literacy and other aspects of combat effectiveness?

Of course, when it comes to the combat quality of the army, there is no region in the world where the army can match the German veterans of the HERO company.

Tom thinks he doesn't know any military tactics, he only knows how to make money!

I also learned the strategic advancement of island hopping tactics - smashing the opponent with money.

If you can smash them to death with money, why should you compare combat effectiveness with them? - In "Tom Smith's Memoirs", he commented on his "road-building tactics".

On his way to visit Massimiliano I, Tom had carefully analyzed the current situation on the battlefield in Mexico.

The economic sources of the United Mexican Front are mainly concentrated in the mining industry in the north-west of Mexico, as well as in the covert "blood transfusion" of the United States of America.

Clandestine blood transfusions in the United States are also concentrated in the northeastern side, along the border between California and Mexico.

The northwestern side of Mexico, that is, on the border with Texas, as well as the western seaboard, were weak points for the United Mexican Front.

Veracruz - Nautra - Tampico - Madero City - San Fernando - San Hermán - Mataromos.

Under Tom's plan, these cities not far from the west coast of Mexico will be supported by the strong material base of Hero Company, and strive to connect them with cement roads in the shortest possible time.

The plan is for the cement road to eventually connect to Texas.

As early as September 1866, Tom used the name of state autonomy to drive out the "Yankee" army on the border between Texas and Mexico, and prepared for the follow-up plan.

By the time John's Front had torn a hole in Mexico's western coast and "theoretically" connected the Second Mexican Empire with Texas, the ensuing war would have been much easier.

Once combined, Tom's knightly squires could even transport military supplies directly from Texas under the pretext of exporting goods to the Second Mexican Empire.

Large-scale mobilization of troops can also be transported to the front line of the battlefield by land.

The "road building tactics" can be in full swing.

In previous wars, the United States bordered the United Mexican States with short supply routes.

However, the transportation routes from the Second French Empire, both in its main body and in its colonies, to the Second Mexican Empire, especially to the front-line battlefields, were too long.

This is the most critical reason why the Second French Empire and the Second Mexican Empire have been in decline.

Relying on Tom's "road building tactics", a large number of war materials can be easily supported to the front line of the station, and even shorter than the route of supplies sent by the Yankees to the United Mexican States, which can turn this most fatal shortcoming.

This is a plan that Tom has long made.

Yes, Tom had long wanted to intervene in what was clearly a civil war between the United Mexican States and the Second Mexican Empire, but in fact a semi-proxy war between the United States of America and the Second French Empire.

War is a war of science and technology, a war of economy, and a war of population!

In these three areas,

Both the Second Mexican Empire and the United Mexican States are a bunch of fake tigers in themselves!

Even the Yankees, the masters of the United Mexican States, are now unlikely to defeat the HERO Corporation near Texas.

Die, United Mexican States!

Benito Pablo Juárez García, die!

Die, Indians!

Yankey, suffer death!

The vast land and minerals of northern Mexico have become the "knightly domain" of Lord Tom Smith!

Let the glory of monarchy and slavery once again shine on the land of Mexico!

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