Panama is an important base of the Royal Navy in Central America, with 1,350 Marines stationed on a daily basis, which accounts for almost one-third of the entire naval standing force (Note; Specifically referring to the Marine Corps), it is the largest military base overseas.

In this round of large-scale military expansion, the navy did not get any benefits, which made Vice Admiral Pan Hengchen very unwilling, he always wanted to make some noise, so that His Majesty could see that the navy was not a dry food.

Think about it

Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen has set his sights on two Central American countries next to the province of Panama, one is Costa Rica and the other is Colombia.

Costa Rica was originally part of the United Republic of Central America, with a total population of 143,000 and a land area of more than 50,000 square kilometers.

The area that made up the United Central American Republic, which became a Spanish colony after the 16th century, was collectively known as the "Viceroyalty of Guatemala".

The 1820 revolution in Spain that restored the constitutional system triggered a wave of independence from the Spanish colonies in the Americas, and a surging independence movement erupted in the Viceroyalty of Guatemala.

After Mexico declared independence in 1821, the liberals of the Viceroyalty of Guatemala drafted the First Declaration of Independence on September 15, advocating union with Mexico and joining the Mexican family for warmth.

Unfortunately, since its founding, Mexico has been mired in an endless struggle for power, with political corruption and a hopeless dark reign shattering the union.

When Ituverde, the "Emperor of Mexico", abdicated, the region could not bear it, and instead convened the "National Constituent Assembly" of the Central American region, and issued the Declaration of Second Independence on July 17, 1823, adopting the name of the "United Province of Central America", including the five "administrative regions" that were formerly part of the Viceroyalty of Guatemala, namely Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

Not long after the good days, conflicts began to arise between these five administrative regions, as if it was the fate of the countries of Central and North America, and there was always endless infighting, which is also the disadvantage of the introduction of American-style democracy.

The rivalry eventually led to another disintegration in 1841, with El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala declaring independence.

Now Costa Rica and Nicaragua are in a state of being both independent and not independent, the three Central American partners have left, and the alliance has broken down.

But now they still bear the name of the "United Republic of Central America", but in their own way, this so-called "United Republic of Central America" has long since died in name.

If history has not changed

Next year, Costa Rica will declare its third independent statehood, the first time is to hug the thighs of Mexico, the second is to hug the thighs of the United Republic of Central America, and the third time there is really no thighs to hug, so you can only go out alone.

Flies don't bite seamless eggs, and it is precisely because of the chaos in various regions of Central America that Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen is eyeing Costa Rica.

Colombia, a country with a population of nearly 800,000 and a total area of 1.14 million square kilometers, has a long history of development, and is not a target that the armed forces of the navy can eat.

Yes, Vice Admiral Pan Hengchen just wants to use his naval power to solve the problem, and is unwilling to let the army intervene, so he can only choose the target that the navy can swallow, that is, the Costa Rica region.

So why didn't the Navy include Nicaragua?

This is because Nicaragua is mainly Central American Indians, with a total area of 140,000 square kilometers and a population of 336,000, which is completely different from the Indo-European whites in Costa Rica, with different skin colors, different languages, and different religious beliefs.

In addition, Costa Rica does not have an army, only a militia of less than 700 people.

Unlike Nicaragua, the region has a regular army of 5,660 men, divided into six infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, as well as an artillery battalion, in addition to local volunteer militias.

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Our goal is to take advantage of the chaos in the region to take Costa Rica, and this operation will focus on a surprise attack by marines to take the region in one fell swoop.

In order to achieve these objectives, the naval fleet will fully cooperate and move an 860-strong infantry regiment from the kingdom mainland to the south to strengthen the military strength of the marines.

In addition, I request;

Among the Chinese immigrants arriving in Panama, a militia of 3,000 people was formed to carry out fully enclosed military training in the base, which will serve as a reserve force for naval operations.

The operation was named the "Dawning Project", and the Navy General Staff Headquarters had high expectations for this plan, hoping that all of you present here would unite and work together to complete the combat mission and restore the glory of our navy.

The kingdom's military expansion in Central America will be dominated by the navy......"

Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen stood at the head of the conference room and tried his best to boost the morale of the officers attending the military meeting, and his face glowed with a different kind of red light, and his expression was extremely excited.

The army of nearly 5,000 people (including the militia of 3,000 people) was an unprecedented large-scale operation for the Royal Navy, and it was also the most important military operation to date.

The aim is to swallow Costa Rica in one bite.

Judging from the favorable situation of the current outbreak of Chinese immigrants in Central America, the annexation and digestion of Costa Rica is completely a piece of cake, and there will not be too many troubles.

What is a small area with a population of more than 140,000?

His Majesty knew that with His Majesty's pervasive and strict control over the kingdom's army, it would be impossible for the navy to transfer troops southward on a large scale, and hide it from His Majesty.

The mobilization of an 860-man Marine Corps infantry regiment must obtain His Majesty's royal permission and personally sign the transfer order, otherwise with the small body of Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen, he will not be able to bear such a heavy responsibility at all.

In the face of the chaos and rapid deterioration of the situation in North America, the Tang Kingdom is now in an extremely favorable situation, if the north and the south go to war, the Tang Kingdom will swallow the meat that the Yankees put in their mouths in the first time.

That is the area of DeWarner occupied by the United States today, which is just a little more than 100 kilometers south of Los Angeles, and is a solitary enclave on the Pacific side of the United States.

Over the years, the Yankees have focused on the construction of the Tijuana area and Mexicali, mainly focusing on the military port, and building seaside forts, naval docks and towns in Tijuana, which have a total of more than 100,000 residents, of which more than 60% are white American immigrants.

Through this move, the United States is trying to retain its military presence in Tijuana, threaten the soft hinterland of the Tang Kingdom with a relatively strong naval force, and then win the right to speak in North America.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The U.S. Navy does have three sail frigates with strong combat effectiveness, especially the USS Constitution, but these old sail warships are mainly active in the Atlantic Ocean near New York, and it is impossible to bypass Cape Storm in South America and make a long-distance detour of 10,000 kilometers to Tijuana to fight in the eastern Pacific.

Not to mention whether the US Navy's sail fleet has such a powerful strength, the mission itself is almost a fantasy.

The Tang Kingdom is an advanced country moving towards industrialization, with a navy of ten ironclad destroyers with a displacement of 1,550 tons to 1,880 tons, as well as a larger number of ironclad patrol ships and seven sail frigates.

Moreover, Tijuana is close to the increasingly prosperous Los Angeles metropolitan area of the Tang Kingdom, where there are heavy army troops, once a war breaks out between Tang and the United States, Tijuana is a piece of meat in the mouth of the Tang Kingdom, which can be swallowed at any time.

Wanting to rely on a mere enclave to contain the Tang Kingdom is tantamount to a fool's dream.

When the top level of the U.S. federal government realized this, they had already invested a lot of money in Tijuana, and it became a situation that was difficult to recover.

The U.S. state of Tijuana, formerly the former Mexican states of Baja California Norte and Baja California Sur, is a long, narrow peninsula shaped like a baguette with a total area of about 153,000 square kilometers, with major cities such as Tijuana, Mexicaré and La Paz.

The state was one of the territories ceded by the United States from Mexico through a postwar treaty after the Mexican-American War of 1848.

As an enclave far away from the U.S. Federation, the state's biggest role is to balance the development of the Tang Kingdom, and as the only base of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific region, it has an irreplaceable and important role in realizing the American dream of two oceans and a great power.

The idea was good, but it was difficult to realize.

It was relatively easy to build coastal forts and docks, but Tijuana was only a hundred kilometers from Los Angeles and even closer to Palm Springs, and the border between the two countries was unobstructed, so how to prevent the Tang Kingdom's powerful cavalry troops from raiding became a difficult dilemma.

If a defensive line were to be built on the border between the two countries, it would be necessary to build a circular defensive line with a total length of about 360 kilometers, which would be an extremely expensive project and obviously impossible.

Los Angeles is only a little over 100 kilometers from Tijuana on the Pacific coast, and only 304 kilometers from the state's important city of Mexicare, and a field division of the Tang Kingdom is stationed in Palm Springs, only 43 kilometers from the border between the two countries.

The cavalry regiment under it trained on the border between Tang and the United States on a daily basis, which brought great defensive pressure to the US territory of Warner, and it had to form a volunteer militia cavalry team with more than 2,300 people.

When the situation between the North and the South became tense, these volunteer white militiamen who patrolled the US border every day immediately disappeared.

All of them retreated back to the periphery of the city and gave up the confrontation on the border line to avoid creating an excuse for the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom to start a war, but in fact, they were cowardly and hid.

These Yankees knew very well that with the weak military strength of Tijuana, it was very unlikely that they would want to block the attack of the army of the Tang Kingdom.

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