June 28, 1864

The Tang Emperor Richard and his entourage, who officially visited the Kingdom of Prussia, were stationed at the Emeline Palace on the Elector's Street in Berlin, opening a six-day state visit to the Kingdom of Prussia.

"I heard that there is a prince and lady of the German state who is heartbroken for you, is there such a thing?" Richard asked, dressed in a loose tunic and sitting on the couch.

His Royal Highness Don Li Kun, Duke of the North, who was standing on his side with his hands hanging down, hurriedly knelt down and reported with a courtesy; "The courtiers are stupid, and they are confused by love for a while, and they dare not hide it from the emperor's father, and it is true."

Although the Tang Empire abolished the kneeling salute, in the royal family and aristocratic families, the younger generation still had to bow to the elders, even in the common people's families.

This is a traditional Chinese etiquette, and the royal government can't control it no matter how long it stretches its hand, let alone do more.

Richard sighed lightly and said kindly;

"Young Mu Ai was originally understandable.

But born in the royal family, when enjoying this honorable status, he must also take on the responsibility of maintaining the orthodoxy of the royal bloodline, so as not to be criticized by the courtiers.

At the beginning of the imperial dynasty, every royal child must consciously maintain the imperial system, and his words and deeds should conform to the wishes of his subjects, not because of his own ......"

Richard gave the Seventh Prince a sincere teaching, and as he was talking, Zheng Yuan, the head of the Imperial Secretariat, stepped into the hall, and he waved his hand to make the Seventh Prince stand up, and then asked; "What?"

"Your Majesty; In the morning, the General Staff Headquarters of the Kingdom of Prussia invited Lieutenant General James Kahn to the Meghan Barracks to see the training of the Prussian army. Marshal Dai Changfu, chief of staff, also went with him, and before leaving, he instructed Weichen to report to the Holy Lord in time for inquiry. ”

"Well, it seems that William I is trying to dig into the wall?"

"Your Majesty; The Marshal said the same thing, he commented on the Prussian army; The morale of the army as a whole is high, the training is excellent, and the obedience is good, but the shortcomings are that it has not been tempered by large-scale wars, the degree of integration of the corps is not high, and the coordination and obedience of various units is poor. ”

"The marshal's vision is still vicious, and it is difficult to precipitate a European powerhouse with a small fight. This is also the real reason why European countries generally believe that the French army is stronger. In particular, the French army has a large number of professional soldiers, participated in various wars that colonized the world, and its combat effectiveness is undoubtedly strong. Richard casually commented.

Objectively speaking

In this day and age, the army of the Kingdom of Prussia is recognized as a strong force in Europe, but it is indeed a level below the French army.

The French army was recognized as the hegemon of Europe, the main force that defeated the Russian army in the Crimean War in 1853, and in the subsequent war of independence of the Kingdom of Italy, the combined army of the Kingdom of Sardinia defeated the Austrian Empire, once again demonstrating its strength.

Compare it to

The Prussian army has not participated in a large-scale war for nearly 20 years, and in the Prussian-Danish War, it was only a short period of fighting that was not large in intensity and scale.

The war was on the verge of a close encounter, and the Danish army definitively withdrew from Holstein and Schleswig, ceding the two regions to each other.

In the post-war negotiations in late June

The Kingdom of Denmark officially renounced Holstein and Schleswig, and King Christian IX also canceled the honorific titles of Duke Holstein and Duke Schleswig, admitted defeat, and ceded the two places to the Prussian-Austrian alliance.

It is undoubtedly wise to do so, and if you can't beat it, you have to admit it.

After Christian IX lost his second son, George, the Kingdom of Denmark had lost its influence over the Kingdom of Greece, and the proposed Danish-Greek alliance could not be realized.

With the strength of the Kingdom of Denmark, it was impossible to resist the combined forces of Prussia and Austria, let alone the countries of South Germany?

Although these states are not enough to take out alone, they can't help but unite together, you have 1,200 people, he has 4,000 people, and there are nearly 100,000 troops when you put them together, and there are many ants that bite and kill elephants!

In the general perception of Europeans

The armies of these small states of the German Confederation were not very strong, probably about the same as the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Only the Prussian army inherited the fine military traditions of the Teutonic Knights, and was brave and brave in battle, and fearless in death, and indeed had a great reputation.

In the eyes of Marshal Dai Changfu; Compared with the army of the Tang Empire, which has been in war for a long time, there are still many deficiencies in the general army, especially the joint operations and coordination of the large corps.

This is not evident in the low-intensity wars of small European countries, and once a war for supremacy with the Austrian Empire or the French Empire is launched, the shortcomings are immediately exposed, and they may become the main reason for losing the entire war.

The General Staff Headquarters of the Prussian Army must also understand this, so it urgently needs the guidance of the Tang Empire's rich war experience.

Richard's attitude towards this was; Unreservedly helped the Prussian army and taught the Tang Empire the valuable experience gained through countless bloody battles.

It's a brother, so you should help!

The tragic fate of the rise of the German nation was to be beaten by a group of brothers in Europe, once if it didn't work, twice, until it could no longer take care of itself.

If one day it can really cross the Atlantic, it will have conquered France, England, Italy, Tsarist Russia and other neighboring European countries, and will almost be able to dominate the world.

The possibility of such a situation is infinitely small and negligible.

Therefore, the Prussian army became strong and was a problem for Europe, and it had nothing to do with the Tang Empire.

"Anything else?" Richard asked.

After Zheng Yuan saluted respectfully, he replied;

"Your Majesty;

News has just been received that the rebellious Red Party government in Uruguay in South America is supported by the Brazilian army, and 7,200 Brazilian troops have marched into Uruguay to help suppress local rebels and stabilize the situation.

The Argentine government also expressed its support for the rebel Uruguayan Red Party, providing a large amount of supplies and 2,000 smoothbore rifles, which further aggravated the situation in South America.

All this caused great anger among Paraguayan President Andrés López, who publicly declared; "Imperialist invasion must be responded to with war."

The rhetoric of the three South American authorities has become more and more intense, and there have been frequent fires and clashes in the border areas, and if the international community is not able to intervene effectively, a war in the South American region is inevitable.

By the end of the year at the latest, war could break out.

In response to this incident, the Imperial General Staff Headquarters has deployed a comprehensive response plan, planning to intervene in the most difficult moments of the war and provide strong military support to Paraguay.

At present, a military inspection delegation of 33 military officers has arrived in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, with a batch of aid with them. ”

"Well, let's do it according to the established policy!" After listening to the report, Richard gave a simple order.

In response to the imminent outbreak of the hot war in South America, the basic strategy of the Tang Empire was to attack and weaken the two great powers in South America, namely Argentina and Brazil.

Support Paraguay, known as "South American Prussia", in order to achieve the regional balance of power strategy of "one peach kills three soldiers", enhance the Tang Empire's voice in South America, and have the status of de facto "arbiter of the Americas".

Other words

By supporting Paraguay, a powerful little brother, it has pinned down and influenced South American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and even Peru, and stirred up a pool of stagnant water across South America.

One of the strategic objectives to achieve is that Paraguay must not be weakened too much in the war, especially the male population must not suffer too many casualties in the war, so as not to seriously damage the national strength and fail to achieve the strategic goal of balancing Cuba and Argentina.

The second is that Paraguay was able to win the war and expand its territory, but it could not gain access to the sea, annex Uruguayan territory, and always maintain the aggrieved state of a landlocked country.

That's the only way

The Tang Empire was able to always hold the line of Paraguay's fate, so that it could hug the thighs of the Tang Empire tightly in the eyes of its hostile neighbors, and did not dare to let go for a moment.

Once liberalized, it may lead to the terrible end of the country's ruin.

Since the Tang Empire started the South American desert expedition, the situation in the entire South America has been very different from the original history, adding an unpredictable factor, and the whole game has changed.

Paraguay is the first South American economic power to open up to Europe and learn from the experience of modern science and technology, and its efforts to develop industrialization have already made some achievements, and among the national population of about 460,000 people, the standard of living has basically reached that of the third-rate countries in Europe, and its performance is quite outstanding.

In the original history

On December 13, 1864, Paraguay officially declared war on Brazil and sent troops to the Mato Grosso region.

As Argentina refused to allow the Paraguayan army to cross Argentina to aid Uruguay, Paraguay declared war on Argentina on March 18, 1865, and sent troops to the Argentine province of Corrientes.

At the same time, the Uruguayan government, controlled by the rebel Red Party, also declared war on Paraguay.

The small South American nation of Paraguay faced Brazil at the same time, and the allied forces of Argentina and Uruguay were undaunted, defeating the Brazilian and Argentine armies in the early stages of the war.

However, after the mobilization of the Brazilian Empire and Argentina for war, a steady stream of more than 200,000 troops entered the battlefield one after another, and carried out frenzied group beatings against the Paraguayan army, changing the overall trend of the battlefield.

The South American war, which lasted for 6 years, was unprecedentedly tragic and bloody, and the population of Paraguay after the defeat was drastically reduced by half, of which there were only more than 20,000 men left, most of whom were children under the age of 8~10, and almost the whole country died in the war.

Director Zheng Yuan then reported on the latest progress of colonization in South America and the intensive negotiations between the visiting delegation and the Kingdom of Prussia, which involved the signing of more than 10 cooperation treaties, both public and secret.

The public part is mainly a convenient treaty such as commerce, cultural exchanges, and mutual national treatment, involving some categories of goods that need to be negotiated, and the progress is very fast under the attention of the high-level of the two countries, and it can be formally signed in a few days.

The secret part is mainly military and weapons and equipment cooperation, because the Tang Empire has signed a 20-year patent exclusivity treaty with Britain, so it can only send finished artillery products to Germany, and cannot provide technology.

Only nitroglycerin high-explosives can be exported, and no licensing or cooperative production is allowed, which is prohibited.

In addition, some officers are dispatched to each other's military academies for further study and exchanges, and can only cooperate in the form of secret exchanges in the form of secret exchanges in the direction of middle and high-ranking officers.

The Tang Empire has rich experience in organizing large corps operations, which is particularly valued by the General Staff of the Kingdom of Prussia, and it is planned to organize senior generals of the Prussian Army to take turns to go to the Tang Empire for further study, which is a key aspect of secret military cooperation.

The trained senior generals of the Prussian Army will go to the battlefield in person, and together with the senior officers of the Tang Empire, they will understand the situation of the enemy and us in the battle of the large corps, adopt the methods and methods of attack, their own advantages and disadvantages, and organize the campaign in the flaws and unsatisfactory places, and get selfless experience imparted.

This course is the "Battle Science" that senior generals must pass for further study, and it is only the exclusive professor of the Royal Army Academy of the Tang Empire in the world, and there is no second one.

The method taught by the Chinese and German students at the same time reflects the broad-mindedness of the Tang Empire, which carefully imparts valuable combat experience of the large corps without concealment.

The senior generals of the Prussian army who are training in rotation will be able to really feel this.

Regarding the latest situation of colonization in South America, according to the report of Director Zheng Yuan;

After a year and a half of repeated attacks, the scale of the local indigenous Indians has been sharply reduced to 32~350,000, most of them are in the deep mountains of the interior or in the barren areas in the south, and it is more difficult to continue the encirclement and suppression.

The Chinese armed team that immigrated to South America has begun to build large and small pasture estates, tens of thousands of pastures are blooming everywhere, early domesticated cattle and sheep enter estrus, ewes begin to give birth to lambs, cows also begin to conceive, and the size of the cattle and sheep population will expand rapidly.

Due to the warm and abundant water resources in South America, the new Chinese immigrants cultivated tens of thousands of hectares of land in the local area, and the grain grown was harvested, and there was no longer a need to import it from the empire itself.

The construction of the Atlantic Rim Coastal Railway is in full swing, with about 115,000 indigenous Argentine coolies working day and night on the construction site of the railway, which is about 3,440 kilometers long along the Atlantic trunk railway, and is expected to be completed in two and a half years, with a total construction period of three years and ten months.

This is due to the flat terrain along the Atlantic Ocean in South America, mostly plains and hilly areas, and a few scattered mountain ranges can also be reasonably planned to avoid, and the difficulty of railway construction is low.

Coupled with abundant Native American labor support, timely and adequate government funding, and the rapid pace of railway construction.

Besides

It is expected that after the completion of the whole southern part of South America, the layout of the "Feng" shaped railway will be formed, which is of key significance for deepening the colonization of the occupied areas, completely eliminating the hidden dangers of scattered indigenous Indian tribes, and realizing the empire's comprehensive rule over the region.

Next

The strength of the two cavalry divisions that have conquered South America will organize expeditionary cavalry with cavalry companies as units to continue to encircle and suppress the Indian tribes that have penetrated deep into the interior, and to repeatedly sweep and sort out, which will be a long-term and arduous combat mission.

No way, the area of the newly occupied area is too large, who knows where those indigenous Indians are hiding?

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