Regarding the 3rd South American War, Richard did not pay much attention to it, except for winning the victory, there could be no 2nd outcome.

After the fall of the Brazilian Empire, the successive republican governments of Brazil shouted lofty slogans, but in fact there were a large number of corrupt elements, political and business collusion to frantically make money.

Over the past 40 years, more than a dozen governments have been replaced, all of which are virtues.

There are no tigers in the typical mountains, and the monkeys are the kings.

Brazil's government is riddled with ills, and the situation is complicated by state and local forces, large and small.

After decades of economic stagnation, the structure of an agrarian state remains typical.

Although the country is large, it is really not strong at all.

Paraguay, the former military power in South America, with a total population of more than 500,000, dared to challenge Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay at one time, and almost won the war in the early stage of the war.

Now that they are beating Brazil six against one, it is very difficult to lose this war.

To know

Based on the strong strength of the automobile industry, the regular troops of the Tang Imperial Army are now widely equipped with armored vehicles and automobiles, and the combat strength can be improved more than a step.

Speaking of bulletproof armored vehicles, one has to turn our gaze back to Europe.

The Tang Empire was the first country in the world to take the lead in using bulletproof armored vehicles in war, and was first used in the East American Expansion War and the East Indies War, and achieved extremely significant land battlefield advantages.

This kind of bulletproof armored vehicle is also called a tank in the United Kingdom, and the land powers such as Britain, France and Germany have their own tank projects, which have been applied to the European battlefield.

This is a little earlier than the original history, but the number of tanks that were also put into the war was not large, and the effect was not great, and the armies of European countries did not pay enough attention to it.

Why is this happening?

Represented by tanks

At the end of the last century, the new trend of innovative development of the world's army weapons, which originated in North America, was quickly noticed by the European powers, and each country developed its own series of tanks.

No European power country has already proven its capabilities on the battlefield with large-scale imports of tanks and armored vehicles from the Tang State, even if their performance is more advanced and mature.

It is still not favored by the European army powers, and is excluded from the whole European arms race boom.

There are three main reasons;

First, the security factor of military equipment.

Every European power country attaches great importance to the safety of military equipment and will never pretend to be used by others in the field of important military equipment, and this is the core of the problem.

The field of military equipment is related to national security and stability, and independence and controllability are the bottom line of security policy.

For example, Britain, France, and Germany, in the artillery equipment, the British Royal Navy has the famous Armstrong artillery, and the army has the Vickers series of artillery, from 3 pounds to 5 pounds, 7 pounds to 12 pounds of complete series.

The French Army, with its proud M 1898 75mm "Miss Paris", used its fierce and dense fire to inflict devastating damage on the German attacking infantry and wounding more than 270,000 German troops in the first Battle of the Marne, which had more than 1.6 million people in the battle.

Both the German army and navy use the Krupp series of artillery, which is a series of German independent artillery with strong Tang blood, and it is also one of the world's famous weapons products.

Among the infantry weapons, the British used the Lee Enfeld rifle, the French used the Lebel rifle, the German used the Mauser 98K, the Italian used the Carcano rifle, the Austro-Hungarian Empire used the Manrichia rifle, and the Tsarist Russia used the Mosin Nagant rifle.

As long as there is the slightest possibility, try to equip yourself with autonomy.

Second, financial factors.

No matter which country develops and produces tanks, no matter what their performance is, they are among the top land weapons in the world's army equipment at the beginning of the 20 th century, and they are naturally very expensive.

It's okay to buy a small amount of armored equipment, but no one can afford to import it on a large scale.

No one is stupid, this is related to the development of related domestic industries, no industrial country is willing to spend money to make wedding clothes for other countries, and neither can traditional friendly countries.

Third, the applicability of new equipment.

Each country has different environments and different equipment requirements, and imported products with good comprehensive performance may not be the best choice.

After 30 years of development, the tank of the Tang Empire has developed two generations of mature products, and is at the forefront of the development of the world's armored forces in the development of newer medium tanks.

Following the T-1 "Wild Wolf" tank, the T-2 "American Bison" tank has begun to equip the Tang Imperial Army and the Royal Janissary Army on a large scale, and is especially known for its excellent quality and durability.

The T-2 Bison tank is built on a tried-and-tested chassis and is capable of up to 320 motor hours without failure, an order of magnitude higher than the tanks developed in various European countries.

This is because the Tang Empire has a vast territory and puts forward extremely high requirements for the durability of tanks, even at the expense of armor and firepower.

Therefore, the armor of the T-2 "American Bison" tank is not thick, and the 40 mm short-barreled main gun equipped with a heavy machine gun configuration is not excellent, and more than seventy percent of the power is used on the armored chassis.

Such a product did not meet the needs of a large-scale war in Europe, but rather had a somewhat chicken feeling.

This is due to the fact that the general territory of the European countries is not large, the room for maneuver is small, and the pressure of artillery fire per square kilometer is terrifyingly high in the operation of large corps.

The relatively developed railway facilities in the European theater can allow them to transport tanks closer to the battlefield, so the requirement for the indicator of no failure of motorcycle hours is low.

Britain, France, Germany and other countries mostly within 30~50 motorcycle hours, neither pay attention to durability nor speed, but pay more attention to fire suppression.

Take the Mark I and II tanks developed by the United Kingdom, the French Saint-Chamond tank, and the German A7V tank as examples, all of them are amazingly large guys.

Its tanks are equipped with personnel ranging from 7~14 people, often equipped with 1~3 guns, 3~6 machine guns, and the speed is less than 10 kilometers per hour, like a clumsy and slow moving steel fortress.

The British Mark tank has the title of "Land Cruiser", which is divided into two types: male and female.

The Male Mark 1 tank weighed 28 tons, was armed with two 57 mm 6-pounder guns, and four Haqi Kaiss machine guns, and had a crew of 14 people.

The female Mark 2 is armed with only 6 machine guns and no artillery equipment, and is a steel fortress on an open front.

In real combat

As soon as this weapon appeared, it caused great psychological pressure on the German army, and the German soldiers on the battlefield saw black ones one by one. The "steel monster" that emitted a strange roar, although it resisted, it was very powerless in front of this huge "monster".

These steel monsters drove through the muddy craters, overwhelming the barbed wire that had held countless infantry, and over the trenches and crushing the German fortifications to pieces.

At the first appearance, he achieved a good record.

However, it did not take long for the weakness of this tank to be known to the Germans, and corresponding measures were quickly taken to combat it.

The clumsy and slow Mark tank, in the face of dense artillery fire, was a live target, and was beaten into countless burning ruins on the battlefield.

The highlight moment is too short, and the rest still depends on the traditional infantry fight, and the era of tanks has not yet arrived.

Later in the Battle of the Marne

The fierce offensive momentum of the German army was contained, and the pace of the offensive had to be delayed, and the retreat to the front line of the Marne River organized defensive repairs, preparing to launch the next round of offensive.

At this point, the battlefield on the Western Front entered the stage of trench stalemate.

In the northeastern provinces of France, the Anglo-French and German armies began to dig hundreds of kilometers of trenches, erect barbed wire and lay mines, creating a stalemate in the confrontation.

Both sides have deployed thousands of artillery pieces and more machine guns on the battle line, completely blocking the space for strategic detours and entering the stage of a war of attrition.

In such a new situation, 1915 was ushered in.

On the eve of the New Year, Richard, who was living in Paris, received good news from the empire itself, and the Third South American War was successfully concluded, and the six countries joined forces to divide Brazil.

In just two and a half months, Brazil, with an area of 7.58 million square kilometers, was torn to pieces.

The armies of the six countries of Datang, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Peru poured into Brazil like wolves, frantically grabbing people and turf, and the process was lackluster.

Brazil, with its great power ambitions, was a complete rookie, and soon became torn apart under the attack of the coalition forces.

The Tang Empire used the overwhelmingly superior Royal Navy to carry out jump point operations, and almost wiped out the coastal areas of Brazil, thus obtaining the fattest part.

Other countries that have worked together have also gained their own gains, and it is difficult to repeat them one by one.

As for the final partition and post-war arrangements, it will take a long time to balance the interests of all parties and bargain with each other before a consensus can be reached.

It is expected that this process will be more time-consuming than war, but it is no longer the focus of attention at this time.

The military of the Tang Empire conducted a sand table deduction of the current war in Europe, believing that the war would also expand to the Near East, including the Ottoman Empire, and the Arabian Peninsula.

The spread of war seems to be inevitable.

And the duration of the entire war, the General Staff Headquarters of the Tang Empire believed that it would be between one year and one and a half years, involving all major European countries, the Near East, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Such a strategic judgment was biased towards optimism, and no one could have predicted that this all-out European war would turn into a world war of unprecedented breadth and intensity.

First and foremost were the German overseas colonies.

The latest news from the Imperial Government;

The British used German East Africa as a bait to try to persuade the Tang Empire to send troops to the colonies of Mozambique to occupy neighboring German East Africa.

So

The Tang Empire openly renounced its neutral status, declared war on Germany and joined the side of the Entente, which would greatly ease the military and economic pressure on the Entente.

Richard did not bother with the matter at all, and the imperial family and government were not induced by the British, and refused to use Tai Chi Tui.

Today's Mozambique and Brazil, two large pieces of fat, are enough for the Tang Empire to digest for 20 years, and how can it look at a poor place like barren and arid German East Africa.

To be honest, it's not attractive at all.

(End of chapter)