After several years of traveling around the world, His Majesty Taizu, the Holy Emperor of the Tang Empire, returned to North America by ship in early 1918 and quietly arrived at the imperial capital of Chaogecheng.

Since His Majesty the Holy Emperor has always asked for a low-key and unassuming appearance, this trip was kept secret and did not alarm ordinary people and public opinion.

However, the upper class of the Tang Empire was already a sensation, and the Emperor Tang Yezong brought His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Tang Li Mingsu and 10 imperial uncles, senior cabinet officials of the Tang Empire Government and other top dignitaries of the empire to greet him.

Greet His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu with the highest etiquette, and escort all the way to Xianshou Palace, which is a glorious palace specially built for His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu, located not far from the Imperial Palace.

When he really settled down, Emperor Tang Yezong brought His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tang Li Mingsu and many princes and grandsons to ask for peace, and the cabinet and important ministers of the imperial government entered the palace one after another to ask for peace, and they were busy for more than ten days before stopping.

At this time, the imperial newspapers and public opinion revealed that His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu was in the city of songs, which caused a long-lasting upsurge of pilgrimage among the people.

The common people could not get close to the Xianshou Palace, and often burned incense in the direction of the Xianshou Palace on the octagonal pavilion outside the blockade line of the Royal Janissary Guard.

All of a sudden

The incense burned for miles around the octagonal pavilion, and the pilgrimage boom lasted for a long time, even alarming the emperor Tang Yezong in the imperial forbidden.

Tang Yezong felt the heartfelt enthusiasm of the people of the empire, and ordered the construction of the Seven Stars Altar around the octagonal pavilion, the altars dotted all over the place, the pavilions, the sacrificial forest and the stele forest and other beautiful scenery, which stretched for a total of more than seven miles.

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It became a good place for the people of the imperial capital to pay their respects, and various buildings sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and soon became prosperous.

More than three months passed in a flash, and the time quietly came to June 1918

While war is raging in Europe, North America on the other side of the Atlantic is a scene of peaceful and prosperous development, and it is extremely difficult to see the rarity of wars.

Only in the ports of the empire can you see a large number of expeditionary troops boarding the ships about to set sail, and bidding farewell to their loved ones who saw them off.

Some 34 ports were sent to Europe from the empire's mainland and overseas provinces and colonies, covering North, Central and South America on the Atlantic coast, as well as in Luzon and the East Indies, the Middle East Peninsula, and the Red Sea coast.

By mid-June

The Tang Empire sent more than 1.3 million troops to Europe in just over 7 months, and with the 600,000 troops previously delivered, the total number of troops has approached 2 million.

The vast majority of these troops arrived on the French battlefield on the Western Front, and some of them stayed in the British Isles for recuperation and training, which greatly strengthened the military strength of the Western Front.

In the face of the new movements of the Allied military bloc, the Allied military bloc, dominated by Germany, won the victory on the Eastern Front and completely crushed the Tsarist Russian Empire.

However, in the face of the massive reinforcements of the Tang Empire, the entire Western Front battlefield was still at an absolute disadvantage, regardless of the troops, weapons and equipment, or army morale, all of them were firmly pressed below.

In the meantime

The German army launched two large-scale battles on the Western Front, focusing on the quality of the Tang army, and placing the key breakthrough areas in the Somme River area that the Tang State took over.

The second Battle of the Somme lasted a month and a half, and the third Battle of the Somme lasted 21 days.

The Tang army suffered more than 273,000 casualties in the two battles, of which 87,000 were killed and the rest were wounded.

The German casualties were more serious than those of the Tang army, with 112,000 killed and more than 200,000 wounded in two battles.

Through the trial of two battles, the German high command finally stopped. The ridiculous idea of using the Tang army's holding position as a breakthrough was completely abandoned.

The Tang Empire sends nearly 200,000 troops to the battlefield on the Western Front every month, even if the German Empire is completely destroyed, it can't fight for such an endless mass of troops.

Moreover, the Orientals are quite cunning, filling the first-line positions with a lot of cannon fodder, while most of the elite troops, mainly of Chinese descent, are stationed in the second-line positions.

Such a deployment

The second line of positions was protected from the day and night attacks of German artillery fire and bullets, and a large number of heavy artillery, heavy machine guns and armored forces were equipped to carry out a deadly counterattack on the German troops who broke through the first line of positions.

Under the artillery bombardment at any cost and the armored forces led the counterattack, the ability to harvest the lives of German officers and soldiers was amazing, and most of the German losses were ruthlessly annihilated in the counterattack.

After a lot of going back and forth, the Germans finally stopped.

The Tang Empire's defensive counterattack was almost incomprehensible, because it itself had an absolute superiority in troops, artillery and armor, aviation, and heavy troops hoarded in second- and third-line positions.

The first line of positions are all cannon fodder, and the vast majority of casualties also come from these cannon fodder troops.

These cannon fodder units included even blacks from Brazil, native whites from Cuba, Mexicans and Indians, natives of the East Indies and Arabs from the Middle East, and the composition was quite complex.

With such a 1:1 exchange between the miscellaneous fish troops and the elite of the German army, the Tang Empire bullied people with firepower, with 7 times the artillery firepower of the German army, 11 times that of the armored army, and 2.3 times the total strength of the German army in the frontal confrontation on the Somme River.

The German army did not have so many colonial miscellaneous fish to consume, and every casualty in the war was a young and middle-aged child of the German Empire, and of course he was not willing to fight for consumption.

Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, commander-in-chief of the German army, who personally planned the French campaign, said angrily;

"The cunning Tang people, like the British, always traded the inferior nations of the colonies for the precious lives of German soldiers in order to establish military superiority......"

"We see that the Tang State is advancing and further consolidating its unjustified colonial rule and eliminating domestic opposition by consuming a lot of cannon fodder in the war."

The remarks of the German commander-in-chief were full of provocative meaning, and who knew that as soon as the report was reported, it immediately caused an uproar.

Ethnic minorities in the Tang Empire were outraged, causing dozens of riots, large and small.

Angry crowds stormed and even burned German neighborhoods and churches, burning more than 10 churches and destroying more than 17,000 houses, killing more than 170 people and arresting 3,822 people.

Marshal Hindenburg has stabbed a hornet's nest at this time, and no one wants to be called an "inferior nation", and God will not be able to come.

This incident has been exaggerated by the public opinion of the Entente countries, and it has aroused the monstrous anger of the officers and soldiers of the minority ethnic groups on the front line!

The Imperial Military seized the opportunity to award a number of officers and soldiers of ethnic minorities who had distinguished themselves in the war, and awarded them the Royal Medal of Service to encourage them to fight bravely on the front line.

After a wave of operations, it greatly boosted the morale of the army.

Field Marshal Hindenburg was criticized by the Entente bloc media, which dominated the international mainstream, as a "shameful imperialist" and a "grave keeper of narrow racial-ethnic ism". "White supremacists who will eventually be swept into the dustbin of history."

When the dust settled, Field Marshal Hindenburg was stunned.

I have to say

Field Marshal Hindenburg was a pure military man. He has a genius sense of smell in military command, and can always detect the deep intentions of his opponents, but he is too politically naïve.

In the face of the enemy's all-round smear, he really couldn't argue.

In the first half of 1918, with the help of the Tang Expeditionary Force, Britain and France resisted the German offensive on the Western Front and began to enter the preparatory stage of the strategic counteroffensive.

Field Marshal Hindenburg of Germany is a high-level German executive who has studied the comprehensive rise of the Tang Empire more profoundly, and from the bottom of his heart agrees with the policy of controlling the people of Richard, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and cites it as a motto.

He's wrong for saying things he shouldn't have said, and while it's true, how can you wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep?

In the 72 years since the founding of the Tang Empire, it has always pursued a strict feudal hierarchical policy, with kings, royal families and a large and small aristocracy as the upper class, capitalists, wealthy merchants, large and small manor owners, ranchers and plantation owners as the broad middle class of society, and new immigrants and ethnic minorities as the lower class of society.

The country's long-standing policy of forced integration divides its citizens into two types, the Tang and the other.

By "other" we mean all minorities, including Germans, Irish, French, Mexicans, and white Hispanics, as well as Indians, Arabs, and indigenous populations of the East Indies.

All the time

The Tang Empire implemented a vague policy in terms of foreign population statistics, and the specific population of each ethnic group was not clearly indicated in the "other" category, but was only remarked with "other" in a general way.

After more than half a century, the Indians and Mexican descendants of North America were basically wiped out, and there were very few vassal states in South America.

Most of the rest are under the newly annexed Viceroyalty of Brazil, as well as a handful of kingdoms in Colombia and Cuba, and the rest are almost completely dominated by the Chinese population.

This situation is also being replicated in the East Indies, with the fastest progress in Luzon, Sumatra, Kalimantan and other regions, while Paradise Island has long been completely sinicized.

Progress has been slower on the more populous island of Java and the newly incorporated six provinces of the Arabian Peninsula, but the process of ethnic integration is accelerating further as Chinese is widely spoken in these areas.

The outbreak of the First World War is an opportunity to accelerate the process of national integration in this history.

The 3 million troops sent by the Tang Empire to Europe, from ethnic minorities in the Arabian Peninsula and the East Indies, will occupy nearly one million compulsory conscription quotas.

Of the remaining 2 million troops, half are whites of all races, and the Chinese are at best recruiting more than a million people.

The vast majority of officers and men of Chinese descent are in logistics, artillery, cavalry, armored troops, and other technical arms, and commanders at all levels are basically of Chinese descent and firmly control the army.

In the Americas of the Tang Empire, the recruited Chinese officers and soldiers all adopted the principle of voluntariness, using European land, women, and royal army exploits as bait to encourage the surplus population to join the army.

These minorities, on the other hand, are completely forcibly recruited, and are not only poorly paid in the army, but are also the most dangerous front-line positions, and are strictly controlled by the overseers.

So far, the Tang Empire has suffered more than 300,000 casualties in European wars, and the cannon fodder troops composed of ethnic minorities account for more than eighty and a half of them, which is obvious.

It can be seen from the decision-making of the upper echelons of the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force that the rescue of the elite Chinese troops in danger at any cost, and the cannon fodder troops are basically laissez-faire.

As a result, the German army has never eliminated more than one regiment of Chinese troops since the beginning of the war.

This is simply an incredible thing for the Western Front, which has invested more than a million troops at every turn.

This is because the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force on the front-line battlefield, the largest investment of Chinese troops is the Royal Army military police battalion and armored company, or field artillery battalion, which is mainly responsible for controlling a larger number of cannon fodder troops.

The situation was grossly unfair, but it was customary in the armies of the Entente.

Because the British Empire's Anglo-Indian divisions, Anzac Corps, colonial armies in Canada and South Africa and other places were also not able to enjoy the same treatment as the British native army.

There were also cannon fodder in the French army similar to the Algerian and African Legions, and unequal treatment was everywhere, and there was not a single Tang army.

The German-Austrian army wanted to use the colonial army to block the front, but unfortunately they could only think about it, and this kind of good thing was far from their turn.

As for sowing discord, I think too much, as long as I look at the Allied troops who lack clothes and wear less, the officers and soldiers of the expeditionary army of the Tang Empire, whose logistics supply is exceptionally superior, will suddenly rise with a sense of pride.

It's not good compared to others, but it's much better than you Germans.

(End of chapter)