"It's a world war!!"

"His Majesty the Emperor will lead the European coalition on the expedition!"

"Defend our civilization!"

"A new Rome was born!"

"The Tenth Crusade!"

In Paris.

Almost all the newspapers are telling all Parisians with the largest headline text: World War has broken out!

The British Empire, the French Empire, the United States of America, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Grand Duchy of Finland and all other kingdoms that believe in God have united to declare all-out war on the Ming Empire and its vassals!

This is an all-out war between the Europa civilization and the Chinese civilization!!

Today's France is a vast empire that occupies the Rhine region to the north and Spain and Italy to the south.

In terms of the size of the mainland, it is second only to Russia in the whole of Europe, but it is not comparable to the great plains of France.

To talk about resource endowment.

Now the world can be compared with the French Empire today, that is, the Ming Empire and the United States of America.

France should naturally be the hegemon of the world!!

Leading this war between the Europa civilization and the Chinese civilization is the best opportunity for the French to become the new Romans and integrate the whole of Europe into the Roman Empire of this era!

All French people fanatically believe this.

So.

When they got the message of a declaration of war in the newspapers.

All the French were cheering.

In Paris, in Lyon, in Marseille, in every big city in France.

Cheers resounded through the streets and alleys.

All the French did not realize the cruelty and prolongation of the war.

In fact.

It's not just the French.

The Ming Empire and its vassals, as well as the people of European countries, would not have thought about the cruelty of war at this moment.

They only know.

Their country is militarily strong, and they only know that the person opposite them is the enemy, although they do not understand the meaning of Christian civilization and Chinese civilization to every ordinary person in it.

But they all firmly believed.

Victory is theirs.

"God will bless us." Perhaps not much different from "the Chinese ancestors will bless us", both sides will fight with their guns until they are exhausted, until one side completely admits defeat.

In this day and age.

It is a country and nation that wants to be the king and hegemon on the world stage, not to become the fish and meat of the world.

You have to be very belligerent.

Imperialism.

It's not warlike, it's still imperialism.

At a time when the power of the Old World was about to enter the Americas.

The armies of both sides in North America have already begun to collide.

The army of the Ming Empire, on the grounds that the mob of the United States of America threatened the lives of the Ming Empire's expatriates in Helena City, relied on the railroad and the Snake River to increase troops in the direction of Helena City.

The first troops have marched into the vicinity of Helena.

The first large-scale army clash soon took place between the two sides!

"It seems that the Chinese are going to break through from the north!"

U.S. Army General and Revolutionary War hero John Brown, who commanded defensive operations in the North. Stark frowned at his command post.

In fact, it is impossible for the large-scale movement of the Ming army to hide from the US intelligence system -- if the Americans cannot detect such a large-scale military movement, then they are not worthy of competing for supremacy on the North American continent.

Therefore.

But when the army of the Ming Empire moved along the Snake River and the railway to Bozhen.

The main direction of the Ming army's attack is easy to guess - that is Helena, located in the upper reaches of the Missouri River!

Because in this day and age.

The development of the military is carried out either on waterways or on railway lines.

After all, the current army heavy troops are equipped with a large number of heavy artillery. Requires a lot of shells.

And it's huge—it's a battle of millions of troops.

The amount of material needed is the amount of heaven.

Unlike the battles of the classical era, although there were often times in ancient times when the army of a million was claimed, it was a false name.

In fact.

A military-political group with 50,000 soldiers.

Anywhere in ancient times, it was a behemoth.

In China, they are all "potential stocks" that have the potential to dominate the world.

And now the war of this era.

Millions of people are transferred at every turn.

If there are no railways and waterways.

Relying on traditional modes of transportation, I am afraid that no country can support the cost of war in this era.

Therefore.

There is no need to guess the purpose of the Ming army to take Helena City.

They wanted to control the area between the Snake River and the Missouri River, and build a two- or three-hundred-kilometer railway, so that the power of the Ming Empire could follow the river channel and railroad into the Missouri River valley and spread along the Missouri River.

John. Stark had known for a long time.

The regular army of the Ming army is definitely not easy to deal with - especially the 100,000 troops of the 1st Corps of the North American Theater of the Ming Army, all of which are old regular troops, not mobilized mobilized soldiers temporarily!

And now in John. Stark had all the militia in his hands.

The current United States of America has established the Continental Army.

But the militia tradition has not been lost.

The military line of the United States as a whole is divided into two lines.

One of them was the "militia line" established during the War of Independence.

John. Stark had only arrived at the front lines of Helena City a week earlier.

When he came.

The first troops of the Ming army had already marched into Helena City, and while lifting the siege of the Chinese diaspora in Helena City, they unceremoniously began to drive out the white people in the city.

And John who led an army of more than 50,000 men rushed in. Stark immediately recruited 200,000 militia to fill the front through the militia system.

The weapons of these militias, of course, cannot be compared with those of the regular army.

Based on this reality.

John. Stark didn't dare to directly command the army to fight back against Helena.

Instead, they dug trenches outside the city, pulled up barbed wire, and put on a posture of preparing for a defensive battle.

However, Zhu Yixin, the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, did not give him much time to prepare.

With heavy artillery in place.

As soon as the continuous shelling began.

The heavy shelling made John, who had never experienced such a "high-density firepower war", a fierce bombardment. Stark's heart is getting more and more bottomless.

Ignoring the obstruction of his staff, he personally went to the front line to inspect the battle situation in person.

In his telescope, the mountains west of Helena City are undulating, and the Missouri River east of Helena City is lined with flat plains.

On the river, a large number of steam tugs are transporting troops, supplies!

The United States is a country that is too easily accessible.

Even without railways.

Just shipping by the kernel.

can support a very large amount of transportation.

For a period of time.

An army of 100,000 marched in endlessly.

Predictably, this 100,000-strong army is just the beginning.

Moreover, immediately after their arrival, they began to bombard the American defensive positions with heavy artillery.

However, they did not attack immediately.

Instead, start building fortifications!

This means that the number of subsequent armies is staggering.

The opponent really wants to come in from here and attack the Missouri River Line!

(End of chapter)