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The Yankees, who have always been eager to squeeze out four taels of oil even from stones, actually found out in conscience this time, and there were no conditions such as money and remuneration. actually said very generously, pay or something, and wait until the matter is over.

Don't be surprised, of course, the Yankees are not saints who don't ask for anything in return, let alone Lei Feng who helps others. They don't talk about money this time, it can only show that they can't just use money to get rid of it, and as for what they want, the old Europe, who is still secretly happy, will soon know.

The negotiations were very fast, and it only took half a month. Although the lion that the Japanese took advantage of the fire to rob opened their mouths, in this case, the Entente had to bleed again. But it wasn't just Britain and France, Belgium and Portugal were bleeding. They again scraped together a "commission" of 100 million pounds, of course, ostensibly called aid, to put Japan in charge of colonial containment on the east coast of Africa and to attack German East Africa. And for the time being, the righteous Yankees are responsible for "maintaining stability" all over the west coast of Africa.

According to the agreement, Japan and the United States are required to send at least 300,000 troops to Africa, a condition that is somewhat reluctant for Japan, but it is not a problem at all for the United States, which has a population of nearly 100 million. President Wilson even generously said, "If necessary, we can send 600,000 troops to Africa!"

Although the United States and Japan agreed to send troops to Africa to suppress the colonial uprising, there was time to prepare. So it dragged on until October, when the United States sent the first African troop of three black divisions. Well, the "Black Division" is just a colloquial name and a nickname, and the official name of these units is the "African Combat Division".

If its nickname is the same, the composition of the "African Combat Division" is indeed predominantly black, that is, people of African descent or mestizos of more than half African ancestry. To be precise, with the exception of some company-level officers above the battalion level, as well as the gendarmerie and military judges, the officers and men of this "African combat division" are all black.

Compared with the regular divisions of the United States, the "African combat divisions" have a much smaller amount of heavy weaponry. A regular division of the US army had 2. 80,000 people, armed with 48 75-mm infantry guns, 24 155-mm howitzers, 24 3-inch mortars, 12-inch 6-inch mortars, 1028 machine guns. There are also more than 1,400 cars and more than 500 motorcycles for transportation.

And the "African combat division" did not have 155-mm howitzers at all, the most powerful firepower was 105-mm howitzers, and there were only 8 of them, 75-mm infantry guns were only 24, and there were only 300 machine guns, and the only thing that did not reduce was low-cost mortars. Cars and motorcycles are less than one-tenth of the regular divisions, and in order to strengthen the mobility of the "African combat divisions," the Americans have equipped them with a batch of mountain bikes.

Because of the reduction of a large number of heavy weapons, the establishment of the "African combat division" is also smaller, about 1 for a division. 90,000 people. Although this kind of African division is not as good as a regular division, it is still much stronger than the division of most countries in the world, and this is all thanks to the strong industrial strength of the United States.

In fact, these black divisions were not originally prepared for Africa, but were intended to be sent to the European theater to be cannon fodder. The First Battle on the Plane was even more tragic than that of the original plane, and the casualty toll was much greater. The United States is no exception, and the first battle in which it has just entered the war caused 150,000 people to be killed and more than 30,000 wounded.

Later, after opening up the northern route, the US ** team also entered the battlefield on the Western Front in a big way. By July, the Americans had sent 15 divisions of troops to Europe. In both France and Britain, large numbers of American GIs could be seen, and together with Allied allies, they fought fierce battles on the front lines against Allied forces. Although the U.S. team performed quite well in the war, it also paid a lot of casualties.

In June alone, 50,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 wounded. By July, more than 70,000 had been killed and 180,000 wounded. The Americans were a little overwhelmed by such heavy losses, and less than three months after officially entering the war, 280,000 people were killed and 300,000 were wounded.

In the United States, which was in the original time and space, only a small number of black troops were formed during World War I, and the largest establishment was only at the regimental level. It's not because they love blacks and fear that they will die on the battlefield. The main reason is that after the United States entered the war, the losses were not large, and less than 120,000 people were killed and 200,000 were wounded after the entire war. This casualty is really insignificant to the United States, which has a population of nearly 100 million. Moreover, the situation in the original time and space was different, when the United States entered the war, the Allies had already been beaten to the ground, so their demand for cannon fodder was not large, and the mainstream society did not support arming too many blacks at that time, so there were not many blacks participating in the war.

But in this case, it's a different story. When the Americans' vengeful anger subsided, they looked back and found that the lowly niggers had actually stayed at home and enjoyed peace. White Americans don't do it, our noble whites have so many casualties, these are good, and they are even more fine in China, this is really a mud horse!

The psychology of not suffering from inequality, but suffering from inequality, is the same all over the world. Why is it just us white people who go to the battlefield to fight to the death, while you enjoy it in the rear? This is simply unreasonable! In addition, Britain and France are using the colonial natives as cannon fodder, and the Yankees are not stupid, and they will always imitate the cat and the tiger. Yes, there are very few American colonies now, only the Eastern Pacific, the Caribbean, and Guyana, where there are not many people. But there are a lot of blacks in the United States.

As a result, mainstream public opinion immediately clamored and demanded that blacks also go to war, and of course, in order to show equal treatment, they said that other people of color should also go to war. Soon, some congressmen pointed out in Congress: "Whites, blacks, and other people of color are all citizens of the United States, and of course the duties and rights should be the same." It can't just be whites who are bleeding on the front lines while blacks and colored people enjoy peace in the rear, they should also fight for the good of the United States!"

The members of Congress were astonishingly unanimous on this issue, and they passed the Patriot Act with astonishing efficiency. The main content of this bill is service, and it is particularly emphasized that as long as you are a citizen of the United States, you have the obligation to serve regardless of race.

Naturally, the U.S. government did its thing, and soon began to recruit people of color, especially blacks, from the country to serve. In order to prevent ethnic conflicts, these units are organized along ethnic lines, and their strength is mainly based on divisional levels. The Yankees were astonishingly efficient in this regard, and soon formed 16 black divisions, 3 Latin divisions, 1 Asian division, and more than a dozen brigade-sized units.

In these units, except for the middle and senior officers and some low-ranking officers, who are white-skinned, the vast majority of junior officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers are of this ethnicity.

Anyway, everyone has a part in all races, and no one can run away. It should be mentioned here that originally there were nearly 800,000 people of Chinese descent in the United States, but after the founding of New China, they began to collect immigrants in the world, especially in Europe and the United States. At this time, there was strong racial discrimination in mainstream European and American societies, and most Chinese also retained many traditional views, and they were willing to return to their hometowns for development.

Therefore, over the years, most of the Chinese Americans in the United States have returned to China, and some have moved to South America under the guidance of the government, intentionally or unintentionally, and the number of Chinese Americans in the United States is less than 50,000. Most of the current Asian Americans are Japanese, Southeast Asian, and Indian.

For reasons that everyone knows, the U.S. government has set the proportion of blacks in conscription at more than one-tenth, and now there are about 12 million blacks (including black mixed race) in the United States, that is, 1.2 million can be conscripted. Of course, it is impossible to recruit all the 1.2 million at the beginning, and the first batch of more than 300,000 is already the limit, and if there are more, it will not be possible. No matter how good the American industry is, it is impossible to conjure up equipment, and besides, there are not enough instructors to train.

As for whether the Black Men will be willing to join the army, there is no need to worry at all, the "Patriot Act" is not a decoration to be seen. Anyone who dares to be unpatriotic is guaranteed to taste the iron fist of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

However, when the black division was still training, there was a commotion on the African side, and old Europe was now powerless to suppress it, so it had to ask the United States and Japan to intervene. The Yankees didn't say anything at first, but when they came back, everyone closed the door and discussed, and they were immediately summed up and came up with a clever plan that could be counted in one fell swoop.

Because at that time, Secretary of State Lang said: "Oh, this is simply a godsend for us to intervene in Africa! We can send those Black Millet troops to Africa to suppress the local riots, and then that place is ours!"

At the beginning of him, the bigwigs of the US government and the consortium began to open their minds.

Soon someone said, "In that case, why don't you just let those build a country there." Since we can make one Liberia, we can make a second, a third......"

"Yes, it's better to send all the back to Africa! It's better to let them build a state in Africa than to let them stay in the country. ”

"We can also give them the promise that as long as we grab the land in the local area, we can give it to them after the war. The amount can be a little more, say 100 acres per person, 200 acres can be enough. And pledged to support their independence in the local state after the war. In this way, the morale and motivation of these will be quite high......"

"Moreover, they will form an irresolvable hatred with the local natives in the war, and the European countries will certainly not support their statehood, so they must stand with us. Eventually, these countries will become satellites that are completely controlled by us. ”

"Great, so that we can also take advantage of this opportunity to squeeze out the old European forces! We can attack the Portuguese and Belgian colonies first, and then consider the British and French colonies......"

Everyone came up with ideas, and soon the initial plan, known as the "African American Return Operation", came out. The general principles are: first, to take advantage of the suppression of indigenous uprisings, to use black forces to seize territory in Africa, and then let them establish a state there, making them the little brother of the United States. Second, take the opportunity to send domestic and colored people to Africa to alleviate social contradictions in the country.

President Wilson was overjoyed when he heard this. At the meeting, the decision was immediately made, and the order was immediately executed.

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There is no doubt that this plan is truly a one-size-fits-all plan. First of all, this plan requires the formation of a large number of troops and a large amount of arms and materials, and the domestic military-industrial complex and big capitalists are happy. Secondly, drive all those pesky to Africa, and how many jobs will be freed up, so that the lower class whites and rednecks in the country will be happy. Again, those always think that the United States doesn't treat them as human beings and doesn't give them political rights, so let them build their own country, and they have all the rights, so the are also happy.

Finally, in this way, social contradictions will be greatly alleviated, ethnic conflicts will be diluted or even completely eliminated, and Africa's nautical resources will be more seized, and at the same time, many markets will be created. For the U.S. government and consortia, this is also a very happy thing.

But there is no such thing as a happy thing in the world, and if some people are happy, then there must be people who are unhappy. It's a joy for all walks of life and all races in the United States. But for the colonial countries of old Europe and the indigenous people of the colonies, this was definitely not a happy thing.

But what does it have to do with the Yankees that they are unhappy?

As a result, there has been some change in the idea of the Yankees letting the go to Europe as cannon fodder, and they will no longer send all the black millet to Europe, and are ready to send at least one-third of the black troops to Africa to grab territory and carry out this "African return operation".

Of course, the Yankees are also more cautious, and they will not start with the British and France, but will target Portugal and Belgium. In the eyes of the Americans, these two are weak and small fart countries anyway, after Lao Tzu created a fait accompli, is it still capable, or dare to drive us away?

What? You said that Portugal and Belgium are now also members of the Entente, so it's not good to pit the players? Oh ho ho

That's right, big rascals...... Oh, my big sister is so confident!

However, the United States is not the only smart person in this world, just when the Americans are wishful thinking. The Japanese, who had also been invited to go to Africa to suppress indigenous uprisings, also thought about this issue.

Forget if the cow boss and the chicken boss don't dare to move the field, but what are Portugal and Belgium? Why is it unfair that such a small country can occupy a good land! Oh, and they are interested in making such a waste of firewood! Yes, they are giving money this time, but how can the lives of my warriors of the Japanese Empire be measured by money! So those lands should belong to my Emperor of Japan, Yakoi Ichiyu!

In November, Japanese and American African troops arrived on the east and west coasts of Africa at about the same time, and they also coincidentally chose Portugal as the first target. The only difference is that the place where Japan landed was Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) and the place where the United States landed was Portuguese West Africa (Angola).