It has to be said that the Argentinians have a strong ability to commit suicide, and their success has attracted the anger of the thunder of the current emperor, with serious consequences.

Today, the emperor has always paid great attention to immigration affairs and has zero tolerance for incidents that infringe on the interests of immigrants.

The Argentines were frantically dying, and no one could save them.

After discussing some related war arrangements and major events related to international people's livelihood, the court discussion ended, and a group of cabinet ministers left the Dongji Palace to do their own things. Only the Minister of Finance Zhang Li was left alone to express his edict.

Li Fushou asked about some wartime financial arrangements and fiscal expenditures in detail, and initially agreed to issue war bonds at the end of the year, with a total amount of 500 million Jinyang, which was worth about 250 million pounds and 1.25 billion US dollars.

In the process of two and a half years of war preparations

Li Fushou finally agreed to Major General Bian Chunsong's armored division plan, and equipped the Royal Guard and the Army with an extremely strong armored division, namely the Royal Guard's Armored Division and the Army's Honorary Armored Division.

Each armored division has a strength of 15,600 soldiers, a total of 400 tanks, more than 120 light armored vehicles (modified by Wild Wolf light tanks), more than 1,200 cars, complete light and heavy artillery configurations, reasonable armor and infantry firepower configurations, able to perform various combat tasks, costing more than 12 million golden oceans.

besides

The Ocean Empire has equipped each Class A division in service with a tank armored battalion, with a total of 11 armored battalions. Considering the cost, it is not equipped with expensive T2 tanks.

The Tank Armored Battalion under the Infantry Division each has two light tank companies, equipped with 44 wild wolf light tanks, one heavy tank company, and 22 cheetah medium tanks. The battalion has a total of 66 tanks, which are used to strengthen the armored assault power of the infantry division.

The veteran Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Wolf Cavalry Divisions also carried out armored adaptations, each of which was organized into a tank armored regiment, two cavalry regiments, one supplementary regiment and one division-level regiment, including a car battalion responsible for transporting supplies, a training battalion, a communications company, an engineering company, a repair company, a motor company, a division-affiliated hospital, and a guard battalion. The total number of troops reached more than 19,000, and the combat capability was increased by more than twice.

In order to achieve the above equipment goals, the Wild Wolf Light Tank, Cheetah Medium Tank and T-2 Tank have been expanded two years ago, and a large number of new equipment has been continuously equipped with the army troops, and the remaining part has entered the strategic reserve.

Today, the annual output of wild wolf light tanks has reached 1,360, the annual output of Cheetah medium-sized tanks has reached 350, and the annual output of T-2 tanks has reached 175.

Among them, the first two are widely equipped with armored tank battalions belonging to the Infantry Division, and the armoured tank regiments belonging to the Cavalry Division are modified into armored.

As high-end equipment, the t-2 tank is equipped with only two armored tank divisions.

Among the army troops about to go to North America, the first Army Honorary Armored Division suddenly appeared. This is the fist force of the entire army and will shoulder the important task of overcoming difficulties along the way.

The Fourth Armored Division of the Royal Guards is still in charge of the local area and obeys the call at any time.

at present

Tank armored vehicles are being drawn to thoroughly transform the old armored dragon cavalry division, and completely transform it from a semi-mechanized semi-cavalry unit into an armored tank division.

The Armored Dragoon Division will also serve as the third armored division of the Empire to carry out strategic strike missions.

Say it's welcome

The Ocean Empire Army has achieved the goal of semi-mechanization, which not only greatly improves the army's long-range maneuverability, but also greatly improves its combat effectiveness. Each division can handle complex combat tasks alone and greatly increases its flexibility.

The entire army has more than 10,000 trucks equipped, and 24,000 5-ton and 10-ton military trucks were ordered to further improve their mobility.

Military trucks have some improvements compared to civilian trucks. The main reason is that the car railing is made of 8.5mm super hard alloy steel plates. After adding 15 cm thick wooden boards, they have the ability to intercept rifle bullets.

In addition, there is a rotating base of heavy machine guns on the top of the cab, which can be equipped with a Maxim heavy machine gun with a steel shield. Outside the glass window of the cab, there is a steel armored guard plate that can be placed down to cover it during combat, and the effect is better than nothing.

The chassis of military trucks has also been slightly improved, and the tires use off-road patterns with stronger concave and convexity, which has stronger wading ability and ability to deal with muddy and wild roads.

The main improvements are these points, and the price has also been increased by half.

The automobile industry of the Ocean Empire was very developed. With the sharp rise in output, the price also dropped significantly, so this price is still affordable and can be deployed on a large scale.

Motorcycles are introduced into technology and are mainly equipped with communication teams and division-owned guard battalions, and are used instead of livestock such as mules and horses, and the effect is quite good.

Among the infantry divisions of the Ocean Empire, there is another special equipment that must be mentioned, that is, bicycles.

Since cars have not been fully popular yet, the large-scale maneuver of the infantry division mainly relies on bicycles. These heavy-duty military bicycles can carry a large amount of individual equipment, ammunition and water. The average daily maneuverability can reach 50 to 60 kilometers, and up to 80 kilometers, which is a very good ability.

Especially in North America, the vast territory has provided Hot Wheels for the infantry division.

After asking about some financial questions, Li Fushou waved to ask Minister of Finance Zhang Li to retreat. He looked at it was already dusk and stood up and went to the harem.

After dinner and taking a bath, Li Fushou felt relieved all over. He was thinking about the many wars that were now in trouble, so he came to the study in the East Pavilion again and was preparing to rest here at night.

Night falls

The diamond dragon chandeliers in the inner study are located more than 7 meters high, illuminating the surrounding area. The red sandalwood bookcases surrounded by more than 4 meters high. They are neatly arranged with up to 12,000 precious books, and a huge hand-painted world map.

Li Fushou lit a cigar, letting his figure appear faintly in the strong and mellow blue smoke. His deep eyes stared at the world map and thoughtfully, letting his thoughts spread, and considering the turmoil of the world today.

The great powers of European countries were entangled by the Bosnian crisis and had no time to distract themselves. They would not have the intention to make any trouble before the crisis was lifted in June next year.

This period of time is a good time to set the overall situation of the "Wool War".

Li Fushou did not fantasize about this large-scale war involving the entire Americas within half a year to a year, otherwise he would not issue war bonds of up to 500 million Jinyang, which is to prepare for a long-term war.

If it is ideal, it would be good to solve it within three years.

Others think this is a war caused by Argentina's failure to deal with it, affecting Citigroup and the Western Pacific countries. In fact, Argentina is just the reason for the war, and the goal of the Ocean Empire from beginning to end is Citigroup.

More than a dozen copies of Citigroup’s response plan have been prepared.

If it wisely does not intervene, then the "Monroeism" that Citiland insisted on the national policy of 1985 was completely bankrupt, and the Ocean Empire would turn Argentina upside down and stomp Citiland on the face one after another until it completely stepped onto the mud...

If he intervenes, there are four situations: large, medium, small and comprehensive wars. The smallest scale is the US Navy's intervention. After encountering setbacks, it immediately admits defeat and pays compensation for land cedes.

Judging from President Roosevelt's tough personality, combined with the rampant white supremacy and impetuousness of Citigroup, he is willing to fail and is the least likely to admit defeat early and get out.

Then, the direction of the war that followed was not decided by Citi.

Li Fushou has been pursuing a full-scale war from the beginning. His purpose is not simply to defeat Citigroup, promote its division, seriously weaken its strength, and to crack down on the confidence of Citigroup's people to expand with economic growth.

When everyone believed that the Ocean Empire targeted Citi, it only showed that it was superficial. Li Fushou had a deeper strategic intention, that was to plan for Europe.

There are two purposes for far-reaching strategic layout;

First, balance the balance of power in today's world. After the emergence of the two powerful forces in the United States, the military alliance with Germany, Italy and Austria as the core appears to be weak and both belong to the ranks of the English-speaking countries.

Taking it into consideration, even if Germany has a little rationality, the Sanajevo incident may not be enough to trigger World War I with careful choice.

And this is something that Li Fushou can never accept.

Therefore, he had to take action to seriously weaken the military and economic potential of Citigroup, interrupt its vigorous national destiny, break its unified geographical location where it dominates North America, and is uniquely bounded by the two oceans, and expand full room for growth for the Ocean Empire to rise to become one of the world's powers in the next 10 years.

The second goal is to fully demonstrate strong strength and wait for the price.

Since you want to play, play bigger. Although Li Fushou is naturally closer to the UK, it does not mean that he has put all his chips on the UK. After all, he has the capital to say "no", and Germany is not unable to consider it.

In the original historical space and time

The Tsarist Russian Empire was blown up in 1918. The Bolsheviks swept the northern empire, and the new regime took the lead in making peace with Germany, admitting defeat and ceding large tracts of land, and promised an astonishing amount of war reparations.

The terms of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty signed by Germany and Russia are unprecedentedly harsh, mainly three;

Article 1: The entire Russian army was demobilized;

Article 2: Russia abandons Poland, Lithuania, and recognizes Ukraine and Finland's independence.

Article 3: Russia pays 6 billion marks of war reparations to Germany.

what does that mean?

First of all, it means that Tsarist Russia lost 1 million square kilometers of land. This 1 million square kilometers of land is not the rarely visited Siberia, but the European region of Russia, which belongs to the essence of its territorial essence.

Among them, the population alone is more than 50 million, accounting for 1/3 of the total population of Tsarist Russia, and it is even stronger.

In 1910, Mendeleev, who invented the periodic table of elements, predicted that in another 40 years, Russia's population will grow from the current 155 million to 600 million.

But a Brest treaty basically completely abolished Tsarist Russia.

This means that Russia has completely lost the industrial foundation of this 1 million square kilometers of land. Although Russian industry lags far behind European countries, it has improved greatly before World War I due to France's financial and technical assistance and Stolepin's reforms, and the industrialization process is mainly concentrated on this European land.

However, on the land that was cut out, there was 90% of Russia's coal, 73% of iron ore, 54% of its industrial capacity, and one-third of its arable land, which directly returned to the serf society.

Therefore, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk did not remove one arm of Russia, but one arm and two legs, and from then on it returned to the primitive agricultural country.

In particular, the two resources of coal and iron ore are very important. Nowadays, the two things that are competed in industrial capabilities are coal and steel. Without these two things, Tsarist Russia is just playing nonsense!

In the original historical World War I, the German, Italian and Austrian alliance was not without a chance to win. 1918 was the best opportunity and the closest time to victory. The German Empire had already achieved a complete victory on the Eastern Front.

Imagine that a counterattack will be taken at a critical moment...

Hahaha... This fun is so big!

It is not uncommon for Li Fushou to have such an idea. He doesn't mind secretly interacting with the Germans. He wants to make a living in this world. Who doesn't have many friends?

Saying a thousand or saying ten thousand is nothing, traditional friendship is nothing. For the country, the most exciting thing is the real interests.
Chapter completed!