The entire New Mexico region is extremely vast, with the Rocky Mountains that run across the north and south as the dividing line, divided into two.

The east side of Rocky Mountain is the New Mexico region, and the west side of Rocky Mountain is the Arizona region. In its original history, it belongs to Mexico and Arizona. It is now collectively known as the New Mexico region. The United States Federation has not yet established a state-level administrative agency in this region.

The reason is very simple, it’s too sparsely populated!

The entire New Mexico region is dominated by the boundless desert Gobi and bare mountains, and looks extremely deserted, as if it is on the surface of Mars.

In fact, the underground in New Mexico is not only a staggering amount of water resources, but also the richest oil, gas, steel, copper ore and coal resources in the United States. It can be said to be a treasure house of resources.

The southern oil fields surveyed today have hundreds of millions of barrels of oil reserves, and there are also several iron ore and coal mines with amazing reserves, which are just the tip of the iceberg of resource reserves. These are all valuable resources that the Fusang people salivate, and they are reliable guarantees for realizing an industrialized power in the future.

During the Russo-Japanese War

The Fusang Kingdom suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in the ice and snow in the northeast. It finally occupied the vast land in the South Manchuria area, and no oil and gas resources were detected...

With the New Mexico region, Fuso can get rid of the hat of oil poverty and even the hat of poor mineral resources, laying the foundation for an industrial power. This shows that the country attaches great importance to the New Mexico region. Although it is so poor that it is almost like a pants, it still grits its teeth and burns money to organize its immigration to North America.

Although most of the New Mexico region has harsh environments and poor land, this is not all the case.

There are two narrow areas on both sides of the area, one east and one west, with streams crisscrossing and fertile land. They have large areas of forests and plains and valleys, making them a good place for farming.

On the east side is the narrow strip near the Republic of Texas. Thanks to the abundant water source irrigation of the Colorado River tributary, the area is lush and vegetation, and is one of the traditional habitats of Indian tribes.

On the west side is the narrow area along the Rocky Mountains. Thanks to the nourishment of countless rivers gathered after the ice and snow melts in the mountains, it is also a very good farming area. The locals are mainly Mexicans and are native whites with Spanish descent.

After the Fusang people took over, they implemented a policy of fighting and pulling against the locals, and soon stabilized the situation.

Overall

The entire New Mexico region has a population of about one million (including 94,000 Japanese troops). It has large-scale land for cultivation in the local area, and has hundreds of factories (the Japanese side follows the example, and the factory equipment captured during the war is rebuilt in another place). The development momentum is correspondingly good.

Horizontal comparison

In more than three years, the number of immigrants from the Ocean Empire and Fuso immigrated to North America was not much different. The Ocean Empire was slightly better with more than 400,000 (just spontaneous immigration, no counting soldiers who redirected on the spot). The Japanese side fell slightly behind with 360,000, and the difference between the two sides was not very big.

In fact

The Northern Federation has a vast territory, fertile land and pleasant environment, and there are countless good harbors on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, with large and small towns, with good industrial and agricultural foundations, and the conditions for accepting large-scale immigration.

The total population of the Ocean Empire has exceeded 80 million, and the overall economic scale is 5.5 times that of Japan. It has the largest number of large passenger and cargo ships in the world. After 36 years of immigration and colonization experience, it has the most mature and developed immigration system, and has achieved a two-way immigration route from mainland China to Australia and Australia to North America.

Japan has a total population of 50.5 million. Its immigrants need to use the large ocean immigrant ships of the Ocean Empire to achieve North American immigrants with an average annual population of more than 100,000.         There is no longer enough to meet this requirement by relying solely on its own capabilities.

The destination of Japanese immigrants, New Mexico, has a relatively harsh environment, and most of the hinterlands are barren, and the conditions of the two are huge.

Under various adverse conditions, the immigration of Fuso, mainly government organizations, still achieved an average annual immigration scale of more than 100,000 people, and invested a lot of money in immigration work, which puts huge financial pressure on Japan.

Over the past few years

In addition to the US loan of 600 million yen written off during the war, the Japanese side compensated the Japanese side for repaying 200 million yen each of the British and Oceanic Empires after the war, reducing the debt of 1 billion yen in total.

There is still 1.6 billion yen left in debt, which not only has not decreased, but has also increased slightly.

The huge famine caused by the Russo-Japanese War, Britain and the Ocean Empire were the main creditors, and the interest paid alone was more than 70 million yen per year. The Fuso government could only barely maintain it by borrowing new debts to repay old debts, and the financial situation was quite difficult.

It can be seen from this alone

Fuso has been working hard to immigrate. After more than three years, it is really not easy to build a situation in New Mexico.

even so

Faced with the war secretly prepared by the United States in the industrialized world, Fusang's chances of winning were minimal.

Today, the United States still has a population of 56 million, with an overall economic scale of 6.3 times that of Japan, and an industrial index of 133%, making it the country with the highest indicator in the world.

How can Fusang people with a strong blow?

The Imperial Marshal Li Shuanzhu still has a good impression of the Japanese side from the bottom of his heart. It is not just himself, but also the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Force generally hold similar attitudes. After all, they were all ally fighting side by side before, and the Fusang people have always been obedient and tenacious in combat. They are an obedient and easy-to-use lackey.

But what does this favorable feeling mean?

Today's emperor has a very clear attitude towards the Fusang people, and he is highly vigilant and preventive. He mainly focuses on restrictions and suppression in open and secret policies. He throws out the New Mexico region just to make use of it and does not trust the Japanese side at all.

The emperor's attitude also determined the position of Marshal Li Shuanzhu, which is to firmly maintain consistency.

Deduction based on sand table;

The combat effectiveness of US soldiers (including militia) is weak, about 0.39 for Fuso soldiers. Even if they have the advantage in weapons and equipment, they are not half of them.

Then, only when an absolute military advantage is formed (that is, triple-fold), the US military can quickly defeat the Japanese army and achieve a refreshing victory.

According to the determination shown by the Russian government in secret negotiations and the population advantage of the US local war, it is not difficult to achieve this, and it is even better.

Looking back now, Japan's deployment of troops on the Colorado border and in-depth troops has a clear "t" font structure.

The First Army of Fuso has a total force of 94,000, with three divisions, three independent brigades and some local garrison troops of a battalion. It has arranged three divisions in the New Mexico area of ​​the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains, and a strong lineup of an independent brigade, with a total of about 81,000 troops.

Two independent mixed brigades were deployed in the Arizona area of ​​the western foothills of the Rocky Mountain, with a total of about 13,000 troops.

The main battlefield for Japan and the United States is also in the border area of ​​New Mexico and Colorado. This is the main area where the Central Pacific Railway passes, located in Colorado. The controlling stake in the Central Pacific Railway is in the hands of the Royal Foundation Consortium to the Ocean Empire (according to the amount of compensation approved by the Liquidation Commission, part of the equity transferred by the US government). Both sides of the railway are within 10 kilometers of the railway.

The Japanese side lined up near the border line, with important towns as the core control area, and arranged two heavy troops, the 4th Division and the 6th Division, to control the front face with a width of more than 400 kilometers. A little later in the middle of the two divisions, Kobayashi Independent Mixed Brigade, used as a reserve team.

In Abuqueki, about 330 kilometers behind the Kobayashi Independent Mixed Brigade, there is the main force of the Fifth Division that became famous in the Battle of Chicago. Abuqueki is also the largest city in New Mexico. It is the target of Japan's colonization. The total population of the town is about 247,000. It is the political and economic center of the region and a land transportation hub for immigrants from Japanese.

After arriving in the city, Japanese immigrants will be transferred to the colonization points of various regions. This is also a necessary road connecting the West Coast metropolis, Los Angeles. The backbone highways from east to west and south to north pass here. In addition, the roads leading to various places form a "meter"-shaped transportation network. Abuququeki is at the center of the intersection, and its importance is self-evident.

Losing Abuqueki City also means losing the core of controlling the entire New Mexico region in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

The plan of the Imperial Marshal Li Shuanzhu is: If the United States gathers an army of more than 150,000 people, defeats the Japanese defense in one fell swoop, surrounds and occupy Abuquerki, and tries to the west to bypass the Rocky Mountains and attack the Arizona region in one fell swoop.

The Imperial Army should make a deterrent move, forcing the US government to agree to sign an intergovernmental agreement to recognize the independence of the Northern Federation.

If not

Then the imperial army emerged from the Rocky Mountains and cut off the long logistics line of the United States into the New Mexico region from behind, causing it to collapse without fighting in fear, and suffered a complete failure again, and was in vain.

If the Americans can clearly understand the reality, they will not reject the empire's kind proposal. Otherwise, the US will not be able to withstand the serious consequences of such defeats.

When the bottom line has been broken, the choice of breaking the bottom line for the second and third time will not be that difficult.

Through this move, the Imperial Expeditionary Force can leave enough strategic buffer time for Japan to launch an emergency large-scale increase in troops from the local area to North America...

As for the huge military expenditures spent on this, haha... Of course, the Japanese side is responsible.

The Ocean Empire is not a boy from Shancai. While achieving its own goals, it can also receive a large loan and thanks from the Fusang people.

When it comes to the final process of the Japanese-US war, it depends entirely on their own performance. Only so much can the Imperial Expeditionary Force help.

According to the overall development strategy deployed by the Emperor of the present, in the future, domestic peace construction should be the main focus in the more than ten years that can be expected, and interfere with regional disputes should be avoided as much as possible.
Chapter completed!