After the New Year

The United States and Japan extended to the branches of the Gobi Desert area in the southern Gobi Desert region across the Rocky Mountains, and dozens of battles and conflicts occurred. The largest was the first-level battle of the regiment, and the smaller one was the attack of more than a dozen patrol-level people, and the conflicts between the two sides continued.

But larger-scale battles have not happened. It is not that the United States and Japan do not want to fight, but that they really can't fight.

As of March

The US maintains a military strength of between 290,000 and 300,000 in New Mexico, most of which are militia armed forces, mainly relying on a desert Gobi highway that stretches from north to south to transport materials, almost reaching the limit of logistics capabilities.

After the new President Davin Porter took office, the first government expenditure budget announced was to build the New Mexico Railway from Colorado to Wagenmand and Las Vegas, to Santa Fe, and then to Abu Quique.

After the railway is built to Abu Quaiki, it will extend southward to the US-Mexico border, forming a large railway channel running across the north and south, closely connecting it with the heavy industrial metropolitan area in central America and the East Coast metropolitan area, which can conveniently transport large amounts of materials.

Once the railway is completed, it will greatly enhance the United States' ability to deploy military power to the New Mexico region and pose a substantial military threat to the Arizona region.

But that's what happened in the future. The current US military really can't fight...

Since the outbreak of the First US-Japan War, the American militia who joined the army enthusiastically held a sense of anger and fought on the front line with sacrificed their lives. It has been more than half a year since then.

They have won one hard and bloody victory after another, but also paid a huge price.

About casualties

Some statistics say that there are more than 137,000, and some say that there are more than 160,000 casualties, but the official only admits that there are 78,900 casualties. This number is obviously low, and there is no consensus anyway.

In any case, the US military suffered major casualties in this war, and it is not easy to win by gritting its teeth. It can be said to be a proud victory.

But when I felt relieved, I could no longer fight.

Who knows who bites this hard bone in Fusang? It's so painful that his mouth is full of blood. Although the Americans made a relaxed and victorious expression on their faces, their twitching muscles and trembling hands showed weakness, but they just held on.

The morale, morale and material supply cannot support the US military's conquest. The Japanese side has 100,000 soldiers in the Arizona area, all of which are trained elite soldiers. Instead of armed civilians who have rush to pick up their weapons, just think about the arduous bloody battle of Abu Quaiki, it is really a big deal.

At the junction of New Mexico and Arizona, it belongs to the Rocky Mountain remnants. The mountains are crisscrossed here, and they are all bare stone mountains without grass. The deserts are full of Gobi, the climate is drought and hot, and the environment is relatively harsh.

The Japanese army built a defensive line based on the favorable terrain of mountains and rivers and dispatched heavy troops to defend. After many tests, the US military wisely chose to give up.

The Japanese side can't continue to fight anymore. The reason is very simple, there is no money.

The loss of the New Mexico region made the people of Fusang feel like a knife. Especially the southern oil fields with abundant reserves were lost. The Fusang Navy was so angry that the Katsura cabinet fell, and there was a lot of condemnation in the country.

Amidst the chaos, the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang Cabinet, which was ordered to be in danger, has been in a turmoil since its establishment.

On the one hand, the National and Army General Staff strongly demanded that the number of troops continue to increase, expand the scale of the war and avenge the previous shame and regain the New Mexico region.

On the other hand, the finances are in short supply and they really can't support them.

What is the concept of a 100,000-strong army's cross-oceanic expedition?

Not to mention Fusang, a small country, even for the powerful British Empire, it is not an easy task. In the Second Boer War, Britain mobilized 360,000 troops in South Africa, costing up to 200 million pounds, about 1.5 billion yen.

The war in the past six months

The 800 million yen loan from Fuso's country in the later period spent money, which only reached the current military confrontation. How much does it cost to defeat nearly 300,000 US troops on the other side and retake the New Mexico region?

I have the will but not the strength!

In April

The great powers led by Britain, France and the Ocean Empire came forward to mediate. The United States and Japan reluctantly sat at the negotiating table with their noses and held formal negotiations on stopping the war and dividing the spheres of influence between the two sides.

The negotiations were extremely difficult, and the fight and the fight was stopped and it was not until October that the United States and Japan signed a formal armistice agreement.

stipulations of armistice agreement;

Based on the existing military demarcation line, the sphere of influence is divided along the extension line to the south of the Rocky Mountains. The United States owns the New Mexico region east of the Rocky Mountains, and Fuso owns the Rocky Mountains and the Arizona region, and the two sides have achieved a ceasefire.

As for the status of the occupied areas, the issue of reducing troops after the war and the issue of war compensation were not involved, but only the issue of prisoner exchange and personnel repatriation.

The US military released 17,100 prisoners and more than 70,000 Japanese immigrants, and the Japanese army also released more than a thousand American soldiers captured, and then, there was no more...

The First US-Japan War caused a deep gap between the two sides. The Japanese side lost the war, but lost an area of ​​318,900 square kilometers of New Mexico, and lost most of the cultivation results over the past three years, resulting in huge losses.

Among the 360,000 Japanese immigrants, more than 270,000 people have expanded their colonies in New Mexico, which is also a key area for Japanese colonies. They can live to less than 100,000 after the war, and all others died in the war. The Americans really took ruthless measures. This is an unforgettable blood debt.

The people of Fusang remembered it in their hearts and vowed to avenge this bloody revenge.

The Americans were not satisfied, and their pre-war goals were only half achieved, and Arizona was still in the hands of the Fusans, but now they can only do so.

Before the New Mexico Railway was completed, the United States was unable to launch a large-scale military operation.

After the armistice treaty was signed

The United States began to disperse militias and transferred most of the established army to the front line of confrontation with Japan. In the Gallup area alone, four army divisions were deployed with about 50,000 troops, a total of about 80,000 troops (including the Gallup area) in the entire border area, and tens of thousands of local militias supported it.

The Japanese side was also not idle. They learned from the experience of the Ocean Empire and retired some officers and soldiers of the Second, Ninth, Thirteenth and Sixteenth Divisions on the spot, and concentrated and divided into areas according to the military system to support themselves in order to reduce the local economic burden.

The 100,000 army retired nearly 60,000 people, plus the original more than 90,000 Japanese immigrants in Arizona, and more than 90,000 people returned from New Mexico, totaling about 250,000 people, forming the mainstream society of local Japanese immigrants, marrying wives and having children, reclaiming wasteland, grazing cattle and sheep, opening mountains and building roads, building homes, and slowly accumulating strength.

The Japanese side implemented a large-scale military camp system in accordance with the model of brigade, squadron and squad establishment.

After that, in order to prepare for a large-scale war, the people who moved from Japan were no longer civilians, but all retired veterans who had expired their service and boarded a passenger ship to North America with their wives and daughters.

at the same time

Shangri-La Bank has granted a loan of 6.8 million Jinyang to build a "T"-shaped railway connecting towns such as Ferragstaff, Phoenix, Oro Valley, etc. from Los Angeles to the east. It is expected that after completion, it will greatly alleviate the pressure on personnel and materials transportation in Arizona, promote local economic development, and greatly enhance military mobilization capabilities.

In Europe

The first Balkan War in Europe just came to an end in March. Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece won the final victory, and the Ottoman Empire lost a big loss, and almost lost all the Balkan land in Europe.

The Ottoman Empire's territory in Europe was occupied most, and only a small number of southeastern regions such as Istanbul were retained. The four victorious countries held peace meetings in London to discuss the division of interests for the occupied territories.

No one expected that the division of post-war interests would lead to more intense quarrels.

At the London Peace Conference, Serbia and Bulgaria had serious differences over Macedonia's rule, which directly led to the Peace Conference's stalemate.

Bulgaria believed that they made the most efforts in fighting the Ottoman Empire, so they hoped to divide more land. Bulgaria tended to occupy the entire Macedonia in China, so it was impossible to reach an agreement with Serbia.

Serbia did not receive an outlet to the Adriatic Sea, and asked Bulgaria, which had the most landmarks, to draw a part of Macedonia as compensation, but was decisively rejected.

Greece requested possession of southern Macedonia and Western Thrace, but was also rejected. Romania, which did not participate in the alliance, demanded possession of Nandobroka, which received ruthless ridicule.

June 1

Serbia and Greece secretly entered into an anti-guarantee alliance, and Romania immediately joined.

After the victory, Bulgaria was full of national confidence and felt that it had taken a big step forward in the "Greater Bulgaria Dream". The Austro-Hungarian Empire agreed to provide war loans and ensure its territorial integrity, which made Bulgaria feel that it had found a great backer.

June 29

Under the incitement of Germany and Austria, Bulgaria, who was self-reliant, took the initiative and suddenly launched an attack on Serbia and Greece. After only more than three months, the Second Erks War was kicked off.

Soon after, Romania and Montenegro participated in the war and joined the Serbian side. The Ottoman Empire, which was beaten to regain its lost territory, launched an attack on Bulgaria on July 16.

At this point, a war pattern was formed in the Balkans where five countries surrounded Bulgaria. Even though Bulgaria was covered with iron, how many nails could it be?

At this point, Bulgaria's failure was inevitable. Not only did he vomit most of the territorial benefits obtained in the First Balkan War, but he was beaten by his Balkan friends and could only hide in a remote place to lick his wounds. He was really ten thousand mmp in his heart!
Chapter completed!