Chapter 538 The American War
The eleventh year of the Revolution, which was 1796 of the Western calendar. This was a year worthy of being described in history.
In the Western world, the young Napoleon completely appeared on the French political stage.
Because of the suppression of the Royalist Party last year, Napoleon, 25, was promoted to brigade general of the army and commander of the Paris garrison overnight. Then, in March 1796, at the age of 26, he became the commander-in-chief of the Italian Front of the French Republic.
Although the situation of this front army is very bad, it is precisely because of this that the extraordinaryness of the emperor is demonstrated, right?
In just less than two months, the French army led by Napoleon crossed the Alps, defeated the Austrian generals such as Wilmze, Alvinci, and Bolier many times, and finally forced the other side to sign a truce treaty that was beneficial to the French Republic.
It can be said that after winning a huge victory in North Italy, Napoleon's prestige in France became increasingly high because the war made people willing to follow the winner.
More importantly, the huge victory allowed Napoleon to successfully win the hearts of his subordinates, and the dignity and sense of honor of the soldiers were aroused. This army, which was ragged, half-hungry, half-hungry, low morale and disorganized two months ago, became an invincible excellent army under the leadership of Napoleon.
In the army, no one doubted Napoleon's authority and command ability. Whether it was soldiers or officers, their jealousy and distrust of Napoleon were wiped out. Napoleon gained the sincere belief and cooperation of his subordinates, and also obtained the most consolidated and solid foundation of his pyramid of power.
Napoleon's victory means John's Bull's failure.
London must invest more military and energy in Europe.
Under such circumstances, London was unable to support India thousands of miles away, so the British Empire naturally gave up Penang in shame. The latter immediately became the advance base for the Nanyang Fleet of the Great Chen Dynasty and the Malacca Strait. Chen's tentacles entered the Andaman Islands, but there were still British people there.
The latter occupied Andaman in 1789.
Zhao Liang was not in a hurry. It was not the time for China and Britain to break up, which means that it was not the time for Chen Jun to intervene in the Indian mainland.
The latter is one of John Bull's core interests. As long as China does not reach any point, John Bull can only retreat and make concessions for the sake of the overall situation.
So after Zhao Liang strengthened the fence to the west, he began to prepare for his actions in the east.
Luzon Batavia is just an appetizer, and North America across the ocean is the real fat meat.
North Korea and Japan, which did not gain substantial benefits in the Nanyang, also the Gurkha who had just joined, Johor, the loyal followers of Emperor Zhao, and Siam, Myanmar, Guangnan and Sulu, who had newly joined the big family, all sent troops.
Although there are only one hundred troops, Sulu has the least number of troops, but this is also a member, right?
Zhao Liang still has a good impression of this small indigenous country in Nanyang that once stated that Qianlong had asked for it to be attached.
Although he is not the same as Qianlong now, Qian Xiaosi represented China at that time, and this is indisputable.
So Sulu got a great benefit.
Not only did he no longer have to worry about the threat of the big duck, but King Sulu, who was supported by China, directly deprived the real power of the nobles under his command who would only make trouble for him.
Of course the latter is unwilling to give up, but what can it be?
King Sulu obviously got the favor of Emperor Zhao. With Emperor Zhao's support, they had to kneel down.
Just like the current war.
Everyone knows that Sulu, a small country who is just a waste who beats drums and shouts for 666, was brought to the Wusandruff of the war with great momentum. It was purely a side-by-side sharing of benefits, but who said anything about Japan, North Korea and other countries?
No, no objection.
This is the benefit of having a backbone, just one voice is needed to speak.
The war against America was marched in two ways, one way north and along the Aleutian Islands, so that you can run all the way to Alaska and then head south along the North American coastline.
The other way is to take the shipping route of the big duck treasure ship.
In June 1565, two months after the Spanish invasion of Luzon, Spanish navigator Friar Andres de Urdaneta led a Manila sailing ship full of Chinese silk, porcelain and other commodities to sail north from Luzon through the southwest monsoon. After three months of bumpy trek, it arrived in Acapulco, Mexico, which kicked off the "Manila Post Ship".
Because this matter was really presiding, and took advantage of the monsoon and went along the monsoon, it was called a mail ship. Because the cargo on the ship mainly originated from China, the locals simply called it directly - "China's Ship".
The same is true for the Southern Army now.
With the Nanyang garrison and coalition forces of various countries as the main force, the navy and army are around 15,000 people, this is a huge fleet.
The total strength of the two north and south armies was more than 30,000, including four brigades of the army, one brigade of the Marine Corps, and the rest were naval forces.
Among the five land combat brigades, Chen army occupied three, and the remaining two were the joint forces of various countries.
The big duck didn't hear the news of the attack on America until the summer of 1797, but at this time, the Spanish mainland was really unwilling to go or support America.
At the beginning of this year, Napoleon established another special honor. He defeated the army commanded by Austrian Marshal Alvinci in the Battle of Rivoli and won a decisive victory over the Austrian army. More than 20,000 defenders of Mantua were exhausted from ammunition and food and isolated and had no help. Marshal Wilmze announced his official surrender to Napoleon. The French army also opened the main road to Vienna, and Austria was forced to negotiate. At this point, France won the total victory over the first anti-French alliance.
Of course John Bull was unwilling to give up.
In order to boost morale and to boost his morale, the powerful British Navy defeated the Spanish Navy in the Battle of St. Vincent a month later.
At the beginning of the French Revolution, Spain joined the anti-French alliance to fight against France, and then the war failed and signed a contract with France. This was not surprising. Prussia had already kneeled down before the big duck knelt down. But in 1796, the weak-willed Carlos IV followed the advice of his favorite minister Manuel de Godoided and joined the French side.
This is a little too much.
Not to mention anything else, France was the public enemy of the entire European monarchy at that time, and the Daban Duck royal family was also named Bourbon.
Carlos IV really brought a wave of hatred for Daban Duck.
Naturally, he became the enemy of John Bull.
Under such circumstances, it is not enough for Spain's naval main ships to stay in the country. How can we rescue the Americas?
Without the escort of the naval fleet, the army of Daban Duck could not swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
Therefore, the governor's offices in the Americas can only be self-reliant like Luzon.
Chapter completed!