Time is like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, 1811 is halfway by. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The wars of the world disappeared, peace was restored in the Americas, and the Portuguese, at great cost, concluded a peace treaty with China, and they lost half of Brazil. The dividing line between China and Portugal is certainly not 15° south latitude, but 13° south latitude, and the Portuguese knock out their teeth and swallow blood.

And then there are the Americans. They abandoned the Great Lakes, the southern states of Alabama and Georgia, and the southwest of the Mississippi River, and the entire country shrank by 25 percent, but the elite area was retained, and the lighthouse nation reached an armistice with Chen Han at the expense of it.

The Americans still had some resistance, and after another batch of reinforcements from Chen Han arrived, they launched another onslaught on Detroit in the Great Lakes region, but still failed to make gratifying progress. Chen Ming had to adjust the arrangement in the next time, and shifted his energy to Europe and Tsarist Russia, so he let the Americans go.

The British have been mediating between China and the United States, and when they suddenly received a notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chen Han, they were still flustered.

Half a year ago, the Chinese were determined to eliminate the United States, so why are they relenting now?

The British asked Chen Han's diplomatic department directly, and Chen Han told the British the truth without any concealment.

Eight or nine times out of ten, there is a big battle in Europe. Moreover, the belligerent countries are likely to be the side dominated by Napoleon, attacking the Russian Empire, which has certain historical contradictions with Chen Han at the northern tip of the European continent.

Chen Han needs to divert his attention. After all, there has always been a strong sense of hostility between Russia and Chen Han. No matter from which angle you look at the war between France and Russia, it will inevitably attract a lot of attention from Chen Han. In this case, it is also possible that Chen Han 'can't care' about the United States.

Although Chen Han took the opportunity to take Detroit at the negotiating table, which they never got in the war.

The Caribbean Sea was constantly being transported to Europe, and ships from China and North America frequently traveled between here and Europe, passing through the Iberian Peninsula again and again, without any interception, just as there had been no war in South America.

Is this really peace?

No, it's not!

Portugal and Spain only suppressed their anger for a while, and they never forgot the hatred of the colonies, but they valued the homeland more than the colonies. In 1810 and the first half of 1811, the number of French soldiers on the Iberian Peninsula recovered to 230,000, and the pressure increased greatly.

Especially on the Portuguese battlefields. With the early retirement of Arthur Wellesley, British Army Lieutenant General John Moore became the commander of the new British Expeditionary Force, a veteran with thirty years of battlefield experience, but the British Expeditionary Force in Portugal was not on his orders alone.

In 1809, when Austria once again started the war against France, the anti-French rebels on the Spanish battlefield also swarmed up, and he was ordered by London to lead his troops to reinforcements. On the way, however, he received news that Napoleon had won the war against Austria, and he decided that retreating to Portugal was the best policy. However, on orders from London, he marched north from Salamanca to attack the French legions under the command of Marshal Sirte on the Carrion River west of Burgos, and defeated them on 21 December. Then he learned that Napoleon had rushed to the aid of his troops from Paris, and that a French army had cut off his retreat to Portugal, and he was determined to cross the snow-capped mountains and retreat to another port, Corunna, 400 kilometers away. On the eve of embarkation, the French army, reinforced by reinforcements led by Michel Ney, approached Corunna under the leadership of Marshal Nicolas Sirte, and John Moore repelled the French charge with a fierce counterattack, but he himself died in the fierce counterattack.

Without Arthur Wellesley, there would have been no British return to Portugal, no Allied victories in the Battle of Talawe, the Battle of Busako, and the famous "Torreshes Vedras Line" across the Lisbon Peninsula.

What is the Torish Vedrasz?

That was the 19th-century 'Maginot Line' built by Arthur Wellesley in the original plane. In the repeated tug-of-war with the French army, although he won many victories, he also realized the strength of the French army.

Tactical victories were short-lived, and the British had to build a solid defensive line in Portugal if they were to remain invincible.

Wellesley decided to strengthen the defenses in Portugal, organize the militia, implement a scorched earth strategy, and use drag tactics against the French army that was bound to come.

The Torishvedrash line is the Torish. The town of Vidrash is named. It consisted of three fortified defensive chains to block the defensive line north of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Each fortified line was fortified at certain intervals, and trenches and fortifications were built based on the natural terrain. Lisbon is located on a vulnerable terrain with the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest, the Tagus River to the east, and water on three sides. To the north is the only road access, and there are also two rolling hills in the area that serve as natural cover. The main role of the defensive line is to control the passage and strategic points along these two hills, with hundreds of fortresses and fortresses, kill and injure the attacking enemy, delay its attack, and inform and cooperate with the main force in the rear to finally defeat the incoming enemy. This dotted line of defense makes Lisbon an impregnable barrier.

In the historical Peninsular War, Arthur Wellesley relied on this line to protect the security of Portugal, and the French Marshal Massena led 65,000 French troops to Portugal, and finally kowtowed in front of the defense line and lost 20,000 French troops. To a certain extent, the security of Portugal was guaranteed, and the British gained a solid bridgehead on the European road.

But now in this time and space, Arthur Wellesley was sent to Canada by London after his victory over Juno in his early years, and for two whole years he was like a very, very mediocre general of the colonial government, attacking military supplies for the Americans, Spaniards, and Portuguese, and making everything convenient for them.

This was not at all a display of the abilities of the Duke of Wellington, which any mediocre British officer could do. And without his outstanding military exploits, Arthur Wellesley is still an ordinary knight, he is not yet the Viscount of Wellington, and Chen Ming now doubts whether he can finally become the Duke of Wellington.

The British are about to be driven out of the sea by the French in Portugal, and London may take Wellington to put out the fire, but is Wellington really that strong? Chen Ming expressed skepticism.

Of course, the Portuguese and Spaniards will certainly be a hundred happy with the British. The tide of rebellion against the French in the Iberian Peninsula never subsided, and there was a strong anti-French tendency among the people, and Arthur Wellesley's success was the most favorable factor for him.

To be honest, even if Chen Ming sees a little military and political personnel change in Europe now, he thinks it is more interesting than the United States.

The Lighthouse Nation is now too weak to win.

Now Chen Han is in the lighthouse country, and he is completely a strong man beating a baby, although he is accurate by a dozen, but Chen Ming has no sense of accomplishment, right?

It's like he's cleaning up Japan now, and it's definitely not as much of a feeling as cleaning up Japan in the 21st century.

Seriously, Chen Ming also wants to say something now, I'm going to run over Europe. But such thoughts are only occasional impulses in his heart, and in reality he is more like a tiger hunting for food, hiding in the backlit place of the woods, quietly waiting for the prey to make a wrong ......, rather than no matter what prey he sees, all of them are stabbed and hard.

Any discerning person can see that something is wrong. The whole of Europe was like a pot of boiling water, which had been forcibly put on the lid - the alliance of France and Austria. This force that puts the lid back on the boiling water is invincible in the Western world. The steam power generated by the boiling water was not enough to lift the lid before, but they are slowly building up, all the time.

When the time is delayed little by little, when the pressure in the pot gradually crosses the red line, the condensed power will one day erupt like a volcano, and the entire pot lid can jump out of the sky, otherwise the iron pot will burst!

The British Empire, the French Empire, the Russian Empire, as well as the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, and countless small vassal states of Napoleon. The whole of Europe was already in a tense phase before the outbreak of war, like the calm before the storm. Every country is making munitions, making guns, digesting a lot of steel and wood in Europe.

No one will bow their heads and admit defeat, the British steamers shuttle day and night on the route from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, and no one will leave their sharpened sword empty in vain, and the sword in their hands will not only scare people, but also strive for their own interests.

Napoleon was going to split St. Petersburg with his sword, and then completely blockade the continent, so that there would be no place to sell what the British produced. And Russia also wants to use the sword in its hands to earn its own benefits.

And then there are the British, that's not to mention. They are also worried about the rise of China, and they are also worried about Chen Han's constant encroachment on the interests of Europeans. Just as Napoleon used to unite the forces of the entire Western world to compete with Chen Han, London also had a dream of leading the West. It's just that the British are self-aware, and they know that it is impossible to truly rule the entire European continent with their own population and geographical location, and the Anglo-Saxons cannot be led by others.

A substantial difference was that the British were more like 'allies' when their dreams became reality, while Napoleon wanted to be Caesar. He knew that Western society did not allow him to be the supreme emperor of the Oriental, so he would be Caesar.

What's more, with the rise of China, Chen Han has poached a piece of the boss from the Europeans' sphere of influence. How many years has it been? There is not much left of the sphere of influence of the Western world.

Not to mention Canada, what about India's conflict of interest?

The British at this time did not necessarily have the ambition to swallow India, and they could even accept the fact that their sphere of influence would not continue to expand, but they would never allow their cheese to be touched by others.

China is the largest trading partner of the British on the one hand, and the most powerful enemy of the British on the other, how can it be possible if China and Britain want to do business in harmony on the one hand, and London on the other hand will resolutely not let China get any more superfluous benefits!?

This is an unsolvable paradox!

Now the whole of Europe knows that in the presence of China, a twenty-year-long war broke out on the European continent, and the centuries-old world hegemony of the Caucasian race has been seized by the Orientals and can no longer be found.

Now that the Austrians are firmly on the side of France, the pressure on the shoulders of the Russians is very great, and their friendship with Austria cannot stand the test of real interests. In this European situation, it is really possible that Napoleon declared war against Russia as scheduled and carried out a mighty death expedition.

Chen Ming did not ask the European Office to remind Napoleon to be careful of the cold winter and snow in Russia, and he did not think that Napoleon would not know the severity of the Russian winter. There must be a reason why Napoleon chose to start the war against Russia in late June, which was not far from Hitler's choice of starting the war.

Remind Napoleon that he could not have changed much.

The logistical supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, in this era when there are no railways and trucks, in this era when there are only horse-drawn carts and ox-carts, it can make people collapse.

Napoleon established a number of military stations west of the Russian border, each of which was sufficient to consume the French army for many days. Then hundreds of horse-drawn carts and ox carts were used to transport food and supplies to support the army. Chen Ming vaguely remembered that the large number of animals in this huge transport team was 100,000, which was incredibly huge. I just don't know if Napoleon can do this in this plane......