Chapter 181: Granada

During the Italian Constituent Assembly, Panama regained its troubles. The Americans, unwilling to accept the failure of the invasion, instigated the Granada Federation, which has sovereignty over Panama, to nationalize the soon-to-be-completed Panama Canal on the grounds that the process was illegal. The Granada Confederation is the largest part of the former Republic of Gran Colombia, along with Venezuela and Ecuador.

The Granadians saw the great benefits of the Panama Canal, and the Americans guaranteed its defense like a snake that lured Awa to eat ****, and signed a mutual defense treaty with the Federation of Granada, which made the Granadas take a desperate step and join NATO.

The Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the earth, belongs to several countries, the largest being Brazil, followed by Peru, the land of guano, and then Granada. For the overall benefit of mankind, careerists who are determined to take down the Amazon rainforest to protect it are worried that they can't find a place to talk to the countries of South America, and such a move by the Granada Federation is like sending pillows to people who are sleeping, this time, Don would rather not instruct Panama to become like the Americans in later generations, and decided to take Granada into a colony, and use it as a base to map the entire Amazon rainforest.

Unable to find a suitable army during the haste, Tangning decided to use the Desert Win to arm the Mongol cavalry of Monk Grinqin and use it against the Russian Cossack cavalry to harass the Russians who invaded the Heilongjiang Valley, while the new Japanese army that had been trained was used for expeditions to South America.

The Mongolian cavalry who are good at riding and archery skills are really cool to switch to the desert eagle, and with a little training, they all become super cavalry with a hundred paces, and it is quite comfortable to fight encounters on the plains.

Since we are preparing to go to war, I am sorry that most of the two million taels of "mediation money" in the Sino-Russian treaty will not be given. Learning from the Americans, the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and India also signed mutual defense agreements. In order to keep the Russians in mind, the tripartite forces posed a military threat to Russia from many places.

Japanese federal forces marched on Sakhalin Island, which had been contested by China, Japan, and Russia for a long time, and was eventually occupied by the Russians in 1856. The Royal Geographical Society of Britain believes that this island may belong to the paleogeological coast, which means that there is oil and natural gas, and the Japanese, who are desperately short of resources, suddenly turned red-eyed, and this tripartite joint operation led by the East India Company is also like a sleepy pillow for Japan.

The Mongol cavalry of Seng Lingqin fought for the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, which had been occupied by the Russians.

The Hunan army was busy suppressing bandits in Huaibei, and the number of Taiping troops who surrendered was huge, and the three eastern provinces of Tuntian were not used up for a while, and the "Xianfeng Emperor" made an astonishing decision to reactivate Li Xiu, who was recuperating from his wounds in Shanghai, to become the commander of the expeditionary force, and led his old troops to garrison troops in Ulaanbaatar, in order to prepare for the important Sino-Russian trade town "Kyakhta", which is quite close to the world's largest lake, Lake Baikal, where there is a large Russian city in the Far East, Irkutsk.

The desperate Shi Dakai knew this "good news" and also surrendered to the Qing army, the Great Qing Kingdom really did not disappoint him, you also go to wear the guilt and make meritorious service, after the ban on the worship of God Society's cult behavior, Shi Dakai also became the Great Qing State Expeditionary Force as a guilty person, and went to Dayuzi to resist the Russian invasion.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Kazakh ethnic group was divided into three parts: the Great Yuz, the Middle Yuz, and the Small Yuz, of which the Small Yuz and the Middle Yuz were gradually annexed by the eastward expansion of Russia, and the Great Yuz was annexed by the Great Qing State, which was threatened by the Russian Yan at this time.

The huge amount of money needed to fight the war came from low-interest loans from the Bank of Zurich, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty used the Old Summer Palace as collateral to fight the Russians, winning the love of his enthusiastic subjects.

India, of course, is not idle, going north to Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and west to Persia. This Persia, roughly similar to Iran, is the big stage of the East India Company's game with the Russians, and this is still without knowing the huge oil interests of the Persian Gulf, in Downing's mind, it is even more important.

Downing's overall military thinking toward Russia is the "bacteriological strategy." In addition to the army of the East India Company, the armies of the Great Qing Kingdom and Japan have not been tested in actual combat, and they are thrown to fight against the Russian army, just like letting the bacteria slowly adapt to antibiotics, and they will wear them when they see a vacancy, mainly to train modern troops, and the wireless telegraphy and weapons for communication are provided by the East India Company with strong financial resources, and these armies will become stronger and stronger, and then turn to the second stage, a bit like Lincoln's python strategy against the Southern Army, slowly strangling the Great Russian Empire.

By that time, Russia will be ...... Look, maybe a democratic reform will let it go.

It was at this time that France and Spain also found an excuse to invade Latin America by force. Their target is Mexico. Mexico was a republic at this time, and their president, Juárez, announced that he would stop paying interest on foreign debts, as the previous civil war had emptied Mexico's treasury. Creditors from Britain, France, and Spain were outraged by the Mexican government's actions, and they all appealed to their respective governments for military intervention.

The French team still has ambitions to occupy Mexico, because they have a good relationship with the United States, the initiator of NATO, and they have decided to open a second battlefield in this country not far from the Panama Canal, the power of the Windsor consortium, where they can unite the US federal government and the Granada government, and have a better chance of winning. This is that Napoleon III did not see the power of a king-class heavy cruiser, otherwise he would not dare to think so if he was given 100 leopard galls.

NATO and the Windsor consortium will have a big battle in Central America.

Some time ago, the government of Granada has been vigorously promoting the unreasonable and illegal way of digging the Panama Canal, because the Panama Canal crosses the Chagris River, and the water level of this river is above sea level, and after the opening of the canal, the water of the Chagris River flows into the sea in large quantities, which will affect inland navigation. In the past, some engineers built locks to block up the canal at both ends to create an artificial lake, which not only protected inland waterway shipping, but also saved a lot of excavation work. However, the canal company did not accept it, because the boss said that to increase the amount of work in the canal of the highest quality, it is not a problem to increase the amount of work, but to reduce the efficiency of the locks.

As for the impact on inland waterway shipping, the boss said that Panama could make up for it by building more railways. The Granada government wanted huge compensation, but the Canal Company did not negotiate the amount, which the Canal Company considered too large. The Granada government was originally unhappy, but now it finally broke out, relying on the support of the United States, and began to mobilize the army.

Journalists are all over the world, and Reuters, the world's largest intelligence organization, has long been aware of Granada's conspiracy, and the East India Company Navy anchored in Hawaii quickly mobilized, and this time two 10,000-ton troop carriers have been added, and a total of 10,000 marines will go to Granada. The Indian army has to deal with the Russian army in Persia, Afghanistan and other places, so this time the Japanese soldiers are the main force, supplemented by a small number of British officers, Malay soldiers, and Nanyang Chinese soldiers.

The high-tech army is different, this expedition, the Windsor Military Hospital prepared 100,000 bottles of DEET for the soldiers, a single application can avoid being harassed by mosquitoes for up to 5 hours, which is greatly conducive to the rainforest marching battle.

The Provisional Government of Granada did not expect the Windsor Consortium's military to react so quickly. What awaits them is a completely unexpected shape shì.

After the partition of the Republic of Gran Colombia, the political situation was quite unstable, and even the name of the country was unstable, first it was called New Granada, and in 1856 it was changed to the Federation of Granada. (http://.)。 In 1856, in order to learn a lesson, the new government met the demands of the provinces for decentralization in order to reassure the people and not cause a split like Venezuela and Ecuador, and the local power was very large under the federal system, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the centralists, and took action to take back much of the power in the provinces, leading to a rebellion, and the Liberals led by Mosquera captured the capital Bogotá and assumed themselves the presidency of the provisional government. The Provisional Government is no longer the government it was when it signed the treaty with the Canal Company, and even its name may change again.

The Provisional Government had just been formed, and the internal and external difficulties and financial difficulties forced them to take a decisive decision, confiscating a large number of church schools, hospitals, monasteries, land, and houses. How much effort the Windsor consortium has spent on creating new technology in the canal is unknown to Mosquera. His geopolitical thinking is still stuck on the principle that gaining the support of the United States is the royal road.

The news of the accident of the new NATO member Granada was first known to the Americans, and this time they suffered a "loss of contact" again. This was the old rule of the East India Company's navy, cutting the target's long-range telegram before the war.

The port of Buenaventura is the largest port in Granada and the first target of the Navy.