New Ming Empire mixed in America

Just when the Xinming Empire was in conflict with the Southern Alliance, the National Defense Forces commanded by Sun Laifu also encountered trouble.

"Teacher, we can't continue to be so passive."

In the combat conference room, a staff officer stood up and said to Sun Laifu:

"The Mexicans here are very united. Our logistics will always be attacked by them. The logistics troops have already suffered casualties..."

The current population of Mexico is about seven million. Except for some of them concentrated in Mexico City, most of the rest are scattered in northern Mexico, that is, near Texas.

Because of the abundant water resources, the planting industry here is very developed.

It is also the place most heavily infiltrated by American plantation owners.

This is different from the land previously occupied by the National Defense Forces, such as Oregon and New Mexico.

Those places are vast and sparsely populated, and most of the residents are concentrated together. As long as you capture the major cities, you can control the local area.

But Mexico is different, it is a complete country.

Therefore, after capturing major cities, the surrounding residents continued to harass the logistics of the National Defense Forces.

"We can only drive them to evacuate to the south of Mexico now, but when our people appear, these Mexicans will hide in the mountains, and after we leave, they will come out to live again..."

The staff officers were very troubled by the Mexicans who were like meat on a hob.

At the same time, I finally understood why it took Na San so long to capture the opponent's capital.

After thinking for a while, Sun Laifu said, "Then gather the captured Mexicans to work for us. As long as we provide them with food, they can help us build the railway."

But as soon as this plan was proposed, a staff officer stood up and said: "Our logistics line is too long, and we have to cut off their connection with Texas. Even if we arrest some people, we cannot guarantee our logistics safety."

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Sun Laifu didn't have a better way to do this. He couldn't use barbed wire to surround all the places where the logistics troops passed by, right?

Thinking of barbed wire, Sun Laifu suddenly thought of the defense facilities outside Yingtianfu City.

His eyes lit up and he said: "We can use bunkers to protect our logistics lines and create a road between the bunkers."

It takes time to build railways, but it doesn't take much time to build forts and pave roads.

In this way, the National Defense Forces began to build bunker defenses near Texas in Mexico.

The logistics route of the National Defense Forces does not extend from Yingtianfu along the Mexican territory. Instead, it relies on the railway in the New Mexico region to be transported to the location closest to the National Defense Forces stronghold, and then transported into Mexican territory by horse-drawn carriage.

Originally, it would not be too difficult for the National Defense Forces to control the area between Mexico and Texas.

But the constant appearance of rebels here is very troublesome, and this is the most annoying thing.

A few days later, in Jinling, the capital of the New Ming Empire, Li Mingqi was discussing matters about Mexico with Liu Erhe.

Li Mingqi carefully read all the information sent back by Sun Laifu.

He discovered that the problem in Mexico was far more serious than he thought.

The fierce resistance of the Mexicans made the First Brigade led by Sun Laifu make very slow progress.

"Long live my lord, if one brigade is not enough, let the third brigade go too."

Hearing Liu Erhe's unreliable suggestion, Li Mingqi glared at him and said, "If they are all transferred to Mexico, what will happen to our domestic defense?"

After reading the plan for using bunkers to protect the logistics lines that Sun Laifu sent back, Li Mingqi felt that it was not very reliable.

It is too easy for the Mexicans to destroy logistics. Among other things, they only need to dig out roads and set up traps to prevent the logistics from being delivered in time.

In the final analysis, the number of the National Defense Forces is too small. If there were several divisions of the National Defense Forces, these problems would not arise at all.

Just push them away. If you encounter fierce resistance, just grab them and release them to the construction site, so that they can contribute to the development of the Xinming Empire.

After discussing for a while, we couldn't come up with a better solution.

Logistical problems must be solved, otherwise if Na San secretly supports the Confederacy, Li Mingqi's plan will be affected.

Li Mingqi, who was very depressed, could only put this issue aside for the time being.

Anyway, Sun Laifu is recruiting people to build bunkers now. It will take some time to know whether it will be effective.

But the matter regarding the Mexican government-in-exile cannot be delayed any longer.

After Li Mingqi learned that Juarez and the others had gone to Washington, he sent an envoy to take a train to negotiate with the Northern Federation.

But the result was very unsatisfactory. Without even seeing Mr. Lin in person, he was directly rejected by federal government officials.

So if you want Lin to obediently send Juarez and the others over, you still have to show off your muscles. It's best to teach them a lesson.

We can't count on the army, it's too far away.

Unless the Confederacy agreed to let the soldiers of the New Ming Empire pass through their territory, the plan would not work at all.

But even if the other party really agreed, Li Mingqi would not let the National Defense Forces fight against the Northern Federation.

Let’s not talk about the more than one million soldiers of the Northern Federation. If the Southern Federation turns against them, the National Defense Force sent out will be in danger.

Although the navy is powerful, it is separated from the east by most of the coastline of America.

After much deliberation, only the Air Force is reliable.

That's right, it's the air force. Now the Xinming Empire has an air force consisting of three airships.

The Air Force has less than 300 personnel excluding logistics, but when logistics is included, the number swells to more than 1,000.

The logistics department is mainly composed of workers from the Foxconn branch in San Francisco.

Special engineers are responsible for the maintenance of the airship. These workers from Foxconn just follow orders and do some chores at the airship base.

However, an airship has never sailed such a long distance. This is not a flight from San Francisco to Yingtianfu.

Instead, it needs to cross the entire United States, from the west coast to eastern Washington, a distance of about 4,000 kilometers. At the current speed of the airship, it will take no more than two weeks to get down.

This is still the time it takes to fly in a straight line in the air. If there is a headwind or thunderstorm and you need to make a detour, it will probably take longer.

Although it was a bit troublesome, Li Mingqi decided to give it a try.

Now that the airship has been continuously improved by the Royal Academy, its safety and practicality have been greatly improved.

It is not practical to use it to cross the sea. After all, storms on the sea are no joke.

When flying on land, you can find a place to land and make repairs in case of emergency. When something happens at sea, you can declare yourself waiting for death.

Just do it as soon as you think of it, and treat it as an airship voyage experiment this time.

Simply simulating a voyage by airship around San Francisco, Jinling and Yingtianfu is unreliable after all. A real voyage must be experienced to ensure the accuracy of the experiment.