Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On May 2, 1883, when the major powers in Europe and even the world were paying attention to the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in the Dutch East Indies, which caused nearly 200,000 casualties, a piece of news attracted great attention from the world.

Especially the top leaders of various governments.

To attract their attention, it was naturally a huge movement related to the international situation.

It turned out that the war situation between Mexico and Austria-Hungary had changed partially.

Under the leadership of Mexican President Manuel Gonzalez Flores, Mexico actually changed its previous defensive position in the war between the two countries and chose to attack instead.

Originally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied Veracruz, the most important coastal town of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico, and almost became the bridgehead for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to attack northern Mexico in the past year. This made Mexico City almost under the eyes of the other side, so Mexicans revealed uneasiness every day.

Even many citizens have migrated northward, towards the towns close to the southern border of the United States and Mexico.

This is a denial of the Mexican army.

But for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it is a great affirmation.

Because this means that the army led by the Mexican government is not trusted by the people, that is, it has no confidence in winning the war with Austria-Hungary in the future.

This naturally makes the offensive of the Austro-Hungarian Empire more intense and fierce.

However, since the Mexican government has received weapons support from the member states of the South American Union, and even many Latin American civilian volunteers have begun to participate in the fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has gained limited gains from the offensive in the past year.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire's invasion of Mexico really shocked Latin America.

In the past, world powers such as Britain, France and Spain have been fighting to divide and conquer Latin America, but that was before. Since 181, when they began to resist Spanish colonial rule and gradually began to gain independence, Latin America has been very vigilant about European countries after the success of the founding of the country.

Especially they are very vigilant about their excessive interference in the rule of their own country.

So for the past half century, Latin America has spent this kind of peace.

Watching the various turbulent changes in Europe, the recent division of Africa by European powers has made Latin America feel even more frightened.

Europe's colonial advancement in Asia made them feel the same, so they were even more afraid of the European powers.

However, the Netherlands was an accident.

The Netherlands actually moved its capital directly to Asia, and it was the real one.

It moved away from Europe to Asia, and even became a close neighbor of Latin America by relying on the South Pacific. And because the Netherlands' territory in Europe remained unchanged, the Netherlands and the entire Latin America continued to deepen their contact by the ocean.

In addition, the Netherlands invested heavily in various countries, making the economies of various countries prosperous. Unlike Britain, France, Spain and other countries that only knew how to plunder resources and manpower, in this comparison, the Netherlands became the most important economic partnership for many Latin American countries. In addition, the Netherlands provided military training to various countries to prevent these countries from being invaded by European powers without being defeated in one blow. Therefore, invisibly, the military instructors of the Netherlands became the militarization propellant of many Latin American countries, and also made the Netherlands gain the goodwill of Latin Americans in military as well as in economy.

All of these extended to the political field.

Therefore, the Netherlands quickly established various alliances with Latin America, among which the South American Union became the most important military and political alliance between the Netherlands and Latin America. The Latin American Allied Military Alliance is a military group established with a Dutch officer as the Secretary-General. At the beginning, the army had only 20,000 people, and its headquarters was set up in Kiel, the capital of Ecuador, a South American country.

However, with the invasion of Mexico by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the past few years, the number of the joint army has gradually expanded, and it has now more than doubled to 50,000.

As small countries in South America are in danger, especially regional powers such as Mexico, which have a large population. After all, Mexico has a population of more than 10 million, and is already the second largest country in the Americas after the United States of America. Only Brazil can be compared with it, ranking second. In terms of military, only the United States, Brazil and Argentina can be compared.

Such a big country was invaded by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so how should small countries with a population of only about one million, such as Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, deal with themselves?

A small population means that it is difficult to recruit soldiers for the army. In addition, the army has low quality and poor weapons. Compared with a big country like Austria-Hungary, it is naturally very likely to be defeated at once. Even if it relies on the familiarity of the geographical location, it can only maintain a wall for a period of time to slow down its invasion. But look at Mexico, doesn't Mexico have such an advantage? In the end, one-third of the country's territory was conquered, and they were even bullied step by step to the capital, Mexico City.

Even Mexico City is like this, they dare not believe that they can resist the invasion of those powerful countries.

At this time, the Netherlands just proposed to establish the South American Alliance and the South American Army Alliance, which was no less refreshing and timely for them than suddenly having ice to drink in summer.

So they all joined this military organization controlled by the Netherlands.

In the following years of formalization and modeling, these small South American countries realized how fortunate they were to establish a military alliance with the Netherlands, especially when Mexico, which did not join the alliance, was invaded instead of them, the mentality of being fortunate was even more vivid.

Mexico chose to join in a hurry afterwards, which made them know that their choice was right.

Well.

The well-trained volunteers of the South American Military Alliance joined the Austro-Hungarian Empire, making it difficult for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to move forward. The speed of invasion in Mexico has obviously slowed down. In the past year, it took a month to attack even a village, which hurt the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In terms of logistical support, it seems to be getting more and more out of date. If it weren't for the help of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's ally, the German Empire, half of the food, weapons and ammunition might have been cut off.

The two countries consumed in the north of Veracruz, at least in the past six months.

Joseph I even smashed a lot of antiques for this, but it was still useless and difficult to advance the military.

But what was unexpected was that when Joseph I's antique fragments continued to increase, the Mexican soldiers finally made progress, not on the Austro-Hungarian side, but on the Mexican side.

On April 29, 1883, Mexico bypassed the city of Veracruz and directly attacked Oaxaca, which the Austrian army had occupied for nearly a year, from its southwest.

The Austrian army stationed more than 4,000 troops there, but Mexico deployed more than 20,000 troops this time, and because there were volunteers trained by the South American Military Alliance tonight, and even the generals leading the attack were from the South American Division Alliance, it took only half a day for the town to be captured by the coalition forces.

More than 700 of the 4,000 Austrian soldiers died, more than 2,400 were captured, and the remaining more than 800 escaped.

After this news came out, the world was shocked, and it immediately attracted the attention of various countries from the volcanic eruption in the East Indies.