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Directions to Guatemala.

This time, Guatemala's Defense Minister Alejandro Sinibaldi participated in the alliance.

Yes, President Barrios of Guatemala attaches great importance to this alliance, so the person sent to participate became the highest-ranking among the three. However, as usual, this alliance is dominated by Huerta, and the other two countries As a supplement.

Of course, the coalition combat forces are still led by Chief of Staff Seth.

Like a guide, Sinibaldi led 20,000 coalition troops and 10,000 Guatemalan troops on the journey for five days and nights.

From the port of San Jose on the Pacific coast to the small town of Seball, the current headquarters city of Guatemala.

"In two days, we can reach Popuón. Once there, we can reach Tenosique de Pino Suárez, the alliance site at the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in three days."

Thinking of this, Sinibaldi breathed a sigh of relief.

Barrios asked him to travel across the north and south of Guatemala within half a month and reach the alliance. Now, he was about to complete the task.

Not long ago, they had a smooth handover with the coalition forces in the Port of San Jose. The problem of weapons and ammunition that restricted Guatemala was solved, and the combat effectiveness of the Guatemalan army was greatly increased.

Sinibaldi's deputy general said cautiously: "I just received a notification that 30,000 elite troops have arrived from Mexico. Together with the coalition forces and our own 10,000 troops, we have a total of 60,000 allied troops meeting there. .

On the other hand, on the side of the German-Austrian Alliance, the Austro-Hungarian Empire only had 20,000 troops there. For more than ten years, according to intelligence analysis provided by the Netherlands, the Austro-Hungarians were not very effective despite being safe."

Sinibaldi shook his head, "That's what the Dutch intelligence said. The Dutch army is strong, so naturally they don't think the Austro-Hungarian army is very strong, but for small countries like us. The 20,000 troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, It’s just a wall that you don’t dare to hit easily, or you’ll be smashed into pieces.”

Sinibaldi said cautiously: "I just received a notice from the coalition forces that the three major Dutch army-fire groups are coming to test a batch of weapons. They will also be the ones responsible for repairing firearms and artillery in this logistics. Qi, you immediately lead people to follow these testers and be responsible for protecting their safety. There must be no damage or mistakes in this war."

Due to Sinibaldi's carelessness, every rifle, semi-automatic rifle, every artillery shell and even all parts and ammunition of the artillery in the Republic of Guatemala are now provided by the Netherlands. Not just Guatemala, but even the entire Thirteen-Nation Alliance (Netherlands, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico), in addition to Mexico, nearly half of the weapons supply currently comes from the United States. Apart from the Federal State, the other twelve countries all have weapons from the Netherlands.

These countries rely on the weapons of the Netherlands so much that if the Netherlands stops giving them weapons one day, these countries will face a national defense and security crisis. Of course, the Netherlands will not kill the goose to lay eggs.

Now the Netherlands has completely replaced the arms traders of other international countries in these countries, monopolizing all arms trade and becoming their most important ally.

Therefore, when the Netherlands sent maintenance and test personnel to the battlefield logistics office, Sinibaldi naturally would not stop or refuse.

For the impoverished Guatemala, not to mention the performance of the weapons, as long as they are useful, it is good. The firearms currently supplied by the Netherlands to Guatemala are Mauser rifles and semi-automatic rifles that have been eliminated by the Netherlands. The latter is currently the most advanced tilt among active forces in the world. The Netherlands also supplies Guatemalan breech-rifled guns. Of course, the previously eliminated front-loaded guns are also on sale at low prices.

At this time, with the arms supply from the Netherlands, the army under the Guatemalan Ministry of National Defense truly looked like a country.

He obtained a batch of weapons and equipment for nothing. In his opinion, although participating in the war is full of dangers, there are opportunities within the dangers. As long as this difficulty is overcome, Guatemala will definitely increase its combat power by a large margin.

At that time, when facing other powerful countries, Guatemala will have the power to protect itself, instead of drifting with the crowd like before. In short, both Sinibaldi and President Barrios believe that Guatemala has made a profit this time by joining the Thirteen Latin American Group. .

There are a lot of weapons and equipment, and it is even said that the three major arms groups of the Netherlands will use new weapons to test on the battlefield here. This is completely based on the army of the German-Austrian Alliance. Sinibaldi is naturally very happy.

It is said that the Netherlands will even use new firearms. As for what firearms they are, the three major groups are currently secretive and have not revealed them. Sisinibaldi does not dare to directly ask the other party to disclose them for fear of offending these world-class arms. Shang, then the gain outweighs the loss.

However, he was extremely curious and hoped to see the appearance and effects of these new products from the Dutch arms dealers soon.

So he said to the adjutant: "Tell me to suck it down, speed up, and try to feel Tenoscia de Pino Suarez before the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."

The adjutant immediately said: "Yes"

In this way, under Sinibaldi's curiosity, 10,000 Guatemalan troops and 20,000 troops of the Thirteen-Nation Alliance quickly moved toward the Guatemala-Mexico border.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, capital Melbourne.

Dutch Coalition Cabinet Government Meeting.

"Is the risk of using a new weapon so great that it can be used to verify its performance?"

"The equipment needs to be tested for authenticity. His Majesty does not want to use his own army for testing. Even on the battlefield, he also hopes to use our weapons and coalition forces to measure the actual data. Minimize our losses. We in the Netherlands are not the only ones at the moment. The enemy of the German-Austrian Alliance, Britain is still watching eagerly from the side. If one thing goes wrong, we will be trapped in a situation where we are attacked from both sides."

Prime Minister Linden said sternly: "Therefore, the Netherlands will not participate directly in the war this time, but it can appear as an assistant so that our allies can be upgraded to the ability to help us as soon as possible."

Deputy Prime Minister Jules Danetang frowned and said: "But since then, other parts of our country will have a sense of distrust towards the Netherlands, especially Spain, Sweden and Denmark. I am worried that the neighboring countries there will be distrustful of these three countries." To sow discord to drive a wedge between security trust among our allies.”

Linden said nonchalantly: "The alliance between the Netherlands and other countries has always been based on trust. If the Netherlands pounces on the provocation of other countries to explain or otherwise, then this ally is an unreliable ally. I think that the United States I don’t need to repeat the case of the Federal State. My cabinet government does not want another federal ally of the United States to appear."

Suddenly, the entire cabinet and government members fell silent.

Stephen Douglas's America was a thorn in the side of Lyndon's cabinet government. As soon as Lyndon came to power, he faced an anti-Dutch campaign by Stephen Douglas, who came to power a year before him. Before he could react, the other party had already turned against the Netherlands.

It can be said that the United States is the second American ally lost by the Lyndon cabinet after Argentina.

This was a huge blow to Linden's prestige.

So no one wants to get into trouble.