Chapter 990 The European Union Is in Chaos

In mid-February, the Dahua expedition fleet to South America arrived in Honolulu.

However, the Chinese are more accustomed to calling this place Honolulu.

As early as two years ago, Dahua discovered these islands, then immigrated 500 people here, and built a port to facilitate the midway supply of Dahua ships.

But now, when the Dahua Expeditionary Army passed by this place, they conquered the natives of this place.

The local indigenous people have never seen a battle like Dahua.

After a few shells were fired, the natives were scared to death.

When Dahua's envoy told them that this place has been Dahua's territory since ancient times and will also belong to Dahua in the future, they all said that this is what it should be and the scene was very harmonious for a time.

The Chinese army left more than a hundred soldiers to maintain the rule of the area.

At this point, Honolulu was also recovered.

By March, the expeditionary force reached Panama City.

After more than half a month of repairs in Panama City, the armies that had been exhausted at sea were able to recover, and then they set off south to attack the Colombian region.

There is no need for an excuse to attack Colombia. After all, this place is not Spanish or even Portuguese.

Here, there are no rules. In other words, strength is the only rule.

The Portuguese defeated the local indigenous people, and this place belonged to Portugal.

Spain annexed Portugal, and this place belonged to Spain.

Now that Dahua comes again to drive away the Spaniards, this place naturally belongs to Dahua, which is very logical.

When the Chinese army set off, the Spanish Governor Lovely in Bogotá immediately panicked.

Although, when Dahua's expeditionary force arrived in Panama, he knew that the Chinese army would definitely go south to attack him. However, as long as the Chinese army did not set off for a day, he still had a sense of luck.

And now, the last bit of luck has been shattered.

"What about Madrid? Why is there no news from Madrid yet?"

Lovely asked his men.

As early as when Dahua was building roads in Colombia, Lovely sent people to report the situation in South America to the country, hoping that the country would send some troops over.

However, domestic orders told Lovely to hold on.

When Dahua's expeditionary force arrived in Panama, he once again sent a distress signal to the country, but has not yet received a reply.

In fact, Europe has long known that the Chinese army is going to march into the Americas.

The actions of the Dahua Expeditionary Force caused a lot of publicity, and there was no intention of covering up at all, allowing spies far away in Dahua to easily obtain this information and send it to Europe via telegram.

Then, combined with the information about Dahua's road construction in Colombia, European strategists easily analyzed Dahua's goals.

However, what can we do if we know Dahua’s goal?

People in the EU suddenly discovered that they had long been so afraid of Dahua.

Even though the European Union was established, they did not have enough courage to declare war on Dahua in the face of its invasion.

They also hope that Dahua can have a smaller appetite and will be satisfied by winning the Colombian region.

Then, they can thrive (survive) for a while again.

The only one who is really anxious is the Spanish Empire.

After all, the District of Columbia is their turf.

In London, the second European Union Conference is being held, and what is being discussed is Dahua's entry into South America.

"We must form a fleet and go to South America to fight the Chinese army to the death and defend our final bottom line. America is our bottom line."

Spanish representative Pardo said indignantly.

"Mr. Pardo, please calm down first. We are now starting to form a fleet. How many fully armored warships can we assemble?"

Williams said.

In today's naval battles, wooden battleships have been completely eliminated.

The Java Sea battle between France and Dahua had already confirmed this. Wooden warships had no meaning in front of Dahua's artillery.

Nowadays, European countries are developing pure ironclad ships or semi-ironclad ships.

Great Britain's development is faster. It already has ten pure ironclad ships, but the tonnage is less than 1,000 tons.

There are about twenty semi-ironclad ships, and they are basically used as auxiliary ships.

The pure ironclad ships of all other countries combined are on the same level as Great Britain.

In other words, even if they use all their wealth to form a navy at this time, the strength is not as strong as a fleet of Dahua.

Going into a naval battle with Dahua at this time is purely seeking death and is extremely irrational.

"Mr. Williams, when do you think we will be strong enough to compete with Dahua? Ten years from now, or twenty years from now, do you think we still have a chance by then?"

Pardo sneered.

They are developing, and Dahua has not stopped waiting for them.

In the future, it is impossible to say whether the strength gap between the two sides will be larger or smaller.

"If we start a war with Dahua in ten years, we will definitely have an advantage."

Williams said boldly.

He obviously couldn't predict what would happen ten years later. However, preventing him from declaring war on Dahua now is his main task.

"Shit."

Faced with Williams' nonsense, Pardo scolded him directly.

"Mr. Pardo, please calm down. The importance of those places in South America is not worth the risk for us to risk a decisive battle with Dahua. If Dahua comes to attack Lisbon now, we will declare war on Dahua without hesitation."

Fernando, the representative of France, stated the key to the problem and received the approval of everyone.

Whether to send troops or not depends mainly on whether it is worthwhile.

The colonies in South America may be important, but they are not important. Losing the colonies in South America would not have much impact on Spain's strength.

Today, the key factor that determines the strength of European countries is the level of technological development, not the number of colonies.

Losing those colonies means at most losing some cheap raw materials.

But because Europe is still in the early stages of the industrial revolution, the demand for industrial raw materials such as coal and iron ore is actually not particularly large.

Europe alone can meet their needs.

To fight to the death with Dahua for a dispensable place.

Other countries in the EU will not agree to this kind of thing.

As for Spain's feelings, other countries can only say sorry or provide some compensation in other aspects.

"Mr. Pardo, don't worry, the alliance will give you some compensation. We are not sitting idly by, we just have to consider the overall situation. I hope you can also proceed from the overall situation and not force the alliance to jump into the fire pit now."

Williams said.