Chapter 991 The Situation in South America

In the end, Spain was forced under pressure to accept the alliance's compensation package and abandon South America.

However, it means giving up the frontal battle with Dahua, not completely refusing to resist.

Failure to resist will only allow Dahua to quickly occupy South America.

The EU's final strategy was to use the size of South America and play hide-and-seek with Dahua.

Instead of having direct contact with Dahua, they went deep into the jungle and fought guerrillas in the mountains. Hiding from Dahua's regular army, waiting for Dahua's regular army to leave, and then running out to cause destruction, making it impossible for Dahua to exercise effective rule in South America.

The EU estimates that Dahua will invest up to 200,000 troops in South America.

And an army of 200,000 is simply a drop in the ocean compared to the entire South America.

Without anyone causing trouble, the 200,000-strong army could control the entire South American continent.

However, if they are deliberately causing trouble behind the scenes, it will not be easy for Dahua to control South America.

Of course, in this case, the EU will also lose control of South America.

But they don’t care. If they can use South America to hold off Dahua for a few years, it is a success for the EU.

This strategy is already the best the EU can think of.

The strategy was formulated, and an EU fleet headed to South America.

They did not carry any heavy weapons, but only a large number of advanced individual weapons.

For example, breech-loading rifles, light machine guns, grenades, crossbows, sniper rifles, etc.

They are all weapons suitable for guerrilla warfare. These weapons are light and easy to carry, and at the same time powerful.

There is not much difference between breech-loading rifled guns and the Chinese army's semi-automatic rifles.

The Chinese army has a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, but they are only equipped in large units.

If it is a small-scale left-behind force, it is impossible to be equipped with technical arms such as cannons or pyro soldiers.

In other words, in a small-scale battle, the EU's strength gap with Dahua is far smaller than that in a large-scale battle, and it is deliberately forced to fight with it.

Because the EU gave up the strategy of head-on confrontation, the Chinese army's early operations in South America went smoothly, and they soon advanced to Bogota and occupied most of Colombia.

However, then the strongholds occupied by the Chinese army began to be constantly harassed by EU soldiers.

Some strongholds were breached, some were forced to give up, and although some strongholds were defended, they were severely damaged.

The Chinese army really has no good way to deal with this kind of harassment.

If you want to achieve effective rule over these places, you must divide your troops into various places.

And because the place is so big, there can't be too many left-behind troops in each place.

The EU's guerrillas, on the other hand, can flexibly maneuver and concentrate their superior forces for surprise attacks. Faced with the EU's rogue tactics, the Chinese army also suffered some losses.

Although the number of soldiers killed in the battle was not large, after all, these were small-scale battles.

However, Dahua's strategic intention of controlling these places and completing effective rule failed to be realized.

This gave the expeditionary force commander Meng Hao a headache. Other troops had always been unfavorable on other battlefields.

But now, he has suffered a defeat. This will be a big black spot on his resume. There is no hope for him to go further in the future.

What's more important is that despite having superior strength, he still suffered defeat, leaving him shameless in the face of the soldiers and people at home, and he didn't know how to explain to the country.

"Commander, we can build small towers to increase our defense. The enemy does not have heavy weapons, and it will take a heavy price to conquer such towers.

With the EU's limited military strength in South America, it certainly cannot afford such losses. "

Some of his subordinates offered Meng Hao advice.

"I'm afraid this won't work. It's easy to build one watchtower, but it's a big project to build hundreds or thousands of watchtowers. The cost is too great, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Moreover, although the EU does not have many people in South America, it is far more numerous than us. This place was originally their private property, but now that we have robbed their private property, it is possible for them to mobilize all the people. "

Meng Hao said with a headache.

There are at least two million Europeans in South America, and adult men account for nearly 50%. As for the Chinese army, it only had 20,000 soldiers at full strength.

Including the incoming immigrants, the number is only 40,000 to 50,000.

In terms of numbers, they were at an absolute disadvantage.

Moreover, people who come to South America from Western Europe to make a living are more courageous than ordinary people and are not afraid of death.

These people are armed and are quite a force.

It's not that easy to conquer it.

"Then what should we do?"

The subordinate asked that the current problem must be solved, but it cannot continue like this.

"I think it may be necessary to report the situation here to the country and request the country to change its policy towards South America."

Dahua actually has many ways to solve this problem, but the difference is just a cost.

If enough troops are sent over, those guerrillas can naturally be wiped out. But the cost of this method is too high, and the gain outweighs the loss.

If Dahua really does this, it is playing into the EU's hands.

There is also the need to slow down the pace of occupying South America, wait for more immigrants to arrive, tame more local indigenous people, compress the production space of European guerrillas, and then slowly advance.

This plan will take a long time, and the people and government in the country may not understand it.

satisfy.

Another way is to solve it politically, such as recognizing the private property of the original Western Europeans in South America, and allowing them to become a member of Dahua.

This move will definitely cause division among the Europeans in South America.

These people become guerrillas because they are forced to do so. It does not mean that they like to live such a life and fight against Dahua.

If Dahua can protect their private property and even obtain Dahua citizenship, many people will cheer and cooperate with Dahua.

These immigrants had little loyalty to Europe.

Unlike the immigrants from Dahua, they have the government to help pay for ferry tickets and resettlement. They do everything on their own.

After coming to South America to create a world, you still have to pay taxes to the native country.

The vast majority of them are actually still an oppressed class.

If not for their lack of strength, they would have rebelled against the mainland.

As for this kind of political matter, Meng Hao could not make his own decisions. He had to report it to the court and let the central government make the decision.

Only when the central government agrees, can he cooperate with civilian officials to implement it.

If the central court does not agree, then he will have to think of other ways to deal with those guerrillas.

Although those guerrillas were very difficult to deal with, Meng Hao was not a vegetarian either.

If we really want to fight to the death, both sides will be hurt, and the Europeans will definitely be hurt more seriously.