Chapter 544: Chat

"Why can't we fight guerrilla warfare? Didn't you say that the best way to defeat the strong with the weak is to make the other side feel pain? And New Mexico is as big as two Frances. Can't they run away?"

Friedrich asked with some doubts. After all, although he didn't see it with his own eyes, the British did lose on the island of Kalimantan, and it was not a small army.

At this time, New Mexico was the name of Mexico, which was actually equivalent to Nevada + Utah + Arizona + New Mexico + part of Colorado in the United States.

"That's a brigade, with more than 5,000 people, and warships and artillery." Friedrich sighed in his heart. If Franz hadn't come up with a reconnaissance balloon, he would be at a loss in that kind of terrain, and he might have followed the footsteps of the British.

In fact, this is unlikely, because the Austrian army has more people than the British army, and is well-equipped and has a large number of marines. In terms of the quality of the soldiers, it is much better than the British garrisons in India and Southeast Asia.

And even against the British, the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty could not attack head-on. Only after the former divided its troops did they dare to use sneak attacks.

"Uncle Friedrich, guerrilla warfare requires not only complex and vast terrain, but also a popular base. Only in this way can we continue to obtain supplies and be able to be in the dark while the enemy is in the open.

Then the principle of retreating when the enemy advances, harassing when the enemy stays, attacking when the enemy is tired, and pursuing when the enemy retreats can take effect, otherwise these words can only remain on paper.

New Mexico does not have this condition at all now, and we cannot expect Tasan Anna to create miracles.

Unless there is really an idiot who wants to occupy the entire territory of Mexico in one fell swoop." Franz analyzed.

At this time, Louis Philippe in the Tuileries Palace in Paris and Winfield, the commander of the Second US Expeditionary Force in Veracruz, sneezed at the same time.

"Well, it seems that the Mexicans can't be counted on at all. Then why not let my eldest brother go? He is very good at land warfare and is also very idle.

The commander of the Vienna garrison is indeed an honor, but it is not suitable for Albrecht.

Then I will take the fleet to send the entire US Navy to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean." Friedrich felt that the situation was actually far worse than Franz said, because he felt that the Americans were simply vulnerable.

Especially the point that the navy should split up to fight, it was simply stupid. The navy should concentrate its strength to fight. In Friedrich's eyes, Americans completely lack common sense of naval warfare.

In fact, the US Navy has not fought many serious naval battles. They fought more frigate battles. Compared with the navy, they are more like pirates, and they are the kind of inferior pirates

"This is impossible! The United States has not declared war on us, and we can't declare war on them."

"Can't we win?"

"We can win."

"Then why not fight?"

"Because we can't fight, at least not now."

"What a trouble!"

"Politics is like this. When we don't have absolute strength, we may be the ones who suffer in the end."

"Then what should I do? Travel?"

"I need you to send a batch of humanitarian supplies and about 12,000 Umbrella Security Company employees to Mexico."

"Isn't that still going to war?"

"We are not going to fight, we are going to send supplies and labor. The two sides of the Mexican-American War are still the United States and Mexico. Austria is just a bystander, and this will not change."

Friedrich sighed helplessly.

"You have the final say. What if the US Navy attacks my fleet?"

"Impossible, the Americans don't have the guts." Franz gave his own judgment.

"I mean, what if? Who could have imagined that an ant could bite off a piece of meat from an elephant? And the size of an American is much larger than that ant in Southeast Asia.

By the way, I want to mention this. This is not like you, Franz.

You kid usually looks mature and confident, but you don't make blind judgments.

Is it puberty? That Japanese woman has no breasts. I also heard that you often roll on the grass with your playmates."

Friedrich suddenly realized something.

"You don't like male homosexuality like those ancient Greeks, do you?"

In fact, many ancient Greek philosophers we are familiar with do have this hobby, and it was considered an elegant behavior and hobby in the society at that time.

The previous words did remind Franz that he did have some misconduct, but the latter was really a bit off track.

Although I don't want to argue about such meaningless things, if I don't clarify it now, I'm afraid the rumors will become more and more outrageous.

"No, I like women."

"You deny it so quickly, it makes people more suspicious." Friedrich showed a suspicious expression.

"What's there to doubt?" Franz said casually.

"Prove it." Friedrich said provocatively.

"The ancestral precepts say that members of the royal family never prove themselves." Franz wanted to end this topic.

"Don't be so boring, you are fourteen years old, and there are countless illegitimate children of country nobles like you.

And you are also at the age to hire a health worker. Your mother won't care about this, right?" Friedrich still insisted.

"Uncle Friedrich, why haven't I heard that you have an illegitimate child?" Franz asked back.

"I, I, I, I went to a military school, and I was fighting all day long, so I didn't have time!" Friedrich was immediately speechless.

"Then I suspect you like men."

"I don't like men!"

"Then prove it!"

". You kid, can't the Princess Aman I brought back prove everything?"

"Well, I'll go ask Princess Sineka if you have done anything to her."

"Don't go, I'm impressed by you."

"Uncle Friedrich, it's very hard to prove yourself." Franz wanted to say that this kind of PUA trap that is everywhere in the future is quite useful, and at the same time he was impressed that the wisdom of the ancients could actually prevent falling into the logical trap of the future.

"You kid! You you you" Friedrich, who is socially phobic and not good at socializing, didn't know what to say for a while.

"Tell me about you." Franz decided to change the subject "Princess Sineka is very beautiful, you have a good eye. How about it? Are you willing to sacrifice for the empire?"

Friedrich also breathed a sigh of relief, but a complicated expression appeared on his face again.

"She is very beautiful, very smart, and can speak Dutch. But I feel that she is approaching me on purpose, and her motives may not be pure. And the other party is a pagan, will His Majesty the Emperor and the Church agree?"

"Didn't the ancestral precepts say that it is foolish to seek love in marriage? But if you really like her, then conquer her with your own strength."

Franz didn't expect that one day he would use such words to persuade others, but such words are indeed easier to understand for people of this era.

"How to conquer? I am only 1.58 meters tall, she is taller than me"

Franz held his forehead and patted Friedrich on the shoulder.

"With your height, don't think about such things, but the so-called strength is not only physical, but also spiritual and national.

Specifically, you can use continuous victories and the strength of the empire to make her learn to truly love you."