John and Rene were wearing two white work hats, lying on rocking chairs, and sipping Hero Company's new drink - Huoxiang Zhengqi water from time to time.
John is forced to drink this by Tom, even in Mexico in January,
Because it is located in a tropical area, the temperature at noon is over 20 degrees.
Not to mention the scorching sun.
Tom requires all employees, from John to the most ordinary construction site workers, to drink a small bottle at noon every day.
René really liked this new alcoholic drink with a pungent taste.
"Mr. Muller, I know that among the "knight attendants", the more advanced attendants also need a certain number of people to be responsible for the logistics of these attendants, but you must have too many logisticians."
"Is this still too much? If you want to quickly build a concrete road from here to Texas, there may not be enough people!"
"Is it really not enough?"
Rene looked at the crowd of Chinese workers in front of him, wearing yellow work hats and building roads under the scorching sun, and he did not understand Tom's war strategy.
What is the understanding of building roads while fighting a war?
Rene completely did not understand the "road construction tactics" that Tom learned from the "island hopping tactics" of MacArthur and MacArthur, the only real emperors of the Neon Kingdom in later generations.
Rene, who couldn't figure it out, simply stopped thinking about it and shook the rocking chair he had never seen before. He felt that this rocking chair was much more comfortable than the "Windsor Rocking Chair" of the English sissy.
Finding a way to get a few more of these new rocking chairs from John Muller is what Rene is most concerned about now.
The island-hopping tactic was used by the US military in World War II to skip the neon lights of key-guarded islands, choose to use absolute air supremacy to attack weak islands, and finally cut off the supply lines of key-guarded islands, ultimately achieving the fastest victory with the minimum human cost.
The "road construction tactic" is what Tom thought of, which is to build as many kilometers of roads as the army advances to ensure subsequent supplies. It is a tactic that is steady, step-by-step, and never advances rashly.
What are the similarities between these two tactics?
The islands that the Neon Army does not focus on guarding are all islands that are not conducive to development or have no strategic significance. Only the powerful industry of the United States can forcibly transform such islands that are worthless to other countries into island hopping tactics regardless of cost.
"Transit Island".
Moreover, the "transit islands" renovated for MacArthur's island-hopping tactics were basically abandoned after the war. The material consumption of island-hopping tactics was far greater than that of a frontal war.
To put it bluntly, MacArthur's island-hopping tactic requires the support of the extremely powerful industrial and technological strength of the United States. It cannot be achieved without a national power strong enough to crush its opponents.
Tom's "road-building tactic" is the same, relying on the huge profits of Hero Company in the United States and Europe as support, and concentrating materials in these areas to "open roads in all directions" and "cannon-level the world"!
They all rely on technology and national strength to crush their opponents. There is no such thing as breakthrough thinking.
Since Tom is rich, very rich, super rich.
So, why do you compete with your opponent on military literacy and other aspects of combat effectiveness?
Of course, when it comes to the combat quality of the military, no military in any region in the world can match the German veterans of Hero Company.
Tom thinks he doesn't know any military tactics, he only knows how to make money!
I also learned the strategic advancement of island hopping tactics - using money to kill your opponents.
Why compete with them in terms of combat effectiveness when you can kill them with money? - In "The Memoirs of Tom Smith", this is his self-assessment of "road construction tactics".
Tom had carefully analyzed the current situation on the Mexican battlefield on his way to visit Maximiliano I.
The economic sources of the United Mexican Front Army are mainly concentrated in the mining industry in northwest Mexico, as well as the secret "blood transfusion" of the United States of America.
The secret blood transfusions in the United States are also mainly concentrated in the northeast, at the junction of California and Mexico.
The northwest front of Mexico, that is, the border with Texas, and the western coastal areas are the weak points of the United Mexican States' front forces.
Under Tom's plan, these cities not far from the west coast of Mexico, using Hero Company's strong material base as support, strive to connect them with cement roads in the shortest possible time.
It is planned that the cement road will eventually connect to Texas.
As early as September 1866, Tom drove away the "Yankee" troops on the border between Texas and Mexico in the name of state autonomy, making full preparations for subsequent plans.
After John's front forces opened a hole on the western coast of Mexico, allowing the territory of the Second Mexican Empire to "theoretically" connect with Texas, the subsequent war would become extremely easy.
After the rendezvous, the military supplies needed by Tom's knights and attendants could even be transported directly from the land of Texas under the pretext of exporting goods to the Second Empire of Mexico.
Large-scale deployment of troops and generals can also be transported to the front line of the battlefield by land.
The "road construction tactics" can be fully launched.
In the previous war situation, the United States bordered the United Mexican States and had short supply lines.
As for the Second French Empire, whether it was itself or a colony, the transportation route to the Second Mexican Empire, especially to the frontline battlefields, was too long.
This is the most critical reason why the Second French Empire and the Second Mexican Empire have been in decline.
And relying on Tom's "road-building tactics", a large amount of war supplies can be easily supported to the front line of the station. It is even shorter than the route that Yang Ji sent to the United Mexican States, and this most fatal flaw can be overcome.
This was Tom's long-awaited plan.
Yes, Tom has long wanted to intervene in this conflict: it is clearly a civil war between the United Mexican States and the Second Mexican Empire, but it is actually a semi-proxy war between the United States of America and the Second French Empire.
War is a technological war, an economic war, and a population war!
In these three aspects,
Whether it is the Second Mexican Empire or the United Mexican States, they are both a bunch of trash pretending to be powerful!
Even the Yankees, the masters of the United Mexican States, cannot defeat Hero Corporation near Texas now.
Die to the United Mexican States!
Go to hell Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia!
Die to the Indians!
Gay Yang, suffer death!
The vast land and minerals in northern Mexico have become the "Knight Territory" of Knight Tom Smith!
Let the glory of monarchy and slavery shine on the land of Mexico again!
