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Chapter 440 French meat must be eaten (first update, please subscribe)
Strategic bombing!

After deciding on the strategy of aiding France, Zhu Xianhai was troubled in the face of the reality of France's rapid collapse!
In those two days, he finally understood Mustache's helplessness in the face of spaghetti. He was not afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs.

You can still defeat a god-like opponent, but a pig-like teammate, what can you do with him?
If France was a neighboring country of Nanhua, it would be enough to send troops there... Uh, I guess in that case, he would not be an ally of Nanhua either.But the problem is that there are vast oceans between the two countries.Before the troops are transported to France, it is estimated that France has already surrendered.

It is really quite French for a country to lose so quickly.

But France needs to be saved!
Saving France was not because of his strength, but because of his "vast appearance". To put it bluntly, he could easily defeat him even after tearing his face apart.

There is no way, if Da Mao is the weakest link of the imperialist powers, then France is a disgrace among the imperialist powers.

Even Daqing, who is as cowardly as I am, can dance with him.

Such pig-like teammates, if they don't keep it for themselves, can they be worthy of their god?Let others clean him up, it must be someone else taking advantage of it.

Suffering a little loss now is to gain advantage in the future.And it's still a bargain.

France needs to be saved, but how to save France?

"Since we can't send our army to France in a short time, let's use our greatest advantage!"

So, after much deliberation, Zhu Xianhai made the decision to send the airship unit, which was the only unit that could be sent to France in a short period of time.

"I want to help the French army win the war, or continue the war. The best way is to control the air supremacy, and then use airships to destroy the life-and-death parts of the Prussian army-train stations, military depots, and railway hubs! They have an advantage in strength, Then let their armies not be transported to the front, they have the artillery superiority, let them not have enough shells, and if necessary we can destroy everything - including the Prussian sources of supply and the will of the people to resist; in the end they will bow to the knees as the industrial potential is destroyed."

Although this is just a slightly idealistic rhetoric, it is certain that the application of airships on the battlefield in this era will definitely play a role beyond people's imagination. Just like in Argentina, a dozen airships have almost become The last straw that broke the camel's back, even until now, many senior Argentine military officers who surrendered still stubbornly believed that it was the airship that destroyed the soldiers' will to resist.

"In that case, let's save France with the airship's bombs!"

In the absence of other better options, the airship became the last and only option.

What about after launching the airship?
There are still many problems to come. In addition to expanding the airship force as much as possible to enrich its strength, the more important issue is how to send the airship force to France.

If there is a choice, Zhu Xianhai certainly hopes to fly directly from Nanhua to France, but the distance is almost 11000 kilometers. At the current speed of the airship, it takes at least half a month to fly, and it also needs to cross the ocean. Don't think about it. It was denied by Zhu Xianhai.

How to get to France?
On the morning of May 1870, 5, a fleet of six merchant ships in Nanhua Port sent a telegram from Nanhua to Zhu Xianhai. After putting down the telegram, he walked to the wall and stared at the map. On the coast of West Africa, there is a land marked in red - Guinea.

"Four years ago, when we entered Guinea and purchased land and built a port in Conakry, which is now the new city, many people felt that since we already had plantations on the Congo River, there was no need to develop them in Guinea. The plantation is gone, but now? Our airship can take off from there to carry out strategic bombing against Europe and those old powers in Europe."

Although I know that with the current technology, the possibility of strategic bombing of the United Kingdom from Guinea is... zero.Because the fuel is not enough to support the round trip of 8000 kilometers!
But Zhu Xianhai is still a little complacent. Four years ago, under his insistence, Nanhua quietly opened up a colony in Guinea. On the surface, it was for plantations, but in reality?But it was for the mines underground in Guinea.Although in another world, Guinea is one of the least developed countries in the world, but the richness of resources in Guinea can be called a "night pearl" in Africa.It is rich in reserves of bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, uranium, copper, nickel, zinc, graphite and other mineral resources, known as a "geological miracle". Among them, the reserves of bauxite rank first in the world, reaching 400 billion tons , 199 billion tons of iron ore reserves, 4000 million carats of diamond reserves, 637 tons of gold reserves,
Among these minerals, the iron ore in Guinea is exactly what Nanhua needs. South America has no large iron mines except Brazil. Although the iron ore on the Patagonian plateau can support Nanhua to build a steel industry, the 2.5 million Tons of iron ore reserves can only support a million-ton iron and steel enterprise at most.

If you want to develop the steel industry, you must have sufficient iron ore.After the Franco-Prussian War, France ceded Alsace and Lorraine, which were rich in iron ore, and the resources needed for its economic development were severely lacking.And what about Germany?The steel industry rose rapidly.

For Nanhua, which has a serious shortage of iron ore resources, there are only two options to solve the problem of iron ore shortage, one is iron ore in Brazil, and the other is iron ore in Guinea. Although Brazil is a little closer, but from Guinea Less expensive to acquire iron ore - less expensive to occupy.

Now, although Guinea's iron ore has not yet been mined, the strategic value of Guinea will be revealed.The future Guinea will be the springboard for Nanhua to bomb Europe!
"Your Majesty, now, our airship troops have set off by ship, and after they arrive at the Central African Company, they will soon fly from there to New Town. Now, the only question is, when will the French and Prussians go to war!, and also……"

Zuo Zongtang looked at His Majesty standing in front of the map with his back turned to him, and asked.

"After they have gone to war, on what pretext do we declare war on Prussia?"

"Need an excuse?"

Turning around, Zhu Xianhai asked back.

"If you have an excuse, you can be famous as a teacher."

"No!"

Zhu Xianhai shook his head and said.

"Teaching is famous, as long as France is famous for teaching, as for us, we, as allies of France, even if there is no excuse, what we need is to declare war to the world to prove to the world the unbreakable relationship between us and France. Of course, before that, we have to get some of what we need! After all, sending troops for nothing is impossible!"

"This, getting them to agree from the beginning, I'm afraid it will be difficult..."

Zuo Zongtang said a little worriedly.

"After all, in the beginning, they certainly don't think they're going to fail."

"That's why we need to turn the tide!"

With a smile on his face, Zhu Xianhai said.

"However, the construction of the airship field in the new city should be accelerated. If there are not enough workers, you can recruit from Buenos Aires. Don't be afraid of spending money."

(End of this chapter)