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Chapter 1167: The Mutated Mexican War
On May 1883, 5, while the major powers in Europe and even the world were paying attention to the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in the Dutch East Indies, which caused nearly 2 casualties, a piece of news attracted great attention from the world.

Especially the top leaders of various governments.

The things that attract their attention must be major developments related to the international situation.

It turned out that the war situation between Mexico and Austria-Hungary had undergone a partial change.

Under the leadership of Mexican President Manuel González Flores, Mexico unexpectedly changed its previous defensive stance in the war between the two countries and instead chose to attack.

Originally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied Veracruz, the most important coastal town of Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico, which almost became a bridgehead for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to attack northern Mexico in recent years. This put Mexico City almost under the Austro-Hungarian Empire's nose, making the Mexicans feel uneasy every day.

Many citizens have even migrated northward, toward towns near the southern U.S.-Mexico border.

This was a denial for the Mexican army.

But for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was a great affirmation.

Because this means that the army led by the Mexican government is not trusted by the people and has no confidence in winning the future war with Austria-Hungary.

This naturally made the Austro-Hungarian Empire's offensive more intense and fierce.

However, since the Mexican government received weapons support from the members of the Union of South American Nations, and even many Latin American civilian volunteers began to join the fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's offensive in the past year had limited gains.

The Austro-Hungarian invasion of Mexico really shocked Latin America.

In the past, world powers such as Britain, France and Spain were the ones that divided and conquered Latin America, but that was in the past. Since they began to resist Spanish colonial rule in 181 and gradually began to gain independence, after the successful establishment of nations that blossomed all over Latin America, they have been very wary of European countries.

In particular, we are very wary of their excessive interference in the rule of their own country.

So Latin America has been living in this kind of calm for the past half century.

Watching the turbulent changes in the situation in Europe, Latin America is still haunted by the recent divisions of Africa by European powers.

They could relate to Europe's colonial advances in Asia, so they were even more afraid of the European powers.

But the Netherlands was a surprise.

The Netherlands actually moved its capital directly to Asia, and it was the real thing.

The Netherlands moved away from Europe to Asia, and even became a close neighbor of Latin America through the South Pacific. And because the Netherlands' territory in Europe remained unchanged, the Netherlands and the entire Latin America continued to deepen their contact through the ocean.

In addition, the Netherlands invested heavily in various countries, which made their economies prosperous. Unlike Britain, France, Spain and other countries that only knew how to plunder resources and manpower, the Netherlands became the most important economic partner of many Latin American countries. In addition, the Netherlands provided military training to various countries to prevent these countries from being invaded by European powers and being defeated in one fell swoop. Therefore, Dutch military instructors have become the propellant of militarization in many Latin American countries, and the Netherlands has gained the favor of Latin Americans in the military as well as in the economy.

All of this extended to the political field. As a result, the Netherlands quickly established various alliances with Latin America, among which the South American Union became the most important military and political alliance between the Netherlands and Latin America. The Latin American Allied Military Alliance was a military group established with a Dutch officer as secretary-general. At the beginning, the army had only 2 people and its headquarters was located in Kiel, the capital of Ecuador, a South American country.

However, over the past few years since the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Mexico, the number of allied forces has gradually expanded, and has now more than doubled to 5.

As small countries in South America become increasingly insecure, especially regional powers and populous countries like Mexico, Mexico has a population of over 10 million and is the second largest country in the Americas after the United States. Only Brazil can be compared with it, ranking second. In terms of military, only the United States, Brazil and Argentina can compare with it.

If such a big country was invaded by the Austro-Hungarian Empire at will, how should small countries like Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, with a population of only about one million, deal with it?

Small population means that it is difficult to recruit soldiers, and the army is of low quality and poor weapons. Compared with a big country like Austria-Hungary, it is very likely to be defeated in one fell swoop. Even if it relies on the familiarity of the geographical location, it can only hold the wall for a period of time to slow down the invasion. But look at Mexico, doesn't Mexico have such an advantage? In the end, one-third of the country's territory was conquered, and it was not even oppressed step by step to a place not far from the capital, Mexico City.

Even Mexico City is like this, so they don't believe they can resist the invasion of those powerful countries.

At this time, the Netherlands proposed the establishment of the South American Alliance and the South American Military Alliance, which was no less refreshing and timely for them than suddenly having ice to drink in the summer.

So they all joined this military organization controlled by the Dutch.

The formalization and modeling in the following years made these small South American countries realize how fortunate they were to have established a military alliance with the Netherlands. Especially when Mexico, which was not a member of the alliance, was invaded instead of them, that feeling of relief was fully demonstrated.

Mexico's subsequent hasty decision to join further made them realize that their choice was right.

Ok.

The addition of well-trained volunteers from the South American Military Alliance made it difficult for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to move forward. The speed of its invasion of Mexico dropped significantly. In the past year, it took a month to attack even a village, which had already hurt the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself.

It seemed that the logistical support was increasingly falling behind. If it had not been for the help of the German Empire, its ally, half of the food, weapons and ammunition might have been cut off.

This is how the two countries have been spending their time in the north of Veracruz, at least for the past six months.

Joseph I even smashed a lot of antiques for this purpose, but it was of no avail and it was difficult to advance the military.

But what was unexpected was that while the antique fragments of Joseph I continued to increase, the Mexican warriors finally made progress, and not on the Austro-Hungarian side, but on the Mexican side.

On April 1883, 4, Mexico bypassed the city of Veracruz and attacked Oaxaca, which had been occupied by the Austrian army for nearly a year, directly from its southwest.

The Austrian army had more than 4000 troops stationed there, but Mexico had deployed more than troops this time. Moreover, because there were volunteers trained by the South American Military Alliance mixed in, and even the general leading the attack was from the South American Military Alliance, the town was captured by the coalition forces in just half a day.

More than 4000 of the 700 Austrian soldiers were killed, more than 2400 were captured, and the remaining 8 or so escaped.

When the news came out, the world was shocked and the attention of various countries was immediately attracted away from the volcanic eruption in the East Indies.

(End of this chapter)