Panama Bay, Rey Island.

This place is only forty kilometers away from the Panama City coastline, just blocking the Pacific exit of the Panama Canal.

In the past, this was a deserted tropical rainforest.

As the United States and France dig canals in Panama, this place became important.

Because once an army is stationed on Rey Island and deploys large-caliber fortress artillery, it can directly block the Panama Bay and block the exit of the Panama Canal.

By the time the United States and France realized the importance of Rey, it had become the overseas territory of the Chinese Empire.

Panama belongs to a province in Colombia, and the strong cooperation between the Chinese Empire and Colombia led to the Colombian government finally agreeing to lease Rey to the Chinese Empire.

However, the Chinese Empire continued to work hard, taking advantage of the opportunity of a war between Colombia and Venezuela to coerce and induce Colombia, and on the grounds of secret military assistance to the Colombian army, forced the Colombian government to sell Rey Island to the Chinese Empire for 1 million yuan.

In fact, the Colombian government is very clear about the status of Rey.

Previously, it only agreed to lend it to the Chinese Empire for use, but it restricted the Chinese Empire from building Yongbei Fortress defense fortifications and naval bases on Rey Island.

This is because the Colombian government is very disgusted with the United States for its own interests. In order to disgust the United States, it took the initiative to hook up with the Chinese Empire and cheated the United States of America for a total of 200 million yuan.

However, the Colombian government also understands that America is the most powerful country in the Americas and cannot afford to offend it.

The Colombian government hopes to take advantage of loopholes between China and the United States, and both sides extort each other to obtain the best interests.

Therefore, worrying about the strong rebound of the United States, at the beginning, a large number of restrictions were imposed on the Chinese Empire on the issue of Rey to calm the tension and anger of the United States.

But the plan cannot keep up with the changes. The Chinese Empire's large-scale military aid to Colombia helped Colombia build super fearless battleships, which deeply stimulated Colombia's neighbor Venezuela.

Venezuela has always been hostile to Colombia, and Colombia has the support of the Chinese Empire, so Venezuela can only turn to America.

After receiving Venezuela's request, Roosevelt was very happy. He believed that the Chinese Empire and Colombia were allied to the Panama Canal. Therefore, Roosevelt was very worried that once the Panama Canal was built, it might be a wedding dress for others. If the Chinese Empire takes advantage, it would be even more uncomfortable than killing him.

Therefore, Roosevelt responded positively to Venezuela's request and attracted Venezuela to join the Allied Group.

Once Venezuela joins the Allied Group, then Colombia is thinking of attacking Venezuela, the problem will become very complicated and even trigger a world war.

Therefore, Colombia protested to the United States, opposing Venezuela's accession to the Allied Group.

However, Roosevelt was also surprised in the face of Colombia's protests.

Didn’t it just that I had customized four super fearless battleships from the Chinese Empire? I actually thought I had really become a world power and dared to threaten the powerful America!

Roosevelt was very upset and ignored Colombia's protests.

The Speaker of the Colombian National Congress realized that even if the Colombian Navy is equipped with four super fearless battleships, it cannot be looked down upon by the United States, so he had to ask for help from the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire took this opportunity to propose the conditions for permanent purchase of Rey Island.

The Speaker of the Colombian Congress understood that once Venezuela joins the Allies, the balance of power between the allies and the Allies will bind Colombia so that it cannot easily exert force against Venezuela.

Therefore, Colombia finally agreed to sell Rey Island to the Chinese Empire forever.

In return, the Chinese Empire betrayed and publicly put pressure on the United States and the Allied members, saying that Venezuela is the enemy of Colombia. If the Allied countries accept Venezuela, it is equivalent to starting war immediately with the Allied countries.

Faced with the aggressive momentum of the Chinese Empire, the Allies held meetings and were forced to make concessions and refused Venezuela's accession.

However, America will naturally not be willing to do so.

Roosevelt rejected Venezuela on the surface, but secretly reached a secret agreement with Venezuela to provide Venezuela with various advanced weapons and equipment and financial assistance to help Venezuela fight against possible military invasions in Colombia.

The Chinese Empire knew the small actions of America, but pretended not to know them. Only when Colombia encountered more difficulties would it seek more help from the Chinese Empire and allow the Chinese Empire to gain more benefits.

At the end of 1893 AD, with the support of the Chinese Empire, Colombia brazenly launched an aggressive war against Venezuela.

In recent years, with the strong help of the Chinese Empire, Colombia has unprecedentedly powerful military strength. The weapons and equipment of the Colombian army are all Chinese-style, and their level has directly moved from the territorial era to modernization. It even has equipped a large number of Chinese-made military motorcycles and established a semi-mechanized infantry division alone.

Whether it is equipment or training, the entire process is led by the military advisory group and instructor group of the Chinese Empire.

Even among some of the main forces of the Colombian Army, military instructors from the Chinese Empire directly served as commanders of the troops, commanding the Colombian army to enter Venezuela for combat.

When the Colombian army invaded Venezuela, it was naturally subjected to tenacious resistance from the Venezuelan military and civilians.

Although Venezuela did not join the Allied Group, the Allied Group has actually acquiesced to Venezuela as its member state. Not only the United States, but also Britain and France, as humanitarian rescue volunteers of the International Red Cross, sent a large number of personnel into Venezuela to help Venezuela fight against Colombia's military invasion.

This is like the Boer War. The Chinese Empire and the Allies all sent a large number of military personnel to participate in the war as volunteers under the banner of humanitarianism, killing the British Empire everywhere.

Now the British Empire is actively sending the so-called "volunteer army" to the war.

Therefore, after the European Balkan War, to the Ethiopian War in East Africa, and then to the Boer War in South Africa, the current hidden war between the Allies and the Allies has burned to the South American continent and started a war in Venezuela.

The Allies and the Allies are testing each other's combat power and bottom line, and using these wars to test each other's strength and military tactics, thus achieving the purpose of collecting each other's military intelligence and preparing for the real decisive battle between the two sides.

The Colombian runner-up achieved brilliant victories in the early stages, with three victories and three victories, and captured the coastal areas of Malacaibo and Malacaibo Gulf in one fell swoop.

However, the subsequent battle was not so easy. On the coastal level, the Colombian Army, with the semi-mechanized infantry division leading the way, was defeated by the Venezuelan army with its superior artillery with its advanced Chinese weapons and equipment.

However, most of Venezuela's territory is mountainous terrain and is not suitable for mechanized troops to fight.

Soon, when entering the mountainous areas to fight, the Venezuelan army received secret support from the United States, the British Empire and other parties, obtained a large amount of radium, and began to spread radium all over the mountains.

See mine war again!

Not only was the Colombian army miserable, but even the Chinese Empire was quite speechless.

This radium tactic is the first successful combat power invented and tested by the Chinese Empire. It has been cited as a classic defensive tactic by all parties around the world.

Even the American military was deeply touched by the ground radium war. After all, the American army suffered all the hardships of the Spanish army in the Spanish-American War, and since then it has been deeply remembered.

Nowadays, the British and American military directly imparted this tactic to the Venezuelan army, but Venezuela is mainly based on mountainous terrain, which is most suitable for burying radium everywhere.

Facing the Earth Radiation War, let alone the Colombian army, even the Chinese Empire's Divine Army, which is known as the world's strongest, can only stare at the Earth Radiation War.

The radium sweeping technology in these days was very primitive. After all, electronic components have not been applied yet, and the technology of radium making is higher than radium sweeping technology. This is almost a world problem. Even if it is 120 years later, radium sweeping is also a world problem. Making a radium radium cost 15 US dollars, while scanning a radium can cost at least 80 US dollars. When countries hear the word radium sweeping, they will be very painful, let alone the 1890s.

Invisibly, the earth radium tactic invented by the Chinese Empire has now become a magic weapon for weak countries to carry out defensive operations.

As a result, the Colombian army's offense was frustrated, causing the war to fall into a stalemate, and it is estimated that it will be a protracted war.

In fact, the Allies such as Britain and the United States have already launched extensive radium wars in the Balkan War, the Serbian War, and the Boer War, otherwise these three wars would have been over long ago.

At first, Emperor Hua* participated in the war with the help of training troops, but now he is in a stalemate of war, which is unexpected.

While the Venezuelan war was in a stalemate, the news that the Chinese Empire had built large-scale construction on the island of Rey and built giant fortifications quickly spread all over the world and attracted high attention from the Allies' camp.

The Wall Street Journal paid attention to and followed up on this matter, and reported it in large quantities.

“The Chinese Empire permanently purchased Rey and its seven nearby affiliated islands from the Colombian government, which was of far-reaching significance.”

"As we all know, the United States and France are working together to build the Panama Canal. Once the Panama Canal is completed, it will not only make profits for Britain and France in maritime economic and trade, but also facilitate the Allied Navy to enter the Pacific Ocean. Because the Allied Navy entered the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, it could only detour South America. Now if the Panama Canal is opened, it will save two-thirds of the journey. Originally, it will take three months for the American Navy to enter the San Diego Naval Base from the Atlantic Ocean. If the Panama Canal is taken, it will only take one month."

"Military, the American Navy risked being ambushed by the Imperial Chinese Navy to deploy the main naval force in the Pacific direction. It only needs to pass the Panama Canal when the war breaks out and then quickly deploy to the Pacific to fight."

"The Chinese Empire has obviously seen through the strategic and military purposes of the United States' intervention in the Panama Canal, so the Chinese Empire has been very close to Colombia in recent years, and even brought Colombia into the camp of the Allies."

"Once China and the United States start war, or if the allies and allies start war, the Colombian government will take back the Panama Canal. And America and France will never give up and will definitely send troops to retake the Panama Canal."

"It can be foreseen that the largest and most intense war will break out around the Panama Canal."

"And the Chinese Empire did not seem to believe in the combat effectiveness of the Colombian army and did not think that it was an opponent of the US and French army, so the Chinese Empire bought Rey Island."

"You know, Rey Island is just blocked in the center of Panama Bay. As long as the Chinese Empire builds giant fortress artillery on Rey Island, in fact, the Chinese Empire has begun to build giant fortresses, and then the Panama Bay will be completely blocked. Even if the United States and France seize the Panama Canal and the warships pass through the Panama Canal, they will be blocked by the Chinese Empire fortress artillery in Panama Bay."

"If the Chinese Empire sends naval fleets to intercept it, it will be easy to sink the American naval warships that go to the Pacific through the Panama Canal."

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"Bang!"

Roosevelt threw the newspaper hard on the desk, then got up and paced back and forth, frowning.

"Ho!Ho!"

A gentle knock on the door sounded, and Roosevelt shouted impatiently in, but saw that it was Secretary of Army Harris.

"What's wrong? Sorrowful, who owes you money?" Harris joked.

"The Chinese Empire built Yongbei Fortifications on Rey Island in Panama Bay and dug out a naval port that could dock 40,000 tons of giant ships. The latest information shows that the Chinese Empire transported the 16-inch naval guns used for the Furious Class battleship to Rey Island, with a total of 20 gates!"

Roosevelt said with a wry smile, signaling Harris to sit there casually.

Harris frowned immediately. He came here for this reason.

In this era, America did not have the position of chairman of the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As the Secretary of the Army of the United States, it was the supreme leader of the American military except Roosevelt.

Even though the American Navy is currently stronger than the Army, in the military system, the Navy is still subordinate to the Army, and naval officers are the first ranks than Army officers. In history, after World War I, the American Navy in turn over the Army and became the highest military department.

Now, as the Secretary of the Army, Harris leads the entire American navy and army.

Of course, the so-called minister is just a civilian, a politician, and the real and complete military department is called the Military Order, which is formulated by their staff and approved by Harris to carry out combat missions.

In short, the American military system during this period was very chaotic.

However, due to Grant's military coup, America became a dictatorial country. Now Grant spends most of his time resting, and his rights are concentrated on Roosevelt alone.

Harris is Roosevelt's friend. At that time, Roosevelt was the Secretary of the Military Command. The two had a very good relationship and became a hardcore duo, firmly controlling the entire American military and political power. Even if Grant regrets it now, he will have no choice but to deal with Roosevelt.

From this we can see that Roosevelt was quite smart and his ambitions were also quite terrifying.

It is precisely because of Roosevelt's ambition that he felt extremely angry under the political, economic and military oppression of the Chinese Empire.

After reading the information, Harris said: "20 16-inch naval guns, 50-distance tubes, are condescending on the fortress, with a range far exceeding the Furious Class battleship. From Rey Island to the Panama coastline, it is less than 40 kilometers. I am afraid it is completely within the range of the firepower of the 16-inch naval gun! The Chinese Empire is going to build a super battleship that never sinks in Panama Bay!"

Roosevelt said hatefully: "The Chinese Empire is simply abominable. They built such a powerful fortress firepower on Rey Island to block the entire Panama Bay. Even if we build the Panama Canal, it will probably be very difficult for warships to safely enter the Pacific from the Panama Canal in the future."

Harris nodded. He knew very well how terrifying the power of the 20 16-inch cannons was, with a condescending range of dozens of kilometers. Even the most powerful battleship in the United States could not guarantee safety. Not to mention other warships with little blood and thin skin, they would be sunk by the opponent with one shot.

"You know, in order to build the Panama Canal, we were conspired by the Chinese Empire and Colombia to extort a huge sum of 200 million yuan. In order to build the canal as soon as possible, I even doubled the amount of funds to allow workers to start construction day and night. Now, once the Fortress of Rey in the Chinese Empire is completed, the Panama Canal, which we have worked hard to spend countless dollars, will become a joke for the whole world!"

"This is forcing us to America to death!"

Roosevelt became more and more angry the more he spoke. His face turned purple with anger, and his expression became even more distorted, ugly and terrifying. (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!