Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

As Angola was pushed forward step by step by the Netherlands, Portugal changed from the original offensive side to the defensive side in the Angola-Congo situation.

However, Portugal has also entered a dilemma.

After finally capturing Banana and Cabinda, and completely occupying both sides of the Congo River mouth, they were naturally unwilling to give up easily.

But as more than a month has passed, they have achieved nothing except for the defense of these two places. They also need to face varying degrees of Dutch army attacks every day, which makes the Portuguese army on the north bank of the Congo River exhausted.

Gradually, I felt resentful.

Especially with the news that Angola was attacked by the Dutch army, the Portuguese people here were even more frightened. If Angola falls, then they will become an isolated island, and the consequences they will face will be absolutely tragic.

A few days after Luena fell to the Dutch army, there was news that thousands of people from this Dutch army had successively occupied the Angolan territory east of Luena in Angola, and were responsible for opening up the border with Zambia, which was also under the jurisdiction of the Netherlands. the way.

This leaves the Netherlands with nothing to worry about.

The remaining troops moved westward at the same time and captured the city of Cuito in central Angola. A few days later, they moved south to capture the southeastern Angola city of Menonge.

For a time, the situation in Angola was precarious, and people in Lisbon were even more panicked.

All the Portuguese people had no idea that the situation would change so drastically in just two months.

It seems that at this moment, they discovered that the naval superiority held by Portugal in the Atlantic was too useless on land.

The Netherlands is not competing with you in coastal cities. Instead, it is advancing step by step inland.

If the Dutch really reduce the scope of Portugal's rule to a few coastal cities, such as Luanda, Benguela, and Namibe, then Portugal's Angolan colony will almost be considered abandoned and become just a transit station. There are only three major ports.

Even if the Dutch did not attack Lubango near the coast, Huambo near Cuito, Ndaratando near Luanda, and Mbanza Congo in the north,

Portugal is just a colony without depth. If other countries attack, they will lose.

On April 25, 1864, the Dutch Congolese Army and the army that appeared behind seemed to have an agreement. The Dutch Pointe Noire Army in the north went south to attack Cabinda, while the Congolese Army headquarters in Kinshasa directly mobilized an army of more than 10,000 people and attacked They captured Mbanza Congo, where only 3,000 Portuguese troops were stationed. In less than half a day, the city was captured. After it was captured, the Dutch army continued to advance and captured the town of Uige again.

For a time, the only route north from Luanda was the coastal route.

At the same time, George Nash in the south continued to advance. Since most of the Portuguese troops were originally transferred north to attack Cabinda and others, the south was empty and the defenders were weak.

When the north captured two cities one after another on April 25, the Dutch army in the south also suffered heavy losses.

It turned out that Zambia's western garrison also sent troops to Mongu at this time, occupying the territory between Menonge and Zambia. This made George Nash no longer have any worries, and quickly marched westward. He originally wanted to occupy Ondjiwa in the south, but when the army arrived, he discovered that Prussia had taken the opportunity to capture it.

The relationship between the Netherlands and Prussia was there, and the Dutch army could only retreat and find another target.

However, the news that Prussia had captured Ongiva spread to various European countries. The way of transmission was naturally that in addition to the Netherlands itself, Portugal, the victim, also received the news from Angola.

For a moment, everyone unanimously looked in the direction of Berlin, especially Louis I of Portugal, who was gnashing his teeth. This was confused by Portugal's early participation in the war against Prussia and later the German Empire in the next war. Stay foreshadowing.

"With Luena being occupied by us, the initiative in the next war with Portugal will be in our hands."

William IV looked around and saw that all the members of the Privy Council were smiling. He said: "Louis I of Portugal thinks he can compete with me. Well, in fact, in my eyes, he is just a bedbug that can be easily cured. "

Looking at the confident William IV, everyone, including Tolbeck, seemed to be looking forward to seeing how the future of the Netherlands would develop.

William IV asked Mackay Jon: "How have countries responded so far?"

As the head of the Dutch intelligence agencies in various countries around the world, McKay Sean was William IV's most powerful assistant in grasping world trends. Although Bill Charlie's intelligence capabilities in the Royal Dutch Intelligence Agency were not necessarily worse than his, the latter's main In and around the Netherlands.

Although the areas of management occasionally overlap, each has its own focus.

McKay Jon said: "At present, neither the north nor the south of the United States has made any use of this. However, it seems that because we support each other, the northern newspapers generally support the Dutch position."

The United States is now divided into North and South. Looking at the current layout and the attitudes of countries around the world, it seems that the North American layout is what we most want to see, and nothing is like this (I believe many readers think so too).

In order to sympathize with the possibility that the future overlord, the United States, would no longer appear, William IV even had the urge to set off some fireworks to celebrate.

Prime Minister Tolbeck: "At the beginning of the founding of the United States, the north and the south began to develop according to their own models, and they were carried out in a balanced way. The country's development model is not unified, and this will naturally lead to chaos sooner or later.

The cause of this outbreak is mainly due to the war between the north and the south, with the newly added California and the various regions still controlled by the Indiana people in the west competing to win over their future development models.

Your Majesty, the potential of the United States is too great. I also think that the Netherlands must formulate a strategy to ensure that the separation of the north and the south of the United States is the most beneficial to the Netherlands. Otherwise, a unified United States will not matter to our interests in the Atlantic and the Pacific. It is a huge challenger that may emerge in the future.

After all, their economic scale now ranks fourth in the world, second only to Britain, France, and the German Confederation. Even after the South secedes, the North still occupies this position, while the Netherlands is only in seventh place."

William IV naturally agreed with Tolbeck's warning. The United States, the hegemon in the previous life, was hated by everyone. Its hegemony was well-known in the world. It plundered the economic development achievements of other countries and provoked disputes between countries. profit.

Those who believe in it will be allowed to be exploited economically; those who do not believe in it will be bombarded with guns, cannons and planes!

Total gangster character.