C1037 The law of the jungle

The attacks of the Chile on the Ikek were completely in accordance with the ancient eastern war philosophy. In the siege of China, it was said that there must be a way for the enemy to survive.

The north side of Ikek City had always been opened, but the two fortresses here had no effect at all. The entire battle had ended without even a single soldier fighting them, it was just that during the battle, countless of civilians from Ikek had fled from the north, and they had actually become spectators.

In the northwest corner of the city, at the highest point of the fort near the ocean, a middle-aged white man dressed in civilian clothes was watching the battle on the sea. Behind him, there was a colonel from the Chile Army standing respectfully.

"Mr. Henry, thank you for your support of Peru. After this war, your name will be recorded in history!"

"No, no, no …" "Dear Colonel, I am just a merchant. I will leave this matter of leaving my name in history to you. Let me remind you, my name does not want to appear on any piece of paper, nor do I want it to be repeated in people's mouths!"

"All I want is money, the most beautiful gold... I've helped you find so many battleships, all you need to do is prepare to pay up, hahaha … "

This merchant was the British arms dealer Henry, who was also the previous biggest arms supporter of Chile.

Europe's attitude to the war in Central America was interesting, which was that it was basically unattitude. Yes, this was originally a Spanish colony, and since the independence movement, it had been on the verge of an international order. In the eyes of Europeans, this was a savage country, and apart from the fact that archaeological teams and explorer could often bring back some bizarre legends and add some mysterious elements, this piece of land was not important in their national strategy.

Compared to the globalization of the 21st century, human beings relied heavily on mineral resources. In the middle and later stages of nineteenth century, European civilization had already passed by relying only on the supply of raw materials from North America, Africa and India.

As for the dumping ground, the eyes of the Europeans were still set on China and India. The vast and sparsely populated lands of the South America was truly of no concern to them.

Because their strategic position was very low, they did not have any urgent need to protect their interests, so the English and French and the others did not care about this war at all. What the hell does it matter to Europe that one of those small countries is missing?

The only thing worth paying attention to was saltpeter. Before synthetic saltpeter technology was popularized, saltpeter from the Atacama Desert became the hottest commodity in the world for weapon factories.

However, Europe was still not interested in this war. They knew that regardless of which country had the saltpeter, Europe and the United States would always be the biggest customers. The best saltpeter would still be delivered to the weapons factory in Europe and the United States.

Since the results were all the same, then what harm was there in ruthlessly fighting these three kingdoms? The longer the war on the contrary dragged on, the better for Europe.

The person standing behind the British arms merchant, Henry, was actually the British Government. The armored navy formed by the Chile, that was double the size of the Peru, would not be able to take goods from the European shipyard if they did not have a British nod.

In this war of bird droppings and stone, the British were supporting the Chile, and did not have a good impression of him. The only reason they chose to support him was because he was the weaker party.

If the Bolivia and the Peru joined hands to deal with the Chile, then the Chile would not be able to hold on for long without outside help. This short conflict was not in the interest of the British, and it was also not in the interest of the arms merchants.

How could three months of war earn the same amount of money as three years of war? Furthermore, the most important thing was that once the war started, the South America and the other three nations would rely heavily on the support of Europe. Whether it was foreign affairs or borrowing money for war, they would not be able to leave Europe.

The longer the war dragged on, the more external debt these three countries would owe. European capital could also significantly erode the mining companies of these countries, and in the end, they would use very low prices to slowly privatize those mining companies that belonged to the country. When the European chauffeurs secretly owned more shares, who would care about how those governments changed?

Henry sneered in his heart, "The war has only just begun. These three countries aren't desperate to fight. My friends and I haven't plundered the biggest cake or eaten the most shares. Will we let this war end?"

"I won't let this war get out of our control. Today in Ikek, I will teach Chile a lesson … Without the support of our Europe, you small nations in South America are all trash! "

"You think hiring a group of veterans from China can change the situation? Dream on, I will wake you up! "

He turned around and gave the colonel a Cuban cigar. After lighting it, he smiled and said, "Please remember, you bought these battleships from the Belgium of a neutral country. They don't belong to any country, and the soldiers on them are only pirates at the moment, remember!"

The Peru Colonel smiled obsequiously: "Everything is as you wish. Right now, it is too dangerous here, I will escort you out!"

Henry nodded his head and walked down from the fortress, in a short period of time, the northern part of the city was along the coastline, with more than two hundred war horses galloping forward, heading straight for the Peru Plateau.

When the Chile was weak, they would use all kinds of connections to help the Chile buy the most advanced battleship in Europe, and from there, they would build a navy twice as powerful as the Peru.

But when the Chile was too powerful, and even found Chinese foreign aid to quickly end the war, the original allies would immediately fall out.

Henry was backed up by a large group of corporate diets-rich, terrifyingly powerful men who within half a month had forced Ecuador, Colombia, and the Mexican Navy to phase out a number of old battleships, and the companies that bought them belonged to Panama.

The Panamanian company soon sold the ships to Canada, and then Canada to the Netherlands, followed by a company in the Belgium.

In this series of dazzling property rights alteration contracts, the name of this batch of battleship changed dozens of times, the owner changed dozens of times, in the end, when the Peru's army bought these battleships, it was already hard to find any clues from these contracts.

This meant that no one could find the shadow of Henry and the other big corporations through this series of transactions. Although the battleships were only a short trip from Central America to the Peru's capital Lima, they had already bypassed more than half of Earth in terms of law.

What was even more strange was that there was still a stateless Mercenaries of Central America who had come with the warships to the Peru. As long as the Lima Government took out a generous salary, they would fight for the Peru.

Chile's intelligence network was completely unaware of all that had happened. They never would have thought that the person who sold them out was the person who was the most friendly to them, the arms merchant, Henry.

This was the cruel law of the jungle. There was no morality, no warmth, only benefits!