Wild North America 1846

Chapter 276
Nov. 1857, 9

The enraged South Carolina took substantive military action. Brigadier General Beauregard of the Confederate Army surrounded Fort Sumter and demanded that Major General Robert Anderson, who was stationed in Fort Sumter, lead his troops to surrender. Unexpectedly, it was rejected.

Major General Robert Anderson led more than 90 officers and soldiers of Fort Sumter, using the solid fortress defense and sufficient weapons and equipment, to make all preparations for the war.

12:4 am on the 30th
The artillery of the Southern Army began a 34-hour violent shelling, and Major General Anderson led his troops to fight back. The two sides fired the first shot of the North-South War.

After three days of intermittent fighting, Major General Robert Anderson fulfilled his duties as a soldier. Surrounded by heavy troops, he chose to surrender, handed over the fortress of Fort Sumter in accordance with the agreement, and led more than 90 officers and soldiers who walked out of the fortress to return to New York by boat.

The Maritime Expeditionary Force sent by President James Buchanan was denied entry to the southern port. After drifting on the sea for two weeks, they had to return to the Norfolk Naval Base in despair.

On October 10, President James Buchanan issued a statement in person, announcing that there had been a rebellion in seven southern states that violated U.S. law, and that the U.S. Federation would never tolerate it and would use strong measures to resolve the rebellion.

On the 19th, the United States ordered the naval fleet to blockade the coastline from South Carolina to Texas, and recruited 75000 militiamen from the northern states.

The proclamation outraged the eight remaining slave states and forced Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas to join the South, which rapidly increased Southern power.

The United States was already on the brink of the outbreak of the Civil War, and the situation was extremely critical. The four slave states, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, had not yet made a decision, but their opinions were already leaning towards the Confederate Republic.

In order to safeguard the fundamental interests of white slave owners, it is actually impossible for these four states to fall to the north, which is political suicide.

Different from the original history
There were originally 23 states in the northern part of the American Federation. Due to the annexation of the six northwestern states by the Tang Kingdom, there are only 17 states left in the north. In addition, the time of the civil war broke out three years earlier by mistake. The population in the northern jurisdiction There are only less than 1800 million people, which is far lower than the 1861 million population when the North-South Civil War broke out in 2200, and the total economic size is also [-]% lower.

One to another
The Confederacy has now joined 7 states, and 4 states are vacillating, but they will eventually join the Confederacy to fight the Yankees, that is, 11 states in the South against 17 states in the North.

the beginning of the war
The strength of the north greatly exceeds that of the south. The 17 states in the north have a population of 1764 million, while the seven states in the south now have only 7 million.

Once the war falls into a difficult see-saw stage, this fatal shortcoming is exposed, which will cause a decisive change in the war situation.

The north has a well-developed industry with an annual output value of 15 billion US dollars, 130 million workers, 22000 miles of railway network and abundant food, while the south has a weak industry with an annual output value of 1550 million US dollars, only 11 workers, and only 9000 miles of railways.

But the South is not without cards. The South has sufficient military preparations. Thanks to the US-Mexico War that ended before, the South’s army is of high quality, its commanders are experienced, and it has received assistance from Britain, France and the Kingdom of Tang.

In particular, the Datang Kingdom sent a corps of experienced officers and brought more than a dozen ships of weapons and equipment to the south. Of course, all of these had to be paid.

Taoyuan City Jinghu Palace

This beautiful French-style palace similar to the Elysee Palace was finally completed after more than eight years of heavy investment. The overall white palace exterior wall is elegant and luxurious, showing the dignity of the royal family.

Imperial study room

Li Cha, who had just arrived not long ago, looked refreshed and in a particularly good mood. He walked around the forest on the mountain, teased the tigers and brown bears kept by the royal family for a while, and howled these beasts again and again. Come back satisfied.

After washing his hands and cleansing his face, Li Cha came to the imperial study room. The newly appointed head of the Royal Secretariat, Viscount Dong Jie (note; he was highly commended by His Majesty for his meritorious service and was promoted to the title) respectfully guided His Majesty to sit down in front of the throne, and Li Cha Looking at the generals standing solemnly under the throne with gentle eyes, there was a look of approval in their expressions.

"Your Majesty is here, all the generals and officers salute and welcome you!"

"Excuse me, give me a seat."

"Your Majesty thank you for your seat."

Under the throne, Lieutenant General Dai Changfu, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kahn, Deputy Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mike Rabiot, Lieutenant General Harry Fratsch, Major General Liu Wu (Liu Wu), Chief of the Elite Corps, and Major General Duan Debiao, Major General Wu Degao, Major General Tian Mantun, Major General Lei Jueshen, Brigadier General James Kahn, Brigadier George Rabiot, Brigadier General Wu Xia (Shrimp Boy), Brigadier Mai Xiaozu, Brigadier Lin Shoutian, Brigadier General Wu Pengfei and other generals are shining , bringing together most of the elite generals of the kingdom's military, the formation is quite large.

This is a very high-level imperial military meeting, and the topic is the current situation in North America. In the past few months, various departments of the kingdom have been mobilizing all their strength to stir up the separatist forces of the southern independence faction, cheer them up, and send a real message. massive military aid.

This act of adding fuel to the flames contributed to the fact that the South took separate actions three years earlier than the original history, and it is the main behind-the-scenes behind the division of the American Federation between the North and the South.

The President of the United States, James Buchanan, pointed out angrily: "The Tang Dynasty is the source of all the turmoil in North America. It has seriously hurt the feelings of the American people and should be responsible for the current broken North-South relations. The rise of the Orientals has spread all over the North American continent. Too much war and suffering, and the United States suffers from it..."

Well, the rhetoric of these enemy countries can only be used as a successful commentary on the diplomatic activities of the Tang Kingdom.

Li Cha successfully reversed the unfavorable situation facing the Tang Kingdom. Before the United States Federation was ready to launch an invasion war against the Tang Kingdom, it detonated the internal conflicts between the North and the South in advance, prompting the South to take substantive independent separatist actions.

This skillful move disrupted President James Buchanan's original plan, overturned his wishful thinking, and put the American Federation represented by the northern forces into the current predicament.

The house is restless, the fire is on fire again outside, and the old rivals are stalking each other. The Yankees are really in a state of desperation!

Objectively speaking
The rapid evolution and deterioration of the situation in the south is also inseparable from the secret behind-the-scenes driving forces of Britain, France and other countries. As for the reason...

The psychological activities of these old European colonists can be summarized by the situation in North America that "small is beautiful, weak is good, and division is the balance of power". Compared with the monolithic North American powers, this gives foreign powers more room to operate.

In 1857, the overall economic strength of the United States ranked fifth in the world, and half of the northern states had already entered industrialization, and their strength should not be underestimated.

If the north and south divide
If a large-scale internal war breaks out, the economic strength of the United States will be greatly reduced. Without the economic territory of the South, the North will most likely fall behind the Datang Kingdom, which ranks seventh in the world. This is a situation that everyone is happy to see. Help Why not do it if you push and aggravate the situation?

"Generals, your chief of staff has suggested that you want to take advantage of the opportunity of the war between the north and the south to swallow up the U.S. state of Tijuana in one gulp first, and then talk about it." Li Cha said this, his gaze Scanning the crowd majesticly.

He saw that everyone sat upright in their positions, put their hands on their knees, listened carefully to the lecture, nodded in satisfaction and continued;

"I said, "Don't worry, the Yankees put such a big target by our side, and it's only a matter of minutes to eat it. Are you afraid that he will run away?"

It's like two brothers fighting. At the beginning, they talked about being rude. At this time, let's not kill other people's pigs. In the end, the two brothers let go of their prejudices and unanimously spoke out.

Although the possibility is unlikely, there is no need to take risks.

When the two brothers' heads were beaten into pigs' brains and their eyes were red, then it would be too late to eat this big piece of fat, without delaying anything. "

His Majesty the King's humorous metaphor was extremely vivid, and made all the serious generals present laugh, making the atmosphere much more harmonious.

Major General Lei Jueshen stood up, saluted, and said, "Your Majesty, the 303rd Field Division of the Central Military Region is stationed in Palm Springs. It is fully staffed, with high morale, and willing to be the vanguard of the king. When did Your Majesty say that you have eaten this This is an enclave of America, my master asks you to take the lead and take this piece of fat for His Majesty."

His statement can be a hornet's nest. Major General Liu Wu and Major General James Kahn stood up almost at the same time. Major General Liu Wu took the lead and said after saluting; "Qizou Your Majesty, the 301st Division of the Central Military Region is stationed in Los Angeles and dares to fight hard and vicious battles." , the whole division swears allegiance to the royal family to the death, and is willing to plead to be the vanguard."

"Qizou Your Majesty, the 304th Division of our Central Military Region is stationed in Las Vegas. The officers and soldiers of the division take allegiance to the royal family as their duty. If you are ordered by the king, you will go through fire and water, and you will die. I would like to ask you to be the vanguard."

At this time, several generals stood up again, and Li Cha waved his hands with a smile, telling these passionate generals to sit down and calm down first, and not to be too impulsive.

Where are you now?
Li Cha knew that this North American duel would be unprecedentedly tragic, with unprecedented spread, unprecedented casualties, and unprecedented bloody battles. Everyone has a chance to fight, and it is far from the end now. .

He also understood the mentality of the generals. He was afraid that the Yankees would be a coward and would be easily beaten by the Yankees. Then everyone would have no battles to fight, and naturally there would be no merits and honors.

As the saying goes, what kind of birds do people play with? The ancients were sincere and never deceived themselves.

Under the leadership of the extremely aggressive Li Cha, the army of the Tang Kingdom is full of iron blood and extremely strong aggressive genes. The sky can only be a middle-level officer.

All the ones who stood out were titans. Take Lieutenant General Harry Flech, the deputy chief of staff who was reused by His Majesty the King, as an example;
During the third Western Expedition in the United States, the Northern Cavalry Corps led by him entered the Great Lakes region of the United States, burning, killing and looting all the way, destroying villages and towns, killing corpses and blood flowing into rivers.

It has been 8 years since the war ended, and now Americans grit their teeth with hatred when they mention Lieutenant General Harry Flech, wishing to tear him alive to relieve their hatred, and they don't have that hatred for other oriental generals.

On the contrary, this deeply stimulated many Chinese generals, thinking that it was a shame that could not be washed away. In turn, the soldiers under their hands were screaming in drills, and they were all as fierce as wolf cubs, waiting to be released to eat meat and drink blood.

(End of this chapter)