Alchemy Greater China

This extraordinary news not only made the people in San Francisco who supported the earl rejoice, but also quickly sent it along the telegraph line connecting the east coast of the United States.

It stands to reason that the tragedy of more than 300 deaths is definitely big news, but at this time, it can only be put aside by the White House and the military on the east coast... because, at three o'clock in the morning, they were awakened by the telegraph wire: Benson The entire fleet was wiped out, with a crew of 100 people, only a few escaped with Benson, and the rest were buried in the seabed. The death toll is estimated to have reached more than [-]!

In comparison, it is nothing if a battalion and company of the 338e Division were bombed into the sky with a train.

Since President Harrison was woken up, he has been in a sluggish state of inability to think for half an hour. He absolutely cannot believe that six battleships were destroyed by... all, all, annihilated, annihilated, in just one day. ?

That is an ironclad battleship that the United States does not have now!

The British, the invincible guy who shocked the world and ruled the ocean, how can it be said that if it is gone, it will be gone?

After Harrison's froze head finally regained his thinking, his first words were: "Crazy, crazy, tell me that the person who sent this telegram is crazy! The battleship didn't actually sink, right? Quite the contrary , the battleship of the Earl of Beihai was sunk, and the Earl of Beihai was buried in the bottom of the sea, yes, no, yes?"

While the staff was busy, they replied to the president who seemed to be crying in a baby chair: "Unfortunately, Your Excellency, just half an hour ago, we received news from eight different channels. The sinking of the Colonel's six battleships... is more than 97.17% true!"

The White House's attention to the bombardment crisis in San Francisco has reached the highest level since the Civil War. If it weren't for Harrison, he would still be in the Washington headquarters to coordinate everything.I am afraid that it will not be Major General Miller and his special investigation team that will come to San Francisco, but Harrison, the troubled President of the United States.

Therefore, there are many telegraph wires connected to the White House. In addition to the official telegram sent by old Stevenson on behalf of the San Francisco city government, there are other people who sent back related messages from different angles.

all of these.They all point to the fact that General Fremantle of the British Navy has been captured, and the Gogol and other six battleships are really finished!

"Bastard, bastard, how did things develop like this?"

Harrison became angry and smashed the elephant glass sculpture on the table, like a baby who was deprived of a pacifier, and shouted in a crying voice: "I remember, didn't Miller say that San Francisco is in control, and testify against the Earl of the North Sea? The witnesses and physical evidence are all ready, and the 338e Division will soon take over San Francisco. Even the defense of the entire California...Why, why did things turn around 180 degrees just after I fell asleep?!"

"Cough cough, Your Excellency the President, it should be a double sleep. Our communication with Miller was interrupted for one day for some reason. I saw you were busy. So I didn't report..."

"Hey, now it's not about whether to sleep on one or two!"

Harrison was furious.Kicking the snarky private secretary away, he cursed: "Decipher the details of this matter for me, otherwise, everyone can resign and go home to sleep!"

Could it be otherwise?

Could the situation get any worse than this?

The sinking of the British warship in the waters of the United States was already a monstrous fire that could not be covered by paper. President Harrison could already imagine the strong pressure from the British side that followed.Right now, I feel like I am standing on an endless stretch of ice full of spider cracks. Whether I move or not, the next moment, the ice may crack, and I will fall into the sea of ​​ice, freeze into a popsicle, and fall asleep forever. !

"According to our analysis. The thing is like this..."

The chief of staff picked up a piece of paper and reported to the furious President: "Admiral Miller was held hostage... Benson's fleet was forced to retreat one kilometer... Hundreds of freighters left the harbor... The battleship of the Earl of the North Sea took the opportunity to abscond, and Benson's fleet was forced to retreat one kilometer... Sen followed behind... By the afternoon, the Earl of Beihai's battleship returned intact, but none of Benson's six battleships returned... General Fremantle has also become a prisoner!"

"Tell me something meaningful! Grass, is this your analysis? This is clearly a simple superposition of information from various channels!"

Harrison copied the original telegram while listening, and roared: "Who can tell me how Benson's six battleships disappeared? Did they really sink? Who can frankly analyze it and tell me how? How can we use a fleet without battleships to wipe out six first-class armored battleships in one day?! Ah, who has this ability!? Tell me, are you all just living?!"

"Cough, this is indeed unbelievable, but according to the power-on description issued by the San Francisco City Government, it is still possible."

The chief of staff was sprayed with his head down, and after a while, he raised his head and said cautiously.

"What's possible, say! God's apparition?"

Harrison obviously didn't see the telegram, so he simply slapped a stack of telegrams on the table, panting heavily, and waited for the chief of staff to report.

"The Earl of Beihai had already boarded the Gogol, but due to the internal strife between Colonel Benson and Fremantle...so, all six battleships sank!"

The chief of staff recounted the content of the telegram in detail, and he felt like he was telling a fairy tale.

Such absurd content, will anyone believe it?

Those who believe it must be zinc deficient!

"Oh, I see……"

Unexpectedly, Harrison put his chin in his hand and nodded suddenly. Suddenly, the people in the entire presidential office were so surprised that their jaws almost dropped!

Do you really believe it?

Are you crazy?

"Good reason, really good reason, polish it up, and return it to the British ambassador like this!"

Of course, Harrison is not "really stupid". He nodded, pointed to an aide, and ordered him to process this "fairy tale". restored.

For example, who fired first and how many shots?

For example, which magazine was hit by the shell and how many times did it explode?

For another example, how many torpedoes did the Earl of Beihai launch?With extreme luck, it just happened to blow through the weakest armor of the battleship...

After doing this, Harrison's face darkened again.Said: "No matter what the real reason for the destruction of Benson's fleet is, now in San Francisco, the Earl of Beihai has no one to restrain him, and he has regained the advantage at the strategic level! It was said earlier that he would be punished and all the faults should be blamed on him. It was agreed by you all. Who can tell me now, what should I do? How to deal with this mess? Do you want the White House to issue an announcement and apologize to the Earl of Beihai?"

I remember that when the bombing crisis just happened, telegrams from various European countries flew in like snowflakes. The stressed President Harrison had already decided to severely punish Colonel Benson, who was arbitrarily assertive. Moreover, he had indeed reached an agreement with the big bosses of the military department. According to the agreement, Major General Miller was sent to lead a special investigation team to mediate.No matter how much it costs, Benson's ships must be retreated. As for the Earl of Beihai, let him be free for a while.

However, who knew that the moment Major General Miller arrived in San Francisco, things would turn around, and a surviving sailor would testify against the Earl of Beihai!

Testify that he sank five American destroyers and drowned hundreds of American sailors!

What a heinous crime!

Harrison and the Army got the news.I was overjoyed, so I summed it up.In the name of the military department, the 338e Division was sent to reinforce, trying to take down San Francisco and the Earl of the North Sea before the European countries reacted more, and detain the crime of sinking five destroyers in the North Sea On the earl!

Make this case the Nanshan Iron Case!

As long as the case becomes an iron case, the White House represented by Harrison will have sufficient reasons to respond to inquiries from Europe!

And later.The Earl of Beihai's declaration of "abolishing the Chinese Exclusion Act" and Leland Stanford's public announcement of his participation in the election for governor of California reached the White House. It was the statehood of Alaska, and now it is Baohua Equity!The Earl of Beihai was sent by the devil Satan.Did Harrison specifically do it right with me?You must slap him to death, nnd, you must seize this opportunity to slap him to death!

In the next few days, the news from the telegrams seemed to indicate that the situation was headed towards the collapse of the Earl of the North Sea: the stock price of the Earl’s sector plummeted, the Rothschild Bank closed the door to the Earl of the North Sea, and the local rich men in San Francisco and some * *Politicians organize parades to put pressure on the Earl of the North Sea...Harrison is so happy that he can't help but look forward to when the Earl of the North Sea will be captured without a fight, and it is best to be escorted to Washington to accept his own interrogation!

However, everything is reversed today, damn, are British battleships paper tigers?

It was actually scrapped by a few torpedoes! ?

The chief of staff thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency, the matter is not too bad... Well, although the Benson Fleet was destroyed and the blockade of San Francisco at sea no longer exists, we still have the 338e Division. According to the telegram I received yesterday , In a few hours, the 338e Division will enter San Francisco, the situation has not gotten out of control, it is still under our control... right, General Walson?"

Walson is the current top leader of the military department, and the 338e division was also the division directly under his former control. Therefore, he said with confidence: "British ships are not reliable, but the 338e division is still very reliable. The military exploits at the border are proof... Your Excellency, please give an order to announce that San Francisco has temporarily entered the state of federal military control!"

Military control, as the name suggests, means that the army takes over the city instead of the government and controls all resources. This is usually an order that can only be issued during a war. If Harrison issues this presidential order, it means that the White House has completely sided with the Earl of the North Sea. Opposition!

There is no room for maneuver in the matter!

Harrison knew how powerful it was, and said in surprise, "Army, military control status? General Walson, are you sure?"

Walson said confidently: "Don't hesitate, Your Excellency, please order that if the 338e division does not receive complete authorization, it will not be able to capture the Earl of Beihai! Now the Benson fleet can no longer be counted on, and can only rely on my marine division Already!"

"But, military control...or, that..."

Harrison was a politician after all, and he didn't have the courage to break the boat. He rubbed his temples, very hesitant.

"According to intelligence, Miller has fallen into the hands of the Earl of Beihai. Even if His Excellency the President does not issue a military control order, the Earl of Beihai will have enough witnesses to challenge the Congress and our military department afterwards!"

Walson laughed bitterly: "Actually, we have no way out... I believe that Division 338e will perfectly resolve this crisis. The Earl of Beihai would never have predicted that we would take over with a thunderbolt. San Francisco. As long as he stays in San Francisco to celebrate his victory, hehe, we are [-]% sure that he will stay in San Francisco forever!"

After hesitating again and again, Harrison, who was a grasshopper on the same rope as Walson, still issued a presidential order: San Francisco entered the state of federal military control.338e Division is in charge of all affairs!Violators commit treason!

Without further ado, this presidential decree was sent out through the telegraph line before dawn, and it was a power-on for all channels!

The time is about 5:10, ironically, this is less than 338 minutes after the troop train of the 10e Division suffered an explosion...

At 35:338 a.m. on June [-], the busy White House received the sad news that soldiers from a battalion of the [-]e Division had all died due to a train derailment.The entire presidential office suddenly fell into a dead silence like the end of the world.

"Dead, all dead?"

For a long time, Harrison moved his body paralyzed in the seat, looked up and said, "What's going on? The train derailed and the explosives went off, so all the more than 300 people died?"

Watson was, after all, a soldier.He still barely maintained his standing posture, punched his fists and cursed: "What a shame! This is no traffic accident. This is clearly a long-planned bombing! Your Excellency, this is murder, this is naked murder , is the Earl of Beihai's provocation against the federal army!"

"Everyone knows this..."

With red eyes, Harrison shouted hoarsely: "But we have no evidence, no! Also. Let me ask you, why is there only one battalion? What does the 338e Division eat? After working for a long time, only one battalion was sent to San Francisco? Walson, you have to give me a reasonable explanation!"

If it is not a battalion.It's a master of ten thousand people. Do the Earl of Beihai dare to make a railway bombing?

The concept of killing 300 people and killing 1 is not the same concept at all. If there are [-] soldiers, even if [-] or [-] are killed, at least there can be evidence left. The white ones are all left to the San Francisco city government to talk nonsense!

Walsen wiped off his sweat and thought: Fortunately, there is only one battalion. If there is one regiment, wouldn't more people die?

"Master Xia Bo should be cautious, and wanted to send a battalion to test it out first, and then to serve first, but who would have thought that the Earl of Beihai would be so bold and reckless that he would dare to blow up the train without permission!"

Walsen took a breath, and said righteously: "Your Excellency, don't worry, I will urge Xia Bo not to have kind thoughts in his heart, and all the troops will go to San Francisco to deal with the Earl of Beihai without reservation!"

You... your sister!

Harrison now knows how unreliable the military department is: Didn't you, Walson, tell me earlier that [-] soldiers were going to be stationed in San Francisco?But now you say 'no reservations' after the death of a battalion, you tm a general talking like fart!Laozi's military control order has been issued, and there is no way out. If you can't take San Francisco, everyone will jump off the roof of the White House together!

Harrison was furious, and Mr. Xia Bo, who was far away in the suburbs of Phoenix, was even more furious, as if someone had dug his ancestral grave, his head was full of smoke.

"Bastard, bastard, shameless, despicable, huh, huh..."

Commander Xia Bo tore up the telegram, and brazenly ordered: the whole division will go out, attack San Francisco, and avenge the dead comrades!

Hmph, the train derailed, this kind of rhetoric that even a three-year-old child would not believe, I leave it to you as an epitaph!

The sinister and treacherous Earl of the North Sea!

Brazen City of San Francisco!

Xia Bo straightened up his military commander and stepped on the train from Phoenix to San Francisco. There are four such trains, full of nearly ten thousand soldiers of the 338e Division who have experienced many battles...

The buffer wall between San Francisco and Division 338e was completely ignited and blown up, but the instigator, Long Hao, had no sense of crisis at all. He listened to Yuan'er's report with a smile, hugged her tightly, and said to the driver: "Go to Chinatown , Hong Manor!"

On the afternoon of June [-]th, Long Hao's carriage came to the Hong Mansion, which seemed to be in ruins, on the avenue of Chinatown, which was waiting to be built.

There were not many people in the Hong residence, like a forest in late autumn, bleak and lonely.

Seeing Long Hao, the servants rushed in to report in a panic, and the people who stayed behind to lead the way also looked terrified. Long Hao was amused, thinking that if he coughed heavily now, maybe people around him would fall down.

After entering the lobby, Hong Tianzhu was already waiting inside, Fang Mingde and other Hongmen elders were also among them, with serious expressions.

Hong Tianzhu glanced at Long Hao, stretched out his hand and slapped him fiercely, and a bell-like voice sounded: "Bring him up!"

Long Hao took Yuan'er and found a seat to sit. Almost at the same time as he took his seat, a middle-aged man with braids was tied up and driven into the lobby.

"Kneel down, son of a bitch!"

Hong Tianzhu yelled angrily, and the middle-aged man was escorted by the strong men on both sides, kneeling on the ground.

"Hong Zai Gen, are you guilty?" Fang Mingde is now the nominal head of the Hong family, he shook his head and sighed, but still asked.

The middle-aged man's coat was tattered, scars were everywhere, his face was in a state of distress, there were whip marks and bloodstains everywhere, but he could vaguely tell that it was the sixth son, Hong Zaigen.

"I, I am guilty!"

"Are you guilty? Then tell me about it yourself!"

"I shouldn't be obsessed with ghosts, collude with foreigners, and harm my compatriots...I shouldn't encourage my subordinates, participate in parades, and destroy my neighbors...I shouldn't be ungrateful, listen to instigation, and assassinate the count..." (To be continued...)