"Your Majesty Lieutenant General, your Ming Army's anti-American artifact is really powerful. With this, one infantryman can produce the firepower of a squad or even a platoon. But the outcome of the war cannot be determined by one or two advanced weapons. Now It's not 1814 anymore. The United States has made much progress than that time. They have built a railway network connecting the major cities on the east coast, and can quickly mobilize troops from elsewhere to reinforce Washington. Moreover, after the Second War of Independence, the Americans It has also focused on the development of industries such as metallurgy, military industry, and shipbuilding. Now it can independently produce artillery of various calibers of 12 inches and below, as well as water-cooled machine guns and various rifles, including several that can be fired continuously. The rifle...if they seize this Aka rifle, they should be able to copy it very quickly."
Emperor Agustin I of Mexico could finally seriously discuss with Zhuge Weidao the issue of setting fire to the White House... in the conference room of his Agustin Hunting Palace. Apart from Agustín and Zhuge Weidao, the only ones present were Wang Wen, the general advisor of the Texas Maritime Self-confidence, and Saigo Takamori, the general of the Texas Maritime Self-confidence, who came from Yinlishabai Port.
Ah Li, on the other hand, was holding the "Aka assault rifle" (officially called the Taiping Eighth-year assault rifle) and guarding outside the conference room.
Four people, Agustin, Zhuge Weidao, Wang Wen and Xixiang, sat around a conference table covered with a map of the East Coast of the United States - looking at the map to study how to burn down the White House!
"Emperor," after Agustin finished expressing his dissent, Zhuge Weidao smiled and shook his head, "I think you have misunderstood me... I never said I wanted to occupy Washington."
“How can we set fire to the White House without occupying Washington?”
Hearing Agustin's question, Zhuge Weidao laughed, then pointed at a huge peninsula next to Washington, the capital of the United States, and asked: "Your Majesty, what is the name of this peninsula? How far is it from Washington? How far is it from Baltimore?" How far is it from Philadelphia? How far is it from New York?"
"That's the Delmarva Peninsula, only more than a hundred kilometers away from Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia..." Emperor Agustin finally understood, "Ah, Military Advisor Zhuge, it turns out you want to use an airplane or airship Bomb Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York!"
Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "It's not what I think, but what you think, His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Yes, yes, I think so!" Agustín rubbed his hands, "We can send the main fleet out of the Florida Strait before the American navy has completed its reorganization, and then go north along the east coast of the United States. Pretending to attack Washington, the Americans will not take the lessons of 1814 lightly and will deploy heavy troops in Norfolk, Chesapeake Bay, Richmond and Washington. The Delmarva Peninsula is relatively It’s not that important, there are no big cities on the peninsula, and the coastline is very long, so it’s impossible to fortify everything.”
Zhuge Weidao nodded and said: "The advantage of the United States is that it has a long coastline and many natural harbors along the coast, which is very suitable for developing maritime transportation. If they can have a powerful navy, they can ensure that their homeland security is not violated. But once they Losing control of the sea...Big cities like Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond are all on the seashore!”
As he spoke, Zhuge Weidao looked up at Wang Wen and Xixiang again, "What do you think?"
Saigo said: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, if we establish a stronghold on the Delmarva Peninsula, all the major cities in the eastern United States will be under threat from our airships and aircraft, and the Americans will definitely launch a counterattack at any cost... If They have invested enough troops, and it is impossible for our people to hold on for a long time with a logistics line of 3,000 kilometers."
Zhuge Weidao smiled: "Why hold on for a long time? We can take advantage of the enemy's main force entering the Delmarva Peninsula to launch an offensive in other places, such as...Florida! If I remember correctly, there are still Were there many Seminoles who were unwilling to be enslaved by the Americans?”
The word "Seminole" comes from Spanish and means "fugitive". But looking at the words, we know that these Indians fled from the original British colonies and the United States to Florida, which was a Spanish territory before 1819, in order to avoid the massacre by the white Americans. In addition to those Indian escapees who were unwilling to be captured and skinned by the Americans, there were also many blacks among the Seminoles who had escaped from American slave plantations.
Because the Spanish rule over Florida was very loose in the early years, and Florida's swampy and forested terrain was conducive to hiding fugitives, it was a refuge for Indians and escaped black slaves before 1819. The Seminole War that Andrew Jackson initiated to annex Florida was launched under the pretext of hunting down the Seminoles and black slaves who had fled to Florida.
Although Florida had long been captured by the United States, Andrew Jackson also successfully entered politics and was elected president because of his victory in capturing Florida. However, due to the terrain limitations of the Florida Peninsula, the Seminoles on the peninsula have been surviving to this day. When the Americans first took over the Florida Peninsula, they signed the "Treaty of Moultrie Creek" with the local Seminoles, demarcating the central part of the Florida Peninsula as a reservation for the Seminoles... The period is 20 years.
Agustín I was originally a Spanish general and had some knowledge of the Seminoles on the Florida Peninsula. He nodded immediately and said: "Yes, there are some Seminoles in the northern part of the Florida Peninsula. They are related to the Florida Peninsula. The Keso, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek people are called the "Five Civilized Tribes" by some Americans who are friendly to Indians. They believe that they are already civilized people who do not need to be eliminated. .
However, U.S. President Jackson obviously disagreed with this view. After he became president, he pushed for the formulation of the "Indian Removal Act", which abolished all Indian reservations on the east coast of the United States and moved all Indians from the five civilized tribes on the east coast to Go west. So the conflict between the Americans and the Seminoles began to become intense in 1830! "
Migration, of course, means that a large number, perhaps most, of the population will lose their lives due to various reasons during the migration process. After all, the U.S. government was not obligated to provide adequate logistical support to the Indians, nor would it help them establish their homes in new reservations.
In addition, according to the law passed by the U.S. Congress, the Indians only have the right to use the homes opened up by the five Indian tribes in the reservations in the western United States, but they have no ownership rights. The U.S. government can take back the use rights at any time... Of course, this The U.S. government does not have to be the federal government, it can be a state government, a municipal government, or other autonomous government organized by white immigrants. In short, the land of the Indians is always shrinking "legally", and in the end there are only a few corners that are not worth mentioning.
However, Emperor Agustin I of Mexico was not at all sad when he mentioned the plight of American Indians. There was even a little bit of envy in his words - Americans did the right thing!
It is a pity that the Mexican Empire cannot learn from this, because the Mexican church will not allow the government to do this. The church is obviously more effective than Congress in protecting the Indians...
Zhuge Weidao pointed at central Florida at this time and said: "Our stronghold on the Delmarva Peninsula cannot last long, and the terrain in Texas is too open and very flat... and there is no It is not a U.S. territory, so the Americans can gradually encroach on it in a piecemeal way. The only place where the Americans can really suffer is the forests and swamps of central Florida. If an independent Indian appears in Florida and black countries, I believe it is impossible for US President Jackson to turn a blind eye. And a war on the Florida Peninsula, which has insufficient infrastructure and complex terrain not long after being annexed to the United States, will be very detrimental to the Americans."
He looked at the Mexican emperor, Wang Wen and Xixiang, and asked: "How is it? Do you have any questions?"
"Yes!" It was Wang Wen who had questions to ask.
"what is the problem?"
"The problem is the U.S. Navy," Wang Wendao said. "We have not paralyzed the main force of the U.S. Navy yet. If we want to carry out the landing on the Delmarva Peninsula, we must beat the main force of the U.S. Navy until it cannot move!"
Zhuge Weidao nodded: "Then what are you waiting for? Start making plans now!" He then looked at Agustin I, "Your Majesty the Emperor, your Mexican Navy can no longer hide in Yinlishabai Port as a fleet. If we cannot complete the landing operations on the Delmarva Peninsula and the Florida Peninsula in the first half of 1832 and paralyze the U.S. Navy, then by the second half of the year, the U.S. Navy will have obtained a large number of new ships, and the Mexican-Texas Combined Fleet will not be able to gain control of them. The advantages."
