Mexico, Texas, Texas City.
This port city is located in the northern Gulf of Mexico and eastern Texas. It is only 112 kilometers away from the border line of Louisiana sold to the United States by Napoleon. It is located on the west coast of a body of water officially named the Texas Lagoon. In another timeline, Houston, the largest city in Texas, is nearby.
This body of water can be called a lagoon because there are two slender sand bars (sand bars) that separate it from the open sea, leaving only a narrow entrance. Outside the lagoon is the blue Gulf of Mexico, and within the lagoon is an excellent sheltered anchorage.
At the entrance of the Texas Lagoon, there is a sandbar originally occupied by pirates and a small island next to it. Zhuge Weidao selected it as the location to build forts and coastal defense positions. After several years of construction, the fort on the island has begun to take shape, and the island itself is also called "Fort Island". The sandbank that was once occupied by pirates is now called "Haifang Island". Hidden positions have been built on the island. On the side of the island facing the lagoon, torpedo boat and gunboat docks have also been built.
Dezhou City is built just to the north of Haiphong Island, less than ten kilometers away from the nearest outer edge of Haiphong Island. The entire city is centered on a peninsula. A city wall about three meters high and five to six meters thick stretches across the northern part of the peninsula, enclosing the small peninsula into a relatively safe area. South of the city wall is the core of Dezhou City. Although the area is not large, it looks like a Chinese-style emerging industrial city. Wharfs, shipyards, warehouses, schools, government offices, and residential buildings all have a strong "Tang style".
The dock is very crowded. Brand-new cranes are arranged densely, with white ribbons on their heads and shorts on their lower bodies. They look at the short and strong dock workers, who are moving back and forth carrying small pieces of goods.
There are cargo warehouses everywhere above the port terminal. It is obvious that Texas has become a shipping trade center. However, there are no merchant ships from various countries visiting the sea now. There are only warships belonging to the Royal Navy of the Mexican Empire and the Texas Navy, as well as merchant ships flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty, and some fishing boats belonging to Japanese overseas Chinese in Texas.
A large shipyard that can be used to build warships stands majestically at the corner of the Dezhou City harbor. The tall chimney is filled with black smoke and coal ash and dust are everywhere. The slipway was bustling with activity, and two Guogong-class ships of more than 3,000 tons were undergoing major repairs in the dock. The sound of tinkling rivets and the unique labor chants of Japanese workers combined together to make the place look particularly busy.
Sailors wearing Ming Dynasty Navy uniforms and Mexican Navy uniforms crowded on the warships that had just sailed into the Texas lagoon, curiously looking at this city that had shown rapid progress not long after its appearance.
The entire Texas city now displayed an uplifting energy that the Mexican empire that nominally governed it lacked.
The Hero-class battleship "Bolivar" with a standard displacement of 18,500 tons and the Hero-class second-class protected cruiser "Jiangyin" with a standard displacement of 6,500 tons slowly passed through the channel and headed for the anchorage. Zhuge Weidao and Mexican Emperor Agustín I stood side by side in front of the bridge window of the flagship "Bolívar" of the Royal Navy of the Mexican Empire, looking at everything in front of them.
The construction speed of this samurai city is really amazing! Probably only the infrastructure maniacs in another timeline can show a comparable speed, right? Although this city received a huge investment from the Zhuge family (in exchange for Texas oil exploration rights), so many infrastructure and buildings were built in such a short period of time, which can only be described as a miracle. .... It is no wonder that the Americans are so afraid of this "City of the East" and would not hesitate to send the Texas militia supported by them to attack it.
It's a pity that the Texas cowboys, who all have guns, met the most anti-American Texas warriors, and they hit the steel plate...
Looking at this Texas city in front of us, which has been run like an iron barrel by Japanese expatriates, and then think about the way U.S. President Andrew Jackson was livid with anger after learning the news that his Texas militia was defeated. For Mexico-Texas The next performance of the combined fleet is even more exciting.
Although these Japanese devils are not good people, they are the only ones who can be used to strengthen the Mexican Empire and help the Mexican Empire consume the American emperor... The Ming Dynasty's own people will not come all the way to Texas. Even if they dream of gold mining, they can just go to California. In a few years there will be Australian gold, and in the future there may be gold from South Africa. If they want to dig for oil, the door to the Persian Gulf has been blocked for them!
Moreover, after British forces withdrew from Malaya, Dutch Sumatra was already under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Fleet. The oil on Sumatra has now been dug up.
Therefore, the only ones who can come to Texas to take risks are these Japanese devils who cannot enter the system of the Great Tomorrow for the time being...
When the Mexican Emperor Agustín saw the Texas City rising from the ground in front of him, he was very upset. America is a tiger, Ming Dynasty is a dragon, and Japan is a wolf... The tiger wants to eat people, and the evil dragon has a huge appetite. In order not to be swallowed by the American tiger, Agustin had to lure the wolf into his house.
Thinking of this, the Mexican emperor felt a little nostalgic for his Spanish homeland... Before the Spanish Empire was disintegrated by these rebellious officials and traitors, he could have a break with the United States, and he could also firmly block the Ming Dynasty from California. north.
But now...even the only old friend who was really willing to help Emperor Agustín, the great hero of South America, Bolivar, died of illness a few months ago (the "Bolívar" in Mexico is commemorated He just named him), so Agustín wants to hug each other for warmth, but he doesn’t know who to hug anymore?
The frustration in Agustín I's heart was getting stronger and stronger. At this moment, a colonel from the Royal Mexican Navy walked in, handed over a copy of the telegram with both hands, and mumbled a lot in fast and urgent Spanish before giving a military salute and leaving.
Then I saw the Mexican emperor looking down at the telegram copy in his hand, and then said to Zhuge Weidao: "Your Excellency, our opportunity may have come... My friend, the Governor of Cuba in the Kingdom of Spain, gave me After sending a secret message, the reconnaissance airship he sent discovered that the main force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet was passing through the wind direction channel and entering the Caribbean Sea."
"The main force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet passed through the Windward Strait?" Zhuge Weidao was stunned, "Can you be sure it is the main force?"
"Yes!" said the Mexican Emperor. "The observers on the airship identified 6 United States-class battleships... I think they should be the American fleet that has been hiding in Mobile Bay. Their target should be the construction site of the Nicaragua Canal ! Americans have always been the most opposed to this project. They used various methods to force or induce me to give up this project, but I have never done the same. Now they are directly using force!"
"Your Majesty the Emperor," Zhuge Weidao asked, "when did the six United States-class ships pass through the wind direction strait?"
"Six hours ago... we should have sailed hundreds of nautical miles by now!" Agustín I said, "We are too late to support anyway... but it's not a big problem, I have asked people to lay thousands of mines in North San Juan Bay outside the eastern exit of the canal. If the Americans are willing to force their way through, it is possible to lose several United States-level mines."
"That's good!" Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Your Majesty the Emperor...it seems we have to return to Mexico City by land!"
Agustin I shook his head and smiled: "No, I want to sit in Texas City and personally direct the invasion of the United States!"
Invasion of America!
These words actually came from the mouth of a Mexican head of state... It seems that Mexico is about to rise!
