When the first ray of sunshine in the morning falls on the wide Lake Nicaragua, this lake in the middle of Central America, which has been calm for countless centuries, begins a new busy day. In the past few years, this large lake, which was almost isolated from the world, suddenly became the focus of global attention due to a world war between the East and the West.
Although it is not too far from the Caribbean-Texas-Florida battlefield of the World War, the smoke of the war does not reach Lake Nicaragua. On the contrary, the huge Nicaragua Canal project, which can be called a miracle of human engineering, has been under construction day and night in the past few years, advancing at the speed of an infrastructure madman - this project is not being done by lazy Mexicans, but by millions of people. Tens of thousands of workaholic Japanese workers used construction machinery manufactured by Ming Dynasty driven by gasoline, diesel and electricity, and worked hard under the command of Ming Dynasty engineers. This is the fusion of two generations of infrastructure madmen from another timeline! The progress of this project is not as good as flying? Replacing it with white skin would have taken ten to several decades (depending on the year of white skin). In just a few years, more than half of it was completed. Now there is a one-way waterway from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It has been completed and opened for shipping!
This waterway from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean is not as simple as digging a ditch. Because the water levels in the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean are high and low, and there are some highlands along the canal that cannot be avoided at all. Therefore, many locks have to be built at both ends of the canal to raise or lower ships. And this Lake Nicaragua, which is 177 kilometers long and 58 kilometers wide, has reduced a lot of engineering work for the Nicaragua Canal - after borrowing the surface of Lake Nicaragua, there are only more than 100 of the 276 kilometers of canals left. kilometers, the project volume was reduced by more than half. Otherwise, the first phase of the canal project would never have been completed ahead of schedule in March 1833!
The progress of the canal project and the completion date that was advanced and advanced not only surprised the officials of the Mexican Empire who participated in the canal construction, but also made the spies of Western countries who were responsible for monitoring the canal more than once scolded by their superiors - Hua After spending so much money, we finally found out from the Mexicans the exact completion date of the first phase of the canal project. It's not even halfway through yet, so why is it all done? Have you embezzled this secret service fund?
Second Lieutenant Thomas Bond from the United Kingdom and Second Lieutenant Andrew Hoover from the United States were two unlucky guys who were defrauded by the Mexicans of their secret service funds. They spent a lot of money to buy Nicaragua from the Mexican Army Engineering Bureau. The design drawings and project plans of the canal project were criticized when they were brought back. The superiors said that after discussion and research by the expert group, it was impossible to complete the project on time according to the plan. The plan was to complete it in 8 years, but the United States and the United Kingdom Experts believe it will take at least 10 to 15 years to complete. So they were fooled and they are all idiots!
The result: It was completed in a little over three years and will be open to navigation soon!
Therefore, the two of them were still stupid and let the Mexicans deceive them. This was really unfair. They were deceived by the Mexicans once, but in the end they were scolded twice and their positions were stuck for three years without any improvement! Among the classmates who graduated from the military academy with them, those who have not been killed or disabled are at least captains. But they are still lingering on the rank of second lieutenant!
What's even worse is that both of them were working as senior spies in Mexico City. With the status of diplomats of the Kingdom of Sweden or the Swiss Confederation, they went in and out of luxurious places, picked up Mexican ladies, and did their jobs without any hardship. .
But because of their mistakes, they were now brown after being exposed to the sun, and then they were assigned to operate fishing boats on Lake Nicaragua, and by the way, they monitored the navigation situation of the canal nearby.
Since Britain and the United States have always been close allies, the two agents became partners. Together they bought a steam fishing boat as Italian immigrants and began fishing on the Nicaragua Canal to sell to nearby Japanese labor camps. Of course, Fishing and selling money are all a pretense. Their main job is to keep an eye on the canal. Whenever a large Chinese warship passes by, they will immediately report it to the superiors.
But recently, Second Lieutenant Thomas Bond has been unable to contact his family. His British Empire is going to be gone!
Because the empire was disappearing, Second Lieutenant Thomas Bond stopped working hard and got drunk all day long. If he hadn't been ordered by his superiors to look at this Bond, Andrew Hoover would have wanted to kick him into Lake Nicaragua and feed him to the sharks!
Early this morning, Andrew Hoover was lowering his head in the cabin and writing a report to his superiors in code when he suddenly heard Major Thomas Bond yelling: "It's so big, so big, so big." Battleship!"
Drunk again!
Hoover irritably dropped the half-written report in his hand, and then got out of the cabin. The sun was shining brightly outside the cabin. He looked over at Thomas Bond's voice, and then stood blankly on the deck.
Because he also saw a huge battleship that was as big as a city and had a displacement of at least 30,000 to 40,000 tons. It was being towed by a small tugboat with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons and was slowly heading towards him!
"This is, this is" Hoover was a second lieutenant who graduated from the Virginia Military Academy and was not very familiar with naval ships. But his good partner Bond is a navy man and has already recognized who the battleship in front of him is.
Bond's voice was a little trembling as he said: "This is the Ming Dynasty's Dazhou-class battleship, and there are more than one! God, they are coming, they are really coming!"
Of course there is more than one!
There are already six Dazhou-class ships in service, namely Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, and Wei, half of which have been given to the Pacific Fleet. There is no longer a major war in the Pacific, and warships like the Dazhou class are useless in the Pacific. So Zhuge Weidao pulled all three large battleships with a displacement of 37,000 tons to the Atlantic Ocean!
Along with them are 6 fleet aircraft carriers named after provinces!
3 large battleships and 6 large aircraft carriers. They are all coming to the backyard of the United States of America!
From now on, they will be stationed in Guantanamo. When they have time, they will go to the east coast of the United States for a walk and ask the Americans if they are afraid? If you're not afraid, it doesn't matter. In the future, you can still deploy long-range bombers and ballistic missiles in Cuba to target New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, etc. every day. This is called containment!
The Admiral of the newly formed Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge was Viscount Dao. At this time, he stood in the command tower of the battleship Da Zhou with his arms folded, looking at the sparkling Lake Nicaragua, which made his heart surge.
Just when he was sighing with emotion, Guo Xiaobao, Chief of Staff of the Atlantic Fleet, had already walked over with a telegram and said with a smile: "Sir, I just received a telegram from the Wuzhong King. The Atlantic Fleet's advance detachment has all passed through the canal safely. , after entering the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the advance team will be able to complete the tactical deployment within 8 hours at the latest!"
"Very good!" Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Send power to Beijing - I'll come, I'll see, I'll stop it, there will be no more arrogant United States of America!"
(End of chapter)
