Beiyinzhou, Buffalo.
A river ferry from Daming docked at Buffalo's river port.
Napoleon himself took his own Praetorian Guards to escort Adams and a group of other special people aboard the ship.
Queen Charlotte I of the Kingdom of America.
Twelve-year-old Charlotte is also the only daughter of the Prince of Wales, the British Crown Regent.
I am also second in line to the British throne.
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of America, James Monroe.
Speaker of the Kingdom of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.
Frederick, the second son of the British King, is third in line to the British throne.
The youngest daughter of the King of England, Amelia.
This group of hostages remained in the hands of Napoleon and Adams for three years.
Now let Adams take it and hand it over to Ming Dynasty.
Napoleon once announced that he would marry Queen Charlotte, which was actually just a propaganda against the United States.
There was no way he could marry Charlotte, who was only ten years old at the time.
Napoleon and Adams knew from the beginning that they would eventually negotiate an end to the war with Britain.
Therefore, sufficient respect is given to the three members of the British royal family.
Except that they cannot leave freely, they always enjoy the treatment of royal members in their lives.
However, the lack of freedom itself already makes them uncomfortable.
Especially Charlotte, although she is the Queen of the United States, she is actually just a little girl in her early ten years.
Three years of house arrest made her yearn for freedom.
In the cold wind at the pier, Charlotte was covered in thick fur, with only half of her face exposed.
When being sent to the boat by the guards and maids, Charlotte turned to ask Amelia beside her:
"Aunt, where are we going next? When will we return to London..."
Amelia didn't know either, so she looked at her brother Frederick not far away.
Frederick was equally confused, but the American Prime Minister Monroe already knew the cause and effect.
As a courtier, Monroe explained to his little queen:
“Your Majesty, we will first go to the New Tianfu City in Nanyinzhou of the Ming Dynasty.
“Britain, France, the United States, and Canada will hold peace talks under the auspices of Prince Dashi of the Ming Dynasty.
"After signing the peace agreement, we can return to the United States or go to London."
Charlotte immediately beamed with joy:
"Going to Ming Dynasty's royal estate? Can we finally escape from Napoleon's clutches?"
Monroe nodded slightly with a complicated expression:
"Yes, we will be free soon."
Three members of the British royal family and two American ministers took the Ming Dynasty's ferry to the other side.
After landing, we changed to a passenger car and drove west along the road on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Charlotte asked with some confusion:
"To go to Daming, shouldn't we take the waterway to the east and then go to the sea? Why are we going ashore now and still going west?"
This time not only Amelia didn’t understand, but Monroe also didn’t know what was going on.
Daming's arrangement was not directly told to Monroe.
But this car belongs to Ming Dynasty, and the driver and guard also belong to Ming Dynasty.
So Munro went and asked in Ming Yayan:
"Mr. Driver, where do we want to go now?"
The driver was also a soldier and replied very casually:
"Go to the airport and take you on a plane..."
Monroe suddenly understood.
Charlotte could also understand Daming Yayan, and immediately became interested when she heard the answer:
"I can take Ming Dynasty's plane!"
Monroe said with some worry:
"The plane... is fast, but is it safe? There is the Queen of the United States and three members of the British royal family here..."
The driver said very confidently:
"Safe, of course safe, our domestic flight in Ming Dynasty has been running for more than two years without any incidents.
"This is Ming Dynasty's plane, a plane specially designed to transport people and goods. It is not your Taixi plane, so don't worry.
"Even if the plane does break down, don't you still have a parachute? Don't worry."
Monroe was still worried because he had never seen Ming Dynasty's mature large aircraft.
He had only seen crude airplanes built by Napoleon's men, and the most rudimentary airplanes imported from Ming Dynasty.
It's just two wings plus an iron frame, and at most it's wrapped with a few layers of canvas.
Monroe really couldn't imagine that in this kind of winter, Charlotte would be allowed to fly in the sky on that kind of plane...
The convoy drove nearly thirty kilometers west to the canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Behind the town where the river and lake docks are located, there is a large area of flat land that is enclosed.
Dozens of small planes and a dozen large planes are parked in this venue.
As the motorcade drove into the airport and approached the planes, Monroe's worry turned to shock.
A monoplane equipped with four engines, a large aircraft completely enclosed in metal.
The size is "huge", larger than a river ship of more than 100 tons.
The structure looked much stronger than the car, which looked like a toy in front of them.
The three royal family members headed by Charlotte were also shocked.
They have also seen airplanes, but never such a big one with this appearance.
After being shocked, the little child Charlotte clapped her hands excitedly and jumped up:
"I want to take a big plane!"
Charlotte soon got her wish.
The planes here were well prepared, and a group of people were sent to the planes separately, the four largest planes.
But it was not a dedicated passenger plane, but four four-engine large bombers.
Aircraft transferred from Boliva City's strategic bombing test project.
The interior space of the bomber is large, with two seats in the cockpit and two seats in the navigation cabin.
In the inner cabin behind the cockpit, there are also positions for the communications officer and weapons operator.
There are also two to four passenger seats designed to temporarily carry people.
The self-defense weapons compartment on the waist has more space, so it is no problem to fit four or five people in it.
The main reason is that the density of bombs is too high to fill the space of the aircraft body.
Moreover, the mechanical facilities of early aircraft were relatively simple, leaving a lot of space after the outer skin was wrapped.
Charlotte and her maid, Amelia and her maid.
Frederick and Monroe, Adams and Jefferson, each boarded a plane.
These people can fit into an airplane.
But out of caution and insurance, and to give them basic decency, they were asked to sit as far apart as possible.
After the four aircraft were inspected and prepared, they took off from the airport's runway one after another and then flew directly to the south.
All the passengers, including the queen, prince, and prime minister, looked around curiously.
I couldn't help but lie down on the window and look at the scene outside, the scene in the sky, the feeling of looking down at the earth, and the feeling of flying.
Munro soon became confused:
"This direction isn't quite right. If you want to go to New York, the plane should fly east..."
Monroe tentatively asked the radio operator.
The correspondent was a Ming Dynasty officer in his thirties. After hearing this question, he asked in surprise:
"When did you get the illusion that we were going to New York?"
Munro was even more surprised:
"Shouldn't we go to New York, or rather to Lin County in the Dongyi Kingdom, and change to a sea ship there to go to Xintianfu?
"The closest Ming Dynasty navy here that is not frozen is Lin County, New York."
The correspondent smiled and said:
"It's good that we are going to change ships, but we are not going to New York to change ships, but to the island of Cuba."
Monroe has a big mouth:
"Oh my god! Fly directly to Cuba! That's more than two thousand kilometers!"
Prince Frederick also widened his eyes:
"This plane can fly so far!"
The correspondent looked at the surprised expressions of the two people and felt that these two Xiyi were really ignorant:
"Actually, it can fly farther, just to be on the safe side and not to run out of fuel on the plane. Cuba also happens to have a naval base, so we landed in Cuba."
Monroe was stunned for a long time, and then couldn't help but ask a somewhat sensitive question:
"This plane can fly so far and how many bombs can it carry? If it's inconvenient, forget it..."
The correspondent recalled the relevant management regulations and found that this kind of information could not be disclosed originally.
But my mission this time is special, which is to give these senior Western Yi officials a little deterrence at the right time.
So the correspondent gave very general data:
"This plane of ours can carry almost four tons of bombs.
"The purpose of our coming to Yinzhou was to bomb Boliwa who was hiding in the ravine.
“We have more than three hundred planes ready to burn their cities to the ground.
"As a result, the mission was only carried out once, and Boliva surrendered directly."
The bomb load of a bomber is not fixed, but is directly related to the combat distance and affected by the type of ammunition and target.
Monroe could also imagine this, but he did not continue to ask. He knew that it would be impossible to tell those data.
This kind of crude data is enough to shock Munro and make him fearful:
"If dozens of aircraft move together to attack a city or military camp, the effect will be devastating.
"This reconnaissance aircraft used by Napoleon and the British and French armies is not the same type at all!
"If it was the Ming Dynasty that destroyed Napoleon, Napoleon would have surrendered in less than a year!"
As for Prince Frederick, he was also stunned by the news revealed by the correspondent:
"Four tons of bombs... almost 9,000 pounds, a voyage of more than 2,000 kilometers, my God, this is simply a punishment from heaven..."
Similar conversations took place on the other three planes, and the passengers were also completely shocked.
Until the evening of that day, when the four planes safely arrived at Havana Military Port Airport in Cuba, these passengers still felt that it was a bit unreal.
But the tropical sea breeze blew over, forcing them to take off their winter clothes, leaving only shirts and singlets.
This forced them to believe that it really took them less than a day to reach Cuba from central Beiyinzhou.
After changing their clothes, a group of people reunited and boarded the passenger ship bound for Xintianfu.
(End of chapter)
