Dominate the Country

1812 is a day worth writing about in Western history.

This year, Napoleon assembled an army of 600,000 to march to Russia, but in the end, his imperial ambitions were in vain. Napoleon, who returned in defeat, had lost the foundation of his magnificent empire. The entire empire fell apart because of his defeat, and the newly established European order soon underwent a fundamental reversal and suffered a devastating blow.

When the time comes, the heaven and the earth will work together, and when the luck is gone, the hero will not be free.

At the same time, in North America, far away from Europe, the Lighthouse Country also launched a foreign war for the first time 30 years after its establishment.

Yes, in the second American War of Independence in 1812, they first attacked Canada. Although the Lighthouse Country eventually "won" the war, it paid a heavy price. The capital Washington fell, and the presidential palace was burned by the British and had to be covered with a layer of white ash, which had to become the "White House". It can be said that they are typical of "not being able to eat mutton but getting into trouble".

But the newly born America also used this war to tell the British that they were also capable of being a demon. Although they could not compare with the British Empire, they were an absolute tiger sitting on the ground in this small piece of land in North America. America had established a firm foothold.

Chen Ming turned his memory - in fact, many of these were extended from the secret reports sent back by the European Office. After the end of the American War of Independence, there was no real peace between Britain and the United States, and the sovereignty dispute between the two sides never stopped. Especially Canada, which was a step away from the United States. As a British colony, Canada had a sparse population and lax defense, tempting the old Americans to salivate. In this time and space, because of the existence of China, the United States wanted to expand northward. This desire was many times stronger than in the original time and space, because a powerful and unshakable neighbor appeared in their west. Americans were eager to expand their power and safeguard their own interests. It's just that the old Americans' brains were also filled with water. They hoped to annex Canada while expecting Canadians to regard the US military as liberators. This was a joke.

Chen Ming had forgotten how the old Americans praised and criticized Britain in history. He only remembered that the British captured a lot of American ships. But in fact, it was the Americans' interest that was at work. They wanted to take advantage of the British's distraction and snatch food from the tiger's mouth. Perhaps the United States at that time already had a strong sense of self-confidence, and the "Manifest Destiny" of the Americans in later generations was just an expanded version of this self-confidence and the embodiment of this interest.

But now the Americans' protest against Chen Han has something different from what Chen Ming remembered, such as the Lighthouse Country claiming that Chen Han violated its rights and sovereignty: the control line between China and the United States should be withdrawn to the west for a distance, and several fortresses in that area belong to the United States. At that time, the British did not abide by the treaty reached by both parties in Paris after the American War of Independence, refused to transfer the military fortresses in the western region to the Lighthouse Country, and armed the local Indians, threatening the western border of the United States. But after Napoleon sold the vast Louisiana to China, when the advance troops of the Chinese garrison appeared in the western United States, the British suddenly gave up those fortresses and regions.

No matter what the British intentions were, the garrison had no reason not to take the benefits that were obtained for free. Chen Han's American garrison entered those fortresses without hesitation. The United States seemed to have forgotten the Paris Peace Treaty before and had never raised any objections to Chen Han. Now it openly raised objections and brazenly asked Chen Han for more. This is completely bullshit!

How could Chen Ming spit out the meat that he had eaten?

It's just that the Lighthouse Country did this with evil intentions.

They also used the excuse that China's trade embargo policy hindered their normal commercial trade, and more than a dozen American merchant ships were seized by Chen Han's American fleet, and the neutral status of the United States was not respected.

Chen Ming sneered at these.

"Your Majesty, the Americans want to get involved." Pang Zhenkun stroked his beard. His term of office will end next year. Fortunately, when his term of office ended, Chen Han entered South America. It can be said that the day of the closure of South America in the future is not far away.

If Pang Zhenkun wants, he may be able to sit on the throne and be the only one who can rule in the near future.

"The Spaniards are obviously not our opponents. Our continuous expansion in America seems to have touched the nerves of the Lighthouse Country."

"Tell the Military Intelligence Bureau to quickly find out the military situation inside the Lighthouse Country. If they have expanded their army, then America is our second enemy."

Chen Han was wary of the Lighthouse Country, whose population size and strength continued to expand, and the Lighthouse Country was even more terrified by Chen Han's continuous expansion of power in the Americas. As mentioned above, the Portuguese in Brazil have joined forces with Spain, so what's so strange about the United States hooking up with the Spanish?

Maybe there are British hands and feet here.

As for the British giving up the fortress first and then acting as a bridge between the Lighthouse Country and the Spaniards, there is nothing strange about it. The British, for their own interests, certainly don't want to see the vast Americas become the territory of the Chinese. First, let there be a direct conflict of interest between China and the United States, and then act as a bridge between the Lighthouse Country and the Big Duck, and integrate all forces hostile to China. In order to make things difficult for China, it would be best if China could be stopped. The British would definitely like to see this.

Chen Ming turned his head and looked at the map of America hanging on the side. It is not difficult for six million people in the Lighthouse Country to gather an army of 200,000. But if the 200,000 troops attack the Florida Peninsula to the south, that place has been given to Chen Zheng, the son of Shi Fei, and they cannot stop 200,000 people by their own strength. Even if the combat effectiveness of the old Americans is rubbish!

Since the British have been matchmaking for the Lighthouse Country and the big duck, they will definitely not watch the Lighthouse Country's messy officer system squander the precious human resources of the West on the American continent. Given the current situation of the British, is it difficult to support a few hundred experienced army officers? And Jean Victor Moreau of France is also in the United States now.

This person's combat capability is definitely the first-class level in Europe. In the Second Anti-French Alliance War, the French Rhine Army led by him defeated the Danube Army of Austria, laying the foundation for crushing the Second Anti-French Alliance in one fell swoop.

But later, because Moreau supported the republic and opposed Napoleon's poisonous rule, he was imprisoned in Spain and later forced to go into exile in the Lighthouse Country.

Moreau has a good reputation throughout Europe. If he is invited back by the Americans, he can really cause Chen Han a lot of trouble.

Two hundred thousand Americans are enough to pose a major threat to the Florida Peninsula, the Gulf of Mexico, that is, Runzhou [Houston] and Xintai [New Orleans]. And the American navy can also cause Chen Han a lot of trouble.

Chen Ming will definitely not compromise or give in to the Lighthouse Country. Now that the Lighthouse Country has protested and has been "analyzed" to have the possibility of intervening, Chen Ming has sentenced the Lighthouse Country to death in his heart.

However, no matter how much we despise the enemy strategically, we must also pay attention to the enemy tactically.

And this analysis must be sent to America as soon as possible, "Tell Siam and Edo to prepare the second batch of troops as soon as possible." The first batch of expeditionary forces of these two countries have landed in Tokyo, and now it is time for them to prepare the second batch.

In fact, Chen Han's situation in America is very good now.

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Let's go back to the night when the submarine showed its power.

The moon hung high in the night sky, embedded in the dark sky, like a flawless jade, or a white pearl.

The light clouds covered the entire sky with a veil, showing a hazy beauty, against the bright moonlight, and a few stars - looking up at the boundless night sky from the vast sea, this is a kind of beauty that cannot be expressed in words, beautiful enough to make people intoxicated. And when people are still immersed in this beauty, the moonlight fades, and the moon quietly hides in the clouds. The moonlight becomes fainter and fainter as the moon disappears, until it is pitch black.

"What is that?"

"God! It's a rocket, it's a rocket-"

A lookout on the Sahagun shouted in extreme panic. The alarm bell rang, and the lookout desperately sounded the alarm bell. The sailors on duty at night reflexively looked around, and then someone found the two rockets flying in the dark.

"Oh my God, where did the rockets come from?" The captain on duty only had time to groan, and two rockets had already hit the side of the Sahagun.

This level 4 sailing warship could not escape. It had not even raised its anchor, so it was a dead target.

The sudden explosion illuminated the entire Key West Harbor. If someone looked carefully at the sea surface of the harbor at this time, they would find that there were suddenly many more thin tubes floating in the sea in the harbor.

If they had perspective eyes, they could see through these thin tubes that there was a big wooden barrel under them, and a piece of pig iron was hung under the wooden barrel.

This was Chen Han's floating mine. It was improved based on the underwater dragon king cannon and other mines recorded in Chinese history.

The wooden barrel was used as a carrier, and a thin bamboo tube was connected to it to provide air to the wooden barrel. Inside the barrel, there is a gunpowder bag wrapped in silk, which is timed by burning incense coils. There is a counterweight hanging under the barrel, which can make the barrel sink one foot below the water surface.

Then, at the port, release barrels one by one along the water flow, and these things can easily sneak into the port. As long as the barrels or the bamboo poles on top are blocked by obstacles, the floating mines can be "fixed".

When the incense burns to the end, the floating mines explode from one foot below the seabed, which can cause serious damage to the warships.

Of course, this kind of floating mine has the limitations of the times. If you want to kill the enemy better, you need to cooperate with frogmen with extraordinary water skills.

The rockets of the submarine itself are a sudden attack when the time is about to expire. If you want to inflict the greatest damage to the Spaniards in the port, you have to do it in two ways.

The lookouts and sailors watched two rockets with tail flames hit the side of the Sahagun battleship fiercely, hitting the part not high above the waterline.

"Boom boom boom..."

Continuous roars, flames and wood chips bursting in all directions. The Sahagún warship was like it had exploded, and there was a violent vibration all over its body.

The explosion of the two rockets caused two huge gaps in the side of the Sahagún, and the entire warship immediately suffered a huge blow. I don't know how much seawater poured into it through the cracks below the gaps. The Sahagún has now become a dead fish, and it dares not even fight back and fire! Otherwise, the hull will vibrate, and the cracks under the side of the ship will become larger and larger. If the gaps are not filled, the Sahagún will be finished.

And on this night, the disaster that the Spaniards will suffer has just begun.