Zhang Kaishan's command in San Antonio was effective, the defensive line was solidified, and the line of communication was maintained. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Americans did not have the strength to fight back, they were busy with conscription, and the forced conscription caused riots.

This is not the first time, during the Civil War, as the Confederate army approached Washington, Lincoln implemented conscription in 1863, when the government stipulated that if you can afford 300 dollars, you can be exempted from military service, Rockefeller and a number of other wealthy people escaped military service in this way, and some rich people encouraged their children to go to war, such as Vanderbilt, and were killed.

Since the rich could evade military service, only the poor were recruited to the front en masse. For example, black and Irish immigrants, many blacks were substituted for the rich to join the army, and as a result, the white soldiers in the North discriminated against them, they were the least paid and the poorest equipped, and the Southern army captured them and killed them directly, beat or hanged them with sticks, and were "lit with sky lanterns".

A large number of Irish immigrants arrived in New York Harbor, and at the same time as the residence permit was issued, they were forced to sign a "voluntary military service" form, and immediately abandoned their wives and children and were sent to the front.

Dissatisfied with the discontent of the poor, the conscripts began to riot, storming all public institutions, and the streets of New York burst into flames.

This time is no exception, most of the Congress, composed of wealthy congressmen, still adhere to the exemption from military service, but the conditions for exemption from military service have been raised from $300 to $500, the middle class can no longer afford it, but the top rich, including members of Congress, have little pressure, Morgan and Rockefeller's children and grandchildren still do not have to serve in the army, this situation will not change until President Roosevelt during World War II.

After the U.S. government conscripted soldiers, they also encountered a large number of poor people's resistance, especially Irish immigrants, many of whom had only been in the United States for three or five years, and they had no consciousness to contribute their lives to the United States, because they had no money to become soldiers, and they were very resentful, and as a result, many people began to rebel and destroyed the recruiting station.

But this is still a minority, the U.S. government still controls the order, and after suppressing the rebels, it still continues to arm recruits, but training takes a certain amount of time, and the United States will not attack for the time being.

While the Americans were recruiting, Deng Shicai was constantly raising troops for Zhang Kaishan, and domestic recruitment was on the one hand, and on the other hand, Deng Shicai began to dig deep into the potential of Chinese Americans.

He proposed to Li Xiucheng that Li Xiucheng should transfer 100,000 Taiping troops, and Li Xiucheng's Taiping army would defend the Nevada region, but Li Xiucheng still agreed. Alaska's reinforcements also continue to arrive, where there are 300,000 exiled criminals, most of them are young and middle-aged men, with excess energy, otherwise it is impossible to commit the felony of exile in the country, either out of desire to obtain pardon, or simply like to fight, the enthusiasm for joining the army is very high, 100,000 people have signed up, and they are constantly sent to the United States.

Stimulated by the generous salaries of the Ming army, a large number of Hunan people who already had the tradition of serving as soldiers joined the army, and many of them were even soldiers and grassroots officers of the Hunan army in the past. Qingdao and Qinhuangdao in the north also recruited a group of soldiers. It is a pity that the enthusiasm of the common people in the northeast to join the army is not high, and it is obvious that the common people in the Manchu ruled areas joined the army mainly for military salaries, and the root cause is poverty.

However, the enthusiasm of the Chinese in South America and Nanyang to join the army is very gratifying, especially in the Nanyang area, the Chinese here are not poor, and the living conditions are even better than the local aborigines, the average level is second only to the local white people who are mainly commercial and enjoy certain privileges, and their enthusiasm for joining the army is because of their recognition of the government. It greatly stimulated the patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese in Nanyang, and not only ordinary people joined the army, but also a large number of well-educated children of wealthy merchants also signed up to join the army.

According to domestic estimates, about 200,000 soldiers can be recruited in Hunan and other places, 780,000 in Qingdao and Qinhuangdao, and no more than 100,000 in the northeast region. But in the South Seas, where the population is less than 10 million, it is possible to recruit 500,000 troops, and in South America, 100,000 troops.

With the addition of the armies of Alaska and other Ming colonies, Deng Shicai's troops can increase by one million.

These recruits still need to be trained, but Deng Shicai can replace the veterans with new recruits, and he can draw out hundreds of thousands of regular troops in Washington, Oregon, and California to maintain law and order, and at the same time use these recruits to maintain the lines of communication, and he can also draw a number of troops, so that he can use more than 1.5 million troops.

In addition to the army defending the Columbia Valley, Lee Xiucheng can use at least 1.2 million troops to fight in Texas.

This is more than enough for him, even if he is given more troops, the material supply will not be available.

Deng Shicai raised troops in the rear, and Zhang Kaishan began to attack again on the front line.

The army marched along the Rio Grande and San Antonio, both by land and water, all along the Rio Grande to attack the American river port of Laredo, and all the way to the seaport of Corpus by land.

After a bloody battle, Houston's reinforcements could not be sent, and they did not dare to send them, and Lu Yunqi was always staring at Houston in Austin.

In the absence of reinforcements, when the Ming army approached, civilians, wealthy merchants and even officials in American seaports began to flee by boat, and the whole city was already panicked before the war, and the behavior of the common people affected the defenders, they did not make a strong resistance, those who could escape by boat fled, and those who could not get on the boat also tried to flee to the east, either entering other American cities or finding ships in other seaports.

These seaports cannot be surrounded, so that the local military and civilians always have a way out, and those who have a way out will not be desperate and will not fight to the end.

The Ming army easily took the port city of Corpus, and even captured a large number of military supplies, Zhang Kaishan couldn't help but marvel at the wealth of the Americans, the capture of this period was very much, before San Antonio and Austin's American troops finally basically chose to surrender, so they left a large number of weapons and equipment, after equipping these military supplies, the military supply of the Ming army was greatly improved, and it can even be said that to a considerable extent, the mountain supported the operation, otherwise relying on the Ming army's own transportation, Zhang Kaishan felt that he had to wait at least two or three months.

At least without this seizure, he could not have attacked in two ways this time, and after occupying Corpus by land, the army advancing along the river also succeeded in capturing Laredo, and the Mexican descendants in the city had created quite a lot of confusion at the beginning of the war, some of which were premeditated, and some of them were dissatisfied with the discrimination of white Americans against Mexicans, and took the opportunity to vent their grievances.

These circumstances plunged the city into chaos at the beginning, the defenders did not have the courage and morale to hold on to the end, and after only holding on for a day and a half, they retreated southward, leaving an empty city for the Ming army, as for the common people, they fled earlier than the soldiers, and the purpose of the soldiers was to buy time for the evacuation of civilians.

After the capture of Laredo, the Ming army continued to advance along the border river between the United States and Mexico, and had the posture of sweeping the border cities of the United States, which produced a visual effect of the Americans' vulnerability in the eyes of Mexico on the other side of the river, although a large number of Mexican youths were rejected by the Ming army, but the supply of the Ming army was greatly improved, and now it is no longer a merchant who uses smuggling to help the Ming army, and cross-river trade has become the norm.

In Mexico's ports in the Gulf, large numbers of merchant ships began to sail to the seaports newly controlled by the Ming army, carrying large quantities of military supplies such as grain, cloth, and medicine.

Not only food and materials, but the Ming army can even use Mexican merchants to collect materials from California into Mexico through the border railway, and transfer them from Mexico's domestic railways to the Ming army-controlled areas on the US-Mexico border, which is equivalent to giving the Ming army countless more transportation lines, and the Mexican government has turned a blind eye to all this.

Even the Ming army occasionally entered the territory of Mexico, as long as there was no military attempt, the Mexican government and the local garrison did not see it, the United States strongly protested against this, especially during the battle of the Rio Grande, the Americans accused that it was the Ming army lurking in Mexico, and suddenly launched a counteroffensive against the Great Grain City, which cut off the retreat of the American army, and they used this as an excuse to force the Mexican government to close the border for a short time, but with the defeat of the battle of the Rio Grande, the Mexican government no longer attached importance to the attitude of the United States.

At this time, Mexico not only began to ignore the attitude of the United States, but also got closer and closer to joining the war.

Mexico is a country in Latin America with a relatively strong sense of nationality and statehood, but as long as there is a little sense of nationality and statehood, it is impossible not to have a hostile attitude toward the historical crimes committed by the United States against Mexico.

As a result, public opinion has begun to call for the government to enter the war.

But the Mexican government has never taken a stand, but they have decided to send troops.

In July 1893, after more than two years of fighting in the American-American War, the Ming army occupied the ports of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and approached along the Rio Grande, the border between the United States and Mexico, the Mexican army finally crossed the border and occupied two American cities, McCarran and Brownsville, almost simultaneously.

The border between Mexico and the United States is interesting, and in many areas there is an American city on the other side of the river and a Mexican city on the other side of the river. For example, El Paso is across from Mexico's Juarez, across Laredo from Mexico's Nuevo Laredo, across McAllen from Mexico's Reynoldsa, and across from Brownsville from Mexico's Matamoros.

Although Mexico did not declare war, it was relatively mild to send troops to the other side of the river in the name of protecting the diaspora, because the United States has used this excuse many times in history to send troops to Mexico, and they can be regarded as treating others in their own way.

In addition to protesting, the United States did not express too much of its position, or even acquiesce, because instead of letting these cities fall into the hands of the Ming army and let the Mexicans occupy them, it would be easier to take them back in the future, and it can even be said that if it were not for the acquiescence of the US government, it would have taken a lot of effort for the Mexican army to occupy these two cities.

But the Mexican's move was undoubtedly to pull teeth from the mouth of the Ming army, and snatched the fat that the Ming army ate to his mouth into his own bowl, can the Ming Dynasty agree?

In fact, Daming not only approved this practice, but Minister Daming also took the initiative to congratulate the Mexican government on recovering the lost territory, and held a cocktail party to invite Mexican officials to celebrate.

After that, Mexico was officially invited to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty to jointly fight against the United States. But once again, the Mexican government shirked and claimed that the Mexican government's actions were only to protect the expatriates and that it had no intention of going to war with the United States.

At this point, Da Ming was completely disappointed in Mexico, feeling that this was a hopeless country and could not be co-opted.

However, Deng Shicai believed that the Ming Dynasty had captured the American seaports in the Gulf of Mexico, and the need for Mexico was no longer urgent, so he ordered the navy to sail the fleet into the Gulf of Mexico and then launch a military operation on the east coast of the United States.

The Navy believes that the time has passed, the US Navy continues to add warships, has a certain combat power, and the eastern seaports of the United States have strong fortified batteries, and the Navy should do its best to maintain the Pacific shipping lines rather than enter the Gulf of Mexico.

However, Deng Shicai insisted that the navy must transfer the fleet to the Gulf of Mexico, and he believed that the appearance of the Ming warship on the east coast of the United States was a victory, and it could bring a huge psychological blow to the United States without fighting at all.

At Deng Shicai's insistence, the Navy decided to send ten armored cruisers into the Gulf of Mexico, but the new warships, including those that continue to enter the naval formation, are still concentrated in the Pacific region, with Hawaii as the center, and constantly strengthen the Ming Dynasty's control over the eastern Pacific region.

Contrary to the negative attitude of the navy, some people had a positive attitude towards the war, and the 100,000 Taiping army led by Li Xiucheng attacked from El Paso, went north along the Rio Grande, occupied Albuquerque, an important city in the upper reaches of the Rio Grande, and completely blocked any possibility for the US troops in Denver to move south. It also strengthened the Ming army's control over the southwestern region of the United States, south of the Grand Canyon.

The new generation of generals who commanded operations in the Columbia River valley asked to take the initiative to attack, believing that holding the US troops here for two years had already made the US troops overwhelmed, and he planned to use 200,000 troops to launch a counteroffensive against the 500,000 US troops on the opposite side.

Liu Wei, who had just arrived in Austin with the Alaska Army, and Lu Yunqi, who had always wanted to attack Houston, hit it off and applied to use the limited number of troops to create a big problem for the Americans.

They decided to emancipate the black slaves for the second time!