Li Xiucheng counted the number of people, and found that more than 300 of his own people died, 800 Americans died, and more than 200 Indians died. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The U.S. troops all surrendered, and instead of killing them, Li Xiucheng released them after being taught their weapons and equipment.

What he wants to do is not to kill people, but to occupy strategic places as soon as possible.

There were many railway bridges and tunnels in the Sierra Nevada, but he did not have the troops to do it for the time being, so he led people to consult with the Indian chief, and asked the Indians to follow the railroad all the way east, know the last tunnel mouth, and then block the tunnel with stones.

Li Xiucheng personally went west along the railway, and he had to go to the aid of the Chinese in the delta, where the Chinese also revolted.

The Americans also carried out repression in the delta, but the American troops were not regular troops in the forts near the Indian reservations, but some police and militia, so those honest peasants could not defeat them.

Li Xiucheng brought a lot more people with him in this sortie, and he did not lack manpower, even if many of them were already old, it was not a problem to form a 350,000 capable fighter, the problem was mainly a problem of weapons and equipment.

After collecting the weapons and equipment of several thousand American troops, he immediately pulled up a force of 10,000 troops, and there were 3,000 cavalry, and immediately sent cavalry to rush to the delta as soon as possible.

Li Xiucheng led the troops and horses of his headquarters, dragging the cannons and then arrived.

By the time Li Xiucheng arrived in the delta area, the danger of the Chinese had already been contacted, and his 3,000 cavalry had taken advantage of the situation to capture the second port (the Chinese called Sacramento the second port and San Francisco the big port).

The city was in chaos, and there were two American gunboats in the harbor, but they didn't know whether to open artillery bombardment or not, and they didn't choose to retreat until they themselves were next to Li Xiucheng's cannons.

After the capture of the second port, Li Xiucheng's equipment and supplies were replenished, and the Chinese here stockpiled more munitions.

After joining up with the local Chinese armed forces organized by labor companies, Li Xiucheng had 20,000 troops and 30,000 rifles at his disposal, as they looted police stations and militia arsenals.

Li Xiucheng did not dare to stay, he had to seize the fort in San Francisco Bay as soon as possible.

When they had just arrived in the bay area, they heard the sound of artillery, and it turned out that the southbound fleet of the Ming army had already exchanged fire with the American fortress battery.

This time the immortal is not good, Li Xiucheng paid the price of more than 500 people, only to capture the San Francisco fortress that was bombarded with the Ming army from the rear, and captured more than 300 American troops here.

Ten Ming warships sailed into San Francisco Bay, engaged three cruisers of the American fleet parked in the bay, sank three American ships in only half an hour, and then completely controlled the sea control of San Francisco Bay, and the sea route from Daming to the United States was unimpeded.

They also sent Li Xiucheng a large amount of munitions and materials, enough weapons and equipment to arm 50,000 people, as well as more than a dozen army heavy artillery pieces and more than 300 artillery pieces of various types.

Li Xiucheng is not polite, he needs these arms now, because the war in California is far from extinguished, the American militia is coming from all over the country, they do not have the strength to control all parts of California, the South Pacific Railroad, from Los Angeles to Houston and New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, the US military will send reinforcements at any time.

Li Xiucheng didn't want to wait for the US troops to come from Los Angeles, he planned to fight over first, cut off the American railroads first, and he needed more troops and more weapons.

Now that he has weapons, he has never lacked people, and his plan will definitely come true.

When Zhu Jinglun heard about the military situation in California in Guangzhou, it was already 10 days after the declaration of war.

Lee so-sung successfully captured Los Angeles, and even advanced along the railroad to the Colorado River, captured the railroad bridge, and the striker even entered the Grand Canyon at one point.

Zhu Jinglun is not surprised by this result at all, with millions of Chinese as the foundation, 300,000 veterans of the Taiping Army who have gone through many years of war as the backbone, and the spiritual power brought by the resurrection of the god stick Hong Xiuquan, under the leadership of a famous general like Li Xiucheng, if he could not defeat a state in the western United States with no regular army and a small population, then Zhu Jinglun would not have to fight this battle.

But the situation in California is far from calm, the Americans are not so easy to succumb, fighting with the Indians for so many years, developing the American cowboy spirit, these Americans who came to the west to pioneer happen to be the most aggressive group of people, whether it is a gold panning drunkard, or a cowboy on horseback, it is not easy to deal with.

California was in the air, and the Americans had lost their organization, but the resistance they launched on their own was also fierce.

Li Xiucheng did not have the troops to suppress every resistance, and these could not be solved until the arrival of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

"Where are our troops?"

After the declaration of war, Zhu Jinglun formed a wartime cabinet in accordance with the way last time.

In the war room, he asked Chief of the General Staff Xie Qidao.

"The Army left on the first day of the campaign, and it was about a week before we arrived in California."

"A week!"

Zhu Jinglun nodded.

"Do you say that Li Xiucheng can stay for seven days?"

"There should be no problem, Li Xiucheng is a veteran of the battlefield, plus he is well prepared, I think it will not be a problem for him to stay for a month. In the worst-case scenario, as long as he blows up those railway bridges, the Americans will not be able to mobilize enough troops to enter California in half a year. ”

Xie Qi said.

Zhu Jinglun nodded, the longitudinal mountains in the north and south of the western United States are the best positions, unless the US military wants to reach California by sea, it can only pass through those mountain passes and railways, and most of the passes are actually the necessary places for the railway.

Unless: "What if the Americans borrowed from Mexico?" Or take the Isthmus of Panama for a transit? ”

Xie Qi said: "It will take at least half a month to transfer from the Isthmus of Panama, and our navy currently occupies the right to control the sea, even if they cross the isthmus, it is not so easy to land, and it is lucky not to be sent into the sea." As for Mexico, they had previously promised neutrality. ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "I'm worried that Mexico can't withstand the pressure of the United States, the United States has too many advantages in the Americas, and it really can't find a neighbor who dares to resist them." ”

Before the war, Daming also did diplomatic work in Mexico, who knew that Mexico had such a big hatred with the United States, and did not dare to join Daming to go to war against the United States, and said that he would be neutral, not that the weak country was spineless, but that the weak country had no strength.

"Hurd, how has the reaction of countries changed?"

Zhu Jinglun asked Hurd, who was reading the information on the side.

Hurd looked up: "There is nothing changing at the moment, France and Russia are still neutral. However, in the capacity of observers, various countries have decided to send warships to the west coast of the United States. ”

"Send warships? How many were sent? ”

Zhu Jinglun frowned.

Hurd said: "Britain sent two cruisers, and other countries such as France, Russia, Germany and Austria each sent one. ”

The Ming Dynasty made concessions to France and Russia, France bought Madagascar back for 10 million francs, and Russia got the opportunity to build a port on Huludao.

Especially in France, the American minister actively lobbied France to form an alliance with the United States, but France never agreed, firstly, it was to get the benefits of the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, Clemenceau, who came to power after the Ming-French War, was a fierce revenge faction, and his biggest goal was to take revenge on Germany.

"It looks like they really intended to observe."

Zhu Jinglun nodded.

Hurd added: "Your Majesty, Western governments have not changed their attitudes, but Western public opinion is very unfavorable to our country. I'm afraid that even if we win this war, we may lose even more. ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "What do you lose? ”

Hurd sighed: "National credit! ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "If you don't fight, you will be ridiculed, and it is better to be suspected than to be ridiculed." When others laugh at you, they no longer see you as an equal, and they suspect you, which means that they value you. While there may be fear in this attention, it's also much better than being looked down upon. ”

What Zhu Jinglun wants to say is that he actually doesn't care much about the criteria used by the West to judge other countries, because once you care too much about the views of Westerners, you will fall into a paradox, no matter what you do, the other party thinks you are wrong, and the other party can always find fault with you and teach you a lesson as a teacher.

When you don't want to trade, they say you're restricting freedom of trade, when you start trading, they say you're not doing free trade, and when you start free trade, they say you're dumping, and they want to sanction you. In fact, there is no fixed pattern of behavior in the West at all, there is only one core, and that is their interests.

Once you start to fall into the behavior evaluation system under the Western discourse, you actually start to give up your own interests and protect the interests of Westerners.

A week later, the three armies of the Ming Army arrived in San Francisco, with a total of 60,000 people, and after landing, Lu Yunqi, the commander of the First Army and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, immediately met with Li Xiucheng, and he maintained enough respect for this veteran of the battlefield, and after learning about the battle situation in detail, he felt that he had nothing to do for the time being, because the American army had not even organized an effective counterattack force until now.

The news that the Ministry of War got from other places just kept repeating the news that the United States was recruiting soldiers, which made Lu Yunqi can't help but think of the American Civil War that he had studied, and the Northern Union Army was also caught off guard by the surprise attack of the Southern Army, and it was panicked, and the inefficiency of the civilian government was outrageous.

According to the mobilization efficiency during the American Civil War, Lu Yunqi judged that he might not be able to engage the US army for several months, and he believed that in this case, he should not stick to the old rules and wait for the other side to fight, but should take the initiative to attack, cross the Sierra Nevada, and go to the Great Plains to meet the US army.

Three days after landing in California, Lu Yunqi sent his request back to China.