Before being encircled, the US troops in the northern encirclement were retreating in a big way, resulting in a very different number of troops in the two encirclements, with only more than 500,000 troops in the north and more than one million in the south. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The difference is that in the process of retreating, or even spontaneously, the US army abandoned most of the wounded and sick, which led to more than 200,000 wounded and sick among the more than 500,000 people in the north, and it can be said that the northern half was even abandoned by the US army itself.

At the same time, during the retreat, a large number of American troops were killed in battle, the establishment was disrupted, and many became prisoners.

After finding out this situation, Deng Shicai and Zhang Kaishan believed that the US troops in the northern defense circle were already outcasts, and it would not be difficult to annihilate them or force them to surrender, so they decided to shift the focus of the attack to the north, and to defend and continue the siege of the US troops in the south.

The U.S. military also did not want to see themselves divided, but their will to fight gradually collapsed, and when they summoned the greatest courage to break through and failed, they had no will to fight at all. But surrender is never an option, first, they still have sufficient supplies, not to run out of ammunition and food, and second, the mass surrender of millions of people, which has no precedent in human history, which gives strong pressure on officers, no one wants to be the first person, no one wants to accept this shame, in the face of such a degree of humiliation, they would rather die in battle.

When they found that it was a foregone conclusion that they would be divided into two sections, they organized a large-scale transfer to the south, because most of the materials were stored in the port area in the south, where there were huge logistics warehouses, some were commercial warehouses before the war, and some were military warehouses built during the war, and the material reserves there were enough for them to last for a year.

However, with the abandonment of the north, the American troops who moved to the south panicked, and the formation of a large number of troops was disrupted, and it was difficult to restore combat effectiveness in the short term.

In three days, the battle was over, under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Ming army, there was no need for the death squad to risk the death charge, reducing most of the troops, but the defensive range of the American army has been greatly increased has been completely unable to fully defend, multi-point positions were blasted by the Ming army, when the Ming army broke through, the American army in the northern encirclement chose to surrender.

At this time, the Ming army discovered that the US troops who stayed here had more than 100,000 black troops, more than 100,000 Hispanic troops, and some troops composed of new immigrants such as Italy and Greece.

The capture of half a million miscellaneous and sick wounded was not a glorious victory, but it was worth hype. In fact, after they cut off the US military, intensive propaganda was set off in the country, and the people who had been suffering in the war for three years needed victory too much to tell them the reason for holding on, and they had to know that their persistence was rewarded.

At the same time, the Americans once again issued a request for peace talks, and after conveying it through the British, the Ming officially replied that the Ming Dynasty refused to accept the negotiations unless it was based on the restoration of the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese.

Diplomatic interaction takes time, but the Ming military campaign continues.

After the annihilation of the US forces in the north, the weakening of the US military strength is not large, and it can even be said that because they abandoned the wounded, sick and miscellaneous troops, their will to fight is relatively rising, and after shrinking the encirclement, their defensive density has also greatly increased, and more troops are available on each kilometer of front.

But this is not the case for the Ming Dynasty, after narrowing the encirclement, the attack density of the Ming Dynasty has also increased greatly, and the most important point is that in the narrow port area, most of the range is within the coverage of the Ming artillery, and the Ming artillery can be extended to the US military position.

A large amount of artillery fire poured money on the US army, and the reason why it did not want money was because a lot of it was captured US military equipment, and it was good to destroy it at the opportunity, as for the Ming army's own shells, although it was sufficient, but after all, the cost was high, and if you can save some use, you can save some use.

At the same time of the shelling, they did not forget to send leaflets, the US army has been surrounded for a year, their contact with the outside world has been cut off, they cannot receive external orders, there is no external news, which allows the Ming army to make a big fuss, such as telling them that the southern states of the United States have fallen, the main force of the Ming army has gone north, and is fighting a decisive battle with the US army in Washington, and they have been abandoned by the US government, asking them to surrender as soon as possible and save their lives.

And the prisoners were mobilized to write letters, telling their comrades in the encirclement that they were well cared for in the prisoner of war camps, that they had eaten hot dishes and meals, and that the wounded had been treated.

The lethality of these letters is huge, because they are bombarded by artillery on the American positions, the officers cannot control the soldiers to read these letters, and many people suddenly see that it is really a letter written by a comrade-in-arms in the past, and can review some of their previous combat experiences, there are familiar people who have been taken prisoner, and surrender is no longer a terrible thing in the hearts of many soldiers.

In the night, American soldiers began to secretly climb over the trenches and walk towards the Ming positions with their hands raised, and the Ming army in the propaganda letter prescribed the way for them to surrender, leaving several roads for surrender, and in these passages, there were no mines. But the density of the defense here is very large, and the defense is used by the US military as a breakthrough.

The Ming army obviously overestimated the determination of the US army to break through the encirclement, and the US troops guarding the port area at this time had no fighting spirit to speak of. I went back to the time when I was fighting the rebellion, but because it was purely defensive and I was trapped to death, there was no large-scale rebellion, but the shooting of one or two officers who had abused me still happened all day long.

In short, this is an army on the verge of collapse, but if there is time, it will definitely be wiped out, but the problem is that there is a lack of time now. No matter how Deng Shicai asked for instructions, Zhu Jinglun could not agree, and insisted that as soon as the time came, he would accept the US Government's request for negotiations.

But he revealed to Deng Shicai that even during the negotiations, the battle could not end. In other words, this unit has completely become a bag, and Deng Shicai is relieved. They were no longer even in a hurry to organize an offensive, but they were rewarded with great fanfare in the army, awarding all kinds of honors, medals and the like to those soldiers who had previously signed up for the national army, of course, there would be no less real benefits, the promised subsidies were given in public, and they were given a month's vacation, let them go to the rear for leisure, allow them to go to Mexico for vacation, and so on.

At this time, Deng Shicai is in a good mood, people's situation is often like this, just when you feel the most difficult, at this time take a sharp breath and rush over, you will find that suddenly the sea and the sky are wide, because when you feel difficult, your enemy is also difficult.

Deng Shicai organized 300,000 death squads, and after penetrating the US military position, he suddenly discovered that the Americans had become the fruit in his hands and could be picked at any time. But before, he did feel that he had reached the limit, in fact, it was mainly his own mentality, now that he thinks about it, even if he can't take down the U.S. army at that time and continue to blockade and encircle, he may not be able to annihilate this enemy army during the negotiations, but the situation at that time made him completely unconfident, and he didn't think about that kind of problem at all, and felt that starting Tampa was like a military failure.

Now he suddenly let go, and suddenly realized that he was worried in vain.

Deng Shicai's mentality was liberalized, but the mentality of the US military was suppressed to the extreme, and whoever was cowering in the damp and gloomy trenches with artillery bombardment on his head every day, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, the officers could not see hope, and the senior generals had to guard against the surrender of the officers and soldiers, and they had to worry about the humiliation after the defeat, and every day the officers and men were sick, injured, and committed suicide, who would be relieved.

The surrender has begun to be openly discussed among the troops, and many US officers and soldiers who have surrendered to the Ming army have turned their heads and quietly run back to tell everyone the news, hoping that everyone will surrender together. Because in the minds of senior officers, I am afraid that they have already regarded surrender as an inevitable thing. In that case, why bother killing those soldiers who are not determined to be strong-minded?

Once military discipline is abolished to such a point, it will not be far from surrender, but the large-scale surrender of millions of people is not a simple matter in itself, and even if the decision to surrender is made, how to surrender peacefully is a problem.

Zhu Jinglun's mentality is different from Deng Shicai's, and if he can start negotiations with the US government with the posture of completely annihilating the main force of the US military in Houston, first of all, the tone of the negotiations will be different.

At this time, the Americans were in a hurry to negotiate, it was out of this consideration that they did not want to start negotiations with the Ming Dynasty when their main force was annihilated, which was destined to be very passive from the beginning.

But Zhu Jinglun was very contradictory, and with the victory of the Ming army on the battlefield, it became more and more politically unfavorable.

There is a lot of political pressure in the country, the government has launched a large-scale relief work, and as the front line has been able to become self-sufficient in the food problem, a large amount of money has been freed up to help the unemployed workers, and the traditional rural society has absorbed a large number of unemployed workers, which has also greatly buffered the social pressure.

The government's economic and diplomatic efforts have also been rewarded, with the Vietnamese government supporting a large amount of government grain stockpiles, and the Siamese government also giving 3 million quintals of grain support, all of which were distributed to the cities as relief food. In the era when there was no organized workers' movement, a large number of contradictions were effectively resolved, and the news of victory was itself a panacea for resolving contradictions. With the news of the victory, the merchants began to calm down, and the lower-class laborers organized by gangs were also relieved, and it can be said that the domestic contradictions have been greatly released, but the international pressure has begun to increase.

The British remained neutral and still hoped to negotiate an end to the battle. For Britain, the war, which at the same time weakened two powerful challengers on both sides of the Pacific, was very beneficial to Britain in maintaining its dominant position in the Pacific, and it was also a great benefit to Britain's commercial interests, and unlike the pre-war fears, both sides increased their trade with Britain during the war, rather than shrinking.

Despite the large-scale decline in trade in textiles and other trade, the import of steel products and weapons and equipment has increased greatly, especially in the United States, their military industry has not yet been organized, although it has improved greatly, but the consumption in the war is much greater than that of the Ming army, so it is still unable to be self-sufficient, and most of the orders have fallen on the British military industrial enterprises, so that Britain has made a lot of war money.

However, as the situation in the United States became more and more unfavorable, the attitude of other European countries began to change, I don't know for what purpose, the Germans became more and more supportive of the United States, according to reliable information, Germany has reached an agreement with the Russian and French governments, absolutely not allowing the Ming to completely defeat the United States, not allowing the Ming to cede the territory of the United States, they decided to take a resolute attitude to intervene if necessary.

Zhu Jinglun knew very well that before the war, it was determined that it was impossible for European countries to allow the Ming Dynasty to occupy the territory of the United States, but he did not expect that the fiercest thing to call Germany would be, and he thought that Britain would oppose it most fiercely, after all, once the Ming Dynasty divided the territory of the United States, it would be the greatest threat to Canada, and at the same time, it would also establish the hegemony of the Ming Dynasty on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, which was the last thing Britain wanted to see.

I didn't expect the Germans to be so active, which was unexpected.

Another major international change was that Japan still launched the First Sino-Japanese War against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in March, the Japanese fleet still attacked the troop carrier of the Beiyang Naval Division at Dadonggou, sank the British merchant ship Goldman Sachs chartered by Li Hongzhang, and more than 1,000 Huai soldiers were buried at the bottom of the sea, and the two countries later declared war on each other.

Zhu Jinglun had already secretly made up his mind that through the First Sino-Japanese War, he would use the tremendous international diplomatic pressure to force the Manchu government to give up power and peacefully unify China, so the importance of the war in the United States would be relatively reduced, and it would be necessary to withdraw from the United States as soon as possible and withdraw its strength to the country.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to wait for Deng Shicai to decide whether to negotiate or not after Deng Shicai has decided where to win, and if he can capture this place during the negotiations, he can also create pressure on the United States to force them to make concessions.

At the end of June, just when there were three days left in the agreed time, Deng Shicai sent back the good news that the US army had surrendered!

Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but be overjoyed, the negotiation foundation built on victory was different from the starting point of the negotiation in Jiaozuo.

He learned about the battle situation in detail, but he couldn't help but feel lucky.

Although the U.S. military is already rotten meat in the pot and will have to eat it sooner or later, there are still some coincidences that the U.S. military surrendered so quickly, because the U.S. commander died of an unexpected illness, and he gave the order to surrender before he died.

The army, which was already on the verge of collapse, was even more difficult to control after the commander-in-chief fell ill and died, and under such circumstances, Pershing and other young staff officers, who had already taken over the command power, decided to ask the Ming army for negotiations after deliberation, and while retaining a certain respect, they laid down their arms.

The news of the surrender of more than a million American troops caused a huge sensation in the world, because everyone found that this was almost the largest surrender in history, and there was no case in the history of Western warfare in which millions of people surrendered, even in the Franco-Prussian War, when Napoleon III surrendered, it was only 90,000 soldiers who fought with him, and the American army expanded this scale tenfold.

After such a huge and heavy burden in the north, it is obvious that there is not much room for maneuver in the negotiations between the US government and the Ming government.