Chapter 323 Add some ingredients

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"What? Washington has fallen? Broken by the Southern Army? ”

Grant, who was attacking Bal's Demon, was stunned, and he wanted to step forward and grab the messenger and slap him, and then let him say it again, it was just a joke.

This is not true! This is not true!

"Commander-in-Chief, it was Robert Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army, who captured Washington, and they also brought President Lincoln over, and the Union forces inside and outside the city either surrendered or retreated after being defeated, and did not dare to launch a counterattack on the city, so what should we do, Commander-in-Chief."

What to do? How do I know what to do?

Grant grabbed his hair and sat down in his chair, slamming his right hand into a fist on the table.

He's worried, too!

Now the Secretary of State, various ministers, vice presidents, presidential secretaries, and the entire cabinet have been wiped out, and senators, congressional members, and high-ranking officials in Washington have all been captured by the Confederate army.

What did he do, and he was helpless to fight Robert Lee back?

You can't go to the cabinet to kill it.

"From now on, stop the attack on Baldisama, tell all the troops to stop the attack on the Southern Army, I think we may end the war with defeat."

Stopping the attack on Baltimor, Grant confessed something, and then had to return to Washington, after all, he is now the most powerful person in the Federation, the only person who can influence the situation, and he must go to Washington to receive first-hand information.

The day after the fall of Washington, Grant rushed back, and there was no war here, and no one fired guns inside or outside the city, and it was remarkably quiet.

Finding the Supreme Commander, Grant inquired about the situation, and finally learned that there were only 4,000 Southern troops in the city, but they were all elite and had strong firepower, including Maxim machine guns and Gatling machine guns.

In the battle the day before yesterday, the side had lost more than 1,000 men, three regiments surrendered as prisoners, and the Southern Army firmly controlled the city and batteries to block the Federal Navy.

So a storming is almost unrealistic, unless the city of Washington is destroyed and the president and members of the House of Representatives are killed.

"Commander-in-Chief! The Confederate army in the city demanded that we surrender to the Union and withdraw from the Union lands, or they would kill the Federation Councillors. ”

"Surrender!"

Grant felt a little ashamed when he read it, feeling that this should belong to the South, not the Union, gritted his teeth and said to Ed Wood behind him: "You go into the city and see if Robert Lee is in it, and Mr. President, their safety and what they mean." ”

Of course, Grant will not carry this black cauldron, if the North and South are not only in charge, the cabinet is the most important, and more importantly, the governors of the states, as well as the mayors of major cities, especially New York State, and New York City.

"Edwood, it's a pleasure to meet you, it looks like Grant is just outside the city!" Seeing that the person sent in by the Northern Army was Edwood, a fat man, Robert Lee greeted him very friendly, and the two of them had a good personal relationship, but Ed Wood was a little frustrated and said:

"If I could, I really wouldn't like to see you General Li in this place at this time!"

Robert Lee smiled and said, "Of course, if it weren't for peace, I wouldn't want to be here, it's all because of the war, if there was peace between the north and the south, there wouldn't be these unpleasant things happening, wouldn't it?" What does Grant think? ”

Ed Wood shook his head and said, "I'm sorry General, I can't give you an answer, I want to meet President Lincoln and the cabinet ministers, and finally see if they can be alone for a while." ”

"Please! I've got you taken to President Lincoln. ”

Having Ed Wood led down, Yang Dongfang walked out, and at this time Robert Lee asked, "How much hope do you think you have, envoy!" ”

Yang Dongfang said bluntly: "I think the current situation is still a little difficult, the Federation still has a lot of troops, and the alliance has long been weakened, since the two days of understanding, although most of the number of representatives said that the North and the South can end the war, but they do not want to reach a peace treaty."

So I guess Lincoln and the others will still encourage Grant to continue to increase the offensive against the Confederate army. Of course, they won't move Washington, they'll just make people surround it. ”

Robert Lee nodded, in the past few days of contact, he also understood this, and smiled helplessly: "In the past, we hoped to drag on the war until the Federation could not stand it anymore, and the war would end, and then the North and the South would be peaceful and non-aggression against each other." Unexpectedly, now the Federation is the one who wants to delay the most and make people worse. ”

A few hours later, Edwood came back to him, and Robert Lee asked him what the Federation was going to do, and he said that he would go back to communicate with Grant, and the next day he came again, bringing Grant's reply:

"General! What we mean is that the North and the South can be reconciled, the war can be ended, but the South must give up slavery, emancipate the black slaves, the country must not be divided, the Confederate States of America must be abolished, it is not legal. ”

"Then you want to keep fighting."

Several of the other Confederate generals were angry when they heard this, and Robert Lee stopped the crowd with his hand, and then heard Ed Wood continue: "But we can give the South a certain degree of autonomy. ”

It was a short negotiation, and it broke up unhappily, and Ed Wood would come over every day in the next few days, looking at the situation, it seemed that there was a little relief every day, everything was possible to be discussed, and wanted to release some high-ranking officials and dignitaries first, Robert Lee did not stupidly refuse.

Yang Dongfang came up with a plan, saying that he would kill a member of the House of Representatives every day and exert pressure on Lincoln and others and Grant.

At present, the cabinet, Lincoln and others have intimidated a lot, saying that they can withdraw the army from the territory of the alliance and temporarily truce, which can be regarded as a little benefit.

"General Lee! It seems that Grant has made a big move, this is a ploy to delay the army, it is estimated that they are informing the states of the news, and at the same time it is possible to mobilize more troops and actively deplete our troops in the Federation. ”

Robert Lee, of course, understood that Lincoln and the others had not yet yielded, and that the Northern Army wanted to withdraw from all the southern states, and it would be difficult to say what would happen in these months, and that the South had been largely destroyed by Sherman, and it was difficult to recover the way it had been, and the economy of the Union was still under pressure.

"What is the envoy going to do?"

"Of course, it is to add some material to make the Federation realize that the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it will be to them, and the greater the damage to the Federation, just like the Federation's strategy against the Union, if the economy collapses, it will not be able to continue to fight.

Today I'm going to announce a plan with the Cabinet and the House of Representatives to see who can't afford it first. ”

That night, Yang Dongfang told Lincoln and the others that as long as they did not choose to surrender unconditionally, give up the invasion of the south, and complete the peace negotiations, they would attack New York, attack the eastern and northern states, and burn the real essence of the land one by one until they agreed.

As he said, Yang Dongfang returned to Raleigh City and took 4,000 troops with him, and appeared directly in Borretton, New Jersey, and then crossed the river to capture the state capital Trenton, and took the last major city in the Terra Valley Economic Belt.

Originally, the Northern Army guarding here either went to the East Coast to search for the so-called Southern Army, or it was transferred to Delaware.

Where did you think that the southern army suddenly appeared more than ten kilometers away from Chenggong.

Breaking through here and snatching valuable things, without stopping, the soldiers rushed to Princeton more than ten kilometers away.

After taking Princeton, he sacked Princeton University, and all the books and instruments in it were collected, and the 4,000-strong army marched along the railroad line the next day through Lalitan Bay and headed straight for New York. (To be continued.) )