Chapter 402: Naval Expedition
The Americans, seeing a classic slaughter battle, corpses, wounded, and broken bodies everywhere, made all the American ** teams participating in the war understand what is called Huaxia Tian**,
The shocking smoke of gunpowder made every reinforcement of the Southern Army admire it to the ground, and every northern officer and soldier was so frightened that they peed their pants, even the citizens in the city who were about to despair also shouted miserably, they thought that it was the bombardment of the Northern Army,
Dai Beibei is not a good stubble, after the victory, he immediately ordered the artillery to advance, rolled the flying thunder cannon forward, and quickly approached the northern army, the northern army has been shocked and dizzy, the Huaxia army attacked, the 4,000 troops with less than 4,000 people, plus the 2,000 southern army, attacked, 20,000 northern army positions, and the frequent firing of explosives destroyed the will of the northern American army in a few minutes,
The artillery fire of the Northern Army, mainly aimed at the city, even turned around, and did not expect the enemy to be so vicious,
In the end, General Grant reluctantly led the troops and carried out two counterattacks, but unfortunately, both ended in heavy casualties, and in the end, he led the troops and fled in embarrassment.
In the Battle of Atlanta, the reinforcements of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, in an hour-long battle, inflicted heavy losses on the American troops, the overwhelming shells, the powerful explosive power, so that the Northern Army suffered more than 23,000 casualties, the position was completely broken through, and they had to admit defeat.
More than 4,000 dazed Northern troops were captured,
The losses of the Huaxia army were only fourteen people,
Atlanta's victory quickly caused an uproar in the United States, and it also made a plenipotentiary like McTone look at the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom with admiration, so knowing that the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom simply tore its face with the American Federation and declared war on each other, he was so happy that his big eyes became little bees.
The victory of the Huaxia Army is inevitable, but Dai Beibei's long face still makes Luo Yang elated.
Since war has been declared, what are the concerns, the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom once again announced that it would abolish all unequal treaties signed between the former Qing government and the United States, and in the future, more just and equal treaties would only be signed with the representatives of the south.
Led by Luo Yang and on the other side, McTone made a written and legal confirmation of the alliance between the two countries, and on the issue of the new treaty, because the southern government is a plantation economy and has little conflict of interest with China, he readily agreed, and did not make any demands for the time being.
The United States, the capital, Washington, the presidential palace, the anxious President Lynkeng fidgeted, looking at the military newspaper, he was incredulous: "No, the enemy reinforced Ataranta and our army was forced to retreat without partisan resistance, shame, shame." ”
The entire north, after getting the news, was in a panic, and the annihilation of nearly 30,000 troops greatly damaged the vitality of the north, especially the Grant Legion, which was the main force of the federal army.
The Lincoln administration was waiting for news, and a few days later, General Grant, who had withdrawn from the front, returned to Washington, and when many generals verified the myth of this fiasco with their own experiences, the federal government officials of the United States, the president, the vice president, the chief of staff of the military establishment, etc., understood the reason,
Not only that, but in the newspapers in the south, there was also a public hype about the great power of the Chinese reinforcements, although there were not many newspapers in the south, but without exception the victory of the Chinese reinforcement corps as the front page headline of the report, through obvious channels, Washington understood what was going on,
"Damn, it turned out to be a volunteer legion reinforced by the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom." President Lincoln was almost angry, and the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom has recently gone berserk, aiming at the United States, repeatedly provoking, not only stalking diplomatically, but also really sending troops.
"But, Your Excellency the President, they are volunteers, not strictly speaking, an act of the government." The Chief of Staff expressed difficulty,
"Volunteer Corps, deceitful nonsense." President Lincoln roared angrily, throwing all his demeanor, temperament and other beautiful personal image and morality to the country of Java,
Because of the crushing defeat in Atlanta, General Sherman's troops had to stop the offensive and were called back to discuss strategic issues.
In the president's office, several of the most powerful generals seriously inquired about General Grant's combat experience, and almost unanimously agreed that the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom had terrifying army equipment, that kind of short-range artillery, and the power was amazing, so the army could hardly confront the Huaxia army.
General Grant reflected most thoroughly and meticulously, and described the power of the strange cannon with such precision that President Lincoln turned pale with astonishment,
"What kind of weapon is that?"
"I don't know, it's a cannon, it's a super heavy artillery, and there are a lot of them." Grant said,
This general who is fond of wine definitely doesn't like to talk about wine, so he has won everyone's understanding.
"I think we should think differently." Although Vice President Johnson is a southerner, he is a staunch federalist, he is shrewd and capable, and thoughtful: "It is not difficult to fight against the Huaxia army, don't they have the advantage of artillery firepower, we will temporarily stop the offensive and immediately cast a new and more powerful artillery, although the Huaxia army is powerful, the number is not large, and after a long time, it will naturally be consumed." ”
Everyone accepted his advice, not because of how new and peculiar his suggestion was, but because it was conventional, logical,
Encouraged, the vice president added: "Perhaps, on the army side, we are really no match for the enemy for the time being." ”
Everyone has an understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, and they are more worried that there will be a steady stream of reinforcements from the Chinese army to the Americas to participate in the battle against the federal army.
"What if the enemy comes 300,000." President Lincoln told everyone that the overpopulation was staggeringly large.
Everyone is stupid and doesn't know how to be good,
After a long time, General Sherman had an idea: "Otherwise, we will attack the enemy's reinforcement path." ”
This method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle was immediately favored by everyone, because this is almost the only way to do it.
"The enemy's power is very great, but the vast Pacific Ocean is separated from the middle, if you want to prevent the enemy from further reinforcements, the only way is to use our great naval force to form several fleets to intercept the enemy, the navy of the Huaxia Army is said to only have small wooden boats, they can come to the New World, mainly because of the southern fleet, however, their navy is very weak, as long as our warships go out, we will definitely be able to cut off their follow-up reinforcements, in this way, their troops to the New World, but a few thousand people, once killed in battle, consumed, there is no threat. ”
President Lincoln went on to say on this basis: "No, that is not enough, we should attack the enemy's homeland, because they 'don't have a navy, so the long coastline is a soft belly, and our fleet is on a rampage, disrupting it everywhere, so that they have to defend and have no energy to attack us." ”
Immediately after the meeting, the US Navy returned from the vicinity of the port cities blockaded in the south and rushed to the north, where rest, concentration, training,
Soon, the United States officially declared war on the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, precisely because of the strategic superiority of the navy.