Chapter 609: The Arrival of the Ironclad Age (2)

It was not long before the fleet of the United States of America left the East Coast for the hidden pawns and hidden informants of the Chinese Empire to receive information, which the Spaniards were happy to pass on to the Chinese Empire. 【Reading.com】

In the end, it was confirmed that the United States of America sent a powerful expeditionary fleet, the number of warships reached more than one-third of the entire United States of America navy, and all of them were large warships capable of going to sea, well, nonsense, sailing from the east coast of the New World to the west coast, this distance, the unpredictable wind and waves and weather on the way, is not something that small ships and small ships can withstand.

It can be said that this fleet concentrates the elite of the American Navy, through those intelligence stations on the east coast, and the help of those Spaniards, so they know the whereabouts of this United States fleet very well.

And now, the fleet had bypassed Cape Horn and was heading for the west coast. What these poor creatures didn't expect was that there was a huge fleet that was ready for them to consciously step into a long-designed trap.

What the United States of America fleet did not expect was that not long after their compatriots, the land expeditionary force, had left the territory of the United States of America and marched westward, they began to be attacked by the Indians, and when they had advanced with great difficulty to the lower reaches of the Missouri River in the central lowlands, an army of servants composed of Japanese people from the command of the Chinese Empire began to launch a powerful attack on them, which caused the expeditionary force to suffer a considerable setback.

The expeditionary force had already lost more than a thousand elite soldiers of the United States of America before it had even touched the edge of the West Coast. While the expeditionary fleet was passing through the Bay of St. Matthias in the Southern New World, members of Congress of the United States of America had received a letter for help from the commander of the expeditionary force, Major General Morgan.

In his letter, Major General Morgan described the Oriental armies that were at war with them as an army of terrible and ignorant demons, with strange haircuts on their heads, scimitars in their hands, strange armor made of bamboo and leather, and hideous masks and helmets.

Moreover, they also possessed a certain number of firearms, although their firearms were very old, and some of them were completely abandoned by the middle of the century.

These Orientals were not as reckless as the Indians, they were more insidious and vicious, and they were at least several times as numerous as the expeditionary forces. This made Major General Morgan, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, who had been full of confidence, finally put away his contemptuous attitude and observed his opponent with a cautious and serious attitude.

After several terrible ambushes, realizing that if this continued, the expeditionary force would likely be dragged down by his eastern rivals with the advantage of the sea of men, Major General Morgan finally made the decision to ask Congress for help.

His military report and letters for help were soon placed on the desks of the senators, and the proud members of the United States of America were convinced that their enemy was not a barbarian with a broadsword or a spear, but a large Eastern army with some firearms. It was at this time that the President of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., sent Chief Justice John as Special Envoy to Congress. Jay's delegation from the United States of America returned to Philadelphia with a special envoy from London, England.

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You must know that after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, although Britain recognized the reading power of the United States, the two sides did not achieve real peace, and the British presence in the United States, the privateering of Britain by the United States with the support of France, and the plundering of American ships by Britain to suppress the French Revolution brought the United States and Britain to the brink of war.

The President of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., sent a special envoy John to this end. Jay went to Britain to negotiate in the hope that the two countries would abandon such hostilities, but now, on behalf of King George III of the United Kingdom and British Prime Minister William Jr. William, the emissary of Pitt's will and a member of the House of Commons of the British Parliament. Wilberforce came to Philadelphia, where he brought with him the English expression of their willingness to ease relations between the United States and Britain and to resolve their dispute peacefully.

And when they heard the envoy's intentions, they quickly understood why the British had made such a decision.

Because the British had relied on their powerful colonial fleet and army in the Eastern colonies before, they had adopted strong and brutal measures against other European colonial countries to plunder the rights and interests of those Western colonial countries, which aroused strong dissatisfaction and indignation among those colonial countries.

After that, the powerful Oriental pirate secretly connected and instigated many European colonists to unite against British power in the East, and finally, British interests in the East were almost lost, and the huge and rich Indian Peninsula became the spoils of those Western colonists.

The British were furious, yes, both the King of England and the Prime Minister William the Younger, and in order to redeem the British colonial navy and army officers who had been captured by the damned Oriental pirates, they had to sign the Treaty of London with the pirate's envoy in humiliation.

Signing this agreement will certainly allow the British to redeem their soldiers, but how can the British, who have never suffered such a defeat, be willing to accept such an outcome?

So, shortly after the treaty was signed, the young British Prime Minister William Jr. Pitt persuaded Parliament and King George III to send a number of envoys to the East, naturally hoping to regain British interests in the East through various shady means.

And, after learning that the Oriental pirate who had disgraced the British Empire had bought a large colony of the New World from Spain, William Jr. Petit communicated with the Congressional Congress again, and after difficult debate and persuasion, the Congressional Congress finally gave up its partisan prejudices and temporarily made peace with the United States of America, a hostile country in England, with the purpose of self-evident...... England hoped that the two sides would renounce hostilities, and that Britain would withdraw its troops from the Northwest Territories of the United States by June 1, 1796, and that Britain would compensate for the losses of American ships that had been plundered by it, and that the Mississippi River would be open to Britain and the United States, and that the United States would prohibit the use of privateers against Britain in American ports, and that the United States would only be allowed to trade with the West Indies with ships of less than 70 tons, and that it would not trade in cotton, cocoa, sugar, and other commodities; The two sides agreed to establish a joint commission to determine the border between the United States and British Canada...... --------------------

The treaty provoked resentment and widespread debate among members of the American Congress, as its provisions affirmed Britain's freedom of inland navigation on the North American continent and its predominance in trade with the West Indies, depriving the United States of some of its territorial sovereignty and trade interests.

However, it has to be admitted that the treaty enabled the United States and Britain to avoid the danger of another war breaking out in a short period of time after the end of the Reading War, allowing the United States to temporarily stay out of the European war caused by the French Revolution, and winning a relatively peaceful international environment for the United States at the beginning of the Reading Force.

More importantly, it enabled the United States of America to devote more attention to the West Coast and devote more troops and energy to dealing with the greedy and murderous colonizers of the East. And this happens to be the outcome that the UK most wants to see.

In that wise British Prime Minister William Jr. In Pitt's view, the United States must work for its own survival, and the move of the Orientals to unite with the Indians against Europe has touched the sensitive and fragile nerves of the United States of America, a newly established emerging country.

After intense and intense debate, the Congress of the United States of America agreed to most of these conditions, but called for the repeal of the terms of trade in the West Indies, which was eventually ratified by the United States Senate.

Although the congressmen of the United States of America knew very well that the British did not have any good intentions, and the reason why they took the initiative to show goodwill was not to hope that the United States of America would be able to fight the Eastern colonists in the New World, but knowing that the British were planning to do so, the United States had to follow the British way of thinking, because they were not Britain, this was their motherland, and they had no way to retreat from this land.

On the third day after the signing of the treaty, the United States of America urgently dispatched a reinforcement of 12,000 men to the expeditionary force trapped in the lower reaches of the Missouri River in the central lowlands. As a result, the number of this expeditionary force far exceeded expectations.

However, what the Yankees did not expect was that although the treaty temporarily provided the United States with a relatively peaceful environment that could be used to deal with the eastern colonists, the signing of this treaty angered France, which had an alliance with the United States of America, and the relationship between the two countries began to deteriorate sharply.

However, the congressmen of the United States of America, who had been drawn to the interests of the colonizers of the East and the West Coast, were not so concerned for the time being.

Zhang Xingba, the former commander of the South World Fleet, later became the first governor of the New World because Liang Wengeng, the former commander of the New World Fleet, took over as the commander of the New World Fleet, and his post of commander of the South Ocean Fleet was handed over to Mo Guanfu, the former commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the South China Fleet.

Zhang Xingba had been in the New World for more than a year, and when he received Liang Pengfei's letter of appointment, Liang Pengfei told his subordinate that the New World Fleet would sooner or later have a war with the fleet of the United States of America.

And now, the trumpet of war has sounded, and the mighty New World fleet has been gathered here to deal with the American invaders who dare to set their eyes and eyes on the territory of the Chinese Empire.

"Do you smoke?" Entering the office, Zhang Xingba picked up a cigar box from the desk, took out a cigar the thickness of a carrot and made a gesture at Zhang Baozai, seeing that the young man rolled his eyes and shook his head again and again: "I'm not an adult, I can't smoke." ”

"Well, yes, you shouldn't smoke this thing at such a young age." Zhang Xingba smiled, lit one to himself, and smashed it beautifully, and the attendant next to him had already brought tea and pastries.

Zhang Baozai, who had just gotten off the boat, couldn't take care of Zhang Xingba, and gobbled it up by himself, Zhang Xingba sat down in front of Zhang Baozai with a cigar with a smile. "By the way, your godfather sent a letter, saying that I should not care about your identity and treat you as an ordinary captain, but if your kid is missing a piece of oilskin, he doesn't care when the lady cleans me up."

(To be continued)