At the White House, Grant and a group of aides met to discuss the new demands made by the Forbidden City.

"Maintaining the relationship between the White House and the Forbidden City is good for the great cause of American reunification, and if the relationship breaks down, it will not do us any good." Foreign Minister Fein was the first to approve.

"By transferring the Chinese Shence Army from the 38th Parallel, we can free ourselves to fight against the Southern Army." An Army representative also expressed his support.

"Then you can't lease Rhodes Island and its surrounding islands to China?" Representatives of the Navy immediately objected, since Rhodes Island is one of the US naval bases and one of the most developed areas of the shipbuilding industry in the north.

Grant also chimed in: "Yes, Rhode Island is strategically located, there are excellent ports, and it is our naval base and an important shipbuilding base. Wouldn't the lease to China for 99 years be the same as the British occupation of Hong Kong Island 30 years ago? ”

Foreign Minister Fein explained: "There is a big difference between Hong Kong Island, which was forcibly occupied by Britain through war, and Rhode Island, which was leased to China and returned to us after 99 years. ”

"Whatever the purpose of the Forbidden City, we cannot refuse it now. We have already offended China by cooperating with Britain on the issue of war against South America, and if China is forced to the side of South America, will you have the confidence to win the war? Don't you know the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Shence Army! ”

This reminded everyone that they did not seem to have much choice, and since the Forbidden City had stated that it would not interfere with the reunification of the United States, that would be the best outcome.

Of course, it hurts a little to lease Rhode Island and its surrounding islands to China for 99 years, but it is not unbearable.

As a result, the Grant administration chose to back down and agreed to lease Rhode Island and its surrounding islands to China for 99 years, allowing China to carry out military and economic construction on it. U.S. residents of Rhode Island should make a choice within one year, and remaining on the island will be subject to Chinese law, and after three years, they will automatically become Chinese citizens.

Some Americans chose to leave their homeland, but most chose to stay, reluctant to return home and work, and more looking forward to becoming Chinese citizens. Because the medical and educational treatment of Chinese citizens is currently the highest in the world, and the wages are also high, in the past decade, there has been a boom in China all over the world, rushing to work and study in China.

On May 31, 3974, China and the United States signed the Lend-Lease Treaty of Rhode Island and its Surrounding Islands in Washington, D.C. The main content is to lease Rhodes Island and its surrounding islands for 99 years, allow Chinese laws to be implemented in the concession area, and allow the Chinese military to build military facilities in the leased area.

This is a treaty that has lost its territory and sovereignty, and it has been criticized by US public opinion. The Grant administration argued that it was only relocating the Chinese Shence Army stationed in the United States, because the Chinese Shence Army had been protecting American nationals from the invasion of the Yugoslav Army at the 38th parallel. He also claimed that China's Shence Army moved to Rhode Island only to make it easier to protect the American people in the future.

The turmoil lasted only a few days, and was soon blocked by the Grant government, and the Americans quickly shifted their attention to the vicinity of the 38th parallel, because the North and South American troops were massively massed near the 38th parallel, and war was imminent.

At the same time, in the American South. The Lincoln administration also gritted its teeth and signed a transfer agreement with the Chinese envoy for the Sugarlof Islands in Florida.

Transfer and lease have different meanings. The lease is to be returned in the future. The transfer is a permanent purchase.

Originally, the Chinese envoy planned to lease the Sugarlov Islands for 99 years, but in the actual negotiations, he was ready to raise his demands first, and then slowly wait for Lincoln to bargain with him, so he proposed to transfer the Sugarlov Islands.

As a result, the Lincoln administration did not bargain, but directly put forward the terms of the transfer. Sold the Sugarlov Islands to China for 1.5 million yuan.

It turned out that the Lincoln administration controlled the southern part of the United States, which was a plantation economy with limited revenues and large sums of money needed to purchase modern weapons. Lincoln was short of money, so he had to sell land for money to buy weapons and equipment.

Obviously, the advanced Chinese weapons and equipment made the Lincoln government army red-eyed, and when they learned that China was interested in buying Sugarloaf Island, the Lincoln government immediately agreed, but on the contrary, the Chinese envoy felt that he was at a loss, and he should just open his mouth again.

However, the task of the Chinese envoy is to get Sugarlof Island at any cost, and now he has successfully obtained it for only 1.5 million yuan, which is more cost-effective than leasing Rhodes Island for 99 years, which is the same as buying Alaska, and Sugarlov Island will become China's overseas territory, and the two cannot be compared.

The Lincoln administration used 1.5 million yuan to directly purchase various advanced weapons and equipment from China, including Gatling machine guns, infantry guns, ground radium, water radium, hand grenades and other weapons and ammunition.

In response to the Lincoln administration's request, Li Weiguo ordered the military department to do its best to help.

According to Li Weiguo's consistent strategy, even if he does not directly send troops to prevent the reunification of the United States, he will let the North and South American armies fight to the death and consume the United States' population, resources, and national strength, so he will spare no effort to support the Lincoln administration.

Even Li Weiguo's decision to let the military export the bloody heavy machine gun to the Lincoln government army can not only allow the bloody heavy machine gun to be tested on the battlefield, but also quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the southern government army in the United States in a short period of time to resist the offensive of the northern government army of the United States.

The Lincoln administration sold Sugarloaf Island for money to buy Chinese weapons and equipment, and this matter naturally could not be hidden for long, and soon the whole world knew about it.

World public opinion is in an uproar, accusing Britain and China of being shameless and once again dragging the United States into the abyss of war for the sake of their own interests, and harming the American people.

This is because, more than a decade ago, China and Britain joined forces to provoke the American Civil War, when China and Britain together supported Grant's American Southern Army to defeat Lincoln's Northern Army. Then China and Britain broke out the Third Yapian War, Britain turned to support the defeated Lincoln's Northern Army, after a 25,000-mile long march to capture the southern United States, and the Chinese-backed Grant Southern Army confronted near the 38th parallel, with the end of the Third Yapian War between China and Britain, the two countries once again cooperated to split the United States into North and South America.

However, after the Fourth Sino-British War, Britain was unwilling to lose and was ready to re-establish the United States to unite against China, so Britain abandoned Lincoln and turned to dig into the wall from China and cooperate with the Grant government. Subsequently, China was no longer able to control the Grant government. I had to turn to help the Lincoln administration.

The frequent exchange of proxies between China and Britain without discipline will eventually set off the American Civil War, and the hearts of people all over the world will suddenly be cool.

When Grant learned the news, he was so angry that he scolded his mother, and he really wanted to turn his face with China immediately, but he forgot that it was he who first abandoned China and threw himself into the arms of Britain that caused this situation.

Ultimately. Grant still held back, he knew that if he completely tore his face with China, then China could directly enter the war, which would be a huge threat to his unification with the United States, so as long as China did not participate in the war, then it would be tacitly acquiesced to selling some arms to the southern government.

In the face of accusations from international public opinion, the British government directly denied it, while the Chinese government claimed that the lease of Rhodes Island and the purchase of Sugarlof Island respectively were preparations for the establishment of a refugee area, because Britain shamelessly helped the Grant government to provoke a civil war. Eventually, there will be a large number of refugees from both the north and the south of the United States, and China is only doing this out of humanitarian relief, preparing to use Rhode Island and Sugarlof Island as a military buffer zone to absorb refugees. As for the arms and equipment sold to the Lincoln government, the Chinese side is only fulfilling the terms of the purchase contract, and in principle, the Chinese side is only promoting the peace process between the governments of the United States and the North and the South in order to achieve a military rebalance between the North and the South and prevent the outbreak of conflict between the two sides. Entrapment of American nationals. Therefore, China's starting point is to think about the American people. It cannot be compared with Britain deliberately provoking the American Civil War, and China has always been kind.

When China explained it this way, the world's public opinion against China immediately died down, because what people said was very reasonable, and it was impossible to find fault with it. The American people, in particular, think of China building up military buffer zones and refugee camps. It's helping the American people, and the American people are suddenly grateful.

As a result, the British government lay down its guns and became the focus of accusations and scolding from public opinion around the world and the American people.

After reading the newspaper the next day, British Prime Minister Benjamin was so angry that he vomited blood, and this Nima was too shameless.

But. Benjamin couldn't sit still at the thought of China getting two strategically important islands, Rhode Island and Sugarlof Island, one of which was close to Canada and the other to the British territory of the Bahamas in the Caribbean.

This is a prominent manifestation of China's military strategy, with the two bases in the north and south being able to contain the United States, Canada to the north, and British territories in the Caribbean to the south, and in the future, the Chinese Navy will be able to enter the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea in a grand manner, and this poses a substantial challenge and threat to the traditional hegemony of the British Navy in these sea areas.

However, Benjamin had no choice, he could not convince Grant and Lincoln, and could not prevent them from selling Rhode Island and Shuglov Island to China, so he had to find another way.

However, before Benjamin could come up with a strategy to deal with it, the American Civil War broke out again, which immediately attracted the attention of the world.

For more than 10 years, the U.S. Northern Army has been trained by China's Shence Army and is completely Chinese-style weaponry, and it can be said that it is powerful and well-equipped, and the U.S. Southern Army is not an opponent at all.

Three days before the start of the war, Lincoln's Southern Army was defeated on all fronts, losing tens of thousands of troops, and losing Kentucky and Virginia successively.

The Northern Army marched all the way, the Southern Army retreated all the way, and over the course of the next month, the Southern Army suffered four more defeats, losing North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.

The Northern Army has achieved brilliant fodder, and Grant has even proudly declared that he will destroy the United States of America in three months and unify the whole of the United States.

However, the arrogant army will be defeated, and this truth is enduring for a long time.

The defeat of the southern army all the way has made the northern army arrogant, and they advance rapidly, often ignoring the problem of logistics and supply, and the battle line is too long.

Finally, in Atlanta, Georgia, the Northern Army suffered its first defeat since its launch, and it was a crushing defeat.

Lincoln personally sat in Atlanta, mobilized 200,000 American troops, and has been waiting for work, digging trenches everywhere and building pillboxes, while advanced weapons and equipment from China have been shipped to quickly equip the US troops, and some officers of the Chinese Shence Army have joined the US military in their private names as military advisers.

The trenches were covered with radium, and the bunkers were filled with bloody heavy machine guns.

When Grant commanded 150,000 American troops from the north to launch an onslaught on Atlanta, the infantry was subjected to a bloody massacre of radium formations and bloody heavy machine guns, losing more than 10,000 men on the first day.

But Grant didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, he thought that this was just the last resistance of the Confederate army, and as long as Atlanta was captured and Lincoln was captured alive, then the war would be over.

So Grant continued to organize a large army to attack, and in the following week, the Northern Union Army threw seven corps into the battle, but all of them were repulsed, leaving more than 30,000 corpses on the battlefield and rivers of blood.

The Northern Alliance Army was armed with Chinese-made Gatling machine guns, but when confronting the Southern United Army, they suddenly found that the other side was using a new type of heavy machine gun that they had never seen before, and the rate of fire and range far exceeded that of the Gatling machine gun.

This is the power of the Bloody Heavy Machine Gun, with a rate of fire of up to 600 rounds per minute, but the use of a new 12.7mm BMG heavy machine gun cartridge with an effective range of up to 1,500 meters, while the previous Gatling Machine Gun had a maximum rate of fire of only 200 rounds per minute, and it also depends on the constant shaking of the soldiers, the rate of fire is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and the effective range is only 1000 meters, and it is still clicking, completely inferior to the Bloody Heavy Machine Gun.

It was the terrifying lethality of the bloody heavy machine guns that inflicted heavy casualties on the attacking Northern Alliance Army, and every time it was a mountain of corpses and rivers of blood.

The meat grinder, which originally belonged to the Gatling era, has now become a meat grinder in the Bloody era.

Because the front was stretched too long, the supplies could not keep up for a while, resulting in a shortage of ammunition for the Northern Alliance Army, and Grant was forced to suspend the attack and wait for the ammunition to be replenished.

Lincoln accurately seized this fighter plane, quickly mobilized a large army and suddenly launched a counterattack, which caught Grant by surprise.

Blood flowed under the city of Atlanta, Grant's army of 150,000 was crushed, Grant himself fled back to Charlotte, and Lincoln won a great victory at the Battle of Atlanta.

However, the gap between the economic strength and military strength of the North and the South was too great, and although Grant lost a battle, his overall strength was far superior to that of the Southern United Army.

Lincoln knew this well, so he took the advice of the Chinese military advisers and withdrew the main force out of Atlanta, retreated into the mountains of the south, and arranged radium all over the mountains to block the passage of the northern army to the south.

This move had a huge strategic and tactical effect, as Grant remobilized his army to the south, encountering the endless radium area, the northern army marched only a few kilometers a day, and was constantly harassed by the southern army, and suffered heavy losses. At the same time, the Southern Army did not take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Northern Army, but detoured to the rear of the Northern Army and attacked the supply line of the Northern Army, which hit the Northern Army and captured a large number of Chinese-style weapons and equipment.

For a time, although the Northern Army gained the initiative on the battlefield, it could not destroy the Southern Army.

This is another war with no end in sight, and the timetable for the reunification of the North and the South in the United States has been forced to be postponed.

At the same time, China exported arms to both the North and the South of the United States, and the main thing that was given to the Northern Army was ammunition and a small number of weapon parts, because the Northern Army had long been equipped with a large number of Chinese-style weapons, and the ammunition consumption during the war was huge, but the secret bloody heavy machine guns were not given to the Northern Army. The Yugoslav army was mainly given defensive weapons such as bloody heavy machine guns, ground radiums, and grenades, because Li Weiguo was not optimistic about the Yugoslav army's hope of victory, because after all, the industrial capacity was too weak, and it was just delaying the final reunification of the United States, pitting the Americans a lot, and selling more arms to make money. (To be continued.) )