readx;?“ Telegram from His Majesty, Duke Juárez, by Thomas. Admiral Jackson agreed to surrender! ”

Huarez's persuasion to surrender was much smoother than expected, and when the second round of gas attacks by the Chinese army ended, the siege of Kansas City, which lasted nearly a year, ended with the disarming and surrender of 500,000 American troops (later counted, more than 464,000). The U.S. forces under Admiral Jackson's command will surrender artillery and machine guns for the time being, but rifles and pistols will be retained, and the units will remain in shape for future use in the resumption of war in the United States of America. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn addition, surrendered U.S. troops can remain in Kansas City for a period of time, guarded by about 250,000 Chinese troops.

And when the news reached Jujuan and Mathilde, the mother and son were on the 2,200-ton cruiser Canal, which had just arrived at the Memphis front in Tennessee.

The cruiser reached the vicinity of Memphis through a wide channel lower on the Mississippi River. The largest river in North America has become a busy water road by this time, and all kinds of light warships, river gunboats, tugboat barges have lined up on the river. On both sides of the Mississippi River, brigades of troops were rolling forward, and there was the sound of people shouting and neighing. Farther on the railway, columns full of troops and baggage also rumbled forward. On the vast plains on the east bank of the Mississippi River, there are as many as 700,000 East (one) (book) [read] the novel ybdu. The Sino-Roman alliance was converging its baggage and was desperately advancing northward.

In order to help his son establish the hegemony of North America, Mathilde really let it go, ignoring the orders of Augustus Napoleon IV. Using her Caesar's power and the authority formed by the twenty years of ruling the Mexican Empire. Ten legions drove her to cooperate with Juan's two armies. From Mississippi in New France, they marched north to Memphis, the key town of Tennessee.

According to reliable information, an infantry corps of the British-American Empire, numbering no more than 30,000, was stationed there, but it had a strong city defense, and a river fort was built on the banks of the Mississippi River, which was the first nail in the road of the Sino-Roman alliance on the way north. Just pull out the nail, or even just open the Mississippi River channel. Further 280 kilometers north is the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Russian Impeachment River, and half of the supplies consumed by the more than a million American troops heading for Kansas City are transported from the eastern United States through the Russian Impeachment River waterway. As soon as this confluence of rivers is captured by the combined forces of Donghua-Rome, the American forces that have already attacked the outskirts of Kansas City will lose half of their logistics!

If you go more than 200 kilometers north, you will find St. Louis at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Just take St. Louis and more than a million U.S. troops will be in your pocket! As for the U.S. troops around Des Moines who are entangled with more than a million troops under the command of Han Si, in the face of this situation of collapse on all fronts, it is impossible to retreat in their entirety!

Now that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in Kansas City have surrendered, Armageddon in North America is truly in sight.

At this moment, the rumbling sound of cannon came from not far away. This is the new Shallow Gunboat France and the Shoal Gunboat Port Mathilde shelling the American fort of Memphis - the two shallow gunboats of the same type, both of which were produced by the shipyards of the Kingdom of Mexico. The displacement reached 4200 tons. Equipped with a twin 343mm guns, six 155mm rapid-fire guns, and six 37mm guns, it was originally intended to defend the Tepetvank Canal. After the establishment of the Kingdom of New France, it was deployed to the Mississippi River.

Those two 343mm guns were of little value in naval battles. But the American forts now used to bombard Memphis are very effective. Because the U.S. fort in Memphis was built by the Confederate government before the war, no one could have imagined that there would be large shallow-water heavy gunboats coming from the lower Mississippi River, and the anti-artillery fortifications were designed and built to withstand the bombardment of up to 210mm howitzers. Now it was bombarded by a huge cannon of 343mm caliber, and in less than half an hour it was dumbed down, and the entire battery was shrouded in a huge cloud of smoke.

At the same time, about two regiments of white officers and men of the Donghua Army who had arrived by land, supported by field artillery and mortars, launched an assault on the fortress. Although he didn't know when he would actually capture the Memphis Fort, seeing the sparse counterattack firepower of the American army, Jujuan knew that the channel of the Mississippi River was basically opened. As long as the Roman naval minesweepers brought by Mathilde cleared the river of mines, the army could march northward.

"Finally win!"

Jujuan sighed and looked back at his mother, "Now we are less than 500 kilometers from St. Louis, and the Mississippi River is passable. Castis. Lee's main force retreated 400 kilometers east of the Mississippi River...... However, Yang Xien and Bai Qili will not let them get away so easily. ”

Mathilde smiled lightly and said softly: "Winning on the battlefield is only half the battle, and the other half of the success is based on politics and diplomacy. She paused, but her tone became a little solemn, "Juan, I think you understand what the key to politics and diplomacy is, right?" ”

"In Augustus and the Great Tomorrow!" Zhu Juan pondered for a moment, and then said, "And my father, Emperor Taishang of the Ming Dynasty...... Mother, Napoleon IV won't be upset by you for using the Mexican army to help me fight, will you? ”

"No, it won't." Mathilde shook his head with confidence, and said, "He can only postpone that my actions are legitimate, because the Roman Empire is still a loose union, and as Augustus, his prestige is very insufficient." A victory for the ultimate British world empire was exactly what he needed. She glanced at Juan, "Juan, I don't know if you've heard of it, the Ming Emperor is extremely dissatisfied with you becoming my legitimate heir and becoming the prince and marshal of the Roman Empire!" ”

"Dissatisfied? Why? Juan shook his head a little inexplicably.

Jujuan was Duke of Bonapart of the Mexican Empire at the age of two, and later became King of the Kingdom of California (Donghua), which was flagged under the banner of the Mexican Empire, and was given the title of Prince of Mexico at that time...... At that time, all the kings under the banner of the Mexican Empire were princes of the Mexican Empire. After graduating from the military academy in France, he was named Marshal of the Mexican Empire, which was also the practice of the Mexican Empire at that time.

After the merger of the Mexican Empire into the Roman Empire, all Mexican Imperial titles and military titles were replaced by Roman titles. That's how Jujuan's Roman prince and marshal came to be -- Zhu Jishi never raised any objection to his son's Mexican title back then, so why did Zhu Guoxiong now object to this routine change of title and military rank?

As for the confirmation by the Pope of the Ecumenical Church of Jujuan as the heir of Mathilde...... The same thing was done by Daming's side a long time ago. In the archives and public information of the Daming Sect, the biological father of Zhu Juan, the king of Donghua, is Zhu Jishi, and his biological mother is Mathilde. Morality. Napoleon. Morality. Bonaparte.

Mathilde shook his head. In fact, she didn't understand why Zhu Guoxiong was dissatisfied? Transnational aristocracy was a fairly common phenomenon in Europe. Mathilde herself was the Duchess of the Kingdom of Württemberg - and now the Duchess of the German Empire.

And the idea of allowing Jujuan to inherit the king of the Kingdom of Mexico, no matter how you look at it, is only good for the Great Chinese Empire, not bad. The current Kingdom of Mexico is an industrialized country in North America second only to the American Empire, and agriculture is also quite developed after solving the large-scale real estate system, and it is the world's largest producer of silver.

And almost all of the military expenses spent by Jujuan in North America this time, except for the savings of Donghua over the years, were borrowed from the Bank of America in Mexico, which was controlled by Mathilde, and by the end of September 1876, it had amounted to 300 million silver pesos!

More importantly, the Kingdom of Mexico also has the Tehuantepe Canal, a strategic point connecting the two oceans. If the Roman Empire really collapsed in the future, Jujuan would be able to merge Mexico and Donghua, and then the Ming navy would be able to travel freely between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean - wouldn't the world's maritime supremacy be in the bag of the Ming Empire?

In order to leave a large fortune to his son, Mathilde almost risked turning against the Roman Empire and the Bonaparte family, but the Emperor Taishang of the Ming Dynasty did not appreciate it at all, and expressed his opposition in the telegram. This was unexpected!

"My Roman prince and Roman marshal are just empty titles, and they don't mean anything." Jujuan pondered, "Oriental culture is not very acceptable to transnational aristocrats, and now that the Donghua Kingdom is part of the Great Chinese Empire, I should no longer be the prince of Rome, it is better to let Bonnie inherit it, and the marshal will resign." As for the possibility of succession to the Mexican throne...... I think I can continue to test it, Zhu Guoxiong should not oppose this kind of thing that is very beneficial to the Ming Empire. ”

Zhu Bonnie was the daughter of Jujuan, the granddaughter of Zhu Jishi and Mathilde, and her biological mother was the daughter of Wu Chunqiu—Donghua's marriage law was influenced by Mormonism, allowing polygamy but no concubines. So Juan currently has five princesses of equal status, two of whom are of mixed yellow and white blood, respectively, the daughter of Bai Siwen and the daughter of Wu Chunqiu. Another was white, the daughter of Mormon leader Brigham Young. The other two are of the yellow race, and their fathers are Rong Hong and Chen Yucheng. As for the crown prince of Donghua, it is in accordance with the provisions of the "Donghua Succession Law" and is elected in a certain order. At present, the first place is Zhu Juan's eldest son, Zhu Bangyu from Rong Baili. (To be continued......)