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Butte is the easternmost city in the state of Ioda and is the first line facing the United States. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo&#.. Of course, the United States has not formally demarcated the border with the empire anyway, so it is not a big deal for the Sixth Division of the Autonomous Army to move at the junction of the two countries in peacetime, and it is still mainly about controlling the city.

But now the situation is different, and there is a rumor in the United States that the US Army ordered martial law on the Western Front after the big **** in Montana. They don't dare to casually **** Chinese marches, if they look for death.

The current president of the United States is Chester Allen Arthur of the Republican Party, who is the youngest of all presidents. He came to power after the assassination of the twentieth president, James A. Garfield. As a young man, he worked as a lawyer and fought in the American Civil War. This president is a president who is only interested in the interests of the United States, and he is a person who puts the interests of the country first, and in history he will establish the first federal immigration law this year, one of the key points is for Chinese immigrants, he vetoed a 20-year bill in Congress to restrict the immigration of Chinese workers, although in the end Congress still passed it, but the time was reduced by 10 years, of course, how can there be a law restricting Chinese in the United States now.

In fact, his election as vice president was the result of factional struggles within the Republican Party, and he took advantage of it, and later when the president was assassinated, he picked up a big bargain. But he is not a useless person, after he came to power, he abolished the "spoils sharing system" in the American bureaucracy and implemented a civilian system of hiring people based on merit, and the more famous thing is that he supported the development of the US Navy, coupled with the accumulation of previous generations, the US Navy has ranked sixth in the world in his hands, and is considered by later generations to be the father of the US Navy.

Alan Arthur was well aware of the importance of China's position in the Montana affair, and he was waiting for news, as his secretary of state had left for East Asia five days earlier to meet with Li Hongzhang, the prime minister of the Eastern Empire. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has also rushed to the west to meet with the Prime Minister there. He absolutely did not want to see things develop in a bad direction, and he even ordered the police throughout the country to strengthen the protection of the Chinese in the United States, lest China have an excuse to intervene; like the British continental equilibrium policy, the Chinese's short-term protection policy is as inhumane, even if an overseas Chinese is insulted abroad, they will use the threat of war.

Afraid? Fear! I'm afraid. If Britain or France were on the opposite side of Alan Arthur, he would not be afraid at all that the power of Britain and France in North America would not be very good, but now the opponent opposite is called the Chinese Empire, and he has to be afraid. He knows very well what the United States' own military is like, and now the whole world is studying China, studying their history, culture, science and economy, and he Alan Arthur is no exception, and the history of China's military fighting has been accumulated from 2,000 years ago to the present, which is not comparable to a young country like the United States, which has only been founded for more than 100 years.

The US Army has expanded to 500,000 and has surpassed France and Germany (referring to the number of standing armies), but only 300,000 can really fight, but how can these 300,000 young people who have never been on the battlefield fight with the Chinese who are now the world's first army. Coupled with the isolation of the United States and the constraints of Congress on the military, the most elite division in the United States is only their second-class division according to the Chinese, and a division does not even have a large-caliber field gun, and Alan Arthur can only say: "How to play this game?" ”

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On March 2, 1883, at noon in the White House office, Alan Arthur received a telegram from the Western Front, saying that the Chinese Sixth Division of the North American Autonomous Army had appeared outside Bernice, a small town west of Besson, and that the Chinese were just conducting normal border military exercises. Lieutenant General William Delevingne, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Western Line, wants the president to give him instructions on what to do next, and the Chinese have been moving toward Beson, an important node in the western defensive line.

The enemy ball is far away

Alan Arthur called back and hoped that he must exercise restraint and not have unnecessary conflicts with the Chinese at any time and under any circumstances.

In fact, William Draven did not dare not refrain from restraint! The Sixth Division of the North American Autonomous Army had 12,000 men, and he had placed a division in Bernes and a mixed brigade in Besson, but he knew very well that his more than 20,000 men in Bernes and Bessen were no match for the Sixth Division of the Autonomous Army at all. The Americans placed 200,000 troops on the Western Front, forming a line of defense from north to south, which American newspapers called the "Rocky Line", but how many fortifications and trenches did this line have? The answer is known only to the God of the Americans.

Draven was even more reluctant to confront the Chinese Army than Alan Arthur. The 20,000 people in the small town of Bessen are a joke in terms of both the will to fight and the military qualities. The number of artillery pieces in a division and a mixed brigade is only about 50 guns, less than half of the number on the other side, and 20,000 people are said to be veterans who have been trained for two years, but the opposite side is a notoriously strong army in North America.

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"What did they say?" William Draven scolded at the case.

The adjutant was on the other side, but he did not dare to answer. As the commander of the entire defense line, he has been staying in Great Falls, but the information he received indicates that the Chinese have been planning for a long time this time, the 5th and 11th divisions of the North American Autonomous Army are gathering on the western back of Montana and the other is already close to Wyoming from Salt Lake City, and now the 6th Division has asked to enter Bernice to search under the pretext that the soldiers are missing, which is simply vexatious, Bernis is only a few people and the number of troops is not as large as the number of troops, but the biggest role of a front-line town is to be used as a supply depot.

Now that he really doesn't know what to do, let them in Bernice! The layout of the defense line is basically exposed, don't let it! The Chinese have an excuse.

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"Grass, Americans really don't know how thick the sky is!" Min Youpeng scolded after receiving Bernice's reply from the U.S. military. The Americans ultimately chose to refuse. The reason is that the emperor's premier, Tang Qi, replied to the US ambassador that the so-called acting was organized by the military itself, not the government, and it was very clean. According to European and American thinking, that is, the behavior of the Sixth Division of the Autonomous Army is illegal, which does not make sense in the current international practice, and although the Chinese Imperial Cabinet did not give a positive answer, the US Secretary of State's telegram to Alan Arthur said that the meaning of the Chinese Cabinet is obvious, they do not want to engage in a full-scale war with the United States and are not willing to give up the interests of Montana, the Chinese are waiting for the results of the actions of the Sixth Division, as long as the US Army can defeat or even thwart the attack of the Sixth Division, The United States would be able to gain political superiority and then retain Montana through political diplomacy.

With the support of Alan Arthur, William Draven chose to take a good gamble, because he had more chips (in number) than on the opposite side, and for Min Youpeng, he had to win and win big, without a hearty victory, the marshal's scepter was hopeless.

On March 15, 1883, the Battle of Bernice began, and it didn't matter who opened the first place, what mattered was the last

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