After the Tang Dynasty declared war on the United States, the Tang Army immediately launched an offensive against Philadelphia, the capital of the United States, in conjunction with the Southern Army. Philadelphia was also a breakthrough point chosen by the British before www.biquge.info but Philadelphia also placed a number of 305 mm shore defense guns on the estuary, and also laid mines, so it was particularly unfavorable for naval operations.

But the Tang Army's shot will naturally not be the same as the British.

The Don Army first transported two regiments of troops to Washington, and then, together with the Southern Army, successively conquered Baltimore and Wilmington, directly threatening Philadelphia. The troops marching on land were not afraid of a few coastal defense guns. At the same time, a Mexican-class battleship of the Datang Navy, the Estonia and the Siam-class battleship Siam, also appeared outside the coastline of the coastal defense positions. The Americans' coastal defense artillery technology was also exported to them by Datang, and although the Americans made certain improvements and upgrades on its basis, its performance was still limited.

The range of the 305-mm shore defense gun is much closer than the main gun of the Datang Navy battleship, with a maximum range of 11,000 yards, and among the Datang battleships, the Estonia, which is in its early 40,000s, is equipped with three triple 406-mm naval guns, which is the largest caliber naval gun in the world. The 35,000-ton Siamese class is equipped with a 380 mm main gun and 4 twin turrets. The maximum firing range of these two main guns is more than 30,000 yards, and the actual 203 mm main guns of Datang's Miami-class, Denver-class and Shenyang-class heavy cruisers have a double diameter of up to 60 and a range of more than 30,000 yards. Of course, this data is of little significance, because no one will fire at this distance. However, against the American shore defense artillery, the Datang surface fleet fired at the shore defense artillery at a distance of 22,000 yards, and at this distance, the American shore defense artillery could only be beaten and was unable to return fire.

However, the fortifications of these coastal defense guns were so thick that it was difficult to penetrate them completely even if they were intensively bombarded by naval guns. Naturally, the attack of the Datang Navy does not only count on these warships, but the Atlantic Fleet has two Texas-class aircraft carriers.

The Datang Texas-class aircraft carrier is the main warship in the Datang Navy, and even the Mexican-class battleships cannot occupy the position of the main force, which is naturally related to the strategic composition of the navy. The fact that aircraft carriers are the core of the fleet is a trend of historical development, and it is impossible for Datang to make mistakes on this issue.

By April 1802, all of Datang's Texas-class aircraft carriers had been built, and since 1796, Datang has built a total of 14 aircraft carriers of this type over the years. The full load displacement of the Texas-class aircraft carrier is 45,000 tons, which is comparable to the super-Japanese king of another plane in which India was converted from Russia in the new century, and is much larger than the Essex-class, the aircraft carrier built by the United States the most in World War II, and comparable to the Midway-class. It can carry more than 130 piston fighters with a small size.

The Datang Navy ensures that each of the six large fleets has 2-3 aircraft carriers that can be used, and the aircraft capacity of two aircraft carriers is enough to deal a devastating blow to any army in this era.

Six squadrons of carrier-based attack aircraft, taking off from two aircraft carriers, began bombing the shore fortifications at the mouth of the Philadelphia River. Although the Datang Navy's Qiang-2 carrier-based attack aircraft itself does not have a large bomb load, more than 1,000 kilograms, dropping dozens of tons of bombs at one time is also a catastrophe for coastal defense fortifications.

The U.S. military did not equip the coastal defense line with too many anti-aircraft weapons, so the Datang strong strike squadron was like no one. A large number of bombs were dropped, hitting the stationary shore defense guns, and even though the thick concrete fortifications could not be destroyed with a few bombs, these bombs were able to kill the gunners and destroy the barrel structure.

Immediately after the indiscriminate bombardment by the squadrons, the ground forces also arrived at the scene. At this time, the U.S. military had no effective resistance and only made a weak resistance before raising their hands and surrendering. And their surrender also made Philadelphia completely unbarrier and opened the door to the Tang army.

Shortly after the Tang Navy broke through the coastal defenses, U.S. President Madison had to leave Philadelphia with his cabinet members again for the next place of refuge.

President Madison understands very well that the United States has lost any possibility of having a relationship with the Tang Dynasty. At this time, there was no country in the world that could defeat the Tang Dynasty in a war, Britain could not, and neither could the United States. His adventurism has nailed him to the pillar of shame in American history. Fortunately, if the situation envisioned by everyone really appears, and Datang completely annexes the United States, then there will be no American history anymore, and his shame will be relatively reduced.

However, Madison still wanted to leave a little spark for the United States, and by the time the Don Army intervened, he had ordered the American troops in Canada to stop marching south. Because no matter how many troops are brought, it is not enough for the Tang Dynasty to fight, so there is no need to cause casualties needlessly. At the same time, Madison sent people to contact Datang, hoping to negotiate peace with Datang and end the war.

Madison imagined how costly the peace talks were. The western region annexed by the Tang Dynasty will definitely not be able to get it back, and the four southern states are also determined to separate from the United States. Even the best-case scenario is that the U.S. retains the northern states. If Datang is a little more mean and murderous and cuts more flesh from the United States, then the United States is very likely to collapse because of this.

Madison actually didn't care too much about this collapse, because he already believed that one day the Tang Dynasty would annex the United States entirely. Even if the United States is a country, Datang has contributed a part, but Datang is also motivated to destroy it with his own hands. All Madison can do is to continue the life of the United States as much as possible, and to exist for one more year.

However, the personnel sent by Madison did not bring a reply from Datang, and Datang took a delaying attitude towards the US request for an armistice. The feedback made Madison discouraged, because the posture shown by Datang was definitely the worst result.

The Tang Army mobilized more than 30,000 troops from two army divisions in the East Coast Theater and, with the cooperation of the Navy and the Southern Army, began to continuously seize important cities in the United States. The Americans' will to resist is not strong, and the main reason is because the Americans understand that the Tang Dynasty is strong, and resistance will not work, and they can only let themselves die. Even the U.S. military basically avoided the war, and if it couldn't avoid it, it would surrender.

Under such circumstances, Datang quickly occupied New York, Boston and other cities, followed the railroads and highways built by the Americans, and the Datang army completed the march into the Great Lakes region, and soon after accepted the surrender of the American army in York (Toronto). (To be continued.) )