The last sentence, Wang Feng said in Chinese, suddenly, the Chinese soldiers, whether they went ashore or did not go ashore, or walked on the gangway, or were carrying goods, all stopped, followed Wang Feng, and saluted the people of the American South.

The soldiers and civilians in the south were also shocked, and a stream of heat surged uncontrollably into their hearts, bosom friend, this is bosom friend, at this moment, what is more important than understanding? Full of pride and pride, they think that it is worth it to be recognized by the Chinese guests and pay such a big sacrifice.

Due to the successive victories of the Democratic Alliance and the establishment of a strong China, the white race has no psychological advantage in the face of the Chinese, and more looks at the Chinese with a kind of admiration or jealousy.

Led by Robert Lee, the soldiers of the Southern Army and the men present saluted the Chinese army one after another, and the tears in the tiger's eyes were nothing, and some even burst into tears, while the women mostly hid their faces and wept softly, and their bodies twitched for a while.

There are two words called moving, and there are four words, called moving the United States.

Robert Li's eyes were also a little red, and he put down his palm for a long time, hugged Wang Feng again and said, "Thank you!" ”

"You deserve respect! Anyone who sticks to the faith deserves respect! Wang Feng patted Robert Lee on the back, pushed it away and asked, "Where is the main force of the Northern Army now?" ”

Another famous commander of the Southern Army, Johnston, took over and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor of China, the Northern Army is besieging Atlanta, and the people of the city are in a desperate situation, but they still have not given up, but I will tell you the truth. Without the public opinion offensive and trade sanctions launched by China and Britain against the North in advance, the stability and morale of the Northern Army would have been affected. It also made the black slaves reflect on their own situation, and I am afraid that Atlanta has been lost. But even so, it is still dangerous, mainly because the gap in strength cannot be bridged, and the northerners kill people when they see them, which is too cruel. “

From Charleston to Atlanta, it was about 600 kilometers, and at the normal marching speed, it would take about ten days, Wang Feng couldn't help asking, "Without further ado." My soldiers and I must rush to the front as fast as we can, is there a railroad to get there? ”

Johnston nodded: "Yes, but only as far as Covington, twenty miles from Atlanta, is still in our hands for the time being, and the railroad line beyond is controlled by the Yankees." ”

"Good!" Wang Feng also nodded and said: "Today we will rest in Charleston for a day, and tomorrow morning, the Marines and I will take the train to Covington, and the Navy will go north on its own to attack the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and the naval base in New York." Seize the control of the sea in Washington. “

Although there are not many warships of the Democratic Alliance Army, they are all ocean-going warships of more than 2,000 tons, and there are 10 large warships of more than 4,000 or 5,000 tons. The U.S. Navy really doesn't have any warships that can handle it, basically frigates of about 1,000 tons, or even hundreds of tons. Even two or three hundred tons of smuggling ships.

By 1861, the US Northern Navy had a total of 90 warships. Of these, 48 are idle and not in active service. There are more than 30 ships scattered around the world in various detachments, the farthest of which is about a few months away from the mainland, and only 12 ships of the nearest native detachment.

On the other hand, in the South, at the beginning of the war, one-fifth of the naval officers from the southern states resigned from their posts and returned to their home states, but the division of the naval officers did not take away the ships under their command, so that before the Southern Alliance was built, there was not a single warship in any state, and no effort was made to purchase warships, there were no shipyards in the whole South, no factories for the production of the simplest naval machines, no rope factories, no ****, only one gunpowder factory, no saltpeter, sulfur and lead.

It can be said that the Southern Navy was poor at first, but after the Southern army captured the Norfolk shipyard in Virginia, the situation improved, although the Northern army burned the shipyard when it retreated, it was only half burned, many of the hulls below the waterline were not burned, the entire huge dry dock was not burned, nearly 2,000 naval guns were also intact, in addition to the foundry, machine factory, metallurgical yard and timber storage were fortunately preserved, and the South was based on the Norfolk shipyard. The construction of warships was resumed in a short time.

However, the good times did not last long, with the re-loss of the Norfolk shipyard, the South lost its shipbuilding capacity, and Britain first built for the South, but when the spies in the North reported that the ships of an English shipyard were about to be completed, the Northern Navy would rush to the British seas to intercept the new shipbuilding that the South had not yet had time to arm, and the Southern Navy could only quietly slip out of the British sea and quickly disappear on the high seas, but this kind of action could not enable the British government to grasp the movement of ships after going to sea, many new ships operated by Southerners and European sailors, He would rob British and European merchant ships, and after a few benefits, he became more and more emboldened, and eventually all European ships going to North America were among the robbers.

For this kind of piracy, because the ships were built in Britain and did not properly carry out the procedures for changing the country of registration, the Royal Navy and the British government were forced to bear joint and several liability, and the British had to stop helping the United States to build warships.

The source of ships has been cut off, and in the past two years of fighting with the north, there are less than ten warships left in the south, which are still small ships of several hundred tons.

In addition, from 1861 to the present, three years have passed, the north has successively made use of idle ships, and at the same time, due to the overall control of the Asia-Pacific region by China, the size of the US overseas fleet has shrunk significantly, and they have returned to the mainland to participate in the war, but it is almost impossible to build new ships, because everything has to serve the war on land, deducting the 12 warships that were destroyed or captured by the Democratic Alliance forces in the port of Tianjin, and the nearly 20 warships lost in the battle with the south, there should be more than 50 warships that can be used for naval warfare in the north, and it occupies an absolute advantage over the south.

It's just that now with the addition of the Democratic Alliance Navy, the confidence of the southern army and people has suddenly increased greatly, especially in tonnage, and it is not a problem to regain sea supremacy, but the number of the Chinese army is obviously small, even if the proportion of artillery is a little higher, they do not expect the marines of these two divisions to turn the tide of the war, they only think that the Chinese can cooperate to defend Atlanta, after the victory of the navy, attack the merchant ships in the north, and gradually regain the disadvantage of the south, until Britain and France send ground troops to participate in the war, Forcing the North to sign a peace treaty.

Robert Lee had a big heart, and laughed: "I won't say more thanks, the Confederate States of America will always be an ally of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, Your Majesty the Chinese Emperor, please go back to the city with me for a while, tonight, the people of Charleston will hold a grand banquet to entertain you." "Please!" Wang Feng stretched out his hand and walked forward with Robert Lee.

(To be continued.) )

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