Seriously, no matter what the parties on both sides think about this civil war in the United States, Li Yongji is already a little impatient anyway.

But isn't it, since the expeditionary force inserted a pole and caused Britain and France to intervene early, there is no suspense in this war.

The Northern Army, or the former United States of America, was no longer in a position to continue a large-scale military offensive against the South, thereby reuniting the North and the South; In the same way, the newly formed Allied government in the south could not independently launch a counteroffensive against the northern army without the support of China, Britain, and France, so as to complete the so-called model of unifying the north from the south.

To put it bluntly, the North and the South of the United States have fought to the present situation, and everyone is exhausted, almost half a pound and eight taels, which is a typical example of having more than enough self-preservation and only insufficient supply.

At this time, if there is a powerful third party willing to wholeheartedly support a certain side, then there may be a little chance to turn around and re-complete the reunification of the North and the South of the United States, but it is clear that no third party will do this!

China aside, Li Yongji will never allow this to happen, and the only people who can intervene are the British and the French, but these two countries are even more unlikely to do so, and their desire for American division is actually above China.

Not to mention that the relationship between Britain and the United States has not been good, not to mention that Canada, Britain's colony in North America, also borders the United States, and Britain also has many territorial claims to the United States, such as New England, which is a place that the British desperately want to get.

At the same time, as an empire that never sets its eyes on the whole world, it is an old trick of the British to divide and balance, and any Englishman with a little political acumen knows that a united and strong United States is not in the interests of Britain, and a few divided and weak ones are weak. Even small countries hostile to each other are convenient for Britain's global layout.

Therefore, in fact, with regard to the American Civil War, Britain was the country that most hoped for an immediate truce between the North and the South and maintained the situation of confrontation between the North and the South, and it was also the country that most hoped that the United States would be divided.

The reason why Britain did not have much to show in this war was that after all, Britain's strength and energy were limited, and it had to not only make great efforts to control India, but also retain strong forces on the European continent to maintain the balance of power in Europe. Coupled with economic problems, the level of interference in Britain cannot reach the scale of full force.

However, even so, the scale of the British intervention in the United States this time is one of the largest in history. The reason why no major results were achieved was entirely because the American army had the advantage of the home field and was outnumbered, and the British did not want to consume too much. After all, the Chinese army at that time was already overwhelming, so the British intervention army seemed a little incompetent.

But in fact, the British army still performed very well in this war, but it was not the army that performed well here. It's the Navy of the British!

As the current naval supremacy, the scale of the British navy this time is quite large, and the results are quite remarkable, but most of them are used to blockade ports. Coupled with the voluntary retreat of the US Navy, there are no particularly well-known large-scale naval battles.

Although there was no large-scale naval battle, because of the naval blockade of the British Navy. As a result, the government of the United States of America has completely cut off its foreign exchange window and is unable to communicate with other countries in the world, resulting in the inability to sell its own products and the inability to ship products from outside, and this economic blow is quite large.

The United States of America is a commercial country, the development of the present, although the northern region of the industry is good, but can only be regarded as a start, a lot of infrastructure is actually mostly invested by European consortiums, so the United States in the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century, and the red China in the early eighties is the same, that is, the urgent need for foreign funds, the urgent need for foreign exchange, to buy foreign advanced products.

Whether it is the development of industry or late commerce, it is absolutely impossible without capital, and the United States of America, as an emerging country, does not have too many colonies to squeeze profits, and its own technological reserves are far inferior to Europe, so the United States of America at this time is actually a typical export-oriented country, relying on its own cheap labor prices and high-quality agricultural products, and it is inseparable from European blood transfusion.

Not to mention the Federal Republic of the South, the main source of foreign exchange is cotton and grain and other agricultural products, which belong to an export-oriented economy that is completely dependent on Europe; However, the northern region, which seems to be strong in industry and commerce, is still an export-oriented economy.

It may be said that the Northern Army, that is, the United States of America, is actually not short of resources, such as coal and iron ore for the development of industry, the grain production is not small, and the population is also large, so it is said that domestic demand is enough, and it is not afraid of foreign blockades.

But in fact, this is not the case, because although the northern region of the United States has population and resources, it lacks a democratic capitalist country, and if you want to develop under this system, you must not only travel in population and resources, but also need the most critical thing, that is, capital, or currency!

Money is a necessary product of the commodity economy, the equivalent of communication material trade, and it is absolutely indispensable under the conditions of the commodity economy.

During this period, the world's mainstream currencies were basically equivalent to precious metals, that is, gold and silver, and they had not yet reached the point where paper money was king, so the key to seeing whether a country has money depends on how many precious metal reserves it has, especially gold reserves.

However, the United States of America at this time did not have strong gold reserves like the superpowers of another time and space, on the contrary, the United States at this time was a country with a serious shortage of gold and silver, that is, a serious shortage of money.

If there is a lack of money, then the economic development will be slow, or even stagnant, after all, workers need wages, farmers also need salaries, if there is no money, or the amount of money is insufficient, the overall economic development speed will not be able to go fast, everyone will feel very difficult if there is no money, so this is a deflationary phenomenon, not a good thing.

It is precisely because of the lack of money that the United States has engaged in a lot of policies to attract foreign investment during this period, even if Lincoln came to power, the Republican Party was in power, and the trade protection policy was implemented, but the duty-free policy was also implemented for some special industries, for example, at the beginning, when the northern region exported wheat, coal and other products, it was the implementation of the duty-free policy. The purpose is to exchange for foreign exchange.

However, the blockade of the British made all this completely cut off, and the government of the United States of America was unable to obtain foreign exchange through foreign trade smoothly, or even took it away. The scarcity of private gains, combined with the devouring of resources by the war, led to a Great Depression in the entire United States of America immediately after the blockade began.

Although Lincoln later implemented a series of policies, such as the mandatory issuance of paper money, the introduction of a system of vouchers allocated according to need, etc. But in practice, this system is not popular at all, and with the exception of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, three cities where the Republican Party and the Young People's Army control are strong, the effect is not obvious.

In other words, the military junta in the North was in fact in a semi-divided situation, not much different from the situation of the Confederate countries, and the reason why everyone could continue to listen to Lincoln was only because they had to be united in the face of strong external aggression and the threat of the Southern army. But in reality, once the external threat was gone, Lincoln's life was definitely not much better.

After all, this is the United States of America, and the popular base that yearns for the separation of powers is deeply rooted, although it is currently temporarily made a dictatorship by Lincoln. But that was just a self-protection mechanism in the face of external pressure, and that didn't mean Lincoln had really succeeded.

In fact, in the government of the United States in the North, the opposition has always been strong. It's just that it's been suppressed for the time being, and as for the patriotic youth army, it's not really invincible in the world. Everyone is only patient for the time being, and once the external pressure is removed, this long-suppressed opposition force will definitely rebound strongly, and at that time, Lincoln will absolutely not be able to suppress it.

Because in the final analysis, Lincoln was a political figure without roots, not a big business, he had no real private power, but only with the help of the government of the United States of America, coupled with fate, this is what he has now.

However, in the people, because of Lincoln's various dictatorial practices, the interests of too many people have been harmed, resulting in more and more opposition to him, and the strength is getting stronger and stronger. The reason why everyone can still listen to him now is entirely because they still want to use him to unite people's hearts and resist the aggression of the Southern Army and Britain and France.

Don't underestimate this mass base, many times how a country wants to go, the strength of this mass base is quite powerful.

Since the Revolutionary War, Americans have the gene of resisting dictatorship in their bones, so if the United States wants to implement dictatorship, it is not impossible, but it must not last long.

In fact, we can compare this with the United Kingdom, which also had a dictator Cromwell, but in the end it was overwhelmed by a strong popular base and political tradition, and returned to the road of constitutional monarchy.

In short, although the British navy did not have much of a campaign, because of the strong blockade of the British navy, the economic blow to the United States of America was extremely deadly, and it can be said that the northern government fell into a total dilemma, and in some respects it was more ruthless than the Chinese.

As for the land war, although the British Army was somewhat disgraced in terms of results compared to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and when facing the American army, there were not many decent results, and there were even major defeats, but in fact, the British did not have a lot of achievements!

True, although the British did not excel in land warfare with the Americans, in terms of territory, the British achieved quite good results.

After Boston was forcibly occupied by the British, because the Union Army took the initiative to shrink the defensive line and abandon the area north of Boston, the British troops on the Boston side and the troops in the Canadian direction immediately attacked, almost bloodlessly occupying a large amount of American territory between Boston north and Canada, and basically took the so-called New England land in their hands.

In other words, although the British did not achieve much in the land war, because of the great display of the might of the Chinese on the western battlefield, the federal government that was attacked on three sides took the initiative to shrink, giving the British a chance to take a large amount of land without much effort, and it can be said that they were satisfied.

It is precisely because they are more satisfied, and they don't want to let themselves lose too much and let others take advantage, so the British have always maintained restraint and did not launch an active attack on the Federal Army, otherwise, just in the case of the British Army in Boston, once they go all out to press the Federal Army, even if they can't win, they will definitely not make them feel good.

But in any case, although the British did not move, the threat still existed, and it was previously the third largest threat after the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Confederate Army, which is why Lincoln was so eager to negotiate peace with the Chinese.

After the armistice with China, Boston, or the British to the northeast, became the second biggest threat. Once it joins forces with the Confederate Army, the consequences are unimaginable.

This is not a secret within the United States of America for propaganda reasons, and these threats are known to everyone, and therefore the root cause of the people of the United States of America who are still tolerating Lincoln.

In addition to Britain, France was another threat to the Northern Army.

In the past, France did not care about the intervention in the American civil war because it focused on Mexico, but because China and Britain had attacked one after another, France found that it had a advantage to take advantage of. Only then did it join forces with Britain and declare war on the United States of America.

But in fact, the number of French troops that intervened in the American Civil War was very small, and the army sent less than 3,000 troops in the early stage, and later because the battlefield on the Mexican side gradually stabilized, a group of land forces and a group of navy were transferred to join the North American battlefield, so that the French army in Boston reached the scale of 5,000 men, and finally had some combat effectiveness.

However, when it was discovered that the Chinese expeditionary force had annihilated the main forces of the federal army one after another. Entering the Ohio River, hitting Smithland, there are signs of going all the way to the east, and smashing the Yellow Dragon. The acquisition of Boston and New England by England strongly stimulated Napoleon III of France.

It is clear that the Chinese and the British are invincible on the North American battlefield, and they do not earn a little bit. As for the French, although they have already taken Mexico City, they have also propped up a puppet empire. But in fact, the Mexican resistance has not stopped, coupled with the terrain and climate, the French army has reached a stalemate in Mexico, and can only passively maintain the existing gains, unable to continue to expand the victory.

Therefore, this made Napoleon III move his mind, and he tried his best to make up and borrow at home, and finally made some money for military expenses, and then hastily sent a second group of intervention troops with a total of 30,000 troops to Boston, intending to take advantage of the opportunity.

The French originally wanted to take the opportunity to take New York, but later found that it was not very reliable, because New York's defense was too tight, so it simply took the empty Rhode Island and used Rhode Island as the base of the French army.

After the capture of Rhodes, the French tasted the sweetness and began to seek to occupy larger lands, so to speak, the entire eastern coastline of the United States of America was coveted by the French.

After that, the French also did the same, they turned into robbers, not only plundered the wealth of the inhabitants of Rhodes, but also cooperated with the navy, using Rhodes Island as a base, using the mode of landing warfare, frequently attacking the east coast of the United States, causing huge losses to the local population, and making people panic.

Suffice it to say that on the entire East Coast, it was not the British who the Americans hated the most, nor the Southerners, but the French who burned, killed and looted!

Through burning and looting, the French also reaped a lot of benefits, but because the news was blocked, outsiders were not very clear, plus this kind of thing was not very glorious, and the French would not take the initiative to publicize, which made the actions of the French seem so low-key, not as dazzling as the Chinese, the Confederate Army and the British.

However, by this time, in fact, everyone was tired, not to mention that the north and the south were tired, and the British and French, who had been fighting here for a long time, were also a little tired, after all, they were far away from home for a long time.

Therefore, when Li Yongji came to New Orleans with his troops, in fact, the French and British who stayed here had already met with Li Yongji's people and discussed the matter of bringing about an early truce and reconciliation between the North and the South and the United States.

Of course, in the course of the armistice between the North and the South, the interests of the British and the French must be satisfied, so in the final analysis, everyone hoped that the United States and the Confederates would begin negotiations as soon as possible.

It's just that Li Yongji still had his own ideas at that time, so he didn't mix with the British and the French, but now it seems that this war should have ended early, after all, Li Yongji was also homesick.

Originally, Li Yongji was still worried about finding a reason, after all, his current relationship with the alliance government was rather strange, and he could not find a reasonable structure to urge them to cease war as soon as possible.

However, this time the Pemberton corps of the Union Army took the initiative to attack Joseph. Johnston's troops started the internal strife within the Confederate State in advance, but this gave Li Yongji an excellent excuse.

After all, when he was a child, Li Yongji said that Joseph. Johnston was a good friend of the Eastern Bloc and a good ally of the expeditionary force, and they also discussed many matters of joint operations.

In addition, the expeditionary force has also been open to the public and has accepted Joseph. Johnston's employment was ready to provide him with employment services, so in a way, Joseph. Johnston was the employer of the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

Well, now the Pemberton regiment attacked Joseph . Johnston, who attacked his employer, gave the Eastern Expeditionary Force an excellent excuse to go to war.

Although this excuse is a bit lame, it is an excuse after all, and at this time, the Allied government undoubtedly cannot afford to fight, at least it is impossible to really oppose the expeditionary force, so using a local war to beat the Allied government can definitely serve the purpose of promoting peace.

It was with this in mind that Li Yongji immediately replied to Peng Yulin as soon as he received his call, asking him not to hesitate and immediately and resolutely repel the attacking troops of the Pemberton Corps. Johnston's personal safety!

That's right, it's to repel it, and you don't need a major result such as total annihilation, because the purpose of the war is only to knock the other side, and if it is a total annihilation or something, then the hatred is a little too big, and it is very likely to make the fake come true, which is not good.

Therefore, the key to this battle is a matter of degree, we must hurt the other side, make the other side vigilant, clearly recognize their own strength, let them fear themselves, but not let the other side hurt too much, lest they form a mortal enemy, which will not be resolved in the future, so as not to hinder the next step.

In this way, the command skills of the former enemy commanders will be quite a test, and if they do not control it well and go too far, it is easy to become self-defeating.

And it is obvious that Peng Yulin is a commander who is quite restrained and has a view of the overall situation, and will not ignore the overall situation for his own selfishness and blindly pursue his own achievements, so if he does things, Li Yongji is still more at ease. (To be continued......)