Chapter 457: Response

Brian, who had just left the hospital bed, immediately faced a serious challenge, he had to force his body that had not yet recovered to come out to preside over the work, first of all, naturally protested to the headquarters of the Caribbean Alliance in Havana, and at the same time, the Admiralty formed a special investigation team to go to Charleston to investigate, and even used divers, anyway, the Evans sank under the water is not very deep, only a few tens of meters.

In addition, we should use some newspapers controlled by the Democratic Party to continue to create public opinion for peace, especially to make the people sober up and understand the current international situation, especially the bloodshed of the European battlefield, in less than half a year, millions of people have disappeared, and the total population of the United States is now only 50 million, and it makes sense to go all the way to Europe that has nothing to do with its own interests to shed blood for the former colonizers?

And what to do after the declaration of war on Germany? Attacking the Germans in the Caribbean? The Caribbean Alliance has long demarcated the scope of protection, and even Britain and Russia do not dare to attack the Germans within this range, and if the United States does this, it will be tantamount to declaring war on the entire Caribbean Alliance, and then the more than 300,000 Chinese Army and Mexico's 600,000 Army on the west side of Rocky Mountain, the Confederation has now expanded to 300,000 troops, plus Spain and Germany combined must exceed 300,000, and a full 1.5 million enemy troops will enter the United States from the west and south in an instant, and the United States now only has 600,000 troops, how can it resist almost three times the enemy.

What's more, the Caribbean Alliance still has a powerful fleet on the east coast, which can land anywhere on the US coast at any time, and the US Navy is at most a fraction of the strength of many people, and it has no ability to resist at all.

As for playing a protracted war, it is even more of a joke, even if Germany is not added behind them, the combined population of Spain and Mexico has surpassed that of the United States. What's more, there is a China with a population of 450 million, and the combined population is ten times that of the United States.

And the Evans incident is strange everywhere, Caesar. The Augustus had been off the coast of Charleston for a few months, and the Evans had been at peace, why they attacked the Evans inexplicably, it could not have been an accidental misfire, the torpedo attack was not artillery, a drunken soldier filled the cannonball and pulled the rope to finish, it had to be carefully counted by a few sober-minded people. It may even be necessary for the entire warship to cooperate.

Isn't it too impulsive to involve an entire country in a war that could lead to the destruction of the country for the sake of a suspicious conflict, with the deaths of dozens or even millions.

It should be said that these analyses are still very reasonable, but the problem is that under the manipulation of money by major conglomerates, most of the newspapers and radio stations in the United States are frantically exaggerating hatred, and the common people are very easy to fool, plus a large number of young Americans who do not want to go home to farm and become farmers are indeed dissatisfied with the status quo and are eager to win honor on the battlefield. So the wave of war in the United States is still surging.

As for the Admiralty's investigation, there was no good result, and the surviving crew members unanimously identified Caesar. The torpedo fired by the Augustus was indeed a torpedo even when divers went down to investigate. However, there is also something unusual about it, this torpedo is weak.

Now those miscellaneous small torpedoes in various countries are basically gone, all of them are Bofors's 533 heavy steam gas torpedoes, of course, some are genuine and some are authorized production. But the charge is 200 kilograms of antimony, and it is very cruel for such a torpedo to hit a small destroyer of more than 1,000 tons, and it is easy to blow up in half at once. But this only exploded a huge hole in the waterline, which is why most of the crew survived, if it was really two hundred kilograms of charge, this boat is probably not a single person left, that is to say, this torpedo deliberately reduced the charge.

But this suspicion is not of any use in proving who did it.

While Brian was struggling to deal with the Evans affair, the FBI indicted and the trial of Mark Hannah in the District Court for the District of Columbia's alleged murder of the president was also progressing slowly, and the political bigwig was followed by a big-name lawyer, and as long as he did not admit guilt, it would be difficult to convict him, and the FBI only had the assassin's confession and some relevant evidence, but with the efforts of those lawyers, it was difficult to bring him down.

But not being able to convict him is tantamount to giving him room for attacks by those behind him, under the malicious rendering of some newspapers, this matter is becoming a deliberate revenge of the Democratic Party, and it has become a political framing, although there is an example of the New York Times that does not dare to say that it is Brian himself, but it still doesn't matter if he says that the Democratic Party is the culprit of Bryan's defeat to McKinley in the first place.

"What is the ultimate goal of the Republican Party?" Yuan Chang humbly asked for advice, and he was never very comfortable with the Americans' set of play.

"It's very simple, gradually draw the water to Brian himself, and then start impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, Brian is a man who cherishes feathers, and if the House really gets the hang of initiating impeachment proceedings against him, then this person will most likely resign. Wilson, who succeeded him, was far less radical than him in the fight against the consortium, and the Democratic Party was not monolithic, Brian was originally a People's Party, but the People's Party was weak, so he formed an alliance with the Democratic Party, and after the election defeat, the People's Party was directly merged into the Democratic Party. But there are also conservatives within the Democratic Party who are close to the consortium, and as long as he is defeated, the left-leaning radicals led by him will definitely suffer a heavy blow internally, and then the conservatives will regain power, and they will reach a compromise with the consortium.

Then the US government will use the declaration of war on Germany as a reason to let Britain, France and Russia put pressure on us, they will give us some more benefits, and it doesn't matter if they even throw Alabama away, anyway, let us lift the sanctions, if we don't lift the sanctions, then they will fight with us, in short, they will reap a war, and then the industrial capitalists who are about to go bankrupt will turn over with the war salted fish.

It's not a big deal for us, of course, it's better to continue to let Brian sit in this presidential position, he will definitely not start any war, even if he takes some concessions to the industrial capitalists, he will not start a war, this person is very anti-war, but as long as we maintain the sanctions, and at the same time do not stop the dumping of industrial products, any concessions and relaxation measures are meaningless, and the industrial capitalists who are cornered can only take some extraordinary measures.

Forget it, let's pull him along, try not to have a war, let our fleet pay attention to it, and see if it is possible to find that submarine, but I'm afraid it's hard to keep this kind of thing. Yang Feng said.

In fact, at this time, the coalition fleet along the coast of the United States has also launched a search, of course, the hope is certainly not big, destroying the corpse and destroying the traces is the basic consciousness of doing this work, those who do it unless they have a problem with their brains, I am afraid they will not drive the submarine back, find a secluded place and sink directly, and it is not a trivial matter for the crew to escape back.

However, at this time, Yang Feng's mind suddenly moved, this submarine could not go out of the territorial waters of the United States, nearly 200 coalition warships cruised outside the territorial waters of the United States, if they sank the submarine and left after going out of the territorial waters, then it was very likely that they would be hit by the coalition warships, these people would not take this risk, and they were most likely to find a place in the coastal waters, so that they could swim back to shore after sinking the submarine.

If this is the case, I am afraid that this submarine is not difficult to find, and it is impossible for this submarine to dare to surface, and even if it is possible to sail with a snorkel out, it is possible to be discovered, and the underwater battery will not sail too far, that is to say, even if the submarine sinks, it can only sink not far from the sea area where the accident occurred.

It's simple, take the active sonar and blast it out.

"The order to the American fleet to drive those two battle cruisers over, turn on active sonar, start from the site of the sinking of the Evans, bring with them U.S. government and naval officials, as well as newspaper reporters, one to the south, one to the north, along the coast of the United States with active sonar." The guy immediately commanded.

Now the means of underwater detection of the Chinese Navy are very perfect, passive sonar is equipped with all warships, but active sonar has just begun to be equipped, and only four capital ships are equipped among the warships of the Americas.

After receiving his order, the two Hongwu-class battle cruisers that were originally carrying out blockade missions off the coast of New York immediately went south, and at the same time, the Chinese ambassador to the United States also found Brian and proposed that the Chinese warships help search for the submarine that might be in storage.

In fact, at this time, the U.S. Navy did not have submarines, Brian was still very honest in this regard, after the Germans pointed out that it was the submarine that attacked the Evans, the U.S. government also began to inspect the major docks and ports to try to find the submarine, but their efforts were obviously futile, if someone really sank the Evans with a submarine, it would definitely not be driven back, since the Chinese Navy's warships have instruments to find and locate the submarine from underwater, that is of course a good thing.

The US Government immediately announced that it would invite Chinese Navy warships to enter US territorial waters to search for the submarine believed to have sunk the USS Evans, and at the same time, in order to demonstrate the principle of openness and fairness, it would invite ministers of various countries to the United States, representatives of members of the Senate and House of Representatives, some celebrities, and reporters from major newspapers and radio stations to participate in the search operation. (To be continued......)