"Denied?" Yang Feng looked at Zhang Quan in surprise, what he didn't expect was that the California sale plan was smashed to death by the U.S. Senate, and the reason given was that the price was too low, because it should be 3 billion Chinese dollars instead of the 300 million Chinese dollars finally negotiated, and this asking price was actually equivalent to refusing to sell.

"It's clear that there's someone behind the scenes." Needless to say, as for who it is, it is only Britain that has the ability to embolden the US Senate, and it is clear that the British government does not want to see China officially set foot on the American continent, especially in this most relaxed and simple way.

"Regardless of them, the British will not dare to openly mingle, and the Americans will be honest if they scare them, and let the fleet in San Francisco think about creating some trouble, in the end, it is still the artillery that has the final say." Yang Feng sneered and said, he didn't worry about this kind of thing.

"Also, sue Li He, and come up with the domineering that a great power should have." The creature then added with a sinister smile.

"Domineering?" This word made Li He, commander of the Chinese Navy's East Pacific Task Force, a little difficult to grasp, how could he show the domineering that Emperor Yang needed?

"Commander, I think we can understand His Majesty's request as arrogant and domineering, anyway, in this eastern Pacific sea, we will go directly sideways, so simply let the Americans see how we go sideways." Liu Guangyuan, the captain of the Tianshan beside him, said.

"How to play?" Li He looked at him suspiciously.

"Quite simply, I have a plan here." Liu Guangyuan said with a smile.

Off the coast of San Diego, an American destroyer patrols the sea.

At present, this military port has assembled almost all the capital ships of the entire US Navy, but even so, in the face of their main enemy, the Americans still lack the courage to attack, and can only play the Zài fleet, blocking the Mexicans' ambition to land in Los Angeles in the military port, and the numerical superiority of eight 4,000-ton armored cruisers in front of the two princess-class armored cruisers of the late model of the Mexican Navy pales in comparison. Not to mention the fact that the Spaniards had two cruisers of the same tonnage and four large destroyers with a displacement of more than a thousand tons.

As for the comparison with the Chinese fleet in San Francisco, it can only be regarded as scum, and a single Tianshan almost has the ability to annihilate the US Navy.

Today, however, the poor destroyer is confronted with this suffocating behemoth.

"What the hell is this guy trying to do?" The captain looked at the giant ship that was cruising with him in the distance with some fright, and said with a blank face, this sea monster with a standard displacement of more than 9,000 tons had followed him since an hour ago, but he never made any moves, just followed from a distance, and did not even answer the flag issued by the destroyer, because he was worried that the other party would make any unfavorable moves against him. The small destroyer, with a displacement of just over 600 tons, had to end its patrol and hurriedly return to San Diego, but when it returned, the Tianshan still kept a distance and followed behind, and this strange behavior put a heavy pressure on the American sailors on the destroyer, and everyone's hearts were tightened.

In order to prevent accidents, the destroyer captain Frank even asked San Diego for reinforcements, and all eight St. Louis-class armored cruisers sailed out of the military port and sailed head-on under the escort of more than twenty destroyers.

Liu Guangyuan on the Tianshan. Looking at the American fleet approaching in the distance, a sinister smile appeared on his face, and then he glanced at an officer next to him, who immediately picked up the phone next to him and said: "Depth charges!" ”

Behind a twin 240 main gun turret in the ship. Two soldiers carried a 50-kilogram depth charge to the side of the ship, and instead of using a catapult, they dropped it directly down the side of the ship, and then turned around and threw themselves next to the turret. The depth charge, which had already been equipped with a timing device, exploded under the water in less than five seconds after entering the water, and the huge water column instantly arched. From a distance, it looks like it has hit a mine, but there are only less than ten kilograms of explosives in this reduced charge depth charge, which is not even rubbed off the skin of the Tianshan Mountain, of course, the meaning of this explosion is different.

With the explosion of the depth charges, the grim battle alarm on the Tianshan suddenly sounded, and then the four turrets and eight main guns on the front were aimed at the destroyer in front of it that was about to join the fleet, and the signal soldiers on the mast simultaneously used the flag language to ask why the US military used drifting mines to deliberately attack.

As for the poor destroyer, they naturally tried their best to defend themselves with flags, claiming that they had never thrown a drifting mine, and in fact they did not carry this thing, they were destroyers and not minelayers, but unfortunately their answer was not finished, and then another column of water rose close to the side of the Tianshan ship.

The eight main guns of the Tianshan pointed forward and fired without hesitation, at this time the two sides were less than ten kilometers apart, which was the best engagement distance, and in the first salvo, there was a shell that hit the destroyer, and then hit the stern, but the shells of this caliber were not at all what the destroyer could withstand, as a huge fire ball exploded, the entire stern was almost blown away, and the eight 240 main guns with a rate of fire of more than three rounds per minute fired the second round of shells at the moment of the explosion, followed by the third round, and another shot hit, This shell completely sent the destroyer to the bottom of the sea.

On the more than 30 American warships that rushed over at once, thousands of US Navy officers and men watched this scene dumbfounded, including the fleet commander, who was dumbfounded, he saw his battleship being bombed to pieces in front of him, and when he came to his senses, the commander did not hesitate to order the battle alarm to be sounded, and at the same time the entire fleet entered a combat state, but he was just about to order his subordinate cruisers to open fire, but was stopped by the chief of staff next to him.

"Commander, you can't fight!" The chief of staff looked at him with horror and said.

Looking at his expression, the fleet commander calmed down suddenly, it is true that he can't fight, it's just that there is still room for redemption in this matter, once the two sides are officially at war, then there is no room for redemption, and what the United States will face next is countless hungry wolves that pounce up, China, Germany, Russia, Spain, Mexico, the Confederacy, maybe there are others, with Emperor Yang's connections, maybe there are a few waiting to join the feast of carving up the United States! It really can't be fought, even if the Chinese sink their own warships in front of themselves, they can only negotiate with them and protest in a loud voice, instead of fighting back like a man.

Liu Guangyuan, who was on the other side, looked at the American fleet that was not patrolling on the sea, and his arrogance soared, not only did not retreat, but continued to question the Americans arrogantly, and at the same time he sent a telegram to San Francisco asking for support if it was attacked by the American fleet, and Li He, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately led the fleet to set off, and the battleship Wuyi led a group of cruisers and destroyers, and slaughtered violently off the coast of San Diego.

Almost at the same time, the news of the Sino-US exchange of fire at sea also spread throughout the world with telegrams, because of the manipulation of the right to speak, the incident immediately became that the US destroyer released a drifting mine to attack the Chinese Navy's armored cruiser Tianshan, and the US Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet jointly besieged the Tianshan.

At the same time that Li He led the fleet to San Diego and began to confront the US military, the Puerto Rican American task force rushed out of San Juan and headed for the east coast of the United States in a menacing manner, and just as it was passing through Cuba, the Caribbean Fleet of the Spanish Navy sailed out of the port of Santiago to join the fleet on the grounds of fulfilling its alliance obligations, and then the German and Russian fleets stationed in Haiti and Dominica also sailed out of the military ports and began to go north to fulfill the obligations of the alliance.

On land, the Spanish army on the Florida border entered a state of imminent war, the Confederate Army entered a state of imminent war, Mexican President Santos announced the termination of the ongoing peace talks, and China was even more in a war clamor to punish the violent United States.

President Bryan in Washington is about to cry, not so bullying, it's just too unreasonable, even he who doesn't understand the Navy knows that if he really wants to take two mines in a row, not to mention armored cruisers, even battleships are scrapped, but neither he nor the US Navy can justify it, the destroyer has already gone to the bottom of the sea, and now there is no evidence for anything, even if the Chinese are unreasonable, they can only be next to each other.

The US fleet, which was facing off at sea, immediately received an order to strictly prohibit a new conflict with China, to withdraw directly to the San Diego military port, and to strictly prohibit any warships from leaving the port until a new order was received.

Fortunately, the Chinese fleet that confronted them did not stop the retreat of the American troops, but only watched them withdraw to San Diego, and then immediately blocked the military port outside.

At the same time, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued an ultimatum to the United States, giving a reasonable explanation within 48 hours for the US warship to attack the Chinese warship, otherwise China will regard the United States as taking the initiative to provoke war.

Of course, the Americans know what kind of reasonable explanation China needs, and the target for so many is nothing more than California, although the British are still instigating behind the scenes, but in the face of real threats, even if those senators who are affected by them have calmed down, they are not stupid, the British cannot really intervene in the war for the sake of the United States, in fact, they do not have the ability even if they want to, the war in South Africa is not over! Hundreds of thousands of British troops are fighting with the Boer guerrillas, Nigeria is also in rebellion, how can the British Empire manage others, not to mention the current Britain, it has to rely on Yang Feng to maintain their maritime superiority, compared with the British Empire's maritime hegemony, the United States is a fart. (To be continued......)