Chapter 66: The Return After the Destruction of the Alliance

After returning to the headquarters of the Sike Alliance, Logan continued his firearms training, while Fawkes continued to follow the trail of the Cross, and everything seemed to be fine. After a week like this, Logan had fully mastered the diffraction skills and the rough laws of time, and he began the final layout in this world.

Using the Soviets' rat-bomb technology, Rogan made thousands of rat bombs like the original plot character Wesley, don't ask where the rats come from, because there are really not too many rats in the sewers of Europe for more than half a century.

Taking advantage of Fawkes' outing, Logan knocked the Soviets unconscious, placed him in safety, and released all the rats with bombs at the Union headquarters. Suddenly the Coalition was in flames, and the Assassin organization, which had been running for centuries, was largely extinct in name only, with only five or six top-notch personnel remaining, including Sloane, the Butcher, and the Gun Maker.

Sloan saw Logan behind him and asked sadly, "Why?" Why are you destroying all righteousness! ”

"Justice?" Logan looked at Sloan amusedly, "Justice here is just for you!" Don't you know how many dirty things you have secretly done for your own selfishness? ”

"Who the hell are you?" Sloane shouted in fear.

"Does it matter who I am?"

"Has the Cross always been associated with you?" Sloan asked angrily.

Logan looked at the embarrassed Sloan and sneered: "Only an old bastard like you would come up with a cannibalistic drama for father and son, but I'm not Wesley, I'm just a passerby, if it weren't for the peace and tranquility of Fox's life, I wouldn't want to destroy this alliance that should have been eliminated a long time ago." ”

After all, Sloan is a big man like a hero, it is impossible to tie his hands, he pulled out his gun and began to shoot at Logan, he didn't believe that his life's actual combat experience was no better than Rogan who had only twenty days of training, but unfortunately he underestimated Logan's strength, which was destined to be a tragedy. Even without the use of guns and the laws of time, Logan was able to kill Sloane with his own force alone.

Seeing Logan twist his waist and bend over, the bullets fired by Sloan were easily avoided by Rogan, and at the same time, Logan also began to draw his gun and shoot back, and the rounding bullets easily hit the last of five or six members of the alliance such as Sloane, the butcher and the gunmaker with the blessing of the law of time.

Logan collected all the guns and ammunition from the Alliance headquarters, put all the items into the space-time bead, and finally when Logan came to the Destiny Loom, stared at the machine for a long time, and when he was about to turn away, the space-time bead ran out and covered the Destiny Loom, which began to decay at a speed visible to the naked eye, until a breeze blew through and turned into a wisp of dust.

At this time, a huge pressure appeared, followed by lightning and thunder, because of the experience of the previous world, Logan knew that his actions had triggered the Heavenly Dao. He immediately communicated with the space-time beads, and after a halo, Logan left the plane and returned to the Marvel world. Unbeknownst to Logan, just a second after he left, a huge lightning bolt blasted itself into a crater about ten meters deep.

Rogan was generally satisfied with this time and space travel, but the final accident made him stay in the bedroom for several days, and at the same time made Logan make up his mind that he would not take the liberty of traveling without full control of the time and space beads.

When Logan calmed down and refined the space-time bead, he was pleasantly surprised, it turned out that the fate loom itself carried a trace of the law of cause and effect, and after the space-time bead absorbed this law of cause and effect, its prohibition increased from thirty-two layers to thirty-three layers, and it seemed that the world harvest of the Assassin Alliance was quite large.

When the time came to 1861, Logan's peaceful life was shattered, and he had to stop everything and start planning his next life in the Marvel world.

After more than ten years of hard work, Logan has become a powerful party, although he deliberately hides it, but he has still been valued and invited by Abraham Lincoln, who has just been elected president, in addition to Rogan's own brokerage strength, his escort team of more than 1,000 people is also an important factor, after all, this escort team is selected from the orphans of various colors adopted by Logan, after brainwashing and Logan's personal training, plus the most advanced breech-loading rifles and cannons provided by his own arms company at this time, It can be said that he is armed to the teeth, and he forgot to explain that Rogan was already a famous steel and coal and arms tycoon in the north at this time.

After receiving Lincoln's invitation, Logan did not move forward, but sent his captain of the escort team with 200 people and arms that could arm a division to meet Lincoln, after all, it was American's own war, as Logan, who was a descendant of China in his bones, he was not interested in participating in it, but the necessary political investment still had to be made.

After the independence of the United States, the South and the North developed along two different paths.

In the North, the capitalist economy developed rapidly, and from the 20s of the 19th century, the industrial revolution began in the northern and central states, which was completed in the 50s.

In 1860, North China's industrial production ranked fourth in the world, with a total output value of $1.88 billion.

In the South, there was a system of black slavery on the plantations, and there were 4 million black slaves in the South in 1860. Slavery in the South was a tumor growing in American society, which seriously suffocated the development of industry and commerce in the North, and the contradictions and struggles between the North and the South became increasingly fierce since the beginning of the 19th century.

The struggle revolved mainly around the western lands. The North demanded the development of capitalism in the western region, limiting or even prohibiting the expansion of slavery; The South sought to extend slavery in the West and even throughout the country. By the 50s of the 19th century, the contradictions between the two sides had led to armed conflicts in some areas. In the face of the advance of the slave owners, the people of the north launched a huge "abolition movement", and the black slaves in the south also continued to riot. Driven by the people's struggle, the northern bourgeoisie began to advocate the abolition of slavery.

In 1854 the Republican Party was founded in the North. In the same year, Southern slave owners attempted to extend slavery to Kansas by force, and an armed struggle broke out in Kansas against Western farmers and immigrants from the Free States against Southern slave owners, which continued until 1856, kicking off the Civil War.

In 1857, slave owners used the Scott verdict to attempt to extend slavery to all U.S. territories, leading to the John Brown Revolt.

In 1860, Lincoln, a Republican who advocated the abolition of slavery, was elected president, and Southern slaveholders rebelled. The southern slave states became independent, and the seven southern states withdrew from the Union, forming the "Union of American States" in February 1861, with Richmond as the capital and Davis as president. On April 12-14 of the same year, the Confederate forces preemptively captured the fortress of Sumter, and the civil war broke out.

At the beginning of the war, the strength of the North greatly exceeded that of the South, with a population of 22.34 million in 23 northern states and only 9.1 million in seven southern states, of which more than 3.8 million were black slaves. The North has a well-developed industry with an annual output of $1.5 billion, 1.3 million workers, a 22,000-mile rail network and an abundance of food, while the South has a weak industry with an annual output of $15.5 million, only 110,000 workers and only 9,000 miles of railroads.

But the South was well prepared militarily. Thanks to the recently concluded Mexican-American War, the Southern army was highly qualified, with experienced commanders and assistance from Britain and France. Moreover, on the eve of the civil war, President J. Buchanan (an agent of the slave owners) had managed to send large quantities of weapons and money to the South. The South wants to defeat the North with a quick victory.

April 1861 to September 1862 was the "Limited War" phase. Both sides concentrated their forces on the eastern battlefield and fought fiercely for the other side's capital. The commander of the southern army was Robert Lee, an outstanding military strategist, who, in light of the disparity in strength between the two sides, formulated a strategy of attacking and defending, concentrating his forces to find and destroy the main force of the northern army, and forcing the north to sign an alliance under the city. The North's lack of preparation for war led to the so-called "Great Serpent Plan", which spread its forces on an 8,000-mile-long front, and the passive tactics of the sympathetic slave-owner commander McClelland, which caused the Northern army to suffer one defeat after another.

The Lincoln administration fought in the early stages of the Civil War to restore the unity of the North and the South, fearing that triggering slavery would push some of the border slave states over the side of the Southern rebels, thus losing the border states as an important strategic area. Because the northern government refused to declare the emancipation of the slaves. Thus, in the first phase of the civil war, the North suffered a series of military defeats.

In July 1861, the Battle of Manassas was held in the Eastern Theater. On July 21, the North launched an offensive on the southern capital, Richmond, with 35,000 Northern troops marching to Richmond in a neat formation to the sound of military music. Because the North had made a big fuss in advance and believed that the Southern Army was vulnerable, and since it was a Saturday, many citizens of Birch Shengton, members of Congress, and reporters dressed in costumes, brought their wives and belts, and carried baskets containing picnics.

The 22,000 troops of the South lined up at the railway junction of Manassas. The Northern Army attacked the Southern Army amid the cheers of the spectators, and the heavy artillery fire shrouded the Southern positions in smoke. The Northern Army then crossed the Boer River and attacked the opposite bank. Who would have thought that the commander of the Confederate Army was the famous General Thomas Jackson, who commanded calmly and repelled five charges of the Northern Army, so he received the reputation of "Stonewall". The battle was fierce, and because the uniforms of the two sides were almost identical, it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe for a while, and the battlefield was chaotic. Soon, 9,000 reinforcements from the Southern Army arrived and launched a counteroffensive. The untrained Northern army was on the verge of collapse, leaving behind a large number of guns and ammunition and fled back to Huashengton. In this battle, the northern army lost 3,000 soldiers, and the southern army lost less than 2,000.

In 1862, the war became more intense. Lincoln ordered a general attack with an army of 500,000 on February 22. The Northern Army won successive victories on the Western Front, almost opening up the Mississippi River, the main artery between the north and the south. The Navy also conquered New Orleans, the largest port in the South. But in the Eastern Theater, the Northern Army suffered another crushing defeat. The commander of the Northern Army, McClelland, had 100,000 heavy troops, but he did not move for several months, because he took the enemy's 50,000 horses for 150,000. Later, at the urging of Lincoln, the "Peninsula Campaign" was launched in an attempt to capture Richmond.

Robert Lee led the Confederate army to meet the attack. From June 25 to July 1, Lee's 90,000 troops and 100,000 troops of the Northern Army launched the "Seven-Day Battle", Li maneuvered to find fighters, mobilized the Northern Army, and then found the weak links of the Northern Army to launch an attack, driving the Northern Army out of the peninsula near Richmond, causing the Northern Army to lose 16,500 men and the Southern Army to lose 20,000 men, but strategically won the victory in defending the capital.

Li Chengsheng went north, and at the end of August, he fought the Second Battle of Manassas with the Northern Army. The Southern Army had 54,000 men and the Northern Army 80,000. Li Gaochao's conducting art was brought into full play. He attracted the main force of the Northern Army to the position with a small force, and the main force maneuvered, launched an attack from the flanks and rear, and then attacked from the front and flanks, defeating the Northern Army in one fell swoop. The Northern Army suffered 14,000 casualties and 7,000 prisoners. The southern army was under the city of Shengdun in Hua. The Northern Army withstood the offensive of the Li Army in September at the Battle of Antitam.

In terms of naval warfare, although the navy of the North had an overwhelming advantage, the armored warships of the South also caused great trouble for the North.

Although the Northern Army achieved a series of brilliant victories on the Western Front and seized several important strategic positions from the Southern Army, these gains were offset by the crushing defeat on the Eastern Front. In the face of repeated military defeats in the North, radicals within the Republican Party and abolitionists in society advocated the emancipation of slaves and the arming of blacks. Lincoln was also aware of the need to emancipate slaves.

In 1862, the Northern Army launched an offensive, and the Western Front was under the command of Grant, which progressed well, capturing Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February, defeating the Confederate Army at the Battle of Charlotte in April 1862, capturing Corinthian and Memphis in May 1862, liberating Kentucky and Tennessee. On the Eastern Front, the Northern Army was slow to advance, and in July 1862 it was routed by the Southern Army under the command of Robert Lee, and Lee marched north with victory, and in August 1862 defeated the Northern Army again at the Boer River, and in September 1862 the two armies fought the Battle of Antitam, and Lee was repulsed. In December, the Northern Army was again defeated by Lee at the Battle of Fort Frederisk.

On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preparatory emancipation proclamation. It was proclaimed that if the Southern rebels did not lay down their arms before January 1, 1863, slaves in the rebellious states would be freed from that date. When the news reached the South, thousands of slaves fled to the North. The British working class also launched a pro-North movement, forcing the British government to abandon its original plan of intervention.

The war entered the "revolutionary war phase" from September 1862.

The Lincoln administration also implemented a series of revolutionary measures and policies:

In 1862~1863, the policy of arming blacks was implemented. As a result, thousands of blacks signed up for the Northern army, mostly Southern fugitive slaves; The Homestead Act, enacted in May 1862, provided that all adults loyal to the Union could receive 64.74 hectares of land in the West for a registration fee of $10, and after five years of cultivation on the land, they could become owners. The Lincoln administration severely suppressed counter-revolutionaries and purged the military of Southern agents.

In 1863, a conscription law was introduced to replace conscription and to strengthen the forces of the North. At the same time, Lincoln adjusted the military leadership structure, implemented unified command, and appointed Grant, who had outstanding military talents, as the commander-in-chief of the whole army.

On New Year's Day 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which emancipated the black slaves and allowed blacks to join the Northern Army, and later promulgated the Homestead Act, which allowed all Americans to acquire land in the West. In May of the same year, the Northern Army attacked Richmond again, and was repulsed by Lee at Chesroville. On 22 May, the Northern Army launched a general offensive and carried out artillery bombardment for 47 days, and in June Lee again advanced north.

On 1 July 1863, the two armies fought a decisive battle at Gettysburg, and on 3 July the Confederates were defeated. The loss of 28,000 men by the Southern Army became a turning point in the civil war, and the initiative on the battlefield was transferred to the Northern Army. At the same time as Lee advanced northward, Grant encircled the Confederate fortress of Fort Vicks, which was defending the Mississippi River, on the Western Front, and the Confederate surrendered on 4 July. On 8 July, the Northern Army occupied Port Hudson, and the Southern Army was divided into eastern and western parts. In September, the Northern Army captured Chattanooga, and in November repelled the counterattack of the Southern Army.

In 1864, the Supreme Commander of the North adopted a new strategic approach and launched a powerful offensive on both the eastern and western fronts. On the Eastern Front, the main goal was the depletion of enemy forces; On the Western Front, with strong forces, penetrate deep into the enemy's hinterland and cut off the northeast and southwest of the "Southern Alliance".

In September 1864, General Sherman's Northern Army captured Atlanta in one fell swoop, and two months later began the famous "March to the Sea", in which it completely destroyed all kinds of enemy military installations, dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's economic power, and paralyzed the Southern economy. On the Eastern Front, General Grant led the Northern Army to drive the enemy near the rebellious "capital" of Richmond.

At the beginning of 1865, slaves fled and the plantation economy was on the verge of collapse. The naval blockade imposed by the Northern Navy almost cut off trade between the South and Europe. At the same time, there was opposition within the South, and many small farmers joined the "Federalists" in anti-war activities. Deserters from the south are on the rise. Food and daily necessities are scarce.

On April 9, 1865, Lee's forces were besieged by the Northern Army and were forced to surrender to Grant. The Civil War ended. The United States is restored.