Chapter 593: Ultimatum

"Hey! Boy, don't think about being a fool here, your barracks are all burned! An American sailor standing on the ship's side deck shouted at the British soldiers lined up on the shore.

"Second Lieutenant, you'd better take care of your open-mouthed sailors!" A British lieutenant said to an ensign in the Eagle Sauce Navy who led people to confront him.

"Well, well, Mr. Lieutenant, I'll admit that our sailors were rude, but there's no denying that they're telling the truth, well, maybe it's not just your barracks that started the fire." Eagle Sauce's lieutenant said with a mocking expression.

"Hmph, you are indulging the provocations of those sailors, and we will not take any responsibility for the escalation of the conflict caused by this!" The lieutenant of the British army threatened.

"Oh, I'm skeptical of your prediction of the situation, there shouldn't be any more escalation, and soon you'll be ordered to participate in the firefighting, ahaha!" The unicorn-flagged warship has blocked the mouth of Victoria Bay, and I don't believe you still have the leisure to provoke us, the second lieutenant of Eagle Sauce muttered in his heart.

"Well, hopefully you've scraped together enough paint for the president's residence!" The British lieutenant, who had been choked twice, also entered the taunting mode.

"Damn the British, one day you'll pay for what you've done!" Ensign Eagle Sauce, who had been trampled on a sore foot, said and spat in the open space between the two sides.

This British ensign's presidential residence is what later generations often call the White House, well, this Eagle Sauce will not call it that, until the legendary President Theodore of Eagle Sauce in 1902. That's what Roosevelt called it after it was officially named the White House.

When the White House was first built, its walls weren't the same color as they are now, it was still a brown-red building. It's just that about 80 years ago, Eagle Sauce wanted to take advantage of John Bull and the Emperor's hard work to take care of North American affairs to swallow Canada, but in the end, the stone he lifted hit his own foot, and the combined forces of the Maple Leaf and John Bull invaded Washington and set fire to the Capitol and the presidential residence.

Later, in order to cover up the traces of the fire on the building, Hawk-chan painted the original brown-red stone walls of the presidential residence white.

So the sentence shouted by the British lieutenant is indeed very glassy with eagle sauce, swallowing it is not the opposite, it is already very embarrassing to be by someone, the capital was captured, and he was meowed to the president's residence, which is really embarrassing and thrown to grandma's house.

Seeing the ensign leading the team spitting on the ground, the American sailors with guns also spat on the open space to express their anger after being provoked.

And the American sailors standing on the side of the warship, although they could not hear the heart-piercing lines of the British lieutenant, saw their comrades in front of them spitting on the ground and cheered excitedly.

Of course, there was still some distance from the warship to the dock where the United States and Britain confronted each other, and those eagle-chanted sailors who shouted jugular veins were not stinging snakes and could not spit saliva there.

However, this did not prevent these sailors from joining the ranks of the "counterattack" against the British army, and these guys picked up the debris they could find and threw them into the open space between the two armies, first potatoes, rotten tomatoes, apple cores and other objects with little lethality, and then some people began to throw hard objects such as tin cans and empty wine bottles at the British army.

Among these sailors who threw debris to vent their anger, there were also a few "clever ghosts" who increased the intensity of their throwing with the law and did not blame the public, and soon the landing point of the debris thrown was not limited to the open space between the two sides.

In a short time, several British soldiers were recruited, and one of them was cut on his forehead by a splash of broken glass, and his bright red appearance looked quite scary.

Some British soldiers who were standing farther away saw that some of their comrades had suffered "heavy losses" and moved the bolts of their guns without receiving orders from the officers, hoping to deter the other side from continuing to throw debris.

As the so-called wiping gun misfire, you have nothing to do and love to pull the bolt, then most likely it will go off. No, when a British soldier subconsciously used the loaded rifle in his hand to block a canned food box flying towards him, the trigger was pulled by him.

Bang! A single shot rang out, and in the moments when both sides of the standoff had no time to check for casualties, more gunfire rang out.

"Your Excellency, the Americans have done it!" The adjutant ran into the bunker and reported to Bully about the exchange of fire between the British and Americans on the other side of the dock.

"We have long received information that the Americans will cooperate with the Great Song in military operations, but Your Excellency the Commander insists that they will abide by the promise of the US-Song Mutual Defense Treaty to cover only the South Pacific!" Locke said sourly on the side.

After Robinson was captured, Bu Li was under a lot of pressure to take advantage of the military power and Locke, after all, according to the law, Locke, the acting governor, should be in full control of the overall situation. If he really had a brilliant performance in the battle against the Great Song people, it would be easy to expose this matter, but once the war was unfavorable, then this ironclad would definitely make him the scapegoat.

At this time, the news came one after another pointed to his many misjudgments about the situation, as for the next battle, as long as he is not a fool, he can see that it will develop towards a big unfavorable situation, Bu Li is also a little panicked at this time, and his strong desire to survive is constantly encouraging him to make more radical choices, in order to reverse the current passive situation of the British army.

"Let the Americans hand over all their weapons within an hour, and if they fail to do so, we will shoot their warships anchored in the harbor!" Brie said to the adjutant.

Previously, after Robinson received the "important information" brought back by the intelligence officers with the three knives and obtained from Wang Shengyu's wonderful performance, he immediately sent troops to the dock, and at the same time, he also put forward a series of requirements such as boarding the ship and searching for Eagle Sauce.

If Robinson's actions led to tensions between Britain and the United States and military friction, then Buli's order was tantamount to a declaration of war on Eagle Sauce.

By the time Buli's order reached the docks, the exchange of fire between the two sides had already ended, after all, it was a shootout caused by a misunderstanding, and soon the shooting stopped under the pressure of the officers on both sides.

After this crackling firefight, there were casualties on both sides of the fire, but Eagle Sauce was still counting on the British army who fired first to give an explanation.

"Hand over all your weapons in an hour?" Eagle Sauce Yangzhou Fleet Commander George. Dewey snatched the document containing the ultimatum of the British army from the adjutant's hand.

Du went crazy when he heard the news, he was detained for a few months for no reason, and now he has to end up handing over all his weapons.

However, the fleet anchorage was surrounded by British batteries, and his own ships could not be moved because of the large iron chains resting on the sea, and if he did not accept the conditions of the British army, his own ships would all sink in this harbor.

"Your Excellency, Commander, there are fifteen minutes to go, and the Americans still haven't said anything." The adjutant trotted all the way into the bunker.

Are Americans so tough? Am I really going to give the order to open fire? Bu Li's heart is also very entangled, because the telegraph office was bombed by the crossing, he can't get in touch with the higher-ranking British officials, if he orders the cannons, then he will have to take the responsibility of fighting Eagle Sauce alone.

However, the Eagle Sauce Asian Fleet faced the same problem, and since it was impossible to communicate with China by telegraph or telephone, the senior officers of the fleet were also controversial about whether to surrender their weapons to the British.

Some people believe that Washington's interpretation that the US-Song Mutual Defense Treaty applies only to the South Pacific is indicative of the attitude of the United States towards the Sog-Ying war for a long time to come, and that it would be wiser to hand over weapons to the British to avoid being drawn into the Sog-Ying conflict.

However, there are still some people who believe that the British are unlikely to make enemies for themselves at the juncture of the Great Song army's oppression, and the so-called ultimatum is just a trick to scare them.

Dewey was a little wavering at this point, and finally he decided to reply to the British, if the situation was really as some officers would say, the British were just scaremongering, then when the time for the ultimatum was running out, the British would probably take the initiative to lower the conditions.

"Your Excellency General, our observation post in Davis Ridge has found two more warships belonging to the Great Song Dynasty, and the advance ship of the Great Song people has begun to move in the direction of the bay again." The adjutant who had gone to negotiate with the Americans had not yet breathed his breath, and another officer ran in to report to Buli the news of the approaching "Sea Giant" and the "Dreadnought 2"-class destroyer.