When the armored troops of the Expeditionary Force's Honorable Red First Division swept across the battlefield with iron streams, this risky US army was doomed to have no return, no matter how fast the human legs were, they could not be faster than 4 wheels, not to mention the Mi officers and soldiers who had no fighting spirit now.

What people didn't expect

Except for a small number of US armored vehicles bravely rushed towards the enemy, most of the armored vehicles obediently stopped and surrendered.

The U.S. troops in the battlefield were encircled, and the Fifth Division used its own stubborn resistance to buy time for the army to calmly dispatch.

This one-sided battle lasted for several hours before it ended, but it took two full days to clean up the battlefield, killing more than 30,000 enemies, capturing nearly 50,000 enemies, capturing more than 410 armored vehicles of various types, and destroying more than 200 vehicles.

More than 400 artillery pieces of various types, 67,000 rifles, various short guns and a number of supplies were captured, and an unprecedented victory was achieved.

The Fifth Division suffered heavy losses in this battle, with nearly 17,400 casualties, most of whom were killed in battle, and the remaining more than 7,000 people were almost all wounded (not counted).

On the other hand, the Fourth Division suffered only more than 3,400 casualties, only more than 1,000 killed, and the other more than 20,000 officers and soldiers all had good arms and legs, jumping around, but they lost all their equipment in the battle.

Lieutenant General Duan Qixiang (formerly known as Qirui) was quite satisfied with this result, and it happened that the 5th Division was also disabled, so he arranged for the 5th Division to take care of nearly 50,000 meters of prisoners while resting and waiting for replenishment.

As for the fact that the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army was defeated in a battle and delayed the friendly forces, Lieutenant General Duan Qixiang only severely reprimanded him, and then did not follow up.

After all, he is only the deputy commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and he has no authority to deal with the high-ranking generals of the armies of various countries participating in the coalition forces, which also involves sensitive diplomacy and the face of the host country, so it is difficult to investigate deeply.

Anyway, whoever takes the child back will take care of it, this can't be wrong.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force praised the tenacious performance of the 5th Division, and the relevant commendations and high praise were transmitted back to Fuso Province, which immediately caused a huge social sensation, and even Emperor Fuso, who had not appeared for a long time, attended the commendation ceremony of the Army Headquarters in Tokyo with joy, and felt a special brilliance on his face.

The Ocean Empire is the leading big brother in the entire Pacific region, one of the world's top powers, leading the Allied forces that bring together the Thirteen Powers to fight in North America.

In this day and age

Fuso is so strong and wants to save face, and is desperately hoping to be taken seriously by the powers of the world, this allied general order from Chicago is of great significance, and the public opinion media of Fuso country collectively got high, and reported;

"The Ocean Empire Expeditionary Force, which is recognized by the world as having reached the top level of combat power, said;

I greatly appreciate and admire the high spirit of sacrifice and tenacious fighting spirit displayed by the Fifth Division. This is a high evaluation of the Imperial Army, and it is also the most authoritative evaluation so far, representing the high recognition of the Yamato nation by the world's top powers, which is of great significance.

Not to mention the self-congratulatory of the Fuso media, at about 10 o'clock in the morning of October 8, 1909, the second day of the defeat of the "Battle of Chicago's Western Suburbs", more than 400,000 American troops in Chicago gave up resistance and officially announced their unconditional surrender.

As soon as this shocking news was announced, it immediately shocked the world.

reported by the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung;

The surrender of more than 400,000 heavy troops of the American army gathered in Chicago and the war of the 13-nation coalition in North America was only one step away from final victory, which is undoubtedly exciting news, which means that the North American continent is about to usher in a long-lost peace.

Before that

The diametrically opposed performance of the two divisions of the Fuso Army left a deep impression on the commanders of the expeditionary forces, and I have to say that this is really a contradictory nation.

The Times reported;

Ocean Kingdom proudly picked up the crucial point of victory and controlled the tempo for the rest of the game, which raises doubts about whether he has more ambitions for North America, which remains to be seen.

It's weird

Where is the Mi Federal Army, which was able to overcome difficulties and obstacles in the War of Independence and the American Civil War, silently suffered huge casualties, and still unswervingly pursued democracy, freedom and justice?

More than 400,000 people surrendered, which is really spectacular!

The poisonous tongue of the British media once again played a role in fanning the flames, and all kinds of brain-opening ideas emerged one after another, some called the "rice cowboy" "rice country broiler", and some imagined; If Chicago were to become a large Washington, the Allied casualties would be 100,000.

Perhaps the Allies, after suffering a heavy setback, could not fight and retreated.

The New York Times lamented;

This is the "second dark day" after the fall of Washington, D.C., the door has been kicked open, the legion of Satan has stopped at the doorstep, and the beacon of democracy and freedom will fall to hell forever.

Receiving more than 400,000 U.S. troops to surrender and receiving an international metropolis with a population of more than 2 million is no small matter, and the headquarters of the Imperial Expeditionary Force has been busy for more than a month, and finally on New Year's Day in 1910, the relevant affairs have been roughly sorted out.

Before that

With the aftermath of the shocking news of the Battle of Chicago still not yet digested, more than 500,000 troops attacked in four directions, attacking the city all the way, and taking all the major industrial towns in the Great Lakes region one by one.

Among them, the most brilliant is Li Jianyang, the colonel of the British Expeditionary Force, who led a cavalry of more than 3,000 people to gallop through the starry night, and arrived in Detroit, the second largest industrial town in the Great Lakes region, in only two and a half days.

I have to say that when it comes to taking advantage of the situation, Li Jianyang is definitely the leader of the younger generation.

His performance has also won praise from the British press, calling him "an outstanding representative of the British Army", "one of the best graduates of the Royal Sanchester Military Academy", "in the military field, he has a natural keen sense of smell", and "as a good friend, won a home run for Mr. Churchill". ”

To be honest, the British media, which has always been bitter and mean, rarely boast about a person like this, and Li Jianyang finally cleared his mark as a fortunate minister with his outstanding performance, and became one of the outstanding officers of the British Royal Army.

And all this was won by himself.

Under the repeated heavy blows in the military field, the serious destruction of industrial production, and the complete paralysis of the economy under the suffocation of the Atlantic trade noose, the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, under the coercion of the interest groups headed by the big capitalists in China, had to retreat from the firm position of fighting to the death, and on December 7, 1909, he publicly announced that he would admit defeat and agree that many European countries led by France would participate in mediation and hold negotiations in Paris.

Li Fushou, the monarch of the Ocean Empire, vetoed it, saying that negotiations could be held, but he would not go to Paris, which was thousands of miles away, San Francisco and Panama City were good, but if it didn't work, Guangzhou could also be done.

San Francisco and Panama are in fact both former territories or dependent states of the United States, and negotiations in the above-mentioned places are extremely inappropriate and have a strong insulting nature, which is absolutely unacceptable to the United States.

After several discussions, the final venue for negotiations was determined in Guangzhou.

It was mid-February 1910, shortly after the Lunar New Year.

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Li Fushou summoned a group of ministers who went to Guangzhou to negotiate, and he was now full of spring breeze, and his body was slightly blessed, and he seemed to be in a very good mood when he talked and laughed.

"Ali, you just go and talk, after March, the empire will have 260,000 reinforcements to arrive in North America, and when a million troops will gather, this will put strong pressure on the Mi Guokees. We will fully support the independence of the Republic of Virginia, and as for Florida at both ends of the first rat, they will not care about him, and they will definitely regret it when they see the huge war compensation. Li Fushou explained with a smile.

Zhang Li bowed and replied; "The minister will not fail in his mission."

"Hahaha...... Okay, those guys in Europe have their own ghosts, sometimes it's easy to say what you say, the more you contribute, the more you will divide the amount of compensation, and those who drag back will share less or mean it, don't just think about good things. ”

"I understand."

The head of the delegation to the negotiations was Zhang Li, Minister of Finance, and Tang Zhaoyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied him as deputy head of the delegation.

The reason why Finance Minister Zhang Li served as the head of the delegation was inseparable from the negotiation objectives of the trip, the most important of which was to demand huge war reparations, with a total amount of tens of billions of dollars.

This is an unprecedentedly high war reparation, and it can be said that the lion has opened his mouth.

In the end, the amount negotiated will definitely not be so high, and there are 13 countries to share, but the Ocean Empire will get the lion's share without surprise, accounting for more than 6~7%.

Why not more than 9 percent?

That kind of food is too ugly, since dragging European countries to participate in the war together, it is an abacus to spend money to buy roads, at least Britain and Germany are not small money to be spent, and they always have to pay a lot of blood.

Fortunately, this blood was produced by the people of the United States, and the Ocean Empire was purely generous to others.

The North American victory has been decided, and the East Warm Pavilion is full of joy.

In particular, Admiral Liu Shan, who was full of red light, kept smiling from ear to ear, he had already decided to confer the title of marquis, and his fief was in Utah, the Northern Union, which was about 70 kilometers away from Salt Lake City, a large area of pastures with mountains and rivers, with an area of more than 100 square kilometers.

The officers and men of the expeditionary force who participated in the North American expedition this time have started the preliminary work of evaluating the merits of the meritorious service, the conferring of the field of the field, and the knighthood of the knighthood.

But this was only in the hands of the upper echelons of the empire, and it was not officially communicated to the whole army, because the war was not completely over.

Although the rice guy is sitting at the negotiating table, who knows if it will have a convulsion?