The sudden outbreak of war did not catch people off guard, it was like two children playing a game of dismantling sticks, in front of a bunch of houses made of sticks called 'peace', and both sides took turns to tear down a stick - everyone knew that the house would collapse sooner or later, but they didn't know when it would collapse.

When the cannon fire outside Mexico City rang out, the people living in Mexico City were able to sleep peacefully.

- After staying up for so long, it's finally time to see the difference!

- Fight, fight, wake up, maybe become an American!

The populace will never have a long memory, they think they are treasures, and both sides of the war are fighting for them.

But in reality, when they are useful, they are called 'consumables', and when they are useless, they can't even enter the statistics.

However, in the early hours of May 1, the people in Mexico City were somewhat lucky.

They even bravely opened the windows and admired the cannon fire on the walls through the gaps between the windows. At this time, there are no mobile phones, otherwise many people outside the war zone may be able to share their joy through live broadcasts.

The Spaniards have been operating in Mexico for more than 300 years, and they are reluctant to water it even a little fertilizer, except for plundering it as a raw material source.

If the colonists could have given a little more kindness, they would not have even been left with a person willing to stand up and defend the king's palace.

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Emperor Maximilian was only 16 years old, but he was an ambitious child. It's a pity that what he didn't know was that he called for the order of King Qin of the world, and as soon as he got out of the city wall, he was thrown into the stinky ditch.

He also called on his ministers to donate some money and food to the soldiers who were willing to defend Mexico City, but the ministers gave him hugs and tears.

Emperor Maximilian, furious, could not even find the guards to punish these ministers.

Marshal Miguel Miramón was the most trusted person of Emperor Maximilian, and he proposed three strategies to the emperor: the upper, middle and lower strategies, the upper strategy was surrender, the middle strategy was to break through, and the lower strategy was to resist.

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The emperor thought about it with his 16-year-old head and chose neither to surrender, nor to break through, nor to resist......

Poor Maximilian, as the younger brother of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, the role was already awkward: the elder brother was certainly reluctant to pass the throne to him, preferring to pass it on to his son; And many of his nephews naturally regarded him as an obstacle to the succession.

The person who loved him the most turned out to be a French - rumored to be the illegitimate son of Napoleon II!

And during this period, the French, who were about to go mad with nostalgia for the glory of the empire, took everything that bore the mark of 'Napoleon' as a holy relic, and even Napoleon's dragon roots were cut off by a mad priest.

It was because of this crazy rumor that 'Napoleon II was born illegally' that the French were not even willing to screen him more, and put him on the throne of the Emperor of Mexico.

Of course, there are also French Xiao Jiujiu, but France, which was suppressed to the extreme by the Vienna system, is like a hungry beast at this time, but if there is a little smell of meat, I want to lick it.

Not to mention, when the French forces withdrew from the Americas, as an old yinbi, there were also many back doors.

One of them is the mess of mercenaries on the Caribbean coast, liberals, conservatives, and a bunch of political dreamers who want a republic today and a federation tomorrow......

Whether it was the Habsburgs or the Napoleonic family, he was fed one sugar pill after another, which was wrapped in poison. It's a pity that he is so happy!

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In a way, the Mexican people were really happy during this period.

Whether it's the Spaniards or the French, treat them like ......

Let's put it this way, the Mexican people want a president, Spain will give them a president, wholesale, 12 a year, it's not the same!

The Mexican people wanted an emperor, and France gave them an emperor, or a noble Habsburg bloodline, and gave it to an empress, and then to a group of generals and marshals, and even to the army France!

The Mexican people want parliamentarians, and they have to give it! Parliamentarians come from all over the world, from all European countries, even Belgians can be parliamentarians here, and there are so many parliamentarians that they can't fit in the parliament!

The Mexican people have what they want!

The love from the European colonial powers has made Mexico grow like a blooming flower, and the neighbors to the north are jealous and want to go crazy - the lovely people of Mexico deserve more love from the American Federation!

It's just that everything in the world is secretly marked with a price.

Mexico had the largest silver mine in the world at the time, and none of the silver produced here was used by the Mexicans themselves.

Mexico has cotton fields and corn fields all over the mountains, and not a single cotton or corn is worn on Mexicans or eaten in their own stomachs.

Mexico sits on a series of ports in the Gulf of Mexico, and shiploads of black slaves pass under its nose, but Mexico has to buy black slaves from the French, the British, or the Americans.

No one denies that Mexico was an independent country at this time.

But anyone will find it strange that this TM is also an independent country?

In the history of another time and space, the Great Qing Kingdom in the Far East, on the eve of his imminent destruction, sent a lone warship here, and even received a compensation of 30 million pesos - the Great Qing Kingdom can not only declare war on the Eighteen Kingdoms, but also really have the time to exalt overseas!

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Zachary Taylor staged a famous painting of 'Baby Beating' under Mexico City.

Maybe he'll hit fifteen times, maybe not, after all, it's just started on May 1st. And on Mexican territory at this time, it is not only the American Union Army that needs to make a choice.

In El Paso, it's also time for old Crockett to make a choice.

Two armies from the Indian Union, one on the left and one on the right, were pinned on either side of El Paso, and they also gave Old Crockett an ultimatum:

"War or peace, before 0:00 on May 1st, the El Paso Legion must make a choice!"

Old Crockett knew that there was actually a third Indian army on its way south.

The current El Paso Regiment was actually disbanded when the Republic of Texas decided to join the American Union.

The only reason why the Legion was still retained was because it all happened so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, Texas went from a republic to Texas, and then Texas became a Republic of Texas.

The soldiers of the El Paso Legion, who had not yet had time to hand in their weapons, remained in the camp waiting for the federal government of America to pay them retirement benefits......

And old Crockett, who has held out on to this stormy American-Mexican border for so many years, has been waiting for orders from faraway France.

That's right, he is also one of the back doors left over from the days of the French Empire.

Colonel Crockett the Elder, until now, has been waiting for the order of his supreme emperor.