"President, Mr. President, are you alright?"

"President, you have to resist!"

"President, do you want to call the vice president and ask him to come over?"

Andrew. Jackson would have been dizzy if it weren't for Secretary of the Navy John Brown. Blanche had been ready to help him, and he might have collapsed. But when the president of the United States heard the advice of his subordinates to ask Vice President Calhoun to come over, he immediately stopped fainting. Can't be dizzy! Calhoun is not a self-serving vice president, the previous Eaton scandal and the cabinet were all provoked by this vice president. Andrew. If Jackson had handed over power to Calhoun and gone to heal himself, he might have come to an end as president.

"I'm fine! I'm fine." Andrew. Jackson propped up the table with one hand, barely holding his body, and then said to his cabinet members in a calm voice: "Gentlemen, the war has just begun!" The loss of a couple of armored cruisers is nothing at all for the United States, because our shipyards will soon be able to make up for the losses. The most important thing now is to stabilize people's minds, and we cannot let the outside world know about the losses of the Navy. John, the Admiralty must declare victory to the outside world. Let's just say that we sank six Mexican armored cruisers, lost three Pennsylvania-class, and repelled the remaining Mexican fleet, protecting the East Coast!

Plus, declare that America's invincible Army will liberate all of Texas! ”

"Yes, Mr. President."

After talking about the soothing nonsense, Andrew. Jackson suddenly remembered something, "What about the battleships of the Atlantic Fleet?" Where are they? They won't"

Now that the U.S. Navy's patrol force has almost been defeated, the battleships can't repeat the mistakes of the past!

"Rest assured, Mr. President, that Rear Admiral Perry's detachment is sailing along the East Coast to Baltimore on the orders of the Naval Staff. The remnants of the battle patrol detachment of the Atlantic Fleet are also being withdrawn to Baltimore. There is a greater distance from the Atlantic coastline and it is possible to hide from enemy carrier-based aircraft. "John. "To ensure their safety, the Admiralty also sent a large number of airships into the air to patrol the coastal areas of the East Coast in order to detect enemy aircraft-carrying warships in advance," Blanche said. This will allow our battleships to change course in time to move away from the enemy's aircraft-carrying battleships. ”

Fortunately, the current carrier-based aircraft do not have enough range, and the combat radius is only 100 kilometers, so as long as more airships are sent to reconnoiter and discover the fleet of the Texas Sea in advance, they can be far away.

Andrew. Jackson breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "So what will happen to these battleships and armored cruisers in the future?" Hiding in Baltimore all the time? ”

"Of course not all the time in hiding," said John. "Mr. President, the shipyards in Baltimore can retrofit the Atlantic Fleet's battleships, battle cruisers, and strengthen their air defense and deck armor so that they are better protected against threats from the air," Blanche said. ”

"Will anti-aircraft guns and thick decks do the trick?" Andrew. Jackson was skeptical.

"Of course not," said John. "But our shipyards are already speeding up the construction of enterprise-class aircraft-carrying armored cruisers." ”

Andrew. Jackson frowned and said, "It's wartime now, and we can't grind anymore." Let the Baltimore factory work overtime. The enterprise class must have one in service by the end of May next year! The U.S. Army will need a few more months to mobilize and prepare, launching a full-scale offensive on Texas in the second quarter of next year, and should be able to advance around Texas City in May. When the time comes, the Navy must dispatch enough ships to cooperate with the Army to capture Texas City! As long as we capture Texas City, we will win more than half of the war with Mexico! ”

Andrew. Jackson, the military president, is still very clear about the military capabilities of the Mexican Empire! The basic plate that this country can rely on is 2 million native-born white people, mobilized according to the proportion of 10 percent, and 200,000 troops can be killed. The 200,000 troops still gave a little to the navy, and they had to keep a little home to guard against the Indians and mixed-race white rebels. There are 50,000 people who can pull it to Texas!

And most of these 50,000 people are the children of pampered big landlords, and they can't fight too hard a war. And the United States can pull out two or three hundred thousand bitter European immigrants and small farmers to form an army. The Mexicans are no match at all!

So what can really support the Mexican Empire is actually the Texas samurai who came from Japan! As long as they are eliminated, Mexico will lose.

However, the area around Texas City and Texas Bay, where the Texas warriors were entrenched, not only had strong defenses, but also backed by the sea, so it was very easy to get supplies and reinforcements. If the U.S. Navy can't take control of the Gulf of Mexico, it won't be easy to win the Battle of Texas City.

Thinking of this, Andrew. Jackson added: "The Pennsylvania-class that has been withdrawn to Baltimore has all been changed to the enterprise class, and we need more aircraft-carrying armored cruisers!" ”

"Yes, Mr. President!" John. Blanche nodded, "I'll order the Admiralty to convert all Pennsylvania-class that can be recovered to Enterprise-class!" But we also need planes that can take off from the enterprise level. ”

"Then go to the British and ask for it!" Andrew. Jackson looked at his secretary of state, "George, you go to England in an airship immediately, first report to the Duke of Wellington in person about the real situation of the Battle of the Atlantic, and then ask the British for the technology to produce airplanes. You have to tell the Duke of Wellington unequivocally that if we don't have planes that can take off from the enterprise-class aircraft-carrying armored cruisers as soon as possible, then the route of cotton from the United States to England will be quickly interrupted! ”

This Jackson is really the president of the United States, the rebel son of Great Britain, and he knows how to pit his father best!

The cotton transport line he was talking about was the lifeblood of British industry and economy!

Now in the industrial map of the British Empire, the most eye-catching is cotton textiles, in addition to shipbuilding. Most of the cotton textile markets in Europe, India and the United States are controlled by the British. Most of the raw materials needed by the British cotton textile industry, cotton, are produced in the southern United States.

If the cotton route is cut off by the aircraft-carrying armored cruisers of the Texas Sea, then the British cotton textile industry will be miserable!

Egypt, which could replace the United States in producing cotton, was now in opposition to Britain because Ali Pasha was bent on restoring the Arab Empire, and although there was no war, it still encountered economic sanctions and trade blockades.

And India, another country that can produce cotton in large quantities, may also be unable to supply to Britain at any time due to the blockade of the Ming Dynasty!

In addition, due to France's current policy of neutrality, French textile mills can also receive a stable supply of cotton from Egypt. If British factories closed down in large numbers because there was no cotton, French textile mills would be able to seize the market. Once this market is seized by the French, even if the British get cotton in the future, they may not be able to regain it.

Moreover, the transfer of the textile industry to France may also promote the transfer of European financial capital to France.

These two transfers together, and it is very likely that France will rise again, but it will kill Daddy!

When the US Secretary of State flew to London in an airship, the Duke of Wellington was preparing to attend the "peace conference" in Vienna.

Now Austria and Prussia have clearly sided with Great Britain, and the French Bonapartist has also secretly contacted the representatives of the British government several times, and the two sides have reached a series of consensuses.

And although it is impossible for the Rakshasa to side with the British, they have also made it clear that they will not side with the Ming - as long as the UK does not prevent the Grand Duke of Alexander from marrying Princess Louis of France, then the friendship between the Rakshasa and the Ming is not against any third party!

Just when the Duke of Wellington thought that the situation was okay, there was disturbing news from the United States - Wall Street actually bombed the plane of the "Mexicans", and killed more than a hundred traders and bankers, including the Schiff family and the Wallenberg family!

In addition, the U.S. Secretary of State actually came to London in an airship the day after the U.S. declared war on Mexico in the North Atlantic winter. Is this here to cheat on the father?

(End of chapter)