"Your Excellency, your Ming Army's anti-American artifact is really powerful, if you have this, an infantry can fight a squad, or even a platoon of firepower. But the outcome of a war is not decided by one or two advanced weapons. It was not 1814, and the United States had advanced much better, building a network of railroads connecting the major cities on the East Coast, and could quickly mobilize troops from elsewhere to reinforce Washington. Moreover, after the Second War of Independence, the Americans focused on the development of metallurgy, military industry, shipbuilding and other industries, and now they can independently produce artillery of various calibers of 12 inches and below, as well as water-cooled machine guns and various rifles, including several rifles that can be fired continuously...... If they had captured the Acre rifle, it should have been able to be made quickly. ”

The Mexican Emperor Agustín I could finally seriously discuss the issue of setting fire to the White House with Zhuge Weidao...... The venue was in the conference room of his Agustin Hunting Palace. Among those present, in addition to Agustin and Zhuge Weidao, there were only Wang Wen, the general adviser of Texas Haizi who came from Port Yin Lizabeth, and Saigo Takamori, the general of Texas Luzi.

Ah Li was carrying the "Aka-style assault rifle" (officially known as the Taiping Eight-Year Assault Rifle) and stood outside the conference room.

Agustin, Zhuge Weidao, Wang Wen and Xixiang sat around a conference table covered with a map of the East Coast of the United States - watching the map study burn down the white house!

"Emperor," after Agustin finished saying his disagreement, Zhuge Weidao shook his head with a smile, "I think you misunderstood me...... I didn't say I wanted to occupy Washington. ”

"How can you set fire to the white house without occupying Washington?"

Hearing Agustin's question, Zhuge Weidao laughed, and then stretched out his finger to a huge peninsula next door to Washington, the capital of the United States, and asked, "Your Majesty the Emperor, what is this peninsula called?" How far is it from Washington? How far is it from Baltimore? How far is it from Philadelphia? How far is it from New York? ”

"That's the Demava Peninsula, just over a hundred kilometers from Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia......," Emperor Agustin finally understood, "Ah, Zhuge Junshi, it turns out that you want to bomb Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York with planes or airships!" ”

Zhuge Weidao smiled: "It's not that I want to, but Your Majesty the Emperor thinks!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, I think!" Agustin rubbed his hands, "We can send the main fleet out of the Florida Strait before the Americans' navy is reorganized, and then go north along the east coast of the United States, and put on a posture of attacking Washington, the Americans must not take the lessons of 1814 lightly, and will definitely deploy heavy troops in Norfolk, Chesapeake Bay, Richmond and Washington." The Delava Peninsula is relatively unimportant, there are no big cities on the peninsula, and the coastline is so long that it is impossible to defend everywhere. ”

Zhuge Weidao nodded and said: "The advantage of the United States is that it has a long coastline and many natural harbors along the coast, which is very suitable for the development of maritime transportation, and if they can have a strong navy, they can ensure that the security of the homeland is not violated." But once they lose their sea dominance...... Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond are all big cities by the sea! ”

As he spoke, Zhuge Weidao looked up at Wang Wen and Xixiang again, "What do you think?" ”

Saigo said: "Your Excellency Lieutenant General, if we establish a stronghold on the Demarwa Peninsula, the major cities in the eastern United States will be threatened by our airships and planes, and the Americans will definitely launch a counteroffensive at any cost...... If they put in enough troops, it is impossible for our people to hold on to the 3,000-kilometer logistics line for a long time. ”

Zhuge smiled for Dao: "Why do you want to stick to it for a long time?" We can take advantage of the enemy's main force entering the Demava Peninsula to launch an offensive elsewhere, such as ...... Florida! If I'm not mistaken, there are still many Semino Indians out there who are not willing to be enslaved by the Americans, right? ”

The word "semino" is of Spanish origin and means "fugitive". But if you look at the literal name, these Indians fled from the original British colonies and the United States to Florida, which was a Spanish territory until 1819, to escape the massacre of the American whiteskins. In addition to the Indian fugitives who were unwilling to be captured and skinned by the Americans, there were many black people among the Seminos who had escaped from American slave plantations.

Due to the loose Spanish rule in the early years, and the swampy and forested terrain of Florida, which favored fugitives, it was a refuge for Indians and runaway slaves until 1819. Andrew. The Seminoan War, which Jackson provoked to annex Florida, was launched under the pretext of hunting down Seminos and black slaves who had fled to Florida.

Although Florida has long been taken by the United States, Andrew . Jackson also succeeded in politics and was elected president for his great success in the capture of Florida. However, due to the topography of the Florida peninsula, the Seminoes on the peninsula have survived until now. When the Americans first took the Florida Peninsula, they also signed the "Moltry Creek Treaty" with the local Seminos, making the central part of the Florida Peninsula a Seminolet reservation...... for a period of 20 years.

Agustin I was originally a general of Spain, and he also had some knowledge of the Seminos on the Florida Peninsula, so he nodded and said, "That's right, there are some Seminos in the northern part of the Florida Peninsula. Along with the Chickasors, Cherokees, Choctaw, and Cricks, they were called the 'Five Tribes of Civilization' by some Americans who were more friendly to the Indians, believing that they were already civilized people who did not need to be eliminated.

However, US President Jackson obviously disagreed with such a view, and after he became president, he promoted the formulation of the "Indian Relocation Act", which abolished all Indian reservations on the east coast of the United States and relocated all the Indians of the five tribes of civilization on the east coast to the west. So the conflict between the Americans and the Seminos began to grow fierce from 1830! ”

Migration, of course, means that a large number of people, perhaps a large part of the population, will lose their lives for various reasons in the process of migration. After all, the U.S. government was not obligated to provide the Indians with adequate logistical support or help them carve out homes on new reservations.

In addition, according to the law passed by the U.S. Congress, the Indians only have the right to use the homeland carved out by the five tribes in the reservation in the western United States, but not the ownership, and the U.S. government can revoke the right to use it at any time...... Of course, the U.S. government doesn't have to be federal, it can be a state government, a city government, or some other self-government of a white immigrant organization. In short, the land of the Indians has always been shrinking "legally", and in the end only a few corners are left that are not worth looking down on.

However, the Mexican Emperor Agustín I was not at all sad when he mentioned what happened to the American Indians, and there was even a little envy in his words - the Americans did the right thing!

It is a pity that the Mexican Empire could not learn from it, because the Church of Mexico would not allow the government to do so, and the Church was obviously more effective than Congress in protecting the Indians......

Zhuge Weidao stretched out his finger and pointed at Central Florida at this time, and said, "Our stronghold on the Demarwa Peninsula cannot last, and the terrain of Texas is too open and very flat...... And it is not US territory, so the Americans can completely encroach on it gradually in a piecemeal way. And the only place that can really make Americans suffer is the forests and swamps of Central Florida. If an independent Indian and black nation had emerged in Florida, it would have been impossible for US President Jackson to turn a blind eye. And a war on the Florida Peninsula, which had insufficient infrastructure and complicated terrain not long after its incorporation into the United States, would be very disadvantageous to the Americans. ”

He looked at the Emperor of Mexico, Wang Wen and Saigo, and asked, "How is it?" Still have questions? ”

"Yes!" It is Wang Wen who has a question to ask.

"What's the problem?"

"The problem is the U.S. Navy," Wang said, "and we haven't paralyzed the main force of the U.S. Navy yet." If we are going to carry out the landing on the Demava Peninsula, we must beat the main forces of the US Navy to the point where they cannot move! ”

Zhuge nodded for the Dao: "Then what are you waiting for?" Start making a plan now! As he spoke, he looked at Agustin I again, "Your Majesty the Emperor, your Mexican navy can no longer hide in Port Yin Lizabeth as a fleet. If we do not complete the landing on the Demarva Peninsula and the Florida Peninsula in the first half of 1832 and cripple the U.S. Navy, then by the second half of the year the U.S. Navy will have a large number of new ships, and the combined Mexican-Texas fleet will not be able to gain an advantage over them. ”