When the first rays of the morning sun fall on the wide Nicaraguan Lake, the lake in the middle of Central America, which has been quiet for centuries, begins a busy day. In the past few years, this vast and almost isolated lake has suddenly become the focus of the world's attention because of a world war between East and West.

Although it is not too far from the Caribbean-Texas-Florida battlefield of the World War, the smoke of war does not drift to the lake of Nicaragua. Rather, it is a huge Nicaraguan canal project, which has been working day and night for the past few years, at the speed of infrastructure maniacs — not a lazy Mexican, but a workaholic Japanese laborer working on a Ming construction machine powered by gasoline, diesel, and electricity, under the command of Ming engineers. It's a combination of two generations of infrastructure maniacs on another timeline! The progress of this project is not the same as flying? It took more than ten years to decades to do the project of changing to white skin (depending on what year of white skin), and in just a few years, more than half of it was done, and now there is a one-way waterway from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, which has been completed and opened to ships!

This waterway from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean is not as simple as digging a ditch. Because the water level in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans is high and low, and there are some high ground along the canal that cannot be avoided at all. So there were a lot of locks at both ends of the canal to raise or lower the boats. The 177-kilometer-long and 58-kilometer-wide Nicaragua Lake has reduced the amount of work on the Nicaragua Canal - the 276-kilometer canal has only been left with more than 100 kilometers after borrowing the surface of Lake Nicaragua, and the amount of work has been reduced by more than half. Otherwise, the first phase of the canal would not have been completed ahead of schedule in March 1833!

And the progress of the canal project and the advance of the completion date not only surprised the officials of the Mexican Empire who participated in the canal construction, but also made the spies of the Western countries responsible for monitoring the canal scolded by their superiors more than once - after spending so much money, it was difficult to find out from the Mexicans the exact completion date of the first phase of the canal project, and now it is not half over, why is it all finished? Did you embezzle this spy fund?

Thomas from the UK. Second Lieutenant Bond and Andrew from the United States. Second Lieutenant Hoover, just two unlucky people who were cheated out of the spy funds by the Mexicans - they spent a lot of money to buy the design drawings and engineering plans of the Nicaragua Canal project from the Mexican Army Engineering Bureau, and they were criticized when they took it back, and the superiors said that after discussion and study by the expert group, it was impossible for the project to be completed on time according to the plan, and the plan was to be completed in eight years, but experts in the United States and Britain believed that it would take at least 10 to 15 years to complete. So they were deceived, they were all fools!

As a result. It was completed in a little more than 3 years, and it will be opened to navigation soon!

So, both of them are still stupid and let the Mexicans deceive . This is really wrong, they were deceived by the Mexicans once, but they were scolded twice, and their positions were stuck for three years without any increase! The classmates who graduated from the military school with them, at least the ones who are not killed or disabled are now captains. But they are still lingering in the rank of second lieutenant!

What's worse is that both of them were supposed to be high-ranking spies in Mexico City, taking the status of diplomats of the Kingdom of Sweden or the Swiss Confederation, going in and out of luxurious places, bubble Mexican noblewomen, and do their jobs without having to endure any hardship.

However, because of their mistakes, they are now exposed to the sun and browned, and then sent to Lake Nicaragua to operate fishing boats, and by the way, to monitor the navigation of the canal nearby.

Since Britain and the United States have always been close allies, these two agents also became partners, bought a steam fishing boat as an Italian immigrant together, and began to fish on the Nicaragua Canal and sell it to the nearby Japanese labor camp Of course, fishing and selling money are all under the guise of fishing and selling money, their main business is to keep an eye on the canal, and when a large Chinese warship passes by, immediately report to the top.

Recently, though, Thomas. Second Lieutenant Bond can't be contacted anymore, and his British Empire is gone!

Because the empire is gone, Thomas. Second Lieutenant Bond also stopped working hard and was still drunk all day long. If it weren't for the order from his superiors to let look at this Bond, Andrew. Hoover wanted to kick him into a Nicaraguan lake to feed the sharks!

Early this morning, Andrew. Hoover was in the cabin with his head down and writing a report in code to his superiors when he suddenly heard Thomas . Major Bond shouted, "So big, so big, so big battleship!" ”

Drunk again!

Hoover irritated dropped half of the report in his hand, and then got out of the cabin, and the sun was shining outside the cabin. Bond's voice looked over, and then he stood on deck.

Because he also saw a huge battleship with a displacement of at least 30,000 tons like a city, being dragged down by a small tugboat with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons, slowly heading towards him!

"This is, this is" Hoover was a second lieutenant who graduated from the Virginia Military Academy and was not very familiar with naval ships. But his good partner Bond is a navyman and already recognizes who the battleship in front of him is.

Bond's voice trembled a little and said, "This is the Great Zhou-class battleship of the Ming Dynasty, and there is more than one!" God, they are coming, they are coming! ”

Of course, there is more than one!

There are already six ships of the Great Zhou class in service, namely Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, and Wei, half of which were given to the Pacific Fleet. Now there is no big war in the Pacific, and it is useless for a big warship like the Great Zhou-class to rest in the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, Zhuge Weidao pulled all three large battleships with a full load displacement of 37,000 tons to the Atlantic!

Along with them are 6 fleet carriers named after provinces!

3 large battleships plus 6 large aircraft carriers. All of them are rushing to the backyard of the United States of America!

In the future, they will be stationed at Guantanamo, and when they have time, they will go to the east coast of the United States for a stroll and ask the Americans if they are afraid. If you are not afraid, then it doesn't matter, in the future, you can also deploy long-range bombers and ballistic missiles in Cuba to target New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia and so on every day, this is called containment!

The newly formed Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy, Admiral Zhuge Weidao, stood in the command tower of the battleship Da Zhou with his arms crossed at this time, looking at the sparkling Nicaragua Lake, which was called a surging heart.

Just when he was extremely sighing, Guo Xiaobao, chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet, was already holding the telegram and walked over with a smile: "Sir, I just received a telegram from the King Wuzhong. The advance detachment of the Atlantic Fleet has all passed through the canal safely, and it will be 8 hours later than 8 hours at the latest, and the advance detachment will be able to complete the tactical deployment! ”

"Good!" Zhuge nodded for the Dao, "Send electricity to Beijing - I'll come, I'll see, and there will be no more invincible United States of America after I contain it!" ”

(End of chapter)