News of the siege of Richmond and Petersburg reached England before Nelson and Wellesley arrived.

British Prime Minister William Pitt and his cabinet members knew about it earlier than the generals on land and sea.

But what Pitt and the cabinet ministers did not expect was that Petersburg would be gone.

Everyone originally thought that even if the soldiers came to the city, as long as the trenches and barbed wire defense lines were pulled up, they would always be able to resist for a few months, but they didn't expect that the defense line would be stolen before they were pulled up at all.

When I didn't expect it, the two states of Kentucky and Tennessee, a whole 200,000 square kilometers, a piece of land about the same size as the entire island of Great Britain, were swallowed up in just one month.

It's not that fast!

It is true that the horse race may not be so fast, because the cavalry is not even as capable of continuous long marches as the infantry.

If horses don't have beans and eggs to replenish their energy, they can't get fat by simply eating grass.

The biggest advantage of humans over horses is that they can carry high-calorie supplies and can also hunt North American bison for food.

Napoleon, on the other hand, used bicycle cavalry, which combined the flexibility of cavalry with the advantage of infantry supply.

Of course, they don't have the shock power of cavalry, but skirmishers with bolt-action rifles don't need impact in the first place.

If Napoleon were still on the French mainland, if the British mainland was adjacent to the French mainland, instead of an independent island, this wave would have leveled the entire British!

Pete looked at Wellesley's news, thinking about his and Nelson's previous judgments, and muttered with a particularly stunned expression:

"Is this really an old-fashioned war? Was this how the old wars were fought?

"It's still a bicycle transporting troops, and there's no way to carry heavy weapons.

"If you march in all cars, dragging artillery, the consequences ...... Hiss ......"

Pete thought about this possibility, and couldn't help but gasp, this possibility was too terrifying.

The scene was silent for a while, and someone asked Pete:

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister, Your Excellency Wellesley's suggestion, should we make a decision? Do you really want to 'borrow teachers to help suppress'? ”

"In the history of China, borrowing teachers to help suppress this kind of thing has never had a good result."

Pete stretched out his hand:

"It's different, the place where we want to 'borrow teachers to help suppress' is the colony, not the mainland.

"As long as the Ming can help us exterminate the rebels, there is no problem in ceding some colonies.

"But we can't just 'borrow teachers', we have to bring the French together.

"We still have more than half of our America in hand, and their entire Canada is occupied by rebels.

"So the price of this 'borrowing teacher' has to make the French come out on top."

Pete's meaning is obvious, that is, to support borrowing teachers to help suppress.

Because there is no other way now, the only one who can help right away is Da Ming.

There was silence for a while, and the Chief Admiral couldn't help but say:

"When we first tried to ask for help from Da Ming, after receiving Da Ming's response, we should have directly started discussing the plan and price of jointly fighting the thief.

"At that time, Da Ming's meaning was obvious, and it was okay to ask them to help, but we had to pay the price.

"Because it was a colonial rebellion between us and the French, not a colonial rebellion of the Ming Dynasty."

The Secretary of War followed suit:

"At the beginning, we thought that at least we had to fight by ourselves, and if it really didn't work, we would consider asking Daming for help.

"As a result, before our troops were organized, the United States was already blinded by Napoleon's fists.

"It's really fortunate that Da Ming had the foresight to start sending the main force to Yinzhou in advance.

"They reminded us and the French at the time, but we didn't pay too much attention to it.

"If the large-scale main force had been sent directly to Yinzhou and General Wellesley had been directly commanded, there would have been no current chaos and crisis!"

The Secretary of State for Commerce directly sprayed two people in turn:

"What's the use of you talking about that now? Why didn't you stand up and ask to borrow troops directly from Daming? ”

Two military personnel took the lead, and the other officials also complained.

The tendency to blame each other has also begun to emerge, and there are faint signs of getting out of control at the meeting.

Pete slapped the table hard in annoyance, stopping the tendency to quarrel that might erupt and spread:

"Shut up, there's no time to argue about these pointless things, solving the problem is the most important thing.

"Go and contact the French at once, and forward the situation in the United States to the French along with the report of Lord Wellesley."

Paris, France.

The Dukes of Talleyrand and Richelieu in France were also shocked when they received the news from the British.

The last time the British transferred the news that Petersburg was besieged, it sounded like nothing more than a border town besieged.

At that time, they thought similarly to the British at the time, that kind of place usually takes a long time.

In more than ten years of world wars, everyone has become accustomed to protracted positional warfare.

It is normal for a city and a military base to fight for a year and a half.

This was enough for the Anglo-French forces to send the main force to the New World and regain the lost territory.

As a result, I didn't expect the situation to take a turn for the worse now.

Now that the entire French colony has rebelled, if the British can no longer hold the main port to Yinzhou, the French will have no chance to send the main force over to turn the tables.

At most, the blockade of post-independence Canada and the United States.

The key is that if Britain and France have no other strongholds in Yinzhou, if they want to arrange a fleet to blockade Yinzhou in the past, they have to start from the mainland, and how long this blockade can last is four questions.

After discussing with Talleyrand, the Duke of Richelieu went to King Louis XVI of France and suggested that he accept the advice of the English.

"Why didn't you decide that sooner?"

Louis XVI was even more annoyed than his English ministers:

"Go, go now, don't delay a moment more!"

The Ming Dynasty, Shuntianfu, the old city of Beijing.

Honglu Siqing Shen Fu, received a telegram of joint request from Britain and France, and immediately went to see Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty:

"Your Majesty, the British and French can't hold it anymore, and they have officially decided to borrow their teachers to help suppress it.

"Napoleon had completely occupied Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as most of Virginia.

"The core of the American South, Richmond, is besieged and could fall at any moment.

"There are only five southern states left in the United States, and all of them are unsafe Great Plains.

"There are all rivers running from the inside out, and the upper reaches of the rivers have fallen into the hands of Napoleon.

"If our Ming troops in Yinzhou don't help, they may not have a chance to go over to quell the rebellion."

Zhu Jianyan smiled when he heard this, took the telegram and read it:

"Jingyuan has asked for more troops to North Yinzhou since last year, did he anticipate the current situation in advance?"

Shen Fu thought about it and said:

"His Royal Highness Prince Daishi's habit has always been to do it in the spirit of being prepared.

"Your Highness may not be able to predict what will happen in Bei Yin Zhou, but you can analyze the judgment that North Yin Zhou will inevitably be chaotic based on the situation in North Yin Zhou.

"Therefore, it is recommended that the imperial court send enough elite soldiers over to defend the interests of the Ming Dynasty and act at the same time."

After reading the contents of the telegram, Zhu Jianyan thought about it for a while and said:

"It is possible to help, and it is not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty for Napoleon to completely unify the British and French colonies of Yinzhou.

"But this gang can't be in vain, Jingyuan has already responded to them before.

"So continue to let Jingyuan talk to them, and we'll help after we negotiate the conditions."

Smiling and bowing:

"The minister will go and contact His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food."

The news of the front line in Beiyinzhou, from Norfolk to London, from London to Paris, from Paris to Shuntianfu, and from Shuntianfu to Quicksand City, made a big circle on most of the world, and finally came to Zhu Jingyuan's hands.

At about the same time, there were other details about the situation in North Yinzhou collected by the Daming West Factory.

After Zhu Jingyuan finished reading the telegram, he couldn't help but say with emotion:

"Napoleon, this is a Tour de America!

"With bicycle soldiers, on the Great Plains of North Yinzhou, the rhythm of a blitzkrieg was played!

"If this momentum is not stopped, the entire British and French colonies in North Yinzhou will be finished.

"You can help, but what are the conditions?"

Zhu Jingyuan asked Niu Jian to find a map of Northern Yinzhou and consider it by staring at the boundary line of all parties in Northern Yinzhou.

Now that there is an opportunity to cut meat from Britain and France, it is not a problem that money can solve.

Now we have to consider what land to ask for, how much land to want, and according to what principles to demand.

If it is to maximize profits, it is necessary to ask for the places with the best industry and infrastructure, as well as the places with the most abundant strategic resources.

The main target should be the northeastern region of British America, that is, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc.

and the western regions of French Canada, namely Wisconsin, Inline, Michigan, etc.

It has a good industrial base and is the most important iron ore mining area in North Yinzhou.

After taking these places, even if the British and French colonies of Yinzhou can become independent again in the future, they will not have the opportunity to independently complete the industrial chain.

If in order to serve the strategic goal of complete possession of Yinzhou, then land should be claimed from the west as much as possible.

Cut from the west along the latitude and longitude line, drive the colonial population of Britain and France to the east, so that it can completely occupy North Yinzhou in the future, and then send the Taixi people of North Yinzhou back to Taixi's hometown.

If it is to continue to lay mines for Britain and France, then cut from the southern part of the United States, and ask for South Dakota, Zorgia, Alabama and other places.

Let the northern part of the United States remain within the United States, while weakening the power of the southern part of the United States.

So that the South cannot completely suppress the North, but the strength is still stronger than the North.

So that the North can continue to fight against the South without the help of Canada, but it cannot defeat the South.

At the same time, cut from the northern part of French Canada, claiming Wisconsin, Michigan area.

It makes Canada more narrow and long, and it fits more closely with the United States, but it is easy to be directly penetrated.

If it is for the long-term peace and stability of Yinzhou, then it should lead the territorial exchange between the two sides.

Divide the northern part of the United States of America to Canada, and then cut off more territory from western Canada.

Incorporate the industrial zones of the United States, which originally had similar interests with Canada, into Canada.

At the same time, let the entire territory of Canada be concentrated to the east, instead of the shape of the chicken with the neck stretched out as it is now.

Let the United States be left with only plantation-dominated southern regions, and eliminate internal contradictions and disputes.

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