Chapter 340: A Little Shock
North Yinzhou, Buffalo.
A river ferry from Daming, docked at the river port in Buffalo.
Napoleon personally took his Praetorian Guard and escorted Adams and a special group of men aboard.
Queen of the American Kingdom, Charlotte I.
Charlotte, who is 12 years old this year, is also the only daughter of the Prince of Wales, the regent of the United Kingdom.
I am also second in line to the British throne.
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of America, James Monroe.
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of America, Thomas Jefferson.
The second son of the King of England, Frederick, is the third in line to the British throne.
The youngest daughter of the King of England, Amelia.
This group of hostages was held for three years at the hands of Napoleon and Adams.
Now let Adams take it and hand it over to Daming.
Napoleon's claim to marry Queen Charlotte was really just propaganda against the United States.
There was no way he could marry Charlotte, who was only ten years old at the time.
Napoleon and Adams knew from the beginning that they would eventually negotiate an end to the war with the British.
So the three British royal family members are also given enough respect.
In addition to not being able to leave freely, they have always enjoyed the treatment of royals in their lives.
It's just that the absence of freedom itself already makes them uncomfortable.
Especially Charlotte, although she is the queen of the United States, she is actually just a little girl in her early tens.
Three years of house arrest made her yearn for freedom.
In the cold wind of the docks, Charlotte was wrapped in a thick fur coat, and only a small half of her face leaked out.
When she was escorted to the ship by the guards and maids, Charlotte turned her head and asked Amelia, who was beside her:
"Auntie, where are we going next? When are we going back to London......"
Amelia didn't know either, so she looked at her brother Frederick, who was not far away.
Frederick was also confused, but Monroe, the prime minister of the United States, already knew the cause and effect.
Monroe, as a courtier, explained to his little queen:
"Your Majesty, we will first go to the New Tianfu City of the Ming Imperial Southern Yin Continent.
"Britain, France, the United States, and Canada will hold peace talks under the auspices of Prince Dashi of the Ming Dynasty.
"Once the peace agreement is signed, we can go back to the United States, or we can go to London."
Charlotte was overjoyed:
"To the royal estate of the Ming Dynasty? Can we finally escape Napoleon's clutches? ”
Monroe nodded lightly with a complicated expression:
"Yes, we'll be free again soon."
Three members of the British royal family, as well as two ministers of the United States, took the ferry of the Ming Dynasty to the other side.
After going ashore, change to a passenger car and follow the highway on the north shore of Lake Erie to drive west.
Charlotte asked, a little puzzled:
"To Daming, shouldn't you take the waterway to the east, and then go to sea, how can you go ashore now, and still go west?"
Not only did Amelia not understand this time, but Monroe didn't know what was going on.
Da Ming's arrangement was not directly told to Monroe.
However, this car is Daming's, and the driver and escort are all Daming's.
So Monroe went and asked in the Da Ming Ya dialect:
"Mr. Driver, where do we want now?"
The driver is also a soldier, and replied very casually:
"Go to the airport and take you on a plane......"
Monroe suddenly realized.
Charlotte can also understand Da Mingya's words, and when she heard the answer, she immediately became interested:
"I can take Daming's plane!"
Monroe was a little worried and said:
"Airplane...... It's quick, but it's safe, there's the Queen of America here, and three members of the British royal family......"
The driver said very confidently:
"Safe, of course safe, our local flight in Daming has been running for more than two years, and nothing has happened.
"This is Daming's plane, a plane dedicated to transporting people and goods, not your Taixi's, don't worry.
"Even if the plane really breaks, isn't there still a parachute, you can rest assured."
Monroe was still worried, because he hadn't seen Daming's full-fledged large aircraft.
He had only seen the rudimentary planes built by Napoleon's men, as well as the most rudimentary planes imported from the Ming Dynasty.
It is two wings plus an iron frame, and at most a few layers of canvas are wrapped on the outside.
Monroe really couldn't imagine that in this kind of winter, Charlotte would fly in that kind of plane......
The convoy traveled nearly thirty kilometers west to the canal that connects Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Behind the town, where the river, lake and wharf are located, there is a large area of flat land that has been fenced off.
Dozens of small planes, more than a dozen large planes, parked in this site.
As the convoy drove into the airport and approached the planes, Monroe's concern turned to shock.
A monoplane with four engines, a large aircraft completely enclosed in metal.
The size is "huge", larger than a river river ship of more than a hundred tons.
The structure looked much stronger than the car, and the car was like a toy in front of them.
The three royals led by Charlotte were also stunned.
They've seen airplanes before, but they've never seen planes of this size, this look.
After being shocked, the child Charlotte jumped up with excitement:
"I'm going to fly on a big plane!"
Charlotte soon got her wish.
Here the planes were ready, and a group of people were sent to the planes separately, the four largest.
However, not specialized passenger aircraft, but four large bombers with four engines.
Aircraft transferred from the strategic bombing test project in the city of Boliwa.
The interior of the bomber is large, the cockpit has two seats, and the navigation cabin has two seats.
In the inner compartment behind the cockpit, there is also the position of the communicator, the weapon operator.
There are also two to four passenger seats dedicated to temporarily carrying people.
The self-defense weapon compartment on the waist has more space, and there is no problem at all with four or five people.
The main thing is that the density of the bomb is high, not enough to fill the space of the body.
Moreover, the early aircraft mechanics were relatively simple, leaving a lot of space after the outer skin was wrapped.
Charlotte and her own valet, Amelia and her valet.
Frederick and Monroe, Adams and Jefferson, each got on a plane.
These people can fit in with a single plane.
But out of prudence and on the safe side, and for the sake of giving them basic decency, they were allowed to sit as apart as possible.
After the four planes were inspected and prepared, they took off from the runway of the airport in turn and flew directly south.
All the passengers, including the queens, princes, and prime ministers, were very curious to look around.
I can't help but lie on the window and look at the scene outside, the scene in the sky, the feeling of looking down on the earth, and the feeling of flying.
Monroe soon became confused:
"It's not the right direction, if you want to go to New York, the plane should fly east......"
Monroe tentatively asked the radio communicator.
The correspondent was a Ming officer about thirty years old, and after hearing this question, he asked with some surprise:
"When did you get the illusion that we were going to New York?"
Monroe was even more surprised:
"Shouldn't we go to New York, should we say Lin County in Dongyi Kingdom, where we will change to a sea ship to go to Xintianfu?
"The closest to here, the Ming navy that has not been frozen, is Linxian County, New York."
The correspondent smiled and said:
"We're going to change ships, but we're not going to New York to change ships, we're going to Cuba."
Monroe has a long mouth:
"O my God! Fly straight to Cuba! That's more than 2,000 kilometers! ”
Prince Frederick's eyes widened in the same way:
"This plane can fly so far!"
The correspondent looked at the surprised expressions of the two, and felt that these two Xiyi were really uninformed:
"In fact, I can fly farther, just to be on the safe side, I can't run out of fuel for the plane, and Cuba also happens to have a naval base, so I landed in Cuba."
Monroe was stunned for a long time, and then couldn't help but ask a somewhat sensitive question:
"How many bombs can this plane carry when it can fly so far? If it's inconvenient, forget it......"
The correspondent recalled that such information could not have been said.
However, his task this time is special, that is, to give these Xiyi high-level officials a little deterrence in the right reality.
So the correspondent said a very general data:
"Our plane can carry almost four tons of bombs.
"The purpose of our visit to Yinzhou was originally to bomb Boliwa, who was hiding in the ravine.
"We have prepared more than three hundred planes ready to raze their city to the ground.
"As a result, the mission was only carried out once, and this kid surrendered directly."
The bomb load of a bomber is not fixed, it is directly related to the combat distance, and is affected by the type of ammunition and target.
Monroe was able to imagine this, but he didn't continue to ask, he knew that the data was impossible.
This kind of crude data is enough to shock Monroe, and shock the new students with fear:
"If dozens of planes were to act together and attack a city or military camp together, the effect would be devastating.
"This reconnaissance aircraft of Napoleon and the British and French armies is not a type of thing at all!
"If it was the Ming Dynasty who exterminated Napoleon, Napoleon would not have lasted a year before he surrendered!"
As for Prince Frederick, he was also stunned by the news leaked by the correspondent:
"Four-ton bombs...... It's almost nine thousand pounds, a voyage of more than two thousand kilometres, and my God, it's a heavenly punishment......"
On the other three planes, a similar form of conversation took place, and the passengers were also completely shocked.
By the time the four planes arrived safely at the Havana military port airport in Cuba in the evening, the passengers still felt a little unreal.
But the tropical sea breeze blew and forced them to take off their winter clothes, leaving only shirts and singles.
This made them have to believe that it really took them less than a day to come to Cuba from the central part of North Yinzhou.
After changing their clothes, a group of people converged again and boarded a passenger ship to Xintianfu.
(End of chapter)