September 11, 1857

Enraged, South Carolina took substantial military action, and Brigadier General Borigard of the Confederate Army besieged Fort Sumter and demanded that Major General Robert Anderson, who was stationed at Fort Sumter, lead his troops to surrender, which was unsurprisingly refused.

Major General Robert Anderson led more than 90 officers and men at Fort Sumter, making all preparations for war with a strong fortified defense and ample weaponry.

4:30 a.m. on the 12th

The artillery of the Southern Army began a heavy shelling that lasted for 34 hours, and Major General Anderson led his troops to return fire, and the two sides fired the first shots of the war between the north and the south.

After three days of intermittent fighting, Major General Robert Anderson fulfilled his duties as a soldier, surrendered under heavy siege, surrendered Fort Sumter as agreed, and led more than 90 officers and men out of the fort back to New York by boat.

President James Buchanan's Maritime Expeditionary Force was denied access to the Southern Harbor and had to return to Norfolk Naval Base after two weeks of drifting.

On 7 October, President James Buchanan personally issued a statement announcing that there had been a rebellion in seven southern states that violated US law, and that the United States would never tolerate it and would resolve the rebellion by strong means.

On the 19th, the U.S. federal government ordered the naval fleet to block the coastline from South Carolina to Texas and requisition 75,000 militiamen from the northern states.

The presidential decree enraged the eight slave states that remained in the Union, forcing Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas to join the South, which led to a rapid increase in Southern power.

The United States was on the brink of a civil war between the North and the South, and the situation was extremely critical, while the four slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware had not yet made a decision, but their opinions were already very much in favor of the Confederate Republic.

In order to protect the fundamental interests of white slave owners, it is impossible for these four states to fall to the north, which is political suicide.

What is different from the original history

The original 23 states in the north of the U.S. Federation, due to the annexation of the six northwestern states by the Tang Kingdom, now there are only 17 states left in the north, and the time of the outbreak of the civil war is three years ahead of schedule, and the population in the northern jurisdiction is less than 18 million, far lower than the original 22 million population during the outbreak of the North-South Civil War in 1861, and the total economic scale is also less than 20%.

One trades off the other

Seven states have joined the Confederate and four more are on the sidelines, but they will eventually join the Confederate to wage war against the Yankees, with 11 states in the South against 17 states in the North.

At the beginning of the war

The strength of the North greatly exceeds that of the South, with a population of 17.64 million in 17 states in the North and only 9.1 million in the 7 states in the South, a difference of nearly twice the population, which means that there is a shortage of reserve soldiers.

Once the war has fallen into an arduous tug-of-war phase, this fatal flaw is exposed and will cause a decisive change in the situation of the war.

The North has a well-developed industry, with an annual output of $1.5 billion, 1.3 million workers, a 22,000-mile rail network, and abundant food, while the South has a weak industry, with an annual output of $15.5 million, only 110,000 workers, and only 9,000 miles of railroads.

But the South is not without cards in its hands, the South has full military preparations, thanks to the previously concluded American-Mexican War, the Southern army is of high quality, the commanders are experienced, and have received assistance from Britain, France and the Tang Kingdom.

In particular, the Tang Kingdom sent a very experienced officer corps and brought more than a dozen ships of weapons and equipment to the south, of course, this is all to be paid.

Taoyuan City Jinghu Palace

This beautiful French-style palace similar to the Élysée Palace was finally completed after more than eight years of heavy investment, and the overall white palace façade is elegant and luxurious, showing the dignity of the royal family.

The Imperial Study

Richard, who had just arrived, seemed refreshed and in a very good mood, and he walked around the woods on the mountain, teasing the tigers and brown bears raised in the royal court for a while, and roaring at these beasts, and then he returned satisfied.

After washing his hands and face, Richard came to the imperial study, where the newly appointed head of the royal secretariat, Viscount Dong Jie (Note; Receiving a high commendation from His Majesty for his merits, he was promoted to the title) respectfully guided His Majesty to sit down in front of the throne, and Richard looked at the generals standing solemnly under the throne with a look of appreciation.

"Your Majesty has arrived, and all the generals salute and greet you!"

"Excuse me, give me a seat."

"Your Majesty congratulates you for the seat."

Under the throne, Lieutenant General Dai Changfu, Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Kahn, Deputy Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mike Rabiot, Lieutenant General Harry Freich, as well as Major General Liu Wu (Liu Wu), Commander of the Elite Corps, Major General Duan Debiao, Major General Wu Degao, Major General Tian Mantun, Major General Lei Jueshen, Brigadier General James Kahn, Brigadier General George Rabiot, Brigadier General Wu Shrimp (Shrimp Boy), Brigadier General Mai Xiaozu, Brigadier General Lin Shoutian, Brigadier General Wu Pengfei and other cadres of the stars twinkled brightly, bringing together most of the elite generals of the kingdom military, and the formation was quite huge.

This is a high-level imperial military meeting, the topic of which is the current situation in North America, and in the past few months, all departments of the kingdom have mobilized all their efforts to stir up the separatist forces of the Southern independents, cheer them on, and send substantial and substantial military assistance.

This move of adding fuel to the fire contributed to the South's separatist and independent actions three years earlier than the original history, and is the main mastermind behind the split-North and South splits in the current US Federation.

U.S. Federal President James Buchanan angrily pointed out; "The Tang State is the source of all the turmoil in North America, which has seriously hurt the feelings of the American people, and should be held responsible for the current broken North-South relations. The rise of the Orientals spread too much war and suffering on the North American continent, and the American Federation suffered greatly......"

Well, the rhetoric of these enemy countries can only be used as a successful annotation of the diplomatic activities of the Tang Kingdom.

Richard successfully reversed the unfavorable situation faced by the Tang Kingdom, and when the US Federation was not ready to launch an invasion war against the Tang Kingdom, he detonated the internal contradictions between the North and the South in advance, and promoted the South to take substantial independent and separatist actions.

This clever move disrupted President James Buchanan's original plan, overturned his wishful thinking, and put the American Union represented by the northern forces into the current predicament.

The house is restless, there is a fire outside, and the old opponent is waiting for him, and the American Yankees are really anxious!

Objectively speaking

The rapid evolution and deterioration of the situation in the south is also inseparable from the behind-the-scenes efforts of Britain, France, and other countries......

The psychological activities of these old European colonists can be summed up by the North American situation, "small is beautiful, weak is good, and division is the balance of power." Compared with the monolithic North American powers, this gives more room for maneuver to foreign powers.

In 1857, the overall economic strength of the United States ranked fifth in the world, and the northern states had already entered industrialization on half of their feet, and their strength should not be underestimated.

If the north and the south are divided

The outbreak of a large-scale civil war, the economic strength of the United States will be greatly reduced, the lack of the economic map of the south, the north is very likely to fall directly behind the world's seventh-ranked Tang Kingdom, this is a situation that everyone is happy to see, help push the worsening of the situation, why not?

"Generals, your chief of staff suggests that you want to take advantage of the current war between the north and the south to swallow the American state of Tijuana in one bite and eat a round belly." Richard opened his mouth to this, his eyes glancing at everyone majestically.

He saw that everyone was sitting in their positions in a proper manner, straightening their waists, putting their hands on their knees, listening carefully, and nodded with satisfaction and continued;

I said, "Don't worry, the Yankees have put such a big target on our side, and it's not a matter of minutes to eat, are you still afraid that he will run away?"

It's like two brothers fighting, at the beginning of pulling and pulling and talking out, at this time, let's not kill other people's pigs, so that in the end the brothers put down their prejudices and agreed to the outside world.

It's unlikely, but there's no need to take the risk.

Wait until the brothers' heads are red and their heads are red, and then it will be too late to eat this piece of big fat without delaying anything. ”

His Majesty's witty metaphor was extremely vivid, making all the serious generals present laugh, and the atmosphere seemed much more harmonious.

Major General Lei Jueshen stood up, saluted and said; "Your Majesty, the 303rd Field Division of our Central Military Region is stationed in Palm Springs, all of them are fully manned, have high morale, and are willing to be the vanguard of the king. When did Your Majesty say that you have eaten this American enclave, my division will ask for the order to take the lead and take this piece of fat for Your Majesty. ”

His statement stabbed the hornet's nest, and Major General Liu Wu and Major General James Kahn stood up almost at the same time, and Major General Liu Wu took the lead in saluting and said; "Your Majesty, the 301st Field Division of our Central Military Region is stationed in Los Angeles, and it dares to fight tough battles and vicious battles, and the whole division swears allegiance to the royal family to the death, and I am willing to ask for my life to be the vanguard."

"Your Majesty, the 304th Division of our Central Military Region is stationed in Las Vegas, and the officers and soldiers of the division take loyalty to the royal family as their own responsibility.

At this time, several more generals stood up, and Richard waved his hand with a smile, asking these enthusiastic generals to sit down first and calm down, and not to be too impulsive.

Where is it now?

Richard knew that this North American duel would be unprecedentedly fierce, unprecedentedly widespread, with an unprecedented number of casualties and unprecedented bloodshed, and that everyone would have a chance to fight, and it was far from the end of the battle.

He also understands the psychology of the generals, for fear that the northern Yankees are a coward, and they will be easily beaten by the southerners, so that everyone will have no battle to fight, and naturally there will be no meritorious honor.

As the saying goes, what kind of birds do people play, the ancients did not deceive me.

Under the leadership of the extremely aggressive Richard, the army of the Tang Kingdom has iron-blooded and extremely strong aggressive genes, and those officers who are submissive and supple will not be able to get out at all, and they will be trampled on in the internal competition, and they can only be middle-level officers if they stand up to the sky.

It was all the generals who stood out, such as Lieutenant General Harry Freych, Deputy Chief of Staff, who was highly regarded by His Majesty the King;

In the 3rd Western Expedition of the United States, the Northern Front Cavalry Corps led by him was thrown into the Great Lakes region of the United States, burning and looting along the way, destroying villages and towns, killing corpses and rivers of blood.

Eight years have passed since the end of the war, and now Americans grit their teeth with hatred at the mention of Lieutenant General Harry Fretsch, eager to tear him apart in order to relieve their hatred, and they do not hate other Oriental generals so much.

This has deeply stimulated many Chinese generals, thinking that it is an indelible shame, and in turn, the howls of their soldiers are as fierce as wolf cubs, waiting to be released to eat meat and drink blood.

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