More than a month after Prime Minister Temple took office, London made two major moves against North America, which aroused Richard's great attention, and his extraordinary premonition could detect the low pressure before the storm, and knew that this was not a good thing.

The first big move was that Prime Minister Temple instigated the ruling party members to throw out the "British North American Act" in the British House of Commons, which aims to form a unified Dominion of Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

These areas are located along the Great Lakes region of the Great Lakes region along the Great Lakes of British Canada, which has a long history of colonial development and a large population.

It covers about 16% of the area of the British Canadian colony, but covers more than 69% of the population, and the above areas were previously fragmented, and after the merger and formation of a new unified Dominion, its influence and role will have a 1+12 effect.

In this move, the Temple government attempted to unite the scattered Canadian colonies and form a Canadian Dominion government.

When the time comes

It will bring the other central, western and northern Canadian provinces into the Dominion of Canada, so that a unified and effective colonial rule can be achieved in response to the chaos in North America.

I have to say that this trick is very powerful.

By 1859

The population of the entire British Canadian colony grew to about 2.54 million, with the vast majority concentrated in the eastern part of the country and the Great Lakes border region of the United States.

There are precedents for successful policies adopted by scheming politicians in London, such as the United States;

Initially, the thirteen states of North America under British rule were united, and finally developed and evolved into the United States today, and there are enough successful experiences to learn from.

In terms of the degree of economic development

The United States is much more developed than Canada, and the economic ties between the states are far closer than those between the regions of Canada, and there is no obstacle to the frequent exchange of people and goods.

At the time of the independence of the United States, the thirteen states of British North America had formed a unified market and a strong sense of national identity.

Canada is different from the United States, because Canada is relatively remote and less developed, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and other places are relatively independent regions and the degree of development is not high.

Moreover, in the British Canadian colonies, there were serious contradictions and mutual distrust between the French and British residents, which was also the biggest obstacle for the Temple government to pinch the Canadian Dominion.

In 1756, the Anglo-French War broke out, and it took the British several years to defeat the French, seize French Canada, and annex French Canada to the command, and the entire Canadian region became a British colony.

In order to appease the always restless French, the British promulgated the Quebec Act, which recognized the special status of the French in Canada and granted various privileges to the Catholic Church.

As a result, the French-majority region of Quebec has a great deal of autonomy, and the French in Quebec have always tried to dominate and promote the independence of the region, and have a strong influence over several surrounding remote provinces.

Sum up

Even if the ruling party pushes for the parliament to pass the "British North American Law", the implementation of the "British North American Law" will face many difficulties, and it is not a policy that can be effective in a short time.

The second major move is that the British government has changed course in its policy towards North America, and there has been a sudden major change;

Backwards from the original position of supporting and preparing to recognize the Confederate States of America in the South in favor of the North.

This is not a trivial matter, but a major policy change that will affect the situation in North America and will encourage a large number of European countries to follow suit.

The visible change to the naked eye is that the Northern Army has obtained a large number of cloth production uniforms, and the front-line troops have changed their previous strange clothes and changed into light blue military uniforms, which look very similar.

Sweeping away the impression that the original Northern Army was ragged and still exuded an unpleasant smell, the Northern Virginia Regiment on the Eastern Front was an army that changed into a uniform and was soon sent to the frontline battlefield.

The original chaotic weaponry of the Northern Army was rapidly improved, and British Minnie rifles appeared on the battlefield in large quantities, and in the general attack launched in early August, inflicting more serious damage on the Southern Army.

President Johnson-Buchanan ordered a general attack on all fronts by 1.1 million troops of the Northern Army on August 3, vowing to achieve a final victory in the war at all costs.

The British Mini rifle has a long range and great power, and the lead bullet used is very toxic, and in the battlefield where the medical conditions are extremely simple, if the wounded cannot quickly remove the lead bullet, there is a high probability that they will not be able to escape to Huangquan.

Fortunately, the Minny rifles equipped by the Northern Army were still short, and the total number was not large, about 100,000 pieces, which did not completely change the situation of the war.

After suffering heavy casualties in the eastern battlefield, the Southern Army finally contained the ferocious general offensive of the Northern Army and stabilized the eastern front.

The commander-in-chief of the Confederate army, Robert Lee, drew the general reserve to launch a full-scale counterattack. From August 25 to September 1, General Lee's 160,000 troops fought a "seven-day battle" with 220,000 troops of the Northern Army.

The Southern Army maneuvered and flexibly searched for fighters, mobilized the Northern Army to deploy, and then found the weak link of the Northern Army to launch a resolute and decisive attack, winning several battles in succession, and driving the Northern Army out of the peninsula near Richmond.

In the Battle of the 7th, the Northern Army lost 36,500 men and the Southern Army also lost 41,000 men, but strategically won the defense of the capital Richmond.

After repelling the general attack of the Northern Army, the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Army, Robert Lee, led his army north to take advantage of the victory, and at the end of September, the Third Battle of Manassas was fought with the Northern Army.

In this battle, General Robert Lee's superb command art was vividly displayed, he attracted the main force of the Northern Army to the position with a small force, the main force maneuvered, launched an attack from the flank and rear, and then flanked the frontal and flank, and crushed the Northern Army in one fell swoop.

The Northern army suffered 24,000 casualties and 15,300 prisoners.

It was only in the Battle of Antitam in October that the Northern Army withstood the offensive of the Confederate Army and relieved Washington of the danger of annihilation.

In the general offensive launched by the Northern Army in August 1859, the Eastern Front and the Western Front won 1 and lost 1, and the contrast was very obvious.

The Eastern Front was defeated first and then defeated, and was defeated by Robert Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army, until the troops came to Washington, D.C., and there was no way to retreat, and the majestic oath issued by the Northern Army before the war became a joke.

Under Washington's strict orders, the Northern Army sacrificed the tactics of crowds in the Battle of Antitam, which resisted the tidal wave of the Southern Army's offensive.

On the Western Front, it was a different story

After the defeat in the Battle of Kansas last year, Sherman, a general of the Northern Army, re-recruited his army to practice martial arts and earnestly prepare for war, and finally shined on the battlefield on the Western Front this year and won victory after victory.

The first battlefield was in Kansas City, and the Northern Army learned the lessons of the last war and took advantage of the superiority in strength to split in two.

A predominantly cavalry mobile unit broke south from the flank, cutting off the Kansas railroad line to the south and setting up a strong blocking position.

On the other hand, they stormed Kansas City with heavy artillery bombardment and round after round of infantry attacks, smashing the Confederate defensive line and occupying it one by one like peeling an onion.

In the difficult environment of no backup and heavy enemy attack, the Kansas Corps of the Southern Army, which held Kansas City for five days and five nights, had to retreat westward after suffering heavy casualties.

After breaking through the encirclement of the Northern Army, Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill, commander of the Kansas Corps, led the remnants of 31,000 men to the west and retreated to Manhattan.

The current town of Manhattan is under the control of the Tang Kingdom, and the railway line from here to the west can reach Phoenix City, more than 890 kilometers away, on the Colorado Plateau, and can also be supported by the army of the Tang Kingdom.

It can be said that it is safe to evacuate here.

Tens of thousands of pursuing troops of the Northern Army were stopped by a cavalry regiment of more than 1,000 people from the Tang Kingdom outside the town of Omaha, and they were told that the front belonged to the jurisdiction of the army of the Tang Kingdom and it was strictly forbidden to trespass.

Major Fan Pengju sat proudly on his horse, and behind him were more than 1,300 cavalrymen from the 6th Regiment of the Colorado Cavalry Division, neatly lined up in a horizontal long snake formation, firmly blocking the pursuers.

Opposite him were the soldiers of the Northern Army, dressed in a variety of clothes, like an army of beggars fleeing, but everyone had spears and blades in their hands, and they looked murderous and vicious.

"Your Excellency General, the area is already under the protection of the troops of the Tang Kingdom, please lead your subordinates to leave here, otherwise, the unnecessary conflict between the two countries arising from this will be the sole responsibility of Your Excellency General." Major Fan Pengju pressed the command knife on his waist and said with a calm expression.

His words made Samuel Brown, the general of the Northern Army, crook his nose in anger, and his blood swelled up, and he wanted to order the arrogant cavalry major to be shot indiscriminately, but he knew that he couldn't do that.

The Tang Kingdom is eyeing the side, and it is worried that there is no excuse for having a chance to intervene in the civil war between the North and the South of the United States!

In May, the Tang Kingdom brazenly sent troops to occupy Tijuana, and Washington didn't let out a single fart, pretending to be dumb and not responding positively, so he coaxed it.

On the contrary, he threw out a "Emancipation Proclamation" to confuse the public, which made the generals of the Northern Army panic, and several high-ranking officers on the battlefield on the Western Front simply led their troops to defect to the southern camp.

The general assault, which was originally planned to begin in June, had to be postponed to eight parts, and the commander-in-chief of the US forces, Admiral Ambrose Everett Bernside, spent tremendous energy to pacify the generals, eliminate internal unrest, and suppress discontent.

Lieutenant General Samuel Brown knew all these things, so he forced the anger in his heart to say; "It is you who should leave here, 700 kilometers west from Manhattan is the inherent territory of the United States, belonging to the state of Kansas, your actions have violated the territorial sovereignty of the United States, and I have the right to wipe you all out."

"This is indeed controversial, in your opinion, the south belongs to the rebels, and the Tang Kingdom recognizes the south as an independent state, and has its own position on this issue. As for the land in front of His Excellency the General, it is now under the protection of the Tang Kingdom. In the event of trespassing, it will inevitably provoke a war between the two countries, and our unit has been ordered to hold on to this place, so please think twice before acting. ”

"Get out of the way of the major, or you won't have to go."

"It's a pity that I can't accept your request, my unit is ordered to stick here, and the military order must not be violated."

"You ......" Lieutenant General Samuel Brown was really angry and vomited blood, but there was nothing he could do.

The two sides were deadlocked for four or five hours, and Lieutenant General Samuel Brown was finally not carried away by the anger and had to retreat with tens of thousands of troops.

Behind him, there was a complete cheer from the sky, and the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom threw their military hats high into the sky, as if they were venting the pent-up pressure in their hearts in this way.

With a mere cavalry regiment facing tens of thousands of troops for several hours, the kind of huge pressure that was simply suffocating, not a single soldier turned around and fled, and not a single cavalry retreated, reflecting the iron discipline of the cavalry of the kingdom.

When the news reached Kansas City, which had been reduced to ruins, Lieutenant General Sherman, the commander of the Western Front battlefield, was silent for a long time, and then sighed with a heavy heart and said; "Come back, come back, it's better than a temporary setback than provoking a war on the border between the two countries."

"But...... Your Excellency, the Southern Army still has more than 30,000 troops, and it is not without the strength of a war. And once our army divides its forces to the south, this is always a serious threat. ”

"A serious threat is better than an excuse for military intervention given to the Tang Kingdom, this table is already too crowded, so be it!" General Sherman shook his head and said.

Now he had more important things to do, the 420,000 Northern Army on the Western Front was divided into three;

Along the way, 60,000 troops were stationed in Kansas, an important transportation hub, to restore the railway line connecting the north and the south, remove the wreckage of the city and clean up the battlefield, establish a camp based on tents and simple wooden sheds, and build a defensive line to defend the more than 30,000-strong Southern Army hiding in Omaha, so as to ensure that Kansas City was firmly in control.

More than 22,000 lightly and seriously wounded and sick from the Kansas War also remained in the rear of the Kansas area, not following the army.

With 100,000 troops along the way, Lieutenant General Samuel Brown led the eastward march along the railway line to capture Tennessee, known as the "granary of the United States", and fully occupy this extremely important grain producing area to solve the major food crisis faced by the North and ensure that the war can continue until the final victory.

The 235,000-strong army will be led by General Hillman to the south along the railway line, and along the way a "scorched earth policy" will be adopted, completely destroying and burning all the villages, towns and cities along the way, dealing a devastating blow to the supporters of the rebel forces in the southern states, and shaking the foundation of the enemy's social rule.

General Sherman planned to open up the Mississippi River, the main artery of north-south communication, and led his army south to Houston, then turned east to encircle and capture New Orleans, a major southern city, turning the soft belly of the Southern regime upside down......

Once this vicious battle plan is achieved, the southern regime will not be far from being completely destroyed.

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