The situation in the United States of America took a turn for the worse, which aroused the great concern of Emperor Richard, who personally ordered that the discharge of veterans in the autumn of 1889 be postponed indefinitely, and that new recruits should be recruited into the camp for training a month earlier.

With this move, the Reich could mobilize more than 180,000 field troops when needed, plus 63,700 troops at the U.S. General Command, and be able to muster more than 240,000 mobile forces to deal with any possible dire situation.

This part of the force can be dispensed with, but it cannot be left unprepared.

On September 16, the Royal Train secretly arrived in Chicago, a metropolis on the shores of the Great Lakes, and stopped at the Huahu Palace. Marshal Mak Hsiao-cho, Chief of Staff of the Royal Army, led a group of high-ranking generals who had already been waiting here and held a brief welcoming ceremony.

The news was blocked, so the heroic city of Chicago did not have the pomp and circumstance of millions of people taking to the streets to welcome His Majesty the Emperor.

Inside the lakeside palace

Emperor Richard was in the splendid Dome Hall, listening to a report on the latest situation in the United States of America, and his mood was solemn.

There has been a massive expansion of the National Guard in every state in the United States, along with the police force, and the differing attitudes of states and counties toward the federal government, creating considerable confusion.

Take, for example, Pittsburgh, the nearest heavy industry city;

The local workers' federation spontaneously organized more than a dozen militias, ranging from a few dozen to thousands of people, who occupied different factories and neighborhoods as territory. There are also Italian or Irish gangs who openly grab territory with weapons, and from time to time urban fires break out.

The police force of the local city government and the state National Guard, which came in with urgent reinforcements, were also helpless in the face of the extreme turmoil and chaos in the city.

After the withdrawal of the Tang Empire, it only retained a military base in the form of a warehouse with more than 1,320 troops stationed in Pittsburgh, which was more than capable of self-preservation and insufficient ability to intervene in the situation.

Now everyone is waiting to see which state will fire the first shot of secession.

What will inevitably follow is a domino effect, entering a phase of chaos and continued reorganization, and in the case of getting out of control, the Tang Empire will unite with other American countries to intervene in the name of the "American Alliance" to help restore order in the region.

“……

A French expeditionary force of more than 5,600 people is advancing to Pittsburgh, this French army is a mule and horse army, with a Burgundy light cavalry regiment of more than 1,000 people, equipped with 32 artillery regiments including 12-pounder field guns, and the ability to attack fortifications is strong.

within the month

Two more French reinforcements will arrive one after another, sending another 16,600 French expeditionary forces to the North American continent, which will bring the total number of French troops stationed in the United States of America to more than 53,000, making it the second largest military force after the imperial North American garrison.

At present, the French army has been actively mobilized, and has launched operations to suppress local rioters in Brooklyn, New York, New Jersey, Cleveland, Ohio, and Boston.

Message just received;

Just 8:40 a.m. on Sept. 17, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a formal resolution;

The French Expeditionary Force was declared illegal for military operations, and the population and the National Guard had the right to take up arms to defend their rights and property.

When the news broke, the local forces in Boston received a positive response, with intermittent heavy fighting taking place in more than 20 neighborhoods, and the French troops who were expected to enter the city suffered heavy losses.

The specific situation is yet to be confirmed.

The French army's unsolicited military action has angered many of the more separatist states of the United States, and in the near future will see a chain reaction similar to the Massachusetts legislature resolution.

The United States is now a boiling oil pot, and the actions of the French army are like a spoonful of cold water, which makes the situation more chaotic and explosive, and slides further into the abyss of spiraling out of control.

The Imperial General Command in North America is deployed in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Ohio, and the army is fully on pre-war alert and ready to attack.

The current situation ......"

Emperor Richard sat on the throne at the top, his slender fingers lightly tapped the back of the chair, and the expression on his face was indifferent, listening to the relevant reports of the military.

Today's situation in North America has gone completely off, and there is no precedent to follow.

The Tang Empire's easternmost territory was Indiana, one of the nine provinces ceded from the northern United States after the Second North American War, and one of the smaller provinces of the empire itself.

The Province of Indiana is a state on the eastern border of the Empire, bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, the northern Michigan Province of the Empire to the north, Ohio in turmoil in the United States to the east, Illinois to the west, and the Kingdom of Kentucky across the Ohio River to the south.

The province is 257 kilometers wide from east to west and 451 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of 93,993 square kilometers and a population of 396,000 at the end of 1888.

Eastburg, the capital of Indiana Province (formerly Indianapolis), has a population of 63,700 and is home to the Forward Command of the Northern Military District.

In the south and north of the city, there are a total of 103 field divisions and 109 divisions of the first class, with a total strength of 32,200 troops, which is a military hammer to maintain the stability of the situation in the north.

By the will of His Majesty the Emperor;

In the near future, three field divisions of the Northern Military District will be transferred to the state by train and temporarily deployed in the border area of Ohio.

This initiative

It will bring the number of mobile troops deployed in Indiana to 67,000, further strengthening the ability to intervene militarily in the United States.

The other part of about 180,000 troops is deployed in Michigan and the Kingdom of Kentucky, and is expected to be deployed in place by the end of October to begin combat readiness tasks.

The atmosphere in the hall was solemn, dozens of high-ranking generals with generals on their shoulders were lined up on the left and right, as well as Count Yao Guangyi, deputy prime minister of the empire, Lord Liu Daqing, minister of foreign affairs, and other ministers, all of whom were listening carefully to the summary report on the military situation.

At this time, Emperor Richard was thinking in his heart whether he could take the opportunity to bite a piece of meat from the divided United States.

So-called; Heaven gives it to take it, but it suffers from it. When it doesn't work, it suffers.

Now the opportunity is too good, the American states are scattered, and the voice of the federal government cannot be heard in Washington.

The French are desperately trying to extinguish fires everywhere, but the flames have spread to all states and counties in the United States and are uncontrollable, and the situation is sliding to the brink of collapse.

Even with great ability, it is even more difficult to reverse the situation.

The only one with such ability is the Tang Empire, but the Tang Empire will never do it, but will pour a little oil on the chaotic situation and push it forward.

After the crisis in the United States, a large number of people have migrated to the Tang Empire, forming a wave of refugees.

In order to exploit Indiana's vast ice-stained plains, the Empire is channeling migrants across the border to settle in the province, which is expected to usher in a population explosion.

The questions that stayed before Emperor Richard were;

The strength of the Empire's Chinese immigrants in the eastern seaboard states was relatively strong, but it was weaker in the neighboring states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and this was a big problem that needed to be solved.

(End of chapter)