"Shao Mu, my prince brother won this naval battle, and Queen Luo should also rest assured."

Zhu Yixin handed the battle report in his hand to Lin Zexu next to him and said with a smile.

"It is normal for the queen to worry about the king's excessive military exploits in North America."

Lin Zexu smiled a little reluctantly.

A royal affair.

The best thing to be a courtier is to participate less.

"It's unfounded, this king will return to Han only a handful of times in the future, and this great plain of North America is the place where this king wants to chase!"

Zhu Yixin said.

"The old man will send a staff group here, it seems that he is going to prepare for a big fight." As he spoke, Zhu Yixin's brows couldn't help frowning.

"King, the situation is favorable to us now, what are you still worried about?"

Zhu Yixin shook his head: "Advantageous? It may not be beneficial, the difficulty for Europeans to cross the Atlantic is much lower than it is for us to cross the Pacific, and if the Europeans send troops to North America in a big way, it will also be very troublesome, and now the total population in North America is still dominated by whites! ”

"Yes, there are 300,000 standing troops on the United States side, and it is not a problem to mobilize one million to the limit, if Britain and France have 500,000 troops, and Mexico mobilizes another 1 million, that is 2.5 million, and we can mobilize 1 million at most" Lin Zexu shook his head, "1 million against 2.5 million, it is indeed difficult to fight." ”

"The old man will support at least 500,000 of the king's army, but it will still be 1.5 million against 2.5 million." Zhu Yixin shook his head, "Therefore, the early stage of the war is very important, if you can seize the opportunity to kill and injure as many of their soldiers as possible in the early stage of the war." ”

"That's the purpose of the 50,000 elite cavalry formed by the king, right?"

"That's right! You said that 50,000 cavalry attacked, plus me, the king of the Ming Dynasty, can I become the biggest target of the white people? ”

"The king wants to be bait?"

Lin Zexu frowned.

"America is not very easy to deal with."

The current United States, of course, is not easy to deal with. 、

Because the United States at this time was not the loose federation that pursued isolationism and lived in a corner.

The current United States, however, has formed a certain degree of centralization and a continental country with a certain military tradition after the War of Independence and the confrontation with the Ming Empire for a long time.

The number of troops they can mobilize is huge.

Especially in the last fifteen years.

The pace of railroad construction in the United States has been very fast.

Several states along the Atlantic coast have developed a dense network of railways.

The railroad also extends to the Missouri Plateau and the Colorado River Basin.

Huge capacity by rail.

The United States was able to quickly amass hundreds of thousands of troops on the front lines.

On the Ming side, large-scale railway construction has also been carried out between the two prefectures of Golden State and California, and the railway has connected the two prefectures.

Moreover, the two sides adopted different railway specifications, with the broad gauge on the Ming side and the narrow gauge line on the US side.

Conflicts between the two sides of the Missouri Plateau over different railroad lines on both sides of the border and the Native Americans living in the area are almost daily.

So.

If the battle line is at the end of the respective railway lines of both sides.

That is foreseeable, this will be a very cruel position of the stars meat grinder.

Both sides would have to expand their armies to fit enough soldiers on long fronts to sustain a standoff of this magnitude.

It is worth mentioning.

The construction of the railway in the Ming and Han dynasties is actually quite fast.

And it was much smoother than Zhu Daohua imagined.

Not many people think that the railway is a thing that destroys feng shui, and they oppose it en masse.

If only someone really jumped out of the old trouble.

Northeast, Northwest, South Sea, North America.

Even Siberia.

There are a lot of places of exile - the Ming Empire occupies such a vast land, even if there are hundreds of millions of people, it now feels that the population density is a little low.

"King, now the conflicts in the settlements on the border are becoming more and more frequent, and it seems that the Americans are also ready for a big war!"

Lin Zexu said.

Zhu Yixin took a deep breath.

"Time is of the essence! This fall, the first big battle will begin! Now the Yankees are also fighting fiercely! ”

"Now they have a Ku Klux Klux Klan over there, and they are very extreme, and they may get a lot of votes in the next election."

"Extreme is extreme, we are not afraid anyway!"

It's the same as the nationalism on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

On the American side, white supremacy is more prevalent than in the historical United States.

After all, this is the chosen country in the eyes of the white Puritans in the United States, the Promised Land, and they will not be able to give up this land.

At present, the armies of the two sides have not yet engaged in a large-scale confrontation.

However, civil conflict has intensified – especially as both sides begin to build settlements along the line of contact.

June 19, 1810 A.D.

Helena City, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, on the banks of the Missouri River.

It was a very fertile valley that was ideal for farming, and with the discovery of gold in the previous years, adventurers and gold prospectors from both the Ming and American sides began to pan for gold in the Priklippil Valley.

Conflict is inevitable.

Meantime.

In order to compete for this valley place.

Settlers from both sides cultivated their fields on both sides of the Missouri River and established settlements.

For more than a decade.

Instead, it has become a place for direct trade between the United States and the United States.

The prosperity brought about by trade also made it a mixed city of Chinese and European races.

Helena City is under the control of the United States.

But there were still many Chinese merchants and Chinese laborers in the city—industrious Chinese workers, even for American capitalists, who were the best laborers.

But it is different from the Chinese workers who came to this land in history.

These Chinese came with guns!

In addition, just across the bank from Missouri City, there are dozens of Chinese collective farms.

So in recent years, in Helena City, although there have been conflicts between Chinese and whites, the scale is not large.

The top didn't start fighting, and the people below also wanted to make money.

But.

As the population of both sides continues to grow around Helena City.

There is not much wasteland left in the narrow Priklippier Valley.

Increment reduction.

The two sides may then have to compete to the death.

And as the Ming Empire showed its ambitions for the North American continent.

Relations between the two sides have also deteriorated.

With the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist party in the United States, gaining a majority of seats in the Montana legislature, it became the largest party in the state.

Helena City began to impose a lot of restrictions on Chinese workers and businessmen.

And the fuse that really detonated the large-scale conflict between the two sides.

It was Helena's Police Department and some Ku Klux Klan fanatics who demanded that the Chinese in a Chinatown in Helena City withdraw from the town belonging to the Americans within a deadline - because the Montana State Assembly had passed a resolution prohibiting Chinese from buying real estate in the town, and the real estate that had been purchased should be repossessed! (End of chapter)