There were bloody clashes between the border guards of China and the United States. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the calm American second lieutenant officer did not believe that the arsonists were the British and the Indians who were instructed by them, he even calmly received the condolence representatives sent by the Chinese military station opposite. But he could not tolerate the Chinese encroaching on territory belonging to the United States 'like this'.

"The Chinese took advantage of the difficulties we suffered to advance the position of the troops, which is a provocation to the glorious United States and a great stain on the honor of American soldiers. At this time, do we choose to face them heroically, or do we stick our heads in the sand like ostriches, turning a blind eye to the behavior of the Chinese? ”

The second lieutenant waved his fist to cheer up the American troops at the station.

"Of course, we are brave enough to face them, and no amount of difficulty can stop us from defending the glory and interests of the United States. They must return to their original positions. No, they have to exit the Great Lakes. This is the United States of America, and this is the legal rights conferred on the United States by contract. They must completely withdraw from our land......" the militia company commander sang and made peace with him.

No brave Americans dare to say that China will completely withdraw from the Americas, and all they can clamored for is to let the Chinese withdraw from the Great Lakes and the connected Mississippi River basin. This is what the British lost to them in the last war.

Then the Americans killed a military horse, everyone was fed, the Americans would not even give up the bones, and the remaining horse meat was cooked and distributed among the American soldiers to keep a piece of their hands, which was equivalent to their next rations.

Then the menacing Americans fired real fire in the midst of the verbal push with the Chinese side, and the muskets in this battle were fired at the last moment, initially with free fighting on both sides, and then evolving from free fighting to white-knuckle fighting.

The Americans paid for 37 lives and 25 were captured, while Chen Han's American garrison lost a total of seven men in the battle, which was a fraction of the Americans.

The news of the bloodshed quickly reached the upper echelons of the respective leadership bodies, some were ecstatic, some were furious, and some were stunned and even sad and despairing, but war was inevitable.

"Martial arts disaster country, martial arts disaster country......"

"Daring, bold."

"It's a conspiracy! It's a crime! This group of martial artists is too deceitful! ”

In a small village outside Tokyo, several middle-aged people with gentle faces and clean temperaments are scolding in their hearts, and on the other hand, they are trying their best to express their anger with their image.

These people have just learned the news of the bloody conflict between China and the United States, and they are all angry and can't maintain their image of a gentleman like jade.

They are the disciples of a certain noble family of Chen Han, these people can be said to have worked hard for many years for the 'sealing of the country' of the main family, and now they are about to achieve their goals, but someone provokes the Americans at this time. In their eyes, this is a real sin that deserves death.

Moreover, from their own emotional standpoint, these people will subconsciously suspect that the whole thing is a conspiracy set up by certain factions of the garrison army against the United States. But the truth has happened, war is inevitable, what can they do if they scold again?

When the news came, the whole city of Tokyo was agitated. Inside the city, officials of all levels in high-end carriages shuttled back and forth, and from time to time hurriedly walked into the door of a certain bigwig's house, and after a while they hurried away with an excited, calm, or gloomy face. Everyone's faces were very serious, as if something terrible had happened.

But in fact, there is something big going on. Throughout the city of Tokyo, many representatives of the noble families gathered, and the vast majority of these people believed that the whole bloody clash was deliberately provoked by the border guards of the garrison. War is inevitable, unless the Americans are willing to be shrunken turtles and turn a blind eye to bloodshed. In that way, the Chen Han American garrison army that took advantage of it would be possible to stop the war. But this is really unlikely.

Now many people are concerned about how to deal with this matter within the garrison army.

Is it just like that, pretending to be confused? Or do you want to check it out? Many people's propositions are determined to be investigated to the end and will not be tolerated.

Ten or eight nobles demanded a strict and thorough investigation, and the garrison army could still bear it, but if a hundred or eighty noble families asked for a thorough investigation, the garrison army could not bear it.

Not to mention the final result of a thorough investigation of this matter, a war between China and the United States is inevitable.

Yang Dewang arrived in Washington amid a chorus of welcome from the top of the United States, but left the United States amid the intense gunfire between China and the United States.

But he didn't have any regrets in his heart.

As a simple Chen Han countryman, in Yang Dewang's eyes, the lighthouse country is a threat to Chen Han's future in the North American vassal states. While it hasn't fully grown yet, it's the right thing to do to nip the threat in the bud.

The Chesapeake Bay was gradually being left behind by sailboats. Mr. Young left Washington by boat, but Washington was not a seaside city by the sea, and he traveled down the Potomac River to the Chesapeake Bay before entering the Atlantic.

In the same river, when Yang Dewang arrived at Washington by sailing ship through the Potomac River, he only encountered three or five British ships along the way, but now when Yang Dewang and his party left Washington, he jumped to more than ten British merchant ships on the way.

Behind his ship, an American warship loomed.

The war came so fast, so quickly. Just as the Americans and the British were intensifying their 'trade' exchanges, the American Fleet, which had already captured Key West, left two battalions of troops to garrison the port, and the main force sailed north, and had already taken Charleston, the largest and most important port in the southern United States.

The latter is the largest port in the area south of Philadelphia in the lighthouse state, a mix of military and commercial ports, where half of the Americans' small navy is stationed, and it is also the capital of South Carolina, one of the thirteen states.

In October 1808, a Chinese fleet, large for the U.S. Navy, arrived off the coast of Charleston. The red military flag fluttering on the high mast is telling people that this is a fleet from Chen Han.

The entire fleet consisted of twenty or thirty ships, and at the front was a powerful first-class sail battleship, the Song Taizu, one of the two first-class sail battleships of the American Fleet, and the other was the Ming Chengzu, which was deployed in the Yucatan Peninsula, which was also the flagship of the American Fleet.

In addition to a first-class sail battleship, this fleet also has a second-class sail battleship - Wu Mourning Heavenly King.

The naming of Chen Han's sail battleships is very regular, and the first-class sail battleships are all named after the Ming monarchs and heroes in history, and all of them must be emperors of the Great Unification Dynasty. The second-class sail battleship is named after the troubled heroes such as Ran Min, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Liu Yu, and Chai Rong, but there is a big premise, that is, they must be Han Chinese. The only one who was out of the ordinary was Yue Fei!

The second-class sail battleship named after 'Yue Wumu' can be said to be the most special sail battleship.

Finally, there is the third class capital ship, which is named after the famous general in history. For example, Li Guanghao, Wei Qinghao, Wang Jian and so on.

At present, there is one first-class sail battleship, one second-class sail battleship, and five third-class sail battleships, plus 12 small and medium-sized sail warships of various types, and 10 transport ships. It carried a large number of military supplies and a 2,000-strong marine corps of sailors and 2,000 vassal troops and dispatch troops. The whole fleet attacked twenty-nine ships.

It can be said that this fleet occupies sixty percent of the strength of the entire American fleet, and Chen Han's main force in the Americas has been concentrated here.

The commander of this fleet was Ye Tingyang, who lost the competition with Zhu Li. It is worth mentioning that Ye Tingyang is still a staunch small-boat clipper until now. Zhu Lian has already taken the helm of the water master, and Ye Tingyang has not given up his original concept.

The invention of the steam paddle steamer gave him a new fighting spirit, and also gave him a new hope for a small boat clipper + cannon. In addition, the role played by submarines in actual combat also made him very thoughtful.

By the time Chen's fleet arrived in Charleston, the Americans had apparently received the news. The fleet encountered more than one British merchant ship on its way north, but according to the speed of Chen Han's American fleet, the Americans may have only received the news for more than two days. In fact, it didn't matter if they received this news or not, because some of the warships of their Southern Navy fleet had left Charleston during this time, but many more warships had stayed in the harbor, and the soldiers on the batteries had been watching the sea vigilantly to avoid being raided.

It is not a day or two that the Americans have been preparing their troops.

They also built a stone fort, Fort Sumter, on the south shore of Charleston Harbor. There was a battalion of American regular troops stationed.

After Fort Sumter, there is Fort Moultrie, the Port of Charleston is the largest port in the South of the United States, and it is also an important military port of the United States Navy.

Seeing that several warships of the enemy navy had made up their minds to stop in the harbor as a mobile battery, Chen Han did not wait any longer.

The formal battle began early the morning of the second day after the arrival of Chen's fleet, and several transports, under the cover of four capital ships, sailed one after another towards the northern part of Charleston Bay, where there was a small dock.

Charleston Bay is not large, only 12 miles deep, and there are two small peninsulas at the mouth of the bay, one south and one north, protecting Charleston like armrests, and the closest distance between the two north and south peninsulas is only four miles. The Americans did not have time to build a strong battery on the north side, but they carefully arranged an artillery position here. The north and south crosses to block the mouth of Charleston Bay. Coupled with the naval warships in the harbor, the fire was fierce.

But with such a specification of defensive firepower, Lao Mei can only do it in the front. The frontal onslaught can't be drawn, so what if Ye Tingyang changes direction and fights from the side?

The entire South Carolina Army and Navy have only 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and it is simply not enough for such a person to guard against South Carolina's hundreds of kilometers of coastline. The garrison of Charleston was only about 10,000 troops, and their commanders arranged them around the city of Charleston one by one according to the distribution of Charleston's river topography, and a little farther away would no longer be within the defensive range of the American army.

Thirteen or fourteen miles north of Charleston Bay, there is a small but very large wharf, which is estimated to be a fisherman's village-level wharf, so small that it is not suitable for transport ships to dock. But fortunately, unlike Charleston, which is full of artillery fire, not to mention artillery, there are even few American militiamen, which is suitable for Chen Han's army to land on the shore.

After the two third-class capital ships washed the ground with artillery, Chen Han's transport fleet approached the dock as close as possible, put down the small boats one by one, and the army began to land in a big way. The first to land was of course the marines, who made it to the pier without any hindrance, and it was like an outing.

After the successful landing, the Marines quickly occupied the entire dock and now the small seaside village, without any exchange of fire. The American fishermen in the wharf and the Americans in the village had long since fled, and there were not even a few livestock left.

Charleston's U.S. Army was only about 10,000 men, which was a formidable force for the Americas. But when it is arranged around a city, it always feels like there is a shortage of major generals. They simply can't muster the extra manpower to defend and support here. Even if it's so close to Charleston. But Lao Mei is so helpless.

There are only 6 million people in the entire lighthouse country, and South Carolina is not counting black slaves, is there 300,000 or 400,000? If it weren't for a certain number of federal regular troops, South Carolina alone would not be able to pull up 20,000 or 30,000 militiamen. If the 200,000 troops of the United States cannot be used in a centralized manner, it will also be a shortage of major generals and loopholes for their vast country.