The year 1812 is a day in Western history that deserves special mention. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this year, Napoleon gathered 600,000 troops to expedition to Russia, and in the end, the emperor's hegemony was in vain, and Napoleon, who had returned from defeat, had lost the foundation of his magnificent empire. The entire empire fell apart because of his defeat, and the newly established European order was soon fundamentally reversed and devastated.

When heaven and earth come together, the heroes are not free.

At the same time, on the North American continent, far from Europe, the Lighthouse Nation launched its first foreign war thirty years after its founding.

Yes, in 1812, the second war of independence of the United States was the first to attack Canada, and although the lighthouse country finally 'won' the war, it paid a heavy price, the capital Washington fell, and the presidential palace was burned down by the British, and had to be covered with a layer of white ashes, and had to become a 'White House'. It can be said that they are typical of 'can't eat mutton but get into trouble'.

But the newly-born United States also used this war to tell the British that they are also capable of being demons, although they are not comparable to the British Empire, but in North America, they are an out-and-out tiger, and the United States is considered to have a firm foothold.

After the end of the American Revolutionary War, there was no real peace between Britain and the United States, and the sovereignty struggle between the two sides never stopped. In particular, Canada, which is one step away from the United States, as a British colony, has a sparse population and lax defenses, tempting the United States to covet it. Because of the existence of China, the United States wants to expand northward, and this desire is many times stronger than that of the original time and space, because a strong and unshakable neighbor has appeared in the west, and the Americans are eager to expand their power and protect their interests. It's just that Lao Mei's brain is also in the water, and they hope that while annexing Canada, they also expect the Canadians to regard the US military as a liberator, which is a joke.

How the old United States praised and depreciated Britain in history, Chen Ming has forgotten. The fuse, he only remembered that the British had captured a lot of American ships. But in essence, this is still the interest of the United States, and it wants to take advantage of the fact that Britain is taking advantage of the fact that the United Kingdom is taking care of one thing and losing the other. Perhaps the United States already had a strong self-confidence at that time, and the 'Manifest Destiny' of the United States in later generations was just an enlarged version of this self-confidence, the embodiment of this kind of interest.

But there are some different things about the Americans' protests against Chen Han than Chen Ming remembers, such as the lighthouse state's claim that Chen Han violated its rights and sovereignty: China's line of control along the border with the United States should be retreated some distance to the west, and several fortresses in that area belong to the United States. The British did not abide by the treaty reached in Paris after the American Revolutionary War, refused to hand over the military fortifications in the western region to the lighthouse country, and armed the local Indians to threaten the western frontier of the United States. But after Napoleon sold the vast expanse of Louisiana to China, when the advance force of the Chinese garrison appeared in the western United States, the British suddenly ceded those forts and areas.

The benefits obtained in vain, regardless of the intentions of the British, there is no reason not to eat them for the garrison army. Chen Han's American garrison unceremoniously stationed in those fortresses, and the United States seemed to have forgotten the "Paris Peace Treaty" before, and did not raise any objections to Chen Han at all, but now it openly raised objections and brazenly demanded from Chen Han. It's total!

Chen Ming ate the meat in his mouth, how could he spit it out again?

It's just that the lighthouse country is obviously harboring evil intentions by doing this.

They also used China's trade embargo policy as an obstacle to their normal commercial trade, and caused more than a dozen American merchant ships to be seized by Chen Han's American fleet, and the status of the United States as a neutral country was not respected.

Chen Ming scoffed at these.

"Your Majesty, the Americans are trying to get involved." Pang Zhenkun stroked his beard, and his term of office will end next year. It was also fortunate that at the end of his term, Chen Han entered South America. It can be said that the future days of South American closure are not far off.

If Pang Zhenkun is willing, he will probably be able to sit on the throne soon.

"The Spaniards are clearly not our opponents. Our constant expansion in the Americas seems to have touched the nerves of the lighthouse nation. ”

"Tell the MIA and let them quickly find out the state of the Beacon Nation's military strength, and if they have expanded their army, then the United States is our second enemy."

Chen Han was wary of the Beacon Country, whose population size and strength continued to expand, and the Beacon Country was even more terrified of Chen Han's growing influence in the Americas. As mentioned earlier, the Portuguese in Brazil have merged with Spain, so what's so strange about the United States hooking up with the Spaniards?

Maybe there's a British hand and foot here.

And as for the fact that the British abandoned the fortress first, and then matched the Lighthouse State with the Spaniards, it is not surprising. For the sake of their own interests, the British certainly did not want to see the vast territory of the Americas called Chinese. Let there be a direct conflict of interest between China and the United States, and then build a bridge between the lighthouse country and the big duck, and integrate all the forces hostile to China? In order to add to China's blockage, it is better to stop China's footsteps, and the British must be very willing to see it.

Chen Ming turned his head to look at the map of the Americas hanging beside him. With six million lighthouse citizens, it is not difficult to gather an army of 200,000. But if the 200,000 army attacked the Florida Peninsula in the south, that place had already been given to Concubine Shi's son Chen Wei, and he couldn't stop 200,000 people by relying on his own strength. Even if Lao Mei's combat effectiveness is rubbish!

Since the British are bridging the Beacon Nation with the Big Plate Duck, they will certainly not watch the messy officer system of the Beacon Nation squander the valuable human resources of the West on the American continent, and in the current situation of the British, is it difficult to support a few hundred experienced army officers? And Jean-Victor Moreau of France is now also in the United States.

The combat capability of this man is absolutely the first-class level in Europe, and the French Rhine Army led by him in the Second Anti-French Alliance War defeated the Austrian Danube Army, laying the foundation for the crushing of the Second Anti-French Alliance in one fell swoop.

However, Moreau was imprisoned in Spain for his support of the republic and Napoleon's poisonous rule, and was later forced into exile in the Lighthouse State.

Moreau has a good reputation throughout Europe, and if he is re-invited out of the mountain by the Americans, it can really cause a lot of trouble for Chen Han.

200,000 Americans are enough to pose a major threat to the Florida Peninsula and to the Gulf of Mexico, namely Runzhou [Houston] and Xintai [New Orleans]. And the navy of the Americans can also cause a lot of trouble for Chen Han.

Chen Ming will definitely not compromise or back down on the lighthouse country in the slightest, and now that the lighthouse country has protested, it has been 'analyzed' that there is a possibility of involvement, and Chen Ming sentenced the lighthouse country to death in his heart.

But no matter how strategically we despise the enemy, we must also pay attention to the enemy tactically.

And this analysis must also be sent to the Americas as soon as possible," told Siam and Edo to prepare the second batch of troops as soon as possible. "The first expeditionary forces of these two countries have landed in Tokyo, and now it is time for them to prepare the second group.

In fact, Chen Han's form in the Americas is very good now.

……

Let's go back to the night when the submarine was in power.

The moon hung high in the night sky, embedded in the dark sky, like a flawless piece of jasper, and like a white pearl.

The faint clouds covered the whole sky with a thin veil, revealing a hazy beauty, lined with the bright moonlight, and a little star—looking up at the endless night sky from the vast sea, it was a beauty that could not be expressed in words, and it was intoxicating. And while one was still immersed in this beauty, the moonlight faded, and the moon quietly hid into the clouds. The moonlight faded as the moon faded until it was pitch black.

"What's that?"

"God! It's a rocket, it's a rocket—"

The Sa'agun was filled with the panicked shouts of a lookout. The alarm bell sounded, the lookout was desperately ringing the alarm bell, and the sailors on duty at night reflexively looked around, and then someone found the two rockets flying in the night.

"Oh my God, where did the rockets come from?" The captain officer on duty only had time to groan, and two rockets had already slammed into the side of the Saagorn.

It is impossible for this fourth-class sail warship to escape, it has not even raised its anchor now, it is a dead target.

The sudden explosion of fire shone on the entire Port of Key West, and if someone looked closely at the surface of the harbor at this time, some people would notice that there were suddenly many thin pipes floating in the sea in the harbor.

If they had clairvoyance, they could see through the tubes that they all had a large wooden barrel underneath, and a piece of pig iron hanging from the bottom of the barrel.

This is Chen Han's floating thunder. It is based on the underwater dragon king cannon and other mines recorded in Chinese history.

The barrel is used as a carrier, and a thin bamboo tube is attached to it, which can supply air to the barrel. Inside the barrel was a powder packet wrapped in silk, which was timed with a lit incense stick, and a counterweight hung underneath the barrel to allow the barrel to sink a foot below the surface of the water.

Then, at the port, the barrels are released along the water, and these things can easily sneak into the port. As long as the barrel or bamboo pole on top is blocked by an obstruction, the floating mine can be 'fixed'.

When the incense burns to the end, the floating mine explodes from a foot of the ocean floor, which can cause significant damage to the battleship.

Of course, this kind of floating mine has the limitations of the times, and if you want to better kill the enemy, you also need to cooperate with the water-based frogman.

And the rockets of the submarine itself, it was a sudden attack when the time was about to come to an end. If you want to inflict maximum damage on the Spaniards in the port, you have to do both.

The lookout and the sailors watched as two rockets with tail flames slammed into the side of the Saagun battleship, not high above the waterline.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

There was a continuous roar, and the flames were accompanied by the bursting of wood chips. The battleship Saagún seemed to have exploded, and there was a violent tremor all over its body.

The bursting of the two rockets made two huge gaps in the side of the Saagún ship, and the entire battleship immediately suffered a huge damage, I don't know how much sea water poured into it along the cracks in the low opening, and the Saagon has now become a dead fish, and he doesn't even dare to fight back and open fire! Otherwise, the hull will shake, and the cracks under the ship's side will get bigger and bigger, and the gap will be filled, and the Saagún will be finished.

And that night, the catastrophe that the Spaniards were about to befall had just begun.