There is no problem for the Americans to attack the Panama Canal, and the British government will not care, but it is wrong to attack the Port of Windsor, because the Suez Canal is a tripartite joint venture between Britain and France and the Windsor consortium. Queen Victoria took the initiative to inform Palmerston that the government should take care of the matter. Palmerston thought about it and was justified, so he put diplomatic pressure on France.

In this way, the Windsor consortium is at ease on five fronts in China, Japan, Panama, Port of Windsor, and the Italian-French border, which can be called a miracle. However, a falling out with the United States is very bad for BP, because Pennsylvania, the northern state of BP, is currently BP's largest crude oil producer and may be blocked by the United States in the near future.

The most powerful strategy of the North against the South was the "Anaconda Project", which was built by U.S. Commander Winfield Scott to weaken the Confederate economy by blockading the main ports on which the South depended on trade; Then seize the Mississippi River to divide the south, making it impossible to deploy its war resources effectively.

The reason why the U.S. forces wanted to seize the Panama Canal was because they feared that the soon-to-be-completed canal would disrupt the East India Company's navy from the Pacific Ocean to the Guò Canal into the Atlantic. The Union Navy had an absolute advantage over the Army, while the Union Army on land was losing ground at the start of the war.

The main reasons for the Union Army's defeat in the initial war were as follows: First, Lincoln's predecessor, President Buchanan, was an agent of the South, and had already anticipated a possible civil war, so he transferred a large amount of war resources to the South. Second, although the population of the south is less than half of the 22 million in the north, 9 million, and there are 4 million black slaves, everyone is brave and warlike, and it is not an exaggeration to say that all the people are soldiers, including many cowgirls are also good gunslingers. 3. The commander of the Confederate Army was General Robert Lee, who was recognized as the most proficient at the time, and this general had shown his skills in the Mexican-American War and later became the principal of the West Point Military Academy. It can be seen that at this time, Americans still have state power more than federal power in their hearts, and their sense of belonging to the state is greater than that of the United States.

Southerners are not easy to mess with, and after the failure to control the Panama Canal, the top of the federal government, led by Lincoln, began to intensify the preparation of further strategies. I thought it would be more legitimate to defend the Union rather than emancipate the slaves, but now I have to consider using the slogan of emancipation to lure the slaves to defect and hit the economy of the South. They also issued weapons to the black slaves who fled to the north, so that these black slaves acted as minions of the north and attacked the south in turn.

The President of the Confederate States of America said: "This is an atrocity of plundering private property. On the other hand, the South also gave the black slaves a choice, helped their masters to fight, and obtained free status after the war.

Although the American Civil War is a matter for the American people, the whole world is asking the boss of the Windsor consortium: "Boss, Lincoln said that he wanted to emancipate the black slaves, and now the dispute between the North and the South has become a dispute over slavery, what do you think?" ”

A certain boss "never responded", and Lincoln triumphantly said that "such and such a boss is speechless".

Not long after he was complacent, the unfortunate news came from the federal warships on the expedition to Hawaii, or rather the loss of news, that the "lost contact" had exceeded the normal wireless telegraph delay, but the federal naval command could not determine whether the expeditionary force had been wiped out or the frenzied British telegraph company had cut off the expeditionary force's communications.

After this incident, the U.S. Navy generals abandoned the use of BT to transmit military intelligence and destroyed all long-range telegraph towers in the United States, claiming that using the enemy's telegraph network was tantamount to giving their weaknesses to the other side, even if it was encrypted by intelligence experts that it was claimed to be secure.

After thinking about it, Lincoln thought that it was better to have a telegram than nothing, and it was enough to remind the admirals to pay attention to the reliability of the source of information, and it was not yet time to fully break with the Windsor consortium, after all, it was the US military that invaded the Panama Canal first, and the other side did not even declare war, and at this moment both sides wanted to have a limited war. The strange thing about this war is that the opponent is a consortium, not a country, and if you declare war on Luxembourg, it doesn't feel right, and it doesn't feel right to declare war on India, and it's not right to declare war on Italy, it's even more wrong, it's really tangled.

The United States is concerned about the land war in the south at the moment, and does not pay much attention to the Hawaii Expeditionary Force, and only sends a few non-mainstream warships to visit here, so when they saw the East India Company Expeditionary Fleet, they were all stunned - a total of 9 warships, this number is not terrible, the powerful thing is that 6 of these 9 can be identified at a glance as 10,000 tons, but three are definitely not the Great Eastern class, but real warships, this is the heavy cruiser that the Singapore shipyard has been developing for many years, and the lead ship is named "Wang Zaifai", The second ship was the "King in Parliament" and the third ship was the "Fei Epharai".

The other three were Great Eastern troop carriers, carrying 5,000 immigrants protected by the East India Company, 1,000 British, 1,000 Indians, 1,000 Malays, 1,000 Chinese, 1,000 Japanese, and of course some immigrants from various countries.

The last three are landing ships that can release landing craft for beach-grabbing landing, using hovercraft technology, and the bottom of the ship is an inflatable cushion, so that the friction between the hull and the ground is greatly reduced, so that the propeller can be used to push the air as the power, and can run a short distance on land, which is of great use for beach-grabbing landing.

In Downing's planning, this time it will not leave, super colonization, the first phase of 5,000 people, including all kinds of talents necessary for colonization, construction, electricity, medical care, roads and bridges, ports, agriculture...... And so on. The size of these 5,000 is close to 7 percent of all Native Hawaiians, at a time when the entire population of the Hawaiian Islands was less than 70,000.

The arrogant East India Company naval expeditionary fleet did not take the US military seriously at all, and directly brought immigrants, which shows that their self-confidence in the "King-class" heavy cruisers is bursting.

They can't help but be complacent, because the parameters of the king level are too much higher than their opponents. According to intelligence, the naval guns popularized by US warships are range 1. 8-pounder rifled guns of 20 km, and they were traditional side-mounted in an old-fashioned arrangement that required an angle adjustment for uniform fire. Even if the King-class cruiser had exactly the same gun as them, it had a great advantage, because it already had a rotating turret-like structure, which could be adjusted at any time. Even without this new all-excellent structure, the King-Class is still stronger than the other party, because the CNC-cut turbine and propeller make it double the speed of enemy ships, allowing it to seize a favorable position and fire first.

The so-called "even if it is the same" is just an assumption, in fact, the guns of the King-class cruisers are completely different, they are no longer "bulk" shells and ammunition, but fixed shells, not breeches but breeches, and the weight of the shells is no longer measured by the weight, but by caliber. Its caliber completely throws off the opponent 500 streets, is a huge 12 inches, and the maximum firing distance is 22 kilometers. You read that right, there is no decimal point, more than ten times more than the other party.

What's even worse is the mechanical computer fire control system, so that the gunner can reach the top level in a very short time, the hit rate of firing in 10 kilometers away can reach 5%, 5 kilometers can reach 15%, and when 1 kilometer misses the opponent, then the commander can order the gunner to cut the stomach.

In order to prevent being ordered to seppuku, one of the most important technical tasks is the aiming system, the cannon aiming is the same as the rifle's three-point line, but the guns of the King-class cruisers are all howitzers, that is, there are ballistic curves to calculate, even a mechanical computer needs at least two parameters to determine the location of the target, one is the horizontal direction, and the other is the distance.

The aiming system introduces a rangefinder, its core is a pentaprism similar to a single-lens reflex camera, the effect is to produce two images from the same light source, under the deliberate arrangement, the angle of light entering the prism is slightly different from the reference ray, which forms an unclear image, like the camera, rotate a certain angle to make the image clear, in short, in the end two images are formed, the operator makes the two images coincide and produces a parameter that can calculate the distance, which is called "coincident ranging method". Passing the distance parameters and horizontal angle parameters to the fire control system, the enemy's target is in danger.

After a single shot, the U.S. naval guns will retreat a long distance from the wheel hub due to the recoil, which means that they have to re-aim, and "even if" it aims quickly, they still have to wait for the gun chamber to cool down and clean, and the gunners are tired like dogs. The guns of the King-class cruisers already used a hydraulic rebound system, and the recoil generated by the barrel compresses the liquid violently, and then returns to its original state in a matter of seconds, which is equivalent to not moving at all, at which time the shells are thrown, new shells are loaded, and they can be fired, or the aiming parameters can be fine-tuned before firing.

All this, compared with the naval guns of all the adversaries of the present day, made the pride and complacency of the officers and men of the navy of the East India Company breed like the asexual reproduction of the phoenix-eyed blue. （http：／／.)。

This time, the Great Colony of Hawaii in Downing arranged for British, Indian, Chinese, Malay, and Japanese to form a colonial committee to represent the highest authority. When the members of the flagship, the "Wang Zaifaxia," saw that the US fleet had come out to meet the battle, the Japanese commissioners shouted the most energetically, because he was a samurai and was originally a warmonger, and how could the Japanese not be excited about the fact that Japan was able to participate in the war against the United States in just eight years since it was opened by US General Perry? He shouted, "Shuff! U.S. ** ships, blow them up! Dead dead drip~"

The young man rubbed his hands together excitedly, and hurriedly took his place and aimed at the target.

The commander of the British nationality first drew a Protestant cross for the American cousins, prayed for their souls that were about to ascend to heaven, and then said: "Don't get excited, try to get the Americans to surrender, the boss said it is better not to hurt people." A telegram was sent to the ships carrying the migrants, telling them to stop and stay away from the battlefield so as not to be hit by shelling. Send a telegram to the Americans, telling them not to panic, that we will sink only one and then stop, and wait for their decision to surrender. ”

In a burst of laughter, the telegraph operator went to carry out the order.