Boss Chen and the officers and men of the navy were full of joy, and they couldn't wait to shout in the wind, the ironclad ship's resistance performance was even better than expected, with the ironclad ship in hand, the sea was not ready for me to gallop?

It's just that inside the ironclad ship, it's not so comfortable, although the thick steel plate can block the explosion, but the impact of the shock is still there.

"It is reported that the electrical system is damaged, and emergency repairs have been arranged."

"It was reported that the valve of the steam engine fell off and the pressure leaked."

"Report, gas turbine blades are loose!"

"It was reported that there were cracks in the welds of the steel plates of the No. 4 warehouse, and there was slight water seepage."

Although the environment is extremely bad, sometimes an explosion and concussion on the outer wall can make the maintenance work fall short, and even people can be shaken out for a long distance, and they will be dizzy, but this is not a valuable experience, and only by withstanding the test of actual combat, can the technology of ironclad ships really mature.

Everyone knows that in the context of China's comprehensive rise, the whole world needs to carefully consider the consequences of being an enemy of China, and Wang Feng is also very wise not to meddle in Africa, which is equivalent to the West can still survive by sucking the blood of Africa, and it is difficult to fight with China to the death, and it is difficult for the Chinese Navy to have high-intensity operations.

"Oh! Hell, hell! Wilson was pulling his hair in pain, and the sinking of each battleship made his heart bleed.

A staff officer finally couldn't help but say, "Your Excellency, Minister." This won't work, if we continue to fight, our warships will be completely destroyed. I'm afraid that he can't help the four Chinese warships, and then he can send marines to land and seize the batteries. Just like against the British in Singapore, a grenade was thrown through the muzzle of the gun, and all the soldiers inside were finished. "What do you want to say?" Wilson asked with red eyes. "This ......," the staff officer gritted his teeth and said, "It's better to ...... Surrender, the Chinese will not kill us. "Surrender?" Wilson laughed miserably: "Grant and Sherman have surrendered, should I surrender too?" And what about Lord Lincoln? “

"Hell, that's the damn name again!" A bearded officer with a rough face suddenly roared: "Lincoln, who is still TMD, how many of us have died because of him, should we die for him to be elected president?" No, I have a wife. I have children, I died in battle, I get nothing but that meager pension, and my wife will throw himself into the arms of other men, and my child will call someone else's father, because he is not biological, he will definitely be abused, and I will not allow such a thing to happen. I'm going to be responsible for my family, not for that filthy politician, go to the United States of TMD, what's my business with the secession of the South? "Do you know just these few words? Can I send you court-martialed? Wilson said coldly.

The officer didn't care and said, 'I don't care, it's better to go to jail than to die in battle, I don't understand.' What's the point of such a war, is it just to send to death? I don't want to waste my life again for such a war. The people of the South have the right to choose their own path. This is constitutional, and it is the Washington government that violates the constitution, and in the future, you will all be brought to court. "Your Excellency Minister, even the army has been defeated, what is the use of our navy holding on?" "We don't need to bury Lincoln's cunning politician!" "Time is running out, our warships are being destroyed one by one, if you drag it any longer, it is hard to guarantee that nothing will happen!"

The people around him also persuaded one after another, and there was some coercion in their tones, and some people even touched the waistband of their trousers, Wilson looked left and right, and suddenly his back collapsed, and he sighed gloomily: "The whole army put down its arms and fly the white flag." ”

A moment later, several huge white flags flew in the air on the shore, and the warship stopped firing, and the soldiers pulled out one white flag after another.

Boss Chen immediately ordered: "Stop the shelling, strengthen the vigilance, all ships return to port, and all personnel leave the ship." ”

The flag-bearer waved the flag, the US warships smoked thick smoke, and some of them were crooked, and sailed back to the harbor, and the British and French warships also waved the flag of congratulations to the Chinese Navy on the victory, and then with mixed feelings, they turned their bows and drove away at full speed.

……

The surrendered soldiers, except for officers above the rank of colonel, were all released on the spot, and the wounded were treated by the accompanying medical personnel.

Now that the main forces of the Northern Navy have all surrendered, the East China Sea Fleet has lost the need to attack New York, after all, this time it is not to kill people and rob, but to pull Lincoln down.

After learning that the Navy had also surrendered, Lincoln knew that the tide had turned, and announced his resignation, and Hamlin, a Republican, took over as president, and delivered a resignation speech in the House of Representatives:

Because of the brutal intervention of foreign forces, the United States has lost the opportunity to become a great power, and slavery will grow and develop in the United States, which is a serious regression in human history, and will also seriously drag down the development of the United States, and a series of reforms that I have made since I became president, such as the nationalization of banks, high customs duties, the introduction of income taxes, and other various excise taxes, the issuance of paper money and huge national debts that do not require gold and silver restrictions, the yeoman farm bill, the distribution of land to subsidize higher education, railroad construction, and agricultural development, will all be destroyed.

I regret and am saddened that my efforts have come to naught at the last moment due to the intervention of foreign powers, and I would like to say to China, Great Britain, France, and all the hegemonic countries hostile to the United States: Your conspiracy has succeeded, and the United States will no longer be a threat to you, especially to China, and I give the most severe condemnation to the Emperor of China for the last time in my capacity as President of the United States of America, that the intervention of force in the American Civil War is crude and inexcusable, and that the use of poison gas bombs in war is a serious act of regression, In the future, he will be judged by the international community!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am the first president in the history of the United States to resign as a result of the defeat of the war, and because of my overly optimistic judgment of the war situation, which has pushed the United States into the abyss, and I am personally willing to accept a fair trial by the Tribunal, even if I am sentenced to death by hanging, but I ask you to be committed to the territorial integrity of the United States of America, even if it is a major concession to the South, and to make clear in the Constitution the legality and inviolability of slavery, only the United States remains united, I beg of you that the next president, whether a Democrat or a Republican, will abandon the narrow partisan feud and make the unification of the United States the supreme goal......"

Lincoln ended his speech in the House of Representatives with a deep bow, and his speech was so moving that it immediately caused an uproar in the American government and the public, won countless sympathies, and portrayed himself as a selfless patriot and a tragic hero regardless of personal gains and losses.

Wang Feng got Lincoln's speech the next day, read it over and over again, his face was cloudy, and finally looked to the north from afar, his face full of complexity.

Yang Shuijiao couldn't help but say, "What's wrong?" Is there any mystery in this manuscript? ”

"Hey~~" Wang Feng sighed: "Lincoln is very human, he is in a desperate situation but still trying to turn the tables, I underestimate him." “

Zhou Xiuying also took the speech and read it carefully for a long time before she was puzzled: "I don't see anything, isn't it just an apology, and then accuse you and Britain and France, and then put forward expectations for the successor, isn't it normal?" A little sensational at most, is there a problem? “

"Yes! It's a big problem, and it's hard to get Lincoln to turn around. Wang Feng nodded solemnly.

"How is that possible?" Yang Shuijiao was surprised: "He has suffered two defeats in a row, how can he still be the president of the United States again?" Besides, didn't he resign himself? ”

Wang Feng waved his hand: "I don't mean this, two big defeats in a row, Lincoln can't shirk the responsibility, his political life is over, what I'm worried about is that the intended goal of the United States to divide into two parts, the north and the south, is likely to be variable." “

Speaking, Wang Feng patiently explained: "In our China, heroes have always been judged by success or failure, and the victors are given all kinds of bright halos, the most common is the body vision, such as Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, with seventy-two black moles on his left leg, Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, with horns on his head and scales all over his body, Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, has three breasts, in short, every founding emperor has something unusual, and its most common feature is that he was born with a strange fragrance, red light, in short, the victors are saints.

In the traditional culture of the West, tragic heroes are often more sympathetic and embarrassing, and heroes who have been passed down through the ages often end in tragedy, such as Hannibal, Caesar, such as Hua Caishi, etc., although they failed, but compared with the successful, they are more remembered.

In addition, there is an extreme hero, from the English poet Byron's protagonist, who is generally arrogant and stubborn, dissatisfied with reality, demanding to rise up and resist, and has a rebellious character, and at the same time seems melancholy, lonely, pessimistic, detached from the masses, going his own way, and never finding the right way out.

If this kind of person is placed in China, nine times out of ten he will be regarded as an outlier, and then he will be seated in the right seat, do you think Hong Xiuquan is like it? But in the West, such people are very popular. "Oh! I understand! Yang Shuijiao nodded: "Although Lincoln failed, he successfully whitewashed himself before resigning, and turned into a saint who worried about the country and the people, but he failed in the end, and then the people of the North and South of the United States will have a good impression of him out of sympathy for the loser, and then according to his last wish, the two Americas of the North and the South will be reunified." "Isn't that like a fantasy?" Zhou Xiuying muttered: "Lincoln's all-out war plan has ruined many Southerners, don't the people of the South of the United States remember?" (To be continued.) )

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