Expanding the territory has been the longing and longing of generations of Americans since the Revolutionary War. Adams, the second president of the founding of the People's Republic of China, once said, "The United States is destined to expand into the entire western part of North America." "Obviously, Canada is certainly in that range.

Although Canada is a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the former suzerainty of the Americans, for the Americans who won the Revolutionary War, it feels like they don't need to take the British seriously.

In 1812, while the British were fighting Napoleon in Europe, the United States thought that it was a godsend, and that the opportunity could not be lost, and that it would never come again, so they marched into three directions, crossed the Great Lakes, and treated the land of Canada as a pie falling from the sky, thinking that as long as they bent down and picked it up, they would easily come to the bowl.

Imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel. The British defenders were unexpectedly strong in combat, and they also found local Indians as allies, and directly beat the attacking American troops over and over again.

The back and forth dragged on until 1815, when the European anti-French coalition won its final victory. The British, who had their hands free, immediately increased their troops to Canada, started the counteroffensive mode, pushed to the territory of the United States in one go, directly captured the capital Washington, and then burned the White House and the Capitol.

At this point, the depressed Americans simply named the war "Second War of Independence", indicating that British imperialism could not bear to die, and that all American citizens should unite and fight the aggressors to the death.

Among them was even an American lawyer whose patriotic spirit was blazing, who burst out of the smoke of war and wrote an inspiring poem. From now on. The United States has its own national anthem, "Ode to the Star-Spangled Banner."

More than 30 years later, the Americans are once again fighting in three directions. A war of expansion was waged against Mexico.

Given the poor performance of the Americans in the past, the Mexican elite generally did not take the American military seriously. Feel that they are vulnerable.

Imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel. The combat effectiveness of the Americans this time was unexpectedly strong, and the main American army that crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the Mexican capital directly beat the Mexican army over and over again.

The reason is simple, there is already a strong artillery corps in the American army, and in the face of the Mexicans, who are lagging behind in industrial processes, this is the generational advantage of weapons.

In comparison, another American Western Route Army entered the Rocky Mountains. But he fell into a helpless situation.

In Ji Aojian's view, this is a matter of course. The entire western part of North America, either plateaus or mountains, is one of the most difficult areas to conquer in human history.

Even the United States, which became the sole superpower of the planet 150 years later, could not win the mountain war in the war against an opponent who was so poor that he could barely wear pants.

Originally, the success of the U.S. Western Route Army's attack on California was due to the fact that a large number of American immigrants had already entered the area. Even the strongest fortress will collapse from within.

In the past few years, whether in terms of immigration policy or social management, Ji Aojian has long regarded American immigrants as a hidden danger and excluded all kinds of their social organizations.

At present, the US military has no "mass base". Naturally, California was bogged down in war.

"In the mountains, it is difficult for the two sides to carry out a large army battle, and there is no way to use guerrilla warfare. ”

Ji Aojian said slowly. "Guta, as long as you have the will and determination to fight for a long time. If we fight on our own soil, we will definitely be able to bring down the enemy. ”

in front of him. He was an Indian boy who was originally an apprentice of the Pot Neutron Daoist, and later received systematic training in the gunslinger battalion in Dream City, and was proficient in various long-range weapons such as bows, arrows, muskets, etc.

"Mr. Governor, our tribe has fought guerrilla warfare in Florida before, but failed. ”

Born from the Seminole tribe, Guta originally lived in eastern North America, had contact with Western colonists, and was considered one of the "civilized tribes" with a fairly high degree of civilization.

These "civilized tribes" had a good understanding of the military of the Thermal Weapon Age, and were often co-opted and hired by the British, French, and Americans, and were indispensable and important auxiliary forces in both the Anglo-French War and the Anglo-American War.

But when they faced the Westerners alone, the difference in combat power immediately became apparent.

After the failure of the American attack on Canada, they wittily shifted the direction of the attack and opened up a new battlefield in Florida in the southeast.

Florida was nominally a colony of Spain, but Spain was not the hegemon at the beginning of the Age of Discovery, and it was even more of a dead country in the Napoleonic era that had just passed, and there were really no troops to be sent to fight in the Americas.

The only way to defend Florida against the American army was the local tribe of Indians, who fought until 1842, when they were driven to the east bank of the Mississippi River.

"It's because you don't have the support of the industrial base behind you, and the Spaniards haven't provided you with much assistance, right?"

Guta nodded.

"We in California are different, we have our own arms factories, developed foreign trade, and all kinds of war materials are fully stocked, how can we still lose to the Americans?"

Ji Aojian continued, "With the current economic strength of California, it is no worse than Spain under the occupation of the French army. Since even Napoleon's army didn't really conquer Spain, do you think the American army is comparable to the French army thirty years ago?"

Guta hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that Napoleon's army was the most powerful army in the world at that time, and the Americans should not be so powerful." ”

"So, are you still worried about the outcome of this war?"

"The victory will be ours and I'm confident now. ”

"That's right. ”

Guta asked, "Mr. Governor, why can't the French control Spain all the time, if the French army is the strongest in the world?"

"It's simple. Ji Aojian replied, "Because there are many mountains on the Iberian Peninsula, it is most suitable for guerrilla warfare. ”

In the Iberian Peninsula, the French army was confronted not by an army, but by the entire Spaniards, who were determined to resist with nationalist fervor. It was a real war for the whole people, and in the face of the Spanish guerrillas rising everywhere, the French soldiers lamented in letters home that "here from children to the elderly are our enemies", and "these enemies are invisible and exist everywhere, because every hill is their shelter".

Despite their caution, the French were killed by the guerrillas in the hundreds of men every day, and "the fable of the lion tortured to death by mosquitoes is a true portrayal of the French army". The Iberian Peninsula turned into a "bleeding ulcer" in Napoleon's vast empire.

However, after all, the Napoleonic Empire still had a formal conquest of Spain. The United States' troops and training are far inferior to those of France back then, and it is still a division that can be invested in attacking California, as the core area of the San Francisco Bay urban agglomeration, as long as the United States arrives under the city with a single soldier, Ji Aojian will feel that it is a failure.

California had plenty of troops to mobilize, and the number of Americans far outnumbered the American army by handing out a musket to each Indian.

"If we have such a big advantage, why are the Mexican government forces still losing and retreating?"

This time it was Tiandao Spring who was questioned.

I can't complain that Guta didn't have confidence before, but Mexico, which is known as a power in the Americas, has performed too badly in the main regular army.

Ji Aojian sighed and said, "They must fight the regular army against the regular army, and they never thought of launching a guerrilla war. According to this momentum, after Mexico City is defeated, they will simply sign a defeated treaty and cede land for peace. ”

"California is still nominally Mexican territory, and what will we do if the Mexican government admits defeat?"

"If the government signs a traitorous agreement, of course, the heroic people of California will not give in, and it is just ...... to establish an independent state."

Ji Aojian's eyes suddenly lit up, "Quan'er, you leave immediately and go to Mexico City." ”

Tiandaoquan has been anxious these days, and when he heard this order, he immediately perked up, "But you want me to save people?"

"It's saving people. Ji Aojian nodded and said, "According to the usual way of doing things in the Americans, after taking Mexico City, they will definitely support a puppet regime, and then sign a post-war treaty with this traitorous government to grab the territory they want." ”

Mexico's constitutional monarchy, which had only been in place for a few years, was a ready-made excuse for Americans to create public opinion, to guillotine the emperor under the banner of opposing tyrants, and then to justifiably prop up a new government in the name of a democratic republic.

"What do you mean by that, master?"

"As long as you rescue the emperor before the city is destroyed, no matter what new regime the Americans come up with, it will be a puppet government in legal terms. ”

Ji Aojian explained, "That kind of traitorous puppet government must be unpopular in Mexico, and if we take over the emperor, the government of California will become the provisional central government in wartime." When the time comes to drive all the Americans out, we will become the official capital. ”

Tiandaoquan understood a little, "Is the master trying to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?"

"Almost. ”

"What if someone asks to return Mexico City as the capital after the war?"

"All you have to do is get His Majesty Leopold and his wife here, and the other government officials and congressmen will stay there and let them cooperate with the Americans. Ji Aojian said lightly, "These people have become traitors to the country, and they should be liquidated after the war, and they all have to quit the political arena one by one, what face do they have to ask for the restoration of the capital?"

Even if there were some high-level Mexican politicians who clinged to national integrity and were unwilling to cooperate with the Americans and came to California on their own, it would have been easy for Ji Aojian to marginalize them in the wartime government. (To be continued......)