Daming 1805

Chapter 232 Your Majesty, Britain and France want to use their teachers to help suppress
News of the siege at Richmond and Petersburg reached England before Nelson and Wellesley arrived.

British Prime Minister William Pitt and the members of the cabinet knew it before the generals on both sea and land.

But what Pete and the cabinet ministers did not expect was that Petersburg would just disappear.

Everyone thought that even if the soldiers were approaching the city, as long as the trenches and barbed wire defense lines were pulled up, they would always be able to resist for a few months. They never thought that they would be stolen without the defense line being pulled up at all.

Unexpectedly, the two states of Kentucky and Tennessee, with a total area of ​​20 square kilometers, which is almost the same as the entire island of Great Britain, were swallowed up by people in just one month.

Staking is not so fast!

It is true that the staking may not be so fast, because the ability of cavalry to march long distances is not as good as that of infantry.

If horses do not have beans and eggs to supplement energy, they will not be able to fatten up simply by eating grass.

The biggest advantage of humans over horses is that they can carry high-calorie supplies and hunt bison for food.

Napoleon used bicycle cavalry, which had both the flexibility of cavalry and the advantages of infantry supplies.

Of course, they don't have the impact ability of cavalry, but skirmishers with bolt-action rifles don't need impact ability in the first place.

If Napoleon was still in the French mainland, if the British mainland was adjacent to the French mainland instead of an independent island, this wave would have flattened the entire British!
Pete looked at Wellesley's news, thinking about his and Nelson's judgment before, and muttered with a particularly astonished expression:

"Is this really an old-style war? Is there such a thing as an old-style war?
"This is still using bicycles to transport troops, and there is no way to carry heavy weapons.

"If all cars are marched with cannons behind them, then the consequences... hiss..."

Considering this possibility in his heart, Pete couldn't help but gasped, this possibility was too terrifying.

The scene was silent for a while, and someone asked Pete:
"Your Excellency the Prime Minister, Your Excellency Wellesley's suggestion, should we make a decision? Are we really going to 'leverage our teachers to help suppress'?"

"In the history of Shenzhou, there has never been a good result in borrowing teachers to help suppress such things."

Pete stretched out his hand:

"It's different, the place where we want to 'leverage teachers to help suppress' is the colonies, not the mainland.

"As long as Daming can help us wipe out the rebels, there is no problem in ceding some of the colonies.

"But we can't be the only ones to 'borrow teachers', we have to bring the French together.

"We still have more than half of the United States in our hands, and their entire Canada is occupied by rebels.

"So the cost of 'borrowing a teacher' this time has to be paid by the French."

Pete's meaning is obvious, that is to support the use of teachers to help suppress.

Because there is no other way now, the only one who can help immediately is Daming.

The scene was silent for a while, and the Chief Admiralty couldn't help but say:
"When we first tried to ask Da Ming for help, after receiving Da Ming's response, we should directly start discussing the plan and price of jointly hunting for thieves.

"At that time, Daming's intentions were obvious, and it was okay to ask them for help, but we had to pay the price.

"Because it was a colonial rebellion between us and the French, not Ming's colonial rebellion."

The Secretary of State for War followed suit:
"At the beginning, we thought that at least we had to fight by ourselves, and if we really couldn't do it, we would consider asking Daming for help.

"As a result, before our troops were organized, the United States had already been beaten by Napoleon.

"It's really fortunate that Daming had the foresight to send the main force to Yinzhou ahead of schedule.

"They reminded us and the French, but they didn't pay much attention.

"If the large-scale main force had been sent directly to Yinzhou, and General Wellesley had been directly in command, there would not be the current chaos and crisis!"

The Minister of Commerce directly sprayed the two in turn:

"What's the use of saying these things now? Why didn't you stand up and ask for a direct loan from Daming?"

Two military personnel took the lead, and other officials also complained.

The tendency to blame each other has also begun to appear, and there are faint signs of loss of control at the conference scene.

Pete suddenly patted the table with some annoyance, stopping the quarrel tendency that might erupt and spread:

"Shut up, I don't have time to argue about these meaningless things now, the most important thing is to solve the problem.

"Contact the French immediately, and pass on the situation in the United States to the French along with Mr. Wellesley's report."

Paris France.

Talleyrand and the Duke of Richelieu in France were also shocked when they received the news from the British.

The last time the British sent the news that Petersburg was besieged, it sounded like a border town was besieged.

At that time, they had a similar idea to the British at that time, and it usually takes a long time to fight in such places.

In more than ten years of world wars, everyone has become accustomed to protracted positional warfare.

It is normal for a battle for a city and a military base to last for a year or so.

This is enough for the British and French allied forces to send their main forces to the New World to regain lost ground.

As a result, I didn't expect the situation to take a sudden turn for the worse.

Now that the entire territory of the French colony has rebelled, if the British can no longer defend the main port leading to Yinzhou, the French will have no chance of sending the main force there to make a comeback.

At most, it blocked Canada and the United States after independence.

The point is that if Britain and France have no other strongholds in Yinzhou, if they want to arrange a fleet to blockade Yinzhou, they have to start from the mainland. How long this blockade can last is four questions.

After discussing with Talleyrand, the Duke of Richelieu went to King Louis XVI of France and suggested accepting the British proposal.

"Why didn't you decide this sooner?"

Louis XVI was more annoyed than the British ministers:

"Go, go right away, don't delay for a moment!"

The mainland of Daming, Shuntian Prefecture, the old city of the capital.

Shen Fu, Minister of Honglu Temple, received a telegram of joint request from Britain and France, and immediately went to see Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty:
"Your Majesty, the British and French couldn't hold on any longer, and officially decided to use their teachers to help them suppress.

"Napoleon has completely taken over Kentucky and Tennessee, and most of Virginia.

"Richmond, the heart of the American South, is under siege and may fall at any moment.

"There are only five southern states left in America, and all of them are the undefended Great Plains.

"It's all run through by rivers from the inside out, and the upper reaches of the rivers have fallen into Napoleon's hands.

"If our Daming troops in Yinzhou don't help, they may not have a chance to go there to suppress the rebellion."

Zhu Jianyan smiled when he heard this, and took a look at the telegram:
"Jingyuan has asked to send more troops to North Yinzhou since last year, did he foresee the current situation in advance?"

Shen Fu thought for a while and said:

"The habit of His Royal Highness Prince Dashi has always been to be prepared.

"Your Highness may not be able to predict what will happen in Northern Yinzhou, but you can analyze the situation in Northern Yinzhou to judge that Northern Yinzhou must be chaotic.

"So I suggest that the imperial court send enough elite soldiers to defend the interests of Ming Dynasty and play it by ear."

After reading the content of the telegram, Zhu Jianyan thought for a while and said:
"Help can be helped, and Napoleon's complete unification of the British and French Yinzhou colonies is not in the interests of Ming Dynasty.

"But this gang can't be in vain, Jingyuan has already responded to them before.

"So continue to let Jingyuan talk to them, and we will help after the terms are negotiated."

Shen Fu smiled and bowed:

"I'm going to contact His Royal Highness Prince Dashi now."

The news from the front line of Northern Yinzhou, from Norfolk to London, from London to Paris, from Paris to Shuntian Mansion, and from Shuntian Mansion to Liusha City, traveled around half of the world, and finally reached Zhu Jingyuan's hands .

It was delivered at about the same time, as well as other details about the situation in Northern Yinzhou collected by Daming West Factory.

After Zhu Jingyuan finished flipping through the telegram, he couldn't help saying with emotion:

"Napoleon started a Tour of America!

"Using bicycle soldiers, played the rhythm of a blitzkrieg on the Great Plains of Northern Yinzhou!

"If this momentum is not contained, the entire British and French colonies in Northern Yinzhou will be destroyed.

"Help can help, but what are the conditions?"

Zhu Jingyuan asked Niu Jian to find a map of Northern Yinzhou, and stared at the borders of all parties in Northern Yinzhou for consideration.

Now that there is an opportunity to cut meat from Britain and France, it is not a problem that can be solved by asking for money.

What needs to be considered now is what land to ask for, how much land to ask for, and what principles to ask for.

If it is to maximize benefits, you should ask for the place with the most complete industry and infrastructure, as well as the place with the most abundant strategic resources.

The main target should be the northeastern region of British America, that is, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts and other places.

And the western part of French Canada, that is, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and other places.

The industrial foundation here is good, and it is the most important iron mining area in Northern Yinzhou.

After taking these places, even if the Yinzhou colony of Britain and France can become independent again in the future, they will have no chance to complete the industrial chain independently.

If it is to serve the strategic goal of completely occupying Yinzhou, it should try to obtain land from the west as much as possible.

Cut from the west along the latitude and longitude, and drive the colonial population of Britain and France to the east, so that they can completely occupy Beiyinzhou in the future, and then send the Taixi people in Beiyinzhou back to their hometown.

If it is to continue to plant mines for Britain and France, then cut off from the southern part of the United States and ask for South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama and other places.

Let the northern part of the United States remain within the United States, while weakening the power of the southern part of the United States.

The South cannot completely suppress the North, but its strength is still stronger than the North.

Let the North continue to confront the South without relying on the power of Canada, but it cannot defeat the South.

At the same time, it cut off from the northern part of French Canada and claimed the Wisconsin and Michigan regions.

Making Canada narrower and more closely aligned with the United States, but it is easy to be pierced directly.

If it is for the long-term stability of Yinzhou, then it should lead the territorial exchange between the two sides.

Give the northern part of the United States to Canada, and then take more territory from western Canada.

Let the industrial areas of the United States, which originally converged with Canada's interests, merge into Canada.

At the same time, let the Canadian territory as a whole concentrate to the east, rather than the current shape of a chicken with a stretched neck.

Let America only have the plantation-dominated southern region, and eliminate internal contradictions and disputes.

(End of this chapter)