After the support force arrived, Emperor Yang's Florida landing plan was finally officially implemented. Under the escort of the fleet, a Spanish division landed on Miami Beach without any obstruction, and then established a defense line in the north, and then a large number of engineers and soldiers
Engineers recruited by Cuba arrived there on a landing ship and began to build a small dock to accommodate 1,000-ton merchant ships.
The coalition's move once again exceeded the expectations of the Americans. They now have no clue. They feel that the coalition's actions have no clue at all. They are just messing around with hammers here and there. However, since the enemy has returned to their original position,
On the designed track, it is obviously a good thing for the Americans. What they want most is to fight the war on the Florida Peninsula.
The U.S. military currently does not have mobile combat forces in Florida. It only has two divisions guarding Tampa and one division guarding Jacksonville. These two troops are absolutely not allowed to leave their bases. It is easy for the coalition forces with landing ships to attack the east and west. In fact, the U.S. Army Department
Speculations about their strategic intention to land in Miami is to attack east and west, transfer the US military from these two places, and then use the speed advantage of the landing ship to raid Tampa.
In this way, troops can only be mobilized from the north. While the U.S. military was mobilized in large quantities to the Florida Peninsula, the coalition's landing ships sent two full divisions of Spaniards to Miami, which is only a day's flight from Havana.
The mobilization of troops and materials is very simple. In recent years, due to the needs of the sugar trade and war, Havana has not only undergone large-scale expansion of its port, but the Yang Group has even built multiple shipyards there that can repair battleships, which can fully support such a scale.
of combat.
After the arrival of these two divisions, the Spaniards no longer held Miami, but began to gradually advance north along the coastline. Although the speed was not fast, it was very steady. All Americans who had not left were captured and imprisoned.
Concentration camp. At the same time, the company was ordered to sit down. If behind the battle lines, they were attacked by American guerrillas hiding in the Everglades, if every Spanish soldier died, ten Americans would be pulled out of the concentration camp and shot. This order effectively ensured that they
Stability behind the front.
When the Spaniards advanced to Palm Beach, they finally encountered the first blockade. A US division that was the first to take the train south from Atlanta established a defense line here, preparing to give the Spaniards a taste of machine gun trenches and barbed wire. Unfortunately,
The Spaniards did not have any trouble with them at all. Taking advantage of the good weather with no wind, they fired thousands of poison gas bombs directly at the US defense lines.
This is a second-line division where most of them are new soldiers. Except for a few officers, no one has seen this thing at all. The gas bombs hit their heads and faces, and the soldiers were frightened. When they think of this,
The evil name of the thing and the tragic situation of the soldiers injured by the poison gas. Before they could put on the gas masks, more than half of the soldiers had already fled their positions. The poor division commander was almost crying. He was waving his saber like a crop.
He howled helplessly like an old farmer who was pushed, and then watched the remaining soldiers collapse after the Spanish machine guns rang out.
This American army set a record for the fastest rout. It only took ten minutes from the time the Spaniards began bombarding them with poison gas bombs to the time they fled their positions.
Fortunately, their losses were not too great. Although they lost all their artillery, machine guns, and mortars, their casualties were less than 500. This group of defeated troops ran all the way to Orlando, where they encountered another American army that had just arrived.
The division and the supreme commander of the Florida theater, Lieutenant General Myers. The former US commander-in-chief Myers had a high prestige in the military. Under his strict orders, the two US troops had to go out to re-establish a defensive line in Lakeland.
After the Spanish arrived, they did not use gas bombs due to the wind direction, but they did not launch an attack. Instead, they began to dig trenches opposite the US military. At the same time, another division of Spanish troops landed in Miami. In addition, this division also brought
Two trains were taken. These disassembled locomotives and carriages were placed on the Florida East Coast Railway built by Americans with the help of the crane just purchased from General Motors Company of Texas, and then began to head towards Lakeland.
Reinforcements and supplies were transported to the front line, and a standard World War I trench-to-trench battle officially kicked off.
From then on until the end of the war, both sides did not break through the other side's defense line. They could only compete to add troops to this line of defense, and stretched the line of defense wider and wider, completely following Emperor Yang's design and turning it into a line starting from Tampa in the west and east in the east.
To the east coast, there is a long trench system that spans the entire Florida Peninsula and is nearly two hundred kilometers long.
The Spaniards invested a total of 200,000 people at their peak, and the U.S. military was just as Yang Feng expected. Because of the Spanish army's advantages in the range of poison gas bombs and artillery, coupled with the low combat effectiveness of the hastily recruited recruits, in the end, the total number of troops on this line was
A total of 650,000 people were invested in the front line. Of course, this will all happen in the future. It will take more than a month to increase the number to this level.
Yang Feng was like a spider lying on the web, staring at every end of the spider's thread under his feet with his insidious eyes. Although both the cabinet and the parliament in the country were urging him over and over again to go back and manage the country well.
There is no real business outside, but His Majesty the Emperor seems to have forgotten that he still has an empire of more than 10 million square kilometers, and is not tired of playing on the other side of the earth tens of thousands of miles away.
"Your Majesty, the general election is about to begin, shouldn't you go back too?" Yuan Shikai said cautiously to His Majesty the Emperor, who was basking in the sun.
This is China's first general election. The whole world is paying attention to this election. Many countries have even sent observation groups to visit. It is really inappropriate that the legal supreme leader, Emperor Yang, is not here. Yang Feng is traveling around the world.
In the process, domestic politicians even brought out political parties. There were all kinds of parties, and they were quarreling in the parliament every day. It was even said that some of them were old-timers, and the Speaker Liu Kun was so angry that he cursed.
"Your Majesty, I actually think that this election is not as good as your own appointment. Even if you directly appoint the Prime Minister, the people, the army, and the officials will not have any objections. After all, without you, our country would not be what it is today.
, it is said that the steel output this year will exceed 1.5 million tons. Not counting the royal companies, we also have a large number of factories making foreign money. Those foreign goods that sucked our blood in the past are being expelled by our businessmen in piles.
Going outside the domestic market was something that I couldn’t even think about before.
Although Your Majesty is merciful and willing to return the government to the people, there must be a limit, right? After traveling around for so long and seeing so many places, I know that democracy is a good thing, but everything must be done step by step, right?
? Look at the European powers, Germany, Russia and Austria have not reached the level we have. Although the British have democratically elected prime ministers, national affairs are still in the hands of the House of Lords. Almost half of our senators are democratically elected. Although
It looks good, but if it changes so drastically all of a sudden, the country can easily get into chaos." Yuan Shikai continued.
I have to say that Brother Big Tou is a truly understanding person. In a sense, if he had not caught up with such a bad era during the Hongxian Dynasty, it might have been the best choice for China at that time. It is a pity that it eventually became a problem due to internal and external troubles.
A joke.
"Have you ever seen a flood? No matter how it floods, it will eventually find its own way back to the sea. The same is true for the development of our national system. No matter how they make trouble, they will eventually find the one that suits them best. But
Just like a flood, this process may be peaceful, but it may also be violent, and it may even turn into a disaster. What I have to do is to erect a dam between the flood and the people, so that it can flow without harming the people.
Under such circumstances, find a way back to the sea.
But I am over 40 years old this year, and I don’t have much time. I have another 40 years to go. Looking at countries like Britain and France, they have come this far and found their own national system. It will take longer than this.
France, the shortest period from the Great Revolution to the current Third Republic, has gone through eighty years and tens of millions of people have died, so my time is very tight, and I don’t know who will be my successor after I die.
There is no ability to maintain this dam for the people.
In this case, I can only let them go in the most brutal way, let them intensify all kinds of conflicts at home from the beginning, and then find a way to solve them myself, while I go all out to clean up all external conflicts.
Enemies, with me between them, it will definitely not be resolved by force. Who dares to use this method in political competition, I will not hesitate to kill him. In short, let our country, without harming the people,
situation, find your own path in the shortest possible time.
Don't think it's funny or ridiculous to watch those MPs taking action. It's much better for them to take action against each other than to go back and gather a team to start a fight. Moreover, their actions show that they are not just eating in the corpse position. If the members of the Parliament get together and be harmonious, that will be the case.
You really need to worry," Yang Feng said.
"Then who do you prefer in this election? It is said that ten political parties in the House of Commons have nominated a total of ten candidates this time. Among them, there are actually three who have no previous political experience. The youngest has just turned thirty years old."
Kai smiled after hearing this and then asked again.
"It doesn't matter. Since they have been nominated, they must have the ability to be nominated. As long as the House of Lords elects one of them, even if the one is only thirty years old, I will sign his appointment as prime minister." Yang Feng said indifferently.
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