Chapter 402 City of Samurai, United Fleet! (Please subscribe, please vote)

Mexico, Texas, Texas City.

This port city is located in the northern Gulf of Mexico, in eastern Texas, only 112 kilometers away from the border of Louisiana, which Napoleon sold to the United States. It is located on the west coast of a body of water officially named the Texas Lagoon. In another time Online, Houston, the largest city in Texas, is nearby.

This body of water can be called a lagoon because there are two slender sand bars (sand bars) that separate it from the open sea, leaving only a narrow entrance. Outside the lagoon is the blue Gulf of Mexico, and inside the lagoon is Excellent sheltered anchorage.

At the entrance of the Texas Lagoon, there is a sandbar originally occupied by pirates and a small island next to it. Zhuge Weidao selected it as the location for building forts and coastal defense positions. After several years of construction, the forts on the island were It has begun to take shape, and the island itself is also called "Fort Island". The sandbank that was once occupied by pirates is now called "Haifang Island". Hidden positions have been built on the island, and the island faces On one side of the lagoon, torpedo boat and gunboat docks were also built.

Dezhou City is built to the north of Haiphong Island, less than ten kilometers away from the outer edge of Haiphong Island. The entire city is centered on a peninsula. A city wall about three meters high and five or six meters thick stretches across the northern part of the peninsula, connecting the small city. The small peninsula circle has become a relatively safe area. South of the city wall is the core of Dezhou City. Although the area is not large, it looks like a Chinese emerging industrial city. There are docks, shipyards, warehouses, schools, government offices, and residential buildings. , all showing a strong "Tang style".

The dock was very crowded. Brand-new cranes were densely arranged, with white ribbons on their heads and shorts on their lower bodies. They looked at the short and strong dock workers, who were moving back and forth carrying small pieces of goods.

There are cargo warehouses everywhere above the port pier. It is obvious that Texas has become a shipping and trade center. However, there are no merchant ships from various countries visiting the sea now. There are only warships belonging to the Royal Navy of the Mexican Empire and the Texas Navy. There were merchant ships flying the Ming Dynasty flag and some fishing boats owned by Japanese overseas Chinese in Texas.

A large shipyard that can be used to build warships stands majestically in a corner of the Dezhou City harbor. The tall chimney is filled with black smoke, and coal ash and dust are everywhere. The slipway is busy and busy, and two Guogong-class ships with more than 3,000 tons are in the shipyard. It was undergoing major repairs. The sound of clanking rivets and the unique labor chants of Japanese workers combined together to make it seem extraordinarily busy.

Sailors wearing Ming Dynasty Navy uniforms and Mexican Navy uniforms crowded on the warships that had just sailed into the Texas lagoon, curiously looking at this city that had just appeared and was already showing rapid progress.

The entire Texas city now displays an uplifting vitality that the Mexican Empire that nominally governs it lacks.

The Hero-class battleship "Bolivar" with a standard displacement of 18,500 tons and the Warrior-class second-class protected cruiser "Jiangyin" with a standard displacement of 6,500 tons slowly passed through the channel and headed for the anchorage. Zhuge Weidao and Mexico Emperor Agustin I stood side by side in front of the bridge window of the "Bolívar", the flagship of the Royal Navy of the Mexican Empire, looking at everything in front of him.

The construction speed of this samurai city is really amazing! Probably only the infrastructure maniacs in another timeline can show a comparable speed, right? Although this city has received huge investment from the Zhuge family (in exchange for Texas

Oil exploration rights), but so much infrastructure and buildings have been built in such a short period of time, it can only be described as a miracle. It is no wonder that Americans are so afraid of this "City of the East"

, would not hesitate to send the Texas militia supported by them to attack.

It's a pity that the Texas cowboys, who all have guns, met the Texas warriors who were the most anti-American, and they bumped into the steel plate.

Looking at this Texas city in front of us, which has been run like an iron barrel by Japanese expatriates, and then think about the way U.S. President Andrew Jackson was livid with anger after learning the news that his Texas militia was defeated. For Mexico-Texas

The next performance of the combined fleet is even more exciting.

Although these Japanese devils are not good people, they are the only ones who can be used to strengthen the Mexican Empire and help the Mexican Empire consume the American empire. The Ming Dynasty’s own people will not come all the way to Texas, even if they are looking for gold

Dream, just go to California. In a few years there will be Australian gold, and in the future there may be South African gold. If they want to dig for oil, the door to the Persian Gulf has been blocked for them!

Moreover, after British forces withdrew from Malaya, Dutch Sumatra was already under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Fleet. The oil on Sumatra Island has now been dug up.

Therefore, the only ones who can come to Texas to take risks are these Japanese devils who cannot enter the Ming Dynasty system for the time being.

When the Mexican Emperor Agustin saw the city of Texas rising from the ground in front of him, he felt very anxious in his heart. The United States is a tiger, the Ming Dynasty is a dragon, and Japan is a wolf. Tigers want to eat people, and evil dragons have a huge appetite.

It was so big that Agustín had to lure the wolf into his house in order not to be eaten by an American tiger.

Thinking of this, the Mexican emperor felt a little nostalgic for his Spanish homeland. Before the Spanish Empire was disintegrated by these rebellious officials and traitors, he could have a break with the United States, and he could also firmly block the Ming Dynasty north of California.

But now. Even the only old friend who is really willing to help Emperor Agustin, the great hero Bolivar of South America, died of illness a few months ago (the Mexican "Bolivar" was named in honor of him.

(child), so Agustín wants to hug each other for warmth, but he doesn’t know who to hug anymore?

The frustration in Agustin I's heart was getting stronger and stronger. At this moment, a colonel from the Royal Mexican Navy came in, handed over a copy of the telegram with both hands, and muttered in fast and urgent Spanish.

After a while, he gave a military salute and left.

Then I saw the Mexican emperor looking down at the copy of the telegram in his hand, and then said to Zhuge Weidao: "Your Excellency, our opportunity may have come. My friend, the Governor of Cuba in the Kingdom of Spain, sent me a secret telegram. He

The reconnaissance airship dispatched discovered that the main force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet was passing through the wind channel and entering the Caribbean Sea."

"The main force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet passed through the windward strait?" Zhuge Weidao was stunned, "Can you be sure it is the main force?"

"Yes!" said the Mexican Emperor. "The observers on the airship identified six United States-class battleships. I think they should be the American fleet that has been hiding in Mobile Bay. Their target should be the construction site of the Nicaragua Canal! Americans have always been the most opposed.

For this project, various methods were used to force or induce me to give up this project, but I never did the same. Now they are directly using force!"

"Your Majesty the Emperor," Zhuge Weidao asked, "when did the six United States-class ships pass through the wind direction strait?"

"Six hours ago. It should have been hundreds of nautical miles by now!" Agustín I said, "We are too late to provide support anyway. But it's not a big problem. I have already asked people to exit on the east side of the canal.

Thousands of mines are laid in the North San Juan Bay outside. If the Americans are willing to force their way through, it is possible to lose several US-level mines."

"That's good!" Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Your Majesty, it seems we have to return to Mexico City by land!"

Agustin I shook his head and smiled: "No, I want to sit in Texas City and personally direct the invasion of the United States!"

Invasion of America!

These words actually came from the mouth of a Mexican head of state. It seems that Mexico is about to rise up!
Chapter completed!