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The investigation team left Tijuana and returned to San Diego with the so-called evidence. Lan

Krueger was overjoyed and hurriedly sent a telegram to Liang Yao in San Antonio, reporting on the evidence obtained by the investigation team in Tijuana, as well as the demands of local American expatriates, and requesting Liang Yao's next instructions.

Soon, Kruger received news from Liang Yao: launch a full-scale attack on Mexico and occupy Tijuana within one day.

The infantry of the Western Brigade, which had been prepared for a long time, quickly launched an attack on the city of San Diego under the cover of artillery.

The Mexican army stationed in San Diego had no intention of resisting tenaciously.

As soon as the cannon fired, Tijuana's defenders either surrendered or fled, and the battle went surprisingly smoothly.

The only resistance the Western Brigade encountered in Tijuana was from Tijuana's mayor, Hernandez.

Hernandez is the only bloody Mexican in Tijuana. He organized more than a hundred Mexican hot-blooded militiamen to defend the government building in the city center. Lan

In front of the fully-organized Western Brigade, the resistance of more than a hundred people was nothing more than a mantis' arm acting as a chariot.

Facing the solid municipal building, Kruger did not choose to attack by force. Instead, he brought in heavy artillery and directly flattened the municipal building.

Under the bombardment of Sacramento's heavy artillery, Hernandez's internal organs were shattered before he could direct the militiamen to fire a few shots, and he eventually died in this small municipal building.

Have any of the remaining militiamen seen this formation? Facing the Western Brigade's absolute firepower superiority, these militiamen could only raise the white flag and walk out of the municipal building to surrender to the Western Brigade.

The resistance of Tijuana Mayor Hernandez was the only resistance the Western Brigade encountered during its attack on Tijuana.

After the remaining Mexican militiamen surrendered, the Western Brigade raised the American Stars and Stripes and the California Bear Flag in downtown Tijuana.

The largest city in Baja California announced its change of ownership in a very simple and relaxed way. Lan

After the flag and state flag were raised, Kruger glanced at the time on the bell tower.

It took them only one hour and twenty minutes from the beginning of the offensive to the capture of Tijuana.

After successfully occupying Tijuana, Kruger immediately sent a telegram to Liang Yao to report the fighting situation here.

Tijuana has a high proportion of American expatriates. In this city with a population of 30,000, 12,000 are American expatriates.

In addition, the Western Brigade's military discipline was very good. After occupying Tijuana, they did not commit any crimes against either American expatriates or Mexican residents, so they did not encounter resistance from the local residents.

Kruger also quickly stabilized the newly captured city.

As for the more than 800 Mexican surrendered soldiers and militiamen captured, these people certainly cannot let them stay in Tijuana. Lan

After discussing with Deng Wenshun, Kruger decided to send these prisoners to the California Railroad Company to repair the railway.

After doing this, Kruger came up with a rigorous combat plan based on Liang Yao's instructions.

He sent a battalion of the Arizona Infantry to attack another small Mexican border town: Mexicali.

At the same time, he personally led the main force of the Western Brigade, the San Francisco Militia and the Los Angeles Militia by boat to Mazatlan, and began to open up the communication line between the two states.

As for the task of garrisoning Tijuana, it was handed over to Sutter's Sacramento militia.

After Kruger occupied Tijuana, Liang Yao, who was far away in San Antonio, Texas, learned the news immediately.

The Western Brigade performed very well, and Liang Yao gave Kruger the deadline to win Tijuana within one day. Lan

In fact, it would be acceptable even if it took Kruger two or three days to win Tijuana Liang Yao.

After all, the Mexican garrison in Tijuana is quite large, with one and a half regiments of regular troops and a militia group.

Unexpectedly, the battle in Tijuana went so smoothly. The Western Brigade took only one hour and twenty minutes to capture this important Mexican border town.

The done deal is now up to Congress, whether to declare war or not.

Liang Yao called Jackson to the telegraph room and showed Jackson the telegram from the Western Front.

"The Western Brigade took Tijuana so quickly?"

Jackson was alarmed by the speed of the Western Brigade's progress. Lan

At the same time, he also realized that if the Southern Army did not take action on the eastern front, with the speed of the Western Brigade's advance, the first post-war victory would fall to the Western Brigade.

The results achieved by the Confederate army of more than 10,000 men were not as good as the results achieved by one brigade of the Western Brigade. This is embarrassing to think about.

Is it embarrassing? The most important thing is who contributed more in the war. They will have a greater say in the distribution of benefits after the war.

This is also the reason and motivation for the South to send troops to fight.

If Jackson still hesitates now, he will have no answer for the entire South.

"Now that Mexico is not fully prepared, we can catch Mexico by surprise." Liang Yao encouraged.

"General Jackson, this opportunity must not be missed before it comes back. Once the Mexican army is organized, it will be difficult to achieve similar results, and our army's casualties will double."

Without much hesitation, one day after the Western Brigade captured Tijuana on the Western Front.

General Jackson, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, also used the Mexican authorities' persecution of American expatriates as an excuse to announce that he would launch a special military operation against Spain to protect the rights of American expatriates in Mexico.

When the news reached Washington, even the Washington authorities and congressmen in Washington were confused.

It is not the first time that war has broken out between the United States and Mexico, but this is the first time that such an undeclared war has occurred.

The members of Congress in Washington were helpless at this time. The outbreak of war had become a fait accompli. Although some northern members did not want to start a war with Mexico, they now had to vote in favor of the motion on whether to declare war on Mexico.

Of course, the most confused are the Mexican authorities.

The United States' delay in declaring war allowed the Mexican authorities to misjudge the situation. Lan

The Mexican authorities originally believed that the United States' presence on the border was just a diplomatic intimidation to them. The United States would not violate international practices and declare war against Mexico.

Facts have proved that they still underestimated the shamelessness of Americans.

After the US military launched its attack, the Mexican authorities were instantly in a panic.

Not only has Mexico not begun mobilizing, they have not even finished assembling their troops.

Mexican President Santa Ana found the ambassadors of Britain, France and Spain to Mexico overnight.

Santa Ana denounced the shameless behavior of the US military to the ambassadors of Britain, France and Spain, hoping that the three countries could mediate and put pressure on the American authorities.

The attitudes of the ambassadors of Britain, France and Spain are also very intriguing. Lan

Taking into account his country's interests in Mexico and even the entire Americas, the British ambassador naturally did not want the United States to seize more territory from Mexico. After all, the territory of the United States is large enough now, and they do not want another big country like Tsarist Russia to appear in the Americas.

It's just that the war in the Near East is not over yet, and key negotiations are ongoing between the coalition forces and Tsarist Russia.

Deploying troops from the Near East to intervene in American affairs at this time will undoubtedly reduce the British side's bargaining chips at the negotiation table.

Britain needed to maintain sufficient troops in the Near East to deter Tsarist Russia and force Tsarist Russia to accept the coalition's armistice conditions as soon as possible.

Taking into account the friendly relations between the French Empire and the United States of America, especially the friendly relations between the French Empire and California, the French Ambassador did not take a position.

After all, California is still supplying some of the arms of the French army on the Near East front. It is unwise and not in the interests of France to make a hasty statement at this time.

On the other hand, Spain has a more positive attitude. The expansion of the United States in the past half century is obvious to all. Lan

Spain is worried that if the expansion of the United States is not effectively curbed, the United States will reach out to Cuba and other Spanish colonies.

However, Spain had already declined by this time, and its national strength was no longer what it once was.

Spain has long since lost the ability to independently send troops to intervene in American affairs.

Spain only encouraged Britain and France to send troops to scare the United States.

However, Britain and France were not fools. The ambassadors of both countries put their own country's interests first and did not take the Spaniard's words seriously.

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