Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 892 A series of bad news

   The sharp deterioration of the war situation has plunged the White House into dire straits.

   Inside the Oval Office

  President Roosevelt's face looked ten years old. He looked at the front page headline of The New York Times on his desk, his eyes shrank like a burn, and he slowly unfolded the newspaper;

  A President who brought America to Purgatory ~ Theodore Roosevelt.

The report did its utmost to smear and slander President Roosevelt for all the faults that killed the Great White Fleet, accusing him of directly causing the deaths of tens of thousands of heroic U.S. Navy soldiers, and the United States facing an unprecedented crisis. It should happen.

   Now is a critical period for the presidential election, and the Democratic Party is fully arousing the news media to smear President Roosevelt;

   should be directly responsible for the defeat of the navy.

   should bear direct responsibility for reckless waging of war.

   should be directly responsible for putting America in extreme danger.

  The news and public opinion is extremely unfavorable to President Roosevelt, and all kinds of negative reports are overwhelming...

   accuses him, as a Dutch-American, of innate hostility to the Ocean Empire, which is the root cause of all these tragedies.

   accused him of being bloodthirsty and warlike in his bones, like a stupid gorilla with glasses, after overturning the pot, he didn’t know how to end it?

   accused him of meddling in military command, once and again sending the main fleet of the U.S. Navy to the enemy’s mouth, achieving the current glory of the Royal Ocean Empire, but ruining the future of the U.S. Navy.

Accused him of being a war madman and an indiscriminate gambler, as was the case during the Spanish-American War. After the outbreak of the "Wool Crisis", he hurriedly joined the war and tried to gamble again, but he slammed into the iron plate of the Ocean Empire. Bloodshed.

   Ocean Empire, as an emerging power in the world, is far from being comparable to that of Spain.

   accused him of wetting the bed when he was a child, peeking at the maid's bath, grabbing the erasers and pencils of female classmates when he was in school, and raising four dogs after his marriage, and he developed a character that has always been domineering and extreme...

   The little confidence of the people, which had finally been condensed, was shattered by the fiasco of the Seattle Sea Battle, withered and turned into mud.

  The Royal Army of the Ocean Empire landed on Eugene Beach. Once this terrible news came out, it quickly detonated great panic on the east and west coasts.

The stock market plummeted, prices soared, residents frantically hoarded items, detonated riots in cities large and small, residents and thugs shot at each other with guns in the streets, chaos from Detroit to Philadelphia, which also destroyed the last point of President Roosevelt's re-election campaign hope.

   He knew; his political career was completely over.

  Citiland's smooth development has hidden many contradictions that can divide society. Once the real enemy destroys America's confidence, these hidden contradictions will explode in an instant, and future troubles will become increasingly exposed.

   This is like a broken and glued vase. The cracks look very beautiful after being plated with a layer of glaze. Over time, after a long period of careful restoration, it may become a seamless artwork, emitting a bright light.

   And the hammer of the Ocean Empire played a role in shattering the social structure of America.

   Recalling the initial establishment of Citi Nation on July 4, 1776, the North American colonies declared their independence from British colonial rule under the leadership of Washington. To be a free and independent nation, the 13 states come together to form the United States of America.

   At this time, the territory of Citiland was limited to the area of ​​13 states along the Atlantic coast of North America, about 800,000 square kilometers. After the seven-year independence war, the United Kingdom recognized the independence of Citiland and reluctantly gave up this rebel.

   Since 1789

   The federal government of Citigroup embarked on the road of territorial expansion, especially the slaughter and plunder of the native Indians, and the Indians were left with less than 30,000 from 10 million.

   At the end of the 18th century, when Napoleon swept Europe, Citiland began its third expansion.

In 1803, President Jefferson sent a special envoy to France to negotiate with Napoleon, taking advantage of the European Anti-French Alliance and the French economic recession to put great pressure on Napoleon, and bought more than 2.6 million square meters in Louisiana for $15 million (3 cents per acre). km of land.

   This transaction, which the French sees as "an outright robbery", has put Citi Nation on the ranks of great powers.

   Only a year later, in 1804, the Citizen government made a territorial claim to the Spanish government through the so-called "Molar Ratio Act".

  The two sides began to negotiate. In 1808, because Spain was defeated by Napoleon, Citigroup took this opportunity to send troops to occupy the Spanish colony of Florida.

   Then struck while the iron was hot, defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War of 1812-1814, and occupied West Florida and its surrounding territories.

  In 1819, Citigroup used both hard and soft tactics to buy more than 150,000 square kilometers of Florida from Spain for $5 million.

   Until this time. The territorial area of ​​Citi Country reaches more than 4.6 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to half of the current territorial area.

After    exhausted the Spaniards, Citi Garden turned its attention to Mexico.

   In 1846, a war broke out between the United States and Mexico over a territorial dispute.

  Without the slightest suspense, the war ended with a complete defeat for Mexico, and Citiland succeeded again.

Mexico forever gave up its claim to the 1.01 million square kilometers of the Texas area, and expanded to include California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and other western regions, with a total of 1.37 million square kilometers of land. The U.S. government was ceded, and the U.S. territory reached more than 6 million kilometers at this time.

   Not only that, in 1853, in the name of building a railway, Citigroup bought the state of Arizona from the Mexican government for more than 10 million US dollars. So far, the Mexican territory has lost 55% of its territorial area.

   Mexicans lament; too far from God, too close to Citiland.

   By the beginning of the 20th century, Citigroup had become a powerful country across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, occupying half of the North American continent.

As of 1908, Citigroup had a total of 49 states (including Alaska, excluding Hawaii) and 3 overseas territories (Samoa, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. Not including Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, These belong to the Ocean Empire).

   Such a process of expansion and swallowing is very similar to the process of gluing porcelain pieces together?

   The door slams

White House Chief of Staff Dawn pushed the door and walked in with a heavy face. Seeing the president sitting blankly behind his desk, he seemed lost, he walked over and looked at the "New York Times" on the desk and closed it. , pressed one hand on the newspaper and said; "Don't be distracted by these barking dogs, Mr. President, we have to face hard times."

   "Everything sucks, how can there be bad news?"

   "Uh... yes, Mr. President."

"Come on Dawn, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you told me today was the end of the world. I did everything I could for this country, and all I got was a flood of abuse and a loss of reputation. I can't demand that everyone is satisfied, but at least there must be a fair evaluation. This is my right, is this too much?"

   "Not at all, Mr. President."

   "Then why are all guns pointed at me?"

  Speaking of this

  President Roosevelt looks pleading, he needs support very much right now, he needs comfort very much.

   After seeing Dawn's constipated and speechless look, he felt greatly disappointed, and he suddenly remembered the topic just now, so he continued gloomily; "Tell me, what is the bad news?"

   "Mr. President, your dog, Billy, ran off the South Lawn of the White House and was killed by the angry demonstrators. The White House guards only had time to retrieve Billy's body."

"Oh god, that's cruel. Edith will definitely put the blame on me, and I'll have to put up with her constant nagging for the rest of the year. Forget it, just die. Die, I don't eat dog meat either."

   "Mr. President, the election results are out, and we lost."

"Sheet, it's too bad, the vile Democrat Woodrow Wilson has joined forces with Ocean Kingdom to beat me, he will never get my blessing, never... this vile shameless man." President Roosevelt seemed to be triggered When I reached the G point, I was instantly excited, stood up, waved my hands and said incessantly;

   "We've fallen into a gigantic con, Dawn, I suspect it's the Democrats and the Ocean Empire, who don't want to see me succeed and lead America into a glorious era.

   Oh... yes, and those stinky Argentines.

   in the upper classes of Citi Country

   It's full of speculators, mercenary businessmen, shameless politicians and **** who sold out the president and the Citizenship Navy for their own personal gain, and there's a deep shady inside, I'm pretty sure of that.

   Don't forget, we had 22 battleships at the start of the war, and the other side only had 11 (actually 12, HMS Tasmania was outfitting), which was a huge advantage that couldn't be erased.

   On the west coast of North America, we have assembled a formidable naval force.

   Facts are eye-popping

I didn't see the **** battle at sea, the perseverance despite the defeat, the strength of the enemy who hit hard. farce.

   This makes me wonder, is there a sinister plot that cannot be understood?

Don't... don't stop me, doubts like this have been on my mind for a long time, Lieutenant General Dawn is a Democrat, the Admiralty is full of dirty Democrats, is there any chance that they will put the interests of the party ahead of the interests of the country superior?

   In order to defeat me, even at the expense of the Ocean Empire?

   Think about it, is there such a possibility? "

   "Mr. President, please calm down, this kind of groundless accusation is of no benefit, and it won't change anything, let's be more rational?" Dawn couldn't help it, and interrupted President Roosevelt's words.

  President Roosevelt's expression changed, and then he sat down in a chair helplessly, as if the passionate speech just now drained every ounce of energy from him, and in a blink of an eye, he became idle again.

   paused for a while

   He looked up at Dawn in surprise and asked, "What else?"

   "Uh... Mr. President, Salem, Portland and Seattle have fallen."

"Oh shit... There are two divisions in Portland, five divisions in Seattle, and one division in Salem. There are more than 75,000 divisions in 8 divisions, and it fell in less than a week, that is, 75,000 heads. Pigs can't be defeated so fast, can they?"

"It's true, Mr. President, according to the battle information reported from the front, Salem persevered for a long time, Portland persevered for seven hours, and Seattle persevered for less than a day before they were all defeated, and the enemy's armored power was like a tide. The same influx overwhelmed all resistance efforts. Combined with the time of the march, six days and five hours to be exact, all major towns in Oregon and Washington fell."

   "Oh shit... Shet, Shet, isn't California dangerous?"

"This is the next bad news I want to tell you, the Royal Ocean Empire has landed in California, and now they are swept across important coastal towns in four directions, and the front line is crumbling, and the situation has gotten worse. ."

   "Wow..."

  President Roosevelt slumped down on the chair, feeling stunned. He really didn't know how to clean up the mess in front of him?

Citi country is the ancestor of the militia. With the militia, it won the war of independence, the Spaniards, the Mexicans, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. How could it be unbearable in front of the Ocean Empire Army? One hit, what the **** is this?

   This question is too difficult, I can't do it!

  Roosevelt was a president with a deep understanding of the navy. He was fascinated by the history of the navy and naval warfare since he was a child. His two uncles both served in the federal navy during the Civil War.

In 1880, he got acquainted with Captain Mahan of the Citizenship Navy. He was deeply influenced by the latter. He read the book "The Influence of Sea Power on the History of 1660-1783" repeatedly, and studied the relationship between sea power and the rise and fall of great powers. Sea power is supreme. The idea reinforced Roosevelt's belief that only a dramatic expansion of naval power could equal the European powers.

  During his presidency, he pushed Congress to approve the construction of 28 battleships (including 13 after the outbreak of the war), several 10-ton cruisers, and pushed the Great White Fleet to visit the world…

  Uh... not to mention this.

   As for the army, it is accurate to say that Citigroup does not have an army, only the federal army.

  Before 1908, the Union Army had only four dissatisfied divisions, one cavalry division and three infantry divisions, which were scattered in 17 states in units of infantry regiments and battalions.

President Roosevelt did not understand the tactics of the Army (the Federal Army will not be mentioned below, it is all summarized in terms of the Army), and he did not pay much attention to the Army. Common perception in Citigroup society.

   More than 300,000 army troops plus hundreds of thousands of West Coast militiamen. According to the practice of the Civil War, why should we fight for a year or two?

   How did you lose?

  Limited to the vision of the times, President Roosevelt could not understand the one-sided defeat of the Army, which is too unbelievable.

Are    armored tanks really that powerful?

   (end of this chapter)