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"There must be a convenient passage. Even if it cannot reach Seattle, it must at least reach Portland, so that my young men can easily transport all kinds of logistics supplies to the front line." Grant did not tell anyone about this, but just grabbed Horace and Hamilton, and there was also a temporary recruitment of the unranked soldier Lonna.

"But General, the railway company..."

"I don't care about the railway company or the disputes they have with the insurance company. I want a railway, a safe and convenient railway." Horace seemed very embarrassed, but unfortunately Grant didn't plan to consider his ideas at all.

"Manpower is not a problem," Hamilton considered it. "San Francisco can provide three to four thousand people, and if necessary, there are more people. But the general, the stones and sleepers used as roadbeds are easy to say. What about the rails? A railway that can reach Portland is about half the distance between the north and south of the United States. General, this requires a large number of rails. Of course, the most important thing is time... Leland Stanford and they used about ten thousand Chinese workers and took several years to build the railway from California to Utah. Although we don't have to conquer the harsh natural environment like they did, the distance between the two is not much different. Do we have so much time to complete this work?"

"I like these questions about you." Grant looked serious. "These questions are very practical, but you should know that as long as there are enough manpower and materials, it will never take to lay a ready-made railway on the original track as it was at the beginning. Our battle with the Chinese will last for a long time, maybe a few months... The 40,000 troops have a considerable material transportation. So, no matter what, no matter whether this railway can be built in Seattle in the end, we must build because, even if you can build an extra section of the railway, it will provide great help to our battle."

"How many months? General, it takes so long to lead 40,000 troops to destroy a group of Chinese people?" Horace couldn't believe Grant's words and the British and French coalition forces only used a few thousand people to conquer Beijing. The Americans used tens of thousands of people, but it took several months to eliminate a group of Chinese workers?

"Of course" Grant didn't look at him, because he felt that Horace was not as cute as Hamilton. Hamilton had been captured by the Chinese and was released for no reason, which was a bit strange suspicious, but at least this guy's attention was focused on the serious matter and spoke directly, not always entangled in some messy things like others. "Is this the sequelae of being captured by the Chinese?" Grant couldn't help thinking.

"But you are a famous general, and..."

"And I also led a unit of 40,000, right?" Horace's "dedication" made Grant even more unhappy. "The war is not as you imagined. Just counting the weapons and numbers can lead to the results. Before I set off, I had a discussion with General Sherman, the Army Department, and the Generals of the War Department, but the result was very helpless... If the Chinese had been sticking to Seattle and did not come out, and they did build a large number of strong fortifications as the intelligence said, then as long as they had sufficient ammunition and food, they should be able to keep going, because they were fighting desperately, do you understand?"

"You are the famous 'unconditional surrendering general'..."

"Of course I hope they can surrender unconditionally earlier, but do you think the Chinese are likely to surrender unconditionally? With the intelligence shown by Jin Zhang and Guo, isn't he aware that once surrender, what is waiting for him is not just the destruction of their Chinese group? The entire Chinese in the United States will be affected... So, he will definitely persevere and stick to the limit he can."

"Then why don't we use other means? The Chinese are composed of several parts, we can..." Ronna Turner frowned and said with a frown.

"This idea is very good, but the problem is that young people, while the Chinese will definitely insist on not surrender, no one in Washington wants them to surrender at least, and they do not want them to surrender until most of them die in battle." Grant said in a deep voice.

"Don't want it?"

“Yes, don’t want it”

Shortly after Grant led the leading troops to the city of Sacramento, a large number of materials and troops began to transport to California along the Pacific Railway in an orderly manner, and then transported to Portland... In addition to these, a large number of rails, sleepers, and other things began to transport from the east to the west. The United States Department of the Army and the War Department, the Federal Army General Command, and the White House. Congress obviously thought of the importantness of the railway. Under their strong interference, the railway company and the insurance company reached an agreement and hired a large number of people to repair the railway from Sacramento to Seattle. This gave California a very good opportunity. Because of the economic crisis and the destruction of the Chinese, their economic situation was seriously disturbed. Now the Chinese have finally left, and the repair of the railway has given everyone a chance to work.

The whole situation seems to be starting to develop in a good direction, but a good start does not mean that there will be a good process. Shortly after the railway restoration project began, people who have been paying attention to the railway process began to be depressed... A large number of workers from San Francisco thought that the wages were too low and the processing time was too long, and thus put forward many "unfair" requirements. By the way, they also gave the project a hat of "a miser who is worse than the Chinese". Because this project was closely followed by various departments including the White House, even directly handled it, these departments were unfortunately shot and were formed by an organization called "San Francisco Workers Welfare Union" and were labeled as "vampire", not only did they face the threat of strikes.

These situations made all the relevant parties extremely annoyed. The railway company, as the construction party, planned to organize armed personnel to suppress them by force, or simply fire them all, and hire them in other places. The news came out that the San Francisco Workers Welfare Union immediately organized a large-scale demonstration, and even brought together many trade union organizations in Sacramento, proposing "can't sweat or blood" and "reject the 'blood-sweat system'", "Why are Americans more cruel than Chinese people treating Americans

Many slogans such as "resonated with many other slogans resonated with the low-income California class. The scale of the demonstrations further expanded and caused the interruption of railway restoration work. Faced with such a situation, the railway company was afraid of public anger and did not dare to use force casually, so it had to ask for help from the rear. In the end, considering that if this continued, it would only increase the difficulty of Gran Characteristics to challenge Seattle, and even increase a considerable amount of military expenditure, Congress had to allocate a special amount to these workers and wages. The union won the victory.

But things didn't end like that

The news of the special payment of Congress reached major eastern cities. Eastern industrial workers, who had long been under the pressure of the "blood and sweat system", were greatly encouraged. Some formal trade unions also began to prepare demonstrations, and finally turned into practical actions at the end of July 24, 2019. Nearly 350,000 people held large-scale strikes and demonstrations centered on Chicago. Demonstrators demanded improvement of labor conditions and the implementation of an eight-hour working system, etc. On July 26, Chicago political fu dispatched police to suppress and shot and killed two people. The situation expanded. On July 28, strikers held another demonstration to protest against police brutality. As a result, because there were

Unidentified persons dropped bombs at the police, causing the police to shoot again, which led to fierce conflicts between demonstrators and police. In the end, four workers and seven policemen died. The incident caused a strong response across the United States and attracted a lot of attention. People's concern for them was even more than the war in the Northwest. Capitalists sent people to demonstrate the workers' team, deliberately causing conflicts between workers and police. They angered a large number of Americans. US President Hayes even directly denounced this behavior in his speech on leaving office, saying that this behavior was extremely disgusting and deceitful, and hoped that his successor James Garfield could investigate carefully and severely investigate and deal with the mastermind behind the scenes.

Afterwards, Hayes left the White House and ended his four-year presidency. James Garfield, who was a mathematician, became the 20th president of the United States and appointed James Brian as a secretary of state. The US political situation entered a stage that should have taken over on March 4. He did not pay attention for the time being, and he would be forgiven for his crimes.

At this time, Grant had already led his troops into the Columbia region, which later became Washington State. However, he did not rush to launch an attack, but built a fortification outside Seattle.

...

"What to do?"

There are about 30,000 Chinese workers in Seattle, and except for a small number of old and weak, most of them are strong laborers. Therefore, even without advanced construction machinery, Seattle has turned into a huge fortress in a few months... In particular, many of these people have participated in the construction of the Pacific Railway and are not unfamiliar with engineering construction. All kinds of fortifications are extremely strong. In order to test the strength of the fortifications, Guo Jinzhang even bombarded with cannons, but only a shallow pit was blasted out. Such a solid fortification also made the Chinese workers who were originally guilty of letting go of their minds. They couldn't even break the cannons, so what else should they be afraid of? However, Grant's surroundings and not attacking made everyone's heart that was originally let go of a little bit. A little bit of relief was slightly raised. However, Grant's siege and not attacking made everyone's heart that was originally let down.

"Are he really afraid of us? Want to be a besieged? nn, as mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the battle of the besieged will take at least a few months, or a year or two." Seattle's outer defense position, a group of people hid behind the fortifications of the steel bars and concrete, holding a telescope and constantly looking at the US military position. The Americans had no intention of attacking at all, but just building a position. The situation was even similar to what they had in the past few months. The group of people were a little swaying in their hearts. Cheng Degui was shaking his beards and looked like an expert.

"It's okay for a few months. We can hold on for a year or two, then we'll have to finish it." Liu Tongfu said with his teeth and said

"It is unlikely to be a year or two. Americans don't have this kind of resistance, but looking at Grant's situation, it's really a few months..." Guo Jinzhang added to the tongue. The United States is a unique country, especially without food. Before going north, they searched a small part of the San Francisco inventory, which was enough for tens of thousands of people to spend half a year. This is not counting the food made into ham and smoked... If you really have a careful calculation, even a year will be enough. Thanks to Seattle's land is northwest, which is not much different from Northeast China by latitude. Moreover, the mountains are high and dense forests, and the temperature in summer is not too high. Otherwise, even if it has been treated with anti-corrosion, there will definitely be a lot of food that will get moldy due to long-term storage.

"This is not very different from your plan." He Luyuan also stood among a group of people. Although they had low morale at one time, some people even suspected that Guo Jinzhang forced Bu Ping to come away. But if you really want to grab a seat, you don't have to rob it in such a desperate situation? Are the ones surnamed Guo so stupid? And now Guo Jinzhang has already had a "red stick" and has made a serious feast and made a big vow. According to the rules, they are brothers, and the elder brother with a higher status than the old people. With a few months of delayed release, they can finally be barely integrated.

"The battlefield changes rapidly, and it's a plan to die." Guo Jinzhang ignored him and continued to look at the opposite side with a telescope: "Anyway, we are just defending, so I want to see what Grant wants to do."

"Dingling"

A ringtone suddenly rang

"Hey" Liu Tongfu picked up the microphone first. Because he was leaving San Francisco, Guo Jinzhang did not plan to please and appease the white people. He could take away basically all the things that could be taken away, especially the telephone and telegraphs, which were extremely important for transmitting information on the battlefield. Therefore, he moved the telephone company to Seattle directly. Of course, this "moving" is inevitably a bit forced, but who said that the Chinese workers are strong? With a gun at the gun, the relevant members of the Telegraph Bureau and the Telegraph Company obediently followed them to Seattle, but they were not at a loss, because the Chinese workers pointed guns at them on one side, and threw out several thick stacks of banknotes on the other side. In addition, the workplace was low, unless it was particularly unlucky, it was not considered a big danger. These white people who were already adventurous were not particularly resistant.

"The ship was found on the sea surface, and it seemed like a warship."

"Warship?" Liu Tongfu was stunned and then turned to Guo Jinzhang, "Jinzhang, the Americans are really sending warships."

"Oh? Did those bastards jump out of Los Angeles?" Guo Jinzhang asked

"It probably is..." Li Asheng said on the side that San Francisco is now the largest city in the western United States and also the largest port. Although Los Angeles has developed well, its scale is still far from the same, because no country in the entire North and South America can pose a threat to itself. Even if it has the ability to threaten it, it is still far away from the vast Pacific Ocean, and is separated by ten thousand kilometers from the west coast of the United States. At such a distance, even if it has the ability to threaten it, it will become no threat. In addition, Americans are now focusing mostly on their homeland, and they have not

There is too much development of maritime forces, so the U.S. naval fleet deployed in the Pacific Ocean only has two pitiful "boats", and the number of naval personnel is not enough to make people's teeth... When Chinese workers occupied San Francisco, Guo Jinzhang's original plan was to target these two warships first, but the navy went to sea for training that day. In desperation, he had to set his target on other ships and learned that the Chinese occupied San Francisco. The Navy did not dare to think about regaining lost land, so he drove to Los Angeles to hide and seek, making Guo Jinzhang, who had always coveted these two ships, feel sorry for him.

"Do you want to give them a few tricks?" Zhao Dachang rubbed his palms and tried it out loud

"Afu, ask what those two warships are coming, are they transporting troops?" Guo Jinzhang ignored this militant and told Liu Tongfu again

"Okay," Liu Tongfu responded, picked up the microphone again: "Hear? Look again, see what the two warships are doing, and whether there are any soldiers coming."

"Soldiers? Didn't see any soldiers?" replied the opposite side, "Just a few foreigners kept looking at us with telescopes on the deck, and the muzzles were not energetic, and we pointed here."

"Find a few who are accurate and give him two shots" Liu Tongfu said

"That..." The opposite side seemed to be considering feasible xng. After a while, "it should almost scare them, so let's try it."

"Okay, please inform me if you have any news." Liu Tongfu nodded with satisfaction, then put down the microphone.

"No soldiers are coming..." Liu Tongfu heard the call with the other people clearly. The navy had no soldiers and no artillery. This seemed to be a so-called soybean performance made everyone feel a little confused.

"Then let's not care about him for now and ask the scouts to keep a close eye on it," Guo Jinzhang gritted his teeth. For the first time, he couldn't help but feel nervous when facing such a situation. After all, even if the other party showed again, it would be a coordinated battle between sea and land... With a little military knowledge, who doesn't know how powerful the naval gun is? Even if it's just a small warship, it's not easy to deal with

"If you want me to tell me, let's sink these two ships first and give these Americans a warning," Zhao Dachang shouted

"Sinking the warship is equivalent to leaking our trump card. The Americans will definitely be on guard at that time..." Guo Jinzhang paused, "So, without my orders, no one is allowed to order casually, otherwise, don't blame my surname Guo for killing his own people."

“…”

Guo Jinzhang's words were a bit heavy, and no one dared to touch them. Although Zhao Dachang was dissatisfied, he just curled his lips disdainfully.

"Jin Zhang, look..." Liang Zuying suddenly pointed to the US military position and shouted.

"how?"

Everyone quickly picked up the telescope along his fingers, and soon everyone saw the changes in the U.S. position opposite, and a cannon was being pushed out...
Chapter completed!