1850 American Gold Baron

Comes successfully launched a coup to establish a military government, which was a great benefit to the US military.

"Since Komes wants us to act with him in a play, then we will act with him in a play." Liang Yao held the telegram in his hand and walked out of the telegraph room greedily breathing in the fresh air outside.

"We take three steps forward, two steps back, and cooperate with Comes to perform this play well. Since Mexico needs a national hero, then we will create a national hero for Mexico."

"Two steps back? Where are you going to take two steps back?"

Bell was also in a good mood after learning the news about what happened in Mexico.

He knew that there must be something fishy about a coup happening in Mexico so quickly.

This coup was probably related to Liang Yao, and the telegram sent by Comes is irrefutable evidence.

"If the army of Comes launches a counterattack, the area south of Colima can be abandoned."

After looking at the map of Mexico for so long, Liang Yao now has a clear understanding of the administrative divisions of Mexico even without a map.

"I have no objection." Bell nodded.

"The states in south-central Mexico are densely populated, and even if they are captured, we may not be able to eat them. What should General Jackson say? After all, the occupied areas on the eastern front were captured by General Jackson, and their casualties were higher than ours.

big."

"I think General Jackson also wants to end this war as soon as possible." Liang Yao said.

In the two months since the war began, the US$3 million in military spending allocated by the federal government before the war has long since bottomed out, and the military supplies provided have also been exhausted.

Starting in February, Jackson called Washington several times to request more military pay and military supplies, but his requests were not met.

If the slave owners in the South had not supported the Confederate army with their own money, and Liang Yao provided arms and supplies to support Jackson's Confederate army, the Eastern Front battlefield would have been unstoppable.

Jackson now also desperately hopes to end the war as soon as possible.

After Jackson learned of the coup in Mexico, he immediately stopped attacking the city.

He was keenly aware that the opportunity for a decisive battle with Mexico's main force had come.

Comes brazenly launched a coup to seize power in Mexico and established a military government. Even Santa Ana's family was controlled by Comes.

Santa Ana may no longer be able to hide in San Luis Toposi.

Santa Ana can lose this war, but Santa Ana cannot lose the position of president.

Power is what a dictator is most afraid of losing.

Jackson built a stone wall on the only way for the Mexican army to reach Mexico City, preparing to block the Mexican army and engage in a decisive battle with the main force of the Mexican army in Santa Ana.

As Jackson expected, the fire in the backyard made Santa Ana, who was originally stuck in San Luis Toposi, as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

To seize power, and for my family in Mexico City.

Santa Ana's impulse defeated his reason, and he decided to give it a try.

The 24,000 Mexican troops in the three cities of San Luis Tobosi, Leon, and Aguascalada are now all his capital.

Like a loser, Santa Ana put all his capital into a desperate gamble.

Santa Ana gave the order, and 24,000 Mexican soldiers marched toward Mexico City in a mighty manner.

The U.S. military's delay in attacking the three cities of San Luis Tobosi, León, and Aguascaliente shows that the U.S. military's strength is not sufficient.

He did not believe that the U.S. military, which was short of troops, could eat up his main force in one bite.

The Mexican army from Santa Ana's army heading south to Mexico City soon encountered the main force of the southern army.

Jackson's Confederate army quickly assumed the role of defender, relying on stone walls and other fortifications built in advance to block the Mexican army from moving south.

The Confederate army's strength of just over 10,000 was not enough for attack, but it was more than enough for defense.

Under the obstruction of the Confederate Army, the Mexican Army suffered heavy losses.

However, the Mexican army did not collapse. Under Santa Ana's personal supervision, the Mexican army barely broke through the first line of defense of the Southern Army.

But what awaited the Mexican army was the second and third line of defense of the Southern Army.

Jackson ordered the Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana regiments that had withdrawn from the first line of defense to retreat behind the line to repair. He ordered the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia regiments to go up and engage the Mexican army.

He wanted to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army through wheel warfare and slowly consume the effective strength of the Mexican Army.

The turning point in the war occurred when the Western Brigade joined the battlefield.

After learning that Jackson's Southern Army was fighting a decisive battle with the main Mexican Army in Santa Ana, Liang Yao did not choose to sit back and watch, but immediately dispatched the main force to the northwest to join the battlefield.

The addition of the Western Brigade was like the last straw that broke the main Mexican force.

Since the Mexican army had no defense against the Western Brigade, the entire weak flank was exposed to the firepower of the Western Brigade.

The Western Brigade quickly defeated the Mexican army on the flanks and disrupted the Mexican army's position.

Seeing this, Jackson seized the opportunity and launched a counterattack against the main force of the Mexican army.

The two sides started a decisive battle on the spot.

In just three days, the 20,000 Mexican army was defeated by the combined efforts of the Confederate Army and the Western Brigade.

Mexican President Santa Ana was captured.

The outcome of the Second Mexican-American War was thus settled.

The armed forces of Comes pretended to regain several lost territories, such as Guerrero, Micancho, and Hidalgo.

The military government temporarily stabilized people's hearts by recovering lost territory, and Comes became a national hero in the eyes of the Mexican people.

The so-called lost territory that the Komes Armed Forces recovered was not so much recovered as it was directly given to them by the US military.

After the battle lines were determined, the two sides came to the negotiating table.

As the head of the new government and a hero in the eyes of the Mexican people, Comes will certainly not sign an unequal treaty to cede territory on behalf of the Mexican government, which would damage his tall image.

Comes made Santa Ana the president for a few days, and Santa Ana signed the treaty to cede territory on behalf of the Mexican government. After the signing was completed, he asked Santa Ana to voluntarily give up the position of president.

Liang Yao and Jackson also defined their respective spheres of influence on behalf of California and the South.

California's sphere of influence is mainly concentrated on the Pacific coast, specifically: the former Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Narita, and Guadaja

Laja State, Colima State.

The southern sphere of influence is mainly concentrated in the Gulf Coast region, specifically: Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, San Luis Toposi, Zacatecas, and Guanajuato.

After California and the South determined their respective spheres of influence, Comes demanded that the United States pay Mexico $15 million in exchange for ceding territory in accordance with the old system of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidego signed in the first U.S.-Mexican War.

compensate.

Of course, it was impossible for Liang Yao to agree to the figure of 15 million U.S. dollars, and it was even less possible for southern representatives such as Jackson and Bell to agree.

The two sides entered the bargaining stage.

Liang Yao could only be compensated US$5 million for being bitten to death, otherwise the war would continue until the Mexican government could not get even one cent of compensation.

Of course, these are just harsh words spoken at the negotiation table.

It was already mid-March, and on the Europa continent, Britain, France, Russia and other countries were about to reach an agreement on conditions such as an armistice in the Near East and the redefinition of the sphere of influence in the Ottoman Empire.

It is also realistic to continue fighting, and we will face the problem of borrowing money from countries such as Britain and France.

It would be wise to stop now when things are good.

After some wrangling, both sides took a few steps back, but the Mexican side took a few steps back.

The final compensation amount was settled at US$7 million.