New Ming Empire mixed in America

After Lin finished his speech in front of the reporters and vowed to take revenge, all the reporters went back to rush to write their articles.

For this public relations, Lin even mortgaged his own estate.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, George Sharp brought him two newspapers that had been published for a long time.

After reading it, Lin's vision went dark and his teeth clenched.

"Both newspapers were just opened and their owners are young people, and this is their first and last newspaper..."

George Sharp told what happened, including the fact that these newspapers were distributed free of charge.

"This was a premeditated action. I suspect it was the Confederacy or..."

At this point, George Sharp did not continue, because it was obvious that the Oriental had no intention of demonstrating at all.

As the flyer says, this is just a warning!

"I understand, are the Confederate troops taking any action now?"

After a while, Lin finally regained his composure.

What he feared most was that the Confederacy would take the opportunity to do something, such as joining forces with the Easterners and launching an attack on their troops using those big balloons.

If that was the case, he really had no choice but to shrink his troops until he could figure out a way to deal with the airship.

"There is no information on the front line about the mobilization of troops by the Confederacy. This time it should be the actions of the Easterners themselves."

After listening to George Sharp's words, Lin let go of his worries.

The impact of burning the White House and newspapers can be slowly resolved. If the Confederacy had the support of Eastern airships, then their Union would be in real danger.

Fortunately, that idiot Jefferson Davis broke up with the Orientals, otherwise under double pressure, he would have had no choice but to resign.

News about the bombing of the White House quickly spread to Europe.

Dai Ying, who was the first to receive the information, directly disclosed the information and added the word "again" in front of the title that the White House was burned.

During this period, except for a small cooperation when dealing with the Xinming Empire, the newspapers of the two countries attacked each other the rest of the time.

Who told the Federation to use the excuse of bringing Britain to support the Confederacy and prepare to make Britain pay compensation?

And he was also meddling with the merger of the British and American concessions in the Far East.

And more than once, Oiying suffered losses at the hands of Satsuma Domain to undermine the prestige of Oiying's royal fleet.

Therefore, I am very happy to see the Northern Federation being unlucky enough to lead the British.

But while they were happy, the War Department led by the British also began to discuss the new weapons of the Orientals.

Looking at the photos sent back with the intelligence, a group of officials from the Ministry of War began a heated discussion.

"If the Orientals use such large balloons to attack our warships, it will be difficult for us to resist them."

One official pointed to the photo that had been enlarged and posted on the wall and said:

"This kind of large balloon can attack at a distance of eight to nine hundred meters from the ground, and weapons on the ground are unable to do anything to it."

It is not easy to hit a target eight or nine hundred meters in the air, especially at such a long distance, only very small targets can be seen.

You need to use a telescope to see the opponent's outline clearly, but it is obviously impossible for the soldiers to use telescopes to shoot.

"Don't we have rifles with a range of more than nine hundred meters?"

Another official frowned and looked at the official in charge of the weapons procurement department, and asked angrily.

"A rifle's flat shot relies on the arc of the projectile to shoot that far, but when shooting toward the sky, do you think a rifle can do that?"

The official of the weapons procurement department obviously didn't want to deal with the person he was talking to, so he immediately shouted back at him.

"If firearms are not enough, don't we still have artillery? The range of the artillery is far enough, right?"

The official who just launched the attack obviously didn't want to give up, and was still insinuating that the procurement department was unreliable.

"The range of the Armstrong gun is far beyond 1,300 meters, but you have also seen the consequences of firing solid bullets into the air."

As he said that, the official from the procurement department pointed to another photo showing solid bullets penetrating residents' houses and said: "The artillery shells can't fly that high at all. Level shooting and anti-aircraft shooting are two different things!"

Just as the two were about to continue, an official of the committee stood up and advised: "Stop arguing. This has no effect and is a waste of everyone's time."

"Let's do this. As long as our committee is granted funds, we will design an artillery weapon targeting air targets as soon as possible."

The committee was established because of a series of malfunctions of the Navy's Armstrong artillery during the recent conflict between Britain and the Satsuma Domain of Japan in the Far East.

Their main responsibility is to investigate and evaluate problems with the Armstrong naval gun.

The words of the committee official made most of the participants nod with satisfaction. They came here to discuss how to prevent Orientals from using this weapon on them.

Now I just listen to the quarrel between those two idiots and get nothing done.

"In addition to weapons to deal with big balloons like the Orientals, I think we should also start researching our own big balloons."

"Since even we have no way to use this thing for the time being, other countries are even more so, so we must hurry up and have our own air weapons as soon as possible before them!"

Finally, the Minister of War personally spoke and prepared to equip the British army with such weapons flying in the sky.

It is now September, and the British Royal Navy has been embarrassed by the recent war between Britain and Britain.

What's more, the battle that took place on the west coast, which Europe called the Battle of the Pacific, caused a huge setback for the British navy.

After experiencing these two naval battles, the British navy urgently needed an opportunity to revitalize its majesty.

So as soon as the Minister of War finished speaking, an official from the Navy Department stood up and said:

"I think this new type of aircraft should be equipped with our navy. As I said just now, this type of aircraft can play a huge role in naval battles..."

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by an official from the War Department who stood up:

"This kind of aircraft should obviously belong to the Army. The Orientals have used a battle to illustrate the benefits of the equipment to the Army."

"After this kind of aircraft is equipped to the army, the mainland of Great Britain will no longer need the navy's home fleet to protect it."

The Secretary of War carefully considered the proposal of the War Department officials and nodded slightly.

Seeing this scene, the Navy officials immediately became nervous.

Which department the new aircraft belongs to is not only a matter of appearance, but also related to the allocation of military spending next year.

If it is allocated to the Army, then the Navy's military expenditure next year will definitely be reduced by a large amount.

So he quickly stood up and said, "What is the use of the army's aircraft?"

"The sea is the area that we in Great Britain should pay most attention to. If the navies of other countries are equipped with such aircraft in the future, the Royal Navy will be at a disadvantage and lose its deterrent power at sea. What will happen to our colonies?"

After the Navy Department official finished speaking, he saw the Minister of War nodding in the same way, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

During this period, due to the ironclad incident, conflicts between the Navy Department and the War Department continued.

Building ironclads requires military expenditures, but the War Department actually used the Pacific Naval War on the west coast to launch an attack at this time.

He proposed the idea of ​​vigorously building up the army to prevent the Easterners from attacking the Canadian region, and actually allowed them to take away a piece of meat from the navy.

Now they are jumping out to fight for the ownership of the aircraft. This is a naked attempt to break up with the navy.

"The Army doesn't need more military spending at all. Look at how many people the U.S. Army has and how much their military spending is?"

"If the US Army can do it, why is it that our Great Britain's Army has more military spending and combat effectiveness but cannot even match that of the US?"

The officials of the Navy Department knew very well the principle of hitting the snake seven inches, and they pinched the Army's seven inches at the first opening.

In the end, the battle ended predictably with the victory of the Admiralty.

After all, the Navy is his biological son, so it is normal for the War Department to favor the Navy appropriately.