1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 457 Special Military Operation
The investigation team left Tijuana swaggeringly with the so-called evidence and returned to San Diego.

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

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

The infantry of the Western Brigade, which had already been prepared, quickly attacked the city of San Diego under the cover of artillery.

The Mexican army stationed in San Diego did not mean to resist tenaciously.

As soon as the cannon rang, the defenders of Tijuana either surrendered or fled, and the battle went smoothly unexpectedly.

The only resistance the western brigade encountered in Tijuana was from Mayor Hernandez of Tijuana.

Hernandez is the only bloody Mexican in Tijuana. He organized more than 100 Mexican bloody militias to defend the government building in the city center.

In front of the fully staffed Western Brigade, the resistance of more than a hundred people was nothing more than a mantis' arms.

Facing the solid municipal building, Kruger did not choose to attack by force, but moved heavy artillery to directly blast the municipal building to the ground.

Under the bombardment of Sacramento's heavy artillery, Hernandez had not had time to command the militiamen to fire a few shots before his internal organs were shattered, and he finally died in this small municipal building.

Where have the remaining militiamen seen this formation?Facing the absolute firepower superiority of the Western Brigade, 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 Stars and Stripes of the United States and the bear flag of California in the center of Tijuana.

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

After the flag and state flag were hoisted, Kruger glanced at the time on the clock tower.

From the beginning of the attack to the capture of Tijuana, they took only one hour and twenty ten minutes.

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

Tijuana has a high proportion of American expatriates. In this city with a population of 3, 1 people are American expatriates.

In addition, the military discipline of the Western Brigade is very good. After they occupied Tijuana, they did not commit any crimes against American expatriates or Mexican residents, so they did not encounter resistance from the local residents.

Kruger also quickly stabilized the newly occupied city.

As for the more than 800 captured Mexican soldiers and militiamen, these people must not let them stay in Tijuana.

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

After finishing these, Kruger took out the rigorous battle plan he made according to 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 to Mazatlan by boat, and began to open up the communication line between the two states of Garde.

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

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

The performance of the Western Brigade was very good. Liang Yao gave Kruger a deadline of winning Tijuana within one day.

In fact, even if it took Kruger two or three days to win Tijuana Liang Yao, he could accept it.

After all, Mexico's defenders in Tijuana are not small, with one and a half regiments of regular troops and one militia.

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

The deal is done, and now it is 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.

"West brigade took Tijuana so quickly?"

Jackson was struck by the speed at which the Western Brigade was progressing.

At the same time, he also realized that if the Southern Army did not take any action on the Eastern Front, at the speed of the Western Brigade's advance, the first victory after the war would fall to the Western Brigade.

It is embarrassing to think that the results achieved by the Southern Army with more than [-] troops are not as good as those achieved by a single brigade of the Western Brigade.

The shame is second, the key is who contributes more in the war, and has 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 way to explain to the whole south.

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

"General Jackson, don't miss this opportunity and don't come again. After the Mexican army is organized, it will be difficult to achieve similar results. The casualties of our army will also double."

Without much hesitation, a day after the Western Brigade on the Western Front occupied Tijuana.

The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, General Jackson, also used the reason that the Mexican authorities persecuted the American nationals, and sent a telegram to the outside world to launch a special military operation against Spain to protect the rights and interests of the American nationals in Mexico.

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

It is not once or twice that war broke out between the United States and Mexico, but it is the first time that such an undeclared war has been fought this time.

The members of Congress in Washington are also very helpless at this time. The outbreak of war has become an established fact. Although some northern members do not want to go to war with Mexico, they now have to vote in favor of the motion to declare war on Mexico.

Of course, the most confused is the Mexican authorities.

The delay in declaring war by the United States caused the Mexican authorities to misjudge the situation.

The Mexican authorities originally thought that the United States sent troops to the border to intimidate them diplomatically, and that the United States would not violate international conventions and go to war against Mexico without declaring it.

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

After the US military launched the offensive, the Mexican authorities were in a hurry.

Mexico not only didn't start mobilizing, they didn't even finish building their army.

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

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

The attitude of the ambassadors of Britain, France and Spain is also very intriguing.

Considering his country's interests in Mexico and even America as a whole, the British ambassador naturally did not want the United States to seize more territories from Mexico.After all, the territory of the United States is large enough now, and they don't want another big country like Tsarist Russia to appear in the Americas.

It's just that the war in the Near East has not yet ended, and the coalition forces and Tsarist Russia are conducting key negotiations.

At this time, the deployment of troops from the Near East to interfere in American affairs will undoubtedly reduce the bargaining chip on the negotiating table for the British side.

Britain needs to maintain enough troops in the Near East to deter Tsarist Russia and force Tsarist Russia to accept the truce conditions of the coalition forces as soon as possible.

Considering the friendly relationship between the French Empire and the United States of America, especially the friendly relationship between the French Empire and California, the French ambassador did not express his position.

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

On the contrary, Spain has a more positive attitude. The expansion of the United States over the past half century is obvious to all.

Spain is worried that if the expansion of the United States is not effectively curbed, the United States will then extend its hand to Cuba and the few remaining Spanish colonies.

However, Spain is already in decline at this time, and its national strength is no longer what it used to be.

Spain no longer has the ability to independently send troops to interfere in American affairs.

Spain just stood aside and encouraged Britain and France to send troops to deter the United States.

However, Britain and France are not fools. The ambassadors of the two countries put their own interests first, and did not take the words of the Spaniards seriously.

(End of this chapter)