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Chapter 458 The Second Mexican-American War

Seeing that there is no hope for the great powers to intervene, the President of Mexico realizes that at least at this stage, it is impractical to obtain the support of any one of the three countries of Britain, France and Spain.

Only after the international situation changes and Mexico proves its worth, that is, after Mexico has the ability to contain the expansion of the United States in North America, will the big powers give Mexico a certain degree of support.

At this stage, if it wants to resist the invasion of the American army, Mexico can only rely on itself.

The next day, Santa Ana sent a note to Gadsden, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, condemning the shameless actions of the U.S. and at the same time expressing Mexico's determination to resist to the end.

Major newspapers in the capital, Mexico City, also published news of the US invasion of Mexico.

The news made people of insight in Mexico City indignant.

Only eight years have passed since the last Mexican-American War, which transformed Mexico from a large North American power to a medium-sized one.

Before the Mexicans could lick their wounds from the war, the Americans and their troops were back.

Mexican citizens in Mexico City surrounded the American embassy. They vented their anger on the embassy, ​​smashing, looting and burning the embassy.

After learning that the American ambassador was not in the embassy, ​​but in the presidential palace, they went to the presidential palace.

At this moment, American Ambassador Gadsden had just come out of the presidential palace, and coincidentally collided head-on with the angry crowd. Gadsden was so frightened that he ran away, but unfortunately, he was caught and beaten by the Mexicans, and even his legs were injured. Discounted by the Mexicans.

Fortunately, Gadsden only broke a leg, and his life was saved.

Gadsden also felt very wronged. He himself did not expect that the United States would declare war on Mexico without even notifying his ambassador.

After the note to the American ambassador, President Santa Ana immediately announced a solid embargo on the United States, especially the iron ore embargo.

California's steel industry relied heavily on iron ore imports from Mexico, and Santa Ana believed that as long as Mexico imposed an embargo on California, California's economy would suffer a catastrophe.Liang Yao had no choice but to give in.

Santa Ana was right in thinking and thinking, California's steel industry does rely heavily on Mexican iron ore.

If the local government can implement the central government's iron ore embargo against the United States, although California's economy will not suffer catastrophe, it is inevitable that the steel industry will be hurt.

The problem is that Mexico is not a centralized country.

The central government of Mexico has even less control over the states than the federal government of the United States has over the states.

The power of the local states in Mexico was controlled by the big landowners and compradors in the states at the beginning of independence.Fang and the central government have long been in harmony.

As the president of a country, what Santa Ana can order is only a few hundred kilometers around the capital, Mexico City.

In Mexico's iron ore state represented by Colima, local mine owners have joined California's coal and steel alliance four or five years ago.

These states exported high-quality iron ore to California in exchange for California's light and heavy industrial products and gold, and quickly became a wealthy state in Mexico.

These mine owners have thus become the wealthiest group in Mexico.

To put it bluntly, the states that Mexico exports iron ore to have far more economic ties to California than to their own.

Therefore, after the Santa Ana embargo was issued to the local states, few states took Santa Ana's ban seriously.

The war belongs to the country, and the gold in your pocket is your own.

Santa Ana was outraged that the local government did not enforce his embargo.

However, as a president with extremely limited powers, apart from expressing his dissatisfaction and indignation, Santa Ana was also unable to punish these national thieves.

Economic sanctions have no effect, and Santa Ana's only hope now is to defeat the powerful enemy from the north militarily and force the other party to the negotiating table.

Fortunately, as a military leader turned military dictator, Santa Ana still maintained some prestige in the Mexican army.

With the efforts of Santa Ana, Mexico has gathered an army of more than 33000 people at a relatively fast speed.

After Santa Ana left 1 people to guard the capital Mexico City, he personally led the army north to resist the invasion of the American army.

It was early February 1856 after the Mexican army had completed its assembly.

At this time, whether it is the main force of the Confederate Army in Texas on the east front or the main force of the Western Brigade in California on the west front, they have already moved south.

Under the leadership of the famous southern general Jackson, the Southern Army continued to capture Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros and other border cities.

Monterrey, the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, also quickly changed hands under the strong attack of the Confederate Army due to insufficient preparation.

The four states bordering Mexico and Texas: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulispa.

Except for the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila, which have not been affected by the war for the time being, the northern regions of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulispa have all fallen into the hands of the Southern Army.

The reason why Chihuahua and Coahuila have not been affected by the war for the time being is not because the Southern Army is unable to attack these two states, but because these two states are poor and sparsely populated. The garrison is also very limited.

Considering that the economic value of Chihuahua and Coahuila is low, and there is no significant strategic value, the sparse garrisons in the two states will not pose a threat to the Confederate Army. The commander of the Confederate Army, Jackson, has Attacking these two states was not considered.

Compared with the Western Brigade, the military discipline of the Southern Army is not as good as that of the Western Brigade.

Therefore, the Mexicans on the Eastern Front were not as lucky as the Mexicans on the Western Front.

The land where the southern army passed can be said to be restless and not a blade of grass grows.

Most of the soldiers of the Southern Army came from poor backgrounds, and the reason why they were willing to join the war was to make a fortune.

Every time the Confederates captured the next village, they looted the village. They robbed Mexican villages and towns of everything that could be exchanged for dollars.

Spanish silver coins, fine silver, cloth, furniture, food, and even kitchen bottles and jars could not escape the eyes of these Confederate soldiers.

After looting, the soldiers of the Confederate Army took these items to the stalls of the hawkers accompanying the army, and exchanged these items for dollars, cigarettes, drinks, sugar cubes, tea, coffee, boots and other hard currency.

Army peddlers are also an old tradition of the American Army.

Every time a war breaks out, there are bright-minded merchants who start the army business.

They use U.S. dollars and other materials purchased from the rear to do business with soldiers in the army. During the last Mexican-American War, many peddlers with the army made a fortune using this.

These military hawkers can also be regarded as a supplement to the logistics link of the US military.

Compared with the armies of other countries at the same time, the logistics of the US military is definitely a better one.

Not to mention the comparison with the gray cattle of the Qing army and Tsarist Russia, which could not even supply staple food in peacetime at the same time, even compared with Britain and France, which are at their peak national strength, the food standards of the US military during wartime are not bad.

The food provided by the Northern Army's logistics was enough to make the British and French troops cry at the same time.

As a large agricultural country with sparsely populated land and fertile land, the American army at least fights in the mainland and places relatively close to the mainland, so it does not have to worry about the supply of staple food.

The U.S. military not only does not have to worry about the supply of staple food, but also has a sufficient supply of meat.

During the most difficult period of the Civil War, the Union Army could guarantee ordinary soldiers on the front line, even black soldiers, to eat a hot stew every day.

The logistical conditions of the Southern Army were not as good as those of the Northern Army, but they could also ensure that the soldiers could eat bad-tasting bacon.

Many soldiers of the Southern Army even disliked this kind of dark food that even sailors could not swallow, but they did not know that the bacon they disliked was a delicacy that Qing soldiers and the Tsar's gray cattle could not ask for.

The Confederate Army, which only ransacked Mexican villages, is considered to have the best military discipline among them.

Some unscrupulous Confederate troops even burned the village after looting.

What is even more wicked is to directly massacre the village.

After all, the veterans who led the recruits of the Southern Army all participated in the US-Mexico War ten years ago.

They have done many of these things ten years ago, and it is no psychological burden for these southern veterans to revisit their old jobs.

According to their concept, they just taught the recruits the tradition taught to them by their predecessors, and let the recruits pass on this fine tradition.

(End of this chapter)