Chapter 373: Stand Up

As for the last call, it was from Robinson in San Francisco.

Robinson wanted to tell Liang Yao that he had no intention of running for the next governor of California, and hoped that Liang Yao could run for the next governor of California.

"Hasn't the Ottoman Empire opened the Dardanelles like England and France? Can the Ottoman ships be sunk by the warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at this time?"

Fremont took a newspaper from Liang Yao's table and sat on the leather sofa to read. After seeing the news that the Russian Black Sea Fleet sank the Ottoman supply ship, Fremont couldn't help but complain.

"What's so strange about this?" Liang Yao said, "England and France need Russia to fight a big defeat."

Britain and France never expected the Ottoman Empire to defeat Russia on its own.

If Russia didn't win a big victory, how could the politicians in Britain and France fool Congress and their own people into going to war with the Russian Empire?

Only with a strong Russia can the Russian threat theory be convincing and more military spending can be obtained.

But so far, Britain and France are quite disappointed.

Britain and France originally expected that the Russian Army would be able to strike a thundering blow to the Ottoman Army after advancing to the lower reaches of the Danube, severely defeating the Ottoman Army and winning a beautiful victory.

Who would have thought that those gray animals of Nicholas I would fight hard with the weak sick man of West Asia in the swamps of the lower reaches of the Danube, and the Ottoman army repelled the Russian army several times and gained the upper hand.

The land god Russia did not have any outstanding achievements for a while, and Britain and France could only hope that Russia's Black Sea Fleet could stand up and win a victory so that they could have propaganda materials to write articles about.

Not only Britain and France hope that Russia can stand up, Liang Yao also hopes that Russia can stand up.

The longer the Crimean war drags on, the more time he will have to solve the problem of Mexico's land purchase.

I guess Fillmore thinks so too.

"I just didn't expect that Russia, which has millions of soldiers and is known as the world's best army, couldn't just go all the way across the Danube and head straight to the city of Constantinople." Fremont sighed.

The Near East issue has been the hottest topic in the United States in the past six months, and Fremont himself has paid more attention to this war.

"The world's best army is just the Russian army in Nicholas I's fantasy." Liang Yao said, "Such an army is the most deterrent army only in peacetime, making people believe that it is the world's best army. Once it participates in the war, it will be exposed."

After the Patriotic War of 1812, the Russian army has been eating the old capital left by Kutuzov and is on the decline.

The Russian army in 1853 was just pretending to bluff people with the record of the Russian army in 1812.

In fact, even in the Russo-French War of 1812, the Russian army's loss ratio was ugly.

"It seems that you don't think highly of Russia." Fremont closed the newspaper.

"The equipment of the Russian army is not necessarily better than that of the American militia during the War of Independence more than 70 years ago. Do you think a group of militias from more than 70 years ago can win this war?" Liang Yao said with a smile.

With the poor quality of the Russian army and the indescribable logistics, let alone the British and French forces, the Russian army has no chance of winning even if it fights the French army alone.

The current Russian army may not even be able to bully Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It can only go to the East to bully the Qing Dynasty and Japan to find some face.

"Our ancestors fought for independence and freedom in the past, and they were much stronger than the Russian army fighting on the Danube." Fremont said seriously.

Fremont's grandfather was a veteran who participated in the War of Independence. When he was a child, he often heard his grandfather tell stories about the War of Independence.

He still admires the veterans of the War of Independence very much. Without them, there would be no independent America today.

Liang Yao didn't have so many feelings. Without the true founding father of America to give money, guns and cannons, and send the Bourbon French army directly to the North American continent to participate in the war.

With North America's own group of militias, it is still unclear whether America can be independent from Britain.

The train made a short stop when it arrived in Sacramento.

After receiving Liang Yao's telegram, Sven, the president of Global Shipping Company, came to the Sacramento train station early to wait for Liang Yao.

"My big boss, our San Francisco shipyard can already build a dark steamer with a standard displacement of barely 1,000 tons. When can you give me a whole one as a flagship? My three flagships have been intercepted by you, and now I don't even have a ship that can be used."

Liang Yao asked Sven to go out to sea and go to the Micronesia region in the central Pacific to find Nauru Island. However, Sven complained to Liang Yao about the ship as soon as he got on the special train.

The three warships, Roland, Chaoyong and Yangwei, have all served as Sven's ships. The sailors and gunners on the ships were either recruited by Sven or trained by him personally.

Sven still has deep feelings for these three ships.

However, of these three ships, Chaoyong has been sent to Nagasaki by Liang Yao.

Roland and Yangwei are training to fight against Mexico, so Sven has no warship left.

As for the loach that has no ocean-going capability, an old captain like Sven naturally cannot look down on it.

Now the only thing Sven can count on is the nearly 1,000-ton dark steamer that was re-launched and tested at the San Francisco Shipyard.

Of course, Liang Yao is also looking forward to the dark steamer built by the San Francisco Shipyard.

The Loach Class was designed according to the standards of civilian inland shipping vessels at the beginning of its design, and it is not a serious warship.

And this time, the San Francisco Shipyard took three years to polish the dark steamer. At the beginning of the design, Liang Yao instructed the shipyard to develop the ship according to the standards and specifications of warships.

"Don't you have the James Day? This is a big guy of more than 2,000 tons." Liang Yao smiled.

"No matter how big it is, it is still a civilian ship. Civilian ships are not as majestic as warships." Sven still felt it was not enough.

"The new guns of the Sacramento Arsenal have not been built yet. After this ship is equipped with new guns and completed the test, I will give you one." Liang Yao said.

"Waiting for new guns? I don't know when we'll have to wait." Sven couldn't help complaining, "After driving a warship, I don't want to drive a civilian ship for a day."

"You can fix it by the beginning of next year at the latest. Stop talking nonsense and get down to business. Have you been to Micronesia in the Pacific?"

As he spoke, Liang Yao flipped a Pacific Ocean chart from the bookshelf behind him and unfolded it on the table. Thanks to the advancement of surveying and navigation technology, maps of this era are already quite accurate.

Except for some small islands in remote corners that have not been discovered and the limited exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, the main land and islands have been discovered.