Wild North America 1846

Chapter 150 Peel City in an Excellent Location
Peel City

After the Battle of Missouri, after returning from the Great Lakes area, King Richard stayed in Peel City and seized the time to transport a large number of people, cattle, sheep, and horse-drawn carriages to the southern Colorado Plateau, batch after batch.

Before March, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, this big event is finally done.

At the beginning of the year, the 1.3 cavalry who rushed down the plateau with Richard, in addition to the loss of more than a thousand, others also returned to Phoenix (Denver) to reunite with their families one after another.Only more than a thousand Chinese cavalry and more than 2000 white naturalized cavalry remained in Peel City.

Entering November
5000 cavalry recruits were successively dispatched from the Colorado Plateau. These were selected from the new Chinese immigrants. After more than half a year of training, they have already possessed initial combat effectiveness.

Coming to Peel City is to temper the combat effectiveness of these new Chinese cavalrymen.

Peel City, the capital of South Dakota, is also translated as Pierre City. It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River and in the center of the eight northwestern states of the United States. The Great Plains are endless and lush.

The eight northwestern states of the United States refer to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, where the land is sparsely populated and the degree of development is low.

There are many advantages to stationing troops here, mainly three points;

On the one hand, it can exert military pressure on the United States, restrain its deployment of troops, and weaken the defensive pressure in the direction of Phoenix.

Secondly, to borrow land for military training, there are many different Indian tribes in the above-mentioned states. In particular, South and North Dakota are the residences of the traditional Indian tribes of the Sioux. There are many bison and lush vegetation in this area. There are also many American villages and towns for walking, which are very suitable for cavalry rookies to practice.

This is also the purpose of Li Cha's mobilization of 5000 recruits to the plateau. Seeing blood, facing life and death and fighting, they will soon mature. There are no strong flowers that can withstand wind and rain in the greenhouse.

The third is to implement substantive military occupation, hold more bargaining chips, expand territorial claims through military victories, and include South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska in the scope of territorial claims.

In addition to the original Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, the Tang Kingdom claimed the territory of the six northwest states to the United States at one time, and the asking price was double that of the previous one.

Hosted by the United Kingdom, the international mediation involving seven European countries including Prussia, France, Austria, Italy (Kingdom of Corsica), the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain has reached an impasse, but the dialogue between the United States and Tang Dynasty has not been completely interrupted, and is still maintained. communication channel.

Mr. Juan Carlos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Tang, led the working group and is now in Ottawa, the capital of the British Canadian colony, acting according to domestic instructions.

He was able to consult closely with the representatives of the UK and other countries on relevant matters immediately, including international aid, trade and territorial expansion claims. This is also the stage for the Tang Kingdom's diplomatic performances.

The better he plays on the battlefield, the harder Juan Carlos will be and the more confident he will be in his speech.

In Li Cha's opinion

The relationship between Datang Kingdom and the United States is like a small businessman bargaining. A series of brilliant military victories gave him enough confidence to speak loudly.

Excessive asking price, pay back the money on the spot!

Not ashamed.

According to US newspaper reports, in order to maintain the costly war, the US federal government has borrowed a huge debt worth 3.3 million US dollars internationally, which is a huge burden for an economy with an annual gross national product of only 10 billion US dollars .

The disastrous defeat in the Missouri River Battle alone cost the United States tens of millions of dollars in losses, including cavalry training and equipment and high pension costs.

There are millions of wild horses in the wilderness of North America, and only tens of thousands of them can be used as high-quality war horses, which is almost a few percent.

This is because the blood of wild horses is heterogeneous and impure, and it is difficult to meet the requirements for speed, endurance, and carrying capacity. After taming, most of them can only be used as reining horses or animal power, and are not of great use.

Therefore

Datang Kingdom has established several horse farms around the city of Peel, dedicated to breeding French Percheron horses, British Suffolk horses, Arabian horses and other high-quality heavy horses. This is the beauty of borrowing chickens to lay eggs.

Now that the military has taken over, this territory is mine.

Peel City is located about 800 kilometers northeast of Phoenix City (Denver) on the Colorado Plateau. It continues to penetrate into the Central Plains of the United States, about 800 kilometers away from Kansas City in the south, and about 1270 kilometers away from Chicago in the southeast. The geographical location is very moderate.

The 8000 cavalry stationed here is a sharp sword pierced into the heart of the United States, and the benefits are self-evident.

early morning
In a wealthy merchant's manor in Peel City
The room was as warm as spring, and on the European-style palace bed with hanging curtains, Li Cha woke up from a good night's dream.

Several snow-white arms and legs on the bed were embracing him. They were dazzlingly white. These were two beautiful and lovely golden silk cats, both of whom were top-quality white girls selected from thousands of miles, and they were sent to warm His Majesty the king's bed.

Li Cha naturally accepted the filial piety of his subordinates.

After waking up to freshen up, Li Cha came to the living room in a loose robe. The burning fireplace made the whole room a pleasant temperature.

standing at the window
Outside the window, you can see the cavalrymen who got up early and practiced in the morning, running through the street in a neat line, all of them full of energy, revealing the infinite vitality of young men.

Just these few days

Li Cha promoted more than 220 backbone soldiers of the royal family's personal guard cuirassier regiment into second lieutenant officers, and sent them to the newly formed cavalry regiment as grassroots officers to enrich grassroots forces.

at the same time
More than 310 outstanding literate soldiers were selected from them to serve in the Royal Guard Cuirassier Regiment, and they were prepared to receive systematic training in military theory, geography, history, and combat capabilities, and complete the transformation from soldiers to grassroots officers.

Li Cha walked to the sofa in front of the fireplace and sat down. There were a few outdated newspapers on the coffee table. He picked them up, looked through them and then put them down. They were all newspapers he had already read and had no interest.

Today is March 3th, and the temperature is gradually getting warmer. The lowest temperature here has been above 16 degrees for a week.

On the more than 800-kilometer winding road from Peel City to Phoenix (Denver), the hard-frozen land had already begun to thaw when the temperature was high at noon, and it froze again at night.

But this is only the surface layer. After the heavy carriage wheels are pressed on it, they will sink very deep, forming deep ruts.

If there is another spring rain, it will become a muddy quagmire.

The horses could pass, but the carriages could not.

Under Richard's order, the kingdom took 12000 convicts to build roads and long-distance telegraph lines, and the final destination was Peel City.

There are as many as 11 fortress-style villages and towns built along the way, basically every 70 to 80 kilometers. Some of them are American villages and towns with a layer of defensive walls, and some are completely new.

The longer he stayed in Peel City, the more Li Cha felt that this was a good place, and he really didn't want to leave.

Peel City is built on the east bank of the Missouri River. Looking from the manor building, the wide and calm Missouri River can't be seen at a glance. The vast river is like a big lake. At the end of the horizon is the snow-capped Badlands Mountains. The terrain is rugged, and the southwest is the Black Hills area. The tall mountains are about 1100 meters above sea level, and the highest Haney Peak is 2209 meters above sea level. It is the highest point east of the Rocky Mountains in North America.

There are many large rivers with plenty of water flowing through the plain forest, the vegetation is extremely lush, and large herds of bison are often seen. It is an area very suitable for farming.

If it is possible to strengthen the rule of the area, Richard does not mind building a majestic city here.

Of course, all of this is just a plan...

Li Cha put away his complicated thoughts, and then told Colonel Liu Wu (formerly known as Liu Wu, promoted) who heard the sound and walked in: "Notify Colonel Harry Frazie, and call him to see him immediately."

"Your Majesty, I will deliver the decree right now." Colonel Liu Wu stepped back immediately after receiving the order.

Harry Frazier was originally the lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Tennessee Cavalry, the commander of the U.S. Army that made Richard scratch his head during the Second Western Expedition.

As a rare military talent, Richard is going to give him a heavy responsibility. Colonel Harry Frazier will be the commander of Peel City, and he will lead more than [-] cavalry in the area.

Following the Great Tang Kingdom to fight north and south, Harry Frazier and those naturalized white cavalry had their hands stained with the blood of the American people, and they had already proved their loyalty with practical actions and were completely trustworthy.

Compared with the Chinese cavalry, these naturalized white cavalry were more ferocious and thorough in burning, looting, and slaughtering white Americans, and they were the most hated by Yankees.

The United States is an immigrant country, not a nation-state. The biggest feature is that the country has poor cohesion and a poor sense of identity. Especially after repeated defeats in the west, this invisible internal rift is more obvious.

Harry Frazier is a descendant of white Irish. Now he has a deep-seated hatred for the English, and he doesn't even like to see Americans. Now he is only loyal to the Tang Empire.

It's pathetic

Ireland belongs to the subordinate colonial status in the British Empire, almost one of the lowest status in the whole of Europe, similar to Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

From the potato crisis that broke out in 1845 to the peak of the Irish Famine in 1848, which shocked the whole of Europe, countless people starved to death, but the rich British landowners and the upper class turned a deaf ear to it and let it go Helping hands, let this unprecedented humanitarian disaster spread.

According to US newspapers;
Nicholas Cummins, a magistrate in County Cork, Ireland, described "Black 1847" as follows:
"I walked into a farm cottage in the Irish countryside and was jaw-dropping. Six ghostly people, scrawny from starvation, were lying on a pile of dirty straw in the corner of the cottage.

I thought they were dead, but when I approached them, I heard a low moan.

God!These 'people' are still alive...

Scenes like this can be seen everywhere in towns and villages in Ireland, where men and women who are so hungry are lying on the road, behind the house, by the corral, quietly waiting for death to come..."

(End of this chapter)