Wild North America 1846

Chapter 161
after coming back
Li Cha seemed to be in a good mood. This trip in micro-services allowed him to observe the people's sentiments, allowing him to see the deficiencies in social governance. He also tasted local delicacies, which was quite rewarding.

Now the main French-style building of the Jinghu Palace located halfway up the mountain is under construction. Li Cha temporarily settled down by the Jinghu Lake at the foot of the mountain. It is a quiet house surrounded by more than a dozen wooden houses.

The house is divided into two parts, the front and the back. The front yard is composed of a conference hall, a side hall, a large study room, a palace secretary's room, and a military officer's room. It is the place where military and political affairs are handled on a daily basis.

The backyard mansion is surrounded by 6 large and small wooden houses, located in the deep forest, the environment is elegant and pleasant, and it is an inner house that outsiders are forbidden to set foot in.

In the inner house

In addition to the female relatives, there is also a group of unique residents.

After Li Cha came back, he briefly explained some things, and then walked towards the back house. The guards guarding the gate immediately saluted with guns and said, "Your Majesty is welcome."

"Exemption."

Li Cha nodded slightly, and continued to move forward without stopping.

After walking a few steps, we were greeted by a group of unique guests shaking their heads and tails. Six wild wolves with a height of half a person, two North American brown bears as tall as a person, two colorful tigers and a jaguar.

These beasts turned into obedient cats and pet dogs in front of Li Cha, obediently lying on the ground and humming, the tail behind their buttocks wagging rapidly.

Li Cha touched this and scratched that, just like teasing his own little pet.

When the black jaguar rushed forward for a hug, the two colorful tigers and two North American brown bears collapsed immediately, lying on their legs and roaring. The roar was full of complex emotions of dependence, dissatisfaction and comfort, surrounding The six giant wolves on the periphery walked back and forth restlessly, wagging their tails even more happily.

teased for a while
Only then did Li Cha put them down, and walked towards the depths of the courtyard.

This group of animal pets knows the rules very well, and they only move within the range set by Li Cha, and dare not go beyond the threshold.

These delicate personal maids and palace maids in the back house are deeply afraid of these beasts from the bottom of their hearts. If they really let them run around, they will scare a few to death.

With these ferocious beasts guarding the courtyard, the back house of King Li Cha's court is a forbidden area for all guards and soldiers, and no man is allowed to enter without permission.

The consequences are naturally extremely serious;

after dinner
Li Cha came to the small study in the back house. This is a private place for him to deal with military and political affairs. Some important matters that were not finished in the big study would be brought back for review in the small study.

In this small study room, Zheng Xiuniang, the personal servant, is in charge of tidying up and cleaning the room every day. Zheng Xiuniang is a sweet little woman who can't read a few big characters.

For Zheng Xiuniang, serving His Majesty is a big deal.

Li Cha sat at the desk, and Zheng Xiuniang came over like a cat, offered the freshly brewed tea with both hands, and was about to leave.

Suddenly

She was hugged by a big hand domineeringly at the waist, Zheng Xiuniang's delicate body was only over 90 kilograms, Li Cha hugged her like carrying a small cloth bag, it was extremely easy.

Zheng Xiuniang only had time to let out a short exclamation, and threw herself into his arms like a swallow falling into a forest. In a blink of an eye, her face was glowing, and she was already stuck in Li Cha's arms as if her bones were crisp.

This beautiful girl's natural peach eyes, at this moment, her fair face covered with blush, is half buried in Li Cha's strong chest, her breath is blue, and her words are trembling and endlessly seductive; "Your Majesty..."

So weak, so helpless, so pitiful, so alluring, she really is a charming little goblin!

Li Cha bent down without hesitation...

(Some words are omitted here)

After a violent storm, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, and the small study calmed down again.

Zheng Xiuniang, who is as delicate as a willow, has left. Under the service of several court maids, Zheng Xiuniang went to burn incense and take a bath, wash the incense and warm her bed.

Time to enter May

The night on the plateau is still cold, which is about 10 degrees above zero. Zheng Xiuniang and Qin Yufei, two beautiful girls, must warm the bed for His Majesty.

At this time, Li Cha was refreshed, enjoying the happy and extravagant life of a feudal lord with peace of mind, the kerosene lamp in the small study was brighter, and he began to read and process official documents.

After entering May, American military mobilization became more frequent, and tens of thousands of troops passed through Kansas City one after another and headed west.

The curtain of the third Western Expedition of the US military has been slowly opened.

Lieutenant General Arthur Temple (note; former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Continental Army) who served as the commander-in-chief of the third Western Expedition of the United States, and Lieutenant General Bob Wingraub, the deputy commander, adopted a steady and steady tactic, following the advancing route of the soldiers, Build railway lines and military forts.

until now
The railway built by the United States extends about 560 kilometers west from Kansas City, and the end of the railway line is less than 300 kilometers away from Phoenix (Denver) on the Colorado Plateau.

The frontier military staging area of ​​the U.S. military is more than 60 kilometers away from the Yuyueguo Oasis and about 257 kilometers away from the Hongyan Valley. It has almost reached the nose of the Tang Kingdom.

With the advancement of the westbound railway, the American Western Expeditionary Army built fortresses and material transfer bases step by step, one every hundreds of kilometers, and invested heavily in garrisoning them.

On the more than 500-kilometer-long Gobi desert road, railways and highways go hand in hand, and a series of large military camps and post stations stretch into the distance like pearl necklaces.

This move is a typical "strengthening the stronghold and fighting dumbly".

This kind of tactics is very practical. It implements cannibalization step by step, never advances rashly, and there is no complicated division and attack, devious tactics, it can be said that it is the most practical and disgusting tactics.

Faced with this simple method of approaching step by step, Li Cha wisely chose to retreat, but sent heavy troops to stand firm on the front line of the Red Rock Valley, and never attacked rashly.

To deal with this kind of simple oppressive tactics of the army, the cavalry legion that Li Cha is most proud of can't play much role.

The cavalry is the least adept at attacking the forts that the infantry is defending. With the defensive walls and wooden villages, under the fierce firepower of the United States, any attack by the cavalry will suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, Richard divided the 2 cavalry in his hands into two, of which 4 cavalry belonged to the Northern Cavalry Legion and were stationed in Peel City.

Wait till the war breaks out
The Northern Cavalry Corps will attack in an all-round way, go deep into the interior of the Great Lakes, burn, kill and loot, smash the rear of the Yankees into a nest of porridge, smash the railway, damage the town, attack the railway station and other logistics gathering points, gods block and kill gods, Buddhas block and kill Buddha.

Li Cha personally led 1.2 cavalry to fight on the outskirts of the Colorado Plateau, and cooperated with the fortress defense army and militia to deal with the US military to the end.

First of all, in the Red Rock Valley, which was attacked by the US military’s Western Expeditionary Force, there are currently more than 3700 Musketeers and 5000 white servants. For the US military’s step-by-step tactics, they can only fight head-to-head "defensive warfare."

Li Cha reviewed the documents for a while, then put down his pen, picked up a cigar, cut off the cap, lit it and smoked it beautifully.

War is coming
Even with his experience of many battles, it is inevitable that he will be impetuous and feel the heavy pressure on his shoulders.

The thick cigar smoke drifted away, enveloping his slender figure, making him look hazy.

The third Western Expedition of the U.S. Army went all out, with a total of more than 3 troops, including 8 bloody veterans who were withdrawn from Mexico, including more than 3 elite cavalry.

The United States and Mexico reached a formal armistice treaty in March, and Mexico officially ceded Texas, which is located in the Monterey area on the Gulf of Mexico and the Tijuana area in the north, and the Mexicali area.

The United States paid a symbolic payment of 350 million U.S. dollars to make up for Mexico's losses.

This is a more stringent land cession contract than the original one in history. In line with the principle of making up for losses outside the dike and within the dike, the Americans ceded about 22 square kilometers of land from northern Mexico in addition to Texas.

Thus

Mexico has shrunk from the original 385 million square kilometers to less than 160 million square kilometers, and the original California, Arizona and New Mexico regions have become the territory of the Tang Kingdom.

Texas, the northern state of Monterey, Tijuana, and the Mexicali region became United States territories.

Speaking of which, the Mexicans are really miserable. Neither of the two neighbors in the north is friendly, one has a better appetite than the other, and the other is more ruthless than the other.

after this battle
Mexico has been completely eliminated from the hegemony in North America, losing nearly 3/5 of its territory, with a population of more than 130 million, and its total population has dropped to more than 550 million.

Compared with Lien Chan and Lian Jie in the southern invasion of Mexico, the Western Expedition to the Tang Kingdom is a history of blood and tears in which Yankees were severely beaten in the face.

Today, the cavalrymen of the Tang Kingdom rushing down from the Colorado plateau have become a lingering nightmare in the hearts of the Yankees in the north.

Just saved up a little cavalry strength and was wiped out, and after saving for a year, it was wiped out again, and so on...

Therefore, among the nearly 1.5 cavalry troops that the U.S. military managed to piece together again, there were only 6300 elite cavalry who participated in the Southern Mexican War, and the rest were rookies who had been in the army for less than three to four months.

In this field, the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom is undoubtedly the king.

What the United States can rely on is its large number of people and strong national strength. It can quickly gather an infantry army of more than 10 people and has a sufficient number of artillery. This is the magic weapon for the third Western Expedition to defeat the enemy.

In this regard, Datang Kingdom is undoubtedly the biggest shortcoming.

For the defense of the Colorado Plateau, Richard has already mobilized the military to the greatest extent. In addition to nearly 1.6 musketeers standing firm for the fortress, tens of thousands of armed militiamen will also be mobilized to assist in the defense. This is almost the ultimate.

To know

Although the total population of Fenghuang City and Taoyuan City is close to 29, more than half of them are white women and Indian women who were taken captive, and there are more than 47000 newborn babies, minus 2.9 white convicts. There are not many people who can take a gun to the battlefield.

Among the 1.6 musketeers, there were 8600 white servants and more than 2000 white musketeers recruited in the second US military expedition. There were only 2 real Chinese soldiers.

And these more than 5600 Chinese musketeers are the backbone of the Tang Kingdom's strength to defend the Phoenix Castle and Taoyuan City, which is not a large number.

after the war

There are also tens of thousands of trained Chinese armed militias participating in the defense of the fortress. Some of these people are workers, some are business owners, some are businessmen, some are government officials, some are policemen, and some are handicraftsmen.

When the war comes, all of them will leave their jobs and go to the castle fortress to participate in the unprecedentedly tragic war.

Therefore, in the next 2 to 3 years, the shortcoming of the Tang Kingdom's weak war background will always exist.

In order to make up for the huge shortage of troops, Li Cha only relied on three magic weapons. The first was the castle fortress, the second was advanced weapons, and the third was the 1.2 elite cavalry troops led by him.

these days
Every day, the latest Eagle news arrives. Through his sharp eagle eyes, Li Cha can clearly feel the huge manpower and material resources of the Western Expedition troops mobilized by the US military.
The total number of U.S. troops gathered in Kansas City and on the route of the Western Expedition is close to 8 (including 1.5 cavalry, excluding the more than 4 U.S. troops stationed on the front line in Chicago, and the U.S. Navy).

It can be said that in order to completely destroy the Tang Kingdom, the Yankees used all their energy.

For the defenders of the Datang Kingdom, the U.S. military has a 2.7 to 3 times advantage in strength. If it is only infantry, the 1.6 Musketeers of the Datang Kingdom will face the 6.5 American Musketeers, and the strength disadvantage will reach 1:4.3.

"The Yankee is such a fucking bitch, this is obviously bullying our few people!" Slowly exhaling a puff of cigar smoke, Li Cha showed a helpless look on his face.

Although he holds 1.2 elite cavalry corps and is a powerful mobile force, he is unwilling to attack the strong defensive camp of the US military anyway. It would be a disadvantage.

In the age of steam, heavy cavalry equipped with breastplates were not invincible.

When the two sides approached within 200 yards, the flintlock muskets equipped by the US infantry had enough penetrating power to penetrate the steel breastplate defense and cause fatal damage to the attacking cavalry.

The ammunition penetration of a flintlock and a revolver are completely different concepts. The larger the caliber of the flintlock and the more gunpowder it contains, the armor-piercing ability and damage will naturally be greater.

What Li Cha pursued was to contain the enemy, attack the enemy, and weaken the enemy's combat concept. Without a suitable opportunity to attack, he would rather wait patiently.

A moment later
Li Cha simply stood up from the chair, walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, recalling all the details of the deployment and logistics of the US military, hoping to find opportunities for combat.

When he was not sure, he would rather keep going. Even if the Phoenix Castle was breached by the US military, Li Cha would not bring the last elite cavalry force to overwhelm him.

He didn't dare to gamble, and he didn't have the capital to gamble, because this elite cavalry regiment was the real foundation of the Tang Kingdom, and if they lost everything, there would be no chance to come back again.

(End of this chapter)