Wild North America 1846

Northern battlefield

In a white town about 90 kilometers northwest of Chicago, gunshots continued to come, accompanied by cries and screams, which brought a strong shadow of war to this white town.

Outside the town, surrounded by hundreds of cavalry from the Tang Kingdom, these cavalry were either stationed on their horses leisurely chewing dried meat, or driving their mounts forward slowly while wiping the blood on their sharp sabers.

The infantry rushed into the town with guns in hand, kicked open doors from house to house, and drove out all the white women and old people in the house, standing trembling on the empty street.

There was a gunshot of "Pa...", and the bullet shot into the wooden shed not far from Major Fan Pengju. He looked back nervously, raised his bright command knife and ordered loudly; "There is an enemy situation in the room on the left front, pay attention The opponent has a gun, the guard squad maintains firepower suppression, and the others dig the enemy out for me."

The soldiers immediately divided into several teams, kicked open the courtyard door and rushed in. The soldiers serving as cover fire raised their guns and aimed at the direction where the bullets were fired. Childish screams.

Major Fan Pengju followed the infantry and rushed in. He saw an 11-year-old boy with an old-fashioned musket lying in a pool of blood. There were two dead bodies of old people in the room. .

There were screams from the second floor. Major Fan Pengju looked up and saw two Caucasian girls being dragged down by the soldiers roughly by the hair. Seeing the tragic scene on the first floor, they screamed and cried.

The torn clothes on the two Caucasian girls revealed their snow-white skin, trembling with fear, they raised their heads and looked at Major Fan Pengju with pleading eyes, which made Major Fan Pengju feel his eyes light up.

These two Caucasian girls were extremely beautiful, and their delicate faces covered with tears did not affect their charming appearance at all. They were about fifteen or sixteen years old, and their bodies were already well-developed.

This made Major Fan Pengju move his heart. He raised his hand to stop the barbaric actions of the soldiers raising their guns and preparing to smash them down, and ordered in a cold voice: "Don't cry, you are not allowed to touch these two ghost girls. Just say it is my order." Let the guard squad come over and take it back and take good care of it, this is a good product, keep it and present it to the officer.”

"Obey, my lord."

"Go, take people down."

Major Fan Pengju inserted the command knife into the scabbard while ordering, and walked a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, his leather boots slammed on the wooden floor, and after looking at the corpses in the room, he frowned and ordered; " Clean up the corpse, this wooden house is not small, the regiment headquarters is temporarily set up here, and things will be moved in later."

"As ordered, sir."

The soldiers hurriedly dragged the corpse out, and the soldiers in the security squad took out buckets to wash the blood on the floor, straightened the table, and cleaned the debris on the floor.

Then several regiment staff officers came to the yard on horseback. They brought some maps and other things, and quickly arranged it as a temporary headquarters, and made a pot of fragrant coffee. …

The gunfire gradually subsided, and the entire white town had fallen into the control of the expeditionary force. The white armed militiamen who resisted were killed in the battle, and the remaining seven to eight hundred men, women, children, and children were all gathered together.

Caucasian men aged from 12 to 60 who can carry guns are grouped together. These people will be forcibly conscripted into the army and assigned to General Daniel Harvey Hill of the Confederate Army. After simple training, they will be pushed into the army. battlefield.

In terms of using northern cannon fodder, the Southern Lao Ke was more ruthless than the Tang Kingdom army, and did things even more absolutely.

The war is about to kick off
The Hill Corps quickly expanded from the original 3.1 to more than 22.7, and undertook the important task of Chicago's three-layer defense from west to east. These forcibly recruited cannon fodder were the main combat power.

The burning, killing, and looting of the northern Sherman Corps in the south left a deep psychological shadow on the southern elders.

Since you are not benevolent, then I am not righteous.

"Scorched-earth policy" Well, the army still doesn't know how to do it?

Fortunately, the army of the Tang Kingdom did not allow the Hill Corps to act recklessly. They protected all the white women and children who captured the town, gathered them along the railway line by horse-drawn carriage, and then transported them back one after another.

It would be a pity to just kill it like this, anyway, it can be bought at a good price when transported back.

Moreover, the army of the Tang Kingdom also learned the bad habits of the western army. Although they would not bring prostitutes and traders to the battlefield, they still had to make necessary arrangements. After all, this was a rigid need of the soldiers.

Under the great pressure of war, women are the best way to relieve anxiety.

After Major Fan Pengju arranges the relevant matters, the staff of the regiment will conduct statistics on the town. This is a small town with more than 570 households, so the number of Chinese immigrants who plan to move in is more than 570 households.

After the relevant statistical data were collected, they were handed over to the Colonial Department of the Royal Government under the overall planning of the Corps, and then the Colonial Department arranged for Chinese families who purchased immigration qualifications to come to the small town to settle down.

Generally speaking

They are all Chinese families who have immigrated in the kingdom for many years. They have some savings and are willing to come to this strange black land to run farms, so they will pay 500 to 800 yuan to obtain immigration qualifications. The Chinese call it "" medium vote".

The fertile black soil of the Great Plains in the central United States has always been well-known to the public. For those Chinese immigrants who have a strong idea of ​​buying land and real estate, the temptation is unparalleled.

Even if the central Great Plains of industrial immigrants in the Tang Kingdom were sold, many Chinese immigrants were willing to participate, because the Kingdom government had never deceived Chinese immigrants, and white residents had no share in this kind of good deed.

No one is stupid, can you not be happy?

As long as the immigrants immigrated to the central Great Plains of the United States, the royal government was responsible for allocating houses and land. The specific method was simple, crude and effective.

For example, there are 572 households in the town, so there are 572 households of Chinese immigrants. After arriving in the town, they can freely visit and browse, and choose their favorite houses. Each home is planted with colorful small flags, and there are numbers on the small flags.

When room selection starts

These 572 houses are all located 1 km outside the town, and they rush out at the same order. Whoever grabs the good house will get it. …

Each family has more or less reclaimed land, but after redistribution, it will never be less than 12 acres, and the most can reach 30 or even 40 acres of land.

Therefore, choosing a house is choosing a land. The land with a poor house may be large and fertile. This is like opening a blind box. Before choosing a house, you don’t know how big the corresponding land is, which is full of novelty and fun.

Powerful Chinese immigrant families can also buy a few Caucasian women to go back. Raising cattle and sheep, milking and mowing, and tending the fields of the manor all need people, and women can also be good at work.

Now there is a shortage of men in North America. White Americans are busy fighting wars. Male immigrants in the Tang Kingdom have their own jobs, whether they are working, doing business, or running personal farms. The monthly salary of hired workers is at least 23 or 30 yuan. More than [-] yuan, and this is not enough to invite people.

Comparison
It would be a good deal to spend a few hundred yuan more to buy a Caucasian woman who can do farm work and have children.

The huge amount of money raised through various means will be turned into supplementary military expenses for the purchase of bullets and shells, tents and other military supplies, and will be used to reduce the pressure on the kingdom's finances.

The reason why the Tang Kingdom hastily adopted the colonial policy, that is, the policy of "vacating cages and changing birds", is that these towns and farms scattered all over the country need to provide enough military rations and non-staple food to maintain the army's military operations in the Great Lakes region.

until the end of April
The total number of Tang Kingdom troops gathered on the Chicago battlefield in the Great Lakes region has reached more than 46, and there are about 25 Southern troops (including nearly 20 forcibly recruited cannon fodder), preparing to launch a large-scale battle against the Chicago metropolitan area .

Preparations for the battle have been in full swing, and some villages and towns can already provide non-staple foods with a short growth cycle, including radishes and vegetables, effectively improving the needs of the frontline troops.

After entering the warm spring of March, the amount of water from the middle and upper reaches of the Rocky Mountains increased greatly. The raging Missouri River basically cut off the water and land traffic on both sides of the river. Only the Great Lake near Peel City can run cargo ships between the two sides.

Thus

The pressure of the entire logistics supply is all piled up on the Central Nevada Railway, which starts from Chang'an City, passes through Sacramento, Salt Lake City to Taoyuan City and Phoenix City on the Colorado Plateau, and then continues eastward for more than 890 kilometers to the Nevada Railway in Kansas City. He took up the important task of replenishing logistics supplies for the army.

More than 700 kilometers from Kansas City to the north are basically within the control area of ​​the Expeditionary Force of the Datang Kingdom. This railway line is also the supply lifeline of the Northern Army and the Colorado Army.

It is obviously not enough for the 71 troops to rely on this railway line alone for supplies, and for the grain, fresh vegetables, melons and fruits, and appropriate meat products that occupy the largest share in railway transportation, the best way is to solve them locally.

Therefore, starting from mid-March, large-scale immigration on a planned scale has already begun.

The military squeezed out the special passenger train plan from the limited railway line plan to support Chinese immigrants to come to the central Great Plains of the United States to take root and thrive on this fertile black land.

The bank has launched a special loan service to solve the financial problem for Chinese immigrants. Even Chinese immigrants can owe money to buy white women, but they need to repay with cheap crops, and they need to pay a certain amount of interest (also paid with cheap crops).

In this way, everyone gets what they need.

Banks issue loans and charge interest, which is naturally very beneficial.Immigrants of Chinese descent were able to quickly settle down and buy property, took in white concubines and imported them, and quickly resumed agricultural production with the support of all parties, providing the army with a steady stream of cheap food and vegetables.

The army has supplemented its armament expenses and obtained cheap food and vegetable supplies at local prices, allowing more train wagons to be used to transport urgently needed weapons and ammunition instead of being occupied by bulk materials such as food, saving valuable transport capacity.

The superposition of various factors makes us more confident in launching the Chicago campaign in the next step.