1850 American Gold Tycoon

"General Liang, you are a rare visitor."

Robert Lee originally thought that the person who came to see him in the office was a colleague from the military academy, but he did not expect that it was Liang Yao.

He put down what he was doing and stood up from his seat, walked forward and shook hands with Liang Yao.

"I'm here without permission. Sorry for disturbing you." Liang Yao and Robert Lee greeted each other politely.

Although nominally speaking, Liang Yao was a general in the north.

But Liang Yao is not a traditional northern faction general, but the Western Brigade is its own group, so his relationship with the northern and southern generals cannot be said to be that bad.

Of course, this also means that his relationship with the generals from both the north and the south is not very strong, and he and the famous southern general in front of him are just acquaintances. They are just slightly better friends.

"We are all colleagues, so you are welcome. General Liang fought beautifully in Borneo. I was just about to invite you to give lectures at the military academy and impart some experience to the students." Robert Lee personally handed Liang Yao a cup of brewed wine. Good coffee, he asked immediately.

“I wonder if General Liang’s visit is for official business or private business?”

"Both for public and private reasons." Liang Yao took the hot coffee from Robert E. Lee's hand.

"I came to West Point this time, firstly, to see the students who were sent here to study here a few years ago. Secondly, I wanted to catch up with you and hear your views on Mexico."

"The performance of the students you sent to West Point Military Academy is still acceptable. Most of them will basically graduate from West Point Military Academy successfully after one year." Robert E. Lee said like a treasure trove.

"There are three students with excellent academic performance. They are now interning at the 40th Regiment in Brooklyn. When the internship period is over, the school will issue graduation certificates to them. These three students with excellent academic performance are Liang Xi, Pan Baohuang, and Huang Shuigen."

The Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiment is a standing regiment with a long history in the Army. The regiment was greatly influenced by the French army and has a strong French military flavor.

As far as Liang Yao knows, this is one of the more elite of the dozen standing infantry regiments in the United States. Sending these three outstanding military cadets to serve in an elite infantry regiment is a rare opportunity for military cadets, even at the top schools in the country like West Point.

More military school interns were assigned to volunteer units and militia units.

The military of the United States before the Civil War could be the national army at a larger scale, or it could be a private army of powerful locals at a smaller scale.

Colonels of various infantry regiments are generally unwilling to accept non-local military cadets to intern in their infantry regiments.

Robert E. Lee must have used his personal connections to send these three men to the Fourteenth Regiment in Brooklyn.

"I want to temporarily recall them to intern with me for four months." Liang Yao said to Robert E. Lee.

In this battle against Mexico, due to time issues, he was unable to return to California to personally command the Western Brigade in the battle.

However, he can take these three seedlings with him and watch the southern army fight.

Practical combat experience is what these military students lack most, and it is something they cannot learn from their internship in the infantry regiment.

"Four months? You are quite confident."

Robert E. Lee said.

"The last war between us and Mexico lasted two full years."

Robert Lee knew that the war with Mexico was the so-called official matter Liang Yao came to him for.

Fela didn't watch the Mexican army, but Robert E. Lee thought that taking Mexico in four months was a bit too much.

"Our army is not what it used to be. Four months is enough." Liang Yao said confidently.

According to the intelligence he collected from Mexico, Mexico has a standing army of up to 10,000 people, which has a certain advantage in the number of regular troops.

But this is the only advantage the Mexican army has over the US military. In addition, the Mexican army lacks training, lacks discipline, has outdated and insufficient equipment, and has low-quality officers.

What's even more terrible is that this army belongs to powerful powers from various Mexican states, and the central government of Mexico is even unable to bring this army together.

If a fight really breaks out, the Mexican army that the US military will actually face is far less than the number on paper.

Liang Yao hoped that Robert E. Lee could serve as the commander-in-chief of the southern army in the Mexican War.

However, Robert E. Lee refused. He stated that he would soon leave West Point and that in the remaining few months, he would only want to serve West Point.

This made Liang Yao feel a little disappointed, but Robert Lee modestly said that General Thomas Jackson was young and promising, and had no lack of combat experience. He was more suitable than him to serve as the commander-in-chief of this military operation. He would recommend Thomas Jackson to the War Department. jackson.

Thomas Jackson would later become a famous Confederate general second only to Robert Lee in reputation in the Confederacy.

Jackson seemed to be a good choice as the commander-in-chief of this military operation.

After talking in the office about the business and private matters of the trip, Liang Yao went to visit the 12 military cadets who were still studying at West Point Military Academy.

Liang Yao sent a total of 20 students to West Point Military Academy and Virginia Military Institute in the first batch.

Fifteen of these students are studying at West Point Military Academy, and the remaining five are studying at Virginia Military Academy.

Today happens to be Sunday. As usual, this is a day off for students.

These students were playing a football match with the military cadets from Georgia, and Liang Yao watched their game on the court.

It was not until the end of the game that Liang Yao made an appointment with these young men.

Four years ago, these young men were all scrawny, malnourished, sixteen- and seventeen-and-a-half-year-old boys who dared not raise their heads when speaking.

Now they have all grown up, strong and energetic young men in their early twenties.

Liang Yao is very happy to see the changes that have taken place in them. They are the future of the Western Brigade.

Whether the combat effectiveness of the Western Brigade can be further improved in the future depends on the professionalism of grassroots officers.

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San Antonio, Texas is the second largest city in Texas after Houston.

This city has a very strong Spanish color from its urban appearance to its name.

Spanish-style buildings with small arches, cultural stone exterior walls, red pitched roofs, and arc cornices can be seen everywhere on the streets of San Antonio.

Even his name has strong characteristics of the Iberian Peninsula.

When the Spanish explorers arrived here in 1691, it was the holy day of St. Anthony of Padua, the Portuguese saint, and the place was named San Antonio.

San Antonio is the city with the most developed livestock industry in Texas and the city closest to the Mexican border.

Although the U.S. Congress is still debating whether to declare war on Mexico.

But the southern generals who were eager to fight had already taken their troops on trains and rushed from the southern states to San Antonio to gather.

For a time, this city with a population of over 10,000 was flooded with troops equivalent to the total population of the city, and it became overcrowded.

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