Wild North America 1846

While Richard was thinking about his thoughts, Lieutenant General Dai Changfu, Chief of Staff, introduced the battle plan at the imperial meeting and solicited opinions from all parties as usual, mainly from cabinet ministers.

Lieutenant General Dai Changfu responded to the questions one by one, including the combat funds that the Minister of Finance is concerned about, the trains that need to be occupied for combat operations, the transportation plan that needs to be adjusted with the cooperation of the Ministry of Transport, the human resources consumed, and the regional and urban martial law measures that the Ministry of the Interior needs to cooperate with.

wait.

After repeated discussions, the operational plan code-named "Determination" was finally adopted by the General Staff Headquarters, and the king issued an order to proceed accordingly.

This is a large-scale military operation led by the Army General Staff Headquarters, and it is also the most important military action plan of the year.

It aims to completely eliminate the social instability factors led by the Indian indigenous tribes in the Tang Kingdom and create a comprehensive, harmonious and peaceful social environment.

Richard didn't pay much attention to this and left everything to the Army General Staff Headquarters.

The equipment of the cavalry troops of the Tang Kingdom can be said to be leading in the world. Each cavalry is equipped with Tang-style sabers, water bottles, blankets, leather boots and leather goods. The main weapon is a Colt 1848 lever repeating rifle. The secondary weapon

It is one or two Colt 1846 cavalry-style revolvers. The intensive fire strike capability can last from 350 yards to 100 yards. It is unparalleled in the world and is a top-notch cavalry equipment.

Such first-class cavalry equipment is used to fight many Indian cavalry without saddles. If anything goes wrong, the officers can kill themselves to thank the world.

The imperial meeting ended and it was already noon.

As usual, Richard entered the maple forest in the backyard of the palace. Several wild wolves that were almost half the height of a man and two tigers ran out to greet him, as well as a jaguar and two American brown bears weighing thousands of pounds.

Everyone gathered around, and the momentum was quite astonishing for a while.

Richard stepped forward like a ghost, his figure tossed and turned under the bites of wild wolves, tigers and jaguars, often dodging when there was no need to delay, so many beasts could not even touch a corner of his clothes.

When the clumsy American brown bear stood up, blocking the front like a wall, Richard stretched out his hand and pulled it like lightning. The horse's steps under his feet did not move at all, and he had already thrown the American grizzly bear weighing thousands of pounds from above his head.

It went out and hit the ground hard.

Judging from his relaxed demeanor, he has been wrestling with giant beasts in the forest more than once or twice.

Even with the huge body of an American brown bear, it could only withstand the infinite strength of Richard's body for a short time, and then he was thrown to the ground again and again, roaring to the sky in pain.

More than a dozen tigers, leopards and wild wolves are known for their fierce bites and agile movements, but they fell over as soon as Richard's hand picked them up, and they couldn't survive the second round at all.

That is to say, relying on the large number of ferocious beasts, their rough skin and thick flesh that can withstand being beaten, they can barely allow Richard to have a good time and use his hands and feet a little.

The effort of a stick of incense

Richard threw all the ferocious beasts to the ground, especially the two North American brown bears, which were like mountains of meat. They were so violent that they started roaring wildly. He stopped before he could finish his amusement.

These ferocious beasts were kept in the maple forest. Firstly, they guarded the palace and the courtyard, and secondly, they were good playmates in leisure time. Whenever my hands were itchy, I would use these poor ferocious beasts to practice my hands, which had become a habit.

when it is time to leave

Richard summoned Lieutenant Colonel Mai Xiaozu, deputy commander of the Royal Guards Cavalry Regiment, who was on duty, and ordered;

"There are still a few ferocious beasts in the forest. I'd like to find a way to get some big North American brown bears and tigers. Lions will also work. There are often these beasts in European circuses. The more violent the better, they can be tamed.

A sense of accomplishment."

"I obey the order." What else could Lieutenant Colonel Mai Xiaozu say, he could only respectfully clasp his fists and accept the order.

There is such a fuss every day in the Maple Leaf Palace, whether it is the lion, the jaguar, the North American brown bear, or the giant wolf, it is drilled by His Majesty every day to roar and roar, and all the guards are already used to it.

Weird.

In the minds of everyone, His Majesty is a god. Is it strange to bully a few ferocious beasts?

After returning to the palace for lunch, Richard went to the study room out of boredom to make a cup of fragrant coffee, lit a cigar and sat on a chair, enjoying the lazy afternoon.

Not long after entering the peace period, Richard became tired of the piles of paperwork and could not lead his army across the hinterland of North America, fight thousands of miles away, and experience first-hand the days of war with iron horses and steel.

The days were as dull as water, and Richard felt a little unable to sit still.

He likes to do challenging things, misses the adventurous war years, and doesn't want to be trapped. However, he has to give up his role as a front-line military commander under everyone's strong persuasion, so he feels a little depressed.

For such a trivial matter as wiping out the Indians, there is no need for Richard to personally take the field. In a short period of time, the American Civil War will not break out. Just count on your fingers;

The closest war on a world scale was the Crimean War, which was only two or three years later.

Richard is very restless and has been planning a round-the-world voyage. To this end, he will order a 5,400-ton steam clipper from Chang'an Shipyard. This will be a new iron ship without the side impellers on both sides.

He had long been fed up with the huge round impellers on both sides of the steamship. Not only did they make a lot of noise and cause high steam pollution, they were also complex and poorly maintainable. They were often damaged. However, they had little effect on the speed of the steamer. They were really a burden.

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The steamships of this era were not only equipped with huge circular impellers on both sides for auxiliary power, but also retained masts and sails, which could save fuel when the wind was favorable.

This resulted in the densely packed machinery, equipment and sails on the steamer's deck, which were bloated and cumbersome and of little practical use.

Richard couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply intervened directly in the ship's construction and design, canceling the two huge round impellers on the side and all their equipment, and also canceling the mast and sail, while only retaining and strengthening the propeller power.

The new 5,400-ton steam clipper uses four horizontal steam engines, two of which drive an enlarged propeller and twin shafts and two propellers, with a total of 3,800 horsepower, which can propel the steam clipper to run at a speed of 14 knots per hour for a long time.

Today's new ships are being built at Chang'an Shipyard, which has attracted a lot of criticism from the European shipbuilding industry. The famous French ship designer Rondo DiCaprio publicly declared;

"This ugly ship design is just the king's new toy. After removing the sail, it doesn't look like a ship from any angle, but more like a bun with half cut off."

European ship designers, trapped in hundreds of years of traditional thinking misunderstandings, find it extremely difficult to accept ships or warships without sails, which is a great challenge to their aesthetics.

In fact, Europeans persisted for half a century. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the sail design was still retained on the British Empire's battleships that traversed the world's oceans. This is evident from this.