Wild North America 1846

"Your Majesty, it's late at night. I respectfully ask your Majesty to take care of your dragon body and return to the palace to rest." Major General Chen Chuan, the chief of the Royal Attendant's Office, wearing a straight woolen uniform, advised with a respectful expression.

"Oh, then go back."

Richard petted the bald eagle's head lovingly, and several other bald eagles rushed up to him, all wanting to be touched by their owner, just like domesticated ducklings.

After seeing this, Major General Chen Chuan could only smile bitterly. These raptors and beasts were extremely cold-blooded and cruel. Only His Majesty could control them, and no one else could.

Even if the officers and soldiers of the Ten Thousand Beast Battalion of the Guards Corps feed these ferocious birds and beasts on a daily basis, they must stay far away to prevent being attacked.

If anyone wanted to touch his head, he would peck it with his backhand, leaving blood holes on his arms and hands. There were also cases where he was bitten to death by wild beasts.

Many wild beasts are not raised from young, they are very wild and cannot be approached easily.

Return to the palace

Richard had just sat down and drank a few sips of hot tea. Before he could pick up the newspaper in his hand and flip through it, he saw the scent of fragrance surging at the door, and three beautiful beauties with graceful figures came in one after another.

Different from the young girls three years ago, the three Mexican sisters are now moist and shiny. They are indeed foreign mixed-race children with surprisingly good figures.

Their towering breasts and perky buttocks shrink sharply when their slender waists are rounded, giving them a feminine look full of mature charm.

The three Mexican sisters were dressed in outfits that looked like Egyptian belly dancers. They were gauze and graceful, with emerald green jade necklaces on their chests and small golden bells on their waists. They made a "clatter" sound when they moved around.

Richard silently put down the newspaper, intent on watching what tricks the three little girls would come up with.

not yet close

Two of the three women knelt down on the thick wool carpet and crawled along the ground toward Richard, their soft waists and hips twisting like water snakes.

Ellie, the youngest of the three sisters, trembled her waist and danced, and the rapid sound of drums and bells came from behind the curtain, playing dance music that seemed to come from the desert of the Middle East.

See this scene

Even though Richard read all about Fanghua, a fire in his heart burned all over his body.

It's too presumptuous and must be severely punished.

Ellie belly danced rhythmically, with her straight and white buttocks shrouded in fine gauze, shaking back and forth like a small motor, implying the ancient rhythms of Egypt and the passion of the desert as she danced closer and closer.

unconsciously

The two charming women crawling along the ground have climbed up. They are lying next to Richard's legs, one on the left and the other on the right. The two women show exactly the same charming faces and are crawling beside his legs.

As a majestic king, how could Richard be so presumptuous?

"snort……"

But he heard a heavy cold snort, and the corner of Richard's mouth curled up with a cold arc...

Omit some words...

next day

The refreshed Richard looked back with a confident smile on his face...

Richard only slept for a few hours and felt completely refreshed. His body was stronger than that of an animal and his recovery ability was extremely strong.

Just use breakfast

Arriving in the large study room with bright windows, the Secretariat of the Royal Inner Court had neatly placed all the reports to be reviewed today on the desk and divided them into two piles, about forty or fifty copies.

The small pile is for international memorials, and the larger pile is for domestic memorials. Each memorial has a small piece of paper, summarizing the core content of the memorial in 10 to 15 words in a concise way, illustrated in red.

Small brush calligraphy draft.

This is called the "voting power", which is controlled by the Prime Minister of the Cabinet Gu Yan. When it is submitted to His Majesty the King for review, whether he can express his opinion and has a tendency is condensed in the "voting power" of 10 to 15 words.

This is the daily government affairs reported by the government cabinet and is placed on the right side of the imperial desk. The memorials submitted by the military are placed in a small pile separately and placed on the left side of the desk.

Richard sat down and took a look. It was his habit to read the military's report first. Today, the military reported only three memorials, two from the Army General Staff Headquarters and one from the Navy Department.

After the cabinet reorganization, Earl Gu Yan, the former director of the Royal Court Secretariat, became the prime minister of the cabinet. The new director of the Royal Court Secretariat was Liu Xianjun, who arrived in the United States in 1948. He was a Jinshi twice ranked in the 21st year of Daoguang. He had served as editor of the Hanlin Academy and the prefect of Nanchang.

, the censor of Zuodu and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, were involved in the Xinjiang peace talks with Russia and were suppressed by the imperial envoy Qi Ying. They angrily resigned and took their whole family to North America.

As a Han official who experienced Lin Zexu's opium campaign at Humen and witnessed the fiasco of the First Opium War with his own eyes, Liu Xianjun was well aware of the power of Western ships and cannons, and completely lost confidence in the mediocrity and corruption of the Manchu and Qing court, so he traveled far away to seek revitalization.

The path of the Chinese ethnic group.

As the Taiping Rebellion intensified, a large number of former Manchu and Han ministers and educated scholars, who had been tortured by the war, boarded immigration ships with their families to North America and arrived at the Tang Kingdom, which was full of hope for vigorous development.

Liu Xianjun was one of the earlier ones, and he was also a capable minister who was highly valued by Richard.

Since Liu Xianjun had been with the Manchu court for many years and was already a fourth-rank official with rich political experience and profound knowledge, he served as the deputy director and director of the Inner Court Secretariat, and he was able to handle government affairs very quickly.

These few years

As the Tang Kingdom widely accepted the impact of Western learning, Richard often required his court officials to view issues from an international perspective and a strategic perspective, not just domestically, and not limited to one city, one place, and temporary gains and losses. Therefore, these elite officials grew up very quickly.

Richard first picked up the military's memorial and looked at it. A memorial from the Army General Staff Headquarters was about the preparation and training of the First Division of the European Expeditionary Force, as well as the planned departure date and related preparations.

The 1st Division of the European Expeditionary Force has a total strength of 6,213 people. This army division establishment is based on the general number of about 6,000 people in countries such as Britain and France, which can better coordinate during wartime.

The 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force consists of one cavalry regiment and three infantry regiments, plus a field artillery battalion, with a total of 24 Colt breech-loading artillery pieces.

The cavalry regiment has a total of 1,078 soldiers. The weapon configuration is the standard style of the Tang Dynasty. The fully armed cavalry is equipped with two guns, one long and one short, and a cavalry sword, including Colt 1846 cavalry revolver and Colt 1848

Type lever repeating rifle (short-barreled version), with an effective range of 300~350 yards. Its weaponry and combat effectiveness are among the top in the world.

However, due to the small size of the cavalry regiment, it was difficult to play a big role on the European battlefield where millions of soldiers faced off.

The infantry regiment has about 1,400 to 1,500 people. It is equipped with the Colt 1848 lever repeating rifle (long-barreled version). It has an effective range of 380 to 420 yards. It has sophisticated weapons and its combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of Europe's first-class troops.

The field artillery battalion has more than 400 people. In addition to 24 artillery pieces, it is also equipped with a large number of ammunition trucks and baggage carriages to improve its continuous combat capabilities.

Recruitment of the entire division was completed at the end of September, and training has been underway for more than two months. It is planned to take the oath of departure on December 15th, south to Panama, transfer to the Panama Railway, and then take a boat to the Crimean battlefield.

The time when they actually arrived and entered the battlefield was at least February 1846.

This was something that had been agreed upon a long time ago. After a brief glance and no changes, Richard took up his pen and wrote the word "may" in a circle, indicating that he would focus on following up.

The second report from the Army General Staff Headquarters is about the winter defense of the Omaha Defense Fortress in North America. Recently, several small units of US cavalry have appeared on the other side, with numbers ranging from dozens to hundreds.

This aroused the alarm of Major General Duan Debiao, commander of the Omaha Defense Fortress, so he sent a request to enter the second level of alert and add 3 to 4 militia cavalry regiments to participate in patrol alert. This application is hereby made.

The Army General Staff Headquarters agreed after deliberation and reported it to the Imperial Court for approval.

Mobilizing soldiers in the Tang Kingdom was a big deal, especially the transition from militia to military control. The situation had to be reported to each level for instructions, and it could only be implemented after approval.

Otherwise, what do you want to do if you can easily gather three or four thousand cavalry?

Once a violation is violated, it will be a major treason case with wide implications, and it will be a serious incident that will cost a lot of heads.

Richard has always had a very strict control over military power. He would rather allow the Americans to invade the country than relax the constraints on the military forces.

Every few years, it has become a system for high-level generals to rotate their posts. The maximum tenure of an officer at the fortress commander level is five years, and the normal rotation time is four years.

Once a garrison commander exceeds his term of office, a large number of people from the Army General Staff Headquarters, from the Military Command Department to the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, will be arrested and prosecuted, which constitutes serious dereliction of duty and evil intentions.

Generally speaking

In peacetime, the garrison commanders and fortress commanders who hold military power in various places have as few as two to three thousand troops and as many as seven to eight thousand troops, with a total number of no more than ten thousand.

Even for frontline fortresses such as Phoenix Fortress and Omaha Fortress, the fortress commander has a tight grasp of seven to eight thousand fortress infantry, up to two divisions in size.

The two to three thousand cavalry force belonging to the fortress is in the hands of the deputy commander of the fortress, who is directly under the command of His Majesty the King. No one can mobilize it without the personal order of His Majesty the King, not even the commander of the fortress.

Because the cavalry is a mobile force, this creates an excellent mutual check and balance effect, and no one can think of causing trouble.

Richard read it briefly, picked up his pen and wrote the word "may", which would then be sent by the Royal Court Secretariat to the Army Staff Headquarters to form a military order and hand it over to Fortress Omaha for execution.

According to the reported situation

For example, the Omaha Fortress Headquarters took the lead in immediately organizing three militia cavalry regiments to follow and cooperate with the fort cavalry to perform alert patrol missions. When the enemy situation becomes clearer, another militia cavalry regiment can be mobilized. This is the limit stipulated in the military order, that is, no

More than 4,400 cavalrymen.

For this kind of reported military mobilization, the mobilized cavalry can enjoy the full-time military subsidy and be recorded on the record, and can enjoy a series of benefits such as equal military merit, evaluation and military merit fields, etc. It is not impossible to be awarded a noble title if they have really made great achievements.

possible.

The premise is that you have to be rewarded for meritorious service, otherwise you can only get the normal salary of a Weibo soldier.

even so

There are also a lot of civilian cavalry who are willing to participate. They flock to it and want to get in. After all, this provides an opportunity to make achievements. Who doesn't cherish it?

There is really no chance to fight, but formal field training with the army is not bad. During the off-farm time, I can meet a large number of comrades and have a good memory of serving. Is it possible to pay by mistake?

Without an official approval document from the Military Command Department of the Army General Staff Headquarters, those who gathered together were rebels, which had a completely different meaning.

In just two or three minutes, Richard reviewed the two memorials submitted by the Army General Staff Headquarters. Then he picked up the last memorial on the table on the left, which was submitted by the Navy Department.

Although there is only one copy, it is thicker than the two memorials sent by the Army General Staff Headquarters combined.

The cabinet draft said: "The plan for two types of navy armored frigates is respectfully submitted for approval." It was exactly 15 words.

For general memorials submitted by the military, Prime Minister Gu Yan will strictly abide by his duties and will not express opinions that would affect His Majesty's decree.

Since the 580-ton iron-clad patrol ship "Fen Yong" entered service, nine subsequent ships of the same class have been built and put into service, and have been widely praised in the navy.

The "Fen Yong" iron-clad patrol ship is easy to operate and has powerful firepower. It is a powerful weapon for coastal patrol and protection. Three foreign trade orders from the Kingdom of Sardinia have also been delivered one after another and have been highly praised.

The advantages are obvious, and so are the disadvantages.

The shortcomings of the "Fen Yong" armored patrol ship are that its tonnage is too small, its layout is too cramped, its space is crowded, its self-sustainability at sea is poor, and its seaworthiness can only be said to be acceptable.

Because the boat is too small, it can only be used for patrolling along the coastline.

Once you get far away from the coastline, it's all over. When the ocean is calm, there are often big waves of 2 to 3 meters. When the wind picks up, there are big waves of 3 to 4 meters. It is not the kind of storm that a small ship like the "Fen Yong" iron-clad patrol ship can withstand.

Because the side height of the "Fen Yong" iron-clad patrol ship is only 1.65 meters, whether it is a two-meter wave, a three-meter wave, or a larger wave, this small boat can be submerged in the wave.

During the use of the navy, 17 major accidents occurred. 22 officers and soldiers were swept into the rough sea by waves. Only three people were rescued, and the others were buried at the bottom of the sea.

There's really no way

When setting sail, the sea was calm one moment, but once the wind picked up, there were big waves of more than 2 to 3 meters. The officers and soldiers who had no time to hide in the cabin could only hold on to the gun positions or nearby railings and debris, struggling in the wind and waves.

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One mistake and he was swept into the sea.

Therefore, to carry out combat missions in the middle and far seas, an ironclad frigate with a larger displacement is also needed. The two plans submitted by the Navy are 1,500 tons and 1,950 tons respectively.

Judging from the construction plan submitted by the Navy, it has absorbed many advantages of the Fengyong iron-clad patrol ship, such as its easy maneuverability and reliable power configuration. Considering that the new-class iron-clad frigate performs daily combat readiness patrol missions in mid- and near-shore waters for 1 to 2 weeks, it has been greatly improved.

Improved the living and living conditions of officers and soldiers.

This class of ironclad frigates has a relatively spacious and towering cabin design, with temporary beds placed on the deck without any gaps. All officers and soldiers can enter the cabin to rest.

Although it was a bit crowded, it finally solved the tragedy of officers and soldiers on the deck being swept into the sea when the sea suddenly became windy at night.

After 2 to 3 years of use, the iron-clad patrol ship "Fen Yong" has verified the reliability of using propellers as the only power, thus becoming the standard for the development of ships in the Tang Dynasty. It completely abandoned the sail mast and side paddle wheel.

It has been promoted and applied on other ship types.