Wild North America 1846

(The previous chapter went to the palace for review. It mainly talked about the strategic planning and steps of the Tang Dynasty towards Mexico. It can neither be modified nor released, so it can only wait.)

Entering the new year, the Civil War between the United States and the United States has become more intense.

After the failure of the Battle of Malassas, President James Buchanan and the Northern Army of the United States were under great pressure. Raging public opinion attributed the failure to foolish command and government incompetence, and criticized the ruling party verbally and verbally.

in this predicament

The Democratic Party finally woke up and carried out two nationwide military mobilizations in January and May 1858. Hundreds of thousands of new soldiers were recruited into the army, which quickly expanded the total strength of the Northern Army to nearly 620,000 people. It concentrated all its efforts and

Prepare for a general attack on the South.

The Confederate States of the South did not show weakness and carried out two nationwide military mobilizations at the end of January and the end of May respectively. It is expected that more than 350,000 troops will be mobilized, bringing the total strength to 470,000.

The railway from the Phoenix Castle of the Tang Dynasty to the east is currently under emergency construction. After nearly half a year of emergency repairs, a 78-kilometer railway line has been built from the Red Rock Valley to the American Hugo Fortress.

At this point, the smooth railway network of the Tang Kingdom was officially connected with the huge railway network of the United States, forming a smooth railway network covering the entire North America (note: currently only limited to the southern United States).

This railway artery will be the lifeline for the Tang Kingdom to transport strategic supplies and military equipment to the Southern Army. Every day, more than twenty special trains roar to Kansas City, and from here south to Texas to transport food and canned goods to the Southern Army.

, tents, war horses, barbed wire, military uniforms, military boots and weapons and equipment to support the South in fighting the war.

since the beginning of the war

The Southern Confederate States of America has applied for large war loans three times in a row, borrowing a total of 162 million Tang Yuan from a syndicate composed of Royal Red Oak Bank, Bank of America, Royal Bank of America, Bank of Los Angeles, and Bank of Communications for a period of 10 years, with an annual interest of 11.5%.

, 80% of which was paid for by the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty supplying materials and weapons and equipment needed for the war, and concentrated all efforts to win this war.

And this Pacific Railway (composed of the Los Angeles Railway, the Central Pacific Railway and various southern railway lines in the United States) was a powerful weapon for the Tang Kingdom to penetrate its influence and support the Confederate States in fighting the war.

Judging from the overall pattern of the current war;

The Confederate Army continued to win in the east, but suffered several defeats on the Chicago Front in the west. The overall war situation was advantageous, but it did not gain a clear advantage.

Because recruits recruited by the North flooded onto the battlefield, the breakthroughs made by the Southern Army on the Eastern Front battlefield were always met with tenacious counterattacks by the Northern Army, creating an obvious see-saw situation on the battlefield.

What followed was a bloody surge in the number of casualties. From the District of Columbia on the Eastern Front to the Mississippi River, the north-south transportation artery, and then west to the Chicago front, there was a long front of more than 3,600 kilometers. White soldiers from both the North and the South were bloody.

The battle was hard and the number of casualties was difficult to estimate.

On the Eastern Front

McClelland, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army who sympathized with the slave owners, had an army of 210,000. He stood still for several months, allowing the Southern Army to attack ferociously and giving warnings everywhere, but still chose a passive defensive posture.

Judging from military intelligence reports, a fierce battle between the north and the south of the United States is still to come...

"Oh, I can only watch the excitement."

Major General Fan Pengfei put down the military intelligence report marked "confidential" in his hand and sighed melancholy, feeling unbearably itchy.

But His Majesty said at the high-level military meeting in Taoyuan that the army must be patient and practice its internal strength to wait for the opportunity.

The military's actions are in compliance with the spirit of His Majesty's instructions. Since the beginning of last year, various military academies have begun to expand enrollment on a large scale. Even the navy has joined in the fun, more than doubling the enrollment scale.

The army has been reserving talents and training sergeants and grass-roots officers with rich combat experience. There is also a training camp under the Snow Mountain Division, and the reserves of middle and low-level officers and sergeants are enough to form another Snow Mountain Division.

Other units are not as exaggerated as the Snow Mountain Division, but there is a lot of wealth among the grassroots officers and the military. This is an indisputable fact.

Among the European Expeditionary Forces that participated in the Crimean War, the vast majority of those who retired when they returned were ordinary soldiers. The officers and sergeants hardly moved, and 90% of them were retained.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many framework designers.

As far as Major General Fan Pengfei knows;

There are already about 100,000 mainland recruits gathered at the Salt Lake City military base, and more than 11,600 of them have been added to the four divisions of the Southern Military District fighting deep in Mexico, including the Snow Mountain Division.

This batch of mainland recruits are in good physical condition, have the hard-working spirit of Chinese soldiers, and are skilled in combat skills, no less than the soldiers of the expeditionary force who first landed in Europe.

As long as they participate in a few battles and see blood, everyone will be a good soldier.

Another 12,000 new soldiers were strengthened to front-line combat readiness positions such as Taoyuan Fortress, Red Rock Valley Fortress, Peel Fortress and Omaha Fortress, rapidly enhancing the fortress defense capabilities.

The remaining nearly 80,000 well-trained soldiers are unknown in the strictly confidential Salt Lake City military base. It is said that they are training in urban street fighting and mountain warfare.

Whenever he thinks of the kingdom hiding such a large military force, Major General Fan Pengfei is so excited that he cannot calm down. What an ambition this is?

at a high-level military meeting

His Majesty the King has made no secret of his jealousy towards the heavy industrial areas in the North of the United States, with the Chicago metropolitan center at its core. The all-out offensive military plan drawn up by the General Staff also has the strategic goal of swallowing up several states in the North of the United States.

If he could personally participate in such a grand battle, Major General Fan Pengfei would feel that his life was not wasted!

As a general who has experienced the offensive and defensive battles of Sevastopol Fortress and personally led his troops across snow-capped mountains, Fan Pengfei fully understands the significance of the words "urban street fighting and mountain warfare", which means that he can be regarded as the top combat power of infantry in the world today.

In army operations, this is the most high-end and complex combat training subject. Looking at the world's armies today, it is almost impossible to hear of any country's army that specializes in training these two subjects.

When you really need it, just line up and charge upward.

European armies are generally made up of nobles as officers, and they do not care about the lives of soldiers, because there is a fanatical tendency to sacrifice for glory in the European aristocratic circle, and honor and chivalry are regarded as life.

How can we expect them to value the lives of soldiers when they don't even care about their own lives?

Turning the pen in his hand in boredom, Major General Fan Pengfei was considering looking for an opportunity to be transferred back. Whether it was to serve at the Chang'an Lecture Hall or the Royal Senior Infantry School, or to serve at the Army Staff Headquarters, it would be best to leave the Southern Military Region.

Look at this, the Southern Military District will be in Mexico and the Aztec Republic in the next few years. When the local government cannot reach out, the military power will be the dominant force of the Kingdom going deep into Mexico and the Aztec Republic.

power, using relatively crude means to rapidly change the social demographic structure.

Major General Fan Pengfei did his own calculations. He served as colonel and division commander for two and a half years, and was later promoted to army brigadier general. He has been serving as commander of the 201st Division for one year and seven months. Because of his involvement in the Mexican Civil War, he was promoted to army major general again for more than two months.

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The situation in the south is now generally calm, with only a small number of remnants of the former government fleeing in the mountains, and it is basically impossible for them to come out alive to cause trouble.

According to the regulations on rotation of senior generals, I have served as the commander of Xueshan (201st Division) for nearly two years. If I include my experience in the expeditionary force, it will be more than 4 years. It is not far away from the five-year rotation that requires rotation.

If you apply for transfer at this time and ask the old commander, Major General Tian Mantun (Deputy Commander of the Southern Military Region) to take action, I guess there won't be a big problem.

After being transferred back, after a few months of transition, you can go to a military academy or staff headquarters to enrich your career experience, and you will have the opportunity to serve in the Northern Military Region and personally participate in this century-old war that may determine the final pattern of North America.

Okay, let's do it.

Major General Fan Pengfei quickly made up his mind. He is a relatively pure kind of soldier and does not want to get involved in the things that the Snow Mountain Division is currently doing. He is not short of money and does not want to be poked in the spine and pointed at.

If you jump out of this vortex one day early, you will feel at ease.

Now that he had decided, Major General Fan Pengfei immediately took out the letter paper, sat at the table and began to write letters to the senior officers, including but not limited to Major General Tian Mantun, deputy commander of the Southern Military Region.

In his plan, if he could get a job at the Salt Lake City military base, it would be like a mouse in a rice vat... If you are happy, don't miss it.

But this possibility is unlikely, because there are certain rules for the rotation of senior military officers. After stepping down from the position of chief military officer, one must either go to the Army Staff Headquarters or the military academy, and it is impossible to serve continuously as chief military officer.

Going to the Army General Staff Headquarters allows senior officers to broaden their horizons, enhance their ability to oversee the overall situation, and be able to view issues from the perspective of the overall development of the Army, not just one division or military region, and cultivate overall vision and strategic capabilities.

Going to a military academy to serve is a process of accumulation and re-education of military knowledge. Here you can participate in military exchanges with countries around the world, supplement your deficiencies in operational science and military strategy, and grow into a knowledge-based military general.

Major General Fan Pengfei once studied at the Royal Sanchester Military Academy in the United Kingdom. He was personally exposed to military doctrines from Britain, France and other countries. He participated in the analysis of many famous war cases in Europe and gained a deeper understanding of war.

If he serves in a military academy, he must teach several courses in senior officer classes, participate in the training of division-level military officers, participate in lectures at senior military forums, study Clausewitz's "On War" in depth, and study military geostrategy.

This is also what he likes to do.

Fan Pengfei was immersed in writing a letter when there was a knock on the door. He stopped writing, raised his head and said, "Come in."

The door opened

The captain walked in, gave a neat military salute, and said, "Reporter, Mr. Pedro, the Minister of Agriculture and Development of Mexico, would like to see you."

"What's the matter with him?" Major General Fan Pengfei asked with a frown. He really didn't want to deal with these senior Mexican officials.

"Well, it's probably because some of the people in the areas controlled by the Mexican government have recently been cleared due to banditry, which may affect local agricultural production and development. The scale of this..."

"This..."

Major General Fan Pengfei rubbed his brows with a headache. He was tired of the greed of these high-level Mexican government officials, but he had no choice but to give in.

This Minister Pedro did not come because of the suffering of the people. He just wanted to ask for some extra benefits and share more benefits because the crying child had milk to feed.

Fan Pengfei is really not good at doing these things!