Wild North America 1846

on the northern battlefield

In a white town about 90 kilometers northwest of Chicago, gunshots continued to be heard, accompanied by cries and screams, bringing a heavy shadow of war to this white town.

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

The infantrymen rushed into the town with guns in hand, kicked open the doors of houses one by one to search for remaining enemies, and drove out all the white women and old people in the houses, standing trembling in the empty streets.

"Bang..." a gunshot sounded, and the bullet hit the wooden shed not far away from Major Fan Pengju. He suddenly looked back nervously, raised the sharp command knife in his hand and ordered loudly: "There is an enemy in the room in front of you on the left, pay attention.

The opponent has a gun, so the security squad maintains fire suppression, and the others dig out the enemy for me."

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

A childish scream.

Major Fan Pengju followed the infantry and rushed in. He saw an 11-year-old boy holding an old-fashioned musket lying in a pool of blood. There were also the shot dead bodies of two old people in the room. A table overturned on the ground and the wooden plate rolled far away.

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Screams came from the second floor. Major Fan Pengju looked up and saw two white girls being roughly pulled down by their hair by the soldiers. When he saw the tragic scene on the first floor, he screamed and cried.

The torn clothes on the two white girls exposed their white skin, and they shivered in 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 white girls are extremely beautiful, and their delicate tear-stained faces do not affect their charming appearance at all. They are about fifteen or sixteen years old, and their bodies have developed into bumpy shapes.

This made Major Fan Pengju feel something in his heart. He raised his hand to stop the soldiers from raising their rifle butts and preparing to smash them down. He ordered in a cold voice: "Stop crying. You are not allowed to attack these two ghost girls. Just say it is my order."

, let the security squad come over and take it back and take good care of it. This is a good product, keep it as a tribute to the commander."

"As you command, Master Tuanzao."

"Go ahead and take the 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 made a creaking sound on the wooden floor. After looking at the corpses in the room, he frowned and ordered; "

Clean up the body, this wooden house is not small, the regiment headquarters will be located here temporarily, we will move things in later."

"As you command, sir."

The soldiers dragged the body out in a hurry. The soldiers in the guard squad found a bucket and simply washed the blood on the floor. The table was straightened again and the debris on the floor was cleaned.

Then several regimental staff members rode horses to the yard. They brought some maps and other items, and quickly set up the place as a temporary headquarters and brewed a pot of fragrant coffee.

The gunfire gradually stopped, and the entire white town fell under the control of the expeditionary force. The resisting white armed militiamen were shot to death in the battle, and the remaining seven to eight hundred men, women, and children were gathered together.

White men aged from 12 to 60 years old who can carry a gun are grouped together. These men will be forcibly recruited into the army and placed under the command of General Daniel Harvey Hill of the Confederate Army. After simple training, they will be promoted to the army.

battlefield.

In terms of using northern cannon fodder, the Southerners were more ruthless than the Tang Dynasty army, and they did things even more ruthlessly. The Southerners-dominated supervising team dealt with the cannon fodder mercilessly.

The war is about to begin

The Hill Corps rapidly expanded from the original 31,000 to more than 227,000, shouldering the heavy responsibility of Chicago's three-layer defense line for a frontal attack from west to east. These forcibly recruited cannon fodder were the main combat force.

The Northern Sherman Corps' burning, killing, looting and evil deeds in the South left a deep psychological shadow on the Southerners.

Since you are unkind, then I am unjust.

What about "scorched earth policy"? Doesn't that army know how to do it?

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

It would be a pity to kill them like this. At least you can get a good price by shipping them back.

Moreover, the Tang Kingdom's army also learned the bad habits of Western armies when fighting. Although they would not bring prostitutes and vendors to the battlefield, necessary arrangements must be made. After all, this is a rigid need of the soldiers.

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

After Major Fan Pengju arranges relevant matters, the regimental staff will conduct statistics on the town. This is a town with more than 570 households, so the number of Chinese immigrants planned 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 for coordination by the Corps. The Colonial Department then arranged for Chinese families who purchased immigration qualifications to settle down in the town.

Generally speaking

They are all Chinese families who have immigrated to the Kingdom for many years. They have some savings and are willing to come to this strange black land to run farms. Therefore, they will pay a sum of 500 to 800 to obtain immigration qualifications. The Chinese call it "

"Mid-ticket".

The fertile black soil of the Great Plains in the central United States has always been widely known, and it was an unparalleled temptation for Chinese immigrants who had a strong idea of ​​buying land and property.

Even if the industries in the Tang Kingdom were sold and immigrated to the central Great Plains, many Chinese immigrants were willing to participate, because the royal government had never deceived Chinese immigrants, and white residents did not share in this good thing.

No one is stupid, how can we not be happy?

As long as immigrants migrate to the central plains of the United States, the royal government is responsible for allocating houses and land. The specific method is simple, crude and effective.

For example, there are 572 households in the town, so the number of Chinese immigrants is 572 households. After arriving in the town, you can freely visit and browse, select the house you like, and each home has a colorful flag with a number on it.

When room selection begins

These 572 houses were all located 1 kilometer outside the town. They all rushed out with an order. Whoever grabs the good house will get it. If you can't grab the good house, you can only choose the bad one. Be impartial and fair.

Each family has more or less cultivated land, but after reallocation, it will never be less than 12 acres, and as many as 30 or even 40 acres.

Therefore, choosing a house means choosing land. The land with a poor house may be large and fertile. It is like opening a blind box. You don’t know how big the corresponding land is before you choose a house. It is full of novelty and interest.

Strong Chinese immigrant families can also buy a few white women back home. They need people to raise cattle and sheep, milk and cut grass, and take care of the manor fields. Women can also be good at work.

Now there is a shortage of men in all of North America. White Americans are busy fighting wars. Each of the male immigrants from the Tang Dynasty has something to do, whether it is working, doing business or running a personal farm. The monthly salary of an employee is at least 23 yuan, starting at 4 yuan, and more.

It costs more than 30 yuan, and I can't even hire anyone.

Comparison

It would be a good deal to spend a few hundred yuan more to buy a Caucasian woman to take home, who can do farm work and have babies.

The huge funds raised through various methods will be used to purchase bullets and cannon shells, tents and other military supplies as supplementary military expenditures, which will be used to reduce the pressure on the kingdom's finances.

The key reason why the Tang Dynasty hurriedly adopted the colonial policy, that is, the "empty the cage and replace the bird" policy, was that these towns and farms all over the country needed 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 battlefield in Chicago in the Great Lakes region has reached more than 460,000. There are also about 250,000 Southern troops (including nearly 200,000 forcibly recruited cannon fodder), preparing to launch a large-scale campaign against the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Preparations for the battle have been in full swing, and some villages and towns have been able to provide non-staple food with short growth cycles, including radish vegetables, which has effectively improved the needs of the troops at the front.

After entering March, when spring comes and flowers bloom, the amount of water from the middle and upper reaches of the Rocky Mountains increases significantly. The raging Missouri River basically cuts off land and water transportation on both sides of the river. Only the large lake near Peel City can still allow cargo ships to travel between the two sides.

Thus

The entire logistical supply pressure is placed on the Central Nevada Railway, which starts from Chang'an City, passes through Sacramento and Salt Lake City to Taoyuan City and Phoenix City on the Colorado Plateau, and then continues more than 890 kilometers east to the Nevada Railway in Kansas City.

He took on the important task of replenishing logistical supplies for the army.

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

It is obviously not enough to supply the 710,000-strong army through this railway line alone. For the grain, fresh vegetables, fruits and appropriate meat products that account for the largest share of railway transportation, the best way is to solve it on the spot.

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

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

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

In this way, everyone gets what they need.

Banks issued loans and charged interest, which was naturally very profitable. Chinese immigrants were able to quickly settle down and buy properties, take in white concubines, and quickly resume agricultural production with the support of all parties, providing the army with a steady stream of affordable food and vegetables.

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The military has supplemented its armament expenses and received low-cost supplies of grain and vegetables calculated at local prices. It can use more train wagons to transport urgently needed weapons and ammunition instead of being occupied by bulk materials such as grain, saving valuable transportation capacity.

The combination of various factors makes us more confident in launching the Chicago Campaign next.