Wild North America 1846

Chapter 341 Camberley Town

After four years of war, the United States of America mobilized again and again. Almost all the young and middle-aged men in the small town of Cambury who could mobilize, ranging from 17 to 45 years old, went to the battlefield.

The rest are either sawmill owners, large farmers, department store owners or tavern owners in the town, or the mayor's group. Anyway, they are somewhat powerful or rich.

There has been a shortage of men in the town over the years, and the men who can stay have become hotties. They all have more or less troubles with too many women, and they are simply too busy!

Since the arrival of the Tang Kingdom's army, the good days of these men have come to an end.

Men between the ages of 13 and 60 who could carry a gun were all recruited.

If you resist, then the dozen or so corpses hanged outside the town of Cambury will make everyone make a wise choice and obediently attend the training of the baggage regiment.

White women, who were the prisoners' family members, would gather together and take horse-drawn carriages to Middlesex County, 45 miles away, where there was a convenient railway line to the south, where they would be provided with arrangements.

The white soldiers of the 502nd Division have basically accepted their fate, and the overall stability is quite good. There have only been a few desertions in the past two months, involving more than 30 people.

Most of these soldiers were captured and hanged in public. There was no second possibility.

In fact, there was no place for the deserters to go. Except for the Tang Kingdom and Canada, North America was almost at war. There were wars everywhere, and there was no place where they could stop.

If you flee to the south, you will be drafted into the army as soon as you are discovered. The same goes for fleeing to the north, and you will still have to go to the battlefield. This is an almost inescapable fate.

In this case, why not follow the more powerful Tang Kingdom army?

All regular white soldiers of the 502nd Division are registered and receive a monthly salary of 6 yuan, of which 4.5 yuan is a war subsidy, which is enough for soldiers to buy daily expenses.

How much is 6 yuan worth in the north now?

By the end of October 1860, the U.S. dollar banknotes of the Northern Federation had depreciated like waste paper. It took almost 2,000 to 2,500 yuan to exchange for 1 Tang yuan. Before the war, it was 1.5:1. This shows how much depreciation has occurred.

Countless businessmen and business owners who purchased the war bonds of the Northern federal government lost all their money and became outright paupers.

Wall Street has collapsed, the stock market has fallen to the point of closing, and except for a few steel plants and shipyards that can maintain production, most factories and companies have closed down. It's really sad that everyone is crying.

On the contrary, farmers are doing better. They can grow and harvest more or less to keep their stomachs full. The hunger situation in cities is already very serious and they can only rely on food imports from Canada.

After four years of war losses and population loss, the total population of the northern United States dropped from more than 18 million to less than 14 million. About 2.6 million people migrated to Canada or various parts of South America. The war losses exceeded one million people, reaching 1.41 million. Among them

More than 670,000 people were killed, more than 740,000 were injured and disabled, and the population losses continued to expand.

In addition, there are more than 2 million people in the American Federation (North) living in the occupied areas centered on the Great Lakes. About 1.33 to 1.34 million people are serving in the army. The ratio of women to men in the remaining population reaches 2.2:

1. The male population is dominated by young boys and elderly people over 50 years old, and the number of young adults is horribly low.

Due to years of war and people's livelihood, immigration from Europe dropped sharply. From January to October 1860, there were less than 230,000 people, which was 1/3~1/4 of previous years and 1/6 of the peak period of immigration.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju led the army to carry out many missions to clear out villages and towns. He knew clearly that the western and central Great Plains of the United States had been severely devastated. The existing white men were recruited into the army again, and after the women were evacuated in a centralized manner, there was almost no one left.

It's crowded.

This situation is very conducive to the concentrated migration of Chinese people, so during this intermittent period, train after train ran across the Great Plains of the western and central United States, bringing countless Chinese immigrants and moving towns one after another.

The population is full.

The early Chinese immigrant villages and towns had already had a good harvest of food. Except for the necessary rations, all other food, vegetables, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks were sent to the army to pay off the debts for buying white women.

In almost every Chinese family, there are one to two or even three white women, which has become a common phenomenon.

More young and beautiful white women were imported to the developed coastal provinces of the Tang Empire, where they were sold at higher prices in exchange for entire trainloads of munitions and ammunition to supplement the lack of military funds.

various measures taken

The Tang Kingdom has been involved in the war for more than ten months. The overall economic development has not been significantly hindered, nor has it turned to a wartime system, nor has it carried out war mobilization. Instead, it has become increasingly prosperous stimulated by the needs of the war.

The headquarters of the 502nd Division is in Middle-Sex County, which is a border county close to Canada, but it is not remote and appears to be quite prosperous.

A railway line going north from Detroit passes through Middle-Sykes County, continues to extend northeast for more than 185 kilometers to Toronto, the largest city in British Canada, and continues to extend northeast for hundreds of kilometers to the capital of British Canada.

Ottawa.

This main railway line was originally a thoroughfare for frequent trade and personnel exchanges between British Canada and the United States. Now most of the goods trade has been cut off, leaving only a few transactions between the Kingdom's army and Canada, not even a fraction of the previous transaction volume.

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More of British Canada's trade with the United States was carried out by ship, just as the British had helped Chicago a few months earlier. The northern Great Lakes city (British Canada) used the inner lake shipping to transport food, men and weapons to the already besieged Detroit

, support them to fight the war to the end.

These coalition forces knew this very well, but due to the strict orders from Shangfeng, they could only spread this bad breath on the Anglo-Americans in the eastern states, letting them know that the Tang Kingdom was not easy to mess with.

The First Army, the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army of the Northern Army have broken into Ohio and started a fierce battle with the troops organized by the United States (Northern). Currently, each has its own victory or defeat, and it is temporarily maintained on the front line from Detroit to Cincinnati.

This is not because the Yankees' combat power suddenly increased sharply, but because the British Minie rifles have been widely equipped with the Northern Army, which greatly improved its combat capabilities and was able to fight back and forth with the Tang Kingdom's army.

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Secondly, the Northern Army had a clear numerical advantage. It had accumulated about 550,000 troops on the front and built many strong fortresses. With its troops scattered, the coalition forces would not be able to defeat them for a while.

The third factor is that the coalition forces conducted an exploratory attack and did not devote all their strength.

The armies of the Tang Kingdom entered the war with frequent successes in the 10 months since they successively occupied a total of eight states in the north-central United States, spreading the flames of war to the densely populated areas of the central United States.

This lengthened the Tang Kingdom's battle front and supply lines, and a large amount of ammunition and supplies needed to be replenished. It had to temporarily stop its expansion and take a short rest before talking about it.

Organizing a large number of Chinese immigrants to fill various states and towns is one of the important measures to shorten the military supply chain.

When the winter wheat is harvested next spring, we can basically maintain the frontline operations of more than 700,000 troops. There is no need to mobilize bulk materials such as grains, potatoes and vegetables from distant coastal provinces. They can provide support nearby and give the weak railway transportation lines a breather.

By the second half of next year, the northern railway line will be completed a year and a half ahead of schedule, which will greatly enhance the Tang Kingdom's military transportation capabilities and lay a solid foundation for the final victory of the war.

After the opening of the Northern Railway, together with the Los Angeles Railway, the Southern Railway and the Central Railway, a complete railway network will be formed to effectively support the Kingdom's army in fighting a large-scale war of attrition.

The headquarters of the 502nd Division is adjacent to the Middle-Sykes County Railway Station. From here, you can see the crying white woman at the railway station being put into the train's stuffy car, and then the door of the car was slammed shut, hiding the woman's cry.

The sounds and cries were blocked inside.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju glanced at it with no surprise, and was slightly touched in his heart, but it only lasted for two or three seconds and was quickly forgotten.

Under the flames of war, how can an egg be finished?

As a vulnerable group, women and children have always been the biggest victims of war. However, the outcome of these white women and girls will not be too bad. They are just giving birth to children in another place. Their lives are basically not in danger. What does this mean?

In an age of precarity, all grudges, face, and shame are not worth a full meal. These white women will become quite well-behaved after being hungry for a few days.

"Dachuan..."

"Here, please give instructions from Master."

"Let's see if the King-style rifles allocated to us by the military have arrived. Now most of the Northern Army has been equipped with Mini rifles. The 13-rings we have are not enough. If we really fight, we will definitely suffer!"

"As you command, Master."

Lieutenant Hu Dachuan saluted neatly, turned around and ran to execute the order.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju picked up the water on the table and took a big sip. He wiped the water stains around his mouth with his hand, then walked to the map with the water glass and looked at it carefully.

As a qualified mid-level officer, he had developed the habit of checking the terrain wherever he went. He had walked around Tambore Town before, and he had a rough idea of ​​the terrain in that area.

The next step is to take some time to look at the terrain in other directions so that you have a good idea of ​​it.

To make use of this free time, at the very least, we must visit all the towns and villages surrounding Middlesex County.

He was not afraid of the Yankees coming over, but he was thinking about how to arrange his troops in the event of a border war with Canada, and how to use the terrain to teach the enemy a harsh lesson.

Although this possibility is unlikely, it is necessary to be prepared after all. This is an essential lesson for a high-quality soldier.

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