Act 229 Mexico is too weak

Although it has undergone the reform of the green-backed dollar credit currency, the money supply in the north has increased significantly.

The federal government has the ability and the money to pay for all the purchases, but the money doesn't really flow to the end of the market.

As a result, large numbers of people in the vast central and western towns who could not afford to come up with two dollars of "ransom money" were dragged to the battlefield and after what could have been training for perhaps only a week, they began to fight.

The war scenes faced by these people are not easy at all compared to their predecessors, and even worse.

Because, every veteran is precious.

Therefore, in some battles destined to become cannon fodder, it is always these recruits who lead the way.

However, while they died in large numbers, a large number of veterans were also born.

Such a large number of sand mining patterns are destined to be spurned, but they are very useful.

After all, the Federation of the North has a total population of 20 million, and even if 20 people mobilize one person, it will still have a scale of 1 million people.

Counting some black slaves in the South, there were only 9 million people.

Therefore, the North has a chance to defeat the South, even if it is purely a heap of human lives.

Even, at this time, the northern generals already thought that the southern army had entered a state of exhaustion.

How can they effectively defend themselves when their supply lines at sea are blocked?

Could it be that the head is used to defend?

The general, who was on the horse, put down the binoculars and ordered to the adjutant, "Let the recruit company attack!"

Everything is new in the recruit company.

Not only are the soldiers very new, but even all kinds of weapons and equipment are very new.

And these new things are about to deal a blow to those guys in the South.

The adjutant passed the order on.

The recruits formed a dense formation, splintered from the large ranks, and marched towards the southern army in the distance.

The recruits were separated by little space, and when they moved about three hundred meters before the Southern Army, they began to set up their guns and intend to fire a round.

Such a dense formation, although not technical, is very useful.

Especially, if you have a good weapon.

Able to suppress the opponent with firepower when they are out of range.

However, the distance of 300 meters is not very safe.

Although the opponent's bullets may lose their power at this distance.

But in addition to these, there is also the onslaught of shells.

The shells of this era are by no means as simple as falling from a distance and smashing a hole in the ground.

Seemingly slow cannonballs, "floating" from a distance, often before the people in the team noticed, they fell to the ground and bounced again, bouncing several times, and finally harvesting a large number of lives.

Even, at such times, it is useless to run away.

Because, there is nowhere to escape.

In the case of a dense formation, there are people on the left and people on the right, with people in front and people behind.

What can you do in this situation?

You can't do anything.

One can only hope that your luck is not too bad.

Or, pray to God for others to meet Him.

As for why the formation is not loose, this is because for recruits, loose formations are really difficult to manage.

Anyway, if a group of people die, the rear can immediately replenish the soldiers, so why feel sorry for these soldiers?

On the contrary, if the battle is won, the officer who is the commander will be rewarded.

Today's recruit team, like the previous recruit team, began round after round of shooting at a distance of 300 meters.

However, it is strange that the southern army on the opposite side actually did not launch their artillery, but did not seem to make any moves.

While the recruit commander was still wondering, he suddenly saw a small black thing, acting in a parabolic manner, and landed on their side.

This little thing is not like a cannonball, reaping life wantonly.

But not long after it fell to the ground, it only heard a "bang" sound, and the flowers exploded.

While the smell of blood wafted through the air, there were also unknown parts of the body falling in a parabola.

It's - a grenade!

The Commander searched through the list of weapons in his mind, and after a few seconds, he found the corresponding weapon.

That's right, it's a grenade!

But how can there be a grenade on the opposite side?

The technological level of the southerners can only cast some cannons at most.

As for things like howitzers, they don't necessarily can't make them.

However, they were able to make artillery mounts, but it was difficult for them to make shells.

Even if it is barely made, there will not be a lot of it.

And for a war that consumes a lot of ammunition every day, no production means uselessness.

Just when the commander thought so.

I saw that above the sky, there was suddenly a row of dense light spots.

Before he could react.

The recruits, who were stretched out in three long rows and were shooting, were hit by the rain of grenades.

It's better to say if it's just hit by these small things.

The most critical thing is that the ensuing explosion.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

"Bang!"

Countless explosions, indistinguishable explosions.

The first decision made by the recruit commander was to abandon the recruit company in front of him and retreat to the rear first.

And when he confirmed that he had retreated to a safe distance, he looked back and pulled out his binoculars, and saw that between the smoke and dust, there were some people on the southern side.

They didn't get very close, they were at a distance and started shooting.

However, their shots were not at all neat and sparse.

But the sparse sound of gunfire made the new commander feel chills.

It's like going back to when he was a newcomer.

That wasn't that long, maybe half a year ago.

At that time, the southern army, which still had relatively high-quality weapons, was a nightmare for the soldiers of the north.

Those veterans of the South never lined up in a dense formation and fired uselessly.

Instead, they split into small groups and fired slowly and effectively.

The feeling that as soon as a gunshot goes off, someone gets shot, is so annoying.

However, in the months that followed, there were fewer and fewer such "sharpshooters".

It's not that the veterans of the South have become fewer.

It's because the ammunition supply in the south is out of stock.

Excellent troops, excellent combat effectiveness.

It has never been a soldier's own business, he represents a series of comprehensive strengths from equipment to logistics to financial resources.

Because the supply lines were blocked, they had no way to replenish the British and French supply with high-quality supplies.

You can only make your own supplies.

The self-made supply has a large error and is not high enough.

Whether it's a variety of performances, they're plummeting.

The tactics that were originally effective should also be changed accordingly because of this decline.

Even, because of the lack of sufficiently good initiating charges.

The guns of the South, the effective firing range, have shrunk again and again.

It was only in the end that the northerners dared to shoot in a dense formation at a distance of three hundred meters.

At this moment, the rookie commander, who was caught in his memories, now had only one thought in his mind, that is, where did the southerners get their supplies?

This is definitely not their own level of manufacture!

Could it be that the British and French fleets are coming, and the fleet blockading the sea has been defeated?

Still is......

There were countless thoughts running through his head, but none of them seemed very realistic from his point of view.

He kept rejecting his own ideas, and at the same time wondering why this was the case.

As for the recruits on the battlefield who have been abandoned by him, who have died one after another, what is it?

The soldiers from the south came up one after another after after the accurate shooting.

When they came to the soldiers lying on the ground, whether they were dead or not, they would make an action, that is, to fill the knife at the critical point.

Knife repair is a technical job, which is both labor-saving and effective.

Their common technique is to jam the knife in the gap between the ribs in the chest and insert it vigorously.

In this way, the damage to the knife is minimal, and it also saves the effort, and it can also ensure that the person who is repaired will definitely die.

Even, compared to the action of cutting the throat, this kind of mending knife is more crisp and neat.

Of course, at the same time, there is no shortage of retaliatory mending.

As the war continued, the hatred between the South and the North became more and more irreconcilable.

Because, either today I will kill you, or tomorrow I will kill you.

Either today I will kill your companions and brothers, or tomorrow you will kill my companions and brothers.

Therefore, on the battlefield, a little retaliatory mending knife can also be seen.

However, the southern army does not advocate this kind of behavior, and even wants to control it.

Why?

Because, human physical strength is limited.

High levels of tension and intense movements can drain all the energy stored in a person's body.

And physical strength is the most valuable thing on the battlefield.

They mended the knife very quickly, and they didn't miss anything.

Not even the loot was looted, and it was quickly withdrawn.

By the time the troops in the north reacted and began to counterattack, they had already withdrawn.

The rookie commander, riding his horse, reported to his general.

The general listened to his report with a cold face, and then said, "It seems that the southerners have been reinforced. Report upwards and request confirmation of their source of supplies. ”

"Yes!" the adjutant wrote down the general's order and went to verify it.

For high-ranking generals on the battlefield, the difficulty of their desire to die is not much different from the difficulty of recruits wanting not to die.

Why?

Because, whether in the south or in the north, the generals rarely take the lead in the charge, even if they are on the front line.

They're more about conducting some commanding things.

Unless it was their bad luck and the shells landed directly on their faces, killing them.

Otherwise, even if they were captured, they would be treated far better than ordinary captives.

Even, although the generals of the south and the generals of the north are eager to eat each other alive.

However, if they do meet, it will be very peaceful and friendly.

Because, they don't know when they will be captured by the other party.

In order for themselves to be better off when they are captured in the future, they will not be embarrassed by those who are captured by them.

Of course, at the same time, more importantly, the captured generals were able to exchange a lot of fines.

But, beyond that.

No other captives on both sides of the North and the South could escape the fate of the females being treated as females and the males being executed.

At the same time, it was not only found that the southern troops were supplied, but more and more places were found to have supplies.

Moreover, some people found that their supplies were not even much different from the standard equipment in the north.

From this point it is almost certain that their supplies did not come from England or France.

In fact, arms dealers in various countries are not good people.

They are always keen to push their own standards.

The benefits of pushing your own standards are clear.

That is, everything can only be used by us, and not by others.

The same goes for Winchester Arms.

Compared to the income from the guns themselves, the income from bullets is even higher.

And the weapons they supplied to the South were obviously not completely developed.

Instead, it is produced using an existing production line.

Therefore, those people on the front line, feel that these weapons are familiar, of course they are familiar.

Even, it didn't take long for them to investigate that this batch of weapons was produced by Winchester Arms Company.

From the front to the rear, from the command to the presidential palace.

Winchester Arms Company, was asked to reply.

Winchester Arms Company, which also answered this decently, sold a batch of weapons to Mexicans.

They wanted to push the Mexicans to attack the southerners.

But how did I think that Mexicans are so weak.

The supplies they supplied to the Mexicans were all intercepted by the south.

Although there are many doubts here.

But there was a reason for it.

In fact, none of the top levels of the federal government are clean.

This is true not only on the part of the government, but also on the part of the military.

In this case, there is no need to give them an explanation, what needs to be given is an explanation to the bottom.

The lower echelons got the news, and no one had anything to do with Winchester Arms except for scolding the Mexicans.

Although, the weapon that slaughtered them came from this weapons company.

However, it can only be said that the Mexicans who sold weapons to the Winchester Arms Company are too vegetable.

Even, among the soldiers of the north, a saying circulated.

It is that the South will defeat Mexico, not because of how powerful the South is, but because the Mexicans are too weak.

In reality, though, for the southerners, Mexico is even better than the northerners.

However, although the will to fight in the north was weak, the supply in the north was good enough and the number was large enough.

Therefore, the southerners, having heard the words of the North, laughed at these northern soldiers as clowns.