As commander of the Pacific Fleet and governor of New Mexico, Peng Yulin was instructed by Emperor Feng Yunshan to preside over the affairs of the Americas. Now everything is going according to the will of Emperor Feng Yunshan, and the Hexi plan is gradually unfolding, and now it is time to harvest. If you can give half a year of buffer time, it will be much easier, Peng Yulin can quickly send people to the country for help, and send a large number of reinforcements to the Americas.

It's just that now, even if the fastest ships are sent and the distance of tens of thousands of kilometers is still needed to the Honolulu Islands and Japan for supplies, it will take a month and a half or even nearly two months, and even if troops are sent from the nearest Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon and other places, the preparation of tens of thousands of troops is not a simple matter, and the preparation and the time spent along the way will take at least three months.

In this way, it will take almost half a year, and the damn American federal army will definitely not allow itself to have so much time to prepare, and it is too late to move reinforcements from abroad, so it seems that there is no other way to do it.

Peng Yulin immediately thought about it.

In addition to the nearly 15,000 naval soldiers of the Pacific Fleet, the 22,000 troops of the 11th Infantry Division and the 21st Infantry Division of the Captive Army, plus the combined strength of 14,000 troops of Lin Qirong's Hexi Army. In today's land war, only 5,000 marines in the Pacific Fleet can participate in the battle, and the rest of the naval officers and men are not easy to train, so Peng Yulin is naturally reluctant to let them die in infantry combat senselessly.

In this way, the total number of field troops in the Americas is only 41,000, of which even fewer reinforcements can be mobilized.

The main force of the 11th Infantry Division has been secretly stationed in the area of Missouri, Missouri is the core of the entire Hexi region, the most important thing, must be firmly defended, Peng Yulin himself still thinks that the number of troops is small and needs reinforcements, and it is impossible to transfer to the north to support Lin Qirong.

The main infantry regiments of the 21st Infantry Division are already stationed in important cities and towns in Texas and are ready to take control of Texas at any time, and they cannot be moved at will.

Therefore, the only ones who can be mobilized are the 5,000 marines of the Pacific Fleet. But this mere 5,000 troops could not help the Hexi Army to relieve its difficulties. According to Peng Yulin's estimate, at least 20,000 more infantry must be dispatched to the north to support the Hexi United Army in order to resist the attack of the 100,000 troops of the Northern Federation.

"Commander, or, I will lead the officers and men of the 21st Infantry Division to control Texas first, and then hand it over to Sanchez and Sheridan, so that these Indians and Irish can temporarily control it first, and I will lead my troops directly to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River to support General Lin and them. It's just that the Marine Corps officers of the Pacific Fleet are better off guarding the province of New Mexico. After all, New Mexico has now relocated nearly 600,000 Chinese immigrants, almost the same number of Mexicans, and the two sides must be garrisoned by troops because of the constant conflicts and conflicts over land and resources. And the local army formed by those Chinese compatriots is too partial to Chinese immigrants, so the Mexicans are even more dissatisfied, and they still have to take precautions. "Stone Town High Road.

Peng Yulin pondered for a moment and said, "Texas borders the province of New Mexico, and there is no room for loss, and it must be occupied. On the contrary, Minnesota, located in the north, with inferior population and resources to the Texas region, ordered General Lin to take the initiative to abandon the newly occupied Minnesota and Iowa if it could retreat, and withdraw the Hexi Army to Missouri to defend, and if the enemy had blocked the rear route of the lower Mississippi River, it would defend itself or turn to the battle, save its vital strength and wait for support.

At the same time, 10,000 militiamen were urgently mobilized from New Mexico Province to patrol and garrison, and 5,000 marines and 2,000 troops were stationed in Texas to defend Dallas and Houston. I hope the Mexicans in New Mexico don't mess around, otherwise they ......"

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St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota.

In the reception room of the city hall, Qin Rigang and his fourth brother Qin Riqing, his cronies Cui Lunbu and Shinichi Ando discussed secrets.

Qin Rigang looked at his only younger brother, his face was full of wind and frost, and he couldn't help but feel sour when he thought of the other three younger brothers who had died in battle. His life can be described as bumpy.

Breaking away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was still the emperor in Xiongyue City in Jilin for a month, and the four younger brothers were divided into princes, and all of his subordinates were Daotai prefects, etc., which can be described as a moment of glory, but unfortunately, he was soon driven away and fled to the deep mountains and old forests in northern Korea. Later, he was surrounded and suppressed by Lu Shunde's guy, and many of Qin Rigang's subordinates were scattered, killed in battle or rebelled, and less than one-third of his men fled to Hokkaido. Unexpectedly, even if this is the case, it will not be able to live in peace, that the southern king Feng Yunshan established a Chinese empire that is much stronger than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and actually annexed most of Japan, leaving only a little bit of the Kanto region, and even Hokkaido has become the territory directly under the control of the Chinese Empire.

Hokkaido could not guarantee safety, and just when he thought that he would be found and sent to Feng Yunshan soon, he got a chance to escape from Feng Yunshan's control, befriended the vice boss of the shogunate, Ando Nobumasa, with a large amount of money, and sent him and his cronies to Iwaki Ping, and by accident became a Japanese mercenary to the Americas.

At this time, he realized the gap between himself and Feng Yunshan, the king of the South. I didn't expect the world to be so big, and that Feng Yunshan actually crossed thousands of miles and developed his power into the foreign world 20,000 miles away. Since then, he can no longer have any ambitions, and his only thought is to escape from Feng Yunshan's control.

Unexpectedly, although he was not recognized by the familiar Lin Qirong, under his strict military discipline and military discipline, Qin Rigang has been unable to lead his subordinates to escape.

was held hostage to fight everywhere, and what made Qin Rigang depressed was that because his subordinates were all the elite of the Taiping Army's original Yanwangfu, they fought bravely and made meritorious contributions, and Qin Rigang's elite was promoted to the deputy brigade commander of the Japanese mercenary infantry brigade because of their merits.

This time, after Lin Qirong led the Hexi Army to capture St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, he moved to the upper Mississippi River town, and Qin Rigang was responsible for leading 1,200 soldiers to defend St. Paul. Lin Qirong led the main force of the Hexi Army to leave only two days ago, the Japanese mercenaries stationed in St. Paul City captured two spies, and through the translation of local guides, one of the spies actually revealed an important information, saying that 50,000 American Union troops had gone upriver from the lower reaches of the Mississippi River to attack St. Paul, and another 30,000 troops marched from Duluth in the north to St. Paul, preparing to attack St. Paul, the main purpose of which was to eliminate the Hexi Army.

Qin Rigang, who learned the news, was taken aback and hurriedly summoned his cronies to discuss. The Manchurian general, who was originally the deputy commander of Kumatake and is now renamed Cho Lunbu, and Shinichi Ando, the son of the lord of the Mutsu Iwajo Clan, are the two most trusted thinkers he has now.

"Lord Wang, the only way to do this now is to surrender to the foreigners!" Cui Lunbu immediately gave advice.