"If you recruit militias, how do you fund them?" President Polk had a splitting headache at the moment, and his eyes looked to the crowd for answers.

This question,

Secretary of War George Levinson and Chief of Staff of the Federal Army, Maj. Gen. Arthur Temple, could not answer, but could only bow their heads in disguise, taking a keen interest in the carpet of the Oval Office, and staring at it incessantly.

President Polk didn't want to find the answer in the two of them, his eyes swept over White House Chief of Staff Harry Hoover, Secretary of State Slim Raff, and finally on Treasury Secretary Joseph Nanning.

Joseph Nanning shook his head with a wry smile, military spending is not a small amount of money, there is no parliamentary appropriation bill, where is he, the Minister of Finance, going to get this money?

Do you really think that parliamentary hearings are fun?

Those parliamentarians are all bitter and mean, they have to pick bones in eggs for nothing, such a big melon falls into the hands of those parliamentarians, Joseph Nanning, the chancellor of the exchequer, will shed his skin if he does not die.

There was an embarrassing silence in the Oval Office, and President Polk's face turned black when he saw this.

Dare to ...... Co-authoring this war is my business alone, right?

White House Chief of Staff Harry Hoover, as the chief butler, had to stand up for the president at this time.

He groaned and said; "Your Excellency, I believe that as long as the war is won, this money can be settled from subsequent government expenditures. In the early stage, try to find private bank loans or private sponsorship, there is always a way to solve it. ”

"So what is the attitude of the military? I can't watch so much money go down the drain, do I have the confidence to win in the end? ”

"Your Excellency, although the course of the war has been tortuous and difficult, the military is confident that it will achieve the final victory. After all, we are a large country with a population of 20 million, and we far surpass our opponents in terms of financial resources and resources. The final victory must belong to the United States. ”

"It's very moving, George Levinson is right, we're gamblers who have lost a good hand now, what can we do but keep increasing our stakes?" President Polk chuckled, stretched out his hands and rubbed his face vigorously to make himself look more energetic, and then said;

"Well, the military can get the 4,000 militia you want, and you can also get adequate supplies. I don't have a lot of demand, I just hope that you can defeat this cavalry led by the mad king and save the face of the American kingdom. As for the westward expedition, we can only take one step at a time. ”

"Your Excellency, the soldiers at the front will fight bravely to bring back the victory you desire."

"I hope so, alas!" President Polk let out a long sigh, filled with endless loss.

Why is the path of America's expansion so thorny?

What the hell went wrong?

Kansas city

It is a transportation hub city in the central Great Plains of the United States and the capital of Kansas, located in the fertile black soil of the Central Great Plains, surrounded by rail and highway transportation facilities in all directions, and has a high level of agricultural and animal husbandry development.

The city is dotted with farms and plantations, both large and small, creating a thriving idyllic scene.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezie, commander of the Tennessee Cavalry, as the commander of the task force returning to Kansas City to supplement logistics training, and Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Shore, commander of the 2nd Musket Regiment in Virginia, led the 1,700-strong force to escort 460 wagons all the way back to Kansas City, and the necessary supplies were replenished as soon as possible.

The more than 800-kilometer logistics line from Kansas City to Denver was severely damaged by the rangers of the Tang Kingdom, three post stations were burned, and hundreds of kilometers of long-distance power lines disappeared without a trace.

No need to ask, the telegraph line must have been packed and brought back by the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom.

Affected by this

Most of the originally deployed post station personnel were withdrawn to Kansas City, and the entire logistics line existed in name only.

If the serious attack of the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom is not solved for a day, the post stations on these logistics and transportation lines are fat, allowing the enemy to take what they want, without the slightest ability to resist.

The question is that if such a long logistics transportation line and post stations along the way have to be protected by troops, how many troops will be enough?

Now on the transportation line, all the post stations and personnel have retreated, and they are cowering in Kansas City and dare not go out.

As a last resort, General Frank Gilhuri had no choice but to send heavy troops to protect the baggage wagon convoy and take on the heavy task of transporting supplies to the front.

Kansas City was piled up with supplies, and within the first time of returning, 460 wagons were well repaired and filled overnight.

Together with another 300 four-wheeled carriages, a huge transportation fleet of 760 four-wheeled carriages will be assembled to set off on the long journey back to Denver in the early hours of the next morning.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezi really didn't dare to delay time, he knew that the supplies at the US military camp in Denver were extremely tight, and he could only last for ten days at most.

By the time they came out, His Excellency had sent hunting teams to search for prey, from bison, bighorn sheep, elk, rabbits, and pheasants.

If this round trip goes well, it will take at least sixteen or seventeen days, and it is estimated that a certain military camp in Denver has long been suspended.

Early the next morning

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezi set out with a large team, and in order to prevent enemy attacks, Kansas City equipped the two coachmen on each logistics baggage wagon with muskets, and 760 wagons were 1,520 people, which could be used as musketeers in case of crisis.

So

The entire team has 1,000 musketeers and 1,520 armed militiamen, plus more than 700 Tennessee cavalry regiments, which is already a good armed force with considerable combat effectiveness.

Again, that's the same sentence

The United States has neither shortage of materials nor manpower, and what restricts the expansion of the scale of the war in the United States is the current political system of separation of powers, anarchism, and anti-war separatist forces, all of which are inseparable from the dark shadow of the British Empire.

How influential are the British in the United States?

Since the founding of the United States as an independent state, so far;

Successive presidents were British-American, not a French, German, Spanish, Dutch, or other European descent, including Polk, the 11th president of the United States, who strongly opposed the United Kingdom, and his great-grandfather was of pure British descent in Scottish-Irish descent.

In American high society

Anglo-Americans are closed circles dominated by big capitalists, big business owners and big ranchers, lawyers, politicians, and quite crowding out French, German, Hispanic and Mexican-Americans, as well as in the North and South.

It is an indisputable fact that in every state of the United States (both north and south), the political map of each county is dominated by Anglo-Americans, and it is an indisputable fact that as long as they are white Anglo-Americans, they are inherently more likely to succeed, more easily recognized by mainstream society, and more likely to be among the upper class than Americans of other ethnic groups.

It was precisely because of the strong influence of the British Americans that the unprecedented and tragic Civil War broke out many years later, and in addition to the sharp contradictions of slavery, the dark shadow of Great Britain could also be faintly found......

Playing with intrigue and trickery, the British have never served anyone, this is true!

If the Tang Kingdom wants to win the war, it cannot do without the full support of the British, and its role is far from being as simple as it seems.

A giant with his hands tied and shackled can only exert thirty percent of his power at most.

July 31, 1846

Fifteen days after the departure from Denver by Lieutenant Colonel Harriff Leitch, the task force had returned from Kansas City with a large amount of logistical supplies, and had arrived in the Burlington area after a starry night.

The Burlington area is located more than 260 kilometers east of Denver, 110 kilometers west of the Hugo area, and about 150 kilometers southwest from the Hugo area to Denver.

Burlington and Hugo were two of the three stations that were burned, and this was also the area where the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom was active, so Lieutenant Colonel Harrifer Leitch had to brace all his spirit and lead the team to move forward cautiously.

The Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Rangers had already moved forward seventy or eighty kilometers away, carefully searching for traces of the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom.

Lieutenant Colonel Harrifer Leitch knew that this was doomed to be in vain, in the vast Gobi Desert and the folds of the plateau, where did the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom hide, and where to look?

But for peace of mind, he sent three squadrons of Rangers.

Since suffering a heavy loss in the early hours of the morning, the American wagon formation must now leave after 7:30 a.m., and the cavalry patrol at night will be released 10 kilometers away to double the sentry arrangement.

Once the enemy situation is discovered

Strictly order the musketeers to defend along the carriage formation as soon as possible, strictly order to defend to the death, strictly prohibit unauthorized attacks, and do not come out if they are killed, so as not to give the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom an opportunity to take advantage of.

The carriage convoy braved the scorching heat and stayed day and night, and there were as many as 34 soldiers and 87 mules and horses who died of heat stroke along the way.

The advantage is that there are no loopholes, and the defense is tight.

"Are the Rangers back?" Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezi, commander of the Tennessee Cavalry, had breakfast, and while arranging his military uniform, he took out his gold-plated pocket watch and looked at the time, it was 7:25 in the morning, and there were still five minutes to go.

"Report to sir, there has been no cavalry return for an hour and a half, please instruct."

"Oh......"

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezzie's expression immediately became serious, and he walked briskly towards the other side of the carriage formation, where the temporary camp of the 2nd Virginia Musket Regiment was located.

According to the previous regulations;

Squadrons of Rangers released by the Tennessee Cavalry Regiment are to send a cavalryman back every hour, regardless of whether the situation is discovered or not.

For an hour and a half there was no cavalry returning, which in itself was an unusual situation.

After consulting with Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Shore, and for the sake of prudence, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frezzie decided to postpone the departure of the camp, and to send two additional squadrons of cavalry to patrol the southwest and northwest directions, 40 kilometers ahead, and still strictly ordered to send one cavalry every hour to report back.

I waited until 10:00 a.m., when the scorching sun was in the sky.

The cavalry sent out was like a stone sinking into the sea, and none of them came back, but the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom couldn't even see the shadow of a ghost, and Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frazie had already confirmed; They were nearby, and most of the cavalry they sent out were probably poisoned.

Here's the problem

The cavalry of the Tang Kingdom never showed up, so it's not a matter of just waiting?

If the enemy does not show his face for a day, the US convoy will not dare to move forward for a day, so what about three days, five days, or even longer?

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frazie was anxious, his troops were well stocked, but the U.S. military base camp in Denver was already in sight, and at this time, it must have been cut off, and he could only kill horses to feed his hunger.

With more than 660 cavalry and more than 3,000 musketeers in General Frank Gilhurry's camp in Denver, it is enough to kill at least a dozen horses a day, how many days are these 660 horses enough?

To go or not to go?

This became a big problem that haunted Lieutenant Colonel Harry Fletsch.