In this military intelligence report, the main content of the military mobilization of the United States in the third war is remarked; That is, the army will be expanded by 45,000 people.

There are two main directions for the use of troops, one is to reinforce the main battlefield in the south, and the second is to form a western expeditionary force.

When questioned by the parliament, General Frank Gilhuri, who fled alone after the defeat, falsely claimed that the Tang Empire's army was as high as 15,000 people, with no less than 4,000 cavalry, all of them well-equipped and brave, and that the United States underestimated the strength of the enemy army, which was the main factor in the defeat of the war.

On the one hand, it is to shirk its own culpability, and on the other hand, it is conducive to the parliament to pass the relevant war mobilization law.

Such a large-scale military mobilization in the United States, from recruiting volunteer militias to organizing training and preparing a large amount of supplies, and then going to the front line, will take at least 4~5 months.

Other words

Before next year's Spring Festival, the United States is temporarily unable to launch a new round of westward expeditions.

Richard stood up with a frown, pondering the message behind the MIA.

It turned out to be historical

The United States did not carry out the third full-scale war mobilization, and the commander of the Western Route Army, Colonel Stephen Carney, led 1,700 American troops to conquer the west, and the whole process was incredibly easy.

White immigrants from New Mexico, Arizona, California and other regions responded after the arrival of U.S. troops. In order to avoid a war with the American army, Britain ceded the Oregon region.

As a result, more than 1,700 U.S. troops led by Colonel Stephen Carney successfully occupied up to 2.8 million square kilometers of land and completed the great cause of westward expansion.

On the main battlefield of Southern Mexico

General Taylor led 35,000 American troops through many bloody battles,1 and defeated the Mexican army at Agua Nueva from February 21-24, 847, purging northern Mexico.

In the first half of 1847, the Scott Division defeated the Mexican army at the Battle of Serogordo and the Battle of Chubrusco, and on May 5, 1847, it landed in the Mexican capital.

After six months of fierce fighting, the U.S. army invaded Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, on September 14, 1847, and finally won the victory, forcing Mexico to cede 2.3 million square kilometers of territory (excluding 530,000 square kilometers of territory in the British Oregon colony) through a treaty. ), which established the territory of what would become the United States.

From now, Mexico has another year to last.

However, due to the butterfly effect caused by the appearance of the Tang Kingdom, the United States has now carried out the third military mobilization, expanding the size of the army by 45,000 again, with a total size of nearly 100,000 troops and a total navy of 95,000, adding up to nearly 200,000 people.

This could lead to a surge in the number of U.S. troops on the main battlefield on the southern front, crushing the Mexican army ahead of schedule.

Because of his familiarity with the aftermath, Richard had to worry about the spillover of the butterfly effect.

In that case, the Tang Kingdom will face a more severe situation in the future, and will be forced to deal with the all-out attack of the US army in advance.

Come to think of it

Richard felt the weight on his shoulders, stood up and thought about it for a long time, and after careful consideration, he had to make the difficult decision to expand the army again.

The Tang Kingdom must carry most or even all of the 45,000 soldiers recruited by the United States in the third military expansion, and Mexico will be able to support it until after September next year.

With the current strength of the Tang Kingdom, the main mobile force is 5 cavalry regiments, with a total of more than 4,000 cavalry, of which more than half are new cavalry trained for no more than three months, and the combat effectiveness is worrying due to insufficient training.

The plan currently being carried out to wipe out the indigenous tribes of the Indians is to try to make the new cavalry mature as soon as possible by means of fighting and training.

The total number of troops concentrated in Denver is more than 7,000 people, accounting for almost eighty percent of the total strength of the Tang Kingdom.

The rest are in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with less than 1,000 cavalry and more than 1,300 musketeers, and the total strength of the country is about 9,300 people.

With the third war mobilization of the United States, the Tang Kingdom was forced to increase its weight, and will recruit another 5,000 people among the new Chinese immigrants, bringing the total strength of the kingdom to more than 14,300 people.

Among them, 3,000 musketeers and 2,000 cavalry were recruited.

Of the 3,000 new musketeers, 2,000 were used to bolster Denver's defenses, bringing the number of Chinese musketeers to more than 3,000, and with the addition of more than 2,000 white musketeers from the Denver 1st and 2nd Denver Regiments, the total reached 5,000.

In this way, it can make up for the imbalance between the strength of the Chinese and the white musketeers, and firmly defend the castle fortress.

In Richard's plan;

The more than 3,000 Chinese musketeers, along with nearly 600 white artillerymen, will be mainly responsible for guarding the two military forts of Fort Denver Main and Fort Cherry.

During the war, all the Chinese laborers who had been stationed outside the country would shrink and return to Denver Castle to escape the fighting.

The predominantly white Denver 1st and 2nd regiments were responsible for guarding the 3.3-kilometer-long walls.

So

When the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom attacked the northern front, the military force with more than 3,000 Chinese musketeers as the core could ensure the safety of the rear and avoid the imbalance of military strength.

From the heart

Richard had always been wary of the predominantly white Denver Musketeers 1st and 2nd Regiments, and although a large number of grassroots Chinese officers were installed, it was difficult to fully trust.

After the decision to expand the army, the total number of cavalry will reach more than 7,000, of which more than 6,000 cavalry are located on the front line in Denver, and the number of Chinese accounts for more than 9%.

The population of the whole country is about 140,000, and the total number of troops has reached 14,300, if you add the logistics, factories and farms that serve the war, accounting for about half or even 6% of the Tang Kingdom, which is almost the limit of mobilization.

At the end of the day, it's still too small a population.

After Richard's decision to expand the army was issued, San Francisco and Los Angeles quickly selected about 5,500 elite Chinese immigrants from the newly arrived North American immigrants to forcibly recruit into the army.

Therefore, it did not have a serious impact on the social production of the Tang Kingdom.

After an initial 20 days of military training, 4,500 of the 5,500 recruits set out on the long journey to Denver.

Upon arrival at the Rio Nanlan Fortress, 500 of these recruits were used as reinforcements to fortify the Rio Nanlan Fortress's defenses.

The remaining 4,000 recruits continued north, arriving in Denver at the end of October, where they took a short break to devote themselves to intense military training.

On November 11, the 3.3-kilometer-long defensive wall, 3.6 meters high and 3.8 meters wide, was fully completed, and was composed of a solid rock concrete wall on the outside, covered with steel mesh and smoothed with cement, capable of withstanding frontal bombardment from 30-pound field artillery.

November 19th

In the Indian Valley, 53 kilometers from Denver, the first cement plant in the Denver area has entered the equipment installation stage, which was originally the nest of an Indian tribe that was cleared, hence the name.

The valley is located between two mountains, from which a river flows, and the terrain is secluded and treacherous, making it an important site for a cement plant.

Also located here are brick kiln factories, porcelain kilns, a steel mill, a food processing factory, a flour mill, an oil mill, etc., all under construction.

Next

After the construction of the cement plant is completed, a defensive fort wall will be built at the mouth of the Indian valley as a logistical stronghold for the Denver Fortress, with strong self-defense performance.

November 28th

Fort Cherry was the first to be built with a perimeter of 520 meters by 366 meters, an area of about 1.6 square kilometers, and a 4.5-meter-high fortress wall made of rock masonry, equipped with a raised semicircular fort, which was called "Fort Cherry" because it was close to Cherry Creek.

December 7th

The newly cultivated 7,000 acres of land upstream of Cherry Creek are rolling in wheat waves, and oats, sugar beets and potatoes are being planted in good season.

More than 1,000 trucks travel more than 40 kilometers from Cherry Creek to Denver Castle on the more than 40 kilometers of road, carrying the harvest to the warehouse area, filling all the large and small granaries.

The city of Denver was crowded with joyful expressions on everyone's faces.

At this time, the population of Denver had reached more than 39,000, including about 19,000 white and Indian slave prisoners, 6,000 cavalry garrisons, 4,000 musketeers, and nearly 10,000 Chinese laborers and Indian women.

The city streets in the main fort and the cherry castle have taken shape, the castle has been dug in all directions sewers, the street is paved with stone slabs, and the two~three storey masonry buildings facing the street have sprung up.

Banks, post offices, pubs and restaurants, grocery stores, grain and oil shops, medical halls, cloth villages, and Chinese signs for prostitute therapy in Qinglou have been hung one after another, and business is booming one by one.

The bumper harvest in agriculture heralds the dissipation of the shadow of food shortages that have enveloped the city of Denver, which is the greatest good news.

From now on

Denver will have an adequate supply of food, wine, poultry and livestock, and an abundant supply of meat, eggs, and milk, and will be able to support the development of surrounding towns while achieving self-sufficiency.

First of all, it is to support the construction of the Indian Valley.

December 12th

The completion of the Denver Main Fort perimeter wall and two powerful gun emplacements meant that Phase 1 of the fort was fully completed.

December 27th

After nearly three months of hard work by more than 6,700 Native American prisoners, the Denver moat, moats and two stone bridges were built, which greatly improved the defense system of the Denver Fortress.

The moat is about 8.6~9 meters wide and 4 meters deep, and the vertical rock slope is built on both sides of the river bank, and the rock masonry is about 1.3 meters high on the side near the fortress.

When fighting

The musketeers can go out of the city to fight, rely on the moats to carry out platoon strikes against the enemy, and cooperate with their own defenders on the city wall to form two staggered dense firepower up and down, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.

Three stone bridges were built over the moat, two narrow bridges to accommodate a four-wheeled carriage, leading to Fort Denver Main and Fort Cherry.

A suspension bridge is set up between the two stone bridges, which is controlled by a winch, which can be pulled up when the enemy is attacking, and cut off the external traffic.

The 5.5-metre-wide main stone bridge in the middle allows two horse-drawn carriages to easily move in opposite directions, connecting the main wall between the two military castles and serving as the main route for transporting supplies to the warehouse area along the river.

The main arch of this stone bridge is 7.2 meters long, and it is paved with 22 I-shaped iron plates, which can be removed during the wartime encirclement without affecting the defensive function of the moat.

The defensive design of the entire Denver Fortress integrates the essence of more than 1,000 years of defensive castles built by Chinese and Western countries, and it can be said that it is the most difficult to attack large-scale military fortress building on the American continent so far.

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