After coming back

Richard was in a very good mood, and this trip to the micro-service went out to inspect the people's feelings, allowing him to see the shortcomings of social governance, and also tasted the flavors of various places, which was quite rewarding.

Now the main French-style building of the Mirror Lake Palace is under construction halfway up the mountain, and Richard temporarily settled on the edge of the Mirror Lake at the foot of the mountain, which is a quiet house surrounded by more than a dozen wooden houses.

The front yard is composed of a meeting hall, a side hall, a large study, a palace secretary's room, and a military attaché's office, which is the place where military and political affairs are handled every day.

The backyard mansion is surrounded by 6 large and small wooden houses, located in the deep forest, and the environment is elegant and pleasant, and it is an inner house that outsiders are forbidden to set foot in.

In the inner house

In addition to the female rolls, there is also a unique group of residents.

After Richard came back, he briefly explained some things, and then walked in the direction of the back house, and the officers and soldiers of the guards on duty immediately solemnly saluted with guns, saying; "Greetings to Your Majesty."

"No courtesy."

Richard bowed slightly, and continued to walk forward.

After a few steps, they were greeted by a group of unique guests, six half-man-tall wolves, two North American brown bears that stood more than a person's height, two colorful tigers and a jaguar.

These beasts turned into obedient cats and pet dogs in front of Richard, obediently lying on the ground and humming, and the tail behind the butt wagged rapidly.

Richard touched this and scratched that like he teased his own pet.

When the black jaguar pounced on it and begged for a hug, the two colorful tigers and the two North American brown bears immediately collapsed, lying on their legs and roaring, the roar was full of complex emotions of dependence, dissatisfaction and comfort, and the six giant wolves around the periphery were even more restless walking back and forth, and their tails waged more happily.

teased for a while

Richard put them down and walked deeper into the courtyard.

This group of beast pets knows the rules very well, and only operates within the range set by Richard, and does not dare to go beyond the thunder pool.

These delicate personal maids and palace maids in the back house are deeply afraid of these beasts from the heart, and if they are really allowed to run around, they will be scared to death.

With these Mengbeast Courtyard, the back house of King Richard is a forbidden place for all the officers and soldiers of the guard, and no man is allowed to trespass.

The consequences, of course, are extremely serious;

After dinner

Richard came to the small study in the back house, which was a private place for him to deal with military and political affairs, and some important things that were not handled in the big study would be brought back to the small study for review.

In this small study, Zheng Xiuniang, the personal maid, is responsible for tidying up and cleaning every day, Zheng Xiuniang is a petite little woman who doesn't know a few big words, she doesn't have any thoughts, just like a bowl of water.

For Zheng Xiuniang, serving His Majesty is a great thing.

Richard sat down at the desk, and Zheng Xiuniang came over like a cat, offering the freshly brewed tea with both hands, and was about to retreat.

Suddenly

was hugged by a big hand arrogantly, Zheng Xiuniang's delicate little body was only more than 90 pounds, and Richard hugged it like carrying a small cloth bag, which was very easy.

Zheng Xiuniang only had time to exclaim briefly, and then threw herself into his arms like a bird, and in a blink of an eye, her face was flying, and she was already stuck in Richard's arms like a crispy bone.

This beautiful lady was born with peach blossom eyes, and at this time her white face was half buried in Richard's strong chest, and she breathed like an orchid, and she spoke with a hint of trembling and endless temptation; "Your Majesty......"

So weak, so helpless, so pitiful, so tempting, what a bewitching little goblin!

Richard leaned down without hesitation......

(Some words omitted here)

After a violent storm, the wind and rain stopped, and the small study was calm again.

Zheng Xiuniang, who was as delicate as a weak willow, had left, and under the service of several palace maids, Zheng Xiuniang went to burn incense and bathe, washing incense and warming the quilt.

It's May

The night on the plateau is still cold, that is, it looks like it is more than 10 degrees above zero, and the two beautiful girls Zheng Xiuniang and Qin Yufei will definitely warm the quilt for Your Majesty.

At this time, Richard was refreshed, enjoying the luxurious life of the happy feudal lord with peace of mind, and the kerosene lamp in the small study was brighter, and he began to read and process the official documents.

In May, U.S. military movements became more frequent, with tens of thousands of troops passing through Kansas City and heading west.

The curtain of the third western expedition of the US army has slowly opened.

Lieutenant General Arthur Temple, who served as commander-in-chief of the Third U.S. Expedition to the West (Note; Lieutenant General Bob Wingraub, former chief of staff of the U.S. Continental Army), and deputy commander Lieutenant General Bob Wingraub adopted a steady and steady tactic, following the route of the army's advance, building railroad lines and military forts.

As of now

The U.S.-built railroad stretches about 560 kilometers west from Kansas City, and the end of the line is less than 300 kilometers from Phoenix (Denver) on the Colorado Plateau.

The forefront military assembly area of the U.S. military, more than 60 kilometers away from the Yuyogo Oasis and about 257 kilometers away from the Hongyan Valley, has almost reached the nose of the Tang Kingdom.

With the advance of the westbound railway, the U.S. Western Expeditionary Army built forts and material transit bases for battalions step by step, one every more than 100 kilometers, and invested heavy troops to garrison them.

On the more than 500-kilometer-long desert Gobi desert road, railways and highways go hand in hand, a series of large military camps, and post stations stretch into the distance like pearl necklaces.

This trick is a typical "hardened village, dumb battle".

This kind of tactics is very down-to-earth, implements the encroachment of the camp step by step, never rushes forward, and there is no complicated division and combined attack, and the tactics are interspersed with roundabouts, which can be said to be the most practical and disgusting tactics.

In the face of this simple step-by-step approach to close combat, Richard wisely chose to retreat, just sending heavy troops to stick to the front line of the Hongyan Valley, and never rashly attacked.

Against this simple tactic of oppression by the army, the cavalry corps, which Richard was most proud of, could not play a role.

The cavalry was the least adept at attacking the fortresses of the infantry's key defenses, and with the defensive walls and wooden fortresses, any cavalry attack would suffer heavy losses under the heavy fire of the Americans.

Therefore, Richard divided the 20,000 cavalry in his hands into two, of which 8,000 cavalry belonged to the Northern Cavalry Corps, stationed in Peel City, as a flank force, pinning down the nearly 40,000 defensive forces of the American army led by Chicago.

Wait until the war is in full swing

The Northern Cavalry Corps will make an all-out attack, go deep into the inland towns of the Great Lakes to burn and loot, stir up the old rear of the United States into a nest of porridge, rip up the railroads, destroy the towns, attack the railway station and other logistics camps, and kill the gods and the Buddhas.

Richard personally led 12,000 cavalry to fight on the outskirts of the Colorado Plateau, cooperating with the fort defense army and militia, and fighting the American army to the end.

First of all, in the Hongyan Valley, which was attacked by the US army's western expeditionary force, there are currently more than 3,700 musketeers and 5,000 white servants.

Richard reviewed the document for a moment, then put down his pen, picked up a cigar, cut off the cap, lit it, and sucked it beautifully.

The big war is imminent

Even with his experience of a hundred battles, it is inevitable that he will be impetuous, and feel the heavy pressure on his shoulders.

The thick smoke of the cigar wafted out, enveloping his long figure, making it look hazy.

The U.S. Army did its best in the third westward expedition, with a total of more than 80,000 troops, including 30,000 veterans of the bloody war withdrawn from Mexico, including more than 6,300 elite cavalry.

The United States and Mexico reached a formal armistice treaty in March, and Mexico formally ceded Texas, located in the Monterey area of the Gulf of Mexico and the Tijuana region to the north, the Mexicali region.

The U.S. side made a symbolic payment of $3.5 million to compensate for the losses of the Mexican side.

This is an even more stringent land cession contract than the previous history, and in line with the principle of compensation for the loss of the embankment outside the embankment, the Americans have ceded about 220,000 square kilometers of land from northern Mexico in addition to Texas.

So

Mexico shrank from 3.85 million square kilometers to less than 1.6 million square kilometers, and the original California, Arizona and New Mexico regions became the territory of the Tang Kingdom.

The regions of Texas, northern Monterey, Tijuana, and Mexicali became U.S. territories.

Speaking of Mexicans, it is really miserable, neither of these two neighbors in the north is good-looking, one has a better appetite than the other, and the other is more ruthless than the other.

After this battle

Mexico has been completely eliminated from the competition for hegemony in North America, losing nearly three-fifths of its territory and more than 1.3 million people, and its total population has dropped to more than 5.5 million.

Compared with the southern invasion of Mexico, the western expedition to the Tang Kingdom is a history of blood and tears in which the United States was always slapped in the face, not only with unprecedented losses, but also with a blue nose and swollen face, which was unbearable.

Now, the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom rushing down from the Colorado Plateau has become a lingering nightmare in the hearts of the old Americans in the north, and it is a bitter tear to say.

Just save up a little cavalry strength and be wiped out, and after another year, it will be used up again, and so on......

Therefore, among the nearly 15,000 cavalry troops that the U.S. Army finally cobbled together again, only 6,300 elite cavalrymen participated in the southern invasion of Mexico, and the rest were rookies who had been in the army for less than three ~ four months.

In this field, the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom is undoubtedly the king.

What the United States was able to rely on was its large numbers and strong national strength, and it was able to quickly gather an infantry army of more than 100,000 people and have a sufficient number of artillery, which was the magic weapon that the Third Western Expedition relied on to defeat the enemy.

In this regard, the Tang Kingdom is undoubtedly the biggest shortcoming.

In the defensive battle of the Colorado Plateau, Richard has made the greatest military mobilization, in addition to nearly 16,000 musketeers to defend the fortress, he will also mobilize tens of thousands of armed militia to assist in the defense, which is almost the ultimate in what can be done.

To know

Although the total population of Phoenix City and Taoyuan City is close to 290,000, more than half of them are white women and Indian women who have been taken captive, and there are more than 47,000 newborn babies, minus 29,000 white hard labor prisoners, not many people can really carry guns to the battlefield.

Among the 16,000 musketeers, including 8,600 white servants, and more than 2,000 white musketeers recruited in the second American expedition to the west, there were only about 5,600 real Chinese soldiers.

And these more than 5,600 Chinese musketeers are the backbone of the strength of the Tang Kingdom to hold on to Phoenix Castle and Taoyuan City, which is not a lot of people.

After the outbreak of war

There were also tens of thousands of trained armed Chinese militia members who defended the fortress, including workers, business owners, merchants, government officials, policemen, and craftsmen.

When the war comes, all of them will leave their jobs behind and go to the castle fortress to participate in the unprecedented tragedy of the war.

Therefore, in the next 2~3 years, the shortcoming of the weak war background of the Tang Kingdom will always exist.

In order to make up for the great shortage of troops, Richard relied on only three magic weapons, the first was the castle fortress, the second was advanced weapons, and the third was the 12,000 elite cavalry troops led by him personally.

These days

The latest eagle news arrives every day, and through the sharp eagle eyes from above, Richard can clearly feel how huge the manpower and material resources of the Western Expeditionary Force mobilized by the US Army are.

The total number of U.S. troops gathered in Kansas City and the route of the Western Expedition was close to more than 80,000 (including 15,000 cavalry, not including the more than 40,000 U.S. troops stationed on the front line in Chicago, and not including the U.S. Navy).

It can be said that in order to completely destroy the Tang Kingdom, the United States has always used all the strength of milk.

For the defenders of the Tang Kingdom, the U.S. military strength has a strength advantage of 2.7~3 times, if it is based on infantry alone, the 16,000 musketeers of the Datang Kingdom will have a disadvantage of 1:4.3 against 65,000 U.S. musketeers.

"The United States is really tmd, this is obviously bullying us with few people!" Slowly exhaling a puff of cigar smoke, a helpless look appeared on Richard's face.

Although he has 12,000 elite cavalry corps in his hands and is a powerful mobile force, he is not willing to attack the strong defensive camp of the American army under any circumstances, which would be too much of a loss.

In the age of steam, heavy cavalry equipped with cuirassers was not invincible.

The two sides approached within 200 yards, and the flintlock muskets of the American infantry were strong enough to penetrate the steel cuirass defenses and inflict lethal damage on the attacking cavalry.

The ammo penetration power of the flintlock musket and the revolver are completely different concepts, and the flintlock musket has a larger caliber, more gunpowder loaded, and naturally greater armor-piercing ability and damage.

Richard pursued the operational concept of pinning down the enemy, striking the enemy, and weakening the enemy in motion, and he preferred to wait patiently without a suitable strike machine.

A moment later

Richard simply got up from his chair and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, recalling all the details of the deployment and logistics of the US military, hoping to find an opportunity for the battle.

When he is not sure, he would rather keep going, even if the Phoenix Castle is breached by the American army, Richard will not press on it with the last elite cavalry corps.

He didn't dare to bet, and he didn't have the capital to gamble, because this elite cavalry corps was the real foundation of the Tang Kingdom, and if he lost it, he would not have a second chance to start again.

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