June 2, 1848

The first phase of the Pacific Railroad was successfully completed, and the entire railway line from Los Angeles to Sacramento was completed and opened to traffic via New Chang'an (San Francisco), becoming the main traffic artery of the cities along the Pacific Coast.

In the second phase, the Pacific Railroad will continue north from Sacramento to Seattle via Portland and continue 293 kilometers north to Vancouver.

At the same time as the construction of the Pacific Railway, the Tang Kingdom also built a number of branch railways to connect important cities in China, the most important of which was the interregional railway from New Chang'an (San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco) to Salt Lake City.

As the California Gold Rush became famous, it set off a magnificent gold rush, attracting gold diggers from all over the world, especially Chinese immigrants.

Statistics as of the end of May

The total population of the Tang Kingdom has reached 843,000, and it is still rising at a rate of 36,000~40,000 per month, of which more than eighty percent are Chinese immigrants from the mainland of China on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

It is expected that someday from September to October, the national population will exceed one million more than two months ahead of schedule, which is a glorious milestone.

It is precisely because of the continuous replenishment of Chinese immigrants that since the end of March, the Tang Kingdom has set up two recruit training camps in New Chang'an and Los Angeles respectively, and each recruit training camp can accommodate tens of thousands of recruits at the same time.

It is expected that by the end of July, more than 20,000 Chinese recruits who have received complete military training will continue to drive up the Colorado Plateau by train, greatly enriching the military strength of the Tang Kingdom.

The role of these more than 20,000 Chinese recruits is, on the one hand, to enhance the strength of the army, and on the other hand, to replace the Chinese veterans who have completed their service periods.

In the military deployment of the Tang Kingdom, the vast majority of the new soldiers will be replaced by veterans, who will be active on the front line of the war against the United States, with the aim of minimizing the casualties of veterans.

Behind every Chinese veteran on the Colorado Plateau is a complete Chinese family, with wives and newborn children, who are the pillars of the whole family.

If 2,000 veterans are lost in the war, then 2,000 Chinese families will lose their breadwinners, affecting tens of thousands of people.

Each family is a small homestead farm, and this part of the veterans wholeheartedly supports the king, which is the basic plate for the rise of the Tang Kingdom, and the direct beneficiary class will have a subtle and significant impact on social stability.

Therefore, at the time when the US soldiers were pressing.

The Tang Kingdom is still methodically promoting the retirement of veterans, entering the second-line militia units to play a residual role and serving as the backbone of the backbone.

June 4th

At the completion and launching ceremony of gongs, drums and firecrackers and colorful flags, the first 3,200-ton iron migrant ship "Taishan" manufactured by Chang'an Shipyard was successfully launched, which marked that the Tang Kingdom had the ability to build 3,000-ton iron passenger ships and became one of the world's third-rate shipbuilding powers.

Chang'an Shipyard, which is dominated by British engineers and experienced British craftsmen, has burst out with great enthusiasm for development and is developing with each passing day after absorbing the world's advanced shipbuilding technology.

On the slipway of Chang'an Shipyard, there are three 3,200-ton migrant ships of the same class, which are under construction.

They are "Hengshan", "Songshan" and "Huashan", all of which are ocean-going migrant ships of the same specification, which have the attributes of dual use for customers and have a wide range of uses.

At the Los Angeles shipyard, three 3,000-ton iron migrant ships are also under construction, two of which were ordered by the Chinese Merchant Shipping Company and planned for the increasingly popular transpacific northern route.

In today's world, Britain is the only maritime hegemon, from shipbuilding to naval equipment and steam internal combustion engines, all ahead of other countries in the world, and it is also the first country to step into the threshold of industrialization.

France, Prussia, the kingdoms of the Italian Peninsula, Austria-Hungary and so on can be regarded as the world's second-rate shipbuilding powers, and the rest are the United States, the Tang Kingdom, Russia and other third-rate industrial countries.

Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, the Ottoman Empire and other pioneers of the Age of Discovery, are still in the age of sailing wooden ships, not only did not keep up with the pace of the first industrial revolution represented by steam power, but were left far behind by the times.

June 5th

The fiercest battle to date broke out in the Hongyan Valley, and the total 34,000 troops of the US Second Corps almost poured out, sounding the clarion call for an all-out attack.

At 5:00 a.m., the U.S. troops blew the wake-up call, ate breakfast early, and left the camp at 6:00 a.m., approaching the Hongyan Valley with murderous vigour, and the long queue was endless.

7:40

The US troops who arrived first launched a fierce artillery bombardment, and more than 150 artillery pieces opened fire in unison, and the rumbling sound of the artillery shook the ground and shook the mountains, and the smoke and dust rose everywhere, which was spectacular.

The artillery of the defending side of the Tang Kingdom raised the muzzle of the gun, and aimed the focus of the counterattack at the infantry behind the US artillery, 48 guns opened fire together, and the shells shuttled and flew, and the soldiers in the US array were broken and broken, and the dead and wounded were pillows.

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted for more than 20 minutes, and the American Menglie artillery destroyed 7 batteries, killed and wounded more than 50 artillery members of the Tang Kingdom, and caused a certain degree of damage to the defense line of the breastwork.

The Tang Kingdom's counterattack artillery fire was even sharper, raging in the unprotected US military array, causing serious casualties among more than 800 US soldiers, and the overall formation was already shaky.

If it weren't for the U.S. commanders' efforts to maintain it, I'm afraid it would have been defeated.

See this scenario

The U.S. troops had to launch an infantry attack in advance, and to the music of "God Bless America," the U.S. troops lined up a 920-meter-wide attack with their bayonets loaded and launched wave after wave of ferocious attacks.

A loud horn sounded over the Red Rock Valley position, and the white servant musketeers in charge of the defense rose from behind the defensive breastwork, and at the command of the commander, the bullets were systematically loaded and ready to meet them.

When the distance between the two sides approached within 300 meters, the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom in the defensive chest wall fired the first round of guns, and the flying bullets knocked down more than 30 American soldiers.

Obviously, striking at too long distances is not very effective.

Under the loud reprimand of the commander, the American soldiers quickly replenished the broken queue in front, endured casualties, and continued to approach forward.

At a distance of 270 meters and 240 meters, the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom fired two consecutive volleys of guns, causing more than 50 and more than 80 casualties to the attacking American soldiers.

The blood and dead soldiers flying in the queue had a great impact on the confidence of the American attacking soldiers.

As the distance between the two sides approached, the defending Datang Kingdom soldiers lined up and attacked, and the casualties caused to the US offensive array rose sharply, and they could not fight back just by being beaten, and the footsteps of the US soldiers were already hesitant and scattered, and the advance queue became bent like an earthworm.

Therefore, approaching a distance of 210 meters, the commander of the American army gave the order "Stop advancing, raise your gun flat, shoot!" The sound of a dense burst of bean-like guns rang out, and a ball of fire suddenly appeared in the ranks of the US troops, rising thick blue-black gunsmoke.

At this time, the defending soldiers of the Tang Kingdom also fired the fourth round of neat rows of guns, and the dense bullets whistled and shuttled, conveying the message of death.

Only a creepy sound of "puff puff" was heard, and countless blood holes were cut in the ranks of the US troops, and blood flew high, so that more than 120 US soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the bitter howls resounded throughout the battlefield.

On the other hand, in the chest wall defense position of the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom, the vast majority of counterattack bullets hit the stone chest wall, leaving no actual results except for a white spot and fine stone chips.

The U.S. army's round of platoon firing caused casualties among more than 10 soldiers of the defending Datang Kingdom, which was a huge gap compared to its own losses.

The U.S. troops had to stop and reload their ammunition after the platoon shots, and they watched in horror as they watched each other repeat the same action, and became scrambled under the fear of death.

Some soldiers loaded two parts of gunpowder but forgot to load the warhead, some soldiers reloaded the warhead and gunpowder backwards, and some soldiers broke the bar in panic......

When the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom raised their guns again, the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight ahead, and the more than 2,300 American soldiers who attacked couldn't help but burst out with fearful shouts, followed by a rout, and it was out of control.

"Bang Bang ......"

After the fifth round of platoons, the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom in the Hongyan Valley once again reaped nearly 100 results, completely defeating this round of large-scale attacks by the US army.

The cheers of victory resounded through the valley, which made the commander of the Second Corps of the US Army, Major General Schneider, distort his face with anger and curse fiercely; "Pass my order, arrest all the fleeing soldiers of the attacking force, and the military law will be carried out, and I will make an example of these cowards."

"Yes, Your Excellency, but ......"

"But what?"

"Please forgive me for saying bluntly, Your Excellency, the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom are much higher than the Mexicans in terms of morale, will to fight, and combat skills, and the two cannot be compared. We are facing a tough enemy, an army trained in the strict military training of Europe, with the advantage of defense, and the soldiers are under great pressure during the attack. ”

"Mr. Colonel, this is a war, no matter what the reason, you can't exonerate the rout, so let's shoot the 30 first routs and carry them out!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

The colonel of the U.S. Army rushed forward with the overseer team like wolves, knocked over several 10 defeated soldiers to the ground and tied them up, and then announced their crimes in front of all the soldiers and executed them on the battlefield.

After a chaotic shooting, 30 soldiers fell to the ground and died, becoming an unobtrusive picture in this tragic battle.

General Schneider's high-pressure tactics had a good effect, suppressing the emotional bomb on the verge of collapse of the American army, and finally launched the second infantry attack.

On the day of June 5, the wave of the US army's all-out offensive rose wave after wave, and four infantry attacks were carried out throughout the day, the most recent of which reached 70 meters of the chest defense line, but unfortunately it was still defeated.

After the all-day attack, the US troops suffered more than 1,720 combat casualties and lost 12 artillery pieces.

The casualties of the Tang Kingdom reached 141 and 21 artillery pieces were lost.

It is obvious that the US military did not hesitate to suffer casualties in attacking the Hongyan Valley, because it itself was also under tremendous economic and social pressure from public opinion, and had no choice but to take substantive offensive actions in order to alleviate the wave of criticism of the military's inaction in American society.

The Northern Cavalry Corps, which is raging wildly in the Great Lakes region of the United States, has caused tremendous damage to the property and society of the American people, and has also put tremendous pressure on the US military.

80,000 heavy soldiers gathered on the front line, why did they not advance an inch for more than 20 days?

Why did the Chicago Defense Line, which was defended by 40,000 U.S. troops, leak from all sides like a sieve, allowing the fierce cavalry of the Tang Kingdom to burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil, turning the Great Lakes region upside down?

The United States has already borne a huge military expenditure of $330 million, and the war has lasted more than two years.

The boiling public opinion in the United States has put a mountain of pressure on the Polk government and military, forcing the military to commit heavy attacks in an attempt to quickly break the current stalemate and win a respite.

Since June 5, for 4 consecutive days, the US Second Corps launched a tidal wave of crazy attacks, and on June 8, it once entered the trench, almost in close contact with the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom who defended it.

After four days of attacking, the U.S. 2nd Corps paid the price of more than 6,700 casualties, and also smashed the defense line of Hongyan Valley to pieces, causing thousands of casualties among the defenders.

Such a result was obviously not what the General Headquarters of the US-Western Expeditionary Forces expected to see, so a larger-scale offensive was launched on October 9.

The commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Force cheered for Major General Schneider of the Second Corps and shouted wildly; "Don't be afraid of casualties, the Second Corps suffered 1,000 casualties, I'll give you 1,000 casualties, 10,000 casualties, I'll give you 10,000 casualties, even if you let go of the fight, I just want Hongyan Valley."

The heavy casualties in the war had numbed the US troops, and during the all-out offensive on 9 June, the US Second Corps concentrated its artillery fire and bombarded frantically, shelling for two hours from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

During this period

For the first time, the defensive artillery fire in the Red Rock Valley did not counterattack, but remained silent, allowing the American artillery fire to rage, knocking down large areas of the defensive breastwork and blowing them into a pile of rubble.

No matter how solid the rock breastwall is, it can't withstand the repeated ravages of artillery fire, and under the fierce artillery fire of the American army, the defensive breastwall of Hongyan Valley is like a dog's tooth gnawing and tattered, and it has lost part of its defensive capability.

Major General Schneider, commander of the US Second Corps, threw 13,000 musketeers in one time in the subsequent attack, forming six offensive formations about 100 meters apart, and pounced like a tide, preparing to take the Hongyan Valley position in one fell swoop.

This time, the U.S. Second Corps invested a lot of money, hoping to make a contribution in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Major General Schneider didn't know that behind the queue of soldiers of the Tang Kingdom who appeared in the defensive position of the Red Rock Valley, 24 storm-type heavy machine guns had been lined up, and the muzzles of the black hole holes were pointed straight ahead with a murderous aura, which was a huge death trap.

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