(The previous chapter was reviewed in the palace, mainly about the strategic planning and steps of the Tang Kingdom for Mexico, which could neither be modified nor released, so we could only wait.) ）

Entering the new year, the civil war between the North and the South of the United States tends to be even more intense.

After the defeat at the Battle of Marassas, US Federal President James Buchanan and the Northern Army came under great pressure, and public opinion blamed the defeat on stupid command and government incompetence, and criticized the ruling party.

In this predicament

The Democratic Party finally came to its senses, and in January and May 1858 carried out two national military mobilizations, in which 100,000 recruits were conscripted, and the total strength of the Northern Army rapidly expanded to nearly 620,000 men, and all forces were concentrated in preparation for a general attack on the South.

The Federal States of the Southern Coalition (CONFFEDE) also showed no weakness and carried out two national military mobilizations in late January and late May, respectively, with an estimated mobilization of more than 350,000 troops, bringing the total number of troops to 470,000.

The railway from the Phoenix Castle of the Tang Kingdom to the east is now under emergency construction, and after nearly half a year of emergency repair, a 78-kilometer railway line has been built from the Hongyan Valley to the American Hugo Fortress.

At this point, the unimpeded railway network of the Tang Kingdom was officially connected with the huge railway network of the United States, forming a smooth railway network covering the whole of North America (Note; Currently limited to the southern United States).

Every day, more than 20 special trains are roaring to Kansas City, from here to Texas, to deliver grain, canned food, tents, war horses, barbed wire, military uniforms, military boots and weapons and equipment to the Southern Army, and support the South to fight the war.

Since the start of the war

The Confederate States of America in the South have applied for three consecutive large war loans, borrowing a total of 162 million Tang Yuan from a syndicate composed of the Royal Red Oak Bank, the Bank of America, the Royal Chang'an Bank, the Bank of Los Angeles, and the Bank of Communications, for a period of 10 years, with an annual interest rate of 11.5%, of which eighty percent was paid by the Tang Kingdom for the supply of materials and weapons and equipment needed for the war, and concentrated all efforts to win the war.

And this Pacific Railroad (consisting of the Los Angeles Railway, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Railroad trunk lines) is a powerful weapon for the Tang Kingdom to infiltrate its influence and support the strong heart of the Southern Alliance to fight the war.

Judging by the general pattern of the current war;

The Southern Army continued to win victories in the east, but suffered several defeats on the Chicago front in the west, and the overall war situation was superior, but it did not achieve a clear upper hand.

Because of the flood of recruits recruited from the north onto the battlefield, the breakthrough made by the Southern Army on the Eastern Front will always be stubbornly counterattacked by the Northern Army, and there will be an obvious tug-of-war situation on the battlefield.

From the District of Columbia on the Eastern Front to the Mississippi River, the main north-south transportation artery, and then west to the Chicago Front, a long front of more than 3,600 kilometers, the white soldiers of the North and South of the United States fought bloody and bitter battles, and the casualties were difficult to count.

On the Eastern Front

McClelland, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, who sympathized with the slave owners, sat on an army of 210,000 troops, and stood still for several months, allowing the fierce attacks of the Southern Army to warn everywhere, and still chose a passive defensive posture.

Judging from the military intelligence reports, the vicious war between the north and the south of the United States is still to come......

"Alas, I can only watch the excitement."

Major General Fan Pengfei put down the military intelligence bulletin marked "confidential" in his hand, sighed melancholy, and felt itchy and unbearable.

But His Majesty said it at the high-level military meeting in Taoyuan; The army must be able to endure its temperament and work hard to improve its internal skills in order to wait for the fighter plane.

Since the beginning of last year, various military academies have begun to expand their enrollment on a large scale, and even the navy has joined in the fun, more than doubling the size of their enrollment.

The army has been reserving talents and training non-commissioned officers and grass-roots officers with rich combat experience, and there is also a training battalion under the Snow Mountain Division, and the reserve of middle and low-level officers and non-commissioned officers is enough to form another Snow Mountain Division.

It is an indisputable fact that other units are not as exaggerated as the Snow Mountain Division, but there is a large amount of affluence among the rank and file officers and the military.

The vast majority of the European expeditionary forces that participated in the Crimean War were ordinary soldiers when they returned, and the officers and non-commissioned officers barely moved, and ninety percent remained.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many framers.

As far as Major General Fan Pengfei knows;

About 100,000 mainland recruits have gathered at the military base in Salt Lake City, and more than 11,600 of them have been added to the four divisions of the Southern Military Region that are fighting in Mexico, including the Snow Mountain Division.

This group of mainland recruits has a good physique, has the spirit of hardship and hard work that Chinese soldiers have always had, and is skilled in combat, which is not inferior to the soldiers of the expeditionary force who landed in Europe at the beginning.

As long as you participate in a few battles and see blood, all of them are good soldiers.

Another 12,000 recruits were reinforced to front-line combat readiness positions such as Taoyuan Fortress, Redstone Valley Fortress, Peel Fortress and Omaha Fortress, and quickly strengthened the fort's defense capabilities.

Nearly 80,000 well-trained soldiers, unknown from the heavily kept secret Salt Lake City military base, are heard to be training for urban street and mountain warfare.

Whenever he thinks of such a large military force hidden in the kingdom, Major General Fan Pengfei is excited and difficult to calm down, what a big ambition this is?

At a high-level military meeting

His Majesty the King has made no secret of his enthusiasm for the heavy industrial areas in the north of the United States, with the metropolis of Chicago as the core, and the all-out offensive military plan drawn up by the General Staff is also aimed at swallowing the northern states of the United States as its strategic goal.

If he can personally participate in such a grand battle, Major General Fan Pengfei will feel that this life is not wasted!

As a general who has experienced the offensive and defensive battles of the Sevastopol fortress and personally led the army over the snow-capped mountains, Fan Pengfei knows the great significance of the words "urban street warfare and mountain warfare", which means that he can be called the top combat force of the infantry in the world today.

In army operations, this is the most high-end and most complex combat training subject, and looking at the armies of the world today, it is almost impossible to hear of any country's army that specializes in these two subjects.

When you really need it, just line up and charge upwards.

European armies were generally composed of nobles who served as officers, and they did not care about the lives of soldiers, because there was a fanatical tendency in European aristocratic circles to sacrifice glory and regard honor and chivalry as their lives.

Don't even care about their own lives, do you expect them to value the lives of their soldiers?

Boring to turn the pen in his hand, Major General Fan Pengfei was thinking about finding an opportunity to transfer back, whether he would serve in the Chang'an Lecture Hall or the Royal Senior Infantry School, or return to the Army Staff Headquarters, he would always have to leave the Southern Military Region.

In the next few years, the Southern Military Region will be going around in Mexico and the Aztec Republic, and in the event that the local government is unable to reach in, the military force will be the dominant force in the kingdom's penetration into Mexico and the Aztec Republic, and will use more brutal means to rapidly change the social and demographic structure.

Major Fan Pengfei calculated himself, he himself served as a colonel and division commander for two and a half years, and was later promoted to brigadier general, and served as the commander of the 201st division for one year and seven months, because of his intervention in the Mexican civil war, he was promoted to major general again, and it has been more than two months.

Now the situation in the south is generally calm, and only a small number of remnants of the former government have fled in the mountains, and it is basically impossible for them to come out alive to make trouble.

According to the regulations on the rotation of senior generals, he served as the commander of the Snow Mountain (201st Division) for nearly two years, and if the service experience of the expeditionary force is counted, it will be more than 4 years, and it is not far from the hard bar that must be rotated for 5 years.

At this time, I applied for a transfer, and then asked the old commander, Major General Tian Mantun (deputy commander of the Southern Military Region), to do some activities, and it is estimated that there will be no big problem.

After being transferred back to the military academy or the General Staff Headquarters for a few months, you will have the opportunity to join the Northern Military Region and personally participate in the war of the century that may determine the final pattern of North America.

Okay, that's it.

Major General Fan Pengfei quickly made up his mind, he is the kind of relatively pure soldier, and he does not want to meddle in these things that the current Snow Mountain Division does, he is not short of money to spend, and he does not want to be poked in the backbone and pointed at him.

Jumping out of this whirlpool a day earlier can be reassuring.

Since the decision was made, Major General Fan Pengfei immediately took out a letter paper, sat down at the table and began to write a letter to the old commander, including but not limited to Major General Tian Mantun, deputy commander of the Southern Military Region.

In his plan, if he can go to the military base in Salt Lake City, it will be a rat falling into a rice tank...... Happy don't don't.

However, this is unlikely, because there are certain rules for the rotation of senior officers, and when they leave the position of military commander, they either go to the army staff headquarters or go to the military academy, and it is impossible to serve as a military commander continuously.

The purpose of going to the Army General Staff Headquarters is to enable senior officers to broaden their horizons, enhance their ability to take charge of the overall situation, and be able to look at problems from the perspective of the overall development of the Army, not just their own division or military region, and to cultivate an overall vision and strategic capability.

Serving in military academies and academies is a process of precipitation and re-education of military knowledge, where you can participate in military exchanges with countries around the world, supplement the deficiencies of combat science and military strategy, and grow into knowledge-based military generals.

Major General Fan Pengfei once studied at the Royal Sanchester Military Academy in the United Kingdom, and has personally come into contact with the military doctrines of Britain and France, participated in the analysis of many famous war examples in Europe, and has a deeper understanding of war.

If he is to serve in a military academy, he must teach several courses in the senior officer class, participate in the training of military commanders at the division and regiment level, participate in lectures at senior military forums, study Clausewitz's "On War" in depth, and study military geostrategy, which is also what he likes to do.

Fan Pengfei was writing a letter, there was a knock on the door, he stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head, and said; "Come in."

The door opened

The captain officer walked in and gave a military salute and said; "Rapporteur, Mr. Pedro, Minister of Agriculture and Development of Mexico, asks for a meeting."

"Is there something wrong with him?" Major General Fan Pengfei frowned and asked, he really didn't want to deal with these high-ranking Mexican officials.

"Well, probably because of the recent crackdown on the people in the areas controlled by the Mexican government, some of them may affect local agricultural production and development, and the scale of this is ......."

"This ......"

Major General Fan Pengfei rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, he was tired of the greed of these Mexican government leaders, but he had to be vain.

This Minister Pedro did not come to the people's suffering, but just to have milk for the crying child, and he just wanted to ask for some extra benefits and share some benefits.

Doing these things, Fan Pengfei is really not good at it!

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