The U.S. military could spend a month traveling along the river valley through the Rocky Mountains, through the Great Desert into Death Valley, and around the Sierra Nevada to the U.S. government's "Promised Land."

This is also thanks to the fact that almost every one of them rode in pairs, but the speed of such marching men and horses had long been reached.

It is inevitable that these vanguard units of the US army will be disconnected from the baggage and artillery units behind. They discovered that California was full of fertile land and herds, which inspired the bestiality of the group.

The outermost Indian villages and the Native Woods became the first targets of the beasts, and the Indians knew what kind of Americans they were, so they put up a desperate resistance, and at the same time sent people to call for help from the Austrian army in Los Angeles.

Local Hispanics, on the other hand, still have a bit of a fluke mentality, believing that they are white and can negotiate terms with Americans on an equal footing.

The U.S. military is naturally welcome to negotiate, but don't think about leaving when people come. In this way, the Americans deceived the doors of one dock fort after another and ransacked them.

The U.S. troops, who had gone through a lot of mountains and rivers to reach California, no longer had much humanity at this time, and they were like a pack of wild beasts that killed everything, burned it, robbed it, and reduced it to ruins.

But the good times of the Americans did not last long, because the Indians and Native Spaniards in California were also accustomed to bloodshed.

Soon these natives inflicted heavy losses on the American troops, and the Austrian army, which had been waiting for an opportunity, also began to move.

John Sina was a businessman who always liked to maximize his profits, such as now.

Only after the aborigines have been beaten by the "democratic" and "free" United States can they understand what "justice" is.

Every country preaches the legitimacy and legitimacy of its colonies, and Austria is no exception. Franz even developed a theory specifically for this purpose, sacredness, justice and redemption, of which this justice is the name.

John Sina, as the most senior civil servant in California, naturally had this theory engraved in Franz's bones, and he needed to remind himself to act on this principle at all times.

Now is a good time to do justice, after all, the Americans are actually coming for the gold mines, but Austria will not give up this gold no matter what, so the two sides must be in a desperate situation.

Archduke Carl Ferdinand, on the other hand, was a ruthless defensive machine, having been in California for so many years, studying the direction and means of a possible enemy invasion, and he was fully prepared for both the north and the south.

Now it only takes one order to tighten the encirclement and deal with these aggressive enemies. But he also has his own concerns, and that is the threat from the sea.

Because of transportation problems, the easiest and most reasonable way to transport gold from California back to Austria was not by land, but by sea, first to Costa Rica or Nicaragua, then by land and then across the Atlantic back to Austria.

Therefore, all the important cities in California were built along the coast, and if a fleet was to kill along the coastline, Austria would not be able to counterattack at this time.

Archduke Carl Ferdinand consulted his brother as a marshal, and even hired battery specialists and shipbuilders, but the so-called coastal defense was still a non-existent thing.

Due to the lack of heavy artillery, the so-called batteries could not exert their strength at all, and as for shipbuilding, it was much more difficult than building guns.

First of all, a dry dock scared Archduke Carl Ferdinand. It's not just the cost that's amazing, it's the man-hours and manpower required, which is still too much luxury for California at this time.

In fact, there are only two dry docks in the whole of Austria, one in Venice and one in Trieste.

However, California's deep-water harbor does have the potential to build dry docks, but it is still too extravagant and worth the cost.

Returning to the book, the American pioneers who are still armed with the M1795 Springfield rifle are facing the Austrian army armed with the M1841 front-loading rifled gun and using the Migne round.

Not only that, but the American army was also disconnected from the baggage forces that followed, and they were not supported by artillery, while the Austrians were equipped with a large number of cavalry guns and anti-infantry rockets.

The Austrians first secured the location of the vanguard of the American army, which mistook a Native Spanish fort complex for a city and was besieging it.

In fact, due to the lack of heavy firepower of the American army, the soldiers could only attack the aborigines hiding in the buildings with huge casualties.

Of course, this is not the style of the US military, and it is impossible for these cowboys who yearn for freedom to accept it.

In fact, the U.S. military was several times larger than the original inhabitants of the Dock Fort, and although the other side had the advantage of terrain, they only had some old-fashioned flintlock pistols in their hands.

In order to maintain its rule, Austria limited the combat power of the local natives to the death, and could not have any weapons of war, nor could they hoard more than sixty kilograms of black powder.

The U.S. military actually won the battle, but there were always casualties in the war. The question is who will be the substitute for the ghost, the previous wave of charges has proved that the marksmanship of the opposite side is not bad.

If you force your attack, you will suffer heavy casualties.

In fact, if you start fighting each other without even an attempt, it is not an army at all.

"Damn the Austrians! Can't they honestly hand over everything and die quietly? Colonel Albert scolded.

"William, do you dare to go with me?" Colonel Daldo, who was on the side, teased.

"I've already lost sixteen men in the attack just now! Why should I let my people go? You like you, it's a big deal, Lao Tzu is a little less! ”

Colonel Albert didn't want to sacrifice his men anymore, and when he crossed the desert, his own people died the most, so now he had the least say.

If you put these brothers in your hands into it, I'm afraid that those guys won't even share the soup with them at that time.

Colonel Albert had this idea, and the other American officers naturally had it, after all, everyone wanted to eat meat, but no one wanted to break their front teeth.

So more than 4,000 American troops were in a stalemate with the natives in the dock fort, and what they didn't know was that the brother troops on the other side of the mountain had been wiped out by the Austrian army and the natives, and even they themselves had become prey for others.

In fact, the U.S. military lacked intelligence on the Austrian side, and they always believed that it was impossible for the Austrian army, which had only more than 10,000 men, to divide its forces.

After all, neither side is clear about the strength of the other, but they are wrong, the intelligence work of the Austrian side is doing a good job, and the natives of the California region are its eyeliners.

When the U.S. Army discovered a large number of Austrian troops that had suddenly been killed from behind and exchanged fire with them, they realized that it was not the Austrian regular army that was surrounded at all.

(End of chapter)