1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 130 [Buying a Gun]

By a small river, General Carney and his troops, who had just completed a tactical retreat, rested here.

It seems that this army may only have 500 people now, which is a lot of downsizing.

Some of the attrition was due to deaths in battle, and some of them were separated from the main force during the escape process and disappeared.

An atmosphere of silence and gloom permeated the army.

General Carney sat on the ground, holding a Browning revolver in his hand, with a gloomy face, surrounded by a dozen officers.

"Is this really Mexican?" He looked up at a lieutenant officer and asked.

"That's right." The lieutenant nodded. "I picked it up from the corpse of a Mexican cavalryman. The Mexicans are indeed equipped with a large number of Browning revolvers."

Another officer said: "I can also testify, General Carney, I can see very clearly that the pistols in their hands are exactly the same as mine. It is undoubtedly a Browning pistol."

"Obviously, it was this pistol that enabled the Mexicans to defeat us!"

"Those Indians also sold weapons to the Mexicans!" the officers commented.

General Carney was silent for a moment: "It seems...it should be British."

"British?"

Carney nodded slightly: "The Apaches said that this Browning pistol came from a European company. I thought it was a domestic arms company that specifically entrusted Indians to help them sell it in order to bypass the law."

"Now it seems that the Browning pistol should indeed be manufactured by a European company." He paused. "It is entirely possible that this pistol was produced in Oregon, and the British are absolutely willing to do so."

Cook said: "Maybe it is still an American company. Since they violated the patent law, it is not impossible to sell weapons to the Mexicans."

Carney said: "In that case, we will definitely find this company and put their boss to death for treason!"

The crowd fell silent for a while.

"Damn Brit!" someone cursed.

They have now determined that the Browning pistol was made by the British.

Domestic companies are unlikely to do such things. Violation of patent laws and treason are not of the same nature at all.

Most of the facts are just like what the Apaches said, this weapon was produced by Europeans, and the most suspected European country is undoubtedly the big one.

The British Empire is in full swing at this time, and there is still a large territory in North America. It is entirely possible to design this kind of weapon and sell it to the United States and Mexico.

Moreover, the British have sufficient motives for committing crimes, and they hope that the Americans will suffer more.

"General, what should we do?"

Carney took a deep breath: "Tell President Polk about this matter, and let Washington and London talk. Of course, before that, we have to solve the city of Santa Fe first."

Donivan said: "If we want to take down Santa Fe, I'm afraid we need to buy more revolvers to equip our dragoons. In addition, we'd better increase our troops."

"That's right." General Carney nodded. "Cook, you go to Sleeping Bear City to buy weapons. Price, you go back to Fort Leavenworth and mobilize troops."

"Yes!" Colonel Price replied.

Lieutenant Colonel Cook hesitated for a moment, then said: "General, although the Apaches in Sleeping Bear City are only entrusted by the British, shouldn't we punish them as well?"

Carney obviously also had this idea, but after a short thought, he still said: "Before the war is over, we'd better not take the initiative to provoke a conflict with Sleeping Bear City. They are obviously much stronger than ordinary Indians."

Cook nodded: "Indeed. I noticed that the cavalry in Sleeping Bear City seem to be equipped with a large number of Browning pistols."

"It's not just the pistols," General Carney said. "Their morale is obviously high, at least much higher than that of the Mexicans, which is almost visible to the naked eye."

He sighed slightly: "We have just endured a defeat. If we fall into a two-front battle with Mexico and Apache now, the situation will definitely become extremely unfavorable."

"And after that?" Price asked. "Obviously, Sleeping Bear is a threat, even a huge one—I've never seen such an Indian tribe in the East."

Carney blurted out: "Of course we will find an opportunity to eradicate them in the future!"

Donivan frowned slightly, and said hesitantly: "General, I don't think the residents of Sleeping Bear City are barbarians anymore, and they won't be as keen on crime as other Indians. We shouldn't treat other barbarians like that." Same."

Carney looked at him and said flatly, "Young man, I know you used to be an excellent and caring lawyer. It's just that this is not a question about crime or the law."

"Countries need laws, but they don't always need laws."

Donivan said nothing.

Carney continued: "When the war is over, it's not too late for us to punish Sleeping Bear City. Well, let's go and complete my mission. We have to take Santa Fe as soon as possible, and then march west and south."

……

The horse whistle is training soldiers.

As Sleeping Bear grew, so did the size of the army.

Sleeping Bear currently has five hundred professional soldiers, well equipped, high morale, long-term high-intensity training, and almost fanatical loyalty to him.

In addition to the professional army, there are more than 1000 militiamen in the city.

The combat effectiveness of these militiamen is not weak.

After all, nomads have a tradition that all the people are soldiers. As far as the individual combat effectiveness of soldiers is concerned, the militia is not much worse than professional soldiers.

In such an era, for the Indians, only with a strong military can they be qualified to gain a foothold in North America.

Ma Shao knows this very well, so he personally presides over part of the army's training every day, constantly instilling in them various concepts and tactics of the modern army.

Content such as physical fitness and fighting are also essential.

Every morning, he would run five kilometers in the morning to join the soldiers.This is his most basic training.

He also often fights with soldiers and discusses new technologies-he hopes to establish a complete set of modern fighting techniques in this discussion.

The result of the sparring is naturally that the horse whistle wins, but this does not mean that his skills are high enough.

In fact, there are already fighting geniuses in the army who have surpassed him technically, but the physical advantage of the horse whistle is too great.With two hundred catties of tendon meat, he can crush all opponents even with the bastard fist.

Therefore, even if individual soldiers have mastered a higher level of technology, they cannot offset such a huge gap in body, and it is absolutely impossible to defeat the horse sentry.

This deepened the soldiers' worship of the horse post, but he often made the soldiers ignore this.

For example, today, when he easily defeated a soldier in the duel again, he said: "The reason why I can defeat him is mainly because of my strength advantage. In fact, I just made a fatal mistake. Who can beat him?" point out?"

"Point it out and get a commendation." He added, "Record it."

But at this moment, someone ran from behind and said, "Chief, there is an American outside the city."

(End of this chapter)