Wild North America 1846

Chapter 12 Tricky Things

Afternoon
sunny
In March, the cold spring breeze with the fragrance of grass and trees swept over his face, brushing the black hair on Li Cha's smooth forehead, dancing like a dancing elf, his silhouette under the sun looked handsome, with an irrepressible madness Unruly.

he is thinking
After digesting the large amount of information given by Liu Wu, Li Cha discovered that Datang would face a tricky situation;
If we want to develop further in the next period of time, we must remove the big rock of the North American branch of the agreement hall, otherwise nothing can be discussed.

Lin Zhanyuan, the young gang leader of the Agreement Hall, seems to be a ruthless character. He will never let Datang be slapped in the face with a "bang bang" and will take action sooner or later.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent a thief?

To fight against such gangsters and evil forces, it is completely unrealistic to rely on Li Cha alone with a gun. This is not a movie, and Li Cha is not a superman. If he is hit by a bullet, he will bleed and be injured, or even die. He cannot help but be careless.

Founding of Datang Club

Military training has not yet started, everything needs time to settle, and what is lacking now is time.

Richard looked at the hills in the distance, where the new French military instructor Mike Rabiot was leading the guys from the Datang Society to build a defensive wall after teaching the simple formation.

This French-style infantry defense wall is a tight fence made of logs about two meters high, two feet of which are buried under the soil, and the logs are closely arranged, and the outside is covered with wet soil. The height is about 1 meters , standing behind the parapet and shooting, just on the chest of the defending infantry, which can resist the bombardment of light field artillery.

On the hill, it is planned to build two semi-circular defensive walls, about 50 meters apart in front, to form a defensive position facing the mouth of the valley.

This kind of defensive wall is not continuous, but is composed of short walls about 6 to 7 meters long. Each short wall can accommodate 12 to 15 musketeers to fight, forming two-stage shooting to provide continuous firepower. is a separate combat unit.

每一道防线由2~3个短寨墙组成，其间相隔20~30米，覆盖120至150米的正面，共同组成一道半圆形防御线。

In the morning, a lot of trees have been felled and branches removed. Gaiwangshan purchased a lot of axes, saws and nails in the new town. More than 70 young men worked together. In just half a day, the second line of defense Has been formed.

For the armed gunners of the Datang Society, this is also a military training for soil work.

In order to cope with the current emergency situation, after discussing with Instructor Mike, Richard put the training of musketeers as the top priority. A total of 57 muskets were taken out and distributed, and the two took turns training in groups.

Under normal circumstances

After 2 to 3 days of intensive training, everyone can master the basic steps of firing a musket, and initially possess the basic self-defense ability, but it is still too far away when it comes to combat.

The reloading steps of muskets are cumbersome, and more importantly, there is no strict military training. The most common mistake for novices in a panic is to make mistakes in the reloading steps. Either one item is missed, or the black powder is reloaded repeatedly, which will cause the chamber to explode or fail to fire.

It's better to hide behind the wall of the village. If you really hold a rifle and march forward under the enemy's bullets, the fun will come.

Maybe as soon as the enemy opened fire, the whole team would blow up and run away like a mouse.

This is the difference between a disciplined army and a mob.

According to the words of the French instructor Mike;
In three days, I can guarantee that the gunmen of the Datang Society will firmly guard the entrance of Grape Valley.

Ten days later, the soldiers were able to rely on the wall to withstand the impact of any enemy cavalry of no more than a hundred people.

a month
The gunners of the Datang Society can break away from the defensive wall to fight, and line up outside the field to chase the enemy, but the pursuit distance does not exceed 3 kilometers.

three months

Being able to undertake basic defense and field combat tasks, and initially training to become a qualified soldier, it will not be a problem to deal with the various armed forces in the new town.

It takes six months to temper into an army, and one year to become a qualified cavalry unit.

However, to achieve the combat effectiveness of the French Cuirassier Regiment, it will take at least 3 to 4 years and a lot of money and energy to achieve the goal.

Note that this is only possible.

Li Cha did not intend to train the gunners of the Tang Dynasty to be so elite. Every French cuirassier regiment is a bottomless gold mine. The equipment and maintenance costs are frighteningly high, and he does not have so much money to invest in it.

During the heyday of the French emperor Napoleon's crossing across Europe, he only maintained 12 cuirassier regiments, each cavalry regiment had about 650 to 800 people, and the equipment cost was enough to equip 3.5 arquebus regiments.

The equipment of the cuirassiers includes breastplates, helmets, straight-edged sabers and pistols. Carbines were equipped in 1812, but like pistols, only a small number of soldiers carried them.

As the core weapon, the saber was originally designed in 1799-1800, the Cuirassier Knife of the Nine Years of the Republic, which was the first French standard saber with a blade length of 97.45cm, and it was a sharp weapon in cavalry battles.

The straight-bladed saber of the cuirassier is designed with the center of gravity close to the gauntlet, so that the arm can be kept straight forward during the charge to increase the penetration force of the stab, but it is not as effective as the Mongolian scimitar when slashing.

The cavalry breastplate and helmet are all steel, the helmet is covered with black cowhide, brass trim and ridge and black horsehair with red feathers, the breastplate is decorated with brass scale belts and white trim lining.

As a heavy cavalry unit, the most important thing for the cuirassiers is to have strong horses. In Europe, they are limited to the strongest horses in Normandy, and each one is expensive.

In battle, cuirassiers always appear on the most dangerous battlefields, launching the most violent charge against the most stubborn enemy. They are the symbol and soul of cavalry in today's era.

In the prestigious Prussian army in Europe, it was not until the defeat of Napoleon's army in the Normandy War in 1814 that six Prussian cuirassier regiments were formed with the help of the standard breastplate captured from the French army.

Among the major European countries, the Austrian army has eight cuirassier regiments, and France now has four cuirassier regiments.

From this
This thing is really a big money burner, and it can't be equipped without a strong national power.

Li Cha's idea is to form a French-style dragoon regiment of about 200 people, that is, the horse-mounted musketeer regiment, which can maneuver on horseback and fight with flintlock muskets when dismounted.

He wants to lead this armed force to establish a great reputation in San Fernandez, and even the entire province of Upper California, laying a solid foundation for the prestige system upgrade task.

After all
If Li Cha wants to strengthen his own strength, he still has to rely on the prestige system as a plug-in. Otherwise, only by hard training day and night, or taking risks like a lone wolf, the range of improvement is very limited.

He checked the system interface again. In just two days, the number of people in the "everyone knows" task has increased from the initial 1400 people to 3776 people/10000 people.

That is
In just two days, one-third of the task progress has been completed. Although the growth trend has gradually slowed down, it is still tenaciously increasing.

In today's era, information is blocked, and information can only be disseminated by word of mouth, and the scope of influence is very limited.

Li Cha's act of massacring the Quartet spread quickly among some people in the new town and the Chinese circle, including the upper class in Fangcaodi.

However, in Mexican communities and indigenous Indian tribes, due to ethnic and language barriers, only a few prominent figures or indigenous chiefs know about it, while others neither care nor understand it. This is a big problem.

Among Li Cha's title tasks, the number of people who knew his status as the "Chinese Gold Digger Protector" increased from 842 to 1991, and the task completion rate was 64%. It is hoped that they will be the first to complete it.

There are only 2700 to 2800 Chinese people in total, and they like to live together. If the news of the war with the Agreement Hall comes out, it will be known to everyone, including the Chinese women in the prostitution brothel.

This made him look forward to what the system will reward after the title task is completed?
(End of this chapter)