Chapter 506 “The Promised Land”

Chapter 506 “The Promised Land”

The U.S. military can take a month to cross the Rocky Mountains along the river valley, then enter Death Valley through the great desert, bypass the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and reach the "Promised Land" of the U.S. government.

This is also thanks to the fact that almost every one of them is riding a horse or two, but the marching speed of people and horses has long reached its limit.

It is inevitable that these American vanguard troops will be disconnected from the baggage and artillery troops behind them. They discovered that California was full of fertile fields and herds, which inspired the bestiality in this group of people.

The Indian villages and aboriginal Wubao living in the outermost areas became the first targets of this group of beasts. The Indians naturally knew what kind of people the Americans were, so they put up a desperate resistance and at the same time sent people to attack the people in Los Angeles. The Austrian army asked for help.

The local Hispanics still have a sense of luck. They feel that they are white and can negotiate terms with Americans as equals.

The US military is naturally welcome to negotiate, but once people come, they can't even think of leaving. In this way, the Americans deceived the doors of one fort after another and looted them.

The U.S. troops who had gone through thousands of miles to reach California no longer had much humanity at this time. They were like a group of beasts, killing, burning, and robbing everything they could get, and turning everything they could not take away into ruins.

But the good times for Americans did not last long, because the Indians and Spanish natives in California were also accustomed to bloodshed.

Soon these aborigines caused heavy losses to the US military, and at the same time the Austrian army, which had been waiting for opportunities, also began to take action.

John Cina is a businessman who always likes to maximize profits, such as now.

Those indigenous people can only understand what "justice" means after they are beaten violently by the "democratic" and "free" America.

Every country will promote the rationality and legitimacy of its colonial rule, and Austria is no exception. Franz even developed a theory specifically for this purpose, holiness, justice and redemption, of which justice is the title.

As the most senior civil servant in California, John Cina would naturally have the theory developed by Franz engraved in his bones. He needed to always remind himself to act in accordance with this principle.

Now is a good time to seek justice. After all, the Americans are actually here for the gold mines, but Austria will not give up these golds no matter what, so the two sides must be in a fight to the death.

Archduke Carl Ferdinand was a ruthless defense machine. He had been studying the direction and means of the enemy's possible invasion for so many years in California. He was fully prepared at both the north and the south.

Now all it takes is an order to tighten the encirclement and deal with these intruding enemies. But he also has his own worries, which are threats from the sea.

Due to transportation problems, the simplest and most reasonable way to transport gold from California back to Austria is not to take the land route, but to take the sea route. First go to Costa Rica or Nicaragua, then take the land route and then return across the Atlantic Ocean. Austria.

Therefore, all important cities in California are built along the coast. If a fleet comes along the coast, Austria will not be able to fight back at this time.

Archduke Carl Ferdinand did seek advice from his brother, the naval marshal, and even hired fort experts and shipbuilders, but the so-called coastal defense was still in name only.

Due to the lack of heavy artillery, the so-called forts cannot exert their strength at all. As for building ships, it is much more difficult than building cannons.

First, a dry dock scared Archduke Carl Ferdinand. It was not just the cost that was surprising, but the man-hours and manpower required, which was still an extravagance 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, the deep-water harbors in California do have the potential to build dry docks, but it is still too extravagant and the gains outweigh the losses.

Back to business, the U.S. military pioneers still holding M1795 Springfield rifles faced the Austrian army equipped with M1841 front-loading rifles using Minie bullets.

Not only that, the US military was also out of touch with the subsequent baggage units. They had no artillery support, while Austria was equipped with a large number of cavalry artillery and anti-infantry rockets.

The Austrian army first used a large amount of intelligence to lock the location of the American vanguard. The latter mistook a Spanish aboriginal fort group for a city and was launching a siege on it.

In fact, due to the lack of heavy firepower in the US military, soldiers could only attack the indigenous people hiding in buildings with huge casualties.

This is certainly not the style of the US military, and it is even less likely to be accepted by these cowboys who yearn for freedom.

In fact, the strength of the US military is several times that of the aborigines in Wubao. Although the opponent has the terrain advantage, they only have some old-fashioned flintlock guns in their hands.

In order to maintain its rule, Austria severely restricted the fighting strength of the local indigenous people. They were not allowed to have any weapons of war, and they were not allowed to hoard more than 60 kilograms of black powder.

The US military is actually winning this battle, but there will always be casualties in a war. The question is who will be the scapegoat. The previous charge has proven that the opponent's marksmanship is not bad.

If we attack by force, the casualties will be very heavy.

In fact, if you start fighting each other without even trying, it's not an army at all.

"Damn Austrians! Can't they just hand over everything and die quietly?" Colonel Abbott cursed.

"William, do you dare to come with me?" Colonel Dardo said jokingly.

"I have already lost sixteen people in the attack just now! Why should I let my people go? If you like me, I will take less of them!"

Colonel Abbott didn't want to sacrifice his men anymore. Originally, his own people died the most when crossing the desert, so now he has the least say.

If you add these brothers in your hands, I'm afraid those guys won't even share the soup with you.

Colonel Abbott had this idea, and so did other US military officers. After all, everyone wants to eat meat, but no one wants to lose their front teeth.

As a result, more than 4,000 American troops were in a stalemate with the aborigines in Wubao. 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 native Indians, and even they themselves became someone else's prey.

In fact, the U.S. military lacks intelligence on Austria, and they always believe that it is impossible for the Austrian army, which has only more than 10,000 people, to split up its forces.

After all, neither side knew the other's strength, but they were wrong. The Austrian side did a good job in intelligence work, and the indigenous people in California were its informants.

When the U.S. military discovered a large number of Austrian troops suddenly coming out from behind and exchanged fire with them, they realized that the ones being surrounded were not regular Austrian troops at all.