"Mr. Dodge, you can increase the number of troops no matter how much you want. We, the Yangtze River Security, will have no problem recruiting tens of thousands of troops."
"But Mr. Dodge, with so many people, we can't complete the logistics supply by ourselves." Wall spread his hands and said helplessly.
Originally, his contract with the southern plantation owners was equivalent to a piece-rate contract.
Rewards will be obtained based on the number of northern militia killed and wounded.
But now the northern liberals have escalated the war, and they have begun to organize large-scale battles.
Then the original remuneration calculation method cannot be used.
Mercenaries are inherently suitable for participating in hunting activities. If they participate in a large battle, they will suffer greater losses anyway.
This is extremely uneconomical for mercenaries.
"Okay, no problem, Mr. Wall, we will be fully responsible for your army's salary and material supplies. In addition, all your seizures will still belong to you." Dodge rarely bargained.
It's not that Dodge changed his temper, these southern slave owners were actually stingier than the northern capitalists.
The capitalists in the north only exploited their workers, but these slave owners simply oppressed them nakedly, and they did not get a cent from their slaves.
The reason why Dodge agreed so simply was because their regular army had lost the battle and the situation was now extremely critical.
Just a few days ago, the northern liberals assembled three thousand militiamen to fight in the wild with the army of the southern slave owners.
Although both sides suffered heavy casualties, the northerners won in the end.
The slave-owning armies of the South were forced to retreat.
At the beginning, these mercenaries did not need to be responsible for these frontal battles.
Dodge, who is in charge of the affairs here, has to hope that mercenaries can participate in the battle.
Slaveholders in the South were not able to summon as many militias as they wanted in the North.
The militias in the north have their own industries and they fight for themselves.
But these southerners were fighting for money, because most of the land was in the hands of the plantation owners.
The white soldiers in the South were either small slave owners with a few black slaves at home to help them farm.
Or they are thugs trained in large estates. They work for the owners of large estates and get paid.
The sources of force between the two are different, so the northerners mobilize faster, and the free people with guns become the militia. However, the slave owners in the south still have to fight with each other.
Wall and his colleagues only need to be responsible for dealing with the harassment and destruction of plantations by northern militias.
They hunted these scattered northern militiamen who had infiltrated, and were paid according to the number of people they killed.
Yangtze Security is really doing a good job here.
Wall figured out the opponent's path. The opponent's team usually only had about fifty people.
Therefore, the team sent out by Wall usually exceeds a hundred people each time.
This ensures that the Yangtze River Security side can maintain an absolute advantage in strength over the northern militia.
Moreover, Yangtze Security usually uses the brigade as its main combat unit.
In this way, when they find the enemy, they will have enough troops to make tactical arrangements such as ambush and interception.
Using this method, Yangtze Security has always been able to fight smoothly. The number of enemies they killed far exceeded that of the Texans.
Of course, Bush will not admit that they are weaker than the Chinese. They just feel that they have not encountered good luck.
So when Bush heard about the northerners gathering in Kansas, he saw it as a good opportunity and quickly sent Ogo and his men to attack.
It is this mentality that caused them to suffer huge losses.
"Well, you are really a generous man. So sir, is there an upper limit to the increase in troops you mentioned?" Wall asked.
Wall naturally wanted to ask, and now he was asking Wall to pull out 20,000 people, and he was sure to pull them out.
But in that case, Dodge might be afraid, and more than 20,000 people could eat up the entire Kansas area.
"Five thousand people, Mr. Wall, increase your number to 50 million. We will be responsible for military expenses and material supplies. However, you still have to prepare your own weapons. It is best to have a certain number of artillery, otherwise you will be fighting against the North.
You will definitely suffer when you fight." Dodge seemed to be kindly reminding Wall.
"No questions asked, Mr. Dodge, I guarantee that all my people will be here within a month." Wall promised, patting his chest.
The reason why Wall is so confident is that Zhang Guangshun recently sent a letter to tell Wall some good news.
The president sent a large number of breech-loading rifles, although they were only backward Type 53 rifles.
But Wall knew that this rifle could allow them to leave these northerners far behind in terms of weapons.
I can finally get rid of my troublesome muzzleloader.
Also shipped at the same time were some artillery pieces, which were breech-loaded artillery pieces previously used by the Renaissance Army.
This news made Wall excited. With this, he could let go of fighting these northern veterans.
On the other hand, the Texans also agreed to Dodge's request for additional troops.
Even if Dodge didn't say anything, these Texans would have to send more troops to the front because they had already lost one-third of their men.
This time they will also increase their strength to 5,000.
Don't worry about recruiting people, the Texas area is full of unemployed vagrants who are ready to join the fight.
That place never lacks thugs eager to fight.
It is precisely because of this that Texas has become one of the most violent regions in the United States.
The time has entered March in the Western calendar.
1856 is an important year in history.
This year, Britain and France provoked the Opium War, and the Qing court finally fully exposed its weakness to Westerners.
But now, the places with the thickest smoke in the world are Kansas in North America and the northwestern region of India.
As for the war between the Renaissance Army and Spain in the Pacific, it has long since disappeared. The Spanish forces in the Pacific have been wiped out.
On some important islands, the Renaissance Army has begun busy construction activities.
When it comes to construction, these Western colonists are a dozen ways behind the Chinese.
They are all about money, and they are not willing to spend a penny more for the construction of colonies except for the homeland.
But Dong Shuheng was different. He never regarded these places as colonies from the beginning.
In Dong Shuheng's eyes, every piece of land is a land where the Chinese will live and multiply in the future.
So no matter how much you invest now, it is not excessive.
If you want to turn these places into permanent lands for the Chinese, it will definitely not work without investment.
The infrastructure cannot keep up, and the Chinese who live there may not be able to stay there. People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. The decline of many places in later generations was caused by poor living conditions and a large number of residents moving out.
If the defense facilities are not complete, these places may not be able to be defended.
Let’s not talk about India. It seems that the most lively fight is between the British and Indian authorities and the rebels in the Assam region.
The British also sent all their troops to the northeastern region.
Little did they know that in Myanmar to the east, an extremely violent storm was brewing.
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Returning to the Kansas area again. The previous fighting between the two sides had always been between armed men.
There were few massacres of civilians.
After all, both sides are white people, and they have not treated each other as human beings. Unlike white people who massacre Indians, they often kill the entire tribe, because these white people do not regard the Indians as human beings at all.
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The vast prairie north of the Kansas River was the rear area controlled by northern liberals. Many liberal immigrants had already settled there.
Many of the militiamen recruited in Kansas City this time came from there.
On this fertile grassland, white families who migrated from the east can choose any unowned land to settle down. They drive their caravans and wherever they feel is good, they will stop and move this place.
Consider it their home.
Not all the grasslands are dry grasslands, there are streams flowing through them in many places.
Every time you ride a horse on the grassland, you can see some sparse woods standing there.
Freedmen's homes were generally located near streams and woods.
Streams can provide a stable water source, and the land beside the streams can be reclaimed to grow wheat and corn.
The trees in the woods can provide wood for their wooden houses and fuel for their lives.
It has been a year since Kelly's family moved to Kansas. The family originally lived in Indiana.
Kelly's father was originally a factory worker. However, the wages in the factory were too low, so the family bid farewell to relatives and friends and embarked on a journey westward.
Father, mother, twelve-year-old Kelly, ten-year-old brother and a one-and-a-half-year-old shepherd dog, two maroon horses, one male and one female, one cow, and seven sheep are all their family has.
family member.
Finally they settled in northern Kansas. Father Thomas found a lot of wood to build a log house and a barn. Kelly began a paradise-like life in Kansas.
The closest one to them is the Thomson family. Even so, the two families are still three or four kilometers away.
Recently, Kelly has been very unhappy. Neither he nor his brother can go out to play.
Because of the cold weather and because my father was ordered by the government to go to Kansas City.
The mother locked them in the house every day.
In order to prevent them from escaping secretly, their mother even threatened them that there were Indians nearby.
How could there be Indians? Kelly even secretly ran to the ruins of a nearby village to play.
It is said that these ruins were left by Indians. As for where the Indians who originally lived here went, Kelly did not know, and no one answered her question.
Therefore, Kelly felt that there must be no Indians, because their home had been abandoned for so long and no one had come back.
The good weather in recent days has melted the snow on the ground outside.
Through the window, Kelly saw a clump of green grass growing beside the steps in front of the cabin.
Spring is coming, right? What a joyful thing!
The mother was milking cows in the barn nearby.
Suddenly, Kelly seemed to hear the vague sound of horse hooves in the distance.
Kelly saw her mother closing the barn in a hurry and looking out for a while by the low fence.
Then she ran back to the cabin.
"Kelly, take your brother and hide under the bed. Don't come out unless I call you." Her mother said uneasily.
"Mom, are the Indians coming?" Kelly asked.
"I don't know." Mother shook her head. She took off the flintlock gun that her father left behind when he left.
Carefully pour gunpowder from a small bottle into the barrel of the gun, then press it tightly with a wooden bar, and then take out a bullet from a small leather bag and put it in.
Next, she attached a flash cap to the upper back of the gun.
Kelly watched her mother's movements curiously but did not follow her mother's instructions.
The younger brother also asked her to play games with him. This made the mother a little irritated.
"Hurry and hide in. No matter what happens, don't come out. Kelly, you are an older child. You must supervise your younger brother." The mother's tone was very stern this time, and she seemed a little angry.
Kelly lowered her head and reluctantly hid under the bed with her brother.
The bed board is so low that only a child like Kelly can hide in it.
But this also made them very uncomfortable staying there.
Kelly comforted her brother. She suggested a competition to see who could stay motionless under the bed for the longest time.
Whoever moves or speaks first loses.
With a "squeak" sound, Kelly looked through the gap under the bed and saw her mother's long skirt crossing the floor and crossing the door frame.
Then there was another "squeak" and the door was closed again.
Kelly put her head close to the floor, so she could clearly hear the sound of horse hooves outside gradually approaching.
I don't know how long it took, but a group of people stopped at the door of the cabin.
Kelly heard the noise, but couldn't make out what they were saying. Only her mother's words and curses came clearly to her ears.
Then there was a "bang" and a harsh gunshot passed into Kelly's ears.
The younger brother was frightened and opened his mouth to scream, but Kelly blocked his mouth with his hand.
"Sir Ogo, the man of the house is not here. He must have gone to fight in Kansas."
Ogo was riding on a horse with one arm hanging, and there were dozens of riders beside them. After crossing the Kansas River, we could not see any decent settlements.
All northern liberal immigrants were scattered throughout the country.
So Bush broke up his teams and acted separately to improve efficiency.
They know how to find the settled northerners. As long as you follow the river or road, you will definitely come across these settlements.
Some of them live alone in one place, and some live in groups of three or five families. Those settlements with more than a dozen families can be considered small towns.
Along the way, Ogo and his men had wiped out many settled white families. When they turned back later, they would bring back the property, cattle and sheep they had left behind.
"Kill her." Ogo ordered as he looked at the white woman demonstrating with a flintlock. Then a bullet passed through the woman's chest.
Your husband killed my brother, so let him feel the pain of losing his wife and children.
Naturally, someone went to pull the animals aside, and then Ogo's men set the barn on fire.
Soon, this stable and the cabin next to it will be reduced to ashes.