Los Angeles is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean to the west, with mountain peaks as a barrier to the east, and a seasonal river, the Los Angeles River, passing by.
The climate here is a typical Mediterranean one, mild and livable, with the average temperature throughout the year between 20 and 30 degrees.
In 1542, the first Europeans to arrive in Los Angeles declared the place a paradise for the Spanish Empire, but they did not stay there permanently.
In 1781, Los Angeles became a Spanish colony.
In 1818, Americans first arrived here.
In 1821, Los Angeles belonged to Mexico.
In 1846, Mexico lost the Mexican-American War and later ceded California to the United States, and Los Angeles became a U.S. territory.
In 1850, Los Angeles was officially established as a city. In the same year, California became the 31st state of the United States. At that time, the population of Los Angeles was only 1,600.
In 1853, the Western Pacific Company purchased three farms and two mines here, and the first batch of Chinese arrived here.
In 1855, the Yangtze Security Company moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. At the same time, a large number of Yangtze Security armed personnel entered Los Angeles.
In 1856, Wall was elected mayor of Los Angeles Borough.
Yangtze Security has complete control over the city.
Some of the more than 2,000 white people living in Chengnei moved away, and the rest accepted the rule of Yangtze Anbao.
By 1857, the West Pacific Company had completed its penetration of the California government.
Los Angeles has become a militarized city.
Most of the residents here are family members of security personnel.
Most of the retired players also live here.
This creates the tough folk customs here in Los Angeles.
In addition to gold mining, the most important industries here are steel plants, arsenals and a newly built shipyard.
The port of Los Angeles is home to the California Coast Guard.
This small navy previously only had a few armed merchant ships, which mainly provided transportation services for Yangtze River Security.
But now they already have two Jianghe-class frigates, and two more Jianghe-class frigates have been delivered and are at sea.
After the refitting of the Second Fleet, Dong Shuheng also sold two of the original sailing battleships of the Second Fleet to Canada.
Yes, it is a sale. Canada and the Renaissance Army have become two systems, so they naturally need to be settled independently.
Although this kind of sailing battleship is old, Canada can convert it into an artillery support ship to enhance the artillery support capability of the entire fleet.
Although this small fleet is not large, it is more than enough to bully Mexico and other small countries in Central America on the west coast.
Zhang Guangshun is in charge of the military in Canada, and he usually lives in Los Angeles.
Zhang felt that the name Los Angeles was too stingy, so he changed it to Luocheng in the official Chinese name.
Similarly, they also like to call San Francisco the Golden City.
Jincheng and Luocheng are now the two most important cities in Canada.
One is an industrial and commercial center, and the other is a military and military industry center.
Judging from its location, Los Angeles is close to Moxigo in the south, and the Moxicans are currently the only country that can pose a military threat to Canada.
The location of Jincheng is safer, so we can develop industry and commerce with confidence.
From a location point of view, Jincheng is located in the north and south center of the Canadian and Chinese forces, making it easier to control the surrounding areas.
If Jiahua was regarded as a country, Jincheng would be the capital.
Rather, Luocheng is an important border defense military town.
The folk customs here in Los Angeles are strong, not only because the people here are from Yangtze River Security, but also because it is bordered by Moxico over there.
The Moxicans have always believed that the Americans took away California.
Therefore, they often unite with some Moxicans scattered in California to launch riots.
After a large number of Chinese settled here, they thought these Chinese were Chinese workers bought back by the Americans.
Prepare to plunder a lot.
But this time they hit the iron plate.
Those Moxicans who crossed the border were beaten to a pulp by Yangtze River security.
Beginning in 1855, Moxicans in Sonora and Baja California organized a total of three cross-border operations.
The first time there were only 500 people, and these people were not regular troops.
It's just a private armed force organized by the local big forces.
At that time, Yangtze Security personnel were placed as laborers in farms and mines around Luo City.
The targets of these people are Chinese farms and mines.
This matter is also related to the white forces originally in Los Angeles.
In other words, this attack was caused by Moxicans colluding with local white forces.
Chinese forces will definitely be ostracized when they enter the local area.
At the beginning, these local white people did not take the group of Chinese brought by Wall as one thing.
They thought that if they hired a Moxican gang to rob them, these people would retreat of their own accord.
But they thought wrong. Wall's gang were not ordinary Chinese.
They are all battle-hardened warriors.
These five hundred Moxican gangsters selected a Chinese farm as their target.
The West Coast Company raises a large number of livestock here. In particular, the 500 horses on the farm are very attractive to Moxican gangsters.
They did not use any night attack or sneak attack tactics.
Because they felt that if such a large group of cavalry pressed against them, the Chinese would be scared to shit.
It's just that they thought wrong.
When they arrived at the farm, they saw no one and the farm gate was open.
These people rushed in directly on horseback.
The center of the farm is a small village of wooden houses.
Those Moxican gangs headed straight for this small village.
Moxicans don’t know what the empty city strategy is.
They believe in their own strength.
Entering the village, they still didn't see anyone.
Suddenly almost all the windows and doors opened.
Dense rain of gunshots shot out from these wooden houses.
More than 500 Moxican gangsters were caught off guard and were captured one after another.
The remaining people fought back and retreated outside the village.
They ride on tall horses and stand on the central road of the village, making them perfect targets.
Just as they were about to exit the village, a group of Chinese militiamen on horseback surrounded them.
In this battle, the entire Moxican bandit army was wiped out, more than 200 people died, and the remaining less than 300 people became prisoners of the Yangtze River Security.
They will spend the rest of their short lives in the mines.
After this battle, Yangtze Security also figured out who in Luo City wanted to deal with him.
So the purges against some white people began.
During this purge, some white people had their families destroyed, and some were so frightened that they moved away from their families.
From then on, the Chinese became the owners here.
In the following period, Yangtze Security did not concentrate on development. At this time, the Civil War in Kansas had not yet begun.
Zhang Guangshun began to take up residence in Luocheng, consolidate the Chinese rule here, and arrange for the remaining white people.
Wall is actively training his troops. The local white people have been punished, and they will next take revenge on the Moxicans.
Through the capture of prisoners last time, Wall and the others figured out which people were from the Moxigo family.
Similar to America, Moxico at this time was also a federal country, and local power was in the hands of those big families.
Next, the Chinese organized several cross-border operations in Baja California and Sonora.
However, they did not attack the city, but attacked several family estates and mines.
Wall used his own methods to treat others in kind, and looted the manors and mines.
It just so happened that Yangtze Security had just arrived here and supplies were scarce, so the more free labor the better.
However, this incident angered these big families. These people thought that they failed last time because they sent too few people.
This time they recruited 3,000 volunteers. They planned to go to Los Angeles for revenge and then come back.
Such retaliation does not require a declaration of war with the American federal government.
As a result, the second battle between Yangtze Security and the Moxibus broke out. This time, Wall did not even let them enter.
This group of people was stopped directly in San Diego, which is in the far south and is close to Moxico.
At this time, the federal government had less than a thousand troops stationed in California, hundreds of kilometers away in Phoenix.
Wall had more than 10,000 troops that he could organize, but Wall only brought 5,000 men.
They are all veterans of alcohol training.
Five thousand versus three thousand, with weapons and training superior to the opponent, there was no suspense about victory.
After defeating these 3,000 people, Wall led his troops to fight all the way to Mosigali on the Colorado River.
This is an important city in northwestern Moxico.
Although it is said to be a city, the actual population is only less than 10,000.
After Wall occupied this place, he did not evacuate immediately.
The local forces did not give up and sent troops to fight back several times.
But they are no match for Yangtze Security.
In the end, they had to send people to negotiate with Wall and compromise.
Because their actions were not reported to the Moxican federal government, they could not protest to the United States about this matter.
You can only handle it yourself.
But if the other party occupies the city, this matter will definitely become a big deal.
These people hurriedly and hurriedly approached Yangtze River Security for negotiation.
In the end, Yangtze Security was settled with money.
Not long after, a conflict broke out between the warlords of Chinola state and Chihuahua, the neighbor to the east of Thunder Mountain in West Malaysia.
They in turn hired people from Yangtze Security.
Things were so bloody. After fighting several battles, the Moxicans in the northwest were deeply impressed by the combat effectiveness of Yangtze River Security.
After learning that Yangtze Security is a Chinese mercenary organized by Americans.
These Mexican guys in turn hired Yangtze Security to help them fight, which is a typical example of just accepting it if you can't win.
In this way, during the first two years in Los Angeles, Yangtze Anbaoguang trained with the Mexicans.
Instead, the Chinese team members gradually adapted to fighting here in Amelia.
Of course, this also made him famous, so much so that later the slave owners in the South would take the initiative to hire Yangtze Security Guards to fight in Kansas.
With the southern victory in the Kansas War, Yangtze Security's reputation is growing here in Amelia Continent.
So much so that the small countries in Central Amelia came to invite them.
At the foot of the northeastern hills of Los Angeles, a bastion-shaped building was completed before the end of last year.
This is a pentagonal red building with thick exterior walls, and its color perfectly complements and blends with the red sandstone on the mountain here.
Quite magnificent.
This is the new headquarters of Yangtze Security. It is also the California Army Command Headquarters.
There is a large room that runs through the building. In the middle of the room is a huge Milestone-shaped sand table. The walls are also covered with maps.
The outer ring of the sand table is a round table surrounded by seats.
This is a fairly modern combat headquarters.
There is also a contact center next door, and even the telephone numbers that are only available to the Renaissance Army have been installed here.
However, telephones are only for internal communication. Cable telegraph is the main communication tool. Canada's telegraph network is already quite complete.
Now Canada's influence extends north to the later Washington area, and east to the western part of the Great Plains.
It is not much different to say that it holds half of the country of Millikin in later generations.
It's just that most of these lands are mountainous. Not many white people moved here because it was barren.
Historically, the population in the West only increased after Lincoln promulgated the Homestead Act. The gold rush that was about to happen was interrupted by the Chinese.
Nowadays it is cheaper for Chinese people.
Although most of them are mountainous, there are many places suitable for development.
It's just that these lands don't really belong to the Chinese yet.
If the trajectory of the Civil War has not changed, America, which has been baptized by the Civil War, will definitely take back this place when it looks back.
At that time, the Chinese will become second-class citizens here.
In the huge war room, a strong man with a beard sat at the top. This man was Liu Qingnan, who had disappeared for a while. He was discussing military affairs with the person in charge of the military here.
Liu Qingnan is twenty-nine years old this year, and Dong Shuheng is five years old. He is already one of the few generals in the Fuxing Army with the rank of lieutenant general.
Liu Qingnan did not fight more battles than others, but his knowledge was much richer than others.
He also has an advantage, he is also Dong Shuheng's retainer.
Dong Shuheng gave enough trust to Liu Mingyuan's family.
He was just a lonely salt merchant and his family was not rich.
Liu Mingyuan can be regarded as the sole and important minister left by Dong's father to Dong Shuheng and his brothers.
Especially after Dong Shutong disappeared. During the most difficult time, Liu Mingyuan was supporting the Dong family.
Otherwise, in the late Ming Dynasty when jackals were rampant, the Dong family's property would have been divided up long ago.
At this time, Liu Mingyuan had arrived in Jincheng. Liu Qingnan had also arrived in Luocheng.
This time Liu Mingyuan also brought a group of officials selected by Dong Shuheng.
He will form a new administrative system in Jincheng, modeled on the cabinet of the Renaissance Army.
The original administrative system built around the West Coast Company was too crude.
As Canada's population increases, the efficiency of this rough management model can no longer keep up.
When Liu Qingnan arrives here, he will form a small military headquarters with Zhang Guangshun and Huaer to improve the military strength here.
Zhang Guangshun and Hua Er have always managed the military in the style of a security company.
As the number of troops increases, more complete systems and staff systems are needed.
This time, a staff team came with Liu Qingnan.
This team is headed by Wang Yan. Wang Yan comes from Li Xing's security company and is a member of his side. He is not from the same faction as Liu Qingnan.
Liu Qingnan has a hot temper. Although he has the ability to lead and has rich experience, he is not careful enough in handling matters.
Wang Yan is just the opposite. He is careful and has good military qualities. He just lacks the experience of leading a large corps in combat.
As the chief of staff of the Canadian Army, he can just make up for Liu Qingnan's shortcomings.
Of course, there is also an element of decentralization here.
Zhang Guangshun serves as the director of logistics and training of the Canadian Army, handling logistics, recruitment, and training.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Waltans and Commander of the soon-to-be-established 1st Division of the Canadian Army. He is still responsible for the main field combat missions.