When they were together, they all joked that Zhang Deshuai was the first man to marry in Chinese history.
Zhang Deshuai was so awesome that he spread the blood of the Han family.
From now on, the royal family of the Northern Alliance will have half Chinese ancestry.
In fact, in the subcontinent, many local big families are trying to recruit a son-in-law of Chinese descent.
To enhance the family's bloodline. Even if this man is just a big-headed soldier.
Many Chinese working hard in the subcontinent, unable to withstand the temptation of high wealth, have chosen the promising career of marrying women from local big families and having children.
It’s the middle of the seventh year of restoration.
After half a year of preparation, the battle brewing in northwest America is finally about to begin.
Wang Yan returned to the Kansas Army headquarters in Wall.
Liu Qingnan led the Canadian Army to the east bank of the Missouri River, which later became South Dakota.
At this time, it was still an endless stretch of temperate grassland.
Wherever the army went it was wild.
Historically, Millennium would not develop this area until the construction of the Pacific Railway began more than ten years later.
At this time, there were only a few white settlers and buffalo hunting teams here.
However, in the past two years, under the double blow of the Yin Di'an people and the Canadian Chinese Army, these people have long since disappeared.
When the Canadian Chinese Army entered the Missouri River for training last year, Liu Qingnan took a fancy to a high ground by the river.
In the next six months, Canada sent thousands of workers here to build Tieling Fort, which served as the forward base for the Canadian army in the northeastern region of Canada.
There are now enough food supplies for tens of thousands of armies stored here.
The number of troops under Liu Qingnan reached 70,000, which almost emptied Jiahua.
For the safety of Jiahua's rear, Liu Qingnan had to contact Wang Xiao in the Han and Tang areas in the north and asked him to send a part of the Han and Tang Dynasty's Renaissance Army to the border area between Hantang and northern Jiahua.
So as to be able to coordinate the security of Canada's rear at any time.
The location of Fort Iron Ridge is very good, located at the junction of the Missouri River and Lake Oahe.
This highland was formed naturally by river water and is surrounded by water on three sides, like a peninsula.
The direction near the water's edge is cut extremely steeply by the current, making it very difficult for the enemy to attack from the water.
City walls and city gates were built on the narrow part of the peninsula, and there was a water gate connecting the lake to the lake.
There are some small diesel-powered patrol boats in the small dock protected by the fort.
These patrol boats are generally small, equipped with machine guns, and some also have small rapid-fire cannons.
The hull is built using local wood, and the power system is a diesel engine.
Now Fuxing Army's marine diesel engines are very mature, with five or six models of different sizes.
Within the Greater China Circle, these diesel engines are gradually replacing the original small marine steam engines.
Especially in many remote rivers and lakes.
It is very difficult to transport a steam engine.
But diesel engines are much easier to transport.
Here, what the enemy can usually obtain are hand-rowed small wooden boats. When encountering patrol boats equipped with oil tankers, these small wooden boats will have no choice but to be slaughtered.
After Liu Qingnan led the army to station here, there was no major action.
Only small groups of troops were dispatched to attack from three directions, northeast and south, to clean up the scattered white immigrants.
Liu Qingnan did this just to better hide his team.
Their existence cannot be known to northerners too early.
The number of troops under Wall was now close to 200,000, including 100,000 Chinese regiments and nearly 50,000 Texas regiments.
The remaining fifty thousand came from other southern states.
This regiment has been noticed by the southerners.
In Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, nearly 300,000 troops were concentrated in the north.
The entire Northern Federation has now mobilized more than one million troops.
The armies of both sides are gathering towards the southern part of Yinlinuoyin Province. A big battle is about to begin.
Newspapers from both the North and the South shifted their perspective here.
The atmosphere has been heightened to the extreme.
Even John Pope, the commander of the Army of Virginia, was transferred to the Northwest Territories.
Another famous person also came to the Western battlefield, this person was William Ticombe Sherman.
The South did not just send reinforcements.
Davis could not rest assured that all the troops would be placed under Wall's command.
This Wall has a complicated background, and Davis has always been wary of him.
The commander of these Texas regiments sent by the Southern Army was the same Bush who had some minor conflicts with Wall on the Kansas battlefield.
As a long-established Texas family, Bush is a well-deserved candidate to command the Texas Army.
There was also the resourceful General Earl Van Dorn, who commanded the combined forces of the other southern states.
In this way, the northern and southern armies on the entire western battlefield were already in place.
However, both sides are relatively calm. It seems that no one is willing to take the lead in attacking.
Both sides just dispatched a large number of reconnaissance troops to play games in the buffer zone between the north and the south.
At a time when both sides were focusing on the largest legion ever assembled in the West.
If nothing else happens, an accident will happen at this time.
The upper reaches of the Mississippi River, later the location of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
At this time there was only one small town called Nerlingburg.
Together with St. Paul on the other side of the Mississippi River, it formed the center of the newly formed state of Minnesota.
Neilingbao is surrounded by many wheat farms and dairy cattle pastures.
Wood processing, wheat flour and cheese and butter products are the main industries here.
There is a farm covering an area of 50 hectares five kilometers west of Neilingbao.
Sean's family has been running this place for more than ten years.
The Sean family moved westward. When they moved here, there were more than thirty people in the family.
Over the years, as they reclaimed more land, they gradually added more hired workers.
Most of these employees are homeless people from the east or bankrupts.
They can't even get a few dozen dollars in land transfer fees, so they can only work as laborers on other people's farms.
Even if they get land transfer fees, they don't have the ability to develop it themselves.
Production tools and seeds also cost a lot of money.
Mr. Sean was riding a horse, with a musket on his back, looking around and cautiously patrolling the vast pasture.
This is a Mississippi rifled gun from 1840.
He used this musket to participate in the war to expel the Minnesota Indians.
No fewer than ten Yin Di'an people died under this musket.
A Yintian scalp hangs in the living room of Sean's two-story wooden house in the center of the farm.
This sun-dried human scalp is now yellow.
Sean did not exchange the scalp for rice dollars. Instead, he placed it in his home.
He did this just to let his children and grandchildren remember that his ancestor took back the homeland with a gun.
Tell your descendants never to abandon your savage side. This world is inherently dominated by the weak.
Sean is already in his sixties, and his face is full of wrinkles over time, but his body is still strong.
He can still ride on a running horse and complete a series of actions such as loading and shooting.
He also has two brothers, three sons and four daughters.
The daughter and son-in-law also live on the farm.
The whole family has fun together.
Each of the men in Sean's family has a gun, and even the women can shoot.
If you want to survive and reproduce in this land in the west, you will definitely not be able to survive without the ability to protect yourself.
Even around the Nelling Castle with its garrison, people who are unable to protect themselves will be prey to others at any time, just like bison.
Sean also has very strict requirements for his children. He requires them to learn horse riding and shooting from the age of ten.
At this time, Sean was followed by seven or eight big men.
These are all members of his family.
There are more than a hundred adult men on the entire farm.
The recent period has not been peaceful.
Sean had heard some scattered news from people from the west.
The farms established by the explorers to the west were suddenly wiped out by an army, and everything seemed to disappear suddenly.
There are even rumors that the Yin Di'an people have been very active recently.
Sean is deeply worried about this, so recently, he has tried his best to lead people to patrol the perimeter of the farm himself.
"Father, look, there is a Yintian man there." Beside Sean was a tall and strong middle-aged white man.
The man's hand pointed to the sky in the west.
This middle-aged man with a big beard is Sean's second son.
Sean followed his son's hand and looked over.
It was a Yin Di'an man with two long braids.
The man stood motionless on his horse.
Sean squinted his eyes and his gray eyebrows almost knitted together.
He finally saw clearly.
The Yin Di'an was wearing gray-white clothes, unlike those Yin Di'an in the wild who were shirtless.
They all wore a red scarf around their necks.
They wore a cowhide belt around their waists and a cowhide bullet chain slung across their chests.
Another belt is slung across the chest in another direction.
Attached to each end of the strap was a rifle.
The distance was too far and Sean couldn't see the model of the musket.
But he saw the bullet. This gun actually used bullets?
This is like a group of people watching a monkey show in a zoo.
Suddenly I realized that these are the people who perform.
"Father, let me go and capture that Yin Di'an man." Sean's strong second son said.
"No, no, take it back, take it back quickly."
Sean suddenly seemed to remember something.
He had seen a similar scene twenty years ago when he was fighting against the Yintian people in the federal army.
A Yin Di'an soldier stood there lonely.
Standing on the grassland between the vast sky and earth, I looked so lonely.
At that time, the cavalry team he was in rushed towards the Yin Di'an.
It was as if they were about to rush in front of this Yin Di'an man.
An accident happened. A large number of Yin Di'an people and their horses stood up from the grass.
Sean had heard that the Yintian people took care of their war horses as if they were their own wives.
They can control their horses to lie motionless on the ground like themselves.
Sure enough, at this moment, countless Yin Di'an seemed to stand up from the ground.
In fact, there were less than a thousand people in this team of Capaches. But they were scattered on the grassland together with their war horses. It gave people the impression of a large area.
Sean's second son, who has always been extremely fierce, was also scared to death at this time.
Even Sean has never seen so many fully armed Yindians.
In fact, this was just a team sent by the Comanches.
The Comanche army now has a Canadian military staff.
They developed a scientific plan for the Comanches to attack the Union's northwest territories.
Regarding the sparse farms here in Minnesota, the staff felt that the 20,000 Indian cavalry should be spread out.
Otherwise, it would not only be too inefficient, but it would also spread the news and give the white people on the farms in the east time to evacuate.
They divided their troops into more than a dozen groups and were able to draw a net and attack them.
Sweep the entire grassland. They will eventually meet up at Inner Lingbao.
This is the most important American stronghold on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
As long as they capture this place, the Yin Di'an people can choose any place downstream to cross the river.
"Bang bang bang..." intensive gunfire sounded from behind Sean.
Subconsciously he felt a strong crisis approaching.
However, those Yin Di'an people were dozens of yards away from me.
Liu Kun was a military advisor sent by Canada to the Comanches.
Liu Kun is just a lieutenant, a company commander in the Canadian Army.
In fact, he was only a second lieutenant platoon leader before coming to the Comanches, and he was promoted to one rank because he accepted this mission.
Liu Kun didn't know much about the Yin Di'an people, but he had met many indigenous people.
Most of them are in an ignorant and backward state.
But after arriving at the Comanche tribe.
Only then did Liu Kun realize that this place was very different from other Yin Di'an tribes.
These Comanches seemed to have no other pursuits.
They hunt only for what they need.
There is no wealth in the tribe.
But everyone in the tribe yearns to gain honor in battle.
Dying in battle is also a very honorable thing for them.
If any tribe could get excited after hearing about war, it would be the Comanches.
Liu Kun even discovered that these Comanches were very smart.
As soon as the new rifles shipped from Canada were equipped, they were able to master them quickly.
And these people take great care of their weapons.
Even in the Canadian-Chinese Army, which is subject to various weapons regulations, soldiers do not take such good care of their weapons.
Comanche warriors used bison grease to clean their rifles every day.
They didn't have that many bullets, so they practiced holding guns on horses all day long.
They can even stand on the stirrups and use both hands to shoot in three directions: left, right and forward.
What Jiahua sold them was not even a specialized lance.
Even so, these Comanches mastered these weapons to the extreme through training.