1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 133

Stimulated by the death of the blacksmith Kobe, many workers began to check out one after another, but at the same time new workers were being sent here. The railway continues to extend forward as usual.

James struggled to pull his left foot out of the deep mud, but the upper came out, but the sole remained in the mud.

“Damn it!” James cursed, “This hell weather!”

Yes. Since the beginning of October, there has been a lot of rain. Deep drainage ditches have been dug on both sides of the railway embankment, which can be considered as a guarantee that the railway can barely be laid, but the road from the railway construction site to the camp is too difficult to walk. The ground is completely rotten by rain, and the silt will often sink into an ankle as soon as you step down. Sometimes, if you don’t walk well, the silt may not reach your knees. The cold stagnant water will also flow into the shoes at this time, freezing the feet cold and even completely losing consciousness.

Now, James’ foot injury has no sense at all. James squeezed his own foot that had no shoes, then bent down again, stretched his hand into the mud and touched it for a while, finally touching the sole of the shoe out of the mud. Looking in the direction of the camp, the camp is already in front of you. Maybe you can set foot on the dry and solid land covered with coal ashes in three steps.

James leaned Own back slightly, then rushed forward! One step, two steps, three steps, four steps, one more step, finally embarked on a solid coal road. James knows that there is a grocery store over the camp, which sells all kinds of things, including boots and the like of course. His current shoe is obviously out of rescue. However, the grocery store is also ragged. Maybe, this rotten shoe can also sell for a few cents.

Pushing open the door of the grocery store, he saw Stern, the owner of the grocery store, cooking on the edge of a fire. Stern is not a worker, he is the one who has signed a contract with the company, thus gaining the opportunity to follow the workers to do business together.

“James, what’s the matter? What are you here to buy?” Stern saw James come in and hurriedly stood up and said.

“Shoes, the soles are off.” James walked directly to the brazier, pulled a chair to sit down, took off the other shoe, and stretched his bare feet to the side of the brazier to start the fire. Come. So a unique smell permeated this small grocery store.

“Yeah.” Stern clutched his nose and sat down in another chair.

“Look, how much is that broken shoe worth?” James handed his own broken shoe to Stern.

Stern looked at it and said, “The uppers can be used to make up the miscellaneous leather of the shoes at most. The soles are worn out soon. It’s useless. This thing is not worth any money at all. Well, forget it. Who makes you look like my son, I will give you a preferential price, one cent.”

“Bullshit, who the hell looks like your son!” James glanced at his mouth, “Just a cent? Old man, are you too stingy?”

“That’s a lot! James, take your rags to other places, and they will just throw them out in the trash. Well, let’s just buy a new pair of boots, and sell the still-usable shoes. Me. I’ll give you a little cheaper. How about?”

“How much cheaper? Well, how much are those shoes?”

The continuous rain has inevitably affected the process of road construction. But this is an irresistible natural factor. Natural factors are not the only threats to railways. Soon, the railway will enter Minnesota. There, they have to pass through an area controlled by the Sioux people. The Sioux is a branch of Indians. It is now the strongest Indian tribe on the North American continent. They obtained horses and guns through trade with whites, and they made a living by hunting bison. In hunting, they exercised superb riding skills and precise marksmanship. This makes their combat effectiveness at least as good as that of Mexico’s regular army.

Therefore, the railway passes through their control area, which will inevitably bring more dangers. Therefore, they must plan ahead. be prepared.

“For security matters. Let’s listen to the opinions of experts first.” Scrooge said. “Col. Robson is a commander with very rich combat experience. I believe his opinions will be inspiring for everyone.”

“Hello everyone.” Robson stood up, nodded to the members of the board, and then walked to a wall with curtains. An assistant helped him open the curtain, except for a huge map of northern Minnesota behind the curtain.

“Our people have found signs of large-scale high-grade iron ore here. Of course, conditions are limited. We have not been able to go to large-scale exploration. However, the possibility of iron and copper ore in this generation is very high. For this reason, the company’s railway needs to be turned north, so that these potentially mineralized areas will enter the 32 kilometers of the railway. However, here, here, and here are all Indian land. We must let They moved from here to other places far away from our railway. For this reason we will definitely have conflicts with these Indians.

So how will the Indians fight? What do they do that pose the greatest threat to us? “Robson stopped and glanced at the audience. If it was in the Army, he would directly ask the officers and ask them to answer, then catch the errors or loopholes in their answers, and fix them severely. A meal. But this can’t be the case here, the real big bosses sitting below, he can’t afford to provoke any of them.

“Indians may have several attack methods like this. First, directly attack construction sites or labor camps.” Robson said, “This is best to prevent. Pull up barbed wire fences around camps and construction sites, dig a little trench, and then deploy a certain amount. The number of personnel is enough.”

“The second method of attack is to directly demolish our railways and attack our supplies. They are all cavalry, with good mobility, and can avoid tightly guarded areas and attack unattended railways. Or attack ours. Transport convoy. This is more difficult to deal with than the previous method. If I were the commander of the Indians, I would definitely choose the latter method of combat.So. How to deal with this style of play? My suggestion is to prepare some special trains on this railway. These trains consist of a locomotive and two flatcars. The head of the power car is in the middle, and the flatbed trucks are one after the other. On these two flatcars, we are equipped with waist-high steel armor and a cannon that can fire grenade shells. We can use this kind of vehicle to patrol along the railway, frustrating possible attacks by those Indians at any time. At the same time, we connected telegraph lines at various sites. In this way, our armored trains can support locations that need reinforcements at any time based on intelligence. In addition, some of these armored flatbed vehicles must be mixed in our transportation trains.

However, gentlemen, defense is always passive. Offense is the solution to the problem thoroughly. Therefore, attacking the lair of the Indians is the most fundamental way to solve the problem. However, the Sioux people are fishermen and hunters, they often move, and it is not easy to catch them. However, their survival largely depends on hunting and killing bison. We may be able to kill all the bison of this generation. So they have to withdraw from this area. ”

“This is a very interesting method.” Morgan said. “I think both Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Clark will be interested in the bison that was killed.”

“Beef is important, but the speed at which the buffalo is killed is more important.” Scrooge said, “We can’t transport every buffalo we kill back to be canned. That would be too slow. So just bring the tongue back. . Cow tongue is the best.” The last bison-killing doctrine was actually proposed by Scrooge. Historically, the people of United States relied on this and finally defeated the Sioux. At that time, a total of tens of millions of American bison were killed, leaving only more than 20.

“Has that kind of armored train been replaced by a prototype?” someone asked.

“Yes.” Scrooge replied, “We have modified some. If it works, it can be sold to the federal army in the future.”

The design concept of this gadget is from later generations of Japanese devils. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese devils used a large number of such miniaturized armored trains to protect their railway lines from the illegal anti-Japanese armed forces expanded by the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. . It posed a great threat to the famous railway guerrillas and other guerrillas who insisted on the illegal anti-Japanese war. Although the devils finally failed to rely on this to keep the railway safe, some fruit fans despised the people’s armed forces as an illegal anti-Japanese war. After 44 years, the devils even dared not even dared to build a gun tower. However, the combat capabilities of the Indians cannot be compared with the combat effectiveness of the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the most prominent group army in the War of Resistance. So the thing that made the eighteenth episode a headache, it should be enough to deal with the Indians.

“Chief, the white railway has extended to our territories. They violated the previous agreement with us and started plundering our land.” An Indian said to the bison chief.

“I know that these white people’s promises are like farting!” said the Buffalo Chief. “We can’t let them succeed so easily. You go and contact other tribes, let us discuss together how to deal with those white people! In addition, let the warriors of the tribe be on guard so that they don’t find it until they are blocked at the door.”