1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 223, The Arms Race is the Most Loved

There is a document on the desk of Secretary of Defense Hayes. This is a piece of classified information that has just been sent back from Panama. Secretary Hals frowned and looked at the information page by page, and from time to time he fumbled out other information from the locked drawer to verify it. After a while, he stood up, gathered up the information on the desk, put it into the portfolio, and then walked out of the office with the portfolio.

“Sancho, follow me to the presidential palace.” When he walked to the door of the office, Hals said to the own guard Sancho.

“Okay, Mr. Minister.” Sancho replied, and at the same time he helped his own hat.

The two left the office building of the Ministry of Defense and got into a carriage in the yard.

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“Mr. President, this is the information we just got.” Hales said to President Jose worriedly. With these weapons and complete combat preparations, it will be difficult for us to defeat these rebels.”

“Then Hales, can our army launch an attack now?” President Jose asked.

“President, you know the situation of our army.” Hals looked sad. “They must replace better weapons, they must get more training…”

“I know,” President Jose interrupted him, “but it requires money. Will Congress agree to give that much money?”

Hals knew that, in order to get Congress to spend money to change the army, the president has used various methods, including speeches, including interviews with reporters, including… But Congress just clenched its teeth and did nothing.

“So Hals, time is not on our side. The longer the preparation, the smaller the chance of success for us. You know, it is said that the United States has begun to discuss whether to recognize Panama’s independence. If we don’t Something, other countries may think that we are acquiescing to Panama’s independence. If it was a few years earlier, that would be fine, but after the example of Lincoln… Therefore, we must attack, even if it’s just an attitude.”

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“Mr. Bob, please allow me to represent Panama first, and thank you and your warriors for the victory that you have brought us.” Mayor Edu, no, it is President Edu now-although it is temporary.

Two days ago, the Colombian troops of the two regiments launched an attack on Panama. “Free Panama”, oh, now called the Panamanian Defense Forces, relying on the bravery, tenacity, and the fighting spirit that is not afraid of sacrifice, successfully repelled the Colombian government army’s offensive. Protected Panama’s freedom and independence.

Of course, the above are all the statements in the newspapers. The actual situation is that the Panamanian National Defense Forces have not yet completed the basic training, especially the artillery, not even the most basic formation of positions. Therefore, this battle is completely black water. It was fought by mercenaries of about five hundred people. The entire combat process is actually quite simple. In general, “the artillery blasts the infantry and the infantry blasts the artillery.”

The Colombian army, which was still in the pre-gun era, only brought six cannons, and they were all the small Napoleon guns (a French-made six-pounder gun) that the United States bought when the United States was all over the world selling leftover materials from the Civil War. Compared with the 12-pound Napoleon gun, it is smaller, lighter, and of course less powerful, but most importantly, the price is cheaper.) They have no idea how far the current rear-mounted steel rifled gun can hit. . As a result, the Colombians of the two regiments actually formed a team within the range of the 75 rapid-fire gun, ready to attack. As a result, 12 75mm rapid-fire guns were fired at Blackwater’s soldiers with grenade shells at a rate of more than 20 rounds per minute. He hadn’t waited for Blackwater and the Barna Horse Stance soldiers who had completed preliminary training. When the offensive was launched, the Colombian army completely collapsed. By the time the infantry armed with MacDonald’s 1864 rifles rushed past, the Columbians would have died all over the mountains and plains, and the rest were not dead, and had already run all over the mountains and plains.

The Colombian army fled all the way, and there was no way to stop. Fortunately, Heishui has always paid little attention to the cavalry, and there are no cavalry sent here (the horses are too difficult to take care of, so Heishui generally only has some easy-to-carry horses). Everyone runs on two legs. The rout party can throw away all weapons and everything, but the chasing party can’t do this. Therefore, although the Panamanian Defence Forces pursued very vigorously, they failed to capture too many Colombians. In the words of a certain Panamanian officer: “Don’t say that thousands of people run across the mountains with their feet open, there are more than a thousand pigs, and if you put them in the wild, it is not so easy to catch them all.”

The Colombian army fled all the way, and only barely stopped until they fled to the Garil fortress. But not long afterwards, the Panamanian army actually chased them with the cannon that had just given them a fatal blow with a carriage, and then set up the cannon and blasted it. So the Colombians immediately abandoned the Garil fortress and ran away again. NS. As a result, this Colombian attack not only failed to regain Panama, but also lost a fortress.

“Ah, nothing, I’m just providing services in accordance with the contract.” Bob said.

“Mr. Bob, I have something I hope you can give me some advice.” President Edu said, “We have now captured the Garril fortress, which is customarily not part of Panama. In order to achieve peace with Colombia. , Should we return this fortress to Colombia?”

“Ah, Mr. President, I don’t understand political matters. I can only talk about this issue from a military perspective for your reference.” Bob said humbly, “If Colombia still doesn’t want to give up Panama, then they When attacking from the ground, if Garil Fort is in our hands, it will become a major obstacle to the Colombian army. If we improve this fortress to a certain extent, just deploy a small force here, it can be delayed. Live in the Colombian troops for at least two to three weeks. This will give us time to respond. On the contrary, if this fortress is in Colombia’s hands, their troops will be able to reach Panama City in two to three days. It’s hard to react to what you want.”

“Thank you for your suggestion, I think I understand how to do it.” President Edu said.

Bob also smiled and said modestly: “No thanks, this is what I should do.”

Now, without asking, you can know that Edu, or Panama, will never give up the fortress in their hands easily. And if they don’t give up this fortress, then Colombia will not find a step to retreat. In this case, without even thinking about it, Colombia will definitely begin to rectify the army and strengthen its armaments, and this may even create a chain of suspicion between the South United States homes, so that the entire South America will join an extremely loving armament. Go in the competition. This is the purpose of taking advantage of the fortress. Moreover, the arms race is also good for President Edu, and he did not get less kickbacks when he bought the weapons of the McDonald Infantry Weapons Company.

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“Everyone, the Colombian Congress has passed a bill to reorganize armaments. They intend to use tariffs and mining rights in some areas as collateral to issue a batch of special treasury bonds. I have reached a gentleman agreement with Colombian President Jose. We will do it for you. They sell the national debt and help them buy weapons that are equivalent to or even better than Panama’s weapons. Of course, for this, we must give him a lot of rebates.” On the newly purchased yacht, Morgan was triumphant to him Said the allies. At this time, the yacht shook suddenly and the wine bottles on the table were all tilted.

“Damn Scrooge!” Morgan scolded, “He actually made such a broken ship.”

Well, this new yacht was modified from Scrooge’s Alaska-type transport ship. When Morgan came to try it, the boat drove to a high speed of 28 knots in one breath, almost fainting Morgan. . So Morgan almost bought one without even thinking about it. Who knows that after a while, Morgan discovered that the boat was not bad when it was running faster, but once it was slow, it would shake badly. Morgan wanted to sell the boat for a while, but it’s hard for his comfort to be really bad, but the speed of the boat is really cool, so Morgan was a little bit reluctant. Every time the ship shook badly, he scolded Scrooge.

“So where do we go to order these weapons for them?” a banker asked.

“As far as their requirements are concerned,” Morgan laughed, “Many of these technologies are really only available in Scrooge’s factories. But because of Scrooge’s performances in Panama’s independence, the Colombians specifically mentioned one. The condition is that it cannot be ordered from McDonald’s Infantry Weapons Company. Even if it requires more money. Therefore, I just invested three thousand US dollars to establish an arms company called “Pirates” and prepared to provide them exclusively. “Pirate” series of weapons.”

It’s okay to start a company for three thousand dollars. But how can such a company be able to take such orders and produce corresponding products?

“Scrooge has agreed to produce for us a batch of weapons without the McDonald logo at a price of 20% compared to the original product, and then we will affix the logo of the “pirate” company, and then the price According to McDonald’s related products, the price will be increased by about 10%, and then sold to those Colombians.” Morgan smiled happily.

“What about after-sales service?”

“Of course they are also from Heishui. They put on our clothes and went to work.” Morgan replied, “For each suit, we charge 40% of the service fee.”