1850 American Gold Tycoon.

At the urging of the President and the Department of War, supplies shorted by the Eastern Front were quickly delivered by rail to San Antonio's train station.

Longstreet, who was in charge of munitions, had already happily waited at the San Antonio train station with his men.

After the train arrived at the station and stopped, he couldn't wait to start counting the supplies.

He carefully checked whether the arriving munitions were consistent with those on the list, for fear of missing even a pair of boots.

Commander Jackson also arrived at the train station.

Jackson came mainly to inspect the 25 light and heavy guns.

Rao is that the artillery promised by the North has all been in place, and the artillery of the Southern Army is not sufficient.

Jackson decided to use these artillery together. He gathered all the light artillery, that is, field artillery, and barely formed an artillery regiment.

The remaining five 5-pound heavy guns were organized into a heavy artillery company. These heavy artillery for siege will be mainly used to attack Mexican military fortresses and hard cities.

To Liang Yao's surprise, although Robert Lee himself did not participate in the battle, he sent his two sons to join the battle.

It's just that Robert Lee's two sons are very young at this time, and their qualifications are still inexperienced. In the future, the two southern generals are still little-known lieutenants at this time.

Custis, Robert Lee's eldest son, graduated No. 1 from West Point two years ago and is now a captain.

Jackson singled out Custis for the important post of commander of the heavy artillery company.

Whether Jackson's move was blatant or only family, perhaps only after the war is over will we know.

However, the senior military officers in the South almost all supported Jackson's decision. For one thing, Custis was the beloved son of Robert Lee, and they were willing to believe the saying that a tiger father has no dogs.

Secondly, both Custis' grades in the military academy and service history are excellent, so good that no one can find any faults.

In particular, Custis was able to graduate from West Point Military Academy with No. 1 grades, which made the southerners feel that this kid is very good for the south.

As for Robert Lee's second son, Fitzhugh, who had just graduated from Harvard University, because he had just served in the army, Jackson only made Fitzhugh a second lieutenant of the Second Cavalry, and did not entrust him with important tasks.

After the materials were counted and put into the warehouse, officers of all regiments, militias, and volunteers had already rushed to the gate of the military supplies warehouse in San Antonio to prepare to divide up the materials.

The head of the Texas Regiment, that is, Liang Yaozhun's father-in-law, also received military supplies at the gate of the military supply warehouse.

It is said that they are receiving military supplies, but in fact these so-called aristocratic gentlemen in the south are no different from bargaining vendors in the vegetable market. Their voices are getting louder and louder, for fear that they will be missed.

Liang Yao could hear Bell's loud and familiar voice from afar: "Hey! Big barrel! The Texas Regiment! The Texas Regiment needs 800 pairs of boots! 800 blankets! 1100 kettles! 500 rifles! "

Longstreet, because of his big waist and round waist, these high-ranking officers in the south prefer to call him the big barrel.Compared with Longstreet's somewhat awkward name, the nickname of Big Wine Barrel is much easier to pronounce.

"Lord Bell, you have misremembered! 500 pairs of boots! 600 blankets! 1000 water bottles! 400 rifles!"

Obviously, Bell, who wanted to fish in troubled waters, failed. He knew all the supplies assigned to each regiment, even if the current environment was very noisy.

"Then give me 100 more rifles! Our regiment doesn't have enough rifles! You can't let my southern-loving Texas boys fight with the Mexicans with fire sticks?" Bell still insisted, wanting more guns.

"Your Excellency Bell, if you can get approval slips from General Jackson, don't say 100, even 1000 will be fine." Ristreet laughed.

Although the materials promised by the North have arrived in San Antonio one after another, the materials in their hands are only adequate, not abundant.

In order to ensure the subsequent combat capabilities of the troops, Jackson's allocation of military supplies is very strict.

"Come on, that guy is more stingy than you." Bell couldn't help complaining.

"My old buddy, you are different from us. You have a son-in-law who runs an arsenal. You should stop grabbing these poor fellows like us." A colonel teased Bell out of the team.

"As long as you ask your son-in-law, don't say 100 guns, even if it is 100 guns, I think your son-in-law can afford it."

The surrounding senior officers of the Southern Army burst into laughter when they heard the words.

Bell gave the chattering colonel a blank look, led a dozen Texas soldiers to load supplies, and returned to the camp of the Texas regiment cursing.

Liang Yao also followed Bell to the camp of the Texas Regiment.

"What are you doing here? Do you think I don't have enough laughing stock?" Bell said angrily.

"I'm here to send charcoal to you." Liang Yao said with a smile.

"Send charcoal in the snow? You are now a bare-handed commander, and there is only one company around you. What kind of charcoal can you give me?" Bell said disdainfully.

"Even if I'm poor, at least I still have a thousand people under my command."

Although what Bell said was somewhat offensive, it was true.

The relationship between Liang Yao and the generals of the Southern Army was quite harmonious, but it was not so harmonious that the colonel and general of the Southern Army could regard him as one of their own.

In name, he was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, but in fact the generals of the Confederate Army did not buy him.

He could put forward plans and suggestions for the Southern Army's operations. As for whether these plans and suggestions could be adopted, Jackson had to make the final decision.

The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, Jackson, was very polite to Liang Yao on the surface, but he was not polite to Liang Yao at all when he should be rude.

Jackson single-handedly controlled the transfer of military supplies and prevented Liang Yao from interfering. In fact, he was evading Liang Yao, the deputy commander, and did not want Liang Yao, an outsider, to command their own troops in the south.

This is also reasonable, and even more expected by Liang Yao.Because he would not let the commander in the south come and dictate to his western brigade.

It is not an exaggeration for Bell to say that he is a polished commander. The army that Liang Yao can actually command is not in Texas, but the Western Brigade in San Diego.

It was precisely because of this that Liang Yao came to Bell.

With the current urgency of the federal government, the follow-up military supplies will definitely not be generously given to the southern army.

Even if it is given, it is procrastinated and cannot be given in time.

The shortage of materials will definitely affect the course of the war.

It wasn't that Liang Yao suspected that these southerners with strong martial virtues couldn't even defeat the Mexicans, but that he wanted a quick victory, and he didn't want to fight a protracted tug-of-war.

After all, the Crimean War is almost over, and there is not much time left for them.

Liang Yao currently has only one guard company around him. Even if the Mexicans stretched the gap, it is unrealistic to rely on one company to open up the communication line between Texas and California.

And if he wants to gain more influence in the Confederate Army, and even influence the decision-making of the Confederate Army, so that the Confederate Army can cooperate with the Western Brigade to achieve the goal of a quick battle, he must open up the communication line between California and Texas.

As long as the line of communication between California and Texas is opened, he can use military supplies as a bargaining chip to enhance his voice in the Confederate Army.

Bell's Texas Regiment is the only regiment that Liang Yao has the hope of being used by Liang Yao before the Gardner line of communication is opened up among the regiments of the Southern Army.

A company can't get a line of communication between California and Texas, a regiment might.