America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chen Jianqiu originally thought that there would be a new armed force on the US-Mexico border, but he did not expect that he still underestimated the complexity of the situation in New Mexico.

It is two.

The Mexican bandit leader Thiago thought it would be no big problem to kill Scott's brother.

He bet that Chen Jianqiu would not turn against him because of this matter, and when the militiamen or other armed forces mobilized by Scott arrived in Lincolnshire, he would have already fled.

The desert in New Mexico is so big, where can't it hide?
However, what he never expected was that Crook led two cavalry battalions, four or five hundred men and horses, and rushed back to Lincolnshire overnight from a hundred miles away.

The next morning, in the moors in north Lincolnshire.

Crook and his cavalry caught Thiago who was slowly wandering towards his lair with the looted property.

This is a crushing victory of the regular army against the gangsters.

No matter in terms of numbers, combat literacy or even tactics, Crook and his federal cavalry were more than a step above Tiago and the others without any suspense.

The two sides are not a level of contest at all.

The gangsters collapsed at the first touch, and before the Mexican had time to set up his three Gatling guns, he was rushed to pieces by the federal cavalry.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Thiago fled with the rest of the gang, and ran towards the south without looking back.

Crook, on the other hand, let his subordinates pursue him fiercely.

The morale of the troops was invincible, just a victory to make up for the regret of not completely eradicating the Apache Indians.

Even if the opponent is a group of bandits.

Thiago and his men were driven all the way to the border.

At this time, the gangsters died, escaped and injured, and the people following him, from nearly 200 people in the peak period, to now there are only a dozen or so wandering souls who look like frightened birds.

"Boss, we seem to be entering Mexico soon." A younger brother behind Thiago shouted at the boss in front.

"Have they come after them?" Thiago's mount ran wildly, with dust flying behind him.

The man on the right didn't even turn his head.

"Didn't catch up!" said the younger brother while coughing, he ate the ashes all the way behind Thiago.

Tiago turned his head and looked, and after making sure that Crook and his cavalry did not appear on the endless wilderness behind him, he slowed down his riding speed.

He took a breath.

This is indeed the US-Mexico border.

It's just that he doesn't know whether he is in the United States or in Mexico.

Except for the bare loess and gravel all around, there are strange-shaped shrubs lying on the ground.

Cactus, aloe vera, agave, and hyacinth are in various shapes and grow wildly. Together with the strong wind on the border, they all reveal the wildness and neglect of this place.

At this time, the US-Mexico border is not as lively as it will be more than 100 years later.

Not to mention a blond-haired, accordion-playing, pouting president building a high wall on this land.

"Boss, what should we do?"

Thiago looked back and found a group of younger brothers looking at him with complicated eyes.

He pinched his thigh hard.

I wandered for half my life and started my second business, but it ended in a complete failure.

However, he, Thiago, is not a person who talks about failure lightly. The gangsters who live in the west have ups and downs.

Take his senior Hernandez as an example, he also disappeared from time to time.

I am a person who has walked on the edge of life and death several times.

If the heart is there, the dream is there, just start all over again.

Thiago gritted his teeth and waved his hands at his subordinates: "Come on, I'll take you to Juarez (Author's Note: Mexico border city), let's do urban gangsters again."

In fact, Crook's cavalry was not far behind them, but they obviously knew more about where the border line was than the gangsters.

Crook stopped the cavalry who were still chasing.

"Stop chasing?" the cavalry asked suspiciously.

"The rabble." Crook looked at Tiago's almost invisible back in the distance, and said contemptuously, "Let these scumbags go back to Mexico, as long as they dare to show up in the United States, I will hang them up bloodletting."

He turned his horse's head: "Let's go back and play with our old Indian neighbors."

On the other side, Chen Jianqiu bid farewell to Geronimo, and returned to Roswell with the Longxiang team.

The first batch of materials and machinery finally arrived in town.

The military factory is open.

The things produced are mainly the rifles and revolvers sold by the Browning gun shop before.

Browning originally thought that it would be difficult to make guns in this ghost place. At least the Chinese laborers seemed unreliable. I don't know if they could understand their own drawings.

Unexpectedly, they quickly mastered the assembly skills proficiently, and assembled the guns quickly and well.

There were even a few outstanding craftsmen who, after understanding the craftsmanship, put forward a few rationalized suggestions and solved some minor difficulties for Browning.

This shocked Browning.

Although these craftsmen do not understand physics and mechanics, a few weeks ago, they did not know what a trigger, hammer, or rifle was.

When Browning told Chen Jianqiu this, Chen Jianqiu smiled and patted him on the shoulder:

"Please believe in the wisdom of the working people. Their ideas for solving problems are often simple but effective."

Ma Keqin continued to retreat.

His brother was "invited" to Roswell to work on dynamite and gunpowder in his own laboratory.

However, unlike his elder brother, Chen Jianqiu built his laboratory in the desert because his research was dangerous.

A courtyard surrounded by adobe walls, outside the courtyard is an endless testing ground, where you can blow up whatever you want.

Chen Jianqiu was not worried about what might go wrong at all, because decades later, the US nuclear explosion test base and missile range would also be in this desert.

An atomic bomb can explode, so what do you study a few explosives for?
Ma Keqin's wife and children sent a letter.

The letter said that they had received a large sum of money from Maxim, which was enough for them to live on, and enough for young Maxim to go to a good school.

Little Ma Keqin's academic performance is very good, and he has one less problem. Those teachers and children who bullied him in school before are afraid to speak loudly in front of him now.

In addition, in their family, some debtors would appear occasionally, but every time they appeared once, they would never appear again.

After seeing the letter, Ma Keqin burst into tears.

He no longer had to worry about the future, and devoted himself more fully to the research of automatic weapons.

This talented inventor quickly figured out the principle of automatic weapons, but because he was not a professional gun designer before, he was not familiar with the guns themselves.

In order to speed up the progress, at the suggestion of Chen Jianqiu, Browning joined in.

Browning didn't care at first, but soon realized what the weapon meant.

The two geniuses hit it off and started to plunge into the laboratory.

They first made changes to an old-fashioned Winchester rifle. The experiment was very successful. It didn't take long for the world's first automatic rifle to be born.

Chen Jianqiu also tried firing the gun with his own hands.

After that, the two of them were rarely seen in the town of Roswell.

Chen Jianqiu guessed that the two of them should have devoted themselves to the research of heavy machine guns.

One day in early August.

Chen Jianqiu and Camilla just came back from Lincolnshire.

He got into the office behind the grain store and put the pile of account books he brought back on the table.

Chen Jianqiu began to concentrate on opening these account books and began to read them.

"Well, the income from kerosene last month was a total of [-] U.S. dollars. That's right. Send some more kerosene lamps to sell more kerosene."

"Well, there is interest income"

He calculated his income and expenditure, and considered whether to start stockpiling food.

The test field in Roswell is really not up to the mark. Due to the soil, the yield is not good.

Therefore, the entire Roswell's grain is transported outside, and the output of those farms in Lincoln is probably not enough to fill Roswell's pit.

If one day the neck is suddenly stuck, a group of people may starve to death.

While he was still calculating, the door was suddenly knocked open with a "boom", and two people rushed in.

When Chen Jianqiu was about to shoot each of these two people, he found that the two looked familiar.

"It worked! Chen! We made it!"

One of them danced with excitement.

"Yes, Chen, we have created the 'better weapon for people to kill each other' you told me about."

The other was short of breath, his chest rising and falling.

Chen Jianqiu took a closer look and found that these two people were Browning and Maxim. The difference was that Browning had a beard on his face, while Maxim's beard was longer, and his People become extremely thin.

"Is there such a big change in one or two months?" He muttered.

Without any explanation, the two dragged Chen Jianqiu to the shooting range.

When Chen Jianqiu followed the two to the shooting range, he found that a machine gun had been quietly set up with a tripod.

"It's water-cooled, and the bullet chain is made of canvas. If it needs to be moved, we can also install wheels on it." Maxim said excitedly.

Chen Jianqiu squatted down, pulled the trigger, and started shooting.

Flames spewed out from the muzzle of the gun, and the bullets rained down on the target, smashing the iron target instantly, much faster than the hand-cranked Gatling.

The key is, more durable.

Chen Jianqiu stood up.Maxim and Browning looked at him expectantly.

"good."

Chen Jianqiu's reaction was very calm, far from their expectations.

"It's not easy to make this thing in two months. Let's call it the Maxim-Browning machine gun."

"but."

Chen Jianqiu paused.

The two inventors looked at each other. Does this Chinese have any other ideas? This machine gun is already much more advanced than Gatling.

"Now we use black powder lead bullets, so this gun has insufficient chamber pressure, poor air guidance, and a lot of firing residue." Chen Jianqiu looked the machine gun up and down.

The hearts of the two trembled.

Chen Jianqiu is right, this is exactly the problem that this machine gun currently has.

Just, how did he know?
"But now, it can be used." Chen Jianqiu still gave the machine gun affirmation.

"After the bullets are really upgraded, hehe." Chen Jianqiu looked at Ma Keqin's brother's laboratory in the distance, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

cavalry?Immediate nation?Give me to become good at singing and dancing!
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