Fox of France

Because of the damned French, the first attack of the Spanish royal army suffered a heavy failure. The "rebels" chased Master Wang, chased into the trench dug by Master Wang, and then chased Master Wang's ass, chased out of the trench dug by Master Wang, and then... If General Franco hadn't made a decisive decision, Immediately ordered the artillery to open fire with cannonballs to blow up the cowards who were fleeing and the rebels who were chasing. I am afraid that the army will really be defeated.

But even so, it was still a big defeat. According to the Mexicans later, in this battle, the Spanish king left more than 300 corpses, and more than 200 people were captured. It is countless.

As for the Spaniards, according to their records, they did not die many people, the number of people killed in battle was less than fifty, and they killed thousands of rebels. Because they killed too many people, many soldiers died. They all had psychological problems. In order to appease the soldiers and comfort their kind hearts, General Franco had to order a temporary retreat. It can be seen that the Spanish king is really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness... Whether you believe it or not, anyway, the Spaniards pretended to believe it.

After this defeat, the morale of the Spaniards was low, and many soldiers felt that, without a trench gun, attacking the opponent's trench would be death. The soldiers were talking about it.

"Herrera, let me tell you, that trench gun can fire in bursts, it can load eight bullets at a time, and it can fire one shot with one pull, and each shot can fire 12 bullets. The power of a bullet is about the same as that of a revolver. When it hits, it is a large piece. It is really accurate. If you hit it, you will die. Herrera, let me tell you, if you don’t have this thing, you will go into the trenches , if you meet someone with this, do you think it’s a dead end?”

"Oh, Romero, you don't know, I heard people say that these guns were originally intended to be sold to us, but people in China said that these things are too expensive, and it's not like our guns can't be used... Then we didn’t buy it. Then those rebels knew about it and spent money to buy everything we didn’t buy…”

"Ah? And this thing?"

"Of course, I heard from Guzman, his brother-in-law is a quartermaster, he should have heard from him..."

"If you want me to say, if we don't equip us with trench guns, we can't just rush up and die like fools..."

"If you don't rush up, the officer will shoot you dead."

...

So because morale was too low, Master Wang was unable to launch an attack for several days. But on the other side, the Mexicans who had won the battle were also frowning.

"In this battle, we used almost half of the broadswords and one-third of the small melons, as well as a lot of shells. Well, we can't make shells for rifled guns, so we have to buy them. There are also trenches. The bullets of the gun..." General Allende frowned and reported to President Hidalgo.

"That is to say, if the enemy makes several more such attacks, our supplies will not be enough?" President Hidalgo asked, "Why is this consumption so much higher than the previous plan?"

"When we made the plan, we didn't take into account the situation of the soldiers. The soldiers were too excited at the time to use these things without restraint... and the enemy's attack method was also different from our previous expectations. .”

So everyone fell silent.

After a while, President Hidalgo said: "Allende, my friend, tell me, if the enemy attacks again, will our current supplies be enough to repel them?"

"Maybe, . . . but the President . . . I think we need more supplies."

Perhaps because of anticipating the difficulties of the revolutionary army, after resting for two days, the Spanish royal army launched an attack again, and this time, they launched an attack from multiple directions at the same time, although their attack was repulsed again, The Spaniards paid a high price again, but the material consumption of the Revolutionary Army was even greater than in the previous battle. Allende had to ask Hidalgo again, hoping that the President could find a way to get more materials for himself; On the other hand, after the attack was repulsed, the Spanish soldiers even mutinied because of too many casualties, forcing General Franco to make a promise to suspend the attack before the soldiers were equipped with trench guns .

In the spirit of not worrying about debts, President Hidalgo once again requested loans from various banks with the mining rights in northern Mexico as collateral. At the same time, the Spaniards also found the Louisiana distribution office of Bonaparte Arsenal, hoping to purchase a batch of trench guns as soon as possible.

The Bonaparte Arsenal immediately agreed, and they told the Spaniards that the military trench guns needed to be shipped from the mainland, so it would take at least two months. But if they are willing to pay a little more, they can also sell them the pump-action shotguns for civilian use, which are used to hunt for ordinary people.

"We have 3,000 civilian pump-action shotguns here, but you know, the price of civilian guns is much higher than military guns." Orr from the Louisiana branch of Bonaparte Armory Manager Te explained, "Although there is not much difference in performance between the two guns, the civilian ones are always more refined. For example, the gun stocks for the military are made of random wood. But the civilian version , you need to pay attention to a lot, this gun stock is made of authentic black walnut wood, the price will naturally be different. If you are willing to order these guns, we can ship them to you immediately."

So as soon as the Spaniards summed up, they urgently paid for the three thousand sticks in the hands of the French. Although to be honest, the Spaniards don't need so many trench guns, but if they only buy half, maybe the remaining half will be sold to someone else by those unscrupulous Frenchmen soon?

Therefore, in order to ensure that these civilian guns would not be sold to rebels, the Spaniards had to buy all these guns at the "preferential price" offered by the French.

"Oh, if I knew this earlier, it would be much cheaper to buy it directly before the expeditionary army set off." Governor Gomez sighed.

On the other side, the Bonaparte Arsenal deposited all the payments received in the Louisiana Development Bank. The money was deposited in the front foot, and the back foot was taken out and lent to the "Government of the Mexican Republic", and then turned around, it became the payment for the Bonaparte Arsenal, and then it was deposited into the Louisiana Development Bank.

“My friend, we have so much debt today that I almost lose sleep at night worrying about it,” President Hidalgo complained to one of his friends. But this friend comforted him with a smile: "Mr. President, you should be relieved now. You think, the French have lent you so much money. Unless the Spanish are willing to repay your loan, how could they allow you to pay back your loan?" What about your business failure?"