America 1881: Legend of the West

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

It's two.

Thiago, the Mexican bandit leader, thought that killing Scott's brother would not be a big problem.

He bet that Chen Jianqiu would not fall out with him because of this matter, and that when the militia or other armed forces mobilized by Scott arrived in Lincoln County, he would have fled long ago.

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

The next morning, in the desert north of Lincolnshire.

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

This was a crushing victory between the regular army and the gangs.

Whether in terms of numbers, combat prowess or even tactics, Crook and his federal cavalry are undoubtedly more than one step ahead of Thiago and the others.

The two sides are not competing on the same level at all.

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

Seeing that the situation was not good, Tiago fled with the remaining gangsters and ran towards the south without looking back.

Crook, on the other hand, allowed his men to pursue him fiercely.

The morale of the troops is indispensable, and a victory can be used to make up for the regret of not completely annihilating 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 were fleeing and wounded, and the people following him had gone from nearly two hundred people at their peak to now only a dozen or so wandering souls like frightened birds.

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

"Are they chasing you?" Tiago's horse ran wildly, dust flying behind him.

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

"I'm not chasing you!" the younger brother said while coughing. He ate the dust all the way behind Thiago.

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

He took a breath.

This is indeed the U.S.-Mexico border.

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

Surrounded by bare loess and gravel, there were also strange-shaped shrubs lying on the ground.

Cacti, aloe vera, agave, and hyacinths are all in various shapes and sizes, and together with the strong winds on the border, they all reveal the wildness and neglect of this place.

At this time, the U.S.-Mexico border was not as lively as it would be more than a hundred years ago.

Not to mention a president with blond hair, who loves to play the accordion with his hands, and who likes to pout when he talks, to build a high wall on this land.

"Boss, what should we do?"

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

He pinched his thigh hard.

I wandered for half my life and started my second business, but it failed miserably.

However, he, Thiago, is a person who fails easily. Every gangster who makes a living in the West has its ups and downs.

Even his old-timer Hernandez, for example, disappears from time to time.

I am a person who has been on the verge of life and death many times.

If the heart is there, the dream is there, it's just starting from scratch.

Tiago gritted his teeth and waved to his men: "Let's go, I'll take you to Juarez (Author's note: Mexican border city), and let's start fighting urban gangs again."

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

Crook stopped the pursuing cavalry.

"No more chasing?" the cavalry asked doubtfully.

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

He turned the horse's head: "Let's go back and have fun with our old Indian neighbors."

On the other side, Chen Jianqiu said goodbye to Geronimo and returned to Roswell with the Long Xiang group.

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

The military factory has started work.

The items produced are mainly rifles and revolvers that Browning Gun Shop previously sold.

Browning originally thought that it would be difficult to make guns in this damn place. At least the Chinese workers seemed unreliable. He wondered if they could understand his drawings.

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

There were even a few outstanding craftsmen who, after understanding the craftsmanship, put forward some rational 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 rifling were.

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

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

Maxim continued to retreat.

His brother was "invited" to Roswell, where he worked on explosives and gunpowder in his own laboratory. However, unlike his brother, Chen Jianqiu built his laboratory in the desert because his research was dangerous.

There is a yard surrounded by adobe walls. Outside the yard is an endless testing ground. You can blow up whatever you want.

Chen Jianqiu was not worried at all that something would go wrong, because decades later the United States' nuclear explosion test base and missile range would also be in this desert.

Atomic bombs can explode, so what does it mean if you research a few explosives?
Maxim's wife and children sent a letter.

The letter stated that they had received a large sum of money from Maxim, which was enough for them to live and for little Maxim to attend a good school.

Little Maxim's academic performance is very good. He has one less problem. The teachers and children who bullied him in school now dare not speak loudly in front of him.

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

Maxim burst into tears after seeing this letter.

He no longer had any worries and devoted himself more to the research of automatic weapons.

The talented inventor quickly figured out the principles of automatic weapons, but because he was not a professional firearms designer before, he was not familiar with the firearms themselves.

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

At first, Browning didn't care, but soon he realized what this weapon meant.

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

They first made modifications to an old Winchester rifle. The experiment was successful, and soon the world's first automatic rifle was born.

Chen Jianqiu also test-fired the gun himself.

After that, the two people were rarely seen in Roswell.

Chen Jianqiu guessed that the two people should be fully devoted to the research of heavy machine guns.

It was one day in early August.

Chen Jianqiu and Camilla have just returned from Lincolnshire.

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

Chen Jianqiu began to open the account books attentively and started reading them.

"Well, the revenue from kerosene last month was $76,000. Not bad. If we give out some more kerosene lamps, we can sell more kerosene."

“Well, there is also interest income.”

He calculated his income and expenses and considered whether he should start storing some food.

The experimental fields in Roswell were not very promising. Due to the soil conditions, the yield was not good.

Therefore, all the food for Roswell has to be shipped in from outside, and the output from the farms in Lincoln is probably not enough to fill the hole in Roswell.

If something suddenly happened to their necks one day, I’m afraid a group of people would starve to death.

While he was still calculating, the door was suddenly slammed open and two people rushed in.

Just when Chen Jianqiu was about to shoot each of these two men, he found that these two men looked a little familiar.

"We did it! Chen! We did it!"

One of them was dancing with excitement.

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

The other man's breathing was rapid, his chest rising and falling.

Chen Jianqiu looked closely and found that the two men were Browning and Maxim. The difference was that Browning had a beard, while Maxim's beard was even longer, and he had become extremely thin.

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

The two men dragged Chen Jianqiu to the shooting range without saying a word.

When Chen Jianqiu followed the two men to the shooting range, he found that a machine gun had been quietly mounted on a tripod.

"It's water-cooled, with canvas ammunition belts, and we can equip it with wheels if it needs to be moved," Maxim said excitedly.

Chen Jianqiu half-knelt down, pulled the trigger and started a test fire.

Flames spurted out of the muzzle, and bullets rained down on the target, instantly smashing the iron target into pieces. The firing speed was much faster than that of a hand-cranked Gatling gun.

Most importantly, it lasts longer.

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

"good."

Chen Jianqiu's reaction was very calm, which was far from what they expected.

"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. Could it be that this Chinese had any other ideas? This machine gun was much more advanced than the Gatling gun.

"We are now using black powder lead bullets, so the chamber pressure of this gun is insufficient, the gas conduction is not smooth, and there are a lot of firing residues." Chen Jianqiu looked up and down at the machine gun.

Both of them were startled.

Chen Jianqiu is right, this is exactly the problem with this machine gun now.

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

"Wait until the guns and bullets are truly upgraded, hehe." Chen Jianqiu looked at Maxim's brother's laboratory in the distance, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Cavalry? Horsemen? Let's all become good at singing and dancing!
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