The New America Prefecture Castle is the seat of the governor's office of America Prefecture and the general military office of America Prefecture. It is also the political and military center of America Prefecture. It governs Peanutton County, Sanchahekou County, Xiaohekou County, Nanwankou County, and Dashandao.

There were eight colonial strongholds including Beiwantun County, Zhongwantun County, and Nanwantun County.

Among them, Peanutton County was the earliest colony and the political, economic and military center of America. It was located roughly southwest of the later city of Seattle. There were many flat islands and peninsulas in that area, with abundant rain and dense forests.

There are also several rivers running through it, making water transportation very convenient.

There are about 20,000 immigrants, officials, soldiers, etc. from the Ming Dynasty and Japan living in the jurisdiction of Peanuttun County. They are mainly distributed in four places. Peanuttun is one of them. The other three are Peninsula City, Qilitun and America.

Mansion Castle.

Tunhe City is also the lowest administrative unit in the American Prefecture, with county and prefecture levels above it.

Among them, those named after villages are usually farming districts, and those named after cities are market towns.

The castle is a military unit, under the jurisdiction of the General Military Office of the American Mansion.

After three or four years of reclamation and construction, the Peanut Reclamation Area is now quite large. The number of residents who have settled here has exceeded 7,000, living in seven villages with trenches and earthen walls. Around these villages

, there are more than 200,000 acres of wheat fields and grass fields! These wheat fields and grass fields belong to nearly 1,000 private farms and can produce more than 200,000 tons of wheat and a large amount of fodder every year. They are the granary and fundamental of the entire American colony.

The bottleneck in sending troops and immigrants to America is not the transportation capacity, but the local food supply capacity of America!

Don't look at the fact that America Mansion is very rich in natural resources, including bison and seafood. There seems to be no shortage of food. But how many people will come to eat!

It might be okay to have 3,500 people, but with the continuous immigration and reproduction in the past three years, by the summer of the 13th year of Hongxing, the total population of the American Mansion had exceeded 43,000, and it was still growing at least once a year every year.

The number of fifteen thousand increased.

Therefore, the food supply in America Mansion is not as abundant as imagined.

Peninsula City is where Xu Liuliang's business is located. It is currently under construction. When it is completed, it will be the industrial, commercial and financial center of America! And there are almost 5,000 immigrants who have settled in Peninsula County.

Some are merchants, sailors and craftsmen.

Qili Tun is not a village seven miles long, but guards an isthmus seven miles wide. There are many peninsulas and islands in the Gulf of America. The terrain is very fragmented, but it is also conducive to defense. To the north of the Qili Tun Isthmus, there is another large

It is a peninsula with flat terrain and dense forests.

The flat terrain means that large-scale reclamation can be carried out, while the dense forests mean that the land is relatively fertile. As long as the trees are cut down, a large field of wheat and grass can be opened up. The peninsula north of Qilitun (called Qilitun Peninsula) is the lower part of Peanuttun County.

The focus of the first phase of development.

However, there are not many immigrants living in Qilitun now, less than 3,000. Most of them rely on logging and hunting, and some farmers have opened up thousands of acres of wheat and grass fields.

The American Mansion Castle is a quite large fortress. The fortress is made of sandbags, wood, and rammed earth. There are wide and deep trenches on the outside. However, the inside of the fortress is very empty. The garrison, officials, and the officials’ families and

There were only 5,000 women accompanying the army. The barracks, residences, various offices and warehouses where they lived only accounted for about one-third of the internal area of ​​the fortress, leaving as much as two-thirds empty.

These open spaces are not kept for land speculation, but to collect all the residents and garrisons of Peanutton County and Xiaohekou County and Dahekou County south of Peanutton County, about 30,000 people, into the fortress for protection when necessary.

stand up!

Although the American Colony has not been attacked by the powerful Kingdom of New Spain in the past two or three years, the prefect Wei Zhongcheng and the commander-in-chief Yu Daren are always worried and fearful of tens of thousands of people.

Spanish soldiers came to fight.

So they have been preparing for the worst!

And when the summer of the thirteenth year of Hongxing arrived, bad news that made their hearts beat violently came to them every once in a while. The report from Liu Liang and Liang Youxin was one of these bad news.

"The navy is really serious. Why didn't it stop the Spanish ships?" After sending two "volunteers" to report the news, Wei Zaode's son Wei Zhongcheng's tense expression fell.

Of course he knew that the people brought by the Spaniards from Japan could not be ordinary people, but must be veterans who participated in the Toyotomi War!

The arrival of these Japanese veterans will greatly strengthen the military strength of the Kingdom of New Spain!

"It can't be stopped!" Yu Daren shook his head, "How big is the Pacific Ocean? As long as it leaves the coast of Japan, it will be difficult to catch. The navy is too exhausted to stop 10% of the Spanish transport ships. If we have this time, we might as well transport more people and cargo.

Come!"

"Then how many people do we have on hand?" Wei Zhongcheng asked, "How many can we fight?"

Yu Daren smiled and said: "There are a cavalry regiment and a naval squadron in service, less than 3,000 people. As for the rural soldiers, there are more than 10,000, but those people can only guard the fortress and cannot be dragged out to fight."

This cavalry regiment in service is a black gun and mule regiment. Most of the officers at all levels are students from Laoshan Pukou, that is, they are "small shareholders" of the United States. Everyone has the title of the United States of New Zealand. Most of the soldiers below are from the United States.

Ming cavalry who were selected from the captured Qing troops or who violated military disciplines. This composition determines that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry regiment cannot be compared with the real local mule soldiers with black guns.

However, the jurisdiction of the American Mansion is too large, and the demand for "civilian cavalry" is much stronger than the demand for elite infantry. Moreover, this group of "civilian cavalry" are willing to settle down in the American Mansion, so Yu Daren established a strong relationship with the "Nine Border Youth Army" and "

Choosing the former between "the handyman cavalry".

The naval squadron was built by Zheng Xi, and its main personnel were officers and soldiers of the former Dongning Army who followed him. Although it is said to be a navy, it is actually a "Gulf Army" and cannot leave the American Gulf.

Because this squadron is equipped with four galley-gun boats modified from Big Bird boats.

Like the "handy cavalry", the squadron personnel are also professional soldiers who have settled in America.

In addition to these 3,000 professional soldiers, all the strong men in the American Mansion are rural soldiers. Everyone has a gun and is trained regularly. The total number registered is thirteen to four thousand. However, these people cannot be taken out to fight in the field, that is, they can only hold a defensive position.

Villages, towns, fortresses, maintain law and order.

"There are still so few!" Wei Zhongcheng's brows almost knitted into a ball, "General Yu, please quickly ask the court for help. At least two regiments of the Young Guards should be sent to the American Mansion!"

"How can two be enough?" Yu Daren shook his head, "Either we don't transfer, or we need to transfer at least one division!"

"Then, hurry up!" Wei Zhongcheng said, "There happens to be a navy clipper on the dock. Send it to deliver the message!"

Yu Daren paused and said, "You can wait some more!"

"Still waiting?" Wei Zhongcheng looked at Yu Daren, "Maybe the Spaniards have already marched towards us!"

"Not so fast," Yu Daren said, "There are no traces of the Spaniards in Sanchahekou County yet. The riverside fort in the south of Sanchahekou County is our southernmost outpost. If the Spaniards get there, then

There are only 700 miles left before we leave here. By then it will be too late to send a clipper to ask for help!"

"By then," Wei Zhongcheng thought to himself: Isn't Commander-in-Chief Yu Da too calm?

Yu Daren glanced at Wei Zhongcheng and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Dafu. The men and horses of a division must be carried on at least 200 large ships. This will take up a year's transport ship quota. If it is used to transport immigrants, we will
Chapter completed!