Chapter 45: Battle of the New Alamo (Part 1) Sorry for Giving Me a Shit Before
Chapter 45: The Battle of the New Alamo (Part 1) Sorry, I sent the draft before.
Due to Franz's preemptive move, international public opinion is now one-sidedly biased towards Mexico.
At the same time, Britain and France also decided to support Mexico for their own interests and characterize the Texas uprising as a rebellion that undermined national order.
President Andrew Jackson of the United States wanted to send troops to Texas very much. After all, fighting was his specialty, and it was too tiring to fight capitalists and politicians all day long.
But Congress opposed it. First, the international public opinion pressure was too great, and second, this war was a civil war in Mexico, and the United States had no right to interfere.
So Andrew Jackson had to adopt a "neutral" policy and announced that the United States would not send troops to aid Texas.
But he allowed local officials to openly support Texas, and the checkpoints on the US-Mexico border were also in name only, and volunteers from all over the United States flocked in.
And Texans were allowed to exchange cotton for food, weapons, uniforms and other necessities. At the same time, officers and soldiers could retire early and participate in the Texas Volunteer Army as individuals.
The Second Bank of the United States secretly approved a loan of $2 million.
In contrast, Vice President Reuvel of Mexico was already in a state of panic. Although he had received a batch of weapons from Austria, Tassan Anna needed more soldiers and more supplies, which made the already inadequate Mexican finances even worse.
Although the bill on imposing special taxes had been passed, Reuvel knew that if it had not been for the full support of the church, Mexico would have fallen apart.
After Mexico's independence, it took over the mess left by Spain. The federalists severely weakened the rule of the Mexican government. The local power was too heavy, resulting in the central government being very powerless.
Reuvel borrowed from European banks according to the instructions in the letter, and only the French responded to them.
The French had strong funds, but the returns they demanded were also very amazing.
If Mexico could not quickly pay off its debts, the country would probably face bankruptcy.
Reuvel could not make up his mind, so he could only scrape together some money, which could only support three months even if he stopped recruiting new soldiers.
Goliad, Old John Tavern.
David Crockett brought bad news. The Comanches had reached an agreement with Tasan Anna. The Comanches had received weapons and would fight for Tasan Anna.
In fact, the Comanches plundered the caravan not for Tasan Anna, but just to retaliate against American immigrants and make their lives better.
But after research, Travis and Bowie agreed that they were short of troops and should abandon Goliad and retreat to the Alamo.
As a result, the Alamo, a less conspicuous mission station, became the center of the storm.
While the Alamo garrison was urgently reinforcing the fortifications, Tasan Anna was still in his gentle place.
Tasan Anna was a man who knew how to enjoy himself very much. Even when he went out to fight, he brought his mistress with him.
His mistress Jenny was a native white man. She was just sixteen years old and had a natural wild beauty.
The two military observers sent by the Austrian Empire this time were not a public tour group in the usual sense.
Instead, they were two real generals carefully selected by Count Tural. Of course, they were not very old and did look like military academy graduates.
However, these two were soon worshiped by the Mexican generals. In Mexico, where military science was backward, these two military observers directly became teachers for the Mexican generals.
Every small-scale battle was a military exercise.
The Mexican generals now understood the Austrian army tactics as cannons bombarding, bombarding, bombarding, the enemy fleeing, and cavalry charging, charging, charging.
In a previous battle, dozens of American settlers hid in their houses and refused to surrender.
Then, the two military observers ordered the artillery to bombard for half an hour, and finally the settlers had to flee the house that had become a ruin, and then they were beheaded by the cavalry who had been waiting for a long time.
The Mexican generals still agreed with this way of fighting without spending a single soldier.
Because desertion has always been a big problem in the Mexican army.
There are nearly 30% deserters every time they go out, especially after the military pay has been paid.
Fortunately, Tasan Anna led the army personally this time, and he looted a lot of property of American immigrants who refused to surrender to Mexico along the way, otherwise there would be less than 6,000 people left from Mexico City to here.
Historically, Tasan Anna left Mexico City with 8,000 people, and there were less than 6,000 people left before arriving at the Alamo.
Facts have proved that for an army without faith, the best way to improve cohesion is material rewards.
February 28, 1836.
Tasan Anna's army had besieged the Alamo for five days, but Tasan Anna was not in a hurry to attack.
Because Tasan Anna did not expect the war to go so smoothly, and he fell in love with speeches, he gathered the citizens of San Antonio and continued his speeches.
Although Tasan Anna's men were about to hear sticky ears, the liberated black slaves and Indian laborers were still very excited, and caused a split in the American immigrant group.
Next is the highlight, these American immigrants can consider joining Mexico, or leaving Mexico with their own property.
Joining Mexico required paying overdue taxes, freeing black slaves, hiring Mexicans, etc., but those who chose to leave could not take weapons with them. They would be attacked by Indians or gangs on the way, and their property would eventually fall into Tasan Anna's hands.
March 5, 1836
Tasan Anna finally remembered the 200 American immigrants in the Alamo, and he decided to show his command art to the two Austrian military observers.
Of course, Tasan Anna himself also agreed with artillery tactics.
So he found a hillside outside the range of the Alamo garrison's artillery and invited the two Austrian army observers to have afternoon tea.
At that time, soldiers fought hard and commanders drank tea as a routine operation.
Tasan Anna even introduced his mistress Jenny to the two army observers.
On one side was black tea and Mexican burritos, and on the other side was artillery fire
But after an afternoon of artillery battles, the result was extremely shocking.
The Mexican army had more than 30 cannons, and the Alamo defenders had three cannons. The two sides fired at each other for an afternoon, firing hundreds of shells, resulting in 25 deaths on the Mexican side, and no one on the Alamo defenders except for a dozen lightly wounded.
Tasan Anna was extremely angry when he heard the news.
"Are your shells made of mud? Why didn't even the city wall fall down? Why is that!"
In fact, the Alamo defenders had already reinforced the city wall and hung wooden signs on the wall to reduce the impact of the shells.
But the main problem was that the Mexican artillery was too weak and the shooting accuracy was too poor.
Most of the Mexican artillerymen had not received professional training, and they used antiques from the Spanish colonial period.
This resulted in a serious lack of range for the artillery, and these people did not dare to approach and shoot when bombarding civilian houses.
As a result, less than one-third of the hundreds of shells actually hit the city wall, and the power of the three-pound cannon was seriously insufficient, so the Alamo's walls could stand.
Tasan Anna has a 16-pound siege cannon, but its weight means it can't keep up with the main force in a short time.
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