Wild North America 1846

"Damn southerners, and those Orientals everywhere, I curse them all to hell..."

Seeing the attacking troops receding like a tide, General Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the US Army on the Western Front, cursed with a gloomy face, and swung the whip in his hand, slamming it on the table, so that the dust filled the air.

It seems that this is not the case, and it is not enough to vent the monstrous hatred in my heart.

fighting so far
Both the North and the South are unable to retreat like gamblers with red eyes. The Northern Army has paid a heavy price of more than 4 casualties, and must take Kansas City, the core of the transportation hub.

Otherwise, General Sherman feared that he would be torn to pieces by an angry populace.

"Your Excellency, the attacking troops are already extremely exhausted, and the casualties are also very heavy. Should we withdraw and rest for a while, and then reorganize the attack, otherwise I'm afraid there will be a mutiny!"

"Where's the Kentucky Militia Volunteer Division and the [-]nd Iowa Division? Where are they now?"

"Report to Your Excellency, the two divisions are still in the rear camp as the general reserve team, more than 30 kilometers away from the front line. If they are mobilized now, they will not arrive until dusk, and they will have to wait a whole night."

"Let's withdraw the attacking troops for the time being. In the afternoon, we must maintain the offensive momentum and order the artillery to concentrate on destroying the enemy's heavy machine gun positions. In addition, order the general reserve team to prepare, get up at 1 o'clock in the morning to prepare meals, and rush to the front line with full armor. Seeing these two divisions in the attack queue at 8:00, they must continue to put strong pressure on the Nankes, and they will not last long."

Unwilling to be reconciled, General Sherman whipped his whip hard again. Standing on the high ground on the left, he could see that the entire front line had been crumbling by the tide-like offensive of the Northern Army.

As long as you add more force, maybe the whole line will collapse.

At this time, a column of the Southern Army rushed over, sending more than 2000 precious new troops and the dreaded heavy machine guns, and the latter was the main reason for the large-scale retreat of the Northern Army.

The storm-type heavy machine gun of the Orientals is a demon that spreads fear!
When the frightening "Da Da Da Da Da Da..." dense gunfire rang out, like a devil's horn, all the soldiers who attacked the Northern Army turned around and ran away in fright, but none of them were really knocked to the ground How many.

If you don't wipe out these nasty heavy machine guns, don't expect the infantry to attack hard.

The only effective way is to use artillery cluster attacks to blow those heavy machine guns that are not easy to move to pieces, but this will take time.

The next day
The same bloody battle, the same artillery fire, the battle for Kansas City has lasted to the ninth day, and the massive casualties of soldiers on both sides have made everyone crazy, falling into a life-and-death battle.

From yesterday to this afternoon, in a little over a day and a night, the South sent 7 special trains to the Kansas front line, sending 1.35 reinforcements and a large amount of weapons and ammunition to fully support the front line.

And the north is not inferior. More than 20 trains from major cities such as Chicago and Detroit once again sent more than 2 volunteer militiamen and a large amount of equipment to the Northern Army, showing their determination to fight to the end.

Going south from the north must pass through Kansas City. There are convenient railway lines going east and south. It is very convenient to reach Houston in the south and New Orleans in the southeast. It is also unimpeded to reach Richmond in the east. The geographical location is very important. .

since morning

General Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army on the Western Front, urged the army to attack wildly. On the battlefield full of artillery fire, the heavy machine guns sent by the Southern Army reinforcements were quickly destroyed one by one, and then they suffered wave after wave of attacks from the northern infantry. .

The Northern Army even dragged the artillery to the high ground on the left side of the battlefield, condescendingly and violently bombarded the Southern Army's defense line, blasting the train cars full of coal to pieces, gaining the upper hand in momentum.

As for the actual damage effect, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

The artillery of the U.S. military still uses rounded stone balls, which are launched to kill the enemy by inertial kinetic energy, but it is only a pit when hitting a train full of coal.

More people were injured by the splashing stones, and less people were killed.

The fierce battle on the battlefield lasted until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The offensive troops of the U.S. Northern Army had broken through the first line of the train station, protruding inward, squeezing the Southern Army's front line and deforming it.

General Sherman was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the reserve troops to exert more pressure, so as to promote the rapid collapse of the Southern Army and strive to defeat the enemy today.

As everyone knows, General Hill on the other side also had the same idea to lure the enemy deep, so that the Northern Army would expose more weak flanks.

Hard work until around 3:20

Suddenly, the sound of violent shelling and heavy machine gun fire erupted on the flanks of the Northern Army.

At this time, a large army was killed from the weak flank of the Northern Army, and it stabbed fiercely into the battlefield like a sharp knife, which put the attacking Northern Army's flank troops into a predicament of front and back attack.

After more than 10 minutes of fierce fighting, the Northern Army's flank attack force collapsed as expected.

The collapsed soldiers of the Northern Army threw away their helmets and armor and fled backwards. Many soldiers panicked and crashed into the attacking Northern Army column, which caused even greater chaos, like a domino effect.

At this time, the southern army started a full-scale counterattack like chicken blood, and the heavy machine guns that had finally been hidden also roared like crazy, and hit the northern army head-on and face-to-face.

Ever since, more northern troops retreated.

The collapse of the entire front made General Sherman's eyes shattered. He dispatched almost all the officers that the headquarters could send, trying to organize the troops to counterattack on the spot and stabilize the front.

However, everything was in vain. At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Northern Army were running all over the battlefield. The generals could not find soldiers, and the soldiers could not find generals. It had become a mess.

The serious consequences of the Northern Army's frenzied recruitment of untrained volunteer militiamen have emerged, that is, they can only fight against the wind, not against the wind.

This kind of situation will never happen in the army of Datang Kingdom.

Even if the soldiers who have undergone strict training are surrounded by siege, they can fight back step by step under the command of the officer, retreat without chaos, and continue to counter the enemy with firepower and hand-to-hand combat.

Just like a spring, it shrinks a little with the same force, and opens again when the force is loosened. It is very tough and elastic, and it can't be easily crushed.

That's because the entire army has been condensed into a strong fighting force, rather than a mess of scattered sand. There is an essential difference between the two.

Seeing that the large-scale retreat of the Northern Army had already taken place, General Daniel Harvey Hill, the commander of the Southern Army, decisively invested in a precious cavalry division that he had always held in his hand, and launched a mad killing and encirclement campaign against the enemy.

This time, the army was really defeated.

The soldiers of the northern army let go of their girls and ran desperately. They really ran all over the mountains and plains, smashing the army behind them to pieces, and they couldn't help but fled along with them...

The killing continued until dark. The Southern Army, which had won a great victory, pursued for more than 3.2 kilometers as a whole, occupied the camp behind the Northern Army, seized countless food and supplies, killed and wounded more than 4 enemy soldiers, and captured nearly [-] soldiers. The officers and soldiers of the Wanbei Army achieved a hearty victory.

The Northern Army fled for 86 kilometers and ran to St. Joseph City before stopping. There were only more than 6 remnants of the defeated army, and nearly [-] people were missing. Almost all the equipment was lost.

St. Joseph City is an important city 86 kilometers north of Kansas City. It was captured by the Northern Army one and a half months ago. Now it is operating as the rear of the Northern Army and an important place for hoarding food and grass.

After gathering the rout army, the number of soldiers was checked and there were only more than 6 soldiers left. General Sherman's face was as dark as the bottom of the pot, and his heart was like a knife!

The defeat in this battle was too miserable, which meant that the Western Front had suffered a serious setback and could not breathe for a long time.

There are two important cities in Kansas City, one in the south and the other in the north. In the north is St. Joseph City, 86 kilometers away, in the south is Levier City, 39 kilometers away, and in the southwest, about a hundred kilometers away, is Wren County. A medium-sized city with a population of more than 8, the farming and food processing industries are particularly developed.

These cities are connected in series by a main railway line, forming the most important urban cluster in Kansas. 80% of the state's population lives in this narrow strip, which is also part of the black land of the Central Plains of North America, with criss-cross streams and fertile land. .

manhattan town
Relying on a military order from General Hill, the army of the Tang Kingdom took over Fort Hugo like a tide, and took over the 7 small towns along the railway line. Incorporated into the team and took out a surprise soldier with a total of about 15 people, it really produced a miraculous effect.

As a result, the town of Manhattan was occupied by a militia cavalry regiment from the Colorado Plateau. They swaggered into the houses of the people in the town, slept with the women in the town, enjoyed the ale in the town, and regarded themselves as the masters of the town.

The white town mayor who protested and the sheriff who was over 60 years old disappeared at night. Since then, people have really not seen them, and it is said that they also went to the battlefield.

This 1.27-strong soldier made outstanding contributions to the Confederate Army's victory in the first Kansas Battle, but it also suffered serious casualties, more than half of whom died in this battle.

It is inconceivable that a spirit of death-defying assault on the army of the Yankees will remain unscathed.

In the second and third battles of Kansas since then, this patchwork army suffered heavy casualties time and time again. In the end, not even 2/3 survived, and the vast majority of them never survived. Back to those small towns.

Because those small towns are no longer owned by the United States, no matter the South or the North, this is something to say later.

This kind of ending is not surprising. When did the land swallowed by the Tang Kingdom spit out?
Now that this crucial area has been occupied, the Royal Army has 100 reasons to hang on, and 99 ways to take it as its own.At the government level alone, there are huge war loans that have not been repaid, and the mortgage of unclaimed land rights in Kansas negotiated by the two parties, doesn’t this count?