A Dream of Jinling Chapter 329 Retreat (6)

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"Bang! Cha! "Sappers shovel the dirt and dig it up. This is a depression in the middle of a mound, and a little digging makes the large pit in the middle even bigger. Practice makes perfect, and with full experience on the West Coast, Yuan Weiting could see that this big pit was enough to fill more than 2,000 people after walking around yesterday. At this time, the Japanese servant army was doing one of their jobs, preparing for the landfill.

The battle was not over at this point, but Yuan Shikai was already convinced that the outcome of the battle had been decided, and no matter how dying the Yankees were, they would be thrown into this big pit and buried in a few hours. Since there is such a firm judgment, the people who dig the graves for the Yankees are calm, and there is even a sense of comfort in the area centered on the big pit.

Not too far from the crater, the commander of the Union Army of West Virginia was lying on a rock, shouting hoarsely to his subordinates. Translating from English to Chinese, the commander shouted sincerely: "Brothers! Resist me! Resist me! ”

The Federal Army, which once numbered more than 2,000 people, was now less than 800 left, and the troops on the periphery were still fighting desperately. Next to the commander, the priests were on their knees, their hands pressed to the center of the heads of the dying wounded, and they read the prayers they had given them before they died, as fast as they could. If they read it slowly, the wounded soldiers would not have a chance to receive this last prayer.

Other priests were so frightened by the brutality of the battlefield that they could no longer bother to comfort others, and knelt on the ground trembling and recited scriptures to themselves.

Bullets on the high ground swept through the positions of the Union Army like scythes, and the Union troops, who had relied on a few rocks to dodge the bullets, were beaten to the point that they could not lift their heads. Yesterday's battle for the high ground entered a stalemate phase, and when the commander learned that there were less than 200 Chinese Yankees on the opposite side, he sent all his reserves up. Employing four times the force to overwhelm the enemy was undoubtedly the orthodox tactical choice, and the commander did not expect that the Chinese did not have a hard top with the Federal Army on the hill, and the Chinese sent troops to come around from below the high ground and suddenly cut the American Federal Army in two.

The Federal Army under the mountain was unable to break through the stubborn resistance of this squadron, and could only watch as the Federal Army attacking the high ground collapsed under the front and rear attacks, and then was annihilated. The squadron that occupied the high ground immediately arranged machine gun positions, and the dense bullets matched the short counterattack of the Chinese army, defeating the federal army under the high ground. In the other two aspects, the Chinese army, which had not taken the initiative to attack, suddenly began to join the siege, so that the front that the federal army could barely maintain was beaten back step by step.

Under the overall advantage, the division commander Ma Xiaoming felt that he had fulfilled his responsibility, and he took a platoon of guard troops and began to return to the headquarters. Whether it is to annihilate the enemy or bury the enemy, Ma Xiaoming believes that the troops can do it on their own.

After returning to the headquarters, Ma Xiaoming handed a note with his name written on it to Chief of Staff Qi Rui. If in the ordinary sense, a division commander does not care about the army commander at all, this approach is probably inappropriate. But Ma Xiaoming really did this, the army commander was an excessive candidate in Ma Xiaoming's opinion, and Qi Rui, the young chief of staff with a professional background in motorized infantry, represented the future.

After reading the name Wei Jianjun, Qi Rui frowned slightly. Of course, he knew the name of this lucky guy, the regiment commander and the battalion commander were seriously injured, the deputy regiment commander and the deputy battalion commander were killed in battle, and more than half of his comrades were killed or wounded, so this situation led the company commander to become the battalion commander within a few days. So Qi Rui doesn't agree with this person's opinion.

"This comrade is quite determined to fight." Ma Xiaoming explained his reasons.

"How soon do you think it will be before retirement requests will come in?" Qi Rui directly asked another question. At this time, he no longer cared about the existence of the army commander and the political commissar, and with the change of his mentality, Qi Rui found that he, the prince, had no reason to care about the existence of the army commander and the political commissar. As long as Qi Rui himself does not make mistakes, the army commander and political commissar are just a transitional being. Moreover, Qi Rui believes that he will be the political commissar of the 24th Army in the near future, and his favorite candidate for army commander at this time is Ma Xiaoming. And in the regulations that Qi Rui has read, after the soldiers have participated in a certain number of battles, once the war allows the soldiers to retire, they can enter the retirement stage.

"I don't think commanders who don't have an offensive spirit will retire on their own initiative." Ma Xiaoming is not a bureaucrat, and with regard to the position of the war, he naturally hopes that the 24th Army will be a force with a strong will to attack.

"I'll think about it." Qi Rui didn't answer immediately. He was the crown prince, but he was not the commissar of the North American theater. Moreover, even the political commissar of the North American theater of operations cannot directly order personnel adjustments.

Ma Xiaoming immediately changed the question, "How long will the battle in the encirclement last?" ”

Qi Rui sighed lightly before replying: "I hope that in the future, the battle in the Great Lakes will no longer be China's battle on foreign territory, but China's battle on its own territory?" ”

"What does that mean?" Ma Xiaoming was confused by this, he didn't understand what Qi Rui wanted to do.

"If we can kill all the Americans in the area, and the agricultural reclamation force with the retired troops as the core becomes the dominant force in the area, this is Chinese territory." Qi Rui explained his opinion.

Ma Xiaoming was stunned, he didn't expect Qi Rui to have such an idea. A moment ago, Qi Rui mentioned the issue of retiring from the army, and Ma Xiaoming felt that Qi Rui was really thinking too much. But now when we associate retirement with the stationing of troops on the Great Lakes, the intrinsic connection between them is completely different. One of the options is to allow the fighters to return to their hometowns as soon as they retire. A more common option is for troops to join many departments under executive order, such as those transferred to various state-owned farms under the orders of the North American administrative districts. Moreover, it is not for nothing that the troops are not discharged, they must be directly transferred to the personnel of various army farms in accordance with the orders of the troops. These people are not decommissioned, but reserved. When there was no fighting, the reservists worked as farm workers. When there was a fight, the reserve was immediately turned into a fighting force to suppress the rebels in the countryside.

If Qi Rui gave people the feeling that he was attacking the position of the supreme commander of the 24th Army before, now he is expressing his desire for a higher commander of the small theater.

Looking at Ma Xiaoming's stunned expression, Qi Rui said: "If some commanders do not conform to the will to fight of the motorized infantry, let them do the work of the local reserve that they are used to." Even if they weren't fast enough, the rebels in the Yankees weren't fast enough. ”

"But it takes time for enough commanders to appear." Ma Xiaoming decided to concentrate on the work of building up the troops.

"I don't agree with the idea of training instead of fighting, but there's no other way to do it right now. I'm doing some basic math now, and I'm going to have to kill at least 3 million U.S. Federal Army. After saying this, Qi Rui pointed to a large area in the Great Lakes region, "The enemy here must be thoroughly cleansed. ”

Ma Xiaoming frowned slightly, the Great Lakes region is huge, if you want to use one unit of the 24th Army to solve all the enemies in this area, Qi Rui's idea is too forceful.

The chief of staff of the corps can of course think, and the commanders of the front can only think about the current war for the sole purpose. From the heights to the final part of the U.S. Federal Army, there are two wind-washed paths, while the rest of the area is a rocky and wooded area. It's not that troops can't move on this kind of terrain, but normal people would never be happy to make such a choice.

Wei ordered his troops to stop at the edge of the impervious area, and he ordered snipers and sharpshooters to carry out the final annihilation of the remaining enemy who had fled into the area. It was not only Wei Jianjun's troops who participated in the battle, but also the other 1st and 2nd battalions that intervened in the battle in a very relaxed mode did not hesitate to join the final battle.

Before the battle ended, Wei Jianjun saw his old acquaintances Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen bring the Japanese over. Both Japan and Goryeo were Chinese servants, so China had a difference in their uniforms. The Japanese servant army was armed with khaki uniforms, the colors of which were chosen by the Japanese themselves. The Goryeo military uniforms are mainly dark blue, which is said to be the same color as the uniforms of the police units of the Chinese railway and telegraph companies in Goryeo.

Wang Shizhen commanded the Japanese troops to clean up the corpses, and for the dying enemy, the Japanese servant army mercifully replenished the guns one by one. Those who were slightly injured and those who were not injured were directly taken by the Japanese army to the big pit for execution.

Yuan Weiting did not participate in such affairs, he chatted with Wei Jianjun. "Battalion Commander Wei, you can be promoted to regiment commander in just half a year!"

Wei Jianjun did not react to Yuan Weiting's words, he just ordered the troops to start escorting the wounded. touched the nose of ash, Yuan Weiting did not have a lifeless appearance, the servant army only had to do dirty work and cleaning work, no one expected the servant army to be able to make a final decision and make great contributions. It's not a strange treat to be looked down upon.

"Let's help the troops transport the wounded." Yuan Weiting said.

"Okay." Wei Jianjun finally responded positively to Yuan Weiting's words.

"I think Camp Commander Wei has something on his mind." Yuan Weiting asked, Wei Jianjun's expression was like a lazy old dog, this expression really didn't match his young appearance.

"I'm going to apply for retirement after this battle, and anything has nothing to do with me in the future. I just want to go back to my hometown and find a job, or find a place to farm. I don't want to fight anymore. Wei Jianjun said with a slightly anxious feeling.

Yuan Weiting was stunned when he landed, for a person like him who was looking forward to the development of the war, it was really a stupid choice to run away after making a certain contribution. According to Yuan Weiting's understanding yesterday, the three battalions commanded by Wei Jianjun undertook the hardest battles and also made the greatest contributions, and Wei Jianjun, who chose to retreat bravely at this time, made Yuan Weiting stare at him for several minutes.

Everyone has their own job, and it is impossible for Yuan Weiting to put all his energy on Wei Jianjun. The Japanese servant army immediately began to search for many corpses, and the metal currency and property immediately fell into the body of the Japanese servant army. And those banknotes were taken out and exchanged into RMB to the huàn exchange center directly led by Wang Shizhen. The ratio is 1:20, and the Japanese servant army doesn't care. U.S. banknotes are not legal tender in Japan, and since the United States is being attacked by China, their banknotes don't mean anything. If you keep these banknotes in your hand, they will only become waste paper.

The largest source of seized banknotes was not the 100,000 dollars seized directly from the Yankees who died in battle, but directly from the surrendered logisticians. The money was quickly sent to the military headquarters, and the military department, of which Qi Rui was the chief of staff, knew that it was not right to keep the money, so in the fastest time, the money was sent to the front headquarters on the north shore of Lake Superior.

The Forward Command immediately gathered the money, which was packed into metal boxes and marched south and east under the escort of a group of troops with foreign faces.

If you want to go south, you have to go to Chicago, the most important food center in the United States, where the Yankees set up an agricultural futures center, where the futures number not only affects the price of grain in the United States, but even in Europe.

To the east, the natural is to go to New York, the economic center of the United States, the New York Stock Exchange is the most important financial center in the United States, whether it is steel, railroads, machinery, large sums of money are gathered in the city for all kinds of speculation. New York's banking and financial markets have gradually replaced Britain as the source of the recent economic crisis.

The small unit that went to New York hired more than two dozen escorts, and if from the perspective of the Chinese, those mixed-race children are striking European characteristics. The peoples of all countries are the same, and the characteristics of the mestizos seen in the eyes of Europeans are those of Oriental origin. So there is no striking difference between the European origin of this unit, whether it is the accent or the appearance, and there is no striking difference between them and the natives of the United States.

The best route from the Great Lakes to New York is the Erie Canal, a canal funded by New York. It connects the Great Lakes of North America to New York City via the Guò Hudson River and belongs to the New York State Canal System. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, the need for a line of communication from the Atlantic coast to the Trans-Allegheny (Appalachi) region was clearly felt. A canal was built to run from Buffalo on the eastern shore of Lake Erie through a mountain gorge in the Mohawk Valley. Arrive at Albany on the upper Hudson River. In 1817, the national legislature built a canal 584 km (363 mi) long, 12 m (40 ft) wide and 1.2 m (4 ft) deep. In order to access the 152 metres (500 ft) elevation of Guò to the west of Troy, 82 locks were to be built. After arduous construction, it was finally opened to traffic on October 25, 1825. The canal has had no less impact on the development of the Upper Midwest than it has on the development of New York City. Many pioneers flocked west via the canal, into Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois, Indiana, and from there brought back agricultural products to New York via the Guò Canal, and returned to the west laden with industrial goods and supplies. Freight from Buffalo to New York used to cost $100 per ton by land and $10 by canal.

The most important thing is that New York City has since become a hub to the Midwest of the United States, and all European goods must pass through New York to go to the Midwest of the United States, and New York City, which has become a hub of goods, has also prospered at an unprecedented rate. In a short period of time, it surpassed Washington, the capital of the United States, and became the largest major city in the United States.

The Chinese team of Europeans managed to squeeze into a boat that ran east along the canal. Seventy-four years have passed from 1825 to 1889, during which it has been the movement of people from the east to the west of the United States that has accounted for the main flow of migration. Now the tide has turned, with more people in the western United States fleeing to the eastern United States than people traveling from the west to the east.

There were also many ships departing from the east to the west along the way, and there were not many ships on which there were no people on them, only various war materials piled up on the ships.

The Chinese team of Europeans managed to squeeze into a boat that ran east along the canal. Seventy-four years have passed from 1825 to 1889, during which it has been the movement of people from the east to the west of the United States that has accounted for the main flow of migration. Now the tide has turned, with more people in the western United States fleeing to the eastern United States than people traveling from the west to the east. There were also many ships departing from the east to the west along the way, and there were not many ships on which there were no people on them, only various war materials piled up on the ships. The Chinese team of Europeans managed to squeeze into a boat that ran east along the canal. Seventy-four years have passed from 1825 to 1889, during which it has been the movement of people from the east to the west of the United States that has accounted for the main flow of migration. Now the tide has turned, with more people in the western United States fleeing to the eastern United States than people traveling from the west to the east. There were also many ships departing from the east to the west along the way, and there were not many ships on which there were no people on them, only various war materials piled up on the ships. The Chinese team of Europeans managed to squeeze into a boat that ran east along the canal. Seventy-four years have passed from 1825 to 1889, during which it has been the movement of people from the east to the west of the United States that has accounted for the main flow of migration. Now the tide has turned, with more people in the western United States fleeing to the eastern United States than people traveling from the west to the east. There were also many ships departing from the east to the west along the way, and there were not many ships on which there were no people on them, only various war materials piled up on the ships. Only various war materials were piled up on the ships.