A Dream of Jinling Chapter 315 Solving the Cow (Twenty-Eight)

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At 5 p.m. on April 25, 1889, the 24th Army launched an attack on Duluth. At 3:17 a.m. on April 26, Shen Xin, the political commissar of the North American Theater of Operations who was sleeping in a small room next to the headquarters, was woken up, he rubbed his eyes and got up, and picked up the telegram.

The first half of the message is a message from the 24th Army forwarded by the North American Theater Front Command. At 2:05 a.m. on April 26, the North American Theater Front Command received a telegram from Zheng Minglun, commander of the 24th Army, requesting the front command to support at least 50 kilometers of barbed wire from Lake Superior to the front line as soon as possible.

The second half of the message is the view of the front command, which does not lack these barbed wires, but the implementation of water resupply through Lake Guò Subuli involves the question of whether or not to carry out a campaign movement. The front command felt that with the current advantage of the Liberation Army in Lake Superior, it was really not difficult to provide the 24th Army with 50 kilometers of barbed wire. However, the front-line command first informed the headquarters of the situation, and if they encountered an unexpected situation, the general headquarters should not seek full blame.

Shen Xin approved, "Agree to supply, the headquarters knows", and asked the secretary to archive the message. Although he wanted to continue sleeping, Shen Xin was a little sleepless. Qi Rui's identity is too sensitive, and no matter how open-minded Shen Xin is, he will not turn a blind eye to it. Moreover, if Qi Rui himself is an incompetent person, with Shen Xin's understanding and trust in Wei Ze, he believes that Wei Ze will not lose his normal heart because of an incompetent son. Therefore, the better Qi Rui's performance, the greater the pressure on Shen Xin.

Thinking of this, Shen Xin simply got up and washed his face, then sat down at the desk and asked the secretary to find out the text from the 1889 training class of the Xinxiang Military Academy. Shen Xin hadn't read this article, but he did participate in the discussion of this work. According to the envisage of the North American campaign, after the end of the first phase, a large-scale training will be conducted in the North American theater of the Liberation Army. Of course, this training will not be able to send those soldiers back to Asia, and the training will have to be carried out in North America. Shen Xin had already decided that the first phase of the war was over, and even when the situation became less tense, he got Qi Rui to be the head of the department at the military academy. From a work point of view, it is only natural for a person with front-line experience like Qi Rui to be the head of the department. From a personal point of view, as long as Qi Rui didn't have an accident under Shen Xin's command, Shen Xin didn't have to worry.

If Qi Rui must go to the front line, then ask Qi Rui to persuade him first. Wei Ze ordered Shen Xin to go to the front line to guide zhì If something happened, with Wei Zedudu's sageness, he didn't think it would get to the point where everyone couldn't get by.

The North American Theater Front Command received an order from the North American Theater Command at 4 a.m. Seeing that the command agreed to the application for a surface operation, the front command immediately began to prepare. At dawn, the front-line command sent a message back to the 24th Army, telling the 24th Army that it would send supplies to the front line on the evening of the 26th or during the day of the 27th.

The news was distributed at 6:20 a.m. on the morning of the 26th, and at 9 a.m. on the 26th, the Air Force reconnaissance unit's reconnaissance plane in southern Lake Superior first sent the news that the US Federal Army troops on the southern side of Lake Superior began to advance in the direction of Duluth.

9:30 a.m. on the 26th. The 88th Army, which was in the westernmost part of the Western Front, sent a telegram to the front command. The telegram said that the U.S. Federal Army opposite the 88th Army had abandoned its positions and part of its baggage, and the whole army had begun to set off eastward with only weapons.

Then throughout the morning, the troops of the Western Encirclement sent reports to the theater front command that the American federal forces in front of them were showing signs of retreat.

The front command was not too surprised at first. Now the Liberation Army has built a large encirclement in northern Minnesota and nearby areas. There were about 80,000 to 90,000 U.S. federal troops in the encirclement. As soon as the heavy snow closed the roads in the winter, these U.S. forces moved out to these areas to form defensive lines. Just by looking at this speed, it can probably be judged that many of them should be the standing army of the Federal Army, and they belong to the elite of the Federal Army. So it's not unusual for these people to run away when they see that something is wrong. If the Liberation Army encounters such a situation, there is probably no other choice but to run away.

However, on the afternoon of the 26th, new news reached the front command. When these elite American troops fled, they made a jaw-dropping action that made the pursuing Liberation Army jaw-dropping. They implemented the three-light policy of burning, looting, and blowing up. The telegrams of the Liberation Army have a clear format, and these requirements are not rigid, but only stipulate that the truth must be told in the telegrams. Since it is the truth, the troops rarely write those emotional speeches.

Therefore, when the front-line command saw the emotional expression in the telegram that "in the face of the railroads and bridges destroyed by the US Army, our department was speechless", and it also completely fell into a situation of "speechless". Combined with the previous paragraph where "the U.S. troops destroyed the road wrinkles at the stations, and the retreating troops blew up all the bridges they passed", the front command could probably imagine why the vanguard of the pursuing troops was "speechless".

The bad news was not only for the troops of the western encirclement, but also for the troops south of Duluth in the afternoon. The railroad along the way was damaged by the US ** team, and the three armies that planned to go north for reinforcements were blocked in the gap. And the Air Force spotted U.S. federal forces south of St. Paul and Minneapolis on the move. If the three armies cannot hold these two cities for the time being, there is even a possibility that they will be attacked by the Yankees from both sides.

At 4 p.m. on the 26th, the convoy that was already close to the dock in Duluth suddenly received an order to overcome all difficulties and deliver supplies to the 24th Army. The flotilla had a smooth journey and also made contact with the 24th Army. They had wanted to find a safer mode of unloading, but the telegraph order was so strict that the fleet did not dare to relax in the slightest.

Fortunately, the Mississippi River was still relatively wide, and although the 24th Army did not completely capture the docks in Duluth City, it captured at least a few docks on the Mississippi River. As soon as the ship approached the dock, it began to unload. Those barbed wire fences were tied strongly, and the 24th Army was also prepared, and the handover was quite smooth.

The goods transported were not only barbed wire, but also a lot of food and ammunition were carried on board. After unloading the supplies, the 24th Army sent the wounded onto the ship and asked them to quickly send the wounded to the hospital for further treatment. The fleet soon left the dock and began to return home. At the junction of the Mississippi River and Lake Superior, the fleet saw from afar that troops were taking advantage of the setting sun to lay barbed wire on the wide shores of the lake. Compared with the shore of the lake, the comrades of the troops were insignificant, and the barbed wire fences were inconspicuous except for a faint outline.

"Good luck comrades!" The soldiers who were leaving the battlefield with the ship couldn't help but pray silently for their comrades. But to whom do you pray? The soldiers on board didn't know either.