Chapter Fifty-Eight: That Scene
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers landed in Seattle, Jinshan, and Los Angeles, and thousands of local Chinese saw the motherland's troops spontaneously assembled at the wharf. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Naturally, the volunteers reciprocated by hanging a branch of a tree together with the local oppressors who oppressed the Chinese as abolitionists -- has President Davis already said that whoever dares to abolish slavery will be perished. What's more, if you don't hang people, how can you be embarrassed to occupy other people's properties and sleep with other people's wives and daughters.
After the Battle of Manassas, the Northern Army prepared for another larger campaign to occupy Richmond. But while the campaign was being prepared, news came from the west that a Chinese contingent of volunteers from the Southern Army called the Volunteers had landed in California and Washington State, and quickly established power in several western states. Then split up and crossed the Sierra Nevada and marched towards the central part of the United States.
For Washington, this is simply unbearable. Especially those rebellions in the south, it is obviously a brotherly fight, and you actually ask outsiders to help, this is a proper traitor. It's just that now the face has been torn between the north and the south, and the mouth cannon is useless.
Song Haiping judged that the Northern Army would probably use the Great Lakes Valley to transport troops, and it was more likely that it would fight a decisive battle on the Northern Front. Therefore, in addition to the security forces remaining in various localities and the troops transporting military supplies, there are five armies in the north, and among the 500,000 people in these five armies, there are more than 300,000 combat soldiers. Moreover, in addition to the First Army, the remaining four armies are also composed of elite soldiers and strong generals, and the commanders of the 23rd, 45th Army are Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, and Zhang Lexing.
The main task of the troops of the two Southern armies crossing the Sierra Nevada was to pacify the local abolitionist regime, cooperate with the Confederate army to establish the American Union regime, and conduct public trials and hangings of abolitionists (mainly mine owners, factory owners, and bankers) in various places.
After occupying less than 10 states, Song Haiping found that the spoils of war had already repaid the loans from the south -- you must know that the southern army had bought an ironclad fleet with a total tonnage of more than 50,000 tons. No wonder the bandit culture in Europe is so rampant now (in the 21st century, the Netherlands also legislated to endorse robbers, and the ownership of the property that has been robbed for 30 years belongs to the robbers), and the money is fast to come by this robbery.
After looking at the income of the raiders in various places, Lin Haiyang, who was far away in Japan, also sighed that he would not be rich if he did not kill the capitalists.
On May 1, 1862, the Western Front of the Northern Army, led by General Sherman, met with Song Haiping's army on the plains of Minnesota.
Sherman led more troops on the Western Front than in history, with a million-strong army and more than 750,000 combat troops. Because they also faced many more enemies than they did in history. A few months ago, it was learned that the South had landed on the West Coast with a volunteer army of crooked nuts, and the Northern Army had now begun to change conscription to conscription, which was still a decree of President Lincoln the Great -- which, of course, was still legally unconstitutional.
This is also the reason why Lincoln had to die just after the end of the Civil War, he has been unconstitutional, and has been supported and embraced by some people, and if this continues, the capitalists behind Lincoln will not be able to control him, especially after the end of the war, Lincoln will definitely gain great prestige, and the existence of almost nothing is needed in capitalist America.
If there is such a existence, he can abolish slavery in one sentence, and of course deprive capitalists and bankers of their property in one sentence. In a word, it is also possible to nationalize the mining and railways, which is simply unbearable for the capitalists. So on the eve of the North-South victory, Lincoln died. On the eve of victory in World War II, Roosevelt also died. Capitalist America does not need a strong president.
Sherman's ability to quickly get so many troops is not unrelated to Song Haiping's copying of capitalists all the way, and more than 500,000 gunners and gunners in Sherman's troops are all private soldiers of northern capitalists. On the major issue of right and wrong of slaves, the capitalists also rarely loved the country, and handed over the private soldiers with tens of thousands, thousands, or hundreds of people, preparing to destroy the main force of this Chinese volunteer army in one round.
What made Lincoln want to complain was that if he handed over these 500,000 elite troops earlier, the war ended last year, and there was nothing crooked to interfere with the army. However, as a dog slave, how can he discuss the rights and wrongs of his master, despite all kinds of complaints in his heart, Lincoln still praised these patriotic entrepreneurs in various public occasions.
On May 5, 1862, after the two sides assembled and completed their reconnaissance, the famous Battle of Plains, which changed the fate of the Civil War, began.
Minnesota has no mountains, and in 1862 it was a large area of meadows and forests, with a handful of lakes, rivers, and hills. It is a suitable location for the decisive battle of the large army.
On the morning of May 5, the commanders of both sides unanimously chose to attack, and rows of American northern troops lined up in phalanxes and marched towards the volunteers under the cover of artillery.
On the other hand, the infantry attack began with the use of skirmish-skirmisher line tactics to minimize the casualties of the artillery bombardment, but it also required soldiers and non-commissioned officers to have an extremely strict training foundation and high morale, after all, the dense US army phalanx and the friendly troops with two or three birds around them were visually easy to cause morale collapse.
Fortunately, Song Haiping's subordinates are either professional samurai or veterans of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who have more than three years of war experience.
Since the skirmish line allows for a better distribution of forces, if you rise to a high altitude, you can see that at the beginning of the battle, the smaller Volunteers are trying to intersperse and surround the Northern Army, which is twice their size.
Several hours passed, most of the battlefield was in a scorching melee, the volunteers were certainly not afraid of the melee, and the Northern Army was more numerous, and the Northern Army, which was scattered in front, could always find its own people to gather the troops when they retreated.
An observer belonging to the Yugoslav Army wrote in his notes: "In this battle of unprecedented scale, the Volunteers showed great courage, and according to what I have seen, the Volunteers were all killed and wounded by frontal guns, while most of the corpses left on the battlefield by the Yankees were stabbed in the back. After the war, a volunteer soldier told me that the wound behind him was a shame for the soldiers. Because on the battlefield, they have already handed over the safety behind them to their comrades.
The bravery of the Yankees is no less than that on the Eastern Front, but it only stops there. The Yankees, who could not dominate the battle, often began to break up on a large scale soon after the bayonet battle began, even if they all had one or two revolvers, and most of them were sharpshooters within ten meters, which could not change the outcome of the bayonet battle.
The sights of those enemies whose heads were cut off to the ground, whose intestines and other organs were thrown out, and who were covered in blood, who kept wielding broadswords and killing people, frightened many first-time Yankees, including me. I heard a lot of people on the battlefield calling Mom in English, and I was just grateful that I was on the side of the Volunteers.