Two days later, McClellan was angrily asking the Confederate envoy why Johnston had not yet arrived at Fort Dyers with the Confederate army when the outpost reported that the fleet of the Chinese Empire had appeared downstream.

The Confederate envoy once again assured that the Confederate troops would arrive immediately and attack the enemy with the Confederate troops, but McClellan could not care so much about it, and he angrily asked the Confederate envoys to drive them away, and before the enemy army arrived, he once again strengthened the fortifications, and arranged the troops and artillery on Fort Dyers and the docks.

At noon that day, at a shoal three kilometers downstream from Fort Dyers, a landing infantry division of the Imperial Chinese Army and the commander of the cavalry brigade of the American Union Army, Philip Sheridan, first encountered a fierce battle. When McClellan heard the news, he immediately organized infantry to rush to the battlefield and organize a counterattack.

A little above the shallows, there is a large forest of trees. Philip Sheridan's cavalry brigade charged the infantry, however, the fierce cavalry was killed and wounded by the dense gunfire, and the infantry division of the Chinese Empire took the opportunity to rush up the river beach and into the woods.

At this time, McClellan's infantry reinforcements arrived, and a scuffle ensued in the woods. Between the dense woods, there was very little space, and both the American Union troops and the soldiers of the Chinese Empire had somewhat lost control of the various army companies and battalions. In fact, not only the division headquarters lost control over the regiments and battalions, but even the companies lost control over the combat soldiers, and the battle was divided into many small pieces.

However, with the landing of the artillery division of the Second Field Corps of the Chinese Empire and rushing to the battlefield, the battle situation changed. The Imperial Chinese soldiers in the woods of the front line heard the sound of the horn and retreated, and Sheridan's cavalry brigade and McClellan's infantry did not follow suit, fearing an ambush. But then, they began to regret it.

I saw that the hundreds of field guns of the Chinese Empire were like thunder from hell, roaring and sending out hundreds of shells, exploding in the woods, and in less than half an hour, the originally dense woods were blown into a flat ground like a firewood.

More than half of Sheridan's cavalry brigade was killed or wounded, the rest did not know where the bombed horses had been taken to, and McClellan's infantry was even more miserable, more than a third of the soldiers who entered the woods were buried in the bushes and dirt of the woods that had been blown away, and most of the rest were wounded. The escaped Federation volunteers all changed color, it was hell, it was the devil's world.

Poor McClellan was extremely lucky, and he wanted to boost his morale and personally lead the Union soldiers to repel the enemy army. Unexpectedly, after being covered by a dense cannonball, he was not spared, he was injured by a cannonball, and died not long after being carried out of the woods.

Major General William Rose Krans, deputy commander of the Western Theater of Operations, took command of the Union Army. Seeing that the situation was not good, he ordered all the Union soldiers to enter Fort Dyers and the fortifications next to the fort, and prepared to hold on to the fortress, while also organizing the remaining 150 or so artillery pieces to attack the pursuing enemy troops.

The artillery divisions of the Chinese Empire were too strong in firepower. The commander of the cavalry brigade, Philip Sheridan, led the remaining 4,000 cavalry to retreat in a panic, leaving only the Union soldiers who did not have time to retreat on the battlefield, and were either killed or captured by the charging Chinese Imperial Infantry Division.

Fortunately, when the dead ghost McClellan arrived at Fort Dyers, he built a strong fortification on the ridge behind the fort, and together with the fort's hold, it had some defensive capital to resist the artillery of the Chinese Empire.

Rear Admiral David Farragut, a nearby sailor, ordered the Ohio and Mississippi River Naval Divisions to attack from the upper Mississippi River at any cost, engaging in a fierce artillery battle with the Pacific Fleet downstream.

Brigadier General Sherman, commander of the Kentucky theater of operations, led 20,000 soldiers to arrive from the side in time to stabilize their position.

At this time, it was already dark and it was inconvenient to fight again, and the soldiers on both sides who had previously participated in the battle were exhausted, so the truce rested for several hours.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, there was another rumbling of cannons.

In order to blow up the defensive forts and fortifications of Fort Dyers close to the Mississippi River, the Chinese Imperial Army directly sent an explosive ship, and a ship loaded with 145 tons of explosives captured in the city of Memphis downstream drove to the shore wall below Fort Dyers yesterday night. Even the masts hundreds of meters away were shaken by the air waves, and the forts and fortifications closest to the river bank in Fort Dyers were directly overturned, and hundreds of Northern Union soldiers were turned into pieces and thrown into the sky by the violent air waves, and the fragments fell one after another as blood rain.

At least three or four warships of the Ohio and Mississippi River Fleet, which were too close upstream, were damaged, and even one of the gunboats at the front was directly overturned by the violent air waves, and the ship's planks were riddled with holes.

Then, far away from the retreat downstream, the Pacific Fleet began to move upstream, attacking directly at Fort Dyers and the fortifications on the shore, while the last infantry began to land at close range with a group of artillery and attack the fortress. The heavy artillery fire covered all the positions, and the Dyers Fortress only slightly returned fire, and the Chinese Empire thought that the fire of the federal defenders on the fortress had been suppressed, and began to gather troops to attack the fortress head-on.

Then the artillery divisions of the Chinese Empire launched a fierce attack, and more than 100 guns landed on the flanks before landed on the river opened fire fiercely, and shells rained down, and under such blows, the artillery fire behind the fortifications of the Federation began to become thin.

While the two sides were fiercely bombarding each other, on the east side of the battlefield, the belated Confederate troops under the leadership of General Johnston, commander of the Western Theater of Operations, finally arrived on the battlefield.

Hearing the news, the deputy commander of the Western Theater of Operations of the Federation, Major General William Rosscrans, was overjoyed. He immediately sent someone to contact the Confederate forces and signal a joint attack.

Half an hour later, to his astonishment, the Confederate army had only more than 10,000 soldiers, and it had launched a surprise attack on the Union soldiers in the fortifications. Because it was on the flank, and there was not too much defense, the Southern Union army rushed close to the fortifications, and the defending Northern Union army quickly collapsed under the enemy on both sides.

Major General Ross Krans was stunned. Only then did he wake up, no wonder the army of the Southern Alliance State was so delayed and delayed in coming to attack together, it turned out that it had already conspired with the other party, and it turned out to be a joint attack on himself! Moreover, the original army of 30,000 or 40,000 is now only more than 10,000 troops, and there is no need to guess, it must have taken advantage of the fierce battle between the Northern Union army and the Chinese Imperial Army to quietly march to Nashville, an important town in northern Tennessee, which was occupied by the Union.

It was not only Major General Rosclan who figured out the joint, but also numerous Northern Union officers and soldiers. Coupled with the collapse of the infantry in the fortifications that were flanked, the Northern Union soldiers soon fled into Fort Dyers, abandoning all the fortifications outside the fortifications.

But how could the tiny Fort Dyers squeeze so many troops, nearly 40,000 Union soldiers crowded into the small castle, people were panicked, coupled with the constant bombardment of the artillery outside, it didn't take long for the west side of the fort to collapse the city wall that had been blown up by the previous dynamite ships on the Mississippi River, and the shells were fired into the fort without money, and countless soldiers were killed by the dense shells.

In desperation, the fleet of the Ohio and Mississippi River Naval Divisions in the upper reaches of the Ohio River struggled to lose several warships, leaving less than half of them, and four or five warships and a few troop carriers fled back to the Ohio River, but were bombarded by the Confederate shore defense artillery that had been erected on the banks of the Ohio River, and finally surrendered to the Confederate States.

The escape of the sailors intensified the panic of the Union soldiers at Fort Dyers. After 11 days of siege and almost running out of ammunition and food, Major General Ross Krans ordered Brigadier General Sherman, commander of the Kentucky theater of operations, and Philip Sheridan, commander of the cavalry brigade, who were unwilling to surrender, to disarm and detain them, led 43,000 federal soldiers, gave up resistance, and surrendered directly to Peng Yulin, commander of the Imperial Chinese Army, and Johnston, commander of the Confederate Army.