In command of the 520,000 troops around Philadelphia was Army General General William Tecusay Sherman, who vigorously implemented the "three lights" policy of burning, looting, and killing all the troops in the American Civil War.

Sherman's most famous record is the Wicksburg Massacre and the burning of Atlanta, and his most famous quote is: "I want to teach Southerners and their children and grandchildren a lesson that they will never dare to be independent again!" Never dare to resort to war!"

Ironically, in this country that claims to be the most human rights-oriented, many people think that this is a general who makes the enemy fearful, and has received a lot of admiration, and one of the famous tanks of the Mi Army is named after Sherman.

As a general who commanded a corps of more than 100,000 people, when the United States was seriously threatened, Sherman was invited out of his hometown in Ohio by the United States government and asked him to rush to the front line in Philadelphia to command the army in a decisive battle with the Chinese army.

Sherman is already 69 years old, and his health is not very good, and he can't even walk steadily.

But the veteran Sherman, who thought he was old enough to command a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, walked into the headquarters of the army and began to get busy, with the help of a young nurse.

A white-bearded officer in the command suggested: "General Sherman, I suggest that we wait until after the heavy snow falls in half a month, when those yellow-skinned monkeys are almost cold to death, and then we will attack and completely destroy them!" ”

Sherman looked up and saw that it was the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General John Gordon.

This John Gordon turned out to be the old opponent of Sherman, the general of the Northern Army, in the Civil War, and after the defeat of the Southern Army, he had retired, but in this crisis, the United States government ignored his original general of the Southern Army, and reinstated him as the chief of staff of the Battle of Philadelphia and became Sherman's partner.

This was originally a pair of life and death opponents, but at this moment, for the survival of the United States, they are walking together again.

Sherman wanted to scoff at this, but suddenly remembered that it had been more than twenty years since the end of the Civil War. He suppressed the ridicule on his lips and changed it to a slightly gentler tone: "Let these yellow-skinned monkeys stay in the United States for one day, it will cause a day's loss, and now the people of the United States cannot afford to wait every day." We have an army of half a million. Why wait? We can't wait any longer! ”

John Gordon knew his embarrassing position in the army, and since Sherman was the commander-in-chief, of course, he had the final say, so he nodded and asked, "General Sherman, how do we act!" ”

Sherman raised the information in his hand and said, "The yellow-skinned monkeys are driving away a large number of white able-bodied laborers to build strong civil fortifications in Philadelphia. Trying to block the advance of our army, they thought they had the advantage of airships and got carried away, but this is our home field, I don't know how many Mi citizens have risked their lives to send valuable information, we are clear about their defense arrangements, my plan is ......"

The cavalry of the Mi army went out to reconnoitre, and the fleeing white laborers informed, and the Mi army roughly figured out the position of the Huaxia army in Philadelphia.

Based on this situation, Sherman's battle plan was to push from west to east with 300,000 troops, and at the same time send 100,000 troops from north to south. Cutting off the passage of the Huaxia Army to New York, another 100,000-strong force swept through the north side of the Delaware Peninsula and outflanked the southern side of the Huaxia Army, and after completely annihilating the Huaxia Army in the Philadelphia area, not a single person could escape into the sea.

On October 25, 1889, the second day of October in the 15th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, it was another Black Friday, and the Great War broke out in Philadelphia, known as the Battle of Philadelphia.

As soon as the battle began, the Mi army dispatched more than 500 heavy artillery pieces from west to east. Fiercely bombarded the positions of the Huaxia Army, but the Mi Army did not dare to quickly attack to the east, but only launched a feint to attract the attention of the Huaxia Army, so as to create an opportunity for the Mi Army on both sides to detour back to their positions. Completely cut off all the retreats of the Huaxia army, and then launch a general offensive.

The Huaxia Army has the advantage of airships in the air, and when necessary, it also strengthens the reconnaissance of unmanned aerial vehicles released by Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhen ordered only a very small number of troops to grind against the 300,000-meter army in the heavy trench defense line. The main force was concentrated on the north side of Philadelphia, waiting for the 100,000 roundabout troops of the Mi army.

Lin Zhichuang, who was responsible for commanding the frontal resistance to the Mi army, was as famous as another fierce general Wang Hubiao in the Huaxia Army, and was known as the "Lin Mad Wang Maniac", and carried 600,000 people with more than 2,000 natives in Batavia.

This time, Lin Zhichuang led more than 7,000 people to confront the 300,000-strong army of Sherman, a famous general of the Mi Army, without showing weakness, and even launched an attack before the Sherman army moved, relying on the range advantage of the Chinese army's artillery, under the radio instructions of the airship in the air, shelled the artillery positions of the Mi army, destroying more than 300 cannons and 200,000 shells of the Mi army.

While the artillery opened heavy fire, Lin Zhichuang ordered one-third of the troops to be in reserve, and two-thirds of the troops to use the barrage Xu Jin's tactics to attack the position of the Mi army.

The tactics of the Mi army were basically still in the era of the Civil War, and they could not imagine that the Huaxia army would come after the shells, and they were immediately caught off guard.

Lin Zhichuang knew that it was impossible for his more than 7,000 people to destroy the 300,000 troops of the Mi army, so he commanded the troops to drive more Mi troops to run and flee wildly.

This stunned Sherman completely, and really thought that the main force of the Huaxia Army was in front of the Philadelphia position, and sneered: "Haha, I want to leave all these yellow-skinned monkeys behind, and they really stayed!" ”

"Will the yellow-skinned monkeys detect our movements with the help of airships in the air?" John. Gordon was a little worried.

"There will be no problem with this, based on all aspects of intelligence, the number of yellow-skinned monkeys landing on the North American continent this time will not exceed 80,000, and the yellow-skinned monkeys that can repel 30,000 whites will have at least 40,000 people, plus the reserves, the yellow-skinned monkeys on the front will have at least 60,000 people, and how can the remaining 10,000 or 20,000 people deal with our 200,000 troops, from one point of view, the yellow-skinned monkeys have not discovered our intention to conceal and detour on both sides."

John. He sighed slightly in his heart, but he was not the chief officer, and he just acted according to the order anyway, so he suggested: "Then it is necessary for us to let the army retreat a little later, so that the yellow-skinned monkeys will be more convinced that we are going to fight against it head-on?" ”

Sherman looked at his old rival with admiration, nodded and said, "Yes, let's retreat two or three kilometers to make a gesture and create an opportunity for the troops on both wings to detour!" (To be continued.) )