During the siege of Vickers Fort by Peng Yulin, Peng Yulin ordered several more attacks on the fort, but failed to capture them, but lost hundreds of men, and in desperation, Peng Yulin could only order Wang Mingshan, deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet, to lead more than ten warships forward, continue to swim upstream, sweep away the Southern Confederate warships and other water forces in the middle and upper reaches of the Mississippi River, and open up this section of the river in front of Memphis as soon as possible.

At the same time, Peng Yulin instead ordered Wang Haiyang, who had already captured Kleburn and other places downstream, to lead troops to harass Jackson City, not only cutting off Jackson's supply route to Fort Vickers, but also destroying the railroad between Jackson and Atlanta, plunging the entire Mississippi into chaos.

Peng Yulin ordered a shout to the besieged Vickers Fortress, demanding that the defender Pemberton lead his troops to surrender, but Pemberton never responded.

However, Peng Yulin was not in too much of a hurry, he seemed to be waiting for something.

In this way, more than half a month passed, just when Xi Baotian, who was accompanying Peng Yulin, couldn't hold his breath and was a little anxious, this morning, dozens of rats suddenly escaped from the besieged Vickers fortress, Peng Yulin was overjoyed, and ordered the soldiers to catch a few mice, look at the size of the rats and find that they were extremely thin, and couldn't help laughing, and said to Xi Baotian, who was puzzled: "Master Xi, happy event!" There is a crisis of lack of food and water in the fortress, and the enemy will not be able to hold on! ”

Xi Baotian suddenly came to his senses: yes, Vickersburg is located on a high mountain, there is no water source, all the food and water are transported up from the mountain, and so many enemy soldiers in the castle eat and drink astronomical amounts every day, presumably a large amount of water and food must be transported from the mountain down the mountain into the castle every month or even every week. And now that the fortress is besieged by the soldiers of its own Chinese Empire and cannot be replenished, it is no wonder that it can still hold on after more than half a month. Even the rats on the mountain were so hungry and thirsty that they had to flee for their lives down the mountain, let alone so many enemy soldiers?

In this way, two more days passed, early in the morning, there was a sudden movement in Vicksburg, Peng Yulin felt that the enemy was going to break through, and hurriedly ordered all the soldiers to be ready for battle, sure enough, not long after, from several directions of the fortress, the soldiers of the Southern Confederate States in it almost poured out, rushing straight down the mountain, and the artillery in the fortress also roared, without thinking about whether it could be hit, and did not consider the ammunition to fire down the mountain.

Under the sound of gunfire, the two sides exchanged heavy fire from the beginning. Under the cover of artillery, the Southern Alliance army charged densely towards the infantry of the Chinese Empire, but the difference in firepower between the two sides was too large, and Peng Yulin had already taken precautions, and three trenches were dug in the three directions of the fortress, inside and out, and the entire fortress was surrounded by airtightness. The Confederate army was repulsed several times in succession, leaving corpses everywhere, and even in the afternoon when the fighting was at its most intense, the Confederate army only broke through the first trench, and was soon recaptured by the captives.

By dusk, the morale of the Confederate army was completely lost, and only the sound of gunfire was heard, and no one was charged. Seeing that his losses were too great to break through the defensive line of the Chinese Empire's defenders, Pemberton ordered a retreat and returned to the fortress on the hill.

That night, Peng Yulin again sent a shout to the fort to demand the surrender of the enemy soldiers in Vicksburg, and Pemberton, who had not responded, actually sent someone to ask for negotiations.

The next day, a haggard Pemberton personally ordered that the remaining 18,000 or so defenders of the Confederate state defending Vicksburg lay down their arms, walked out of the fort empty-handed, and surrendered to the Imperial Chinese Field Army.

Facing Peng Yulin, Pemberton's first words were: "General, give me a sip of water to drink and a little bread, I've been hungry for two days." Everything else is easy to say. ”

Peng Yulin laughed, asked the guard to bring a bowl of gruel, watched Pemberton can't wait to pour the big bowl of hot porridge into his mouth, and ordered with a smile: "Distribute those steamed buns to the captives, each person can only half a bowl of water and half a steamed bun, don't let them eat enough and make trouble!" ”

Xi Baotian and other generals laughed along.

These subordinates admired Peng Yulin's strategy very much. Who would have thought that the seemingly impregnable Vicksburg, with nearly 30,000 enemy guards, would be captured so simply. Moreover, there have not been many soldiers who have not been lost, but there has never been such a big victory. The key is that these 20,000 captured soldiers of the Southern Alliance State have left the other Southern Alliance States armies without the courage to fight against the Chinese Empire, and this battle will completely destroy the morale of the other side.

Sure enough, two days later, Fort Hudson, located on the banks of the Mississippi River, surrendered. The surrender of Vicksburg and Fort Hudson made thousands of troops of the Confederate States stationed in Jackson City next to them terrified and fled in panic.

In the whole campaign, the army of the Southern Union State, including the 18,000 people who were captured, plus those who escaped, lost more than 30,000 people, including more than 8,000 casualties, and nearly 100 artillery pieces, while the Chinese Empire, more than 1,200 people were killed in the battle, and more than 4,500 people were wounded.

But at this time, Peng Yulin didn't care about this, he detained the 18,000 captives in Vicksburg, leaving 3,000 soldiers to guard the prisoners, because they only provided a small amount of food every day so that these soldiers hung for their lives and had little strength to resist, but he was not worried that the captives would riot.

After the arrangement, Peng Yulin continued to order the march to the upper Mississippi River, and at the same time, he also ordered the officers and men of the 1st Infantry Division of the Sixth Field Corps stationed in Missouri to go down the Mississippi River and attack Memphis, the last important port city on the Mississippi River, with the Pacific Fleet.

Because he found out that there was not much defense in Memphis City, Peng Yulin believed that when the fleet arrived, the artillery would be bombarded, so Peng Yulin directly asked Wang Haiyang, who occupied Jackson City, to abandon Jackson City, loot all the wealth in the city, and transport it to Vicksburg, and by the way to join the main army.

In front, more than ten warships led by Wang Mingshan have successively conquered more than ten small towns along the Mississippi River, and arrived at Memphis City, where only a few warships and 2,000 Southern Confederate troops defended the port of Memphis, which was defeated by Wang Mingshan's fleet and fell to Memphis.

Just as Peng Yulin led the main forces of the 2nd, 4th and 8th Infantry Divisions to leave Vicksburg and march up the Mississippi River, preparing to continue the march north, a news came: the third batch of reinforcements from the Chinese Empire had arrived!

Two infantry divisions of the First Field Corps and one artillery division of the Second Field Corps, totaling nearly 30,000 troops, made a detour by sea to the Panama Railway, which had been built, and then successfully arrived in New Orleans by sea.

The 5th Infantry Division and Special Division of the Second Field Corps took over San Francisco, Canifoni and other places from the Chinese miners as early as half a month ago, and swept through other cities in California, and also organized 5,000 Chinese miners to become Hexi Volunteers, maintain order in California, and began to advance to Oregon and Nevada in the north.

As long as the Chinese Imperial Army controls the entire Louisiana and Arkansas, plus Missouri, which was already controlled by the 1st Infantry Division of the Six Fields, the entire states west of the middle and lower reaches of the Mississippi River are controlled by the Chinese Empire, and most of the Hexi Plan has been realized.

The arrival of reinforcements solved the problem of Peng Yulin's insufficient troops and inability to divide troops to garrison the strategic points that had been captured.

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