Chapter 312 Chicago Fire, Wilson Flood

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After moving south from Yang, Andrew Jackson Smith, who was originally stationed in Chicago, also led his troops south to Indianapolis to support the Northern Army in Kentucky.

Riding the train, Yang Dongfang took people to Joliette a day later.

The surprise attack on Joliette opened the door to Chicago, which could be reached directly by land and water, and by rail, so he divided his troops into two routes, and two regiments attacked Robbins, another central hub of the railroad, to seize it first.

Not only would this destroy the railroad line from Indianapolis to Chicago and prevent Smith from coming back to the news, but it would also prepare for the next advance to the south shore of the Great Lakes.

Yang Dongfang himself led two regiments to take the waterway by boat and capture the important coastal towns along the canal.

The Confederate army attacked Chicago on two fronts, and Chicago received the news a day later, and the people panicked for a while, and hurriedly sent telegrams to the states to report the urgency, and urgently dispatched militia from all over the country to come.

Another day later, Yang Dongfang led two regiments to the city of Chicago, at this time there were not many troops in the city, two regular regiments, three militia regiments.

Without thinking much about it, Yang Dongfang immediately launched an attack on Chicago, shelling indiscriminately, this battle pays attention to quick victory, anyway, it has already burned the city in Philadelphia, and there is no scruple about fighting the federal city at this time.

The artillery fire soon enveloped the entire city, and the northern army defending the city also fired back, but Yang Dongfang could make a large-caliber fortress cannon at any time and bomb the artillery positions in the city when they were erected.

Seeing that Yang Dongfang's side was fighting more and more fiercely, the caliber was getting louder and louder, and the losses caused were even greater, they rushed to the north of the city and the east of the city, and some of them fled directly from the city and headed for the north town of Chicago.

In less than half a day, the huge city of Chicago fell west and south, and Yang Fangdong led people into the city and began a ransacking plan.

There were 100,000 people in the city of Chicago, and thanks to the convenient water and land conditions, commerce was developed, the population was naturally dense, and of course the materials were more abundant and more captured.

Soon, however, the Union Navy's Inner Lake warships in Lake Michigan arrived to help.

"Envoy! There are battleships of the North on the lake, what should we do, do we want to adjust the artillery to the right and bomb? ”

"No need, we're here to attack the city and plunder the land, not to occupy it, set fire to Chicago, and go to Robbins to join the first and second regiments."

The fire soon ignited in the west and south of the city, and then quickly spread to the east and west of the city, the city of Chicago is on the shore of Lake Michigan, the wind blowing on the lake I is very strong, the fire borrows the wind, the wind helps the fire, and it covers the whole city in half an hour, and the fire is burning for a long time.

There was no sympathy, no pity, and on the train, Yang Dongfang arrived at Robbins that day, and the 1st and 2nd regiments, which arrived two days earlier, dismantled the railroad tracks leading to Indianapolis and Joliette as instructed.

Taking away the railroad sleepers, Yang Dongfang's 4,000-strong army immediately attacked Gary in Indianapolis!

A day later, it was breached, and then it was attacked along the railway line to break through Cheriton, Michigan City, New Carlisle, South Bend, Elkhart, and then into Ohio.

On the Wilson side, it was still raining for three days, and it still did not mean to slow down, as I said that day, the rain became bigger and bigger, and both the river and the lake overflowed.

Although the Jinhans Reservoir is a large reservoir, it has been blocked by the Southern Army and flowed downward, and it has risen higher and higher in addition to the continuous inflow of the upper stream.

All this work was carried out in secret, but the northern army in Wilson was not aware of it, because they were not locals, and they did not notice the change in the level of the river flowing outside the city, after all, the rain had been falling, and even if the upper river was intercepted, it was still full of water rolling eastward.

"General! The southern ghosts to the east and south of the city retreated. ”

"Oh!" Sherman sighed, didn't pay much attention to the news, waved his hand and sent his men.

The rain did not stop, and the southern army could not attack, and it was muddy and wet outside the camping city, so the southern army naturally had to stay away from the river, camp on the high ground, and take the initiative to retreat.

If it wasn't raining, you could have taken the opportunity to stand out, but the road outside was not easy to walk, and the weather also constrained you.

"General! Are we really going to blow up? ”

Robert Lee nodded: "Fry it!" This will help you deal with the Sherman Legion faster. ”

"But General, if you do this, Wilson will become a land of Ze in the future, those farms."

"Somebody has to die, we've sacrificed so much, it's worth sacrificing a Wilson, the envoy has said he'll compensate the farmers for their losses, he's desperately digging for dollars on federal land."

Half a day passed, the rain still did not stop, Sherman and all the Northern troops nested in the city with peace of mind, suddenly there was a loud noise in the distance, some of the ground shook, which made people extremely uneasy.

Then the rumbling sound came from far and near, and the ground began to shake, and Sherman rushed out of the room, kicked up the tall buildings in the city, and looked up, and suddenly his eyes widened, and the expression of horror filled his face, as if he had seen a demon, and he was terrified and shocked from the inside.

In the distance, a huge wave of waterspouts was crashing into Wilson City, devouring everything that stood in its way, woods, farms, fields, and finally crashing against the walls, rolling up higher and fierce waves, and then falling from the sky into the streets to flood them all.

The northern army in the city was instantly swallowed up and drowned as soon as it raised its head, and then it was carried away by a huge impact.

"Oh my God!"

"The devil is coming!"

At that moment, before the entire city could urgently cry and cry for help, it was drowned in the flood, and the huge waves of three or four meters high submerged dozens of kilometers around Wilson City, swallowing up the Sherman Legion, the last elite of this legion.

The flood hit the southern army 20 kilometers to the southeast, but fortunately, they had already prepared, gathered on the high ground, set up rafts, and hid supplies and ammunition.

They saw with their own eyes the corpses of the Northern Army floating in front of them, silently, sighing at the enormity of the power of nature, and at the same time silently mourning for the Northern Army that had fought all over the southern states, after all, this was a brave and warlike army, and from this moment on, they disappeared.

A day later, the flood had subsided, but with the disappearance of the Sherman Legion, Wilson had been wiped off the map, and the area had become a swamp with thick silt covering the city inside and out.

Countless northern armies were either covered in mud or buried in the belly of a fish and drifted downstream.

Everything that happened here quickly spread all over the place, shocking the north and the south for a while! For the northern armies in the south, it is a stinger that hits the heart directly, which makes people frightened. (To be continued.) )