Chapter 255: Capture Denver Fortress

Founded in 1858 as a coal mining town, Denver was founded shortly after the discovery of gold mines, which attracted a large number of gold prospectors. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It was founded in 1861 and became the capital of the Borough of Colorado in 1867.

After the start of the Civil War, as an important town on the Western Front, the geographical location was extremely important, and the Southern Army repeatedly tried to break through Denver and the surrounding fortresses, occupy it, obtain strategic support points, and then push the battle line back to the states and counties to which the Northern Army belonged.

This can also be said to be the most marginal battlefield on the Western Front, and the total number of battles has not been fought for a few battles, and the dust has settled and calmed down.

Yang Dongfang walked out of the Rocky Mountains with eight doors and sixteen guards and a class, one person and two horses and appeared in Denver City.

Now there are only 1,000 Colorado vigilantes (commonly known as the State Volunteers) and a 200-strong cavalry team.

The Colorado State Regiment had a comfortable life, leading the horses all the way into the city, and you could see the soldiers of the Colorado State Regiment lazily bragging, smoking cigarettes, drinking fine wine, walking down the street with their children in a hangy manner, shouting at the woman with their buttocks: "Hey! Beauty, are you free tonight? ”

The reserved American girl glanced sideways, glared angrily and left in a hurry, while the older one looked at her, revealing a hint of provocative sarcasm: "I'll go to the grove west of the city tonight, but, can you?" ”

"Haha. Can you do it, Kod? ”

"Hey! Beauty, he can't do it, I can do it, I can do it for an hour, my waist doesn't hurt my legs and I don't get tired, I want you to be satisfied. ”

"Haha. James, you just blow it, last time. ”

It is not unusual for American soldiers to flirt on the street, it is not strange, it is all fun, but this hot girl obviously didn't take a fancy to this group of volunteers, and said with disgust:

"You can do it for an hour, but my Marco tied to the grove can't withstand an hour."

"Ugh"

After saying that, the hot girl twisted her ****** and left, leaving the soldier who swallowed his breath and looked stunned, and then broke out into an even louder laugh.

"Hehe, the Yanmar is so spicy." Yang Dongfang, who happened to pass by, heard such a straightforward conversation, smiled slightly, and glanced at the girl wearing jeans and a white top with golden waves, and then Dou Dongdong next to him whispered: "Dashuai, are these white devils' guns good?" Are we going to get a vote here? ”

Yang Dongfang followed his eyes and found that these soldiers had a pistol pinned to their waists, and thought about it.

Ordinary soldiers carried pistols, which only means that these people were not infantry, but cavalry, and there were cavalry units in the city.

The cavalry of the U.S. Army actually preferred to use pistols, because on horseback, it was convenient to shoot continuously, eliminating reloading time and maintaining continuous firepower.

In the Mexican-American War that year, because the American dragoons were equipped with a large number of pistols, the Mexican cavalry suffered heavy casualties.

Therefore, the average cavalryman will ask for a pistol, and if there is no one, he will find a way to buy one.

Knowing that everyone is greedy, no matter how old or old the guns seized in front of him, Yang Dongfang did not keep them, and all of them were given to the new regiment left in California. So he replied: "Don't worry, these will be ours, wait until it gets dark, first find the cavalry camp of the Northern Army." ”

In fact, as the war was coming to an end, the northern army reached the southern hinterland and the capital. In the westernmost state of Oklahema, there were some remnants of the Confederate cavalry, and the rest were east of the Mississippi River.

So Denver seems to be very safe, the Northern army stationed here used to have tens of thousands of people, but now most of them have been transferred to the central state of Oklahema and the state of Arkansas, and no one will think that anyone will still come to capture Denver.

Denver suddenly lost its military value, so there was a lot of singing and dancing here, there was no war, everything was going towards economic development, mining, mining, and then building roads, looking forward to building the Pacific Railroad here as soon as possible, so that the excavated coal mines could be continuously transported to the Northeast, exchanged for gold coins, and enjoyed life.

Although there was disguise, the yellow face still caused some trouble to the accommodation of Yang Dongfang and the others, and no white people were willing to approach them and entertain them.

This shows that Lincoln's so-called slave emancipation is a, except for deceiving black slaves to die, willingly being good citizens and second-class citizens for generations, and then reaping the moral high ground, it has not changed the social status of blacks and other people at all.

It was almost in the eighties and nineties of the nineteenth century that the form changed, and in reality, even in later generations, the black people were not truly emancipated, even if there was a black president.

On the contrary, because of the emancipation of slaves, blacks missed an opportunity to really turn over and become masters, and were permanently enslaved in the United States.

At least Yang Dongfang thinks so, not thinking about the problem of black people who can't support the wall in the mud, Yang Dongfang and the others camped in a wasteland in the city, surrounded by silence and emptiness, suitable for airborne.

"Big handsome, there are two policemen on the left watching us."

After nightfall, the eight gates and sixteen guards discovered the abnormality, sure enough, the white people had never trusted other races of color, as soon as Yang Dongfang and the others appeared, they were monitored by the police, and they were listed as suspicious targets that must be controlled.

Yang Dongfang waved his hand and said with a hint of cold disgust: "Then let them disappear into this world." ”

Soon, with the skills of Yin and the others, he didn't know that he had wiped the necks of the two policemen, and when the time was almost up, Yang Dongfang returned to the city and arrived in Salt Lake City, taking the newly formed guard regiment to Denver.

Forts are always breached from the inside, and Yang Dongfang asked Wang Dake, the new commander of the 1st Guard Regiment, to lead two battalions with Xi Yanming to attack the cavalry camp, and he himself to attack the Colorado State Regiment with two battalions.

The battle began with an attack on the cavalry camp, not at all expecting that someone would attack the garrison from the city, as superior cavalry, they were sleeping soundly, and the two soldiers guarding the gate were the first to be touched and killed by the veteran scout, and rushed towards the camp.

However, when I met the soldier who got up to release the water, the accident happened.

"Who are you?"

Those who can be cavalry in the United States are either the sons of slave owners or farmers, and the rest are clever boys, so they have the opportunity to be selected as cavalrymen and gallop on precious war horses.

The soldier's first thought was to pull out the pistol on his waist, and the next conscious action, but when he touched it, he found that there was none. It's also said that whoever has nothing to do and sleeps and doesn't have a pistol, and it's not on the battlefield.

Be aware of this. He turned around and wanted to leave, but was shot and killed by several nervous recruits.

With a "snap", the whole city was shocked.

"Stupid, who told you to shoot randomly."

The veteran, now the backbone and the commander of the new guard regiment at all levels, inevitably cursed, and then shouted: "Rush in and kill this white pig for me."

The recruits immediately rushed to the barracks with their guns in their hands, and then, according to the training of these days, pulled the bolt of their guns and fired inside, regardless of whether they were killed or not.

"Fack, what's going on." This group of cavalrymen really went to the battlefield, and they reacted well, picking up the imitation Colt pistol at the head of the bed (because the Colt pistol is so famous, there are countless factories in the United States that imitate it, and basically they are not genuine, mainly because the genuine goods are too expensive. Regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, he opened fire at the door.

"Bang bang."

"Puff puff puff."

The few recruits who had just entered were instantly knocked down.

(To be continued.) )