Chapter 297: James booby-trapped the Northern Cavalry

"Bastard, how did the Tennessee Legion get routed so quickly? How could the Southern Army still have the strength to break through? Who exactly is in command of the Northern Virginia Legion? So quickly crossed the other side of the river. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When George Gordon Mead arrived with the Potomac Corps, there was only a devastated battlefield left east of the river, the corpses of a division's soldiers lying cold on the ground, and the air was filled with the thick smell of gunsmoke, telling of what had happened here.

I can't believe that the Southern Army still has the ability to break through, and the Southern Army, which has been surrounded for more than half a month and lacks food and ammunition, still has such a fierce combat effectiveness, which is unacceptable to him, and it is also unacceptable to the entire Potomac Corps.

"Commander! You hear the gunfire on the West Bank, the soldiers of the Tennessee Regiment must still be holding back the Confederate army, we need to cross the river as soon as possible. The staff officer of the Potomac Corps suggested, and George Gordon Mead calmed down and gritted his teeth: "Then what are you waiting for, let the engineer brigade build a bridge as soon as possible, you can't let the tiger return to the mountain, you must catch up with the Northern Virginia Legion, and send a liaison officer to inform the defenders downstream." ”

The Potomac Corps Combat Unit arrived in such a hurry that the Engineer Brigade arrived an hour later and immediately engaged in the work of logging and bridging, but was soon met with fire from James Longstrett.

"Not good! There is also the Southern Army on the other side! Cover shooting. ”

He should have thought that the Southern Army would have broken troops, George scolded carelessly, and at the same time scolded again, the other party was cunning, and he didn't make any movement until his sappers built a pontoon bridge, it seems that this person should be James Longstryt.

Although there was fire cover, the speed of building the bridge was greatly reduced, and James's men only needed to rely on the original position and concentrate on shooting the Northern Army engineers.

All of a sudden, the engineer brigade suffered huge losses, and the two pontoon bridges were only halfway erected, and the river was full of corpses, and the blood-red water stained the river red, and under the light of the moonlight and bullets, it was particularly terrifying and hideous.

"Bring in the artillery brigade and blast James's Confederate army for me."

The Northern Army did not have Yang Dongfang's ability, and it would take more than an hour for the baggage soldiers to transfer the artillery, so they could push ten small-caliber cannons over.

However, James was still very tenacious, relying on a force of less than 3,000 men on the side to hold on until dawn, and still held his position, without the slightest retreat, only after receiving Robert Lee to annihilate all of the North Tiannaxi, and then withdrew the two infantry regiments at noon.

The cavalry regiment also retreated to the back of the position, waiting for the northern army to cross the river, at this time in fact, there was no need for him to die, the northern army had set up a pontoon bridge, and from the east the other 10,000 troops had been transferred, 30,000 troops on the east bank, spectacular.

Soon a brigade of the Northern Army crossed the river, occupied the position first, prevented the Southern Army from counterattacking, and covered the troops behind to cross the river safely, and did it in an orderly manner.

Seeing that James still had a few hundred cavalry with him, George Gordon Meade also transferred Sheridan's cavalry troops and let them cavalry fight cavalry.

After Sheridan was killed, there were three regiments of cavalry below, reorganized into a combat brigade, and after crossing the river, this cavalry quickly entered the battle and rushed towards James, to kill the last cavalry strength of the Southern Army, so that they could pursue the Northern and Northern Virginia Legion as they pleased.

"Fire!"

James took up a high ground with his men, shot condescendingly, fought only one round, harassed the Northern army, and then turned around and left.

"Chase! Gotta kill James. Soon the northern army rushed to the high ground, but this James had already leaned on the other side of the hillside, and rushed out two miles away by the slope, and scolded the southern army for being brave, and the northern army did not want to rush and chase after the slope.

As soon as they rushed down the steep slope and the horses were at their fastest speed, a sudden vision appeared, and countless explosions sounded all around, and the horse team was suddenly confused, and countless people and horses were injured by shrapnel from the mines.

"Damn it, James planted a lot of mines here!"

It's a pity that I know that it's too late, the cavalry behind wants to stop, and it's not in a hurry, the speed just now is a little fast, at this time, as soon as the horse rope is pulled, there is a neigh, and the people will be thrown off, otherwise it will be a collision between men and horses.

What's even more odious is that James at this time was small in number, running and running in two, and the motive was clever to kill back from both wings, and began to shoot the cavalry of the Northern Army from the two bypasses.

"Bang bang bang."

The gunfire continued, and the cavalry of the Southern Army finished the bullets in their hands as quickly as possible, and threw out a small amount of Dongfang No. 2 wooden-handled grenades given to them by Yang Dongfang, which exploded the already chaotic cavalry of the Northern Army even more chaotically.

"General! The infantry of the North Yankees came up. ”

Sure enough, he turned his head and saw the flag of the Potomac Corps fluttering up from the other side of the hill, and the infantry of the Northern Army appeared on the high ground, and James shouted 'Withdraw!' Quickly out of the battle, the wind swept away to the south.

"Damn! Without General Sheridan, it would be really difficult to subdue this little evil dragon. ”

When James won a small victory on the west bank, Yang Dongfang looked up at the sky, and at this time his troops were about to enter Lake Kerr, just before dawn they captured the town of Randolph, annihilated five companies of the Northern Army here, and then continued to tear the fishing nets of the Northern Army to the south.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, they finally reached the middle of Lake Kerr, and an important spot appeared in front of them.

Richard Yule, the former commander of the Second Army Corps, who accompanied him, pointed to the front and said: "Special envoy, the front is Clarksville, there should not be many northern troops here, but it has to be guarded, I suggest attacking by water at the same time to prevent the news from being revealed, of course, we still have to be careful that there are federal river warships sheltering here, although this possibility is extremely low." ”

Richard Yule was originally a subordinate of Stonewall Jackson, and after Stonewall Jackson's death, he appointed commander of the Second Army and then transferred to become Robert Lee's men.

Speaking of which, he is somewhat similar to John Bell Hood on the Western Front, who is like a fish in water when he is a general and acts according to orders, and when he is a commander in charge, he is not satisfactory when he is allowed to play.

In the words of the Chinese, what can be done will not be handsome, and then there will be endless troubles.

After the reorganization, the current Richard Yule's Second Army was abolished and changed to the Second Division under the command of Yang Dongfang.

"General Richard, just follow your plan, and don't care what the situation is in Clarksville, you just need to attack from the land on time, take the blockade, and leave the water to me; Remember not to let go of a northern army, when killed, killed, anyone who resists will be killed, whether it is a commoner or a nobleman, if I know that you did not do what you were ordered, even if General Li reproached, I would not blink an eye to kill you to sacrifice the flag. ”

Richard Yule secretly called the envoy ruthlessly, although he scolded very unhappily in his heart, but he knew that he was wrong, turned around and got ready, the ship docked, and he took 2,000 men ashore to launch a blockade of Clarksville.

Looking at the sky, the appointed time was up, Yang Dongfang commanded the battleship to rush to the dock, Richard made the first move, the gunshots rang out sparsely, and the whole town jumped up.

"Look, envoy, there's a ship on the dock!" (To be continued.) )