Chapter 296: Crippled North Tennessee Legion

The moon sank like water, the earth was sprinkled with a faint silver light, from far and near, the figure of the figure longed, the southern army continued to approach the position of the Tennessee Army of the Union Army in the west, and the total number of the Naxi Army of the Union Army was only two and a half divisions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There were a lot of losses along the way, which is why George placed them on the western side for defense. Because of the terrain here, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, behind the legion is a large barren mountainous area, and there is a natural barrier to the Staunton River.

So one and a half divisions of the Naxi Corps were on the east bank of the river, and two brigades were on the west bank of the river, firmly controlling this area.

"Captain Jon, look, there's movement on the traitor's side."

As the approaching crowd noticed the rustling sound, a team of patrol soldiers on duty finally noticed something unusual, and the leader Captain Jon took out his pistol and looked carefully in the direction of the target, and sure enough, he found a large number of figures approaching.

However, he did not immediately shoot on alert, and then after thinking about it, he ordered a soldier to go back and inform his commander to hold his guard for the time being, and the corporal who had reminded him just now asked, "Sir, why don't we shoot." ”

Captain Jon said: "Corporal had better not act rashly until the situation is clarified, it is possible that the troops of the alliance can't stand the hunger and quietly surrender to us?" If we shoot now, the next mass surrender will be terminated by this. ”

Obviously, this is not the first time Jon has encountered the quiet surrender of the Southern Army, since last year, the balance of war has begun to tilt in favor of the Federation, more and more Southern troops have begun to disarm and surrender, and the war has become easier and easier.

Prisoner Tou Cheng This is a fat difference, whoever encounters it in the military merit book is worth a special book, if you don't do it, you will become famous, at least after retiring, this is also a bragging capital.

There was once a regiment, a division, surrendered to me, and it was still very exciting to think about it.

That's why Jon won't make a noise, and he won't let go of this opportunity.

It didn't take long for the coalition army to reach a position of more than ten meters, and then Jon shouted softly: "What are you!" Hands up, I've found you. ”

"Don't shoot, we're here to surrender. Do you have anything to eat? We've been eating bark grass roots for ten days. ”

A miserable voice came from the other side, low and weak, looking extremely weak.

Jon said in his heart, the good guys have eaten the bark for ten days, and the southern army is really surrounded by us and has no way to go to the sky, and there is no hole in the ground and the mountains are exhausted, and at the same time, he also admires it very much, the southern army is really a diehard, and he came to surrender at this time.

"Come on. By the way, how many of you came. ”

"Sir! One of our regiments is coming, don't shoot, there is our entire division behind. They have not eaten bread and rice for twelve days compared to us, and they have no strength to walk, and many of us have fallen ill in the mountains, please tell your commander to prepare some medicine as soon as possible. ”

Captain Jon was overjoyed and saw the Confederate troops slowly walking over with their guns in their hands raised.

"Sir, in fact, our guns have long run out of ammunition, if you could have charged once ten days ago, our position would have been breached a long time ago, and we would not have to suffer this crime, a war of all evils."

Captain Jon and his squad listened triumphantly, with the same expression as before, and their vigilance relaxed, and one of the Confederate troops at the front discharged their guns and continued to walk forward, and one after another people came up behind them, bowing their heads and looking dejected, and said: "Yes, all evil wars, hateful politicians, hated landlords. ”

"Poof!"

"You... You.. We... ”

"I'm sorry sir, in fact, in the past ten days, we have eaten a lot of fish and meat, we have eaten enough, and our training is very energetic, and we have not been defeated."

Captain Jon stared at the knife stabbed in the chest, and before he could react, he was covered in the mouth, and slowly lost consciousness, and his squad was also wiped out, paralyzed and carelessly died, and the Confederate army successfully mixed into the position. The soldiers of a regiment quickly occupied the perimeter and penetrated deep into the northern army.

But soon they exchanged fire with the Northern Army, because the soldiers who had returned to report the news woke up their regimental commander, who woke up all the soldiers and prepared to receive the prisoners in an organized manner.

The guns of the Northern Army were all front-loaded, and some were breech-loading Sharps, but there were no repeater guns, so the first round of bullets in the firefight was empty, and the strongest firepower organized by the Southern Army was used for sneak attacks, all of which were Lianzhu guns, and the second round of shooting began, and the soldiers behind charged forward.

The powerful firepower, coupled with the desperate death rush of the Southern Army, this regiment of the Northern Army was routed and lost its position in less than ten minutes.

"Excellent! A regiment of the 2nd Division had been breached, and the Virginia Corps rushed forward with all of it, rapidly expanding the gains. ”

Twenty minutes later, the Virginia Corps occupied the Northern Army's positions east of the Staunton River, broke through with superior forces, and the large army quickly stormed and annihilated a division of the Tennessee Corps.

"Special envoy, now that the other side is prepared, I'm afraid it's not so easy for us to cross the river."

"Don't worry, General Li looks at me. First bombardment to stun the last of the North Tennessee Army. Yang Dongfang waved his hand, and the artillery was placed flat on the ground, saving the trouble of transporting it from the mountains, and the shelling was launched as soon as possible.

"Come on! Damned traitor, there's no way I'm going to let you cross the river, let you despair here. "The Tennessee commander's eyes were about to erupt with fire, one of his divisions was actually defeated like this, how not to be annoyed, commanded the soldiers, waited for the Southern army to cross the river, and beat him hard.

However, when their troops were lying on their positions with fierce eyes, and were about to start a big killing, the sound of cannons suddenly sounded on the opposite side, and the flames erupted from the barrels of the cannons, revealing everything in the river opposite, and under the smoke of gunpowder was a 120-pound cannon, a long row, and hundreds of guns.

"Boom, boom, boom.!"

The sky was pierced, shells fell, flowers bloomed on all sides, the ground shook, and the next moment screamed again and again.

"It's not good, retreat, withdraw from the first line, go to the rear formation, it's too dense here."

Unfortunately, it was too late, and all the forces of a division were thrown in, and in order to block the attack, for the best possible damage, all the soldiers of the Tennessee regiment were stationed on the banks of the river.

Where did they think that the Southern Army still had so many artillery, and it was deployed so quickly, God, they couldn't imagine that it was a cannon, not a gun, and the Southern Army had just captured Hedong.

In one round of shelling, the Northern Army killed and wounded one regiment, in the second round five companies died, in the third round there was only one company, and in the fourth time there were only a dozen people, but the riverbank position had already been declared lost.

The shelling finally stopped after four rounds, Yang Dongfang waved all the artillery into it, and with a wave of his hand, the prepared ten pontoon bridges were already lying on the river, and the sappers of the Virginia Legion could be unemployed, so they could only join the battle sequence with guns, and rushed across the pontoon bridge to pursue the rest of the Tennessee Legion.

Yang Dongfang said proudly: "The general can cross the river, we will see you at Lake Kerr." ”

"Envoy! See you at Lake Kerr and see which of us arrives first. With a bright smile and a full spirit, Robert Lee quickly crossed the river with the Virginia Corps, and 14,000 men first launched an attack and pursuit towards the rest of the Tennessee Corps, in order to completely destroy this force and destroy the number of this force.

Behind was James Longstryt with 800 cavalry and two infantry regiments on the west bank of the river, while Yang Dongfang led the Second Army, which had already been crippled and only one division left, to the lower reaches of the Staunton River.

The 20,000-strong army was temporarily split in two, and the waterways moved south at the same time. (To be continued.) )