It's a disaster!

When Grant received Sheldon's report, the idea crossed his mind.

It's a disaster!

Not only was it because the Chinese had inflicted heavy damage on Sheldon's cavalry with their secret weapons of continuous fire, so that his cavalry had not even been able to break through Piget's hastily organized defenses, but more importantly, the flanks of the Fifth Army were now completely exposed to the Southerners.

What is even more deadly is that now the Chinese have thrown themselves into the battlefield!

Now the Chinese are attacking the Fifth Army.

"The Chinese's attack was very fierce......"

While the staff officer explained how the Chinese attacked, Grant's eyes stared at the map, and he looked at the map, thinking about all kinds of possibilities in his mind.

"Now, we must retreat, or we risk an even more terrible defeat......"

With a pipe in his hand, Grant stared at the flanks of the Fifth Army on the map, and after a long silence, he asked in a deep voice.

"What would happen if we retreated now?"

Grant, holding his pipe, did not wait for an answer, but muttered to himself.

"The war will be extended indefinitely, and when the time comes, we will have to face the Chinese, the hundreds of thousands, even millions of Chinese troops!" That's the real disaster......"

Slammed his fist into the map on the wall, and then Grant commanded in a deep voice.

"We will never retreat, and if we retreat now, Lee will definitely seize the opportunity to counterattack us, and then we will pay an even heavier price. Now, I order, throw in our reserves, counterattack the Chinese, and beat back their offensive before they have yet to gain a foothold! ”

Although it is known that the weapons of the Chinese are very advanced, in Grant's opinion, they have only a few thousand people, and if he invests enough forces, he will definitely be able to break up the attack of the Chinese.

Now, the United States has no other choice!

Grant's rebellion was accurate, if he hastily ordered the troops to retreat, then there was a good chance of a rout waiting for him, but when he put the reserves of up to 40,000 troops into the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed fundamentally, the unstoppable offensive of the marines who were originally launching a fierce attack on the Fifth Army was blocked, and even the American troops launched a counteroffensive with their superiority in strength, successfully forcing the marines to retreat. The 1st Marine Brigade had to hastily build foxholes to block the attack of the American troops.

But the battle did not end there, the battle was just beginning.

After blocking the attack of the 1st Marine Brigade, Grant then issued an order - to completely annihilate this Chinese army!

The nature of the battle changed at this moment.

"Your Excellency, why do we want to annihilate them?"

Looking at the hastily built defense line of the Chinese army from the telescope, Sheldon said with some puzzlement.

"Our conflict with China, I don't know what kind of uproar it will cause in Washington!"

Even though his cavalry had suffered unprecedented losses, Sheldon was still an officer that Grant trusted very much, and Grant said in response to his inquiry.

"War is inevitable!"

Staring at the Chinese troops in the distance, Grant's tone seemed a little solemn.

"War has been inevitable since the Chinese took the initiative to attack us, and for the Chinese, why did they intervene in the civil war in the United States?"

"It's to create a divided America!"

That's a pretty correct answer, Grant nodded, and then picked up a rifle, which, unlike a normal rifle, had a magazine in front of the bolt-action rifle trigger.

"This is the weapon of the Chinese that we have captured!"

Pulling the bolt, Grant took out a bullet!

He took the copper bullet, looked at the sharp bullet, and continued.

"Chinese use this .30-inch bullet, the shooting is very accurate, their rifle, can hold five such bullets, and this bullet uses a new type of gunpowder, our scientists don't know when, can analyze what kind of gunpowder they use, but it is certain that if the Chinese army is put into battle, we will face hundreds of thousands of people using this new rifle, and the kind of machine gun that can shoot continuously, it is really a pity that the machine gun cannot be captured......"

Grant's tone looked a little helpless, this is not the first time he has come into contact with Chinese, in fact, as early as many years ago, he had been in contact with the Chinese army, at that time, he was a foreigner in the Qing army, responsible for training the Qing army, and it was at that time that he learned some new tactics in the "righteous army", of course, those tactics must be used as new weapons as a charm.

Because of this, after he became the commander-in-chief of the Federal Army, he immediately made every effort to promote the breeching of the weapons of the Federal Army, not only rifles, but also artillery, but he did not expect that when he finally did this, the Chinese once again left them behind.

Once again, the Chinese threw a new rifle on the battlefield that had never been heard of before, including a new type of gunpowder.

Is God really on China's side?

While thinking in his heart, Grant said with annoyance.

"Therefore, we must now prevent the Chinese from intervening in the war, and we must make them understand that when they intervene in this war, they must pay a very heavy price!"

What is the cost?

It is this Chinese elite army in front of him, Grant is sure to destroy this force, after all, he has more powerful forces, he can invest more troops on the battlefield, like the tide, swallow up the Chinese defense line, of course, what he wants to launch is not a suicide charge of Piget.

"As long as we completely annihilate this army, the Chinese will understand that we will not raise our hands cowardly, we must teach them a good lesson, and use a brilliant victory to tell the Chinese that if they intervene in the civil war in the United States, they must pay a heavy price!"

Grant's eyes were staring ahead, looking at the positions of the Chinese caught in the sea of fire, now the artillery is constantly shelling their defensive lines, after the shelling is over, the infantry will attack, and there is only one thought left in his heart - to completely annihilate this Chinese army! Force the Chinese to stop interfering. And he also has a chance, because the Chinese now have a defensive line of defense that is an isolated salient,

Perhaps, Grant is a qualified military man, but he has never been a qualified politician, he does not know at all, does not know, that China is willing to do whatever it takes to divide the United States!

At 3:17 p.m. on April 1, after another regrouping of troops, the American units that had just repelled the Chinese attack launched another attack, and in front of them was the hastily built defensive line of the 1st Marine Brigade - a foxhole only two or three feet deep, and many of them had not even had time to urgently connect the foxhole into a trench, at most two or three comrades-in-arms shared a foxhole.

When the Union troops attacked, the fighters who were digging foxholes had already noticed their movements, and the fighters immediately began to speed up the construction of bunkers, especially the machine gun bunkers, and the machine gunners who carried the machine guns from the wagons carried all the heavy machine guns into the position, quickly dug the bunkers, pointed the muzzles of the black holes at the open area in front of the position, and condescendingly prepared to shoot.

"Stay in formation!"

"Maintain Formation ......"

In the open no-man's land, the officers shouted and roared to maintain the formation of the infantry formation, although the war had been going on for four years, but for the Americans, they still did not change the set of tactics since the Napoleonic Wars, at most they only changed from a line to a skirmish, but even the skirmisher line, in the eyes of the officers and men of the 1st Marine Brigade, their stormtrooper formation can be described as swaggering.

Even because the American commanders still had the military dogmas of the Napoleonic era in their minds, they still lined up in neat squares to attack, but they were not as close as they were during the Napoleonic Wars half a world ago, but they were very neat, and they lined up like that, and they attacked the hastily built defense line of the 1st Marine Brigade in formation.

In the eyes of many US officers and soldiers, they will definitely be able to occupy the Chinese defense line, then surround them, and then completely annihilate them.

"These idiots......"

"Isn't it, is there such a swaggering attack......

The trenches in the foxholes, there they are laughing and laughing,

"Come on, the big guy picks up the bullet and shoots it like a target, let's shoot it......"

At this time, there was even a faint sound of drums in the air. That's the "drumbeat" of the U.S. Army's infantry squadron! Hearing this drum sound, it means that the US troops have rushed to a position very close to them.

They poked out of the foxhole, and everyone was stunned by what they saw—they saw the American soldiers getting closer and closer in the green grass. They lined up in a long horizontal line and walked towards them, their steps a little slow, even heavy, without the slightest hint of lightness.

"Stay in formation!"

The officer, with a saber in his hand, constantly shouted orders.

"Maintain Formation ......"

At the sound of the orders of the officers and sergeants, the column was more and more organized, if it was in the Napoleonic era. Perhaps Napoleon would have praised the formation of these Americans, and after a few decades, the American troops finally formed a neat formation.

This is a "perfect" column, at least to some extent.

The most fundamental reason why their pace is slow is because of the rhythm of the "drum beat", because everyone has to move to the beat of the drum, so their movement is very slow. This was almost unthinkable for the Chinese army, which emphasized a rapid charge, and in fact, the Chinese army almost never went through this phase, and after the Han-style rifle entered service, the tactics learned from Europe were immediately eliminated, and the new skirmish tactics were popularized in China.

Although rifled guns have repeatedly inflicted heavy casualties in this war, and although Grant has tried to promote the skirmisher line, in a short period of time, the tradition is not so easy to change, and it is for this reason that when attacking again, they still attack in several waves according to tradition, and the soldiers of each wave are almost shoulder to shoulder in a neat line, holding rifles diagonally, and slowly advancing towards the Chinese position.

In the first few hundred yards, they did not even suffer any attacks, it seems that just as they had imagined before - the Chinese did not even carry artillery because of the haste of the sortie!

Unbeknownst to them, however, as they approached the position of the 1st Marine Brigade, the soldiers were aiming their rifles at them, and the machine gunners were also preparing to shoot.

"Hoo ......"

Every time he carried the machine gun mount, Li Sen would keep cursing the damn six-year-old machine gun mount in his heart, and carrying the 35-kilogram gun mount into the machine gun firing position has always been a challenge to personal physical fitness.

However, he knew that once the shooting began, it would present a different situation, and when firing continuously, because of the rock-solid gun mount, the gun body would hardly have any vibration, so that the shooting would become more stable and the accuracy would naturally be higher.

"Hurry up! Machine gun mounts! ”

Under the supervision of the leader of the machine gun team, Li Sen finally carried the machine gun mount into the firing position, and like all machine gun firing positions, although his firing position was nearly two hundred meters away from the first-line trench, it also formed a vertical fire on the front, and constituted a perfect crossfire with other machine gun forts.

"Boom la la ......"

Almost as soon as the machine gun was ready, the ammunition man opened the cartridge box, pulled out a canvas cartridge belt, and in the midst of the clamor of the bullet impact, Li Senda directly stuffed the guide head of the cartridge belt into the receiver.

"Kada ......"

Pull down the machine gun knuckle and the bullet is loaded!

Just as Lisenberg was loading his machine gun, the riflemen also picked up their rifles, and they even put a clip of bullets on the chest wall in front of them, so that in the next shot, they could quickly reload and shoot, and each of them knew very well that perhaps, in the next hunt, they needed to fire bullets as quickly as possible, and only in this way could they stop the offensive of the American army.

"Whew...... Whew......"

Breathing in the air mixed with the thick smell of gunsmoke, feeling the increasingly silent battlefield, for some reason, Jamie's heart swelled with an inexplicable chill, for some reason, he suddenly realized that perhaps, this silence is the calm before death......

Closer, closer and closer, he and the other soldiers could see the craters in front of the Chinese army's defensive line, which were the craters left by the previous shelling, and he saw cloth caps emerging from the foxholes of the Chinese, and under those cloth caps were Chinese soldiers with rifles in their hands.

Suddenly, a breeze picked up......

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