Chapter 273 Two crossings of the Shiban River

"What about Yang? What about Yang? ”

"Commander-in-Chief, Envoy Yang rushed to the baggage of the Northern Yankees with Daniel's men. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Damn, why didn't this guy go straight to Grant's command." John Gordon, who had been shot in the face and looked hideous, said dissatisfiedly, "Are we going to attack Grant's headquarters now?" I'm afraid the northerners are prepared. ”

"Attack, keep going deeper." Robert Lee said decisively, and with 30,000 men and horses like a sharp knife, he plunged into the heart of the Potomac Corps, commanding his only men to penetrate the position set up by George Gordon Mead.

Before the Northern armies on both sides arrived, they kept killing Grant's headquarters.

Attacking all the way to meet the Buddha and kill the Buddha, see the ghost and kill the ghost, although Grant had time to react, he urgently deployed some troops to still not block it, and retreated six miles back with the people of the headquarters.

In fact, the northern army and the southern army did not have many opportunities to fight at night, and rarely tried this style of fighting, because it was easy to be injured by mistake at night, and most of the guns used were front-loading guns, and loading was a troublesome matter.

Therefore, the night attack is easy to fight, this is a decisive battle mode that both sides do not like very much, because it requires greater courage, this is a bloody fight, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.

Grant still believes that the 100,000-strong army can stop Robert Lee's final struggle, so what he needs to do now is to delay, not to fight hard, and lose a lot of manpower at the end of the final battle.

The fact is also the same, although the 30,000 southern army broke through into the position of the northern army, attacked the camp of the central army, and killed and wounded seven or eight thousand people of the northern army, but that sentence is good, success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He.

Because of the cover of night, they could avoid artillery bombardment, take advantage of the enemy's carelessness, and attack favorably, but also because of the night, their continuous combat effectiveness could not be extended, and the Northern Army still had too many troops, a full 100,000, and Robert Lee still failed to cut through the Northern Army's defensive line.

Seeing that the northern armies on both sides began to reinforce the center, he immediately and decisively ordered the implementation of the second set of plans: "Withdraw to the mountain after all of them, and send a signal for James Longstry to cover." ”

The horn of retreat sounded, and the southern army immediately stopped attacking, picked up the guns and ammunition on the ground, turned around and ran. Come in a hurry, go in a hurry.

"Hell, the traitors are going to flee back to the mountains again, kill me, destroy them."

The soldiers on both flanks of the northern army hurriedly pursued, while releasing their guns, they roared angrily, there were many of them, the gunfire was fierce, and they wanted to beat the water dogs, and the pursuit of the southern army was their favorite.

However, just as they chased out of the position of the original Northern Army, and saw that they had bitten the unguarded Southern Army fiercely, suddenly the Southern Army separated to both sides, the ground trembled, and a cavalry.

Robert Lee's few thousand cavalry rushed down the hill like an arrow towards the pursuing Northern army.

"Fack! Robert Lee was crazy and charged with cavalry at night, and he didn't want to live anymore. ”

The generals of the Northern Army who commanded the counterattack scolded one after another, what kind of madman is this! If the moon is dark and the wind is high, you are not afraid to break the horse's feet.

The posture of the cavalry of the southern army did make the northern army lose the desire to pursue, and turned back to the position, the southern army did not want to live, they still had to live.

"It's this James back again!" Grant stood on the mountain for about ten miles, watching this scene and gritting his teeth, if he had to pick one of the most hated people from the Southern Army, James Longstritt.

Because he had been entangled with James when he was on the Western Front, and he was often attacked by him, most famously when he traveled 100 miles and unexpectedly routed the newly victorious Northern Army.

Yang Dongfang took advantage of the chaos to attack a key point, and seeing the mountains of materials in his eyes, Daniel Harvey Hill was about to give an order to let him set fire to the grain and blow up the weapons.

"Don't worry about these supplies, General Daniel, you bring people to interrogate the prisoners as soon as possible, I want to know all the information, and at the same time monitor the movements of the enemy on both sides." Yang Dongfang must not allow this kind of loser to burn the materials, but I saw him chattering again, pretending to invite the gods, and finally waved his hand in a chic manner:

"Oh God! Give me strength and take it all with you. ”

Sure enough, right under Daniel Harvey Hill's nose, all the materials in front of him disappeared. The people who had been shocked again and again were once again excited and surprised.

revered and became more and more flattering to Yang Dongfang.

"Envoy Yang, the people of the North have rushed over, we have lost contact with the commander-in-chief, and they seem to have returned to the mountain according to the second plan. We were no longer able to follow the second plan, so we had to rush out to the north. Daniel Harvey Hill said, Yang Dongfang listened and nodded: "Okay, let's leave now, don't fall in love." ”

The 2,000 commandos, bravely rushed straight forward, opened the way with firepower, and took advantage of the time when the main forces of the Northern Army went to encircle Robert Lee, and directly killed the defensive line of the Northern Army non-stop.

Then head north.

However, their small actions were soon known to Grant.

"A brigade escaped, how did you defend it." Grant didn't even think about it before he said to Philip Henry Sheridan, "I can only ask you to go and get these rats back." ”

Robert Lee's last counterattack was blocked again, and the cavalry was useless, so Grant naturally let the cavalry leave with confidence and boldness.

Lip Henry Sheridan smiled, left a cavalry brigade, and then led the cavalry division to pursue Yang Dongfang and the others.

Sheridan searched for clues and chased north, and arrived behind Yang Dongfang's ass in two hours, but he was still a step too late, because there was a river called Shiban River in front of him.

He didn't know how Yang Dongfang and the others crossed the river, because the river here was relatively deep, and it was not suitable for the cavalry to go down the river, so he could only go downstream to find a shoal.

Finally finding a place to cross the river, Sheridan sent one or three companies to pursue in advance, but accidentally fell into an ambush, and the three companies were surrounded by 2,000 infantry and suddenly annihilated.

By the time Sheridan arrived, there were only cold corpses on the ground, and in the eastern part of spring, the temperature was very low, and the corpses were already hard.

"General Daniel, the North Yankees are really just as you guessed, most of them sent a team to chase us before they crossed the river." Yang Dongfang stared at Daniel Harvey Hill, who was originally very arrogant and had a bit of a poisonous mouth, and the ambush was suggested by this guy.

Daniel Harvey Hill said proudly: "Envoy Yang, you don't know that this guy Sheridan likes to divide his troops the most, if he is leading a large group of cavalry, it will take a lot of time to cross the river and gather in pursuit." And we are only an infantry brigade, he will definitely underestimate the enemy. Of course, Envoy Yang has our chivalry and the courage to fight against the cavalry, and this is the key. ”

"Mosquitoes are also meat when they are small, I said a long time ago that we must maneuver and fight, and consume the Northern Army very much, even if it is cavalry."

Daniel Harvey Hill asked, "What do we do next, Envoy Young, continue to go north?" ”

Although three companies of cavalry were wiped out, but 2,000 infantry were chased by a division of cavalry, Daniel still felt that it was not good, and the cavalry could arrive while speaking, and then they would be entangled and not eaten by the cavalry, and they would also be surrounded and annihilated by the follow-up infantry.

"To the north, why to the north, let's go south, in the north is flat, isn't that a live target." Yang Dongfang decided without thinking about it, which made the southern army generals below blow up their scalps, and didn't they hit the muzzle of Sheridan to the south.

However, Daniel Harvey Hill, who was born as a scholar, keenly saw Yang Dongfang's plan, and said excitedly: "No, Envoy Yang's plan is right, we will cross the river from the east to the south, so that Sheridan can't imagine that we will cross the river and run to the other side, even if he finds out that we have crossed the river again, he wants to look at the river and sigh, looking for a river crossing point to cross the river, if he dares to send a team to chase, we will. . . Hey! (To be continued.) )