Chapter 299: Southern Army's Thoughts

"General Li, is this not confident?" Yang Dongfang muttered, thought about it for a while, and muttered to himself: "It seems that they have to add some ingredients." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

At the same time, Yang Dongfang also understood Robert Lee's worries, and after careful consideration, he was also a little less confident in the army's direct raid on Rocky Mountain City.

Something happened, Yang Dongfang had no choice but to make adjustments along the battlefield situation, and immediately led people to continue to the southeast, and went straight to the place where the northern army came.

The forty-kilometer long distance finally arrived before 12 o'clock, and without a hurry to rest, a teleporter infiltrated the city, quietly taking the relatively empty Loa Noklapitz, and cutting off one of the three important strongholds of the Lo Nok River.

In order to completely cut off the news on both sides of the Rohanok River, and to rest in a hurry, everyone got on a boat and went down the river to Weldon, six kilometers away, and solved the second stronghold in a small battle. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the ships continued downstream to conquer Halifax, the largest crossing of the river.

In terms of pattern, Yang Dongfang cut off the direct connection between the Sherman Corps and the army of Grant's Eastern Front.

All of this went on silently, and Sherman, unaware of this, set his sights on Rocky Mountain and Raleigh.

"If you're Robert Lee, you'll go straight south to capture the city of Key Hill and join Johnston; Or do you attack Raleigh City first and occupy a base area, and try to join Johnston, and regain strength in the Greensboro and Winston areas, and gather the rout to counterattack. ”

Sherman, who was in the Rocky Mountain City barracks, thought for a long time, and finally felt that Robert Lee would still attack Raleigh City first, because the 20,000-strong army must have food and grass, otherwise once Robert Lee directly attacked the periphery of Rocky Mountain City and failed to defeat him, his troops would collapse without a fight and fall apart, not only could not help Johnston, but would be a life-threatening poison.

Having played here for so long, Sherman knew deep down that Johnston was even more difficult than Robert Lee, because Lee was not good at guerrilla and liked to fight the main battle.

Johnston has fewer troops, more tactical flexibility, and a stronger will to fight, and it is somewhat difficult to annihilate him at once.

After thinking about it, Sherman gave the final order: "Transfer Wilson's black division to Raleigh City, and send the Sixth Brigade from the South City to reinforce Raleigh City, and the two armies must meet and march together by twelve o'clock tomorrow." ”

When Sherman received the news, it was just at night, and the signal corps was the first to inform the city of Dorori in advance, and the army immediately began to march lightly, but they rarely marched at night, and they did not go fast, especially the 6th Brigade set out one step earlier, but arrived two hours later than the black division in Zebilon, and delayed the rest time for an hour or two, which caused mutual dissatisfaction.

The black division was entrusted with important tasks by Sherman, and its morale has always been high and it is determined to forge ahead, but the 6th Brigade is not, they look down on the black division in their hearts, and if necessary, they don't want to fight with the blacks, because they feel that it is a shame, although the black divisions are often stronger than them, and often gnaw the hard bones of the Southern Army, and they can easily pick up the merits, but it still can't change the discrimination of their whites against blacks from the bones.

Two rather bedridden units marched back and forth, the whole army under the command of a white major general of the 6th Brigade.

Little did they know that Robert had raided Dehan after dark yesterday, and that just after the morning had passed, the golden sun had risen, and the Northern Virginia Legion had appeared outside Raleigh.

The two regiments of the Northern Army defending Raleigh were quickly routed by the sudden arrival of the Northern Virginia Legion, and the Northern Virginia Legion was warmly welcomed by the people of the city.

and quickly sent troops to the News River, seized the favorable terrain, set up a defensive position, and alerted Sherman to send a large army, and at the same time sent reconnaissance troops to probe the situation in the direction of Rocky Mountain City.

Staying in Raleigh City, there is finally a place to recuperate, although it is not as good as Richmond, there is no industry, the whole of North Carolina is mainly agricultural, important cities are on the coast, are mainly port trade, but as the capital, Raleigh still has his advantages, there are a lot of plantations nearby.

It was not devastated by Sherman's Sanguang, there was enough food to feed the army, and there were troops to provide, and there were many scattered alliance routs nearby that could be contained.

So next Robert Lee made a couple of moves.

The first sent a large number of scouts to the east to reconnoiter Sherman's movements, and the second went south and west to gather the remnants of the army, and hoisted the battle flag of the Northern Virginia Regiment to rally the people.

Third Carte Blanche gave James Longstryt the head of the north, and put up resistance to hold back George Gordon Meade's army and create favorable time for the war in the south.

Soon the battle report from the front came: "Commander-in-chief, Sherman really sent a force to Raleigh City, but they arrived at the Neius River late and were blocked by our army on the east bank of the river, and it is estimated that tomorrow morning, this army will launch a battle to cross the river." ”

"It seems that the other side did not bring many engineering troops, and they were all lightly armed and had no heavy weapons." Robert Lee guessed the general idea of the black-and-white mixed troops from just the literal information, and now he also had a plan to say to the following generals:

"This force is only 6,000 men, and I have ordered the 1st Division to resist me from the front, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions to bypass the Neus River and insert themselves behind the other side. This time we are going to eat them all, which will make Sherman feel distressed, and at the same time, let the envoy see that without him, our Northern Virginia Legion is also the strongest, and can also destroy the large army of the Northern Army. ”

"It's the general!"

As soon as Robert Lee said this, all the generals below stood up, straightened their waists, and looked unconvinced, unwilling, and unyielding, they knew that although the envoy was good, he was an Oriental after all, and it would be disgraceful to rely on him to win the war.

Competitiveness is not good for face, this is a common trait of human beings, Robert Lee and others want to show the last glory, the same pioneer John Gordon and Zai are fighting for their own honor, Richard Yule, he took a regiment of his headquarters, and a regiment of 2,000 men that had just been gathered joined John Gordon, appeared on the north side of the Rocky Mountain, and launched an attack on Sherman.

The night was the best cover, and the two of John created a huge sneak attack, and there were shouts of killing outside the sky. The star flag crossed on a blue background confused Sherman, making him think that Robert Lee had come over, and for a moment he doubted his judgment.

The night attack lasted less than an hour before it came to an end, with John Gordon capturing the city of Rocky Mountain and besieging Nadeville, and Richard Yule capturing Redoak, one claiming 15,000 men and the other 7,000, and annihilating two Sherman regiments.

Gave Johnston a shot in the arm in the Rocky Mountain city, and the city began to organize a counterattack.

"I was really impressed that Robert Lee actually crossed Raleigh City directly to save Johnston, did he really want to make one last game." Sherman stared at the map for a long time, until dawn and the sun shone in, and then the herald secretary asked, "Send someone to the north to reconnoitre, is it really Robert Lee coming?" There is also news coming back from the direction of Raleigh City, by the way, there seems to be no news from the east for a day, and General George doesn't know what the situation is. ”

Before figuring out the situation, the ruthless and cunning Sherman did not dare to send a large army out, and still firmly besieged Rocky Mountain City. (To be continued.) )