Chapter 288: Hancock is defeated

Thomas was racking his brains to deal with the New People's Army, and concentrated 12,000 volunteers and 10,000 militiamen in Frankfurt, but he didn't know that the reason why Yang Dongfang hit Louisville first was actually to attack Hancock. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Let's help Daniel solve this big hidden danger in the north first.

This allowed Daniel to send half of his troops south, which was very high-profile.

Sure enough, soon Hancock received the message that Yang Dongfang wanted him to receive.

"The Eastern Army actually defeated Louisville, and then it may be with Daniel to attack Frankfurt in the northwest, there is only one brigade in the city, and it must be taken quickly, otherwise Thomas will be under great pressure?"

Seeing such a good opportunity, Hancock was also very decisive, and the three regiments immediately launched an attack, and they did not reserve any strength, he wanted to recover Sinchenati with all his strength and kill the two thousand defenders.

"Kill the traitor and recover Xinxingnati! Rush! ”

The attack of the Northern army was quickly shelled and was pushed back, but Hancock also had artillery, and twenty small-caliber guns also fired back to cover the attack.

The two sides went back and forth, and after an hour of fighting, the Northern Army was superior in number and momentum, and Hancock's division was battle-hardened, all veterans, and had won many battles, and their self-confidence was even more overwhelming.

"The outlying positions of the traitors have been breached, attack, retake the city, don't let them run."

Hancock was very pleased that his men were still brave and good at fighting, and it only took him an hour to break through the Confederate position, but just when he was happy, the offensive of the troops was contained.

He raised his binoculars and saw clearly that the troops were blocked at the entrance of the city, and there were intermittent explosions at the street entrances, which were grenades.

The Confederate army used hand grenades, relied on houses on the outskirts of the city to resist, dug up roads, built sandbags, and built trenches.

"Huh! The grenades of the American devils are also very good, and the Northern Army was actually blocked. ”

Outside the city, in the rear of the Northern Army, Yang Dongfang and his guard regiment were already ready to wait for a suitable opportunity to kill out, of course, this opportunity was when the Northern Army was tired and the Southern Army was stalemate.

So Dou Dongdong, who could only see the smoke of the explosion with a telescope, licked his mouth and muttered a few words: "If you want to say that the grenade is still made in Montenegro, you see that the grenade of the devil is too ugly, not easy to use, and too troublesome." ”

Everyone nodded in deep agreement.

Yang Dongfang smiled, in fact, the shape of the US army's grenade is not the shape of later generations, but a bit similar to the German iron fist rockets produced in World War II to fight tanks and armored armies.

How to put it, it is extraordinarily long, about the length of an arm, the wooden throwing handle alone has half an arm, and the place where the ammunition is loaded is in the shape of a large top and a small oval.

When used, it is thrown at the target like a javelin, so it is extremely technical and cumbersome to use, so it is derived from the type of unit that uses it - the grenadier.

It can be said that in terms of grenades, the New People's Army is definitely the world's leader at this time, so much so that no one in the guard regiment wants to use the 10,000 hand grenades captured, and all of them were given to Daniel's Southern Army.

"Marshal, the fire is almost over, it's been fighting for a long time, the northern army occupies a few more trenches, and the southern army continues to retreat to the center of the city." Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Wang Dake estimated that the northern army wanted to completely occupy the city before dark, and the small half of the city had already been broken, and if he didn't make a move, the 2,000 people of the southern army would not be able to stand it.

"Okay, then take off Hancock's back road first, shell the city they occupy for me, cheer up the Southern army in the city, and eat his division together." Yang Dongzhu was no longer hiding, and agreed to attack.

Soon the new people's army rushed over in concealment, and the artillery and baggage troops left behind Hancock and a part of the militia soon discovered them, but the combat effectiveness was too weak, and in front of the guard regiment, they cut melons and beans, and were killed and run away in an instant.

The panicked soldiers ran to report: "General! Oh no, there are enemy forces behind us. ”

"What?"

Hancock, who was still happy to storm the city just now, turned his head to look back, and sure enough, there was a lot of gunfire behind him, and the baggage team and artillery were killed, and he hurriedly divided a group of people to take over the position of the Southern army to resist the enemy's attack.

But soon the shells fell, and a personal soldier pounced: "General be careful. ”

"Boom, boom, boom.!"

Patting the dust on his body, Hancock secretly screamed bad luck, and at the same time his mood became complicated, and he took out a telescope through the cover to observe: "Yellow people? Could it be the Eastern Army, who are not in Louisville? How did they appear behind me, are they more than two brigades. It looks like I've fallen for the tricks of the Southern Army! Caught in the northeast. ”

The subordinates are infected by the calmness and composure of the general, Mani is the general! We were all scared to pee, anxious to get angry, and he was still talking calmly.

"General! What to do! The situation is very unfavorable for our army. ”

The sound of shells falling to the side sounded, and one soldier after another was killed, and Hancock also felt that it was impossible to do it, and then someone came to report: "General! The southern army north of the city and the railway bridge launched a counterattack against us. ”

Hancock gritted his teeth and did not hesitate: "Withdraw!" Break through to the east! ”

With the weight taken away, he had no follow-up ammunition to sustain the battle, and with the addition of a regiment to resist the Eastern Army outside the city, Hancock knew that the longer he delayed, the more he would suffer.

Defeat is defeat! It's better to withdraw while it's getting dark.

The Northern Army broke through to the east, and as expected by Yang Dongfang, he thought that Hancock was going to fight his last breath to completely defeat the Southern Army, occupy the city and entangle with him, waiting for other reinforcements.

After chasing out of Qilidi, the sky was completely dark, which was not conducive to field combat, so Yang Dongfang asked people to stop the attack and count the loot and casualties.

Soon the statistics came out, the battle began and ended with the siege of the Northern Army at noon today, and the Northern Army killed a total of 1,500 people, wounded 600 people, and captured 400 prisoners, and the rest fled east with Hancock.

Although the Southern Army was mainly defensive, the casualties added up to about 1,000 people, and a regiment was disabled, and it was directly dispersed and reorganized into a regiment, which did not take a big advantage, and the guard regiment also suffered 100 casualties, and the number dropped to 1,200.

Therefore, Yang Dongfang directly took away 800 people from the Southern Army to temporarily act as thugs and flew to Louisville, leaving three Southern Army companies to guard Cincinnati for a show.

The next day, Daniel's three regiments also killed people and set fires, robbed Shen Tu of everything they could take, and advanced to Georgetown without any hindrance, officially forming an east-west attack on Frankfurt.

After starting from Louisville and arriving in Shelville, Yang Dongfang discovered that Thomas had sent all his troops to Frankfurt, a lower-middle city of Frankfurt, with more than 26,000 troops.

So he gave up the airborne and went directly under the nose of Beijing, went around the city, and arrived at the east bank of the Kentucky River, and notified Daniel in Georgetown to meet south, and first dismantle Lexington.

At the same time, they collected the food, cloth, and all kinds of supplies that Daniel had stolen in the past few days, and sent them to continue to sweep the surrounding towns.

"General! The traitors are so arrogant that they are still sweeping around Lexing Pier, so that this place will become a deserted place. ”

"Yes! General, let's fight, you see, there are only more than 1,000 devils in the east, and there are almost eight companies of the southern army, so are we more than 20,000 people, ten times the enemy, and we still dare not attack a few thousand people? ”

Everyone felt that it was a shame, and how ironic it was that 2,000 people left swaggering away under the city of Frankfurt.

"Humph! It is because I have more than 20,000 people that the Oriental devil did not fight Frankfurt, otherwise you and I might be prisoners of the order, and now Frankfurt may also be groaning under the guns of the Orientals. But Thomas was unmoved, secretly rejoicing, and threw out a war report:

"Take a good look, this is the battle that took place in Cincinnati yesterday, and Hancock was defeated." (To be continued.) )