The news that the Union Army was going to transport a large amount of weapons and baggage to Richmond spread at a rapid pace among the Confederate Army, and the Union Army deliberately spread it quickly enough.

Moreover, the Federal Army piled up hundreds of vehicles with supplies, all covered with canvas, and almost dispatched more than 2,000 Federal Army soldiers to escort them, along the way, causing a huge sensation, and more than 2,000 people were dispatched specifically for escort, which has almost never appeared in the civil war, and now the railroad has been damaged and has not been repaired, and the Federal Army can only send troops and rely on mules and carriages to transport.

The huge transport team stretched out all the way, and on both sides were heavily armed soldiers for strict protection.

However, even so, the transport team was still targeted, and the person targeted was naturally the Confederate army.

Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army, Robert Brown, who received the information. Li immediately reacted, this is to urgently support Richmond, he has just mobilized the strength of an army in the direction of Richmond, trying to besiege Richmond again, I didn't expect that Grant's action was fast enough, and he allocated such a huge amount of military supplies in one go, not only that, Richmond is now expanding the army, from the original strength of a division, has been expanded to the strength of an army, although they are all new recruits, but once armed with a large number of new weapons, It can still pose a huge threat to the Confederate army, which is absolutely unacceptable to itself!

You have to get rid of him, even if it's at a certain price!

Two regiments of troops escorted this batch of supplies, so what, my cavalry was more. It was enough to crush two infantry regiments in an extremely short time. When the time comes. All it takes is a big fire, all of them will be burned, without this batch of munitions, the federal army will not be able to mobilize such a batch of materials again for at least a certain period of time, 10,000 words of new rifles, this is not a small number, enough to arm a division.

Robert looked at the military map, Fairfax. Where is the place to load military supplies onto the train, the railway line north of Fairfax has been damaged by the Rangers and simply cannot be repaired in a short time, in order to save time, they must have shipped the supplies to Fairfax and then to Richmond via the Fairfax to Richmond train.

The best place to start is Fairfax, which is halfway between Philadelphia and Richmond, with the least number of Union troops around, so you just need to move quickly. Mobilize the Rangers to wipe out two regiments of the Federation Army in one fell swoop, and then the victory is in hand. Even if the opponent wants to surround him, it's too late, his own are all cavalry!

Robert said in a deep voice: "Order, send a herald to order, mobilize two battalions of the fourth regiment, fifth regiment, and sixth regiment of cavalry, and two battalions of the seventh regiment, and assemble in the direction of Fairfax in two days. ”

Robert knows very well in his heart that as long as he sneaks up on the supplies of the Federal Army, the troops near the Federal Army will definitely move towards Fairfax at the fastest speed, and the current Federal Army has hated the Rangers to the core, and must not give them a chance to surround them, so to speak, having cavalry is a sharp sword hanging in the heart of the Federal Army, so that they will not be at peace day and night, and while destroying everywhere, the safety of the Rangers must be guaranteed.

Robert's order was quickly conveyed.

In an area of more than 200 kilometers, the Rangers of the Confederate Army began to quickly assemble near Fairfax, and in two days they had gathered three regiments of troops, and the remaining two battalions were also rapidly approaching Fairfax, ready to move.

At this time, the Federal Army was under the protection of the two regiments, and was moving towards Fairfax, which was a batch of military supplies worth more than three million US dollars, and there was absolutely no room for loss, and the two regimental commanders of the Federal Army, one in front of the other, were cautiously vigilant about the surrounding movements, and the cavalry of the two reconnaissance platoons were all released, maintaining reconnaissance of the surrounding enemies at any time.

In order to prevent the information of this trip from being leaked, Grant didn't even tell the two regiment commanders the truth, just to let them sing this play well, three million dollars of materials can make the troops of these two regiments desperate, so many materials are lost, and the two regiment commanders will lose their heads.

Now the distance from Fairfax is only twenty miles, the long convoy is approaching the railway station of Fairfax step by step, the closer the distance between the two federal legions and the railway station, the more nervous they are, as long as the supplies are loaded onto the train and driven to Richmond, then it is done, and the rest of the matter, it is not their responsibility, if something goes wrong, it cannot be relied on on their heads, the two of them have already recited the names of the gods and Buddhas over and over again, hoping to be safe.

However, something happened at this time.

Randall, the commander of the 57th Regiment, felt that something was wrong, because the scouts he sent out had not come back for two hours to report the situation ahead.

Randall urged his horse and ran forward, and soon came, beside Canaan, the commander of the 58th Regiment, and shouted: "Canaan, I feel that something is wrong with the situation?" ”

Canaan frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Randall asked, "It's been a while since my scout came back to report on what's ahead, is there something wrong, your scout?" ”

Canaan was shocked, and he thought about it, the scout sent out hadn't shown up for more than an hour!

Canaan replied, "Well, I haven't shown up for more than an hour......

Randall said urgently: "Canaan, we are now less than fifteen miles away from the train station, we must not fall short, I suggest sending scouts again to reconnoiter the surrounding enemy situation!" ”

Canaan smiled and replied, "Randall, don't be suspicious, even if there are Confederate rangers?" We have 3,000 troops, advanced weapons, and sufficient ammunition, even if the enemy is really coming, then we can't help us, as long as we resist the attack of the cavalry, our reinforcements will turn around, what are you afraid of? Now we are at the train station, as long as we get to the Fairfax train station, the rest will not be taken care of, so cheer up the brethren and be careful! (To be continued.) )