While Guo Ye led his army back to the city, Sturridge led the remnants of the defeated army to flee all the way to the south of Richmond, where he happened to encounter the cavalry division that was hurrying to Richmond.

Elvis, the commander of the cavalry division, was marching quickly, and a cavalry in front of him was galloping quickly.

"General Elvis, a large number of Confederate troops have been found in front, and it is none other than General Sturridge at the head, as if his two divisions have been routed by the Union Army......"

Elvis was shocked, and hurriedly urged his horse forward, but Sturridge led the strength of two divisions, combined, more than 30,000 people! In such a battle, let the federal army be defeated? How can it be? At the beginning, Commander Robert's order to the three divisions was to go hand in hand and besiege Richmond in total, could it be that Sturridge disobeyed the military order and took the lead in attacking Richmond?

However, even if he launched an attack on Richmond, how could his two divisions, with a large number of heavy weapons, be defeated so quickly? In that case, Sturridge is too much of a rice bucket!

Sure enough!

Elvis urged his horse forward and came to the front of the Southern Army, but no, it was the Southern Army!

"I'm Elvis, commander of the Cavalry Division, are you General Sturridge's subordinates?"

When the remnants of the defeated Southern Army heard this, it was as if they had met their relatives, and the people in front of them had completely lost their strength, and they sat on the ground one after another, and they didn't even have the strength to get up, only a few soldiers with good physical fitness were still able to stand.

"General Elvis, we are General Sturridge's subordinates, in the town of Gran, fifty or sixty miles to the northwest, we met the Federation army head-on, and started a fierce battle, as a result, the Union army came prepared, defeated our two divisions, and just retreated here......"

"What!"

Elvis was shocked, although he had a certain psychological preparation, but he didn't expect to lose so badly, the strength of the two divisions, that is more than 30,000 people, Sturridge is also a famous general in the Southern Army, and he was beaten by others to the point that only these thousands of people remained, and even so these thousands of people were already embarrassed to the extreme, and even threw away their weapons!

"General Sturridge, take me to General Sturridge immediately!"

"Elvis, no, I'm here!"

Sturridge urged his horse to come from behind, and now Sturridge was overnight, as if he was more than ten years old, and he was haggard to the extreme, and this war was something Sturridge had never encountered! Even when he first joined the army, he had never been so embarrassed in the face of the extremely powerful British army!

"General Sturridge, what the hell is going on? You are leading two divisions, and even if the Union army in Richmond comes out, it is impossible to defeat you in a day or two, right? When did the Union Army become so strong? How is this possible? ”

Sturridge smiled astringently and replied: "Elvis, defeat, is failure, as a soldier, I can't make excuses for myself, this is the strongest federal army I have seen since the beginning of the war, not only is the combat strength strong, but also the command of their generals is far above me, every deployment is almost concentrated on our weakest link, their military attacks, all are aimed at our weakest place to attack, this battle, I am convinced of defeat......"

Elvis was shocked, but he knew that Sturridge was a proud general, not only with superb military literacy, but also with strong self-confidence, just one battle, he actually confessed! So how powerful are the other party's generals?

"I don't believe it! Sturridge, I absolutely do not believe that the Federation Army is so powerful! Able to crush two divisions of the Confederate army in a day or two! Unless they mobilize more than four or five divisions! ”

Elvis shouted.

Yes, Elvis, as a division commander, has participated in more than ten battles between the north and the south, and knows a lot about the military capabilities of the federal army, generally speaking, first, if you want to resist the attack of the southern army, the federal army must at least maintain more than one point three times the strength of the southern army, and if you want to defeat the southern army, you need to have at least one thousand six times the strength of the army, or even close to twice the strength, if you want to completely defeat the southern army, then you must have at least twice the strength of the army to be able to do it!

Richmond was only stationed with the strength of one corps, three divisions, and the newly formed Sixth Army, where could four divisions be mobilized to attack Sturridge? Even if you think about it with your ass, it's impossible! Richmond is at most out of the nest, that is, the strength of three divisions, and it is completely impossible to defeat Sturridge's elite division!

"In fact,"

Sturridge smiled bitterly and replied, "The federal army only used the same number of troops as us, that is, the artillery was slightly stronger than ours, and there were three cavalry battalions, and the others were almost indistinguishable, but even so, we were still beaten by others, and we were powerless to fight back......"

"Why, why? I don't believe it! Sturridge, you're America's most famous general! ”

Elvis shouted angrily.

Sturridge smiled bitterly: "Obviously, the generals of the other side have seized my weakness, we marched at full speed on the road, and the team was pulled out for ten miles, I thought that Richmond would never dare to go out of the city to meet the attack, so for the convenience of the march, all the cannons were towed, and the gun jackets were also put on, and our logistics team was far behind; Correspondingly, the federal army came prepared, the artillery was in a state of attack at any time, as soon as the two armies looked at each other, their artillery launched an all-out attack, at least sixty or seventy heavy guns, which caught us off guard, and our artillery from the beginning of the preparation to the launch, the whole delay was a quarter of an hour, that is, the time in this moment, the strength of the two divisions was destroyed by the full force of the opponent's artillery, and we were beaten in a mess, when my artillery just began to return fire, The opposing cavalry violently charged our flank from one side, rushed into our ranks in a short time, and cut our army into four sections, and the artillery was scattered by the cavalry in close quarters, and at the beginning of the war, we had already fallen into defeat, and were powerless to reverse the unfavorable situation......"

"Won't you get the army behind you to come to your aid? That's the strength of two divisions! The other side has not much more troops than you! ”

"Where is it so easy? The opposing cavalry lay in the middle of our army, pinning the three brigades behind them completely in place, and they couldn't attack at all, and the individual quality of this federal army was not even a little worse than our southern army! ”

(To be continued.) )