Outside the city, the current Confederate army is gloomy, although Princeton has woken up, but the excessive blood loss still makes him pale, and he can only lie on a stretcher, and the heart-rending pain is transmitted to his mind from time to time, making Princeton have a headache and hate it to the extreme, which Guo Ye is it, he has no faith in his words, he has obviously formed a tacit understanding, and he even gave himself a hard knife!

If it weren't for Guo Ye's temporary participation in the war, Richmond would have been in his pocket now, but now Richmond is out of reach, and it is impossible for him to capture Richmond, and whether he can safely return to the area controlled by the Confederate is between the two!

Reeves stood aside and whispered: "Princeton, we can't hesitate, we must retreat immediately, if the Union army attacks us again, I'm afraid with our current low morale, it will be difficult to parry......"

Princeton replied: "Yes, if it is only the federal government army, we still have room to turn the tables, and now that Guo Ye has inserted a pole horizontally, so that the balance of forces between the two sides has been completely changed, immediately send an order, the army will rest for two hours, and then use the 33rd Regiment as a cover, the whole army will immediately retreat in the southeast direction, in addition, immediately call for help from the 7th Division in Sriland, and ask their army to move closer to the northwest direction to accept our withdrawal!" ”

Princeton still uses the decision-making efficiency of the previous federal government army to measure the current government army, and he is doomed to bad luck, because the government army in the north lacks systematic training, and the generals also lack sufficient military war experience, so they are not making decisions. Or a conductor. Always hesitated. dragged mud and water, but now that Guo Ye is involved, Guo Ye's command art is the essence of modern warfare a hundred years later, where will it leave such an obvious respite for Princeton?

When Princeton's order was given, Gao Qi led his infantry battalion to the vicinity of the Colt Arms Company, and by the time Princeton's army began to rest and assemble, Gao Qi's infantry battalion had already rushed all the way to less than ten miles from Sriland, and the most important thing was that. Before Princeton's defeated army had finished assembling, the federal government forces had begun to besiege it!

The 13th Brigade and the 14th Brigade suffered huge losses in the previous offensive and defensive battles, and now they still have more than 1,000 troops, two brigades on the left and one on the right, like two pincers, the left and right flanks are firmly stared at, and the strength of the 15th Brigade is also more than 1,000 people, but the combat strength is slightly more complete, plus the cooperation of the two artillery battalions, as the main force of the attack!

Just before Princeton limited its withdrawal. The Fifteenth Brigade and two artillery battalions launched a ferocious offensive against the Confederate forces, especially the Union troops. Since the start of the war for more than a year now, the Union army has been defeated repeatedly, and has been beaten by the Confederate army, and this battle of Richmond has suffered heavy casualties.

Dozens of artillery guns fired the fire to the maximum, and the shells bombarded the positions of the Confederate troops unfatally, blowing up the positions of the Confederate forces beyond recognition, and the Confederate troops who had not had time to retreat were panicked under the bombardment of the artillery, scurrying in all directions, avoiding the invasion of artillery fire.

Princeton was so frightened and anxious that he almost fainted again, and shouted urgently: "Reeves, quick, immediately order a retreat, retreat!" ”

Reeves hurriedly commanded the 15th Regiment to cover behind, and the army began to flee to the right, but at this time, the 14th Brigade on the right also began to attack, and the 13th Brigade on the left also began to attack.

Behind, the federal government army and the training army were pressing forward step by step, constantly pursuing the troops of Reeves and Princeton from the rear, and the cannon roared like thunder, and every explosion of the shell would bring almost a piece of casualties.

After all, the speed of artillery movement is very slow, it is impossible to give the Confederate army a sustained blow, half an hour later, the Confederate army has begun to get out of the range of artillery, but although the artillery is out of reach, there are still cavalry, Luo Bicheng personally led the cavalry battalion, and once again launched a comprehensive cover from behind, in order to pursue the Confederate army to the greatest extent, now everyone in the cavalry has received double bullets!

Under the siege of the cavalry battalion and the three infantry brigades of the Union Army, the Confederate army was beaten miserably, and there were dead bodies and seriously wounded people with limited mobility everywhere along the way.

Along the way, the Confederate army was not easy to rush to, thirty miles away in Sri Lanka, after Sri Lanka, it was basically within the control of the Seventh Division, but I was afraid that it would not take too long for the Seventh Division to come and respond.

Reeves and Princeton are like seeing a drowning man see a life-saving straw, hope, hope for survival!

"Charge the whole army! Hurry up, as soon as we pass Sriland, our friendly forces will come to meet us! ”

Reeves roared with all his might, rushing towards the front, and the Confederate army behind was also ignited by Reeves's words with potential strength, and rushed towards the front frantically, run, as long as he can or leave Richmond, who cares who wins and who loses?

It's just that when they were just getting close to Sriland, and there was still some distance away, Reeves suddenly felt that something was wrong, and there seemed to be something wrong in front of him, although he couldn't say it, but it was definitely different from when he passed by some time ago!

Reeves was in confusion, and muskets suddenly stretched out from the improvised fortifications in front of him, aiming at the remnants of the Confederate army in front of him!

Bang bang bang!

Gao Qi, who was recuperated, led the infantry battalion, and launched a sharp attack on the Confederate army with the proposed offensive that had just been dug up, and in an instant, the gunfire rang like bursting beans, and one by one the Confederate soldiers fell!

Reeves's heart sank, broken, blocked! The Federation army has already laid an ambush here to block it!

Looking at the dense gunfire in front of him, Reeves was desperate, the current army was exhausted one by one, where was the strength to fight fiercely?

Princeton roared unwillingly: "Reeves, order, storm, at all costs, you must break through, if you can't break through, we will be dead!" (To be continued.) )