readx;?in the night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info***.. On the Missouri River, where the water rises sharply in the summer. Dozens of boats and hundreds of figures were busy. Carloads of wooden beams were brought over. The boats were fixed and nailed together. Military pontoon bridges stretched desperately from the west bank of the Missouri River to the east bank in the night. The construction unit is the engineer regiment directly under the headquarters of the Second Group Army of the Donghua Army, and there is also an infantry regiment. They were part of the vanguard that had moved ahead of the main forces of the army group, and had been on the west bank of the Missouri River for more than ten days, and had been busy building fortifications, renovating roads, and reinforcing bridges for more than ten days. Everyone was tired and black and thin. And after the main forces of the army drove up one after another, they received an order to erect a pontoon bridge over the Missouri River! All of them were filled with spirit again! This should mean hitting the land of the American Empire! These units are the backbone of the Donghua Army, and they have not competed with the Army of the American Empire in the past. It's just that the previous battles were tentative, and there was no determination to tear his face to occupy a large area of the other party's land, but this time it was obviously different! Now is the time to end more than a decade of enmity with a general battle, and at the same time to forge a lasting peace for future generations! So after receiving the order to build the bridge, everyone was full of energy, and one by one the sappers were sweating there with shovels, hammers, and saws. They all wanted to finish the pontoon bridge before dawn. It seems that this is the only way for the main force of the Donghua Army to cross the Missouri River and launch a counteroffensive into the hinterland of the American Empire!

Also in this night, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Donghua Army had crossed the Missouri River in wooden boats under the leadership of their young division commander Bai Qili, and opened a cordon on the east bank of the Missouri River to delay the attack of the American Emperor**.

The cavalry of the Donghua Army took a small and lean path. There was no formation of cavalry battalions. That is, a cavalry company - a cavalry regiment - a cavalry division. Among them, the cavalry division is the largest cavalry establishment. There are only six of them. Of course, the establishment was also unified, with each division having three cavalry regiments and one cavalry artillery regiment under its jurisdiction. Each cavalry regiment had eight cavalry companies and a cavalry machine-gun company. Each cavalry company was a large strength of one hundred and twenty-six men, and in addition to being armed with a Type 187 cavalry rifle, there were three Type 187 water machine guns mounted on horse-drawn carriages. The cavalry machine gun company of the cavalry regiment is equipped with nine water-cooled machine guns also installed on the carriage, which is a killing weapon similar to the Maxine machine gun.

However, the cavalry is equipped with machine guns according to the infantry standard. At present, there is only Donghua, which is the experience gained from the previous encirclement and suppression of the Indians - because the cavalry is usually at the forefront of the battle, they often face the dangerous situation of being outnumbered, so they need more powerful firepower! So in addition to being equipped with a lot of automatic firepower like the army, Donghua's cavalry division also had an artillery regiment consisting of six cavalry batteries.

In addition, the officers and men of these six cavalry divisions of the Donghua Army are all elite soldiers who have served in the army for many years, and there are no mobilized soldiers. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is very strong!

And Bai Qili, who commanded the First Cavalry Division, was none other than Bai Siwen, a wealthy man in Donghua! His mother was a little-favored aunt and wife of Bai Siwen, and it was unlikely that she would inherit much in the future - although Bai Siwen was very rich. But there are more than a dozen sons! So Bai Siwen sent this son who didn't like it very much to study at the Donghua Army Military Academy, and let him go on the road of serving the country in the army. This Bai family. It is also vaguely a famous Donghua family with all-round development of politics, business and military.

Unlike those sappers who worked hard, Bai Qili knew more about the battle plan. Before setting out on the expedition, King Jujuan of Donghua personally summoned him at the former enemy headquarters in Lancaster. He also instructed him: "In this battle on the Missouri River, we will take the defensive." But passive defense is absolutely undesirable, so it is necessary to establish a bridgehead on the east bank of the Missouri River for sorties. The task of your unit is to delay the attack of the enemy's main forces and ensure the smooth establishment of the bridgehead. ”

The king must have wanted to use these bridgeheads as targets to attract American attacks - after all, the whole front was too long, and the army of a million was insufficient, and it would be too difficult to be well defended everywhere without a few bases to attract enemy fire. Short and stocky, with sun-tanned skin, Bai Qili rode on his beloved war horse "Black Whirlwind", and he was also thinking about the whole battle situation in his heart.

It was a joke to make a big attack on the territory of the American Empire, and King Juan would not have made such a mistake - Donghua and the American Empire knew each other well. Without an army of more than five million, there is no such thing as defeating the American Empire. And until the arrival of reinforcements from the Chinese brigade, the advantage was still on the side of the Americans. After all, it's 40 million against 18 million! So strategically it is definitely defensive, to consume the enemy's living forces in defense and create favorable conditions for future counterattacks. However, in terms of tactics, we must not blindly defend to the core, and we must combine offense and defense in defense, otherwise the initiative is in the hands of the US military, and it is difficult to defend it on such a terrain as the Great Plains of North America.

At this time, a few crisp gunshots suddenly came to mind in the distance, this was the Type 187 cavalry rifle of the Donghua Army cavalry firing! Then there was the dull sound of the U.S. Army's Springfield-style rifles. Then there was a resounding of you and me, and occasionally the sound of machine guns and grenades exploding. Bai Qili straightened his waist on the horse, revealing a vicious face, and scolded a foul word: "Fucking fight!" It's the left front...... What is it? ”

A staff officer beside him carefully distinguished it, and said affirmatively: "It's the eighth company of the third cavalry regiment, and even machine guns and grenades are used...... They must have met the Yankees' brigade! Bai Qili looked back left and right, and said loudly: "Blow the trumpet!" The 2nd and 3rd companies of the 1st Cavalry Regiment supported from the left, and the 4th and 5th companies supported from the right! The artillery regiment unfolds to establish firing positions! The division headquarters column began to establish a command post for the former enemy, and the guard company followed me! ”

Fighting with the 8th Company of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment to which the 1st Cavalry Division belonged was the vanguard search force of the US Army. The Donghua Army suddenly turned its guns and changed from attacking Kansas City to crossing the Missouri River eastward, which really disrupted William. Admiral Sherman's plan. The information was quickly sent to the rare American general in the First North American War. made the current commander-in-chief of the US Army stunned for a long time. Could it be that the Chinese have discovered their plans? But...... They seem to have taken the initiative to attack and began to force their way across the Missouri River! What is this trying to do? Do you want to use feints to buy time for the establishment of a defense line on the Missouri River? Or did they think that there were not many American troops east of the Missouri River and wanted to seek a decisive battle?

The admiral's thoughts turned a few times, and finally he didn't bother to ponder Jujuan's intentions. Now that the Donghua Army has come over, can the US army still fight? Hit it! Didn't Prime Minister Bush and himself mobilize millions of troops east of the Missouri River just to fight Donghua? Now, what's wrong with them being willing to send it to their door! The advantage now is, after all, on their side. The American Empire has mobilized 1.5 million troops, the Confederate States of America has 600,000 men ready to fight, and Canada has 100,000 British troops. That's a huge army of 00,000 people! And Donghuatian has an army of 1.5 million, and he has the advantage of 700,000 people! As long as Donghua is inflicted on the Great Plains of North America, and then the battle line is pushed to the Rocky Mountains, it will be able to resist the Chinese attack!

It didn't take him long to make a decision, and the millions of lurking armies were all dispatched, and the troops rushed towards the Missouri River like a tide in five directions, trying to catch the Donghua army by surprise when they crossed the river. And then a big counterattack to the past.

And now the exchange of fire with the 1st Cavalry Division of the Donghua Army is the forefront of this tide! Two armies with a strength of more than one million are about to start a fierce collision! (To be continued.) )