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Nature's work has made the White Horse Valley the only major route on the east coast of North America through the Appalachian Mountains into the interior of the Great Lakes. It has long been the focus of contention between the historical North American colonists and the Iroquois Indian Alliance.

Since the failure of the peace agreement of the First Iroquois War a few years ago, both the United States and the Iroquois Alliance have begun to actively want to seize control of the White Horse Valley, and the establishment of Jiangkou Town is an important step in the military strategy of the United States and the United States.

Since a few years ago, the climate in North America has gradually deteriorated, and the tribes within the Iroquois Alliance have had a serious existential crisis, not only fighting against the Huron League and the Eries in the west for many years, but also facing the erosion of the Huamei. Unlike the gradual and aggressive encroachment of the United States, the Iroquois Alliance, which was a bit of a two-sided enemy, was unable to really resist the westward expansion of the United States, and by the end of 1630, the Iroquois had basically abandoned the entire land south of the White Horse Valley and east of the Yuntai Mountains.

In the past two years, the Abnaki people north of the White Horse River have broken away from the Iroquois and thrown into the arms of the Gorgeous, and have begun to enjoy the enviable goods. Catalyzed by the constant pressure of threats and envy and hatred, the Iroquois finally couldn't help but turn their attention back to the east, and decided to take advantage of the harsh winter when the opponent's defenses were the most lax, to launch an attack on Eguchi. Destroying this nasty town stuck around your neck is the next best thing, and the key is to take the mouth-watering winter food and clothing.

This time, they are no longer the objects of brutal abuse by the Huamei people many years ago, but have been supported by the "white northerners" for a year in the guò trade. With that precious and powerful musket, the Iroquois had been greatly tempered in the war against the Huron League and the Eries.

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At the same time that Yu Shan and the others were ambushed in the woods, in fact, more Iroquois Indians had already surrounded the town of Jiangkou at the mouth of the valley of the White Horse Valley (Mohok Valley).

Thousands of Iroquois Indians starved with their chests pressed to their backs. The long journey flanked the mountain range on the north bank of the White Horse Valley to the vicinity of Eguchi Town, and destroyed the Abnaki village at the Indian Trading Post on the north bank of Eguchi Town with lightning speed. After seizing a large amount of food supplies, the people who were spurred on by the victory crossed the frozen White Horse River and surrounded the town of Eguchi. They burned and excavated a large number of farms outside the town, and even sent some troops into the forest section of the Bojiang Highway to lay an ambush.

Jiangkou Town, which was at the festival stall, was caught off guard, and it happened to be dying, and it happened that the town government's radio station had a little glitch recently, and it was impossible to contact other towns. Fortunately, this is the forefront of the country's northern strategy, and the town has built a defensive wall of mixed timber. A squadron of National Guard soldiers and hundreds of mobilized male townsmen relied on ramparts, fortress guns, and organ machine guns to block the attacks of nearly a thousand Iroquois Indian soldiers, even if the military quality was far inferior to that of the regular Wehrmacht. The defenders of Eguchi still killed more than 100 Iroquois in an hour.

On the other hand, the soldiers sent by Yu Shan to Jiangkou Town for help naturally ran in vain, but the soldiers who called the police to Porter City succeeded in bringing reinforcements from a cavalry company, and at the critical moment when the caravan's defensive line was breached, they once again staged a good show to turn the tide, and the remaining Iroquois soldiers could only retreat quietly under the cover of the forest.

Due to the unclear situation in Eguchi Town. The Army Cavalry Company and a squadron of National Guard units that arrived later halted their headway north, only to position themselves on the Po River Road, and waited for more reinforcements to arrive. After dawn, the minor injury on Yu Shan's leg was no longer painful. It was only then that the casualties of the caravan and troops were clearly seen.

A third of the wagons crossing the forest road were lost, more than 20 caravan staff and coachmen were killed or wounded, and the National Guard soldiers in charge of the escort were seven killed and nine wounded. And the corpses of the Iroquois recovered from the forests on either side. There are also as many as 40 bodies.

It wasn't until the afternoon of January 4 that the snow finally stopped. The Chinese and American reinforcements assembled on the Bojiang road also reached the size of a battalion, and then, under the leadership of the cavalry company, a large force went to relieve the town of Jiangkou.

The flanking attack inside and outside the town was simple but effective, and the Iroquois, exhausted for a day and a night without accomplishments, finally broke north. Mortars, organ guns, and fortress guns inflicted staggering casualties on the retreating Iroquois on the ice more than 200 meters across the Cheval River, with more than 200 bodies recovered from the ice and ice caves after the battle, and discarded clothing and food spilled all over the Chevalus River ice, including more than 100 Type 21B flintlock rifles, apparently exported to the French.

Although this weapon was far from a substantial threat to the American mainland, as in history, the French became more and more aware of the hidden crisis in Quebec, and began to take advantage of trade and the convenience of the St. Lawrence River waterway to penetrate deep into the Great Lakes region of the North American heartland, and to focus on cultivating and supporting the pro-French Iroquois Indian Alliance.

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The cold and snowy weather in the north lasted until late January, but the atmosphere near the Spring Festival was ruined by the war from the north.

For more than half a month, the US Congress and the government in China have been fiercely arguing over how to deal with this matter. Some parliamentarians advocated restraint, after all, the country is not in a hurry to expand inland, and blindly devoting its limited troops and national strength to the endless war with the Indians, which obviously has a negative impact on the stability of the country.

Others held the opposite view, because the threat of the Iroquois alliance could no longer be solved by the exercise of restraint on a one-sided basis, and it would inevitably affect the layout of the struggle between the French in China and northern Quebec for regional Indian tribal influence.

Geographically, the White Horse Valley was the best frontier for the United States to defend against the Iroquois Alliance, but the resumption of the war had disrupted the resource development plans of the north and south of the White Horse Valley, and caused heavy losses to the Abunaki, who had only recently annexed the northern region. The total number of Abnaki people in North America during this period was only about 2,000, and this time the population loss of the trading post on the north bank of Jiangkou Town alone exceeded 200.

In particular, in the besieged town of Eguchi, in the half month after the Iroquois retreated, as many as a quarter of the families asked to move back to Porter. If the state does not militarily give the citizens of the northern towns a reassurance. Then the speed and efficiency of operation and development in the north will inevitably be affected.

The best way to do this is to launch a large-scale in-depth battle in the White Horse Valley, continue to push the Iroquois League westward, and establish a more cutting-edge military defense base in the valley to completely protect the vast territory at the eastern exit of the White Horse Valley and the eastern part of the Yuntai Mountains.

On the morning of January 31, Chinese New Year's Eve, at the last monthly session of Congress, both houses of Congress passed a bill on the Iroquois Indian Union and authorized the Cabinet to fully implement military operations in the North after the beginning of spring.

The media mouthpiece was also held back for a long time, and suddenly the newspapers and radio were filled with all kinds of tear-jerking interviews about the attack on Eguchi. Calls for the army to punish the Iroquois Indians grew louder.

All of a sudden, mobilization orders sent from the Ministry of National Defense to military bases in various localities came out like snowflakes, and this time the National Defense Force, the National Civilian Guard, and the Foreign Legion all received the task of operational assembly. According to the plan of the Ministry of Defense and the Army Command, this time the unprecedented force will be used to directly drive the Iroquois forces in the White Horse Valley back to the west.

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The early spring of this year seems to have picked up particularly early. Just entering March, the cold and snowy days in Porter City, which had a harsh winter climate, have ended, the temperature has risen above freezing, and the earth has returned to green.

Troops drawn from various parts of the country have been assembled in Jiangkou Town, and the military supplies that have arrived and stored are piled up in almost every corner of the National Guard camp in Jiangkou Town. Colonel He Yu, chief of staff of the army, who had experience in operations in the north, personally took charge of Jiangkou Town and established a general operational headquarters.

The IDF assembled four Army Light Battalions, including the 1st, 3rd and 4th Battalions. The 1st Cavalry Battalion, with a total strength of more than 1,450 people, is more than half of the total strength of the Wehrmacht.

The Foreign Legion temporarily ended its "annual hunting" campaign on Martinique, south of Butterfly Island, and 450 officers and men of the 1st Battalion were transported to the mainland town of Jiangkou. Prepare to participate in high-dimensional regional operations for the first time.

The National Guard Units, which were drawn from the capital cities of Manchu, Jersey Town, West Point, Silver Valley, Elm Town, and Porter City, also formed two brigades (battalions) with a total strength of more than 800 troops.

And the army's field artillery units, which have been formed for many years, are still told to "stand by for defense." Let the acting commander be silent, and Captain almost asked for the disbandment of the artillery battalion.

In addition, Indian tribal villages such as the Drawa, Pecots, Mohicans, Abnakis, and Nanagansees who were attached to the middle reaches of the Song River were mobilized. A number of Indian mercenary units were formed, with a total strength of more than 600 troops.

All the troops involved in the battle combined exceeded 3,300 and were organized into two light infantry brigades.

The 1st Brigade consisted of three infantry battalions of the National Defense Army, with a number of Indian mercenaries serving as logistics and transport teams, with Lieutenant Colonel Deng Jian as the brigade commander and Major Xu Hongyun as the brigade chief of staff.

The 2nd Brigade consisted of the 1st Battalion of the Foreign Legion and 2 National Guard Brigades, also accompanied by a number of Indian mercenaries as logistics transport teams, with Lieutenant Colonel Yu Nanzhe as the brigade commander and Major Scott as the brigade chief of staff.

The only cavalry battalion in the Wehrmacht, although one of the companies was absent from Fuhe Town, and the current strength that can be assembled is less than 300, but as a direct unit of the general headquarters, the battalion commander is still the bullish Major Tang Wei.

At the same time, several small river steamboats, which were temporarily requisitioned and converted by the Navy, were also equipped with organ machine guns, which were prepared to be used as water weapons along the White Horse River to cooperate with the advance of ground forces.

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A small farm on the southern outskirts of Eguchi, which had been destroyed in an Iroquois attack a few months earlier, is now one of several camps for the Second Brigade's combat units.

Large areas of military tents lay out on farms and fields, heavy supplies brought in from river wharves or Jiangbo Highway continue to expand the stacked area, and groups of officers and soldiers wearing the insignia of the Foreign Legion and the National Guard are moving around, almost all of them looking forward to the impending thunderous attack.

Due to the shortage of regular officers in the National Guard Force, Lieutenant Qiao Shi was able to serve as the acting commander of the 1st National Guard Brigade this time. However, it was the first time for Qiao Yan to be in charge of such a large combat force, and he was still a little lacking in self-confidence, and he was discussing with several sergeant majors who were temporarily transferred to the brigade as junior commanders, and the meeting was also attended by the commander of the second brigade, Lieutenant Colonel You Nanzhe, and the chief of staff, Major Scott.

Even Yu Shan was eligible to attend this military meeting, as he was the first junior commander since the Northern Campaign to have experience with the Indians' mass musket units.

Makarov, who also joined the 1st Brigade with a National Guard unit from West Point. and participated in the meeting as a sergeant major of the brigade. Under the "reunion of old friends", Makarov patted Yu Shan's shoulder vigorously as always, expressing deep doubts that the other party did not escape.

“…… But don't you think, sir, that a flock of rookies was able to repel the Indians' musket attack that night, and that in itself a credit? Yu Shan pitifully endured Makarov's affectionate slapping, with a look of grievance, "In order to take care of those rookies who don't know anything, my calves are injured." ”

"Aha, I think you should have called my name and Lieutenant Qiao Xi at that time. And not your wife. Makarov, who was very familiar with Yu Shan's personality and work habits, laughed more ugly than crying at this time, and although his mouth was still sarcastic, there was a hint of approval hidden in his eyes, "You know what." My wife is pregnant, and maybe I need a unique trophy to make a birth gift for my baby! I hope this loot was given to me by some idiot because it represents luck! ”

"Okay...... At least prove that I'm really lucky......" Yu Shan understood this kind of good-natured taunt, and could only pout in response, because he usually had little chance of winning with Makarov.

“…… The 2nd Brigade was to advance from the southern bank of the valley, south of the steep slopes of the difficult to march. The widest part of the river bank is only more than 1,000 meters, so there is not much room for troops. If the Iroquois are armed with more muskets than a certain size, we may have to suffer a lot of losses. ”

Meeting in the central area, Major Scott, who for the first time served as an operational staff officer. He was pointing to the half-finger-thick march route on the south bank of the river valley on the map, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"Lieutenant Qiao Yan, how many Iroquois attacked the caravan at that time?" Lieutenant Colonel Yu Nanzhe understood what Scott meant, and was told that the Department of Defense had assigned the Second Brigade to the south bank of the valley, where it was easier to encounter the Iroquois forces. Presumably, it is also a desire for the Foreign Legion and the National Guard to take the lead.

"According to Sergeant Yushan's post-war report, there should be no less than 200 people. Less than 10 flintlock pistols were left at the scene. But judging from the firepower of the engagement, there are probably at least 50 of them. That is to say, in their carefully prepared attack, the proportion of flintlock pistols was about a quarter" Qiao Yan groaned for a moment and came to his own conclusion.

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in the past year, about 1,000 flintlock pistols have been sold to Quebec, and it is unlikely that the French will send a large number of flintlock pistols purchased in the European theater to Quebec. So I estimate that there will be no more than 500 flintlock pistols that can be sold to the Iroquois, after all, the French themselves have their own needs for defense. You Nanzhe nodded slightly, his expression was quite optimistic, "In the battle of Jiangkou Town, more than 100 flintlock muskets were captured at the scene, so we can assume that the Iroquois still have a total of about 400 firepower. And it's unlikely that all of them will be on our front, as they will also have to face the threat of the Huron League and the Eries. ”

"Even if it's 200, if they know how to use it...... Then we need to be more cautious, such as deploying covering forces on the left flank and keeping the river on guard by naval patrol boats. Seeing that the commander was distracting everyone with an optimistic attitude, Scott could only nod his head and revise the plan for the march at the same time.

The meeting was over, and when he walked out of the tent of the headquarters, Yu Shan happened to loosen his shoelaces, and was about to bend over, when he ran into Qiao Yan, who had not spoken a few words for several months.

"Is the injury better?" Qiao Yan was stunned for a moment, but still greeted lightly. Although the two are still working in the same orchard fortress, in terms of their relationship, after a certain night, they are almost like strangers.

"Rubbed some flesh, trifle." Yu Shan lowered his head slightly, like a little daughter-in-law, he didn't know where to put his two hands, and in the past, he should be on Qiao Yan's shoulders at this time.

"I have already dealt with the aftermath of Da Niu and sent a pension to his wife. It's just a pity that he hasn't married yet, and he hasn't left flesh and blood. Qiao Yan took out a cigarette, handed one to Yu Shan, and then walked in front sullenly.

"Isn't that what a soldier eats?" Yu Shan sneered, his eyes still looking at the entrance of the river valley that opened between the mountains and mountains in the northwest, "Actually, I should have let Da Niu hide behind at that time." ”

"He and the others are not children. Neither are you. No one can enjoy an exception in that situation, you've done good enough, really. Qiao Yan finally showed a smile, stretched out his hand and pressed lightly on Yu Shan's shoulder, "Hurry up and have a child with Ximei, I'm waiting to send a red envelope!" ”

"Hehe, I definitely won't be missing your drink!"

The rift between the companions seemed to be quietly smoothed before another big battle came, and Yu Shan also cracked his mouth and smiled, and the shadow that had been hidden in his heart for many months finally dispersed.

"Oh. It just made me 'overjoyed'! Good news, we are going to march from the mountains on the flanks and cover for the main forces! Yu Shan, your squadron is in charge of the outpost! Makarov came from behind, again as a sergeant major of the brigade. Combat missions were arranged "in advance" for Yu Shan.

"It's not fair! I have a wound on my leg! When Yu Shan heard this, his face turned green again, and he was sure that as long as Makarov was in the army for one day, he would not let himself have a good life.

"I see you've walked at least 12 steps awkward! And the action is beautiful! Makarov raised his voice, and deliberately showed a serious expression towards Joe, "Mr. Lieutenant, the commander of the brigade, this is what you mean!" ”

"On forward operations. Sergeant Major Makarov has more say than I do. Qiao Yan also learned to shrug his shoulders, and the smile on his face was even worse, "I forgot to tell you just now that the general headquarters has already set the route of the march." We need someone with a high level of combat quality to lead at the forefront. ”

"Well, the reason is glorious! Every time he used me as a vanguard, from private to corporal to sergeant. Then there was the sergeant, and I knew that no matter how I got promoted. It's all the life of the leader! ”

Yu Shan spat hard, his voice was quite loud, and his face was dissatisfied, and even Scott, who happened to pass by, laughed.

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On 5 March, the two armies entered the valley along the north and south banks of the White Horse River. The 1st Brigade spread out along the mountains on the north bank and marched in several columns; The 2nd Brigade was formed in two columns, with the main force advancing along the narrow bank of the river on the south bank, and a National Guard brigade deploying flank cover on the mountains on the south bank; On the river, three navy temporarily converted inland river patrol boats used as water cover forces to carry out reconnaissance of the river valley at the forefront.

The cavalry battalion directly under the general headquarters advanced slowly on the north bank of the river valley until the two flanks achieved substantial results, and then they would drive straight to the end of the operation, an open and flat woodland on the north bank of the river valley nearly 40 kilometers away from Jiangkou Town, which would later be the town of Amsterdam. Early reconnaissance had uncovered an Iroquois settlement there, once a village abandoned by the Abnaki.

Two days later, the vanguard of the 1st Brigade on the north bank of the valley was first confronted by a group of fleeing Abnaki, who were being pursued by a nearby wave of Iroquois hunting parties. The 1st Battalion of the Chinese Army, which spread out in the mountains, outflanked it from both flanks, and instantly annihilated the Iroquois warrior of less than 100 men, capturing more than half of the prisoners, thus opening the prelude to the battle.

In the early morning of March 7, the Navy covered the patrol boat and stopped another group of Iroquois on the north bank of the river, and under the crossfire of several organ machine guns, almost none of the dozens of Iroquois who had come out to fish escaped the range of the machine guns. Then the patrol boat simply accelerated and drove directly to the vicinity of the future town of Amsterdam.

However, at this time, the enemy village stronghold was blocked and protected by a large area of dense wood, and there were not many people to watch, and the patrol boat could only harass and shoot at the Iroquois military stronghold in the woods with stones and wood, and after shooting several Iroquois soldiers, they continued to swim upstream to divert the attention of the nearby Iroquois.

On the afternoon of 8 March, the 2nd South Bank Brigade finally advanced to an open valley about half way from its final destination, where an unnamed river flowing out of the valley on the south bank joined the White Horse River.

The river was only more than 20 meters above the surface, and the water was less than waist-deep, braving the biting waters of early spring, an infantry platoon of the Foreign Legion, which served as an outpost reconnaissance, began to cross the river. But when a dozen officers and men were halfway through the river, a large number of Iroquois warriors sprang up from the bushes on the opposite bank and the woods on the northern hillside, and almost in a matter of seconds, they were raining spears down, followed by the roar of a row of flintlock muskets.

The largest casualty in a single battle since the formation of the Foreign Legion occurred in this way, nearly 10 officers and men fell into the river in an instant, and a second lieutenant, who was about to organize the troops crossing the river to disperse and return fire, was pierced in the chest by several throwing spears on the spot.

The blood spread at an alarming speed on the surface of the river, and the corpses of officers and soldiers, with spears or flintlock pistols blasting out of a bloody hole, collided with each other and flipped in the direction of the White Horse River. The surviving outposts retreated and opened fire blindly at the opposite bank with their guns raised. However, due to the difficulty of movement in the river, this kind of shooting is basically aimlessly scaring people.

By the time the officers and men had withdrawn to the riverbank, the large forces in the rear had arrived, but the Iroquois on the other side had quietly disappeared into the woods on the hillside.

The organ machine guns pulled to the bank of the river fired retaliatory fire for ten minutes, and the mortars stretched from 200 to 1,500 meters, and no matter what was hit, more than 100 shells took care of the large area of bush on the other side of the river.

The Foreign Legion, which had been severely wounded and wounded, once again crossed the river, and was ridden with bayonets by the officers and men who were in the shadows, eager to find a hidden barbarian from every corner and kill them as quickly as possible.

Gunfire came from the river bank on the right. Naturally, it also alarmed the three squadrons of the National Guard that were marching in the valley of the left flank. The outpost squadron led by Yu Shan immediately deployed its forces and made a detour in the general direction of the riverbank, while the squadron commanded by Makarov and the squadron directly under Qiao Yan's brigade also accelerated the pace of the march. to cover the rear and flanks of the mountain.

"Get on the bayonet! Grenade ready! Yu Shan ran in the middle of the team, as if he had some premonition, and began to beckon his subordinates to get ready.

The pristine mountainous terrain is undulating and wooded, and although it has also undergone some low-intensity mountain field training, the National Guard is only a garrison of the town in peacetime, and many people are not able to adapt to such rapid combat orders in the mountains. A number of stragglers had not yet loaded their bayonets. I heard the explosion of a grenade in front of me.

Yu Shan decisively accelerated reinforcements, and after crossing two shallow streams less than 10 meters, he happened to collide in a forest with hundreds of Iroquois warriors who had been lurking on the south bank of the river valley, ambushing the Foreign Legion once, and stealthily evacuating.

Bayonet-wielding National Guard soldiers crashed into the Iroquois crowd, catching the Iroquois off guard, who had only picked up a bargain half an hour earlier. The grenade exploded quickly and knocked the Iroquois skirmishers, who were already in an undefensive formation. Then again suffered a close assault with bayonets.

The pace of the battle was so fast that probably no National Guard soldier would have thought that their first actual combat would be so smooth. By the time the back of the last Iroquois fled disappeared into the depths of the forest, the battlefield in the forest had laid down more than 50 Iroquois corpses in a bloody blur, and Yu Shan's squadron. Only a few people were slightly injured.

"Hey, hey, it's fun!" Kick over the corpse of an Iroquois. Seeing at least two bloody bayonet wounds in the chest, Yu Shan knew that he had successfully given the Iroquois an interception this time.

A ray of sunlight pierced through the trees on the corpse, and the neck of the corpse shimmered with a blinding light. Yu Shan was surprised, so he squatted down, and when he saw it clearly, he was overjoyed. A small piece of natural dog's head gold, almost completely pure, was used as a necklace ornament by this Iroquois warrior during his lifetime!

"Haha, let's take a closer look at these corpses, there's gold!" Yu Shan began to get carried away, almost dancing and shouting at the nearby National Guard soldiers.

This was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and hundreds of officers and soldiers all rushed to the corpse, but most of them were disappointed, and a small number of people grabbed valuable things such as gems on the corpse like Yu Shan, and even some people felt that the fur on the corpse was of good quality and ripped it off.

At this time, in the valley about a few hundred meters behind the right, there was a dense gunshot, and Yu Shan's triumphant dissipation quickly as if he had poured a bucket of cold water on his head.

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In order to cover the battle of the foreign legion in ambush on the bank of the river, Makarov's troops ran the wrong line in the mountain forest, and burrowed into a narrow valley with steep slopes more than 100 meters high on one side and primeval forest without the light of day on the other.

It was clear that the Iroquois who were planning to ambush the army on the south bank of Huamei in this area were far more than the hundreds of people who had been routed by Yushan before. Now, along the route of Makarov's troops, in the dense forest valley, more Iroquois ambushes have been exposed, ready to meet the main force of the Iroquois ambush who had previously successfully attacked the Chinese Foreign Legion on the riverbank. The purpose of these main forces was to prepare to ambush the Chinese troops who were trying to pursue the ambush again, but they accidentally ran into a squadron led by Makarov.

The Iroquois warriors they met on the narrow road were so numerous that Marklov didn't even know how many, and they were clearly armed with far more than two hundred flintlock muskets. It seems that the number of Chinese troops is much smaller than his own, and the exposed Iroquois have no intention of withdrawing. Instead, they swarmed up, intending to drown their opponents directly.

The bloody hot weapon fire took place almost at a close range of tens of meters, and both sides were bloody and fleshy, and the mortar crew, which could barely keep up with the rapid march, was directly wrapped in dumplings by the Iroquois who rushed out, and the organ machine gun crew, which belonged to the heavy equipment, fell far away in the large rear woods thousands of kilometers away.

"Find a defense on the spot and cover the retreat!"

Makarov's eyes were red, and he had fought for so many years, except for a certain severance on Butterfly Island. It was the first time that they had encountered such a crazy and bloody close-range strangulation, and the squad in front had suffered half of the casualties in less than a minute.

Several rows of grenades flew out, and the Iroquois swarming in the mountains and valleys let out screams, and the rising smoke blocked the crowd after dropping the corpses of more than 10 officers and soldiers. Makarov and others finally opened a distance of more than 100 meters from the opponent, and then nearly 100 officers and soldiers formed a defensive line on the spot.

Under the dense volley of guns, the Iroquois charge was finally stopped, but the opponent's chaotic but dense flintlock muskets continued to fire, so that Makarov and the others did not dare to raise their heads too much.

The Iroquois on the opposite side shouted and the crowd ran, and Makarov was surprised to find that he was not coming at him, but squirming towards the east.

"Haha. It's Yu Shan's idiot who has come around! Makarov quickly understood the change in the battle situation, and suddenly perked up, "The defense line is concentrated!" Get on the bayonet and keep shooting! ”

Continuous, chaotic battles with joy and sorrow. It was a great time to fight in the valley woodland on the south bank of the valley of the White Horse River. The Iroquois were numerous and not very poor in firepower, but they were blocked by the Chinese army from two directions at the waist of a mountain valley. The Chinese and American armies were well-armed, but they marched into battle in a hurry. The troops were scattered and arrived one after another like refueling. Soon after. Another squadron led by Qiao Yan also rushed to the vicinity of the battlefield and began to spread out the formation in an orderly manner, and even finally found a mortar group with a slightly open firing range and began to shoot.

Shells explode, grenades fly sideways, bullets shuttle. In order to maintain its superiority, the Chinese and US civilian police units, which had already formed a situation of encirclement, did not rashly close the distance, but constantly suppressed the opponent with powerful firepower from a distance of 100 meters. The hundreds of Iroquois who did not dare to flee into the open area of the valley could only resist to the death with more than 200 flintlock pistols obtained from the Europeans.

As the exchange of fire dragged on, the Iroquois firepower began to decline dramatically, and the Chinese and American organs' organ machine guns finally reached the front of the firefight. If mortars still have a problem with accuracy and have limited power in the dense forest, then the Iroquois, who had been fortunate enough to participate in the siege of the Chinese American army in the Northern Campaign many years ago, heard this kind of dense gunfire that was distracting again, and only held out for less than two minutes before starting to flee.

On the small plain on the south bank of the river valley, which was only a kilometer or two away from the battlefield in the valley, the main force of the 2nd Brigade of the South Road, which was dealing with the casualties of crossing the river, was stunned by the fierce fighting gunfire coming from the left flank. However, the terrain here is very complicated, and it is difficult to cross the mountains on the south side of the river valley to reinforce in a short time, which makes You Nanzhe and Scott, who are bent on participating in the war reinforcements, very anxious.

It was Scott who took the opportunity to order the Foreign Legion to abandon all military backpacks, organ guns, and mortars, and organized more than 100 veterans who had experience in mountain warfare in the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Martinique to advance along the gentle slopes of the mountains in the northwest, preparing to make a detour from the north and outflank the Iroquois who were fighting in the south.

Scott's choice proved to be extremely correct, because the 1st Brigade of the National Guard, which was fighting in the valley at this time, could not pursue the enemy even if the opponent fled, and as long as the Iroquois could withstand the casualties of a section of the valley open, they could escape from the north.

An hour later, Scott's forces finally got ahead of the fleeing Iroquois, took up a hill, and then condescendingly choked the exit of the Iroquois from the mountain. Desperate, the Iroquois dropped whatever they could and fled like headless flies into the crevices of the nearby forest, while a few burst into the charge with spears in their spears like warriors of the dead.

A siege that was completely unanticipated by multiple battle plans ended just before dusk, with more than 600 Iroquois warriors killed or captured and more than 200 flintlock muskets captured in an encounter on the south bank of the Whitehorse Valley. Including the losses in the first ambush battle, the officers and men of the Second Brigade of the Chinese and US Army also suffered more than 40 casualties.

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At dusk, He Yu, the chief of staff of the army, who received the news that the Second Brigade of the Southern Front had won a heavy victory, decisively issued an order to Tang Wei to advance at this time.

The cavalry battalion, which was marching leisurely along the north bank of the valley, began to speed up like a wolf smelling a fishy smell, and rushed to its destination before nightfall, the small plain of the valley of the town of Amsterdam.

It is said that the terrain is flat, but at this time it is a slightly raised hill and a lush jungle, but this does not stop the officers and men of the cavalry battalion who have been trained for many years. A handful of skilled horsemen were still able to ride through the woods into the Iroquois dens, while dismounted cavalry opened their way with their regents and charged on foot from multiple directions towards the rudimentary Iroquois villages.

The Iroquois villages, where most of the young and strong were out to fight, had only a few hundred old and weak women and children at this time, and after being attacked by Huamei river patrol boats during the day, they were already preparing to evacuate, and at this time they had no defense at all, and could only watch hundreds of Chinese Army officers and soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition surround them.

Perhaps it was because they learned of today's casualties, or perhaps they did not intend to leave any impression on these Iroquois who had already formed a mortal enmity. He Yu directly issued the same order as the Caribbean operation: "Clear all Iroquois villages in the target area." ”

He Yu's order to purge the operation obviously carried a taste of revenge. Subsequently, the two main forces of the north and south carried out follow-up invasions, and several small Iroquois villages along the banks of the valley were bloodbathed.

In addition to the valuable young captives that needed to be retained, there were many brutal incidents that people were afraid to record after entering the war, especially the Foreign Legion, which felt wronged.

(To be continued)