Compared with the unity of the attacker and the common hatred of the enemy, the officers and men of the expedition who were on the defensive side were much worse in terms of mental outlook at this time, although they were not slack, but they could indeed afford to take on a light enemy.

It's as if now, it's clear that the New Virginia Legion has arrived, and everyone knows their movements, but the whole army is still in a state of optimism, and many people are still talking and laughing, and they can't see the slightest nervousness.

There are naturally many reasons why the troops were so light on the enemy before the battle, but if fundamentally speaking, Li Yongji, the commander, is responsible for slackness in management, and the reason why Li Yongji is slackness in management is because he underestimates the enemy, and the reason why he underestimates the enemy is that he is too confident in his troops.

It should be said that, apart from the weapon factor, simply speaking of the soldier's words, the more than 20,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force composed of purely Chinese who stayed in Smithland were far better than the soldiers of the New Virginia Legion.

Purely in terms of height, the average height of these Chinese soldiers is much shorter than that of the soldiers of the New Virginia Legion, only 1.6 meters, which is lower than the average height standard of 1.67 meters of the New Virginia Legion.

The reason why this is so is because this group of Chinese soldiers is not like the royal honor guard in China, which is selected from all over the country based on height as a rigid standard, but is directly selected from the first batch of Hollywood immigrants, and this first batch of Hollywood immigrants has a complex population composition, on the whole, Guangdong Fujian people are the most, Henan people are second, and others are again, plus the overall nutritional level of this group of people in the past is not good, and the height is not as tall as the white people of the New Virginia Legion, which is normal.

It is said that they are tall and strong, although the soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force are not as tall as the white soldiers of the New Virginia Legion, and on the surface, hand-to-hand combat seems to be more disadvantaged, but if you add physical fitness and skills, then the situation may not be the case.

This unit is called the Dream Division. Li Yongji trained with modern methods for nearly a year, and during the training, he not only strengthened his nutrition, but also carried out physical training and cultural training at the same time, and not only was he proficient in the use of modern weapons, but also his technical and tactical level was quite excellent.

Although Li Yongji issued a lot of new weapons to this unit and constantly emphasized the supremacy of firepower, he still did not forget to fight bayonet training, so the troops' ability to fight bayonets and hand-to-hand combat ability was not bad.

It's just that Li Yongji let these people practice fighting bayonets, mainly to exercise their brave spirit. They were not expected to play with bayonets and fight hand-to-hand with people in actual combat.

The combat policy of the Dream Division is to use artillery bombardment at a distance, use machine guns at a distance, continue to approach with 56 charges, and then use 56 charges to strafe at any closer, plus grenades to wash the ground. If this is not enough, and you want to play hand-to-hand combat with people, then you will also give priority to using a Type 92 pistol per person, and you can't fire when the bullets are out or other factors. That is also a sapper shovel if you can use a sapper shovel, if you can't use a gun to smash it, and a bayonet is the last helpless means.

In the Dream Division's code of tactics, bayonets are of little use. It is a last resort, and in general hand-to-hand combat, it is necessary to use the Type 92 pistol as the main one, and for this purpose. Li Yongji even turned a blind eye to the soldiers' abuse of Type 92 as a toy to relieve boredom.

In short, compared with the Americans with old-fashioned tactics, the officers and men of the Dream Division have better skills and tactics. The body is stronger, the coordination ability is also stronger, and the training time is longer, more than a little bit stronger than the American soldier who has only been training for three months.

In addition to being well-trained, this Chinese unit also has rich experience in actual combat, not to mention the record of sweeping the entire California when the first war with the United States began, just since the landing in New Orleans, they have fought in the south and the north, whether it is playing field or attacking fortifications, they have never failed once, and every victory is more with less, and it is a big victory!

Even if they stayed for a lot of time later, such as the troops stayed in Memphis for many days, they did not fall behind in training, and they did not participate in Li Yongji's money-making operation, they still played closed training, and their technical and tactical level did not decrease in the slightest.

Such physically strong, skilled and tactical skills, and experienced soldiers, with sophisticated modern weapons, on the defensive side, with solid fortifications to rely on, plus those also trapped fleets as fixed batteries, these kinds of hard conditions add up, this dream division of more than 20,000 people looks extremely powerful, so that Li Yongji can't think of a little reason to fail.

It can be said that although this unit was brought out by Li Yongji, Li Yongji is not an officer who likes to lead by example; on the contrary, he rarely appears in front of officers and men, does not participate much in the gathering activities of officers and soldiers, and does not like to make speeches at every turn, and he is basically not in the barracks at ordinary times.

Of course, this is not that Li Yongji is lazy, but Li Yongji has too many things to do, after all, he is not only an officer, he is also the emperor of China, he must care about the domestic situation, and at the same time worry about the logistics of the troops, and he also has to find ways to make more money, so as not to break the capital chain.

With so many things on his body, Li Yongji is not an organized person, he usually does what comes to mind, and he likes to do it himself, so he is always busy and busy, and he never has free time.

If it weren't for the fact that the traders of the other world had made all the preparations in advance, and they didn't dare or didn't want to pit him, and there was also Soho, a confidante here, as a logistics officer to help him check the gates, just relying on Li Yongji's unchanging casualness, he could get to the present without making mistakes, it would really be a long-sighted man.

Even Li Yongji himself sometimes thinks that a person like him has a sullen personality, does things casually, sometimes is impulsive, and has a high standard of material enjoyment wherever he goes, such a person, if it weren't for the gold finger in his hand, and the gold finger is too rebellious, I am afraid that he would not know where to die for a long time.

However, after thinking about it, Li Yongji is still the same, anyway, he will not let himself be wronged for other things, in his opinion, any national event is safe in the world, it is all something that makes him happy, if you want to let the national event restrain yourself, it will be boring at all.

Having said that, although Li Yongji is the one who single-handedly built the dream division, he only provided modern materials such as weapons and equipment, food, clothing, as well as training manuals, training plans and other things, and those training manuals were not written by Li Yongji alone, but the training methods designed by Zhang Xinda to find professionals according to the conditions here.

Li Yongji's role is only to get these things from modern society. Then find the right people to make them happen.

For example, in terms of the overall training plan, Li Yongji handed over all the troops to Sun Xiangbing, the chief of staff, and the regiment commander was nepotism, and all the members of the young guard regiment he brought out at the beginning, such as Bai Yunfei, Li Fei, and Zhang Long, all of whom were his cronies.

It can be said that the materials and equipment of the officers and men of the Dream Division were provided by Li Yongji, and the training methods were also provided by Li Yongji. Only in the specific training process, Li Yongji did not do it himself, basically Sun Xiangbing and several other regiment commanders got together to learn and teach, at most they encountered something they didn't understand, they would come over to ask Li Yongji.

At the beginning, Li Yongji would answer all questions about his subordinates and students, but later there were many questions, and Li Yongji was not good enough first, and secondly, he was more annoying. So simply turn on the pretending mode, no matter whether their questions are simple or not, they have to write the questions in writing, and then Li Yongji read them. Uniformly threw it to Zhang Xinda, let Zhang Xinda be responsible for the answer, and then Li Yongji handed over the standard answer to his subordinates.

Therefore, Li Yongji is only a porter at most. The emergence of the Dream Division, in addition to the supply of modern equipment, also contains the painstaking efforts of modern professional military personnel. This is because the thinking of army building and the concept of operation of this unit were completely created by Zhang Xinda at the invitation of those professional military personnel.

In fact, when Sun Xiangbing was still there, the discipline of the troops had always been good, but at the critical time, Li Yongji actually transferred Sun Xiangbing away, and after that, Li Yongji didn't pay much attention to the following, just left it alone to strengthen the defense, and completely let them arrange freely according to the past training.

Although there is nothing wrong with this, after all, the Dream Master has also done a lot of defensive training in the past, such as the drill of repairing fortifications and fighting defensive battles, when he used to train in the Red Fort in Hollywood, it was commonplace, and it was usually divided into two teams, one to attack and one to defend, so there was basically no need for Li Yongji to worry about meddling, and it would be bad for him to interfere.

That is to say, from a technical point of view, there is no problem with Li Yongji's big dismissal, but because there is no strict rectification by Sun Xiangbing, it is like the students suddenly have less supervising disciplinary committees, and the teachers don't care, so the discipline will naturally be relaxed. This is not only the case for poor students, but also for the top classes, and the same is true for the army.

What's even worse is that Li Yongji usually doesn't come forward, but now he is about to fight, but he is inspecting everywhere, but his inspection work, in addition to being optimistic or optimistic, he didn't tell them at all, this battle is very difficult to fight, you must fight a hundred thoughts, but sue them, as long as you are good, we will win this battle.

After all, from a certain point of view, it is not wrong to talk more about one's own advantages, grow one's own prestige, and despise the other party and belittle the other party, many commanders are using it, but this method is suitable for new soldiers, but not for veterans, especially the proud division that is always victorious and undefeated.

From its establishment to the present, the Dream Division has always been attacking, and it has always crushed the enemy, and it has never really fought a defensive battle. Although they had fought defensive battles before, they were all playing and practicing by themselves, so after a long time, especially after discovering that the Americans were so unfought, Lao Tzu's pride in being the best in the world did not need to be infected by others, and he soared.

In the past, there was also the chief of staff Sun Xiangbing to restrain him, because he was strict and had a high prestige in the army, and everyone could still control it, but as soon as Sun Xiangbing left, this pride lost its suppression, and it immediately rose boundlessly.

Moreover, because the troops of the Dream Division have popularized the communication system to the squad, almost every five people have a vehicle communicator, so the information above was quickly transmitted to the bottom, and because Li Yongji discovered the movements of the New Virginia Legion early in the morning, and has been paying attention to it, and has been sharing intelligence with the soldiers below, so that the soldiers below can clearly understand the situation of the US troops on the other side.

Sharing intelligence with the soldiers below, although it is only a part, is actually a very good practice, because it allows the soldiers below to clearly understand their own situation with the other party, which is conducive to one-way transparency of information, so that they know themselves and know their opponents and win all battles.

However, with the superiority in equipment and geographical superiority, as well as the superiority in intelligence, so many advantages have been smashed, which has made the officers and men at the grassroots level more and more optimistic, because they simply look at these advantages. They could never have imagined that they would fail.

Therefore, the atmosphere in the entire Dream Division's defensive position now, without exception, is optimistic, and what they talk about the most is to laugh at the stupidity of the other party, thinking that the enemy actually dares to bring so many people to fight themselves in this weather, and the time and place are favorable, even if the number of people is large, but the firepower is far behind. If you don't beat them, you will burn high incense, if you really dare to come over, you will ensure that the other party will be beaten with a lot of urine.

At this time, the people on the defending side, no one thought that they would be attacked, no one thought that they would be defeated, all they thought was that the other party was stupid, and they just wanted to wait for the weather to warm up quickly. I just want to modify the vehicles to be faster, so they can go out and beat up the Americans.

That's right, at this time, the officers and soldiers of the Dream Division did not think about defense. Although they did the fortifications, they only coped with the errands, and they thought that they would take the initiative.

Since from the very beginning, it was customary to use a vehicle as a substitute for transportation. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Dream Division during this period were not accustomed to pure infantry combat, and once the vehicle lay on its stomach, they basically lost interest in action. As a result, the ability to maneuver is lost.

Now, due to the cold weather, a large number of vehicles cannot be moved, and these motorized infantry have become pure infantry, but because there is no shortage of food and cold materials, they are not in a hurry, they just want to wait for the weather to warm up and the vehicles can move before leaving.

This kind of thinking is not only the idea of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, but also the idea of Li Yongji, but his idea is different from that of the people below, Li Yongji wants to stay here and not leave, just to save money.

That's right, although the cold weather makes the vehicle lie on its stomach, it is not impossible to solve, for example, Li Yongji can continue to buy new cars with Zhang Xinda or Dou Bifeng, and purchase those vehicles that can walk in the snow, which is not a big problem, at most it is just a cost.

But Li Yongji didn't want to spend more money, because he didn't think it would be like this all the time, so he just stayed here for the winter, and waited for the weather to warm up, after all, he not only has a vehicle, he also has a fleet!

In other words, Li Yongji did not think about walking by car, but wanted to continue the previous plan, make full use of the capacity of the Ohio River, get all the vehicles on board, and wait for the river's freezing period to end, let this task force take its troops directly into Pittsburgh and take Pittsburgh.

Once Pittsburgh is taken, with the current situation in the United States, as long as Lincoln is not stupid, he knows that this battle should be over, and if it continues to fight, the Americans will only lose more.

The reason is that the Americans are not only their own opponents, but they also have to face the British, the French and the army of the Confederate States at the same time, and each opponent is difficult to deal with.

Once Pittsburgh is lost, the western gate of the core area of the United States will be opened, and the Chinese are the biggest threat, and no matter which direction the United States transfers troops from, it will reduce the defense in that direction.

As long as Lincoln is not stupid, he should know that their biggest enemy is not China, nor Britain and France, but the Confederate States, because the first three just want benefits, and the most they can pay for land and reparations is enough, but the Confederate States have territorial claims, and they have the same roots, the same species and the same culture, once they have the opportunity to destroy the Confederates, they will swallow it in one bite, and there will be no scum left.

Even, during this period, because of Lincoln's perverse behavior, or dictatorship, there were strong voices within the Confederacy, thinking that it would be better for the Confederacy to be defeated by the Southerners, so that the North and the South of the United States could still be reunited, but not from the north to the south, but from the south to the north.

In any case, the Chinese in Smithland obviously have a clear understanding of the movements of the New Virginia Legion, and the overall strength is not inferior to the other side, but because of the light enemy, they actually watched the other side divide into three ways, and surrounded themselves on three sides, and in the whole process, the Chinese did not launch an initiative to break the other party's encirclement attempt.

In the end, after a day and a half of maneuvering and adjustment, the New Virginia Regiment finally surrounded the defensive positions held by the Chinese on three sides, not on four sides, because the back was a frozen river, which was not conducive to infantry action.

However, after seeing that the Americans were really surrounded on three sides, no matter how light they were before, no matter how optimistic they were, and how they felt that the Americans were stupid, the officers and men of the Dream Division began to instinctively become nervous, because they all intuitively felt a dangerous aura!

"Damn it!" Li Yongji, who was observing the enemy situation in the trenches, frowned, put down the telescope for observation, and muttered to himself, "Are the Americans collectively stupid?" Are they really going to take the initiative to attack? Take the initiative to attack a fortress like me that is well-defended, well-manned, and has strong firepower? Isn't this a death sentence? (To be continued......)