Chapter 352: Nashville

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"Report! Commander, commissar, wireless telegram from the cavalry division!"

Putting away the pocket watch, Wang Xiangzong said with a smile: "It seems that these four guys finally have news!"

"Well, the cavalry raid, the thousand-mile leap, even if there is radio contact, but after all, there is still some danger, now that there is news, we can rest assured!"

After listening to Wu Min's words, Wang Xiangzong nodded, turned to the confidential staff officer holding the folder and said, "You don't have to show me to say it!"

"Yes, Commander!" After receiving the order, the young second lieutenant officer quickly opened the folder and said loudly: "Jun Jian, the commander of the Southern Front Corps of the American Theater of Operations, our 1st Cavalry Division has arrived at the small town of Kalman, 50 kilometers northeast of Memphis, according to the scheduled battle plan, and has realized the rendezvous with the 3rd Cavalry Division! After reading the wireless telegrams of the 4th and 7th Cavalry Divisions one by one, after Wang Xiangzong waved his hand, he turned around and left!

"In addition to the Fourth Cavalry Division, which has not yet reached the designated position, the other three cavalry divisions are already ready from their telegrams!" Wu Min said. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Well! It's already four o'clock in the morning on December 20, and it will be dawn in two hours! Two hours is enough time for the Fourth Cavalry Division!"

"Oh, yes! Now we're ready. I just don't know what kind of expressions the Americans will have on their faces when they get the news that we have taken the initiative to attack?" Wu Min said with a slight smile on his face.

More than a year ago, after the United States had more and more troops, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts. And considering the reason why the Huo family army itself was not prepared, all the Huo family troops who entered the vast area between the Ohio River and the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains retreated to the west bank of the two rivers with countless war captures, leaving the rest of the mess to the Americans. In the following year or so, even when the Americans were in a hurry in the face of this devastated triangle, except for the Snow Wolf Special Forces, who did not catch the battle, the regular troops of the Huo Family Army never visited this almost paralyzed land.

Although the Huo Jiajun and the United States confronted each other along the thousands of kilometers of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River. So far, however, there have been no major wars, even skirmishes. If it weren't for the growing number of troops on both sides of the river, I'm afraid no one would believe that the Huo Jiajun and the Americans were in a state of war.

"Drive!" Meng Changgui flicked his horsewhip. Slapped hard on the butt of the war horse under him, if it were in normal times, he would definitely be reluctant to treat his beloved horse like this! But now he saw that the other brother troops had reached the designated position before the war, but he was because of the long distance. Plus unfamiliarity with the terrain. It is still seventy kilometers away from Nashville, the strategic target of the Fourth Cavalry Division, and there are less than two hours left for him to hurry!

"Old Meng, it's time to let the troops rest, otherwise the war horses will not be able to stand it!" Zhao Dan, the political commissar of the Fourth Cavalry Division, who was following Meng Changgui's side, said in a somewhat anxious tone.

As the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division, Meng Changgui certainly knew that it was time to let the soldiers rest, after all, it had been a week since they crossed the Mississippi River from Carthersville. It spans more than 600 kilometers for a week. In addition, they have to avoid the American ** team, and at the same time avoid being discovered by the Americans living here, Meng Changgui and his Fourth Cavalry Division can be described as trembling along the way, even if they have to keep one eye open when they rest during the day, after seven days, both soldiers and war horses are already extremely tired!

And the American Quarter horse under him, although it was crossed with a Spanish mare, has inherited the advantages of both parents, hard-working, persevering, and endurance is also good, but in the end it is not as brave and tenacious as the Mongolian horse he used to drive in the Qing Dynasty, and his endurance is excellent. Although he was still galloping forward under his control, the speed had gradually slowed down, and the heat coming from his neck and the increasingly heavy wheezing showed that the American Quarter horse had reached the limit of his physical strength.

Turning around and glancing at the 20,000 cavalry of the Fourth Cavalry Division that was lonely and silent, only the sound of heavy horse hooves boiling, Meng Fangui gritted his teeth, turned around and said: "Lao Zhao, let the soldiers dismount and lead the horses to run forward!"

Hearing this, Zhao Dan nodded silently, he understood that there was not much time left for the Fourth Cavalry Division, according to the military order of the Theater Command, they must arrive in Nashville before six o'clock on December 20, and after the attack order of the Southern Front Corps Command was issued, they immediately launched a surprise attack on the two American infantry divisions stationed in Nashville, completely destroying this railway hub city with a population of more than 500,000 and located behind MemphisOtherwise, once the Southern Army Corps is wiped out after the Huo Jiajun loses supplies, then the squadron that drives straight along the railway line will put the two major American corps of more than one million on the northern and central lines in danger of being surrounded.

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The Cumberland River, which meanders to the northwest, flows quietly, and although it is now December, the relatively southerly Cumberland River is not frozen, but after the dry season, the width and volume of the river have been reduced by nearly half.

The hazy white mist rising from the river, and the pre-dawn darkness that enveloped the sprawling city next to the river, after the economic crisis and the wreaking havoc of the Huo family's army, the once industrial city, the capital of Tennessee and the second-largest city after Memphis, no longer has a chimney in sight. And in this era when a city is measured by its industrial development, Nashville is a city that has lost hope in the eyes of its citizens.

Looking up at the still somewhat dim sky, old Harry tightened his already very worn blue overalls, and from the subtle sound of his movements, it could be seen that there must be newspapers stuffed under his bloated overalls, because the severe economic crisis and the war had cost him all his income, so he had to use the tricks he learned from other homeless people to resist the bitter cold of the Tennessee winter!

But fortunately, Nashville is relatively southern, although the winter is very cold, but it is not difficult to overcome, otherwise if it is further north, with his old arms and legs, I am afraid that he will really not be able to live!

Seeing that the men and women in ragged clothes on the street were gathering more and more, old Harry didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly grabbed the broken pocket in his hand and ran over. If he misses the relief food distributed by the church and the government today, he will be hungry for the next two days! As more and more people gathered, the queue became longer and longer, and the streets began to be filled with police officers in police uniforms to maintain order!

"Rhy, when did you say that this kind of day when you have enough to eat and no last meal is a head!" complained a strong white man in a police uniform.

"Alright, White, we're already good compared to them, if we weren't wearing this skin now, I'm afraid we would have to sell our children like Luther to make the family barely survive!" said Rhys, looking at the people who were lined up in a long line in front of him, looking numb, waiting for relief food.

After listening to the words of his companion, the look on White's face also became silent, Luther was a worker in the Nashville steel plant for the two, but after the severe economic crisis broke out in the United States, the three were laid off almost at the same time, and later the Sino-American war, the equipment and senior workers in the entire steel plant, and the engineers were all taken away by the Chinese, leaving only coolies like them with strength but little technology, but the two had served in the army, although they did not join the army because they were too old, but fortunately when the United States regained control of it and began to restore order in Nashville, they became policemen, although he can only get ten catties of grain a month, and he can't get even a dollar in wages. But if you add the government's relief food, it is enough for the two of them to survive hard!

However, compared with their luck, Luther, a former worker, was much more unlucky, after losing his job, the whole family had nearly eight people, a total of six children needed him to support, and the government and the church were not enough to rely on the little relief food, and finally had no choice but to sell the youngest two children to the local underworld organization that emerged after the economic crisis and specialized in human trafficking from poor Americans.

"It's all a damn economic crisis, and those yellow pigs who deserve to go to hell, if they hadn't started a war and carried out all kinds of sabotage against the United States, we wouldn't be doing this today!" White suddenly scolded.

Hearing his scolding, Rhys, who was a friend, couldn't help but smile bitterly, now that all this has happened, what is the point of saying this, it is better to save your strength and live well! Thinking of this, he turned around and was about to persuade his best friend, but just as he was about to speak, he remembered the faint sound of horses' hooves.

"Could it be the army?" After the invasion of the Huo family's army, the once prosperous Nashville has long been left without even a rich man, so in addition to the army, Rhys really can't think of anyone else who can ride horses! Of course, he also knows which squadrons that are at war with the United States also have cavalry, but there are more than 300,000 American ** teams in front, and Nashville, which is in the rear, is very safe!

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and the hard concrete floor began to tremble slightly, and the sound of horses' hooves like muffled thunder rushed towards the center of Nashville without slowing down.

At this time, the faces of people with military experience like Rhys and White had become more and more serious, but when the familiar and unfamiliar grass-green military uniform appeared on the street corner, their faces became even paler.

"Chinese cavalry ......!" (To be continued.) )