For the Union army, taking the Indian town of Kopache to the south was actually nothing to boast about.

The Rio Grande Line, which the Indians boasted of, was not even eligible for Sherman's military seminar, and was swept over the map by a crude arrow.

In Sherman's eyes, the Aconcagua defense line was just a dumbbell with two large and thin middles, one Alamo, the other Kopacz, and the rest was dust.

Sherman's goal is to break through Nocona (Austin) directly after taking the Alamo, blitz the Choctaw Indian base camp, and capture the turtledove and other chiefs alive.

With the strength of the American Union Army, such a plan was not radical, and even in Sherman's opinion, it was a bit too conservative. Originally, his initial plan was to smash directly into Choctor, the base camp where the turtledove was located!

But as the details of the fall of the Stephen Carney Expedition reached him, so did the danger of the Indian army in his mind.

After repeated discussions with Thomas Jackson, such a steady plan was finally formed. Of course, he didn't know anything about the so-called 'Aconcagua Line', he just wanted to advance from west to east step by step, leaving no hope for the Indians to turn around!

If you are strong, you can worry a lot less. I don't play flowers, and I don't fear what the enemy will play.

Let's not talk about his defeat on the battlefield of the Alamo, although this is an inevitability of chance, but in the eyes of the people involved, it is unconvincing!

- Johnston saved his life in the explosion, but he would never have thought that something had gone wrong with his command!

- The verdict of the New York War Court similarly held that Johnston's command was beyond reproach!

- Although the result was wrong, there was absolutely no problem with the process! The Joseph family's powerful team of lawyers has even been insisting on appealing, demanding that the federal government pay Lord Johnston up to a million dollars in damages!

Let's not talk about the Alamo battlefield......

One of the important reasons why Fifteen Dollar chose to come to the Alamo is that Kopache in the south fell so quickly, and no one thought that it could be saved!

Thomas Jackson took Kopache with a lightning bolt that razed the entire city to the ground in just one day.

This destroyed not only one city, but almost destroyed the confidence of almost all the Indians!

They never thought that the war could be fought like this!

Rifles were useless in front of the ferocious artillery fire, let alone swords and javelins.

The ambitious Indians, armed with their finest equipment and in the most vigorous condition, vowed to fight the Indians in Kopacz - and were buried in the ruins before they even saw the face of the enemy!

The fall of Kopacz shook even the turtledoves far away in Choctaw.

He expected the strength of the American firepower, but he still did not expect the American firepower to be so powerful: according to rough statistics, in just one day, Thomas Jackson poured 10,000 shells into the city of Kopacz!

That's almost equal to the number of shells in the entire Union of Indians!

It was under such circumstances that fifteen dollars arrived at the Alamo, intent on a desperate fight - before the American Union army began to exert its strength, the Indians were already cornered!

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It was also under such circumstances that the sixteen-year-old Hai dropped the iron pickaxe he had dug and found the turtledove.

"Turtledove, can I discuss something for you?"

After Hai left the field hospital in Alamosa with Turtledove, he has been following Turtledove ever since.

Women's disguised as men is actually easy to debunk, in fact, many people know about it, they just don't say it. After arriving at the turtledove's side, she probably didn't think it was very interesting herself, so she simply turned back into a woman generously.

No one said anything – and some were even happy to see it.

She is an idle person, serving tea often breaking teacups, pouring water from time to time to scald turtledoves, and within two days was arranged by Peso to be an office cleaning girl.

This cleaning girl wants to do everything except not do cleaning.

For Hai, who has been in the backwoods of Seattle, it's so exciting and fun to leave home and go to war.

Except for the first half of the day when she first left Seattle, she missed her father a little, and the rest of the time, she was so excited that she was about to float.

For the first time, she saw rhododendrons all over the mountains......

For the first time, she slept with a group of men in a field where she heard wolves howling in the distance......

For the first time, she stepped barefoot in the dirt and brandished an iron pickaxe with a group of black men......

For the first time, she touched the musket with her hands accustomed to the loom, and for the first time she saw human life fluttering in the wind like grass clippings......

Even if she is a cleaning girl now, this is the first time she has been a cleaning girl!

The map of Mexico on the walls is drawn like a wizard's face, and the sea is very interesting to look at.

The documents on the table were often piled up several feet high, and some of the documents that had been processed, the turtledove would hand them to her as her reading material, and the sea could always find something strange in them.

"I don't drink the coca tea you made for me," Ikaruga said to Hai, who had entered his office, without raising his head, "and I don't eat the oyster bread you made me - the map is on the wall, and the papers are there...... See for yourself, don't mess with me! ”

"I know you don't drink," Hai said, "I want to ask, can you let me try to be a general?" ”

"You want to be a general?" Turtledove laughed.

"Who wouldn't want to be a general?" Hai said: "You don't think that a woman can't be a general, do you? ”

The turtledove was stunned for a moment.

In all fairness, he felt that the sea was very military talented.

With her ability to debunk Ulysses Grant's vision and cleverness, if it weren't for the fact that she was a woman, Ikaruga would have asked people to take her to the front line a long time ago.

But she's a woman after all......

"Think so, turtledove," said Hai to turtledove, "and you let me go and fight for you, and if you lose the battle, you will lose nothing but a woman; But if you win, hey, you'll have a real general! ”

This sentence made the turtledove laugh, and it sounded quite profitable.

"All right, sea! You go to Fort Laramie and find the little crow, and let him arrange an errand for you—"

"I'm not going to Fort Laramie!" Hai said: "I am a general to fight, not to catch robbers for you!" ”

"And where do you want to go?"

"I think it's nice here!" Hai walked to the map and pointed to Kopacz.

The turtledove was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "Kopacz has fallen!" ”

"What else am I going to do?" Hai said: "You are all too scared to look up by that guy named Jackson, at this time, of course, I have to appear!" ”

"What do you think...... Can Kopache get it back? Turtledove asked in surprise.

Even fifteen dollars gave up Kopache and went to the Alamo......

Hai twisted his head, his eyes fluttering a few times, and said, "I don't dare pack the ticket—but let me try?" What if the battle is won? ”

Ikaruga looked at the thin but hard face of the sea, and finally moved his heart.

"Alas—" Turtledove took the pen and dipped it in vermilion ink, and said slowly as he wrote on the paper, "I wish that a smart child like you could stay in the classroom or in the laboratory...... Instead of wasting your wisdom on war - take this and go! ”