Two weeks have passed

The cavalry led by Richard swept through the great plains of central North America like wildfire, marching left and right, galloping across about 170,000 square kilometers of land in Illinois and Indiana, capturing 19 small towns and more than 100 farms and estates along the way, burning and looting on a large scale, causing everyone to endanger themselves.

The cavalry tactics of the Tang Kingdom were very flexible, and they often attacked in several ways, and once created an astonishing record of capturing 7 small towns in one day, and after a large number of burning, killing and plundering, they set fire to the small towns, leaving behind the wreckage of the ashes of the fire and the white residents with sad faces.

Because it was fighting in enemy territory, in order to maintain high mobility, the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom did not capture the population, cattle and sheep and bulk supplies, but only plundered gold and silver, and then quickly retreated after burning the town.

During this period, several brigade and cavalry regiment-level battles broke out with the US cavalry, and the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom often quickly withdrew from the battlefield after severely inflicting heavy losses on the US cavalry, and the back and forth was like the wind.

It never took more than 20 minutes from the beginning to the end of the battle, and he quickly retreated after a single blow.

Because the U.S. cavalry was often led by the nose and passively stepped into traps or encirclements, the losses were not small.

This also caused the US cavalry to have a serious psychological shadow, and they looked forward and backward when chasing, for fear that they would be ambushed again, and there would be no value in death.

A wilderness on the border between Illinois and Indiana, where the wide Missouri River flows, hundreds of meters from the river, is a lush forest.

In the shade of hills and trees, there are still some traces of residual snow.

Richard sat on a brocade stool, slicing mutton with a sharp knife in his hand, and beside him were several adult eagles and bald eagles, like obedient birds ready to call their masters, not birds of prey soaring in the sky.

From time to time, a piece of meat is thrown out, and it is immediately snatched up.

In Richard's personal guard cuirassiers, there was a close-fitting squad of birds of prey that specialized in raising these humane birds of prey.

The most striking feature is that each member of the Raptor Team wears steel armor on his left arm, which is covered with thick cowhide to prevent injuries from the claws of these birds of prey that fall from a high altitude.

And in the Maple Leaf Palace, there is also a team of pets, which is responsible for raising His Majesty's favorite tigers, jaguars, lions and North American brown bears.

"Oh, the bald boy is back." Richard looked up and smiled.

Everyone raised their eyes and looked around, only to see white clouds in the clear sky, where is there any white-headed boy?

Soon

A black dot appeared in the extreme distance in the sky, and slowly grew larger, and everyone saw that it was a rapidly soaring bald eagle, that is, the bald boy in the mouth of His Majesty the King.

I saw that it folded its wings, and from a height of thousands of meters like a sharp sword, it plunged down from the oblique stab, and its speed became faster and faster.

It's only a minute or two

It came to a low altitude of one or two hundred meters, and then the huge wings more than two meters long stretched out, and a graceful hovering stopped the sharp fall, and landed steadily on Richard's arm.

Richard took the bamboo pipe from the eagle's leg and threw half of the mutton in his hand into the air, and the bald eagle flew up with a flutter, grabbed the mutton and landed on the grass on the side, and ate it happily.

After taking out the letter in the bamboo tube and reading it, Richard knew that Gao Shiheng's headquarters was more than 15 miles away, and if he galloped at high speed, he could reach this place in four to five hours.

He thought about it

Behind him, the large cavalry force of the US army led by Admiral Taylor was almost more than 80 miles away, but one was in the south and the other was in the east, like a triangle.

These days

Richard and Admiral Taylor are also a little tired of hiding and seeking, and the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom led by him is not killing for the sake of killing, but looting for the sake of plundering.

His main purpose is to deter American society, showing that the Tang Kingdom has the means to fight back fiercely, which is not ideal from the current effect.

The main reason was that it did not capture such vital large cities as Chicago and Detroit, or did not give the American army a memorable fiasco.

between the two

Richard was more inclined to fight a war of annihilation and kill Admiral Taylor's prestige.

As for siege, Chicago and Detroit, which have a population of hundreds of thousands, can easily gather tens of thousands of white armed militias and defend the city, which is extremely difficult to overcome.

Richard first ruled out the possibility of attacking the city, considering that the American army had been led by the nose for half a month, and the soldiers were exhausted, and they had the necessary conditions for fighting a frontal hard battle.

He couldn't help but stand up and look around.

The icy mist of the Missouri River in the cold spring and the slow flow of the river are far more dangerous than in the spring and summer.

The cold water of the river makes people's bodies lose their temperature quickly, and their muscles cramp and stiffen, even if they are good swimmers, they can't stay in such river water for 5 minutes, and they will freeze to death in 10 minutes.

The riverbank is about a few hundred meters away from the forest, and there is nothing surprising about the plain terrain that can be found everywhere in Illinois.

Look at it for a moment

Richard's eyes are getting brighter and brighter, if he ambushes a heavy machine gun position and a cavalry in the forest, the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom in front will line up along the river, and after the main force of the American cavalry steps into this place, it will be flanked back and forth......

After careful consideration, Richard felt more and more that this plan was feasible.

The wonderful thing is that rivers and forests are ordinary things on the North American plains, and they will not arouse excessive vigilance of the US military.

In the past few days, the Tang Kingdom and the U.S. cavalry have chased thousands of miles, made a big circle along Illinois and Indiana, and now they have come around again.

Coming and going are inseparable from the Missouri River, the White River, the Cheyenne River, the Rand River, the Morro River and other places with abundant water and grass, which are the camps of the cavalry.

The first thing cavalry should consider is the war horse, and the convenience of drinking water and forage is the key point of consideration.

According to this, about 80 miles away in the town

The whole township was mobilized to make bread and soybean meal for the cavalry, and the air was filled with the rich smell of toast.

In the mayor's office

Admiral Taylor looked at the latest military intelligence report with an ugly face, and when Richard led the main cavalry of his headquarters south to Chicago, the other two cavalry passed through the two important towns of Iowa City and Davenport.

Out of caution and strict defense, the American defenders of Iowa City did not go out of the city to fight in the field, let alone pursue the enemy.

The American defenders of Davenport were different, relying on their own 2,200 cavalry, and went out of the city to intercept without authorization. As a result, he stepped into the trap of the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom, and was not only defeated and lost, but also lost the important town of Davenport.

This is so far

Admiral Taylor's unit suffered the biggest defeat, with more than 3,600 American troops killed and wounded, more than 1,140 captured, and more than 200 missing, and the rest all fled.

The city of Davenport was ravaged, this was the first important town in the Great Lakes region to be destroyed, and the left cavalry of the Tang Kingdom was attracted south with the main force of the American cavalry, and they could not take care of themselves for the time being.

It wreaked havoc in Davenport for many days, looting more than 17,000 captives and nearly 3,000 wagons, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep supplies, and marched towards the western direction of Demayne County.

At this point, the US troops stationed in Iowa City, more than 100 kilometers away, were in a dilemma.

The rampant cavalry of the Tang Kingdom, driven by crying white women, cattle, sheep and horse-drawn carriages, swaggered through the suburbs of Iowa, a distance of only a dozen kilometers.

Stand on the heights of Iowa City

You can see the endless black lines wriggling on the outskirts of the city, all of them are white women and carriages forced westward, as well as cattle and sheep driven all the way.

Who can bear it, who can't bear it.

At the behest of a group of officers and soldiers who were carried away by anger and the local white armed militia, the commander of the American army in Iowa City could only lead a team of more than 600 cavalry, 2,000 infantry and more than 1,700 white armed militia to try to storm the westward convoy of the Tang Kingdom and rescue the white women and other people in dire straits.

The idea was good, but the ending was tragic.

The reason why the Left Route Army of the Tang Kingdom was so rampant was originally a trap set by the Advance Army, which shows its cunning.

When the U.S. defenders of Iowa City attacked, they soon found out they had been fooled.

Their retreat was cut off by the 3,000 cavalry of the Tang Kingdom's forward army, which had been killed, and in front of them, more than 1,600 cavalry of the left route army had already been waiting for them.

No surprises

This American army was surrounded by more than 4,600 cavalry of the Tang Kingdom, and after suffering the frantic slaughter of heavy machine guns, it quickly collapsed under the impact of the cuirassier, and the corpses that were killed were all over the field.

The battle lasted more than an hour

Most of the American troops who left the city were annihilated, a few fled, and nearly 1,000 were captured under the threat of death, and became shameful prisoners.

The forward army and the left army of the Tang Kingdom, which were united in one place, were greatly invigorated, and they immediately launched a large-scale attack on Iowa City, which was only guarded by more than 1,000 American troops, with 2,000 white troops as the main force of attack.

Although the remaining American troops fought valiantly and inflicted many casualties on the White Army, they were unfortunately unable to defend the entire city.

The crazy cavalry of the Tang Kingdom came in like a tide from behind and from the weak side defenses, cutting people when they saw them, burning houses when they saw them, and they were already red-eyed.

Iowa City, a major city in the Great Lakes region, was looted and burned to the ground.

The military newspaper shows;

More than 2,000 cavalry on the left side of the Tang Kingdom, plus more than 1,700 white troops, escorted the people, supplies, cattle, sheep and wagons collected from Iowa City and Davenport all the way west, and their route would be to turn southwest through De Main County, and the final destination was Phoenix City on the Colorado Plateau.

The San Francisco Cuirassier Regiment of the Left Cavalry was incorporated into the Forward Army, with a total of about 3,630 cavalry, and the light cavalry marched south into Illinois without a trace.

General Taylor closed the military report with a heavy face, and the US army and the Tang Kingdom, totaling more than 26,000 cavalry, crisscrossed the populous Great Lakes region, chasing each other and wantonly destroying, dealing a major blow to the confidence of the people living and working in peace and contentment in the region.

Fortunately, it is now a cold winter, and if it is the summer and autumn season when melons, fruits and grains are harvested, the loss will be great.

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