The year 1858 passed quietly, a turbulent year of war on a global scale, with Europe, Asia and the Americas not at peace, and the law of the jungle was vividly embodied.

The Taiping Rebellion in the land of China, the Twist Army Uprising and the Second Opium War launched by British and French colonists brought profound disasters to this ancient country, and the people were miserable.

The Tang Kingdom knocked on the door of the Fusang Kingdom with strong ships and cannons, forced the Fusang Kingdom to sign the "Edo Treaty", obtained the concession and many super-national treatments, Britain, France, Russia, the United States and other countries came one after another, and they all demanded the same treatment as the Tang Kingdom, and each signed a similar treaty with the Fuso State.

At this point, the gate of Fusang was completely opened, and it was reduced to the status of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

On the other hand, the Tang Kingdom was forced to sign unequal treaties that enjoyed the same rights and interests as Western powers such as Britain and France; "Follow the precedent, one and the same".

In Europe

The Kingdom of Sardinia's efforts to unify the Italian peninsula were strongly rejected by Austria-Hungary, and became an unavoidable mountain on the issue of the unification of the peninsula, and the two sides inevitably came to the brink of war.

In 1859, the bloody civil war in the United States came to its third year, and although both sides were tortured and bruised, they still tried their best to expand the scale of the civil war and wanted to completely knock out their opponents.

Kansas city

In the capital of the central state of the United States, all the buildings of the city were destroyed by artillery fire and bullets, and the walls were ruined everywhere, and the charred black wood from the fire was smoking, and the rubble was everywhere.

While the Southern government claimed to have won the Kansas Civil War and occupied the state, the Northern powers never withdrew from the northern Kansas border and did not recognize the claim.

After the outbreak of the full-scale civil war between the North and the South, Kansas City became one of the focal points of the western theater because of its important location as a rail transportation hub.

Another focal point of the Western Theater was the Northern Army's offensive from Kentucky to Tennessee, which was under the control of the Southern Army, in an attempt to capture the agricultural state, known as the "breadbasket of the South."

The Northern Army, dressed in a variety of uniforms, had captured most of Kansas, and the ruins of the battlefield as they advanced were littered with corpses and many soldiers lying in the attack.

Fierce fighting continues

The Southern troops who retreated to the railway station relied on barbed wire and the train cars on the railway to return fire with fierce firepower, but the situation was dangerous.

The northern army relied on the overwhelming number of people to attack at any cost, inflicting a large number of casualties on the southern army, and although the southern army resisted one after another, it was still unable to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

More than a week of hard fighting

The Southern Army, which was defending the city, repelled numerous attacks by the Northern Army, but the American Army was always able to make a comeback, and the Northern Army General Sherman had 176,000 troops, almost three times the number of the Southern Army.

For days

The casualties of the Northern Army have been as high as more than 40,000, but under the strict supervision of General Sherman, the tide of continuous progress is almost endless.

The southern defenders, with a total strength of 61,500 and more than 23,000 casualties in the battle, were on the verge of collapse.

In a sturdy station building at the Kansas train station

Confederate General Daniel Harvey Hill dropped a telegram in his hand with a gloomy face, and the commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army, Robert Lee, promised to send reinforcements with all his might, and demanded that his troops must defend Kansas City without fail.

But this is not what General Hill wanted, after fighting for so long, his troops were close to running out of ammunition and food, and it took several white-knuckle counterattacks to repel the enemy.

What's the use of reinforcing a few trains of recruits?

"Your Excellency General, maybe we won't last long!" Major General Simpson, who was blackened by the smoke of the war, walked in from the door in embarrassment, showing a mouthful of white teeth when he spoke, and looked extremely depressed.

General Hill asked with a gloomy face; "What's going on at the front?"

"It's terrible, the high ground on the left side of the battle line was occupied by the enemy, and an infantry regiment sent up to counterattack was lost, and the enemy was too numerous, and the soldiers who ran out of bullets could only fight the enemy with teeth and bayonets, and they couldn't hold out for long."

Just said that

A dense explosion of artillery fire was heard in his ears, which shook the sturdy stone house and fell dust, and for a time the smoke and dust filled the air, choking Major General Simpson and coughing loudly.

In the distance, a train from the south made a screeching sound of brakes, and the locomotive billowing smoke drifted into the sky, as if a blood-colored battle flag was unfurled for the battlefield.

After a while, the train came not far in front of me.

Before the train had stopped, a large number of soldiers swarmed out, gathered at the shrill whistle, and quickly reinforced, and the front and the dangerous front were reinforced.

"Perhaps...... There is also salvation. General Daniel Harvey Hill said faintly, this train came from the south, and it must have been reinforcements sent by General Lee.

At least nearly 2,000 soldiers were crammed into the stuffy tank wagons, which was a new force.

The problem is not that these 2,000 soldiers, with such a small number of troops, they will be killed and wounded in just one morning's work on the battlefield, and it may not take that long.

The point is that the train brought a valuable supply of ammunition, confidence, and possibly even the Storm heavy machine gun that General Hill had dreamed of, which was the big killer for the Kill Group infantry attack.

The Kansas defenders also had about 40 heavy machine guns, which had either been destroyed by artillery fire, damaged and discarded, or blown up during the retreat, and now they no longer had such an absolute weapon to suppress the infantry attack.

Sure enough, with the reinforcement of this Southern Army train, there were also 12 storm heavy machine guns and a large amount of ammunition, and the scalp-numbing "Da Da Da, Da ......" sound on the battlefield again, and the soldiers of the Northern Army were knocked to the ground like cutting wheat, and then retreated like a tide.

"Your Excellency General Hill, I hope we arrived in time enough, the situation here does not look good."

Major General Fan Pengfei saluted with an elegant expression, and he, accompanied by several officers, went to the temporary headquarters of the Southern Army in Kansas City, and met General Hill with a constipated face.

General Hill looked at the other party dressed in a decent general's uniform, with golden epaulettes and shiny leather boots, and a Tang knife with gold wire wrapped around the handle of the knife at his waist, as if he was a nobleman who was aware of the people's feelings, and felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

"Thanks to you, we've finally repelled the damned northern elders, who are as invincible as the passenger pigeons that roam the mountains. Obviously, my command may not be able to entertain a nobleman well. ”

"Well, the conditions here are really limited. But I'm not here to attend the reception, but I'm bringing a genuine friendship and want to see how I can help? Major General Fan Pengfei spread his hands indifferently and continued in a regretful tone;

"It seems that we are wrong, General Hill is obviously willing to bear the pressure of the old North alone, so it is better if I have not been here. Please prepare some horses as well......"

Major General Fan Pengfei raised his wrist and looked at the expensive watch and said; "If we leave in half an hour, we'll still be in time for the welcome reception in Manhattan in the evening, where a lot of the trains to the south that I know stop at, and it's pretty lively right now."

This Manhattan is not the Manhattan of New York, there are many places in the United States with the same name, and Manhattan is one of them.

Manhattan is a transit town located more than 100 kilometers west of Kansas City, and it is also one of the towns along the railway line of more than 890 kilometers from Phoenix Castle ~ Red Rock Valley Fortress ~ Kansas.

Almost two-thirds of the railway line is the vast Gobi Desert and desert area, and only near the east and west ends of Kansas and Phoenix Castle are there large areas of aquatic grass and mountains, forming a lush oasis.

Manhattan is located on an oasis at the eastern end of the railway line, just over a hundred kilometers from Kansas City, and continues west into the vast Gobi Desert.

It was originally a post station, but after more than ten years, it has developed into a transit town with a population of about 1,000 residents.

In the two years since the outbreak of the civil war, the town's population has swelled rapidly due to the importance of the railway line, more than tripling in number, to about 3,000 or several hundred people.

When the full-scale battle for Kansas City began, rail transportation was completely disrupted.

This is not only the interruption of the main artery of blood transfusion to the south, but also the interruption of the way for the Tang Kingdom to make war money, no matter from which point of view, it is not too much for the capitalists to care about it.

"Sit down, Your Excellency, I only have coffee here to entertain you, no milk or sugar, it's like a difficult situation for us, isn't it?" General Daniel Harvey Hill smiled bitterly, he really didn't like the well-dressed aristocratic general in front of him, and the old southern capital against the background was like a turtle.

It's like a well-dressed aristocratic woman in a group of unkempt housewives, as if she is the master, how can people be embarrassed?

But Hill is a general, a Kansas legion bigwig in charge of the western theater, not an ignorant and rude southern old man who doesn't let his emotions cloud his sanity.

"Introduce yourself, Lieutenant General Hill, commander of the Confederate Kansas Corps, a veteran of the Mexican War and a large cotton plantation owner."

"It is a great honor to meet you, Your Excellency General Hill, I am a veteran who participated in the US-Tang War, followed His Majesty to the south of Mexico and led the army to participate in the Crimean War in Europe, Viscount Fan Pengfei, Director of Military Training of the Army General Staff."

General Hill; “……”

Maj. Gen. Simpson; “……”

a group of officers from the U.S. military command; “……”

Women compete for beauty together, men compete for glory together, BMW fragrant cars together, and soldiers naturally talk about merit and glory together.

Don't look at Major General Fan Pengfei's age, but the wars he has participated in are all famous overseas wars and vicious battles, and his qualifications are naturally hard!

Not to mention anything else, as far as the Crimean War, which is famous for its bloody cruelty, has not been fortunate enough to participate in the generals on both sides of the American Civil War, and their meritorious resumes are naturally a head shorter.

General Hill disguised his embarrassed dry cough, and then he found himself to go down the stairs, and he reached out and made what he thought was an elegant courtesy gesture, and sat down on the dusty chair first, and then asked; "I can tell...... How did you bring to the table? ”

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