"Damn the old Southerners, and those Orientals everywhere, I curse them all to hell......"

Looking at the attacking troops that had faded like a tide, General Sherman, commander-in-chief of the US Western Front, cursed with a gloomy face, waved the horsewhip in his hand and slammed it on the table, filling the dust with the beating.

It seems that this is not enough, not enough to vent the monstrous hatred in my heart.

Fight to this day

Both the North and the South are like red-eyed gamblers who cannot retreat, and the Northern Army has already paid a heavy price of more than 40,000 casualties, and must take Kansas City, the core of the transportation hub.

Otherwise, General Sherman was afraid that he would be torn to shreds by the angry populace.

"Your Excellency General, the attacking troops are extremely tired, and the casualties are very large, do you want to withdraw and rest for a while, and then reorganize the attack, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a mutiny!"

"What about the Kentucky Militia Volunteer Division and the Iowa 2nd Division, where are they now?"

"Report to Your Excellency General, these two divisions are still in the rear camp as the general reserve, more than 30 kilometers away from the front line, and if they are mobilized now, they will not arrive until dusk, and they will have to wait for a whole night."

"Let the attacking troops withdraw for the time being, and maintain the momentum of the offensive in the afternoon, and order the artillery to concentrate on destroying the enemy's heavy machine-gun positions. In addition, the general reserve was ordered to get ready, get up at 1 a.m. to make food, and rush to the front in full armor, and I will see these two divisions in the attack queue at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, and must continue to put strong pressure on the southern elders, they will not last long. ”

General Sherman reluctantly whipped again, and he stood on the high ground on the left, and could see that the entire front had been crumbling by the tide of the Northern Army's offensive.

As long as you put a little more force, maybe the whole line will collapse.

At this time, a column of the Southern Army arrived, sending more than 2,000 valuable fresh troops and feared heavy machine guns, and the latter was the main reason for the large-scale retreat of the Northern Army.

The Storm heavy machine gun of the Orientals is a demon that spreads fear!

When the terrifying "Da ......" gunfire rang out, like a demon's horn, all the attacking soldiers of the Northern Army turned around and ran in fright, but not many were really knocked to the ground.

Don't count on the infantry to attack without destroying these hateful heavy machine guns.

The only effective means is to use artillery cluster attacks, blowing those heavy machine guns that are not easily transferred to pieces, but this will take time.

Next

The same bloody battle, the same artillery fire, the battle for Kansas City has continued until the ninth day, and the massive casualties of soldiers on both sides have made everyone crazy and fall into a battle that forgets to die in battle.

From yesterday to this afternoon, a little more than a day and a night, the south sent seven special trains to the Kansas front, sending 13,500 reinforcements and a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition to fully support the front line.

The North is not inferior, with more than 20 trains from Chicago, Detroit and other major cities, once again sending more than 20,000 volunteer militiamen and a large amount of equipment to the Northern Army, showing their determination to fight to the end.

To get south from the north, you have to pass through Kansas City, which has convenient railroad lines to the east and south, Houston in the south and New Orleans in the southeast, and Richmond in the east.

Since early in the morning

General Sherman, commander-in-chief of the Western Front of the Northern Army, urged the army to attack wildly, and on the battlefield full of artillery fire, the heavy machine guns reinforced by the Southern Army were quickly destroyed one by one, and then endured wave after wave of attacks by the Northern infantry.

The Northern Army even dragged its artillery to the high ground on the left side of the battlefield, and condescendingly bombarded the Southern Army's defensive line, blowing up the train cars full of coal to tatters, and gaining the upper hand in momentum.

As for the actual damage effect, it can only be said that it is not satisfactory.

The U.S. artillery still uses rounded stone balls, which are fired to kill and injure the enemy by inertial kinetic energy, but it is only a pit in the train cars filled with coal.

More were injured by the flying stones, but fewer were killed.

The fierce battle on the battlefield continued until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the offensive troops of the US Northern Army had already broken through the front-line position of the railway station, protruding inward into the boss piece, squeezing the front of the Southern Army into a distorted position.

General Sherman was overjoyed at this, and immediately ordered the reserve forces to be put in order to exert more pressure in order to bring about the rapid collapse of the Southern Army and try to crush the enemy today.

As everyone knows, the opposing general Hill also has the same intention to lure the enemy deeper, so that the northern army will expose more weak flanks.

The battle lasted until about 3:20

Suddenly, the sound of fierce artillery bombardment and heavy machine-gun fire broke out on the flank of the Northern Army, and the attacking Northern Army was caught off guard and suddenly became disorganized.

At this time, a large army was killed from the weak flank of the Northern Army, and it stabbed into the battlefield like a sharp knife, which made the attacking flank troops of the Northern Army suddenly fall into the dilemma of being caught in the front and rear.

After more than 10 minutes of fierce fighting, the flank attacking force of the Northern Army unsurprisingly collapsed.

The soldiers of the collapsing Northern Army threw away their armor and fled backwards, and many soldiers crashed headlong into the attacking Northern Army column in a panic, thus causing even greater chaos, as if a domino effect.

At this time, the southern army began a full-scale counterattack like chicken blood, and the heavy machine guns that had finally been hidden also roared like crazy, and hit the northern army with their heads covered in the face.

As a result, more northern armies retreated.

The collapse of the entire front was so depraving that General Sherman sent almost all the officers that his command could to send in an effort to organize troops to counterattack on the spot and stabilize the front.

However, everything was in vain, at this time the officers and soldiers of the North ran all over the battlefield, and the soldiers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and it had become a pot of porridge.

The serious consequences of the Northern Army's frenzied recruitment of untrained volunteer militias have emerged, that is, they can only fight against the wind, not against the wind.

This situation will never appear in the army of the Tang Kingdom.

Trained soldiers are able to resist even when besieged from all sides, under the command of officers, retreat without confusion, and continue to counterattack the enemy with firepower and hand-to-hand combat.

Just like playing yellow, shrink a little with the same force, and open up again as soon as the strength is loosened, which is very tough and elastic, and it is easy to crush.

That's because the entire army has coalesced into a strong fighting force, not a plate of loose sand, and the two are fundamentally different.

Seeing that the large-scale rout of the Northern Army had already occurred, the commander of the Southern Army, General Daniel Harvey Hill, decisively threw into the possession of a precious cavalry division that he had always held in his hand, and launched a frenzied killing and encirclement of the enemy.

This time, it was really a defeat.

The soldiers of the Northern Army spread out their girls and ran desperately, but they really ran all over the mountains, rushing the army in their rear to a pulp, and involuntarily fled......

The slaughter lasted until dark, and the victorious Southern Army pursued about 20 kilometers as a whole, occupied the rear camp of the Northern Army, captured countless grain and grass baggage, killed and wounded more than 32,000 enemy troops, captured nearly 40,000 Northern officers and soldiers, and achieved a hearty victory.

The Northern Army fled for 86 kilometers until the city of St. Joseph to stop its footsteps, and only more than 60,000 people were left in the remnants of the defeated army, and nearly 10,000 people were missing, and all the equipment was almost completely lost.

St. Joseph's City is an important city 86 kilometers north of Kansas City, which was captured by the Confederate Army a month and a half ago, and now operates as a large rear of the Confederate Army and a heavy place for stockpiling grain and grass.

After collecting the rout, the number of soldiers was counted and there were only more than 60,000 left, and General Sherman's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his heart was like a knife!

The defeat in this battle was so miserable that it meant that the battlefield on the Western Front suffered a heavy setback, and it was impossible to recover for a long time.

Kansas City has two important cities in the south and north, St. Joseph in the north is 86 kilometers away, Revel in the south is 39 kilometers away, and about 100 kilometers to the southwest is Rennes County, which is also a medium-sized city with a population of about 80,000 people, and the farming and food processing industries are particularly developed.

These cities are connected by a major railroad line, forming the most important urban cluster in Kansas, where 80% of the state's population lives in this narrow strip, which is also part of the black soil of the Central Great Plains of North America, with its streams and fertile land.

The town of Manhattan

With General Hill's military order, the army of the Tang Kingdom took over the Hugo Fortress like a tide, and took over the 7 towns along the railway, and all the men in the area from 15 to 55 years old were incorporated into the team, and a total of about 12,700 people were taken out of a surprise army, which really produced a miraculous effect.

As a result, the town of Manhattan was overrun by a militia cavalry regiment from the Colorado Plateau, who swaggered into the town's homes, slept with the town's women, enjoyed the town's ale, and considered themselves the town's masters.

The protesting white mayor and the sheriff, who were in his 60s, disappeared in the evening, and since then, they have not been seen and are said to have gone to war.

This 12,700-strong soldier was instrumental in the Confederate Army's first Battle of Kansas, but it also suffered heavy casualties, with more than half of them killed in the battle.

It is unimaginable that a spirit that looks at death as if it were home will impact the old army of the north unscathed.

In the second and third Kansas campaigns, this haphazard patchwork army suffered heavy casualties again and again, and in the end, not even 1/10 survived, and most of the remaining people never returned to those towns.

Because, those small towns are no longer owned by the United States, whether in the South or in the North, that's a story for later.

This kind of ending is not surprising, when did the land swallowed by the Tang Kingdom spit out?

Having occupied this vital area, the Kingdom army had 100 reasons to stay on and take it for themselves in 99 ways. At the government level alone, there are huge war loans that have not been repaid, and the mortgage of unclaimed land interests in Kansas negotiated by the two sides does not count?

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