After 10 minutes

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju's face became ugly, the shelling he had hoped for had not arrived, and what that meant was clear.

The brigadier commander of the 105th Division is the supreme commander of this assault force, and if a few mortal charge missions are arranged, the strength of the 502nd Division can be quickly consumed. even directly asked Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju to charge forward and go to carry out a mortal mission.

Offended the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju's future became dangerous and uncertain.

Come to think of it

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju had fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and although it was now the end of June, the temperature in Chicago was still only in his 20s, which was not very hot.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju's scorching heart is like falling into an ice cellar, and his current situation is like roasting on a charcoal fire, and the mood of suffering from gains and losses makes it difficult for him to calm down, and his heart fluctuates.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of fierce shelling from the rear, and it seemed that all 18 6-pounder guns were firing fiercely, frantically venting their fire on the woodyard in front.

The raining shells blew up the wooden piles of the Northern Army soldiers crying for their fathers and mothers, and the violent explosion waves pushed the large wood that was more than one person thick to roll around, causing many soldiers to be crushed underneath and blood sprayed wildly.

The cannonballs exploded on the wooden pile, forming countless flying wooden thorns, which splattered in all directions like a swarm of poisonous bees, sweeping the soldiers of the Northern Army to the ground, and the severed limbs and stumps flew into the sky, and the blood stained the woodyard red.

The woodyard, which was originally regarded as dependent, was ravaged by artillery fire, but now it has become the culprit of death, causing double the damage to the soldiers of the Northern Army.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengfei's face also changed from surprise to joy, and he couldn't help laughing, at this time he raised his wrist and looked at the gold watch, 17 minutes had passed.

Other words

The 105th Division did not open fire within 10 minutes as originally requested, but delayed until 16 minutes before firing, conveying a very rich meaning.

You say 10 minutes is 10 minutes, what's that...... Brigadier general, division commander, don't you want to lose face?

At this time, the officer of the guard company who had gone to deliver the order came running out of breath and reported in a hurried tone; "The division commander ordered the artillery fire to be fired rapidly for 5 minutes, and after 5 minutes, it was extended forward for 3 minutes."

"Understood."

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was overjoyed, suddenly pulled out the bright command knife on his waist, and ordered loudly; "It's been two minutes since the shelling, the infantry artillery coordination tactics are led by the guard company, the second regiment is now all following the charge, the first regiment and the third regiment are following me, we are going to take the warehouse position in one fell swoop and fight a beautiful battle of annihilation."

At the sound of an order, all the Chinese soldiers of the guard company stood at the front, picked up their rifles and rushed out.

The white soldiers of the 2nd Regiment behind him, under the command of the Chinese commander, rushed through the open space full of corpses like a tide of black pressure, and rushed towards the lumber yard guarded by the soldiers of the Northern Army.

The distance between the two places is about 1,700 meters, and when the allied soldiers rushed to the woodyard with a trot, the artillery fire of the rear support had already extended forward and began to bombard the fortified warehouse camp.

They were all afraid of being buried in the bombed barracks, so they were sent away directly, and even the burial was spared.

At this time, it was the turn of the soldiers of the 502nd Division to exert their might, and they swept through the woodyard like a tide, and easily fired a dense number of bullets, killing those bombed northern elders one by one.

Then, he opened fierce fire on the soldiers of the Northern Army who rushed out of the barracks, knocking them to the ground like cutting rice, and then continued to attack fiercely.

The gunfire has just stopped

The officers and men of the 502nd Division, who continued to charge, flooded the storehouse area like a tide, and began to carry out a clean-up operation against the old northern ones who were still hiding in the storehouse camp, blocking the doors and windows and pouring bullets and rain into the storehouse, carrying out a frenzied massacre.

Many of the Northern Army soldiers in the barracks were either resting or chatting, and they did not expect the coalition soldiers to rush to the door so quickly, and even the rifles were neatly stacked in the conspicuous place of the entrance, almost defenseless.

Encountering the rain of bullets pouring down from the doors and windows of the coalition soldiers, there was really no place to hide, and they could only be beaten into a sieve in desperate screams, and it was useless to surrender.

The only Chinese unit of the 502nd Division is the guard company, these Chinese soldiers have been trained in infantry and artillery coordination, so they can well grasp the speed of attack, and when the artillery fire stops, they will suddenly kill and hit the enemy unprepared.

And the white soldiers of the 502nd Division are also veteran birds who have never eaten pork and seen pigs run, and they can still do it if they have the courage to follow behind the Chinese soldiers, they know that the shells can't blow themselves up.

In comparison, it is better than charging against the enemy's bullets.

Therefore, this time, the reduced version of the "infantry artillery coordinated attack" has achieved an unexpectedly huge victory.

After a fierce battle until about 5 p.m., almost a full day of fighting, the 502nd Division finally conquered the large 19-acre warehouse of the Vanderpait Shipping Company at the cost of more than 2,700 casualties.

In this battle, 6,241 people (including more than 1,300 wounded) of the Sixth Volunteer Division of Michigan were annihilated, more than 4,400 people were captured, and more than 3,300 remnants of the enemy were defeated, fighting a beautiful battle of annihilation.

After this battle

The 502nd Division was allowed to replenish its forces from the captives, and on the second day, it was reloaded, and drove the remaining 1,700 white prisoners to be selected as cannon fodder.

The Vanderpaitre Pier was fully occupied seven hours ahead of schedule, completing the task assigned by the upper peak.

On this basis

The 105th Division, which was supported in the rear, also participated, and three divisions (note, one Chinese Division A Division, 105th Division, plus two White Servant Divisions, the 502nd Division and the 507th Division) with a total of 28,000 troops swept south along the shores of Lake Michigan, and flanked the stubborn Northern Army with friendly troops in front and rear, inflicting heavy losses on it again and again, pulling out several hard nails in the fierce battles along the way, and making great contributions to the final and complete occupation of Chicago.

The 502nd Division performed particularly well in this battle, and the name Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was also well known to the corps commander, and by the way, he also knew that he was the cousin of Lieutenant General Fan Pengfei, deputy commander of the Colorado Corps, and this relationship could not be concealed.

On July 1, the Allied Command officially announced the full occupation of Chicago, which lasted more than two months, was an unprecedentedly large-scale, extremely bloody and brutal battle.

post-war inventory;

In the entire Battle of Chicago, the Northern Army lost a total of 377,500 people (including 52,000 wounded and sick people transferred to the rear), the army of the Tang Kingdom lost 331,100 people, and the losses of the regular division A and B divisions of the Tang Kingdom were about 37,200, of which more than 13,000 were killed and more than 24,000 were wounded, accounting for about 1/10 of the overall casualties of the coalition army.

After this battle, together with the loss of more than 130,000 troops on the Eastern Front in January ~ June 1860, the total strength of the United States (North) was reduced from 1.87 million to 1.37 million, and the overall strength suffered a heavy blow, and the hope of future victory was greatly slim.

There are only more than 170,000 refugees left in Chicago, which has suffered from the full-scale war, and in addition to more than 120,000 elderly and weak women and children, there are only more than 40,000 male residents, aged between 12~60 years old.

These men and tens of thousands of young women were immediately organized into labor teams, which were divided into camps for men and women, and in teams of 30 to 40 people, they were distributed with shovels, hoes, saws, and two wagons, and began to clean up the ruins and corpses of the war throughout the city.

More than 1,360 labor teams cleaned up very quickly, and in just three weeks' work, the blackened ruins of broken arms and countless corpses were long gone, and dangerous buildings were knocked down, leaving only large swaths of open space.

The streets were cleared, the shell craters were filled in, and the most visible traces of war were quickly erased, except for the vast expanses of open space and fewer buildings in the city.

According to the urban construction standards of the Tang Kingdom, the streets of Chicago will be excavated on a large scale in the next step, and large-scale sewer facilities made of masonry and concrete will be established to ensure that heavy rains do not flood and sewage will enter the ground, instead of overflowing sewage on the streets, which is easy to breed germs.

After the Battle of Chicago

The whole army had a month's rest, and the white servant division was reduced by three divisions, from the 501st to the 512th division, and all 12 divisions were fully loaded.

Nine of the original 15 lieutenant colonels and division commanders were promoted to colonels, among which Colonel Fan Pengju and Colonel Shi Jiayong performed particularly well and entered the list of corps commanders and reserve generals.

Sure enough, as long as real meritorious service is established, promotion is not a problem at all, and the future prospects are bright.

From August

The coalition forces attacked everywhere, successively occupying Yin Bender and Grand Rapids around Chicago, occupying most of Michigan, occupying many cities in Yin Lino Yin and Indiana, and approaching Detroit, another important large city in the Great Lakes region.

The strong Northern Corps, with seven divisions of white servants totaling about 300,000 men, arrived in the outlying towns of Detroit in late September, posing a serious threat to the defenders of the city.

The Colorado Corps parted ways with the Northern Corps, took the railroad south to Kansas City in Chicago, and from here took the train all the way east, successively captured more than 10 towns along the railway line, and approached the Cincinnati fortress on the Mississippi River in early October, forming a large army to overwhelm the territory.

The Colorado Corps, together with five white servant divisions, with a total strength of about 240,000 men and two heavy artillery divisions, was designed to deal with the fortified fortress of Cincinnati.

The loss of Chicago was an unprecedented failure for the U.S. federal government, and Detroit, the country's most heavily industrialized region, was followed by two major cities, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, the capital of Pennsylvania in the original thirteen British states, is one of the earliest developed cities in North America and has a long history.

Pittsburgh is New York at the same latitude to the east, Washington is a little south of it, and Boston, Dover, and Portland are important cities in the east to the north of New York.

In a public address in Washington, U.S. President James Buchanan made it clear that "Tang is the eternal enemy of the United States, and it is also the greatest challenge that the United States has ever faced." God testifies that the brave citizens of America will fight valiantly. Whether it is 10 years, 20 years or more, we will never give up armed resistance until the last breath of our lives......"

"The greatest sorrow of America is that it is too far from God and too close to the Tang Kingdom......"

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