"When the weather improves, the scale of the war will be further expanded, and this king will let the war burn all over the eastern states, and make these Anglo-American Yankees who support the war suffer enough." Richard rode his horse to a hill, and he grabbed the reins of his horse and looked around.

The magnificent scene of thousands of miles of ice in front of him made Richard proud, his heart was full of the bloody impulse to gallop the field, and he raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed at the country and said;

"How many years later, when you look back. You will be sincerely proud of your conquest of North America under the banner of the Kingdom, and it will be the most glorious resume and the crowning glory of your military career.

Such a vast world is a great pleasure in life.

The North American War will be the ultimate battle to determine the strategic pattern of North America, and it can only be won but not lost, and it must be won thoroughly, without any trouble, and lay a good start for future development.

Therefore, the army can go too far, be more thorough, and the war will spread more widely, and this is the price that should be paid.

If you lose a division, this king will replenish you with a division.

Lose a legion, and the king will replenish it for you.

This king does not want to look at the specific number of casualties, but to destroy the foundation of the United States of America for the next 50 years and beyond......"

Speaking of this domineeringly, King Richard sat on his horse, looked back at the senior generals with deep eyes, and his whole body was so strong that the king's spirit was vigorous, and he waved his hand and said; "Follow the scepter of the alliance to conquer, my generals, on the day of victory, the alliance will not hesitate to reward, and the marquis will do everything in his favor, this is the king's promise."

"We are willing to follow Your Majesty to the soup and fire, never give up, Your Majesty Shengming, long live my king, long live, long live!" The crowd was excited by these words, and replied with their fists clasped in unison. The winter of 860 was a little colder than usual.

Lieutenant General Samuel Brown in Detroit was not relieved that this year's blizzard had come early, and the mounting pressure on the Western Front was almost keeping him awake at night, and the troubles that ensued were causing him a headache.

These days

Due to the sudden cooling of the weather and heavy snowfall, the city of Detroit was covered in silver after the snow, and the black slaves who fled north who were accustomed to the warm climate of the south suffered widespread frostbite, and many froze to death.

According to statistics;

There are 372 blacks who have frozen to death in tents, and more than 4,700 have suffered frostbite.

The potential contradictions between blacks and whites surfaced, and the local white residents who were extremely discriminatory against blacks were not allowed to set foot in the area, let alone allow blacks to enter warm houses to spend the night.

In the eyes of the white residents of Detroit;

Negroes are filthy and lowly creatures who cannot be called human beings, let alone be treated equally.

It's thankful to be able to live in a leaky tent, and it's absolutely impossible to get into a house in the middle of the block to escape the cold.

There was no large-scale evacuation of residents from the city of Detroit, and the 200,000 troops of the Northern Army Defensive Corps occupied too many factories, vacant houses and warehouses, and it was impossible to make room for these black fugitive slaves, let alone mix with the blacks.

"Damn it, if it weren't for the Eastern soldiers pressing the border, I suspect the city would have fought first." Lieutenant General Samuel Brown took a long sip of hot coffee and couldn't help but complain.

Major General Macdonald-Knox came over with a coffee cup, sat across the table, sat across from Lieutenant General Samuel Brown, and said in a playful tone; God testifies that no one wants to get too close to those. I don't even know if I can teach them to shoot? ”

"Don't worry, at least they can be consumed as cannon fodder."

"The Eastern army is not short of these bullets, and it seems to me that this heavy snowstorm has forced the Eastern army to suspend its offensive, and has only exacerbated our food shortage. Even the ration was not enough for a month, and the ate too much. ”

"Don't worry about food, British merchant ships will be sent from Toronto, and the problem now is that we can't let these blacks all freeze to death, we have to find a place to settle down." Lieutenant General Samuel Brown took another long sip of hot coffee, then put the cup on the table, frowned and thought about it, and said;

"General Locks, the 11th, 12th, 25th, and 56th regiments of the New York Volunteer Army under your command are stationed in a large dock warehouse area, let's vacate it for a while, and I'll give you some of the Pennsylvania Legion garrison, squeeze it for the time being, and survive this damn winter."

"I knew it was going to happen, oh my God, those officers of the New York Regiment were going to be arguing! Not everyone wants to leave their warm room in this cold weather to make room for the filthy and lowly. ”

"It's an order, General Locks."

"Well, you're the boss, and the New York Volunteer Corps will be happy to do your bidding."

"I'll compensate your guys, and when the war starts, let those black legions rush to the front." Lieutenant General Samuel Brown comforted him with kind words and finally solved this troublesome matter.

It didn't take a few days

A shocking news came from the front that the army of the Tang Kingdom actually transported three large-caliber coastal heavy artillery pieces by train, which immediately made the defenders of Detroit unable to sit still. January 17th

With the roar of artillery fire in the early morning, the defensive bunkers and barbed wire fences of Detroit's snow-covered perimeter positions were destroyed one by one, and the Battle of Detroit officially began.

After two days of bloody fighting, Detroit's outlying positions were declared lost.

After all, in such cold weather, the Northern Army could not accumulate a large number of troops in the outer positions. Under the tactics of artillery bombardment and infantry attack on the coalition side, it was difficult for the outlying positions with insufficient troops to hold on. January 21, 9:00 a.m

West suburbs of Detroit

The densely arranged military formations of the northern army could not be seen at a glance, forming a horizontal array as wide as 2.6 kilometers, in which the soldiers were lined up in four rows, and there were second-, third-, and fourth-line military formations in the rear, with rough statistics of about 86,000 people and more than 130 artillery pieces of various kinds.

Not far to the west, is the military formation of the Tang Kingdom, with the infantry in the middle, lined up in a horizontal formation, the cavalry guarding the two wings, and more than 300 field guns are deployed on the rear heights.

The total strength was roughly about 78,000 people, and a total of 3 white servant divisions and 4 field divisions were dispatched, with a total of 7 divisions and 9 artillery regiments participating in the battle.

The two armies are about 3.5 kilometers apart, and there are swords and guns like a forest, and there is an atmosphere of slaughter before the war.

Admiral Chen Chuan stood on the high ground on the side of the artillery position, holding a copper monocular, carefully observing for a moment, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes, and he said in an indifferent tone; "It seems that Lieutenant General Brown is ready to use these black soldiers as cannon fodder to consume our strength first."

Lieutenant General George Rabiot, deputy commander of the Northern Corps, also put down the telescope in his hand and nodded; "The intention of the Northern Army is obvious, the first two columns are all black soldiers, with a total of more than 40,000 soldiers, and the last two columns are all white soldiers, which just play the role of supervising the war and reinforcements, and they are more ruthless than us!"

This exclamation is not without a source;

A horizontal column in the army of the Tang Kingdom is also composed of 4 rows of soldiers, the first two rows are cannon fodder forcibly recruited and trained by the white servant division, and the last two rows are white veterans.

The second column was composed of Chinese field divisions, not all cannon fodder. After all, now the white servant division is also counted as his own people, and he can't be consumed at any cost like a stormtrooper.

"Then it depends on whether their black legion works, it's almost time, let's get started!" Admiral Chen Chuan looked at his watch and decisively ordered the war.

"Yes, sir."

With the waving of the battle flag in their hands, the trumpeters who received the order immediately blew their horns, and the sound of the desolate and solemn horns echoed on the battlefield, and the snare drums immediately worked.

The infantry commander drew his long knife and gave the order, "All the army marches!" The long line of infantry marched forward in orderly steps, surging forward like a wave.

The Northern Army did not show weakness either, marching in a slightly scattered queue under the orders of the officers, and the rhythmic sound of war drums came from behind them.

These blacks in pursuit of freedom, bravely facing the guns of the Eastern army, they know that if they want to be looked down upon by whites, they must risk their blood and lives to win an equal and free people's status.

Weak cattle don't even have the value of plowing the land, and the Negro still understands this truth.

Dressed in a variety of clothes, they marched bravely in untidy formations, armed with outdated old-fashioned smoothbore rifles, and felt the same status on the battlefield as the whites, which gave the black soldiers high confidence.

The first time they went to battle, the black soldiers didn't know that the range of these old-fashioned smoothbore rifles in their hands was only 250 yards, and they couldn't hit more than 80 yards.

Half an hour later

The armies of the two sides were getting closer and closer, and the opposing armies were also within the range of the artillery bombardment of the coalition forces, Admiral Chen Chuan ordered with a calm expression; "Heralds; The 3-pounder gun blocked the shelling for 5 minutes. ”

The Colt three-pounder field gun is the smallest caliber field gun equipped by the army units, and it is also the main firepower of the battalion and regimental infantry, accounting for only half of the number of artillery pieces on the position, about 150 pieces.

The speed of "interdiction shelling" is two rounds per minute, and in 5 minutes, each cannon is 10 shells, which is one-third of the rate of fire of "rapid fire".

It is clear that Admiral Chen Chuan did not want to waste expensive shells on these black cannon fodder, and did not use the 6-pounder guns that were prepared, but was ready to crush the enemy with infantry fire.

The deputy commanders, Lieutenant General George Rabiot and Lieutenant General Lei Jueshen, who were standing next to him, smiled knowingly when they saw this, and continued to watch the battle quietly.

The white cannon fodder in the front row of the Coalition side was also armed with 13-round lever rifles, and Lieutenant General Samuel Brown of the Northern Army was too perfunctory to get those tattered smoothbore rifles to cope with the errand.

Some of these weapons collected by the people are seventy or eighty years old, and they are still old-fashioned rifles used during the War of Independence, so how can they fight?

The "rumbling" of artillery positions suddenly sounded, announcing the beginning of a bloody battle.

Then the artillery fire of the Northern Army also roared, and the two sides kept bombarding back and forth, and the thick artillery smoke rose into the sky like a dark cloud, breaking the winter tranquility.

It can be seen that there is a clear difference between the artillery fire of the two sides.

The artillery shells fired by the artillery of the Tang Kingdom exploded from time to time in the ranks of the black advances, and in an instant, the bloody wind and rain were emptied, and the shrapnel sputtered everywhere shrouded a radius of seven or eight meters, and at least a dozen soldiers were blown up to the bones and tendons, and the stumps and arms flew into the sky.

And those shells that exploded near the ranks of soldiers, the shrapnel that crashed instantly made several soldiers fly flesh and blood, and their bodies lay on the ground limply and died.

On the other hand, the solid shells fired by the Northern Army "slipped and jumped" on the position and smashed out a line, and if they smashed into the ranks of soldiers, it would be a bloody alley, and in an instant the bones and tendons were broken and fell to the ground, wailing loudly.

In the military formation of the 4th platoon, this kind of solid artillery hit the top of the sky, that is, 1 string of 4, that is, killed and wounded 4 soldiers, and its lethal power was far inferior to that of the coalition artillery.

After enduring the casualties of the artillery bombardment, the two military formations approached within 220 yards after a few minutes, only to hear the order of the commander of the army of the Tang Kingdom to "stop advancing", and the black soldiers on the opposite side couldn't help but have a look of extreme fear flashing in their eyes.

But in the military formation, I had to move forward with the soldiers around me.

At this moment, the life and death of the individual are completely out of control.

Fortunately, the commander of the black platoon also gave the order to stop advancing, and by this time, the soldiers on the opposite side had already raised their guns in unison, and then began to fire fiercely.

The dense platoon of guns and bullets came like flying locusts, and the black soldiers in the queue only heard a dull sound of "puff puff ......puff" that made their scalps tingle, and the black soldiers in the first row fell nearly half, and the strong smell of blood suddenly spread.

Before these black soldiers could react, the second round of bullets was densely enveloped, and this round of missiles knocked down the black soldiers in the first row, and the black soldiers in the second row also fell a lot......

However, the nightmare had not yet dissipated, and the dense volley of bullets came round after round like locusts, knocking countless black soldiers in the first array to the ground, as if they were shooting targets.

As a matter of fact

After the third round of guns fired by the coalition soldiers, the black soldiers lined up behind the first array had already screamed and dropped their rifles and ran away, and the whole thing collapsed.

However, the speed of the escape was far from that of the bullets, and the dense coverage of the bullets that followed knocked the fleeing black soldiers to the ground and swept them away.

After 13 consecutive rounds of gun shooting, there were very few black soldiers in the first array of more than 20,000 black soldiers who could escape, and the corpses stretched 2.6 kilometers long and more than 100 meters wide, and the red blood was extremely dazzling on the silver and white earth.

Where this is a battle, it is clearly a one-sided massacre.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju, the commander of the 502nd Division who commanded the battle in the first array, suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, brandished the saber in his hand and shouted; "The soldiers in the first two rows all crouched, and the soldiers in the back two rows fired freely and opened fire."

The last two rows of white soldiers, all veterans of the 502nd Division, are now equipped with King-type bolt-action rifles, which have a range of up to 850,900 meters, are lethal at a range of five or six hundred meters, and shoot accurately.

The 2nd Black Soldier Array, which was already in chaos in the Northern Army, was only more than 400 meters away, and it was a good opportunity to concentrate fire and attack, how could it be let go in vain?

Order

The sound of a dense volley of gunfire that made people tingle in the scalp rang out again, and in the frightened eyes of the second array of black soldiers more than 400 meters away, bullets like flying locusts swooped down......

In an instant, blood splattered, and the neat row became uneven as if it had been gnawed by a dog's teeth, and at this time, the black soldiers fled all over the mountains as if they had blown up their nests.

And the steady platoon of guns behind him rang out one after another, like the note of chasing life, and the black cannon fodder who killed them urinated on their buttocks, and ran away like a desperate person.

Many blacks regret that they have suffered a little bit on the cotton plantations in the South, but it is not so dangerous.

It's scary, there is wood?

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