April 21, 1836.

San Jacinto, Texas, USA.

Historically, in San Jacinto, the Texas army led by American colony merchant Sam Houston defeated Tasan Anna's Mexican army in just 18 minutes.

In this battle, Sam Houston attacked 3,000 Mexican troops with 800 troops, causing more than 700 Mexican army losses and only 11 casualties.

Perhaps by a coincidence of history, after the end of the Battle of the Alamo, Tasan Anna completely swept away the remnants of the Texas Army around San Antonio, and then decided to go north.

This day happened to be April 21, 1836.

Tasan Anna has received reinforcements from Mexico, and the total number of troops has reached 12,000, but 4,000 troops need to be left to garrison San Antonio in case they are cut off.

A tribe of Comanches was bought off by the Americans, and Tasan Anna sent an army of 2,000 men ready to teach them a lesson of a lifetime.

At the same time, according to intelligence, a contingent of Americans was besieging the Marion fortress.

As long as it is an officer, you can see that this must be a ploy by the Americans to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Both Gabrinz and Stadion felt that they should abandon the Marion Fortress and go north to besiege Austin.

In this way, no matter whether the Americans are really fighting or faking it, they have to return to Austin's aid.

Because once Austin falls, the Americans' back roads will be completely cut off, and only Dallas will be left in the north.

In this way, the initiative in the war is in the hands of the Mexican side, and when the time comes, it will not be up to the Americans to encircle the point and send reinforcements, or to increase the number of troops to besiege it.

After listening to the advice of the two generals, Tasan Anna decided to send the main force to Marion to relieve the siege, while he himself led his troops to find a place to camp first.

One is that the weather is too hot, and the other is the advice of the Grand Duke "Franz Carr": harden the village and fight in a daze.

Franz wasn't in Mexico, and he didn't necessarily have much of a military understanding, but he only knew the history, and he was convinced that the raid was a conspiracy...

In fact, it was the Mexicans who betrayed Tasan Anna, and there were many factions in Mexico, and some people were dissatisfied with Tasan Anna, so they revealed Tasan Anna's battle plan to Sam Houston, and used a false information to lure Tasan Anna's main force of 3000 troops.

At this time, Tasan Anna had only 2,500 Mexican soldiers and 200 temporarily recruited Texans, as well as 300 black soldiers.

Tasan Anna issued the Emancipation Proclamation at Franz's suggestion, but he himself was still very disgusted with black slaves, and the three hundred black soldiers were only given one hundred and fifty guns and some cold weapons.

But the black soldiers did not complain, and still worshipped Tasan Anna as a savior.

Sam Houston was ambushed by Tasan Anna's camp with 800 Texans, waiting for a signal that the man who sold him promised to burn the bridge in order to cut off Tasan Anna's retreat.

"Mr. Houston, are we going to die?" Recruit Jimmy asked.

Jimmy was a young Texas volunteer, he was a horse wrangler, one day a couple of American fellows ran to his family's farm and said that the Mexicans would steal all his horses and confiscate his family's land, Jimmy was angry and ignored his mother's obstruction, and joined the Texas Army with a gun.

Jimmy had killed people, and there were some Indians who had been loitering around his family's ranch and claiming that his family's land belonged to the Indians.

So Jimmy's father hired some cowboys to exterminate the Indian tribe.

Jimmy was also present, and when he saw an old Indian who was about to jump into the river and escape, he pulled the trigger, and the old man fell to the river, and Jimmy's hounds excitedly pounced on him to bite his prey.

Jimmy's father excitedly hands Jimmy a knife when he sees Jimmy knock down an Indian with a gun.

"Jimmy, use this to scalp him off like a man."

Jimmy took his father's knife and pulled the Indian by the hair....

Jimmy's father used Jimmy's booty to make him a pair of boots and gave them to Jimmy as a birthday present.

But Jimmy, who was on the battlefield for the first time, still had his hands shaking uncontrollably.

Houston looked at the recruit in front of him, smiled, and kissed the child's forehead.

"Man is inherently mortal, but it will not be us who will die today. Be of good cheer, child, and God is with us. ”

"Were the ancestors of Mexicans all criminals and Indians? Mr. Houston. Jimmy asked.

"No, but Mexico does have a lot of mulattoes."

"What about the black slaves?" Jimmy gestured to the black troops at the very edge of the camp.

"They are the property of us Texans, all stripped of by the shameless dictator of Mexico, and we Texans fight precisely to protect our property and our freedom."

Suddenly, a fire broke out on the bridge, and there was a riot in Tasan Anna's barracks, and the soldiers were at a loss, some were fighting the fire, others were running around without a head.

Tasan Anna was now making out with his mistress, Miss Jenny, in his tent, and he had been in the Mexican army for many years, and he had long been accustomed to this mess, and only yelled at the adjutant outside.

"Kamarai, go see what's going on? Shut them up! ”

Gabrinz and Stadion tried to put an end to the confusion, but their Spanish was poor, and the Mexican soldiers were completely unresponsive, and it was at this time that they saw Camare.

"General Kamaré, you're just in time, let them stop and put out the fire. Otherwise, the bridge will be burned, and the supply of the army will be difficult. ”

Kamarare nodded, he understood the importance of the bridge and drew his pistol.

"Bang! Bang! ”

"Stop! Before Kamaré could finish his words, a gunshot was heard, and a bullet hit Kamaré.

Camare clutched his chest in disbelief as the soldiers around him looked at each other as more bullets came at him, knocking out several Mexican soldiers who were still in place.

A shell exploded in the air, and scattered projectiles sent a bloody rain through the camp.

The fallen soldiers smashed the campfire, which soon set fire to the surrounding tents, and the Mexican army became even more disorganized.

Houston grabbed the plane, and he knew it was a battle that would go down in history.

"For freedom! For our land! Come on! ”

The Texans in Houston were overwhelmed and soon broke through the Mexican lines, and they were less than 200 meters away from Tasan Anna's tent.

As the Mexican army scattered and fled, a group of black soldiers blocked the Texas army in Houston with their flesh and blood.

Most of these black soldiers were freed slaves, they had only minimal training, and many of them even used their rifles as if they were shooting indiscriminately.

However, these black soldiers withstood the surprise attack of the Texas Army with amazing courage.

Houston knew that the opportunity to end the war was in front of him, and he had to do whatever it takes.

"Brothers! Tasan Anna is in front, follow me! ”

The black slaves on the opposite side kept roaring and rushed towards the Texans.

The black soldiers launched a desperate charge, delaying the Texans and buying time for Gabrinz and Stadion to regroup.

Faced with the Mexican army that began to counterattack, Houston had no choice but to retreat.

At this point, a man hugged his thigh, and it was Jimmy who injured his foot.

"Mr. Houston, please, help me."

Houston looked at Jimmy, who was lying on the ground, and then at the Mexican troops who were surrounding, and he smashed the butt of his gun into Jimmy's face and fled with his troops.

Historically, Houston captured Tasan Anna at the cost of eleven men, thus ending the Battle of Texas and establishing a century-old psychological advantage of the United States over Mexico.

However, 300 black soldiers changed history with their lives.

The Texans lost less than 200 men in this battle, caused nearly 1,000 casualties of the Mexican army, and burned countless Mexican baggage, and the black soldiers paid a huge price, with only 23 people in three companies surviving.