1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 120 I’m offended! Your Excellency, Colonel! (Fifth update!)

Sherman fled back to the camp with more than 40 remaining cavalrymen in embarrassment.

Their station is not so much a camp as a bunch of tents arranged in an orderly manner, but there is a fence surrounding the tents.

The greatest effect of these fences, which can be broken open with the butt of a rifle with a little force, is to bring a somewhat self-deceptive psychological comfort to the soldiers in the camp.

They only landed ashore at four o'clock this afternoon, and there was not enough time to collect materials and build a camp.

Just as he entered the camp, there was another burst of gunfire from behind Sherman. The opponent's reloading speed was very fast, at least not slower than his soldiers.

From this alone, Sherman was able to judge that these enemies who came to attack were not poorly trained militiamen, let alone a ragtag group, but professional soldiers who were as well-trained as them.

It is impossible for a ragtag group of people to maintain such a fast reloading speed when facing a battle.

Thinking that he was surrounded by more than one regiment of troops, Sherman's legs were trembling a little at this time.

He and his soldiers quickly searched for the horses. At this time, they didn't care who the horses belonged to. They just rode on them as long as they could find them.

Even the pack horses pulling the baggage were untied and ridden by them.

The purpose of mounting their horses was not to prepare for battle, but to retreat more conveniently.

To put it more bluntly, it means running away.

The intense gunfire woke Colonel Mason and his soldiers from their sleep.

The soldiers picked up the guns lying beside them and quickly formed their teams to prepare for battle under the orders of the non-commissioned officers.

Colonel Mason had expected that Liang Yao would attack tonight, so he specially stepped up his alert so that he could react as quickly as possible if he was attacked.

But Mason didn't expect that Liang Yao would send so many people for a sneak attack.

Listening to the gunfire, it seems that the other party has more than an infantry regiment.

Liang Yao's California Infantry Regiment was mobilized in full force?

During the day, he had already killed more than half of his company at sea. He didn't know what was happening with the company that was on guard duty outside at this time. If there was another problem with the company on guard duty, he would only have a little more than three companies at his disposal.

Already.

Mason looked around. His camp was set up on a relatively open platform. Except for the use of more than thirty baggage carriages, there were no other available bunkers around it.

The three infantry companies quickly lined up in company units and began to fight back at the enemy in the darkness under the orders of the company commanders.

It was a dark and windy night. These frightened soldiers couldn't see where the enemy was, so they could only shoot towards the place where the gunfire was emitting, praying to hit the enemy.

Soon, the opponent gave them a more violent counterattack, raining bullets on their ranks.

In almost every queue, there were five or six unlucky guys who were shot and fell to the ground, and this was just the opponent's first round of shooting.

Several of Mason's black servants ran to Mason crying. In the dark night, Colonel Mason could only see the eyes of several black servants and their white teeth.

"Sir, your horse was snatched away! Those damn guys! How dare they snatch your horse!"

Although he was in an extremely tense environment, the voice of the black servant was still full of rhythm.

"Where's Sherman? Where's Sherman?!"

Mason didn't care that his horse was being ridden away. He looked around. He didn't see a company of soldiers. Mason frowned. He grabbed a major named Oliver and asked where Sherman was now.

"Captain Sherman, who was in charge of the security, suffered heavy casualties, and Captain Sherman is missing!"

The major said angrily that he guessed Sherman must have escaped first.

This guy Sherman, who is usually a close friend to me, would not take me with him when he ran away at critical moments.

"Sherman, the deserter!"

Colonel Mason gritted his teeth and said that he hated deserters the most in his life.

But he couldn't care about Sherman now, he still wanted to direct his army to fight back.

"Your Majesty Colonel!"

Sherman was riding a horse, and holding the reins of another horse in his hand, he emerged from nowhere.

"Colonel! Mount your horse quickly! There are too many enemies! We simply can't stop them with our small strength!"

The major guessed correctly that Sherman wanted to escape, but before escaping, Sherman decided to take Colonel Mason with him.

Colonel Mason is the highest commander here. As long as he takes Colonel Mason with him, Sherman will not be considered a deserter.

Of course, Colonel Mason's kindness to Sherman was also the reason why Sherman decided to come back and take Colonel Mason with him.

While they were talking, the other party fired another round of shots at them. After the gunfire, the screams of the soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground reached Sherman's ears.

Sherman knew that the three companies of infantry would soon be unable to hold out, and he had to hurry up.

"Sherman! Are you going to be a deserter?!" Mason scolded Sherman sharply, "I am now ordering you to assemble as many soldiers as you can to stand by my side!"

Sherman refused to carry out Colonel Mason's orders for the first time.

This made Mason very angry, and Mason pulled out the pistol from his waist: "Sherman! If you dare to be a deserter, I will shoot you!"

"Oliver! Do you want to die here?!"

Sherman raised his hands and winked at Major Oliver, who was standing next to Colonel Mason.

Clever Oliver understood.

"I'm offended! Colonel! I hope you can forgive me! I also think about your safety!"

The desire to survive overcame Oliver's awe of Colonel Mason. Oliver plucked up the courage to shoot his boss, and then pushed Colonel Mason onto the horse. Of course, he also got on the horse and rode with Colonel Mason.

A war horse.

"Sherman! Oliver! You two bastards! Do you know what you are doing now?"

Colonel Mason roared angrily.

"Put me down, you cowards! Deserters! I will fight the enemy to the death!"

Sherman and Oliver paid no attention to Mason, and they quickly disappeared into the dusk under the cover of more than two dozen cavalrymen.

Behind them came the desperate voices of Mason's black servants.

"Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Please take us with you!"

But no one paid attention to these black servants. They had no time to take care of themselves, so how could they care about the life and death of these black servants.

After Colonel Mason left, the morale of the three infantry companies, which had been supported by the last vestige of faith, finally collapsed.

Their casualties had exceeded one-fifth, but the top commander was nowhere to be seen.

The supreme commander was nowhere to be seen, and the three captains and company commanders had no intention of staying and continuing to command the army. They also wanted to survive.

Colonel Mason had already abandoned them and fled, and they had lost all reason to stay and continue fighting.

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