1850 American Gold Tycoon

Sherman took the remaining forty cavalrymen and fled back to the camp 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 biggest effect of these fences, which can be broken open with the butt of a gun with a little force, is to bring a bit of self-deceptive psychological comfort to the soldiers in the camp.

They 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 simply 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 heavy gunfire woke Colonel Mason and his soldiers from their sleep.

The soldiers picked up the guns lying beside them, and under the orders of the non-commissioned officers, they quickly formed a team and prepared to go into battle.

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

But Mason didn't expect Liang Yao to 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. .

Mason looked around. His camp was set up on a relatively open platform. Except for 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 could not see clearly where the enemy was. 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. Mason, who didn't see a company of soldiers, 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.

Sherman, this guy, is usually my brother-in-law, but he doesn't take me with him when he escapes at critical moments.

"Sherman, the deserter!"

Colonel Mason said through gritted teeth 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 he was holding the reins of another horse as 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 gunshot, 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 overwhelmed, and he had to hurry.

"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!"

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

This made Mason very angry, and Mason pulled out the pistol on 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 overcomes Oliver's awe of Colonel Mason. Oliver musters up the courage to shoot his boss, and then pushes Colonel Mason onto his horse. Of course, he himself got on horseback, riding the same horse as Colonel Mason.

"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 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 struggling to hold on with the last bit 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 abandoned them and fled, and they had lost any reason to stay and continue fighting.

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