Wild North America 1846

"Damn the Southerners, and those ubiquitous Orientals, I curse them all to hell..."

Looking at the attacking troops fading away like a tide, General Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army's Western Front, cursed with a gloomy expression, swung the riding crop in his hand and hit the table hard, causing dust to fill the air.

It seems that if this is not the case, it is not enough to vent the overwhelming hatred in my heart.

Fighting so far

Both the North and the South were like gamblers blinded by their losses, unable to retreat. The Northern Army had already paid a heavy price of more than 40,000 casualties, and it was necessary to capture Kansas City, the core of the transportation hub.

Otherwise, General Sherman feared that he would be torn to pieces by the angry people.

"Your Excellency General, the attacking troops are extremely tired and have suffered heavy casualties. Do you want to withdraw and rest for a while before reorganizing the attack? Otherwise, I'm afraid there will be a mutiny!"

"Where are the Kentucky Volunteer Militia Division and the Second Iowa Division? Where are they now?"

"Reporting to Your Excellency General, these two divisions are still in the rear camp as the general reserve, more than 30 kilometers away from the front line. If they are mobilized now, they will not arrive until dusk, and they will have to wait all night."

"Let's withdraw the attacking troops for the time being. We will maintain the offensive momentum in the afternoon and order the artillery to concentrate on destroying the enemy's heavy machine gun positions. In addition, we order the general reserve team to prepare. Get up at 1 o'clock in the morning to make food and rush to the front line fully armed. I will do it early tomorrow morning.

Seeing these two divisions in the attack queue at 8:00, we must continue to put strong pressure on the Southerners, they will not be able to hold on for long."

General Sherman was unwilling to give up and whipped him hard again. Standing on the high ground on the left, he could see that the entire front line had been shaken by the tide of the Northern Army's offensive.

As long as you apply more force, the whole thing may collapse.

At this time, a column of southern troops arrived, bringing with them more than 2,000 precious fresh troops and fearsome heavy machine guns. The latter was the main reason for the large-scale retreat of the northern army.

The Oriental's Storm-type heavy machine gun is a demon that spreads fear!

When that terrifying "ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta..." intensive gunfire sounded, like a devil's horn, all the attacking soldiers of the Northern Army turned around and ran away in fright, and none of them were actually knocked to the ground.

How many.

Unless these hateful heavy machine guns are eliminated, don't expect the infantry to attack vigorously.

The only effective method is to use artillery cluster attacks to blow those heavy machine guns that are difficult to move into pieces, but this takes time.

next day

The same bloody battle, the same continuous artillery fire, the battle for Kansas City has continued to the 9th day. The heavy casualties of soldiers on both sides have made everyone crazy, and they have fallen into a life-and-death battle.

From yesterday to this afternoon, for a little more than one day and night, the South sent seven special trains to the Kansas front line, delivering 13,500 reinforcements and a large amount of weapons, equipment, and ammunition to fully support the front line.

The North was not inferior either. There were more than 20 trains from Chicago, Detroit and other major cities, once again sending more than 20,000 volunteer militiamen and a large amount of equipment to the Northern Army, showing their determination to fight to the end.

From the north to the south, you must pass through Kansas City. There are convenient railway lines to the east and south. It is very convenient to reach Houston in the south and New Orleans in the southeast. It is also smooth to reach Richmond in the east. The geographical location is very important.

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since early morning

General Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army on the Western Front, urged the army to attack wildly. On the battlefield under heavy artillery fire, the heavy machine guns reinforced by the Southern Army were quickly destroyed one by one, and then withstood waves of attacks from the Northern infantry.

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The Northern Army even dragged the artillery to the high ground on the left side of the battlefield, and violently bombarded the Southern Army's defense line from above, blowing up the train cars filled with coal to pieces and gaining the upper hand in momentum.

As for the actual damage effect, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

The U.S. military's artillery still uses rounded stone balls, which rely on inertial kinetic energy to kill the enemy when fired, but when they hit a train car full of coal, it is just a crater.

Most of them were injured by flying stones, but few were killed.

The fierce battle on the battlefield continued until around 3 p.m., when the U.S. Northern Army's offensive troops had already breached the first-line position of the train station and protruded inward, squeezing the Southern Army's line out of shape.

General Sherman was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the reserve troops to be deployed in an attempt to exert greater pressure to promote the rapid collapse of the Confederate Army and strive to defeat the enemy today.

Little did they know that the opponent's General Hill also had the same idea to lure the enemy deeper, allowing the Northern Army to expose more of its weak flanks.

We fought hard until about 3:20

Suddenly, violent artillery shelling and heavy machine gun fire broke out on the flank of the Northern Army. The attacking Northern Army was caught off guard and was immediately thrown into disarray.

At this time, a large army shot out from the weak flank of the Northern Army and stabbed into the battlefield like a sharp knife. This put the attacking Northern Army's flank troops into a dilemma of being attacked from both front and rear.

After more than 10 minutes of fierce fighting, the Northern Army's flank offensive force collapsed as expected.

The collapsed Northern Army soldiers threw away their helmets and armor and fled backwards. Many soldiers hurriedly ran into the attacking Northern Army columns, causing even greater chaos, like a domino effect.

At this time, the Southern Army started a full-scale counterattack, and the heavy machine guns that had finally been hidden roared like crazy, and hit the Northern Army head-on.

As a result, more Northern troops retreated.

General Sherman was devastated by the collapse of the entire front. He dispatched almost all the officers his command could dispatch in an effort to organize troops to counterattack on the spot and stabilize the front.

However, everything was in vain. At this time, the Northern Army officers and soldiers were running all over the battlefield. The generals could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the generals. It had become a mess.

The serious consequences of the Northern Army's frantic recruitment of untrained volunteer militiamen have emerged, that is, they can only fight against the wind and not against the wind. Once defeated, the trees will fall and the monkeys will scatter, unable to get back together.

This kind of situation would never happen in the army of the Tang Kingdom.

Even if they are surrounded by soldiers who have undergone strict training, they can fight continuously under the command of officers, retreat without chaos, and continue to use firepower and hand-to-hand combat to counterattack the enemy.

Just like a spring, it shrinks a little when the force is applied, and expands when the force is relaxed. It is very tough and elastic, and cannot be easily crushed.

That's because the entire army has been condensed into a strong fighting force, rather than a piece of loose sand. There is an essential difference between the two.

Seeing that the Northern Army's large-scale retreat had occurred, General Daniel Harvey Hill, the commander of the Southern Army, decisively threw in the treasured cavalry division he had always held in his hand, and launched a frenzied killing and encirclement campaign against the enemy.

This time, it was really a crushing defeat.

The soldiers of the Northern Army ran away as fast as they could. They really ran all over the mountains and plains, smashing the army behind them into pieces, and they also fled involuntarily...

The killing continued until dark. The victorious Southern Army pursued the Northern Army for more than 20 kilometers, occupied the Northern Army's rear camp, seized countless grain, grass and baggage, killed and wounded more than 32,000 enemy troops, and captured nearly 4

Wanbei officers and soldiers achieved a hearty victory.

The Northern Army fled for 86 kilometers and finally stopped in the city of St. Joseph. Only more than 60,000 defeated soldiers were left, and nearly 10,000 people were missing. Almost all their equipment was lost.

St. Joseph City is an important city 86 kilometers north of Kansas City. It was captured by the Northern Army a month and a half ago and is now operated as the Northern Army's rear area and a key area for storing grain and grass.

After gathering the defeated army, the number of soldiers was counted and only about 60,000 were left. General Sherman's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he was so heartbroken!

This battle was so miserably lost, which meant that the Western Front suffered a heavy setback and could not breathe for a long time.

There are two important cities in Kansas City, one in the south and one in the north. The city of St. Joseph is 86 kilometers away in the north, the city of Rayville is 39 kilometers away in the south, and about a hundred kilometers to the southwest is Lane County, which is also

A medium-sized city with a population of about 80,000 people, the farming and food processing industries are particularly developed.

These cities are connected in series by a main railway line, forming the most important urban cluster in Kansas. 80% of the state's population lives in this narrow strip. It is also part of the black land of the Central Plains of North America, with crisscrossed streams and fertile land.

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manhattan town

With a military order from General Hill, the armies of the Tang Kingdom took over Fortress Hugo like a tide, and also took over seven small towns along the railway, removing all the men in the area from 15 to 55 years old.

They were incorporated into the team and brought out a surprise force totaling about 12,700 people, which indeed produced a miraculous effect.

The result was that the town of Manhattan was occupied by a militia cavalry regiment from the Colorado Plateau. They moved into the homes of the town, slept with the women in the town, drank the town's ale, and regarded themselves as the masters of the town.

The white mayor and the 60-year-old police chief who protested disappeared in the evening. Since then, no one has seen them, and they are said to have gone to the battlefield.

This 12,700-strong force made outstanding contributions to the Confederate Army's victory in the First Battle of Kansas, but it also suffered serious casualties, with more than half of them dying in this battle.

It is unimaginable that a spirit that regards death as a fear of death could attack the Yankee army and escape unscathed.

In the subsequent second and third battles of Kansas, this haphazardly pieced together army suffered heavy casualties again and again. In the end, not even 1/10 of them survived, and the vast majority of the remaining people never died again.

Back to those small towns.

Because those small towns no longer belong to the United States, whether in the south or the north, this is a story for another day.

This ending is not surprising. When did the land swallowed by the Tang Kingdom spit out?

Now that they have occupied this crucial area, the kingdom's army has 100 reasons to stay put and 99 ways to take it as its own. At the government level alone, there are huge war loans that have not been repaid, and the two sides have negotiated to mortgage Kansas.

Doesn't it count if the state has no ownership interest in land?