Wild North America 1846

May 15, 1860

In just one day, more than 500,000 troops from the Tang Dynasty captured the outer positions of Chicago, killing and wounding more than 100,000 U.S. troops, and capturing 162,000, while only losing more than 13,700 of their own, creating the incredible "Chicago Victory."

The news came

The entire Tang Dynasty was boiling in an instant. The streets and alleys were full of ecstatic people running to tell each other. The firecracker shops were quickly sold out. Unique Chinese land boating, dragon and lion dance performances were staged everywhere, and the sound of firecrackers rang through the night sky.

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The United States of America immediately fell silent, and then even greater panic spread. The roads blocked by horse-drawn carriages heading north to British Canada were blocked by long streams of traffic and people that could not be seen to the end.

People seem to have forgotten that Chicago had experienced 13 days of bloody battles before this. The coalition forces sent 182,000 white cannon fodder to the battlefield outside Chicago. At the same time, they caused more than 147,000 casualties to the Northern Army, and the defense power dropped even further.

People have also forgotten that in this day's battle alone, the artillery of the Tang Kingdom fired more than 1.3 million rounds of artillery shells and organized hundreds of rounds of attacks, large and small.

This highly commemorative day was designated as "Victory Day" by the king of the Tang Kingdom, and became a traditional festival of the kingdom to demonstrate the kingdom's invincible military might.

The U.S. Northern Army's outer front lost 262,000 people in one day, accounting for almost half of all the troops in Chicago. This put the Northern Army entrenched in Chicago in a precarious situation and touched the sensitive nerves of the U.S. federal government.

The James Buchanan government carried out emergency mobilization and mobilized all available ships in the Great Lakes region to transport reinforcements to Chicago. On May 16 and 17 alone, 27,500 volunteer militiamen arrived.

In the following 10 days, more than tens of thousands of volunteer militiamen arrived in Chicago via Great Lakes shipping every day, risking their lives to engage in street fighting.

After the army of the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty captured the outer positions in one day, each regiment and division established a strong stronghold outside the city of Chicago. Then they repeated their old tactics and drove the white servant troops into the city to fight.

This shameless act made General Grant, the commander-in-chief of the US military, jump to his feet and cursed: "God, please be a human being and fight with us like a warrior."

It is a pity that General Chen Chuan, commander of the Northern Army Corps, and General Harry Fletcher, commander of the Colorado Army Corps, could not hear his complaints, and even if they heard them, they would turn a deaf ear.

After 13 days of bloody battles, the white cannon fodder regiment in the hands of the coalition forces suffered heavy losses. There were less than 90,000 left, all of them elites who had experienced the bloody battles.

This part of the force has been highly recognized by the military of the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty. Each of their hands is stained with the blood of the Yankees, and they fight very bravely.

Therefore, these more than 90,000 people were transformed into the gray and blue military uniforms of the Tang Kingdom, and received official designations, from the 501st Division to the 509th Division, and the division-level officers were drawn from the Tang Kingdom's army.

Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was fortunate enough to be selected as the commander of the 502nd Division. His regiment commander, battalion commander, and company commander were all Chinese officers. Only the platoon leader was an American traitor who had outstanding performance in the white servant army, and all the soldiers were

Brushed white soldier.

About half of the 502nd Division is from the remnants of Sherman's Corps. They are all veterans of many battles. Their combat effectiveness is quite good and they are the best among the white servant armies.

The white soldiers of the 502nd Division can enjoy half the monthly salary of regular soldiers in the Tang Kingdom, which is 6 yuan per month.

The key is that he is now out of the category of cannon fodder, and is almost equal to a high-level cannon fodder. Compared with other white cannon fodders who are forcibly recruited into the army, he is more than a little bit better.

To know

Those white cannon fodders don’t even have unit numbers and no monthly pay. Now the white soldiers of the 502nd Division are considered to have a unit establishment. The things they robbed belong to themselves, and there are military service agencies where white women can have fun to alleviate the consequences of the war.

of anxiety.

This kind of superiority is so strong that it makes people feel like they are the best!

All white officers and soldiers in the division are uniformly equipped with long-barreled "13-shot" rifles, namely the Colt 1848 lever repeating rifle. This rifle has an effective range of 380 yards, but its firepower is dense, which is very conducive to exerting its firepower advantage in urban warfare.

After the 162,000 US soldiers who had just been captured were eliminated, about 150,000 were organized into 200 stormtrooper regiments.

Each stormtrooper regiment ranged from 700 to 800 men, and was equipped with captured old-fashioned muskets. Due to the shortage of weapons, some stormtrooper regiments even had two men per gun, and each gun was only equipped with 5 rounds of ammunition.

These assault regiments are the first line of cannon fodder in urban street battles. They are driven by the 501st to 509th Divisions scattered from north to south and rush to the forefront. They engage in fierce street battles with the U.S. Northern Army. If one is disabled, another one will be replaced every day.

The high level of battle rhythm always puts strong pressure on the Northern Army.

The army of the Tang Dynasty was resting in the rear and supervising the battle progress of the white servant division. Except for some artillery support, it mainly maintained its strength and basically did not participate in the front-line battle.

More than 20 days later

The Chicago metropolis, which has experienced countless bloody battles, is in tatters. The troops led by U.S. Commander-in-Chief Grant are all entrenched in the area east of Chicago. Less than half of the remaining territory is still struggling to hold on.

After such a long bloody battle, the U.S. Northern Army lost another 110,000 soldiers, including more than 52,000 sick and wounded. The eastern ports were full of wounded soldiers, waiting for ships to transport them to the Great Lakes coast of the United States.

The city heals.

General Grant only had more than 180,000 troops left, many of them local workers who had been urgently recruited. There was a shortage of guns and ammunition, a shortage of food, a shortage of medicine, and a shortage of almost everything.

Brutal urban street fighting caused the death of a large number of civilians. Many civilians were either hit by stray bullets, crushed in the ruins, or became a channel for both parties to vent their animalistic desires, and suffered all kinds of ravages.

More civilians died of hunger. The original more than 700,000 urban residents have sharply reduced to less than 350,000, becoming the largest victim group of this war, struggling on the edge of death and survival.

In the areas occupied by the Tang Kingdom

Only young women of childbearing age between the ages of 12 and 35 are accepted. Others are not accepted. White men are directly incorporated into the stormtrooper regiment to fight. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 people in this group. They are a powerful supplement to the cannon fodder of the stormtrooper regiment. If they can survive in the end

Thank God.

The characteristic of urban street fighting is unprecedented cruelty. The two sides often fight at a very close distance. If they can't fire two shots, they will fight hand-to-hand, injuring the enemy 1,000 and damaging themselves 800.

The cannon fodder assault regiment of the Tang Kingdom was supplemented by white civilians. After losing more than 130,000 people, there were still more than 60,000 people.

The more than 60,000 people who survived this bloody battle received the attention of the coalition command, which reorganized them into the 510th to 515th Divisions, dispatched Chinese commanders and distributed military uniforms and warehoused weapons and equipment for reorganization.

During this free week, the Northern Army also realized the great danger and might face a final decisive battle.

Perhaps out of compassion, General Grant evacuated all the wounded soldiers and some city residents as much as possible, and then added 50,000 militiamen and a large number of ammunition and guns to prepare for a decisive battle with the Tang Kingdom army.

The most obvious feature is the addition of 22,000 British Minie rifles. This is one of the more advanced firearms in the world today. It is clear where it comes from.

nowadays

Only London can provide a large amount of military equipment assistance to the northern federal government of the United States. However, in reality, the French are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of Louis XVI and have not yet provided substantial help.

At the end of June 1860, on the 55th day after the Battle of Chicago broke out, General Dai Changfu, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, issued an order for a general attack; the entire city was to be captured within three days.

On the Chicago battlefield, enough blood has been shed on both sides, and it is time to end this unprecedented and massive battle.

This battle

The reorganized 15 white servant divisions will serve as the vanguard, and the Tang Kingdom will also send 10 field divisions to participate in the battle. The total number of troops participating in the battle will reach more than 270,000, and it will have 29 artillery battalions to provide fire support and use artillery to crush the enemy.

Any hard nut to crack.

The total strength of the Northern Army is about 230,000, and they stand firm in warehouses, ports, financial buildings, bustling neighborhoods, and factories near the shores of Lake Michigan, relying on solid buildings to fight to the end.

The task of the coalition artillery is to smash these solid shells, inflict heavy damage to the enemy, and at the same time open a path to victory for the infantry attack, annihilating the enemy in one fell swoop.

The old rule is still that the white servant army is the vanguard.

Starting from June 28th

The whole city of Chicago suddenly erupted with continuous artillery shelling, and the "rumbling" sound of artillery resounded throughout the world, indicating that this all-out offensive campaign was extraordinary.

In the 19th century, Chicago became a major city and agricultural product distribution center in the Midwestern United States. As a result, it developed rapidly and became the leading metropolis in the Great Lakes region.

As early as 1848, the Illinois-Michigan Canal connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River was built, linking shipping between the two major waterways.

In the same year, construction of Chicago's first railroad began.

Since then, Chicago has become an important transportation hub connecting the east and west of the United States. The convenient water and land transportation has greatly stimulated the development of industry and commerce. The city's prosperity has attracted many outsiders to settle here, including a large number of rural people and new foreign immigrants.

, factory areas are also blooming everywhere.

The closer you get to the eastern city, the more prosperous it becomes, because it is close to the shores of Lake Michigan and is also the location of many ports for canal transshipment. It is the first bustling urban area in Chicago to develop, with many solid concrete and stone houses.

The U.S. Northern Army divided the north and south banks based on the canal, which was very conducive to defense.

Unfortunately

The attack launched by the Tang Dynasty was an all-round attack from south to north. The battle was carried out simultaneously on both sides of the Illinois-Michigan Canal. The geographical advantage of relying on the canal did not exist at all. It could only be a brutal merger of one street and another, fighting for the entire city.

Control.

The 502nd Division commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju will cooperate with the 507th Division to divide into two sharp arrows and drive directly into Vanderpet Pier, which is an important terminal located in the north of Lake Michigan, about 4 blocks away from the area currently controlled by the coalition forces.

In this eastern part of the city, the Vanderpert Shipping Company warehouse and Financial Street are the most heavily guarded. The Northern Army has gathered tens of thousands of heavy troops here, and every step forward has to pay a bloody price.

The attack target assigned to the 502nd Division was the Vanderpert Shipping Company Warehouse, which was a large warehouse covering an area of ​​about 19 acres. There were piles of coal and lumber in the warehouse, and there were rows of stone warehouses where the Sixth Michigan Volunteers were stationed.

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Fighting so far

The Sixth Michigan Volunteer Division suffered heavy casualties. More than half of the original 30,000-man Volunteer Division suffered casualties. It took less than two weeks to retreat here to rest and recuperate. Its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

In the battle for the city of Chicago, which can be called a hell of death, no one who survives till now is a good person. Those cannon fodder who were not ruthless and clever enough were basically dead, and the rest were all ruthless characters.

Fortunately, the attacking troops of the 502nd Division and the 507th Division were followed by artillery support provided by the 105th Division of the Class A Field Division of the Northern Army of the Tang Dynasty. Each Class A Field Division had an artillery regiment equipped with 12-pound field guns and 6-pound field guns.

There is one artillery battalion, each battalion has 18 artillery pieces, for a total of 36 artillery pieces.

In addition, the Class A division also has a heavy machine gun battalion, which is also equipped with 18 Storm II heavy machine guns, which can provide extremely fierce fire support.

Of course, white servant divisions like the 502nd Division had no artillery regiments, no artillery battalions, not even an artillery piece, or a heavy machine gun. They all relied on the 105th Division to provide artillery support.

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Amidst the fierce gunfire, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju watched his troops leaving a pile of corpses, and retreated in embarrassment, his face turning ashen.

Four consecutive attacks were thwarted, and the white soldiers had suffered more than 1,100 casualties. Each time they were repulsed by the geographically superior U.S. military, which made him grit his teeth in anger. He turned around and ordered to the guard company officer;

"Immediately report to the 105th Division and request its artillery fire to cover the enemy entrenched in the lumberyard on my right front and open an attack channel."

"Sir, we have truthfully requested fire support twice. The 105th Division only responded that it knew about it, but did not take any fire support action."

"Tell the commander of the 105th Division that I am Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju, the commander of the 502nd Division, and my cousin is Lieutenant General Fan Pengfei, the deputy commander of the Colorado Corps. I request fire support again. I request to see the artillery bombardment within 10 minutes. It is extremely important."

"As you command, sir."

The Chinese officer of the guard company was immediately ordered to go and ran to convey the commander's verbal request, and his figure quickly disappeared at the end of the street.

In the entire 502nd Division, only the divisional security company is composed entirely of Chinese soldiers. They are the most reliable force in the hands of the lieutenant colonel and division commander, and often play the role of supervising the battle team in battles.

After Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju issued the order, he also looked helpless.

Even if there is any possibility, he is not willing to fall out with a brigadier general of the Corps. This is obviously a request, but secretly a threat!

In the army of the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, the lives of white cannon fodder have never been taken seriously. They are used as consumables. The precious shells will only be used when the army of the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty attacks, and will rarely assist the attack of the white servant army.

But this time it's different

The coalition commander issued a clear order, requiring the kingdom's field divisions to provide artillery support. The 15 white servant divisions included in the establishment will still be of great use in the future and cannot be used up in the Battle of Chicago.

The war in North America is not over yet, and there are still big and bad battles to be fought!

However, when it comes to the specific execution of each division, there will inevitably be differences in scale control, and the requested fire support may not be timely.

This is all because white servant divisions have a low status, speak softly, and are generally discriminated against. Therefore, many regular field divisions have a more perfunctory attitude. It would be nice if they could show off a few artillery pieces to show off their intentions.

For example, the 105th Division is like this, even if you don't even want to do it, there's nothing wrong with it.

But Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju can't do it. Why does he just point to these fierce battles for his meritorious service?

Otherwise, how can you stand out among the officers in the entire army?

Merit in war is the last word, you can’t do it without fighting!

In this way, despite the enemy's volley of gunfire to attack, the Northern Army all hid behind the big logs and fired wildly. If they continued to attack, they would only lose their lives. Would the subsequent battle still be fought?

For the sake of his own future, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju can only tell his family clearly. Whether he can cooperate or not depends on how the 105th division commander weighs it?

Whether to offend a powerful lieutenant general or send a little lieutenant colonel to die depends on the answer of the brigadier general.

Not too much, 10 minutes is enough.