Chapter 2876 Battle of the Bend (IV)

The Asa soldiers behind the trenches, under the command of the squad instructor, kept throwing grenades and bombing any red figures that appeared in sight.

At the same time, the first-line and second-line officers and soldiers who had been withdrawn before also reloaded their gas cylinders and magazines, and returned to the position one after another. On the parapet, aim at the enemy who is struggling to advance under artillery fire and shoot revenge bullets!

After being attacked by the two front lines of defense, Feizhen's army suffered heavy casualties. It was already at the end of their battle. They wanted to use their last breath to capture the top of the mountain. destroyed their morale.

The three thousand Feizhen officers and soldiers who participated in the attack on the high ground had long since lost their neat and majestic image at the beginning of the battle. After suffering more than half of the casualties, they finally collapsed. Regardless of the officer's threats and curses, they dropped their rifles and turned to flee down the mountain.

The road to the top of the mountain has been blocked by corpses, and blood flows like a stream down the ridge.

Audrey saw the enemy retreat through the binoculars, and immediately ordered a counterattack!

In the hands of the colonel, there is still a reserve team that has not yet entered the battle. It is more than a thousand volunteers from the Kingdom of Canaan.

These Canaan veterans are all Audrey's true "soldiers". The reason why they traveled thousands of miles and across oceans to join the war in the New World is of course out of the lofty ideal of helping the colonial people get rid of the oppression of the suzerain country and seek independence and liberation. A more important and chivalrous noble mission--"Her Royal Highness Protecting the People of Canaan"!

For these Canaan veterans, there is no question of "whether it is worth it" to throw their heads and blood for Her Royal Highness, but whether they are worthy of this honor.

As soon as Audrey gave the order, the Canaan volunteers immediately urged their horses to jump out of the trench, and used bayonet-mounted rifles as lances to chase the fleeing Feizhen officers and soldiers, launching a round of fierce counter-charges.

The iron hoofs of the war horses shook the hills, and thousands of riders came like a gust of wind, chasing and beating the enemy's rear.

The infantrymen of the Continental Army also obeyed the order of the colonel, paused shooting, raised their rifles and jumped out of the trench, joining the ranks of chasing and killing the enemy.

At the foot of the hill, Bannister Winthrop was accompanied by a battalion of cavalry reserves.

Originally, his troops were also famous for their cavalry raids. However, the cavalry of this battalion obviously couldn't stop the continental army rushing from the hillside like a mudslide, so they had to suppress their unwillingness and ordered the whole army to retreat.

The bloody pursuit continued until the sun set, and they pursued for thirty miles. Hundreds of Feizhen officers and soldiers were killed and captured along the way. Audrey then ordered the troops to withdraw and clean up the battlefield. Afterwards, they escorted the prisoners across the river and calmly retreated to Delin Town.

On September 15, 1627, the battle started at the Delin River Bend lasted from noon to nightfall, and finally the dust settled.

It has been two years since the outbreak of the War of Independence. The Bannister Cavalry Brigade, which has been invincible in the past two years, has gradually fallen into the trap carefully designed by Canaanite Princess and Continental Cavalry Colonel Audrey Rosenthal Zion. In the end, it was a crushing defeat, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

The "Bloody Prince", who was invincible in the past, was forced to swallow the bitter fruit of failure for the first time on the battlefield of the New World.

Bannister Winthrop worked hard to collect the defeated troops, and counted the number of troops. Of the 3,000 troops when they set off, there are now less than 800 left, and most of them are defeated and sluggish.

Relying on the remaining troops and such low morale, no matter how unwilling Winthrop Jr. could only admit that he was powerless, he hurriedly gathered up the remnants, turned around and retreated northward, and defected to General Thomas Cornwallis who was stationed at the base camp. .

At this time, both sides of the war have not yet realized that the "Battle of Delin River Bend" will become a landmark event. "The overall process will also usher in a major turning point.

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After the battle at Delin River Bend, General Cornwallis, who was having dinner that night, received bad news from the front line, lost his appetite, left the dining room with his knife and fork, and locked himself in the office to smoke a pipe , For the next full hour, the brows did not relax.

There is a 20-year age difference between Thomas Cornwallis and Bannister Winthrop. There are great differences in military command concepts and handling styles, and the relationship has not been harmonious for a long time.

Kang Huali is an old-fashioned aristocratic officer who advocates steady and steady fighting on the battlefield, and does not seek meritorious service, but seeks to be innocent.

In social life, he pays attention to aristocratic dignity and cares about maintaining his gentlemanly demeanor. Even if he speaks bad words to the enemy on the battlefield, if the enemy general surrenders with courtesy, he will treat him with the same standard of courtesy. Prisoners of war will not be driven to extinction.

Little Winthrop, who is also from aristocratic background, is young, frivolous and reckless. He often takes a slant when commanding battles, and often uses sneak attacks and ambushes. The atrocities of massacring prisoners of war are even more notorious. Even the newspapers in Feizhen have called him a "murderer" by name more than once.

What made General Cornwallis even more annoyed was that Winthrop Jr. relied on being the son of the governor, entangled with a large number of young and young officers in the military, looked down on his older boss, and even played at the card table of the Young Officers Club The Internet criticized Kang Huali as indecisive, hypocritical, and just a "pedantic mediocrity."

General Cornwallis also knew that he couldn't command the second-generation official, but the relationship between the two parties was in name, and Little Winthrop actually spoke ill of his boss behind his back...Young man, you are too crazy!

For the sake of His Excellency the Governor, General Cornwallis held back his breath until today when he received the battle report from the front line, and learned that Little Winthrop's cavalry brigade was killed by the rebels, and only 3,000 troops remained. It was less than eight hundred, and there was a tinge of gloating pleasure in addition to being frightened and angry.

The "Bloody Prince", who claims to be a military genius, was defeated badly by a group of rebels assembled by farmers, not to mention that the enemy commander was a young girl, what a shame!

Not long after, follow-up battle reports came, revealing more details of the Battle of the Bend.

After reading it, General Cornwallis was so angry that the veins on his forehead swelled. He wished he could immediately send military police to arrest little Winthrop and slap him twice in the face!

Knowing that the enemy's troops are twice as strong as our own, he specially chose a high ground surrounded by water on three sides to set up an formation, and put on a posture of fighting you, but Little Winthrop actually sent troops to charge on the high ground in a daze. Don't treat the enemy as a human being at all-this is not only underestimating the enemy, but also the death of Te Niang!