Chapter 683 Cavalry

Chapter 676 Cavalry

"America is a new country in North America. It first took advantage of the chaos in the continental region to open up the wilderness to establish a country, inherit the aspirations of the Puritan Church, and advocated the promise of freedom. At the beginning, the thirteen states swear blood and swear, and the French "Declaration of Independence" abolished the royal power. , open up the democratic elections and establish constitutionalism, cultivate industry and commerce internally, and connect with countries externally. After more than a hundred years of national strength, the country's strength has gradually become stronger."

In the Grand Camp of the Western Army, Liang Yao was flipping through the manuscript of the "American Nationality" sent to him by his grandfather Liang Weiming. The whole book was full of radiance, with about a million words.

Liang Yao could vaguely smell the smell of public intellectuals between the lines. Even so, this set of books is still flawless and not overwhelming. It is a rare good book introduced by the Qing Dynasty.

Compared with the "Sea Kingdom Map" written by Wei Yuan 17 or 8 years ago, Liang Weiming's "American Kingdom Map" is more detailed. After all, Mr. Liang has been traveling in the United States for seven or eight years and has come into contact with many Americans.

The "American National Tu Zhi" not only includes the Uttar Plot and the Lampang Plot, but also provides specific details on each state, introducing the customs and customs of each state in detail.

The scholars and officials of this era are not stupid. If they give them a window to contact the outside world, they can still see through the control, see some clues, and summarize some things.

"Your Excellency, General Kruger is asking for a meeting." Zeiss came to Liang Yao with a slight touch and said.

"Come General Kruger in." Liang Yao closed the manuscript and signaled Zeiss to invite Kruger in.

"In the past five days, we have killed and captured more than 700 Northern Army that destroyed the railway and harassed the engineers, but those Northerners are still unstoppable and have sent troops to destroy the railway." Kruger reported to Liang Yao.

"How many cavalry are there in this? How are our casualties?" Liang Yao asked.

"Two-thirds are cavalry, and the remaining one-third are Northern Army engineers. We seized 325 high-quality war horses alone, and half of these cavalry were cavalry of the Second Cavalry Regiment before the war." Kruger replied "Compared with the Northern Army, our cavalry suffered less casualties, less than one company, and the cavalry of the Northern Army is not the opponent of our cavalry."

"McLellan is really willing to spend a lot of money on more than 400 cavalrymen and more than 200 cavalrymen of the Second Cavalry Regiment," said Liang Yao.

Before the war, the size of the US cavalry was very small, including the Third Cavalry Regiment of the Western Brigade, and the US military had only three standing cavalry regiments. McClellan was willing to spend a lot of money to use the Second Cavalry Regiment to destroy the railway regardless of casualties.

You should know that the three standing cavalry regiments before the war were all real elite cavalry, and they were not on the same level as the combat effectiveness of the cavalry expanded after the war.

Although Liang Yao felt very painful when nearly one company of cavalry was injured, considering that the opponent was the Second Cavalry Regiment, such exchanges were not unacceptable than Liang Yao.

"The Bison's First Cavalry Regiment has been carrying out five consecutive days of missions, asking them to withdraw and repair them, and change to the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment and the Sauron Cavalry Battalion to practice. They have no experience in fighting against the Yankees." Liang Yao said.

The First Cavalry Regiment is the Third Cavalry Regiment of the original Western Brigade period. After leaving the Federation, the original Third Cavalry Regiment of the American Army was even more the No. 1 Cavalry Regiment of the First Cavalry Brigade of the American Republic.

"The Engineer Corps is here to ask for people again," Kruger said. "We don't lack people. What we lack now is soldiers who have experience in building railways and are from workers."

"The railway workers recruited from major railway companies are already on the road, and we will be able to arrive at Carney tomorrow." Liang Yaozhang asked, "How long does it take for the Engineer Corps to repair the road?"

"According to the report from the Engineer Corps, it will take twelve days." Kruger blurted out.

"No! Twelve days are enough for McClellan to reorganize several regiments." Liang Yao shook his head. He was very dissatisfied with the time. "Six days, I will give him up to six days, 1,200 railway workers recruited from the West Coast. All of them are left to him for dispatch and command. If the traffic cannot be restored in six days, Wu Dakun, the commander of the engineering corps, should not do it."

The wild wind in Nebraska was blowing the smell of scorched earth, and the temporary camp of the 3rd Company of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the Northern Army was filled with the smell of burnt bean soup. Captain Jonas, the commander of the 3rd Company, squatted by the bonfire. , a suspicious brown liquid was boiling in a tin cup with a gap.

On the horizon in the distance, the railway tracks of the Central Railway Company in New York were shining with a cold light like snake scales under the scorching sun. Last night, the No. 15 culvert that the Northern Army engineers blew up half was still emitting a faint black smoke, like a jumping cushion. A giant python with a broken belly.

Captain Jonas's mission this time was to blow up the entire No. 15 culvert to slow down the pace of the Western Army's advance.

Logically speaking, this mission should have been completed yesterday. What’s hateful is that the Fifth Company, which was responsible for blowing up the No. 15 culvert yesterday, was discovered by enemy cavalry, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides near the No. 15 culvert.

After fierce battle, the fifth company, which had 76 people at the time of departure, finally only 42 people successfully retreated to Omaha, and 16 of them were injured.

"Fuck, they are all Indians, they are all inferior people of color. Why are the Indians from the Westerners so capable of fighting?!"

"Who said no, when I was serving in South Dakota, it was no problem for a cavalry company to destroy two Indian tribes. The Indians were a group of deer to be slaughtered in front of us."

"The war with the Indian tribe is more of a hunting than a war. The war with the Westerner Indian cavalry is the real war."

"I hope I don't meet those damn Indian cavalry today!" "Hey, George, I heard that the spear in the Western Indians can fire several shots in a row, is that true?"

"Really? Then aren't these things in our hands just fire sticks in front of them?!"

A group of Northern cavalrymen wearing dark blue cavalry smocks were talking to each other, and at the same time they didn't forget their work.

Some of these Northern cavalrymen stuffed pickled pork into their mouths, some drank various unknown liquids of different colors, some chewed tobacco leaves to refresh themselves, some stuffed saint tablets into their breast pockets, and some stuffed wormwood into the mouths of horses. This was a folk remedy they learned from prostitutes in Omaha - it can prevent old horses from kicking when charging.

The First Cavalry Regiment of the Western Army only had Native Americans, but because Native Americans accounted for a large proportion of the population at the beginning of its establishment, these Yankee cavalrymen habitually called the First Cavalry Regiment of the Western Army the Indian Cavalry.

No mistake, one song, one post, one content, one look!

The Second Cavalry Regiment of the Yankees suffered from fatigue and high casualties caused by the high-intensity combat for several days, which made their morale low.

Their biggest wish now is to blow up the damn No. 15 culvert three miles away as soon as possible, leave this place of trouble as soon as possible, and then return to Omaha to drink a few glasses of cheap potato liquor, and use the money saved to go to the brothel opened by the government specifically for them to find a decent woman to relieve their sexual desire.

Jonathan looked at the 92 soldiers under his command with worry. The third company had already carried out the task of destroying the railway for the third time. The third company did not escape unscathed in the first two missions, and suffered heavy casualties.

37 of the current 92 soldiers were newly recruited. Jonathan knew that he could not trust these new recruits as much as he trusted the old guys who served in the cavalry regiment during the Fillmore period.

Jonathan prayed to God in his heart at this time, hoping that God would bless them not to encounter the cavalry of the Westerners.

Jonathan finished drinking the unappetizing brown liquid in the tinplate cup, stood up and checked whether the felt wrapped around the wheels of the wagon was tight, and stopped the soldiers who were chatting: "Put out the charcoal fire! Go to the target!"

Jonathan learned to wrap the wagon wheels with felt to reduce noise from the Indians in South Dakota, because the Indians would try every means to reduce the noise and get close to them when they attacked them.

The soldiers who heard the order got up reluctantly. One of the recruits was about to get on the horse, but was quickly pulled down by the old soldier next to him: "You are still riding for the last three miles, afraid that the Westerners can't see you, do you think your life is too long?!"

"If you want to live, walk forward with your back bent! No one is allowed to shout! No lights are allowed! No birds are allowed to be startled!" Jonathan glared at the helpless recruits and ordered.

"The Western Indians have sharp eyes!"