Chapter 685: Giving and Gaining

Chapter 678: Giving and getting

The Northern cavalry was knocked down by the cavalry of Soren Camp and fled more than 20 people. Not only did they not collapse, they were able to fight back under the command of the sergeant commanders, which allowed Kekudi, Wang Mancang, and Yi All the cavalrymen of Soren were greatly surprised.

Although the cavalry of Soren Battalion relies on the rate of fire of the volcanic rock continuous rifle to continue to output to the Northern Army cavalry, the Northern Army cavalry dispersed after completing the second round of shooting, resulting in a greatly reduced hit rate of the cavalry of Soren Battalion. .

"What a shit shot!"

Wang Mancang has served in the First Cavalry Regiment and Soren Battalion. Compared with the old cavalrymen of the First Cavalry Regiment, the shooting skills of the Soren Battalion cavalry are really too bad.

Captain Jonathan is a veteran of the battlefield. After resisting the attack of the cavalry of the Soren Camp, Jonathan soon realized that the number of people on the other side was not large, not more than thirty people. Although his side suffered heavy casualties, the number of people was still the same. Maintaining a huge advantage.

Jonathan snatched the red and white colors from the dead rider, embroidered with the American national emblem and the military flag, and shouted loudly, "Sergeant James, take your subordinates to blow me up the culvert! The rest People follow me to charge! I want to peel off the scalp of these Indians!”

This was Jonathan's third time fighting with the Western cavalry. He knew that the Sharps M1859 cavalry carbine they equipped was a fire stick in front of the Western cavalry's continuous guns. Playing against the Western cavalry is looking for death!

"For General McClellan! For the United States! Draw the sword!"

"charge!"

With Jonathan's order, more than sixty bright cavalry sabers and sabers raised in the blue smoke. The Northern cavalry pressed their legs against the horse's belly and rushed towards the cavalry of Soren Camp.

"Get the distance away! They charge! Keep a distance with them and shoot!"

Seeing that the Northern cavalry launched a charge, Wang Mancang quickly issued an order, but only seven or eight Soren Camp cavalry obeyed his orders, widened the distance and shot the Northern cavalry to avoid hand-to-hand combat.

The remaining eighteen or nineteen Sauron camp cavalry followed the red-eyed and unreasonable Kkudi abandoned his gun and drew his sword, and fought with the Northern Army that rushed up.

Kekudi was skilled in riding and was proficient in fighting the horse. He took the lead, roared and slashed at a Northern cavalry who rushed to him.

The sword was so powerful that it directly split the enemy cavalry's shoulders. The Northern cavalry, who was criticized, suddenly gushed out blood and lost its combat capability.

Seeing that his companion was beheaded and fell off the horse, a Northern Army soldier followed closely and stabbed Kkudi in the heart. Kkudi quickly drew his sword and quickly stabbed the Northern Army soldier, and then he took the opportunity to cut the Northern Army soldier's. Neck.

Kkudi killed two Northern cavalry in a row, and the morale of the Sauron camp cavalry was greatly shocked. It was not affected by the huge number gap between the two sides. Instead, it became more and more courageous as it fought.

Captain Jonathan soon noticed the brave Western cavalry officer. After using Prussian slashing technique to slash a Sauron warrior off the horse, Jonathan hit Ke Kudy and joined hands with another Northern rider to entangle Ke. Kudy.

Seeing that Kkudi was in danger, Wang Mancang didn't care about the Northern Army pushing the caravans loaded with explosives into the culvert, and led the seven or eight cavalry around him to scatter the Northern Army formation.

Wang Mancang did not draw his sword, but rushed while using the volcanic stone in his hand to shoot at the Northern Army cavalry that was only ten meters or even several meters away, without any intention of fighting with the Northern Army cavalry.

Soon, the Northern Army cavalry was disrupted by seven or eight cavalry commanded by Wang Mancang, and with the absolute advantage of numerical numbers, they were unable to gain an advantage in close combat.

The metal trembled with more than eighty sabers slashing at the same time, the howling of injured war horses, the gunshots of rifles, and the friction sounds of the blades stuck in the cracks of bones were pulled out by brute force, the entire battlefield was filled with strangeness amid the buzzing sound.

Just as the two sides were fighting, a loud bang broke out in the culvert not far away, and mushroom clouds rose into the sky with mandala petals, raising a pillar of black smoke. The culvert that had been blown up only half of the time collapsed completely collapsed.

"withdraw!"

Seeing that the mission had been completed, Jonathan was not in love with the battle. He covered his left arm that was cut by Kkudy, gathered the remaining soldiers and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

Kkudi was about to continue pursuing the Northern Army cavalry, but was pushed off by Wang Mancang.

Kkudi, who was pushed off the horse, was furious: "Wang Mancang! Why the hell are you pushing me?"

"What are you doing?" Wang Mancang looked at the bombed railway culvert with a dead face, "Kkudi! You can wait to go to the military court!"

After speaking, Wang Mancang no longer paid attention to Kkudi, but took the seven or eight cavalry around him to the culvert and captured five Northern Army soldiers who were shocked by the explosion and waves.

Since this was just a small battle, the results were quickly counted. In this battle, 36 Northern cavalrymen were killed and 7 Northern cavalrymen were captured.

Six people were killed in the Soren Camp, and 11 injured, including Kkudy.

Wang Mancang obviously couldn't accept such a result, because these casualties were almost all caused by close combat with the Northern Army cavalry, and their casualties could have been smaller.

Of course, what's even more terrible is that despite such great casualties, their mission was not completed, and the Northern Army successfully destroyed the culverts and railways.

Their main task was to protect the railway rather than annihilate the Northern cavalry.

"Military court? I have made great contributions to kill four or five cavalrymen of the Northern Heroes! Why should I go to the military court?!" Kkudy was very dissatisfied.

"Making meritorious service? Are you embarrassed to talk about making meritorious service?! Has the task assigned by our superiors been completed? Why do we need to use a knife to solve the problem with a gun?" Wang Mancang angrily scolded Kekudi, "Kkudi, in the Prat Camp Have you been sent back to feed the dogs? You want to die, don’t take your brothers to bury you with you!”

The two sides said that, Jonathan led his more than 40 remaining soldiers to run wildly without looking back, and returned to the camp of Omaha to report to Philip St. George Cook, the commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment, to him. An impressive battle.

The commander of the Second Cavalry before the war was Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, who was formed by Johnston.

After the North and South break, Johnston left the Second Cavalry Regiment and chose to be loyal to the South and join the Southern Army.

In fact, many outstanding officers of the US military before the war, especially senior officers of the cavalry, were mostly southerners, and the current commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment, Cook, was also southerners, but he chose to be loyal to the north.

"You mean that there are other cavalry besides those Indian cavalry? Jonathan, do you dare to promise God?" After listening to Jonathan's report, Cook was very surprised. This was very important information.

The intelligence work in the north has always been very bad, and until now they still don’t know that in addition to the First Cavalry Regiment, the Western Army also had the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment and the Soren Cavalry Battalion.

"It's true, Your Excellency! I've had a hand-to-hand battle with them. I will never forget their faces. They are definitely not Indians, they look more like Mongolians or Tatars." Jonathan said with lingering fear.

"Their officer was extremely brave, and I was cut by him on my left arm. These cavalry's shooting skills are far inferior to those of the Westerners' Indian cavalry, but their equestrian and sword skills are first-class!"

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"Mongols and Tatars?" Jonathan found it incredible, and he was skeptical about Jonathan's statement. "How did you determine that they were Mongolians or Tatars, not Han immigrants?"

Cook has contacted Indian Aboriginals and Chinese on the West Coast, although the Indians and those Chinese on the West Coast are yellow-skinned. However, the Indians' facial contours are square, their faces are wide and flat, and their temperament and behaviors, and their living habits are quite different from those of Chinese, so they can still be easily distinguished.

But Cook is not sure about the difference between the Mongolians, Tatars and the Chinese on the West Coast. After all, he has never even seen the Mongolians and Tatars before.

"They have better riding skills than me, and this kind of riding requires training from a young age," said Jonathan. "I heard that Liang Yao once bought some Mongolians and Tatars as slaves from the British and French, so I It's probably the Mongols and Tatars."

"I understand." Cook nodded, "Jonathan, your mission has been completed well this time. Let's go and rest and recuperate first."

"Col. Our company suffered heavy casualties in order to complete this mission. If this continues, it will not take long for the Second Cavalry Regiment to be left with only a few old friends." Jonathan said to Cook.

Since the Second Cavalry Regiment began to carry out the mission of destroying the railway, the Second Cavalry Regiment suffered nearly half of the casualties. Although McClellan timely replenished fresh blood to the Second Cavalry Regiment, the current Second Cavalry Regiment is no longer as strong as before.

If Jonathan took out the mission this time, they might not only be able to complete the mission of destroying the rails successfully, but also defeat the cavalry of the Westerners they encountered.

"I understand, you go back and rest first." Cook sighed helplessly.

After Jonathan left, Cook found McClellan and reported to McClellan what was going on today.

McClellan was very happy when he heard that he had destroyed six more sections of the railway today, one of which was a railway culvert. He rubbed his hands happily and said, "It's great. If this happens, we can delay for another two or three days. ”

"Your Excellency, although the mission has been completed, the Second Cavalry Regiment has suffered a lot of casualties." Cook plucked up his courage and said to McClellan. "According to your method, you can use cavalry regardless of losses, I am worried that we will not have it soon after A useful cavalry unit."

"I know that your cavalry unit has suffered a lot of casualties, so every time there is a high-quality source of troops, you will give priority to your cavalry unit, especially your Second Cavalry Regiment." McClellan said with a sinister face.

The cavalry unit suffered heavy casualties, not only did McClellan know it very well, but he also felt very painful.

But he is the commander of the Western Front battlefield. He must coordinate the entire army from the overall strategic situation, rather than be obsessed with the casualties of some elite troops.

The Western Rebels are now likely to have more than two elite cavalry, and it is difficult for the Western Front troops to defeat the Western Rebels in the battle.

But if there were not enough infantry, even Omaha would not be able to defend. McClellan could still be clear about which one was more important.

McClellan knew very well that what he needed most now was sufficient quantity and could fill in the line.

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"But your Excellency" Cook also wants to fight for his troops, at least reduce the intensity of the mission.

"Nothing, but obey orders." McClellan simply provided the opportunity Cook had for. He had a more headache now, which was to serve the congressmen who came to Omaha.