Sabertooth - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: The Rebel Rose

As General McDowell’s opponent: General Borrigad, they are classmates at West Point Military Academy. The only difference between them is that he fought one more battle, and that was the shelling of Fort Sumter.

As for his more than 20,000 soldiers, the difference from McDowell’s is that the service period is more than ninety days, and there is no essential difference.

It can be said that this is a battle of rookies pecking at each other. When the level and the number of people on both sides are about the same, the role of intelligence is highlighted.

And this is exactly the advantage that General Borrigard has. After the war, in addition to the messy aspiring young people, Washington City is also full of sympathizers and spies for the south.

The head of Southern Intelligence, Thomas Jordan, successfully developed his greatest achievement in his life: the Washington communicator Ross O’Neal Greenhow.

Shortly after General McDowell’s departure, Bohanmu, an officer of the Southern Army, was stationed in the Fairfax County Courthouse near Washington to monitor the enemy’s movements.

Monitoring the enemy’s dynamics is a work that cannot be relaxed, but people always need to relax. Just this day, the guard brought a girl out of the city.

Bohanmu looked around. Although the girl was dressed as a country girl, she was very beautiful. It must have been a detailed work of the North Army. It was just when he was about to interrogate (a hot one).

The girl said: “My name is Betty. I have urgent information to be given to General Borrigad.” Bohanmu immediately showed a pity, because another mission was to be ready to welcome him from the city secret agent.

Seeing Bohanmu’s understanding, Betty unfolded the clip. Her long hair was scattered like a waterfall, and Bohanmu was so drunk and deeply sorry.

Betty took out a silk bag from the untied hairpin and handed it to Bohanmu. Bohanmu’s faction made the silk bag whip and he quickly transferred it to General Borrigad.

The thing in the silk bag is a complete plan of the Northern Army’s operations, and even the maps used by the Federal Senate Military Affairs Committee was marked the route of the federal force’s attack on the Manassas junction.

General McDowell didn’t expect that all his battle plans were stolen.

In other words, General McDowell’s every step and all his actions were already under the control of the Southern Army.

After receiving information from Mrs. Greenhow, General Borrigad immediately sent a telegram to Richmond’s Southern Government, saying that McDowell’s troops had already set off.

Joe Johnson’s 10,000 troops in the Shenandoah Valley were called for reinforcements, and the answer was that Johnson’s reinforcements would arrive shortly.

However, the actual situation is that Joe Johnson’s forces were clamped down by a large number of federal forces entering Virginia from the north of Maryland.

These troops were led by General Robert Patterson, and they were pressing towards the Southern Army under Johnson. But they didn’t really want to fight with Johnson, they just wanted to prevent Johnson from leading the reinforcement of General Borrigad.

Johnson knew that his troops could not beat Patterson, so he played a trick. He sent most of his troops to support Borrigad, while sending a small team of elite men to attack Patterson’s forces.

Patterson thought that all of Johnson’s troops were here, so he began to settle down the preparation for the attack of the southern army.

By the time he finally responded, Johnson had slipped away and led his large army to Manassas.

And just when the Southern Army dispatched troops and waited for the upcoming battle. The situation with the Northern Army is quite the opposite.

After the commander of the Federal Forces, McDowell, headed out from Arlington, the road was dusty because of the hot weather, and because of the lack of order and discipline, the troops marched very slowly because they did not undergo long training.

Every time when a small stream was encountered along the way, everyone stopped to wash their faces, and some left the troops without permission to pick fruits on the roadside. To outsiders, this group of soldiers dressed in red, green and they are more like boy scout participating in a summer camp than a regular federal army going to fight.

Most of these soldiers are indeed new recruits just after joining the army. They have poor physical fitness without training, and they exhausted very quickly.

It took them four days to complete the 45-kilometer journey to the last town of Saint-Terwell before Bull Creek.

There were also a large number of onlookers accompanying the crowd. Members of parliament, businessmen, people and journalists came to watch the battle. They sat in a carriage, carrying food and champagne, and happily arranged for several miles. At this time, people generally think that this is the only opportunity to watch the battle. If it is missed, the war will end here.

These strategic situations have not affected Victor for the time being. After all, a grass-roots officer on the battlefield only needs to be responsible for killing, and this is exactly what he is best at.

However, he still paid for his previous eating behavior at the banquet. A senior officer felt that he was eating like a militia from the countryside.

As a result, Victor and his men were deployed to assist the 14th Militia Regiment in Brooklyn, New York.

The original text of the order was: The militia should stay with the militia!

And this group of militiamen from Brooklyn is indeed also a unique scenery in the EFF: the uniform standard EFF soldiers at the time were prussian blue flat hat (or Hardy hat) and wool tight jacket (in prussian blue), pants are sky blue, full wool trousers. (It turns out that the US emperor was the original German stick.)

This is basically the case for both the Southern Army and the Northern Army, mainly in blue-grey uniforms. Although there are subtle differences, it was indeed the main style at the time.

As for our Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment, they wear scarlet flat-topped caps, the tops, which are covered with dark navy blue, and the “14” cap badge is directly in front of the caps.

The upper body is dressed like the EFF of other troops, with Prussian blue tight jacket.

But the lower body is pure wool scarlet trousers (or men’s breeches) and white leggings.

The members of the Brooklyn 14th Regiment also have different backgrounds, some are workers, employees and merchants in the city, and some are farmers, hunters and miners in the mountains.

There are even individual people living in the South, as well as foreigners. It can be said that the members of the 14th Regiment almost included the people of all walks of life in the United States at that time, the only ones that were not there were professional soldiers.

The arrival of Victor and his strengthened company made up for the only flaw in the United States and China, and now they also have professional soldiers. Although the officers of these professional soldiers are amateurs.

At this time, the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment has 13 companies, they are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K …

In fact, it can be seen from the name that this damn is really a militia. Then Victor received the number of his company: M.

He don’t know why. When he saw the letter, he remembered his dear father Creed and the beautiful night they had spent in his basement.

Cough, but although they are militiamen, they have undergone militarized training all year round and participated in the suppression of the anti-catholic organization “Angel Gabriel”.

They can be considered a hundred peoples. Compared with them, other aspiring young people, who have been mobilized, are too graphic.

And the regiment’s patriotism was very strong. When the Southern Alliance rebelled, President Lincoln issued a mobilization order.

New York State gathered at the conscription office of the militia, and soon the 14th Regiment of Brooklyn was established.

Colonel Alfred Wood took a telegram to the Washington government, and his Brooklyn 14th regiment was ready. (The content of the telegram is as follows: everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. Gou … beep_____)

The Colonel Alfred expressed a warm welcome to Victor’s arrival. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is about to go to war after all.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Bagley of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was not so happy. After all, he suddenly lost one company. Although it was only a temporary deployment, but it still made him feel uncomfortable.

However, he could not refute the reasons for the deployment. Their Fifth Cavalry Regiment was one of the few elite troops with combat experience. Distributing part of them as the backbone of the recruits was the fastest way to form combat power.

Shortly after Victor joined the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment, orders were sent to the battlefield.

Watching a group of temporarily mobilized rioters rushing into Washington, almost without formation. It reminded Victor of a game he had played before crossing: Red Alert 2.

At that time, his favorite thing was to play the Soviet Union, explode a large number of mobilized soldiers, and then circled, a wave of A passed…

At this time, the army of the Northern Federation had quite a Soviet mobilization style, and it was also a mess of turbulence towards its purpose.

The only thing that pleased Victor was that the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment was not in this range. They lined up neatly and pointed at their tactical goals with their red long legs at a neat pace: Henry Family Hill.

The Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment used their performance to conquer Victor’s subordinates. Before that, they were quite vocal about transferring a militia regiment.

Then they also followed the same neat steps with their legs in blue trousers and followed closely at the end of the 14th Regiment in Brooklyn. They could not perform worse than this group of militiamen. After all, elite also needs face.