The northern militiamen now formed an alliance of Avengers.
The reckless Texans have stung a hornet's nest this time.
Fortunately, reinforcements from Yangtze Security and the Texans were about to arrive at this time. The two sides alone totaled tens of thousands of people.
The Northern liberals also secretly mobilized a large number of militiamen from the northern states, with a total strength of more than 20,000.
An artillery team composed of veterans and military school volunteers joined the northerners.
This artillery force used more than one hundred six-pounders.
This greatly increased the confidence of the northern liberal coalition.
The Southern Slave Owners Alliance was not idle either. In addition to adding a large number of mercenaries, it also recruited a group of veterans who had participated in the Mexican-American War from the southern states.
This team has a total of more than 10,000 people and is led by the famous General Drayton.
General Thomas Drayton himself was a slave plantation owner. He participated in the Mexican-American War and commanded many battles.
He has rich experience in commanding operations. Now he does not hold a federal military position, so he can lead this group of southern volunteers.
This can be considered the greatest support this time from the South to the Kansas region.
Not only that, the southern states also secretly prepared a sum of more than 10 million US dollars for the war in Kansas.
In terms of financial resources, the South now far exceeds that of the North.
Although a large number of factories have been built in the north, its industrial production capacity is very strong. There is even a tendency to overtake the United Kingdom.
But now the international competition is very fierce. The British and French have their own monopolized markets.
Nowadays, external sales are not about whose products are better or cheaper, but about who owns the market.
The Americans obviously don't have much territory now, so the sales of their products are very poor.
This has also led to the crisis that the northern region is facing now.
The previous honeymoon period with the Renaissance Army actually gave the North of the United States a taste of the sweetness.
But now, with the continuous improvement of the revived military industrial system and Dong Shuheng's attempt to level the trade surplus with Britain and France, he has begun to gradually reduce the trade volume with the northern United States.
On the contrary, the grain, cotton, cane sugar and other raw materials produced by southerners are more popular in China.
China's domestic land development is still in its initial stages.
The first step for the Renaissance Army is to let the people solve the problem of food and clothing first.
Therefore, Donghenghui is still encouraging the import of grain and other raw materials from abroad.
The Renaissance Army sends many immigrant ships to North America every year. When these ships come back, they cannot come back empty.
As the demand for American machinery and equipment decreases, many ships choose to transport some raw materials back.
The only thing imported from the north may be steel.
That's why President Pierce, who currently favors the South, is so friendly to the Ba'ath Army.
Bills were even introduced that were beneficial to the Chinese, allowing the Chinese to gain a foothold in California.
This can be regarded as the slave owners in the South showing favor to the Renaissance Army.
Both sides are increasing their troops, and the war has not yet begun.
The Avengers in northern Kansas took action.
Their first act of revenge was a surprise attack on a Texas mercenary camp.
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the Texans knew that those northerners would definitely come back for revenge.
But they did not expect that these northerners would attack their base camp located in the hinterland of Wichita City.
These people are really courageous.
At this time, there was only one day left before the arrival of Texan reinforcements.
There are still more than 1,500 Texas mercenaries in the camp. Not far to the east of the camp is the city of Wichita.
There are thousands of Southern Volunteers in the city.
One kilometer north of the Texans was the Yangtze Security Camp, where two thousand Chinese infantrymen were stationed.
If the northerners came to sneak attack with such a configuration, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
Because these three camps are at odds with each other, it is easy to make dumplings for the enemy.
There is now an extra house in the Texans' camp. Here they hold the women they captured during their trip north.
There are everything from teenage girls to beauties in their thirties and forties.
Of course, those who steal women and make them wives will hide their women to prevent their drunken companions from getting hold of them.
Bush now has someone running the house.
If the mercenaries under my command want to enter and have fun, they must come out with money, or exchange their military merits.
This method greatly boosted the morale of the team.
So much so that Bush regretted that he should not have let his men kill those northern women. Instead, he should have snatched them all back.
"Dong dong dong..." The clock struck midnight. A group of black figures quietly approached the Texan camp.
Their bodies were covered with homemade grenades and explosive bags.
"Thomson, you take twenty men to blow open the camp door and stand there to shoot the Texans who escape from the camp."
There were more than a thousand northern militiamen who came with Thomas this time.
They knew that if they penetrated deep into the enemy's rear, they might be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, but they came for revenge and did not need to consider the issue of their retreat at all.
It is said that the ignorant are fearless, so why should the fearless think so much?
Moreover, Thomas and the others came here without permission from the Kansas City Militia Command.
They ran away privately.
The Kansas militia command felt that this was not a good opportunity to launch a surprise attack.
Thomas and others believed that since everyone knew that now was not a good time for a sneak attack, the enemy must also think so.
Of course, they just want to vent their anger. As for winning or not, the people who are coming out with Thomas don't care at all.
These people have nothing left.
Thomas' plan was to first create an explosion at the gate of the Texans' camp, and then throw grenades in from all sides of the camp to cause destruction and chaos.
When the awakened enemies gather in the direction of the camp gate, blow up part of the wall and suddenly kill them through the gap in the wall.
This plan is not very clever. A lot of it depends on the enemy's carelessness.
Perhaps the families of those who died tragically were protecting these northern militiamen.
Thankfully, these Texans were not as cautious as Thomas thought.
The women and liquor brought from previous robberies have made these Texans live a somewhat happy life these days.
Even the soldiers on guard were exhausted from the day's indulgence.
Human energy is always limited.
"Boom, boom, boom..." An explosion sounded first from the camp gate.
The northern militiamen used explosives to blow open the gate of the camp.
Immediately, a group of people rushed into the camp gate. They threw a bunch of grenades everywhere and then retreated.
Then there were explosions near the wall.
Bush was awakened from his sleep and pushed away a white woman next to him.
He pulled the clothes off the bed and put them on.
The mercenaries on duty outside are already fighting back.
However, they shot blindly into the surrounding darkness, which seemed to have no effect.
Several northern militiamen who rushed into the camp were still setting fires and throwing grenades everywhere.
Bush shouted to his men not to panic, as the number of enemies did not seem to be many.
"Ogo, stop the troops from blocking the camp gate and clear out the northerners who rush in."
Ogo was the first to run in front of Bush. Bush pulled Ogo over and gave instructions as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
At this time, a northern soldier was hit by a musket but still did not fall. He rushed into the crowd with a lit explosive bag.
Then there was a huge explosion, and the surrounding Texas mercenaries were blown away along with the northerner.
The scene was full of confusion...
Bush finally knew where these people came from.
The enemies outside the camp gate were constantly shooting at the camp gate.
After the camp gate was blown down, it was set alight by the northerners, and the surrounding area was brightly lit. All soldiers who entered the place illuminated by the fire would become someone else's trap.
But by this time, most of the mercenaries in the camp had woken up. They instinctively gathered towards the camp gate.
Just when everyone's attention was attracted to the camp gate, a huge explosion suddenly sounded from the wall on the other side.
Bush looked behind him and saw the fire flashing on the wall behind him.
Another large group of enemies rushed over from there, and they set fire to the tents around them.
As they moved, the area illuminated by fire became larger and larger in the camp.
Many scattered mercenaries in the camp fell to the guns of these people. At this time, Bush visually estimated that the number of the enemy had reached four to five hundred.
"Stop and rally to me!" Bush shouted loudly, gathering the scattered mercenaries to his side.
The number of people rushing in from the back wall was quite large. If they didn't gather together, they wouldn't be able to withstand their attack.
Bush knew this very well, so he tried his best to gather people around him.
On the other side, Ogo also led a group of people to clean up the northern militia that had rushed in.
What happened in the Texan camp naturally spread to Yangtze Security.
"Commander, should we go and support those Texans?" an officer asked Wall for advice.
"The situation outside is unclear. Let the soldiers hold on to our camp first." Three reconnaissance teams were sent out to investigate the situation.
All members of the Yangtze River Security Team were awakened from their sleep. The soldiers deployed in an orderly manner around the camp under the orders of the officers.
Some soldiers even dug trenches outside the camp as a peripheral defensive position.
Wall doesn't care about the life or death of these Texans. Ensuring his own safety is the first priority.
If it was really his friendly army, Wall would definitely send a team to support him at this time.
Even if he is ambushed, it will not affect the overall situation.
But now it's those pesky Texans who are under attack on the other side.
Then Wall will adopt the most conservative plan.
Similarly, the Southern Volunteers who were stationed in Wichita did not come out of the city to provide support.
In their opinion, the manor owners in Wichita are the most important.
As for the mercenaries outside the city, they just paid to hire them.
If you die, you will die. When the time comes, you can just spend money to hire people from outside.
It was never said that employers should protect the safety of mercenaries.
This resulted in such a sad scene now.
The Texans fought bloody battles in the camp, but neither of the two nearby reinforcements came to support them.
After this war, the northerners discovered the flaw of the southern army, that is, there was no effective coordinated combat plan between their two main mercenaries and the southern volunteers.
Instead, they are in a state of fighting on their own.
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Thomas led more than a thousand people to charge in from the back wall, setting fire and shooting all enemies they could see.
Soon Bush organized hundreds of people to form a scattered line array, and started shooting at Thomas' people from a distance.
However, Thomas ordered those who followed him to ignore the other party's shooting and continue to move forward.
In such a dim environment, although both sides used rifled guns, the shooting accuracy was pitifully low.
Thomas held up the revolver on his waist. This gun became famous during the Mexican-American War, but it was more popular among cowboys in the North.
The Texans who were lying behind the barrier escaped a round of shooting. Thomas rushed forward with the brothers who came with him, shouting.
On the battlefield here in the United States, such hand-to-hand charges are very rare.
These Americans like to hide and shoot from a distance when fighting.
So much so that British soldiers often mocked them as colonial cowards.
But it was these scattered militiamen who defeated the British more than once.
After they were defeated, the British would say that these people had no moral ethics.
When they saw the Yankees on the opposite side, they rushed forward with shouts. The Texan mercenaries who had just finished shooting and were reloading were obviously in a panic.
"Don't mess around, fix the bayonets," Bush ordered loudly.
Most of these Texans are relatively tough, and after having orders, their performance was much better.
I originally thought that the two sides were going to collide and fight hand to hand.
The Texans were already prepared. They raised the bayonets on their rifles and prepared to thrust.
But after the Yankee on the opposite side ran within twenty or thirty meters, he suddenly pulled out the revolver in his waist.
They move the firing pin very quickly.
"Bang bang bang..." Soon every northern militiaman finished shooting the bullets in their pistols.
The people around Bush suffered heavy casualties. They were originally lined up in a line, but they were all exposed to the enemy.
If someone from the Renaissance Army was present, they would definitely find this scene very familiar.
Such pistol tactics were often used in the early days of the Renaissance Army.
Because at that time, this revolver was probably the fastest weapon.
Bush was also shot once in the body. Before he could check, two mercenaries held him up and retreated toward the camp gate.
While Ogo prevented his men from making a desperate charge, Thomson's dozen men were unable to stop them.
The passage in front of the camp gate has been opened. Ogo and his remaining soldiers retreated towards Wichita City.
In the distance, the Yangtze River Security Investigation Team is monitoring the situation here.
It was learned that the northern militiamen who made the sneak attack only numbered more than a thousand people.
Wall believed that he should do something, at least to make a profit without losing money, and even to make those Texans owe him a favor.
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