The battle lasted from early morning to afternoon, and the composition of the forces on both sides was very complex.
The Federal Army completed two parts, Leon's Army and Silger's Army.
The composition of the Union Army was even more complicated. There were Price's Missouri National Guard and reinforcements from Arkansas and Texas.
Judging from the entire battle process, the command of both sides was very chaotic.
Even on such a small battlefield, there was no effective unified command.
During the battle, both sides made huge mistakes.
This makes the outcome of the battle dependent on whose side Lady Luck is on in the end.
It was obvious that the Goddess of Victory was on the side of the Alliance this time.
During the battle to attack Xiaoxi, General Laian, who had yet to achieve his ambition, was hit by a grenade and fell on the way to the attack.
Then the Confederate Army launched a counterattack against the Union Army, and the leaderless Union Army was finally defeated.
However, the Union army, which was also badly organized, failed to organize an effective pursuit.
As a result, most of the defeated soldiers of the Confederate Army fled to Springfield in organized form.
Next, after defeating another federal army led by General Siegel, the Union army regrouped and marched toward the Springfield area, the federal base camp.
By this time, the Federal Army had regrouped at its base camp in Springfield.
A new battle broke out in Springfield. This time the Confederates were the attacking side.
The fighting was once more intense than at Wilson's Creek.
Price, Raines and McCulloch finally came together for unified command this time.
Siegel also became the sole commander of the Union Army.
He was eager to repel the Union army on the opposite side and then retreat eastward to Kentucky with his soldiers.
At this time, Kentucky was controlled by the Union Army.
Because the Kansas Army took the Missouri retreat.
Otherwise, Siegel can continue to deal with the Alliance forces in Springfield.
Although the Union Army failed in the battle of Wilson's Creek, the main reason was General Lyon's sacrifice, which had a huge impact on the Union Army's command and morale.
In fact, both sides lost about the same number of soldiers.
Before departure, Laon left behind troops at the Springfield base camp.
Fortifications were dug around the camp.
The Union Army tried to take advantage of the victory to break through the enemy's defenses, so they launched a fierce attack on the Federal Army's fortifications without artillery preparation.
This resulted in the largest casualties since the battle between both sides.
Among the greatest casualties were the Texas cavalry.
The entire Austin Outlaws Regiment of more than 300 people suffered two-thirds casualties during the charge.
Seeing such a situation on the battlefield, Siegel was not satisfied with just repelling his opponent.
Taking advantage of the frustration of the opponent's attack and the great loss of morale, Siegel ordered the cavalry troops who had secretly detoured to the cornfield on the right side of the main base to launch a surprise attack on the Confederate rear flank.
Suddenly the offensive and defensive status was reversed. On the post road north of Springfield and facing Jefferson City, a cavalry unit was rapidly approaching the battlefield in column.
There was no effective communication channel between the Kansas Army and the Confederate Army in the South.
In fact, there was no very effective contact between the armies of the various states of the Union Army.
If we want to make an analogy, President Davis is like the Emperor of Zhou, and each state is like a prince. When there is a war, the president greets them, and then everyone goes to the agreed place with their own soldiers to fight.
"Chief of Staff Zhang, please tell the brothers at the back to maintain their power. We may have to go directly into battle when we arrive in Springfield." Liu Cheng, commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade, said to Chief of Staff Zhang Hong.
"Brigadier Commander, I think we'd better do some reconnaissance before we get to the battlefield. Those Allied forces are a bit unreliable in fighting. They have obviously won the battle, but they don't organize the pursuit properly. They wait for others to stabilize the army, but they don't care about their own troops.
Weary and launched a strong attack."
"This commander's brain must be filled with water," Zhang Hong cursed.
Liu Cheng's brigade was repairing in Jefferson City for several days. After Wang Yan arrived with the main force of the army, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade was the vanguard and headed south.
Along the way, Wang Yan sent multiple reconnaissance troops to explore the situation on the front line.
When he learned that the Union Army had defeated the Federal Army, Wang Yanming ordered the army to slow down to save the soldiers' physical strength.
The Kansas Army did not want to compete with its friendly forces to the south for credit.
Wang Yan is one of the few people who knows the strategic purpose of the Kansas Army.
They just balance the power gap between the North and the South.
In Dong Shuheng's perception, there was a big gap between the Southern Army and the Northern Army.
It's just that the Kansas Army didn't want to take credit, but Price and others felt that the Kansas Army was here to pick up the fruits of their victory.
The two major cities in northern Missouri have now been recaptured by the Kansas Army. If they are allowed to destroy Leon's army.
So wouldn't it be that their hard work in the south for so many days was in vain?
This is also the reason why the three Confederate generals unanimously agreed to launch a strong attack on the Federal Army.
The sergeant of Company D, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, wrote in his letter home:
"These damn generals only see their own merit. We fought at Wilson's Creek for a day and a night, and they also asked us to attack the enemy's established positions. Those northerners had already dug trenches in Springfield, and they had
The stones formed a low stone wall."
"Because of the honor in our hearts as soldiers, we had to follow the officers and charge towards the stone wall, but the North always hid behind the stone wall and kept shooting. I could only watch the companions around me fall. Eric from the farm next door
Lom was two meters away from me. The enemy's bullet hit his belly. I saw him trying hard to fill his intestines back up. Before he died, he kept shouting the name of his mother Liz.
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"Oh~ Dear Rowling, although I have only served for less than three months, I am already disgusted with this damn war."
"I don't think our comrades on the battlefield want to fight either. Everyone's resentment towards the incompetence of the superiors gradually showed up on the battlefield. When the enemy launched a flank attack on us, everyone rushed to run back. I want to be honest with you.
, I was also full of cowardice at that time.”
"The enemy did not stop, we kept running, and the troops who stayed behind also ran with us. I think everyone wants to go home. It has been three months, and many of them have reached the end of their service. They are all those damned ones.
Incompetent officers, they delayed the war for so long. A victorious war turned into a failure."
"Dear Rowling, thank God for being able to write a letter to show that I am still alive, and my hands and feet are sound. I can't wait to fly back now. I hope you can wait for me at the intersection. I want to run over and pick you up.
Turn in circles.”
"You must be wondering why we are still in the mood to write to you after we failed. You must have never imagined that in the end we won again, and it was a big victory. Of course it was not the victory led by those stupid officers."
"When the entire Northern Army was dispatched to pursue us, I felt at that time that these Northern Army must want to kill us all. We did kill many Northern Army. I can understand their revenge mentality."
"Okay, I went astray. At this time, a cavalry force of several thousand people suddenly came out from behind the Northern Army. They were like the gods of death that suddenly emerged from the area, and they continued to grow more and more.
I looked back and saw the Union soldiers falling one after another."
"But they are a group of yellow people. I think you may have never seen yellow people. They are not like those in the illustrated magazines with sinister eyebrows and pig tail-like braids. These cavalrymen in black military uniforms beat the Union Army.
flags, but they are completely different from those of our Alliance troops. I can feel the coldness in their bones."
"When they slashed their sabers at the northern soldiers' necks, it was like slashing at scarecrows. With their black military uniforms, black horses, and black eyes, I couldn't help but associate them with hell."
"Well, it's not a good thing for me to say this about them, because they saved my life, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write letters safely here. The army composed of these yellow men calls themselves the Kansas Regiment, and there are many of them.
I think I will be able to go back soon, and this Kansas regiment will be enough to stop those old northerners. Wait until I go back, Rowling."
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Liu Cheng was riding a tall war horse on the battlefield, and soldiers from the Second Cavalry Brigade were cleaning the battlefield.
The battle was easier than Liu Cheng imagined. After all, the enemy gave up his carefully constructed position.
From this point of view, the Confederate army's previous defeats seemed like they were luring the enemy.
Liu Cheng has not yet met several generals of the Southern Army, and he is not interested in dealing with them.
The Kansas Legion's external contacts were all handled by Wall.
Many people in the Confederate army discriminated against yellow people, and Liu Cheng didn't want to bring trouble on himself.
Cleaning the battlefield is a tradition passed down by the Renaissance Army. The soldiers first touched up the fallen Union troops and searched for their valuable belongings and weapons scattered on the battlefield. The Kansas Army would not let go of any valuable things.
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However, so many soldiers did these things silently. In the eyes of the surviving Confederate soldiers, these Chinese soldiers of the Kansas Legion seemed even more terrifying.
"General McCulloch, do we want to meet with the reinforcement general of the Kansas Army?" Price asked.
They had also been scattered by their own defeated troops just now, and could only retreat south together.
The Northern Army was in hot pursuit, and the three generals did not even have a chance to gather the defeated troops.
All three of them fell into panic and self-blame.
Knowing that the cavalry of the Kansas Legion suddenly came out, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"The timing of this Kansas regiment is really good. Now all the credit for this battle belongs to them. Don't you think we are like clowns?" Raines said with a hint of ridicule. He didn't care at all.
, it was these Chinese cavalry who saved their lives just now.
"After all, it was us who attracted these Northern troops from the fortifications. I will write it clearly in the battle report when the time comes," General McCulloch said.
Price had some urge to leave. The two men were obviously very prejudiced against the Kansas Army.
He also harbored prejudices against the fact that the Kansas Army appeared too late and caused heavy losses to his troops.
But the other two are your guests. After the war is over, they will definitely have to go back.
Price is a native of Missouri. All his troops are from Missouri, so he still has to go back.
But now the major cities in Missouri are controlled by the Kansas Army.
If he wants to go back well, he must get the support of the Kansas Army.
This battle also showed Price that the Union troops supported by Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas were not reliable.
Perhaps if he wanted to establish himself in Missouri in the future, he would need the support of the Kansas Army.
Although Price is not very good at fighting, he is very politically minded.
Price left the headquarters and rode toward the battlefield to the north with his guards.
The Kansas regiments wearing black uniforms were carrying the corpses on the battlefield into large pits dug one after another.
Before that, they were still cleaning the battlefield.
After the battlefield was cleaned, Liu Cheng asked a company of Fusang people to bury the bodies.
At this time, a white priest wearing black robes came to pray for the fallen soldiers.
Liu Cheng knew these foreign monks. After all, he had also stayed in the New World for five or six years.
Geer was a pastor in a nearby town. He had been hiding in his home in fear. He did not come out until the gunfire stopped completely.
He put on his priest's robes, put on his cross, and held a Bible in his hand.
No one would take action against a priest like Jiucheng on the battlefield.
He walked towards the place where the gunshots were heard.
Soon he saw the first body.
He made a sign of the cross on his chest.
The further you go, the higher the density of corpses. Some corpses' heads are even separated from their bodies, and some are still connected with a little bit of skin and flesh.
Gradually he felt himself drowning in a sea of corpses.
Surrounding him were yellow soldiers holding rifles and stabbing the corpse.
Geer had only heard that there was such a mercenary army in the Kansas area.
God, when did pagans become so rampant in the New World?
The cold expression on the Kansas Legion's last strike was deeply imprinted in Geer's mind.
These soldiers in black uniforms look more like a group of machines.
They are taciturn and they obey orders.
This is a group of elite soldiers. Price compared this group of black soldiers with the Missouri National Guard under his command.
There is really a huge difference between the two.
His group of men spend the whole day calculating when they can go home. They are most efficient when executing the retreat order.
The soldiers at work did not pay much attention to Price's arrival.
They are still doing what they are doing.
The Fuso people who carried the corpses buried their heads in carrying the corpses, as if they were carrying logs.
Filling one pit, then the next. Pastor Geer held a Bible in front of each pit and muttered something.
Chief of Staff Zhang Hong came over to greet Price.
He didn't show much enthusiasm, nor did he despise the other party because he was the defeated general.
This calm way of communicating made Price feel very relaxed.
Under the guidance of Zhang Hong, Price arrived at Liu Cheng's command post.
This is the headquarters previously established in Springfield by Ang.
At this time, everything in this camp was the spoils of the Kansas Legion.