Sure enough, after they all crossed the river, the Yin Di'an people who were nervously escaping and their accompanying women and children were all close at hand.
This is the best chance to completely eliminate this group of Yin Di'an people.
It is not too difficult for 50,000 people to encircle and annihilate tens of thousands of Yin Di'an people.
Many white soldiers regarded this as a hunting game.
At this moment, there was an explosion behind them, and at some point a river gunboat formation came from upstream.
This is a gunboat formation composed of dozens of ships.
Most of the boats are wooden boats, but they have their own power.
These boats move down the river at very high speeds.
Before the ship arrived, the small-caliber artillery on the bow began to fire on the pontoon bridge.
This pontoon bridge, which was connected by wooden rafts, was quickly destroyed.
At the same time, a large number of artillery shells flew from the north and exploded in the Northern Army's offensive formation.
Only then did those white people realize that they had fallen into the trap.
After the overwhelming shelling, countless soldiers came from the north and south to fight like the Northern Army.
Those Yin Di'an people who were fleeing also turned around and came to kill them.
The fighting continued into the night, and the remaining white troops were finally reduced to a position by the river.
Some people tried to jump into the river holding the logs, but were quickly swept away by the turbulent water.
What's more, the gunboats on the river have already pointed their thick machine guns at them.
This is a big victory, but this victory is not very glorious.
In this way, Canada joined the war against the North.
When news of the defeat reached Washington, Abraham was furious.
Immediately declared that the entire western region had entered a state of rebellion. At the same time, it was announced that all yellow people in the states would be expelled.
He also announced the long-awaited Allotment Law.
Announced that in the vast western region, starting from the eighth year of the restoration, all American citizens who are 21 years old or older, or foreigners who meet the naturalization requirements and apply for American citizenship, can live and farm for free or pay a registration fee of 10 US dollars, that is,
Can receive no more than 160 acres of western state-owned land as allotments.
After five years of farming, or if those who live on the homestead for half a year within five years and pay a fee of $1.25 per acre, the land they receive will belong to them.
This is equivalent to taking land controlled by the Chinese and giving it to white people.
Canada also announced its secession from the Union at the same time, but they did not join the South.
Instead, he established the Republic of Canada himself and elected Chinese Liu Mingyuan to be in power.
Immediately afterwards, Canada and the Confederate States recognized each other and concluded a military alliance.
After the 50,000 reinforcements on the western battlefield were eliminated, the flanks of the Western Army of the Union Army that stood on the Springfield line of defense were immediately exposed.
Fortunately, at this time, the 50,000 troops that Sherman had taken with him also lost contact.
Everyone thought they were lost in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Because the climate in that place is indeed very harsh, I heard that even animals get lost in the mountains.
If there is heavy fog for several consecutive days, it may really trap people to death.
Robert and Rosecrans had to shrink their defenses and set up a new front outside Chicago.
This way they would also be able to obtain supplies from the city of Chicago more easily.
With the exception of Chicago, all the northwest states fell into the hands of the Kansans.
The Indians acquired the Wisconsin lakefront as their homeland.
But their soldiers will continue to fight with Jiahua's army.
Liu Qingnan and Hua Er also met together.
The total number of the entire Kansas Army and the Canadian Army far exceeded the remaining Northern Army's Western Army.
But the attack on Chicago won't be that easy.
Chicago is backed by the Great Lakes, so it only needs to defend three sides. The federal government can continuously transport reinforcements and supplies from the Great Lakes area.
Almost all the men in the city were armed.
Women filled vacant factory jobs.
When the two sides fought a bloody battle in Chicago.
Sherman's regiment, which had been out of contact, suddenly appeared north of Atlanta.
At this time, the entire city of Atlanta was celebrating the northwest victory.
Because it is not a front line, Atlanta only has a portion of the National Guard guarding the city's security.
This is an important industrial center in the south, and a large amount of materials are transported from here to the front line every day.
Sherman's army crawled in the mountains for more than a month.
At this time, they were in ragged clothes, tired and hungry, but in terms of momentum, these people were like tigers descending the mountain.
Sherman captured this large southern city without much effort.
Sherman then ordered the city to be wiped off American soil.
Gunfire, fire and blood filled the city.
Carnage replaced carnival.
There are a large number of rich people concentrated in this city, because Virginia is the front line of the battle between the two sides, and people in the coastal areas will also feel the threat brought by the Northern Navy from the sea, so many rich people have hid in Atlanta. Unexpectedly, they
They all suffered a devastating disaster.
Sherman's Army vented all the anger it had accumulated in the mountains on the city.
After the Confederate states learned about this incident, they were greatly shocked. President Davis urgently dispatched troops to Atlanta to encircle and suppress it.
News of Sherman's Army's capture of Atlanta also reached Washington.
The morale of the Northern Army was boosted.
Because although several states were lost in the Western Battlefield, they were all sparsely populated western states.
And big cities like Chicago are still firmly in the hands of the federal government.
But at this time, the northerners actually captured the big cities in the south.
This could greatly reduce the South's war potential.
Sherman lasted only two days in Atlanta.
But these two days were enough for them to burn the city down.
Even Atlanta's library was burned to the ground.
It has to be said that Sherman did a great job.
After the war, almost all men in Atlanta died except children.
Most of the women in the city were also humiliated.
Before reinforcements arrived from the South, Sherman re-entered the Smoky Mountains.
When they returned to Kentucky they received a hero's welcome.
But of the 50,000 people who set out, there are now only 20,000 left.
However, these 20,000 people have all become elite soldiers.
In recognition of this regiment, Abraham authorized Sherman to organize a 100,000-strong Great Smoky Mountain Corps based on 20,000 men.
After Sherman returned, both Wall and Liu Qingnan felt that there might be danger on Missouri's flanks and rear.
So they mobilized 100,000 people from the front line to defend St. Louis City.
Fortunately, they returned to defense.
Sure enough, Sherman, the lunatic, launched another attack on Missouri.
Sherman took offense to the extreme and considered the best defense.
And every time he attacked, he razed to the ground the southern towns he passed through.
Beginning in the eighth year of the Renaissance, the people of the Yu country also began to support the northerners.
The reason is simple. If the federal government disappears, it will be difficult for the Canadians to maintain their Canadian colony.
Under the oppression of the Renaissance Army, the French only had one colony left in Amelia, Canada Province.
And now the area they directly control is the Great Lakes region.
The Quebec region was already in a state of autonomy under the instigation of the French.
Now France is strong and prosperous, while the Great Empire is in decline. The decline of each other has also affected the people's hearts in the colonies.
Originally, the people living in Quebec were mainly French immigrants.
Time has entered the ninth year of the Renaissance, 1864.
It is nearly halfway to the five years agreed upon by Dong Shuheng.
In the past two years, Dong Shuheng has never left his homeland.
Either do research everywhere, attend various meetings, or stay in the laboratory.
Under the chairmanship of Xu Shou, the Electric Power Laboratory made rapid progress.
However, Xu Shou is more interested in high-energy coils, a method of power transmission that does not require wires.
According to him, in the future, as long as such coil towers are built in areas with abundant power resources, power can be spread to any corner.
People can use electricity as long as they install a small receiving device at home.
But Dong Shuheng didn't agree with it. He thought it was too science fiction, but he did not stop the experiment.
Diesel engines and gasoline engines are now more mature.
Dong Shuheng knew that even if electricity becomes widespread and electric vehicles are used in the future, diesel and gasoline engines will still have their uses.
As long as these things are not ubiquitous, they do not have a great impact on the environment.
In this year, the French controlled most of the eastern part of Moxico, and after paying a huge price, they captured the city of Moxigo.
Nathan felt that he seemed to be isolated from the whole of Europe, so he made a decision to invite a duke from Austria to serve as the emperor of the Moxican puppet empire supported by the French.
But this incident didn't just make Joseph happy.
Instead, he offended the Austrian emperor.
Because His Majesty the Emperor does not like his brother Maximilian.
The original liberal Moxican government hid in the western and northern regions to resist.
After Maximilian arrived in Moxico, he was welcomed by the big landowners and priests.
Because in the previous war, their losses were the most noticeable.
The liberals united with the Yangtze River Security and almost robbed them all.
In the past two years, Dong Shuheng has continued to immigrate to Canada. Together with immigrants from other countries in the Greater China Circle, the population of Canada and China has been increasing at a rate of two million people every year.
Some local areas that have been over-exploited for thousands of years have now been restored to their natural state, with a variety of plants planted, restored to their original appearance, and naturally restored.
Especially the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the northwest region of the mainland.
Dong Shuheng's idea is to reserve more living space for future generations.
The same meaning applies to those natural reserves.
In the eleventh year of the Renaissance, Dong Shuheng will officially step down and take over his new position.
He plans to travel the entire Greater China Circle in the decade of rejuvenation.
As a candidate, he always wants to meet his voters.
It just so happens that he can adapt to his new identity in advance.
After years of continuous war, America, the original chosen country, has been devastated.
Because all the men went to war, a lot of land in the southern manors was left uncultivated.
As Abraham introduced the Emancipation Act, more and more black people fled to the North.
In response, the South adopted a very cruel approach.
Southern states have introduced laws that allow anyone to kill a fugitive slave on the spot and receive a five-meter reward.
In the current economic depression, many southerners have taken up this business. Black slaves in the manors are not even allowed to go to the streets, otherwise they may be treated as runaway slaves and killed.
The situation in the north is also very miserable. If it weren't for the blood transfusion from the Republic of China, the north would have been unable to hold on long ago.
Because they not only had to confront the Southerners in Virginia, but also fought the Canadians and Indians in the west.
In some big cities, people work in factories for 12 hours a day, but they don't get paid.
Rationing can only be exchanged for coupons obtained through labor. Under the consumption of the war, the free economy has completely collapsed.
As for those who did not participate in labor, they received nothing.
So many families sent their half-grown children to factories.
Universities in many cities have suspended classes because young students have gone to war.
Those farmers in the countryside are not much better.
Most of the food they harvest is confiscated by the government to make military rations for soldiers on the front line.
They can only survive by eating some whole grains.
The Land Allotment Act is a piece of waste paper because no one can go to Jiahua's territory and occupy a piece of land.
The slaves who escaped to the north didn't get anything good. They were sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder as soon as they passed.
On the Benniu River defense line, the total strength of both sides was more than two million, and on average tens of thousands of people were killed every day.
In the eighth year of Fuxing, a naval battle took place. The Northern Navy tried to open up a coastal landing point in the south.
The Southerners used ironclads purchased from the French to give the Northern Navy a head-on blow.
The Northern Navy also had ironclad ships, and the battle between the two sides was inextricable.
In the end, both sides suffered heavy losses.
The North's roundabout tactics failed.
Sherman then proposed a serpentine plan in an attempt to capture the south of the Mississippi River.
But to enter the Mississippi River, you cannot avoid the city of St. Louis, which is firmly protected by Wall.
The Northern Army tried its best to defeat them but could not defeat them.
The southerners are now short of supplies themselves and can only buy them from Canada and the French.
And their money was about to be spent. The southern government even mortgaged the cotton for the next two years to France in exchange for a loan.
The French seemed to be suppressed by the French and kept an unusually low profile.
But the layout of the Yu people has never stopped.
With the support of the Chinese people, Tsarist Russia, which had both people and land, developed very fast.
Tsarist Russia established three fleets: the Black Sea, the Baltic and the Northern fleets.
They even stationed a navy in their newly acquired territory in southwest Africa.
In the past two years, the scope of the Greater China Circle has continued to expand. Especially in the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa, some small countries have continued to apply to join the community to obtain protection.
After two years of observation, they have discovered that as long as they join the community and fulfill certain obligations, they can obtain the protection of the Renaissance Army.
Such conditions are very attractive to small countries that do not have the ability to protect themselves.