Kwan Zhuofan's deployment is:

He himself and his deputy corps commander Daniel Zhang led the horse team and the cavalry team of the Guards Regiment as the first echelon;

Forrest, the commander of the 1st Division, led the 1st Regiment and the Kezi Regiment as the second echelon;

Bai Qiwen, the commander of the second division, led the second foreign regiment and the first word regiment as the third echelon;

Legion Commander Wall led the rest of the men and horses into the fourth echelon.

The road was narrow, time was pressing, and it was impossible for 27,000 people to move together, so they had to set off in batches.

The first echelon is all cavalry, originally the strength of the cavalry is to attack, not to attack, Guan Zhuofan's arrangement is actually a taboo for soldiers, but he wants to use the speed of cavalry to buy time, and rush to the battlefield before Thomas can no longer support it, relying on only a few unexpected effects, and the firepower equipped with these two troops - all Spencer carbines are Spencer carbines, the horse team is 2,400, and the guards regiment is 500, just to divide the first batch of 2,900 Spencer carbines.

The requirements for the second echelon were a rapid march of maximum intensity. Under this intensity of marching, even the strongest soldiers will be tired and paralyzed halfway, but it is hoped that most of them will rush to the destination according to Jihua, in order to invest in time when the first echelon attack is not effective, and not to cause the troops to be routed or annihilated.

By the time the third echelon arrived, most of the Songjiang Corps, the most combat-ready troops, would have arrived, and should be able to launch a substantial attack.

When the fourth echelon arrived, the whole army launched a general offensive to turn the tide of the battle.

Of course, the so-called turning the tide of the war is only to save Thomas's army and protect the defeated Kumbran army to withdraw to Chattanooga in order to keep this army. And then keep Chattanooga. In order to counterattack in the future.

The missionary heights to the east of the city were lost. Until reinforcements arrive, it is impossible to change the situation in which the enemy attacks and defends us.

All the senior officers vehemently opposed Guan Zhuofan personally leading the first echelon, which was the most dangerous and almost certainly the most casualty group - how could there be a commander in the world who was the first to charge?

But Guan Zhuofan refused to accept all the bitter advice.

He is the anchor of this force, and he wants to make sure that this force will not collapse under the unprecedented firepower.

Even if they all die in battle, the wound must be open in front of the body.

Before the war, he gave an impassioned lecture. The fundamental purpose of those rewards is not to "win", but to "not collapse".

Also, when history happens, I'm going to be there.

The first echelon advanced rapidly, and by about five o'clock in the afternoon, the faint sound of gunfire came - it was already close to the battlefield.

At this time, the Malay newspaper was discovered, and an enemy army of several thousand men was found ahead. is moving towards our army.

Guan Zhuofan's heart sank: The Xuan army has been discovered, and the enemy's main general is very good at using soldiers!

Most of the Northern Army had retreated. But the Confederates, while attacking Thomas with all their might, did not forget to take care of the Chattanooga direction.

The "surprise" is no longer there, but there is a benefit: the first battle became an encounter rather than a storm.

He took a breath, exhaled softly, and then ordered the cavalry to dismount.

The cavalry of this era was essentially mounted infantry, and the horse was essentially a fast-moving means of transportation for the infantry.

The basic tactic was that once they reached the battlefield, one-quarter of the soldiers stayed behind to look after the horses, and three-quarters of the soldiers built a line or attacked.

Guan Zhuofan didn't need to be so conservative, he only temporarily left 500 guards regiment and 2,400 horse soldiers all lined up and went into the attack.

The enemy is already in sight.

One by one, in a horizontal line, step forward.

At this time, many of the U.S. troops were still using front-loading guns, and the formation on the battlefield was not very different from the era of "lining up to shoot". In fact, even after the widespread use of rear-loading guns, skirmish tactics did not become widespread immediately, and the real maturity of skirmish tactics was delayed until after the first Shijie War.

The fundamental reason is that the tactics of skirmishing are too demanding on the personal qualities of soldiers, and the improvement of this quality is a long process that lags far behind the development of weapons.

Therefore, on the side of the Xuan army, although they were already equipped with rear-loading repeating guns, there was not much difference between the queue and the enemy who was slowly approaching from a distance.

The war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Xuan Army Horse Team marched forward.

Guan Zhuofan's heart beat with the beat of the drum.

Soon. Soldiers on both sides came within range of the other.

In the telescope, rows of gray human walls have guns raised.

Guan Zhuofan clearly heard his heartbeat.

Suddenly, in the array of the Southern Army, countless white smoke rose.

Guan Zhuofan felt that the battlefield suddenly became extremely silent, and the sound of drums was distant and blurred.

It was the longest second he'd ever waited for.

Finally, like a shower sweeping through the dense forest, the barrage carried a low whistling sound and swept past the marching Xuan soldiers.

Buckshot burrowed into the skin, tearing through muscles, blood vessels, and nerves, shattering bones and opening terrible gaps in the soldiers' bodies. Many of the soldiers snorted and fell to the ground.

Then, the sound of gunfire came.

This was the greatest blow to the density of firepower suffered by Guan Zhuofan's army since the Chengnan Horse Brigade.

However, the Xuan army did not collapse.

Passing past the body of his fallen comrade, Xuan Jun continued to move forward, and then, raising his gun, aiming, loading, and shooting.

In the telescope, the gray wall of people begins to loosen.

Xuan Jun continued to shoot, and the gunshots in the array came and went, and soon they rang out.

In the telescope, the gray wall of people is starting to crack.

Xuanjun shoots, shoots, shoots, and shoots, and it seems to be endless.

The gray wall of people has finally collapsed.

The soldiers of the Southern Army turned and fled backwards, and the entire front quickly collapsed. There was no commander to restrain them, for the colonel who led the team also fell from his horse in this deadly rain of fire.

The whole process took less than half an hour.

We won! Ecstasy grabbed the heart of every Xuan soldier.

We won the foreigners!

Cheers resounded across the battlefield.

The reins in Guan Zhuofan's hand were already soaked with his sweat, and he found that his eyes seemed to be wet.

History should remember my glory.

Of course, Guan Zhuofan clearly knew that the Xuan army was only repelling a resistance from the rebels, and it was still far from success.

But it was such a limited victory that gave Thomas a huge boost.

At that time, Thomas's 14th Army was already in a desperate situation.

Thomas's opinion is the same as that of Guan Zhuofan: someone must break the queen, otherwise the entire Cumbran army will be ready. He made the same choice as Kwan Zhuofan: disobey orders and do what he thinks he should do.

Thomas was a native of Virginia and came from a large family of slave owners, but was sympathetic to slaves from an early age. After the outbreak of the war, he remained in the Northern Army, but his family broke off relations with him and asked him to change his surname and not to take the surname Thomas.

However, the surname Thomas has finally gone down in history because of him.

It is really natural for such a person to make such a choice on the battlefield.

But at the time, Thomas didn't know if his choice would lead to the outcome he wanted.

The Fourteenth Army was attacked on three sides, suffered heavy casualties, and most of its positions had been lost, if it retreated now. The enemy had not been held back long enough, and the Cumbran Legion and Chattanooga were still doomed; If the fight continues, the 14th Army will definitely be destroyed, and what is even worse is that even if the 14th Army is completely destroyed, it may not buy enough time for the retreating friendly forces.

At the most desperate moment, Xuan Jun's gun rang out.

The pressure on Thomas's left flank was significantly reduced, because the right flank of the opposite Southern Army had to divide his troops to the west to resist Xuan's army. More importantly, when the 14th Army heard of friendly reinforcements in a desperate situation, its morale was greatly boosted, and it counterattacked frantically, recovering several positions in a row.

Soon, the second echelon of the Xuan Army arrived on time.

To Zhuo Fan's surprise, after the ultra-high-intensity march, although the soldiers were sweaty and heavily clothed, their spirits were very good, and their faces were full of eagerness. Moreover, there is no attrition.

It seems that the power of the spiritual atomic bomb is infinite.

He made a slight calculation that the number of troops in his hands had exceeded 9,000, in addition to the 2,900 Spencer carbines of the horse team and the cavalry of the Guards Regiment, two battalions of the 1st Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the Guards Regiment were each equipped with rifle versions of Spencer repeaters, adding up to about 5,000 Spencers, and the others were also single-shot rear-loading firing rifles -- which were not comparable to the miscellaneous platters of the rebels.

In this case, Guan Zhuofan changed his mind: Don't wait for the third echelon and start attacking!

*(To be continued......)