Hood's hands and feet are cold: I ...... Hit the trick?!

Before he could react, the second call of the Malay newspaper was called: East Point had been lost, and the Northern Army had arrived at Winston Railway Station south of Atlanta!

Hood is also the one who has been rolling out of the fire many times, he calmed down and quickly saw the situation in front of him.

The Macon Railway has been lost, and the remaining branch line of Montgomery is gone, and now the troops in the north of the city are called back, maybe they can stop the Northern Army, maybe they can't stop the Northern Army, but even if they are temporarily blocked, it is meaningless, because all external communication has been cut off, and the fall of Atlanta is only a matter of sooner or later.

His responsibility now is not to keep Atlanta, but to keep the rest of the force.

It's still too late to go, it's a little later, the northern army is encircled, and you can't go if you want to.

Hood ordered all ammunition depots and munitions depots to be blown up, and the entire army withdrew from Atlanta from the north of the city.

The Confederate artillery opened fire on their own ammunition depot, which soon led to a martyrdom.

Explosions of all sizes continued, flames rising and black smoke billowing out. Each time the huge cartridge was ignited, there was a loud sound like thousands of rifles firing at the same time, and then there was a brief silence, except for the dull crackling sound of the rapidly spreading fire. Then, the climax came, hundreds of shells exploded in the air, shrapnel flew far away, and the earth trembled.

The southern army rushed out from the north of the city, and the northern army was ordered to give way without making any resistance.

In this way, Atlanta, the largest town in the Confederacy hinterland and the most important manufacturing base, fell into the hands of Guan Zhuofan and Sherman.

Kwan Zhuofan and Sherman sent a report to the White House in a very simple way: Atalanta is in hand.

Lincoln laughed wildly.

The political winds across the Federation turned 180 degrees overnight. All newspapers, including pro-Democrat ones. They are all frantically singing the praises of President Lincoln, Duke Guan Yixuan, and General Sherman.

People are convinced: we will win this war very quickly.

Everyone in the United States knows that Lincoln's re-election is a foregone conclusion.

Including those who would never have voted for Lincoln - champions of slavery. This is also openly acknowledged.

It also includes the Confederacy, which will continue to fight to the death with the Union.

The Republican Party, which had split into the National United Party and the Radical Republican Party, has announced a re-merger.

Fraymond, the presidential candidate of the Radical Republican Party, announced his withdrawal from the race.

McClellan, as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, cannot withdraw from the race, but the "election campaign" is no longer there, and the media is not even interested in polling.

McClellan told his friends privately that he felt that he should be exiled to Utah or Nevada, like his idol Napoleon.

Grant sent a message to Kwan Zhuofan and Sherman: "I think you have accomplished one of the most important missions of all the missions of this civil war, and the skills you have displayed will be proven by history to be unparalleled. I feel as happy as if I had done this great work with my own hands. ”

He ordered a hundred shells to be fired at the southern fortifications of Petersburg as a tribute to his two friends.

Lincoln sent a private message to Guan Zhuofan: Dear friend, I hope our friendship will last forever.

The Northern Army entered the city.

The streets were empty. There are few pedestrians. Most of Atlanta's residents have fled, and the rest are largely hiding in their homes. What can be seen on the street is either frightened, or blank, or can be seen trying to suppress their disgust and anger. However, no matter what the expression, there was a strange lightness in it: no matter what, the siege was over, and the nightmare was over.

Guan Zhuofan sighed secretly: Your nightmare has just begun.

From time to time, I see broken walls and ruins -- basically they are the works of Guan Zhuofan's artillery.

But now Atlanta, at all, has basically maintained the appearance of a city of her level.

What about a little later?

The army of China at that time. After conquering the enemy's city, it was customary to burn, kill, loot, and commit adultery. There is no difference between the officers and the rebels. Some of the troops in the Xuan Army still have such habits. However, now that the Xuan Army is fighting on American soil together with the US army, it is facing a very complicated situation, and there are some things that must be handled carefully.

Therefore, before entering the city, Guan Zhuofan gave three orders:

Civilians may not be killed except in the case of obstruction of military affairs, refusal to carry out orders, and attacks on our troops.

It is strictly forbidden to commit adultery with women.

Before receiving an order to collect grain and grass, it is not allowed to loot without permission.

The wording is more subtle. The understanding of these three orders is that the second is a red line and cannot be touched. The first is secondary, but the "discretion" is greater. Third, Commander-in-Chief Guan is likely to turn a blind eye.

Sherman found Guan Zhuofan: Yixuan, we have to drive all the Atlantans out of the city, vacate the city, and call the troops to live in.

Guan Zhuofan thought: It's finally started.

Sherman added: Just publish the notice in my own name, you don't have to be embarrassed.

Guan Zhuofan was silent for a moment and agreed.

Why should he disagree? This is what is in his "Pingnan Eight Strategies", and Sherman also introduced him as a confidant because of this.

From the moment this decision was made, the Southerners of the United States, with a bitter hatred that can never be extinguished, will be remembered for generations to come. The name "Sherman" is a synonym for the "devil."

As the future leader of China, Guan Zhuofan should not pull this hatred for himself and the country.

Sherman, the Federal Government's Joint Commander-in-Chief of the Western Theater, issued an order that all Atlantans must leave Atlanta within forty-eight hours and be allowed to carry the necessary luggage. Those who do not leave the city will be arrested for disobeying military orders.

Atlantans were horrified.

The mayor finds Wiley. Hill, beg him to intercede with Commander-in-Chief Guan.

Willie. Hill hesitated for a long time, and conveyed the "concerns of the people of Atlanta" to Guan Zhuofan as tactfully as possible.

Guan Zhuofan sighed: This is really what Commander-in-Chief Xie means alone. But this kind of thing is not a march, and I, a foreigner, can't say anything even if I don't agree. You tell Mr. Mayor that you have done your best.

Willie. Hill was gone.

Atlanta's mayor and city councilors filed a formal protest with Sherman.

Sherman said proudly, "Gentlemen, you cannot portray war more brutally than I do. War is cruel, and you cannot change it - you cannot achieve peace at the cost of dividing our country. It is better for you to petition against the grave hardships of war than against the tempest that is coming from heaven. ”

Sixteen hundred whites remained in the city, and they and far more than that number of black slaves left Atlanta with what they could carry.

The rain was pouring down, and the muddy roads were crowded with wagons full of luggage, and people were neighing and chaotic.

Most of these men were women - the men had gone to war, and many of them were too old or sick to walk - otherwise they would have fled.

Sherman designated the men to leave Atlanta from Lafreddy Station south of the city, but in reality most of them failed to board the train and remained stranded in the nearby forest, mourning in the storm.

Sherman actually called for someone to bring a message to Hood and ask him to come and take them away.

Atlantans, of course, could not wait for the brave Kentuckians, and many contracted pneumonia and typhoid fever and died like that.

Survivors wandered across Georgia in search of food, shelter and comfort, while also beginning to spread fear in the South.

Guan Zhuofan thought that it was better to send Jacqueline and Mia to the north earlier. Otherwise, it won't be long before they turn themselves from knights to devils in their eyes, no matter how they clear it up.

This is just the beginning.

Most of the Northern Army was stationed in Atlanta.

Except for the houses that he lived in, and the few properties designated for protection by the command, all of which were the property of the meritorious leading party, the rest of the houses in Atlanta, where all the troops poured in, and all the valuable things were torn down and dug into the ground, were really constantly being discovered!

It's not surprising: people in this era, whether in China or the United States, have the habit of digging holes and burying treasures. Many Atlantans, whether they had fled before or had just been driven out, were in a hurry, and many valuable things were too late or could not be taken away at all, so they had to be buried, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Northern Army to hunt for treasures.

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