Roscrance looked uncertain and interrupted him: "The rebel front is very long, and it is impossible to merge them together. ”

Guan Zhuofan's face flushed slightly, it was an angry face, not a shame.

He has become accustomed to saying a word and even killing and killing, in the country, the queen mother and the king of parliament obey him; When he arrived in the United States, President Lincoln treated him as a state guest and treated him as a national soldier, and I don't know how long he hadn't been treated so unkindly?

But now in the army, this man is the commander of the theater of operations.

Guan Zhuofan calmed down, but he couldn't help but say: "General, in my humble opinion, the so-called enemy battle line is quite long, and our army's intelligence shows that the enemy's traces have been found here and there, and it may not be used as evidence that the enemy's battle line extends from here to there, and it is necessary to prevent the enemy from secretly deploying suspicious soldiers." ”

Thomas on the side spoke: "General, I think Marquis Guan's opinion is reasonable......

Ross Krans smiled: "General Thomas, shall I apply for a transfer to the Qing Volunteers of the Marquis of Guan for you?" ”

The words were shocking.

Guan Zhuofan was about to have a seizure, Thomas's face was blue and red, and his chest was heaving.

The other two panicked, and Crittenden came out to play a round: "Hey, this, the general is joking......"

Rosscrans realized his excesses, and was a little flustered, and changed his tone: "George, I'm sorry, my humor is always so lame. ”

There was an awkward silence.

It was Guan Zhuofan who broke the deadlock: "General, I have a small concern about the number of enemy troops. Except for Chattanooga, there is no major fighting on the Western Front now, although the rebels are not abundant. But it should still be able to increase the number of troops for the Tennessee Corps; And also. After the Battle of Gettysburg on the Eastern Front. Our enemy will not make any major moves for the time being, and we need to prevent the rebels from transferring troops to Chattanooga from the Eastern Front. ”

Rosskrance shook his head: "There is no information on this. ”

Then there's really nothing to talk about.

There was silence again.

This time it was Ross Krans himself who spoke first: "If there is no more opinion, it will be carried out as such, and tomorrow morning at six o'clock in the morning." ”

The generals said goodbye one after another, and Guan Zhuofan just wanted to leave, but suddenly remembered: I was so angry that I didn't ask the most important thing.

"May I ask the general, what is the mission of our army?"

Rosekraspie didn't smile: "Please ask Marquis Guan to be the reserve for this operation." ”

Reserves?!

Guan Zhuofan was dumbfounded. His lips moved, he didn't say anything more, and turned away.

Early the next morning, the Kumbran regiment set out on time.

Since he got up in the morning, Guan Zhuofan has been blushing and has never come out of the tent.

He sat at the table, his waist straight, but he didn't say a word.

I didn't eat breakfast, and no one dared to persuade me, including Wan'er.

I don't eat lunch yet. Wan'er couldn't help it and served the meal. Timidly placed beside him, and then zhanzhu, refusing to leave, tears rolling around in her big beautiful eyes.

Guan Zhuofan glanced at her, sighed, picked it up, and slowly picked up the rice.

The entire Xuanjun camp was filled with an unbearable depression.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, there was a sudden uproar outside the tent, people were neighing, and the guards could be heard signing up loudly: "The commander of the regiment has arrived!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, the curtain fell, and Wall rushed in with great strides, his face flushed, and he said loudly, "The herald is here...... Yixuan, our army has lost! ”

Guan Zhuo stood up suddenly.

Then two guards came in with the herald on the left and the right, Guan Zhuofan was startled, this soldier was covered in mud and blood, his face was blackened by smoke, his lips were chapped, his hair and beard were burnt, and he couldn't distinguish his appearance at all.

Guan Zhuofan: "Give him water to drink!" ”

Wan'er hurriedly took the kettle and handed it over, and the soldier poured most of the kettle in one breath before he could speak.

It turned out that as soon as the right army led by General Rosskrance entered the territory of Chickmoga, it was blocked by enemy troops several times its size, and urgently ordered Thomas in the center and McCook on the left to move closer to him, but the roads of the center and left armies were dangerous and difficult, and they were blocked by the enemy division of troops halfway. In the end, Rosclan could not support it, and before the Central Army and the Left Army could be defeated, they retreated in the direction of Chattanooga, and at the same time gave the order to retreat on all fronts.

Guan Zhuofan quickly turned his thoughts: Ross Krans's right route is composed of most of the Kritenden army and the troops directly under the legion, the largest number of people in the three-way army, about 23,000 people, several times the enemy's army, and Liliang effectively blocked the middle route army and the left route army, so how many soldiers and horses do you have to add up?

Guan Zhuofan asked: "Who is responsible for the break?" What was the order given to the reserves? ”

The herald swallowed with difficulty: "After no one breaks off, the order given to all the troops is to retreat, to retreat to the city of Chattanooga, including the reserves......"

"Bang!"

Guan Zhuofan slammed his fist on the table, Liliang was so big that the table almost smashed over, and the pen, ink, paper, and documents on it were scattered all over the ground.

His face was contorted with rage: "Bastard! If you do this, you will be wiped out! ”

There are many ways to retreat, who is the first to go and who is the second to go, and who is responsible for breaking the rear, and paying attention to it is no less than attacking. The most taboo is that there is no discipline at all, and it will fall apart. In that way, the enemy army will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and you will become a yellow sheep and a white rabbit, and you will not retreat, but slaughter.

The enemy army pursued all the way with the defeated army, and Chattanooga would not be protected.

The worst thing is that there are only three roads for the march of the Kumbran army to Chickmoga, and when they retreat, they must go which way back, and each road will be filled with the defeated troops who will collapse towards Chattanooga like a tide, even if the Xuan army intends to rescue, there is no way to do it, but it will be wrapped up in a ball and unable to perform, so that they will become the prey of the pursuers together.

It's really a dead end.

Guan Zhuofan's eyes were blood-red.

Wall asked, "Yixuan, what should I do?" Shall we withdraw or not? ”

Guan Zhuofan said in a deep voice: "Wait a minute...... Waiting for our own probe horses. ”

Every minute that follows feels like a year.

Finally, an hour later, the horse returned: the left and right flanks had retreated, but Thomas refused to accept the order in the middle and fought to the death.

So...... The middle lane is still empty.

Guan Zhuofan's eyes lit up.

He commanded loudly: "Pass my order, and the whole army will assemble!" ”

Wall asked tentatively, "Yixuan, should we withdraw, or ......?"

Guan Zhuofan paused word by word: "We don't withdraw, we go up!" ”

On the school field, the Songjiang Corps was completed. One phalanx after another in the blue crow field filled the entire school yard neatly.

Guan Zhuofan climbed onto the parade platform, and the wind lifted his blue sky.

"Brethren!"

Twenty-seven thousand were silent.

"It's time to see the real chapter!"

Guan Zhuofan's eyes were blazing: "Let's travel thousands of miles to the ocean, for this day!" Let's win this battle, and the Chinese's waist board will be straight! The face of the ancestors who was lost before can be recovered! We in China will be able to hold our heads to the sky and our feet to the ground in all nations! ”

The soldiers felt that the blood was starting to heat up.

"Brethren! Win this battle, live, Guan San guarantees your promotion and wealth; It's dead, Guan San will carry the bones back for you! ”

The blood of the soldiers welled up in their faces.

"The bravest of the sergeants, dead, there are old mothers, widows, orphans at home, Guan San will raise them for you! They must ask the court for an edict and ask for a grace for them who will not pay money and food for a lifetime! ”

The soldiers' eyes widened! Most of the soldiers of the Xuan Army were ordinary poor peasants, and paying taxes on grain was the greatest obligation of Chinese peasants to the dynasty, and it was also the biggest burden in their lives.

"I want to ask the imperial court to set up a shrine for our Xuan army, if you die, offer it up, sacrifice every year, and eat blood and food - let you eat fragrant food and drink spicy food below!"

The soldiers' eyes were shining.

Guan Zhuofan continued: "But if someone instigates a soft egg and becomes a deserter, even if you escape ruthlessly by military law, you have to rot in a foreign country, and no one will pick up bones for you when you die, and your soul will always be separated by an ocean, and you can't go home!" ”

He was silent for a moment, and then shouted, "Brothers, can you win this battle?!" ”

The mountain shouted the tsunami: "Fight to win!" ”

Guan Zhuofan daxiao said: "Okay! I'll open a foreign meat for you first, come, sacrifice the flag! ”

Six foreigners were escorted out by Wuhua and all described fear, one of them had a fiery red beard, and a terrible gap in the corner of his mouth, which was particularly eye-catching.

Guan Zhuofan smiled cruelly: "These six are the meticulous work of the rebels, and they are sentenced to death!" Hang me up! ”

The six foreigners were dragged to the gallows, and the rope buckles were put around their necks, and someone stepped forward and kicked open the trap door, and the prisoner's body sank, and immediately hung on the gallows.

Blue eyes, high nose, red, yellow, yellow hair, but what? Or with a shake of the hand and a kick of the foot, it will "hang up"!

In the eyes of the soldiers below, this is us Chinese "hanging" them!

Zuihou's window paper was pierced.

Foreigners can also be killed.

Guan Zhuofan waved his hand, and in front of the array, a big "Guan" flag was unfurled.

"Follow this flag, pull it out!"

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