But this kind of thing was not hesitant, and before the commander of the Southern Army could make up his mind, the defeated army had already flooded into the position like a large filthy and turbulent tide, foaming at the white foam, and refused to stop, and continued to rush forward.

There was chaos on the battlefield.

This is the reason why Guan Zhuofan did not dare to send troops to rescue during the Battle of Chicomoga before he received a return from the headquarters and learned that the middle lane Thomas's division had not retreated: he was mixed with the defeated soldiers, and the back of the defeated soldiers was closely attached to the pursuing enemy army.

The officers on the line roared loudly, cursed in the most unpleasant words, threatened, brandished pistols, and tried to stop the irrational crowd. But to no avail, the rout soldiers were firmly grasped by fear, despair and frustration, like the middle devil, and the only thought was to get rid of the group of blue devils behind them and leave the battlefield as soon as possible.

A colonel of the Confederate Army angrily shouted to the routs: "Don't escape, you bastards! Do you still love your homeland? ”

A deserter who passed by him actually replied with vigor: "Emperor Xiangshang swears that we love the country - aren't we doing our best to rush back to the motherland!" ”

The panic spread rapidly among the defenders of the defensive line like a contagious disease, and some of the soldiers themselves did not know the weishenme, and fled backwards with the defeated soldiers in a daze, and their positions were loosened.

At this moment, without experiencing any decent resistance, the blue frenzy roared and swept into the position of the Southern Army.

Fierce hand-to-hand combat began.

Countless blue and gray soldiers twisted together, people with bayonets, butts, sabers, short swords, axes, shovels, sticks, stones, ammunition boxes...... Greet the other person with all the hard objects you can find. The bayonet pierced the flesh and pierced the organs. The sound of a balloon bursting came from the body; A heavy blunt force blows to the body. The submuscular bones were dullly shattered. The corpses quickly piled up. Blood flowed down the slope and merged into ponds and streams at the bottom of the trenches.

One of the Southern soldiers smashed the face of an oncoming Northern soldier with the butt of his rifle, and another Northern soldier rushed out diagonally, and with the help of the liliang who rushed forward, the bayonet of the rifle penetrated his body, and the Southern soldier screamed in pain and stretched out his hand to grab the other party. But I can't reach it.

A northern army climbed the edge of a trench, the southern army in the trench raised a gun and stabbed it, liliang was so big, a "click" was clearly heard, the bayonet pierced the sternum of the northern army, this northern army was picked up in its entirety, and then, the bayonet could not withstand such pressure, and it broke in two at once, and the body of the northern soldier fell heavily.

A Confederate soldier who fled backwards tripped over the corpse. The soldiers of the Northern Army rushed up and stabbed him with their guns, and the bayonets pinned him firmly to the ground. The soldiers of the southern army shouted miserably, and the soldiers of the northern army pulled their guns back, but they couldn't pull them out in a hurry.

Countless severed limbs were kicked around at their feet, and every now and then a human head was kicked.

Later, the bayonet was twisted, the saber was curled, and those who could not find a weapon used their teeth and fingers to bite every part of the other's body, choking each other's throats and gouging out each other's eyes.

The blue tide hit the positions of the Southern Army one after another, endlessly. The blue figures became more and more numerous, and finally completely overwhelmed the gray crowd.

The first line of defense of the Southern army collapsed, and the soldiers fled partly to the slopes of the hill, partly along the foothills of the missionary heights, in both directions to the south and north, and the rest, with their hands raised and surrendered.

Guan Zhuofan in the command post let out a long breath, looked at Grant, and the commander-in-chief was as calm as water.

Guan Zhuofan felt a little ashamed, and thought about it, although Lao Tzu has experienced a hundred battles, but presiding over this kind of large-scale battle of full modernization, after all, it is the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair, and the next time she will naturally be completely "nourishing".

At this time, look to the southeast and watch the battle on the right flank Lookout Mountain.

The lookout mountain is foggy, and in the high-powered telescope, when the clouds rise, the blue figure looms, and at other times there is almost nothing to see, only the constant sound of gunfire is heard. Although there is no battle report yet, the blue figure that emerges every time is a little higher than the last time, and it feels like the progress is not too fast, but it is steady and steady, step by step.

The forces holding back Longstreet should have engaged the enemy, but no news has yet arrived.

The first report of the left-wing Sherman Department was delivered, but to the surprise of Kwan Zhuofan and Grant: it did not go well.

The northern end of the missionary heights was steeper and less dangerous, and was originally thought to be relatively easy to attack. But in fact, there were two factors that the Northern High Command did not anticipate.

One is that because many cannons in the Southern Army cannot be placed on the main ridge, and the cannons cannot be erected at Lookout Peak, it is logical that these remaining artillery pieces are left on the right flank. Hence the unexpectedly dense and intense artillery fire at the northern end of the missionary heights.

Another is that the southern military did not expect such a large army to come from the north, and under the fright, they attached great importance to it, and pulled all the things that could not be plugged on the main ridge to the northern slope of the missionary heights, and the strength of the right flank was strengthened outside Jihua.

The Northern Army was inaccurate in judging the enemy situation on the right flank of the Southern Army, and Sherman started fighting. I found out that it was very hard. After several rounds of attacks, the casualties were heavy and the progress was slow.

What a blessing in disguise.

Guan Zhuofan and Grant were a little nervous, depending on the situation, the southern army at the northern end not only had the ability to block Sherman, but also had the spare strength to support the main ridge, so it would be a big trouble. Before the Southern Army made new adjustments, it was necessary to attack the remaining two lines of defense in the main ridge with all one of its might and settle the war.

The herald ordered the troops who had captured the first line of defense to continue the Xiangshang attack without resting and resting.

In fact, the attacking forces did not really stop. Several of the former enemy's military commanders briefly met and decided not to wait for the rear, leaving one unit to take care of the captures, prisoners, and the rear road, while the rest of the troops continued to attack the second line of defense of the missionary highland lord Lingnan army.

At the beginning, the Xuan Army was still the German Regiment on the side, and the Fourteenth Army of the Cumbran Army was the Wisconsin Twenty-fourth Regiment on the other side.

The battle against the second line of defense went very well.

The distance between the first and second lines of defense was not far away, and the defeated troops who had just fled to the hill played the same role to some extent as the previous ones, having already disrupted the positions of the Southern army, including the foxholes on the hillside and the main line of defense behind, before the Northern army launched a formal attack.

In addition, the tragic hand-to-hand combat that occurred not long ago when the Northern Army broke through to the first line of defense, because the distance was close and clear, the defenders of the second line of defense were greatly stimulated. Many of the recruits in this southern army had never seen such a scene. In this kind of battle, the witnesses fall into a state of madness when they fight to the death, and they often forget and have no time to be afraid, but the onlookers feel even more terrifying. As a result, the demoralization was low, and the plague-like panic of the defeated soldiers caused many soldiers to abandon the war before the start of the battle.

As soon as the battle began, the soldiers in the foxholes got up and ran back, and the Southern defense line became even more chaotic. The northern army broke into it with a charge, and the southern army only made a symbolic resistance, and then dispersed and surrendered.

Although the Northern Army was very tired, its morale was high, and after the follow-up troops came up and extended the front to the two flanks, and after stabilizing the situation, the German Regiment and the Wisconsin 24th Regiment began to attack the third and Zuihou line of defense of the Southern Army on the ridge of the main ridge of the missionary heights.

This time, however, the Northern Army was in big trouble.

This line of defense is the defense line of the Southern Army, and if you take a step back, there will be no place to die. If you fight against the water, you have to fight hard if you don't work hard. The defenders were the elite of the Tennessee Legion, mostly veterans, and very strong in combat.

Between the second and third lines of defense, the Southern Army only dug a few foxholes close to the second line of defense, and when the Northern Army attacked the second line of defense, all these troops withdrew to the ridge. The soldiers in the foxhole between the first and second lines of defense fled back as soon as they started fighting, so the northern army in the middle lane had never seen this kind of foxhole for what it could be used for.

However, the southern army did not have to worry about accidentally injuring their comrades, and as soon as the northern army entered the effective firing range, they condescended and opened fire.

At the beginning, although the Northern Army fought hard, it was basically smooth.

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