South Carolina covers a total area of more than 80,000 square kilometers, two-thirds of which is the coastal plain, but less than 400,000 people live in such a vast plain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Han, who does not know much about the situation in the United States, estimates that the population of South Carolina should be between 400,000 and 500,000. But in fact, the total population here is less than 400,000, including many black slaves. After deducting the latter, only white descendants are counted, and the number is in the 200,000. South Carolina, which has more than 200,000 free people, in addition to some young people joining the Union Army, has also independently organized a militia of 10,000 people.

Down to seventeen or eighteen years old, up to thirty or forty years old, at least half of them participated in the team. This is not to say that the people of the Lighthouse Nation are all mobs, but that China's threat to the Lighthouse Nation really scares everyone here.

But their troops are still very small, and they feel that they are not enough.

What's more, they are just some rabble, and they really have to fight head-on, and they can't afford to be a frontal blow from Chen Han's army, which has been training hard all year round.

"Look, sir! The landing of the Marines was successful! The young adjutant looked at the shore excitedly and said to Ye Tingyang.

Ye Tingyang also smiled, the marines were about to complete the landing, and at this time, their follow-up part was holding military flags, lined up in a neat queue, and marched towards the fishing village in front of them with high morale.

Ye Tingyang's eyes seemed to have seen their bloody battle on the battlefield through the time in the future. The faces that are now mixed with excitement and nervousness will turn into faces full of confidence and pride in the near future.

Chen Han's military sequence also has a lot of recruits.

Several years have passed since the last war, and the veterans of that year have either become officers and non-commissioned officers of the army, or have left the army. Many of the current troops are new recruits, and no matter how good they performed in the previous drills, they will not be a truly strong army unless they have been tested and tempered in actual combat.

The entire landing operation is expected to last two full days, and in addition to a large number of soldiers and artillery, the largest number of materials and wagons and horses will be sent ashore one by one. Once ashore, the army will be unified under the leadership of the Marine Corps, and will first sweep away a number of towns north of Charleston, and then begin an attack on Fort Moultrie, the enemy's coastal defense battery, located outside the harbor. Although the number of troops on both sides is a bit unbalanced, Chen Hanjun is very confident in the fighting spirit and combat quality of his soldiers.

The manpower of the U.S. army is more, but victory can only belong to Chen Han.

At the same time, the garrisons and vassal armies on the Florida Peninsula [Kangguo-Chen Hui] and Shen [New Orleans as the capital] will also attack Georgia and Alabama in the north on a large scale.

Georgia is almost twice the size of South Carolina, with mild temperatures and a pleasant climate, but only the southeastern part of the state is the coastal plain, the northern part is the Lanling Mountains, which are elevated, and the central part is the Petermont foothills, which gradually decrease from west to southwest. Except for the many forests that can not be seen as far as the eye can see, there are no iron mines or precious metal deposits, and the economic development has been slow.

Most of the state's population is concentrated in the southeastern plains.

Alabama, on the other hand, is a state that has just joined the U.S. federal government in recent years. After the Revolutionary War, this area did belong to the United States, but at that time there was not much wild land here.

Sparsely populated. And the geographical area is not much smaller than that of Georgia. The population is likely to be inferior to that of South Carolina.

However, the Americans have deployed a lot of regular troops in these two states, and the burden on the garrisons, vassal troops, and dispatch troops in Shen and Kang is not small.

Since a war between China and the United States is inevitable, it is necessary to consider the strategy toward the United States as a whole. From the very beginning, defense was not something that the high command of the garrison army had to consider. They do not have many troops in their hands, but the area to be defended is very large, and blind defense can only allow the Americans to give full play to their superiority in strength as they wish, and let the garrison troops take care of one thing and lose the other. Therefore, attacking is the best choice for the garrison army.

Although Chen Han's troops are outnumbered, the quality of his soldiers is far higher than that of the US military, and the combat quality of his officers is far higher than that of the US military. This is just like when the little devils fought China back then, offense is king.

The best strategy is to put elite and scarce troops into the offensive and give the Americans a headache.

The Battle of Charleston was the perfect embodiment of this battle. Don't look at Chen Han's big advantage in terms of fleet, but in terms of land strength, Chen Han's army, which is only 4,000 people, is far less than the US defensive force.

Not to mention the 2,000-man Marine Corps, the 2,000-man vassal army and dispatch army are very well equipped. Don't look at it, there are only 2,000 people, infantry, cavalry, and artillery are all available. After the troops landed, they immediately began to build fortifications after occupying the fishing village in front of them as a defensive point. Although the fortifications were built very simply, there was no need to fear a sneak attack by the American army.

At the same time, the American Fleet also began to intercept American merchant ships in the seas, and Chen Han also sent a detachment to bombard American ports along the coastline.

If you run into the superior fleet of the US military, you will turn around and run. The manufacturing technology of the old and American warships is worse than that of China, and their warships are large and bulky, and the sailing speed is correspondingly slowed down. The Chinese warship encountered, but it couldn't be defeated, and it could still run away.

Two days later, when the last box of rockets was also brought ashore, the army finally moved. Over the course of two days, the US military launched several reconnaissance raids on the small fishing village, but found nothing. Until now, they didn't know how many enemies they were going to face.

When the landing force marched in a straight line toward Fort Moultrie, the coastal defense battery of the US port, the US troops were stunned and did not even dare to take the initiative to attack.

Over the years, the Chen Han empire has repeatedly defeated Spain, the Netherlands, and Russia, and the reputation it has created in the war has made Americans feel timid.

Although the Lighthouse State also defeated Great Britain in the War of Independence, the whole world knows that it was Louis XVI, a fool, who made the foundation for the Lighthouse State, otherwise it is two theories whether the Lighthouse State would still appear.

And what about the Americans beyond that? Twenty-five years after the last war, veterans withered, experienced officers died, and now even the deputy commander-in-chief who commanded the army on the front line was a French immigrant - Moreau.

They really didn't have the courage to stand on the plains and face to face with the Chinese in the field of hard steel.

Rather than insecure field warfare, they preferred to stay in Fort Moultrie, a fortified coastal defense battery.

Just like the Americans had not carried out any large-scale attack on the port where Chen Han had landed in the past two days. It may seem like they've given up on this place, but it's more likely that they're timid. According to the information obtained by the navy's reconnaissance, the Americans have strengthened the defense of the coastal defense batteries in the past two days, temporarily erected a large number of fortifications with mixed civil structures on the periphery of the fort, and the hot air balloons raised from the Song Taizu can directly observe the movement of Charleston Harbor, and the Americans have strengthened the defense forces there.

Charleston's water flow is similar to that of Guangzhou, China, where there are also 'Xijiang, Dongjiang, and Beijiang', with the Ashley River to the south and the Koper and Wando rivers to the north. The war also took place mainly in the northern part of the city, at the confluence of the Koper River and the Vando River, the width of the estuary reached four miles, and the small island in the mouth of the river, Gu Island, located in the center of the confluence, was a diamond-shaped island, with a length of four miles and a width of 2.5 miles.

The northwesternmost corner of the island is only 600 meters from the west bank of the Bandor River, while the northeasternmost corner is 1,2300 meters from the east bank of the Bandor River.

Chen Han's attacking force did not intend to cross the Wanduo River, and the American troops laid a solid defensive position on the west bank of the Wanduo River, with a cavalry force to match. If the attacking troops have the kung fu to cross the river, it is better to attack Drum Island directly.

The U.S. military deployed at least a thousand people on Drum Island.

There were more than twenty artillery pieces, there were hexagonal guns and smoothbore guns, and how many rockets were in reserve, the lookout on the hot air balloon could not see. Anyway, what shocked Chen Han was that the US military had been in this hot air balloon for many years, and the US military in Charleston Harbor did not have a single hot air balloon.

In the past few days, Chen Han has only raised a hot air balloon to observe the US military, but he has never seen a US hot air balloon rise.

Therefore, in terms of 'reconnaissance', regardless of Chen Han's unfamiliarity, it is much more convenient than the US military.

It's hard to see the details, but you can see the whole of Charleston in general.

Downtown Charleston is more moving than the port area, with fortifications and bunkers lining the streets, and some stone buildings being rebuilt in a hurry. It is the habit of the Americans that the houses are made of wood, and such houses are useless in the war. Not only that, but the defenders had to be prepared for the enemy's arson. As a result, there are fewer and fewer wooden buildings in China's cities. There are not many stones, bricks and cement are king.

The attacking troops reached the east bank of the Vando River and built artillery positions during the night. The distance between each other was more than one and a half thousand meters, but it was still within the effective range of the hexagonal gun.

The soldiers of the US Army have poor combat will and poor combat quality, which refers not only to the infantry, but also to the artillery.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods. The whole day of the next day ended with the exchange of artillery fire on both sides. The number of artillery fire of the Americans is already weaker than that of the attacking troops, and the craftsmanship of the artillery is even worse, and the effect is bloody. In one day, they only destroyed two half-concealed artillery positions of Chen Hanjun, but they themselves had three artillery forts destroyed, and at least six artillery pieces were buried, and they didn't know if they could be used again after they were dug up. However, during the battle, two of the U.S. Navy warships that stayed in Charleston Harbor tried to sail to the mouth of the Koper River and participated in an artillery battle. But Chen Han had a hot air balloon bonus, and the two frigates that had been mixed in retracted their heads in less than an hour.

If at this rate, knocking out three batteries in one day, it will not take more than a few days, and the American troops on Drum Island will become cripples who will only be beaten and unable to fight back, but the attacking troops are not willing to wait until later. That night, a brave squadron composed of 200 Marine Corps officers and men launched a sneak attack on Drum Island at night.

The US military did not expect that the enemy would cross a turbulent river of 12300 meters, because it was simply impossible to do it. After 200 Marines carried water hyacinth on their backs into the rushing river, the whole team scattered before they could swim a hundred meters. The sneak attack was not successful at all, and more than twenty soldiers were lost in vain.

The battle can only be carried out in such a step-by-step manner under the guidance of the General Staff!