In the midst of the rumbling artillery fire in the distance, the Topeka railway platform was filled with tense and busy neon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo..] White smoke from the front of the train enveloped the entire platform. Shirtless Chinese laborers and soldiers were busy unloading their trucks. The city of Topeka is the capital of Kansas and a hub on the Pacific Railroad, with a branch line connecting Lancaster County and Omaha in Nebraska, and several corps and heavy artillery clusters belonging to the Chinese Sixth Army deployed in Omaha and the Conseil Bluffs salient on the east bank of the Missouri River (across the river from Omaha) are now being transported by rail. The station in Topeka has been urgently expanded. Personnel from the engineering department of the Pacific Railroad Company added more than a dozen waiting tracks here, and engineers from the Donghua Army repaired additional platforms for unloading and a large number of warehouses. However, the heavy pressure of military transportation still weighed down the Topeka station.

A locomotive dragged a train of artillery ammunition to the station, dropped the wagon, hung another wagon, and turned around and drove away. A large group of people and horses suddenly rushed around the dropped wagons, and they began to unload the goods in a frenzy. Field artillery, mountain artillery, howitzers, cannons, and mortars of various calibers were unloaded with artillery trucks and ammunition trucks, and there were already artillerymen waiting there with their horses, and they left the station as if they were putting on their cannons and going to the battlefield dozens of kilometers away.

The center of gravity of the Second Battle of the Missouri River has now shifted from the Cantel Bluffs salient to Kansas City. A week earlier, on November 4, an advance detachment of the 5th and 45th Chinese Divisions, under the command of Huang Bingkun, commander of the Fifth Division, made a detour back to the town of Independence, 16 kilometers west of Kansas City, although it did not capture the small city. But a railway bridge over the Blurif River was blown up. Successfully cut off the Pacific Railroad line. Although this does not mean that the rear road of more than half a million American troops on the battlefield of Kansas City is cut off. But without the railroad, it is unlikely that these more than 500,000 people will successfully retreat with all their baggage and artillery.

At the same time, the First Army of the Chinese Army, which was originally on the defensive, immediately turned to the offensive after receiving reinforcements, and pressed the American troops on the front line of Kansas City with heavy troops, so that it could not organize a retreat smoothly, let alone dare to retreat under the onslaught of the Chinese army. After all, the quality of the Confederate Army was far inferior to that of the Imperial Army of America in the North, which had been in wartime for a decade. It has a large number of experienced officers and non-commissioned officers. Even if they were pursued by the Chinese cavalry during the retreat and scattered, the soldiers could retreat to Des Moines in small groups under the organization of officers and non-commissioned officers.

And the Confederate Army is basically a large militia group, cobbled together by the militias of the states of the Confederate State, although there is no lack of courage, and there are some excellent officers who graduated from the Virginia Military Academy to command, but after all, it cannot be compared with veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years. After all, the militia is only an amateur soldier, and they only train for a month and a half every year, and they have no experience in battle.

This is also the reason why they have not made much progress in storming the First Army of the Chinese Army for several days. With such an army, it would be no problem for them to retreat to St. Louis by train. However, if they were to retreat on foot for 400 kilometers under the pursuit of the elite troops of the Chinese army, I really don't know if they could reach the end of the line by two or three percent. Moreover, the amount of ordnance and supplies that the Union Army has piled up in Kansas City is also very large. There are more than 1,500 cannons alone! The reserve of grain is hundreds of thousands of tons more (the area around Kansas City is the granary of the United States, and the last thing that is lacking is food), enough for an army of 500,000 to eat with an open belly for a year and a half. The ammunition reserves are also extremely sufficient, and if you save a little, you will have no problem sustaining five or six months of fierce fighting. It's really distressing to give up all of them! After all, the economy of the Confederate State was based on agriculture, and its own military production was very limited, and the weapons and ammunition that were now piled up in Kansas City were bought from Europe at a high price for precious real money.

So on the second hand, Thomas. Jackson chose to stay in the lonely city, shrinking the entire group of more than half a million troops around Kansas City, relying on the fortifications he had built earlier. The Chinese army, which had just routed the 800,000-strong army of the American Empire along the Missouri River, did not delay in the slightest, and under the strict supervision of Jujuan, they marched south day and night, and by 7 and 8 November, a large group of men and horses appeared in the north and east of Kansas City, and began to build positions and prepare for the siege.

Jujuan's headquarters was also moved to Topeka, located in the building of the Topeka railway station, where the incoming trains could be seen through glass windows. The yellow-and-white king now looks a bit like a half-breed, he hasn't slept a good night's sleep for many days, either giving orders in the headquarters, or inspecting and supervising the battle on the front line under the scorching sun, the whole person is black and thin, and the beard on his face is also unshaven, but his spirit is still very full, and the two bloodshot eyes are full of sharp light. It's a big battle with 3 million people! Has there ever been a major war of this magnitude in history? Moreover, it was 1.2 million men who broke through the 1.8 million army with a dense defensive line to hold on, this victory will definitely become the object of study and praise by military experts around the world in the future, and as the commander-in-chief of this great battle, Juan knows that he has become a great military strategist like Napoleon, Frederick the Great, and Prince Eugen, no, he should be greater than them! Because none of them have ever fought a battle of this magnitude!

Several staff officers around him were also full of energy. Most of these staff officers were "elite staff officers" who had been transferred from the Ming army, and without them, it would have been impossible for Zhu Juan to manage the 1.2 million army in an orderly manner. But without Jujuan, these "elite staff officers" would not have been able to fight such a brilliant battle. This is the difference between a staff officer and a commander-in-chief and a military strategist! And the credit for this decisive victory, they are undoubtedly all shared, what a big capital this is in the future!

A staff officer walked in quickly and saluted Zhu Juan, who was bowing his head and studying the battle situation on the edge of the map station, "Your Majesty, the emperor has arrived!" ”

Juan straightened up and waved to several senior staff officers beside him, "Let's go, go and meet the emperor." ”

An armored train slowly stopped, and Zhu Jishi, who had been guarding the door for a long time, jumped down first, and the almost 60-year-old man was still vigorous, and his face was full of excitement. The Battle of the Missouri River is a foregone conclusion! This is what his son Jujuan typed! It seems that Juan is in North America, and he doesn't have to worry about the future of the Chinese in North America...... North America, the chosen country, can at least have a "yellow and white" situation! What makes Emperor Zhu even happier is that a few of his children have finally emerged, which is the sign of the great prosperity of the Zhu Ming royal family!

On the platform, Jujuan, who was in a straight military uniform, was already waiting for his father there. Seeing Zhu Jishi get out of the car, he hurriedly greeted him and raised his hand respectfully, "Father, my sons are fortunate not to be dishonored, and now they have besieged the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Americans!" ”

"Good! If there is a son, what more can the husband ask for? Zhu Jishi pressed on his son's shoulder, he and Juan have always been estranged, and after sighing, he didn't know what to say. In fact, he came to Topeka this time because of some very important things that Juan said, which are related to the future arrangements of North America and the entire Greater China system. For a long time, Donghua has been a country on the periphery of the Greater China system. Nominally, he was a vassal of the Mexican Empire, not a vassal of the Ming Empire. Not long ago, in order to avoid getting involved in a world war, Empress Mathilde had "expelled" the Kingdom of Donghua from the Mexican Empire, and Donghua is now a completely independent country. But now, Zhu Jishi wants to incorporate Donghua into the Greater China system and become the second pillar of Wuhua Zhuxia after China, and this arrangement is probably the second most important thing after "the king is under the law" in the affairs of Emperor Zhu. If it is not done well, it will be ugly to cause internal strife in Wuhua Zhuxia in the future...... (To be continued.) )