1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 115

Morgan’s wife, Mimi, had pneumonia. Since the emergence of sulfa, the disease has not been incurable, but another major drug of McDonald’s chemical and pharmaceutical company has given Mimi to the pit. This drug is Heroin. In the beginning, Mrs. Morgan just caught a wind chill and a little cough when she was out with Morgan. Due to the influence of the MacDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, at that time, as long as a person in United States coughed, the first reaction was to take two tablets of heroin first, regardless of the situation. Heroin is absolutely miraculous for relieving cough.

However, heroin is definitely the most classic Western medicine that “treats the symptoms but not the root cause”. It has a significant effect on calming coughs, but it has no effect at all for anti-inflammatory. The result has played a role in masking the symptoms. As a result, the condition developed further. At this time, Morgan was busy with business. Mrs. Morgan did not want to interfere with his work, so she took a few more heroin pills. So the condition continued to develop. Until she suddenly fell.

At this time, the condition was already quite serious. At this time, the doctors began to give her sulfa, but the effect of sulfa on inflammation was far not as good as the later penicillin. As a result, Mimi’s condition has not improved. But fortunately, Dr. Menger and Heim were rich in experience, and decisively used a large amount of medicine, and finally controlled the condition and rescued Mimi who was struggling on the Death line. Morgan let out a long sigh. However, he did not expect that this was just the beginning of another big trouble.

After three months of training, General McClellan finally got the cannon he asked for. President Lincoln thought he was about to launch an attack, but General McClellan used training gunners as an excuse to delay the attack by more than a month.

It wasn’t until March 1962 that General McClellan finally felt that own was ready to subscribe, so President Lincoln’s eager attack finally began.

General McClellan’s preparations for the Confederate position may be the fiercest in history. According to his order, the soldiers had already dug the trenches about 600 meters away from the southern army’s position. Now, with General McClellan’s order, the soldiers began to dig in the direction of the enemy. In order to avoid damage from the artillery of the Southern Army, these trenches did not advance along a straight line, but instead used a broken line. As a result, the time required for excavation is greatly extended. In order to keep pace, the engineers were ordered to dig in overnight. General McClellan estimated that in about a day, his soldiers would be able to push the trenches to a distance of about forty meters from the enemy. At this time, he would switch to the attacking unit and launch an overwhelming assault against the southern army. .

Such a large-scale and time-consuming operation, of course, cannot hide from the Southern Army. However, General McClellan did not expect to hide from the Southern Army. After a long period of training and preparation, General McClellan believed that his army should already be able to tear apart the Southern Army with absolute strength. The ability to defend the line.

Taking advantage of the darkness, the Southern Army launched a small-scale counterattack. Some southern soldiers quietly approached the advancing northern army, and then threw a southern version of the grenade at them.

This Southern Army version of the grenade is rather crude and very powerful. But the sudden blow still caused confusion among the Northern Army engineers who concentrated on digging the ground. In the chaos, the soldiers fired indiscriminately. In order to prevent the Southern Army from breaking into the Northern Army’s defensive position, General McClellan ordered to shoot all targets close to the position. After the tumultuous night, after a count of the losses, it was found that the Northern Army had killed more than 100 people and injured more than 200. The losses of the Southern Army were minimal, at least, not many corpses of Southern soldiers were found on the battlefield.

After this night attack, General McClellan reported to President Lincoln that he repelled the adventurous attack of the Southern Army and dealt a great blow to the Southern Army. A preliminary victory was achieved. Well, of course, due to some accidents in the battle, he requested that the time of the attack be pushed back.

General McClellan said that the main reasons for issuing such a request are these. First, the night digging is too dangerous, so this kind of thing can only be done in Heavenly Stems in the future. This time it took more than half a day; second, in the previous battle, he seized some of the new weapons of the Southern Army, all of which were clumsy imitations of the new weapons newly equipped by the Northern Army. This shows that there may be spies from South County in the Northern Army. Therefore, he felt that it was best to take a moment to slow down so that he had time to catch spies.

This absurd request was naturally rejected by Lincoln angrily. But General McClellan succeeded in delaying the offensive by another day.

In this way, another day later, General McClellan finally launched his tumultuous attack.

As an assault arrow, the “Black Water” division has entered the attacking position. According to the plan, the federal army first carried out a long-term bombardment and suppression. Then the soldiers threw grenades at the enemy trenches.

In the sound of the grenade explosion, Heishui’s pioneers jumped out of the trenches, dispersed in skirmish formations, and quickly rushed to the enemy’s barbed wire, and then stuffed a blasting tube under the barbed wire…

“Colonel Robson, do you think the rebels are a little weird?” General Gardner put down his binoculars and asked Robson, who was standing next to him.

“It’s a bit weird. Look, the enemy didn’t shoot back at all. Even if the enemy in the first trench is suppressed by a grenade, the enemy in the second and third trenches should also shoot. , The cannons of the rebels have not fired, which is abnormal.” Robson said the same.

But now on the battlefield, the offensive of the federal army is still very smooth. They quickly blasted the barbed wire with a blasting tube, and then used the blasting tube to blast a trail in the minefield behind the barbed wire. Then, the soldiers armed with shotguns jumped into the enemy trenches…

Bob is now a company commander. He took his own company into the trenches of the Southern Army, and then they found that there was no enemy in the trenches.

“Damn it! The Southerners ran away!” Bob yelled, “Carl, go back and report to Colonel Robson. Reed, take a few people and take a look along the traffic trench to the second trench. Hmm. , Be careful, return immediately if something is wrong!”

“Okay, company commander!” Sergeant Reed immediately called his combat team and walked along a traffic trench towards the second trench of the Southern Army. After a while, there was a loud explosion in front of him. After a while, Reid and a few soldiers dragged a soldier back and shouted “Medical soldiers! Come and see!”

“What’s the matter?” Bob asked.

“The damn Southerner buried a mine in the trench!” Sergeant Reed replied.

“Are there any rebels in the position?” General McClellan frowned. “So, what about those cannons?”

“It’s all fake, General. The Black Navy’s troops first broke into the enemy’s so-called artillery position, and found that the artillery was all made of wood, just painted with a little paint. In addition, in the minefield behind the enemy’s barbed wire. No landmines were found here either, but some landmines were buried in the enemy’s trenches and artillery positions.” A staff officer replied. Judging from these arrangements, the rebels should have retreated for a long time.

“Send cavalry to expand the scope of reconnaissance.” General McClellan thought for a while and said, “Send a report to Washington and tell President Lincoln that our army has captured the enemy’s position and the enemy has ripped off. Our army has won a great victory. But our army The ammunition is very consumed and needs to be replenished urgently.”

General McClellan waited another day on the enemy positions he “captured”, waiting for President Lincoln’s commendation order and the order urging him to march. So he once again brought his army of more than one hundred thousand, cautiously advancing towards Richmond.

“The news of this victory came too timely.” Morgan felt that his own luck was really good these days. Treasury bonds are selling well, and coupled with the stimulus of the news of this big victory, the sale of US$300 million in Treasury bonds has no problem at all. My wife’s illness is basically healed, and only a little problem remains. According to Dr. Menger, it was because of a serious illness that there was a psychological barrier. Something like depression. She will have a bad spirit, will constantly yawn and cry. However, Dr. Menger said that this does not matter, just adjust it properly. Of course, he has been particularly strong, because Mrs. Morgan’s lung function is inherently poor and is prone to inflammation, and heroin is very easy to cover up the symptoms in this area, leading to worsening of the condition, and also interfering with the doctor’s diagnosis. Moreover, any drugs will cause interference to the human body, and Mrs. Morgan is too poor to use drugs indiscriminately. So never give her heroin or anything else when she feels uncomfortable. After all, that thing only relieves the symptoms, and cannot solve the problem fundamentally. Now Morgan has asked the family doctor to put away all the heroin. During Mimi’s recovery, without the consent of Dr. Menger, she would never give her any drugs.

“Doctor Menger, are you saying that Mrs. Morgan is showing signs of heroin addiction?” Scrooge asked nervously.

“Yes, Mr. MacDonald.” Dr. Menger replied, “She has already experienced the initial symptoms of yawning and tearing. But it’s not too serious. Stopping the drug for a month or two is almost the same. After all, her intake is not that exaggerated.”

“In addition, we can also provide her with a little special heroin tablet that reduces the effective ingredients. It can even be a placebo directly.” Dr. Haim said, “We told Mr. Morgan that his wife would have a long time because of her poor physique. A recovery period of several months. This period of time is enough to free her from dependence on heroin.”

“Very well, you are doing a good job. I will increase your salary.” Scrooge said, “In any case, Mr. Morgan must not find out that his wife’s current problem is heroin addiction. In addition, regarding the withdrawal process The experience gained must be meticulously recorded, and it will be useful in the future.”