America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 583 This battle is not so easy to fight
Negroes do not yet know the dangers they are about to face.

Most of them don't have too many lofty ideals. To participate in this war is nothing more than gaining some respect and hoping to be treated equally in the future.

Optimism will always be one of two things that run in the blood of black people.

In their view, the war is not much worse than their current situation.

But their commander apparently didn't think so.

His name was Yoon, and he was originally a slave on a plantation. He participated in the Civil War and was one of the first freed slaves.

At that time, he was only a young man in his twenties, but now he is as old as a dried up orange.

Yoon knew the cruelty of war.

"When you rush out, don't rush forward and pay attention to the movement on the opposite high ground." He stood by a tree, looked forward, and said to a black sergeant beside him.

The sergeant hummed and went to deliver his order.

However, another thing in the blood of black people is also reflected at this time.

That is loose.

This army is also a temporary army, and has not undergone long-term training.

These black soldiers walked out of the jungle with their guns poking around.

"Hey, look, what's that in front?" A black soldier pointed to the front and said to another black soldier beside him.

"That's a pineapple." Another soldier glanced at it and replied angrily, "It's a kind of fruit."

He has never eaten pineapple, but has seen it.

The appearance of these things is too impressive.

These pineapple plants are not tall, only about fifty to eighty centimeters high, and those pineapples emerge from the leaves like lanterns one by one.

The black soldier's throat moved:

"Can we get some, I'm thirsty, damn it, I haven't had a sip of water since morning."

Another black soldier decided to reach a consensus with his comrades after some ideological struggle.

As soon as the two made up their minds, they sneaked into the pineapple field.

They don't know that unprocessed pineapples are sour, and they don't know what their behavior means.

In their view, these are just an episode in the process of marching.

The first black soldier picked a pineapple.

He squatted on the ground, grabbed the leaf above the pineapple with his hand, and pulled it to the left, exposing the connection point.

Then he took out the hatchet at his waist, aimed at the connection point, and chopped down with the knife.

I don't know if it's because the connection point is too tough, or because I didn't squat and didn't use my strength.

The black simply stood up, raised his arm and swung the hatchet again.

However, at this moment, a gunshot rang out.

The black man's arms froze in the air.

But without staying for more than a second, his whole body softened and fell into the pineapple field.

Intensive gunshots rang out one after another.

The Spaniards on the top of the mountain had spotted these black vanguards of the U.S. Army and started shooting at them.

"Get down! Get down! Damn it! You fools!"

As soon as Yoang came out of the jungle, when he heard the gunshots, he immediately lay down and dragged a bewildered soldier beside him.

His movements are not like that of an old man in his 60s, and his reaction is faster than those of his young subordinates!

The black soldier he pulled down was lucky, even though his leg was cut by a sharp pineapple leaf.

However, compared with those comrades around him who were hit by bullets, he was considered lucky.

"Crawl forward! Have you learned all the technical movements taught in Florida into your ass?" Yoon squirmed forward while cursing.

In his view, sending these recruits over to take the lead is tantamount to death.

The arrangement of those white people is like a bright mirror in his heart.

But he really can't do much, he can only save the lives of as many black compatriots as possible.

The black people soon lay down in the pineapple field, moving slowly forward from among the vegetation.

But the pineapple field also has an end.

At the end is a barbed wire fence, blocking the direction of the American soldiers.

A dozen bold black soldiers broke the barbed wire and tried to charge straight ahead.

Only a few hundred yards from the summit, the fort seemed within reach.

But soon, these ten or so black people paid the price for their recklessness.

The Spaniard's Maxim machine gun finally rang.

The dozen or so black men were beaten into a sieve without making a sound, and fell into a pool of blood.

"Don't move! Don't move!" Yoon prostrated himself on the ground, saw the tragic situation ahead, and immediately gave orders to the black people around him.

So, the black people who were still in the pineapple field lay on the ground and shot towards the top of the mountain from a long distance, but with little effect.

Those who didn't enter the pineapple field in the back dared not take a step forward in the jungle.

Following the Negroes about two hundred yards or so was the 17th Infantry.

Soon they also reached the pineapple field.

What was presented in front of them was a somewhat strange scene.

A group of black people lay on the front of the pineapple leaves with their buttocks pouting, not daring to move.

"What the hell are you doing?" Major Edwin, the commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment, shouted dissatisfiedly at a black man who was hiding behind a tree at a loss, "Where are you sir?"

"He's at the front." The black man pointed to the forward position of the Baltics in the distance, "Many of us have already died."

Hearing that the commander of the Black Legion rushed to the front, Edwin had nothing to say for a while.

But he was still dissatisfied with the cautiousness of the black group.

"Get out of the way, if the war is as useless as you are, you might as well go back to your hometown! If the Spaniards on the other side see it, I'm afraid they would dare to send warships to Washington directly!" Edwin put one hand on his hip, teaching Those black soldiers.

"Soldiers of the United States should go forward bravely. Don't be as timid as you are. Get out of the way and let my soldiers come. They will make you feel ashamed!" he said.

Black soldiers are starving for knowledge.

They watched as Edwin and his 17th Infantry Regiment stepped out of the pineapple field on the bodies of the black soldiers lying on the ground with great arrogance, tore down the barbed wire, and were stubbled like leeks A crop fell to the ground.

Courage cannot be used as a bulletproof board, and momentum cannot be used as a bulletproof vest.

In less than 10 minutes, the 17th Army was beaten to pieces by four Maxims plus Spanish soldiers squatting in the trenches waiting for work. It was disorganized and almost on the verge of collapse.

Edwin was one meter away from death.

He fell to the ground when he stepped out of the barbed wire.

If he was one step faster, he would be smashed into mud by the incoming machine gun bullets!

Within a few hundred yards of the hilltop fortress, it was difficult for the U.S. attack to move forward.

Miles, who was in charge of the main attack, was a little embarrassed, but he didn't think of a better way, so he reported to Lawton and asked for support;

The Lawton artillery had never fought before, and the infantry couldn't rush up, and they were even more confused, so they reported to Shaft and asked for support;

Schefter was at his headquarters four miles south of El Kanie at this time.

At the moment he is very anxious.

The attack on the San Juan Hills to the south also started at a later date, as the Spanish defenses were underestimated.

But in his position, just listening to the gunfire on both sides felt something was wrong.

Now both sides face the risk of going to war, but neither can win, and they cannot support each other.

After receiving Lawton's report letter, he immediately cursed:
"Support? Didn't the Second Volunteer Cavalry Brigade just arrive near their position? Why did you come here to find me? Am I Lawton's nanny?"

Lawton likes to mention the new nickname of "the baby who has not been weaned".

He did know that Chen Jianqiu would bring a Chinese army to support him today, but he never paid much attention to it.

Because Lawton always believed that this group of people had limited fighting power and shouldn't be of much help, at most the same as those Cuban rebels.

Now, after being scolded by Shaft, he had to ride a horse to the place where the Second Volunteer Brigade was stationed.

But when Lawton came to Chen Jianqiu's camp, his eyes almost fell out.

There were actually twenty cannons being dragged in from outside the camp.

He had never seen these guns before, at least they were completely different from the ones he used.

When Lawton arrived on horseback, Chen Jianqiu and Danny happened to come back from the frontline observation.

They had observed almost the entire process of the entire battle so far, and Chen Jianqiu naturally knew what Lawton was here for.

"Mr. Lawton, I wonder why you are here?" Chen Jianqiu asked knowingly, and looked at Lawton with a smile.

Lawton looked at the twenty or so cannons, and asked tentatively:

"Lieutenant Colonel Chen, may I take the liberty to ask, where did you get these cannons?"

Chen Jianqiu turned his head, glanced at the twenty cannons that the artillerymen were maintaining, and said with some disapproval:
"Oh, you said these cannons are just the equipment of the New Mexico militia, and they are nothing new."

Of course he didn't tell Lawton that these 75mm field guns were the first batch of field guns produced by the Roswell Arsenal themselves, using the latest elastic mount technology.

The long backseat principle used in this technology was not very popular in Germany at the time, so Chen Jianqiu bought the patent from the inventor Haonei without spending much money.

This kind of gun was not the popular rack-back gun at that time, but a tube-back gun.

Hit more accurately, weigh less, and fire faster.

"Our offense is in trouble, so I hope you and your soldiers can support us." Lawton said after thinking for a while.

Because Chen Jianqiu was not under his jurisdiction, he was not sure whether the other party would obey his orders.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jianqiu readily agreed without saying a word.

"Don't worry, you can fight this battle as you want, and leave the rest to us." Chen Jianqiu said.

Lawton left the camp suspiciously.

After Lawton left, Chen Jianqiu turned around and gave Danny an order:
"Let the Spaniards try our newest cannon first!"

(End of this chapter)