Chapter 16: Chapter 16: Conflict
Soon after, the Bagley Offices were assembled and boarded a train to Washington at the local train station.
Now the situation in the whole United States has become a mess, and starting with South Carolina's declaration of independence and the attack on Fort Sumter is like a drop of water in a hot oil pan.
The oil pot of the United States has completely exploded, first of all, President Lincoln demanded that the northern and southern states immediately form an army to suppress the rebellion.
The northern states immediately responded positively, gathering their elite forces and quickly starting their march towards Washington.
However, the states on the border between the north and the south refused to send troops, and even rose up to join the Southern Union by breaking away from the Northern Union.
The first to rise to South Carolina was Virginia, a strategically located state just a river away from Washington, D.C.
And the secession of Virginia also deprived the Union of an extremely good general, that is, the chief general of the Civil War: Robert Lee.
He first rejected Lincoln's offer to serve as Supreme Commander of the Union Army, and then turned to the post of Commander of the Virginia Local Army.
Under his leadership, local forces in Virginia quickly defeated the Union garrison in Virginia and captured a number of equipment and supplies from the Commonwealth military factories, which were then shipped south to produce guns for the Southern army.
He then led the capture of the federal naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, which was the largest naval base in the United States at the time. This time, the Union Army reacted in time, burning all the buildings and blowing up all the ships when they evacuated, which put the Confederate fleet at a disadvantage when facing the Northern Confederate fleet at sea in the future.
However, the actions of the Virginia Army have already scared President Lincoln, and maybe one day the man surnamed Lee may bring someone to Washington, and succeed in making him the last president of the United States.
So he sent another urgent telegram, asking reinforcements from the northern states to speed up support for Washington, otherwise the Southern Army might have to spend the New Year in Washington.
It was under such circumstances that the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was requisitioned to Washington for support. The train they were on barely stopped except for supplies, all the way to Washington, D.C.
The train, which was supposed to run smoothly, had an accident at the junction of Kentucky and Virginia, when a Virginia guerrilla group crossed the border and blew up the railroad to Washington.
The train driver, who found out that the railroad had been blown up, had to brake suddenly, and finally stopped the train just as it was about to go off the tracks.
Just as he was glad that the train hadn't gone off the tracks, a bullet pierced his head, and as his vision darkened, his life moved away from his body.
The train driver was only the first trophy of the Virginia guerrillas who were in ambush on both sides of the railroad, and as soon as the train stopped, they crawled out of their bunkers and opened fire on the train.
I have to be glad that the machine gun at this time was not perfect enough, it was a heavy weapon on the gun carriage, and the guerrillas who traveled long distances could not carry it at all, otherwise, Victor's colleagues might have died here.
But even without machine-gun fire, the soldiers of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, who had been taken by surprise, were still pinned down in the train cars and unable to organize a powerful counterattack.
At this time, Victor, who realized that the situation was not good, took the initiative to find Bagley and asked to lead his soldiers to make a charge, disrupt the rhythm of the enemy's attack, and buy enough time for Bagley to counterattack.
And Bagley, who knew that Victor was different from ordinary people, naturally welcomed Victor's request, but the group of soldiers under Victor was not so happy.
Although it is the elite of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, no one likes such a mission that is almost to death, but because of Victor's murderous reputation, he still went hard.
After all, it is better to charge with rifle fire than to be torn apart by Victor's hands, and the soldiers who were sent to clean up the battlefield in the woods before passed on Victor's actions back to the army.
Victor had paid the price for his previous bloody deeds in the woods, and his men looked at him like a psychopathic murderer.
However, this is not without benefits, at least there is no phenomenon that the legendary subordinates are dissatisfied and need him to pretend to be forced to slap his face.
After all, life is so precious, is it a long time to provoke that guy with titles like 'ripper' and 'gut-breaker'?
Life is your own, for this trivial thing to provoke is simply looking for death, even if it is not torn, people are chiefs, how to put on small shoes for you when the war starts.
In the end, Victor successfully mastered the dozens of soldiers under his command by virtue of deterrence, at least they were convinced by his personal strength, after all, it was the reputation of killing.
And this time, although Victor took on a pit mission, but it was not entirely certain death, with the rate of rifle fire of this era, although the charge would be heavy, but there would not be a situation like being cut by machine guns in the future.
As a junior officer, Victor naturally became the leader of the charge. This guy is relying on his physical advantage.
rushed out of the carriage directly, and in an instant, it attracted more than half of the firepower to concentrate towards him, after all, he was the first federal soldier to rush the carriage.
This guy was in a zigzag position on the way to charge, and he rolled left and right, and the taillights of the car that threw the bullets that came over him were invisible, and he even regained the excitement of playing PUBG before the crossing.
At this time, everyone is going to say, doesn't he have a self-healing factor, why don't you just go over with firepower, just this year's rifle, hit the body and play.
However, Victor has his own considerations, although it is cool to be reckless in the past, but this year is still a year of superstition and science, and the acceptance of supernatural abilities is still very low, in case he is regarded as a demon and lights the sky lantern, after all, he is confident that he can still run away, but through the promotion of combat merits, and then use the power of the US military to solve the red wolf's plan will definitely be in vain.
Like he is now, he can still use his superior physical fitness to fool the past by using snakeskin to move and roll left and right to dodge bullets, which is theoretically feasible and will not be too frightening to the world.
Thanks to Victor's snakeskin rolling, his men were able to rush out of the carriage and begin to cross-cover, launching a real charge towards the local position.
So there were two ways to charge on the field, one was the cross-cover charge of the elite of the Federation, using the cover and the rifles in their hands to cross-cover, step by step, gradually approaching the enemy position.
The other is a personal show of a big cat on the battlefield, serpentine and lifting his foot a moment before each bullet hits his heel. As he ran, there were flying sand and dust all the way behind him, all the craters that had been punched out by bullets.
He also ran and ran and rolled behind the cover, symbolically looking at the local position, in fact, he had already relied on his unique beastly instinct to lock on to the first target: the commander of the guerrillas.
Luckily, the show didn't last long, because in an era when rifles had an effective range of only 400 meters, it was only about 10 seconds for Victor to cover this distance, which was why he didn't want to be too amazing.
The saber-toothed, who had successfully charged alone, was immediately besieged, and several soldiers of the Southern Army rushed towards him with bayonets.
The first to attack was a small, brown-haired soldier wearing a similar uniform to that of the Union Army, who bent over and stabbed Victor in the throat with a gleaming bayonet.
This trick he had perfected against the tall Indian warriors, and his diminutive stature had not only become a disadvantage for his short life, but rather an advantage for him to stab his throat with a single blow.
From the bottom up, the assassination directed at the throat is very difficult to parry, and this trick is also compulsory in the bayonet technique of the Japanese army, and it has been tried and tested repeatedly, and the veteran will overturn in the gutter if he does not notice it for a while.
Even the tall Soviet soldiers repeatedly overturned in the bayonet battle with the Japanese army, and they were beaten to the bottom of the blood, and then Mao Zi learned to be smart, how good it is for us to suppress the firepower and crush them by the tank, and the brain is pumped with bayonets.
Ahem, off topic. Faced with the surprise of the small Southern Army soldiers, Victor kicked him directly with a heartwarming kick.
A brown meteor flashed across the battlefield and knocked away the Confederate soldiers who were charging towards Victor. The little soldier who was kicked felt as if he had been hit by a galloping carriage.
The love gun in his hand was kicked into several pieces along with the ribs in his chest, and the broken ribs were inserted into his lungs, making it difficult for him to scream.
Well, let's let this little brother fly in the sky for a while, and tell me about his other comrades.
The next moment he kicked the short soldier away, Victor dodged the bayonets stabbed at him by the two soldiers behind him, and then turned around and slashed the throats of the two soldiers with the bayonets in his hand.
After dealing with the two soldiers who were sneaking up, he smashed the skull of a rushing Southern soldier with the butt of his gun. At this moment, the brown-haired soldier from heaven fell to the ground.
The other Confederate soldiers who rushed over were hesitant for a moment because Victor had eliminated the four of their comrades almost instantly.
This momentary opportunity was seized by Victor, and he rushed straight towards the commander of the Southern Army guerrillas, and the soldiers of the Southern Army reacted and prepared to stop him.
However, none of the Southern troops who rushed forward were Victor's enemies, and they were either kicked or killed by bayonets. Victor's rifle had also been replaced by two rifles, and he always used too much force to break it when he picked people.
When the soldiers of the Southern Army saw that the bayonets could not solve Victor, several officers took out their pistols and tried to solve each other with their pistols.
However, they found that even if they shot with a pistol in close quarters, their reaction speed could not keep up with Victor's figure, and after shooting Victor instead of killing him, they accidentally injured one of their own soldiers, and they abandoned the handjob plan.
Continuing to have the soldiers hold bayonets to stop Victor and the guerrilla commander to evacuate, this time the blocking mission was mostly completed.
They blew up the railroad and effectively wounded the Union soldiers in the train, so there's no need to waste time here with this monster.
And because of Victor's toss, Victor's squad also belatedly rushed to the position of the Southern Army and started hand-to-hand combat with the other party.
The Union soldiers in the carriage also surrounded this side under the orders of Bagley, and the guerrilla commander, who saw that the situation was not good, immediately gave the order to retreat, and then took the lead in running the ball on the horse that had been prepared for a long time.
And the soldiers of the Southern Army who got the order also began to leave the battlefield, and Victor did not mean to kill them all, after all, his goal was only to be a hero, not to be a human slaughter, he embraced his wildness, but it did not mean that he wanted to indulge in killing and lose himself.