The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 64 Anxious Jackson

"My lord, Governor Jackson has been defeated, the news is accurate!"

After receiving the news from the scouts, Colonel Cole, who was responsible for commanding the left wing detour, immediately issued an order for the troops to stop advancing.

Colonel Cole, as Governor Jackson's confidant and one of the few senior officers in the South Carolina regular army, naturally knew the content of this battle plan very well.

Governor Jackson is the main force to wipe out the enemy!

The total strength of the team led by Governor Jackson is twice that of the infantry regiment led by Colonel Cole, and it also has many artillery pieces.

The team led by Colonel Cole was a pure infantry regiment without a single artillery.

Anyone with common sense of war knows how big the difference in combat effectiveness between the two is.

Now Colonel Cole has learned that the 'besieged' enemy forces have completely defeated Governor Jackson's troops, and that Governor Jackson's troops have suffered heavy losses!
Colonel Cole felt that an enemy army that could defeat the main force of Governor Jackson, no matter what method it used, would be enough to defeat the pure infantry regiment under him...

Even if there are friendly forces on the right wing to cooperate with the attack.

Because Colonel Cole knew that even his troops plus the friendly troops who turned around on the right could not beat the main force led by Governor Jackson with a large number of field artillery and mortars.

That is the army that embodies the essence of Charleston.

In the battle plan, Jackson's troops are the main attackers, and Colonel Cole and the right-wing troops are just 'auxiliary' to prevent the enemy from escaping.

Therefore, after thinking for 0.1 second, Colonel Cole quickly issued an order to stop advancing and withdraw to Charleston!

Facing an unknown and formidable enemy, Colonel Cole did not want to follow the same path as Governor Jackson.

Governor Jackson has a big business in South Carolina and a strong background. He will not step down after losing a battle.

But if he, Colonel Cole, loses his troops, his position will be unstable.

If it is serious, it is likely to be kicked directly to the backup department for the elderly.

The regular army led by Colonel Cole is all white soldiers. If there are too many casualties, he will not be able to take the blame...

As a matter of course, the commander of the South Carolina Turnaround Force on the other side made the same choice and withdrew to Charleston.

Even if the two detour troops were less than half an hour away from the enemy's position, the forward scouts had already detected the periphery of Yuri's position.

Because of this, Yuri soon got the news of the enemy's retreat through scouts.

This kind of movement of large units at close range is difficult to conceal.

After Yuri learned that the enemy was retreating, he asked his troops to release the battle formation, and set up a temporary camp while cleaning up the battlefield, intending to spend the night here.

In this era, only the elite are qualified to march at night. Yuri's Iron Guards are naturally fine, but those security groups are not sure.

To be on the safe side, Yuri will choose to march and fight during the day and set up camp at night, which is also the routine practice of the army in this era.

Otherwise, after a night of marching, it is unknown how many soldiers of the security regiment will be left...

Regardless of the fact that the security regiment has won two battles, the soldiers' support for Yuri's regime is actually very low. If given the chance, they would not mind becoming free deserters.

The military discipline in this era is very strict, the military pay is also very low, and the subjective initiative of soldiers to join the army is very low.

Especially soldiers who are about to face combat!

Even in the world-famous British Empire, most of the standing army soldiers are soldiers who are forced to serve in the army, and there are very few civilians who volunteer to join the army.

No one would want to join the army if it wasn't that they couldn't survive and couldn't eat enough.

As for patriotism and loyalty to the monarch, it is the ideological consciousness of the nobles and the rich.

This is why the British Empire recruited soldiers mainly from slums and hooligans.

Everyone doesn't like to be a soldier, so they can only choose those groups that are hated by others and vulnerable groups that will not cause violent backlash.

The local standing armies of the thirteen colonies in North America naturally inherited the style of the British Empire, so the soldiers' enthusiasm for joining the army was generally not high.

The gun-toting mob also only had the desire to fight when it came to defending their homeland and looting Indians.

While Yuri set up camp, Jackson, who fled back to Charleston on a fast horse, was worrying about how to deal with the mess.

If the army he led was only defeated, it would be easy with his power and prestige.

But the key is to test the combat style of the soldiers, so that none of the officers and soldiers who followed Jackson back to Charleston survived...

Thousands of people went out and only a few dozen came back!

Basically, those without horses all died under the massacre of the trial soldiers.

Probationary soldiers are terrifying existences full of hard-working skills of human beings. How can ordinary people be the opponents of probationary soldiers in the chase and escape?

As long as there are no four legs, no one can escape the pursuit of the trial soldiers!

These are thousands of white soldiers, not thousands of slaves!

Even Governor Jackson felt a lot of pressure at this time.

The most important thing is that South Carolina is not all in support of the British Empire. The slogans shouted by the Sauron family are quite deceptive, especially for those low-level civilians.

Thousands more white soldiers are now dead.

They all have their own relatives and friends, what would those low-level civilians think of Jackson?
Although the government presided over by Jackson has repeatedly promoted the Sauron family's legion as invaders, the Sauron family did not advance to South Carolina as conquerors. Of course, Yuri will come here as a liberator!

If Governor Jackson led South Carolina to stand on its own from the British colonies like the Sauron family, the Sauron family would never send troops and would regard it as a potential ally.

However, Governor Jackson before the defeat would not consider the option of self-reliance at all.

He served well as a native emperor in South Carolina, and he only challenged the powerful army of the British Empire when his brain was squeezed.

What's more, Jackson is not in charge of South Carolina alone, and even Charleston is not in charge of Jackson alone. There is also a municipal council!
Many people in the municipal council are dissatisfied with the heavy taxes of the British Empire, after all, they are the losers.

Originally, because of the weakness of the Sauron family and the strength of the British Empire, the opponents could only shut up and let the main fighters clamor, but now?

Jackson's troubles did not last long, when he received news that Colonel Cole and another unit had withdrawn intact.

"I still have 5000 regular troops, plus the armed citizens and militia recruited in the city of Charleston, there is still a chance.

But the sudden appearance of summoned soldiers is too scary, I need more information! "

(End of this chapter)