1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 100
Brandon was about to gather his troops and retreat away from this place of right and wrong.

At this time, he thought of dense gunshots in all directions.

"We are surrounded!"

The bandits exclaimed.

His defeated generals soon fell into chaos.

But after all, he is still an officer who has experienced wars. He calmly commanded his subordinates to quickly form a hollow phalanx to meet the enemies coming from all directions.

Liang Yao, who was standing on the top of the mountain, raised the binoculars in his hand to observe the battle at the bottom of the mountain.

This was an unequal battle, and his soldiers under the command of Deng Yan and Isaac and Elvis attacked Brandon's hollow phalanx in an orderly manner.

Brandon's hollow phalanx was crumbling under the fierce offensive, and every time a burst of orderly gunshots sounded, some gangsters were shot and fell down.

For a while, gunshots, shouts, and wailing echoed in the mountains and forests, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

Brandon has never fought such an asymmetrical fight.

He could only watch helplessly as one after another of his former friends and classmates fell beside him, feeling like a knife was twisting his heart.

"Breakthrough."

Seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and the formation had been loosened, Brandon knew that he could no longer hold on, so he gave the order to break out.

The thought of surrender flashed through his mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

The crimes he committed in California were enough to hang him.

These Chinese soldiers are all from Liang Yao, and Liang Yao will not let him go.

From the moment he chose to leave the army and become a bandit, he had no way of turning back and could only go one way to the dark.

When he broke through, Brandon only had more than forty accomplices who were still able to move.He didn't know how many people there were on the other side, because the mountains and plains were filled with Chinese soldiers and Indians.

The accomplices in the team were seriously injured and unable to move, and Brandon, who couldn't protect himself, couldn't care about them.Brandon decisively chose to abandon these wounded.

"The enemy is about to break through. Isaac asked his subordinates to ask you whether to charge?"

A signal soldier ran up to Liang Yao panting and asked Liang Yao for instructions.

"I told you before the battle, how to fight the battle is up to them to decide!" Liang Yao said displeased, his eyes did not leave the battlefield, still observing every move on the battlefield.

swoosh~
Whoosh whoosh~
Just as Brandon moved his feet, several feathered arrows came through the air.

What caught Brandon's eyes was a group of Indian tribal warriors dressed in cloth robes, wearing feather ornaments, holding American hunting bows and old muskets.

Within fifty yards, the Indians' bows and arrows were fast and accurate, and the two accomplices beside Brandon fell down in response, wailing terribly.

Brandon raised the revolver in his hand, pulled the trigger continuously, and fired all the bullets in the cylinder.

It's just that the Indian warriors who rushed in front just fell down, and there were still a steady stream of Indian tribe warriors rushing up behind them, which made Brandon feel desperate.

The Indians also participated in this battle. At this time, Brandon was ashamed.

"Don't kill with guns!"

"Don't kill with guns!"

"Don't kill with guns!"

Following the Indians, the Chinese soldiers held rifles and shouted "Give up your guns and don't kill", and charged the gangsters trying to break through with bright and slow bayonets in a murderous manner.

Their shouts resounded through the entire mountain forest, and the beasts in the mountain fled in fright.

The morale of Brandon's party members had already reached the verge of collapse. Looking at the Indian and Chinese soldiers advancing towards them all over the mountains and plains, they no longer had the will to fight.

At this moment, they collapsed.

Without hesitation, they knelt down, raised their guns above their heads, and shouted, "We surrender! We surrender! We surrender!"

They shouted very loudly, for fear that these Chinese soldiers and Indian soldiers could not hear them.

"Aren't these ghosts pretty good at fighting? They surrendered so soon?"

"Surrender as long as you surrender, why don't you kneel down and hand in your gun?"

Facing the straightforward surrender of this group of gangsters, Deng Yan and the Chinese soldiers felt a little unbelievable.

Elvis and Isaac skillfully confiscated the guns of the surrendered gangsters and tied them up.

Liang Yao looked at the time on his pocket watch. The battle only lasted about half an hour.

In this campaign, 23 bandits were killed on the spot, and 44 bandits including Brandon were captured.

These gangsters are all deserters, and they are the backbone of Brandon, and they have achieved fruitful results.

His Chinese soldiers also paid the price of 11 killed, 5 seriously injured, and 13 slightly injured.

Although Liang Yao felt that the casualties were a bit heavy, considering that this was the first battle of these big soldiers, he could still accept such a result.

The fighters from the Indian Pomo and Maidu tribes who came to assist in the exhibition also suffered relatively large casualties, and 11 Indian fighters died in battle alone.

Liang Yao brought fifteen doctors with the army. After the battle, he immediately asked these doctors to treat the lightly and seriously wounded to avoid unnecessary attrition.

"Our casualties exceeded expectations. It is because of my ineffective command. Please punish me."

Elwell asked Liang Yao to punish him. Before the war, he promised Liang Yao that the number of casualties would be controlled within 8 and the number of injured within 16.

As a result, both the number of dead and the number of injured far exceeded the number he had promised Liang Yao before the battle.

"Elwell, you are too strict with yourself. We are leading a group of recruits. It is already very good to have such a performance."

Isaac was very satisfied with the result.

Such a battle loss ratio is a very good battle loss ratio even for the ordinary reserve British Army with no actual combat experience.The gangsters they fought were deserters from the U.S. Army who had participated in the Mexican-American War, not a bunch of rotten fish and shrimp.

Of course, Isaac also meant to excuse himself by saying this.

"Isaac, but this was a well-planned ambush! As commanders, our performance was really bad," Elwell said.

"I'll talk about the summary of this battle when I get back." Liang Yao said with his hands behind his back.

Deng Yan and Elwell's performance did not disappoint Liang Yao, but he was very dissatisfied with Isaac's performance on the battlefield.

Before the war, he authorized the command of Deng Yan, Elvis and Isaac to let them play freely.

As for Isaac, he even asked him for instructions on whether to charge or not.

Liang Yao knew that it was because Isaac was afraid of taking responsibility. Although he didn't know much about military affairs, he knew that a commander who was afraid of taking responsibility would never be a good commander.

"This is Brandon."

Deng Yan escorted Brandon to Liang Yao.

"You are Liang Yao?"

Brandon looked at Liang Yao with disdain.

"Exactly, you are not convinced?" Liang Yao said lightly.

"If you are not convinced, what is a sneak attack? If you are a man, you will fight me!" Brandon said unconvinced.

"You also sneaked up on me in Sacramento at the beginning of the year. It's a pity that you are not as good as me. At least I succeeded in the sneak attack, but you didn't even succeed in the sneak attack." Liang Yao said in a mocking tone.

Immediately, Liang Yao asked the guards around him to search him.

The guards found three dollar bills and a letter from Brandon and handed them to Liang Yao.

The three dollar money orders belonged to different banks, but all three dollar money orders were signed by John Jacob Astor.

Liang Yao opened the letter, which was also written by John to Brandon.

"The dignified New York celebrities are actually involved with deserters and bandits."

Liang Yao said in a cold voice, he already knew about John and Brandon's secret communication of the payment, and these three huge dollar bills and John's handwritten letter confirmed it even more.

"Coward! Coward! Do you dare to fight me?" Brandon shouted arrogantly.

Liang Yao didn't intend to give Brandon a life, nor did he intend to hand Brandon over to the court for trial.

Brandon is a deserter, even if the trial is a court-martial.

Griffin is a short-term protector. Even if he sends Brandon to a military court, there is no guarantee that Griffin will save Brandon.

Since Brandon wants to die, it doesn't matter if he fulfills him.

As for duels, no one with a head and face would duel with bandits, and duels in this era are also divided into grades and grades.

(End of this chapter)