Chapter 626

The short and fierce battle in the north of Saratoga naturally alarmed Horatio gates in the south.

Although it's hard to see Arnold, there are still 3000 soldiers in Arnold's army. For gates, this is a force that cannot be easily abandoned.

So gates quickly led the main forces to arrive here, the results of the immediate tragedy almost let gates a black eye fainted.

Almost none of the three thousand soldiers in Arnold's department were all in one. At a glance, there were dead bodies and wounded people howling all over the huge battlefield.

Because there were not enough people to help the wounded, they had to lie on the ground and wail helplessly.

Even Philip Skyler was almost stupid when he saw this scene, especially when he saw Arnold with four arrows and three bullet holes without bleeding, Skyler almost fainted.

Unlike gates, Philip Skyler has a better impression of Arnold. Before Skyler garrisoned Fort tyconderoga, it was Arnold who beat it down. In that year, if Arnold hadn't built warships to resist Carleton in Champlain lake, Fort tyconderoga would have been beaten down by Carleton.

But now, even Philip Skyler has to obey Horatio gates. The strong gates can't hold his breath.

Now see Arnold's body, Skyler heart immediately rose a rabbit dead fox sad feeling.

Seeing Horatio gates, Skyler suddenly felt very funny.

A few days ago, when blocking the bogain department, Arnold repeatedly stressed that to deal with such a ruthless man as bogain, we must use a stronger offensive to defeat him. Therefore, we should not use the method of encircling and killing bogain to deal with him. Instead, we should take a strong attack and rely on the number of people and firepower of the army to completely defeat bogain.

As a result, Arnold's proposal was rejected by gates without hesitation, and Arnold was reprimanded by gates.

Skyler certainly knew why gates rejected Arnold and reprimanded him. Gates was jealous of Arnold's prestige in the army and among the local Indians. And Skyler is very clear that gates, who was born in Britain and had been serving in the British army before, despised Arnold, who was born in poverty.

Even several times in private conversation, gates always called Arnold "native"

Arnold had been fighting under general Watson before, and he was the most reliable General of general Watson. In order to cooperate with gates, the new commander of the northern army, general Watson even sent Arnold to support gates.

As a result, I didn't expect Gates' attitude towards Arnold to be like this

Now Arnold died in the war, and the 3000 armies were almost disabled. Gates, as the top commander, should have a headache.

There was even a faint sense of joy in Skyler's mind.

This is not schadenfreude of Skyler, but what Gates has done since he became the commander of the north is a little disrespectful.

In fact, what Skyler doesn't know is that if history doesn't change, this Horatio gates is not really a good man.

In the original historical time and space, during this period, some people in the army were dissatisfied with the leadership of general watsonton and tried to let gates replace him to lead the army. Although the general gates did not openly participate in these people's usurpation of power, but let them.

Obviously, this gates is not as magnificent as others think he is - this guy is actually a small bellied guy. He can't see anyone better than himself.

And the final fact also proves that Horatio Gates' character makes him not go far.

In the summer of 1780, this Horatio gates met Waterloo in his life. The defeat of Camden made him lose his military position. Until his death, the stain of Camden's defeat was with him.

Of course, those things happened in the original historical time and space.

Here, in this time and space, Horatio gates is already in a mess.

Although there are only 800 regular troops in the 3000 army and the remaining 2200 are militia and guerrillas, they are 3000 after all.

There are only so many people left in a 3000 man army. In any case, this is a big defeat that cannot be explained and shirked.

Arnold died in the war. No matter what, Arnold has paid the price of his life for the defeat. No one can blame him any more.

But Gates, as the top commander in this battle, can never escape the responsibility of leadership.

Unless... Unless we can find the damned bergoin and beat him in one go, then we can find a way to save this defeat.

Horatio gates, who had served in the British army since his youth, had a certain military quality, so he soon found a way.

A large number of scouts were sent out by Horatio gates, focusing on the west side of the mountains.

The rest of the soldiers are ready to attack at any time, except for those who take care of and treat the wounded.

In the early hours of the morning, bergoin, who had completed a perfect raid, had retreated to a valley in the western mountains.

There is a small lake in the valley. A clear river flows in from the west of the lake and flows out from the south of the lake.

Bergoin's troops chose to camp here for the time being.

It's about seven or eight kilometers in a straight line from the battlefield where Arnold died.

It's not that bergoin doesn't want to continue to flee to the West. The more he goes to the west, the harder it will be. And in the early morning raid, the bergoin department was not without casualties.

Without the absolute superiority of heavy machine guns and artillery, even a successful surprise attack will result in a war loss of one thousand and four hundred.

Despite the early morning raid, bogain crippled Arnold, but bogain didn't feel well either. Less than 200 of his men died, but more than 800 were injured. Originally there were only a little over 10000 soldiers, but now there are about 9000 who can fight.

That's about the same number as the rest of Horatio gates, but bogain's supply is not as good as the army's, so bogain has to stop and give the wounded a chance to repair. When the wounds on the wounded are almost healed, the troops are looking for a safe place to rest. If only they could find a way to get some supplies.

But although bergoin's calculation is good, he underestimates the anger in the heart of horeshaw gates, who is about to go crazy.

Then, the next morning, when bergoin was about to set out to continue looking for a place to repair, Horatio gates, who had got bergoin's repair site, came with all his soldiers and killed them fiercely