The Long-Awaited Battle!

Looking at Victor and James, whose faces were still young but whose eyes were sharp and resolute, General Taylor nodded in satisfaction.

"Impressive young man, tell me your names!"

Victor glanced at Zachary Taylor and replied calmly.

"Victor Logan!"

Zachary Taylor nodded upon hearing this, then looked at James beside him.

"And what about you?"

James's eyes flickered for a moment upon hearing this, but he ultimately revealed his real name.

"James Howlett!"

Just five days after Victor and James successfully joined Zachary Taylor's forces, Taylor led his 3,000 troops, a mix of new and veteran soldiers, away from their original stronghold and advanced a considerable distance into the disputed region between the US and Mexico, closer to Mexico, and began construction on Fort Texas.

On April 25, a Mexico army of 1,600 men ambushed a 63-man reconnaissance team under Zachary Taylor near Fort Texas. The US Army that were besieged were either killed, wounded, or captured; none of them survived.

However, Victor and James were not on this team, so they were unable to participate in this conflict.

This hostile action that occurred around Victor and James can be considered the beginning of the Mexican-American War.

Since then, the situation in the disputed region between the US and Mexico has become tense. Both sides have begun large-scale troop movements, deploying troops and constructing numerous fortifications in the disputed area. Friction between the two armies has also increased, and tensions in the disputed region have risen, with a major war seemingly brewing and ready to erupt at any moment.

As Victor and James felt the increasingly intense atmosphere of war around them, they couldn't help but feel excited. Finally, they could fight to their hearts' content!

I just don't know how much longer we'll have to wait.

However, they soon had the opportunity to engage in formal combat.

A few days later, Mexico troops launched another attack on the US Army outpost.

Upon hearing the news, Zachary Taylor immediately led his troops to the rescue.

On May 8th, both sides engaged in artillery bombardment. The infantry remained stationary, and Victor and James, having no opportunity to fight, had to continue to endure. While all the soldiers around them were trembling with fear, searching for places to hide, terrified that shells would fall on their heads, Victor and James simply found a place to sit, letting the shells fall around them without showing any fear. Instead, they looked at the battlefield engulfed in flames with excitement, wishing they could charge directly into the enemy lines amidst the gunfire.

However, Chen Mo had already instructed them that they must obey their superiors' orders while in the army, otherwise being arrested for disobeying military orders would seriously affect their later battles.

As for the overwhelming artillery fire, the two did not take it seriously. Although the power of the cannonballs was indeed much stronger than that of the Musket, they should not forget what era this was: 1846, the mid-18th century. At that time, the Musket used by the troops of Europe and America countries were generally muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock muskets. The bullets were only more convenient than those of the matchlock musket era. Instead of using a powder keg to add gunpowder according to one's own judgment, a fixed amount of gunpowder and lead pellets were directly wrapped in paper and poured into the barrel by biting open the paper package with one's teeth.

Although it is more convenient than before, there is no fundamental difference. Even the most advanced percussion guns that are not yet widely used in the military have only improved the firing mechanism and fired faster, but there is still no rifling in the barrel. There is always a gap between the bullet and the barrel wall, and a lot of the explosive power of the gunpowder is wasted, so the bullet's power is very limited.

The same was true for artillery. Both the US and Mexico used smoothbore cannons, which had no rifling in the barrel. The shells were just iron balls weighing about five kilograms each. Much of the explosive power was wasted, and the shells were far less powerful than the cannons of later generations. Although the shells could cause great damage to ordinary people, turning hit soldiers into bloody and mangled remains, they could not destroy the bodies of Victor and James, whose bones and muscles were much harder and stronger than those of ordinary people. At most, they could only rupture their internal organs.

However, Victor and James's self-healing abilities were much stronger than before. Even the most serious injuries could be healed in just a few minutes. So even if they were hit by these shells, they would not be in mortal danger, and their combat effectiveness would not be greatly reduced.

In the movie, James was hit in the chest by a cannonball during the Civil War, but he was only thrown away by the force of the cannonball and was not seriously injured.

Finally, the all-day bombardment ended in a victory for Taylor's forces by evening, with the Mexico army suffering heavy losses.

The next day, Victor and James finally had their chance to fight.

More than two thousand infantrymen, under the command of Zachary Taylor, charged toward the Mexico army's positions, and Victor and James finally had the battle they had been waiting for.

"Charge!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!!!"

The two men, rifles in hand, charged toward the enemy with a roar, along with the other soldiers. The Mexico army opened fire immediately, bullets flying through the air. One by one, the running soldiers were hit by bullets and fell to the ground, lifeless. But more soldiers continued to charge forward.

Victor and James took the lead and quickly charged into the enemy's position. The Mexico soldiers stopped firing and raised their rifles with bayonets to meet them.

Victor raised his rifle and slammed the butt of it into the neck of a Mexico soldier charging towards him. The immense force smashed the soldier's neck, tearing and twisting the flesh, turning his entire neck into a bloody mess in an instant. The cervical spine was also broken by the heavy blow, and his head twisted to one side. With blood spurting from his neck, the soldier collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

Victor didn't even glance at the fallen corpse, his feet never stopping as he roared and charged toward his next target.

Victor and James charged into the enemy positions like tigers among sheep, taking down an enemy with each attack. However, this was a battlefield, and enemies were everywhere. No matter how strong they were, they couldn't remain unscathed like they had when facing the armed acquisition agents of the fur company.

The US and Mexico engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat on this front. As the battle progressed, soldiers were killed one by one, and the ground was gradually littered with corpses in various states of death. Meanwhile, Victor and James sustained more and more wounds.