Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1373 Internal Diseases and External Treatment ([-])

June and July of this year.

Because the main force of the Dashun Navy in Europe, under the leadership of French privateers, attacked southern Ireland again, and a large number of Irish Catholics responded.

Thus, in North America, the French Navy completed the blockade of the Gulf of Maine.

It is said to be a blockade, but it is actually a collection of tolls.

Basically, the trade does not stop. A large number of North American businessmen can still ignore the French blockade, as long as they show evidence that they have gone to France or the Spanish sugar island in the Caribbean to sell grain, cattle and horses.

And this is equivalent to the entire New England area and the big businessmen around the Gulf of Maine, all of which are not affected.

Because everyone, or every big businessman with a head and a face, can all come up with a lot of evidence to prove that he used the British navigation regulations as paper wipes before, and often smuggled urgently needed timber, cattle, horses, and grain to France and Spain. Caribbean Islands.

Of course, not all.

There were also specialized privateers, especially the notorious privateers, who were hit hard.

Privateering ships and robbing merchant ships is nothing more than that.Fighting against the regular fleet, after all, it is still a bit inferior.

With the completion of the blockade of the Gulf of Maine in early July, the military operations of the Acadians to land in revenge and burn the flames of war to the enemy's home also officially started.

Dashun continued to be a good person in the middle, and was pulling a group of leading figures from North American states to hold another meeting in Philadelphia, suggesting that each state send Dashun to escort them back to England, and petition the United Kingdom for a peaceful truce.

To be honest, France was able to blockade the Gulf of Maine because Dashun went to Ireland with the French privateer before, so the British Channel Fleet could only go around the island and dare not travel far.

But the fact is that Dashun did not blockade the Gulf of Maine, nor did it directly send troops to attack the hinterland of New England.

Because the thousands of marines in Dashun switched to the French troops in Montreal on the St. Lawrence River, they did not come directly to the hinterland of New England.

Dashun's diplomats, on the other hand, are waiting for the Acadians' revenge team to make a fortune in the hinterland of New England, and then come forward to be "peacemakers", at least to protect the big North American businessmen and big businessmen in the big coastal cities. smugglers.

As for now, it is not yet time.The more fiercely the Acadians retaliated, the more precious this "made out of nothing" card would be.

The attack force that Joseph Godin and others belonged to chose the first target, a small town that could make Joseph Godin get what he wanted, Haverhill.

This was the home of his enemy, Moses Hasson, who skinned his daughter.

It is also the first choice for many people to revenge. After all, Moses Hasson's cruelty was even exclaimed by the British general and later British Marshal Geoffrey Amherst as "cruel", "unacceptable", " Shame on me for the rank of captain he awarded."

Of course, since it has been formalized and rectified, it is of course impossible to attack towns just for the reason of revenge.

The main reason for attacking Haverhill was military value and deterrent effect.

If we say, Massachusetts is more bewildered.

Then, Haverhill is the most bewildered of bewilders, especially when it comes to treating the Indians, he can be said to be the king of bewildered people at this time.

Not only skinned kings such as Moses Hasson were contributed, but also a large number of Ranger members.

There are, of course, historical reasons for this.

The first historical reason is that during the Salem witch trials, the judges of this small town withstood the pressure and only strangled and burned them, killing a dozen people.

Because there were fewer dead people, the Axiom Society did not become a stinky shit in Haverhill afterwards.

The Congregationalist group is a relatively extreme Calvinist, the kind who burns people at every turn. One can imagine the religious background of this small town.

Another one, this town is the birthplace of the North American "hero myth", a typical example of the Congregationalist propaganda, and the birthplace of one of the several myths that promote "killing Indians for scalping".

Attacking here has a great spiritual deterrent effect.

North Americans love to make up stories, especially stories about heroes or supermen.

Haverhill is a typical North American "superwoman" story-in the story, a woman named Hannah Dustin, after being captured by the Indians, took advantage of the fact that the Indians were not paying attention, and slashed at 12 people, one woman After being captured, he slashed at 12 Indians and returned with the captured weapons and a £50 bonus.

True, false...it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that this is undoubtedly an inspiring story.

It not only publicizes that Indians are not scary, but also that murder can be rewarded. In addition, women can kill 12 people in a row. What are you afraid of?

The Congregational Church immediately issued promotional materials, saying that Hannah said personally, 【I am grateful for my captivity, this is the most comfortable time I have ever been; in my pain, God, His words make me feel comfortable.I saw the guidance of an angel who brought me a thirst for vengeance, an insatiable thirst for blood].

In fact she could not read at all.

However, the Congregational Society immediately accepted her as an official member of the Congregational Society. You must know that if you join the Congregational Society, you can be counted as a "visible saint".Most people are "halfway entrants", who have to pay [-] taxes, and cannot be state and county managers.

This trend of "God's guidance to endless thirst for blood" and "casual killing of red-skinned and yellow-skinned people" has had a profound impact on Haverhill.

Affected by the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900, some people in Haverhill won a medal of honor in Tianjin with this kind of belief.

In fact, anyone who has read the "Bible" or even reads it as a story will know at a glance that the story of Hannah Dustin is purely based on the story in the Old Testament [Jarle assassinated Xisera with a hammer] adapted from the story.

But those who believe in religion will eat this.

As the birthplace of this set of nonsense stories, and the model of "revenge against the Indians" set up by the Axiom Society, most people in this small town are bewildered.

Not only did Moses Hasson, who can make the British exclaim, but also contributed a large number of well-known executioners in the Arcadia massacre.

Joseph Godin and others, after landing on the coast, quickly brought the attacking force to Haverhill, which is very close to the coast.

Church bells in Haverhill rang, and the local militia organized in an attempt to resist.At the same time, send people to other places for help.

It's just that the offense is different from what they imagined.

The revenge force that Joseph Godin belonged to did not directly attack, but used the Diamond Monkey supported by Dashun.

Outside the town, braces were erected and a round of assault on Haverhill was launched.

This thing, building a fortress, definitely won't work.

Burning the house is really easy to use.

About sixty large diamond monkeys, nearly half of them landed in the small town of Haverhill, and soon ignited a fire.

After the attack was over, these people did not stay here, nor did they enter the town to grab things or continue to kill people.

Instead, he quickly turned to the coast, ambushed the militiamen who came to rescue from Amesbury on land, and then followed the same pattern, burning Amesbury with the Sky Diamond Monkey.

However, he did not leave immediately by boat, but continued to lie in ambush in the forest near Haverhill after supplying supplies by the sea, waiting for the arrival of the rangers who rescued Haverhill.

They were sure that there would be a team of Rangers returning, because there were many Rangers in Haverhill, and their homes were burned, and it was impossible not to return.

Lurking in the forest is precisely the advantage of these Acadians, and it is also the reason why North America has to use natives to form rangers familiar with forest tactics.

Joseph Godin, resisting the urge to rush into the burning Haverhill to find Moses Hasson's family and kill them all, lurks in the forest, convinced that Moses Hasson, who is recuperating in the Boston area, will definitely return.

For Dashun, this hit-and-run tactic of directly burning down the town with the Monkey King will soon achieve what they want, a Massachusetts that opposes war instead of advocating war.

(End of this chapter)