Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1374 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])

It is impossible to understand the preciousness of the word "peace" in such a situation where you only hit others, but the other party cannot retaliate.

Although the Acadians had only been reorganized for one winter, the damage done to New England was appalling.

On the one hand, they have both revanchism and the guns provided by Dashun, and they also have quite good individual qualities.

Secondly, Dashun used the very proficient "maritime nomad tactics" that were tried in Japan and then used after the Java volcano uprising.

Relying on France's control of the Gulf of Maine's sea dominance, these Acadian forest infantry can land anywhere in New England.

If there are few people, just fight.

After the fight, ambush the rangers who came to quickly support them.

After the ambush, continue to fight and burn the town, and then get on the boat and run away.

There are gunners provided by France, aboriginal skirmishers from the west coast provided by Dashun, and disciplines who have been trained for more than half a year.

It makes it easy for these people to beat up the militias and rangers in various towns, especially under the conditions of fighting in plains.

But to deal with them, they can only dispatch lobster soldiers.

Lobster soldiers can fight in the field. In Ohio, General Braddock was hacked to death because he mistakenly used the skills of field fighting on the plains in forest warfare.

However, the lobster soldier plain field battle is definitely no problem.

But the problem is that the essence of this "sea nomadic tactic" is to use mobility to run away.

For example, a 600-man battalion-level Acadian raiding force, ordinary militia and rangers, cannot fight.

Even if the lobster soldiers are involved, at least 2000 or 3000 people must be dispatched to carry out a multi-channel siege.

Especially after Joseph Godin's assault force ambushed Moses Hasson's Ranger Company, or Ranger Company, in the forest, the Lobster Soldiers had to gather a large number of troops to go out of the city to clean up.

In this battle, Joseph Godin completed his revenge.

More than 200 rangers were surrounded and wiped out, only more than 30 escaped, and the rest were all killed and skinned.

And this battle can also be called the turning point of the "Arcadia Revenge War".

Although more than 100 people were actually killed, the three words "turning point" are worthy of it.

Because the military instructor of the Acadians is from Dashun.

Dashun's military instructors belong to the New School.

The thinking of the new school after the military reform, from Liu Yu’s lure the enemy at the northern foot of the Altun Mountains to a decisive battle, to suppress resistance in the Western Regions to withstand the siege of the rebels several times, and then to the Southwest’s "center flowering" tactics of reforming the soil and returning to the people, basically In the same vein as before.

Take this battle as an example.

If Moses Hasson's rangers, more than 200 people, withstood the siege and ambush of the Acadians and won the main force of the lobster soldiers from Boston to arrive, then the stuck Acadians would not have to run away. Definitely a huge loss.

And if this is the case, a Ranger company of more than 200 people can run around and catch the Acadians, as long as they stick to the Acadians and wait for the large troops to arrive.

Then the revenge guerrilla warfare of the Acadians will face a great test.

The problem was that Moses Hasson could not stand up to the Acadian forest infantry backed up by Da Shun skirmishers and French artillery.

Then the situation changed.

For example, when there are Acadians besieging the town again, should they be rescued or not?
If you want to rescue, because of the previous lessons, you can know that you can't rush forward in a small amount, and you need to gather thousands of people.

Assembling thousands of people requires time, food, supplies, and coordination, which takes time.And once the number of people exceeds two thousand, coupled with the problem of ambushes, the marching speed will inevitably slow down.

After waiting to come, the town is burned out.

The lobster soldiers can only fight normally, and need to rely on locally formed rangers to go forward, chase, stick, grab, and block.

However, after Moses Hasson was skinned, the rangers did not dare to attack on a small scale, which made the rangers who were originally used to cover the flanks, go out for reconnaissance, stick to the lag, and cover the forest, only follow the main force of the lobster soldiers. Move seven or eight miles before the main force.

Another one, the revenge team of the Acadians didn't touch the lobster soldiers at all.

The number is too large to fight, can't you run?There are forests everywhere and the population is so sparse, as long as you go to the landing point of the fleet by the sea, you can run away. Why do you have to go head-to-head with the lobster soldiers?

Theoretically, the tactics of changing home can also be defeated by changing home tactics.But last fall's farming in the Annapolis Valley made the Acadians "home" in the Annapolis Valley.

If you want to change your home, you can, let the British Navy send out a fleet with battleships, and then take down Lewisburg, otherwise you won't be able to change.

The lobster soldiers can't catch the Acadian revenge team, and the Acadians can't touch the main lobster soldiers.

To burn the town, to burn the wheat, to burn the house, to beat the New England militia.

Especially with the rubber and Shaanxi oil provided by Shangdashun, which is called "Oriental Greek fire" by this group of people, it is indeed quite convenient to burn wooden houses and towns like North America.

The militiamen and rangers in New England are all local people and they all have families.

Haverhill is burned today, and Amesbury is burned tomorrow. They all have families and mouths. These New England militiamen and rangers, who have the heart to follow the lobster soldiers, all rush home , Protect your family and property.

This in turn led to a vengeance party of the Acadians, which went even more smoothly.

What is the Acadian vengeance party afraid of?What I am afraid of is being caught and stuck by the organized rangers and local militia, and then surrounded by lobster soldiers.

But now that the local militia and rangers have gone home, what else is there to fear about the Acadians?

Without the local rangers, the lobster soldiers couldn't catch these Acadians at all. Every time they went through the forest, they were frightened, because the lobster soldiers lacked forest combat skills.As long as anyone has the skills of fighting in the forest, it is not possible that in Ohio, the 44th and 48th regiments were stolen from the forest by the Indians, and the head of the main general was chopped off.

This makes the Lobster Soldiers move more slowly.

The lobster soldiers moved slowly, and these vengeful Acadians were defeated one by one, and went to attack small towns and small villages.

No one is not afraid, even if people are hiding.Don't beat people, burn the house, burn the wheat, burn the mill, burn the manor.

And the lobster soldiers going out of the city to "suppress bandits" will bring new problems.

As Franklin said: The army of our own country is inferior to the French in burning, killing, looting, and killing good men.

And the lobster soldiers are all regiment commanders, they can be regarded as standard "thieves with the army", and they have no money - whoever has money will serve as a soldier?In the UK, being a soldier is different from being an officer, and there is a big difference.

Historically in Boston, why was the British army so disgusted by Bostonians?Because the British army was too poor, they went to work and robbed the jobs of the small townsfolk in the local city, or rolled up, and the small townspeople in the city were quite dissatisfied.

Such an army, since it went out of the city to "suppress bandits", so the military discipline can be imagined.

【I came from England and Ireland all the way to help you fight the French and print the Indians. If you eat a broken turkey in your house, you will be gibbering? 】

【I came here from England and Ireland, thousands of miles away, and went out of the city to suppress bandits, isn't it for you?Staying at your house at night, just touching your girl, and you're just chattering?As for? 】

It can be said that along with the continuation of the Arcadia War, a local characteristic idiom, or proverb, originated in Germany during the Thirty Years War and finally completed its final form here, or a proverb——— — finally appeared.

On Dashun's side, they helped to print a lot of "calls" - this is the tradition of Dashun's side. Before doing anything, especially a war, one must first "righteously".

As soon as the proclamation came out, it was said that the fate of the Acadians was tragic, and that all problems stemmed from the aggression of the New Englanders. Since you think resistance and revenge are just, let me show you what revenge is. .

So, with the help of Dashun, as small towns in the New England coastal area were burned one by one, a large number of rangers were skinned by homomorphic revenge...

This group of people in New England, who have been bewildered and united church and state for 150 years, finally understand the weight of a word.

It turns out that the word [Peace] is so beautiful, isn't it?

It turned out that there is a cost to fighting a war. If you have never fought someone, you may die if you are beaten back home.

Generally speaking, this principle, that is, the principle of "to be beaten back and kill the whole family" is self-evident in Europe, Asia, and even Africa.

Only in North America, they have to re-experience, comprehend, and learn this truth, or the truth summed up in thousands of years of history in Asia and Europe.

Obviously, this "education" is very effective.

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In the north, when the whole family was killed and the house was burned.

The central and southern regions, on the whole, still look peaceful.

By August, there was a bottom line from the last unsuccessful Philadelphia meeting.

With Dashun helping the slave uprising in Jamaica, revenge in the Arcadia war, attacking the southern plantations to rescue slaves, etc. as a brick wall.

This second Philadelphia meeting started much more smoothly.

So much so that Dashun’s trade ambassadors waited to arrive, and the representatives of the southern states, big landlords and businessmen in the New England region took the lead in spraying wildly at the group of land speculators and Ranger company organizers who made trouble.

Henry Middleton, a great South Carolina planter who had historically served as president of the Second Continental Congress, fired the first shot.

He represented the great northern merchants, smugglers, old landowners, and southern planters to the Virginia delegates who were present.

Including Virginia's head of government, Robert Dinwiddie, and Virginia's head of the military, George Washington.

The reason for spraying is simple:
Damn it, it's your [Ohio Land Speculation Company] in Virginia who started this fight.If you win, you get millions of acres of land; we get nothing.

It turns out that you can fight if you want to. You think that anyway, if your state is willing to fight, that is your business.It doesn't seem to hit our state anyway.

But now?The Dashun gang, regardless of whether you are from Virginia, we are from Carolina, or they are from Pennsylvania, will retaliate indiscriminately.Burn down houses today, save slaves tomorrow.

You, Virginia, are responsible for this matter, right?It's not going to go away, it's what you [Ohio Land Speculation Company] did at the frontier.

It's not just him spraying, there are actually three large land speculation companies in Virginia.

And another land speculation company named [Virginia Loyalty Company] was stabbed by the Ohio Company before the war. To retaliate, the company went bankrupt.

Although the [Virginia Loyalty Company] is not as good as the Ohio Land Speculation Company because of its relationship with the family—otherwise, it would not be as good as death by the Ohio Company’s business war—but it is not a soft persimmon, and there are still a bunch of British brigadiers and hereditary nobles in it. of.

Several shareholders of the Loyalty Company also stood up and slammed the Ohio Company: shed the blood of the thirteen states and enriched their own land.

(End of this chapter)