I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 635 Sparrow Tactics (recommended above, please ask for everything)

After the troops sent by the Jamaica Commission, that is, the Parliament, were defeated by the Jamaican abolitionist organization, the rebels had formed a siege of the capital Kingston.

The governor, Lord Cumberland, hurriedly asked for help from the British mainland.

Considering the huge economic interests of Jamaica, Pitt sent the expeditionary force almost without hesitation.

General Brand jumped onto the pier, turned to look at the soldiers who were getting off the "Little Gray Elephant" transport ship, and shouted:

"Move faster, you losers! For every minute you delay here, those niggas may destroy another plantation!"

He took the horse's rein from the attendant and said to his staff:

"Send out scouts immediately to confirm the location of the black ghost army. By the way, also, get in touch with Lord Cumberland as soon as possible and ask him to prepare a celebration banquet for the soldiers."

This is not because he is arrogant. The troops he brought this time included elite regiments such as the 2nd Grenadier Guards, the King's Regiment of Infantry, and the 1st and 2nd Carabineers.

Judging from the previous report sent back by the Jamaica Commission, the "mulatos" on the island, that is, the mixed-race army, has less than 1,000 people, and their military quality is very average.

As for the black army, there are more than 3,000, but they are basically from plantation slaves and have just learned how to shoot a gun not long ago.

With his 4,000 elite troops, it was easy to deal with these rebels.

However, his time was also very tight, because after solving the black ghosts in Jamaica, he had to rush to the Bahamas, where the blacks also broke out in rebellion at the end of last year.

Brand got on his horse and said to his staff: "Camp up north of Kingston. Let all officers above the battalion commander come to my tent for a meeting."

He waved his riding crop, thinking about how to quell all the riots in the Caribbean within three months. According to the promise made to him by the Prime Minister, when he returns to London victoriously, he will be promoted to lieutenant general and nominated as Assistant to the Secretary of War.

Brand was indeed a capable commander. On the third day after landing, he had basically figured out the deployment of the rebel forces and formulated a complete combat plan.

In the early morning of the fourth day, with the King's Infantry Regiment as the spearhead, Brand's army launched a full-scale attack on the Jamaican Abolitionist Rebel Army.

At this time, Major Auriol had just learned that a British army had appeared behind him. He had no choice but to do so. The rebel army lacked war horses. The few war horses were left behind by the French Expeditionary Force, so the reconnaissance ability was very poor.

He had no choice but to abandon the almost conquered city of Kingston and organize troops to defend it.

However, the black regiments under his command were unable to even fire a salvo, so they were no match for the elite British troops.

Only half an hour had passed since the first gunfire, and his staff reported to him in panic that the frontal defense line had been defeated.

Auriol's heart sank. It seemed that he was not facing the island's defenders. Although the troops of the Jamaica Council had slightly higher combat effectiveness than his troops, they were definitely not that powerful.

An officer beside him said loudly:

"Commander, it should be the British Expeditionary Force."

They had received news from the "Special Trade Association" before, saying that London had sent a suppression force, but they did not expect that the other party would move so quickly.

Auriol decisively ordered that the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Infantry were responsible for holding back the British troops, and sent several companies to set fire to the plantations around Kingston to create chaos. The others immediately retreated northwest into the Blue Mountains.

Unfortunately, Brand had anticipated all his possible tactics and had even camped on the north side of Kingston from the start.

This caused heavy losses to the rebel army. It wasn't until the fire in the plantation began to spread over a large area that Auriol, led by black soldiers who were familiar with the nearby terrain, escaped from the gap between the two plantations.

Then, he was chased by the welcoming cavalry. Fortunately, the Blue Mountains are only about 10 kilometers away from Kingston. When he fled into the mountains and forests, there were only more than 800 soldiers left beside him.

Oriol cheered up and got in touch with the "Marens" settlement in the mountains.

The so-called Mullens are the indigenous people who formed after the black people who fled into the mountains mixed with the native Indians on the island. They used the mountains to escape the pursuit of British colonists. After hundreds of years of reproduction, they have spread all over the Stoney Mountains and Blue Mountains.

These people were naturally hostile to the British, and had already made contact with them at the beginning of the Jamaican abolitionist uprising.

Soon, a Malens settlement took in the remnants of Oriol and provided them with food and water.

At night, Auriol gathered his officers, but he showed no sign of defeat. Instead, he stood on a wooden stake and shouted:

"One failure is nothing. The British will leave here in a month at most.

"There are hundreds of thousands of blacks on the island's plantations waiting for freedom. They can join our army at any time and strike again at the British!"

“And there will be a steady stream of weapons coming from Santo Domingo.

"Everyone should cheer up, victory will eventually belong to us!"

Afterwards, Auriol led his troops to hide in the jungle of the Blue Mountains, relying on bananas and mangoes everywhere, and occasionally getting supplies from the Mullens settlement.

In this way, after the British pursued and intercepted them for three weeks, they suddenly withdrew from the Blue Mountains as he had said before.

General Brand gloomily told Major Ketanhot, an officer of the Jamaica Commission, how to guard against the rebels, and then led the expeditionary force back on the transport ship and headed for the Bahamas.

On the fourth day after he defeated the Oriol Army, the city of Nassau in the Bahamas was besieged by black rebels.

Under the crazy request of the Governor of the Bahamas, Brand had to rush to Nassau for reinforcement.

Of course, all this was a tactic that Joseph had arranged in advance for the abolition movement in Saint Domingo.

The smuggling ships of the "Special Trade Association" delivered messages to the black rebels throughout the Caribbean, allowing the abolitionist rebels in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Dominica, Barbados and other places to form an alliance and help each other.

Wherever the British army landed, the rebels there would stop and launch a fierce attack in other places.

When the British army went to reinforce, the previously dormant black army resumed its activities, and the places attacked by the British army temporarily avoided the sharp edge.

Since there were far more black slaves than colonists in the Caribbean, as long as the leaders were still alive, a large number of troops could be quickly pulled out from the plantations.

Saint-Domingo served as a logistics supply base. The French expeditionary force would continue to be "defeated" and leave weapons and ammunition to Auger. He would then distribute them to the rebels everywhere.

As for the transportation work, it was naturally left to the smuggling ships. They had rich experience in avoiding British patrol fleets, and they were all small boats, so they were rarely caught.