Chapter 2808: Gun scandal

Adam Mafulin's defense for himself... really cannot be said to be totally unreasonable.
However, the evidence shows that General Ma Fulin received a large rebate in this transaction, which is also a fact.
At the moment of the enemy, who can calmly and rationally analyze whether General Ma Fulin's approach is good or bad?
In the face of raging public opinion, the city screamed and screamed, and the Continental Congress had to pronounce General Adam Mafulin on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and corruption and dismiss him from his military post.
At the beginning, General Ma Fulin was highly recommended by Mr. Jefferson. Now that the Ma Fulin case is committed, at least the corruption charges are inevitable. People cannot help but wonder whether Mr. Jefferson also took a kickback from the arms purchase case.
Although there is no evidence to show that Mr. Jefferson is suspected of corruption, it is certainly not wrong to put the hat of "unknown" on his head.
Affected by the case of Ma Fulin, Alexander Jefferson’s reputation in Leiden Harbor plummeted. He was too busy to take care of himself, and could not find a suitable candidate to succeed General Ma Fulin for a while. Things were delayed, and the chaos became like a snowball. The bigger it gets, there is no way to deal with it.
In desperation, Mr. Jefferson had no choice but to write to his fellow villager, General Vassar.
In this letter, Jefferson asked George Vassar for help, asking him to quickly send a powerful general from the south to lead as many troops as possible back to his hometown, to preside over the defense of Leiden Harbor, to turn the tide and help the building. Will dump.
General Vassar did not disappoint his fellow villagers. He immediately dispatched Nathaniel Green, an old man who accompanied him on the day of joining the army to the North and South, and shared the joys and sorrows, and led his troops to Leiden Harbor to preside over the overall situation. Rosenthal Zion's strong self-recommendation appointed her as the lieutenant of General Green, and together they rushed south to assist.
This is indeed a correct decision. It was already in mid-June when the troops were helplessly dispatched, and it was too late to rescue the troops.
At the beginning of July 1627, the two Continental Army cavalry brigades led by General Green and Colonel Audrey were still on their way south, and the army of Earl Winthrop had already approached the southern capital of Leiden Port.
At the critical juncture, the representatives of the "Continental Conference" lived up to expectations and fled again in a hurry, and went to sea on the "Heringhorn". It is said that they went to Galti Island for a "summer vacation".
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The gentlemen of the "Continental Conference" turned in Rufeng and knocked the last nail on the "coffin board".
The garrison in Leiden was originally lack of troops, backward weapons, and lack of effective organization. Now the war is approaching, and the "public opinion representatives" have slipped away first, even the largest official in the city-Mr. Alexander Jefferson, the chairman of the city council. -They have not come forward to reassure the people. Their whereabouts are still unknown, and 80% have also slipped away. Once the news came out, it caused a devastating blow to the morale of the soldiers and civilians left behind.
In this situation, the battle of Leiden was doomed to an end before it even started.
The battle started on July 7, and the garrison in the city only retreated after a long period of symbolic resistance.
Afterwards, in a letter to Prime Minister North, Earl Winthrop commented on the performance of his opponents in this campaign in a cynical tone:
"At the Battle of Leiden, the resistance of the rebels to our army was slightly inferior to the resistance of the Nutcracker to the Nutcracker."
In the evening of July 7, Feizhen's army easily captured the city of Leiden.
At the same time, a cavalry regiment led by Lord Bannister Winthrop did not participate in the siege, and rushed to Mount Vernon outside the city.
Bannister's trip shouldered an important task, which was to capture the wife of the Continental Army Commander-in-Chief George Vassar, Mrs. Martha Castis Vassar.
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On the afternoon of July 7, 1627, a farmer stumbled into Mount Vernon, covered in blood, and anxiously revealed to the manor housekeeper Heimdall that the army of Fichen was coming to the manor, urging everyone to run!
Heimdall immediately told the news to the sisters Martha and Rebecca, reminding the hostess that it is not advisable to stay here for long, and it is better to go south as soon as possible and take refuge.
In fact, as early as a week ago, Sisters Castis learned from the family letter sent by General Vassar that the Feizhen army was going south to force Leiden, and had already sent most of the relatives, friends and servants of the manor to Germany in advance. Lin Zhen took refuge, leaving only a few servants to accompany them at home to watch, hoping that the situation will get better in the future.
The sisters were reluctant to flee from their hometowns, reluctantly reluctant to do so, and the speed of the situation worsened beyond their expectations. Now the city of Leiden has been surrounded by the army of invaders, and even the manor outside the city is in danger.
Mrs. Martha forced her composure and summoned her servants and family members to the caravan carrying property and food to Delin Town. She, her sister Rebecca, and the butler Heimdall stayed at the end to listen to the news. He rushed to looting Mount Vernon, and it was too late for the three to cast a spell to teleport and leave.
Rebecca has more ideas than her sister.
It was all about this time, and she was still worried about her classmates, friends and teachers in the city, planning to go to the city to see the situation of Leiden College.
Of course, this plan was strongly opposed by Mrs. Martha. No matter how Rebecca claimed that she was capable of protecting herself, she would never allow her sister to venture into the city and take the initiative to jump into the wild "fire pit"!
Rebecca couldn't convince her overly nervous sister, she couldn't help but sighed, muttering to herself:
"It would be great if Qiao An was still here, and he can easily settle any trouble."
When Mrs. Martha heard her sister’s sigh, her heart moved, she walked over and tentatively asked Rebecca:
I heard that Qiao Ann became a professor at a university in the Far East, and he was highly regarded by the Emperor of the Far East. Or... I’ll give He sent a "SMS" and said you missed him..."
"I didn't!" Rebecca categorically denied, but the roots of her ears couldn't help but feel faintly hot.
Mrs. Martha took a deep look at her sister, then sneered: "You're left with a hard mouth!"
"Martha! Qiao Ann has his own business to be busy, and doing research and writing papers is also very hard. We are not dying, so there is really no need to disturb his clean life!"
Of course Mrs. Martha could hear her. There was a hint of resentment in her younger sister's words. She wanted to persuade her to say a few words and was afraid of doing bad things with good intentions.
The sisters changed the topic very tacitly, and turned to discuss whether the city of Leiden could be guarded. If they could not be guarded, where is the future of the independent revolution...
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