Chapter 2656: Be surrendered

After receiving a fiercely worded reply from Johnny Burgoin, General Gates worried that the reinforcements of Fichen would arrive and the cooked duck flew again. Without discussing with Laval on the hospital bed, he accepted Johnny on his own initiative. · Bogoin's conditions.
After a brief negotiation, the two parties finally reached an agreement:
The Feizhen Army, carrying cannons and various weapons, holding flags, marched from the barracks to a designated location, and piled up the weapons there under the orders of their own officers.
General Gates should allow surrendered enemy officers and soldiers to return to Feizhen on the condition that they can no longer serve in the New World in the current war.
Fijian officers, including Burgoin, must publicly vowed not to lead soldiers to fight, and will be released later, and they can leave the New World with their weapons and personal property.
On the morning of November 16, Johnny Burgoyne signed the letter of surrender.
At the time of the surrender, due to casualties, capture and desertion, Feizhen's 4th Infantry Division had reduced from the number of tens of thousands when it started from Midgard to less than 7,000.
This is the first major defeat for Feizhen since the start of the war.
After this campaign, the Continental Army seized hundreds of heavy artillery, nearly 10,000 rifles, and a large number of scarce military materials such as bedding and tents. The equipment situation has been greatly improved.
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Although the commander of the battle was General Laval, the nominal highest commander of the Continental Army Northern Corps was General Gates after all. In addition, Laval was seriously injured in the battle and is still lying in the ward. Walking down the ground, it was logical that the enemy's surrender was handled by General Gates.
Under the banner of "military emergency", General Gates acted arbitrarily and did not discuss with Laval in the hospital bed, nor did he ask his immediate boss George Vassar for instructions on the negotiations with Johnny Burgoin. He alone has the final say in terms of acceptance and surrender.
On the afternoon of November 17, General Bogoin led the Feizhen 4th Infantry Division and surrendered in accordance with the agreement with General Gates. The prisoners of war were collectively sent to Hot Spring Town for detention, waiting to be repatriated in batches.
It was not until the next morning that Johnny Burgoin's surrender book was delivered to George Vassar.
General Vassar glanced over the conditions of surrender hastily, and became so angry that he could not restrain his anger. In front of all the staff, he yelled at Charles Gates as a fool!
"Who has ever had such generous surrender conditions in the world, who is the winner on the battlefield?"
"We still have so many soldiers who have been abused in the Feizhen Army POW camp. Charles Gates should at least consider taking Burgoin's hands to exchange prisoners of war. How can we release all the prisoners so easily!"
"Is this leading the soldiers to fight, or is it at the house?!"
"This can't work! I absolutely cannot agree to this so-called surrender agreement!"
George Vassar lost his temper, then calmed down, and hurriedly wrote to Gates and Laval. First, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, congratulated the two deputies for a big victory in the Baden Wetlands. The key point was to ask them. Suspending the implementation of the overly generous acceptance letter signed with Johnny Burgoyne, this matter needs to be considered for a long time.
Of course Vassar also knew that Charles Gates and Benedict Laval had more military qualifications than himself, and he didn’t think much of his commander-in-chief. He might not take this letter seriously, and he hurriedly gave it to Yuan Yuan. The "Continental Conference" in the Port of Princesa issued a letter urging the representatives of the "Continental Conference" to veto the surrender agreement.
In this way, George Vassar was still uneasy, and sent his confidant Adjutant Major Roger Tyndall to bring his own manuscript, led a military police company, hurried to the hot spring town, and detained the Feizhen 4th Infantry Division. Prisoners of war, count the firearms and artillery confiscated.
The Continental Congress also received news of Baden’s victory not long ago. There was a sharp confrontation between the attitudes of the delegates regarding Charles Gates’ signing of a surrender agreement with Johnny Burgoin without asking for instructions.
Some representatives criticized Gates for being too arbitrary and lacking the most basic respect for the Continental Congress and General Vassar. He has shown his tendency to be a warlord and must seriously warn him to restrain himself.
These representatives were also critical of the agreement signed between Gates and Burgoin, thinking that the conditions were too favorable, and the commitments made by Burgoin and others lacked binding force.
You let go of the prisoners of war, and people verbally promised to return to Feizhen, not to be involved in the conflict in the New World, and to join the army again and hit you with a gun. Even if you accuse the other party of not being credible, will they lose a piece? Not meat?
On the contrary, more representatives of the Continental Congress took a praising stance towards General Gates.
It is believed that the point is that the Northern Corps fought a beautiful victory under the wise leadership of General Gates, and this is the most urgently needed turning point for the independent revolution, which will bring extremes to the people in the country who fought bravely against the Fichen invaders. The great encouragement, and more importantly, is to show to the foreign powers who are holding a wait-and-see attitude that the Continental Army is capable of winning wars and deserves strong investment and support from foreign friends.
Victory can conceal all mistakes, not to mention that General Gates did not make any major mistakes, nothing more than rushing to power.
Think about it from another angle. If Gates is like a certain commander-in-chief, he asks the Continental Congress for advice on everything, procrastinates, chirps, and has no courage, how can he fight such a beautiful ambush?
The most important thing to lead soldiers in battle is to be bold and decisive!
A general who can win a battle is a good general. If he can't win a battle, no matter how good he is, no matter how good his character is.
These representatives who supported General Gates actually didn’t mean to drink. They ran out of George Vassar’s incompetence in ruling the army, losing streak in a row, and making the revolutionary cause be extinguished. It’s better to put him off. The commander-in-chief withdrew and replaced him with General Gates who was more able to fight tough battles.
War is an extension of politics, and the victory or defeat on the battlefield has in turn intensified the political struggle in parliament.
Just when the representatives of the Continental Congress were quarreling, General Vassar’s letter arrived. In the letter, he proposed to postpone the release of enemy prisoners of war and use them in exchange of prisoners. No matter which faction representatives could fault, In the end, the vote rejected the surrender letter signed by General Gates and Bogoin, and asked the Continental Congress to send representatives to re-negotiate the conditions of surrender.
When this document was delivered to Hot Spring Town, it was too late.
At this time, including Johnny Bogoin, all the captured senior officers of the Feizhen Fourth Infantry Division had boarded the ship and returned to China. Only ordinary soldiers and lower-ranking officers were still detained in Hot Spring Town.
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Historical materials: The Conflict between General Gates and Washington (Hamilton Biography [US] Ron Cheno)
After Saratoga, Horatio Gates became the darling of national heroes and New England politicians overnight, and these only exacerbated the mutual aversion between him and Washington. After winning the Saratoga Victory, Gates even put Washington aside, without notifying Washington of the victory at all.
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