Chapter 2870: Southern Fire (Ⅲ)

Three months ago, the owners of the manor were generally pessimistic about the prospect of an independent revolution. They believed that Alfheim would not be long enough to resist, and the whole territory would fall. Waiting for the fate of the people, they had to swear allegiance to King George III of Fijian. One way, for the sake of protecting the whole family, facing the blackmail of Officer Feizhen, he would endure a bit of blood.
However, today, especially after the Earl of Winthrop issued the "Liberation Proclamation", most southern manor owners have reversed their positions, and instead have become hardliners against the invaders. General Kanghuali sent people to raise food and supplies. I don't care about it. If you have money and food, you would rather use it to fund General Green's men!
The non-cooperative attitude of the southern manor owners has annoyed General Kang Huali!
I ask you to help me with a good voice, and I was shameless. That's fine, let's grab it ourselves!
With the gun on the forehead, who would dare to say "no"? !
Thomas Convalley was born in a very famous nobleman. He is called a "gentleman in military uniform". Of course, a gentleman must pay attention to decency. If he is not able to lead the raid himself, he will find his two lieutenants-Bannister Wynn. Slope and Isaac Hook-conspired a lot, and finally came up with a poisonous trick to drive the tiger out.
There are three main forces under General Kang Huali.
The first is the Feizhen 3rd Infantry Division led by him, the regular army of Genzheng Miaohong.
Then there was the Dragoon Brigade under Little Winthrop, the most capable troop in the regiment.
There is also the Prince Port Cavalry Division who followed General Hook's defection.
In addition to these three main forces, General Kanghuali also has a "unbranded army" in his hands, the so-called "Liberty Corps", including more than 5,000 black slave soldiers, as well as Alfheim’s "loyalty" white militia. , That is, the "royalists" in the mouth of revolutionaries, there are nearly a thousand people in total.
General Cornwalli clearly supported Earl Winthrop’s announcement of the abolition of slavery and enlisted black slaves into the army, but he was also a conservative white supremacist in private. He looked down on blacks at all and did not think that these free slaves could be managed. Good oneself.
Therefore, he called up the local Royalist militias in Alfheim and placed them in the "Freedom Corps" where the majority of blacks are occupied. They used these white officers to manage the black soldiers, but in fact they still used the "white overseers in the plantation". The old way of managing black slaves.
The treatment of black soldiers is far inferior to that of white officers. Unprovoked whipping and bullying are inevitable. The "freedom and equality" that black slaves desire has not been implemented in the army, and it is only a formality.
General Kang Huali didn't want to take this "freedom regiment" on the expedition, thinking that these miscellaneous troops are purely burdensome, "the role played by the on the battlefield is not worth the food they spoiled."
But your Excellency the Governor insisted that he bring the "Freedom Corps" as an event billboard, traveling around the South, showing the achievements of his side in promoting the abolition of slavery, and inspiring more black slaves to defect.
General Kang Huali was forced to feel helpless, so he had to pinch his nose and bring this "Nigger Corps" to the south.
During the march of the Kanghuali Corps, there were several exchanges of fire with the guerrillas of the Continental Army. Because of the shortcomings in cultural education and military training, the performance of black soldiers on the battlefield was indeed lacklustre.
This further deepened General Kanghuali's dissatisfaction and prejudice, and regretted that he had not resolutely rejected the request of the Governor and was forced to bring this group of waste.
Until this moment, General Kang Huali needed someone to come forward to do the "dirty work" for him, and he realized that this "Free Corps" was still worthwhile.
With the support of Hooker and Winthrop Jr., General Convalley issued an order, appointing Alfheim’s "Allegiance" leader Colonel William Trian as the commander of the "Liberty Corps" and led This unit "visited" the major plantations in the south and was responsible for collecting munitions-to put it bluntly, to rob!
Robbers and looting civilians in the name of the army are commonplace in this day and age.
After the outbreak of the Independence Revolution, many royalists were confiscated of their land and property, and they were bullied. They were full of grievances, not to mention the black slaves.
With a mentality of revenge against political enemies and slave owners, the "Free Corps" under the leadership of the royalist party ransacked villages and towns along the way, conquered military rations, burned and looted them, and caused restlessness wherever they went.
At the beginning of September, the fertile fields on both sides of the Ifen River were ravaged, the houses and corrals were burned, the grains just harvested were swept away, all cattle and horses were taken away, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep were slaughtered on the spot, and large areas of the plantation were slaughtered. Large swaths of tobacco were ignited, causing choking thick smoke to fill the wilderness for several days, as if a group of old smoking guns crowded into a tavern to spit out fog.
In Colonel William Tryon's view, these devastating acts of destruction are necessary.
On the one hand, it is to collect military supplies, but also to prevent these materials from falling into the hands of the enemy.
That's all, it can't explain that Colonel Tryen still slaughtered the local people in addition to looting. The and cruel method was to punish and intimidate the people who supported the rebellion in name. In fact, there is no lack of public revenge.
To be fair, every royalist has a history of blood and tears.
In the early days of the outbreak of the independence revolution, most of them did not stand up against independence, refused to participate in violent revolutions and suppressed any party in the revolution, and only wanted to live their own lives behind closed doors, or promulgated in the revolutionary regime " After the Allegiance Act, he refused to swear allegiance to the Continental Congress, even just because he was framed as a "conspiracy to sabotage the revolution" by neighbors and villagers who had been in conflict before, he was inexplicably labeled as a kingly party.
"Revolutionary horror" and "counterrevolutionary horror", like a pair of twins, are always born together.
These royalists, who were brutally suppressed during the independence revolution, suffered humiliation and beatings, confiscated property and land, and even scattered their wives. They were forced to flee to the area occupied by the Feizhen army and suffered countless numbers. The sufferings are filled with resentment.
Now that Feizhen's army is coming back, they certainly have the motivation to avenge their hatred, and pull out the so-called revolutionaries who had bullied them at the beginning to give them teeth for teeth and blood for blood. This has led to countless murders.
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