Chapter 3021: "Suicide" attack

But what about knowing the inside story?
Your Excellency is mad at nothing.
The ruling party is like a target. The tree is on the stage, and it must withstand the open guns and the dark arrows from the audience.
The poor outcome of the Battle of Peak Bay further intensified divisions within the ruling party camp.
The popular political star William Pitt Jr. has already proposed to Prime Minister North a "peaceful settlement of the Wilnoa problem" package, and within the Party of Order, many bigwigs have also made suggestions:
"Your Excellency North is getting older and in poor health. You should rest more so that young people can take on more responsibilities."
"If your Prime Minister is really unable to clean up this mess at the moment, you might as well let more energetic and motivated young people give it a try. Anyway, the worst result is to hold a general election in advance."
Lord North was very uncomfortable with such remarks in the past, but the recent series of blows have changed his mentality.
Since he was powerless, it might not be a wise move to actively choose to retreat from the rapids and to throw the pot to William Pitt, who does not know the heights of the world, while his reputation has not yet been discredited.
If things go wrong, people will only complain about the young man's rashness and willfulness, but will miss his old-fashioned steadfastness, and maybe there will be a chance to make a comeback in the future.
When things have reached this point, even Prime Minister North himself has retreated. In the entire political arena, who else can care about the Winthrop Corps besieged in Leiden?
As for the rescue plan, it has become a dead letter.
When the time came to early June, another scandal broke out in the New World, which hit the already shaky North government.
The matter still has to start at the end of May. The defeat of the Battle of Pique Bay caused the Fijian Navy to temporarily lose its dominance on the east coast of Wilnoia.
The Fijian troops trapped in Leiden were unable to obtain supplies from the sea, land transportation was cut off, and there was a severe shortage of food and ammunition.
When the time came to the beginning of June, as the weather became hotter, humid and rainy, the garrison in Leiden did not come singly, and smallpox outbreaks broke out one after another. The entire battalion of Feizhen officers and soldiers contracted this malignant infectious disease. Within a week, all The city was reduced to an epidemic area, and Feizhen officers and soldiers who died due to the outbreak of smallpox had even exceeded the attrition!
The news of the outbreak of smallpox in the city spread to the outside of the city, but it scared General Vassar and his staff. among.
At the same time, the chaplains of the Continental Army were also urgently summoned, each in charge of a camp, to check the health and hygiene of the officers and soldiers, and immediately isolate and treat the infected.
According to the Continental Army’s combat plan, a general offensive against Leiden Port should have been launched before June 10. However, considering that Leiden Port has now become a "Plague City", the generals felt that the most urgent task at present was To prevent the epidemic, not to siege the city, it is safer to wait for all our officers and soldiers to be vaccinated against smallpox.
The Continental Army outside the city besieged but did not attack, and the Feizhen Army in the city had run out of ammunition and food, and was on the verge of collapse.
The sacrifice of his eldest son Bannister caused the heaviest blow in his life to Earl Winthrop. Since that day, he has become more and more irritable, more and more extreme, and even his staff clearly felt his The spirit is becoming divided.
Knowing that there was not much rations and medicines left, Earl Winthrop sent the gendarmerie to search for the rations of the residents of the city, and at the same time issued a crazier order to his deputy, General Cornwalli, to deliberately infect black soldiers. Smallpox then drove these soldiers who "smashed the shackles and went to freedom" out of the city, instructing them to surrender to the Continental Army, thus infecting the Continental Army with smallpox.
General Cornwalli did not hesitate to execute the governor's order. Thousands of severely ill smallpox patients were driven out of the city in the evening, most of whom were black soldiers from the slave plantations in the South.
The front-line commander of the Continental Army received these deserters and found that they were ailing and sick, and only after inquiring did they found out that they were infected with smallpox, and quickly sent someone to ask the pastor.
The chief chaplain of the Continental Army, Miss Rebecca Castis, came to see these black deserters and confirmed that they were indeed smallpox patients. After a little inquiries, she guessed that the Earl of Winthrop and General Cornwallis belonged to them. Sinister intentions, immediately reported to the headquarters.
At this time, Qiao Ann was also in the Continental Army camp. He learned about Earl Winthrop's conspiracy from Rebecca, and only found it both sad and ridiculous.
As the old saying goes: Heaven must make it go crazy first.
The actions of Earl Winthrop and General Cornwallis precisely reflected their inner despair. Instead of turning the tide of the war, they would put themselves on the pillar of shame in history and be cast aside forever by the world.
For the Continental Army, the more realistic question is how to deal with this situation?
Knowing that the soldiers are all "humanoid virus bombs," do you still have to accept their surrender?
What's more, most of the opponents were black fugitives from the Continental Army who represented the interests of colonial manor and slave owners. In fact, most of them didn't want to see the group of "niggers" in their hearts.
However, it doesn't matter what you think in your heart, but you can't lose your righteous reputation.
General Vassar took the lead in expressing his support for accepting pawns and providing them with proper placement and treatment!
Including Prince Colofa, Lord Helena, and General Vigraf, most of the high-ranking officers in the command also had a big picture and expressed support for the commander-in-chief's awe-inspiring decision.
The policy of accepting sickness and reducing deaths has been set, and there are two key issues to be solved next.
The first is to urgently expand the epidemic prevention camp and send the soldiers to the camp for isolation and treatment to avoid infection.
Isolation alone is not enough. The headquarters will also contact the "Life Foundation" to send military airships to transport smallpox vaccine from the drug factory affiliated to the Foundation, and inject it into the Continental Army soldiers to establish an immune barrier as soon as possible.
The "Life Foundation" initiated by Mrs. Josephine was originally located in Midgard. After the fall of Midgard, the pharmaceutical factory producing vaccines moved to a ranch near Shizhu Town.
Thanks to a steady stream of charitable donations from home and abroad, this pharmaceutical factory started construction as usual during the war, and has now grown into the world's largest production base of smallpox vaccines in the New World and even in Vares.
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Historical material A: Cornwallis in Yorktown ("Free Exiles" (US) Maya Yasanoff)
Cornwallis decided to camp on a dangerous peninsula near Williamsburg, waiting for reinforcements. Under the scorching sun, soldiers built fortifications near this new outpost called Yorktown.
Smallpox and typhus are raging in the camp. Because most blacks have not been vaccinated against smallpox, the plague caused them to fall in large numbers.
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The deserters fled the besieged barracks one after another, reporting that the soldiers inside were exhausted "because of overwork and disease."
Watching the number of casualties around them soaring, black and white allegiance groups are experiencing the harsh test of hunger and disease every day.
In order to save supplies, Cornwallis ordered people to kill horses, drove smallpox patients out of the hospital, and expelled many blacks who came to join the British army. But they still run out of ammunition and food, and reinforcements are delayed.
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·History B: Human Flesh Virus Weapon ("Hamilton Biography" [United States] Ron Cheno)
Kang Huali was completely desperate for this battle. He ordered the blacks to be infected with smallpox, and then forced them to walk towards the enemy's position, imagining that infectious diseases could weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness.
He knew very well that this was just digging his own grave in vain. In a letter to Sir Henry Clinton, he wrote: "The situation I face is extremely severe. Soon we will have to deal with the shortage of personnel. Under the circumstances, rely on the fortifications that have been destroyed and face the enemy's attack at a rather disadvantageous position."