Chapter 134

Domineering? Or money.

From the sergeant's mouth, Lorraine quickly asked for most of the missing information.

The arms smuggling system in New Orleans is not always so strict. Most of the time before, it operated very loosely. After all, Americans need guns and French need money.

Harshness is a recent change. Lorraine unfortunately encountered a special period. Specifically, more than a month ago, the British and Indian allies officially launched an attack on New Orleans.

The battle for New Orleans began.

Soldiers are not soldiers and generals are not generals. This battle has been full of strange customs of New Orleans from the beginning.

The first demon was the governor of New Orleans in Spain.

It is reasonable to say that this port is an important base for Spain to control the Gulf of Mexico. He has the obligation to stop the British attack for his country.

But he didn't think so.

In his view, the war was not the fault of the Spanish.

If the French had not borrowed New Orleans for political purposes to carry out crazy arms smuggling, the British would not have invested their limited troops in this port protected by the Delta and unable to obtain naval support. This was the main reason for the war.

As the main profit-making Party of smuggling, the French should bear greater responsibility in this war. The Spaniards have done their utmost and can no longer pay their lives for the money bag of their allies.

So he went over the king of Spain and sent a note directly to the Louisiana authorities in New France.

The content of the note is roughly as follows: if the French cannot stop the British attack on New Orleans outside the city, he reserves the right to surrender, and will do his best to hand over this beautiful and important transit port to the British as completely as possible, so as to protect the lives and property of the Spanish pioneers.

In adult words, this note means [I've put down my pick, you can do it].

The poor governor of Louisiana was count Alves. In this matter, the governor of Spain gave him no choice at all.

Where on earth is New Orleans?

On the one hand, it is one of the important ports controlled by Spain in the Gulf of Mexico and the most important fiscal and tax place of Spain along the Caribbean coast.

Charlville style smuggling is an official smuggling. Although it enjoys the right of tax exemption in American ports, it has always been regarded as a regular transaction in New Orleans and is subject to tax.

On the other hand, she is the only estuary of the Mississippi River.

The French occupy the rich central part of North America. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, New France almost covers the Mississippi River Basin.

The deep and broad Mississippi River is a god given place for inland navigation, so new France built almost all its important cities on both sides of the river, including Baton Rouge, the governor's office in Louisiana.

If the British occupied New Orleans "as completely as possible", the class V and class VI ships of the new continental fleet could continuously drive from the Delta into the wide Mississippi River, then go upstream and all the way into the Great Lakes.

There is no fleet on the Mississippi River that can resist this powerful force, and the French and Americans in the Great Lakes are not enough to resist the British fleet, which means that once New Orleans is lost, the British can fight the whole French colony at any time.

In the worst case, the French will be completely driven out of the new world and become the laughing stock of Europe. Without the support of France, the immature American independent revolution will be quickly extinguished under the attack of three sides. It is impossible to have another tea pouring event in Boston.

New Orleans is the lifeblood of France in the new world. Count galvis has no choice but to fight for the life and death of France in this Spanish territory!

He told this great righteousness to his most direct lineage and the most elite Baton Rouge Legion in Louisiana.

But who could have thought that Baton Rouge's Legion began to be a demon

Most of the French soldiers in Louisiana come from the French pioneers and descendants of the pioneers in the new world, especially the Baton Rouge Legion. Because they are very close to New Orleans, most of them have relatives in New Orleans or were simply born in New Orleans.

More than a decade ago, since the French blood spilled on the parade ground during that despicable banquet, the colonial governor of Spain had not changed the policy of France in the past.

Emancipate the slaves, adjust the parliament, cancel the privileges of the French in the port, dismantle the beautiful French buildings, and encourage the ugly Spanish

The situation of the French in New Orleans is getting worse and worse.

Especially three years ago, there was a complicated fire in France, killing nearly a thousand people. The Spaniards falsely accused the French of arson after drinking, but the French couldn't forget the hundreds of French nationals who died in the fire.

Most people believe that this is a conspiracy.

Because in that fire, nearly one-third of the Old French buildings were burned, and were unified and adjusted into Spanish architectural style in the subsequent reconstruction, which greatly weakened France's influence on New Orleans.

In the hearts of the French in Louisiana, the Spanish are equal to bad people, mean, shameless, sinister and cunning. Even if the two sides are now allies, they are also a pair of plastic allies.

The Baton Rouge Legion did not want to die for such a plastic ally, so they refused to fight.

Lorraine did not know what the mood of count galvis was at that time. He only knew the result.

In this crazy demon environment, the count finally became the third demon.

He was eyeing the smuggling rights of charlville rifles.

It is not difficult for him to monopolize gun smuggling. As Lorraine knows, as a new type of gun, the new world does not have the ability to produce chalville rifles. All smuggled guns must be manufactured in France, and then transported to Pensacola ashore by ocean fleet, and then transferred to New Orleans by inland shipping, To every officially designated smuggler.

Pensacola is the jurisdiction of the count and Baton Rouge Legion. What the count needs to do is to briefly turn the interests that should be shared by more than a dozen nobles into the exclusive wealth of himself and Baton Rouge Legion.

He did it.

He used money to drive the rebellious Baton Rouge army to intercept guns, and then use these guns to coerce smugglers into mercenaries. He was also prepared to win the trust of Louis XVI with the final victory and resist the counterattack of the great nobles whose economic interests were damaged with meritorious deeds.

From the moment he made this decision, the count cut off his retreat.

The purpose of defending New Orleans has completely changed. Once the Patriot fails, he and his family will die miserably, very miserably.

In that case, would anyone not want the count to win?

Lorraine suddenly thought of the problem, and the more he thought, the brighter his eyes.

"Sergeant, how many days has this war begun?"

"Forty two days."

"Which side has the advantage now?"

"Since the beginning of the war, the count has not failed once. He has a decisive command, the smugglers recruited are brave and fearless, and the battlefield is far away from New Orleans. We have an absolute advantage. The count said that in a month at most, the British should run away with their tails between their tails."

"Really..." Lorraine smiled inexplicably. "If you are lucky to meet the count, please send me your most sincere wishes."

The sergeant was stunned and said, "are you... Not going to line up?"

"No. the count's smuggling power needs to be replaced by victory. However, my sailors are not well-organized. Even if I set foot on the battlefield, I will only pull the count's hind legs. I still know this a little."