Chapter 661

In fact, the whole situation of the war of independence was quietly changed from the order of the commander of the mixed ninth division of the bear army stationed in buffalo to shelling Barry St. Redge, who landed on the South Bank of Lake Ontario, to the neat sinking of the eight main ships of the Royal French Navy's Guadeloupe fleet by the second battalion of the fourth division of the bear army's coastal artillery regiment stationed in Norfolk.

Although France still declared war on Britain at the end of February 1778, the lack of eight main ships of the Guadeloupe fleet increased the uncertainty of the Atlantic situation. Even though Spain declared war on Britain on June 16, 1779, as in the original historical time and space, the Netherlands also joined the Franco American group to fight against Britain. However, the main purpose of Spain's declaration of war on the British was to take down the fort of gibraltarian and return the fort, which had been away from the kingdom of Spain for 80 years, to the kingdom of Spain.

Therefore, the navy of the kingdom of Spain did not make much contribution in the Atlantic Ocean, and it was the French who had to restrain the British navy in the Atlantic Ocean.

However, the French Navy alone could not suppress the British fleet, so the British supply in North America was not affected as much as in the original historical time and space. Therefore, Henry Clinton did not order to withdraw from Philadelphia, but also successfully opened up the southern battlefield, and fought in the southern battlefield, fighting against the enemy.

If this situation continues, the British are absolutely sure to end the war of independence within two years.

But this is not what the stone bear wants to see, so he took the initiative to block Chesapeake Bay, ordered his intelligence chief rabbit mouth to secretly help the army, and even sent elite scouts from the bear army to help the army fight guerrilla warfare.

It was only after this multi pronged approach that the southern army, relying on the secret support of the Yanhuang tribe and the guerrilla fighting style, reversed the disadvantageous situation in the southern battlefield.

Although still unable to defeat the British, but has been able to contain the main force of the British army.

As a result, the main forces of Britain and the United States are entangled in the northern battlefield. The situation of the northern battlefield has always been in a delicate balance of brilliant teeth. The British army has the upper hand, but it is unable to win the main force of the army.

Therefore, the key node of the war appeared in the southern battlefield.

The outcome of the northern battlefield and even the whole war of independence can be directly determined by who can win in the southern battlefield.

However, in the southern battlefield, the two sides are also inseparable, and no one dares to say that they will surely win.

In the original historical time and space, the battle value of the southern battlefield lasted for two years, because the British army suffered a series of inexplicable failures and the outbreak of plague, which eventually led to the great victory of Yorktown. The Southern Army led by Cornwallis surrendered to the army in Yorktown, leading to the end of the whole war of independence.

But in this time and space, because of the participation of the stone bear, the southern battlefield, which should have lasted for two years, has been fighting for four years and has not yet won.

Even if the British suffered plague in their barracks, they were well treated with the help of Yanhuang tribe.

When developing penicillin, Jean Agust began to purify quinine under the guidance of stone bear.

Quinine is cinchona frost, which originated from Peru. However, there were many cinchona trees in the southern part of the North American continent at that time.

At first, the stone bear wanted Agust to purify artemisinin directly, but it couldn't find Artemisia annua that could be used to purify artemisinin.

Yes, Artemisia annua, as defined in modern botany, can't produce artemisinin. Artemisinin is extracted from a plant called Artemisia annua. This kind of mistake, in fact, is all special. It's a little devil.

In compendium of Materia Medica written by Mr. Li Shizhen at that time, it was clearly pointed out that "Artemisia annua" and "Artemisia annua" were synonyms, both of which were Artemisia annua. At that time, the scholars of xiaoguizi respected compendium of Materia Medica, but they could not distinguish the real Artemisia annua from Artemisia annua. So Zhang Guanli Dai, a scholar of xiaoguizi, gave the name of Artemisia annua to another plant that did not produce artemisinin.

Artemisia annua used to be found only in temperate regions of Eurasia, but not in North America. In this era, although the colonists also brought this plant to the North American continent, Artemisia annua has not been popularized in the North American continent. After all, in the eyes of those colonists, this kind of plant that can be seen everywhere on the roadside is a kind of wild grass.

Without Artemisia annua, artemisinin could not be extracted naturally. So the stone bear retreated and asked Agust to refine quinine.

Although quinine has been around for more than 100 years, due to the shortage of raw materials, it can not be popularized on a large scale.

However, there are many cinchona trees in the territory controlled by stone bear, so he naturally has enough raw materials to extract quinine.

Stone bear has been preparing a lot of quinine for a long time in order to help the British people alleviate the human losses caused by the malaria outbreak.

It was with the secret help of the stone bear that the British did not lose too many soldiers when malaria broke out.

Stone bear helps both sides, so that both sides can leave more strength to fight

In this way, the war in the southern battlefield lasted for four years. If it continues like this, who knows when the battle in the South will end.

This, of course, is what stone bears like to see. Yanhuang tribe just quietly paid some trivial things, so that the British and American people's brains become dog's brains. Under the constant mutual bleeding, the two sides become more and more weak.

But it's a pity for the stone bear that the situation of killing each other and stabbing each other with knives only lasted for four years and had to end.

The reason is not in North America, but in another battlefield on the other side of the Atlantic, the fort of gibraltarian.

In the original historical time and space, Spain declared war on Britain on June 16, 1779, and then, with the support of the French, dispatched 35000 soldiers, 47 warships and more than 100 heavy guns to encircle zhibuluotuo, which was guarded by 7300 British troops, for three years and seven months.

It was precisely because of this offensive and defensive war that most of the energy of the main fleet of the British navy was restrained, leading to the further deterioration of the situation in North America.

The Atlantic Ocean is so big that it is impossible for the main fleet of the British navy to take into account both sides of the ocean in a short period of time.

In the original time and space of history, when the British saw that the situation in North America had been so rotten that it could not be retrieved, they gave up the thirteen colonies of North America and put their main energy on gibraltarian instead. Since North America can't keep it, keep it!

In this time and space, the deterioration of the offensive and defensive war of the fort of gibraltarian also made the British have to make a choice