Chapter 2559 George Vassar's "Navy"

It was not until noon on August 2 that Earl Winthrop received the news that the Continental Army stationed in Midgard City had retreated overnight.

It was a pity for him to miss the opportunity to completely annihilate the enemy, but it was still a brilliant victory to capture the largest port city on the east coast of the New World without bloodshed.

Ironically, when Earl Winthrop led the Fizen army into the city gate that afternoon, he was greeted by thousands of Midgardian citizens cheering.

The representatives of the Continental Congress had already fled the city of Midgard, and the interim administrative agency was replaced by the "Committee for Supporting the King" composed of 50 respected gentlemen in the city.

It was this committee that came forward to organize and lead the citizens to open the city gates and welcome the Feizhen army into the city.

In fact, thanks to the countless incidents of disturbing the people during the Continental Army's garrison, the "Committee for Supporting the King's Division" in Midgard is now more popular than the original "Continental Congress".

In the eyes of most Midgard citizens, it doesn't matter whether the "Royalists" or the "Continental Army" occupy Midgard City, what matters is who can bring peace and order to the city.

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On August 1, 1626, the city of Midgard fell, and General George Vasa led the Continental Army to flee across the river.

On the afternoon of August 2, Earl Winthrop led the Fizen army to enter Midgard.

On August 16, Queen Huaia's Kalydon mercenary group cooperated with the flesh and blood colossus "Princess" to advance to "Linyuan Castle".

After the fall of Midgard, Linyuan Castle was reduced to an isolated city. The 1,000 garrisons in the city were in a desperate situation. Facing the threat of the "Flesh Colossus", they had no choice but to raise the white flag and surrender in the evening.

On the second day after the fall of Linyuanbao, George Vasa's troops finally arrived at Freeport after more than half a month of fleeing in a panic.

As early as mid-July, the "Continental Congress" was transferred to Freeport, and now the Continental Army has also retreated to Freeport. This port town started by smugglers and pirates has become the wartime capital of the colony.

On the way to escape, soldiers kept deserting. Now Vasa has less than 20,000 soldiers left, a quarter of which are wounded and sick.

The morale of the Continental Army had fallen to the bottom, and the most urgent task was not to try to turn the defeat into victory, but to raise food and grass so that the surviving troops would not suffer from starvation.

Freeport is not the city of Midgard. There are not many law-abiding citizens in this city, but there are many smugglers and pirates who make a living by plundering.

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, and relying on the sea to eat the sea, the Continental Army has been reduced to the dilemma of eating the last meal without the next meal, and General Vasa has no room to pick and choose. In order to obtain urgently needed military supplies, he had to cooperate with Freeport Cooperate with the "Pirate Council" of the "Pirate Council" and do the "no-cost business" together.

General Vasa selected a group of officers and soldiers with sailor experience and proficiency in water skills from his own troops, and dispatched them to more than 30 pirate ships, bringing their own guns to do business with the "heroes" on board.

The pirate ships sailed out to sea with merchant flags, and changed to skull flags on the high seas, cruising near the east coast of Wilnoa, looking for prey.

There are often merchant ships from various countries on this route, and the pirate ships will rush to intercept their prey when they see the opportunity, just like a pack of wolves hunting.

Ships flying the Fizen flag are the main targets for pirates to rob, but having said that, it is not always possible to meet the ships of the Fizen Kingdom. Moreover, the fleets that provide logistical supplies for the Fizen Expeditionary Force are often large in scale, and there are naval fleets responsible for escorting them. , It's not something that a dozen lightweight pirate sailing ships can afford.

The pirates in Freeport are very aware of how heavy they are, and when encountering "hard bones" that are difficult to chew, they stay away from them and pick "soft persimmons" to pinch.

If you really can't find a suitable Feizhen merchant ship, for the sake of independence and freedom, I'm sorry, merchant ships from other countries can only offend for a while...

Considering that the cause of independent revolution in the New World is inseparable from the support of foreign friends, the Continental Congress and the Continental Army still have to face. In order to avoid criticism from international public opinion, it is inconvenient to publicly admit cooperation with pirates, so the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army on the pirate ship were released. Dismissed his military uniform and carried with him a set of forged identification and the flag of the Fizen Navy.

When plundering merchant ships from third countries, the pirates first raised the flag of Fizen and disguised themselves as Fizen Navy ships. They went up to claim that they suspected that the other ship was suspected of transporting arms for the rebels, and that they had to conduct routine inspections.

If the merchant ship was fooled and let the group of "Fizhen sailors" board the ship for inspection, the result can be imagined.

If the merchant ship refused to accept the inspection and there was a conflict, and someone on the pirate side was accidentally captured during the battle, he would insist that he was a sailor employed by the Feizhen Navy, and his belongings could also verify this identity.

The pirates played this kind of framing trick very smoothly.

However, the sufferer is not a fool, he may be deceived once or twice, who will believe you if you always do this?

The Fizen Navy has taken the blame for the pirates in Freeport so many times that the Cabinet Secretary of the Navy had to publish a statement in the newspaper to clarify the truth.

This matter soon became a hot topic in Fiji. The Fiji people used their unique black humor to jokingly refer to the pirate gangs in the New World as "George Vasa's Navy".

In general, in the second half of 1626, the Continental Army had the same bad reputation as their pirate allies. The combat effectiveness of the former was questioned, and the latter was ridiculed by the Filipinos as a group of "wild dogs who bully the weak and fear the strong".

However, there are always exceptions to everything. Among the many pirate gangs cooperating with the Continental Army, there was only one ship that was particularly capable of fighting tough battles. Even the Feizhen Navy turned pale on it, and even suspected that the pirate ship was the incarnation of the evil spirits of countless drowned people.

This special pirate ship is the "Hellinghorn" from Galti Island.

In fact, the Feizhen Navy's guess is quite reliable. The "Herlinghorn" is indeed a famous "ghost ship". Even the captain Aaron Green and his sailors are real ghosts. The young host, Miss Hyale Green, is a lively beauty.

After the fall of Midgard, the father and daughter Green came to Freeport by boat. On the recommendation of Speaker Herald, the Continental Congress awarded Captain Green the rank of Colonel in the Navy. Sa's Navy".

The Green father and daughter recruited more than a hundred sailors to board the ship in Freeport, and then set sail to sea, wandering back and forth along the east coast of the New World, specializing in hunting the supply ships of the Feizhen Expeditionary Force.