Chapter 2775

In all fairness, with the enemy at hand, it is necessary to seize the time to improve defense. General Gates' decision seems reasonable on the surface. The residents of Prince Port are under military control. The risk of the military police being thrown in jail as a spy.

However, General Gates' actions were not entirely out of public interest. He was preparing for the upcoming war. To a certain extent, he was doing this for personal gain.

General Gates has just arrived, why did he dissolve the Port of Princes City Council and interfered with the local self-government tradition?

Isn't it just because the parliament refused to obey him, the commander-in-chief of the southern theater, but secretly hooked up with General Isaac Hooker, the "Emperor of the Earth" in Port Prince, and flirted with each other.

Who is Isaac Hooker?

Before the outbreak of the War of Independence, Isaac Hooker served as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Alfheim and concurrently the garrison commander of Port Prince.

In terms of title, General Hook was the "second in command" of the Yalfheim colonial military at that time, second only to General Gates in status and power.

The relationship between the first and second leaders of most organizations is often tense, and the army is no exception, not to mention that General Hooker was a "nail" inserted into the army by Sir John Norfolk, then Governor of Alfheim. , the mission on his shoulders is to prevent General Gates from arbitrarily dictating power. It is no wonder that the friendship between these two is so good!

General Gates had conflicts with George Vassar, mainly because he couldn't understand how this old subordinate was so successful and became his immediate boss at a young age, which made him feel very embarrassed, but General Gates admitted both publicly and privately , George Vassar was an impeccable character, a trustworthy Southern gentleman.

As for Hook, General Gates not only disliked him, but also hated and despised him from the bottom of his heart!

The grievances between the two were not only due to the conflict of interests in the officialdom, but also rose to the height of character and belief.

General Gates has always regarded himself as a gentleman, but his character is not impeccable. Vanity, arrogance, narrow-mindedness and excessive desire for power have attracted a lot of criticism and made many enemies for him, but there is one principle that he Take it easy - absolutely no dealings with cults!

When serving in the north, the reason why General Gates had a tense relationship with Laval was that apart from regional prejudice, another important factor was that Laval was not upright and had an ambiguous relationship with the cult organization "Conquer Order". Harness the power of cultists and even demons on the battlefield.

Because of this, no matter how outstanding Laval's military talents are and how brave and courageous he is on the battlefield, General Gates still looks down on him and disdains to be with him.

Laval only occasionally cooperates with the "Conquest Order" and uses each other. He is neither an official believer, nor has he used his position to preach in the army.

Isaac Hook is terrible. Converting to the Order of Conquest has long been an open secret in Port-Prince, and he is still actively preaching in his own troops. Only officers who join the Order of Conquest have the opportunity to be promoted and hold important positions. It is all about conquest The chief high priest of the religious order stationed in the Yalfheim military!

After so many years of operation, General Hook has turned the troops stationed in Port-Prince into his own personal armed forces. Officers at all levels are not only his subordinates, but also his disciples in the religious order, and they are only loyal to him. .

General Gates disliked Isaac Hooker's connivance of cults to corrupt the army's thinking, and even more disgusted with his arrogant warlord style. He also publicly declared:

"Isaac Hook is like a cancer parasitic in the body of our army, this scourge must be eradicated as soon as possible!"

Having said all of this, it is not surprising that the two sides are in the same situation.

This time, General Gates led his troops to the south to help Port of Princes, and returned to his hometown with the halo of the hero of the "Baden Victory".

General Gates adhered to the principle that "to fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside." He believed that before officially launching a war with the powerful enemy from the north, the most important thing was to eliminate the hidden dangers within his own camp.

In his opinion, Isaac Hook is the biggest hidden danger!

General Gates announced the military control of Port Prince and the dissolution of the parliament in order to forcibly seize Hooker's territory and cut off his wings.

Next, General Gates also plans to give General Hook a trick of "rising in the open and falling in the dark", kicking him to the Lengyamen to retire, depriving him of his command, taking over his cavalry division, and picking off all the officers with cult backgrounds Come out, completely break up this army, and reorganize it into the Continental Army Southern Corps that you brought.

According to General Gates' plan, after the reorganization and transformation of the Port of Princes Garrison, the garrison will be cleaned up of the evil cult, and it will be transformed from Hooker's private armed forces into a revolutionary army loyal to the Continental Congress and himself. Play a key role in the battle of the invasion.

In hindsight, General Gates' original intention to rectify the garrison in Port Prince was good, but unfortunately he chose the wrong time, and at the same time underestimated his opponent Isaac Hooker too much.

General Hooker has worked hard in Port-Prince for many years, and his power in the area is deeply rooted. Behind him are local gentry, sages, and the Conquest Order. Of course, he refuses to hand over his military power obediently and let Charles Gates manipulate him.

Even if General Gates came to Port of Princes with the heroic halo of the "Baden Victory", it would be difficult to carry out drastic rectification as previously imagined. , the internal fighting between the two sides intensified.

Seeing that the Winthrop Corps had already landed on the Scimitar Coast, and the enemy was at hand, the two generals of their side did not want to unite to defend against the enemy, but fought for power and profit, and fought endlessly. Hooker's Corps was transferred to the town of House outside the city. In name, it was a horn with the Gates Corps in Port Prince Port to help defend the enemy from the south. In fact, it wanted to separate the two groups of troops and avoid the intensification of conflicts between the two sides.

General Gates was deeply dissatisfied with the decision of the Continental Congress, thinking that it was an unprincipled compromise, which made his plan to rectify the Hooker Corps and eliminate the poison of the cult fall short.

On the other hand, General Hook was also indignant at this decision of the Continental Congress, thinking that it was openly favoring Gates and suppressing the local forces in Port-Prince.

As the garrison commander of Prince's Harbor, he was expelled from his lair, lost the territory he had painstakingly managed, and was forced to live in a remote small town. He undoubtedly suffered great humiliation. How could he swallow this breath!

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