Chapter 2777 Defection

Most of the buildings in the urban area of ​​Prince Port are not as strong as the parliament building.

In particular, residential buildings are mostly wooden buildings. During the turn of spring and summer, fires often break out on weekdays. After the air raids, patches of neighborhoods were all turned into seas of flames, and figures fleeing in a hurry could be seen faintly amidst the flames and thick smoke. The cries of women and children resounded through the night sky.

Charles Gates has been in the army for more than 30 years, and he is used to seeing bloody scenes. However, the street scene in Port Prince after the air raid still made him feel horrible, and he felt a chill in his heart.

From dusk to dawn, General Gates personally led a team to fight the fire and rescue people in the worst-hit urban area. He also summoned the mage group accompanying the army and asked them to cast spells to fight the fire.

The high-level mage unfolded the scroll, cast spells to control the weather, and created a heavy rain out of thin air, which lasted until dawn, and finally controlled the spread of the fire.

Despite such a heavy blow, General Gates still tenaciously stick to Port Prince.

Forced by the situation, General Gates reluctantly pinned his hope of reversing the predicament on his old enemy.

The town of House, near Prince Port, also garrisoned a full-scale cavalry division with the best equipment in the entire Continental Army led by General Isaac Hooker.

If General Hooker led a cavalry division to attack Winthrop Corps from the flank, Gates Corps took advantage of the momentum to counterattack, and the two troops flanked inside and outside, there may be a chance to defeat the enemy.

Gates knew in his heart that Hooker wanted to die in Port Prince. If he gave orders directly to the cavalry division in the name of the commander-in-chief of the southern theater, Hooker would probably ignore them.

For this reason, he had to first write a letter to the Continental Congress, which had moved to Leiden Port, requesting the chairman of the Continental Congress, Sir William Nichols, to directly order Isaac Hooker to lead the cavalry division in the name of the head of government. He rushed to the aid of Prince Port, cooperated with the garrison in the city, and launched a two-sided attack on Earl Winthrop's position.

Charles Gates has always been unafraid to speculate on Isaac Hooker's mind with the greatest malice. However, in his mind, no matter how arrogant and domineering Hooker is, he would not dare to openly disobey the order of the Continental Congress. The worst result is delaying time and avenging personal revenge However, he never expected that Hook would make an even more insane decision.

The Continental Congress issued an order according to General Gates' intention, but it has not received a reply from General Hooker for a long time. After repeated urging, Hooker's Corps finally appeared outside the city of Port Prince on May 9.

General Gates was still very excited when he first received the news. He hurriedly boarded the balcony of the headquarters building, picked up the binoculars and looked at the reinforcements that had finally arrived.

That's right, the cavalry division led by General Hook unfurled the flag of the Kingdom of Feizhen, and grandly joined the enemy's camp besieging the city!

The binoculars slipped from his cold hands, and the last glimmer of hope for General Gates was shattered when he witnessed Hooker's regiment defecting to the enemy.

Why did General Hook go so far as to lead his troops to join the enemy?

Judging from Joan's comprehensive information collected from various channels, Charles Gates is obviously to blame.

If it weren't for Gates' self-willedness, he suppressed Hooker and his henchmen with great fanfare as soon as he arrived in Port Prince. so-so.

However, Gates cannot be blamed for this incident.

Joan hadn't dealt with Isaac Hooker directly, but he knew that Hooker was the spokesperson of the "Conquest Order" in the Yalfheim military many years ago.

Hook's nephew, Baldwin, once carried out evil breeding experiments at the horse farm in House Town, and kidnapped the centaur of the "Iron Hoof Tribe" as experimental subjects. This angered the centaur tribe, raided House Town, and destroyed Baldwin's horse farm and underground laboratory.

Joan was also in House Town at the time, and it happened that he would be involved in this turmoil. Afterwards, he learned that General Hook was the mastermind behind Baldwin's various evil deeds. Of course, he would not have a good impression of him.

Two years ago, Joann returned to Leiden Port, and learned from Conti that the pope of the "Conquering Order", "The Wood Destroyer" Dolan Trexis, was ambitious and gathered many believers and allies of the evil camp Form two armies, trying to launch an offensive from both north and south directions at the same time, and conquer the aborigines of all ethnic groups in the great jungle of Yalf.

Due to the intervention of Joan and others, the offensives launched by the "Conquering Order" on Fairy Springs, Deep Forest Valley, and Algonquin Valley all ended in disastrous failures.

However, on the north bank of the Efen River, the battle plan of the "Conquer the Order" went smoothly, and successfully conquered dozens of local indigenous tribes, large and small. Among them, the most fierce resistance was the centaur tribe of the "Iron Hoof Tribe", but they paid a heavy price. After the sacrifice of the king, the defeat was not recovered in the end, and the centaur's homeland was burned into ruins. The survivors, led by Prince Drogo, fled to the depths of the southern jungle.

The number one thugs of the "Conquering Order" who burned, killed and looted in the north were none other than Isaac Hooker and his cavalry division.

General Hook mobilized troops without the government's authorization, and openly served the cult organization. This is clearly the style of a warlord who occupies the mountain as king and supports his own self-respect!

How could such an unscrupulous cultist and careerist truly agree with the concept of "all men are born free and equal" advocated by the Declaration of Independence, and how could he devote himself to this war of independence aimed at the liberation of the colonies regardless of personal gains and losses?

In Joan's view, the conflict between Gates and Hook was just a fuse, which accelerated Hook's fall. On the contrary, even if there was no Gates, or Gates used gentle means to win over Hook from the beginning, It is still impossible to change the status quo that the enemy is strong and we are weak, but Isaac Hooker, who is good at calculating personal gains and losses, and is used to playing with the wind, may eventually embark on the old path of defecting to the enemy and treason.

Through the fact that General Hook surrendered to the enemy, Joan vaguely sensed an ominous omen.

In addition to his status as a "general", Isaac Hook is also a high-ranking member of the conquest order, and he is favored by Pope Teresis.

General Hook dared to disobey the order of the Continental Congress and lead his troops to defect to the enemy and treason, but he did not dare to disobey the will of Pope Teresis.

The reason is simple, the Continental Congress has nothing to do with him as a traitor, but angering the legendary "wood destroyer" who possesses the power of a demigod will really bring him death.

Conversely speaking, before Isaac Hooker made the major decision to join the enemy, he must have consulted the Pope first. From the result, it is not difficult to conclude that the high-level leaders of the conquest order at least acquiesced to Hooker’s defection to Fiji. real person.