Chapter 2871

Not only did the black slaves who escaped from the plantation have the vengeful mentality of the royalists, but it was even worse!

In fact, they did have reasons to take cruel revenge on the slave owners for the inhuman abuse they suffered in the plantation.

In his hometown of Fairfield, Colonel Tryon showed his ruthless will to revenge. After the looting, the whole town was burned.

In a letter to his friends afterwards, Colonel Tryon regretted that the Timothy Church in the town was also damaged in the melee, which made him feel very sad-because he considered himself the "Queen of Karma" devout believers.

But at the same time Mr. Colonel was not at all sorry that the rest of the town had been burned to ashes, and thought it necessary to "stimulate a general feeling of fear and dismay" which would prompt the rebels to " Recognize reality in the face of blood and fire, and give up meaningless resistance."

The joys and sorrows of the world are not interlinked, and each side in the war has reason to think that it is a victim. The frequent revenge actions launched by the royalists and black slave soldiers in Alfheim certainly cannot be forgiven by the victimized party.

After the various cruel acts of the invaders were exposed, the resentment and will to resist of the southern people were increasingly aroused.

The violent expropriation of the Feizhen invaders and their servants in the southern land was quickly taken by the writers of the Continental Congress, and they were firmly grasped. They wrote articles to expose and criticize them, which attracted a lot of criticism from the international community.

General Cornwallis temporarily ignored these scoldings. The most important thing was to use this method to feed the troops and solve the problem of food for the troops. What made him even more excited was that after more than a month of exhausting pursuit, Nathani Al Green and his rebel army finally made a mistake and exposed a fatal flaw.

The opportunity appeared on September 10.

That morning, the Feizhen Army Air Force sent out to scout the enemy's situation-that is, the kind of giant crow with human nature-found at high altitude that the Green Corps had split into two groups at the confluence of the Ivene River and the Drin River.

Green's main force continued to advance westward along the south bank of the Iffin River, and another cavalry force, with a total strength of about 3,000 horses, broke away from the main force, turned around and went south, marching down the Delin River.

After General Cornwallis received this information, he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to divide and encircle the Continental Army and defeat them one by one, so he sent more giant crows to scout the enemy's movement.

Follow-up reports came one after another, and by the afternoon of the next day, General Kang Huali had confirmed that the Continental Army was not suspicious, but had really split up.

Nathaniel Green led the main force westward, and his intentions are unclear at present. It is likely that he will continue to follow the old routine, dragging his opponents around in the jungle.

Another unit of the Continental Army is the cavalry brigade led by Colonel Audrey Zion. The destination of the diversion south should be Delin Town. Most of them want to replenish supplies and recruit troops there.

In fact, General Cornwallis had heard about it a long time ago. Since the fall of Leiden City, most of the independents in the city, as well as the rebels who had been dispersed, fled to Delin Town for refuge. a base.

General Cornwallis had received Earl Winthrop's instruction before leading his troops south this time. It would be best to lure the Green Corps into a decisive battle and wipe them out completely. Destroy the most important stronghold of the rebels in Yalfheim.

After more than a month of "hide and seek", General Cornwallis has realized that unless Green takes the initiative to ask for a battle, it will be difficult for his troops to catch the opponent in this unfamiliar place and launch a decisive battle, so give up the futile pursuit, Switching to attacking Delin Town has become a more realistic strategic option.

Taking Delin Town, the Cornwallis Corps would get a base for rest, and the rebels would be hit hard. They could only hide in the mountains and join the wild beasts, and they would collapse on their own after a long time.

If the rebels didn't want to lose this base, they had no choice but to come to the rescue, and were forced to fight head-on with Feizhen's army in Delin Town.

General Cornwallis reported his combat intentions to Earl Winthrop, who was sitting in Leyton City, and was affirmed by His Excellency the Governor. He also personally ordered his rebellious eldest son, Bannister Winthrop, to demand He led the elite cavalry brigade, went south to pursue Audrey's regiment, and must wipe out the rebel army before it entered Delin Town.

As for Audrey herself, considering her noble background, it is best to catch her alive as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Canaan royal family.

On the other hand, General Cornwallis's main force, including General Hooker's cavalry division, was temporarily stationed at the confluence of the Ivene River and the Dring River, establishing a fortress to defend this vital shipping and transportation hub.

Earl Winthrop was also very annoyed that his convoy was frequently robbed.

After much deliberation, it was decided to use inland rivers to transport supplies instead.

The military supplies were loaded at the port of Leiden, sailed westward along the Ivene River, and delivered to the front line.

If one's own troops continue to fight southward, the transport ships will turn into the Derlin River, a tributary of the Ivene River, and go straight down.

The benefits of shipping are convenience, speed and cost savings, but there are also two prominent drawbacks.

First of all, it is seriously affected by the climate. The turn of spring and summer is in the flood season. If there is bad weather with strong winds and waves, the transport ship is at risk of hitting rocks and capsizing.

The rebel guerrillas are likely to silt up the river by building dams or sinking ships, artificially creating obstacles to hinder the navigation of transport ships.

In addition, the inland waterway is a fixed route, and the choice of shipping means that the frontline troops can only march near the river bank, which greatly limits the range of activities and cannot chase enemy troops far away from the waterway as it is now.

It is precisely in consideration of these disadvantages that Earl Winthrop did not use shipping to establish a supply line before.

However, it turns out that the land supply line is even more unreliable, and chasing the rebels' ass in circles has proved futile. It is time to make a change.

According to the new combat plan formulated by Earl Winthrop and General Cornwallis, the Feizhen army needs to establish a base at the transportation hub where the two rivers meet. forest town.

Prior to this, Bannister Winthrop's cavalry brigade shouldered the mission of "fighting the vanguard", hunted down and wiped out the Audrey Corps along the Delin River, and swept the surrounding countryside of Delin Township along the way, driving the rebels Drive them all to Delin Town, and come to "close the door and beat the dog"!

In this way, Nathaniel Green's situation is passive.

If he led his troops to turn around to rescue Audrey's cavalry brigade, he would bump into the Cornwallis Corps stationed at the mouth of the river, waiting for work, and be forced to start a decisive battle on the wide and flat river beach, just like hitting a pebble with a stone.

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