Chapter 3099 Liberate New Avalon

Although the "Winter of Finbull" has been lifted and the climate has improved, the Jotunheim region is adjacent to the Jotun Glacier to the west and Niflheim, which is covered with snow all the year round, in the north. Affected by the polar cold current, winter Very early on, in September and October, the weather has turned significantly colder, and a fire must be lit indoors at night to keep warm, otherwise, even if you put on a thick quilt, you will wake up from the cold in the middle of the night.

Most of the soldiers under General Clinton are young people from the local Fizhen. They are used to the humid and warm climate in their hometown. They are not used to the cold and dry late autumn solar terms in the Jotunheim colony. More than combat attrition.

When the time came to early October, new problems appeared in the city.

Since the land and sea communication lines were all cut off, the defenders suffered a serious shortage of supplies, and it became an unrealistic luxury to fill their stomachs with three meals. Even the wood for heating and cooking became a headache for the quartermaster.

The Continental Army was stationed outside the city, surrounded by jungles, pine trees, birch trees, maple trees, yew trees, as many as they wanted, and it was not a problem to cut down logs to build barracks or light fires for warmth.

The situation in the city is quite different. More than 20,000 garrisons are besieged in New Avalon, and a lot of wood is consumed for cooking and heating every day, not to mention that there are more than 80,000 residents in the city.

The trees in the city had been cut down a long time ago. There was nothing they could do. The soldiers forcibly demolished the residential buildings, confiscated all furniture such as door panels, tables and chairs, and chopped firewood for the fire.

This is obviously not a long-term solution.

Not only were the soldiers full of complaints, but the war weariness was unprecedentedly strong, and the residents of the city were full of complaints. Military-civilian conflicts and even mob riots emerged endlessly.

It is not only timber that is in short supply, but food as well.

The 20,000 garrison ate, drank, and scattered. The supplies in the city could not be supplied at all, so they had to forcibly expropriate the rations of the residents, making it hard for every household to open their pots. There were no commodities to sell on the market, and prices in the underground black market were also skyrocketing. Dead rats even sold top-quality steaks The price is still in short supply, and an unknown number of poor people starve to death in the slums every day.

General Henry Clinton was sitting in a sad city, and his only hope every day was to send a distress letter to his home country, begging Prime Minister North and the navy brothers to help him, and quickly dispatched a fleet to rescue him.

What about the majestic "Empire on which the sun never sets" and the invincible Feizhen fleet? × Why the hell isn't he here yet?

If Master Wang doesn't come to save lives, there is no need to fight any more battles, and the brothers will all starve to death!

General Clinton waited until mid-October, but the sails of the Feizhen fleet could not be seen from the port lighthouse, and the sea was full of Far Eastern warships showing off their might, which was really frustrating.

When people are unlucky, drinking cold water will clog their teeth.

Just as General Clinton was waiting for rescue, another disaster worsened the situation in the city.

Dead rats are really unpalatable.

Beginning on October 11, the plague suddenly broke out in the city, and the epidemic quickly spread from the slums to the port area and even the military camp.

The plague had not been brought under control, and then a severe smallpox broke out in the city.

In this day and age, the smallpox vaccine was still a novelty. In the New World, only the aborigines and the Continental Army were vaccinated against smallpox in large numbers.

In fact, even within the Continental Army, there are many doubts about the vaccine. They believe that the smallpox vaccine will infect healthy people with the virus. Will be brainwashed, subject to mind control and so on...

These ironic fallacies are prevalent in the army. If George Vassar hadn't personally vaccinated against smallpox in public, set an example for his subordinates, and required all officers and soldiers to be vaccinated, this policy would not have been implemented at all.

The smallpox vaccine pharmaceutical factory with the largest production capacity in the New World and even the entire Vales world belongs to the "Life Foundation". During the war, the "Life Foundation" was actually an epidemic prevention organization dedicated to serving the Continental Army.

And in New Avalon, even if the local garrison and the people were willing to be vaccinated, there was simply not enough vaccine to vaccinate. Trapped in a smallpox-ravaged isolated city, they could only wait for death in despair.

The news of the outbreak of smallpox in New Avalon spread, Rebecca Custis, chief garrison chaplain of the Continental Army, immediately realized that this was a good opportunity, and wrote a report himself, requesting the command to authorize the Life Foundation, as soon as possible Deployed a batch of vaccines, organized a medical team, negotiated with General Clinton in the name of "avoiding a humanitarian crisis", and allowed the medical team to enter the city to provide first aid for epidemic prevention.

This report caused some controversy in the headquarters, but most of the generals supported Rebecca's initiative, and finally Colonel Holden, the adjutant to the commander-in-chief, wrote an open letter to General Henry Clinton and delivered the original The radio station reads it publicly to the soldiers and civilians in the city.

General Clinton can certainly see that this is a psychological offensive launched by the Continental Army, occupying the moral high ground and disintegrating the morale of the defenders. You have to accept this, or the entire city garrison will have to mutiny on the spot!

General Clinton had no choice but to bite the bullet and write back to Commander-in-Chief Vassar, thanking him for the epidemic prevention assistance based on noble chivalry.

Early the next morning, an airship flying the Red Cross flag of the "Life Foundation" appeared above New Avalon. After communicating with the ground garrison, it slowly landed on the square in the center of the city that served as a temporary parking area.

Rebecca and Conti, wearing snow-white military doctor uniforms and beak-shaped epidemic masks, led a group of priests and druids in the same costumes to get off the airship in a hurry, each carrying a suitcase containing ice cold Smallpox vaccine.

The medical team stayed in the city for a week, and did not board the airship until all 4,000 smallpox vaccines had been injected, and flew away from New Avalon under the complicated farewell of General Clinton and his staff.

On the afternoon when they returned to the headquarters, Rebecca and Conti took a secret letter and submitted it to General Vasa.

This is a petition signed by the gentry and gentlemen of the city, asking His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to show mercy and liberate New Avalon peacefully.

The gentry said in the letter that they had already negotiated with General Clinton, as long as the Continental Army let the real man live, and allowed General Clinton to lead his subordinates and the hard-core royalists in the city to evacuate by boat, then General Clinton would also do the same. Promise that civilians will never be harassed during the retreat.

George Vasa called a meeting of the generals to discuss the matter. Grofa, Viglaf, and Helena all believed that they should accept the compromise plan proposed by General Clinton and end the siege as soon as possible. Things are not easy to handle.