Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 634
General Howe still underestimated these "Founding Fathers", at least they were not as stupid as he thought.

In the eyes of Hancock and other upper echelons in New England, Ming's main energy should now be on the European battlefield, followed by India they just annexed, and North America should be the least important area.

The upper echelons of the New England colonies like Hancock are basically big landowners, big capitalists, and factory owners. In fact, some time ago, they had already paid great attention to accumulating their own strength.The New England militia is basically armed and has nearly 2000 personnel.Even their militia is equipped with simple aircraft and some cannons obtained from special sources.

Although the colonial British army led by General Howe is a regular army, its strength is not large, and it is neglected to guard against local resistance forces.

Prior to this, the bold Hancock and others had planned to capture the British barracks and then seize the British equipment.

Howe went to arrest these guys after getting the news, but he didn't expect to have a gun battle with the other party instead.Howe was injured in the chaos, but was rescued by his loyal subordinates.

However, they had no way to return to the military camp because the military camp in Boston had been breached by the militiamen.The militiamen adopted the method of coordinating internally and externally, because there were some locals serving them in the British barracks, delivering vegetables and food, or doing laundry and other sundries, and the militiamen secretly pretended to be these handymen and sneaked into the barracks , locked up their arsenal, and then cooperated inside and outside.

Although hundreds of British troops also put up some resistance, they were still defeated by the militiamen, and finally became captives of the New England militiamen after paying a small number of casualties.

General Howe had to flee to the Hartford barracks, where his second-in-command, McPherson, had more than 200 troops.The British army finally held a dominant position in Hartford. Although the militiamen also made trouble, McPherson repelled them, allowing the British army to still control the city.

"Too careless." Howe regretted very much. This was originally an uncomplicated matter, but because of his carelessness, Boston, the most important city in New England, was lost.This will make London pursue his fault, and it will be a stain on his official career.

McPherson was more conservative, and said to the general: "General, there are rioting rebel militias everywhere in New England. They wear the clothes of ordinary people and look normal, but as long as our soldiers pass by, they will be there. Arms were drawn from the corner to sneak up on us. We were not afraid of them fighting us head-on in groups, but this shameful and cowardly sneak attack took our toll."

Howe is also in a dilemma, because he doesn't have many soldiers. Once he enters Boston, it is very likely that Hartford will be captured. As long as the rioting militiamen make trouble, this place will become the territory of the "Republic". .And their troops may be attacked by this group of troublesome militias at any time, and they will fail again.

McPherson suggested: "General, now we should ask the Ming army for help. In the final analysis, the power of these damned rebels compared to Ming's power is simply the gap between the moon and fireflies. There are less than 20 immigrants in New England, but alone In Hongwu Province, there are millions of Ming residents, and thousands of Ming soldiers are stationed there."

These British troops are very familiar, because their main target of defense in the past was actually the Ming army in the Ming colony.The overseas territories of North America are all overseas provinces of Ming Dynasty, and their rights and interests are equivalent to those of the mainland of Ming Dynasty.Therefore, their regular army has always been stationed here, rather than forming any North American vassal army.In addition, in every overseas province in North America, there are garrison regiments with provinces as small military units. They are usually just farmers and workers, but they can take up guns to fight when needed, and their combat capabilities are not weak.

Howe felt ashamed to let the Ming army come to help, which meant that he was incapable of dealing with this problem.But now he really can't deal with this matter.

Not long after, Yue Shenglong, the commander of the North American Command of the Ming Army, arrived in Hartford by plane.Both Howe and McPherson greeted him respectfully at the airport.

Yue Shenglong didn't have any plans to investigate Howe for failing to control the situation. On the contrary, his attitude was very kind and he even encouraged his British colleagues.

"...The Kingdom of Britain has now joined the Imperial Confederation (Imperial_Confederation), and the British army is already a partner fighting side by side with us. And this rebel riot is not your fault, please don't mind it."

After hearing Yue Shenglong's words, both General Howe and McPherson were greatly moved.

However, Yue Shenglong had a completely different calculation in his heart. Before that, Governor Bu An told him that the rebellion in the New England colonies must have a certain mass base, and Hancock and others armed a lot of militias. Yes, these people dare to provoke Ming Dynasty because they think they can hide among the people and fight a "people's war" with us.

But it is in the interests of the overseas territories of North America that the Ming army will march into New England and investigate one by one.These militiamen were completely incapable of confronting the Ming army, so they would only hide.However, the Ming army will conduct strict inspections. As long as they are found to have hidden weapons or are involved with rebels, they will be punished.

The most typical sentence is exile. They will exile these rebels to Puerto Rico for 10-15 years of hard labor.Not only the rebel militiamen will be executed, but their families will also be exiled there together.Coupled with the upper class people of New England, this can clear out part of the population of the New England colonies and ensure that those who remain are basically "obedient people". Then a large number of Chinese immigrants will be carried out in this area, which will soon turn it into a Like other overseas territories in North America, it has become a Chinese society dominated by Chinese residents.

Speaking of which, there are actually more European residents in Hongwu Province and Yongle Province than immigrants from New England and the southern colonies. Bai Mingxiu brought a large number of contract laborers from Europe back then.But their proportion of the local population is still too small, so they don't feel their presence at all.In addition, after getting rid of the contract, most of the indentured workers are satisfied with a better life now, and have a sense of superiority over other Europeans, so they will not do anything.

In fact, this New England rebellion was sleepy giving pillows.And the farmers and residents of the southern colonies welcomed the provinces of Virginia and the Carolinas.Because their agriculture is too uncompetitive compared to Da Ming's agriculture, and they can only support themselves. If they can join Da Ming and introduce Da Ming's advanced agricultural technology and more population, they will obviously be more prosperous.

(End of this chapter)