Domineering? Or maybe it's money.

From the sergeant's mouth, Lorraine quickly asked for most of the missing information.

New Orleans' arms smuggling system has not always been so tightly controlled, and it has been loose for most of the time, after all, the Americans need guns and the French need money.

Harshness was a recent change, and Lorraine coincided with a special period, specifically, just over a month earlier, when the British and their Indian allies had officially launched an attack on New Orleans.

The nondescript Battle of New Orleans began.

Soldiers are not soldiers, generals are not generals, and this battle is full of New Orleans' bizarre atmosphere from the beginning.

The first to do the trick was the Governor of New Orleans of Spain.

It stands to reason that the port was an important base for Spain to control the Gulf of Mexico, and it was reasonable that he had an obligation to defend his country against the British.

But he didn't see it that way.

In his opinion, the war was not the fault of the Spaniards.

Had it not been for the fact that the French had borrowed New Orleans for political purposes for their frenzied arms smuggling, the British would not have put their limited forces into the Delta-defended port, which had no naval support, which was the main cause of the war.

As the main beneficiary of smuggling, the French should bear greater responsibility in this war, and the Spaniards have done their duty to the fullest, and they can no longer afford to pay for their allies' pursees.

So he crossed over to the King of Spain and sent a note directly to the Louisiana authorities in New France.

The note was to the effect that if the French could not stop the British attack on New Orleans outside the city, he reserved the right to surrender and would do everything in his power to transfer this beautiful and important transit port to the British as intact as possible, in order to protect the lives and property of the Spanish pioneers.

Translated into human language, the meaning of this note is [I picked the child, you look at it].

The poor governor of Louisiana was the Count of Alves, and the Spanish governor had no choice at all in this matter.

What exactly is New Orleans?

On the one hand, it is one of the important ports controlled by Spain in the Gulf of Mexico, and it is the most important place for Spain to finance and tax on the Caribbean coast.

Charleville-style smuggling is official smuggling, and although it enjoys the right to be exempt from tax in American ports, it has always been treated as a regular transaction in New Orleans, and it is subject to taxes.

On the other hand, it is the only estuary of the Mississippi River.

The French occupy the fertile central part of North America, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and New France almost encompasses the Mississippi River Valley.

The Mississippi River was a godsend for inland navigation, so New France built almost all of its important cities on both sides of the river, including Baton Rouge, the governor's seat of Louisiana.

If the British had occupied New Orleans "as intact as possible," the Fifth and Sixth ships of the New World Fleet would have been able to sail from the delta into the wide Mississippi River and up the river all the way to the Great Lakes.

There was no fleet on the Mississippi that could stand up to this formidable force, and neither did the French and Americans on the Great Lakes have a fleet strong enough to stand up to the British, which meant that the British could at any time take the entire French colony against each other in the event of the loss of New Orleans.

At worst, the French would be completely driven out of the New World and would become the laughing stock of Europe. Without the support of France, the immature American Revolution will also be quickly extinguished under the attack from three sides, and it is tantamount to fantasy to want another Boston tea party.

New Orleans is the lifeblood of France in the New World, and the Count of Galvez has no choice but to fight desperately for the survival of France in this Spanish territory!

He told his closest lineage, who was also Louisiana's most elite Baton Rouge Legion, to tell him about this righteousness.

But who would have thought that the Baton Rouge Legion would actually start to behave as a demon......

Most of the French soldiers in Louisiana came from the descendants of French pioneers and pioneers in the New World, especially the Baton Rouge Regiment, and because of their close ties to New Orleans, most of them had relatives in New Orleans or were simply born in New Orleans.

More than a decade ago, since the French blood was spilled on the parade ground during that vile night banquet, the Spanish colonial governors have not changed the course of the French in the past.

Emancipate the slaves, adjust the parliament, remove the privileges of the French in the port, demolish the beautiful French architecture, and encourage the ugly Spanish arc......

The situation of the French in New Orleans deteriorated.

Especially three years ago, there was a mysterious fire in the French Quarter, which killed nearly a thousand people. The Spaniards falsely accused the French of drunken arson, but the French could not forget the hundreds of French pioneers who died in the fire.

Most people thought it was a conspiracy.

Because in that fire, nearly one-third of the old French buildings were burned, and in the subsequent reconstruction, they were uniformly adjusted to the Spanish architectural style, which greatly weakened the influence of France on New Orleans.

In the minds of the French in Louisiana, the Spaniards are equal to the bad guys, mean, shameless, insidious, cunning, even if the two sides are now allies, they are a pair of plastic allies.

The Baton Rouge Regiment was unwilling to die for such a plastic ally, so they refused to fight.

Lorraine didn't know what the Count of Galvez was feeling at that time, he only knew the result.

In this crazy demon environment, the Count finally became the third demon to be a demon.

He had his eye on the smuggling rights of the Charleville rifles.

Monopolizing the smuggling of firearms was not very difficult for him, as Lorraine knew, as a new type of firearm, the New World did not have the ability to produce Charvail rifles, and all smuggled guns had to be manufactured in France and transported to Pensacola by the ocean-going fleet, and then transported to New Orleans by inland waterway to be delivered to every officially designated smuggler.

And Pensacola is the jurisdiction of the Count and the Baton Rouge Legion, and all the Count needs to do is to temporarily turn the benefits that should have been shared by a dozen great nobles into a wealth for himself and the Baton Rouge Legion.

He did it.

He used money to drive the rebellious Baton Rouge Legion to intercept guns, and then used these guns to coerce smugglers into becoming mercenaries, and he was ready to win the trust of Louis XVI with his final victory, and use his exploits to resist the counterattack of the great nobles whose economic interests were damaged.

From the moment this decision was made, the Count cut off his retreat.

The purpose of defending New Orleans was completely degenerate, and if this patriot failed, he and his family would die a terrible death, very, very miserable.

In that case, would there be anyone who didn't want the Count to win?

Lorraine thought of this question suddenly, and the more she thought about it, the brighter her eyes became.

"Sergeant, how many days has this war begun?"

"Forty-two days."

"Which side has the upper hand now?"

"From the beginning of the war, the Count has not lost once. He commanded the smugglers, the smugglers were fearless, and the battlefield was far from New Orleans, and we had an absolute advantage. The Earl said that in a month at most, the Englishmen should flee with their tails between their legs. ”

"Yes......" Lorraine laughed inexplicably, "if you are lucky enough to meet the Count, please send me my best wishes." ”

The sergeant was stunned: "You...... Not ready to stand in line anymore? ”

"No more platoons. The earl's smuggling power has to be exchanged for victory, but my sailors are not of the same level, even if they set foot on the battlefield, they will only pull the earl's hind legs. I'm still a little self-aware of this. ”