"These bastards! Scum! What are they doing! The Duke of Norfolk viciously threw the paperwork reporting the battle on the ground, and then, with great grace, chased after him and kicked it again.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Your Excellency the Governor, although our army has suffered a little loss...... But...... The losses don't seem to be significant...... The Governor ......," said Adjutant Holguin, who was a little flustered on the side.

"It's not a question of losses, it's a long struggle, at least until the French retract their dirty hands, for sure! A loss like this is entirely to be expected, not to mention that such a small loss, even a loss ten times greater than this, is also expected by the United Kingdom. Tony, do you think I'm going to be so angry because I've just killed more than forty people? ”

"Then you ...... Governor"

The Duke of Norfolk had calmed down at this time, and he said, "Because the commander of this team, after suffering such a loss, in order to vent his anger, actually put ...... What will that village be called? ”

"Blackstone Village." Holguin added.

"Yes, it's Blackstone Village. That stupid person, in order to vent his anger, actually killed all the villagers left in Blackstone Village, and said that this was a warning to the gangsters. This idiot, he doesn't understand, at this time, when he is in place after hours, the villagers who are still willing to stay where they are, at least do not directly resist our rule? What the hell is he doing? Is he going to drive all the Irish to the side of the rebels? Who the hell is he working for? We, still those traitors! At this point, the Duke of Norfolk, who had already calmed down, became angry again.

"Tony, I've come to Ireland and I've made this place look so good, but this idiot, scumbag, all at once, has lost all the effort......" With that, the Duke of Norfolk sat down in his chair weakly, reached out and removed the monocle from the bridge of his nose, threw it on the table, and closed his eyes. After a long time, he waved his hand and said:

"Well, Tony, what's that idiot called, you can help me take a look, and then let this idiot retire, otherwise, God knows what else he's going to do!"

Holguin walked over and picked up the paperwork, flipped through it slightly, and then said with a very embarrassed look: "Lord Governor, that ......"

"What's wrong?" The Duke of Norfolk opened his eyes.

"The battalion commander, his surname is Tarhuiton, and if I am not mistaken, he is the son of the Earl of Tarhuiton." Holguin replied.

"Son of Tahuiton?" The Duke of Norfolk sat up straight. The Earl of Tarwhiton was a member of the Tories in the House of Lords and had a lot of influence. And because he also belongs to the Tories party, and has a good relationship with the Duke of Norfolk.

"Hell! How could this old fox have such a stupid son! That's really ...... However, it seems that we shouldn't just beat young people to death, Tony, don't you say? Young people, let them make mistakes...... However, I would like to give him a little bit of ......."

Company Commander Tahuiton, no, is already a battalion commander. In the previous operation "Noose", he performed well and was promoted. Of course, there are many officers who, like him, have excelled in eliminating unarmed "untrained rebels", but not many have been able to achieve such promotions, after all, not everyone has a father who is a member of the House of Lords.

Becoming the battalion commander made Tahuiton feel a little ambitious, but the incident two days ago gave him another blow.

Shortly after dark that night, a guard came to tell him that he had found a beacon fire due west, and judging from the recorded location, it was the village of Blackstone. If you're new to Ireland, you'll probably grab your team and rush there. But now Tahuiton just thought about it, and then said: "The Irish rebels are very cunning, and they attack at night, so it is easy for them to take advantage. Everyone should be vigilant and do not give those traitors a chance. ”

Of course, there was still one thing that Battalion Commander Tawhiton did not say, that is: "Anyway, there are only some worthless Irish policemen over there in Blackstone Village, and it would be a pit in the head to let the soldiers of the United Kingdom take risks for the sake of these worthless things!" ”

So it was not until the sky was completely bright and the sun had risen high that Tahuiton took two hundred or so people along the main road in the direction of Blackstone Village.

In order to avoid a possible ambush, the British cut down all the woods that grew near the road for easy concealment. This made it difficult for the partisans to ambush the British.

However, what Tahuiton didn't expect was that because of the influence of the black hands of some behind-the-scenes forces, ambushes or something, in some cases, there was no need for a large group of people to ambush.

Just in front of the grass tucked away two rectangular squares 9 inches long and 4 inches wide painted in camouflage of grass green and dark green. Because of the color, these two things are so far apart that they can't be seen clearly. But if you do walk up to you and take a closer look, you'll see that at the bottom of the side of the two little squares facing the road is a small black line of French: "This is facing the enemy." ”

This is one of the latest weapons that France has recently offered to the Irish partisans, the broadsword directional mine. This weapon was naturally a later work pirated by Joseph.

Behind the mine were two long copper wires, which were buried in the earth and stretched behind a weedy beam almost 100 meters away. Behind the earthen beam, a man was using a periscope to keep a close eye on the British troops approaching the blast site.

On the side of that road, there were two inconspicuous stones. Such stones are everywhere in Ireland. But at this time, these two stones have a unique meaning: between these two stones, is the coverage area of two broadsword directional mines.

Tawhiton rode his horse and walked in front of the ranks with a few other cavalrymen, with the infantry lagging a little behind. So if you want to include them in the coverage area, the number of people entering the coverage area will be much smaller. So, the partisans hiding behind the earthen beams let him go.

Gradually, the infantry in the rear entered the coverage area of the broadsword. The man looking at the periscope raised his hand and waved it down gently. Another guerrilla next to him shook the handle of a small hand-cranked generator. Immediately afterward, the explosion of the "broadsword" directional mine was heard in the distance.

Bonaparte's version of the broadsword had a similar structure to the later "broadsword". On its back was a curved iron plate, in front of which was an evenly placed nitrogenyl dynamite. Because the explosive power of nitrocellulose is unstable, the amount of explosives is much larger than that of later versions of the broadsword. In front of the explosives were 800 iron balls, and on the outside of the iron balls was a thin wooden shell.

After the explosion, 800 iron balls swept through the ranks of the British army like a large broom.

Startled by the explosion, he jumped off his horse, hid behind his horse, and peeked out of his saddle to look around, but he saw nothing. Then he glanced back at his team, and was stunned.

The ground was littered with the corpses of British soldiers, many of whom were almost disfigured. Many more fell to the ground, groaning loudly in all sorts of strange sounds that didn't seem to be human.

Such a thunderous blow made Tahuiton come back to his senses for a long time. He counted the number of people, and found that the two hundred people he had brought out, except for some cavalry who were walking in front with him and some who were behind, the rest were either wounded or simply dead. Just two such broadswords made the British army of two hundred people ineffective.

It was naturally impossible to go to Blackstone Village again, and Tahuiton could only retreat back the same way with the dead and wounded.

After returning to the stronghold, the more he counted them, he found that forty-two people had died, and more than eighty others were injured to varying degrees, and his anger was even more uncontrollable. So Tahuiton, who had lost his mind, immediately took the rest of the men and horses and went straight to Blackstone Village again.

This time, he was no longer hindered, and the British army reached the village of Blackstone.

At this time, although there were no more black dogs in Blackstone Village, the villagers, who were a little worried about the future, still returned to the village within the specified time. So when Tahuiton arrived at Blackstone, the villagers were all in the village.

When the villagers saw the arrival of the British troops, they thought they would only question themselves. Some people are still thinking about how to pluck themselves out or something. Who knew that after the arrival of the British army, without saying a word, they directly began to kill.

"Kill! Kill them all! Kill all these Irish mongrels! Tahuiton roared.

And so a massacre began......

The consequences of the massacre soon became apparent, as there were flives in the villages, and the guerrillas learned more information about the escapees, and they intensified their attacks on the villages controlled by the black dogs. With their help, in just one month, more than 1,000 Irish peasants in County Kilken alone fled the quasi-vigilante zone and went to the guerrilla-controlled non-policing zone.

Faced with the current situation, the Duke of Norfolk made two plans after thinking about it.

First, it was proposed that the Navy build more equipped clippers for intercepting the smuggling ships of the French.

Second, it is necessary to mobilize manpower and material resources to prepare for a second round of sweeps in areas controlled by the guerrillas.

Thirdly, the officers in the British army should be trained in batches so that they understand the interests and policies of the United Kingdom and not do the United Kingdom a disservice.