Chapter 480, The Siege (6)

"What do you mean by 'they all speak English'? Can we Brits still stop speaking English? What do you mean by 'the tone is not right'? I also don't think the guys in Canada and the American guys in the south speak English very well! "General Arthur Wellesley would have liked to drag this real Quebec bastard who spoke outlandish English and shoot him a hundred times, a hundred times, but his sanity told him that he really couldn't do anything to this guy.

The reason is very simple, now people claim that it was a mistake, and they personally sent someone to explain it. If you do something to that person, I am afraid that not only will the "Quebec Volunteers" in front of you immediately turn around and rebel, but more importantly, the Quebec army on other fronts may also have problems.

If these Quebec troops had defected en masse, the whole situation would have been in trouble immediately. So General Arthur Wellesley held back the anger in his heart and said, "I believe this is a misunderstanding. So now can we enter Quebec? ”

"Your Excellency, General." The Quebec said, "Theoretically, of course, yes, but considering that your regiment has always been not very good." The last time you passed through Quebec, many of your actions had already made the people of Quebec very dissatisfied. So, we can't allow your legion to enter any city in Quebec until permission is given by the Quebec Council. ”

General Arthur Wellesley's army had not been particularly accustomed to robbing and setting fire to people all the way from the southern part of the United States. Moreover, his soldiers are all from England, and there is no industry, no social relations, and even military salaries are not particularly sufficient here (after all, after fighting here for so long, the governor of Canada has long run out of money, and it is impossible for London to send money here now), so he can only rely on robbery to boost morale. There is a lot of inertia in robbery, and it is not possible to brake the car all at once, and General Arthur Wellesley did not brake too seriously, because doing so would damage morale to a certain extent. He felt that in the war, it was not the time to pursue this issue for the time being.

As a result, General Arthur Wellesley's corps did not perform very well during the period when it was repaired in Quebec and then went south, although it did not dare to play "three lights" like in the southern part of the United States, but it was indeed there that there was no money for that thing. At one point, the Quebec Volunteers even confronted them, and some British soldiers were shot black.

General Arthur Wellesley, of course, knew that his army did not have a good reputation, and it would be strange if the Quebecers allowed their army into the city now.

"Our army may not enter the city, but you must give way to it." General Arthur Wellesley knew that the situation was unfavorable at this time, so he could only grit his teeth and endure it again, otherwise, these Quebecers would really dare to rebel. In general, this part of North America is not a good place by nature, and the biggest feature of this place is that it is full of people.

"This also requires you to apply to the Quebec parliament and give assurances that you will not stay in Quebec for a long time, that you will not harass the inhabitants of Quebec, and that you will march according to the time and route we have set ......" The Quebec man uttered a large number of demands in one breath, and that feeling was completely treating the legions under General Arthur Wellesley as locusts.

"How can operational needs wait for parliamentary consideration?" General Arthur Wellesley couldn't help it, "Besides, we still have to fight the Americans, how can we not stay here?" ”

"If you need to resist the attack of the American army, you can all resist them here, and we are behind, what do you have to worry about? Why do you have to enter Quebec? If you're not going to fend off the U.S. forces here, or if you're going to move to other fronts, what's wrong with crossing Quebec by the prescribed route at the appointed time? Are you not sure how much time it will take to get from Quebec to Ottawa? The Quebec said.

"What do you mean by 'behind us, what do you have to worry about'? Aren't we most worried about you? March according to your 'prescribed time and route'? Then in case you and the Americans, ah, no, you will not collude with the Americans, but you will collude with the French. You colluded with the French, and then the time and route of our march were arranged by you, and you directly arranged us into the encirclement? General Arthur Wellesley thought to himself. But he fought back his anger, saying that his army could not accept such "excessive demands".

"Then you can make a request to the Governor, and then have him come forward and consult with the Quebec Parliament." The Quebec said again.

This statement is really a complete insult to the IQ of General Arthur Wellesley. Now is the time for war, come to such an official document to travel, and then fight each other, today you send a document over, I will first study it for half a month, and then send a document to make a counter-proposal, and then study it, and then send a document over, and then study it for half a month, and then by the way, I will send a document back to discuss the legal effect of the Governor's Palace, and then we will quote the scriptures, apply various precedents, and it is best to fight another lawsuit, and then ...... Well, that's too much time. It will definitely be possible to do this before His Majesty Constantine XI returns like lightning on a snow-white horse with four hooves.

"It's going to take too much time, it's impossible."

"Then you can not enter Quebec, you can go west from here, to Cleveland, which is still in the hands of our British."

Cleveland was still in the hands of the British, but the situation there was not good, because before that, there were already Americans who came here at night with small mines to venture out to lay mines. Although the British killed many Americans who came to lay mines, the threat of mines also grew. Therefore, the defenders of Cleveland are already in retreat. Now the Quebecers are proposing this solution, which is clearly nonsense and has no sincerity to solve the problem at all.

"Now that you are in the midst of war, this is an act of treason!" General Arthur Wellesley finally couldn't help himself, "Our army must pass through Quebec, and the route and time must be determined according to my will." You must get out of the way at once, I can give you a day to think about it, and if you don't get out of the way after a day, we're going to see you as a rebel!" ”