Upper New York State was a brilliant victory, the main force of the British army in Quebec was routed and captured, although there were 2,000 men led by Saint Rich who escaped the pursuit of the Continental Army, but the Indians accounted for the majority of this group, only a small number were British troops, and it would not be long before the Indians dispersed on their own, and there was no threat to Albany in Upper New York. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The news of the victory encouraged the main forces of the Continental Army preparing to attack New York, and Washington and his officers were overjoyed.

The news also reached New York, and Clinton was exhausted when he heard the news that the British army in Quebec had been completely annihilated, and the previous victories of the Tang-American coalition forces in New Brunswick and New Jersey made the British army less than 10,000 men. It won't be long before Gates will lead the Continental Army in New York to join Washington in the lower reaches of the Hudson River, and Clinton may face an enemy force of up to 30,000 men, and he will be most frightened by the invincible Don Army.

Not only for the British army, but also for the Continental Army, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army was too terrible. Judging from the above New York State campaign, the Tang Army only used an infantry battalion of less than 500 men to kill more than 1,200 British troops at a slight cost of four casualties. This kind of lethality was something that the soldiers of this era had never seen before, especially for the low-intensity battles of the colonies. More than eighty percent of the soldiers in an army were killed, and they had no way to put up any effective resistance, and in the face of the dense long-range firepower of the Tang army, they could only harvest their lives in patches.

Later, the British army surrendered so simply, also because no one wanted to lose their lives, and they did not have much sense of glory in fighting. If fighting the Don Army means almost certain death. Then no one wants to fight with the Don Army.

Clinton also heard some rumors about the Upper New York State campaign. Although he felt that it was not necessarily true, the British army must have lost badly. The main force of the Datang Expeditionary Force, which followed Washington's actions, had quite terrible "heavy artillery", and no fortress could hold out in front of this kind of artillery for more than an hour. Moreover, the Datang Navy can provide them with more artillery support at any time at sea, and the pressure on the British troops defending New York is not insignificant.

Clinton could not help but have the idea of surrendering to the Tang-US coalition forces, because after all, the colonists were still civilized people from Europe, and they would not abuse their prisoners, and the Tang army seemed to be a civilized country. I won't embarrass them.

Clinton gathered his officers and expressed his thoughts: "...... Now our situation is unbeatably bad, the rebels have blockaded the Hudson, we cannot cross the river to gather food and grass, all kinds of supplies are insufficient, and we have not received any aid from Halifax or London by sea for five months. The morale of the soldiers was very bad, and with the stupidity of Burgoyne dropping our biggest reinforcements in Upper New York, we had nothing to do. So, now I propose to make peace with the Continental Army, promising to cede New York. Allow us to leave here with our troops and our subjects loyal to His Majesty. ”

At this time, General Hao, who had been defeated by the Tang Navy in Boston before, shook his head and said, "Even if you let us go." The Tang Navy will attack us at sea, and we will feed the fish at that time, just like in Boston. ”

Clinton gritted his teeth and said: "Then we will sign an indefinite truce agreement with them, during which the two sides cannot attack each other." ”

"I think we can delay the army, we will pretend to have peace talks with them, and then there will be a ceasefire between the two sides, and we will send people back to London to continue to ask for help......," Cornwallis said.

William. Howe shook his head dryly, "This is not feasible, how long can we hold out in New York?" Without food, ammunition is lacking, and we don't need the enemy to attack, we will collapse on our own, and the rebels and the Don army are not expected to have such good patience, if they really achieve the meeting with the rebels in New York, then they will have at least more than 30,000 people able to put into the battle, and the advantage of the Don army in firepower is extremely obvious, they can completely retake the city on their own. ”

Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, now the cards in the hands of the British army in New York are too few, can not play a few at all, this is like fighting the landlord has been fated to catch a handful of phone numbers, the other party is angry with the straight out of the cards almost, they finally picked up a card, but the other party dropped two cards with a flat face, Wang Bang.

In the end, the discussion could not come up with a clue, and Clinton still sent a messenger to Newark on the other side of the river according to his own plan, telling Washington that New York could be ceded to the Continental Army, but the Continental Army and the Tang Army must let the British retreat, and there could be no pursuit, and the two sides should achieve a ceasefire.

Upon hearing the news, Washington excitedly said: "We are going to win!" ”

Liu Fangwu said beside him: "Now that our advantage is huge, there is no need to let Clinton take nearly 10,000 British troops in New York, it is better not to accept such conditions, we can only accept his unconditional surrender." ”

Washington calmed down his excitement a little and said, "However, if we continue to fight, we will also have to pay casualties." ”

Guo Xin said next to him: "If you were afraid of casualties, this war for independence and freedom would not have broken out in the first place." ”

Yue Zhenfu said: "From the current point of view, we have all the advantages, and it is just an easy matter to capture New York. And if we can capture these nearly 10,000 British troops, we will have more than 20,000 British prisoners in our hands, and then the Continental Congress will have a greater initiative in negotiations with the British authorities. Moreover, we cannot yet conclude that the British have just let them go, and it would be very unwise for them to come back after that. ”

The analysis of the officers of the Tang army is very reasonable, and now the morale of the Continental Army is high, and many officers support tougher measures, Washington thought about it and accepted this opinion, he decided: "Reply to the British commander-in-chief, he can only choose the two options of defeat and annihilation and unconditional surrender, we will launch an offensive against New York early tomorrow morning, leaving him little time, make a decision quickly!" ”

The messenger was also so frightened by these "madmen" that he had nothing to say, and hurriedly got off his errand and returned to New York to tell Clinton. He was just a citizen of New York, and although he had royalist tendencies, he did not want to see his home destroyed by war. The previous Battle of New York had caused a lot of damage to houses and killed civilians, and this time there was an even more ferocious Tang Army besieging the city, he could no longer imagine it, and only hoped that Clinton would surrender to the Continental Army as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )