When the morning sun rose, Major Smith was horrified to find himself surrounded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He was surrounded by thousands of militiamen, and many more armed militias were approaching, and in the previous two hours, all the villages and towns within a dozen kilometers of Lexington had been shaken by the sudden battle. The colonists, who had long since grown tired of the king's authority for the sake of time, took up their muskets, rode their horses, and even brought their own dry rations from all directions, as if they were participating in a carnival, and were sucked into the battle like the water of a lake around the whirlpool.

Major Smith gave the order to break out as quickly as he could.

Fortunately, his reaction was quite fast.

But even so, the breakthrough was extremely tragic, and Major Smith and his men did not seem to be in a land that had been part of Britain for more than a hundred and fifty years, but a completely hostile country, and around them there were constant gunfires, and they fled in terror like a herd of elk hunted in the forest, and then people kept falling, and those who had the same skin color and spoke the same language were like hideous demons, and they could even hear the bloody curses of these people.

And then there was a fiasco.

The only good thing was that the Governor of Boston also got the news of the rebellion and sent reinforcements to them.

Of the 800 British soldiers led by Major Smith, less than 500 of them eventually fled back under the reinforcements that arrived from Boston, but the escape back to Boston was only the beginning of the war, because then the thousands of militia that had been gathered began to attack Boston, and the local residents of Boston also began to move, with their cooperation, the militia quickly controlled the commanding heights of Bunker Hill overlooking the entire Boston city, and then the British began to storm Bunker Hill, and the two sides fought fiercely around this hill.

Fortunately, the British navy's warships played an important role at this time, and after a full day of fierce fighting, more than 1,000 dead and wounded, the British finally relied on those 32-pound rifled guns and flowering shells to recapture Bunker Hill.

But it didn't work.

As time went on, more and more militia came from all over Massachusetts to join the fighting, and soon the militia was more than twice as large as the British army, and although they were still unable to break through the British lines, they formed a semi-encirclement of Boston, limiting British control of the Massachusetts colony to a small city of Boston.

And then something even more terrible happened for the British.

The maelstrom of war began to expand.

This wave of terror began to sweep through the entire North American colonies.

New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, almost all the British North American colonies were ignited for freedom, and those peasant workers and small merchants in the vast land all picked up their muskets, rode their own horses, quickly gathered into small groups, and then began to attack New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other major cities where the British army was stationed.

This was not the time of the war.

At that time, Britain was almost like the sky, lobster soldiers and the powerful Royal Navy crisscrossed the world, the rice flag was entering the era of the sun never setting, and the people of the colonies needed enough courage to resist such a powerful opponent, but at this time, Britain was just a second-rate country that was constantly defeated in wars again and again, and finally the territory continued to shrink, and the economy was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it could only rely on the North American colony to survive, and the people of the colonies did not have much fear of the British army.

And the British government has squeezed them even more than in history.

There was also the original history of the French Revolution after the United States Du Lili War, but now the French have done it first, the establishment of the French Republic, like a loudspeaker playing free thought at the highest power, with that deafening voice, telling the people in the colonies what to do, before the fuse was not lit, but now that the war has started, the rest is very simple.

Take up arms and open fire on the British!

Poor British troops at this time in the entire North American colonies were only more than 10,000 points, they were powerless to extinguish the fire, although at this time the North American colonies were not as large as the original Du Li war, but it also had nearly a million inhabitants, and the area was almost equivalent to the British mainland, how could more than 10,000 British troops deal with such a rebellion in such a vast land and so many people. In other words, this is not the tribal warriors of Africa, the militia here is not much worse than the British army in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment level, especially in recent years, smuggling has been rampant, and almost every family of the common people has a Ming rifled gun, in this case, the British army can only do to stick to the fortress of the city.

Then wait for reinforcements.

This is no longer something that the colonial garrison can solve, and this will have to be left to the British government to deal with the headache.

Similarly, the British government was stunned.

The old men in the British Parliament didn't expect these pi people to have such courage, of course, the main thing is that they don't have this kind of consciousness at all, in fact, when they hear the news, they feel incredible.

Aren't they British?

In every sense of the word, they are British!

Isn't the British government collecting taxes to protect them?

The main duty of the British troops stationed in the colonies was to protect them from the Indians, and who saved them in the previous King Philip Wars? Who is fighting to keep them safe? Isn't it only natural that the British government sends troops to protect them, and that they pay taxes to the British government? Their tax burden was no heavier than that of the people of England itself, and even because of the high heavens, their lives were more privileged than those of the native people, as evidenced by the fact that more and more British people were rushing to the colonies.

So why are they still not satisfied?

The old men of London were filled with grief and indignation.

It's ridiculous that they were still secretly happy about the civil strife in France, saying that as long as the French are unlucky, the English are usually happy, and of course the reverse is the same, and even George I has just proposed to Philip V that he can send English troops to help quell the rebellion when he needs it. At this time, Philip V had received reinforcements from Spain, but the battle in Paris was still not progressing, not only England, but also the monarchs of various European countries could not sit still, and King Charles XII of Sweden even proposed to form a Holy Alliance to help France restore order as soon as possible.

In other words, everyone sent troops to France together to help Philip V suppress the rebellion and engage in the three-light policy in France.

And for this kind of thing, the British must have great enthusiasm, and it is precisely because of this that Philip V has not nodded, but now the British do not have to continue to gloat, they have to face the same rebellion, it is estimated that it is Philip V's turn to gloat, in this worse world, it is always a thing worth suffering to have a brother.

Of course, it was absolutely impossible for the British government to abandon the North American colonies.

This is their main financial support at present, the British parliament of the old men dare not imagine what Britain will be like after the loss of the North American colonies, in other words, the cotton trade there has brought almost half of the dragon dollar to Britain, as for the other half is earned by the black slave trade, which is currently the two pillars of the British dragon dollar income, and the dragon dollar income is the only pillar of British arms expansion and luxury consumption, if there is no North America, this vast cotton producing area......

The consequences are unimaginable!

Immediately afterwards, more than 20,000 British troops boarded ships at Portsmouth and sailed for the North American battlefield to use their cannons to make the rebels aware of the authority of His Majesty.

At this time, the rebels and thieves are also looking for their cannons.

"We need artillery."

On the same day that the British army set off, in the Governor's Palace in Xinbocheng, General Hancock, commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts Free Army, said.

Although the colonies were lit up for freedom and independence, in fact the union was not completed, and the colonies were still fighting on their own, not even a unified army, and the militias themselves gave themselves a resounding name, and then either acted alone or joined together to fight, and even did not have unified logistics, and the militia and the local councils solved their own material problems.

The Free Army is the strongest of them all.

This army, which has now increased to 7,000 troops, represents the Massachusetts colony, and is currently besieging Boston, because it was the first to raise the uprising, and it was very influential, Hancock was elected by the Massachusetts Parliament as the commander-in-chief of the Free Army, but their attack was not smooth, after all, they were relatively hasty, not well prepared, although there was no shortage of guns and ammunition, but there was a shortage of artillery for the attack.

Then General Hancock would have to come to his old friend.

"No problem!"

Governor Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

"But, Thomas, it's impossible for us to provide you with rifled guns, this kind of thing is not just money, rifled guns are exclusively owned by the royal family, any rifled gun transaction must be reviewed by Jinyiwei, and in principle, it will not be sold to sovereign countries, so you can only buy smoothbore guns here, I can't help this, let alone me, even the imperial prime minister has no ability to bypass Jinyiwei to sell this, because once discovered, even the prime minister will be punished."

Then he said.

He's not lying about that.

The manufacture and export of rifled guns in the Ming Dynasty were controlled by the royal family, and the front-loading rifled guns were originally controlled products, but since the Ming army began to equip a new generation of rifles, the front-loading rifled guns were banned, anyway, the Mini rifle against the Mauser 1871/84 was completely ravaged. And the front-loading rifled gun Yang Feng is not ready to sell casually for the time being, in addition to the slow rate of fire, the performance of this thing is not inferior to the Japanese artillery during the First Sino-Japanese War, in other words, the steel-chambered bronze field guns of the Japanese army during the First Sino-Japanese War are not as good as the current cast steel rifled guns produced in the Ming Dynasty!

"But the smoothbore guns could not defeat the British."

Hancock said.

Although Boston was only guarded by less than 4,000 British troops, the latter had a strong fortress and was supported by naval warships, and the Free Army only had rifles and a small number of old smoothbore guns, which was difficult to break through the fortress, and it was also difficult to pose a threat to the naval warships, and they were now anxious to capture Boston, otherwise once the British reinforcements arrived, they would be even more troublesome, and they also knew that if they really had to go all out, then they would not be able to defeat the British in any case.

"It's not a difficult problem to solve."

Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "I can get you another thing." ”

Hancock looked at him quizzically.

"A new type of gunpowder."

Zhang Cheng said.

Well, Emperor Yang was ready to sell them explosives packets.

He armed the freedom fighters in North America, of course, the goal was not to make this colony free, he was just to greatly reduce the number of Europeans in the Americas, and the help of their artillery was too ruthless, in case the British knew the difficulties and retreated, they would have nothing to play, and they had to control the rhythm to let the British see hope, but also to give the warriors hope. In this case, it is only right to give them explosive bags and let them play with body bombs, and it is also very exciting to imagine the scene where the warriors rush to the British fort with the explosive bags one after another, and die with those special symbols.

But only if they have the courage.

In other words, there are different levels of warriors and warriors, these warriors are not Zhen main warriors, and they will definitely not frown when they give the latter explosives pack, but these warriors are probably not as simple as frowning.

Fortunately, this problem is not something Zhang Cheng needs to consider, and then His Excellency the Governor introduced Hancock to a Ming merchant, who was very happy to sell him a batch of explosives used for engineering construction, and then Zhang Cheng found an engineer officer and taught him how to make explosives bags, looking at the terrifying explosive power of the new gunpowder, Hancock did not hesitate to take out the precious gold and silver coins, and then contentedly pulled a cart of twenty pounds of explosives bags, ready to blow up the British fortress.

"Sir, this thing can't blow up the fortress, can it?"

Looking at the departing convoy, the engineer officer said suspiciously.

Although this thing is not at the same level as black powder, it is not so easy to blow up the fortress, and the twenty pounds of explosives are not twenty pounds of explosives in the bag, and the real power is estimated to be a four-inch shell level, but not to mention the four-inch shells, even the five-inch shells also need a certain number to blast the fortress, and in the past, the heavy rockets of the Ming army were hundreds of pounds and contained eighty pounds of black powder.

"What does that have to do with us?"

Zhang Cheng said insidiously: "If one is not enough, there are a few more, and it is worth making some sacrifices for the sake of freedom and those warriors, and in addition, find a brother who has acquaintances in the British army, so that he accidentally leaks his mouth when he drinks too much at a certain time, and tells the British that this thing can actually be exploded with one bullet." ”

"My subordinates understand."

The sapper officer said with an equally sinister smile.

This is cotton gunpowder, although it has been processed, but it still does not guarantee safety, not to mention being hit by a bullet, and even sometimes the surrounding environment temperature is too high It is possible to explode by itself, the Ming army's shells are specially charged, even so there are explosions from time to time, last year there was even a cruiser was blown up because of poor ammunition management, as for the accident at the mine site, it also happened from time to time, One can imagine how dangerous it must have been for these freedom warriors to blow up the fortress with such explosives bags.

Of course, as His Excellency the Governor said, what does this concern to us?