Several other British strongholds around Pensacola were also removed very smoothly, and the British garrison in these places was relatively small, and the Don army basically used heavy artillery bombardment, and then sent British officers who had been captured before to persuade them to surrender, and most of the British troops would surrender honestly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This actually made Liu Fangwu a little unacceptable, but Xu Daorun took it for granted: "Although these lobster soldiers are loyal to the British king, they are more soldiers to fight for a living, and it is not good to really fight for their lives." Especially since this is still a colony, not their hometown, they also know that even if they stubbornly resist and persist, reinforcements will not come for a while, and at this time, European countries generally treat prisoners more favorably, and they can return to their homeland after the war. Unlike our national culture, where it is shameful to be captured, the British do not have this psychological pressure. When you can't fight, you simply surrender at all, which should be regarded as a norm. ”

Of course, not all British troops were willing to surrender to the Tang without much resistance, and at Fort Charlotte in Morby, west of Pensacola, the British army was indifferent after the Tang Expeditionary Force persuaded them to surrender, and even "bravely" used the cannons on the fortress to confront the Tang army. However, the artillery of the Don army had a longer range, so the British could not hit anything.

So the Tang Expeditionary Force launched a strong attack, under the cover of artillery, the infantry charged, in the broken city wall rushed into the fortress, in order to cope with this attack, many of the infantry were equipped with Thompson submachine guns and copycat Remington shotguns, in the face of such firepower, the British army could not organize any effective resistance, and finally Morby's British army was completely annihilated. However, Datang also suffered several casualties, after all, there were no bullets in the close-range engagement.

The Don army completely destroyed Fort Charlotte. The surviving British soldiers were transported by boat to Pensacola. If there is an injury, give it a general treatment. But don't think about using drugs such as antibiotics and other scarce drugs, at most do disinfection or something, or maybe give a blood transfusion and a hanging bottle. The British troops, who had nothing to do with it, were kicked into the captive construction team and continued to build various facilities under the supervision of the Don soldiers.

"In that way, we basically have West Florida under control, even though we haven't set foot in the vast interior of Mississippi and Alabama in the north. But by the definition of the colonizers now, we already own the land. Liu Fangwu looked at the map in his hand and said, this is actually quite a nonsense thing, obviously the Tang army has occupied Pensacola by thousands of people, and other places where there are garrisons from other countries have been destroyed, but from the perspective of the sphere of influence, the Tang people have controlled the West Florida region.

Liu Fangwu knew that Chu Bai submitted the boundary survey to the Continental Congress, after all, this was a decision made by the cabinet, and the land six or seven hundred kilometers north from Pensacola was owned by the Tang Dynasty, and of course there were hundreds of thousands of Indians living on this land. The Indians here are more numerous than the Jiazhou Indians, mainly the Appalachians near Pensacola. The Choctaw people to the west, the Creeks, the Alabamans, and the Chickasos to the north. However, the Indians in this area also have a characteristic, that is, they have been living with Western colonists for hundreds of years, and have slowly adopted many European ways of life, and a considerable number of people have intermarried with Westerners, which is where those Creoles come from.

Americans refer to these relatively mild, more civilized ethnic groups as the five tribes of civilization, and there are some general references. Of course, compared to the Mohican and Mohawk in the northeast, and the fierce Comanche and Apache in the central Great Plains, the Creek and Choctaw here are as gentle as white rabbits.

However, even though these Indians were relatively naturalized and rarely clashed with the colonists, they were forced to move away from their homeland in the 19th century and embark on the famous "Bloody Trail" and were driven to the west bank of the Mississippi River. Many of the Indian peoples in the area became extinct after the 20th century, with only a few mestizo descendants of their thin bloodlines remaining.

The local Indian human resources are considered by the Cabinet to be of development value. The more civilized Indians were more receptive to the modern way of life of the Tang people, and traded and were employed by the Tang people. So Pensacola has set up a miniature version of the colonial government, and the administrative officials from Jiazhou will absorb some Creoles, who will help the Tang government communicate with some local Indian peoples, maintain relatively friendly relations with these peoples, and try to recruit these Indians as farmers and workers.

Of course, this is not an overnight task and requires sustained effort, but if the Indian affairs here can go as smoothly as Jiazhou, then the development of this area will be much easier.

In fact, within a few days of the occupation of Pensacola, some Creeks came to Pensacola from their tribe to trade deerskins with the British. The Creeks lived mainly in western Georgia and were quite powerful. Previously, Georgian immigrants tried to move westward, but were attacked by the Creeks, and the British forbade the colonial immigrants to continue moving west because of the importance of the fur business with the Creeks, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the immigrants. The Cricks also sided with the British, and in another history, after the Spanish entered the war and attacked Morby and Pensacola, there were Creek armies to assist the British in the battle.

The Creeks could not have imagined that the British in Pensacola had been defeated, not by the whites to whom they had become commonplace, but by the Chinese who were closer to them in skin color but with slightly different facial features. This somewhat dismayed Chief Eneahmiko, who had come to trade in person, who had not brought many warriors, only a few dozen flintlock pistols (firearms sold in large quantities by the British to the local Indian tribes), but when he saw a group of whites driven by yellow-skinned Tang people to work and become slaves (he thought of himself), the wiser chief seemed to see something powerful.

Ennia said to his people: "See, the Don, the Yellow Skins, like us Muskogee (the Cricks' self-name), have the power to enslave the Whiteskins, who used to enslave the Yellowskins, and some of our Muskogee have become their slaves. But the Tang people, the yellow skins, in turn, enslaved the whiteskins and seized the land of the whiteskins, and we Muskogi should learn from them, have their power, and enslave the whiteskins! ”

Although the Indians of the region were somewhat civilized, and did not even have bad relations with Westerners, it was impossible to say that they really liked the Europeans who encroached on their land. On the one hand, the Indians hated and hated the Europeans, they seized land, killed the Indians, and often treacherously and rebelled, but the Indians needed weapons, metal tools, food, cloth and other goods brought to them by the colonists. It is precisely because of the relatively high degree of civilization that the Indians actually formed a dependence on the goods of the colonists, and they had to form such a cooperative alliance relationship.

Ennia knew very well that the 2,000 British troops in Pensacola were the last strength of the local British army, and as the chief of a powerful Creek tribe, he had many ears and eyes, and he knew that in the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, the rebels were already strong, and the British army was insufficient, and if the British no longer sent troops from the sea, then there would be nothing to do with the British after the southeast of the continent. The Americans, the Tang people, and the local Indians would become the main forces in the land.

Xu Daorun took a Spanish Creole who knew Mascogi and accompanied him to meet Ennia. Xu Daoyun has mastered Spanish over the years, so there is no obstacle to communicating with the Cleo interpreter, who obviously knows what kind of status Enya is, and hurriedly salutes him with Indian etiquette.

"This is the powerful chief of Ennia, one of the two chieftains of the two tribes of Lower Creek." Clio explained.

Xu Daorun nodded to Enya and said, "Welcome to the new Pensacola." ”

Ennya was very smart, but after all, he was still an Indian, and he liked to go straight, and he said: "I came here to do business with the British, but the British were defeated by you, and I can't find the former merchant anymore, and he probably became your slave and was building houses for you." ”

Xu Daorun said with a smile: "In our Datang, there are no slaves, and any working relationship needs to be paid accordingly. ”

Enya asked, "Then will you pay the British?" ”

"No," Xu Daoyun said bluntly, "they are prisoners of war, and they are obliged to perform some necessary labor driven by the victorious army, but this forced labor will not last forever, and when the war is over, we will send them away, and they are still free." ”

Ennya didn't know how to bend either, and said, "It's a stupid act, you can force them to do things." ”

Xu Daorun continued to laugh: "But in our opinion, people who are forced to do things are often the least efficient, do you know the efficiency? That is, one person can do ten things a day, and another person can only do one thing a day, and the person who does ten things is highly efficient. ”

These words made the Cleo translator sweaty, and the Muskogee language was not so complicated, and there were not many abstract words, so he had to use Xu Daorun's transliteration.

Enya didn't know if he understood or not, he said, "How to use slaves is your business, if you want to sell me some white slaves, I'm willing to take over." But the point is, I came to Pensacola to do business, and my people need the goods that the whites sell, cloth, grain, gunpowder, tools, and now that the British don't have them, do you have any of these things to trade with us? (To be continued.) )