Chapter 44: Ambush
By the time the captives were sent to Sheffield's plantation again, Sheffield's attitude had changed, and they had to be sold to Brazil as slaves anyway, and the ownership was not here, so they let the black men on the plantation tie four Yankees to the public toilet and smell it.
The white people are high, and the black people usually see the white overseers are doubly careful for fear of making mistakes and being whipped, how can these black slaves be arrogant? And now the opportunity has come, Sheffield is a man of his word, and since yesterday he wanted to make the black slaves live better than the Yankees, then start today.
He swore it was the first time he had seen a black man carry out orders so unreservedly, and Sheffield could almost feel the pent-up excitement in the veins of the black man, to put it mildly. Being able to control the fate of white people is a feeling they have never experienced.
Looking through the window as the blacks escorted the whites along the way, there were a few details that had to be noted, and the Yankews were not surprised that they were being treated like this by the blacks, and their expressions were angry in protest, and from the looks of the people, Sheffield did not see even the slightest bit of racial equality in the faces of these people. As for the performance of black people, it is more direct, in line with their own definition of black people, and directly punches to shut up the Yankey, simple and rude!
"Now that the dominant position in the United States is the black people, what will be the living conditions for the remaining white people? Will there be so many Madonnas among the Negroes? Sheffield sighed and stopped paying attention to the outside, anyway, it's fine, it's time for today's diary powerhouse tour......
Monroe is the gateway to northern Louisiana, and although Monroe is not comparable to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, it has a population of several thousand, and it is very convenient for inland shipping, in other words, it is easy to escape! The Underground Railroad's headquarters in Louisiana is located here, in a position that can be attacked, retreated, and defended.
If it had been Thomas before, he would have applauded the decision as a smart move. But now he is thinking about the problem from another angle, the leaders of the Underground Railroad obviously want to use them as cannon fodder, and they will hide in Monroe and run away as soon as they see that the timing is wrong.
Taylor's Manor traveled from Baton Rouge for a day and a night, almost as fast as the Indians came to Monroe, during which time Bird Taylor continued to send men to other small town strongholds to capture the Underground Railroad, "Mr. Wilson commanded, this time we must catch them all, so that the Yankey knows what it is!" The brothers did a clean job, it doesn't matter if you kill two people, but you can't leave evidence, after all, this is the country and not the Ivory Coast......"
"Understood!" Bird Taylor's order was greeted with a round of applause, and Thomas on the side felt a pang in his heart, it seemed that the capture of the last stronghold, these slave market thugs were ready to solve the problem by force.
"How many people are there at your headquarters?" Bird Taylor and Redden discussed it for a moment, beckoned Thomas over and asked.
"Probably less than twenty people, half black and half white!" Thomas hesitated for a moment and said, "I promised Master Sheffield that he would kill two Yankee leaders in exchange for freedom, can you give me a gun......"
"Heh, how about we let you execute you after we catch the Yankey?" Bird Taylor smiled and said, "Don't worry, although we slave owners are more direct in doing things, we are still good at talking, and we are much more morally noble than you Yankees who can even sell their parents for money......"
decided on the means, but in terms of strategy, it is still necessary to plan, the only thing to be afraid of is that there are weapons in these, and the thugs of Taylor Manor are all people who have seen the market, so they will naturally not be afraid! But to reduce your own losses, of course, it is best to choose a smart solution.
"Just like hunting black slaves in the Ivory Coast, storming a village is of course the × stupidest way to do it!" Bird Taylor triumphantly said, "We can board here for a few days, we should be here a day before Westin and the Underground Railroad members transporting fugitive slaves, or more!" Mr. Raidon, you first take our men to intercept the fugitive slaves, and the Yankee of Monroe will run away if they know it, and we will do it outside the city......"
"Division? I think it's better to wait until they converge and get started! Because at the same time, Westin will also join us, and the combined power of our two families is still above the Yankeo, so it won't alarm the Yankeo! Wait until they escort the fugitives out of the city, and we'll solve everything with a raid! Redden thought for a moment about Bird Taylor's train of thought, shook his head, and offered his opinion.
"Okay, but it must be solved in Honshu! Hopefully, the Yankee will choose to escape after dark! Bird Taylor agreed.
The Americas are a new continent for immigrants, although Louisiana is the base camp of slave owners, but obviously slave owners do not have a very good way to deal with the huge forest, so they can only choose places where the woods are not very dense as their plantations, compared to the huge territory of the United States, the forest coverage is still very considerable, and it is not difficult to find a suitable place for ambush.
Bird Taylor sent people to watch over a few roads into Monroe, and sure enough, he met the Yankee who was escorting the fugitive slaves the next day, and the thugs who saw it informed Bird Taylor and Raidon of the situation, "The overseer brought by Westin should also be on that road, and then we will meet and discuss how to do it!" ”
Half an hour later, Westin took nearly twenty overseers to the dense forest where he lived, waved his hand and kept slapping the mosquitoes, "It's really hard for you, you can stay in this environment......
"The conditions in the motherland are already much better than in the Ivory Coast, and African mosquitoes can scare you to death! It's not impossible to kill you in one bite......" Bird Taylor explained unmoved, "What do you think about the fact that we are going to ambush the Yankee after they escape out of town?" ”
"I didn't think much of it, but if they didn't know that we had captured the others, they wouldn't have all escaped! Monroe should have left a few people to observe the situation! Westin unloaded the rifle from his back.
"It's better this way, the Yankee itself is few and separated, we solved the escape, and we are going back to kill back!" Bird Taylor clapped his hands and lowered his voice and said, "It only takes twenty guns to solve the problem!" ”
"We should go into town!" Thomas, who had been silent, suddenly opened his mouth to surprise Bird Taylor and the others, and hurriedly asked why, "We should let the Yankees know that we are coming, so that they will not be able to stay, we will lurk in the forest north of the city, and annihilate the Yankees when they panic!" ”
Several people were speechless, and after thinking about it, they found that the proposal of this Yankee traitor was really good, and the other party might have a windfall, and assigned their respective tasks, and Bird Taylor took the remaining forty or fifty thugs on the horse and entered Monroe without concealment. They entered the city without disguise, and immediately let the members of the Underground Railroad keep an eye on them, while Bird Taylor was buying food vigorously, shouting at a bakery, "Prepare food for my brother, we are going out of the city to hunt down the fugitive slaves......
"This gentleman, where are the fugitive slaves?" The owner of the bakery asked curiously.
"There are fugitives on the plantations in New Orleans, we are ordered to hunt them down, hurry up and we have to hurry!" Bird Taylor looked very anxious, the bakery did not dare to offend these fierce thugs, Bird Taylor led the thugs to buy some food and quickly left here, and went straight out of the city to the north.