Chapter 311: The Great War of the Americas I
Dutch Guiana, the port of Paramaribo, is experiencing a rare congestion event in this era!
A large number of people wearing wigs, surrounded by servants and servants, waved gold coins in their hands in large boxes and small packages, trying to squeeze into several warships moored in the harbor!
Contrary to the surging flow of people, the already small garrison in the port, under the organization of the officers, carried flintlock pistols on their shoulders and jogged against the flow of people to squeeze out of the port!
The guards who maintained order were repeatedly transferred, making the situation in the port more and more chaotic, and many small white nobles and big businessmen saw that there were no soldiers to obstruct them, and drove their family servants and servants to rush forward without any gentlemanly manners, and the only warship moored in the port was already crowded with people on the pedal, and even the sailors above could not stop it!
Of course, these sailors did not intend to intercept, most of them were nesting in the corners, counting with excitement on their faces a bag of yellow gold coins that they had not earned for several years!
The signs of chaos on this warship made the commanders of several other warships drifting in the harbor wisely cancel the plan to dock, as for the order issued by the above to rescue and transport the 'compatriots' as much as possible, they were also subconsciously ignored by the commanders of various officers, anyway, there is now a warship moving towards the point of no return of overloading, they are not considered dereliction of duty, and there must be a sequence of carrying 'compatriots', right?
It's just that this kind of thinking is only the thoughts of the upper officers in the warship, and for those sailors who are not wealthy, at this time, they all look at their counterparts anchored in the port with envy, and accept a lot of bribes openly!
These people rushing to board the ship are all fat sheep! The real rich man of the earth!
It's a pity that the military order is like a mountain, and the captain of the ship does not let these crazy 'compatriots' be accepted on the shore, and they naturally can't do anything about it......
The reason why the captains of these warships watched the gold coins flying everywhere and didn't dare to go up to make money was naturally not because they regarded the gold coins as dung in a high-spirited manner, but because the artillery fire in the urban area of Paramaribo was rumbling, where did these captains still have the heart to make this deal?
The sail battleship is not a steam-powered or even internal combustion engine-powered warship in later generations, and it does not take long to start when it is on fire, and the sail warship wants to set sail, but it is a very complicated job!
These captains and mates don't want to be captives of the Han Empire for some reason!
As for the warship that docked, it was the representative of them who pushed it out, after all, they were asked to pick up people, and they couldn't float in the harbor until the pigeon battle flag was planted......
In that case, isn't the sacrifice of the port guards who went out just now in vain?
This fully reflects the unprepared psychology of these soldiers, and these warships are basically pulled over temporarily, because the British of the anti-Han alliance could not have imagined that the resistance of Dutch Guiana was so weak!
Compared with the British Guiana garrison surrounded and annihilated by superior forces, the Dutch colonial soldiers in Dutch Guiana were simply disgraced and thrown to their grandmother's house, they did not carry out any effective resistance at all, as long as they saw the Han army coming from the brigade, they rushed up, and there was no fighting spirit at all......
Naturally, this is mainly because the Dutch don't want to fight the Han Empire at all!
The Netherlands had long since lost its glory for more than 100 years, and at this time the Netherlands was just a republic ruled by a group of usurious merchants and factory owners, and there was no strong claim to overseas territory, if the East Indies in the southeast of the Pacific Ocean (that is, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea later), the Dutch might still fight for it, after all, it was a rich spice producing area, which brought huge profits to the Dutch bankers and capital every year. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
And what about Dutch Guiana?
It's just an appendage of a mineral and a pile of black liquid that can only be used to burn fire.
For the sake of such a small territory and economic value, participated in the war of the Americas in the war of hundreds of thousands of people?
Dutch bankers said it was better to forget it......
It's okay to let them pay for the national debt, but let the government itself contribute its own people and money to fight the war, and only fools will do it!
Treasury bonds can be appreciated by bankers, and buying the British Empire's treasury bonds is a sure-fire deal.
Needless to say, if the British won the war, even if they lost, Britain still had South African gold, and hundreds of millions of honest and obedient Indian slaves!
It is only a matter of time before the national debt is returned!
India is known as the pearl of the British king, and its economic value is greater than that of the North American colonies!
This is also the confidence of the British to dare to set off an anti-Han alliance and a war in the Americas!
As for South Africa's rich gold minerals, not to mention, there is a small British treasury, which is still in abundance!
However, the Dutch did not have the determination to resist, and this kind of thing was not notified in advance to the boss of the anti-Han alliance - the British Empire, after the Han Empire preemptively swallowed British Guiana, according to the time of British Guiana's resistance, began to arrange the defense of Dutch Guiana and French Guiana, and by the way, the black cannon fodder that had been trained was transported batch by batch to the Guyana area where the army gathered, intending to completely annihilate the main force of the Han Empire, which dared to break forward, in Guyana!
As a result, before the anti-Han alliance was ready, the vanguard of the Han Empire hit the capital city of Dutch Guiana, Paramaribo!
The speed of the advance of the Han army, oh no, it should be said that the speed of the rout of the Dutch colonial army really shocked the British, according to the calculation of time, the Han vanguard has been advancing at the standard marching speed after entering Dutch Guiana......
In other words, the army of Dutch Guiana did not delay the Han army for even an hour!
If it weren't for the fact that there were many wealthy white merchants staying in the city of Paramaribo, I am afraid that the city would not have resisted the Han army, which was known as the white raiders......
It's a pity that the last unit in Dutch Guiana that can fight, although under the oppression of many 'local tyrants' in Paramaribo City, has to fight hard, but the morale of the Han American National Guard, which has been destroyed along the way, is really a bit high, and it only took half a day to break the outer defense line of Paramaribo City and pull the battlefield into street fighting!
This also made the gentlemen in the port, who were waiting in line to get on the ship, completely panicked, and one by one compared who had the money, just to step on the warship that gave people a sense of security!
It was in this chaotic situation that the vanguard of the Han State drove the defenses of Paramaribo, who had no fighting spirit, into the port!