Americans want freedom, but they don't want to give freedom to black slaves. 》

Mexico's largest newspaper, Izvestia, devoted its entire pages to the atrocities committed by immigrants in the United States, strongly condemned the horrific atrocities committed against slaves, and called on all people of conscience and faith to unite against the evil slave owners.

They treat people like animals! It deprives human beings of their freedom and forces those poor people to do unpaid labor. Those poor people were beaten with sticks, whipped with leather, handcuffed and shackled, and lived a life worse than that of pigs and dogs.

Even after the pains and sufferings endured by the poor people, the slave owners refused to spare them, and they had to separate their wives and wives from each other, knock out their teeth, and put the mark of humiliation and inhumanity on their bodies.

Hunger, torture to bring the poor to their knees.

This is wrong! It's sinful! It's shameless!

Do you want me to explain everything?

No! Totally unnecessary!

Our time and energy should be spent on things that are more valuable.

By now, those slave owners have picked up their guns, ready to turn our free Mexico and the entire civilized world into their slave estates.

And we can no longer hope to move them with mercy, but take up our sword to defend our homeland, cut the chains of the slaves, and throw them all into the crucible of age, so that he will never return to plague our children and grandchildren.

God is with us! 〗

The newspaper caused a great deal of repercussions in Mexico, not only in Mexico, but also in European and American newspapers.

Now the whole Western world knows that a group of Americans intend to re-establish slavery in a country that has signed the Declaration of Abolition.

How shameless, how barbaric, even the United States is divided into two factions, but they all recognize that in a country that has abolished slavery, those who re-establish slavery are evil.

For a time, Mexico had the upper hand in public opinion, and the factions in the country were unprecedentedly united, with Catholicism as the lubricant in it, and everyone was intent on rolling this damned group of Protestants and slavery back to their homeland.

However, mere superiority in public opinion will not bring real victory.

On September 27, 1835, González fell, and the Mexican army did not fire a single shot.

On October 21, 1835, Goliard fell, and all the Mexican defenders were killed.

On October 2, 1835, San Antonio was besieged.

On December 9, 1835, San Antonio fell.

On December 30, 1835, all of Texas fell.

The Goliard is the most important hub for land and water transportation, and whoever takes it here, controls San Antonio

At this time, San Antonio was the capital of Texas, as well as the most important food base and economic center.

So Tasan Anna set the first fight on Goriad.

On February 23, 1836, Tasan Anna took an army of 8,000 men and 20,000 rifles and 30 artillery pieces at Goriad.

Tasan Anna liked to feel like a hero, and Franz prepared a "Emancipation Proclamation" for him to satisfy his vanity.

Whenever Tasan Anna conquered a place, he would gather local black slaves and let them listen to his speeches, so he stopped and stopped along the way.

Black slaves were constantly asking to join Tasan Anna's army, and Tasan Anna was worried that there was no place to get a gun, so he soon formed three black rifle companies.

At the same time, Tasan Anna, as Franz said, united all forces that could be united, and he sent people to contact nearby Indian tribes.

Tasan Anna said that Indians are Mexicans as long as they help Mexico and obey Mexican laws, and they will not be treated differently.

In fact, the same words and similar promises were given to them by the pioneers of the United States, but the Indians had been deceived by the whites too many times, and they demanded to see the sincerity of Tasan Anna.

Tasan Anna ordered the soldiers to issue them rifles, but only five rounds per rifle, and made a pact that they would receive a shipment of ammunition each week as long as the Indians could keep their covenant and help Mexico attack the Americans.

This made the Indian chieftains immediately like the Mexicans, and of course they had to fight the Americans, but they could provide information and harass the Americans' supply lines.

And this is exactly what Franz wants, in fact, as long as the Indians can remain neutral, it is a good thing for the Mexican expeditionary force.

It would have been perfect if the Indians could help gather intelligence, raid the supply lines of American pioneers, and hunt down lone deserters.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Sam Houston, the current commander-in-chief of Texas and the future first president of the Lone Star Republic, is too far away from San Antonio due to the fact that the pioneers are divided into several factions and his own troops are too far from San Antonio.

Sam Houston did not want to make a needless sacrifice and decided to abandon San Antonio, and he ordered the defenders of San Antonio to abandon Goliard and go to the countryside to wait for the arrival of the main Texas army.

In fact, before the Houston order arrived, many militia and soldiers who had temporarily joined the army used various excuses to escape from the fortress.

The most common reason is to go home and harvest wheat, and it is normal for everyone to go home and cut wheat as farmers.

But Texas grows winter wheat, which is generally sown from mid to late September to early October, matures from late May to mid to late June of the following year, and is now in February.

Only Colonel William Travis and his 150 men remained, but he still intended to refuse Houston's orders.

William Travis knew how important Goliard and San Antonio were to the whole of the emerging Texas.

Because once San Antonio was occupied by the Mexicans, it would be able to bring a steady stream of supplies to Tasan Anna and his Mexican legion.

In William Travis's eyes, Texas was seriously underarmed, with less than 2,000 regular troops, and no more than 3,500 volunteers from the United States.

Tasan Anna's expeditionary force of 8,000 men, with the cooperation of Mexican forces, plus the damned black slaves, Indians, and traitors are joining Tasan Anna's ranks.

William Travis pinned his last hope on the United States, which he hoped would go straight to the war, and for that he could not afford to lose San Antonio.

In order to hold Goriad, William Travis began to write letters asking for help, and he needed more soldiers and more weapons.

However, the Texans were also divided into several factions, most of which were led by the leaders of the Reclamation Groups, which had long been in competition, so most chose to ignore William Travis's request for help.