Chapter 22: The Murderer

Tasan Anna stepped out of his tent, he looked at the fallen soldiers and the burning camp, buttoned up his shirt.

Tasan Anna decides to make rounds of his barracks, and Miss Jenny joins in as a nurse to save lives.

Before this fight, Tasan Anna may have only indulged in the feeling of being a savior and being worshipped.

Now, he's starting to really think about the soldiers who are desperate to save him.

Tasan Anna, as a president does not understand politics, as a general does not know how to fight, as a man, he can't control his body, let alone his wife.

But Tasan Anna had always been kind to his men, he cared about his soldiers, allowed them to plunder whenever he could, and kept his booty, and he even made his own orderlies vice president.

Those who received his favor usually called him president, called him general, called him Napoleon of North America, called him savior...

However, at the critical moment, all those people scattered and fled, abandoning him, and the army formation of 3,000 men was almost scuttled through by 800 people.

If it weren't for the three hundred black soldiers, Tasan Anna would have gone to see God or been locked up in a cell in the Houston barracks.

Most of the black soldiers on the ground fell on the way to the charge, many still holding sabers and pitchforks. A black soldier was dead, but his hands were still holding a Texan's neck.

Tasan Anna took the battle damage statistics from the orderlies and took off his hat to pay tribute to these brave men.

Tasan Anna ordered the burial of these warriors, and promoted all 23 surviving black soldiers to non-commissioned officers, and one of the black soldiers even captured two prisoners and was directly promoted to major, so that he could command the black battalion.

In the Mexican army, the rank of major is not low, and it can definitely be regarded as an exceptional promotion.

At this time, the total strength of Mexico was only 27,000 people, and a colonel often managed 1,000~1,500 people, and there were only about 20 colonels and officers with real power in the country.

Tasan Anna is now president, but he prefers to be called a general because he used to be a general.

In the Mexican army, general is the highest military rank, and there are only four people in the country who hold this title.

To reward the black soldier for his bravery, Tasan Anna decided to give him a Spanish name, Diego, which means brave warrior.

Tasan Anna asked Diego, "What do you want?" ”

"Bullets, sir!"

Tasan Anna ripped off Diego's bullet pouch and found that it contained stones.

"Quartermaster!" Tasan Anna roared.

The quartermaster trotted all the way over, and Tasan Anna tossed the bullet bag to the quartermaster.

"What's going on?!"

The quartermaster looked at the stones in the bag with an embarrassed expression.

"It could be. Got the wrong one.."

Tasan Anna pulled out his single-shot pistol and pointed it at the quartermaster's forehead.

"Got the wrong one? My soldiers have no bullets, no rifles, they fight people with broadswords and spears, you say take the wrong one? ”

The quartermaster knelt on the ground and prayed.

"It's just a joke, Your Excellency the President, let me go."

The fact that the quartermaster gave stones to black soldiers as ammunition was known to many people, and everyone praised him for his humor at the time.

"Jokes? Because of your jokes, you buried the best soldiers under my command. Do you think about how you died? ”

At this time, the quartermaster realized the seriousness of the problem, and the person in front of him was not only the president of Mexico, but also a murderous warlord and bandit leader...

"Spare me, for God's sake."

"Spare you? How do I account for the dead soldiers? ”

"My brother-in-law is General Gabriel, and he is your ally."

"Gabriel? Skinned him and sent it to Gavrier when he returned home for him to recognize. ”

Two indigenous soldiers, one on the left and one on the right, set up the quartermaster and walked towards the open space in the middle of the barracks.

"Leave me alone, General... President .."

Tasan Anna ignored the damned quartermaster, and invited Gabrinz and Stadion to watch the execution with great interest.

In front of the quartermaster's body, Tasan Anna announced:

"Anyone who fights for Mexico, is a citizen of Mexico.

Any Mexican soldier is a soldier of my Tasan Anna.

All citizens, all soldiers enjoy the same treatment.

No one can look down on you! If there is, then I, Tasan Anna, will be the first not to let him go! ”

Tasan Anna enjoys the gaze of the crowd, and he loves the feeling of being a hero.

As a result of this battle, Tasan Anna lost half of his supplies, and he had to retreat to San Antonio.

In fact, he still had about 10,000 rifles in his possession, which were obsolete items purchased from Austria at the time, but he always had a miser mentality, and he did not want to issue these guns to the soldiers, which he still has to do.

Back in San Antonio, Tasan Anna made good on his promise.

He freed all the black slaves of San Antonio and gave them some abandoned plantations by Texans, giving them the assurance of a decent life.

But Tasan Anna demanded that these black families must fight for him, and that each family must send a member to join his army.

A brand new black infantry battalion was formed, and the first battalion commander was Diego.

All the blacks were given military uniforms, a flintlock pistol and twenty rounds of ammunition.

Tasan Anna's forces will move north again in a month's time.

Vienna.

The Society of Physicians, represented by Dr. Thomas, protested to Emperor Ferdinand I.

They considered the doctor's hand to be sacred, and that it was rude to ask the doctor to wash his hands, and that if the emperor insisted on his impertinent request, then the doctors of all Vienna would go on strike.

Both the Count of Korolav and the Prince of Metternich wondered why the two brothers, His Majesty the Emperor and Archduke Franz Karl, were at odds with a group of doctors.

For the first time, the Regency Council consulted the emperor.

"Those disgusting guys, trying to get the disgusting stuff on me! I'm the emperor, and I said it won't work! Ferdinand I roared.

Count Korolav and Metternich looked at each other, wondering which doctor had brought something dirty to the emperor to make him so angry.

They decided to arrest the doctor who had recently treated the emperor and calm the emperor's anger.

"If the parliament decides, it is to send the death sentence of the queen herself to her, and she will have to sign it."

But such a thing was absolutely impossible in Austria at this time, and the first thought of the Regency was to appease the emperor's anger.

And with the issuance of the arrest warrant, the doctor's strike, which had been boiling before, disappeared in an instant.

Even the Dr. Thomas returned to his work, shouting "Long live Ferdinand I" every day for fear of being arrested by the secret police.

Franz also collected a lot of evidence for this purpose, and he was going to have a debate with doctors all over Vienna, and even invited the church to pull the shelf.

Of course, he was also prepared to be treated as a madman, after all, the first doctor in history to propose the handwashing method was beaten to death by his peers as a madman.

However, as the investigation deepened, Franz became more and more furious, and he felt that the "civilian killer" must die.

According to the testimony of Thomas's assistant, Dr. Thomas washed his hands with alcohol before each visit to the nobles, but not to the commoners.

This is not medical malpractice, but murder.