The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 65 The Choice Given by Yuri
After a night's rest, Yuri's troops headed towards Charleston again.

Yesterday's security regiment suffered very little battle damage and gained a lot of spoils. Yuri did not break his promise, and most of the spoils obtained on the battlefield fell into the pockets of the security regiment officers and soldiers.

Yuri kept nothing but the necessary muskets and ammunition.

Of course, this is not to say that Yuri does not allow the soldiers of the security regiment to obtain the muskets left on the battlefield.

Soldiers were not allowed to directly obtain muskets and ammunition left on the battlefield mainly to prevent them from taking these firearms out and selling them privately.

Therefore, these captured firearms and ammunition will be kept by the transport team as 'public property', and the frontline soldiers will be given ammunition and replacement flintlocks free of charge.

As for the personal items on the corpse, Yuri will not bother.

There may not be many valuable items on the bodies of those South Carolina soldiers. After all, the soldiers of this era are the working people at the bottom.

But this time the soldiers in the battle trial killed many officers. Many of these officers came from noble families, and they had quite a lot of good things on them.

To Yuri, the trophies on the corpses of those officers might not be attractive, but to the officers and soldiers of the security regiment, it was a great harvest.

Therefore, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the security regiment who set off again was very high.

Whoever discovers that he can win and share in the spoils without having to fight his life will be happy.

In this way, thousands of people under Yuri's troops came to the outskirts of Charleston.

In this era, everyone has realized the weakness of city wall defense. Under siege artillery, even the protection of a bastion is insufficient, let alone an ordinary city wall.

So Charleston, as a later colonial city, has no city walls, only some small fortress buildings.

The status of bastions in this world has been getting lower and lower, especially in the European battlefield, the use of a large number of large-caliber siege artillery and explosive shells has turned bastions into living coffins.

Therefore, the European battlefield has developed into mobile warfare, decisive victory in the field, and large-scale detours. The static warfare that relied on fixed-point defense in the past has long since disappeared.

Of course, this does not mean that the bastion has lost its function.

Neither heavy siege artillery nor flowering ammunition were cheap products, and even the British Empire, which started the first industrial revolution, did not cost very much to manufacture these things.

Therefore, the cost of capturing a bastion with artillery far exceeds the cost of building a bastion.

And it also takes a lot of time to bombard the bastion, losing precious attack time.

Therefore, a small number of independent large bastions are not very useful, but a dense and large number of bastion defense systems are still quite useful.

A large number of bastion defense systems can make the attacker consume more time and money, and play a valuable role in strategy.

Of course, Charleston, which was developed only after entering the age of guns, belongs to the open city of this era.

In fact, most of the towns in the thirteen colonial states of North America are open, which is completely different from the European continent with many ancient castles.

Even if there were castles built in the thirteen colonial states of North America, they were still bastions. For example, the castle where the Sauron family was located was built in the style of a bastion.

However, all the forts outside Charleston were small bastions, and Yuri could even spare them and directly attack the city, but in doing so, he needed to prevent the defenders in the bastion from rushing out to attack Yuri's troops on both sides.

"Manid, I have a very important task for you now, and this is your first opportunity to perform."

After arriving in the outskirts of Charleston, Yuri called Manid over.

He is a short, thin young man with a common face, but his eyes are very bright and piercing.

"My lord, please order, as long as it is the order of the lord, even if my body is smashed to pieces!"

Manid tried to straighten his chest and replied.

"No, no, you must save your own life, you are very important to me, I don't want to hear about your death.

And the task I entrusted to you is not fighting, after all, you are not a professional fighter like Fatis. "

Yuri said with a smile.

"Manid, look, what a prosperous city this is, and it would be a pity if he was destroyed in the flames of war."

Yuri pointed to the city outline on the horizon and said to Manid.

Charleston is South Carolina's largest port and busiest capital city, bigger than Savannah!
In the thirteen colonial states in North America, due to the successive development of the British Empire, the further south, the more desolate and the lower the degree of urbanization.

Therefore, there are only two decent cities in Georgia, and the combined economic aggregate is not as good as Charleston, the capital of South Carolina in the north.

Of course, lagging behind also has its benefits.

It is precisely because of backwardness that the power of the capitalists is weak.

The power of the capitalists is not enough, and the rights of the municipal committee will naturally be compromised, so the governor-general of Georgia has the supreme power that the governor-general of other states cannot have.

After all, the right to speak in peacetime is not determined by military power, but by economic strength and political status.

After hearing Yuri's emotion, Manid instantly understood, bowed and replied: "Please rest assured, Lord, I will let the nobles in Charleston feel the Lord's benevolence and valor."

"Don't be hard on yourself, Manid.

All you have to do is tell the people in power in Charleston that if they are willing to bring South Carolina to stand up and join us in fighting against the exploiting British Empire, you can turn the war into a treasure.

Otherwise, a human tragedy will unfold in Charleston.

I will not send troops to attack, but a more terrible disaster will befall Charleston. "

Manid's face was serious, he already understood what Yuri meant.

It is nothing more than coercion and inducement, and the proportion of the former far exceeds the latter.

When Jackson was rectifying the armed citizens and militia in Charleston, he was suddenly reported by his subordinates that the enemy had sent an envoy for negotiations.

Jackson, who was frowning, immediately handed over the work at hand to others, and rushed to the governor's mansion to meet the envoy sent by the Sauron family.

At the same time, representatives of the Charleston Municipal Council will also go to the Governor's Mansion to meet with the Sauron family envoys who won the first battle.

Now the upper echelons of Charleston city have learned how Yuri won the victory, and they are sincerely afraid of his weird summoning ability.

It's just that this news is only open at the top, and it is still a mystery to ordinary people in Charleston and soldiers at the bottom.

This is mainly the result of the high-level blockade in Charleston. They do not want to disclose Yuri's ability to affect the combat courage of Charleston soldiers.

(End of this chapter)