New Shun 1730

In June and July of this year.

Because the main force of the Dashun Navy in Europe, led by French privateers, once again attacked southern Ireland, and triggered a large number of Irish Catholics to respond.

So, in North America, the French Navy completed the blockade of the Gulf of Maine.

It is called a blockade, but it is more like collecting tolls.

Basically, trade has not stopped. A large number of North American merchants can still ignore the French blockade as long as they produce evidence to prove that they have previously sold grain, cattle and horses to the Caribbean sugar islands of France or Spain.

And this is equivalent to the entire New England region and the big merchants around the Gulf of Maine, all of which are not affected.

Because everyone, or every big businessman with a face, can produce a lot of evidence to prove that they used the British Navigation Regulations as a wipe before, and often smuggled wood, cattle, horses, grain, etc. that France and Spain urgently needed to the Caribbean Islands.

Of course, not all.

There are also some specialized privateers, especially the notorious privateers, who have suffered serious blows.

Privateers, it’s okay to rob merchant ships. Fighting with a regular fleet is still inferior after all.

With the completion of the blockade of the Gulf of Maine in early July, the Acadians' landing revenge and military operations to bring the war to the enemy's home were officially launched.

Dashun continued to play the role of a good guy in the middle, and was pulling a group of leading figures from North American states to hold another meeting in Philadelphia, suggesting that each state send people to Dashun to escort them back to Britain and petition Britain for a peaceful ceasefire.

To be honest, France was able to blockade the Gulf of Maine because Dashun had previously gone to Ireland with French privateers, resulting in the British Channel Fleet having to go around the island and not daring to go far.

But the fact is that Dashun did not blockade the Gulf of Maine, nor did it directly send troops to attack the hinterland of New England.

Because Dashun's thousands of marines replaced the French troops in Montreal on the St. Lawrence River, and did not come directly to the hinterland of New England.

The diplomats of Dashun waited for the revenge team of the Acadians to make a name for themselves in the hinterland of New England, and then acted as "peacemakers" to at least protect the North American merchants and smugglers in the coastal cities.

As for now, it is not the right time yet. The more fierce the revenge of the Acadians, the more valuable this "out of nothing" card will be.

The first target chosen by the attacking team of Joseph Godin and others was a small town, Haverhill, where Joseph Godin could get what he wanted.

This was the hometown of his enemy, Moses Hassan, who skinned his daughter.

It was also the first choice for many people to take revenge. After all, the cruelty of Moses Hassan was exclaimed by the British commander and later British Marshal Geoffrey Amherst as "cruel", "unacceptable", and "shame on the captain rank I awarded him".

Of course, since it has been regularized and rectified, the attack on the town cannot be just for revenge.

The main reason for attacking Haverhill is still military value and deterrence.

If Massachusetts is more crazy.

Then Haverhill is the most crazy among the crazy, especially in the matter of treating Indians, it can be said to be the king of the crazy at this time.

Not only did it contribute to the skinning king such as Moses Hassan, but also contributed a large number of Rangers.

There are naturally historical reasons for this.

The first historical reason is that during the Salem witch trial, the judge of this town withstood the pressure and only killed a dozen people by hanging and burning.

Because there were fewer deaths, the Congregational Church did not become a stinking dog shit in Haverhill like other places afterwards.

The Congregational Church is a more extreme Calvinist, the kind that burns people at will, so the religious background of this town can be imagined.

Another thing is that this town is the birthplace of the "hero myth" in North America, a typical propaganda of the Congregational Church, and the birthplace of one of the several myths that promote "killing Indians and scalping".

Attacking here has a great spiritual deterrent effect.

North Americans love to make up stories, especially stories about heroes or superheroes.

Haverhill is a typical example of a North American "superwoman" story - in the story, a woman named Hannah Dustin was captured by Indians. She took advantage of the Indians' inattention and chopped 12 people. A woman chopped 12 Indians and returned with the captured weapons after being captured, and received a bonus of 50 pounds.

True or false... it doesn't matter.

What matters is that this is undoubtedly an inspiring story.

It not only promotes that Indians are not scary, but also promotes that killing can be rewarded. In addition, women can chopped 12 people in a row, what are you afraid of?

The Congregational Church immediately issued promotional materials, saying that Hannah said in person, "I thank my captivity, this is the most comfortable time I have ever had; in my pain, God, His words make me feel comfortable. I saw the guidance of the angel, He brought me the desire for revenge and the insatiable desire for blood."

In fact, she was illiterate.

But the Congregational Church immediately accepted her as a formal member. You know, if you join the Congregational Church, you can be considered a "visible saint." Most people are "half-way in," and they have to pay tithes and cannot serve as county administrators.

This trend of thought of "God's guidance to have an endless desire for blood" and "randomly killing red-skinned and yellow-skinned people" has a far-reaching impact in Haverhill.

It affected the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900. Some people in Haverhill won a medal of honor in Tianjin with this crazy belief.

In fact, anyone who has read the Bible, or even read it as a story, will know at a glance that the story of Hannah Dustin is purely adapted from the story in the Old Testament [Jael stabbed Sisela with a hammer].

But religious people buy into this.

As the birthplace of this set of bullshit stories and the typical example of "revenge on the Indians" established by the Congregational Church, most people in this town are crazy.

Not only did they produce people like Moses Hassan who could make the British exclaim, but they also contributed a large number of well-known executioners in the Acadia Massacre.

After landing on the coast, Joseph Godin and others quickly brought the attacking force to Haverhill, which was very close to the coast.

The bells rang in the church in Haverhill, and the local militia organized and tried to resist. At the same time, people were sent to other places for help.

However, it was different from the attack they imagined.

The revenge troops where Joseph Godin was located did not attack directly, but used the Piercing Monkey supported by Dashun.

Outside the town, a support was set up and a round of attacks were launched on Haverhill.

This thing is definitely not good for attacking fortresses.

It is indeed useful for burning houses.

Nearly half of the sixty large Piercing Monkeys fell in the town of Haverhill and soon ignited a fire.

After the attack, these people did not stay here, nor did they enter the town to rob things or continue to kill people.

Instead, they quickly turned to the coast and ambushed the militia coming to rescue from Amesbury on land, and then followed the same method and burned Amesbury with Piercing Monkeys.

However, they did not leave by boat immediately. Instead, after replenishing supplies at the seaside, they continued to ambush in the forest near Haverhill, waiting for the arrival of the Rangers who rescued Haverhill.

They were sure that there would be a Ranger team returning, because there were many Ranger members in Haverhill, and their homes were burned, so it was impossible for them not to come back.

Lurking in the forest is the advantage of these Acadians, and it is also the reason why North America has to use locals to form rangers familiar with forest tactics.

Joseph Godin, resisting the urge to rush into the burning Haverhill to find Moses Hassen's family and kill them all, lurked in the forest, convinced that Moses Hassen, who was resting in the Boston area, would definitely come back.

And for Dashun, this tactic of hitting and running, directly using the sky-piercing monkey to burn the town, will soon get the results they want, a Massachusetts that opposes war instead of advocating war.