Mage Joan

Although the "Fumble Winter" has been lifted and the climate has improved, the Jotunheim area is adjacent to the Jotun Glacier to the west and Niforgem, which is covered with snow all the year round to the north. The winter is affected by the polar cold current. Very early, in September and October, the weather has obviously turned cold. At night, a fire must be set up in the room to keep warm, otherwise, even with a thick quilt, you will have to wake up in the middle of the night.

Most of the soldiers under General Clinton were young people from the Fijian mainland. They were accustomed to the humid and warm climate of their hometown. They were very uncomfortable with the cold and dry late autumn solar terms in the Jotunheim colony. The officers and soldiers who were brought down by the flu, even returned More than combat attrition.

When the time came to early October, new problems emerged in the city.

As the sea and land communication lines were cut off and the defenders were in serious shortage of supplies, filling their stomachs with three meals has become an unrealistic luxury. Even the wood for heating and cooking has become a headache for quartermasters.

The Continental Army is stationed outside the city, surrounded by jungles, pine, birch, maple, and yew trees. There are as many as they need. It is not a problem to cut wood to build barracks or build fires for heating.

The situation in the city is quite different. More than 20,000 garrisons are trapped in New Avalon and consume a lot of wood every day for cooking and heating, not to mention there are more than 80,000 residents in the city.

The trees in the city had been cut down a long time ago, and there was no way. The soldiers forced to demolish the residential houses, confiscated all the furniture such as door panels, tables and chairs, and chopped wood and burned them.

This is obviously not a long-term solution.

Not only did the soldiers complain, and the war-weariness was unprecedentedly strong, but the residents of the city were full of complaints. Military-civilian conflicts and even mass riots emerged one after another.

The shortage is not only wood, but also food.

The 20,000 garrisons ate and drank Lazarus. The supplies in the city could not be supplied at all. They had to forcibly requisition the residents’ rations, which made every household unable to open the pot. There was no more goods on the market to sell. The underground black market also saw prices soaring. Dead rats sold top-quality steaks. The price of this is still in short supply, and there are so many poor people who starve to death in the slums every day.

General Henry Clinton sat in trouble, and his only hope every day was to send a letter of distress to his home country, begging Prime Minister North and the navy brothers to give him a hand, and quickly dispatch a fleet to rescue him.

What about the dignified "empire that the sun never sets", the world's invincible Feizhen fleet? ×Why the **** thing is not coming?

If the king does not come to save his life, there is no need to fight, and the brothers will have to be starved to death!

General Clinton was eager to see through. He waited until mid-October when the sails of the Feizhen Fleet could not be seen at the port lighthouse. The sea was full of majestic Far Eastern warships, which was really frustrating.

When a person is unlucky, drinking cold water will cramp his teeth.

At the moment when General Clinton was waiting for rescue, another disaster took place in the city.

The dead mouse is really uneaten.

Beginning on October 11, the plague broke out suddenly in the city, and the epidemic spread rapidly from the slums to the port area and even the military camp.

The plague was not under control, and severe smallpox broke out in the city.

In these years, the smallpox vaccine is still a novelty. In the New World, only the Aborigines and the Continental Army were vaccinated against smallpox in large numbers.

In fact, even within the Continental Army, there are many doubts about the vaccine. It is believed that smallpox vaccination will infect healthy people. There are also vivid rumors that the smallpox vaccine is a conspiracy. Will be brainwashed and controlled by the mind...

These ridiculous myths are popular in the army. If it weren't for George Vassar to vaccinate smallpox in public, set an example for his subordinates, and require all officers and soldiers to vaccinate compulsory vaccination, this policy would not go on.

The smallpox vaccine pharmaceutical factory with the largest production capacity in the New World and even in the entire Vales world is affiliated to the "Life Foundation". During the war, the "Life Foundation" was actually an epidemic prevention organization dedicated to serving the Continental Army.

In New Avalon, even if the local garrison and the people are willing to be vaccinated, they do not have enough vaccines to fight. They are trapped in an isolated city ravaged by smallpox and can only wait for death in despair.

The news of the outbreak of smallpox in New Avalon spread. Rebecca Castiz, the chief garrison chaplain of the Continental Army, immediately realized that this was a good opportunity and personally wrote a report, requesting the headquarters to authorize the Life Foundation as soon as possible Draw a batch of vaccines, organize a medical team, and negotiate with General Clinton in the name of "avoiding humanitarian crises" to allow the medical team to enter the city to provide first aid for epidemic prevention.

This report caused some controversy in the headquarters, but most of the generals supported Rebecca’s initiative. Finally, the commander-in-chief’s adjutant Colonel Holton wrote an open letter to General Henry Clinton and delivered the original manuscript. Broadcasting station, publicly announced to the military and civilians in the city.

Of course, General Clinton could see that this was a psychological offensive launched by the Continental Army, occupying the moral commanding heights to destroy the morale of the defenders. You still have to appreciate this, or the entire city's garrison will have to mutiny on the spot!

General Clinton had no choice but to bite the bullet and write back to Commander-in-Chief Vassar, thanking him for the epidemic prevention assistance provided based on the noble chivalry spirit.

Early the next morning, an airship flying the Red Cross flag of the "Life Foundation" appeared over New Avalon. After passing through the ground garrison ditch, it slowly landed on the square in the middle of the city that was used as a temporary apron.

Rebecca and Conti wore snow-white military uniforms and beak-shaped anti-epidemic masks. They led a group of priests and druids in the same costume to hurriedly get out of the airship, each carrying a suitcase, and the boxes were iced. Smallpox vaccine.

This medical team stayed in the city for a week, and only boarded the airship until the 4000 smallpox vaccines had been injected, and flew away from New Avalon under the mixed farewell of General Clinton and his staff.

On the afternoon of returning to the headquarters, Rebecca and Conti took a secret letter and submitted it to General Vassar.

This is a petition jointly signed by the celebrities and gentry in the city, requesting the mercy of the commander-in-chief to peacefully liberate the new Avalon.

The gentry said in the letter that they had negotiated terms with General Clinton. As long as the Continental Army allowed the army to make a living, and allowed General Clinton to lead his subordinates and the hard-core royalists in the city to evacuate by boat, then General Clinton would also do so. Promise that civilians will never be harassed during the retreat.

George Vassar called the generals to a meeting to discuss the matter. Colofa, Vigraf, and Helena all believed that the compromise proposed by General Clinton should be accepted and the siege should be ended as soon as possible, otherwise it would be dragged to the Fibonacci naval fleet to come to support. Things are not easy to handle.