Reborn As a Pirate

Domineering? Or maybe money dictates it.

From the sergeant's mouth, Lorraine quickly asked most of the missing information.

New Orleans' arms smuggling system hadn't always been so tightly controlled. It had run loosely for most of the time. After all, the Americans needed guns and the French needed money.

Harshness is a recent change, and Lorraine unfortunately encountered a special period. Specifically, just over a month ago, the British and Indian allies officially launched an attack on New Orleans.

The nondescript New Orleans defense battle began.

Soldiers are not soldiers, generals are not generals, and this battle has been filled with the exotic style of New Orleans from the very beginning.

The first demon was the Spanish governor of New Orleans.

It stands to reason that this port is an important base for Spain to control the Gulf of Mexico. Reasonably, he is obliged to stop the British attack for his motherland.

But he doesn't see it that way.

In his view, the war was not the Spaniards' fault.

If the French hadn't borrowed New Orleans for crazy arms smuggling for political purposes, the British would never have put their limited troops into this delta-defended port that couldn't get naval support. This was the main reason for the war .

As the main beneficiary of smuggling, the French should take greater responsibility in this war. The Spaniards have done their best, and it is impossible to sacrifice their lives for the pockets of their allies.

So he bypassed the King of Spain and sent a note directly to the Louisiana authorities in New France.

The content of the note is roughly: If the French cannot stop the British attack on New Orleans outside the city, he reserves the right to surrender, and will do his best to hand over this beautiful and important transshipment port as completely as possible. to the British to protect the lives and property of the Spanish settlers.

Translated into adult language, the meaning of this note is [I've dropped the pick, you can figure it out].

The poor governor of Louisiana is Count Alves, and the Spanish governor did not give him the right to choose in this matter.

What exactly is New Orleans?

On the one hand, she is one of the important ports for Spain to control the Gulf of Mexico, and it is Spain's most important financial and taxation place on the Caribbean coast.

Charleville-style smuggling is official smuggling. Although it enjoys tax-free rights in American ports, it has always been regarded as a routine transaction in New Orleans and is subject to tax.

On the other hand, she is the only mouth of the Mississippi River.

The French occupied the fertile central part of North America, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and New France nearly encompassed the Mississippi Valley.

The deep and wide Mississippi River is a godsend for inland waterway shipping, so New France built almost all of its important cities on both sides of the river, including Baton Rouge, the Governor's Palace in Louisiana.

If the British occupy New Orleans "as completely as possible", the fifth and sixth ranks of the New Continental Fleet will continue to sail from the delta to the wide Mississippi River, and then upstream, all the way to the Great Lakes.

There is no fleet on the Mississippi River that can fight against this powerful force, and the French and Americans on the Great Lakes do not have a fleet strong enough to fight the British. This means that once New Orleans is lost, the British can beat the entire French colony to the ground at any time.

In the worst case, the French will be completely driven out of the New World, and thus become the laughing stock of Europe. Without the support of France, the immature American Revolution will be quickly extinguished under the attack from three sides. It is tantamount to fantasy to have another Boston Tea Party.

New Orleans is the lifeblood of France in the New World. Count Galvez has no choice but to fight desperately for the survival of France in this Spanish territory!

He told his most direct descendants the truth of the righteousness,

It is also the most elite Baton Rouge regiment in Louisiana.

But who would have thought that the Baton Rouge Legion would also start acting like a monster...

Most of the French soldiers in Louisiana came from the French pioneers and descendants of the pioneers in the New World, especially the Baton Rouge Legion. Because of the close relationship with New Orleans, most of them have relatives in New Orleans , or simply was born in New Orleans.

More than ten years ago, since that vile banquet that spilled French blood on the parade ground, the Spanish colonial governor has not changed the policy of France in the past.

Free the slaves, adjust the parliament, remove the privileges of the French in the port, tear down the beautiful French architecture, encourage the ugly Spanish arc...

Things went from bad to worse for the French in New Orleans.

Especially three years ago, a confusing fire broke out in the French Quarter, killing nearly a thousand people. The Spaniards accused the French of setting fire after drinking, but the French could not forget the hundreds of French pioneers who were buried in the fire.

Most people think it's a conspiracy.

Because in that fire, nearly one-third of the old French buildings were burned, and they were uniformly adjusted to the Spanish architectural style in the subsequent reconstruction, which greatly weakened the influence of France on New Orleans.

In the hearts of the French in Louisiana, the Spaniards are equal to bad guys, despicable, shameless, insidious, and cunning. Even if the two sides are allies now, they are still a pair of plastic allies.

The Baton Rouge Legion didn't want to die for such a plastic ally, so they refused to play.

Lorraine didn't know what Count Galvez was feeling at that time, he only knew the result.

In this crazy environment, the earl finally became the third person to be a monster.

He set his sights on the right to smuggle Charleville rifles.

It is not difficult for him to monopolize gun smuggling. As Lorraine knows, as a new type of gun, the New World does not have the ability to produce Charleville rifles. All smuggled guns must be manufactured in France and transported by the ocean fleet Go ashore in Pensacola, and then run to New Orleans by river navigation, and deliver it to every officially designated smuggler.

And Pensacola is the territory under the jurisdiction of the Earl and the Baton Rouge Legion. What the Earl needs to do is to temporarily turn the interests that should have been shared by a dozen big nobles into the exclusive wealth of himself and the Baton Rouge Legion. .

He did it.

He used money to drive the rebellious Baton Rouge Legion to intercept firearms, and then used these firearms to coerce smugglers into mercenaries. He also planned to use the final victory to win the trust of Louis XVI, and use his meritorious deeds to resist those whose economic interests were damaged. Noble counterattack.

Since making this decision, the Earl cut off his retreat.

The purpose of defending New Orleans has been completely changed, and if the patriot fails, he and his family will die very badly, very very badly.

In this case, would anyone not want the Earl to win?

Lorraine suddenly thought of this question, and the more he thought about it, the brighter his eyes became.

"Sargeant, how many days has this war started?"

"Forty-two days."

"Which side has the advantage now?"

"Since the beginning of the war, the earl has never failed once. He commanded well, the smugglers who were recruited were brave and fearless, and the battlefield was far away from New Orleans. We have an absolute advantage. The earl said that for another month at most, those British guys should hold Tail escaped."

"Really..." Lorraine smiled inexplicably, "If you are lucky enough to meet the Earl, please send me your most sincere wishes."

The sergeant was stunned: "You...don't plan to line up?"

"No more. The Earl's smuggling rights need to be exchanged for victory, but my sailors are uneven. Even if I step on the battlefield, I will only hinder the Earl. I still have some self-knowledge about this."