However, the number of Cossacks stationed in Atlantic City is not large, with only one infantry battalion, with a total of about one thousand people. Even this camp only has five hundred people taking shifts in the camp, and the rest are doing odd jobs in the city, and they are rotated every two months.

The main reason is that since the founding of the Cossack Republic, they have tense relations with the Armenian and Azerbaijanis in the Caucasus mountains, and they have occasionally clashed with the Ottoman Empire in the south, and their troops have begun to be short of their strength. Zelenko, the main force that originally provided the Cossacks to join the army, has now actively participated in the Great Northern War. There is only one Caucasian regiment stationed overseas, and now it is mainly stationed in Ceuta.

However, Luo Fei gave a better choice and directly hired the local Indian tribe Iroquoi.

The Iroquois are natives, familiar with the terrain, have been working with outsiders for a long time, and are skilled in using firearms. Most importantly, they have a deep feud with the French. In recent decades, conflicts between the two sides have continued. In the past two years, another interesting rumor has appeared in the Iroquois League, that is, the various infectious diseases in their tribe were deliberately spread to them by the French.

The Iroquois tribe also has the motivation to participate in the war. This tribe is now friendly with Atlantic City. As long as it is given a reasonable price, the Iroquois are easy to accept employment. They also plant crops such as corn to provide some supplies. Of course, the Iroquois also wanted to expand their fur trade, and the most beautiful furs are on the north.

Finally, at Luo Fei's suggestion, Su Weihua suspended his original plan of sending troops and tried to cooperate with the Iroquois tribe. He did not expect that he would only adjust his route, but did not expect that the Iroquois tribes not only had to participate in the war, but also had to dispatch two thousand tribe warriors, and the number was too large.

Su Weihua's goal was also modified. Originally, his land march plan was to directly enter Lake Huron among the Great Lakes, directly control the western part of New France, and attack the troops from sea to sea. Now he changed his mind, shortened his march route, went directly north, and attacked Montreal, the second core city of the French colony.

In August, the Expeditionary Force set out, and three armies set out from Atlantic City, Newfoundland and Havana. The army that carried out the enema plan in Havana quickly announced its failure. The lower reaches of the Mississippi River were too humid and hot. Expeditionary Force officers and soldiers from all over the empire soon developed a large number of diseases, especially tropical diseases such as dengue fever, and a large number of combat personnel were attributable to the number of troops.

The army officers, non-commissioned officers, artillery, balloon watchers, etc. were recruited from North American provinces or local dispatched troops, while the infantry was mainly provided by black soldiers from African development companies. As a result, the black soldiers were lively and jumped around. The officers and soldiers of the imperial ethnic group fell ill and could only declare the failure of the battle and retreated to Havana. Although it was still wet and hot there, there was at least clean water and food.

The other two armies successfully completed the task, mainly because the preliminary work done by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs and the Military Intelligence Bureau was very good.

It was normal for France to overdue the debt and hand over the colony as collateral to the empire, but the French government knew that this was the empire's injustice. Louis XIV did not declare a break with the empire. On the contrary, he sent an order to the Governor of New France, requiring the Governor to lead the colony's military and civilians to resist to the end. The reason was that the Governor Earl Beren did not receive the order handed over by the French government, but the local Frenchmen did not even know that New France was mortgaged.

But the problem is that the French would cheat, and all parties in the empire were also trying to counterattack.

Governor Beren had a long service in New France and participated in the King William War, that is, the war with the British colonies. He knew that even if New France mobilized comprehensively, he could only gather two thousand men willing to join the war, and they were all militias. Most of the weapons were clamps and a small number of flintlocks, which were incomparable to the rifled guns of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, not to mention that the Imperial Army and Marine Corps were generally equipped with rifled guns.

The Battle of Boston proved that the Chinese rifled guns could destroy the resistance of any soldiers outside the fortification four kilometers away.

Therefore, Beren did not organize a large-scale defense, and even gave up the two most important strongholds, Quebec and Montreal, and led a small number of loyal soldiers to retreat to the latest military fortress, Pontchartlandburg, or Detroit. It was originally established to maintain France's fur trade in the Great Lakes region, but now it is the deepest fortress of the French. If it doesn't work, Beren will retreat to the Louisiana region.

Beren first distributed a large number of weapons from militias and people from all over the country, proclaiming that the Chinese were demons and invaders, and asked them to resist.

But this is the limit that Beren did. All parties in the empire made a counterattack, which not only caused the conspiracy of Governor Beren to be destroyed, but even Su Weihua, who led the expeditionary force, was a little shocked.

In order for the Navy and Marines to raid Quebec from sea without being harassed, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs mobilized the Atlantic City fishing companies on a large scale before the war, and the shipping company hired French employees on a large scale, which directly led to the loss of most of the two thousand militias in the Earl of Beren's plan, and even the weapons they distributed were not collected.

Quebec is a city where imperial merchants trade legally, and surrounding villages and towns also participate in cod fish catching near Newfoundland. He has a relatively good understanding of imperial merchants and army and does not believe in Beren's propaganda at all.

Although the village and town strongholds in the inland areas were robbed of fur profits and were more hated, they also surrendered on a large scale.

This is mainly related to the Iroquois people. Luo Fei convinced the Iroquois League to join the war. Su Weihua's plan was to hire 300 to 400 people. In addition to being a guide, he could also be a jungle warrior soldier. However, the Iroquois could join the logistics force.

However, the salary and supplies provided by the Expeditionary Force were so tempting that the Iroquoi League directly asked two thousand soldiers to join the army. After being rejected, the Iroquoi League organized its own army to enter the French colony and attacked the French strongholds.

In the villages and towns in France, the strongholds watched the Iroquois warriors with muskets flocking to the crowd. While resisting, they contacted the Governor of Beren for assistance. After they could not get assistance, they could only surrender to the expeditionary forces. The reason was very simple. These Frenchmen did not dare to contact the Iroquois. These guys were good at cutting their heads, and they fought, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, and they killed them together.

Although the Earl of Beren advocated that the Chinese would kill, abuse prisoners, rape prisoners, rob money and insult religion, it was much better than the Iroquois.

The reason for the large-scale surrender of the French was also related to the local Catholic Church. Su Weihua himself did not expect that the Ministry of Overseas Affairs would directly convince the Jesus to cooperate with the expeditionary force.

Several religious specialists from the Ministry of Overseas Affairs went to churches everywhere with some letters and documents, and persuaded the Jesuit priests to assist. The priests came forward and the French finally resisted. They also knew that the Expeditionary Force really took over New France, without a decent battle, and almost no casualties.

The Jesuits were different from French merchants. The main income of the Jesuits in the colonies was the land and the people on the land. New France itself did not have much reclaimed land, and the local indigenous people were not so welcome to the Catholic Church. This was mainly related to the experience of the Hurons.

In the early days of the colonial period, a large number of natives of the Huron tribe joined the Catholic church in exchange for trade convenience, but were soon hated by other tribes, so that the tribes killed each other and lost their population, and finally lost to the Iroquoi League.

After the fur trade was gradually seized by Chinese merchants, the villages and towns in various places, whether French or indigenous, had their livelihoods in decline. In fact, the Jesus would go bankrupt in New France.

Moreover, the relationship between the Jesuits and the current French government is not good.

During the middle of Louis XIV's reign, the Jesuits and the French government were in honeymoon period. France used the Jesuits to attack the Janssenist theory in China. However, the situation changed drastically in the past decade. Since the empire owned Xijin, opened the Suez Canal, occupied Ceuta, and traded with Europe more and more frequently, and Eastern thoughts and Eastern theories have arrived.

In the interactions with China, Europeans were spreading the spirit of civilization, equality, rule of law, etc., which caused turmoil in European thoughts. The waves of enlightenment thoughts rose higher and higher. Europeans also promoted their values ​​and ideas based on Eastern thoughts, such as empires such as freedom, democracy, and human rights, which actually possessed, but were not in line with national characteristics and civilization forms, and therefore were not promoted.

The radical thinkers in Europe promoted absolute freedom, and in the empire, orderly freedom was the mainstream idea.

As the cultural center of Europe, the French were the main positions for the spread and collision of new ideas. These new ideas were united with French Jensenism and Gallicism, pointing the finger directly at conservative forces such as the Jesuits. Because of Louis XIV's lofty reputation, the French did not dare to criticize the monarchy excessively, but they spared no effort when scolding the Jesuits.

The Jesus hoped that Louis XIV would suppress this trend of thought, but Louis XIV was powerless. After the war of the Grand Alliance, Louis XIV also carried out reforms and re-emerged the mercantilist policy forty years ago in order to improve finances. The economic foundation of the Enlightenment thought was these capitalist forces. Without the challenge of personal authoritarianism, Louis XIV chose to remain silent.

As a result, the relationship between the Jesuits and France gradually deteriorated.

On the contrary, after the relationship between the Empire and the Holy See improved, the Jesuits and the Empire had a honeymoon period. This time, the Jesus helped them to repay their favors, because the Ministry of Overseas Affairs protected the interests of the Jesuits in the Brazilian colony of Portugal.

In Brazil, the most profitable industry is cotton planting, but planters generally lack labor, so they imitated their ancestors and focused on the indigenous peoples. Many indigenous people have converted to Catholicism and cannot be sold as slaves. The planters and the Jesus Christ had a conflict. To drive the Jesus Christ out of Brazil, it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to increase the import tariffs on cotton that suppressed those planters.

Of course, the Jesus also made concessions and no longer accepted escaped slaves. Even if the black slaves converted to the Catholic Church, their own and their descendants would not change the nature of the slaves.

At the same time, the Empire also contacted the Jesuits and tried to cooperate with the Jesuits on the territory of the Potosi Mining Company to manage the local miners who made trouble at any time.

Compared with Brazil and Bolivia, New France's shrinking interests year by year were simply not worth mentioning. As a result, when the Jesus evacuated New France in full, not only all religious people left, but also took away more than 4,000 French immigrants, helping the empire solve major problems.

In August, he marched into New France. After two months, the situation basically stabilized. Because the weather turned cold, Su Weihua planned to conquer Governor Beren and go south to Louisiana. Next spring, the French colony was officially transferred to the empire, giving the empire the only master of the North American continent. Historically, this takeover was regarded as a sign of the end of the empire's overseas expansion. Since then, the empire's territory has expanded with the landing of some territories and increased immigration, but due to colonial independence and other issues, the sphere of influence overseas is decreasing.

According to the arrangement of the empire, New France was also incorporated into the fief of King Yu. Because the situation was unstable, military control was temporarily implemented. Su Weihua served as the commander of the garrison of the new territory, and the important local geography and town names were modified.

It was originally decided that the ancient name of the St. Lawrence River was changed to the Songhua River. The city of Quebec was located north of the river and was named Jiangyang City according to imperial traditions.

However, the garrison headquarters was not located here, but was stationed in Montreal, which was the junction of the former French and the Iroquois Alliance forces, and the most complicated place. Because the Great Lakes and the rivers in the lower reaches filled the area with water, the new territory was named Daze Region, and Montreal was renamed Yunmeng.

After Su Weihua entered Yunmeng, the first thing he did was to hold an alliance ceremony between the Iroquoi Alliance and the Huron Tribe, hoping that the two tribes could let go of hatred and live in peace, but hundreds of years of hatred were not so easy to let go. Therefore, Su Weihua decided to define the sphere of influence for the two tribes, temporarily isolate them, and not interact with each other.

Unlike the economic ecology where Iroquois mainly fishing and hunting and planting are supplemented by planting, the Hurons mainly focus on agriculture, which is valuable in colonies. Therefore, the empire has always advocated protecting them, and the Hurons also actively cooperated with the empire in order to deal with the threat of Iroquois.

On the contrary, the Iroquois were a little unruly. For a long time in the future, for the sake of fur and revenge, they took the initiative to retaliate against the French colonists in the Daze area.
Chapter completed!