The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 272 Haiti War
After Duan Yucai finished speaking, the scene fell into a low-pitched discussion.

"That's not just an ordinary traitor, but a black slave—"

"They are only against slavery now, and are not directly against France. They may even support the current French court."

"They are rebelling against the original French court, and the king of the original court is still in our Ming Dynasty."

"It's not appropriate to deal directly with these black rebels now..."

Zhu Jianxuan was also thinking about the pros and cons of several ideas proposed by several officials.

Zhu Jianxuan's thinking was different from that of officials at that time, and he would consider the long-term impact more.

Directly contacting the rebels in the European colonies could indeed create a trend in the colonies where people would turn to the Ming Dynasty if they wanted to rebel.

However, the "places" accepted in this form will have a high degree of independence, and they will definitely want conditions similar to those of the American free states.

If possible, you should try to exercise direct control rather than granting them autonomy.

Especially since the rebels in Haiti were black slaves, and what they were fighting for was freedom. Zhu Jianxuan did not want to have a large number of free blacks in his jurisdiction.

Zhu Jianxuan carefully considered his words:

“Dealing directly with the rebellious black slaves in Haiti is the next best option, so don’t consider it for now.

"First, we should deal with it in the direction of suppressing the rebellion and eliminating the rebels.

“I think the ideas you mentioned are all good, and we can try a plan that combines both.

"Dispatch 10,000 Ming main forces from my accompanying legion to attack and defeat the main force of the rebels on the front battlefield.

"Ten thousand U.S. Royal Army troops, ten thousand U.S. Free State Army troops, and another twenty thousand black slave troops were organized to assist in the war, responsible for suppressing and controlling the local area.

“If you find that you don’t have enough troops after the battle, immediately notify the rear to send more troops.

"Privy Councilor Cao Zhendong served as the commander-in-chief of this operation, and US Army Chief Li Anbang served as the deputy commander-in-chief.

"Zhao Chengdong, commander of the North American Central Guard, commanded the Royal Army, Horatio Gates commanded the Free State Army, and George Washington commanded the Black Slave Army.

“Arrange my escort fleet for patrols, and the U.S. Navy fleet for support.

“Control key ports and towns, blockade maritime shipping and supplies.

Zhu Jianxuan made up his mind and issued a series of orders.

The civil and military officials at the scene immediately stood up and received the order:
"I obey your orders."

The initial question raised by Zhu Jianxuan was how to control the situation at the lowest cost, and he was now preparing to send out 50,000 troops.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, this scale is not particularly small, but it is definitely not large either.

It's also easy for the United States.

But this exceeds the mobilization capacity of other European countries overseas.

The millions of European and Ming descent in North America have a huge advantage.

Moreover, both the Free State Militia and the Kingdom’s Military Farm Militia are a special mobilization system.

If the cost is not taken into account, North America can now organize more than half a million militias.

The general direction of the operation was determined, and the meeting entered the military meeting stage and began to discuss specific operational plans.

Zhu Jianxuan specially reminds:
"You can use Molotov cocktails and grenades, and make sure to kill as many as possible and destroy the rebels' manpower.

“There is no need to be particularly concerned about the plantations on the island, and there is no problem in completely destroying the island to its original state.

The group of military officers understood in their hearts and agreed directly.

The battle planning meeting lasted three days, and three days later the generals set off on a steamship.

Fei Chun was also ordered to go to New Orleans to meet with Haitian slave owners' representative, De If.

He was accompanied by the magistrate of Ao County, and Charles Martin, the clerk of the European House, was responsible for translation.

Deif lived in New Orleans for half a month. When he heard that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were coming to meet him, all the anxiety that had accumulated over the past few days was swept away.

When he found out that Martin was going to be his translator, he suddenly felt anxious again.

At the same time, he subconsciously swore in his heart that he must learn Chinese in the future and not let a pariah like Martin get between him and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

On behalf of Zhu Jianxuan, Fei Chun accepted De If's invitation and signed a cooperation agreement with De If.

The Ming Dynasty and the United States jointly sent troops to quell the black riots in Haiti.

Haitian officials and citizens such as De If requested to annex the country and become a dominion of the United States while retaining slavery.

Deif wanted to become a free state, but Fei Chun was arranged by Zhu Jianxuan and could not agree.

In the end, Deif had no choice but to accept the dominion plan.

The American fleet then escorted Deif's entourage back to Haiti to report the results of his negotiations.

Fei Chun stayed in New Orleans, waiting to reunite with Zhu Jianxuan and leave.

The military attachés, led by Cao Zhendong, returned to New York to gather troops, ships, and supplies in preparation for the expedition to Haiti.

With the order signed by Zhu Jianxuan himself, these matters were of course not hindered.

Ten thousand slave soldiers is a little troublesome, but it is not a problem as long as you spend money to buy them.

On February 1792, the 2th year of the reign of Emperor Xianning of the Ming Dynasty (February 22, in the Western calendar), the assembled army set sail from New York for Haiti.

Seven days later, the fleet arrived at the island of Haiti and headed for Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.

Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, was once the most prestigious place in the Caribbean, but now it has become a ruin.

Fire is the easiest way to destroy everything and leave your mark.

The residents of the port city have died or fled, but there are some figures moving around on the dock, who seem to be rebellious black slaves responsible for defending and controlling the port.

But they obviously didn't care much about their work and wandered around the messy docks and surroundings.

The naval warships were only discovered when they came within firing range.

The captain did not hesitate and directly ordered to open fire on the crowd on the shore to disperse the gathered black slaves.

The army on the subsequent transport ships directly launched a landing operation.

There was no suspense in the battle. The landing troops quickly took control of the dock, and more soldiers on the transport ships began to go ashore.

The European-American soldiers and officers from the Free State were all somewhat surprised to see the devastation before them.

When they were divided into several teams as ordered, they checked and patrolled the surrounding areas and arrived at the edge of the original urban area.

Many disgusting things were found in the ruins after the fire.

There seemed to be a human corpse, which was strung up on a long pole, burned in the fire, and finally had its flesh and muscles eaten away by maggots and birds.

In the end, only a bunch of bones were left stuck on it, and there were many broken bones scattered around.

The soldiers in charge of the search did not have time to be surprised or curse before they heard human howling in the distance.

A large group of rebellious black slaves rushed over. Apparently, a large number of black slaves stationed nearby received the news that a ship had landed in Port-au-Prince.

The soldiers, who were not engaged in direct combat, immediately ran back to the camp on the dock to report.

The main force on the dock has already formed a defensive formation.

The Free State Army formed a line infantry formation in the middle, while the main Ming army provided long-range support on both sides of them.

The slave rebels approached the dock, and when the distance between the two sides was shortened to 150 meters, the main force of the Ming Dynasty opened fire, and the Free State Army launched a counterattack with bayonets at their disposal.

Accompanied by the sharp sound of gunfire, the sound of bullets hitting the body, and the sound of blood splattering, a one-sided battle began.

The poorly trained Haitian slave rebels collapsed immediately after one encounter.

After defeating this rebel force, the Ming Dynasty continued to transport troops to the shore, while arranging more troops to attack from all sides to explore and search the surrounding plantations.

However, according to Zhu Jianxuan's instructions, the battle was mainly aimed at destroying the rebels' manpower, and there was no need to pay special attention to the plantations.

Therefore, unless it was a strategic location or transportation line, the troops sent out were only to investigate the situation on the plantations and defeat the black slave rebels entrenched in the plantations.

They would not send troops to occupy and guard ordinary plantations, nor would they be in a hurry to join forces with local slave owners such as De If.

Zhu Jianxuan did not take De Ive and others seriously. His cooperation with them was more in name only, in order to get a minimum excuse to join the war.

The combat strategy proposed by Zhu Jianxuan was not in the interests of slave owners such as Deif at all.

The slave owners would have wanted to suppress the rebellion as quickly as possible and recover and secure their assets, which included plantations and slaves.

They wanted the slave rebels to go back and continue working for them as slaves rather than kill them directly.

Many of the Free State Army soldiers who participated in the war came from slave-owning families and viewed plantations and slaves as wealth.

At first, they didn't understand why Zhu Jianxuan gave the instruction to "eliminate the living force" and just thought that Zhu Jianxuan hated black slaves.

But as they began to move around the island of Haiti, inspecting one destroyed plantation after another and defeating one group of black slave rebels after another, they gradually understood.

In these plantations, they saw traces of various tragedies and all kinds of human "remains".

Among the destroyed and abandoned plantations, there may be only some horrific corpses.

But in the places where the black slave rebels were still entrenched, there were many things that looked alive and had not yet completely rotted.

Voodoo was popular among black slaves in Haiti, and the riot was initially organized through voodoo.

So after the riot began, the slaves not only took revenge and vented their anger, but also did many things that seemed evil to outsiders.

Things really happened just as Zhang Xu had mentioned when he first made the suggestion, and as Zhu Jianxuan and other officials had thought at the time.

These things really left a deep impression on the Free State soldiers who participated in the war.

Since human eyes have natural structural defects and normal images are constructed relying on the rendering capabilities of the brain, humans are naturally good at association.

Especially when the identities and situations are similar.

When soldiers who came from slave-owning families in the American Free States saw the Haitian white slave owners who were no longer human, they would naturally think of the situation at home.

I wonder if my slaves would also rebel and end up like this!
They had more fear and disgust in their hearts, so they had no worries when fighting and began to actively implement combat strategies to destroy the living force.

Six months have passed since the uprising began last fall, and slave rebels have taken control of more than half of Haiti's land and plantations.

The number of slaves participating in the rebellion has exceeded 200,000, which is almost reaching the limit.

The casualties of white slave owners have exceeded one-third, and the remaining ones have been concentrated in a few larger estates, using the remaining compatriots and slaves to protect themselves.

Haiti had experienced many small-scale slave rebellions in the past, and many slave owners were actually well prepared.

Especially the larger manors have their own organized armed forces and relatively complete defense facilities.

They also controlled slaves through the use of slaves by treating their large number of slaves differently.

It still holds considerable power.

However, the scale of this rebellion was too large, and many relatively safe manors were destroyed, and the manors that were still surviving were worried that they would not be able to withstand it.

The news that Deif brought back at the end of last year finally gave them the confidence to keep going.

At the same time, the slave rebellion was large in scale, but there was no unified organization. It was composed of many leaders in many places, each gathering a large number of slaves to fight on their own.

The Haitian Revolution fell into a chaotic stalemate.

In the original history, the powers of France, Britain and Spain began to intervene around this time.

Now the Ming Dynasty is taking action from the United States at the fastest speed.

Historically, countries that have intervened in Haiti's affairs have basically stood on the side of the rebellious black slaves. Even France had to stand on their side in the end.

Because there are too few white people in Haiti, there is no way to form a balance of power.

There were no steam sailing ships at that time, and the European naval powers had limited ocean-going delivery capabilities. Maintaining 30,000 people in places without local supplies was the limit.

In addition, smoothbore flintlock rifles had existed for a long time, and the white people at that time did not have much advantage in weapons compared to the rebellious black slaves.

But the strategies of the Ming Dynasty and the United States are different. Now they are concentrating on eliminating the black slave rebels.

The United States could send personnel and supplies directly from the North American continent, and it already had a large number of steam-powered sailing ships, so it was not a problem to maintain an army of 100,000 to fight in Haiti.

The key is that the bolt-action rifles of the Ming main force are responsible for fire cover and frontal annihilation of the enemy.

After crushing the enemy's morale, the task of the remaining ordinary troops is to reap the fruits of victory and control the areas that need to be occupied.

Unless the enemy is completely dispersed and fighting guerrilla warfare, there is no way the Ming-American coalition will lose.

The revolutionary movements of this era began with the American War of Independence and reached their climax with the French Revolution, which in turn triggered a series of reactions in the surrounding areas.

As the revolution broke out in Haiti, another declining power on the European continent was also trying to revive itself.

In order to free Poland from its current state of decadence, Poland's patriotic youth, scholars, and nobles are preparing to reform and strengthen the country.

Prepare to abolish the system of electing kings and replace it with a hereditary succession system.

Guided by the Enlightenment and referring to the new constitution of the French, they formulated their own constitution and established a constitutional monarchy.

The plan was to form an army of 100,000 soldiers to completely break free from Russian control and drive the Russian troops out of the border.

To ensure the success of their reforms, the Poles also attempted to form an alliance with Prussia and contacted the French revolutionary government for help.

In the original history, Russia and Austria were fighting against the Ottoman Empire at this time, and Prussia had begun to interfere in the French Revolution.

The Poles saw and seized this rare political opportunity and successfully created a fairly modern constitution.

Russian Tsar Catherine II tolerated it for a year and even expressed congratulations.

But after the war with the Ottoman Empire ended, Russia immediately sent troops to invade Poland.

In this world, Catherine II did not wait for a moment, nor did she wait for Poland to get things done, she began to act.

At the same time, he sent people to contact the Austrians and Prussians, inviting them to divide Poland again.

Poland successfully won a strategic opportunity period for France.

(End of this chapter)