"This group of bastards! Slags! What are they doing?" The Duke of Norfolk viciously threw the document reporting the situation to the ground, and then chased after him with no grace and kicked the document again.

"Governor General, Governor General, although our army has suffered a little loss... but... the loss does not seem to be large... Governor General..." Adjutant Orkin said in a panic.

"This is not a matter of loss, it is a long struggle, at least before the French retreat their dirty hands, it must be! Loss like this is completely expected. Not to mention such a small loss, even a loss ten times greater than this is expected by the United Kingdom. Tony, do you think I will be so angry because of the death of just over forty people?"

"Then Governor, you..."

The Duke of Norfolk had calmed down at this time, and he said: "Because the commander of this team, after suffering such losses, in order to vent his anger, actually...what is the village called?"

"Blackstone Village." Olkin added.

"Yes, it's Blackstone Village. That fool actually killed all the villagers left in Blackstone Village in order to vent his anger, and said that this was a warning to the bandits. He didn't understand this fool. At this time, when he had been in place for several hours, the villagers who were willing to stay in the same place would at least not directly resist our rule? What was he doing? Is he going to drive all the Irish people to the rebels? Who was he working for? We, or those rebels!" At this point, the Duke of Norfolk, who had already calmed down, became angry again.

"Tony, I came to Ireland and made the form here so great, but this fool, slag, lost all the effort in one go..." At this point, the Duke of Norfolk sat down on the chair weakly, reached out to take off the monocle from his nose, threw it on the table, and closed his eyes. After a while, he waved his hand and said:

"Well, Tony, what's that fool's name? Please help me see and then retire this fool. Otherwise, God knows what other stupid things he will do!"

Orkin walked over and picked up the paper, flipped it over, and then said with a very embarrassed look: "Governor, that..."

"What's wrong?" The Duke of Norfolk opened his eyes.

"The battalion commander, his surname is Taphoton. If I'm not wrong, he is the son of Count Taphoton." Olkin replied.

"The son of Taphoton?" The Duke of Norfolk sat upright. Earl of Taphoton was a member of the Tory Party in the House of Nobles and had a lot of influence. Moreover, because he also belonged to the Tory Party, he had a good relationship with the Duke of Norfolk.

"Damn! How could this old fox, Tahuidun, have such a stupid son! This is really... But, to young people, we shouldn't just beat them to death with one stick. Tony, do you think so? Young people, they should allow them to make some mistakes... but, I also want to give him some tips..."

Company Commander Taphoton, no, is already the battalion commander. In the previous "noose" operation, he performed well and was promoted. Of course, like him, there were many officers who performed well when eliminating those unarmed "unfinished rebels", but not many people could get such promotions. After all, not everyone has a father of a nobleman.

Becoming a battalion commander made Tahuidun feel a little confident, but the incident two days ago made him beat him up.

That night, just as the sky was dark, a guard came to tell him that he had discovered the beacon in the west. Judging from the direction recorded, it should be Blackstone Village. If it was Taphoton, who had just arrived in Ireland, he would probably immediately take the team and rush towards it. But now Taphoton just thought about it and said, "The Irish rebels are very cunning. When attacking at night, it is easy for them to take advantage of them. Be vigilant and don't give those rebels an opportunity."

Of course, Battalion Commander Taphoton had another sentence: "Anyway, there are only some valuable Irish police in Blackstone Village. For these valuable things, it is simply a pitfall for the soldiers of the United Kingdom to take risks!"

So it was not until it was completely dawn and the sun was rising high. Tahuidun took about two hundred people along the main road and headed towards the direction of Heishi Village.

In order to avoid possible ambush, the British cut down all the convenient hidden woods that were growing near the road. This made it difficult for the guerrillas to ambush the British army.

However, what Tahuiton did not expect was that due to the influence of some of the black hands behind the scenes, there were no need for a brigade of people to ambush.

In the grass in front, there are two 9-inch-long and 4-inch-wide squares painted in camouflage with grass green and dark green. Because of the color, these two things are far apart and cannot be seen clearly. However, if you really walk up to the front and take a closer look, you will see a small line of black French at the bottom of the two small squares facing the road: "This is facing the enemy."

This is one of the latest weapons French recently wanted to provide by the Irish guerrillas. This weapon is naturally a later work of Joseph's pirated version.

Behind this mine are two long copper wires, which are buried in the soil and extend to behind a soil beam that is almost a hundred meters away, covered with weeds. Behind the soil beam, a man is closely watching the British army approaching the explosion point with a periscope.

On the edge of that road, there are two inconspicuous stones. Such stones are everywhere in Ireland. But at this time, these two stones have a unique significance: between these two stones, there is the coverage of two broadsword directional thunder.

Taphoton rode his horse and walked in front of the team with several other cavalrymen, and the infantry fell a little behind. So if they were to be included in the coverage area, the number of people entering the coverage area would be much smaller. So, the guerrillas hidden behind the earth beam let him go.

The infantry behind gradually entered the coverage area of ​​broadsword. The man looking at the periscope raised his hand and waved it gently downwards. Another guerrilla next to him shook the handle of a small hand-crank generator. Immediately afterwards, the explosion of the directional thunder of the "Baodsword" came from a distance.

The Bonaparte version of the broadsword has a structure similar to the "broadsword" of later generations. On the back is an arc iron plate, and the front of the iron plate is a uniformly placed nitrified starch explosive. Because the explosive power of nitrified starch is unstable, the amount of explosive is much more than that of the broadsword of later generations. In front of the explosive are eight hundred iron beads, and outside the iron bead is a thin wooden shell.

After the explosion, eight hundred iron beads swept across the British army like a big broom.

Tahuiton, who was walking in front, was startled by the explosion. He jumped off the horse and hid behind the war horse. Then he showed his head out of the saddle and looked around, but he saw nothing. Then he turned around and looked at his team, and was stunned.

The ground was covered with the bodies of British soldiers, and many of them were almost gone. Many of them fell to the ground, moaning loudly in various strange sounds that seemed to be impossible to humans.

Such a thunder strike made Tahuidun come to his senses for a long time. He counted the number of people and found that the two hundred people he brought out, except for some cavalrymen walking in front and some people who fell at the end, the rest were either injured or died. Just such two broadswords made the British army lose their combat effectiveness.

It is naturally impossible to go to Heishi Village again, so Tahuidun could only retreat with the dead and wounded soldiers.

After returning to the site, Tahuidun became more and more angry. After returning to the stronghold, he found that forty-two people died, and more than eighty people were injured to varying degrees. His anger was even more uncontrollable. So Tahuidun, who had lost his mind, immediately took the remaining troops and rushed to Black Stone Village again.

This time, he did not encounter any obstacles anymore, and the British army arrived directly at Blackstone Village.

At this time, although there were no black dogs in the Heishi Village, the villagers who were a little worried about the future were still very regular and returned to the village at the prescribed time. So when Tahuidun arrived at Heishi Village, the villagers were all in the village.

When the villagers saw the arrival of the British army, they thought they would only ask themselves. Some people were still thinking about how to pick them and whatnot. Who knew that after the British army arrived, they started killing people without saying a word.

"Kill! Kill them all! Kill these Irish bastards!" Tahuidun roared.

So a massacre began...

The consequences of Taphoton's massacre were soon revealed. Escape occurred in all villages, and the guerrillas learned more information through these fugitives, so they strengthened their attacks on the villages controlled by the black dogs. With their help, in just one month, more than a thousand Irish farmers fled the quasi-security area in Kilkenshire alone and went to the non-security area controlled by the guerrillas.

Faced with the current situation, the Duke of Norfolk formulated two plans after thinking about it.

First, it is recommended that the Navy build more clippers to intercept French smuggling ships.

Second, mobilize manpower and material resources to prepare for a second round of large-scale mobilization of the guerrilla-controlled areas.
Chapter completed!