Chapter 49: French Ambition

The American immigrant separatist forces in Texas, referred to as the Separatists, were a new definition of the Texas rebellion in newspapers and were quickly accepted by media around the world.

Guizot and Thiers, two bigwigs in French politics, both believed that this was a good opportunity for France to return to North America.

After all, the Mexicans were too poor and should not be able to pay the interest. They could take advantage of the debt problem and take Texas from Mexico. It was not a dream to create a second France with the Gulf of Mexico as a base.

They did not think this was wishful thinking, and they knew that Mexico's national strength was not enough to support Tassan Anna's military operations.

Mexico, a big country, had an annual fiscal revenue of only 18 million pesos, less than one-tenth of France's fiscal revenue.

According to the French estimate, Mexico's funds would be exhausted in three months at most, and this was on the premise that Mexico would not increase military spending.

According to intelligence, the Texas Separatists had already received support from the Americans.

The Mexicans' training level and weapons and equipment were very backward. As long as a small group of organized American troops entered Texas, they could defeat the Mexicans.

Regarding anti-Americanism, although the British are the most vehement, it is impossible for them to send troops directly to Texas, so the two sides of the war will sooner or later become the United States and Mexico.

The United States is much stronger than Mexico, and the defeat of the Mexicans is a matter of time.

If the Mexicans do not want to accept the fate of failure, they can only borrow from France, and France is also willing to help these poor people.

After all, we are all Catholic brothers, and the name of the great filial son of the French Catholic Church is not in vain?

As for after the war, they will ask Mexico for Texas on the pretext of debt issues.

In this way, Mexico will pay off its debts and get the protection of France, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

After all, as long as France is in Texas, the United States will not be able to continue to move westward, and then the Mexicans can rest assured.

Thiers and Guizot were still imagining the bright future of France in North America, and a secretary on duty in the cabinet woke them up.

"Mr. Rothschild and his men are here"

In order to complete their good deeds, France needs the most professional bankers

A massacre is taking place on a plain in the north of San Antonio.

The two sides of the battle are 1,500 Mexican cavalrymen of Tassan Anna and 270 remnants of Colonel Manin of the separatist army.

The outcome of both sides was doomed from the moment the battle began.

Because Manin and his soldiers did not find out at first that the other side was Mexican, they thought it was Houston's reinforcements.

The cavalry rushed to a distance of less than 100 meters. At this time, it was too late to organize the soldiers to form a hollow square or escape.

At that moment, Manin gave up thinking and let the cavalry crush his team like a rotten wood.

The scattered deserters could not escape the pursuit of the cavalry, and the battle was over soon.

The scene of the cavalry chasing the fleeing soldiers made Tassan Anna very enjoyable. He liked the feeling of blood splattering everywhere, and he shouted excitedly.

"Kill them all! Good boy, God is with us!"

Gabrentz and Stadion had no interest in this one-sided battle, and Tasan Anna's adjutant reminded him.

"Two military observers are still here, we should observe gentlemanly etiquette."

This made Tasan Anna realize that if he continued to kill indiscriminately like this, he would definitely be regarded as a barbarian, and he quickly gave orders.

"Don't hurt those who surrender, quick! Stop them! No more killing!"

Several officers rushed out on horseback, because the soldiers were already killing red-eyed, no matter who it was, they would be very excited when riding a horse to chase rabbits.

When the officers stopped the crazy cavalry, there were only a dozen people left in the separatist army, including Colonel Maning who had given up thinking.

Colonel Maning stood there in a daze and was directly ignored by the cavalry in an officer's uniform. Instead, the fleeing soldiers and volunteers aroused the cavalry's ferocity.

A Mexican general quickly ran to Tasan Anna's horse, took off his hat and saluted.

"General, it is your victory, a great victory. We captured 17 people, including a colonel, who should be their commander, and 300 guns."

Colonel Manin is the highest-ranking officer captured by the Mexican army since the war began.

Tasan Anna was very proud and wanted to humiliate the separatist officer, but he was disappointed. The man in front of him seemed stupid.

The battle in the direction of the town was over. Tasan Anna ordered his men to put out the fire and gather the refugees affected by the disaster, and then threw the blame for the arson to the separatist army.

Hundreds of residents in the town looked at their homes in ruins, and many of them burst into tears. No one cared about Tasan Anna's blame speech.

"General, you should show your kindness." In fact, Gabrentz wanted to curse. How did this man become the ruler of Mexico? Doesn't he have any political talent at all?

In fact, Tassan Anna was the first person in America to bombard the presidential palace, and he created a school of thought called "house demolition". As the name suggests, every coup must bomb the presidential palace, causing the president to repeatedly build a new house for himself. This school of thought is very popular, and the whole of Latin America has its supporters.

This kind of dictator who came to power through a military coup often has very limited political means.

However, due to the presence of Austrian military observers, he had to restrain himself.

In order to maintain the image of the Mexican army, Tassan Anna ordered the soldiers to build temporary tents for the residents of the town, and distributed part of the military rations he had looted to the soldiers and civilians in the town.

Tassan Anna's actions won a wave of people's hearts, but made the quartermaster very angry, because the military supplies in the rear had not arrived for a long time. The reason why the Mexican army could eat and drink well now was entirely because they robbed the finances of the rioters who betrayed Mexico.

Now Tassan Anna refused to allow his soldiers to plunder in order to maintain his image, and the Alamo could not be captured for a long time. Goliad had food and supplies, but they had no money, which was very difficult to deal with.

183 The sixteen-pound heavy siege artillery that Anna had been waiting for was finally delivered.

Tassan Anna shouted ecstatically, "I want to kill all those Americans."

This made Gabrentz and Stadion feel that he was hopeless, because killing all those Americans was meaningless, but would make those people heroes.

Franz certainly knew this, and he had long since asked Archbishop Rauscher to do everything he could to get the Alamo defenders to surrender.

Before Gabrentz and Stadion came to Mexico, they were told to get as many Texans as possible to surrender, especially the defenders of San Antonio (now the Alamo defenders).

Stadion spoke first, "General, you should first send those prisoners to persuade the Alamo defenders to surrender. If they surrender, unnecessary bloodshed can be avoided, and your prestige can be enhanced."

Tasan Anna immediately noticed that he had lost his composure. He was the Napoleon of North America, so how could he not use both kindness and force?

"Let those prisoners tell the Alamo defenders to surrender."