blenderwars Chapter 287 Do You Want To Accept A Batch Of Puppet Troops?
Chapter 287 Do You Want To Accept A Batch Of Puppet Troops?
Chapter 287 Do You Want To Receive A Batch Of Puppet Troops?
The people that Lin Zheng sent to escort the prisoners of war arrived very quickly. Qin Tu and others had just finished cleaning the battlefield and were about to attack the castle ten miles away that the prisoners had told them about. Lin Zheng arrived with an army of [-] infantry.
Qin Tu handed over the prisoners of war and the captured spoils to Lin Zheng, and he led ten thousand cavalry troops and one thousand Vulcan troops, pulling ten trebuchets, and went straight to the castle ten miles away.
When Qin Tu arrived at the Viscount Castle, the little lord heard the explosion from the imperial military camp last night and sent people to investigate overnight.
As a result, the sent people ran back in panic at dawn and reported that the imperial army had been defeated, and the defeat was so complete that there were not even many soldiers who escaped.
This viscount named Bull is a dude who inherited his father's title, and he knows nothing but eating, drinking and having fun.
If it wasn't for his father's great contributions to the Holy Roman Empire and his family's hereditary title, Bull's ability would not even make him a Lord.
Such a dandy got the news of the disastrous defeat of the imperial army, how could he have second thoughts other than fleeing.
When Bull got the news, he immediately ordered the servants to pack up the clothes, and ran away overnight, but although this guy had no skills, he still had some cleverness.
He knew that since those Easterners could defeat the 20 Holy Roman Empire troops on the border, the road from the border to the imperial capital Vienna would become a battlefield, and these places must not be visited.
So the Viscount Bull, leading his guards and servants and all his belongings, hurriedly fled in another direction.
It has to be said that Viscount Bull's cleverness saved him, and also saved most of the family property that he hastily packed up and took away.
When Qin Tu arrived at the castle, he saw more than 100 broken soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire escaping from the camp, robbing property in the castle.
These defeated soldiers who had just fled here, stuffed the food they found in their mouths and held the valuables they could take away in their arms, when they saw the oriental army suddenly approaching them, they collapsed instantly.
These guys hurriedly took the valuables they had just grabbed and put them down in the open space of the castle, then walked aside and sat on the ground to express their surrender.
These rout soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire were all shirtless, and their weapons had long been thrown away when they fled because they thought it would affect their escape speed.
Seeing how honest these people were, Qin Tu didn't kill them, but ordered his men to tie them up, and then searched the castle for valuables.
When the Viscount Boer fled, he only took away the most valuable and easy-to-handle goods because of the rush of time. He didn't bother to move many large and valuable items, and he couldn't get rid of them.
After the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion tied up the broken soldiers, they began to enter each room to search for valuable spoils.
Qin Tu had nothing to do, so he got off his horse and took his own soldiers to visit this unique castle.
The first owner of this castle was Bull's father, who was conferred the title of hereditary earl by the Holy Roman Empire because of his outstanding military exploits, and granted him the land on the border of the Holy Roman Empire as his territory.
The purpose is to let this imperial warrior help the empire guard the country.
Bull's father did the same. When he was alive, this place was an existence that the Byzantine Empire dared not easily provoke.
When the warrior of the Holy Roman Empire built this castle, he built it into a military-oriented castle.
This castle not only has a moat dug outside, but the entire castle is composed of five tall main buildings, each of which is more than four feet high. The tallest main building in the center of the castle must be six feet high.
Between the five buildings made of huge stones, a city wall more than two feet high was built. These wide walls were built with parapets to facilitate the soldiers to attack the incoming enemies from above.
What surprised Qin Tu the most was that the front of the castle was double-layered. Even if the invading enemy broke through the first layer of defense from the front, the defenders here could still close the second door, relying on the second The walls continue to resist each other.
Qin Tu visited the building one by one, covering an area of more than one hundred acres. Not only were there barracks for soldiers, but also a dozen large warehouses were built under several tall buildings.
Several two-story buildings were built on the open space between these large buildings, and on the other side there was a stable and a large warehouse for stacking horse fodder.
After turning around, Qin Tu was very satisfied with the situation here. He asked the messengers to invite General Lin Zheng to the back, and planned to discuss with him about using this place as an important base for attacking the Holy Roman Empire.
After Lin Zheng arrived, he also inspected the castle in detail. He was also very satisfied with this military castle, and the two immediately decided to use it as an important transit point for attacking the Holy Roman Empire.
In the future, all the supply teams in the rear will deliver the supplies here, and then the supply teams in the front will transport them away from here.
This will not only reduce the burden on the rear transportation and supply teams, but also prevent them from being exhausted from long-distance escorts.
As an important supply point of the transfer station, it can also be more flexible to readjust the logistics supply and send it to the most urgently needed things on the front line.
The materials redistributed through this transfer station will be what the frontline soldiers need most.
Moreover, the transportation of troops in the rear was avoided to the greatest extent, and a large amount of ammunition was transported to the front line through untold hardships. As a result, what the front line needed most was food.
After Qin Tu and Lin Zheng had a good discussion, Qin Tu once again led [-] cavalry troops and [-] Vulcan troops, with [-] trebuchets and a convoy pulling various supplies, and quickly headed towards the interior of the Holy Roman Empire. go.
Lin Zhengze stayed in the castle, arranging for the escort of the prisoners of war, delivery of spoils of war, and preparations for delivery of supplies for the Qin Tu army ahead.
When Xiao Qi received these prisoners and trophies, it was already half a month later.
He had received a large number of Byzantine prisoners of war before, the number had reached nearly 20, and now Qin Tu and Lin Zheng had sent tens of thousands of prisoners of war from the Holy Roman Empire.
Of course, the excavation speed of the Prisoners of War Canal is much faster. Xiao Qi thinks that it will not be long before this most important artificial canal in human history will be dug through and it will be navigable soon.
For this reason, Xiao Qi specially issued a new order to Long Yongsheng, asking him to bring all the large transport ships built by Song Dynasty as soon as possible.
After the canal here is dug, those prisoners of war will be transported to the big island in the south to contribute to the full development of that big island as soon as possible. That thing is his most important task, and he can't afford to neglect it.
Xiao Qi is still very careful about the number of prisoners of war here that exceeds 40, although Long Yongsheng has been transporting soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion here continuously.
However, most of the soldiers were sent by Xiao Qi to support Lin Zheng, Qin and Tu, and there were very few of them left here. Now there are only about 40 soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion guarding the [-] prisoners of war digging the canal.
In order to prevent these prisoners of war from suddenly rioting, Xiao Qi ordered each Changsheng Battalion soldier guarding these prisoners of war to carry at least two cast iron bombs in addition to muskets.
At the beginning, there were indeed a group of more than 2000 Byzantine soldiers who saw that there were not many guards, and wanted to kill the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who were guarding them and escaped.
As a result, as soon as they rose up and killed a dozen or so soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who were relatively close to them, they were killed by cast iron bombs by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who came nearby.
Although the rest chose to surrender when they saw the situation was not good, but because they killed a dozen soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion, the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion did not accept their surrender at all, and directly killed more than 2000 people!
This scene happened in front of more than [-] prisoners of war who were digging the canal. Those prisoners of war all continued to work as if they didn't see it, and did not dare to make any other moves.
This incident also made Xiao Qi very angry. To make you eat and drink enough is to make you work, and you actually want to rebel!
Then he ordered the prisoners of Byzantium to halve the food intake, and the guarding soldiers would kill him directly if they found any signs of hurting the prisoners.
After giving such an order, Xiao Qi snorted inwardly: Damn it!I am always affected by the prisoner of war treaty that will not appear until seven or eight hundred years later. How can the current prisoners of war be treated so well, and I have to leave the matter of prisoners of war to others in the future!
Not long after the Byzantine prisoners of war rioted, a large number of Byzantine and Holy Roman Empire prisoners of war were brought in one after another.
However, the prisoners of war who were transported later were all killed by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion on the battlefield. Although the number of prisoners later exceeded 40, no one dared to kill the guards and escape.
Xiao Qi also treated these prisoners of war differently, as long as they were willing to work hard, they were picked out and sent to a separate prisoner of war camp, where the accommodation and food were better than ordinary prisoner of war camps, and at least they could eat enough.
Now those prisoners of war began to dig and work desperately, especially those Byzantine prisoners of war whose rations were halved. Death is not far away.
No matter what country Xiao Qi is a prisoner of war, as long as you are willing to work hard, he will let you go to the new prisoner of war camp to have a full meal.
Now the speed of canal excavation accelerated again, and every prisoner of war worked desperately, hoping to enter a prisoner-of-war camp with better treatment.
A month later, when Long Yongsheng brought nearly [-] large cargo ships and [-] soldiers from Changsheng Battalion, the canal was about to be dug through, and Xiao Qi estimated that it could be dug through in a month at most.
Ask Long Yongsheng to transport [-] prisoners of war to the big island, and tell him to immediately assemble warships to prepare sufficient supplies. When the canal is dug, he will lead them to the western sea.
Long Yongsheng had already prepared a lot of warships in the eastern waters, not because he knew that Xiao Qi was going to fight in the west, but because his King Zhenbei was here, he had to make sufficient preparations to ensure the safety of King Zhenbei .
After taking the order, Long Yongsheng quickly assembled these warships, and sent a fast boat back to Song Dynasty to call a large number of warships to come here.
Everything was going very smoothly, and Qin Tulin was sending a steady stream of good news and a lot of trophies for the prisoners of war.
The excavation speed of the canal here is also getting faster and faster, and it seems that it is about to be dug through.
At this time, the hearts of the remaining 30 prisoners of war began to beat. They saw [-] prisoners of war being taken away a few days ago, although these [-] prisoners of war were all well-treated prisoners of war in the new camp that was willing to contribute.
But those prisoners of war never came back after being taken away, which made these prisoners of war fearful, and they worried that these people had been killed.
Because the canal was about to be dug through, they reported to the Easterners that these prisoners of war were useless, so they killed them all after the canal was dug through.
These people discussed and elected representatives from various countries, representing the prisoners of war from these countries who wanted to see Xiao Qi.
After the soldiers guarding the prisoners of war told Xiao Qi about this, Xiao Qi was puzzled, not knowing what these prisoners of war wanted to do, but he still ordered someone to bring these representatives of the prisoners of war.
After these people saw Xiao Qi, they immediately knelt down to express that they, on behalf of the prisoners of war in their own country, swore allegiance to the great King Zhenbei. They were willing to become the great King Zhenbei's men and follow him to fight everywhere.
Xiao Qi was taken aback for a moment, and soon he wanted to understand why these people behaved like this, it must be that the [-] prisoners of war suddenly disappeared, and these people thought they were killed by him.
This is a way to survive, worried that they will kill them all by themselves after the canal is dug.
Xiao Qi laughed secretly in his heart, in order to survive, these guys even took the initiative to ask to be his slave soldiers!
However, he also knew that these people said that they were willing to become their own slave soldiers just to be able to survive. If they really took these tens of thousands of people as slave soldiers and distributed them with knives and guns at that time, God knows if there will be any accidents.
Waving these people to get up, Xiao Qi told them that he would not kill any of them for no reason, and the 8 people before had gone to work in other places.
After the canal here is dug, they will also be sent to work elsewhere without being killed.
However, Xiao Qi did not reject their idea of wanting to become his own slave soldiers. He told these people that he had never thought of recruiting them to fight for him.
But seeing that they are very sincere, I can give them a chance. At that time, I will form a European army of 5 people, but these people must be the best fighters.
These people fell to their knees again after hearing this, and begged Xiao Qi to recruit more people. There are too few 30 people to choose [-].
Xiao Qi struck while the iron was hot: "In fact, I don't need anyone. It was your sincerity that moved me, and I selected an army of 5 people from among you. You know the combat effectiveness of our Great Song Changsheng Battalion."
These people hurriedly said: "This eastern army is invincible, it is a god-like army, we all want to be your soldiers, and we are willing to die for you!"
Xiao Qi ignored whether what these people said was true, but Xiao Qi asked them to go back and tell the prisoners of war that none of them would die after the canal was dug, and would only be sent to continue working elsewhere.
Because they abide by the rules here, the treatment will be much higher than now, and after a few years, if they behave well, they will be sent back and given their freedom.
(End of this chapter)