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Chapter 439: Battle

It is no exaggeration to say that Su Hao can be regarded as the greatest strategist and tactician in history on the continent of Labangka.

This praise is entirely because Su Hao has more and more experience and insights than this world. Unlike the civilization process that was secretly promoted by the Atlantis on Earth, the civilization of the Labonka continent has always been in a stage of natural development. Lucky people like Newton who were hit by an apple in the head have never appeared, and the generals' concept of war remains in the primitive stage. Everyone stubbornly believes that the key to determining the outcome of a battle is not weapons, tactics, nor logistics and comprehensive national strength, but the number of soldiers participating in the war.

Two months later, Su Hao had as many as six slave corps, with a total number of more than 300,000 soldiers. This was the result of screening after continuous casualties and injuries during the war. Generally, it was estimated that the current state was achieved, and the number of slaves participating in the war had been killed by more than 200,000.

Many initial rules have changed. Things like "city massacre" no longer happen. With enough land to reward slaves, there is naturally no need to kill civilians. Su Hao does not have enough money to maintain this army, but the slave soldiers who obtained the land always want to get more and also need to protect their existing interests. This is the driving force for their battles everywhere and a crucial link in Su Hao's overall plan.

New laws and regulations are being promulgated, and more and more civilians and criminals have become soldiers in the army. The rapidly expanding fiefdom requires corresponding titles. In this case, Su Hao began to pass messages to the king, requesting the title of "Red Dragon Earl".

It doesn't matter whether the king allows it or not. This is just for other nobles to show it. On the day of issuing the document, Su Hao had issued orders to all administrative agencies in various legions and territories to announce his new title.

Nothing can always be kept secret. Meng Qi has bought Su Hao enough time, and has a stable logistics supply base and a source of soldiers. The rebellion that occurred in Maca City was finally made public. In addition to shock, the king tore up Su Hao's request for sealing documents in public and ordered troops to be sent out in anger.

The communication status of the Labangka continent was really too primitive. It took nearly three weeks from the king's order to the information transmission. When the nobles scattered around the country led their troops to assemble in designated areas, it was more than two months later.

The army was not as simple as imagined. Even after receiving the orders of the king, many nobles were still waiting and watching the war. Everyone wanted to preserve their strength, and the Mengqi caravan and the knight Barth also took the opportunity to closely contact the people who were swaying. The promises made were nothing more than women, money, luxury goods and a larger fiefdom. After all, there was always a king in this world. Everyone wanted to climb up. The baron wanted to become an earl, and the earl wanted to become a duke. Since this is the case, it would be better to change a person who was better at treating himself and more in line with his own interests as a king. As for whether this guy was a rioter or a real aristocrat? That was actually not important at all.

According to King Jinka's order, an army of 60 to 700,000 should be assembled in the designated area. However, the actual army arrived was less than half of this number. Even the nobles who led the private army to always complain and complain, and even asked the king to provide more material assistance.

Food, weapons, military pay... everything requires money. The materials consumed by more than 300,000 people every day are very large. Although the royal family has money, they cannot withstand this bottomless investment.

What's worse is that these armies did not arrive at the same time, but came one after another at different times. In order to concentrate their troops, the king could only order the departure time to be delayed again and again. In this case, the logistical pressure increased exponentially. Before setting off, the materials prepared in advance had almost been exhausted.

Su Hao's slave army also needed supplies. In addition to collecting from Maka City and the occupied areas, the most important source of supplies was the plunder of the soon-to-be-conquered areas.

The slaves didn't care about any nobles at all. They snatched all the wealth accumulated in the manor and castle, and emptied all the grain in the warehouse. The empty land was distributed in a short time. The farmers were almost all the families of slave soldiers, as well as the liberated slaves who were old and unable to fight. They were used to following the laws of administrative officials at all levels and the Red Dragon Earl. In order to obtain a large amount of food in a short time, Su Hao required all slaves to plant sok tubes and other species on the land that were easy to survive and harvested. Everyone knows the truth that rice flour is better than sweet potatoes, but the price of rice flour is far more than sweet potatoes. When they can be sure to eat enough, the farmers of course chose to plant the former.

Slaves in various places have been found to refuse to obey the laws and plant Sok tubers, but secretly sow other economic species on the cultivated land. Without exception, these people were beheaded and severely punished. Not only did the land beheaded, their families were demoted to criminals.

Su Hao ensured the supply of materials with this most harshest and cruel means. Strictly speaking, the nobles could also apply this method. However, the nobles could never do as banned as he did. Su Hao was not alone. He had hundreds of loyal "worker bees". This group not only came from the earth, but also more natives from the Labangka continent. The figures assigned to serve as administrative officials in various places were all successfully transformed "worker bees" or "quasi-worker bees". They were the most solid foundation of ruling. With these people, the decrees issued by Su Hao could be truly implemented.

It only took a few months to build Maca City and the surrounding areas together. This kind of thing sounds really amazing, but it is a reality that no one can deny.

The standard for judging wealth and poverty in this world is whether you can eat enough. The civilians and slaves who constitute the foundation of the kingdom account for more than 90% of the total population. It is precisely because of this that Su Hao decided to unify the world of Labangka.

He felt very lucky that the civilization process here was far from reaching the level of the earth. Otherwise, human desires and needs would increase exponentially, and with these current means and methods, it would be impossible to control the people at all. This is definitely not empty talk. Just think about the domestic environment in peacetime. If a basket of steamed buns is placed at the conscription station, no one is willing to sign up at all. The increasing wealth of materials has increased human needs. Only in a place full of poverty and hunger like the Labangka world can it be possible to quickly form a huge armed force by distributing land.

Three months later, the first collision began between the rebel army and the King's army.

The multiplied gravity makes the intelligent creatures of the Rabangka world, that is, these guys who can barely be considered "human" have physical functions that are stronger than those on earth. The babies here are born to strengthen people, and even the weakest civilians have the physique equivalent to the second-level strengthening people. If they were on Earth, they would undoubtedly become the masters of the world. However, here, what they were before and still are still what they are.

The 300,000 Kings Army is an extremely huge number. Although the nobles were unwilling to lose their strength in war, they had to obey the orders from the king. Rabangka is common in the world of Rabangka, but even if they received the call from the king, not everyone responded to it. The troops sent by the nobles only accounted for about 20% of the total military force of the Jinka Kingdom, or even less.

For Su Hao, this is very good news.

After all, he was an outsider, not a smart life form born and raised in the world of Rabonka. The reason he took the initiative to become a slave to Baron Sorant before was entirely due to the needs of the subsequent strategic policy level. Although the aristocrats were powerful, the largest group in the world was slaves, and then civilians. This sounded a bit incredible, but it was true.

In the continent of Labangka, slaves are equivalent to property. All national laws, including Jinka, tend to protect the interests of slave owners. Taking King Jinka as an example, he once claimed in public that he had more than 600,000 slaves in his name. Even if the king is like this, the rest of the nobles can be imagined. Especially for civilians with little assets in each city, there are more or less one or two slaves working for them. Population trading in Labangka is not a sin, but a normal business act. Almost every place there is a phenomenon of children being abducted and raised from the baby, and then sold them to nobles or brothels according to their qualifications and appearance. There are many underground groups that make profits from them. Of course, these people will not attack the nobles, and the only people who suffer will be affected.

The turmoil in Maca City, several slave legions fought back and forth in the surrounding areas, all of which made Su Hao's name go viral at an unprecedented speed. People were shocked, and were also confused by Su Hao's identity and his future. After all, he was just a slave. However, the fact was right in front of him. A slave killed the city lord and organized a huge army of tens of thousands. Now, he sat high on the high position that thousands of people looked up to, becoming the famous "Red Dragon Earl".

It is precisely because of this that Su Hao was recognized by all slaves at the first time and regarded it as a unique object of worship. The slaves who had no choice but to make a fuss and horses suddenly discovered that rebellion was their own patent. Why did I work hard to support those nobles? Why could officials ride on my head and stiletto? I have strength. Except for having no property and no copper in my pocket, what else is worse than others?

Yes, the words of the Red Dragon Earl sound exciting.

If you don’t have money, you can grab gold and silver from the noble safe.

Without a woman, I went to sleep with the noble wife and daughter.

There is nothing to eat, the nobles have everything in their kitchens.

All this can be obtained by stretching out your hand. Why did I be so stupid before? I didn’t even understand such a simple truth. I only knew how to farm for the nobles honestly, and all the harvest was plundered, so that I could get a little bit of meager "reward". I could earn everything for them, and I should be the highest dominant of all assets.

In this case, Su Hao received the response and support of a large-scale slave population in cooperation with the large-scale propaganda practiced in advance. When the King's Army was still gathering in the designated area, Su Hao had already completed the formation of 500,000 slave troops.

The equipment of the King's Army must be much better than that of the slave army. Especially the Imperial Guards, from armor to cavalry, are equipped with extremely expensive and high-quality goods. The species structure of the Labangka world is similar to that of the Earth. Except for the central mountain range, there are also a large number of other species on the outer continent. The wildebeest is the key to forming cavalry. This is an animal with a very different appearance from the wildebeest on Earth but with the characteristics of human beings' liver tame. They are extremely tall and strong, with two pairs of sharp bends growing upwards on the heads. This wildebeest has been recorded as a record of being domesticated thousands of years ago, but it has appeared as a weapon of war, but it has less than a hundred years of history on the Labangka continent.

Although Su Hao had formulated a detailed plan for the current situation in the Labangka continent from the very beginning, he did not have enough time to build weapons. The world is not as good as industrial, and the metal manufacturing and processing capabilities are very low. Because the weapon styles are too primitive, Su Hao made a series of modifications and deleted various useless decorations on the weapons to make them more conducive to hand-to-hand combat. This also increased the manufacturing speed of new weapons to some extent. Although the Mengqi caravan tried his best to ensure the supply of raw materials, on the eve of the slave army's completion of the marshal, the number of weapons produced could only meet 60% of the demand.

Naturally, a considerable number of the slave legions under Su Hao still use old style weapons. But no matter what, they can be used to kill people.

If there is another half a year, the situation will definitely be much better, and Su Hao will be more prepared. However, the facts are in front of him. Since the King's Army began to assemble, he had to respond.

The 500,000 slave army was divided into seven legions. Among them, Su Hao led the main legion of 200,000 people to directly face the King's Army. The other six legions of 50,000 people were all dispersed, crossed the actual control line of the rebel army, and entered the area ruled by the king to harass it.

Flanderkenson is a medium-sized city in the north of the Jinka Kingdom.

As the sky was just bright, Tong Yanfeng was already standing on the hills, staring at the distant city in the shadows that were still shrouded in the darkness.

Compared with when he was on Earth, Tong Yanfeng's face was still pure and bright, maintaining the unique energy of young people. His short black hair made him look smart and trained, and his whole body looked handsome and charming, but he faintly revealed the sharpness that would only be contaminated by life and death.

The trees on the hills were almost cut down. The bare rocks and the earth under their feet were connected together into a vast gray-yellow color. This act of wantonly destroying the environment will definitely attract countless people's criticism during peacetime on Earth. But now, no one dares to say a word to Tong Yanfeng.

As the commander of the newly-edition Sixth Slave Legion, he did have the terrible power to land tens of thousands of heads under the order.

Behind him, not far from the hills, was a sparse forest. Tong Yanfeng started camping here the day before yesterday. More than 50,000 slaves made the place full of people and chaos.

Beats, scoldings, shouts, and all kinds of lewd and slutty roars could be heard everywhere in the military camp. These sounds mainly come from the outside of the camp, which is the tent in the recruit area.

The large-scale expansion brought extremely serious consequences. The newly compiled Sixth Slave Legion originally had only more than 10,000 people, and the expanded legion was filled with a large number of slaves with no combat experience. They were extremely fanatical and under the influence of propaganda effects, they had an unusual sense of worship for Su Hao. However, these people were absolutely madmen. Their combat power was extremely low and they could only follow the elite troops to rob, plunder, and kill. Rather than warriors, they were a group of thugs armed with swords.

These people were like a group of locusts, and the place they passed was completely destroyed. Since the departure of Maka City, the Sixth Legion has flattened all the manors and noble territories along the way. Due to the strict control of the elite troops, the liberated slaves were not suppressed, but went to Maka City in batches by group calls or escorted by the group. Under Meng Qi's arrangement, they became ordinary people under Su Hao's rule.

The most important way to win and lose in the war in the Cold Weapon Age is population. With a huge number of slaves, nobility and civilians have almost no production. The important thing is to deprive the production labor from the source, and the entire Jinka Kingdom will be defeated without fighting.

It is calculated that Tong Yanfeng's Sixth Army alone has transported nearly 800,000 slaves to the rear. These huge populations will quickly obtain land and agricultural tools, and produce the food required for the war as quickly as possible, and transform it into a material basis for maintaining the war.

A young man in armor appeared from the darkness and stood respectfully behind Tong Yanfeng.

He is the adjutant of Tong Yanfeng. A few months ago, he was a humble slave. But he was also one of the first "worker bees" to be assimilated in the Labangka continent. Thousands of people like him have emerged, and they have become the most trustworthy confidant around Su Hao.

Mengqi is just the first "worker bee" to be assimilated in the Labangka world, but it will not be the last one.

The man's eyes showed a faint worry. As an adjutant, he certainly knew that Tong Yanfeng did not like to be interrupted by others while meditating alone. But he still had to say some things.

"General, are you too tolerant of those people?"

The man refers to the armed slaves. They are all new recruits, and they are the most troublesome and the least observant of military discipline.

They are the main force in burning, killing and plundering. Although Tong Yanfeng repeatedly ordered that all the plundered property must be handed over, many people still hid it privately. This kind of thing cannot be absolutely prohibited, they are strongly afraid of the captains of the "Worker Bee". After all, the result of each private fight is that the new slaves were killed on the spot. The "Worker Bee" demonstrated its strength with its fierce power.
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