Chapter 272, the battle is on the front line (4)
On January 1, 999, the Empire Era, Hujia Town was ruled by Huainan Prefecture, Jiangnan Province of the Empire.
Hujia Town is close to the Huaihe River and is a large town between Huainan Prefecture City and Fengyang Prefecture. The town is close to three miles in area, with three-person high walls built. There are 3,000 Western coalition troops stationed inside, which is also considered to be a tight defense.
The people in Hujia Town had long been driven away from their homes by Western coalition soldiers, or were looted as slaves, helping the coalition forces transport supplies, and even reclaimed land and farming.
Perhaps it was because of the power of the people's war encountered in Sichuan-Shaanxi Provinces and Central and Southern Provinces. According to the order of Pope Urban II, since the Western coalition went south, it was stipulated that no Han people were allowed to be left in the villages where the towns were short, and all Han people were driven away to prevent them from being internally supported by Han soldiers. If anyone resisted and refused to migrate, he would cut and slaughter them.
The commander of the coalition forces, Jose, firmly opposed such massacres and simple and crude expulsion policies, but also knew that Pope Urban II was stubborn and could not listen to direct opposition.
Therefore, he simply proposed a compromise solution: letting these Han people assist the Western coalition forces in clearing up wasteland and growing grain, which not only can control their flow, but also solve the problem of supplying food and grass in the army.
At the same time, Jose proposed that since the Huai River and the Yangtze River were to confront the empire, the Jianghuai River would be one in the empire. To ensure the stability of the occupied areas, we cannot simply rely on the coalition forces to forcibly manage or brutally massacre the so-called pagans. Instead, we should use the Han Dynasty to control the Han Dynasty, mainly to use people with certain talents and means among the Han surrender elements to govern more Han people. In this way, even if the Han people have hatred, most of them will be transferred to these traitors who directly oppress them, to avoid further intensification of conflicts with the Western coalition forces and the local Han people.
After hearing this, Urban II also felt that this proposal was very good. After all, it was not realistic to rely solely on looting and transporting food and grass from sea. Moreover, when the war was carried out to this extent, the competition for material consumption was also an important part. José proposed that the south of the empire was suitable for growing food, and the four people of the empire assisted the local coalition soldiers to open up land together, but you can fundamentally solve the problem of food and grass in the army. Using the Han Dynasty to control the Han Dynasty is of great significance to implement the next step of comprehensive occupation of the southern territory of the empire.
Therefore, from the beginning of the coalition forces, it occupied the situation in Jiangnan Province, this order was implemented, and countless local Han people were forced to open up land and planting under the forced whips and swords and guns.
In any time and space, traitors and traitors existed. Soon, a group of Han people who were usually harsh in character but who had the opportunity to defect to the Western Allied Forces were selected and began to assist the Western Allied Forces to oppress their compatriots, and they were happy.
This Hujia Town is no exception. The former residents either fled, were killed, or became slaves to grow grain.
As soon as this policy was released, it greatly alleviated the pressure on food and grass from the Western coalition. At least after the bumper harvest in September, many towns occupied by the Western coalition finally achieved self-sufficiency in food and grass; and the Han Dynasty governing the Han Dynasty even alleviated the pressure on the management of the Western coalition. In order to obtain greater benefits, many of the people who defected to the coalition were oppressed in every way, even more vicious than the coalition soldiers. Even if there was a disagreement with anyone, they could persecute their families and destroy their families, truly achieving the ultimate "lack dog". At the same time, these people's resistance organizations were also actively reported to the empire. It was because they were familiar with the local situation and the identity of the four civilians that their reporting was particularly harmful, which made many self-resistance organizations eliminated in the bud.
After the Jose plan was officially implemented, facing such a great situation in the Jiangnan province, the Pope also trusted Jose Yu, and began to implement this policy in the subsequent southern Fujian province.
Of course, for those who dared to resist, the Pope ordered his subordinates to slaughter the city one after another. For example, Changfeng Prefecture, under the rule of Huainan Prefecture, fell because the defenders resisted for more than ten days. Once the city was broken, the Western coalition slaughtered the surviving people and Han soldiers in the city. The people who survived by chance fled their hometowns one after another and headed to the northern provinces.
At present, the entire Jiangnan province has fallen, and even the Dongdu Wanghai has long been jointly captured by the so-called East Japanese rebels and coalition navy. All the Han soldiers involved retreated to Yangzhou Prefecture. During this period, the Western coalition forces stepped up their way south, and most of the southern Fujian provinces south of the Jiangnan province were captured. According to this degree, in another half a year, most of the south of the Yangtze River and the east of Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces will be returned to the Western coalition.
The most surprising thing is not these. Just after the delegations of various vassal states participating in the imperial capital event returned to their respective countries, civil strife suddenly broke out in the East Japan vassal state of the Empire. A man named Amasara claimed to be the sacred son of the Holy Holy Church in the East Japan. He had exhibited more than 100,000 believers in more than ten years. He even launched an uprising a month ago and soon swept across the entire East Japan territory. The Uesugi family, the largest clan of the East Japan, openly claimed to support the rebellion, and called it an action to move towards the Holy Church, towards light and freedom. The Pope also responded quickly, and named Amasara the Son of the Holy Church, and the Uesugi family as the sacred family, that is, the spokesperson of the Holy Church in China.
Since then, the Eastern Japanese, a royal family that was still surviving, officially announced their separation from the empire.
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The situation in the Great Six is turbulent, but at this moment, the Hujia Town occupied by the Western Allied Forces is silent except for the occasional utterances.
There were not many troops in Hujia Town, but only three thousand-man brigades, two thousand light infantrymen in the Kingdom of Falls, and one thousand spearmen in the Principal of Teutonic. They were all considered elite troops of the coalition. After all, this place was close to the front line confronting the Han soldiers.
But these days, except for the necessary daily training, these Western coalition soldiers basically rest in the house at other times. Although the Han army camp is the other side of the Huai River, there has been no movement in the camp for several months. These soldiers have become accustomed to it. In addition to sending necessary warning sentries every day, the rest of the people are clearing land and farming after training. This is also the result of the discussion between the Pope and Jose.
During the process of going south, these soldiers were covered with blood from the Han children, and their pockets were filled with the wealth of the Han children. For them, now they were waiting for the coalition forces to completely control the southern part of the empire. Then they either rewarded merits, split the empire, or gathered crowds to share the spoils, and returned to the West to be a free and carefree rich man.
On a nearly 100 acres of paddy fields south of the town, a team of Western coalition forces with about 200 people were lazily monitoring nearly a thousand young and strong people who were plundering from several nearby villages.
Two-thirds of the grain and grass in this nearly 1,000 acres of paddy fields have been harvested, and in two or three days, all the grain and grass can be harvested. The harvested rice is now piled up on the rice field not far away.
Dozens of Han supervisors, holding whips in their hands, kept driving their compatriots arrogantly under the surveillance of the coalition forces, and occasionally pleasing the coalition soldiers around them, looking like slaves.
"These boneless guys." Seeing these traitors performing so much, Bachman, the head of the Turkish Principal, looked at a Han supervisor who was flattering him with disdain.
As a proud professional soldier of the Teutonic Principality, Bachmann was actually very disgusted with these people who betrayed his ancestors and oppressed his compatriots. No matter what the reason is, you can not love the rulers of this country, oppose the upper class of this country, or use this excuse to refuse to do your best and sacrifice for the country. But at least, in his eyes, the people of a country must not do anything to sell the country!
This is no longer a question of different political views, but a person's basic moral principles. (This is clearly targeted - some dog elites or fighters who shout "I love this country, not zf" all day long, but have no contribution to the people and the country. They will only cheer for everything from foreign godfathers, hoping to lick the soles of other people's shoes!)
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The sun in autumn is extremely hot. Even if you sit in the shade of trees motionless, you will feel stuffy. In this sunshine, bent down and waving your back and waving your arms to harvest rice. The simple mechanical repetition and unbearable heat are a huge consumption of people's physical strength and spirit.
A skinny old man kept waving his arms, and behind him was a piece of lodging rice, but his movements were getting slower and slower. Finally, he couldn't help but get up and beat his waist.
"Old guy, don't be lazy!" A sharp-eyed supervisor saw him and immediately rushed into the rice field. He whipped the old man's back. His thin shirt broke open, and a deep blood mark appeared on his back. The old man fell into the mud like a thin straw.
"Sir, I really can't do it anymore, let me rest?" the old man begged.
"Get out of here, you are an immortal, you need to rest. Who will harvest these acres of land today? Tell you, old man, if you don't work hard, all your family members in the town will die, and you won't be able to survive. I will be dragged down and scolded with you. If you don't want to die, get up quickly!" The supervisor smiled grimly and whipped him down a few more times.
"Sir, stop beating, I'll beating, I'll beating..." The old man rolled all over the ground in pain, and the wheat rays like needle-tips pierced his shriveled skin.
"Now I know that I begging for mercy, I'm immortal. Let you cause trouble for me!" The supervisor yelled, constantly waving his whip, and his face turned red with strange excitement.
This expression was so stumbled in the eyes of the Western Alliance on the side. They couldn't even understand that in such an empire that was famous for its cultural prosperity, how could such a group of people exist?
In fact, there is such an existence in any society. This kind of vulnerable group who lives at the bottom of society because of his ignorance or low-mindedness, will often develop an unhealthy mentality and extreme hatred for everything. As long as you have been stronger than him, he will trample on you. Even if you are not as strong as him, he will still use trampling on your dignity in exchange for his poor authority.
Chapter completed!