Chapter 106: The Tragedy of Bamith
In terms of overall racial strength, the Anwicks in the Encirclement Network are the weakest, but they are the only race to annihilate the Imperial Army in a world war. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In May 163 of the new calendar, the "Bamis Army" of the Byronic Empire was ambushed in an unknown Anwick grassland settlement, and the entire army of 86,000 people did not survive. This was the first time that the Byronic Empire had lost troops in formation, and by the time the follow-up troops discovered the battlefield, it was already May 15.
According to intelligence estimates, the Bamith army should have been ambushed between May 3 and 5. The Barmis Army, composed entirely of Ilibi, had just been reorganized in March into a modern force, with nine musket brigades, one artillery brigade and four cavalry brigades, and was so powerful that they could repel the underarmed Anwicks even in the event of an ambush by a large force.
According to the subsequent troops' survey of the battlefield, they believed that the Anwick had placed a large amount of flammable materials, dried animal manure, and other combustible materials that could produce smoke in the settlement in advance, and then led the Bamis army to the downwind near the settlement, and ignited the flammable materials in the settlement when the Bamis army was suspicious because they saw the settlement.
The poisonous smoke greatly reduced the combat strength of the Bamis army, and it was even impossible to open the battle formation normally. The Anwick must have used some means to protect themselves from the smoke, such as covering their mouths and noses with water-soaked cloths. The Anwicks then took advantage of the confusion of the Bamis army to attack the force from multiple directions, and finally annihilated the force completely.
The follow-up forces discovered that the cavalry units of the Bamis army had attempted to break through, but their Eri was too slow to run than their horses, and before they could get out of the battlefield, they were overtaken by the Anwick cavalry. The cavalrymen were all killed, the dead horses were skinned and fleshed on the spot, and even part of the skeletons were taken away. The corpses of the soldiers killed in the battle were stripped naked, and everything they could could was taken by the Anwicks, not even a single piece of cloth remained.
The Anwick people live in an area with low average temperatures, which can be below freezing at night, and few bugs can live in this environment. And there don't seem to be any carnivores, not even scavengers. Because of this, the bodies of the soldiers of the Bamis Army did not decompose badly and were relatively intact. The follow-up troops patiently counted the bodies of friendly soldiers, and found that although the Bamis army had sent cavalry troops to break through, none of the officers and men of the army had been captured by the Anwicks.
They thought that the Bamis army had fought to the last man, but in fact it was not. Despite their stubborn resistance, thousands of them surrendered for various reasons. The Anwicks wanted to use this ambush to deter the Byronic Empire and let the Byronic Empire know that they were not easy to mess with, so they did not keep prisoners.
An investigative team sent by the Ombudsman found that some of the officers and soldiers had been brutally beheaded, and upon questioning, they learned that the beheaded bodies had been found in the same area. In hand-to-hand combat, decapitation is a rare way to die, because it takes a lot of force to cut off the vertebrae, and the average soldier wants to cut off the enemy's head, and the amplitude of the attack will be very large, and the soldier is likely to be attacked by the enemy first. Moreover, such an attack is easy to be dodged by the enemy, and once the attack fails, it is easy to lose the center of gravity and put yourself in danger.
In other words, the decapitation attack is very dangerous on the battlefield and is not easily used by ordinary people. Unless it is a soldier who cuts off his head for the sake of combat merit, there will not be too many corpses on the battlefield that die from beheading. But if this is the case, the corpses of the entire battlefield should have their heads cut off. Moreover, the Anwicks cut off the heads of these people and did not take them with them, which means that they did not need them to count their exploits.
After some scrutiny, the investigation team concluded that the thousands of people had been beheaded by the Anwick after they had been captured. In order to confirm their judgment, the investigation team examined the wrists of these corpses and found that all of them had strangulation marks on their wrists, which indicates that they were tied before their deaths, and the Anwick people who picked the door after their deaths recovered the ropes one by one, so the follow-up troops and the investigation team did not find the ropes at the scene.
At the time of writing the report, the investigation team truthfully stated the information investigated, but in the results of the analysis, it was determined that the Bamis army fought to the death. After the report was handed over to the Bluestone Palace, Maier, who had carefully read the report, also announced that the Bamis army had died to the last man, and also paid double the pension to the families of the deceased.
It wasn't until 200 years later, when the Ministry of Education wanted to write a textbook on war history, that the royal family took out the investigation report and clarified the facts. The royal family is said to have a list of those who died and surrendered in the Bamith Army, but they did not publish the list. Therefore, all those who have ancestors who died in the "Bamith Massacre" believe that their ancestors fought and died for the empire and were heroes of the empire.
In the aftermath of the Bamis massacre, the Byronic Empire was outraged. Under constant pressure from the people, Mair had to postpone the offensive in other directions and concentrate his forces on the Anwicks.
The Anwick people do not have a fixed territory, this race likes to migrate, grab wherever they go, hide in a place where no one is comfortable after grabbing, and then come out to grab when the supplies are gone. In the past, the weak Tajon elves have always been the first choice of the Anwick people, who believe that the Tairong elves do not belong to humans, and will skin and cut the flesh of the dead Tairong elves, sprinkle their flesh with salt, and dry them into dried meat for eating. As for the living Taeyong goblins, they were naturally going to be sold to slave traders.
By the way, in the eyes of the Anwick people, except for their own people and those from this world, who belong to human beings, people from other worlds are not considered humans. That's why Anwick people eat people, and they eat very well. As long as the target is not from the world, or a race they don't know about, they will dispose of the corpse as meat.
However, the foreigners did not know about the cannibalism habits of the Anwicks, because the Anwicks hardly dealt with foreigners except for trading, and the villages that had been plundered by the Anwicks were slaughtered, and not even a mouse would be spared. By the time someone finds the looted settlement, it's been at least two weeks later. Ordinary people don't eat people, so they don't think that someone will eat people, and they only think that the bones on the scene are leftover from wild beasts.
Originally, the Anwick women also wanted to skin and cut the corpses of the Bamis soldiers, but the Anwick men thought that doing so would cause the Imperial Army to not find the corpses of the Bamis soldiers, so they didn't let them do it. But even so, there are still Anwick women who secretly cut flesh from corpses and take them away, or pick up severed limbs on the battlefield. Due to the large number of corpses, it was impossible for the Imperial Army to collect all the parts of the corpses when collecting them, so they did not find out about it.
After the Tajon Elf gets the new rifle and the ready-to-use technology, the life of the Anwick people becomes difficult. They lost a lot of money every time they "hunted", and although they would get a lot of new rifles and ammunition after "hunting", these things were not enough to make up for their losses for the Anwick people, who had a total population of only 10 million and a population scattered among hundreds of tribes.
Later, according to Mai's instructions, the Tajon elf settlement gathered the scattered Tajon goblins and established a defense line far away from the foreigners, living only within the defense line. In this way, the Anwick people completely lost the "prey" of the Tairong fairy. They participated in the war against the Mingji people, not only because the Mingji people had a worse reputation than theirs, but also because of economic reasons. In the same way, they participated in the siege for the sake of looting.
Some people may find it strange that the Anwick people have no production capacity?
The answer is almost nothing. The men of the Anwick people are all warriors, the women are slaves dressed in the garb of wives and concubines, and all men need to do is exercise and hone their martial arts, and the chores are all done by women. They would catch slaves to do work, force them to farm, or raise livestock, but Anwick men are really extravagant and wasteful in life, so Anwick women live very carefully, and even have to calculate and calculate every stitch, just to make Anwick men waste more resources. In the Bamis tragedy, the reason why the battlefield was so clean was because the battlefield was cleaned by Anwick women.
The Anwick people always fished with all their might, eager to dig up the seeds planted in the ground and eat them, and had no patience to cultivate and raise livestock. The animals in the vicinity of their colonies are hunted and killed, seriously disrupting the ecological balance of the area, so that carnivores and scavengers are not seen on the battlefield.
Anwick people will only keep two animals, one is the Anwick horse and the other is the Anwick dog. The former is a good companion of the Anwick man, this kind of horse is tall, strong and enduring, it is a good horse of the first class, and the Anwick people will never sell this kind of horse to a foreigner. The latter is a recreational consumable, and just as some people of other races like to fight crickets or cockfights, the Anwick people like to fight dogs. At the same time, Anwick dogs are also a hot commodity, I don't know why, there are always many rich people who like to raise this kind of extremely low intelligence, and very violent dogs, and are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them back.
Anwick people can make a fortune by selling dogs, and sometimes they don't even have to go out to loot, but this is only in peacetime, when the upper class people have spare money and have leisure to buy Anwick dogs. Once the world is in turmoil, only fools will buy their dogs. Because of this, every time the New World is plunged into a big scuffle, the Anwicks will come out and loot. And because of the many forces in the New World, the wars are almost constant, so there are always Anwick tribes who run out to loot because they can't sell their dogs.
However, the emergence of the Byronic League and the Anti-Byronic League encirclement changed the situation, and the two major power alliances maintained a considerable period of peace in order to preserve their power. However, the member states of the two major alliance forces are preparing for war and spending all their money on armaments, and the Anwick dogs still can't be sold. Anwick thought about it and felt that it was still necessary to rob it. However, the forces of the New World have joined the alliance, and anyone who robs the Anwick will be beaten.
In the end, the Anwicks chose to join the side with a large number of people, that is, the anti-Byronic League siege network, wanting to massacre and loot the member countries of the Byronic League as they did in the original looting and looting of the Mingji people. However, the strength of the Byronic League far exceeded the anti-Byronic League siege network, and the Anwicks were much more resourceful than the Elt nobles, and they slipped away when they saw that the situation was not good, and did not pay much loss in the early battles.
For the persuasion of the Byronic League, the Anwicks did not take it seriously at all. When the Byronic Empire swallowed up the entire alliance and sent troops to attack the Anwicks, Anwick realized that something was wrong. More than a dozen tribes closest to the front line were all wiped out, tens of thousands were killed, and hundreds of thousands were captured.
This is the first time that the Anwick have been captured by a foreign race and have not been killed, because the races of the whole world know that the Anwick are bandits, and this kind of people will only harm society if they are kept. The Imperial Army, however, did not kill the captives because of the women, children, and slaves in the settlement.
After the Bamis tragedy, in order to ease the mood of the people, the Byrons family had to execute all the Anwick men among them. Later, the guards of the captives discovered that Anwick women and children would kill aliens for meat, and only then did they realize that this race was cannibalistic. After the news spread in the country, the Byrons family could only kill all the Anwick captives over the age of six in order to appease the public anger.
Later, the guards discovered that many of the captives with foreign accents also ate human flesh, and that they were slaves of the Anwick people, who had been completely domesticated by the Anwick people, and took cannibalism for granted. As a result, the news also spread in the country, and the Byrons family could only kill all the captives over the age of six in order to appease the public anger.
In fact, it was not only children under the age of six who survived, as long as they looked like children, they all survived, and some teenagers and girls who looked relatively immature also survived. In the follow-up actions of the Imperial Army, the massacre of Anwick and Anwick slaves was basically based on this criterion.
These children were all sent to the city of Byron for unified management, and it turned out that with the right guidance and education, people with Anwick blood can also become civilized people. It's just that Anwick men are more aggressive, and Anwick women are more docile than women of other races, which should be their racial characteristics.
The Anwick people, who were "domesticated" by the Byrons family, became strong supporters of the royal family, and were later able to establish Anwick City between Liangyue City and Baicun Fort. When modern people hear the word "Anwick", their first reaction is either the famous "Anwick Legion" or the majestic Anwick City. Those who are not interested in history would never guess that the empire's most spectacular city was founded by the descendants of bandits and cannibals.
Although the Empire did not completely exterminate the Anwicks as a result, it was clear that the Empire had exterminated a race that was a threat to the world. So even though the Anwick people still exist, there are still the words "Anwick people were exterminated" in the history books. In fact, the later Anwick people have come to see themselves as another race, and when they speak of the old Anwicks, they only think of them as a race with the same name.
Because when the first group of New Anwick people were educating their descendants, they never mentioned their own background, but only said that they were able to survive by the grace of the Montbyrons family, live a normal life, and let the descendants remember the kindness of the Byron family, so their descendants did not know who their ancestors were. When history is clarified, the new Anwick people are even more reluctant to admit that they are descendants of the old Anwick.
The end of the Anwick people is good. However, at this point in the year 163 of the new calendar, the empire had not yet achieved its goal of exterminating the old Anwicks. The Imperial Army fought against the Old Anwick for two years, and while inflicting heavy losses on the Anwicks, the Imperial Army also suffered heavy losses.