"The battle is going well, and now the number of prisoners is over 10,000, but we don't have enough food here."

"It's okay, we will deliver the food soon, how much food is still in Xiaoyang City, have you asked the prisoners?"

"There are a lot of them, but you'd better not bother with them, I'm afraid we won't be able to get them."

"Oh, why?"

"The baron has put fuel in the granary, and now he is in the city ready to set it on fire...... If we attack the city, I'm afraid he will actually burn the city. ”

"Burning the city?" Shen Changwen was stunned when he heard this: "That's his territory, didn't you persuade him to surrender and tell him, did the surrendered city still belong to him?" ”

"I said it, but it didn't work," Wu Xiaoqing said, "he didn't believe me at all, his three sons were dead." ”

"Three?" Shen Changwen only remembered that the commander of the Shuangcha River was one of his sons, "How did the other two die?" ”

"Last night there was a riot in the city, and both of his sons died in the rebellion, and the baron was going mad. Professor Shen, one more thing, the search and rescue team asked me to tell you, it will rain in 14 hours. ”

"Rain? How big? ”

"Heavy rain, next day or two."

“TMD！” Wu Xiaoqing heard Shen Changwen scolding on the other end of the radio. He almost thought he had misheard.

"Professor Shen, what did you just say?"

“CTMD！” Shen Changwen spit out this national scolding fiercely, "I'm annoyed now." ”

In the matter of rain, the search and rescue team specially explained to Wu Xiaoqing.

In the era of cold weapons, the discipline of a team was maintained mainly by violence.

Officers generally have an elite of cronies at their disposal to supervise the proper execution of orders by the entire force.

In this era, most of the soldiers were forcibly drawn into the ranks by violence, they had no regular income, no dignity, and in times of bad conditions, they could not even guarantee basic food and clothing.

Even the troops under the control of Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing can only be said to barely ensure food and clothing—this is mainly the result of continuous victories and captures, feeding the officers and lords of the main body of the army.

Such an army does not see anything wrong in peacetime, and the soldiers, under the habitual obedience and inertia for a long time, can carry out many orders out of fear.

But when the whole army is in a particular environment, such as when the fear of the enemy overwhelms the officers, when the weather becomes bad and the violence of the officers and lords does not guarantee effective restraint on the soldiers, rain, especially torrential rain, is a typical situation in which there are often large numbers of deserters.

The effective scope of violence in the Cold Weapons era often depends on two factors:

The speed of the horse, as well as the range of the bow and arrow.

In a sunny environment, if a soldier wants to escape from the ranks of the army, the officer can easily capture him with just a few cavalrymen, or simply shoot an arrow. But on a rainy day, vision and mobility are severely restricted, and people who look at each other face to face may not be able to see clearly, let alone a few people quietly leave in the long queue.

The situation on Wu Xiaoqing's side is fine.

He had only 1,500 men, and he had ready-made camps, and the simplicity he faced was relatively simple. In addition, because they are deep into enemy territory, even if it rains heavily, the soldiers may not dare to run - if they run out, they may be caught and their lives may be in danger. Moreover, the soldiers generally have a lot of war captures, and they are even more reluctant to throw away these riches.

But Shen Changwen's side is different, an army of more than 100,000 people, according to Xu Yan, has recently had problems drinking water, and there are still many patients. Coupled with the long march every day, there have been a lot of faint protests in the ranks one after another, but because the plan prepared by the four of them is very comprehensive, and they began to publicize and engage in all kinds of propaganda when they set off, so these protests can only be regarded as some complaints for the time being - but no one can say what these people will plan to do once it rains heavily.

After the remote meeting ended, Wu Xiaoqing began to patrol as usual. After a night of harassment, the entire camp was now filled with people. Most of these people are strung together in groups of a dozen people with ropes.

When Wu Xiaoqing walked into the prisoner camp, he only felt the stench and crying - the prisoners were not in the habit of leaving the camp to go to the toilet like Wu Xiaoqing's men. So the prisoner camp became a big dunghill. As for the crying, these people have almost completely lost all their wealth, as well as their freedom in life, and for them, the current state is simply a nightmare, and the future life is a hell that they dare not think of.

According to the plan, Wu Xiaoqing took out all the old people, women and children among the captives, imitated the original camp system, isolated these people individually, and established a similar women's camp.

After that, the search and rescue team informed all the remaining young men that from now on, they would be conscripted into the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Elis. When the main force arrives, they will eat the legendary sweetbread and get a certain military salary. If they win the battle, the oracles will ensure that their captures will not be swallowed by their comrades and superiors.

But! If they try to escape without permission, if they are caught, not only will they be executed, but their families will also be enslaved immediately!

After the discipline was announced, Wu Xiaoqing ordered the soldiers to distribute food, in order to buy people's hearts, all the food today is mixed with a lot of extra sugar, bread and sugar are sweet, and even the water they drink is also added with some sugar and salt. It's hot now, and everyone is sweating profusely, so it's good to keep them healthy with sugar and salt—there's still a lot of work to do with these captives.

……

"Baron Jacques and Baron Jacques' subordinates, all the citizens of Little Sun City:"

"God's eyes are on this city, and last night, more than 11,200 people had escaped from Xiaoyang City, and without exception, all of them became prisoners of our army."

"I know that many of these people are your relatives and friends, and you can rest assured that in the name of the land gods, their safety will be guaranteed by our army. But I'm more worried about you who are still struggling in the city than they are. ”

"Baron Jacques has gone mad from his defeat, having lost in this battle his three sons and a large part of his relatives, all of whom were commanders of his army, who died in the riots of the previous evening. They did not die from the thunder, nor by the swords of our army, but from the fists, kitchen knives and sticks of your relatives and friends. ”

"Why do your relatives rebel so much against their lord's minions? Because all of you know that this war was not originally about you! Originally, our army was just passing by and went to the south for refuge. If the Baron and Bishop Xiaoyang wanted peace, we could have traded with you with a lot of gold and pepper. But they did not want trade, because they preferred to plunder our army in the name of the gods, and the baron urgently built castles, hoarded supplies, and called up troops. In order to make these armies more loyal to him, he acquiesced in the plundering of the city, his own people. ”

"For the Baron, you are a bunch of domestic animals that he raises, and when it is necessary and necessary to slaughter some, or even most, of them, the Baron will obviously show no mercy."

"Yesterday for the whole night, God sent down eleven heavenly punishments in Xiaoyang City. After every heavenly punishment, your baron always tells you that this is the last time. ”

"He's lied ten times, and he'll continue to do so if he needs to. As long as he remains lord of the city, his lies will continue to rule your lives, using them to rob you of your parents and brothers, defraud you of your net savings, and finally ask all of you to be buried with him. ”

"Now, as yesterday, God has once again given you the opportunity, the opportunity to change the fate of all of you, terrible."

"This afternoon, God will rain heavily for the whole night. In the midst of the rainstorm, the gods will rain down twenty heavenly thunderbolts to split every fence and blockade for you. Remember, stay away from every banner and badge of the Baron, they could all be a target for the Skythunder! ”

Today's letter of persuasion was very long, and the messenger spent a whole morning outside the city, repeating the contents of the letter a dozen times.

At noon, Jacques patrolled the city, and was furious to find that his family's badge and banner were indeed all gone, and none of his knights could say who had done it.

The Baron was furious and wanted to make a new batch at once, but was tactfully advised by the knights - if the flags and badges were dangerous, why should they be used? Maybe if the enemy hadn't found the flag in the end, there wouldn't have been this damn thunder!

The Baron was almost mad with rage, but his attitude was not so important at this time - almost all of his cronies had died last night in the thunderstorm and on the front lines of the suppression of the riots, and in contrast, the knights and officers, who were usually not so enthusiastic about Baron Jacques's orders, were alive and well, and were now promoted—in the feudal military system, Jacques could not have found anyone else to command the damned freeman soldiers besides them.

The entire city of Xiaoyang is now covered with corpses and blood, and the riot that lasted all night yesterday not only cost Jacques thousands of troops and a dozen commanders, but also made the citizens who participated in the riot pay hundreds of times the price.

Baron Jacques even ordered a massacre in fear - all family members involved in the riots were to be executed. In the morning, while the Elise were outside the city to persuade them to surrender, the Baron's men were still carrying out mass hangings and beheadings in the city.

The fear created by blood had once again restored order to the city of Xiaoyang, which was on the verge of collapse—at least temporarily.

But no one can guarantee how long the smell of blood will last when the rain falls from the sky to obscure everything. Even for Shen Changwen, this heavy rain was still a difficult challenge, and for the already chaotic and fragile order in the city, which was also full of hatred, the energy of this rainstorm was likely to bring devastating consequences.

By noon, the clouds had accumulated in the sky, indicating that today's weather would certainly not be so pleasant.

Before the sun set, the whole world was already dark. The toilets in the prisoner camp had just been excavated, and Wu Xiaoqing was asking the soldiers to teach the prisoners how to distinguish between male and female toilets, when the raindrops of beans began to fall.

Wu Xiaoqing turned his eyes to look at Xiaoyang City, and in the black rain curtain that gradually became thicker, a lightning bolt fell from the sky, and the dilapidated city slowly disappeared after this brief flash.

Wu Xiaoqing put on his glasses, and the vision covered by the rain curtain became clear again, and the countless red dots in the city began to gather again like ants, and countless red dots began to converge together, like a river formed by heavy rain in the sky, flowing mightily in the direction of the outside of the city.