The siege of the Incisor has been completely completed, which means that Bishop Barth's most crucial first step in this jihadist operation has been a complete success.

The heretics of the Great Sun Cult in the north will have to accept the current military posture:

If they tried to gather troops to relieve the siege of the Communal Tooth Fort, they would have to face the main force of the Xiaoyang Sect, which had already successfully established logistics and supplies. This means that they will be forced to use precious knights and mercenaries to attack the holy war camps of the Xiaoyang Sect, which are mainly defended by free people.

If they don't come, then a year, or at most two years, the key castle of the Incisor Fort will fall into the hands of the Holy Army, and at that time, the Holy War Army will be free to choose whether to go directly east and then north from the Citor and then take a detour to the east to harass the rear of the Great Sun Sect, or it can be a direct march from the west to directly threaten the hinterland of the Great Sun Sect, or even the location of the Holy City.

The initiative of the war has fallen into the hands of the Xiaoyang Sect, and now, the only thing that the Xiaoyang Sect has to do is to do its best to stabilize its rear - everyone knows that the most important key factor in the success of the siege is the stability of logistics.

The logistics supply of the Xiaoyang Sect mainly came from the three nearby kingdoms and more than twenty lords, three of which mainly provided weapons and war horses because of the remote distance, and the most important food and manpower still depended on the surroundings of the Communal Tooth Fort, these twenty-three large and small lords. They needed to grow and transport food for the front line, and if necessary, even from merchants further afield; In addition, they have to help capture deserters who have fled back from the front lines, especially after each battle.

For siege warfare, the arrest of deserters is a crucial part, and the general has put the arrest of deserters in the first place at many military meetings.

There is no doubt that the successful capture of deserters who have managed to escape, whipping them in public, or cutting off their fingers, is crucial to maintaining the morale of an army. As we all know, every outstanding general or king on the continent has the best cavalry troops, and the existence of such a unit is a great deterrent to those soldiers who desert, just like the madman Elis, many people have concluded that the reason why this madman wins every battle is because his soldiers never dare to run away - it can be seen that he spent a lot of effort in catching deserters.

Now that the siege has just begun, the food supply is abundant, and all the soldiers can basically eat a full meal a day, so the number of deserters is not large. According to the detailed records in the army, that is, hundreds of people, a considerable part of which was prompted by a spy from the Great Yang Sect. - Although most of the hundreds of deserters were later captured, it was a pity that the spy managed to escape.

This incident caused Bishop Barth to have some faint worries, just because he was afraid of starvation, so many people would take the risk to become deserters, so if the food supply really did not run in the future, how would the morale of the front-line army be maintained? Even the soldiers who captured deserters needed food.

Bishop Barth's return this time is mainly to use the religious power of the Xiaoyang Sect to integrate these lords and let them twist into a rope to contribute to this holy war. Instead of every time it was said that manpower and food were talked about, each lord sent someone, even in person, to complain to himself.

He had to inspect each of the warehouses in the lords' homes; The lords of the lord's family, he had to send someone to check the quantity to ensure that he had a clear understanding of the entire logistics situation. You can't indulge these lords as much as you used to, and just find some unrelated reasons to come and ask for exemption...... When necessary, you can even take a few lords to make a knife, so that they can also know that the Holy War Army can not only be external, but also internal.

"The freedmen were reluctant to farm, and began to connect and flee in clusters, scrambling to transport food for the merchants......"

Bart sneered and looked at the wax pattern on the parchment, when he was a three-year-old! Freedmen don't farm, so what are they called? Did the merchant's grain fall from the sky? The so-called merchants, not these lords themselves? It's just a left-handed right-handed trick. It seemed necessary for the lord to punish him.

“…… The sun is a disaster, and the grain harvest is ......"

Bart laughed angrily at this reason, daring to use the Great Sun as a reason, does this lord think he is the Pope? In the Xiaoyang Sect, even a bishop like him does not dare to explain something easily on the grounds of two suns, because as we all know, only His Majesty the Pope can say anything about the two suns! Only the Pope's crown can be changed! If an individual can dictate the movement of the two suns, what else does the Pope need to do? What is the seriousness of the Xiaoyang Sect!

“…… The ignorant masses were incited by rumors that if they went to the mountains, they would have free sweet bread to eat every day......"

Complimentary sweet bread ...... Bart frowned, feeling that something didn't taste right.

He originally came back this time, mainly to increase the supply of the rear, that is, to collect some more religious taxes in a corresponding way. But judging from the letters in front of them, these lords actually cried out one by one, not to mention overcharging, and they all suggested in the letters that they should receive less or even not to collect.

These letters have been accumulated in the past half a month, and they are communication letters with the lords in the rear, which is also Bart's work habit, to accumulate all the letters for a period of time, and then deal with them in a unified manner, which will be very efficient, and there will be no mistakes before and after.

On average, once a month, Bart had to communicate with these lords to exchange the necessary information, the most important of which was conscription and rationing.

Naturally, there have always been all kinds of prevarications and excuses in the replies of the lords, but these prevarications and excuses are also an important way for Bart to understand the dynamics of the lords' thoughts.

Such idiocy and obvious prevarication as seen now immediately surprised Barthes.

as well as danger.

What's even more dangerous is that Bart flips through the letters one after another, and what he says is almost the same as before.

He read the more than 20 letters carefully, from beginning to end, and confirmed many of the details, such as the easternmost lord and the westernmost lord, their letters were written and sent from home almost at the same time, there was no time difference, but each other's words and deeds were surprisingly consistent, and there were aspects that corroborated each other in the details.

For example, the Lion family claimed that their lords had gone to the east to transport grain, and the otter family in the east reacted that there had been a lot of grain convoys passing around the territory recently, and when they passed by, they also instigated the young people who had taken away a large number of free people who had farmed under their command - these people had been sent to the battlefield by the lord's plan, and now these young men who were supposed to be part of the Jihadist Army were instigated by an unfamiliar organization to go to the mountains to eat "sweet bread".

It doesn't seem to be as simple as prevarication and excuses......

The bishop pondered carefully in the carriage for a while, and soon his brain integrated the main information through the letters, and finally formed a comprehensive impression.

During the time he was away, a mysterious organization appeared in the rear, which claimed that as long as he went to the mountains, he could give sweet bread to eat, and finally a large number of free people were bewitched, so the farmland was abandoned, the young and strong began to flee, the tax collection was difficult, and the logistics began to become more and more difficult and difficult.

"Heresy, heresy of the Great Yang Sect!" This was the first concept that Bart's mind subconsciously popped up, and as soon as this concept flashed, it was immediately favored by the Bishop.

During the war, what a vicious means to disrupt the other side's logistics order through spies!

If it weren't for himself, even if he found out, if he waited a little longer, I am afraid that the entire front line would be in danger of running out of food and not being able to support it! At that time, the siege posture that has been formed with great difficulty is likely to fall short.

"Liaison officer." The Bishop stretched out a hand from the window of the carriage, called a knight, and when he approached, gave him a few quick commands.

In the evening, when Bishop Bart was resting in one of the lords' castles, the liaison officer returned, and brought back a whole string of "free men", thirty in all, and four wagons they used to transport goods.

According to the liaison officer, when he found the men, they were driving a wagon, laden with food, along the road to a valley to the southeast.

When they saw the liaison officer, these guys even had an attempt to resist, and it wasn't until the liaison officer showed the holy emblem of the Xiaoyang Sect that they obediently followed back.

Bart personally watched the interrogation take place.