The 'cleansing' of villages with less than 1,000 people by more than 3,000 regular troops was carried out under strict organization and with great efficiency. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There was less time for interrogation, and Lin Haoda, who was checking the marching map, didn't take long to wait for the news of the return of the troops in charge of purging.

Subsequently, Lin Haoda once again gave the order for the whole army to advance.

At this time, it was not early, and night would fall in a few hours, and according to the location of the next village where the peasant committee was harbored by Sean and others, it would definitely not be possible to make it before dark, even if it was a rapid march.

After all, there were no ready-made smooth roads in the countryside of this era, and all of them were uneven dirt floors full of pristine natural scenery, and it was difficult to increase the speed of a two-legged army.

Of course, for Lin Haoda's systematic army, as long as the soldiers under his command are not sent to death, neither officers nor soldiers will carry it out unconditionally, so no one in the officers and soldiers of the French Foreign Legion has any objections.

In the end, it was Meunier who took the initiative to ask Lin Haoda about it after hearing Lin Haoda's marching order.

The vicinity of the village was relatively gentle and suitable for camping, otherwise it would not have become a peasant settlement, and Meunier did not want to march halfway and camp in a harsh wilderness, so why bother to suffer unnecessarily?

"Your Excellency Lin Haoda, it's almost dark now, isn't it a little wrong for us to continue to march, after all, it will take a lot of time to set up camp and bury the pot to cook, so we might as well find a place here to spend the night first."

Meunier kindly reminded.

Lin Haoda pointed to the marching map and said, "Isn't there a large village around here?" Let's go there and spend the night. ”

Meunier glanced at Lin Haoda's finger and asked suspiciously: "It's not the place that Sean and others pointed out, and it's different from the route of the next village that was identified, this ......"

"Oh? Really? Lin Haoda didn't remember the location of the village that Sean pointed out, and his thoughts in his heart were very different from what everyone thought.

"Call Sean and the others." Lin Haoda turned around and instructed the herald beside him.

Meunier looked at the herald who went out and didn't say anything more, in his heart this was just a small mistake by Lin Haoda, which would be solved soon.

Sean and others, as 'guides', naturally have to be on standby at any time, and the faces of Sean and others who were brought over by the guards made Meunier frown, and Sean and others seemed to have lost their human brilliance in their pupils at this time, numb and dead like a walking corpse.

However, Lin Haoda and the others didn't care about the changes of Sean and other guides, they just needed to ensure that Sean and them didn't go crazy or stupid.

In this backward society, there are more numb civilians, and they don't care how many more people there are.

"Sean, are you sure there are no members of the rural committee and no mob here?"

"I'm sure!" Sean looked at the large village that Lin Haoda pointed to on the marching map, and replied in the affirmative, and after he finished speaking, the other two guides behind him also gave the same answer.

After hearing this, Lin Haoda nodded and said, "Then it's no problem, we'll spend the night here tonight!" ”

Sean and the others were stunned for a moment, and their numb hearts couldn't help but tremble, they seemed to have thought of something terrible!

However, Sean and the others, who had already been crushed by reality, didn't say much, and obediently lowered their heads and followed the guards out of here.

After Sean and the others left, Meunier, who was out of the way, said in a hesitant tone: "Your Excellency Lin Haoda, you are going to ...... this"

"Yes, that's exactly what you think, the Paris region is the first place where the peasant uprising broke out, and the initial suppression of the National Guard was too perfunctory, and the entire countryside of the Paris region at this time has long been eroded, Sean and the three of them are just the leaders of a small town, how much news of the peasant uprising can they know?

In the area where the peasant rebel army operates, any small town and village is likely to become their logistical supply point and source of soldiers, since we are using the cleaning method of cutting off the foundation of the peasant rebel army, naturally we can't let go of any French peasant settlement, the villages confirmed by Sean and others should contain many relatives of the peasant rebels, we can let go of those cumbersome old and weak women and children, but Sean and others have not identified the place, even if they have not become supporters of the peasant rebel army now, It will also become a logistics base for the peasant rebel army to persist in guerrilla warfare in the future, so it must be wiped out before the main force of the peasant rebel army is suppressed! “

Lin Haoda explained in a firm tone.

"So, is this unidentified French village treated in the same way as before?"

Lin Haoda shook his head and smiled: "Of course not, at the legal level, these villages that have not been identified are innocent, in order not to leave tangible evidence for the National Constituent Assembly to face the people's accusations after the war, I think it is still necessary to erase all traces." ”

Meunier took a deep breath, looked straight into Lin Haoda's eyes and said, "You plan to leave no one alive?!" ”

"Yes, without witnesses, we naturally don't have to worry about a large number of people spreading dangerous rhetoric after the war, it is normal for a few villages and small towns to disappear during the war, and the testimony of the only known peasant rebel army will not be very convincing in front of the government, will it?"

Lin Haoda laughed gloomily and added: "As long as we succeed in suppressing the peasant rebels and win an absolute military victory, the blame for these destroyed villages that have no living remains can be completely put on the mob, anyway, they have slaughtered and looted the manors and castles of many nobles, and those noble women are even more miserable to die of being ruined, such a mob rebel army, it is also logical to slaughter several uncooperative villages and towns for their own selfishness, hehe~~~"

Meunier subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and unconsciously took two steps back in the face of Lin Haoda, the reason in his mind made him hold back the big truth of his psychology, and took a deep look at Lin Haoda's Asian yellow face, thinking: The reason why this Lin Haoda formulated such a brutal strategy against the enemy is probably because he didn't regard himself as a French at all, and didn't care about the lives of those French civilians!

Although Meunier was ashamed of Lin Haoda's behavior in his heart, he knew very well where his ass was sitting at this time, and after adjusting his mentality, he replied under Lin Haoda's smiling gaze: "I understand, justice will always belong to us and to the French government!" ”