On the outskirts of Breda, the crowd was buzzing with people, and Belgian men in short linen clothes were under the watchful eye of the Imperial Guard, pulling the wheels forward like livestock.

"Master, our army already has a solid logistics base, so many Belgian strong men can't use it at all, just raising them out of thin air, isn't it a bit of a loss, anyway, the root cause of the turmoil in Belgium has been greatly weakened, we can simply get rid of these hundreds of thousands of Belgian young people, so the food saved is also a lot of wealth."

Qin Xue'er, who was accompanying Lin Haoda, glanced at the strong Belgian man in the distance whose eyes were full of resentment and fear, and proposed to Lin Haoda with some uneasiness.

In order to maintain the stability of the Belgian region that was robbed and pulled by Lin Haoda, the 200,000 troops have left tens of thousands of people to maintain the deterrence of the Belgian region.

Belgian civilians are not stupid, Lin Haoda's 200,000 people seem to be a lot, but scattered in the Belgian region with a population of more than 3 million is nothing, and there are Belgian youths who have fled in advance to the inaccessible forests and mountains, so it is still necessary to leave a certain size of garrison in the Belgian area where the people's grievances are boiling.

What's more, Lin Haoda also had to guard against the states of the Holy Roman Empire on the border taking the opportunity to send troops to attack and harass.

In this way, the number of troops escorting hundreds of thousands of young and strong people will undoubtedly become smaller, and Qin Xue'er is naturally worried that these people will suddenly rise up and cause losses.

"This group of Belgian young people is a lot of wealth, and if they carry out large-scale slaughter for no reason, so many people can't be executed at the same time, and once something goes wrong and is discovered by Belgian young people, it will be a disaster, and the craziest group of human beings is not fanatical believers who have been brainwashed by religion and free thought, but people who know that they will die!"

"Master, these people are all unstable factors, and they need a lot of troops to take care of them on weekdays, and when it comes to attacking the Dutch, we don't have enough troops to ensure that they don't make trouble."

Qin Xue'er said worriedly.

Lin Haoda squinted at Qin Xue'er and said slowly, "Do you think the Dutch have the courage to fight the Young Guards in a field battle?" ”

"The Dutch will not be so stupid, when a Marquis Lafayette could enter the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and in the end it was because of the Austrians that the army withdrew, and the Young Guards defeated the Marquis Lafayette all the way on the frontal battlefield, and the Dutch would never dare to go out of the city to fight with us in the field without foreign aid.

But the Dutch will not surrender to us, now in the Breda line the Dutch have built a strong permanent fortifications, the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands has accumulated a lot of wealth by relying on sea trade, and the population is also quite large, now in front of us I am afraid that there are rows of fortresses, we do not know how many people will die in this battle......"

"Yes, the attackers have always paid a far more casualty price than the defenders, and the Dutch have spent so much effort to defend us, and we can't get in without paying the price.

In the past, we could use hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard it little by little at any cost to reduce the personnel losses of our army, but this time I don't want to waste so much ammunition in a small Netherlands, and robbed Belgium Although we are not short of money or food, but this shell can not be produced in a short time, the Poles are finished, and after the Russians, Austrians and Prussians have carved up Poland, they will inevitably come and attack us, and I must leave a reserve of shells for a long enough time to fight, in order to be invincible in this war of great disparity between friend and foe.

I don't plan to use the artillery reserves that I am accumulating in this campaign, the Netherlands is very rich, but it is not worth all my money. ”

Lin Haoda said confidently.

Qin Xue'er glanced at Lin Haoda's eagle-like eyes, looked at the endless queue of Belgian young people, and subconsciously covered her red lips with her right hand and said, "Master, you won't let this group of Belgians charge as cannon fodder, they ...... Okay? ”

"Why not? These Belgian young men can carry sandbags to fill trenches, act as meat shields for spears, erect ladders, etc., and their corpses themselves are a good 'ladder', and the ant siege has been used from ancient times to this era, which itself represents its practicality, and the only thing to worry about is a large number of casualties.

Anyway, these Belgian young men have a grudge against me and the French government, and I can't put them back, so I might as well let them use their lives to make a way for me!

As it just so happened, the Dutch did not have the courage or strength to attack our army in the field, and as the attacker, I had time and preparation, and let the soldiers force these Belgians to go up and fill in a path, as long as my soldiers could pull the Dutch army into a short attack at the least cost, and victory would be quite easy. ”

"Master, aren't you afraid that these Belgians will fight back before they die...... And this method is so cruel that I am afraid that it will be very detrimental to our acceptance of the Dutch territory, and as long as the Republic of the United Dutch Province makes a big deal about our behavior, I am afraid that the Dutch people will regard us as a beast that eats people, and even if we defeat the regular army of the Dutch government, we will be all over the occupied territory......"

"Hehe, the account is not pressing, I now have a reputation you also know, the black cauldron of slaughtering civilians has been carried by an unknown amount, compared to pulling the Belgians into the battlefield as human cannon fodder, not to mention, I am not letting the Belgians all die, before the charge, I will divide hundreds of thousands of Belgian young men into countless echelons, as long as we complete the tasks assigned by our army, you can survive until the next battle begins, hundreds of thousands of people are enough for us to slowly take turns to attack and consume, with the territory and armament of the Dutch, Even if I put hundreds of thousands of people at their guns, will they be able to kill them cleanly?

On the one hand, it is the end of being killed by the Overseer, on the other hand, it is the hope of completing the mission and living, I don't need the Belgians to fight with the Dutch army in hand-to-hand combat, the Belgians are still very easy to control as long as they are greedy for life and afraid of death, I don't care about reputation and popular hearts, some things are actually much easier to do, a bad reputation is not necessarily not a good thing, it is precisely because the Belgians know my cruel reputation that they are more afraid of me and dare not disobey my orders, the Belgians know very well in their hearts that I don't need a reason to kill people! ”19