The once peaceful town has now become a cold 'ghost town', and even though the French Foreign Legion has been gone for a long time, the smoke of burning corpses in the town square has not completely dissipated, and the sluggish or weeping women and young children look at the looted hometown town, with nothing but anger and helpless resentment that has nowhere to vent......

In the positive attitude of 'making extra money', the French Foreign Legion 'kindly' left a relatively intact house for the women and children who had just been forced to fulfill their 'obligations', and all valuable materials were looted, which was called a contribution to the suppression of the revolution......

In fact, judging from the value of property alone, the house should be regarded as the greatest wealth of these townspeople, but the remaining women and children who have been robbed of their rations seem to have no other way than to leave their hometown town to join the rebels!

This is precisely the starting point of Lin Haoda's other interests left behind them - to let these women and children empty the food of the peasant rebels, and to spread the brutality of the French Foreign Legion to the peasant rebels!

Lin Haoda so blatantly told the peasant rebels through the suffering women and children that if you don't stop the unscrupulous 'military action' of the French Foreign Legion, your hometown will be in ruins, and your relatives will suffer an unspeakable disaster!

Since many people in this town themselves participated in the peasant rebel army, they are naturally familiar with each other, and in addition, in order to unite the peasant rebel army, the rural committee preached the slogan of 'freedom, equality, fraternity, bread', if we do not accept these women and children whose hometown has been plagued by the government army because of the acceptance of the peasant rebel soldiers, the hearts of the people who have gathered together will be scattered!

If the rural committees really excluded these women and children, the peasant rebel soldiers would inevitably wonder if their own family and friends would have behaved in the same way.

For the peasant rebel army, which is loosely organized and fights entirely on hatred and revolutionary enthusiasm, once there are a large number of questioning voices within it, it will definitely be a great blow to the morale of the fighters, and without the morale bonus of the same hatred and hatred, there will be a big question mark on how much combat strength the peasant rebel army can have!

This truth is understood by people, Lin Haoda knows it, and the members of the rural committee naturally know better, otherwise they would not have connived at the tyrannical behavior of tenants and serfs, and deliberately co-opted these untouchables who had nothing but one life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the saying goes, the poorer the people, the more they dare to work hard, excluding professional and strict militarized training and strong ideological brainwashing, the poor life is undoubtedly the best way to temper the fighting wildness, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was leveled, the Hunan army, which was mighty and powerful, after grabbing a refreshing one, even Zeng Guofan had to admit that the children of the Hunan army no longer had the bloody nature to continue fighting, and the original bitter hometown soldiers, after robbing the wealth accumulated by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they all became large and small landlords with thousands of dollars, After returning to his hometown, he wants a beautiful woman and a beautiful woman, and he wants real estate, who still has the heart to pin his head to the waistband of his pants and work hard?

Go home and use the wealth from the robbery to buy acres of land, become a small local tyrant, and marry a few beautiful aunts and wives every day to inherit the family is the right thing!

Very simple and realistic civilian thoughts......

Because of this, the Hunan army was replaced by the Huai army, and in history, the recruitment of soldiers gave priority to the poor peasant children, and even simply recruited wild soldiers from the mountain nests, and the poor brute soldiers with only animal skin pants became the first choice of the government and generals.

It was not until the rapid development of weapons and the need for soldiers to operate advanced weapons that basic culture and even advanced professional knowledge were required for soldiers to operate them, that this recruitment model was broken.

It's a pity that in Lin Haoda's era, except for artillery, other arms have not yet evolved to the level where the quality of soldiers requires a basic level of education, and hunters who can't read big characters can still play flintlock pistols a hundred times stronger than highly educated gentlemen......

Perhaps, the officer level will need basic military literacy, but it does not mean that uneducated people cannot serve as officers, in this 18th century, where courage and bayonets could defeat artillery and platoon guns, sometimes the morale and discipline of the army are more important than tactics!

When the surviving women and children in the town were grouping to other settlements to find the rural committee to complain and survive, Lin Haoda was pointing to the marching map and asked Sean, the 'whistleblower hero': "The first village you mentioned is a mile away, are you sure that there are members of the nearby rural committee living in this village?" ”

"Yes, sir."

Lin Haoda looked up at Sean and teased: "Don't be so depressed, now you are on the side of the government, and it is not your relatives who die, think about the days of living in Paris City in the future, compared to those mobs, your luck is very good." ”

In the face of Lin Haoda's ridicule, Sean didn't dare to have the slightest confrontation, and after barely squeezing out a smile and echoing a sentence, he was taken down by the guards around him.

Subsequently, Lin Haoda called an officer beside him and said: "Convey my order, this time there is no need to ask the whistleblower, the soldiers will start killing people directly after entering the village, leaving women and young children who have no ability to resist, and their houses will be set on fire by the way, and this kind of small village will not have a big impact if it is burned down."

Well, let the 3rd Infantry Regiment go on a mission this time, and tell the other infantry regiments that are not on the wheel, there are target villages behind, and no one will pull them down. “

The 3rd Infantry Regiment in Lin Haoda's mouth is a large flintlock regiment temporarily organized by Lin Haoda after recruiting 80 line infantry companies, 80 full line infantry companies with a total of 12,800 people, after more than 4,000 people were transferred to the commander of the grenadier pioneer battalion, Siri Lafaeli, to guard the Bastille base camp, and the rest were organized into 3 ordinary flintlock infantry regiments, namely the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and the 4th Infantry Regiment.

Each infantry regiment has 2,000-3,000 men, the first regiment is entirely composed of veterans after street fighting, and the last three infantry regiments are all ordinary line infantry newly recruited by the system.

It was the Second Infantry Regiment and the Hussar Company of hundreds of people who carried out tasks in the town before, of course, it was these two formations who committed violence in the town afterwards, after all, it was too crowded to pour tens of thousands of troops into a small town, and there was no need for that.

In fact, the establishment of the task is equivalent to receiving wartime benefits in disguise, not to mention the reckless popping, just after looting the town, the soldiers deserve to share the spoils of war is a good wealth, in addition to the necessary grain and grass, other trophies, Lin Haoda is still relatively generous, in Lin Haoda's eyes, the basic morale value of the soldiers is much higher than the value of the loot.

Lin Haoda is only one person, how many materials can he consume no matter how extravagant he is?

The entire legion belonged to him alone, and he naturally didn't care about this petty profit.

In Lin Haoda's plan, the three newly formed line infantry regiments would prioritize killing and looting missions in turn, cultivating their blood and improving their base morale, while the hussars could enjoy this looting benefit every time.

The reason why Lin Haoda was extra tolerant of the hussar troops was mainly because during the march of the army, the infantry only needed to move forward, but the hundreds of hussars had to patrol around the march route of the army.

Maintaining a cordon of tens of thousands of troops to ensure that the French Foreign Legion would not be attacked suddenly was no small task, and these hussars numbered only a few hundred, and each hussar spent most of his time on horses during the daytime march.

Except for the necessary rest period of the war horses, they can eat some food and drink some water to replenish their physical exertion, this group of hussars is completely busy, if the marching army suddenly encounters an ambush without advance warning, it is not a joke, it can be imagined how heavy the task of these hundreds of hussars is, it can be said that they are the most laborious group of people in the non-combat period.

Naturally, there was the opportunity to enjoy the 'welfare' of the ransacking of the village, and these hussars deserved to taste the rewards they deserved, and the other soldiers understood the hard work of the hussars, but they did not care too much.

As for why Lin Haoda didn't let all the soldiers enjoy the 'spoils' together, the reason is very simple, there are more monks and less meat!

A small town has a population of only a thousand, and excluding the male civilians who were killed, the rest of the people must exclude young children and old women......

This one...... As long as you have studied elementary school mathematics, you should be able to calculate this account, an infantry regiment plus hundreds of hussars, more than 3,000 people together, it is not easy for female townspeople, if there are more, the soldiers behind can theoretically only stare at the corpse......

Well, it's just a theory, and Lin Haoda hasn't seen it with his own eyes......

Don't forget, Lin Haoda also needs the devastated women and children to drag down the food of the peasant rebels, and to promote the crimes and threats of the French Foreign Legion, forcing the peasant rebels to show up and fight in a hurry.

Therefore, the rotation system is a scientific and reasonable arrangement, anyway, Lin Haoda thinks so!

The 3rd Infantry Regiment, which was marching towards the village, immediately erupted in cheers after receiving the order, and without the previous series of 'routines' in the town, their task would undoubtedly become more relaxed.

It's nothing more than killing a man and leaving a woman and a child, what a simple and beautiful combat mission!

The line infantry of the other infantry regiments looked at their colleagues who had won the 'beauty difference' with envy, and they couldn't help but fantasize about how they would 'enjoy' this combat mission when they were transferred to their own infantry regiment......

Lin Haoda's strategy is undoubtedly very successful, the soldiers under his command have become extremely eager for battle, and their initiative has been greatly increased.

It is no wonder that in the wars of the past and present, even in the later World War II, which emphasized humanitarianism, the soldiers of the armies of both warring sides regarded looting and 'what' as the norm to boost morale in the enemy's occupied areas, and this method was indeed very effective in stimulating the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting.

As for the 18th century, which now seems even more barbaric, needless to say, there is no army in the whole world that can be found without any offense, especially in the territory of an enemy country!

In ancient wars, when a large army passed by an army that could treat its own people well, it was already widely proclaimed as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and it is conceivable that this kind of behavior is commendable......

Lin Haoda has no special feelings for the French whites, so he naturally wants to continue this good behavior of 'killing three birds with one stone'.

These 'three birds' are to earn historical crush points by killing, increase the morale of their own soldiers, and increase the food pressure and panic of the peasant rebels, forcing them to start a battle or flee!

Lin Haoda really can't find a reason to refuse this temptation, he is not a good person with the mentality of 'Our Lady', but a mercenary killer, for an absolute interest like him, conscience is always behind his own interests.

The 3rd Infantry Regiment and the hussars quickly surrounded all the entrances and exits of the village, and then the excited-faced soldiers and hussars, led by the officers, stormed the panicked French village in an organized manner, and carried out indiscriminate slaughter and 'what the hell'.

Lin Haoda and his entourage naturally have no interest in going to the scene to observe, this kind of slaughter scene has been seen once, it is enough to experience the freshness and satisfy their curiosity, and they will feel disgusting if they see too much.

After all, Lin Haoda doesn't have the perverted killing pleasure of a murderer......

More than 3,000 bloodthirsty soldiers of more than 3,000 professions rushed into the small French village, which was completely crushed, and it was difficult for the unarmed French village to inflict casualties on the line infantry, let alone face the hussars who came and went like the wind......

In less than an hour, the French village had lost all resistance and was left with a silent wail.

Mounier, who had not gone to the village and had been staying with the main force of the army, asked Lin Haoda curiously: "Aren't you going to collect evidence of the 'massacre'?" Why didn't it do it like the town this time? ”

"Your Excellency Meunier, you and I both know that this kind of evidence is just a layer of window paper for the government to come to power, and it is enough for this kind of thing to have a meaning, anyway, the National Constituent Assembly does not want this kind of documentary evidence, and I am too lazy to bother."

When Meunier heard this, all that was left was 'hehe'......

Even though he has been with Lin Haoda for so long, he is still a little uncomfortable with Lin Haoda's straightforward way of expounding the facts, and he always feels that Lin Haoda's big truth without any decoration makes him, a person who claims to be a civilized gentleman, have an 'illusion' that is no different from ordinary pariahs.

Meunier was convinced that this feeling must be an illusion!

He, like all the nobles in the high, would never admit that the only difference between them and the common people was their hypocritical rhetoric and the cultural knowledge of a good family......

What Lin Haoda and Meunier didn't know was that Sean and his party, who were forced to witness the tragic situation of the French village, were only left with the survival instinct of losing their soul in their numb eyes!