95. Loyalty and one tax

And those Roman technicians have also become objects that can be bought. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Attila had tens of thousands of slaves who could be sacrificed at will, from siege rams, moving wooden towers, and projectiles to throw arrows, javelins, and fireballs. These were the root causes of Attila's breaking of the fortified city.

Attila faced the fortified city in front of him, his eyes were firm, Attila had a willpower that was rare for ordinary people, which was why he was able to return after defeat, and he wanted to use another brilliant victory to cover up his last defeat was just bad luck.

Attila's barbarian army was so demoralized that they were like wolves in excitement when they heard that they were going to plunder the city.

Judging from Attila's performance along the way and his usual style, he is not an empire builder, he does not have an imperial mind, he is just a nomadic king, and destruction and destruction are his strengths.

He passed all the way, burned all the way, and did not want to build in the slightest.

"Burn! Burn them all! ”

Attila shouted excitedly, allowing the projectile to keep projecting fireballs.

A dense rain of arrows fell from the city, and the moving wooden towers under the city shot arrows as a counterattack. The two sides come and go, so it's not lively. The siege crash car, under the cover of the barbarian army, began to ram the city gates.

"Retreater, kill!"

Attila held his sword and forced the barbarians who cowered under the rain of arrows, a Gepid, who did not see where to go, and under the blow of the dense rain of arrows, he just retreated to the side of Attila on the front line of the war.

Attila raised her sword and slashed off the head of the Gepid, and in the shadow of the sword, a barbarian soldier was killed by the arrows in front of him, but they still pressed forward.

Attila always had only one penal law for deserters, and that was death, and it was an extremely painful death.

Attila will insert a conical log at the top of the flat ground, although the top is cone-shaped, but not sharp, insert the person into it, enter from the ****, and finally under three days of painful torture, pierce through the chest, or come out of the mouth.

Under this slow and painful torment, it is a lucky thing to die on the battlefield.

And this is just one of Attila's methods of disciplining deserters, there are many more cruel tortures. Waiting for these people to try, Ye Feng's legions still retained these tortures, which were tortured against deserters on the battlefield.

So Ye Feng clearly knew how powerful it was, he had personally seen those tortures.

"You will regret being born on this earth!"

Ye Feng commented on these tortures.

The soldiers on both sides came and went, and fell into a stalemate, although Attila was menacing and numerous, but it was not so easy to break with one blow, the siege war was a very slow war, if it was a decisive battle on the plains, the war would not last more than a day and the winner would be decided.

After a while, it was noon in the morning, and the midday sun was scorching, and the stench of corpses began to spread, but on the battlefield, these are all seasonings, not main dishes, and what you really have to be careful about is the ubiquitous arrowheads and flowstones.

And at this time, the living force of the Kawushi people was also annihilated, and now it was the final battle, Ye Feng rode on a horse, inspecting the sanitary situation in the barracks, there were many wars in ancient wars that could not be fought, all because of the spread of the plague and the rampant epidemic. As a result, the death rate of wounded and sick is much higher than the war death rate.

However, the "Holy Text" has made extremely detailed regulations on hygiene, and these people are all believers, and their enforcement is very high, so the sanitary regulations are very perfect, and the sanitary conditions in the barracks make Ye Feng very satisfied.

In this way, the plan of the expedition can be implemented!

Ye Feng thought in his heart, he did not want to succumb to this small world, now Ye Feng's territory of the Huns young and middle-aged as high as more than 6,000 people, and in the continuous slow increase, these are all warriors who can fight, are very valuable resources, as long as they are armed and equipped with horses, Ye Feng will have more than 6,000 heavy knights out of thin air.

This is a powerful force in the Middle Ages, and the plan to build a professional horse farm should also be put on the agenda, with the grassland on the Baltic Sea coast, it can accommodate 100,000 horses, but with sheep, up to 20,000 horses, but for Ye Feng, it is also a rare help. Just enough for a team of more than 6,000 knights.

But with the wild horses alone, as well as the horses brought by the Huns from the Pannonian steppes, Ye Feng was now armed with 1,500 heavily armed knights. Ye Feng knew.

Not only horses, but also equipment, a knight's sword alone will take a skilled craftsman a long time to build, not to mention those chain mail, fortunately those Roman craftsmen brought Roman treasures, silk drawing machines, which greatly accelerated the process of building chain mail.

Blacksmith shops, pieces of horse farms in Ye Feng's territory rose from the ground, Huns, converts, foreign residents, slaves, all participated in this big casting boom, people are proud of martial arts, blacksmiths, and horse farms, this is the three Ye Feng territories with the highest pay, the most popular industry.

The military orders of the blacksmith shop, batch after batch, don't worry about no orders, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish it.

The horse orders of the horse farm are also batch after batch, and the owner of the horse farm is looking forward to the growth of the pony, in exchange for gold coins, and live a good life.

Ye Fengling has been immigrating due to the open-door policy and the land given for free.

In order to prevent these movements from huddling and threatening the foundations of his rule, Ye Feng disrupted all the immigrants, for example, a Saxon land, and the land around him must not be Saxon, maybe Jutes, maybe Anglo.

These foreign residents, who were only granted temporary residency, had to pay enough taxes within five years to face deportation, all according to the precise calculations of the Roman tax collectors.

After they had paid their taxes, they had only enough food to eat. I have to say that the Roman tax collectors, if nothing else, are good at exploiting the foreign population, after all, they have hundreds of years of experience, exploiting the barbarians, and letting the barbarians fight for themselves, that's what they did, the Roman Empire took so long to collapse.

Hiring foreign soldiers, this is dancing on a tightrope, Ye Feng would not do this.

First of all, he issued an order of loyalty to foreign residents, confiscated all the weapons of foreign residents entering the country, centralized the management of those who could make weapons, gave them high salaries, and sent heavy troops to guard them.

A foreigner, if he wants to become a citizen, needs to pay high taxes, and his status is only a foreign citizen, not a real citizen, if he wants to own a weapon, there is only one way, pay the blood tax, and let his children change the fate of his foreign race.

Ye Feng looked thoughtfully into the distance, looking at the soldier who was restraining the corpse, and his heart moved.