94. Blood tax
For the castle that resists stubbornly and does not surrender, Ye Feng has only one policy, burn it!
But thinking that Kaushi Fort would become his own property, and that it would have to be rebuilt if it was burned down, Ye Feng changed his mind, and he nunu mouthed, signaling the people around him to treat this castle and the surrounding residents "gently". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Arrest the die-hards and throw them into the newly built iron and salt mines, that is, the nobles who are not good, and their entire families are reduced to slavery. Of course, a small number of nobles who supported the Huns could have been saved from slavery, but nobility was also achieved.
As for the rest of the freemen, they became lambs to the slaughter, and they had to pay a lot of taxes to the Huns, and in addition to the material taxes, they also had to pay a blood tax, that is, to send the newborn babies less than a year old to the holy city. Each of the baronies that were divided in Kawushi had a certain share of the blood tax.
These blood tax babies are called Gandamu, which means king's personal guard in Hungarian.
They began to select since childhood, and selected the smartest and most powerful Gan Damu to enter the court and receive court education, while the inferior Gan Damu became the middle-level officer of Gan Damu, and the worse Gan Damu became the cannon fodder of the Gan Damu army.
The person who is close to the god in the Hungarian language is Lentu, so the Gan Damu Army, also known as the Lentu Forbidden Army, is a very powerful figure in the entire Hun Empire.
At first, the inhabitants of Kauschburg resisted to the death, refusing to hand over the baby to the Huns, and there was even bloodshed. In the image of the Kaussi, these Huns grew up drinking infant brains.
But after the Huns explained the benefits of becoming Gan Damu, the parents agreed, and even bribed the local magistrate who selected the blood tax so that their children could enter the court.
At the same time, after receiving the news, the knights and soldiers in the city also began to act, they opened the city gates, and let the soldiers rush out of the city, and the merchants in the market outside the city were very disturbed by the large-scale military operation in Uldingburg, but seeing that they did not affect the normal trade of the merchants, the merchants did not do anything.
The speed of the soldiers' march is naturally faster than that of the merchants, and Urdin's current military operation is to follow the predetermined plan, and Ye Feng's main force to flank the Kawuhi.
Uldin's target was Fort Kaushi, and he marched quickly towards Fort Kaushi to annihilate the living forces of the Kauhi with lightning speed. After Ye Feng sent two Hun hundred-man teams to garrison Kaussburg, he quickly waved his army to Urdingburg.
Fort Kaushi in the north and Urdingburg in the south, just surround the Kaushi and make them doomed!
The village communities they met along the way, Urding and Ye Feng, all adopted a "moderate" attitude, hanged all the nobles, announced the ruling order, told these Kawushi that from today onwards, they were the subjects of the Huns, and after telling them their rights and obligations, they left in a hurry.
By the way, all their weapons were confiscated, and all the craftsmen who were able to make them were taken away, so that even if they rebelled, they would have to fight with their bare hands, and their craftsmen would be gathered together to make weapons for the Huns and their servants.
The Kaushi who had their weapons confiscated were naturally unwilling, but the nobles and chieftains were dead, and they had no weapons, so even if they had the heart to resist, there was nothing they could do.
On the Kawushi Plain, the two coalition armies encountered the Kawushi coalition army that was hastily assembled, numbering only a few thousand, Ye Feng from the front, Urdin from the back, the two armies flanked, and the Kawushi people were defeated.
Corpses were everywhere, and knights rode by.
"Uldin's report to you! Apostles! ”
Ulding turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of Ye Feng's horse, Ye Feng's horse sneezed rhythmically, Ye Feng and Ulding looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
After the war, the soldiers began to carry the corpses, and Baron Cano joined them, who, without resting, dug a deep pit in the land and threw the corpses of the enemy down.
One by one, Baron Kano counted them, because each baron had to report the corpses they had buried or burned, so that Ye Feng would know the battle damage.
"One! Two! Three..."
Kano counted expressionlessly, and his heart had already flown to his barony, and his children didn't know whether life was good or not, whether they were obedient in the church school, and whether their academic performance was excellent.
Thinking about it, I fell into a trance, and I didn't notice that the soldier carrying the corpse collided with him.
"I'm sorry, Lord Baron!"
The soldier immediately apologized, but Kano didn't care, waving his hand lightly.
The soldier left in fear.
At this time, Attila's army burned all the way to the city of Salzin.
Salzin City, the castle that truly gathers the crystallization of the wisdom of the whole West, has a wall up to 4 meters wide, a wall up to 10 meters high, and a city wall that stretches for miles. It's not a wooden fort, it's all made of rock, made of the finest stone.
There are also corner towers, arrow towers of 100 meters per pavilion, a real Romanesque city wall in order to ensure a shooting range without dead ends. He crossed the Alps, and the bitter cold of the wind and snow did not stop Attila and his vast barbarian alliance from stirring up.
The thought of going to the heart of the Roman Empire, Italy proper, crisscrossing and plundering. These warlike barbarian soldiers are drooling.
In the city of Salzin, the Romans were shivering, hiding behind their barbarian mercenaries, looking at the large barbarian invading army under the city, and their hearts were filled with fear.
The defender was a barbarian leader, but he was loyal to Rome, and from then on he received a Roman education, believing that God would not abandon them, and Argus was confident that he could repel the Romans under the city. I don't know if it's because of God's encouragement or because of the strength of the walls.
The barbarian generals behind him gathered around him, looking at him with a resolute expression. A barbarian general said:
"Do what you say! We all listen to you! It's a surrender or a battle! ”
Argus felt a heavy burden on his shoulders, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said:
"The Huns have always been brutal, if they surrender! They will be slaughtered! It's better than a war! ”
All the barbarian generals nodded yes, the brutal image of the Huns has been deeply rooted in their bone marrow, and the Huns have indeed slaughtered the surrendered cities, so the barbarian mercenaries unanimously decided, fight!
Attila was not as poor as Ye Feng, he had a lot of manpower and material resources, and the vast land brought him a large number of people. The slaves of the conquered lands, who became the advance army, began to siege the city, and these slaves with shabby weapons and cloth clothes suffered heavy casualties in the face of a dense rain of arrows.