Chapter 233: The Thief
After taking Bobodor, placing the prisoners, and counting the storage of ordnance and weapons in the town, Su He ordered people to maintain law and order in the town, and no residents came out of the houses to see the situation until dawn, perhaps the sudden battle frightened the inhabitants of the town.
Considering that his strength is not necessarily overwhelming compared with Marcus, Su He discussed with Ma Li, Duoyin, Faisal and others and decided to recruit some young and strong residents from the town of Bobodor to strengthen the army, because according to the information they obtained, the composition of the residents in this town is very complex, in fact, not only here, but also in many towns and castles in the Balkans The ethnic composition is very complex, and the residents of the town of Bobodo are very oppressed by Marcus's extortion, and the residents of this place have long been dissatisfied with him, I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and I believe that as long as there are generous conditions here, and help the residents here put an end to Marcus's brutal rule, the residents here should be eager to join the army.
After the decision, Su He immediately asked people to write a war report, and then wrote down the local recruitment of young and strong troops to strengthen the army and send people back to Pazar, and then sent people back to Pazar, and then took action first, and after dawn, he sent people to announce the news in the town, and recruited people first.
In order to save time, after daybreak, Mari was ordered to lead a thousand men to the south to attack Neves, a town near Chusten, which was more than sixty miles away from Bobodor, and only more than thirty miles away from Chusten. However, before that, Su He had already sent cavalry to open the way and conduct reconnaissance.
The recruitment of young men in Bobodorr went smoothly, and the army led by Su He put an end to Marcus's brutal rule over the area. It is equivalent to the rescue of these townspeople, the residents are very grateful for this, and the salary for joining the army is very good, which makes many young people tempted, and after obtaining the support of their families, they go to the recruitment site to sign up, and Suhe recruited 200 people in one day in Bobodor, which is a very good result. You must know that there are only three or four thousand people in the entire town, and being able to recruit two hundred people is obviously beyond the expectations of Su He and the others.
The Soviet commander appointed a new mayor of Bobodor, who was in charge of the town's affairs, and left another hundred men to guard Bobordor. Su He led the army and set out for Neves in the evening.
Su He and the others received a messenger sent by Ma Li in the middle of the road, and the messenger said that due to the fast speed of the march, Ma Li led a thousand men on horseback and marched quickly to Neves before noon, and the defenders of Neves had no idea that Bobodorr had been lost. I wasn't very guarded either. Ma Li led the people to arrive and immediately began to attack the city, when the defenders had found a large number of troops coming, but because there were not a few soldiers near the city gate to defend at all, the assault team organized by Ma Li occupied the city gate in the first wave of attacks, and then the army entered the city, more than 400 Marcus's cavalry was blocked in the town of Neves and could not play a role and was besieged, and finally surrendered under the shouts and threats of Marcus, and no one was willing to rebel with Marcus. Marcus's charges of rebellion were thus condemned.
When the main force led by Su He and others arrived in Neves, the town of Neves was only defended by three hundred people. And there were six hundred prisoners, and Mari himself pounced on Chusten with seven hundred men as early as the afternoon.
Su He was originally very angry after hearing that Ma Li had rushed to Chusten with most of his men and horses, and Ma Li didn't talk to him at all, so he took the initiative to leave the town of Neves and the prisoners of six hundred people and take most of the men and horses to attack Chusten, but then he thought about it, the soldiers were very fast, if Ma Li had waited until the main force arrived to discuss with him, I am afraid that Marcus, who was in Chusten at that time, would have already known the news and began to arrange defensive measures, so he did not pursue it. However, he still ordered someone to write down this matter on parchment and send it to Qin Dong, after all, it is a strict violation of military discipline to mobilize troops to fight without the consent of the commander-in-chief, and this kind of thing must not be tolerated.
Ma Li's men were less than 700 men, and Su He was worried that Ma Li would suffer when facing Marcus, so he left Duoyin in Neves to take care of the aftermath, and he immediately led a large army to Chusten overnight, and finally rushed to meet Ma Li at the foot of Chusten City at dawn.
After seeing Su He, Ma Li also knew that he had violated the rules of the army, so he immediately met Su He to ask for guilt, and Su He saw that Ma Li did not show his status as Qin Dong's old servant, but took the initiative to come over and admit his mistake, and he forgave Ma Li from the heart.
"Okay, Centurion Ma, since you know that you have violated the system, I don't blame you, but the system is the system, and you must be punished for violating it, but in view of the imminent war, you also did it from the perspective of the war situation, I will temporarily write down your punishment, and after the battle is over, the Lord Wanfu will decide on your punishment, are you convinced?"
Su He didn't open up at all because Ma Li was Qin Dong's old servant, nor did he stop because he was afraid of offending him, but just wrote down the punishment for the time being, and then Qin Dong himself would worry about it in the future.
Ma Li also knew very well what the consequences of his behavior of violating the regulations and leading his troops to Qiusten without asking for instructions, and he did not take Su He seriously because of his identity, so he had no opinion on Su He's decision, "Yes, Lord Su He, I am very convinced of your decision!" β
Chusten is built from south to north, with mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, its south is a mountain, and there is a river passing through it in the north, so Su He is relieved that because Ma Li acted quickly, he crossed the river before Marcus reacted, although he was not able to raid into the city, but he set up a position under the city, blocking Marcus and his main army in the city.
Marcus's main force is in Chusten, and there are not many troops in the surrounding small towns, Su He and Ma Li immediately surrounded Chusten after meeting under the city of Chusten, and surrounded the entire Chusten, but I don't know if there are any secret passages in the city leading to the outside world.
In order to find out the specific situation in the city of Chusten, Suhe sent people outside the city to find out the local residents to find out the news, and soon a guy who was not like a peasant and a slave was brought into Suhe's tent.
"My lord, this guy is sneaky near the camp, and his subordinates suspect that he has bad intentions, so they arrested him, please judge him!" A soldier reported to Suhe.
"Oh?"
Su He was about to ask, but the guy who was arrested immediately defended himself out of fear: "My lord, I am wronged, the villain is not a spy, the villain is an Alan man, named Sogas, who usually lives by stealing, and when the adult's army crosses the river in the evening, the villain is outside the city and has no time to hide in the city, so he has been staying outside the city, and when the villain waits later, the villain sees that the adult's army seems to be besieging the city, and the villain guesses that the adult's army is coming to attack Chusten, if this is the case, the villain is willing to serve the adult?" β
"So you're a thief?" Su He said as he was.
"Uh, yes, my lord, the villain is a thief!" Na Sogas's expression was a little embarrassed, but when he saw Su He asking, he didn't dare not admit it.
Su He said again: "You said you are willing to serve Lord Ben?" So what can you do? β
Sogas hurriedly said: "My lord, the villain knows that there is a secret passage that leads to the city, and the villain is willing to tell Lord SΓΉ about this secret passage, so that the adult can quickly capture Chusten!" β
Su He was about to ask Sogas to tell him where the secret passage was, and Ma Li, who was sitting next to him, was immediately furious: "Bold thief, you actually deceived adults, what kind of attempt are you, come here, drag this damn thief out and cut it down!" β
"Yes, sir!" Two burly soldiers walked in from outside the tent with their swords in their hands, grabbed Sogas and dragged him out.
"Wronged, my lord, the villain will never dare to deceive the adult, what the villain said is true, there is really a secret passage leading to the city, the villain can guarantee that what the villain said is true!"
Ma Li said with a cold face: "Okay, since that's the case, then my question, you just said that you were blocked outside the city by our army and couldn't go in, since you know that there is such a secret passage that can lead to the city, why don't you take the secret passage to enter the city, but stay outside the city?" There are loopholes in your rhetoric before and after, saying, who are you and what is your purpose, if you don't say it now, you won't have a chance to say it later! β
Sogas broke free from the two soldiers who were holding him, wiped a cold sweat and hurriedly said the reason: "The two adults don't know, the villain originally entered the city through the secret passage, but the villain decided not to leave after seeing the adult's army start to besiege the city, the villain wanted to take the adult's army into the city through the secret passage and kill the damn Marcus, so the villain stayed outside the general's camp until he was caught just now!" β
Su He said loudly: "You hate Marcus very much? β
"Hate, of course hate, general, you send someone to inquire, there is no one in or outside the city of Chusten who does not hate Marcus's villain, since the Huns army defeated the Romans stationed here, Marcus is already the seventh commander here, he has been here for six years, he has plagued the inhabitants of this place for six years, he has demanded that we pay high taxes, and at the same time we have to give up the land to his cattle, sheep and horses as pasture, so that we have lost a lot of arable land, Even if every wife had to invite him to enjoy the bride's first night, it was really worse than livestock, as long as he killed Marcus and captured Chusten, I would like to tell Lord SΓΉ where the entrance to that secret passage is!" (To be continued......)