032 Capture the town
The crown banner of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania at the head of the city has been cut off, and the main force of the Taiping army has gone deep into the town to carry out the final occupation, but just as Hong Tiancheng quietly listened to the sound of fighting from the city, a Taiping sergeant with blood stains on his body eagerly ran out of the city and ran towards Hong Tiancheng's location.
"My lord, the mayor of Loren in the town is resisting with the armed forces of the townspeople, do we want to completely 'suppress' all the townspeople."
Hong Tiancheng glanced at this Taiping soldier lightly, he naturally knew the meaning of complete suppression, that is, let all the soldiers let go and slaughter all the adult men standing and the humans with weapons!
Soldiers who surrender in this era often get down on their knees and throw away their weapons, completely give up all resistance, and express that they have no willingness to resist, so as long as they are standing, it means that they have not surrendered......
However, because the resistance of women and children is very weak, as long as they do not have a sharp weapon in their hands, they will not be killed even if they do not surrender, because women and children are also equivalent to a resource in the eyes of the conquerors, and women can be rewarded to meritorious soldiers, and they can also plunder their own territory as fertility tools.
Boys will only survive at an ignorant age, because such boys can be educated to become future fighters of their own side.
Any glorious conqueror has a large number of institutions for raising orphans, and these orphans tend to grow up to be loyal because of their stricter education and training.
This soldier came to see Hong Tiancheng because he wanted a clear order that in addition to those who surrendered, both civilians and soldiers could be killed, generally speaking, if the battle went well, the Taiping soldiers would not send people to ask for their lives, once they took the initiative, it means that the battle in the town has encountered large-scale resistance, and they need to let go of the killing before they can continue!
The loyal Taiping soldiers do not have the word defeat in their impressions, but it is more beneficial to the war to let go of hand killing, as long as they see the figure directly bombarded by a row of guns, and burned one house after another, of course, it can reduce their own battle damage than a serious offensive and defensive battle.
The people in the towns have the convenience of being familiar with the terrain, and if they don't use all the means, it will be really difficult for the Taiping army to conquer them.
Hong Tiancheng did not have a woman's kindness to the white Polish civilians in the town, but once the order to completely suppress it was issued, eighty percent of the town would be reduced to rubble......
The Taiping soldiers, who only seek victory by any means, will turn the entire urbanization into a sea of fire!
"With the Total War system, if I beat a town into a blank slate, can I get Sins?"
Hong Tiancheng's biggest purpose in this battle was not to gain population, but to increase the crime value and expand the army, he did not expect that the resistance of the Poles would be so strong, and the Tatars would be so resistant, so he naturally had to ask cautiously to ensure that his interests would not be damaged.
[Of course not, whether it is rape and plundering or burning to the ground, the sin value obtained is the same, but for the capital-level large cities, if all the cities are slaughtered, there will be an additional sin value bonus, but the massacre of the capital-level cities will have an irreversible bad impact on the host's reputation in this world, please consider it carefully.] 】
"In that case, there is no need for these Poles to stay, toast and don't eat and drink, am I really good-tempered?"
After receiving an affirmative reply from the all-out war system, Hong Tiancheng immediately agreed to the proposal of the Taiping soldiers to completely 'suppress' it.
Soon, under Kaspersky's complex gaze, the entire town burst into flames, and the roar of muskets became more frequent.
The arquebuses left behind by the dead Taiping soldiers were not wasted, they were used by the Taiping soldiers who did not have arquebuses, and the weapons in the hands of the Polish musket militia who died in battle also became a weapon used by the Taiping soldiers to deal with the urban freedmen who desperately resisted.
These freedmen in towns may be good at trading in connections, but if they fight, they are not as strong as the young people who have fled from the villages, and they are completely supported by the anger in their hearts that 'I can't live and I won't let you be good'.
When the town was ablaze and began to spread wildly under the frenzied rage of the Taiping soldiers, the last of the morale of these free people fighting for their families and wealth crumbled.
Their shops, houses, etc., were burned to the ground in the fire, and even if they won the battle, they would be destitute, and the Polish nobility and government would not compensate the freedmen of these towns for the loss of property due to the war......
After losing the faith to resist, the barely maintained defense line of the town's civilian armed forces was shattered and collapsed under the fire, and it was no longer able to resist the attack of the Taiping soldiers.
Of course, there was no shortage of Polish civilians in the town who lost everything and did not care for life or death in order to get revenge, so the occupation of the whole town lasted until noon the next day!
Although the Taiping soldiers had the morale to fight to the death, the number was too small after all, and the losses were still quite large under the counterattack of some Polish civilians who had gone crazy.
Even though the revolt in the towns reached a climax at the beginning, the courage of the people was exhausted, and when the Poles in the towns realized that victory was hopeless, most of them either escaped or became prisoners of the Taiping soldiers.
Now, under the watchful eye of a handful of Taiping soldiers, the Polish captives began to gradually clear the ruins of the burned towns.
The surviving Taiping sergeants all had arquebuses, and they were still the good ones they had picked.
However, the loss of Hong Tiancheng in this battle was very large, and attacking the town of more than 3,000 people with more than 300 people was a very crazy thing in the eyes of the people of this era.
Of the more than 300 Taiping soldiers, only more than 100 survived, and two-thirds of the battle losses were lost!
However, the harvest was unexpectedly large, and after the Taiping soldiers had quelled all the resistance in the town, the all-out war system in Hong Tiancheng's mind suddenly sounded a continuous prompt.
[Congratulations to the host for winning more with less, with more than 1,000 people on both sides participating in the battle, and gaining 5 personal reputation points; Congratulations to the host for capturing a town for the first time and gaining 2 personal reputation.
Congratulations to the host for accumulating 10 personal reputation, further opening the authority of the Total War system, and fully entering the era of firearms! 】