Due to the complex ethnic composition of Europe, the uneven territory of the aristocracy, frequent wars, and the dark Middle Ages is a history of population reduction with high efficiency, therefore, the European continent has rich resources and fertile land, but the total population has not been able to rise, of course, there are also European whitemen who put their energy on plundering and fighting, and do not pay attention to the development of people's livelihood technology, resulting in the efficiency of farming thousands of years behind the East!

Europe's small population and frequent wars meant that a settlement of more than 1,000 people in the ancient East was nothing at all, but on the continent it was a real town worth building walls.

However, the Europeans had the intention to build a large number of city defenses, but did not have enough money, except for those main cities and castles that were regarded as fundamental by the state and the wealthy nobles, the city defenses of European towns were far less solid than those of the ancient countries in the East, and the diamond-shaped fortress star defense system that was widely rumored in later generations was a small number of fortresses and fortifications of major cities established under the country's financial resources, and the fortifications of most European towns were really miserable......

Hong Tiancheng looked at the three-meter-high earth weizi in front of him with a painful face...... Oh no, the Poles call him the wall......

There are wooden watchtowers and towers scattered on it, and the earthen city wall can only accommodate one or two people walking side by side, which is shabby and pitiful......

"Kaspersky, is this what you call 'tall' walls and 'terrifying' arrow towers?" Hong Tiancheng looked at Kaspersky with an unhappy face and severely reprimanded him for giving 'wrong information'!

"Uh...... My lord, the wall was a body taller than the tallest warrior, and the arrow tower on it could greatly increase the effective killing area of muskets or crossbows, and not only the group of marauders I was in before, but even the Cossack bandits who occasionally came to raid were reluctant to attack these walled towns. ”

Hong Tiancheng silently looked at Kaspersky with a look of 'it should have been', and said slowly with pity: "Kaspersky, have you never been to a real city before?" ”

"Huh? How do you know, my lord? An ordinary farmer like me, who spends his days only trying to fill his stomach and that of his family, has no time to go to a big city so far away, and if there is anything to buy and sell, it is enough to go directly to a nearby town, where weapons, armor, firearms, food, all kinds of tools, and even traveling horses are all available, which is enough to meet the needs of us countrymen. ”

Kaspersky's eyes flashed with greed and excitement, and he looked at the town in the distance, as if he were looking at a treasure, in Kaspersky's eyes, a town was rich enough for him and his family to feed their ancestors for eighteen generations......

"Are the other villagers like you?" Hong Tiancheng asked thoughtfully.

"Most of the peasants and villagers live like me, we sometimes don't see the real lords and nobles in our lives, the most contact is with the tax collectors and priests, and the sheriffs of the towns, except for those merchants, very few villagers leave their native hometowns and go to other cities, if there is a war or banditry, we can basically save our lives by hiding in the towns, the uprising Khmelnitsky has not yet hit here, and I don't need to take my family to be a wandering refugee.

In fact, an ordinary farmer like me, after leaving the land he cultivates, is equivalent to losing almost all of his food sources, although staying on the land is hard and tiring, and he has to be exploited by the tax collector, but at least we can create food with our own hands and have a hope of living......"

When Kaspersky said this, he paused suddenly, sighed heavily and stopped talking, Hong Tiancheng is not a person who is not in harmony with the world, he naturally knows that after he came here with the Taiping Army, the villagers and farmers could not even keep the last arable land, and the village was burned to a white ground......

This is the sorrow of the weak, who are powerless to resist society, let alone their own fate, and can only go with the flow and keep retreating, looking for the slightest hope of survival.

However, Hong Tiancheng knows very well in his heart that he is a strong man compared to ordinary people, but for the real upper class, he is just a ruthless rogue, not that the Polish army cannot exterminate the Taiping army, but that the other party disdains to waste troops on a dispensable little person like Hong Tiancheng.

"Although the information provided by Kaspersky is exaggerated a lot, this earthen fence in front of me can save me a lot of trouble, and my soldiers can also save effort and don't need to spend a lot of time to build siege ladders and even siege towers, this information is wrong, wrong!"

Hong Tiancheng looked at the figures back and forth on the earthen fence of the town, thinking with a smile on his face.

"Kaspersky, if I ask you to come forward and persuade you to surrender, what is the chance that the people in the town will surrender, I see Tuweizi...... Oh no, the number of soldiers on the city wall is about the same as mine, and many of them are obviously young and strong in the temporary number, so the will to resist should not be strong. ”

If there is any hope to take the town without a single shot, Hong Tiancheng is naturally willing to be a 'good person'.

After hearing this, Kaspersky's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he knelt at Hong Tiancheng's feet unbalanced, and begged in horror: "My lord, the little one knows the militia in the town very well, although there are not many of them, but this area is located on the armistice border between Khmelnitsky and the Polish army, and they are often harassed by bandits, and the militia inside has never surrendered, and it doesn't hurt them, and the city security officer and mayor in the town will never surrender, if I go up to persuade me to surrender, I am likely to be beaten into a sieve by them......"

Kaspersky finally added in his heart: Is it really scary to be a militia in a town if you want to surrender without a fight with just more than 300 people?

Kaspersky knew that the Taiping army was not afraid to die, but the Polish militia in the town did not!

"Oh? In this case, let my people try the Polish militia in this town, Kaspersky, you have been to this town before, what are the main ingredients of the soldiers in it, tell me about it. ”

"My lord, since the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania is facing off against Khmelnitsky, all the regular troops have been drawn into the fortifications and large cities, and there are only a few militiamen with muskets and spears in the towns, and some farmers with scythes will be temporarily mobilized in wartime."

The corner of Kaspersky's eyes inadvertently swept the flintlock handcuff hanging from Hong Tiancheng's waist, and added: "The musket militia in the town does not have flintlock guns, and they all use arquebuses. ”