029 Knock on the door
"My lord, the hour has come, and the people in the town should not plan to surrender." Kaspersky was like a loyal husky, with a flattering smile on his face, bowing his back slightly, and reminding Hong Tiancheng.
Hong Tiancheng's eyes exuded a cold light, and he stared at the flowery crown banner of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania fluttering on the head of the city.
"The Polish militia don't even dare to step into the city, a large area of dirt is within the range of our army's muskets, where do they have the confidence to continue to resist stubbornly, is it possible that the mayor of Loren inside thinks that a group of militia can defeat my soldiers in street fighting after the city is broken?"
Hong Tiancheng's impression of the European medieval towns often surrendered if they couldn't be beaten, and even those famous big cities and fortresses would open the city and surrender when they realized that they couldn't bear it, which was nothing in the eyes of white Europeans.
Westerners are completely different from the Easterners' ideological concepts of being able to kill and not be humiliated, and Westerners pay more attention to practical interests, value immediate interests, and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve this and the bottom line of morality.
The chivalry propagated by Christianity was only valued in the early Middle Ages in continental Europe, and later even the knightly class itself regarded chivalry as a tool to obtain glory, rather than really adhering to the traditional concept of knighthood, driving away evil and promoting good, and eradicating evil and murderous lords to avenge the people......
That kind of knight only lives in fiction, and the righteous knight in reality does not exist, because the aristocratic class will not allow them to exist!
It can be said that the deterioration of chivalry, in addition to the loyalty part of the loyal monarch, patriotism and courage to kill the enemy, other chivalry has completely become a propaganda slogan, perhaps, the knights will behave like the male protagonist in the knight novel in front of the noble lady, polite and friendly, but in the eyes of the civilians at the bottom, the knight is a 'master' who can't be provoked, and the knight lord will be hacked to death on the street if he is dissatisfied!
Because of this, it is very incomprehensible that a town with a population of more than 1,000 people can still resist stubbornly when the city defense is almost equal.
Shouldn't morally degraded Europeans be scum who spare their lives?
Hong Tiancheng's shallow common sense of Western history made him go into a misunderstanding, although the Western continent does not have the kind of moral norms such as the ancient Eastern countries where the scholar dies as a confidant, and the monarch lets the minister die and the minister has to die, but the fiefs of the small and medium-sized nobles attached to the big nobles all come from the rewards of the big nobles, so to speak, there is not much difference between the small and medium-sized nobles and the knight class, once they betray the interests of the directly subordinate nobles, just one sentence, everything these small and medium-sized nobles have will be justifiably deprived of it!
The small and medium-sized aristocratic class like the mayor of Loren is not out of loyalty, but the relationship of interests established by the feudal system after the evolution of the continent, and a class that can stand tall in the long river of history has a solid chain of interests.
The aristocratic class of the Eastern countries is no longer visible in the 21st century, but the European aristocratic class has been integrated into the layers of the new society, and those ancient aristocratic families have become the behind-the-scenes bosses of the financial predator multinational group, there are countless such examples, the most awesome is the British royal family, in the era when the democratic trend of thought has occupied the absolute field, Britain can still maintain the monarchy, and even the British royal family itself has no less wealth and power than parliament!
Most people abroad think that the British royal family is just a rubber stamp in the British hypothetical constitutional system, but they don't know that in many cases, this 'rubber stamp' is 10,000 times better than the so-called British Prime Minister, but the British Prime Minister is just the spokesperson of democracy on the surface.
If it is a royal family without any power, why should these politicians let the government allocate funds to support them every year?
And how is it possible for the tentacles of the royal family to penetrate into the lucrative walks of life?
The social cake is so big, the British royal family takes more, and the politicians naturally have less, and politicians are the most interest-oriented, and they cannot be willing to give up so much benefit to the British royal family out of the so-called 'tradition', just because they can't bring down the deep-rooted British royal family, and even rely on its snort to get benefits!
No one who sits on the throne can be underestimated, and no one wants to stay at the feet of the powerless!
However, although Hong Tiancheng does not understand the rules of the political game of Westerners, he has an all-out war system that breaks these rules.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you can re-establish the rules yourself, and if someone doesn't accept it, they will physically destroy the other party, and those who survive will naturally be the 'obedient people' who are willing to accept it.
This is what it means to conquer!
After Kaspersky heard Hong Tiancheng's doubts, his expression suddenly fell into a tangle, because he himself did not understand the rules of the game between nobles, and if he did not enter that circle to experience it for himself, he would never know what terrible game the people in the circle were playing......
Of course, Hong Tiancheng just confided the doubts in his heart, and he didn't expect anyone to answer him, because Hong Tiancheng didn't need an answer!
"Come on, go up and break the city gate, we will kill it openly, I want to see how many 'good men' in the town are dead."
As Hong Tiancheng gave the order to leave no room for it, the new recruits of the Taiping Army, who did not have arquebuses, shouted slogans and pushed a simple wooden ramming car, which was actually a huge stout log with some wheels......
The city gate of this town and the wall of Tuweizi are of the same level, which is not strong at all, and the knife and axe may not be able to cut it, but as soon as the car is hit, there is basically no suspense.
Even if Hong Tiancheng doesn't need to ram the car, he can easily climb the Tuweizi city wall that no one dares to show his head to attack the city, but the Taiping soldiers who rushed to the Tuweizi will be within the range of the enemy's musket fire in the city, causing a lot of losses, which is far less easy than directly hitting the city gate.
As soon as the city gate was opened, the Taiping soldiers and the Polish militia in the city were on the same parity with each other, which was equivalent to a field battle in a narrow area, and the advantage of the defender's terrain basically did not exist.
All this is common sense, without the soldiers at the head of the city, the defensive significance of the city wall disappears, and because of this, Hong Tiancheng was surprised by the stubborn resistance of the town administrator.
It is clear that the city is about to be destroyed, and the other party is still holding on to not surrendering, which is too much to overestimate his strength......
Under the cover of the musket team, the Taiping army's ramming vehicle was not hit by any long-range weapons, and was safely transported to the gate of the town, where the door-smashing campaign began.