"Chapter Twenty-Eight: Stabilizing the Situation"
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- Homer (ancient Greek blind poet, author of the Homeric epics)
While Oscar and Gumos launched an assault on the Hamarca Army, Luquis and Ulles also led the 200 Red Armor Army towards the city of Calaris. Calaris, without walls, is an undefended city, and besides, there is not even a single soldier in it, so what else is there to guard against? For the second general and the Red Armor, this was an armed patrol operation.
As long as the battle outside the city begins, the Red Armor Army is responsible for slaughtering all the families or people who have made changes; There is nothing wrong with the rest. How could these unarmed civilians and incapable family privates be the opponents of the well-trained Red Armor Army, let alone the presence of famous generals like Luquis and generals like Ulles.
However, no matter when and where; There will always be some people who are not afraid of death or families who do not believe in evil. When the trumpets of non-Sardinian soldiers sounded outside the city, the whole city of Calaris began to gradually wake up from its slumber; Seeing the red-armored army training in groups of five on the streets and alleys, many people had a premonition that something was not good.
In the face of this kind of crisis, the vast majority of people will choose to shrink in their own homes; After all, whoever occupies Sardinia needs the people, and no one will make a big deal out of ordinary people. For the sake of their own lives, the vast majority of Callaris residents chose to stay closed; But there are always some people with lofty ideals in every nation, right?
When the first man with lofty ideals decides to sacrifice his life for the country, there will soon be a group of warriors who care about the country and the nation; However, among these warriors are more hooligans and ruffians who want to fish in troubled waters. Whether it is a rogue ruffian or a man with lofty ideals, under the butcher's knife of the Red Armor Army, they will quickly turn into wisps of remnant souls and disappear between heaven and earth; All that was left was blood and broken corpses.
Those who have noble integrity have become corpses, and those who are not afraid of death have also turned into unjust souls, and those who remain are not only those who know the times, but also those who are greedy for life and afraid of death. For such people, the Red Armor only needs to keep patrols and keep them in the house and dare not go out. When there was a burst of fighting outside the city, the nobles in the city finally began to move.
Everyone knows that whoever rules Sardinia needs a foundation of domination; Therefore, no one went back and took the initiative to embarrass those ordinary people. However, the aristocracy was different. It is undeniable that the poverty of the common people is also one of the reasons why the army does not invade them; The aristocracy, on the other hand, possessed both enviable wealth and the ability to resist the rule of the occupiers.
These people were doomed from the very beginning to resist the occupation of the new occupiers, not for the sake of the so-called national justice and national future; It's very simple, in order to protect their own interests. Similarly, as a battle-hardened player, Lucis also knows this. Thus, after the first batch of dead people were disposed of by the Red Armor Army, the main patrol area of the Red Armor Army became the residence of various noble families.
The first family to open the door to the mansion was the oldest family in Sardinia, and as soon as the door was opened, an army of 300 privates and servants rushed towards the Red Armor patrol in front of the door! Soon, the neighboring Red Armor Army came to support; 50 Red Armorers against 300 rabble. As a result, 20 minutes later, the Cayces family truly became a part of history.
At the cost of 5 killed and 15 wounded, the Red Armor killed the Caysis family in a sea of corpses and blood; The entire Kaysis family, regardless of men, women, and children, were all killed, including private soldiers and servants, and none of the 562 people in the Kaysis family survived! At this time, the battlefield outside the city was already the sea of Sparta; Even inside the city, you can clearly hear the shouts of Sparta outside the city.
may have sensed that the situation was really serious, and in the next ten minutes, 12 large and small families began to carry out a surprise attack on the Red Armor Army; The entire Red Armor Army suffered heavy losses, and the number of dead and wounded rose sharply. Seeing that the hard work accumulated by the family for many years was consumed little by little here, Ulles's eyes were red and he coaxed angrily to kill these family alliances.
Just when the Red Armor Army and the family alliance were inseparable, the inhabitants of the entire city of Calaris began to move; The situation in the city suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, and it was possible to fail at any time. Suddenly, there was a neat commotion of rage; A group of black-armored troops shouting "thisissparta", led by a general in battle armor, launched an attack on the family coalition from the rear.
In an instant, the coalition of 12 families suffered countless casualties in an instant; Morale dropped dramatically. The brave Spartan heavy infantry interpreted the meaning of killing gods with killing, and the family alliance soon collapsed under the blows of the Spartan heavy infantry. Looking at the Red Armor Army in front of him with heavy casualties and the bloodied Lucis and Ulles, Oscar directly ordered Sparta next to him:
"None of the families involved in this rebellion will be left behind, and they will be killed! All civilians who participated in the sneak attack during the fighting were wiped out. Other families and civilians who are not involved are not to be attacked. Execute it now! “
In fact, Oscar's order was also well thought out; Since these 12 families have participated in the raid on the Red Armor, they must be held accountable for their actions, it is their own choice. As for the treatment of civilians involved in the fighting, it is also for the future; Because most of the civilians who participated in the war have been killed, but their children, brothers and families are still there.
There is a blood feud between these people and the House of Augustus, and war is never a place that harms the family; If we don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots now, we will only leave hidden dangers and endless future troubles in the future. Is it rare that you can expect a child who has a father-killing vendetta with the Augustan family to grow up to be loyal to the Augustan family? Therefore, Oscar can only choose to be ruthless; All for Augustus!
After a whole morning of purging and killing, Callaris fell into a deathly silence, and the entire city of just over 20,000 people had been killed since the morning! This caused everyone to fall into extreme fear, and the screams and killings in the streets and alleys made others afraid to open their homes.
Near noon, Gabriel's Blue Armor sent all the captives to the barracks; Leaving the Blue Armor to guard the captives with the Cretan legions, Gabriel and Gumos arrived at the governor's mansion in Calaris. After everyone arrived, Oscar began to hold a military meeting. Oscar first asked Luquis to report on the whole situation, and Luquis sorted it out and said: "From yesterday's occupation of the port to the current occupation of Calaris, we have basically completed the occupation of Sardinia; In this military operation, the most casualties were Ulles's Red Armor Army, with 80 soldiers killed, and the rest were basically wounded. Since only the Spartan heavy infantry of the Cretan regiment was engaged, not a single person was killed, only a few were wounded.
There are also blue armor soldiers who are not injured because of the guards and prisoners. So far, our army has captured more than 1,000 port laborers, 2,000 peasants, and 600 militiamen; More than half of the militia were wounded. And in this morning's combat we have eliminated all the Sardinian nobles, supplying and seizing wealth worth more than 80,000 gold coins. That's all there is to it. “
Oscar nodded to Luquis, motioned for Luquis to sit down, and then said to Ulles, whose eyes were red, "The revenge of the Red Armor Army has been avenged, so don't be too sad; They all died for their families, and I will not treat them badly, so I will immediately take out 8,000 gold coins from the seized property and send them to their families, so that their families will have no worries about food and clothing from now on. ”
Ules stood up and knelt down on one knee to Oscar and choked up, "I thank the leaders for the grace of the brothers who died in battle, but they are all carefully selected orphans by the Carters family, and they have no family at all. Alas, Oscar sighed and didn't say anything more, just helped Ules up. Oscar continues:
"This battle is all thanks to the efforts of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, and the remaining 1,160 soldiers (200 Blue Armor Army, 120 Red Armor Army, and 840 Crete) were each rewarded with 20 gold coins; Later, Luquis, you will send 23,200 gold coins. As for the captives, all the port laborers were released, and each was given 1 gold coin for comfort.
The other 2,600 captives formed a construction corps, and immediately the casting of the walls of Calaris, and all other aspects of the construction went out to recruit workers and let them do it; Tell them that after three years of service, they will be free and will be given 5 gold coins to go home, and that they should not run away by chance, otherwise they will be executed immediately if they are caught. This matter is left to you, Gumos.
Later, Luquis, you will give 40,000 gold coins to Gabriel and Ulles, and each of you will have 20,000 gold coins to recruit the army in the form of a year's advance of high military salaries; The former Red Armor Army and the Blue Armor Army were used as officers to quickly recruit and train new Red Armor Army and Blue Armor Army, and the number of each army was set at 2,000 people. Remember, soldiers must not be recruited from Calaris, but from those small towns and villages to recruit simple and honest people; I'm not at ease with the people of Callaris. By the way, Gabriel, you will transfer 40 of each of your 200 blue-armored troops to Gumos and Luquis later.
The remaining 20,000 gold coins will be used to recruit workers to build the walls and lay the way for Calaris to the rural towns with a population of more than 1,000, and you will be in charge of this to Luquis. Moreover, the next construction work of Anmin will also be handed over to you, and Luquis will sit in Calaris to preside over the overall situation! Also, after that, the two brigades of Crete officially broke away from the Cretan regiment; A group of 840 men formed a guard regiment, commanded by myself. Tomorrow morning I will go to the port and wait for the First Legion.
Finally, there is the question of the garrison of each army, the current Hamarca military camp will be used as a construction corps station in the future, and a military camp will be built on the left and right of this military camp and handed over to the Red and Blue armies respectively; The barracks of the Guards and the First Regiment were built on the other side of Calaris, so that the two barracks could protect Calaris with horns. “
After the order was announced, Oscar dissolved; Everyone began to carry out their mission, and Oscar also went to the prisoner camp with the Spartan heavy infantry.