In such a place, an unprepared ambush, we are not opponents at all.

"Run, get out of this place!" Malki roared in desperation.

Just by looking at the muzzles of the guns that were spewing fire on the low wall opposite, he knew that there were at least twice as many enemies as his side.

Many tall black figures appeared on the side, holding shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands, forcing towards this small force of only a few hundred men from different directions. In the twilight, these giants from the north resemble moving mountains, their faces obscured by steel-forged visors, making Malki unable to see what they look like, feeling like a group of death messengers from hell.

Tianhao has ascended the throne, and all the tribes have been integrated into one empire under his strong appeal. However, in terms of combat effectiveness, there is still a difference between the Tiger Clan and the Lion Clan and the Dragon Clan, which were later incorporated into the Empire. A significant number of the warriors recruited by Long Lingxiao were from the Tiger and Lion Clans, and these people were more adept at using traditional cold weapons than advanced modified rifles.

As long as it is combined with long-range suppression firepower, these melee soldiers can also be put into battle at the right time, which can also have a good effect.

As for where they are hiding, to put it bluntly———— there is some difference in human vision in certain angles. For example, if you stand on a hillside and look down, 60 degrees, or 45 degrees, your line of sight will be blocked by the raised rocks on the surface, especially when the color, ground cover, rock composition and other factors in the two areas before and after the obstacle are about the same, the naked eye will have an illusion, resulting in the brain having a thinking error of "there is no obstacle, from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope is a straight line".

Peng Hui led his men to capture the town of Leiden in advance. After clearing most of the killings outside the town, he ordered his soldiers and captives to build simple companies out of sand and planks outside the town, and dug several trenches for hiding along the sides of the main road into the town. The main road was already higher than the wilderness on either side, and the sky was dark, so even if you walked very closely, it was difficult to spot the giant brawlers hiding inside the trench, with weeds and shrubs piled up on the surface for camouflage.

There is no need for any commands, as long as it is a person of right mind, he will turn around and run away.

Malki had no fighting spirit, and in less than two minutes, the death rate of the troops he led had exceeded 60 percent. Without thinking about it, he turned and fled, with only one thought in his mind———— he must flee back to the city of Moronte and report to the Baron what had happened here.

"Whoosh!"

With a terrible tearing sound, Malki froze completely. He lowered his head, looking in disbelief at the sharp tip of the knife peeking through his abdomen. It was a wide-mouthed weapon with a long blade, thrust through from behind itself, tearing through skin and muscles, destroying internal organs, and penetrating the entire body.

“…… Damn it...... Mike ......"

He muttered to himself? Is this the last in mind? It is also the strongest consciousness. It's not so much a wail as a curse.

The long knife flipped suddenly? Malki screaming in heart-rending agony? He saw that the murder weapon on the blade tone was manipulated by the force from behind him to go straight up, slashing through his chest? Ascending to the neck, and finally rushing to the head in one breath in a frightening speed and chaotic thinking. How clear is the sensation of sharp metal colliding with a hard mandible? The entire vertebrae seemed to be pulled out of the muscles. The blade shattered the teeth? The soft tongue shatters like a battered girl's touch, the eyes lose the ability to take in external images in the brutal tearing, and the brains exposed to the air become numb and fall into darkness forever.

Penghui bent down to cut off the head of Malki's corpse? Forcefully tear the metal badge pinned there from the opponent's chest. By this time he was already very familiar with the Saxon military system? Only personnel from the rank of lieutenant and above are eligible to wear this rank badge. As long as you add up a lot, you can exchange it for generous rewards.

Not a single white soldier could run out of the encirclement, except for a few dozen guys with active brains who immediately raised their hands and knelt down in surrender when they saw that the situation was not good, including Commander Marchi? In total, two hundred and thirty-nine men were killed.

Penghui did not destroy the infrastructure in Leiden Town, nor did he order the buildings to be set on fire. What is the location of this town? Moreover, it has a natural altitude difference, making it an ideal military base. Just a little renovation and construction? can be a good small-scale supply point.

Late at night, Mike sits in the middle of a group of giant warriors? Laugh with them? Munch on fresh barbecue.

Peng Hui repeatedly warned the soldiers below to "not look at this white man in a discriminatory light." And he has a good reason? Today's battle also made a lot of barbarian warriors who despised Mike re-evaluate this guy.

The commander is right, he is our man!

The white informants remain a secret to this day, and the actual identities of most of them are only in the possession of Tianhao. An intelligence officer like Mike who cooperates with the front-line troops is not of a high level, and belongs to the lowest order of all "secret seeds".

Mike didn't drink much, and he left the banquet slightly drunk, and went to the big house across the street where the prisoners were being held.

It was a cluster of buildings, full of people from the town of Leiden.

Mike walked into the prisoner management area, burped a foul wine, picked a beautiful woman, grabbed her hand hard, and dragged her out of the crowd.

It was the mayor's wife. Speaking of which, this old man is really shameless, he is in his fifties and almost sixty years old, and he married an eighteen-year-old girl with money and power. The mayor of the town was apparently incompetent in that regard, and after three years of marriage, the teenage girl was still not pregnant.

The woman cried and refused to leave, and the female captives next to her watched all this with fearful eyes. Mike was enraged, raised his fist and slammed it at the woman's stomach, she was so painful that she covered her abdomen with her hands and squatted down, and was dragged up by Mike's whole person, directly on her shoulders, and moved into the empty room on the side like a trophy.

Soon, there was a fierce movement of men and women fighting.

When he captured Leyton, Peng Hui told all the soldiers below that ———— was able to capture the town without damage, largely because of Mike's efforts. His Majesty the Emperor has a decree that rewards and punishments must be clearly defined, and everything except the seized precious metals and related materials can be freely enjoyed by Mack.

Including all the women in this town.

Before the prisoners of war were taken to the north, this was his exclusive benefit.

……

Five days later, when Peng Hui arrived at Fort Radford with more than 2,000 Leiden townspeople, the fighting was over.

The fully manned First Legion burst out with astonishing efficiency, capturing the Saxon city with a population of 300,000 in just one day.

However, in the eyes of the commander Tianmad, this is not worth boasting about, he knows very well that it is not so much the combat effectiveness of the legions under his command as the low strength and vulnerability of the Saxon army stationed here. After the end of the Northern Campaign, the Saxon Kingdom was never able to restore its original regular army structure, and the Marquis of Brackeban racked his brains to complete 60% of the scheduled reconstruction task. And that's just in terms of staffing, with a weapons shortfall of up to 70 percent.

Over the years, the productivity and focus of the countries of the South have changed with the times. The northern giants never had a record of taking the initiative to go south, and the white southerners became slackened from their initial heightened vigilance, and the kings focused more on wealth growth than on spending large sums of money on military affairs.

In the case of arquebus, for example, the water-driven mechanical drill pipe technology was used many years ago, but because the Holy See secretly obstructed the development of science and technology, and even brought together the Saxons, the Rhine, the Plantagenet and the Vikings in the name of the "Holy Lord", so that the kings fought openly and secretly, but no large-scale war broke out...... This creates a territorial stalemate at the military level, skirmishes cannot stimulate large-scale military development and production, and even disputes with the Kingdom of God over faith have not killed you, everyone has maintained peace on the surface, but secretly they are constantly hostile to each other.

The merchants did not have such a high sense of national consciousness, they were noncommittal about the idea of the king, as long as they could make money, the golden pound was the best spokesman for the holy lord.

The Saxon kingdom, with a population of 600 million, was actually very powerful. As long as the king gives the order for general mobilization, let alone a mere one or two million soldiers, even thousands of troops can be easily formed. However, there are many problems ahead, and weapons are only one of them: the production capacity of factories and workshops with mechanized production capacity is seriously insufficient, and the production of weapons is far from keeping up with the pace of army formation.

In fact, this is largely due to the king. For a long time, the upper echelons of the Saxon kingdom did not pay much attention to military production. As early as a few decades ago, the concept of "assembly line production" was proposed, believing that technology such as drill pipe could be expanded, and the king would send relevant personnel to manage the factories and workshops with production qualifications, ensure that the parts were uniform, and then assemble them...... In this way, production errors can be avoided and productivity can be multiplied at the source.

The advantages of this are obvious, the most direct manifestation of which is a significant reduction in the unit price of arms procurement. In the case of the most commonly used arquebus, the cost of buying one can be reduced to 30 percent or less.

Not everyone agrees with this efficient approach, with the strongest opposition coming from the "Xiuang Brothers Steel". This is an old military industrial enterprise in Saxon, famous for the production of large-caliber artillery. Twenty years ago, the Xiuang brothers undertook 80 percent of the artillery production for the Saxon Navy. Because the quality of the artillery was better than other peers, it was later selected by the Navy as the exclusive weapons supplier. In the process, the business representatives of Xiuang used various means ———— money, women, food...... In short, there are also a lot of bribery methods, and they do get enough benefits for the company.

Monopoly and monopoly have always been the most profitable business. Since the development of the kingdom's navy, there is not much shortage of weapons needed, and the annual maintenance and repair of naval guns is only a small profit for Xiuang Company, and it is not even comparable to the cost of feeding the admiralty who eat and take cards. In order to swallow this delicious cake, Xiuang Company has long been committed to hindering the rise of other military industrial enterprises in the country, and has spent a lot of money to buy off the king's important ministers and close attendants, influencing and guiding the king to make a decision to "prohibit small and medium-sized workshops from participating in the production of military equipment".

The complete defeat of the Northern War made Xiuang see a huge amount of money. The king was forced to rebuild his army, and at the same time placed huge orders. But the problem is that with the current production capacity of Xiuang Company, it will take at least two years to restore the weaponry rate of the kingdom's army to the level before the war.

King George was still vacillating between the two choices of "military control" and "strengthening the economy", but the Marquis of Brackbarne could not wait that long. He ordered the conscription of reserve militia to be filled into the front-line troops in large numbers, and the number of weapons was insufficient to temporarily replace them with traditional cold weapons. After all, in addition to artillery and musketeers, the kingdom's army also has an overall proportion of up to 30% halberders.

It was under such circumstances that Fort Radford was captured by the legions of the Heavenly Maniacs in one day.

The one hundred and five millimeter cannon seemed to the white defenders to be nothing more than a thunderbolt from the Holy Lord. The city originally had a garrison of 3,000 troops, and by order of the Marquis of Brackbarn, 15,000 reservists were temporarily conscripted into the army, but they were only halberders who were not equipped with muskets. In the face of the stormy gunfire of the northern giants, all the 5,000 white soldiers who went out of the city to fight were killed. In desperation, the city keeper Viscount Beraud had no choice but to order a white flag to be erected at the head of the city, and after a brief contact with the heavenly madness, he made the decision to surrender.

The Celestial Maniac then took over the city. He ordered all whites to lay down their arms or face death.

In the process of the army's entry into the city, there were still a few individuals who were so agitated that the whites refused to accept reality. They organized a small charge, but before they could even get close to their target, they were shot into pieces. Enraged, the Celestial Maniac ordered the arrest of all family members, relatives and friends involved, followed by a public execution in the city's central square.

"From now on, Fort Radford will be under the jurisdiction of the Dragon Empire, and the laws of the Empire will apply to you as well. Disobedience and rebellion is a felony, and if one person is convicted, he will be convicted of nine clans! ”

The Chinese language was in full swing over Fort Radford, and a large number of proclamations were issued and posted at all intersections. There is no better propaganda opportunity than the proclamation, which is in two languages, and no matter what the white capitulators have in their heads, they will be forced to learn Chinese by the harsh reality.

Tianmad is not a tyrannical person, he has changed a lot compared to before.

His first order was simple and straightforward: all the inhabitants of Fort Radford were to surrender all gold, silver, currency and articles within a day.