Chapter 144: Infiltrating Göttingen
Han Xing didn't know about the changes in Göttingen, otherwise he would definitely have a new idea. But even so, his plans are still progressing steadily.
His plan was to drive more people into Göttingen, and not just ordinary people, but survivors of the Bird Army and their families captured from Goslar. His plan was to quickly deplete the city's food stock by increasing its population. It's a despicable move, but it's also the kind of meanness that is above board!
Frankly speaking, this idea was not actually thought up by Han Xing, but those people took the initiative to find the Duke of Hesse's door. Given that Goslar has been reduced to a ruin, they are homeless and without food and clothing. So their only option was to go to Baron Bird.
Hearing the Duke of Hesse tell him that he had actually found the families of the soldiers and knights of the Bird Army, Han Xing felt that it was a blessing from God, and he was sleepy and sent pillows! If it were ordinary civilians, maybe the defenders would not be willing to accept it, but their comrades-in-arms and brothers, would they still be able to refuse?
What Han Xing didn't know was that his move inadvertently exacerbated the conflict between the Bord army and the Sheen army in the city, which had the effect of adding fuel to the fire.
The Sheen army did not want to let the hundreds of Goslar refugees into the city, because they knew that they did not have much food and that they did not have a place to accommodate the women, children, and wounded.
Shall they be left with their husbands in the rain and cold? What's more, it may also be mixed with the Hessian army's (jiān) fine!
But the soldiers of the Bird Army didn't care so much, and there were calls for family reunions everywhere, "Louise, is that you?" "This is a young Bird knight who has met his new wife after a long absence.
"Grande, I'm so glad you're still alive!" It was the exclamation of joy from a middle-aged woman with a child who wept with joy when she saw the wide (shēn) shadow that belonged to her husband at the head of the city.
It can be said that if the Sheen Army dares to prevent them from reuniting with their relatives now, they are afraid that they will directly fight with the Sheen Army with a knife.
Even Baron Bird personally begged Baron Sheehan (qíng), although the two families are not close now, they have been married several times in the past, and Baron Bird is still Baron Sheehan's cousin! Eventually, Baron Sheehan sighed and nodded with difficulty, even though it would have a worsening effect on their food consumption.
After all, it would be against chivalry to keep them out of the city! What's more, it will completely offend the Bird Army, but the two sides will cooperate sincerely!
So Baron Sheehan had to comfort himself and said, "It's nothing, there are only more than a hundred of them!" Unfortunately, before he could finish his comfort, he heard a voice from the Bird's army:
"Louise, have you seen my wife, Liena? Is she still alive? I'm so sorry I left her like that day! Because I am a knight, I must obey the orders of the Baron! The young knight grabbed Lady Louise and asked with tears in her eyes about her wife.
"Of course I do! She was rescued just like me! Don't worry, Hans, she doesn't hold a grudge against you! She knows you're a knight with a sense of honor! Besides, she doesn't want you to stay there and be killed by the enemy! ”
"And where is she? Why didn't I see her? Wouldn't she want to come to see me? Sir Hans took Louise's hand so excitedly that Louise's husband looked at him with unkind eyes.
"We're just the first batch, there are three of them, and two more groups are on their way! I think she's just in the latter batch! ”
"Great, great! (ài) Lena, I'm going to see you again! Sir Hans was not alone in this cheering, but many soldiers had heard from their own friends and relatives that their relatives were on their way.
"What, two more batches? There are 300 people in total! Baron Sheehan, hearing this, nearly fell down the slippery mossy steps.
You must know that there are already nearly 1,200 people in the city at this time, and Baron Sheen's vassal army has a total of 700 people plus 500 people brought by Baron Bird, and now if you add 300 people, you will break through the 1,500 mark! There was only enough food for 500 people in the city for two months!
But what can Baron Sheehan say? With the first batch, he has to accept the second batch, the third batch, "good people do it to the end, send Buddha to the west"!
In the third group of Bird Army family members and wounded soldiers, there was an inconspicuous (shēn) figure, like most Bird Army soldiers, ragged and gray-faced, as anyone who crawled out of the rubble after the earthquake would probably look like this.
He looked at the shape of the city like a curious baby, and the dust on his face seemed to be extraordinarily even, not like it was naturally piled up, but more like it was artificially smeared.
That's right, this person is Han Xing, which is also part of Han Xing's plan, following the families and wounded of these Bird Army soldiers into Göttingen Castle, and then waiting for an opportunity. Don't forget that Han Xing has some very practical spiritual skills!
His dress is actually (tǐng) abrupt, mainly because his complexion is not as white as that of ordinary white people, so he has to apply more dust to cover up, but fortunately in the dense crowd, he is not conspicuous. People are in a hurry to find their relatives, where to care about him!
"Ulrich? Ulrich! Is that you? Are you stupid? Don't think it's me? I'm Erwin! A Bird soldier stepped forward and patted Han Xing on the shoulder.
"Huh? Ulrich? This guy recognized the wrong person, right? As soon as Han Xing turned (shēn), he saw the Bird Army soldier in front of him, a one-eyed dragon, so it is not difficult to understand that he mistook Han Xing for someone else!
In order to prevent himself from answering the wrong answer, Han Xing used mind reading on him, and soon found out the answer: he and Ulrich were grown up in the same village, wore a pair of pants since childhood, and later joined the army together. But they were separated during the last Goslar earthquake, and Ulrich didn't run fast enough, so he was crushed underneath the collapsed tower.
"Elwin, I'm finally seeing you again!" Han Xing immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and had a bear hug with the one-eyed dragon Erwin. He was justified in mistaking Han Xing for Ulrich, who was also a bearded man with a wheat-colored complexion because of the (rì) tan.
"God forbid! How did you survive, Ulrich! Han Xing easily knew that Erwin seemed to be a little suspicious of his own (shēn), and he didn't know if it was because of his hugging with him, or because his words were flawed, or if he didn't believe that Ulrich could survive unscathed.
"God forbid, indeed, perhaps because I often go to work for Father Anton, so that God sees my good deeds! When the tower fell that day, the masonry did cover me, but I was lucky enough to be unscathed by a wooden beam! Hearing Han Xing say Father Anton, the suspicion in Erwin's eyes immediately disappeared.
"When I go back to the real world, I'll be a fortune teller or a counselor! Anyway, I can read minds, right? Han Xing thought proudly.
With Erwin's cover, Han Xing basically didn't have any worries about being discovered by others, because there were indeed many people in a team, and it was normal not to know each other! It's like when everyone is in school, the classmates in the same class may know each other, but the classmates in the same school may not be, right?
The development of things (qíng) is even more exciting than Han Xing imagined, and the food in the city is indeed declining at a rapid rate. In three days, Han Xing's food had changed from smoked (ròu) cabbage with bread and salted fish and potato soup to fresh fish soup with bread, and the portion size had also shrunk significantly.
"Damn, Ulrich, what do you see all this?" Erwin put down the fish soup bowl in his hand heavily, pointed to the slightly whitish, light and tasteless fish soup in the bowl, and took out a small fish the thickness of a finger from it.
"Look at those Sheen bastards, they're still eating ròu! Damn, but let's eat these cat-feeding things! Erwin looked hatefully at the Sheehan Army at the head of the city.
"Who's to say it's not? We ate all of this, but the children only had these things to eat, even though I had given up all my food to my wife and children, but my son kept shouting 'hungry'! A soldier stepped forward and said, his stomach growling.
He snatched the little fish from Erwin's hand and said, "You don't want to eat it for me!" I've been hungry for two meals, even if it's to feed the cats! Erwin had no choice but to spread his hands helplessly.
The soldier sucked the grease from his fingers contentedly, burped, and said, "Have you heard? Several knights decided to join forces to ask Baron Bird to let the defenders give up some rooms for women and children! ”
He looked around again, and then he said sneakily, "You don't know, do you? Several of the lord's wives and children are sick! This muddy ground is already cold, and we rough men have to sleep, how can those (jiāo) expensive ladies and young ladies not get sick? Even sleeping in a tent isn't much better, not to mention that there is little food in the first place! ”
After another two days, the defenders' physical rations were so poor that all that was left was a small slice of bread plus mashed potatoes that an adult could swallow in one bite, and that was still a day's worth of food!
The lord's request was not answered, and they were furious at the scene of their children starving and freezing and their wives lingering on the sickbed! As a man, the most painful thing is not that you suffer; Rather, it is to watch the people you care about suffer in front of you, but you are helpless.
Some of the knights even begged the defenders to make room for their wives and children, and to exchange enough food for their already weak wives and children, but there was not much food in the city, let alone space, and they were finally refused.
Unable to bear it, the Bird knights finally decided to take risks for their families and attack the storehouse where the grain was stored, hoping to get enough food for their families.
This is because there has been a rumor in the army that "the Sheen army has food but is unwilling to share it", which is obviously a rumor spread by those soldiers who are starving and freezing under envy and jealousy.
As for whether Han Xing contributed to the process of communication, it is self-evident!