Chapter 466: Quaker, the beginning of Savoy

"My lord, there are a few live mouths here. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Jonas was calming down the excitement in his heart, Franz on the side walked over, followed by several knights, each of them carried a person in their hands, those people were a little scared at the moment, their whole bodies were trembling, as soon as the knights let go, they all fell in front of Jonas, a few wanted to run, but there were all armed knights around, these ordinary people really didn't have this ability, and finally they could only shrink on the ground, shaking constantly, Jonas nodded and said: " Lift your head up, and you just have to answer my question, and you won't die. “

Jonas said this sentence in French, and the soldiers who were captured immediately understood Jonas's words, and most of the knights around him did not understand it, only the orthodox knights who received knightly education since childhood understood, and at this time, the difference between the rapidly growing knights and the training from childhood was highlighted.

Hearing Jonas speak French, several people raised their heads with surprised looks in their eyes, and the last bearded man spoke on behalf of the others: "How do you know that we are French?" Obviously, his logical skills are not bad, Jonas did not speak a word of German, and spoke French at the beginning, which attracted the attention of men.

"We just know that you came from France, invaded Savoy, and even wanted to send troops to attack Lower Lorraine, right?" The man's cleverness did not surprise Jonas, now he has an absolute advantage, even if these people are so smart that they go against the sky, they can't escape from their palms at all, on the contrary, the smarter they are, the more they know how to be flexible, so that they can also be much more convenient, unlike those fools, who are loyal to their own country, and can't get information from them at all.

"You are from Lower Lorraine?, no, you are from Savoy!" The Frenchman was obviously supposed to be an officer, and he quickly judged the origin of the people in front of him, and then denied it, after all, there was still a little distance from Lower Lorraine, and if an army could really come in through the checkpoint of Lower Lorraine, and walk here without knowing it, and cross the entire Savoy, then they would not have to fight, so he quickly denied this conjecture, and judged the origin of this group of people as Savoy, and it turned out that he was right.

"You're right, but soldier, you should put away your cleverness at this time, it's the wisest choice. Jonas said with a smile, it was not difficult to guess where they came from, and he did not care, and seeing that the man also knew what he meant by these words, Jonas said, "Now, tell me everything I know about Marshal Pétain, and I will let you go." ”

The man was silent for a moment, obviously judging how likely it was that Jonas had said this, and then he said with a pale face: "No way, if you let us go, we can go back to the camp and tell the marshal about your arrival in Savoy, so that you can't hide in Savoy, so you will definitely kill us." ”

This man's words made several soldiers behind him collapse a little, they are only the lowest soldiers, most of them come to join the army to earn money to support their families, and they do not have a particularly strong loyalty to France, unlike those knights, so when they heard that they might die, they were all a little sluggish, and a few of them prayed, obviously feeling that their death was coming.

This made Jonas's heart regret a little, he really underestimated this smart person, and even covered up the thoughts that these people wanted to confess in a few words, knowing that this person was so able to say, he should have cut him directly and then asked, but Jonas was not a stupid person, he quickly shot back: " I assure you in my honor that I will not kill you as long as you say what you know, but I will tie you up and put you in the forests, where there are no beasts of prey, only small animals, where you will live for a long time.

This is my promise to you, I can't let you go, but I won't kill you, although it may be more painful to die like this, but at least you have one percent hope of living, and your hope of living is far more than one percent, you can find some stones in the forest to cut your body, or you can jump out of the forest, this is my promise, you will get the results you deserve in the forest, not be beheaded here, and you will not see the sun tomorrow. “

Jonas said that the man had nothing to say, after all, he was just an ordinary soldier, how could he think so much, Jonas saw that he did not speak, so he pulled them all down, and let the knights interrogate them, the interrogation was separated to prevent them from reporting wrong information to themselves, and in less than half an hour, everyone was brought back, Franz said to Jonas:

"Commander, according to the information they have said, there are three cities in the vicinity of this road, to the east, west, and northeast, and the east of which has the largest population and the largest number of troops, and the west side has the least population and the least number of troops, with only one knight and two hundred soldiers, and their army is the one that goes from the town on the east side to the town on the west side. ”

"Well, is there any news about Marshal Petain, or is there any news about Savoy's approach to the side of Lower Lorraine?" Jonas nodded, these news were important to him, but they were insignificant to the whole situation, he wanted to know the military disposition of Marshal Petain, so he ventured into Savoy, if he wanted to conquer the city, he didn't have to come here himself.

"Yes, but everyone says something a little differently, a lot of it is a rumor, and they themselves are not particularly clear, so I don't think I can believe it. Franz nodded, then shook his head, these soldiers did say a lot about Marshal Petain's strategic deployment, but everyone said very little of the same thing, most of them were made up rumors, not convincing, so Franz did not tell Jonas.

Jonas nodded a little disappointed, his hope is indeed too big, these people are just ordinary soldiers, and they can know very limited, Jonas thought, maybe just now a knight's life can be saved, they may be able to obtain more comprehensive information, but all this is hypothetical, after all, a knight is not so easy to control, Jonas can only accept the current result, he said to Franz beside him: "Okay, all this is God's will, let's go." ”

"Captain, what should I do with these people?" Franz grabbed Jonas and said to Jonas in Italian, with a coldness in his eyes, Jonas understood what he meant in an instant, he thought for a while, and said, "Do what I just said." ”

"Captain, this will put us in danger. Franz said eagerly, these soldiers now have no value, killing them for Franz, there is no pressure at all, if they are allowed in the forest, they have a 1 percent chance of survival, for them, there is a 1 percent chance of encountering danger, and the probability of them encountering danger is already very high, even if it only increases a little, it is a very dangerous thing, Franz is obviously a little unacceptable.

Jonas was pulled by his sleeve, and the knights around him looked at him, and from their eyes, Jonas could see that they obviously agreed with Franz, and Jonas was helpless, he was destined not to give them hope, and took one last look at the Frenchmen, and then said: "Send them to the deepest part of the forest, close to the Alps, and shoot them with arrows at a distance." ”

Jonas's approach was undoubtedly cruel, giving these French people hope to live, but what they had to face in the end was inevitable death, which was much more painful than a straightforward death, which made Jonas feel a little guilty, he didn't dare to face these Frenchmen, because of his lies, they were going to embark on a more embarrassing road to death, he took people away, and Franz ordered a few knights around him to take people down, pretend to tie them up, and then take them away.

When these people disappeared from sight, Franz stepped forward, he didn't mean to comfort Jonas, the war is cruel, not to mention the war between two different peoples, that is, you live and die, there is nothing cruel about it, everyone is to let themselves live, and then return to their relatives completely, watching their children grow up, he said: "Captain, where should we go next?"

"To the towns to the west, we have too few people, we must encourage these Savoyians to join us, and we also need intelligence, the towns to the west, a knight can allow us to take more precise means of capture, and also make it easy for us to break through, so, go to the towns to the west. Jonas said slowly, guilt did not affect his judgment, he knew very well what he was here for, he could not leave his colleagues and the millions of Susa people behind him for the sake of a few Frenchmen, this was his responsibility, and it was Petain's responsibility to protect the lives of those Frenchmen, but he did not care about his business, he comforted himself so much.

"Yes, as you command. Franz bowed down on his horse, Jonas's move was obviously very wise, although their strength was strong at this time, but in the face of the entire French army in Savoy, it was still necessary to mobilize the power of the people, although Franz did not know what the power of the masses was, but he knew that they needed reinforcements, and this was enough, and the best reinforcements were naturally the people of Savoy.

Franz agreed with Jonas's idea, and the remaining four brigade commanders agreed with Jonas's approach, and with a command, everyone set out for the western town, and that night, they arrived at the western town, Quake, and the whole town was dark, only a few lights on the tall buildings were still on, and there were some people on duty standing on them, and the defense was not particularly strong, and it also had no walls.

The knights' attack is rapid, especially at night, the soldiers are almost all concentrated in the camp, basically no one is still wandering the streets at night, even if there is, most of them are still in brothels and taverns, most of them are already drunk, it is not difficult to eliminate them, so in less than 20 minutes, all the French troops in the entire town of Quake have been wiped out, most of them were killed by a knife in their sleep, only the knight was very vigilant to find them, but he also had no skills。

At that time, the knight of the French army was resting in his tent, and suddenly heard the sound of fragmentary footsteps outside the tent, at first I thought that the soldiers were waking up to prepare for a small relief, so I didn't pay too much attention, but when I listened carefully, I found that the footsteps were not a person's, which immediately attracted the attention of the knights, but at this time, Jonas's knights had already completed the siege network against him, in the absence of war horses, his resistance had little effect, after fighting for more than ten minutes, he was exhausted and captured, and wanted to commit suicide, but there were many knights around him, he couldn't touch the knife at all, and a rag was stuffed in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide。

Under the brutal whipping, at first the knight still didn't say anything, until later, a more tragic torture instrument began to be inflicted on the knight's body, including many ways to put living creatures into the body, as well as ways to let maggots drill into the body, and finally could not resist the environment of life is worse than death, and chose to confess.

As a knight, he knows much more, according to his confession, the French army in the entire Savoy region is not only 30,000 people, but more than 40,000 people, as for the scale of the knights, it has not expanded, it has remained at about 3,200 people, for the proportion of knights' casualties, this is more than the information detected by Jonas's spies, I really didn't expect that Savoy's resistance was still quite fierce, and even let 800 knights die on the battlefield in the battle.

Later, according to the information he provided, most of the entire 50,000 French troops were deployed on the line of Lower Lorraine, and according to the intelligence of the army, in the near future, about 5,000 soldiers will enter the Savoy in order to maintain an overwhelming advantage on the line of Lower Lorraine, this news shocked Jonas, and it seems that Marshal Petain really intends to attack from Lower Lorraine.

And the marshal's ambitions and goals were much greater than he imagined, he originally thought that Petain was only going to cut off the grain route of Lower Lorraine from Savoy, but now that the Guan army is transporting troops to Savoy on such a large scale, this is not as simple as just cutting off the grain route, this is simply a situation of planning to start from the checkpoint of Lower Lorraine and directly cut the entire Lower Lorraine in half.