1968 Dawn of Empire (9)

The efficiency of the Nord people is very high, although the two kingdoms of Nord and Rui Erdian have become the areas of the Falcon Empire, but the enmity and enmity of the two countries for hundreds of years is not something that can be completely forgotten in just a few years, the second army of the south in Lisbonto showed absolutely first-class combat power, from the comprehensive encirclement and suppression to the killing of a single one, it took less than half a night, the bodies of the dead were transported out by military wagons and burned collectively, when the next day when the sky was bright, the southwest block of the city where the smuggling group gathered had been completely wiped out by the second army of the south,

The army blocked the road into the south-west neighbourhood, and no one knew what was going on inside, and then the army issued a general order to clean up the smuggling, requiring all smugglers throughout Lisbonto to register in the city centre by noon, and if there were any disobedient ones, they would be killed on the spot

The citizens of Lisbento shivered behind their windows and watched as the military transport wagons drove towards the southwest neighborhood of the city, entering empty, and then carrying out laden with unknown goods, initially the property of the smuggling syndicate, and then the goods that needed the protection of the soldiers, such as gold and jewelry.

The wealth amassed by the smuggling syndicates in Lisbonto is staggering, and although he didn't have time to count them in detail, Salton was also taken aback by the list in front of him, are you sure the number is correct?" Salton took a deep breath, folded the list in his hand and put it in his pocket, his eyes were full of unconcealable surprise and looked at the officer who came to report, it was really amazing, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would not have believed that he could accumulate such a fortune just by smuggling, it is no wonder that His Majesty the Falcon is eyeing this, the pig is fattened, naturally it is to be slaughtered, the army turned a blind eye to smuggling, the mystery lies in this! This article was written by...... Except for Vekia, no one really wants to get it

The officer replied cautiously with a solemn expression, "There should be no mistake, not only have we confiscated the other party's goods, but also found a large hidden dark room under several target manors, and it is impossible to estimate the number of chests used to carry gold coins in several houses, and the total number of chests used to carry gold coins is more than 1ooo boxes, and the number is roughly the same according to the calculation of 7,000 to 10,000 gold coins per box! As for the value of the jewels, we cannot obtain a definite figure for the time being, and we have mobilized the jewelry appraisers throughout Lisbonto, and we should get the answer in a few days." ”

"There are 10 million gold coins alone! and countless jewels that cannot be estimated for the time being!"

Soldton's eyes were glowing, too. Although I knew that the smugglers in the Putao area were very rich, I didn't expect that there would be money to do this, and these underground monarchs of Lisbonto are really rich! It is estimated that even if there is no Besuka incident, the Vicchia Falcon will find other ways to dispose of all these fat and oily smugglers

"In the process of cleaning up, a special situation was encountered" The officer gave him a strange look, "Special situation?" Soldton's eyebrows frowned slightly, the army gave a death order, and all those who resisted would be killed. What are the special circumstances of the dead?

The adjutant hesitated and asked, "In addition to these belongings, we have also found several dungeons used by the smuggling syndicate to hold female slaves, and the women are imprisoned inside, and the captains in front are still waiting for instructions from adults." What should these women do? Kill them all?" "Women!" Salton was stunned for a moment, his eyes blinked, the slave trade was a very important way of wealth for the smuggling syndicate, and these women could be kept alone by the smuggling syndicate in the secret room of the Ministry. In addition to its own good looks, it should also have a heart-warming identity, and the Second Army of the South accepted a secret order from His Majesty the Emperor this time. Thinking of the habits of the merry emperor, who knows if the smuggling group suddenly attacked the smuggling group because he fell in love with the wealth of the smuggling group, or if the smuggling group moved the emperor's women, under unknown circumstances, he was afraid that he would get into big trouble by executing these women without authorization.

The women are to be detained first!Write down their names and identities!Take care of them according to the general standards!" Salton ordered. If the fat man knew that Salton's worries would be crying and laughing, the fat man thought that he had been very self-disciplined during the time he was in Putao, and almost did not provoke women, and even if he did, it did not involve the relationship between men and women.

The report of the Second Army of the South was every day, his eyes swept over another list of goods presented by the Second Army, his face showed a touch of joy, the seized property was mainly jewelry, gold and other dry and hard goods that could be circulated underground, and then he saw the list with the names of more than thirty women written on it, "Women?" The fat man had the same expression as Tallton, kill it? The fat man casually looked at the identity background of a few women, and suddenly he was a little entangled, most of them were women from aristocratic and wealthy families who were affected by the war in the Putao area some time ago, and there were even a few women from wealthy families in the past, these noble and noble ladies in the past were secretly kidnapped by smuggling groups in the diaspora, and auctioned in the underground market as private goods, slaves were forbidden in the empire, but because of the rampant smuggling in the Putao area, in some areas of the empire, slaves also appeared,

This kind of young woman who has both appearance and status should be expensive in the underground market, according to the different appearance and identity, the price is between 5,000 and 10,000, if there is a hostile family to buy, you can also use various means to take a bad breath, these women should have been sold half a month ago, but because the smuggling group manipulated Lisbento's business and trade shutdown, the southern army entered Lisbento to impose martial law in the whole city, the underground black market could not be held as scheduled, when the second southern army broke into the manor, the smuggling group had been completely disrupted, who cared about the life and death of these women, if it were not for the army in charge of the search with the determination to dig three feet into the ground, it's really not easy to imprison these women now,

If you wait for three or four days, even if you find it, it will be a corpse, because the smugglers only give a small amount of food and water every day in order to prevent these women from resisting, and for most of the buyers who participate in the underground market, the beautiful noblewoman with a pale face and weak wind is far more flavorful than the stubborn and rebellious unruly woman, so the practice is formed, the smuggler uses hunger to break the will and resistance of these noble women, so that they learn to obey, and can also ensure that these women do not have too many scars on their bodies, in one fell swoop,

After hesitating for a while, the fat man gave Salton an order to secretly send the women back to their respective families. Sure enough, many wealthy families in the Putao area who learned that the smuggling group kidnapped their daughters began to stand on the side of the empire, and unanimously gave up the attitude of accusing the emperor of atrocities in Beisuka, and turned to fully cooperate with the emperor ** to arrest the smugglers.

Under his command, the Second Southern Army's strike against smuggling syndicates was severely limited. The military carried out thorough investigations in various parts of the Putau area, comprehensively sealed off the smuggled goods, and froze the smuggling syndicate's underground transactions; with the assistance of the local forces in Putao, within half a month or so, the Second Army of the South arrested more than 13,000 people related to smuggling, of whom 4,000 were executed.

Smuggling, which was once rampant in the Putao area, has been reduced to the role of a rat crossing the street, smugglers are no longer seen on the streets, and the area controlled by orthodox merchants has rapidly expanded and become the mainstream of the market. The prestige of the Emperor's ** team, which cracked down on smuggling, has also been greatly enhanced.

Most of the Putao people don't know that when the military is going all out to crack down on Putao smuggling, the power structure of the empire has also changed in this storm, and the Rui Erdian faction has been punished by the third level of punishment. The brunt of the impact was Prais, who was demoted three levels from the Empire's adjutant in charge of military affairs to the administrator of the Parabun region. The deputy minister of the logistics department, named Shangyan of the smuggling group, was seized by the Ministry of Supervision A large number of letters exchanged with the smuggling group, and then after a short interrogation, he was executed in the name of colluding with the smuggling group, and there were more than 20 officials from other ministries involved.

In June, when the wind rose in the autumn fields, and just when the whole empire was rejoicing in the fight against smuggling and was busy with the upcoming harvest in July, the only eastern gallic region of the empire that was still using troops came from the unsatisfactory battle report, and the advance of Salon to the four eastern ruling regions was blocked.

Because most of the main forces of the empire were transferred to the southwest and Putao regions, there are only six infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment under the command of Salon at present, with a total strength of more than 70,000 people, and the combined strength of the four eastern concursors he faces is about 80,000, and then the remnants of the 30,000 Gallic Northern Army under the command of Algernon Giulia and Algernon Katya, who are evacuated from the direction of Gallic Kyoto and temporarily survive, with a total strength of 110,000 troops,

With 70,000 troops to deal with the blocking forces on both sides combined with nearly 2o thousand troops, Salon also felt a lot of pressure, fortunately, the forces of the four major ruling coalition forces in the east and the Algernon side were not coordinated, in order to compete for more areas that could be controlled, the three forces were now in a state of flux, and Salon's aggressive advance was in a difficult situation after entering the mountains of eastern Gaul,

The Gauls had fought for decades to conquer the region against the forces of the eastern mountains, and finally adopted a compromise approach to achieve a sense of control in the form of the recognition of the four archons, in fact, the eastern mountains were not suitable for the movement of large groups of troops because of their rugged and complex terrain, and the large number of ethnic groups in the eastern mountains never really conquered in substance

On June 3, it was sunny and windless,

In the frontier hills where the emperor was stationed, Salon was riding on a war horse, and the single eye was staring at the horizon in front of him, and the morning light had not yet shone across the sky, and the mountain range in front of him was called Boalonso, which was the barrier of the eastern mountains.

This eastern barrier is the highest point in the entire eastern mountainous area, once it is crossed, the rugged terrain of the eastern mountainous area will become meaningless, whoever can occupy this place, who can calmly use this as a base, and carry out various tactics to break the area opposite the mountain range, and I don't know why, the eastern ruling coalition army, which was originally in passive defense, suddenly launched a counteroffensive, and more than a dozen guard towers on the front have been captured, and even a medium-sized fortress has been lost

At the other end of the mountain range, the various military flags of the four eastern ruling powers appeared after noon, like the outline of a large forest constantly wriggling, and the long black lines advancing forward became more and more obvious.

"Forward!"

The mountain infantry of the Daraknita family are like a cloud of yellow sand, and the soldiers with mountain marker guns and round shields have the impact of walking on the mountain as if they were walking on the ground. The archer array of the Zhu Chenwood family always habitually stands on the upper hand, the gold-striped battle flag of the Michelondo family is the mountain light cavalry, holding a sharp assault spear up to four meters in his hand, although the number is not as good as the other three, but its neat queue shows that they are all real elites, and finally the military flag of the Li Kosr family with yellow on a black background, and the whole column of spears and heavy shields is like a wall of steel on the ridge

The mountain wind swept up the leaves between the two armies, and the shrubs whined, and there seemed to be only rhythmic rustling footsteps between heaven and earth.

"Ready!"

Salon looked grim and waved his hand at the herald behind him. He expected the counterattack of the ruling coalition forces in the east, but he didn't expect that there would be so many people, but it was obviously unwise to retreat at this time, not only would he lose the Boalonso that he had so hard to get, but as time went by, he was afraid that there would not be such a good opportunity until winter, and with the order given, the terrible horn of the Falcon Emperor ** team sounded at the same time. The queue unfolds layer by layer, in the middle lane. On the three directions of the right and left flanks, an astonishing number of troops were assembled, like a thick wall blocking the view of those on the other side

The two armies had a tacit understanding to keep it at both ends of the mountain, with a concave low-lying area in the middle. Looking at each other from afar, "If the east is willing to belong to the empire, I can use my reputation to guarantee that the status of the four consuls will not be affected" Salon sent a letter to shoot the letter to the coalition of consuls on the opposite side, making a final persuasion.

"Foolish man, tell him that we want the vast land behind him, at least two provinces. Otherwise, there is no value in negotiating!"

The head of the Daraknita family, Daraknita Vuf, mercilessly let people return, the head of the Michelondo family looked coldly at the Falcon Army opposite behind the ruling coalition army, this is not the first time that the coalition army has faced the army of the Falcon Empire, but it is the first time that the two sides have fought so head-on, news came from Central Europe and Barrow, the Falcon Empire has successfully annexed the Gangfei Empire in the middle, so that the eastern consuls who have been on passive defense suddenly realize that if they have not taken any action, the imperial army that has withdrawn from the Gangfei side will quickly press up, and now if they take the initiative to fight back, they may be able to seize this mountain barrier first

This is the undisguised full power of the ruling coalition forces in the east. The heralds rushed to the water, bringing the news of the central command of the coalition army, the strength of the coalition army mobilized this time was 80,000 troops, and because it was a temporary battle, the strength of the Salon side was only 40,000, and the falcon army occupying the terrain was very terrifying,

The two armies held each other for two hours, and the ruling coalition forces in the east did not move, "Bastard, what is going on?" Salon's eyes were bloodshot, it was now a hot June Futian that could suffocate people, two hours, the heavy armor on his body was hot and his skin was red, in this case, the Falcon Army, which was dominated by heavy troops, obviously suffered a loss, looking at the calm enemy in front of him, he couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart, what did the other party seem to be waiting for? At this moment, the heralds of the coalition forces in the distance suddenly rushed all the way from the main center formation, shouting "Stand up, the whole army is ready to fight!" to the soldiers sitting on the ground resting along the way!"

The soldiers of the coalition army stood up one after another, the armor on their bodies was bright and dazzling, and the sound of the armor blades colliding on their bodies was like a whirlwind blowing in the mountains, and the momentum was terrifying

"Attention, the enemy is coming!"

The Falcon's infantry captains shouted loudly, and the soldiers quickly gathered in columns, their spears clenched tightly, and the soldiers breathed violently and rapidly as they watched the infantry clusters that were tilting downwards like a sea of mountains on the opposite side.

The scorching sun of June shone on the shoulders of them wearing dozens of pounds of heavy armor, like a hot soldering iron, the front row was a huge siege shield was bracked, the steel shield shone in the sunlight, and behind it was the neat black pressure of the soldiers in a neat gun forest, the sharp one-foot long front, revealing a chilling murderous aura in the sun, and the sharp horizontal spear made of stainless steel constituted the second line of defense, and the first group of "killing" coalition troops had rushed into the narrow mountain area between the two mountains

"Crossbowmen, shoot!" With the shout of order, tens of thousands of imperial crossbowmen stood up from behind the shield wall, their blazing eyes staring at the long line pressed up from the opposite side like arrows. The arrows on the crossbow flew into the air at the same time, like a silver-white waterfall of light falling towards the narrow mountain like a silver-white waterfall from the sky.

"Watch the crossbow!" the front row of allied troops raised their shields, and the spearmen in the back formed a kind of scale-like parapet with small round shields.

The cluster of arrows slammed into the advancing queue of the coalition forces like a storm, and suddenly overturned a piece, and the long arrows brought out the swirling air current, piercing into the target's body like a torn cloth.

A coalition officer is shot in the middle of his helmet by a cluster of arrows, which pierces his forehead, exploding his entire head and rolling his body several meters out, (to be continued......)

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