Chapter 445: The Absurdity of Statlit
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There was no need for Tang Jie to threaten at all, and a large number of residents fled from the city.
And one of the great features of the harbor city is that it tends not to have many garrisons, and most of them are stationed outside the city.
Because the battles of such harbor cities are often fought on the sea, this is what the so-called defense of the enemy outside the country.
If the city can't win a naval battle, then even a million troops in the city won't work, because the opponent is at sea!
And with so many soldiers piled up in the city, it was a live target, and the ferocious artillery fire would turn them all into minced meat.
If the opponent lands and tries to attack the city, then the soldiers outside the city begin to move into the city, because of the peculiarities of naval warfare, the time spent on this movement is completely bearable, from the beginning of the naval battle, the commander will mobilize the soldiers outside the city, often the opponent has just landed, these soldiers can rush to the battlefield.
But the governor of Thalitus did not expect that their coastal defense would fall so quickly, and before the commander could even give an order to the garrison outside the city, Tang Jie and his pirates had already invaded the city.
Wearing the armor of the god of the sea, holding the trident of the god of the sea and the arrow of miracles, Tang Jie was invincible, there was no general under him at all, and he charged so fast that the governor of Shatrit became Tang Jie's prisoner before he had time to escape.
After killing all the high-level officials in Shatlit, Tang Jie officially announced that he had temporarily taken over the city, and he ordered his subordinates to prohibit looting, rape of ** women, and harassment of the people.
But this order did not appeal to the local residents, who thought that if you robbers broke into our house, even if you didn't burn and loot, it would certainly not be a good thing!
At the moment, some of the brave and courageous residents secretly killed several lone pirates.
When the news reached Tang Jie's ears, he was immediately furious: "I didn't want to cause a bloody tragedy here, but to be polite, these guys are really weak and easy to bully!
"Search, search those daring guys for me, I'm going to skin them and hang them in this governor's mansion!"
Nia on the side said indignantly: "I'll do it!"
Tang Jie didn't lose his mind, he knew that if this matter was handed over to Nia, it would be a bloody case, he shook his head and said to Bill: "Bill, you deal with this matter, I believe you won't let me down, right?"
Bill thought for a moment and asked, "My captain, what do you want?" do you want them to fear you, or do you want to be grateful to Dade?"
Tang Jie laughed: "Can you do both?"
Bill thought again: "I see, I'll make you happy." ”
With Bill's departure, this time, Saudi Litko was robbed, although Tang Jie repeatedly restrained his subordinates not to burn and loot like other pirates, but these guys have a temper, where can they control themselves?
For a moment there was a cry and wailing everywhere in Statlit, and the pirates dragged one inhabitant after another out of the room, and then loudly questioned who had killed their companions.
Bill, who was in charge of the matter, drove the people to the square and verbally ordered them to hand over the murderers or they would kill everyone here.
The threat caused the local residents to cry loudly in the square, and the murderers hid in the crowd, believing that the pirates would not dare to kill everyone here.
Soon, however, the pirates viciously dragged a few men out of the crowd, then cut off their heads and hung them high on the governor's flagpole.
This frightened everyone, and the murderers were dumbfounded, and they were immediately identified by the locals.
Soon, the heads of these murderers were cut off and hung from a high flagpole.
Bill stood on the guillotine and said loudly, "It is because of these bold people that you are far away from the warm and comfortable bed, and stand under this bloody guillotine. If it weren't for them, you wouldn't have been hurt at all, our captain is a kind-hearted man, and he came to Chartelit just to borrow something from these officials, and he didn't want to hurt you. ”
"But these murderers have tried to stir up hatred between you and us, and have caused you to pay a heavy price!" said Bill, pointing to the headless corpse on the ground, "and now, they fall before you, and if each of you comes up and spit on you, you will be spared punishment and go back to live your life in peace, and we will leave the next day, and we will not rob you of a copper coin, nor a single woman of you." ”
Hearing Bill's words, the crowd's mourning became quieter, and someone boldly said, "Can you guarantee it?"
The first mate beside Bill suddenly roared loudly: "Does our captain need to promise you anything? If we don't rob you of your wealth and rob your women, it will already be a great gift!"
The fierce appearance of the first mate frightened the crowd into an uproar, and Bill reached out to stop him, raised a hand, and said loudly: "I swear to Tila, the god of the sea, that everything I have said before is true!"
Hearing Bill say this, almost everyone sighed in their hearts: this pirate master is much better than the one next to him!
After listening to Bill's words, some suspicious people were not at ease, and asked loudly, "What will happen if we don't do it?"
"What will happen?" Bill's face turned hideous, "If you don't do it, it means that you are part of these murderers, and I will cut off your heads, skin you, and hang on this flagpole!"
Everyone was suddenly silenced.
It didn't take long for some people to come out of the crowd and spit on the body of the murderer. Bill immediately ordered the surrounding pirates to make a way and let them go.
With the lead, soon the crowd moved, spitting at the corpses one by one.
Bill watched from the sidelines and said in a loud voice, "Look, this is the murderer who has caused you to be frightened and have lost your loved ones, have no mercy, their recklessness and ignorance have brought disaster to you!"
People have a herd mentality, and at first some people felt that it was a shame: you broke into my house, because my family killed you invaders, so you killed my family, and in turn wanted me to spit on my family!
What kind of logic is this? Is there a more absurd bandit logic in the world?
But things are very strange, under Bill's repeated emphasis, in the process of everyone spitting one by one, more and more people began to think: If it weren't for these guys to offend these devil-like pirate masters, we wouldn't be frightened, let alone witness such a terrible scene in this square!
The thinking was wonderful, and it soon spread throughout Statlit, and Bill kept his promise to let the men go back, and the pirates never harassed them again.
As a result of the combination of sticks and candy, these people have been successfully instilled with bandit logic by Bill.
The two captains of the Magic Legion stationed in the harbor also had to shake their heads and sigh.
As the captains of the world-famous magic legion, in this pirate fleet, except for Tang Jie and Fiona, they really don't have many people to look down on.
But right now, it seems that Bill, a thin and short guy, really has the means to turn his hands into clouds and rain with his hands, and he can turn black and white upside down like this!
The local population, who had resisted the invasion, became the murderers, and they, the invaders, became the saviors.
There's nothing more than that!
But this scene happened right in front of their eyes!
After watching Bill finish all this, Tang Jie said to Nia with a smile: "Okay now, we can easily go to the door to collect fresh water and food, of course, we can pay, anyway, we are not short of money!"
Nia said with great doubts: "Although we have money, the money is all on Alcatraz Island, and the fleet doesn't have much money." ”
Tang Jie smiled and patted the luxurious seat with a white fox skin sitting under him: "We don't have it, the official master here must have it!"
Nia laughed out loud and said with a smile, "They'll be grateful to Dade." ”
As Nia said, when Tang Jie's men went door-to-door to buy fresh water and food, the local residents thought that the pirates were going to break their promise and began to loot their property.
Most of these residents are poor, and the food at home is often their rations for a few days, and if the pirates loot it, they will have to go out to sea to fish, but who would dare to go to sea in such a terrible naval battle before?
This means that they will be hungry for days, and if the government does not provide relief, there is even a good chance that there will be a famine in the city.
But when the pirates actually paid, the inhabitants were so surprised and ecstatic that some of them even knelt on the ground and kissed the pirates' toes, making the pirates laugh one by one.
After purchasing a large amount of fresh water and food, Tang Jie found that only half of the treasury of the government was used, and the rest of the wealth Tang Jie could not look down on at all, so he gave an order to each pirate sailor fifty gold coins, and to each magic legion one hundred gold coins.
Suddenly, the pirates and the soldiers of the Magic Legion cheered in unison.
When you sail out to sea, pin your head to the waistband of your pants and figure it? Isn't it just for money?
After rewarding his subordinates, Tang Jie was surprised to find that there was actually a small half of the government's treasury left! It can be seen how ruthlessly the local government looted the wealth of the common people on weekdays, and how deep the local governor's greedy habit of collecting money was!
Tang Jie was not polite, anyway, the money was not his own, he boldly distributed the money to the local poor residents.
At this moment, the city of Shablit was boiling, and the local residents cheered and celebrated like a New Year's holiday, and their hatred for Tang Jie and other pirates all flew out of the clouds.
That night, some of the local residents and pirates actually drank together in the bar, and after getting drunk, they even hooked their shoulders like old friends who had been together for many years.
What's even more exaggerated is that many local residents gathered in the square to express their gratitude to Tang Jie, and Tang Jie was so happy that he distributed all the fine wine stored by the government to the square for people to drink to their heart's content.
The local residents are all fond of drinking, and they are immediately overjoyed, and one by one they drink heartily in the square, singing and dancing, as if they are carnival.
Tang Jie laughed when he saw this scene, and he ordered Nia to bring the governor of Shatrit and let him see the scene with his own eyes.
When the governor was brought in, he looked at it with anger and his face turned the color of pig's liver, and he had hoped that the local inhabitants would cause the pirates a lot of trouble, so that they might be able to escape, and bring in soldiers from the outskirts of the city to join them.
But now, these lowly civilians actually celebrated with these pirates, and they were as close as a family!
This, this is simply the most absurd thing in the world!
But it happened right in front of my eyes!