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The siege of Front Tooth Fort has been completely completed, which means that Bishop Bart's most critical first step in this jihad operation has been successfully completed.

Heretics in the north will have to accept a military posture that:

If they tried to gather troops to relieve the siege of Front Yarn Fort, they would have to face the main force of the Xiaoyang Sect who had already successfully established logistics supplies and was waiting for work. ——This means that they will be forced to use precious knights and mercenaries to attack the jihadist barracks of the Xiaoyang Sect, which are mainly defended by free people.

If they don't come, then one year, at most two years later, the key castle of Front Tooth Fort will fall into the hands of the Crusaders. At that time, the Crusaders can freely choose to go directly east and then north from Front Tooth Fort, and then make a detour The smooth road in the east harassed the rear of the Dayang Sect wantonly, or, marched directly from the west, directly threatening the hinterland of the Dayang Sect and even the holy city.

The initiative of the war has fallen into the hands of the Xiaoyang Sect. Now, the only thing the Xiaoyang Sect has to do is to try its best to stabilize its rear—everyone knows that the most important key to the success of the siege The most important factor is the stability of logistics.

Xiaoyangjiao’s logistical supplies mainly come from three nearby kingdoms and more than 20 lords. Because of the remoteness of the three kingdoms, they mainly provide weapons and war horses. The most important food and manpower still depend on the surrounding area of ​​Front Tooth Fort. Lords big and small.They need to grow and transport food for the front line, and when necessary, they even need to buy from merchants farther away; in addition, they also need to help catch deserters who run back from the front line, especially deserters after each war.

For the siege war, the capture of deserters is a crucial part. The general put the capture of deserters at the top of many military meetings.

There is no doubt that successfully capturing deserters who have escaped successfully, whipping them in public or cutting off their fingers is crucial to maintaining the morale of an army.As we all know, all outstanding generals or kings on the mainland have the most outstanding cavalry unit. The existence of such a unit is a huge deterrent to those soldiers who desert, just like the lunatic Elis Similarly, many people have concluded that the reason why this lunatic wins every battle is because his soldiers never dared to escape—it can be seen that he has spent a lot of effort in catching deserters.

Now the siege has just begun, and the food supply is abundant. Basically, all soldiers can eat a full meal a day, so the number of deserters is not too high.According to the detailed records of the army, there were hundreds of people, a considerable part of which was prompted by a spy from the Dayang Sect. ——Although most of these hundreds of deserters were subsequently captured, it was a pity that the spy managed to escape.

This incident caused Bishop Bart to have some faint worries. Just because he was worried about starvation, so many people would take risks and become deserters. If the food supply is really not available in the future, how will the morale of the frontline troops be maintained? ?Even soldiers who catch deserters need food.

Bishop Bart came back this time mainly to use the religious power of Xiaoyang Sect to integrate these lords and let them twist into one rope to contribute to this holy war.Instead of being like before, every time it comes to manpower and food, every lord will send someone, or even come to complain to himself.

He has to check each of the warehouses of the lord's house; he has to send people to check the quantity of the lord's people to ensure that he has a clear understanding of the entire logistics situation.You can't indulge these lords like before, just find some irrelevant reasons, and even clamor for exemption... When necessary, you can even take a few lords to let them know that the jihad army not only , can also be internal.

"The free folk were unwilling to farm, and began to cluster and flee, scrambling to transport food for merchants..."

Bart sneered and looked at the sealing wax pattern on the parchment, thinking he was a three-year-old child!Free people don't farm land, so what are they called free people?Did the grain of the merchants fall from the sky?The so-called merchants are not these lords themselves?It's just a left-handed right-handed trick.The lord of the house seemed to need to be punished.

"...Dayang is a disaster, and the grain harvest is poor..."

Bart laughed angrily at this reason, dare to use Dayang as an excuse, does this lord think he is the Pope?In Xiaoyang Sect, even a bishop like him would not dare to use the two suns as an excuse to explain something, because everyone knows that only the Pope can say anything about the two suns!Only the Pope can change it!If an individual can dictate the movement of the two suns at will, then what is the need for the pope?What is the seriousness of Xiaoyang Sect!

"...the ignorant masses are incited by rumors that as long as they go to the mountains, they will have free sweet bread every day..."

Free sweet bread... Bart frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

When he came back this time, the main reason was to increase the supply in the rear, that is, to collect more religious taxes.But judging from the letters in front of them, these lords actually complained one by one, let alone overcharged, they all suggested in the letter to charge less or not to charge.

These letters have been accumulated in the past half a month. They are exchanges with the lords in the rear. This is also Bart's work habit. It will be very convenient to store all the letters for a period of time and then deal with them in a unified manner. Efficient, and there will be no backward and forward errors.

About an average of a month, Bart has to communicate with these lords once to exchange necessary information, the most important of which is the conscription and food requisition.

Naturally, all kinds of prevarications and excuses are always indispensable in the lords' replies, but these prevarications and excuses are also an important way for Bart to understand the thoughts of the lords.

Such an idiotic and obvious prevarication like what he saw now, immediately surprised Bart.

and danger.

What's more dangerous is that Bart read the letters one after another, and what he said was almost the same as before.

He carefully read the more than 20 letters from the beginning to the end, and confirmed many of the details, such as the easternmost lord and the westernmost lord, their letters were almost at the same time. It was written and delivered from home, and there was no time difference, but their words and deeds were surprisingly consistent, and there were mutual confirmation in the details.

For example, the Lion family claimed that all the people in their family ran to the east to transport grain, and the otter family in the east reported that there have been a lot of food transport teams passing by around the territory recently, and they even encouraged them to take away some of their farming staff when they passed by. A large number of young people from the free people—these people were originally planned to be sent to the battlefield by the lord, but now these young men who should be members of the Jihad Army were instigated by a strange organization and ran to the mountains to eat " Sweet Bread" went.

It seems that things are not as simple as prevarication and excuses...

The bishop thought carefully in the carriage for a while, and soon his brain integrated the main information through these letters, and finally formed a comprehensive impression.

While he was away, a mysterious organization appeared in the rear. This organization claimed that as long as they went to the mountains, they could give them sweet bread to eat. In the end, a large number of free people were bewitched, so the farmland was abandoned, and the young and old began to live. Fleeing, it was difficult to collect taxes, and logistics began to become more and more difficult and strenuous.

"Heretics, heresies of the Dayang Sect!" This was the first concept that subconsciously popped up in Bart's mind. As soon as this concept flashed, it immediately won the favor of the bishop.

During the war, using spies to disrupt the other party's logistics order, what a vicious method!

If you don't find out by yourself, if you wait for a while, the entire front line may be in danger of running out of food and unable to support it!At that time, the siege situation that was finally formed is likely to fall short.

"Liaison Officer." His Excellency Bishop stretched out a hand from the window of the carriage, called a knight, and after he approached, he gave him a few quick instructions through the window.

At night, when Bishop Butter was resting overnight in a lord's castle, the liaison officer came back to his command. He brought back a whole string of "free men", as many as thirty in total, and they were accompanied by them for transportation. Four carriages for goods.

According to the liaison officer, when he found these people, they were driving a carriage full of grain and heading for a valley in the southeast along the road.

When they saw the liaison officer, these guys even tried to resist. They didn't obediently follow back until the liaison officer showed the holy emblem of Xiaoyang Sect.

Bart personally watched the entire interrogation process.