Planetary Museum

"The battle went smoothly, and the number of prisoners now exceeds [-], but we don't have enough food here."

"It's okay, we will deliver the food soon, how much food is left in Xiaoyang City, have you asked the prisoners?"

"There's a lot, but you'd better not think about it, I'm afraid we won't have it."

"Oh why?"

"This baron has put fuel in the granary, and now he is preparing to set fire in the city... If we attack the city, he may really burn the city."

"Burning the city?" Shen Changwen was stunned when he heard that, "That's his territory. You didn't persuade him to surrender and tell him that the surrendered city still belongs to him?"

"I said it, but it's useless," Wu Xiaoqing said. "He doesn't believe me at all. All three of his sons are dead."

"Three?" Shen Changwen only remembered that the commander of Shuangchahe was one of his sons, "How did the other two die?"

"There was a riot in the city last night. Both his sons died in the rebellion. The baron is going crazy. Professor Shen, there is one more thing. The search and rescue team asked me to tell you that there are another fourteen hours It will rain."

"Rain? How much?"

"Heavy rain, next or two days."

"Tmd!" Wu Xiaoqing heard Shen Changwen curse on the radio.He almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Professor Shen, what did you just say?"

"ctmd!" Shen Changwen spat out the curse, "We're in big trouble now."

The search and rescue team specifically explained to Wu Xiaoqing about the rain.

In the era of cold weapons, the discipline of a team was maintained mainly by violence.

Officers generally have an elite group of cronies to supervise the normal execution of orders by the entire army.

In this era, most of the soldiers are forced into the team by violence. They have no fixed income and no dignity. When the situation is bad, they can't even guarantee basic food and clothing.

Even for the troops under the control of Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing, it can only be said that they barely ensure food and clothing-this is mainly the result of continuous victories and captures, feeding the officers and lords of the main body of the army.

Such an army does not see anything wrong in normal times. Under the long-term habitual inertia of obedience, soldiers can execute many orders out of fear.

But when the whole army is placed in a special situation, such as when the fear of the enemy overwhelms the officer, when the weather becomes so bad that the violence of the officer and the lords cannot effectively restrain the soldiers--rain, especially heavy rain, is like this In a typical situation, there will often be a large number of deserters.

The effective range of violence in the cold weapon age often depends on two factors:

The speed of the horse, and the range of the bow and arrow.

On a sunny day, a soldier trying to escape from the ranks of the army can easily be captured by an officer by sending out a few cavalrymen, or simply by shooting an arrow.But on rainy days, vision and mobility are severely restricted, and people may not be able to see clearly when looking at people face to face, let alone in the long queue, a few people quietly left.

The situation on Wu Xiaoqing's side is fine.

He only has 500 people, and he has a ready-made camp, so the situation he faces is relatively simple.In addition, because they went deep into the enemy's territory, even if it rained heavily, the soldiers might not dare to run away—if they ran out, their lives might be in danger if they were caught.Moreover, the soldiers generally have a lot of war seized, and they are even more reluctant to throw away these wealth.

But Shen Changwen's side is different. According to Xu Yan, the army of 10,000+ people has problems drinking water recently, and there are still many patients.Coupled with the long march every day, there have been many faint protests in the team, just because the plan prepared by the four of them is very comprehensive, and they started to promote various propaganda when they set off, so these protests For the time being it can only be regarded as some complaints-but no one can say what these people will do when it rains heavily.

After the teleconference ended, Wu Xiaoqing started patrolling as usual.After a night of harassment, the entire camp is now full of people.Most of these people are grouped in groups of a dozen or so, and are strung together in series with ropes.

When Wu Xiaoqing walked into the prison camp, he only felt the soaring stench and crying—the prisoners were not trained to leave the camp to go to the toilet when they defecated like Wu Xiaoqing's men.So the prisoner camp became a big cesspit.As for crying, these people have almost completely lost all their wealth and freedom of life. For them, the current state is simply a nightmare, and their future life is a hell that they dare not even think about.

According to the plan, Wu Xiaoqing pulled out all the elderly, women, and children among the captives, followed the original camp system, isolated these people separately, and established a similar women's camp.

Afterwards, the search and rescue team informed all the remaining young adults that from now on, they would be recruited into the expeditionary army of the Kingdom of Elis.After the main force arrives, they will eat the legendary cookies and get a certain amount of military pay.If victorious in battle, the oracle will guarantee that their capture will not be appropriated by comrades and superiors.

but!If they try to escape privately again, once they are caught, not only will they be executed, but their family members will also be reduced to slaves immediately!

After the discipline was announced, Wu Xiaoqing ordered the soldiers to distribute food. In order to buy people's hearts, all the food today is mixed with a lot of sugar. The bread and sugar are sweet, and some sugar is added to the drinking water. and salt.The weather is very hot now, and everyone will sweat a lot. Proper supplementation of sugar and salt is conducive to maintaining their health-there will be a lot of labor in the future, which needs to be done by these captives.

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"Baron Jacques and his subordinates, all citizens of Xiaoyang City:"

"God's eyes are watching this city. Last night, more than 1000 to [-] people escaped from Xiaoyang City. Without exception, they all became prisoners of our army."

"I know that many of these people are your relatives and friends. You can rest assured that in the name of the land god, their safety will be guaranteed by our army. But compared to them, I am more worried about still struggling in the city of you."

"Baron Jacques has become crazy because of his defeat. He lost his three sons and a large part of his relatives in this battle. These relatives, as his army commander, died in the riot last night. They They did not die from thunder, nor from the swords of our army, but from the fists, kitchen knives and sticks of your relatives and friends."

"Why do your relatives resist their lord's minions so much? Because all of you know that this war has nothing to do with you! Our army was just passing by and went to the south to seek refuge. If the Baron and Bishop Xiaoyang want peace , we could have traded with you with a lot of gold coins and pepper. But they don't want to trade, because they prefer to plunder our army in the name of God. The baron urgently built a castle, hoarded supplies, and recruited troops .In order to make these troops more loyal to himself, he acquiesced in the army's plundering of the city - his own people."

"To the baron, you are just a bunch of livestock he raised. When it is necessary, when it is necessary to slaughter some, or even most of them, the baron will obviously show no mercy."

"During the entire night yesterday, God sent down eleven times of heavenly punishment in Xiaoyang City. After each heavenly punishment, your Baron always told you that this is the last time."

"He told a full ten times a lie, and he will continue if need be. As long as he is lord of this city, his lies will continue to rule your lives and use them to take away your parents Brother, cheated of your savings, and finally asked all of you to be buried with him."

"Now, like yesterday, God has once again brought you a chance, a chance to change all of you, bad destiny."

"This afternoon, God will send down a heavy rain that will last all night. God will send down twenty thunderstorms in the rainstorm, and He will split every fence and blockade for you. Remember, stay away from every baron's banner and coat of arms, they are all It may be the target of Tianlei!"

Today's persuasion letter was very long, and the envoy stayed outside the city for a whole morning, repeating the contents of the letter more than a dozen times.

At noon, Jacques was patrolling the city, and angrily found that his family's coat of arms and flags had really disappeared along the way, but none of his knights could tell who did it.

The baron wanted to arrange to make a new batch immediately, but was gently persuaded by the knights—since the flags and badges would bring danger, why use them?Maybe the enemy didn't find the flag in the end, so there would be no such damn thunder!

The baron was so angry that he was almost going crazy, but his attitude was not so important at this time - last night, almost all of his cronies died in the front line of the thunder and the suppression of the riots. The knights and officers who were not so enthusiastic about the orders of Baron Jacques are all alive and well, and they are all promoted now-in the feudal army system, apart from them, it is impossible for Jacques to find anyone else to command those damn freedoms civilian soldiers.

The entire Xiaoyang City is now full of corpses and blood. The riot yesterday not only caused Jacques to lose thousands of troops and a dozen commanders, but also made the citizens who participated in the riot pay hundreds of times more. the price.

Baron Jacques even issued a massacre order in fear-everyone whose family members participated in the riots would be executed.Just in the morning, when the Elis people were trying to persuade them to surrender outside the city, the baron's men were still carrying out large-scale hangings and beheadings in the city.

The terror created by the blood once again restored the order of Xiaoyang City, which was on the verge of collapse—at least temporarily.

But no one can guarantee how long the smell of blood will last after the heavy rain falls from the sky and covers everything.Even for Shen Changwen, this heavy rain is still a difficult challenge. For the order in the city, which is already chaotic and fragile, but also full of hatred, the energy of this heavy rain is likely to bring destructive damage. as a result of.

At noon, the accumulated dark clouds in the sky had already indicated that today's weather would definitely not be so pleasant.

Before the sun set, the whole world was already pitch black.The toilets in the prisoner camp had just been excavated, and when Wu Xiaoqing was teaching the soldiers how to tell the difference between male and female toilets, the raindrops began to fall.

Wu Xiaoqing turned his eyes to look at Xiaoyang City. In the gradually thickening black rain curtain, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, and this dilapidated city slowly disappeared after this brief flash.

Wu Xiaoqing put on his glasses, and the field of vision covered by the rain became clear again. Countless red dots in the city began to converge again like ants. Countless red dots began to gather together, like a river formed by heavy rain in the sky. The direction is flowing mightily.