Tang Qi Tan

It seems that the last chapter was clipped again.

Therefore, during this period of time, he can only start to increase income and reduce expenditure.While selecting the strong and strong army in the city to expand, at the same time send people to set up checkpoints along the road; intercept and accommodate those stragglers who are scattered among the people.On the one hand, quota rationing is adopted, and the old, weak, women and children in the city are hired to work.

In the end, after throwing away the old, weak and injured who lack combat effectiveness, and the recruits who have just started training; there are about 300 intact soldiers left.Then according to the kingdom's existing military system, after rearming and classifying them, they are organized into roughly six companies (200+).

Among them, the second and fourth companies are white soldier companies mainly equipped with swords and shields/axes; the third and fifth companies are long spear companies mainly equipped with spears, axes, guns, and hooks.The first and sixth companies are strike (support and suppression) companies mainly equipped with crossbows and firecrackers.

In the first (strike) company, most of the firearms in the army are concentrated; it is organized into two firecracker brigades (70+) and a crossbowman brigade; the sixth company is a crossbowman brigade and two bows and arrows brigade.The first gun team also organized an additional grenadier squadron (25 people).

The main reason is to gather the veterans with the best arm strength and the most accurate throwing in the army.After simple training, they are responsible for throwing some incendiary jars filled with asphalt and kerosene, or special gunpowder bottles/powder packs; and try to minimize the probability of accidentally injuring the friendly troops in the front row.

In addition, the second blunderbuss team has an additional Thunder Squadron (42 people) with seven variegated cannons; and if it is in a field battle or a fortified state, each combat company will prepare an additional one to manage Auxiliary squadrons (3, 40 people) for horses and supplies.

Moreover, Jiang Tian discovered that in this era, although firearms were already widely used, their use levels were quite low; they were still at the level between musket guns and arquebus guns.Even if it has been invented as an artillery for attacking and confrontation, it is still a rather cumbersome front-mounted stone-shooting gun.

The use of various explosives and means of arson is basically blank.Therefore, this also gives Jiang Tian the space and prospects for redevelopment.For this reason, he even held a simple but grand inauguration ceremony for the Southern Freedom Army and the Guerrilla Corps after the war.

After appointing many lieutenants, non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers, he also personally conducted an exclusive flag presentation ceremony for them.The new flag is also a revised version of the Kingdom's military flag.From the blue flag representing the provinces and territories of the kingdom, with nineteen white irises surrounding the eight golden stars, to a smiling golden sun on a blue background.

Now that the designation and organization are in place, the equipment and equipment are sufficient for the time being, and a ten-day salary has just been issued according to the rank and position; next, it is time to wait until the momentum that has been cheered up and the enthusiasm for defeating the enemy has not completely dissipated before; looking for a new target.

So two days later, Jiang Tian led a thousand fully equipped soldiers and left the city of Midonne; and after a day and night of marching and training along the tributary of the Pentium Rhone River, he appeared covered in dust. In a valley dozens of miles south of Midone.

And not far outside the valley, it is also where the southern provincial boundary is located in the usual sense.From the adjacent province of Ardèche in the southeast, the provinces of Gard and Vaucluse in the south, and the province of Haut-Provence in the southwest, there are corresponding ancient roads/provincial roads/kingdom roads that meet here.

"This is Polagelo Castle? Within a radius of tens of miles, the only place where food can be stored?" Jiang Tian looked at the gray-white city wall in the valley bottom, on the side of the ancient road inherited from the Roman era, among towering mountains and dense forests Instead, he asked, "It still looks like that."

"My lord, it's absolutely true." Immediately, someone replied quickly.But it is one of the few low-level officials left in Midogne; the provincial post office appointed the local representative, Armand with rough skin and dark skin. "Under the order of a senior official, I personally participated in the escort and headed in this direction overnight."

"Although I used the cover of night to conceal the specific scene on the road; but based on my experience in many business trips, the final return location should be near here." Armand continued to explain: " After that, several batches went south without returning.”

The so-called Polagelo Castle looks so large that when standing at the foot of the mountain through the dense forest, you can barely see the outline of an edge of the city wall.The castle is also named after the Viscount Polagello; it is said that he is also the illegitimate son of the former Archbishop Aramis.

It was only when the 19-year-old Viscount Poragelo had just made a marriage contract that he died in the Northern Italian royal war; therefore, as one of the few archbishops in the kingdom, he also led many monasteries Dean Aramis, with such a castle to commemorate the name.

However, later, the Aramis archbishop was involved in a treason incident related to the chief minister of the kingdom; he was forced to flee the country and in the last few years of the countdown to his life, he encountered the list of amnesty for the replacement of the royal family; he was finally able to return to the country for the rest of his life , and was buried in this castle of Polagello.

The castle is therefore actually one of the offshoots of the Abbey of Noisy-le-Sec in the province; originating from the Cistercians in the Church of the Kingdom.Most of the Cistercian monasteries were built in areas far away from the crowd and surrounded by forests; they were also advocates of the "land reclamation movement" where monks led the believers.

Now, under the imminent threat of foreign invasion, this large monastery-style castle is located near the traffic arteries, but relatively hidden.In this way, the probability of becoming a big shot in the county town or even the provincial capital, transferring and hiding property and materials, and even those conservatives and royalists' shelters is not small.

Of course, now this mountain fortress has also become the first prey for the newly formed Free Army/Guerrilla Corps to take the initiative to attack.In fact, in Jiang Tian's observation room, behind the crenels of the castle in the mountain, metal reflections flickered from time to time, which was obviously not the defensive force of a serious monastery.

However, although the construction history of this castle is not long, it is undoubtedly the largest and most dangerous fortress in the county.Especially on the seemingly low and gentle hillside, the zigzag turning road is enough to expose any attacker to condescending blows and threats for a long time.

For Polagello Castle, the city wall layout is also divided into three layers; the base of the lowest layer is made of densely packed stones according to the mountain; and on the stone base, it is built with off-white bricks. The main body of the wall.On the main body of the city wall, there is another wooden shelter and archery tower.

In addition, Jiang Tian also saw a winding mountain stream flowing down, and the source of the mountain stream is located under the base of the castle, a waterfall of tens of feet gushing out of a spacious drainage outlet .Obviously, behind the mountain against which the castle rests, there is also a hidden sufficient water source or pool.

Not to mention, in addition to more than a hundred registered deans, academicians, priests, monks, monks, and an unknown number of ordinary believers who follow the oath, there may be several times as many nobles, official guards, and personal followers. .Therefore, relying on this point alone, the soldiers may not be able to attack by force in a short period of time.

But fortunately, Jiang Tian led his troops here, and he didn't intend to pay a heavy price for a strong attack or a long-term siege.In other words, these soldiers came just to witness in a certain sense, and as a guarantee measure for the aftermath and just in case.So the next moment, a crisp bird whistle was blown.

Then, in the forest on the side of the uphill road, more than a dozen soldiers in short clothes and straddling ropes also passed through the rocks, bushes, weeds, and dense tree branches; Amidst the movement of the clods rolling down, it took a whole morning to climb to the top.

Then, where they have climbed, they have been tied to the tree trunk, or the stakes with the guide ropes have been nailed down; to provide relay help for more climbing partners in the future.Therefore, after Jiang Tian had a leisurely lunch of fresh cheese sandwiches, more than a hundred soldiers had gathered under the city wall.

However, I don't know if the people in the castle are too arrogant and confident, or if they are slack and negligent; in the process, even the birds in the forest were startled several times, but the city is still There was no response, or other unnecessary movements.

So, it was Jiang Tian's turn to perform solo.I saw him clasping his hands firmly in the gaps of those wall foundations, without moving his whole body in the bleak mountain wind, he climbed up to the top of the wall without hesitation.