Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

In the afternoon, Su Xincheng, the city lord's mansion

Lei Ming came out of Su Zheng's study with a piece of paper in his hand, and happened to bump into He Jing in the corridor.

Lei Ming bowed his head slightly, He Jing looked at the paper in Lei Ming's hand and asked,

"What is this?"

"Battle report... Our army completely annihilated 2,041 soldiers stationed at the border in the port of Dotu, including 1,625 killed, 416 wounded and captured, 4 casualties of our troops, 4 of them slightly wounded, and no one was killed.

After listening to the battle report, He Jing looked at Lei Ming in shock, and asked in disbelief:

"Killed... More than 1,600 people?"

"Yes, uh, it should be more than that, most of the wounded captives will die, they have too many iron filings embedded in their bodies, and they can only die in pain..... By the time the battle report was finished, more than 100 prisoners had died, and more than 200 had been determined to be incurable...."

"Oh my God..."

He Jing's eyes were full of shock, he thought that Su Zheng would only use artillery to deter the enemy, but he didn't expect Su Zheng to choose to encircle and annihilate! She turned around and looked out through the window of the corridor in a daze.

Lei Ming bowed slightly, and then left straight away.

In fact, Su Zheng was also a little shocked at this time, this was just a saturation attack, that is, he injured so many people.

Most of them were hit by grenade debris and did not die immediately, and with current medical treatment, it is difficult to treat them.

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At the same time, in the city lord's mansion of Dottu Harbor, the city lord of Dottu Harbor was wandering in the room, and at this time he did not know that his 2,000 soldiers had been completely annihilated by Su Zheng's troops.

After his anger went down yesterday, it was followed by a burst of regret.

Su Zheng is not so easy to mess with now, now Su Zheng not only has three cities in hand, but also can hire magicians, and the most important thing is that the prime minister seems to support him behind his back.

Last night, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and he regretted being a little arrogant, even if he didn't agree with the conditions on the other side, he should continue to talk, even if the talks collapsed in the end, Su Zheng really sent troops over, and there was still room for negotiation.

But now he directly sent 2,000 soldiers to Su Zheng's doorstep, which is equivalent to directly slapping Su Zheng, and no one can tolerate such behavior.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and the lord of Dortu Harbor let him in in annoyance.

The person who came was a man wearing a viscount medal, holding a piece of paper in his hand, and when he came in, he said in a panic:

"Newspaper. . . Report... Your Highness... Big things are not good... Our spies in Sioux New City came to report that the enemy seemed to be yesterday... It is possible to send troops. Hearing

this, the city lord of Dortu Port was shocked, and his eyes widened and he asked the viscount

, "What? what does it mean that it seems to be possible, and why did you only tell me today after you went out yesterday?"

said the city lord of Dottu Harbor as he approached the viscount, and finally the spit in his mouth flew to the viscount's face.

The Viscount hurriedly knelt down on one knee and explained,

"Uh... Your Highness, it is like this, their army is not in the city, but in the mountains, and no one is allowed to approach on all sides .... My spy is still on that or something... What do you see on the new paper..."

, he said, and handed the paper in his hand to the city lord of Port Dotu.

The lord of Port Dotu took the newspaper and looked at the words on it.

"Our city has decided to take military action against the bad behavior of the port of Dotu, and our army has been mobilized yesterday evening .... Hiss... Quick, go and inform Adjutant Li and ask him to withdraw immediately!

" The Viscount swallowed his saliva and shook his head

, "It's too late, the person who sent the intelligence came back in the direction of the garrison, and I wanted to remind him by the way, but from a long distance, I saw the flag of Su Xincheng hanging in the garrison camp...."The

city lord of Duotu Port widened his eyes again:

"What... But why haven't I heard from me yet?

""I don't know... The spy said that from a distance, the garrison camp was in shambles... From afar, I saw them digging pits and burying corpses.... There are many, many corpses..."

The city lord of Dortu Port took a few steps back one after another, sat on the chair with his ass, and was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses, pointed at the person in front of him and shouted hysterically:

"Quick..... Hurry up and send someone to negotiate with Su Xincheng... "

Yes!".

Since Su Zheng came up with the newspaper, the spies of other city-states have been comfortable, and they don't need to go to find out the news, just wait for the newspaper to be published every day.

What Su Zheng wanted to express could also be advertised directly through the newspaper.

At present, the role of the newspaper is to transmit news to the outside of the Soviet government, after all, the literacy rate of the current people is still very low, and they can't read the newspaper at all, plus some restaurants and tea shops have added newspaper reading services, so the sales of newspapers are not very high.

The next day, Su Zheng announced the results of the battle, and Su Zheng did not indicate the number of his own participants and his own casualties, but only announced the opponent's battle damage data.

There is no doubt that more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 1,600 people were killed in battle, and such a death rate is enough to shock everyone.

In the era of cold weapons, the two sides engaged in encounters, once one side lost more than 5%, the morale of the army would be weakened, once the loss exceeded 10%, the army would immediately collapse, deserters would appear in a large area, and no army could lose 20% before surrendering and all of them fled.

It's a different story when the defenders are forced to run out of options.

Even if the garrison of Duotu Port was besieged by the army of 10,000 people of the Soviet government, it would not have suffered so many losses, and it would not even have to be fought.

Once they see that they are besieged to death by several times the enemy, I am afraid that they will also directly lay down their arms and surrender.

Unless... Su Zheng did not accept surrender....

However, the battle report sent out was that there were also captured enemy soldiers who surrendered, and it was specially mentioned later that Su Xincheng would treat prisoners preferentially, and summoned doctors from the three cities to go to the barracks to provide the best treatment for the wounded soldiers on both sides, and provide the same treatment for the wounded.

This made everyone feel like Louis XVI in 1793, confused.

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summary, all the fault of this dispute lies with Dotu Port, and all the responsibility is borne by Dotu Port, therefore, as compensation and armistice agreement, the following agreement is hereby made

: Article 1: Exempt all taxes on all properties of the Su Group in Dotu Port.

Article 2: The port of Duotu will lift the restrictions on the movement of residents of Suxin City, Teide City, and Merlin City, and allow residents of the three cities to live and do business freely.

Article 3: The port of Dotu leased five of the piers in the harbor to Count Su Zheng.

Article 4: Port Dotu leases the village of Dona and its inhabitants and 9,000 acres of nearby land to Count Su Zheng.

Article 5: Duotu Port shall be fully responsible for the loss of the Su Group's workshop and the provocation launched against Count Su Xin and the resulting war, and shall compensate the Su Group with 50,000 copper coins, Count Su Zheng with 1 million copper coins, and all craftsmen with a total of 7,157 copper coins for lost work.

After listening to the treaty that Chris said, the corners of the mouth of the city lord of Port Duotu in front of him twitched, and he didn't know what some words meant, but he probably understood them.

Compared with the last negotiation, this time not only did not have fewer conditions, but it was even more excessive, and there was also an additional compensation for the lease of the village and copper coins.

Now Su Zheng's troops are pressing the border, and they have completely annihilated the army of 2,000 people in one day, and now, Su Zheng's soldiers have directly pressed less than 5 kilometers away from the city-state of Duotugang, and there is a great tendency to attack the city.

Although the spies reported that there were only more than 1,000 people, and all of them were wearing leather armor, and they didn't even hold weapons.

But in the eyes of the city lord of Duotugang, this is a kind of provocation and coercion, and Su Zheng is pinching himself and not daring not to sign the contract.

Once the war starts again, even if the city-state can hold it at that time, the other territories will have to be occupied by the Su Zheng.

"Sign it, my lord—"

Chris handed the treaty to the Lord of Port Dotu, and for the first time he made a haughty gesture towards the others.

You must know that Chris is influenced by the Su family, even in the face of subordinates and civilians, Chris has always been amiable.

"I signed... I'll sign..."

The lord of Port Dotu shook his head remorsefully and stamped the seal of the lord on the treaty.

Now the lord of Dortu Port is remorseful, although Su Zheng's workshop and cloth almost completely seized the entire civilian cloth market in Dottu Harbor, but also brought a lot of taxes to Dottu Harbor.

But now one wrong step and one wrong step, he shouldn't have come to provoke Su Zheng, who knew that Su Zheng would be so ruthless and decisive.

"Okay sir, we will only arrange for 50 soldiers to be stationed in the port, and the other soldiers will all be withdrawn, and I hope you can fulfill your promise and stop provoking us again!"

After saying that, Chris put away the treaty and swaggered out of the City Lord's Mansion in Port Dotu with the guards.