total war rise of empire

Chapter 71 Looting or Massacre?

The elder Pylos of Corinth will never allow the city of Pylos, with a population of tens of thousands, to be captured by more than 300 Sires!
They shouted hoarsely to all parts of the city to summon citizen fighters, even young and strong civilians!

When the elders in the city of Corinth discovered that the citizen warriors of Pylos were being slapped in the face continuously in front of more than 300 Seris soldiers, they naturally used the 'human sea tactic' that everyone has known throughout the ages!
A large number of Pylos civilians living in Corinth City were young and strong, and they were gathered semi-forcibly. The elders of Corinth City obviously did not have enough weapons to arm them. Otherwise, the guards guarding the city would not be less than 500 people... …

Therefore, the weapons in the hands of these temporarily pulled up Pylos civilians are only primitive weapons such as sticks, not even short swords!

Using such a group of people to attack the stable Wei military pawn phalanx was also a decision that the elders of Pylos had to make!

As one of the three main cities of the Pylos city-state, Corinth City has gathered the efforts of too many Pylos people, and it is also the capital city of the Pylos people of the Corinth lineage!
If anything goes wrong in Corinth City, the best result for the Pylos people of this line is to be reduced to the lower class civilians of other Pylos city-states...

The Pylos people are the original city-state alliance system, not a monolithic centralization!

Of course, compared to the human main world, which is similar to the frequent wars in the European medieval enfeoffment system, the city-state alliance system of the Pylos people is relatively mild. At least, two people will not be separated for a few jars of honey and a small bag of peppercorns. The noble lords led their troops to fight with each other...

However, it is precisely because of the small number of wars between the city-states of Pylos that the combat effectiveness of the Pylos people is not strong, and the number of veterans with actual combat experience has never been raised. The leader of the Pylos people, it is difficult to cause a large-scale war internally!

Population is a very precious resource, and Agamemnon will not allow the already weak Pylos to consume their little strength in internal strife!

It is this kind of comfort that allowed the population of the Pylos people to multiply greatly. A small Greek peninsula has raised hundreds of thousands of Pylos people, and this has to be thrown away in the rich area occupied by the Kingdom of Seris!
All of this will be broken with the rise of Lei Zihao. Lei Zihao, who is supported by the system and greedy, will never give up on the weak Pylos people. For Lei Zihao, who has experience in killing, as long as there is war and conquest, he will always gain benefits!

Leonidas and others used crossbows and phalanxes to firmly nail the main gate area of ​​Corinth City, staring at the attack of the Pylos until dawn!
Lei Zihao did not break his promise. When the morning sun filled the earth, 3000 Siris revival troops and a battalion of Pylos prisoner-of-war cannon fodder drove to the city of Corinth in a mighty manner!
Lei Zihao also agreed to Li Qingmei's request not to do extra exercise at night, he recharged his batteries for most of the night, and led the army to the battlefield at dawn!

Li Qingmei, who came with the army, opened her big round eyes and looked curiously at the shoddy city wall made by the Pylos people. She also understood why Lei Zihao was so confident that he could take down the city gate with more than 300 people. This road didn't even have a moat. The walls of the city are too low!
The Pylos prisoners-of-war cannon fodder led by Li Si were in front, and the Seris Renaissance Army was behind. They rushed into the main city gate guarded by Leonidas and others. At the same time, the Seris Renaissance Army also separated about 1000 people and surrounded Corinth. The city went to the gate on the other side to block the Pylos people's escape!
At the very least, the Pylos people cannot be allowed to take away too many coins!
The entry of thousands of Siris troops completely disintegrated the fighting spirit of the countless dead and injured Pylos people. The elder Pylos of Corinth City finally realized that the matter was irreversible. After the city gate was broken, the strength gap between the two sides was too great... …

With the entry of the Siris Revival Army, it is only a matter of time before the city of Corinth is occupied. At this moment, Lei Zihao on his horse received a reminder from the Total War system!
[Ding~ Congratulations to your Excellency the Governor for capturing the city of Corinth. Please choose your treatment method for the city of Corinth from the following three options.

1. Peaceful occupation: Autumn will not commit any crimes that will not harm the lives of Pylos civilians in the city of Corinth, and will not plunder the property of the Pylos people. This method will preserve the hearts of the people of Pylos to the greatest extent. The system predicts that after the peaceful occupation, The hearts of the Corinthian cities will be yellow.

2. City plunder: violently plunder all valuable materials in Corinth City and suppress any Pylos people who dare to resist. This method can obtain a lot of wealth in Corinth City, but it will cause extreme hatred of the people of Pylos and be robbed Data such as public security and popular sentiment in the plundered city of Corinth will become extremely dangerous, please be careful, Your Excellency the Governor!

3. City massacre and slavery: The city of Corinth will be completely destroyed, and all valuable materials will become the property of the governor, and the Pylos people in the city will conduct a cruel screening of items.

Useful young men will become the Governor's slaves, young Pylos women will become the Governor's official slaves and military prostitutes, and the rest of the Pylos will become the Governor's souls, without exception, all will be slaughtered!
Friendly reminder: This behavior will arouse the fear and hatred of the Pylos people, and have an impact on the future attack on the city-state of Pylos. However, the sergeants participating in the massacre will be more afraid of the commander, and at the same time, they will also get a little morale improvement. Soldiers can get a lot of personal benefits!
This is a once-and-for-all solution. After choosing to massacre and enslave the city, the city of Corinth will cease to exist and turn into a sea of ​​flames, but it can also maximize the wealth of the city of Corinth!
Your Excellency Governor, please choose and issue orders! 】

Lei Zihao knew very well that he was here to kill people and rob money, and naturally the more slaves the better, so the option of peaceful occupation can be discarded, but in the case of looting, he does not have much force to defend the unstable city of Corinth. Looking at it this way, it seems that it is best to choose the third way once and for all? !
"Hey, it seems that I'm becoming more and more like a butcher..." Lei Zihao, who was a little bit tangled in his heart, turned to Freya in a strange way: "Do you think I should have slaughtered the entire city of Corinth?"

Freya looked at Lei Zihao inexplicably, and just looked at it quietly without saying a word. After being stared at by this look for 10 minutes, Lei Zihao was finally defeated.

"Well, I know what you mean, the clergy don't participate in any decision-making..."

Immediately, Lei Zihao looked at Li Qingmei who was looking around curiously: "What do you think?"

Li Qingmei closed her eyes to Lei Zihao with contempt on her face: "What does it matter to me? If you don't care about the revenge of the Pylos people, even if you save trouble, the people of Seris will never dislike your decision anyway!"

(End of this chapter)