Take Taobao with you to another world

Chapter 448 The Way of Victory and Defeat

That's how it looks like the war is over.

The Central Army of the Northern Allied Forces surrendered all their weapons, registered their identities, compensated the people of the kingdom for the property losses caused by entering the country, allowed the new rebel army to investigate incidents such as disturbing the people, killing and rape, and handed over related generals and soldiers to the new rebel army. Afterwards, they can leave this haunting country one by one.

There are also nobles who would rather die than be humiliated in this coalition army. However, on the evening of the second day after the commander and others signed the letter of surrender, the former army of the new rebel army re-established its position in front of them, turned its guns, and fired at the mountains. Fired a few earth-shattering salvos.

Then the communications officer of the coalition army once again watched the countless communications stones turn into dust that could only be picked up with both hands.

Two days later, the allied forces in the center, who had already disarmed and were registering their identities, undergoing investigations, and confronting town residents, received an urgent battle report from the right, claiming that they had encountered an extremely astonishing attack of forbidden spells, and the town was razed to the ground by thunder and fire from the sky. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured. A forbidden curse fell near the main tent. The commander was burned after his arm was cut off.

"Supporting what? Supporting what?" The commander of the Chinese army showed his unyielding will before, and the nobles who fought the whole army against the foreigners screamed at the panicked messenger soldiers, "Look at what we are doing now? You deserve to die , hurry up and die!"

The hysterical nobles were forcibly sent to "recover their mood". The reporting team was shocked by the news that the allied forces in the middle route had surrendered without a fight, and saw the ever-increasing mountain of weapons at the place where they were surrendered. The captain almost only considered In a moment, he decided to lead the whole team to surrender to the Gentiles as well.

Although this decision was hasty, it was considered wise, because the former army of the rebel army, which had been recharging its strength for a long time, used heavy artillery to cause heavy casualties to the army on the right across the mountain, leaving only artillery positions, and the rest were lightly armed. The small team that suppressed the army in the middle from the high ground went from the ramp to the right.

Although this new insurgent army has only 6000 people, the results of the right army can already be imagined.

After losing the head coach and the basic establishment of the army, the remaining lost dogs can only be constantly chased, surrounded, and driven by the new rebels. In the frantic escape, they don't even think of surrendering to their opponents, because they judge others by themselves, Believing that the other party would show no mercy to the weak like them, cruel and tyrannical, and those weapons that would either kill or injure them made them firmer in their minds, so under a deliberate arrangement, the last wandering army on the right was killed. The new rebel army hunted all the way, followed the fleeing road of the people of the kingdom who were also hunted by them, and fled into the Buber Plain, where they were stopped by the reinforcements of Xinmaxi City who had been waiting here for a long time, and finally wiped out here.

This battle almost shocked the entire Western world, not only because of the large number of people involved in the war, the great influence, the disparity in power between the two sides, but it ended so quickly, but also because of the performance of the Gentiles—or the Allies in this battle. The terrorist forces that come out, when their opponents have no major strategic mistakes and the tactical execution is in place, the advantage of weapons can reverse such a huge disadvantage in numbers, no matter how military figures in other countries and regions resume this battle, Neither has been able to bridge the gap between weapons with the skill of war they know.

And those non-war methods—poisoning: Xinmaxi City has an amazing closed water supply network, the water plant is heavily guarded, and the water source has been completely controlled by the Alliance people. It is difficult for even the Xinmaxi people to approach the source, and no matter Whether food, vegetables or meat, Xinmaxi City is self-sufficient and does not require any external input; The structure of bottom-up responsibility enables the alliance people to control the lives of all residents. They let the residents live collectively, work collectively, and attend classes collectively. The entire city is the eyes and ears of the Alliance, and there is really no worse infiltration environment than this.More importantly, if the Assassins found the fabled leader of the Alliance and succeeded in killing him, would the Alliance leave the land?

They'll send another guy, or bring up one of the leader's lieutenants.There is always no shortage of people in the seat of power, and the alliance people will not leave.

As for the spread of the plague or other things, the Alliance has already demonstrated their means of dealing with natural disasters. They could do that before they fully grasped the Buber Plain, let alone now that they are getting more and more rooted and leafy?

The facts are so obvious that no matter what area the Alliance wants to occupy, the only question is whether they want to do it or not, and how to do it, not whether they can do it.

If there is any consolation in the face of this hard truth, it should be the characteristic kindness of the Alliance.

Kindness needs cruelty to compare - and the cruelty of the Confederates was real cruelty, at least [-] northerners were left forever in their lands, most of them unnamed, many not even intact According to their beliefs, the Alliance invited some well-known religious figures to the public cemetery to hold requiem ceremonies for them—especially the bishop of Celis who repeatedly created holy miracles, but not many people felt that those fearful Souls can really reach heaven.

Because their power is so brutal, their kindness is all the more valuable.For those northern coalition forces who surrendered to them in a timely manner, they can be said to be lightly let go, only asking them to hand over the king, royal family and other nobles and other trivial conditions, neither detaining coalition generals, demanding ransom, nor The monarchs of the northern countries are required to come here to be ministers.They also took in people who were injured or even disabled during the war, so that they could receive good treatment and care. Even if some people were unwilling to return to the north, they would arrange places for those who were considered incapable of working so that they could Live with dignity.

It’s not that no one has said that everything is a way for the Alliance people to buy people’s hearts. Just like when they built the city, they took in the flood of victims because they needed people. All the people will regard them as demons...but don't be deliberately hostile to the alliance, the idea that you can get shelter by obeying them is still deeply rooted in everyone's minds.

The line between good and bad has become as deep as a chasm, and there is not much room for people to sway.

After this battle, all the lords on the Buber Plains expressed their submission to the alliance without the need for any representation. They voluntarily offered the land deeds, abandoned their titles of nobility, took off their robes, put on civilian clothes, and left the castle to enter the city. , Accept all the arrangements made by the Alliance people for them, the former power class.Even if some of them were going to jail for this, they didn't complain.

This change is not only due to the absolute power shown by the Alliance people in the war, but also because of the various changes in the entire plain since the establishment of the new Mahasi City, and the continuous lobbying of the three lords who initially expressed their submission to the Alliance. role.The most fundamental reason is that the Alliance people have indeed brought a better life to the majority of people. When commoners are softer and warmer than robes, farmhouses are more spacious and comfortable than castles, and cafeteria windows are richer than night banquets, their relatives, friends and even servants express When being a laborer under the rule of a union is much more satisfying and happier than being attached to oneself, hesitation will only make them lose their last good chance.

Facts have proved that this is indeed the case. Not long after the victory over the Northern Alliance, more than a dozen city-states in the lower reaches of the Buber River, including Primhall City, which was executed by white ships for detaining the Alliance, sent people to New Marsh. The city sent documents expressing their submission to the alliance. Although these city-state lords were not willing to give up all their privileges like the nobles of the Buber Plain, the sincerity they showed through these documents was unprecedented. Kingdom, even if their move is called treason, the king and other nobles just ignore it.

The new Mahhi City, which has won a great victory, has accepted all the surrender and attachment. Due to their existence, the royal family and nobles of the kingdom have lost all the legitimacy of power due to betrayal of the country. The people in the northern part of the kingdom are willing and even eager for "foreigners" to replace them As the new ruler, the population and territory under the jurisdiction of this city expanded to more than ten times in a short period of time, and its own name should no longer be used to refer to this new political entity.

And so, naturally, through the Union's joint congress, the Second Administrative District was created.

At that time, it was still the second administrative district, with New Mahy City as the political and economic center. It was not the current Central and Western District, and the current Central and Western District was not the final plan of this area. It was still developing and changing. Just like their most stable industrial alliance in the rear, it has also become stronger, more perfect, and more brilliant amidst constant development and changes.

The surge in land and population has brought greater challenges to the newly upgraded administrative region, but the situation now is different from when the city was first built. Their manpower and material resources are much more abundant than three years ago—not even just a lot, It is the kind of abundance that can smoothly transition from a city regime to a national regime.This abundance allows the second administrative region to take over these newly added areas in a more leisurely manner.

It was also at this joint congress that the Artisan announced that the "Pioneer" would be officially named the "Liberator" from now on... it was the legal and only governing organization of the Industrial Alliance.

After this meeting, the newly born "liberators" set out from the industrial city and from the city of New Mahy, forming hundreds of work teams, carrying seeds, farm tools, books and fanatical feelings for a new day, like Fresh torrents generally flow into those isolated territories anxiously waiting for new rulers, sweeping away the stale old order from form to substance, and building the new order they need from scratch.People are actively or passively led by these young idealists to a world they never imagined.

No one cares about the hastily retreating northern kingdoms, and everyone can see that a new empire is rising.

At that time, Ramsay was in the north, and as a member of the new rebel army, he assisted the liberators in rebuilding the order of the northern counties, moved the civilians disturbed by the war back, repaired the summer harvest, prepared for autumn plowing, and dealt with the trials and tribulations of the royal family and nobles. Transformation and other issues, for him at that time, the work partner changed from "pioneer" to "liberator", which more only represented a change of name, the purpose of their actions, the way of doing things, and the goals to be achieved The purpose remains the same, although the new name does make their organizational form clearer and their plans more orderly, but it doesn't seem to have much meaning other than finally solving their legitimacy problem.

Since even Ramsay, who has been with them day and night, thinks this way, for people outside the alliance and the new administrative area, what they see is still only a group of Protestant Puritans trying to build a kingdom of God on earth, and from all kinds of There are signs that they might even be built.Although the liberators made many mistakes due to lack of experience when transforming the areas at all levels into the new administrative region, such as rough orders, failure to investigate, partial listening, self-assessment, etc., but as long as the former noble lords and their minions , even though these liberators made all kinds of mistakes, they are sincere, noble, talented, and able to correct their mistakes, far exceeding the highest expectations that people can have. It often only takes a short time to fully deliver the trust.

Unknowingly, the "savior" who "relieves suffering" has become a fixed image in their oral traditions, and this image does not conflict with their previous image of the adjudicator shaped by the war.

People often use religious models to explain the actions of the liberators because they cannot find a closer example in reality, but in fact the closer they are, the more they understand the motives of the liberators, the more they understand what they are doing. There is a world of difference between following the Program and religion.

In a few years, there will be an arrogant red-robed bishop in the newspaper saying that people are born with a need for spiritual destination. No matter how nonsense his other statements are, at least this sentence does have some truth. When optional, religion is their final destination, but with alliances, people are no longer unselectable—whether for the people of the new administrative district, or for those who have to stay here for other reasons Let’s say—for example, the batch of prisoners of war.

The Northern Coalition Army that surrendered abandoned the army that had been damaged by blows on the right, and left them as targets for the Gentiles to vent their anger. The new rebel army did wipe out this army, but "elimination" does not mean that all Killed, part of the remnants of the right army became prisoners of war, plus all kinds of fish that slipped through the net found by the new rebels after searching the whole territory after the war-the number was beyond imagination, and the final count exceeded [-].

After the screening and registration of these captives, it was found that the vast majority of them were nomads and farmers. Before they were conscripted into the army to participate in this war, they neither knew the purpose of the war nor the object of the war. Joining the army After that, I heard some discipline, but I could only understand a few words such as "heretic".They blindly followed the army to this country, and did not participate in any decent battles along the way. The "meritorious battles" that could harvest heads were allocated by the nobles before the start. The number of their army was too large , Most of the townspeople and villagers along the road fled. They also looted, but they didn’t loot too much. Some people killed people, but their weapons were very poor, because they were prepared by themselves, far inferior to the commander and other people. The private soldiers of noble generals killed a lot like that...

The search, screening, registration, and sentencing work and repatriation were carried out simultaneously. However, only the first batch of prisoners of war could be successfully repatriated. When the new rebel army sent the second batch of prisoners of war to the border, they found that the opposite side was establishing a defense line.

Regarding the prisoners, the nobleman who intervened with the Liberator representative said: "These are not our citizens. In fact, those were not before, and we cannot let them pass any longer."

"Is it okay to let them pass by?"

The nobleman looked at the Liberator representative and said, "No. We cannot allow people who are not our people into our country. Not only in our country, but in other countries as well."

His words were quite convoluted, but it was not difficult to understand what he meant.

The Liberator representative also looked at him, and laughed as he watched.

"That's not like the words of a defeated man," he said slowly.

Anger flashed across the nobleman's face, "We did lose, but we still have dignity. You do have great power, so are you planning to occupy the entire world?"

The Liberator representative laughed again. "Of course we...wouldn't do it. We don't need to."

The liberators later negotiated with the other party twice, and both times brought different representatives of the prisoners of war. After returning, these representatives told everyone what they had seen and heard, which aroused a lot of indignation.But indignation will not help solve their situation. As long as the "Gentiles" do not intend to provoke the war again, the northern countries have the right to decide who to pass through their borders-maybe the "Gentiles" like to destroy the other two armies Whether it is to eliminate the most powerful central army, or impose various harsh conditions on the Northern Kingdom in accordance with the rules, the situation will be different.But even the most ignorant captive would not think that the softness of the "gentiles" was a mistake.

The more than [-] captives stranded in the kingdom had nowhere to go. Seeing that the line of defense was being built up day by day, it was impossible to know when the "foreigners" would stop their food supply, even those wicked people who had been sent to serve their sentences It's all enviable.They had to ask the representatives to beg the liberators to find a way out for them. After discovering that the Northern Kingdom was already so afraid of the "foreigners" that it would be very difficult for them to bypass them, after weighing the pros and cons several times, they finally accepted the arrangement, so that as long as the new administrative region Citizens are distributed to various construction sites at the cost of half their remuneration.

Almost all prisoners of war believed that they would be reduced to slavery.

In fact, after only three months, most of them started getting paid at the normal standard

After another three months, payment was no longer a concern of these prisoners of war.

As long as you are an adult with a sound mind, it is very difficult for you to continue to miss your old life after being repeatedly invaded by means of greatly improved material conditions, close cooperative collective life, regular work and rest, substantial study and entertainment, etc. The daily life and the experience of being abandoned made these prisoners of war go through the transformation process of the liberators faster than others. The speed and thoroughness of their transformation surprised even the new citizens who worked and lived with them.

After a period of time, the situation in the northern countries changed. After a series of complicated political struggles, such as plots, poisoning, assassination, falling horses, etc. The construction of the separation wall, which was less than knee-high, suddenly stopped. When the people who built the wall knocked the mud bricks off the wall again, a team of messengers crossed the line of defense that had never been used, and stopped in front of the checkpoint.

Someone sent a servant to tell the sentinel that the noble who negotiated with the liberator happened to be choked to death not long ago, so a new lord was replaced to re-establish relations with the "respected and noble" "generals" .

An important step in rebuilding relations is to accept the return of those prisoners of war who "shameless" and "has been bothering your country for a long time".

"I really don't understand..." Ramsay said after hearing the news, "what's going on in their minds?"

"Thinking how to die quickly?" Akan said.

At that time, the new rebel army had been renamed the Second Administrative Region Local Corps, and Ramsay and Akan, as one of them, were preparing for the opening of the two mountain passages together with others.After a long period of exploration, the working group that went to the settlement of the Kasper people during the period of New Mahi City has established a stable multi-ethnic coalition-based separatist regime, and they can no longer hide their size when they enter the growth period , the conflict with the local royal power will soon intensify.

Both Ramsay and Akan were gearing up to enter a brand new battlefield. When they heard about these changes in the Northern Kingdom during their busy training and work breaks, they couldn't find a better description other than stupidity and absurdity.

Although many people don't understand that the weapon power possessed by the alliance can almost be called the strongest in the world, and its advantage over ordinary countries is overwhelming and generation-level. There is a sense of urgency in the orderly way, and the sense of urgency is extremely strong, so strong that it is sometimes confusing whether it is necessary, but people unconditionally believe in all the collective decisions of the liberators, so even prisoners of war are like other school-aged people in the second administrative district. Like the population, they were organized to carry out some basic military training during their work breaks.

It has been less than a year since the prisoner of war became a laborer on the construction site, and a day is divided into three parts. They have to work, study, and train. Naturally, it is impossible for them to have such excellent qualities, let alone compare places. The official soldiers of the Corps are much worse than being a militiaman.

But enough.

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