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Chapter 508: The Butcher of Polyvisia
"Boss, I finally waited until you came. Tonight I can finally have a few drinks and sleep well. Do you know that after occupying this royal city of Polyvisia, I have been on tenterhooks? Until now, we have to turn a blind eye even if we take a nap. Now that we have finally waited for you to come over, our First Division can feel at ease... "
Even though Belklin held a welcome ceremony and a small military parade at the city gate, showing that he had everything under control, he complained loudly as soon as he returned to the division headquarters. The surprise attack on the Royal City of Polyvisia was a feat in the history of war, but occupying the Royal City of Polyvisia and waiting for reinforcements from the follow-up troops was a very torturous day for him and the soldiers of the First Division.
You must know that the Kingdom of Nasseri has always been a sworn enemy of the Kingdom of Ovilas. As the location of the royal city, the atmosphere of hostility to the Kingdom of Ovilas has always been very serious. The people living in the royal city are all people with status in the Nasseri Kingdom. These people can be said to be supporters of the Nasseri royal family, and they are also the beneficiaries of the national policy of joining the Eastern Regional League of Nations to target the Ovelas Kingdom.
There are a total of 110,000 registered resident families in the Royal City of Polyvisia. Even though most of them are civilians, they still have indirect kinship with the aristocracy of the Kingdom of Nasseri. The occupations of the adult men in the family are either low-level administrative officials or members of the army, or they work for a certain noble and conduct commercial activities in the royal city. It can be said that most of the residents in the royal city are the elites and middle class of the Nasseri Kingdom.
So from a certain perspective, the residents of the Royal City of Polyvisia were loyal subjects of Nasseri VII, and they supported the war launched by the Kingdom of Nasseri against the Kingdom of Ovelas. And he hopes to get a sip of soup after the destruction of the Ovelas Kingdom, and gain a share of benefits for himself and his family. In the residential area of the Royal City, you can see white silk orange flowers hanging on the doorways of many families, which means that a man in this family died on the battlefield...
With 110,000 households, there are a total population of 500,000 to 600,000. Adding in the foreign businessmen and workers, the population of the Royal City of Polyvisia exceeds 800,000, which is one million larger than the Kingdom of Overas. The royal capital with a permanent population is inferior. It can be called the second metropolis in the eastern region of Farea continent. It has developed commerce, trade and workshop manufacturing production.
Belklin led the first division to make a surprise attack on the Royal City of Polyvisia. He was very lucky, and it happened to coincide with the monthly holiday of the Royal Guards of Nasseri, which was a three-day holiday to allow the officers and soldiers of the regiment to return. A trip home for three days to handle family matters and reunite with loved ones. Therefore, there was only one division of the Guards Corps left in the Royal City. They were stunned by the sudden attack by the First Division of the Thunder Legion, and were quickly defeated, leaving the Royal City to be captured by the First Division.
The Royal City of Polyvisia was captured, and not one of the Nasseri royal family and noble officials in the city escaped, and they were all captured by troops sent by Belklin. This is also a matter of time difference. At that time, the residents of the royal city did not even react, and the royal city was occupied by the enemy. By the time the situation was understood, all the aristocratic and high-ranking officials who could instigate the uprising had been arrested, leaving the group leaderless and unable to resist even if they wanted to.
There was one thing that Becklin did very well, and that was to take the initiative to sweep away the resistance forces that had gathered around the royal city when the situation in the city was not very stable. However, Belklin also admitted that he had no choice at the time. If he did not take the initiative and wait for the local garrison armed forces from the towns and cities around the royal city to gather and then surround the royal city, and cooperate with the residents of the city inside and outside, then the generals of the first division would be waiting. It was a cruel and bloody battle...
Because it was a holiday for the Royal Guards of Nasseri, the officers and soldiers of a division went home in turns. Most of them did not live in the Royal City, but in the towns surrounding the Royal City. There are also some nobles of the Nasseri Kingdom who have built manors and villas in the towns surrounding the royal city. After learning that the Royal City had been lost, these nobles and the officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps who were taking turns to go home took action, contacted each other, assembled local garrison forces from surrounding towns, and prepared to counterattack the Royal City, which suddenly became huge.
After learning this information, Belklin immediately decided to send troops to eliminate the threat to the royal city from the resistance forces being formed in the surrounding towns. He directly dispatched three main field regiments to sweep through the surrounding towns and defeat those who were gathering there. The garrison armed forces immediately eliminated these threats to the royal city in their infancy.
As Belklin himself admitted, the situation at that time was really critical and tense, and there was less than one regiment of troops left in the entire royal city. The First Division suffered nearly 3,000 casualties when it captured the royal city, including a battalion of troops. At that time, he was prepared. If the residents of the royal city rioted, he would directly pull Nasseri VII out of the palace and take him as a hostage. See who can be more ruthless than the other. If he wants to save the king, he will give you a dead body. At worst, he will die together.
Fortunately, the three main field regiments cleared the towns around the Royal City and escorted a large amount of supplies and property back. The residents of the Royal City did not behave unusually, allowing the First Division to survive the crisis. But staying in the royal city for more than a month was not pleasant. The residents of the royal city were hostile and uncooperative. The captured Nasseri royal family and the guards of those noble and high-ranking officials, as well as the more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps who had been captured, put a lot of pressure on the First Division.
There is also the defense work of the entire royal city, which makes Belklin worried every day, fearing that something unexpected will happen there, and looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements all day long, so that he can relieve him of the heavy burden on his shoulders. In particular, the surrounding towns have not cleaned up the resistance armed forces, and there are still many fish that have slipped through the net. The light cavalry patrol teams of the First Division were often ambushed by armed resistance in these areas, resulting in three to four hundred casualties. Belklin was very angry, but he couldn't take revenge because he was afraid of provoking a popular uprising.
"Look, the twelve towns within a hundred miles of the royal city have all been listed as restricted areas that our division soldiers are prohibited from entering. Because even walking on the streets, you will be ambushed by those who are ambushing in the houses on the streets. An ambush by gunmen. But we were unable to find the enemy because they dropped their guns and became civilians. If we conducted a large-scale manhunt across the town, we would have to dispatch a regiment of troops. Otherwise, if tens of thousands of residents in a town rioted, it would be difficult for us to suppress them. Come down..." Belklin pointed to the surrounding towns on the map of the Royal City of Polyvisia to introduce.
"Now the First Division only has three and a half regiments. One regiment guards the city wall, one regiment guards the prisoners, and one regiment suppresses order in the residential and commercial areas of the royal city. There are also two battalions responsible for guarding the palace, Nasseri The royal family members and high-ranking officials and nobles are all detained in the palace. This is an important matter that must not go wrong. The remaining more than 2,000 sick and wounded are staying in the medical camp, so I have no mobile troops on hand and can only let the royal city The twelve surrounding towns have vaguely surrounded us in the royal city. Even if we send out scout light cavalry teams and patrol teams, we can only patrol and explore the outskirts of these towns..." Belklin was helpless.
Claude thought of the two small towns he had passed through before and realized that Belklin was right. The townspeople were driven out of the houses on both sides of the street. They looked at the Thunder Legion soldiers passing by on the street with hatred in their eyes. . In fact, it's not a big deal. The main reason is that the guard camp took over the houses on both sides of the street for safety reasons. After Claude passed by, they would return the houses to the original owners and did not take the opportunity to rob any property from their homes.
Just like this, the townspeople stood on both sides of the street, watching coldly with anger and hatred as the officers and soldiers of the Second Division of the Thunder Legion and Claude passed by their door. It seemed that everything Belklin said was a lie, because the lack of mobile troops on hand could not counter the local resistance armed forces in these towns around the royal city, which led to a heightened sense of resistance among the residents of these twelve towns. This is not a good sign and must be resolutely suppressed.
Sometimes kindness does not make the enemy put down their weapons, but makes them more arrogant. As the sworn enemy of the Kingdom of Ovelas, the Royal City of Polyvisia and the surrounding areas of the Kingdom of Nasseri are the most determined to oppose Austria. Perhaps only iron and blood can make the people in this area wake up. Their fate is in their hands. In the hands of the conqueror.
"Let's rest for two days and send more scouts and light cavalry teams to besiege the twelve towns around the royal city and cut off the transportation routes between them. Even pedestrians must go through strict interrogation and guarantee before they can be released. Two days later, the Second Division were dispatched, and a battalion was sent to each town to block the access roads and besieged them. The remaining regiment began to search each town, arresting all those with muskets and weapons in their homes, and nobles and officials also ransacked their homes and arrested them, resisting Kill without mercy, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, as long as there are any actors who are hostile to our army, all will be eliminated."
Claude coldly issued his first order after arriving in the Royal City of Polyvisia. Unlike the senior officers at the headquarters who stood at attention and followed the order, he knew very well that his order would cause a stir in the surrounding towns. What a bloody wave. While Ci Bu controls the army, he kills the enemy mercilessly. Only in this way can we be worthy of those soldiers who trust us, instead of letting those loyal and brave soldiers sacrifice their lives in vain for the so-called humanitarianism.
The two divisions of the Thunder Legion met in the Royal City of Polyvisia, which suddenly made the situation around the royal city tense. Night was the domain of the Wolf Fang Brigade. Claude did not allow the Wolf Fang Brigade to enter those towns, but instead operated on the outskirts of those towns at night. As expected, in two nights, the Langya Brigade captured more than a dozen liaison officers sent by the local resistance forces in these towns. Under torture, these liaison officers revealed the inside story of the local resistance armed forces one by one. 's clean.
The net was closed on the third day, and twelve towns were separated and surrounded. The fifth regiment of the second division entered the town of Rodeway and began to search. As a result, they were ambushed by local resistance forces in less than half an hour. Then the whole town rioted, and countless townspeople were killed. The residents there rushed at the officers and soldiers of the fifth regiment with knives and forks. The commander of the second division, General Diavid, spat out the grass roots in his mouth and gave the order to fire...
After more than 70,000 residents of Rodaway Town carried out a fierce and tragic two-day resistance to the death, all they got was the end of their families and their lives. The knives and forks in their hands didn't even kill an enemy before they were knocked to the ground by ruthless bullets. Even hiding at home was of no use. The officers and soldiers of the Fifth Regiment used the old muzzle-loading light infantry artillery captured in the Royal City to fire solid iron projectiles to destroy their houses, and threw grenades into the house to clear the targets...
In the end, except for the more than 10,000 women and children who surrendered and were lucky enough to survive as prisoners, the entire town was razed to the ground. In order to destroy the evidence, the abominable invaders also set a fire before leaving. The raging fire burned for three days and three nights under the water of kerosene before it was extinguished. However, the invaders brought nearly a hundred carts filled with property and escorted more than 10,000 women and children on the return journey triumphantly.
Next is the town of Ksimback. This town has been prepared for a long time. The townspeople built barricades and made various homemade weapons. Before the fifth regiment entered the town, they carried out guard battles and shot with homemade crossbows. A soldier was preparing to enter the town to search, and a fight broke out. Facts have proved that in front of the heavily armed officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division, the townspeople of Keshimback Town can only be regarded as fighting scum. No one can withstand the bombardment of artillery, the explosion of grenades, and the bullets. Shot mercilessly, the braver men dying sooner, the townspeople's resistance soon collapsed.
The resistance of the townspeople in Kesinback Town was only thunder and no rain, and the noise was very loud. After the real fighting started, they withered quickly. They were not at all like the first townspeople of Rodaway Town, who resisted for two days as if they were dead. The townspeople of Ksimbach could not even resist for six hours. After the most determined and courageous people died in battle, the rest abandoned their weapons and surrendered obediently. Therefore, the Thunder Legion gained more than 40,000 prisoners.
Following the previous example, after collecting the entire town's property, the fifth regiment set fire to the whole town and burned it to the ground. People are forgetful, and Claude is not going to release these townspeople. They will be transported to overseas autonomous territories together with the captured officers and soldiers of the Royal Guards Corps of Nasseri. The Rocky Mountain State is very lacking in popularity, and the officers and soldiers of these Guards Corps and the townspeople will become very suitable miners. Maybe the miserable life will make them quickly become members of the overseas autonomous territories and forget the hatred between countries. Claude believes this.
However, Diavid asked Claude very strangely why he didn't stab the officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps on the left thigh like other prisoners before releasing them, so that there would be no need to waste a regiment of troops to guard them.
Claude told him that the officers and soldiers of the Guards were all die-hard loyalists of the Kingdom of Nasseri. They, like the captured grassroots officers and nobles, were members of the profit-making class of the Kingdom of Nasseri, so they were very concerned about the destruction of the Kingdom of Nasseri. We in the Nasseri Kingdom will not compromise. As for other prisoners, they were forcibly recruited to serve as soldiers. If we cut them to avoid the danger of going to the battlefield, they would be grateful to us. It was we who saved them from the fate of being cannon fodder on the battlefield.
And these officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps will still oppose us if they cut off one of his legs, let alone cut him with a knife. Therefore, transporting them to the Rocky Mountain Continent in the overseas autonomous territories for mining is tantamount to cutting off their retreat. From now on, they can only fight for their own survival, take care of their families, and live a better life.
In the same way, the same goes for these townspeople. They opposed us. Although they were suppressed by us, if we let them go, they would still cause trouble behind our backs. For the long-term peace and stability of the area around the royal city, we can only kill the chickens to scare the monkeys, and let the towns of Rodway and Ksimbach become examples of what will happen if they resist us. Let the residents of the remaining ten towns see clearly what the consequences will be if they resist us...
This result has been clearly laid out in front of everyone. Therefore, except for the residents of the third town who struggled like a desperate struggle for more than an hour and were all annihilated, no other residents of the third town resisted the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion who entered the town for inspection. Even when a family of townspeople with muskets hidden in their houses were arrested, their neighbors had no objections to express. They just closed the doors and windows and peeked out from the cracks in the doors and windows...
The surrender of the third town meant that the remaining nine towns around the royal city could no longer raise any waves of resistance. There are the ruins of Rodway Town and Ksimback Town in front, and the remaining four towns are all the same as the third town. Except for the members of the resistance armed forces who are hiding in them and insist on resisting, the other townspeople have become shrunken. Head quail. They watched helplessly as the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion crushed the resistance of the armed men, gathered the captured rebels with weapons in the town square, shot them to death, and took away their families.
For the towns that bowed their heads to express surrender, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion only stated that they would levy a 30% tax rate, and everything else was left to the townspeople. Of course, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion only entered the house to check whether there were muskets and other weapons hidden, and they did not care about ordinary swords, bows and spears. Nor will property be collected from the homes of townspeople who obey orders.
The officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion only captured the resistance armed forces and their families. Members of the resistance armed forces who voluntarily surrendered would not be killed, but were taken away as prisoners like their families. The same goes for the nobles and officials in the town, who were arrested together with their family members. Only those who resist on the spot will be brutally suppressed, and even if they are alive, they will be executed on the spot.
The houses of these armed resistance members and rebels, as well as the manors and villas of nobles and local officials, will be carefully searched, all belongings will be removed, and even vacant manor villas and houses will be posted. Putting a seal on it means that the house will be dealt with in the future and other townspeople will not be allowed to occupy it on their own...
By the time we reached the last three towns, three main field regiments were already in action at the same time. The surprising result is that the townspeople of these three towns were well prepared, and they respectfully welcomed the arrival of the Thunder Legion soldiers. Only then did the soldiers discover that these townspeople had done everything for them. Even the members of the resistance armed forces hiding in the town had been tied up and gathered in the square of the town. Even their family members No exception.
Looking at the muskets, artillery and other weapons piled up in the square, the tied-up members of the resistance who were yelling or expressing regret, and the crying family members, General Diavid said that he had really opened his eyes.
Several elders among the townspeople, as representatives, expressed humbly that they, the townspeople, had always been law-abiding and just wanted to continue living peacefully. And it is also for their own good to treat the armed resistance members like this. At least they will not die on the spot because of their resistance, and will affect other innocent townspeople...
In this way, the towns and areas around the Royal City of Polyvisia were again under the control of the Thunder Legion. Immediately afterwards, Claude ordered a large-scale inspection of the Royal City and closed the city for half a month. As we checked one residential area after another, we heard the sounds of gunfire and explosions. More than 20,000 militants were killed for resisting on the spot. Their family members, the family members of the officers and soldiers of the Nasseri Royal Guards, and the family members of the royal nobles and local officials. Nearly 200,000 people entered the controlled area and interacted with the outside world. separated.
The Thunder Legion finally truly took control of the Royal City of Polyvisia and eliminated the hidden dangers behind it. According to statistics, more than 100,000 armed rebels and civilians died as a result of these two clearing operations, and Claude was therefore called the Butcher of Polyvisia by outsiders.