Kaimen lived up to Lorist's expectations. He quickly organized the slaves gathered on the pier and began to set up camps. He sent slaves who were familiar with Nubit Port to lead the way for the Norton family, occupying one by one outside the inner city. warehouse, and began to collect slaves, and organized a team of more than a dozen young and strong slaves with sticks in hand to maintain order and be responsible for guarding and standing guard. Let the old and weak women and children among the slaves bury pots to cook food, boil water and deliver soup, and made a great contribution to the logistical supplies of the Norton family's armed forces.
As a well-known slave trading market in the Galintia continent, Nubit Port is also considered a metropolis, and it has been greatly expanded. Its inner city is not big. For nearly a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nubit Port has never been attacked, so the slave owners and merchants of the Kingdom of Haneyabada have long lost their due vigilance and precautions. The outside of the city was extensively expanded, with mansions, manors, warehouses, and commercial firms, but now everything has fallen into the hands of Lorist.
Countless slaves gathered happily, and the newly established camps continued to expand. Seeing the gates of each warehouse being opened, a large amount of supplies and food being sent to the slave camp, the slave owners and slave traders who were still standing at the head of the inner city watching the enemy's situation were heartbroken, wailing, crying and cursing constantly came.
At around 3:00 pm, the defenders on the inner city began to throw torches outside, igniting a large number of houses built close to the inner city. Perhaps they wanted to use fire to burn everything outside the inner city, but Lorist reacted quickly, and ordered and organized a large number of slaves to assist the family's armed forces to establish a fire barrier outside the range of the inner city defense crossbow, so that the enemy's The attempt came to nothing, and a suppressive shot from the steel crossbow was fired at the top of the inner city wall, causing heavy damage to the defenders.
Near the evening, a group of family soldiers who went out to search brought good news to Lorist. They found the missing clerk Hiked of Hilovas Island.
Lorist was overjoyed. Now the newly built slave camp has nearly 70,000 to 80,000 slaves, which is less than one-third of the slaves around Nubit Port. The number of slaves will increase explosively in the next few days. When there are many people, there are many things to do. Lorist is very busy with this, and he is not happy when he hears that Sickled has been found. There are people who can handle these trivial matters.
.. When Hilovas Island was attacked by slave traders and slave catchers, Hiked could have evacuated to Farama Village first, but just when he left White Bird Town, a group of slave catchers drove away Coming up, the mayor, Father Hugo, brought a dozen young men to resist, and Sickerd organized the panicked townspeople to evacuate. After such a delay, he was surrounded by another group of slave catchers, and was finally arrested. The captive also became a slave.
The only thing that made Hiked fortunate was that when he heard the Chicked Chamber of Commerce's idea of Hilovas Island, Hiked sent his family to the Northland, so even if he was caught, he would become a slave, at least he Don't worry about the safety of your family. On the ship that was sent to the Kingdom of Haneyabada, he had already seen many human tragedies in which his wife and children were separated.
In Hickerd's view, the members of the slave hunting team were all beasts, jackals in human skin, they were not human at all, without a trace of humanity. Not to mention the massacre of the elderly and the disabled in White Bird Town when they left, just the ten days at sea, except for some young girls who were picked out to be brought back to the slave owners, they ruined it. For all the remaining women, at least every day there are women who can't bear the humiliation and commit suicide by jumping into the sea...
Hickerd was lucky. The slave owner he assigned to him soon found out that he was different. After learning that he was originally the clerk of Hilovas Island and a former high-achieving student of the Mober College of the Krissen Empire, there was no Treat him like a slave who does hard work, but let him work as a miscellaneous clerk in a business firm in Nubit Port, responsible for registering and sorting out the mess in the warehouse.
When the armed soldiers of the Norton family, led by slaves, occupied warehouses and appeared in front of Hickerd, Hickerd was dumbfounded. He once thought that Lorist might send someone to redeem him and the family knights who fell into the hands of the slave owners, but he never thought that the Norton family's armed forces would attack the door in just two or three months. .
During the day, Hickerd still stayed in the warehouse to sort out the sundries, not knowing what was going on outside, but now seeing groups of Norton family armed forces appearing in front of him, he quickly announced his identity loudly after regaining consciousness, that's it He quickly appeared in front of Lorist.
After a simple greeting and comfort, Lorist immediately assigned Hiked a new job. Looking at the piles of documents on the desk, Hiked felt his scalp go numb. At this moment, he even felt like he was still in that warehouse. Tidying things up is better.
"My lord, you have been talking for a long time, and it seems that I am responsible for everything. What is the point?" Hiked asked.
It was only then that Lorist realized that it seemed too much to push all the affairs to Xikede: "Well, you are mainly responsible for the slave affairs. Our family attacked the Kingdom of Haneyabad this time, one is to search and rescue The captured family knights and you civil officials. The second is to avenge the attacks of these slave owners on our family's territory, and the third is to search for the property of the Kingdom of Haneyabad to solve the problem of insufficient development funds encountered by our family's territory.
To put it bluntly, in fact, our family took a huge risk in sending troops this time. Except for a few of our high-level people, no one knew that we only had seven days of food and supplies in addition to the logistics supplies when we came here. That is to say, our fleet doesn't even have enough food and grass to go back. If there is a storm or something at sea, our tens of thousands of people are likely to be wiped out.
So from now on, all the logistics of our family's armed forces will be supplied from here, and the key to this is to get the help of the slaves. We claim that we are here to take revenge on those slave owners, and by the way, free the slaves here and give them freedom. But the premise is that these slaves must be organized by us, otherwise, if they lose control, these slaves will soon mess up everything because of revenge, and it will turn into a disaster.
There are more than 400,000 slaves in the Kingdom of Haneyabada, of which there are about 100,000 in the plains near King Hamidas, and there are also about 100,000 in the 27 neighboring islands, and the remaining more than 200,000 are in the The surrounding areas of Nubit Harbor. Today, our newly established slave camp has collected more than 70,000 slaves. In the next few days, more slaves will come. How to manage and organize these slaves to keep order and help our family to arm is our mission. The biggest key to victory in the expedition... ”
"My lord, I understand, I will take care of these slaves," Hiked said.
Lorist shook his head: "Xicked, don't treat these slaves like refugees, that would be unwelcoming. You can't let these slaves stay in the camp, the key is to keep them from being idle. I'm most worried about these slaves After getting freedom, they will indulge in revenge on those slave owners, and set fire to those manor houses if they can't find anyone, which is very likely to cause disaster... "
Lorist took out a document and handed it to Hickerd: "Look, these are two warehouses of linen materials that were seized. I ordered these materials to be transported to the slave camps, and let them make new clothes for each slave. The purpose of this is to increase the goodwill and confidence of these slaves towards us, and let them believe that we are sincerely here to rescue them, not to deceive them.
Another purpose is to let these slaves have something to do, instead of staying idle in the camp, which is easy to cause disputes, and even give some ambitious slaves an opportunity to pull poles and form gangs to become kings in the slave camp Pa. Once it becomes a climate, it will bring great trouble to our family. You must know that there are two to three hundred thousand slaves here, while our family's armed forces are only 30,000 to 40,000. "
"When you go to manage the slave camp, you should remember a few points. First, establish a craftsman camp and select craftsmen from among the slaves. Second, set up several guard camps, select honest and reliable young men from among the slaves, and be responsible for guarding and maintaining order. Third, screen the slaves. Among them, those who are smooth-tongued and usually bully other slaves by pleasing the slave owners and bullying other slaves are all selected. Those who are killed are not let go, and those who are not killed are imprisoned in another camp for hard labor. These people are the last easy to cause confusion...
In addition, all captured prisoners must be strictly guarded. I will give you two battalions of heavy armor and one battalion of single steel crossbows. What they need to do is to guard the prisoners and warehouses, and guard the slave camps. Once riots or riots occur in the slave camp, you must immediately use these three battalions to suppress them. In any case, the slave camp must not lose order...
I have ordered the Sea Legion to sweep the surrounding islands. They will bring back captives and slaves. At that time, the population of the slave camp will reach more than 300,000. Now is September, the harvest season, we can't waste the food that is about to mature on those islands. You can organize slaves to harvest. If there are slaves who are willing to settle on the islands, we can promise to give them fields. They can become our citizens to live and work here in peace and contentment, enjoying freedom and happiness. "
"My lord, do you mean that this place will become our family's territory in the future?" Hiked asked.
"Yes." Lorist nodded: "I want to destroy this Haneyabad kingdom, which will become our family's overseas territory in the future. After you screen the slaves, you can send those who have small families and are willing to live in The family of slaves living here arranged to work on those islands, and our family will distribute them living materials, and give them fields and houses."
"My lord, what are you going to do with those prisoners? Do you want them to serve hard labor?"
"Hard labor? Hehe, dreaming, they don't have any qualifications..." Lorist showed a ferocious smile on his face, "Ask those soldiers of the family. They have seen the tragedy on Hilovas Island, and they are willing to let those soldiers go. A murderer? The objects of hard labor are people, not animals. To tell you the truth, Hiked, I am not going to spare anyone in the Kingdom of Haneyabad, no matter whether he is a nobleman or a commoner, I will kill them Kill them all, thinking that the latecomers will quit..."
Hickerd shivered, and at this moment the murderous aura emanating from Lorist's body could not help but make his hair stand on end: "My lord, you should execute those slave owners, slave traders and slave catchers, even nobles and soldiers of the garrison. It is a heinous crime, and death is not a pity. But those civilians, women, children and children are not guilty, you can't blame them... "
Lorist smiled and shook his head, the icy coldness in his eyes made Hiked tremble: "Xicked, you are a good man, but you forgot that this is the Kingdom of Haneyabad, a kingdom full of the souls of countless slaves Like those civilians, women, children and children, it is the greatest sin for them to be born here. Maybe they have never killed a slave with their own hands, but their usual enjoyment is still based on the blood, sweat and tears of the slaves. Now the retribution is coming, they are Can't escape..."
"My lord, there are more men and women here than slaves, most of them are young and strong. We can use those captured women to build military prostitution camps as a reward for those slaves who obey our management. In the future, we can also marry them to those slaves. The slaves who are willing to make their homes here are wives. And the soldiers armed by our family also need to vent after being killed, so I think it is better to give those women a way out and give them a chance to redeem their sins..." Hickerd took a step back and issued a idea.
Lorist was silent for a long time, and finally spoke out after a long while: "You are right, Hiked, you are responsible for this matter, you can handle it. Remember, the most important thing is to manage the slave camp well."
"Yes, my lord, I will go to work now." Hiked bowed.
"You take away the relevant documents here. Also, I will ask Kaimen, who is now in charge of the slave camp, to see you. He is also a slave, but he has awakened fighting spirit, and he is of the Black Iron Three-star rank. He can be trusted. You used slaves to form a After the guard battalion, you can appoint him as the commander, and tell him that when he is promoted to the silver rank, I will accept him as a family knight."
"Yes, my lord, I understand."
Hickerd backed off, he'd have his hands full next. Lorist finally sat down with a sigh of relief.
War is not just about charging and leading troops to fight, but more about countless trifles intertwined, logistics supplies, supplies, food and grass, wounded and sick, marching and stationing, defense and vigilance, and proper handling of these things will eventually lead to victory. fruit. An elite family armed with 30,000 to 40,000 people is enough to sweep the Kingdom of Haneyabada, but the organization and management of more than 400,000 slaves is related to how many captures and victories the Norton family can obtain from this war.
Baldfinger walked into the big tent: "My lord, what you ordered has been done. The more than two thousand heads have been beheaded and are being embalmed, and the headless corpses have been dug by the slaves and buried. The remains of our family’s soldiers who died in battle have also been cremated, and their ashes have also been collected.”
Bodfinger hesitated for a moment: "My lord, I don't understand why you gave such an order. Why do you want the enemy's head? And you ordered Tiger Ross to bring back the enemy's head. Is there any use?"
Lorist smiled and was about to speak when he saw a guard outside the big tent reporting loudly that a messenger with a white flag had come from the inner city of Nubit Harbor and wanted to see His Excellency.
"I'll talk about your question later, Borg, let's listen to what this group of soft-shelled turtles have to say."
The envoy sent by the slave owners in the inner city was an old man. The old man introduced himself as a viscount of Haneyabada Kingdom, but he had no fief, that is, he was an honorary nobleman. He was forced to come here as an envoy because he was unlucky enough to draw a red lottery.
Lorist and Bodfinger were sitting in the big tent, and the old man tremblingly protested that Lorist led an army to attack the Kingdom of Haneyabad for no reason, which was an offense to the peaceful Kingdom of Haneyabad , They brought blood and war to the prosperity here, and caused heavy losses to the nobles of the Kingdom of Haneyabada. All these are unforgivable crimes...
Lorist laughed loudly and stood up: "I think you all understand in your heart who we are, where we come from, and why we came here. Mingren don't speak secretly, since you have the guts to attack my family territory, then you You have to obediently accept our revenge. Don’t tell me that you are willing to pay compensation. To be honest, you can’t afford compensation unless you can let the innocent people who died on Hilovas Island appear in front of me alive... "
Lorist patted the old man on the shoulder of the emissary very kindly: "We are very reasonable. As an emissary, I will not touch a single hair of your hair. Although we are now at war, we will still treat the emissary well. You don't have to be so afraid , we will let you go back. Tell the people in the city, eat a good meal and enjoy yourself, you only have one night. Better take another shower so that when our soldiers start tomorrow, they won't mess up Dirty their weapons..."
The old man was trembling all over, trying to show his strength and unyielding, he choked out a sentence: "I...we will not succumb. I...we still have six...six great sword masters, I...we can persevere until the king's death The arrival of the Jan. Guards. Legion... "
"Well, you're right." Lorist said happily, "I just killed three great sword masters in the morning, and I didn't enjoy it at all. I hope you six great sword masters can hold on for a long time and don't let them go." I am disappointed. As for your king, don't worry, he will be with you soon too."
The old messenger broke down, and went back crying with tears and snot in his nose.
"Borg, now you take someone to sort out an open space in front of the inner city, and then arrange the embalmed heads for me in a pyramid shape. The heads of the four great swordsmen are stuck in front with wooden sticks. Light the torches to brighten this pyramid of human heads..." Lorist said.
"My lord, you are..."
"Don't ask, you'll know when you're done."
Just a hundred meters before the walls of the inner city, Bodfinger cleared an open space and began to place heads. This is where the crossbows and longbows on the inner city wall can be shot. When the site was first cleared, the guards on the wall were still shouting, but facing a round of firing from a hundred single-wheeled steel crossbows in the distance No one on the city wall dared to straighten up. Anyway, the enemies below didn't seem to be preparing to attack the city. The guards on the city wall could only squat down to see what was going on through the jagged opening.
When several carriages transported a large number of human heads and a dozen brave soldiers began to set up the pyramid of human heads, there was no sound on the city wall, and Bodfinger even thought he heard the sound of teeth chattering. Within an hour from the beginning of the decoration to the final evacuation, not a single arrow was shot on the city wall, and there was not a single sound.
It turns out that doing so can make the enemy frightened and their morale plummeted. Baldfinger thought smugly.
At two o'clock in the middle of the night, a guard rushed into the big tent and woke up Lorist, who had just fallen asleep: "My lord, the enemy has broken through. They rushed out from the rear gate of the city, regardless of casualties. The defensive line behind couldn't stop it, and the great swordsman Injelek asked for immediate reinforcements and pursuit..."
My day, I set up a Jingguan to scare the enemy away... Lorist thought very depressed.
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