Chapter 1476: The incomprehensible battle situation
Due to the severe internal purges and sabotage carried out by the Prime Minister Madolins, the vitality of the bureaucratic aristocratic class within the Semitic tribe was greatly weakened.
At the same time, the Prime Minister's personal power has been greatly expanded, and he has firmly taken over the power, training the Semitic government to be as obedient as a dog.
According to incomplete statistics, in just one month of January 1837, nearly 10,000 nobles and bureaucrats within the Semitic tribe were arrested and imprisoned.
Not only Akadelin, the anti-rape operation directly carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs has expanded to all Semitic areas. This trend has even spread to Leibao, the capital of Leishan, which has always been at odds with Akadelin.
Due to the failure of the expeditionary force, the balance of strength between the various forces in Leishan has changed. These bastards also plan to take this opportunity to reorganize the order of the world.
Groups of secret policemen rushed to various places with orders signed by the Prime Minister to arrest anyone who looked like a traitor.
Due to the arrest of too many traitors, the boss of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dostoun, known as the number one bulldog of Madolins, even learned the advanced management methods of evil capitalism without any guidance, and adopted the last elimination system.
In other words, task indicators and evaluation standards are set for the secret police in each department. They are evaluated on a monthly basis. Whoever catches the most spies will be promoted, and whoever catches the fewest spies will be laid off.
To this end, the secret police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave full play to their work enthusiasm and initiative, and some powerful ones even brought down the entire city lord's palace.
The result is that prisons are overcrowded and every cell is packed to the brim.
In order to make more space to accommodate these heinous Semitic public enemies and rebels, the prison had to release a large number of murderers, robbers, and bandits.
Most of these desperadoes were recruited by the secret police and became their effective thugs and accomplices. They turned into the Prime Minister's most effective subordinates.
When the news reached the Caribbean, everyone was shocked. Lord Lorraine's comment was that in troubled times, monsters will appear.
There was a joke at the time that if you wanted to save your life and avoid being arrested by the secret police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the best way was to kill someone on the street and let the police from the Ministry of Justice arrest you. They would not even send you to prison.
The prison was already full.
Among the 10,000 nobles, 3,000 of them were interrogated efficiently by the special court. During the entire interrogation process, those poor people did not even have time to open their mouths to defend themselves.
These people are selected by the Prime Minister himself. The specific operation process is the list of people who are arrested every day sent by his subordinates.
The Prime Minister was drinking coffee, closing his eyes, and using a red pen to scribble on the dense list because he didn't like unlucky guys.
The unlucky ones who have been delineated will be treated as serious criminals and dealt with severely and quickly.
However, the Semitic nobles who were tried by the special court today were somewhat unjust. The Prime Minister was in a hurry that day, so he circled the entire paper with a red pen and hurried out.
The judge immediately attached great importance to this list after receiving it. The presiding judge analyzed the handwriting, line thickness, and ink concentration. Prime Minister Madolins attached great importance to this list.
The judge immediately arraigned all the prisoners on the list.
Hundreds of prisoners were strung together with thick chains and dragged into the court by rough guards.
In order to save trouble, the shrewd and efficient secret police invented this method. They tied each prisoner to a chain. As long as they watched the first prisoner like a leader, the others would follow obediently.
The secret police beat and kicked all prisoners who walked slowly without mercy.
There are no prisoners who have been tortured many times without injuries. Many of them can barely move with the help of their fellow inmates before and after them.
This group of unkempt prisoners, with their bodies covered in an unpleasant stench and the smell of blood, came into the hall. The huge courtroom was filled to the brim with them, and it was filled with an unbearable smell.
The presiding judge even saw a few familiar faces among the prisoners. When those people saw him, they all cast pleading looks.
That pitiful look would make even a lion feel soft after seeing it.
And the judge was far inferior to the lion, so when he saw the eyes of those people, he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart.
But there was only one second. After he saw the bloodthirsty eyes of the special commissioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs next to him, the judge quickly made a decision.
Then he picked up a piece of black gauze and covered his head, and said loudly and expressionlessly: "You have been found guilty of treason. On behalf of the Semitic people, I sentence you to death."
Execute immediately~!"
Then he banged the gavel in his hand hard.
If he fails to do so, it is likely that tomorrow he will be in the defendant's seat, waiting for his deputy to pronounce his death sentence.
After knowing that they were bound to die, many of the prisoners were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground, and some were even so frightened that they became incontinent and could not speak a word.
This will naturally be regarded by the special court as irrefutable evidence of guilty conscience.
And those who shouted loudly on the spot that they were wronged, struggled desperately, and pulled the chains that bound them, as if they could escape from the trap in this way.
Others cursed Madolins at the top of their lungs, cursed the lackeys of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in various vicious words, and even spat at them.
Every time at this time, a few strong jailers would rush up and beat and kick them so hard that their noses and mouths bleeded and they were dying. This completely dispelled the arrogance of these traitors and traitors.
It is said that at its peak, one judge set a record of sentencing twenty-seven people to death in one hour.
In the main square of the Imperial City of Akadelin, there are seven guillotines standing. The triangular guillotine is raised high, which looks extremely eerie and terrifying.
Every day starting from the morning, carriages filled with prisoners from the Ministry of Internal Affairs would come continuously and unload the condemned prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs in front of the guillotine.
They lined up in a long line in front of the guillotine, waiting for execution.
On the other side, there are also more than ten wooden platforms, all with a huge wooden pier on them.
This is reserved for executioners only.
Because there were too many people, the guillotine was not enough. So the execution team had to temporarily recruit dozens of executioners.
This also brought the ancient execution method of beheading with a knife back into people's sight.
The second method of execution was very popular among the people who were watching.
Although there are huge crowds of people who come to the main square every day to watch executions, there are obviously more people watching in front of the beheading platform than in front of the guillotine.
Because those executioners were rushed into work without training, so they were not professional enough.
When they were beheading, many people could not cut off their heads cleanly. As a result, the blood was smeared, and because of the severe pain, the victims often let out sharp and terrifying screams before they died.
At this time, the onlookers all grinned, showing their yellow and black teeth, and cheered warmly like a roaring mountain or a tsunami.
In fact, these dead people just like to watch the fun.
They didn't care whether they killed a Semitic pillar, scholar, thinker, or an ordinary thief or murderer.
As long as there is killing to watch, they will all be very happy. Of course, if the person who dies is a noble and bureaucratic person who was high in the past, they will naturally be even happier. They will even laugh crazily.
Whenever a noble's head was chopped off, the executioners would grab the hair on the head with their blood-stained hands, check it briefly, and then start shouting.
"Gold teeth, shining gold teeth, five copper plates."
"Beautiful hair. This is the hair of an aristocratic woman. It is smooth and elegant. It is most suitable for wigs."
"Gold earrings, pure gold earrings, only one silver coin."
"..."
Once all the value on those heads has been squeezed out, it will then be thrown into a large basket and crowded together with other blood-stained ferocious heads.
At this time, it was impossible to tell which noble among them was more noble.
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Although Madolins launched such a bloody internal purge and suppression, and the city of Arkadelin was filled with people, but...
However, this man, who was revered by officials and people as the "Incorruptible" and was considered the most powerful and outstanding prime minister in Semitic history, turned a blind eye to the small group of human gangs entrenched in the Caribbean.
The generals were neither summoned to formulate countermeasures, nor were the troops mobilized to prepare for battle, nor were mobilization orders issued to various Semitic areas.
This is a very strange thing. The enemies have already arrived at the door of the house, but Madolins is still busy cleaning the room.
Because all the Semites have known for thousands of years that humans are their sworn enemies.
The Semitic people don't have enough to eat, they don't have warm clothes, the nobles kill people indiscriminately, the necromancers kill people wantonly, they get sick, they lose their chickens, their children look like their neighbors...etc., it's all because of humans, they are all human.
wrong.
Official propaganda for many years has also taught them that they must hate humans to the core and be ruthless. As long as they defeat humans, they will be better off.
By then, every family will have human slaves, sleep with human women, and spend human money, and everyone will be able to live as happily as a landlord and eat meat every meal.
On the other hand, if people are defeated by humans, they will only die, and their fate will be worse than the humans they defeated.
As the leader of the Semitic people, Madolins should set an example for the Semitic people. As soon as humans advance, he should gather heavy troops to attack the human coalition forces in the Caribbean, kill them all, and drive them into the sea.
Feed the fish.
Just like the great war that conquered the Caribbean five hundred years ago.
But he did not do this, and kept waving the butcher knife vigorously at his own people.
This is actually easy to understand.
Because this is just a very typical way to raise a thief's self-respect.
As long as humans are still on the Semitic continent, and as long as humans continue to threaten the Semites, those Semites who are afraid of being invaded by humans will have to make compromises with Madolins.
Infighting at this time will only lead to a split in the Semitic people and civil war, and then the Semitic people will have no hope at all.
The same was true for Hawkes, the commander of the Forbidden Army at the time. Even though Madolins moved his men, he still swallowed his anger for the sake of the overall situation.
It wasn't until the butcher's knife finally reached his neck that he couldn't bear it anymore and ran away angrily.
He just ran away, and the old gentleman never thought of recruiting the Praetorian Guards to kill Madolins.
Therefore, as long as humans remain in the Semitic continent for one day, Madolins can continue his great purge with peace of mind.
The other reason is... a little funny.
Because Prime Minister Madolins went too far in the purge, arresting a large number of mid-level officials, which almost brought the government work to a standstill.
In many departments, only doormen and a few clerks are left, and they are all temporary workers. Officials to fill these vacancies have not yet been selected and dispatched.
Even though he wanted to send troops, he was unable to do so.
Because all kinds of things needed to send troops, such as personnel, military pay, military equipment, materials, food and grass... all need to be approved and allocated by a series of officials.
Officials need to personally organize and supervise.
And basically all of these people have been arrested. Even those who have not been arrested are on the way to being arrested.
Those who were still in the office were not thinking about work, but thinking about whether it was time for them to run away.
Sometimes in order to deal with some sudden emergencies, I would set up a desk in a prison cell to work. It is more convenient when everyone is here.
However, Prime Minister Madolins is not worried about this, and is even very optimistic.
At the cabinet meeting, he pointed out very clearly that humans are far across the ocean, logistically weak, and the combat capabilities of human soldiers are low.
Over thousands of years, countless examples have proven that one Semitic soldier can easily defeat ten human soldiers.
The only thing they relied on was the spies and traitors within the Semitic tribe. Only by relying on the betrayal and sabotage of the spies could they have a chance to defeat the powerful Semitic tribe. The millions of Semitic expeditionary forces were defeated by the traitors.
Therefore, as long as we take the lead and catch all the Semitic traitors, the enemy will be defeated without a fight.
What's more, humans are now on the land of the Semitic people, and we have an absolute advantage. The Semitic people have a population of hundreds of millions, and there are 40 million adult males over the age of sixteen.
We can organize an army of five million or even tens of millions to overwhelm the enemy.
Although his confident words were scorned by countless experienced generals, it is irrefutable that since humans occupied the Caribbean, they have indeed been on hold for two months.
If humans attack decisively at the beginning of landing, the empty and chaotic Semitic tribe will be unable to do anything to humans, and the human army can march straight in, covering thousands of miles of land.
Maybe they have already reached the city of Arkadelin.
But the human coalition was waiting like this. It was as if they were trying to verify what Prime Minister Madolins said.
This baffled many Semitic military strategists and they unanimously agreed: This is unscientific~!
Either human generals are all fools, or, as the Prime Minister said, they are just weak in appearance.
According to common sense, for this kind of cross-sea operation, all materials must be transported from the human continent, which puts great pressure on logistics.
Even if rationed according to the Semitic minimum standards, an army of one million people would need one thousand tons of food every day, and in order to distribute the food to every soldier, about 30% of the total would need to be consumed in transportation and distribution.
In addition, there are weapons and clothing, construction materials, military vehicles, mules and horses, fodder...
A city cannot provide such a quantity of supplies.
Therefore, after occupying a place and gaining a foothold, the only way to quickly expand the territory is to form an effective strategic buffer zone and calmly cope with counterattacks.
Secondly, more strategic resources, food, and population can be plundered from the local area. Only by supporting war with war can we firmly take root.
After Lorraine occupied the Caribbean, instead of rapidly expanding its territory, it took a defensive stance and continuously consolidated its defense lines.
This makes people feel incredible, and everyone wonders whether Lorraine, the flying eagle god of war, was invented by humans?
Some military experts even counted Lorraine's countless achievements, and then emphatically pointed out that Lorraine was actually a coward who only relied on his fair face, sweet mouth, and good kung fu to deceive those ignorant girls.
Take the route of nepotism and opportunism.
Later, when leading the army, the blind cat met a dead mouse and won the battle. Then he spent money to hire people to brag for him desperately, so the humans also spread rumors and gave him a title.
What a false name as 'God of War'.
In fact, he is nothing. If you don't believe it, just let that guy bring one million of his followers to try it in front of the uncle.
I can stab him to death with just one finger~!
Although Lord Luo really brings people here, he may not know what will happen, but now that Luo Lin is far away in the Caribbean and beyond his reach, everyone is talking about it and launching a powerful public opinion offensive to bring him down and make him miserable.
problematic.
Anyway, no one dared to talk casually in the past two months, but it would definitely not be wrong to scold Lorraine vigorously.
On the other side, after Lorraine knew what those people were thinking, she immediately laughed all afternoon. It reminded her of a common saying: When humans think, God laughs.
Regarding the IQ of those Semitic military strategists, the Lord was really speechless.
More than a thousand years have passed, and they still have not made much progress. Their war mentality is still stuck at the time when the Semites attacked mankind a thousand years ago.
It is true that wars have always been about numbers. As long as you mobilize heavy troops several times the number of the enemy, you can destroy the enemy.
It was this kind of thinking that led to the complete annihilation of the Semitic expeditionary force in just one year.
Leading an army of one million people to attack a vast continent with a population of over 100 million, there are many difficulties involved.
It is simply impossible to completely conquer or eliminate the opponent.
In particular, the opponent has an absolute local advantage and is dotted with various city defense fortresses. It can easily recruit a huge army. The war may achieve a series of victories in the early stage, but later on, it will inevitably evolve into a head-on war of attrition.
It's like a real-time strategy game.
Our side starts too weak and has poor troop replenishment ability. At this time, tactics such as fast attack in the field camp and rhinoceros rush will not work at all.
The only way is to immerse ourselves in development, climb the technological tree as quickly as possible, and establish a strong modern chemical industry system so that the local area can provide sufficient logistics and military supplies.
At the same time, by sending spies, the priest can recruit the opponent's soldiers and generals, weakening the opponent's strength. Then they can violently attack the enemy.
Only in this way can we become stronger step by step, and finally start a decisive battle with the enemy.
Under this situation, the entire Caribbean has turned into a huge construction site~! (To be continued...)