"We are back!" At the entrance of Datang Group, where only the signboard remained, an old worker who followed the Boy Scouts to Beiling shouted excitedly, raising his arms.
The boy scouts escorting the messy things returned to the place where they set out more than ten days ago without any warning.
When they left, there was a huge crowd, including 360 musketeers from three infantry companies, more than 30 elite hunters commanded by Loew, more than 100 improvised artillerymen, and more than 40 cavalry led by Tiger.
.There are also 6 C64 field breech guns in the team, and more than 40 corresponding carriages.
There was also a long queue when we came back, but obviously most people didn't follow back to Bunas.
The largest number of people in this team were carriages, one after another. Tang Mo brought more than 130 captured horses and dozens of carriages back to his base camp.
There was no other way. In order to get all 40 cannons back and recast them, Tang Mo had to get the corresponding carriages back as well.
Of course, there were seriously injured people in so many carriages, as well as the confiscated property of prisoners, as well as the iron ore and copper ore that Beiling was mining and smelting these days.
In short, when we left, we were a fighting force, and when we came back, we turned into a convoy transporting loot.
As for why only 40 cannons were sent back, the main reason is that Count Fischerot purchased some Cyric field guns and almost all the cannon shells.
He has never fought such a grand battle, and now his Northridge Corps has 59 cannons, including 6 C64 field muzzle-loading cannons.
Such artillery is enough to make any opponent tremble, not to mention that in addition to the precious breech-loading cannons, these cannons also have enough shells.
With so many cannons, Fischereau was more confident in holding on to his position and helping Tang Mo hold his own, and Tang Mo could sweep northward more confidently and boldly.
At this moment, in southern Sussus, the most senior frontline commander was an old acquaintance of Tang Mo - Viscount Romel, who had escaped from under his nose and fled back to the country.
Everyone who knows him knows that he is actually a big idiot... Well, actually, there are quite a lot of such idiot nobles in this world.
Normally, everyone is just a straw bag, a scammer who can't hold up the wall, so it's not obvious, so life goes by in the same way.
But now, when the opponent is an outstanding new star, it highlights how deceitful these pitiful nobles really are.
The Viscount Romel fled back to the country, and the first thing he did was to find a way to absolve himself of the blame, and put the blame for the defeat on Tucci, who would never be able to defend himself again.
He first wrote a letter and sent it to the capital to explain the defeat to his king: It was all because Tucci was greedy for credit and did not listen to Romel's persuasion. As a result, he was hit by enemy artillery at the Sancha intersection, and the three armies were disrupted.
resulted in failure.
Then there was Viscount Romel, who was so wise and brave that he risked his life to bring back the defeated army. It was a blessing in misfortune, and the kingdom could barely save these young people.
To be honest, just reading the content of the letter, Romell almost moved himself. So he sent the letter with satisfaction, and then pretended to gather the troops.
Then...the slap in the face came.
He gathered up the collapsed troops and finally managed to gather 1,000 men. As a result, he ran into a Beiling troops heading north.
Susas' defeated troops could not have artillery. Their artillery was all thrown away on the way to escape and became Tang Mo's trophies.
The Kingdom of Susas, which planned to attack the Kingdom of Leyte and took the lead in going south to fight, could not leave an artillery unit on its southern border.
So the 1,000 men in Romell's hands were actually "light infantry" without artillery. Most of them only had a Cyric flintlock, and many of them didn't even have bullets.
There is nothing that can be done about it. On the way to escape, it is natural to throw away whatever is in the way. The armed belt is heavy and in the way, and when things like gunpowder, bullets, and bayonets reach the person who is still hanging on his body at this moment, Romell feels that he is already a
The kingdom has become elite.
The North Ridge troops heading north were equipped with needle-fired guns, which were much better than the fire sticks in the hands of the Susas troops, both in terms of range and accuracy.
As a result, the defeated troops that Romell had managed to collect were once again on the verge of collapse, and were defeated by more than 300 people from three companies of the new army battalion led by Tang Mo.
Following this rout, Tang Mo captured two small towns without bloodshed, and even broke into the treasury of a local nobleman on the outskirts of the town.
Then comes the really exciting part - Tang Mo showed off his talents and imitated Chuang Wang and performed the classic operation of opening a warehouse to release grain.
It’s not his own territory anyway, so whether he has a headache or vomits blood, it will be a headache for Fischereau, and it has nothing to do with Tang Mo, right?
So he asked the soldiers to shout the slogan that North Ridge was fighting for freedom, farmers only paid 10% of taxes, and merchants only collected 20% of taxes, which helped Fishero get his name out there.
In addition, he also revised the land deeds and distributed all the land certificates in the hands of the nobles to local farmers, which directly caused large-scale chaos.
No matter what, the land cannot be taken away, it must be divided! The food that has been hoarded by so many nobles cannot be taken away. Rather than lighting a fire, it is better to just share it with the locals.
What's even more ruthless is that Tang Mo only wanted gold coins and gave away all the remaining tables, chairs, benches, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other items in the noble manor, and just took advantage of the situation.
As a result, a large number of local people followed Tang Mo's troops intentionally or unintentionally, and in just a few days, they swept through the southern part of Susas.
Tang Mo, who was overjoyed, even remembered a magical drama he had watched, so he gave the captured Cyric flintlock guns that were no longer needed to these farmers... With the gun in hand, follow me
Go, grab the mansion, GO GO GO!
This saucy operation definitely affected the Kingdom of Susas. The farmers who received the grain and the land really became the "King of North Ridge".
Based on the simple concept of right and wrong, whoever gives us food to eat is a good person, they joined the happy party of buying a noble manor for zero dollars.
For a time, the nobles of the Kingdom of Susas were in danger and began to flee frantically to the north, and their escape led to the collapse of more local defense forces.
When Tang Mo was still more than 100 kilometers away from the royal city of King Susas, rumors began to spread in the royal city. Even the troops defending the city deserted.
This set of random fists directly confused the Kingdom of Susas, so regardless of the repeated requests of the envoys of the Cyric Consortium, the king of Susas sent envoys overnight and held a white flag to find the "Bunas" led by Tang Mo.
300" Warrior.
The envoy of Susas did not even try to struggle. As long as Tang Mo promised to bring three hundred locusts to stop the zero-yuan purchase operation, the Kingdom of Susas was willing to pay the ransom of gold coins first...
As for why there are gold coins in whole and in parts? It’s because the king and nobles in Susas King City can only scrape together so many at the moment...
As a result, the two parties happily reached a preliminary agreement: all the proceeds from Tang Mo's zero-yuan purchase were legal spoils of war, and Susas could not recover them in the future.
Susas paid an extra gold coin as compensation for the hard work of traveling and traveling to the Tang Mo recruit camp. He also had to pay a compensation to those who were injured and killed in this operation.
Under the premise that Susas promised not to hold the civilians responsible for robbing the nobles' property, Tang Mo stopped providing cover and support for the civilians to attack the nobles.
The troops led by Tang Mo immediately retreated to the south of the Bingjing River, and Susas promised to seriously consider whether it was feasible to cede the area south of the Bingjing River to the Kingdom of Wright during negotiations to end the war.
By this time, the war situation in the Kingdom of Leyte had also undergone tremendous changes. The Susas troops, which had lost their logistical supplies and ran out of ammunition and food, completely gave up their plan to attack the King's City of Leyte and began to retreat in full.
Previously, the Sussus troops, who knew they had been strategically surrounded, did not panic. They mobilized their troops in the hope of re-opening the cut off supply lines.
As a result, the Northridge Army Corps lying in front of them was really stuck there like a nail. It allowed the Susas troops to attack fiercely, but it actually stood still.
Susas changed commanders three times in a row, and five legions attacked fiercely, but they failed to cause Fischereau's troops to suffer large casualties.
Just the luxurious artillery support lineup of 59 cannons was enough to overwhelm Fischerlo, who was blocking the breakout of Sussus' troops.
The ammunition of the Cyric field artillery is almost "infinite". Fisherot's previous reserves, plus what was captured on the battlefield this time, are enough to waste the Northridge Army for a long time.
And the domestic news that finally came through the defense line gave these Sussus troops a thorough experience of what it means to be "embattled on all sides."
The news brought over there is that the troops of the Kingdom of Wright have invaded the hinterland of Sussus, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes. The noble manor is ablaze, and the enemy's strength is 8,000, only a lot more!
This kind of vague news completely threw Susas's troops into chaos. The middle-level military system built by the nobles and retainers completely lost their will to fight, and they all began to think about their own family business.
What they don't know is that this so-called eight thousand North Ridge Army is actually just a group of civilians holding Cyric flintlocks and pretending to buy them for zero dollars.
As a result, when the organized Susas troops began to retreat from the outer suburbs of the Royal City of the Kingdom of Wright, the tense atmosphere in the city finally disappeared.
What no one knows is that the young man who stirred up the situation is sitting on the roof of a carriage at this time, holding a piece of withered straw in his mouth, looking at the person walking in front, who is heading towards Beiling.
