Chapter 86 Don't care about cheating? (Happy Chinese New Year everyone)
El admitted that his idea largely came from the battle merit system proposed by Otto before.
According to El's suggestion, it would be a waste if these captive people were only used to attack the city.
The strong laborers, women and children should be distinguished among them, and all the strong laborers should be armed, so as to deal a huge blow to the Saxons.
Based on Earl's suggestions, Otto made improvements.
For women and children, they all serve as logistics personnel and are responsible for transporting various supplies.
As for strong laborers, they are divided into three classes.
The lowest level is called death squads or cannon fodder. In every battle, these cannon fodder must charge at the front and retreat at the back.
Those with a higher status are servants, and cannon fodder with military merit can become servants. In subsequent battles, they must be at the forefront.
The highest status is the Allied Forces, which enjoys the same treatment as the troops under Otto. They will supervise the operations of the Allied Forces and the Collaborative Army.
As long as low-level soldiers accumulate enough military merit, they can be promoted to high-level soldiers.
At the same time, in each war, five of the twenty people in the servant army who have killed the fewest enemies will be executed unconditionally, and the twenty people in the allied army who have killed the fewest enemies will be demoted to the servant army.
In addition to punishment, rewards are also needed to make these people burst into amazing fighting power.
Otto promised that for every castle or village that was attacked, the Allies would share half of the loot. If any Allied army accumulated enough military merits, Otto would also grant him a knighthood.
It can be said that if you are lucky enough, an ordinary serf may become a famous noble after the war.
Werner was completely stunned as he listened to Otto and El discuss the relevant system. He did not expect that the two Otto brothers could come up with such a cruel method.
When Otto told the knights and barons below about the relevant system, everyone was in an uproar.
Everyone is not a fool. After reading this, they don’t understand what Otto wants to do, and they even shudder at Otto.
No one thought that the young earl who looked so affable would actually have such thoughts in his mind.
It has to be said that the effect of this puppet military system is immediate.
Yes, the Saxons did not have a good impression of the Franks, and even disliked the Frankish nobles.
But how kind of goodwill can these common people have towards the aristocratic men who usually rule them?
Normally, due to the power of the nobles, they dare not confront them. Now, with Otto's support, while their lives are threatened, they can also see the opportunity to become a master. These bloody people among the people
was also inspired.
Especially, when a certain village or town was conquered and these people saw with their own eyes the people who had made great contributions to looting the village, the dark thoughts in their hearts were also aroused.
As a result, Er proposed the servant army system improved by Otto, which relied on war to support war, and the effect was surprisingly good.
In one week, only one week, the entire Osnabrück was captured.
The price is that the Osnabrück area is covered with barren land and is almost in ruins.
Yes, Otto now has 5,000 more servants and more than 2,000 transport team members under his command, and the casualties among his soldiers are only a few hundred.
However, even though this system was proposed by Otto, when he saw those originally weak peasants becoming executioners, killing the same innocent peasants, and venting his anger on those priests and nobles who had always done many evil things, Otto felt in his heart
There are also indescribable emotions.
Perhaps, this is just war, and there is no telling who is right or wrong.
When Otto sacked the entire Osnabrück area and prepared to continue his attack on Oldenburg to the north, the Duke of Bach finally arrived belatedly with an elite force of about 3,000 people.
"Bach's flag." Werner's expression became serious after seeing the flag displayed by the enemy.
"Why did he come in person? Could it be that the Duke's army on the southern front has been defeated?"
"No." Otto shook his head and stopped the other party from thinking. "The Duke has tens of thousands of elite troops, how could he fail so easily.
Besides, if the war on the southern front is really over, there is absolutely no way the opponent's troop strength is so small.
I think there is a high probability that the Saxon Duke Bach became anxious and personally led people to support him. The main force of the Saxons should still be facing off against the Duke's troops."
"Not bad." Werner also recovered from the panic of seeing the opponent's flag, and felt a little embarrassed in his heart.
The previous disastrous defeats had left him with a psychological shadow on Duke Bach.
"However, Count Otto, my suggestion is that we should not confront each other head-on and avoid it for the time being."
"Avoid?" Otto sneered. "He only has 3,000 men. My current strength is almost three times his. Do we have to evade all of this?"
If this spreads out, I will be embarrassed.
I want to see how powerful this Duke of Bach really is."
Count Werner smiled bitterly and shook his head, and continued to persuade Otto. It was nothing more than that the Duke of Bach was so strong. He had several equally brave generals under his command, so it was best not to fight with him in the field.
How could Otto listen at this juncture? Instead, he thought Werner was cowarded.
Seeing that his persuasion was ineffective, Count Werner did not want to estrange the relationship with Otto because of this. After all, everyone could see that with Otto's age and achievements, his future would definitely be limitless, and there was no point in fighting Austria for the outcome of a battle.
Please be more sincere.
Besides, Otto was so young and his life was going so smoothly. Sometimes it would be good for Otto to suffer a little loss.
So Werner said no more and allowed Otto to direct him.
Although Otto despised the Duke of Bach strategically, he did not despise him tactically.
Otto did not rush forward to fight the opponent, but after occupying the favorable terrain with his own army, he sent out his servant army to test.
As the saying goes, what you hear is false and what you see is true. Otto didn't want to take risks until he saw the true combat power of Duke Bach with his own eyes.
In history, a reckless man who held the throne of the Three Kingdoms changed the course of history in Europe and even the world just because of his adventure.
Soon, Otto realized what Werner meant when he said it was best not to fight with the Duke of Bach.
The servant army sent by Otto, under the command of the war team, rushed towards the Saxon army.
After the baptism of blood and fire, these servants are no longer cowardly sheep, they are all hyenas who smell the smell of blood.
Unfortunately, the Duke of Bach they faced was a lion.
When Otto saw with his own eyes that the Duke of Bach directly blasted an army of servants more than 20 meters away with his big stick, his eyes were a little dull.
Damn it, is this still a human being? Have I entered the wrong world?
Network management, is the network management here? Someone is hanging up the control and not doing anything!