rise of empire total war

Chapter 540 Retaliation
"Is it here?"

Looking at the quiet village not far away, the brigade commander of the fourth brigade said lightly. After his words fell, the deputy commander on the side nodded and said: "It is indeed here, but, sir, you really want to take everything The villagers all..."

Although the adjutant didn't finish his sentence, the commander still understood what he meant, he was silent for a while, and agreed: "Yes, the military order is like a mountain, and I can't disobey the order from above."

This is indeed an order from the top of the legion. After several months of attacks, the commander of the Fourth Army, Rudolf Vulba, finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart. After interrogating the identity of the attacker, he ordered The brigade of Idrissa Boxes who was attacked went to the village where the attacker was located, and dealt with the villagers living there, as an example to others.

The so-called treatment, although the above did not clearly state what kind of treatment it was, but the officers below knew what the officer meant. Although they were unwilling to swing the butcher knife at innocent civilians, the soldiers had to obey the military orders as their bounden duty, so they had to do so.

"I don't think this is a good plan." The adjutant shook his head and expressed his opinion directly.

The commander was on the same front as him, but there was nothing he could do. He pursed his lips, looked at the quiet village that didn't know the danger was coming, and said in silence for a long time, "Let's act."

"One company and two companies attack from the front, three companies and four companies attack from the left and right flanks, and five companies go around the back of the village. Don't let a single person escape."

"...As ordered."

The adjutant sighed, the general situation was set, he couldn't say anything more, he could only watch the brigade commanders take their orders and lead their subordinates to the combat positions.

About 10 minutes later, each company entered the combat position, but they were also discovered by the villagers in the village. Those villagers quickly realized what was about to happen. They knew that their attack on the imperial army was exposed, and the other party came to take revenge.

Seeing the villagers clamorously picking up weapons and trying to resist, the brigade commander can only feel that they are really seeking their own death. If they hadn't resisted, he would have been unbearable and released some old and weak women and children secretly, but now they have risen to resist The commander of the brigade put away the kindness in his heart, and ruthlessly ordered the whole army to attack.

The sad horn sounded from the rear of the company, as if it was a mourning song played for the villagers. In the sound of the horn, the soldiers of the five companies raised their muskets and moved forward slowly, watching these well-trained regular troops getting closer , the villagers became even more confused. They screamed and ran to the earth wall in front of the village, trying to rely on the earth wall to fight back, but the symbolic meaning of the half-person-high earth wall was greater than the actual meaning, and it could only comfort their hearts.

Whoosh whoosh—

After the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion entered the range of bows and arrows, the villagers hiding behind the earthen wall opened their bows and shot. Scattered arrows flew in the air, but they were limp and powerless. On the ground, the poor counterattack not only did not scare the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, but inspired their morale.

Tread-tap-

"Raise the gun!"

After entering the range of the muskets, the soldiers of the four attacking companies raised their muskets one after another under the command of the officer, put the butts of the guns on their shoulders, and pointed at the back of the earth wall where the figures were surging.

"shooting!"

bang bang bang-

The moment the firing order was given, hundreds of muskets that were raised spewed out flames and smoke, and sent deadly projectiles out of the barrels. The villagers shot over, and there were screams and terrified screams from behind the earthen wall.

After the first round of salvo, the soldiers in the first row loaded ammunition on the spot, and the soldiers in the second and third rows passed through the passage left by the soldiers in the front row and continued to move forward. The villagers who were stunned by the first round of salvo shot The son was unable to organize a counterattack, and they hid behind the earthen wall tremblingly, screaming uncontrollably as they watched the villagers who had been shot and died tragically.

When they were only [-] steps away from the earthen wall, the former second-row soldiers who had become the first row were ordered to raise their muskets and shoot at the villagers behind the earthen wall. The morale hit to villagers is huge.After the second round of shooting, before the third round of salvo came, some villagers hiding behind the earthen wall could not accept this suffocating sense of urgency, and ran straight into the village, exposing their backs to the enemy. under the gun.

Seizing this opportunity, the third round of volley followed, and the dense gunshots sounded like popping beans. The villagers who turned and fled fell to the ground one after another. There was a soybean-sized gun muzzle on their unarmored backs. Although the muzzle of the gun looked insignificant from the outside, the lead bullet was severely deformed after being penetrated into the body, and the human organs were churned into a ball, making it almost impossible to survive.

After the three rounds of salvo, the soldiers of each company did not need to load ammunition at all, and directly raised their bayonet-mounted muskets amidst the roar of the officers, and charged towards the village. The villagers hiding behind the earthen wall were already demoralized and fighting Bujian, after hearing the battle roar of the regular army, he was so frightened that he couldn't bear to fight back, so he turned and ran away without hesitation.

The soldiers of the Fourth Battalion drove straight in like this, crossed the half-person high earthen wall, and rushed into the village. They killed everyone who was still outside, and kicked open the closed doors in groups of several people, rushing to the village. Go inside and kill the villagers hiding inside.Screams, screams, begging for mercy, and cursing gathered over the village, and a bloody massacre began.

……

This village is not big, and the number of villagers living in it is only between [-] and [-], so the punishment of the villagers was over in less than half an hour, and all the villagers were dealt with in an "easy" manner. Lying in their own blood, the few fish that slipped through the net were also dealt with by the Fifth Company who had been waiting there for a long time on the way to escape.

Half an hour later, the blood-stained soldiers trotted all the way amidst sharp whistles, and assembled in an orderly manner in front of the open space in the center of the village. Each of them was more or less blood-stained, and besides muskets, They mentioned some looted things, although they didn't explain it in words, but from the joy on their faces, it can be seen that they have gained a lot of spoils during this trip.

These soldiers are so easy to satisfy, the joy of grabbing the loot directly washed away their sense of guilt for massacring the villagers, not to mention that their trip was also to avenge the comrades who died in the attack, so each of them did not have any negative emotions,
Seeing this, the commander of the Fourth Battalion ordered the soldiers to set fire to the ghost village, and then lead the army back to the stronghold of Amatlia against the background of the skyrocketing fire.

(End of this chapter)