rise of empire total war

Chapter 541 The Deterrence of the Crucifixion

Good things don't go out, bad things travel thousands of miles.

The news of the massacre of the village by the Holy Roman Empire army quickly spread under the impetus of people with good intentions. The communicators concealed the reasons and motives of the imperial army massacring the village, and fabricated various crimes out of thin air to the army participating in the massacre, claiming that they were butchers, executioners and Man-eating beasts, inciting the Ossa people in the empire-occupied areas to rise up and resist.

For a time, the reputation of the Holy Roman Empire army on the Osa Peninsula declined rapidly (although it was not very good originally), almost to the point where everyone shouted for beatings. Demonstrations and riots to expel the imperial forces occurred in various cities, and a large number of passionate young people Heed the call of the Resistance, join the Resistance, and fight the Empire.

In just one month, dozens of powerful rebels appeared in the occupied area of ​​the empire. They held high the banner of expelling the Holy Roman Empire and restoring national independence, attacked the strongholds and patrols of the Fourth Army, and attacked the local empire. Immigrants were robbed of their property, and people were brutally tortured and killed.

At this time, the city-states bordering the occupied area of ​​the empire remained silent as if unanimously. They stood by and were ready to observe the force of the imperial garrison. They directly tear their faces and send troops into the occupied area, but if the rebels are easily suppressed, they will continue to maintain a barely peaceful peace.

The so-called spark can start a prairie fire. Seeing the rebels springing up like mushrooms after rain, the commander of the Fourth Army Rudolf Vulba in the stronghold of Amatlia finally decided not to hold back, and exposed the sharp fangs of the army to everyone. In front of him, it happened that he also received Richard's permission, so he ordered the legionnaires to split up and suppress the rebels separately.

This time, Rudolph decided to change his benevolent policy in the past, and he would no longer show mercy to all those who dared to resist the empire.

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On April 1129, 4 in the continental calendar, Ornus von Frank and the distant visitors from the Roman Empire had just arrived at the Saint-La Islands, and while anchoring in a certain port city above to replenish supplies, the Fourth Army took the regiment as a unit , launched an attack on the various rebels around the Amatlia stronghold.

In addition to the Fourth Army, the Osa auxiliary army recruited from the local area was also ordered to go out with the army. Considering that the main force of the war is the line infantry equipped with muskets, the auxiliary army accompanying the army only brought a small amount of heavy infantry and a large number of light infantry And cavalry, the former is used to deal with possible close combat, and the latter two are used to chase down the rout.

Rudolf Furba was very confident in the combat effectiveness of his legion, and even the regular Ossa army was no match for them (even at that time, it was only a mixed army of hot and cold weapons equipped with arquebus), a group of How could the so-called rebel army composed of mobs defeat the Fourth Army, which was equipped with new muskets?
And this is indeed the case. In the first battle on April 4, when the rebel army with more than 11 fighters was attacking the town, it happened that the first regiment of the second brigade arrived in time, and the two sides set up a battle outside the city. , fighting head-on.A regiment of twenty artillery pieces relied on their range advantage to bombard the opposite rebel formation indiscriminately. A large number of shells roared and fell on the crowd, and one round of shelling could kill hundreds of people.

The rebels wanted to wait for work and wait for the imperial army from afar to take the initiative to attack, but they were overwhelmed by their indiscriminate bombing, and were forced to take the initiative to attack. It is no doubt that the Holy Roman Empire army with advanced firearms took the initiative to attack. They were looking for a dead end. These rebel soldiers with less than 20.00% armored rate shouted and charged, but were violently bombarded by artillery halfway, fell down, and finally rushed to the range of the flintlock gun, but was shot again The first round of volleys shot and killed one, and before the second round of salvos started, their morale fell to the ice valley, turned and fled, without the courage to continue to face the imperial army.

At this moment, a regiment of 900 carbine cavalry led hundreds of auxiliary cavalry from the flank of the Imperial Army, roaring towards the fleeing rebels. Once the Imperial Army's cavalry appeared, there was no chance of the battlefield situation being reversed. Those fleeing soldiers wished they had two more legs to outrun the cavalry. They tried their best to escape one by one, but they were still overtaken by the four-legged imperial cavalry, or shot from a distance by carbines, or He was cut off from his horse by the sharp knight's sword.

The first battle ended like this. Except for the first half when the rebels took the initiative to attack, the rest of the time was spent by the imperial cavalry wantonly chasing and killing the defeated soldiers on the battlefield. Countless rebel soldiers died under the sword of the cavalry. It can be described as corpses strewn all over the field, the whole land was stained red with blood.

After the chasing cavalry returned, the commander of the first regiment learned that they only captured less than [-] prisoners of war, and the rest either died under artillery fire and muskets, or were beheaded on the way to escape.For these prisoners of war, a regiment commander resolutely carried out the order of the military department and sentenced them to death—they cut down a large number of trees from the nearby woods, made crosses, and then crucified the prisoners of war on the cross and inserted it in the bridge connecting the town. on both sides of the road.

These prisoners of war who were crucified on crosses would not die soon. While they had to endure the pain of being penetrated by foreign objects in their bodies, they had to endure the torture of not eating or drinking and being exposed to the sun until they actually died.

With the example of one regiment, the rest of the army responsible for suppressing the rebellion also learned from it, and sentenced the captured prisoners of war to the death penalty. This cruel punishment undoubtedly shocked those civilians who were still hesitant to join the rebel army, and It hit the morale of the rebels. Many of them thought they were not afraid of death, but if they were to die in this way, they would all be so frightened that their legs would go weak. Death is not terrible, what is terrible is being tortured to death.

For a while, the development momentum of the rebel forces in the empire-occupied area was hit head-on. Those civilians who were frightened by the execution of the cross gave up the idea of ​​participating. On the blood-soaked cross, a naked prisoner of war was nailed to it. Many parts of his body were pierced by long iron nails, revealing a hideous wound. This is not over, they can hear it without getting close The miserable shouts or weak groans from the mouths of prisoners of war are enough to leave a very deep psychological shadow on a sane adult, and it is also enough to scare off the vacillating people.

Rudolf was happy to see this effect. He was also worried about how to deal with the possible rebellions discussed by the military staff. He did not expect to solve it with this simplest and crudest method. If it were not for the bad influence, he would even I want to promote the commander of a regiment of the [-]nd Brigade.

(End of this chapter)