European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 179 Rumors Spread
"Lord, are 1500 troops going to enter the Port of Hastings at once? Will such a large scale alert the enemy? I wonder if we should divide it into batches, with some disguised as normal traders and cooks entering the harbor during the day, and the others Then wait until late at night and sneak in secretly." Posang looked at the ships around him, and Li Peijun's ship happened to be in the middle of the fleet.

Li Peijun put down the map in his hand and leaned his head slightly on his palm, "Have you received any information about the movements of Sheriff Edwin? This will be of great help to our next operations."

Passant shook his head, "Before the fleet left the port, the last piece of information I received was about Edwin's plan to send the assembled troops to Surrey today. We won't know until we arrive in Hong Kong."

"Well... If this is the case, then there is no need to go to the city in batches. The soldiers are very fast, and try to take advantage of the empty time behind him to go straight to the old nest, and just drive in openly like this, which will cause huge psychological damage to the enemy. Deterrence, let’s talk about the guarding of Hastings Port." Li Peijun rolled up the map and made a meditative look.

"The total number is no more than a hundred, and there are only a dozen or so regular knights, so they are not a threat." Possant replied concisely, but there is still one thing that is unclear, "Why did you spend so much money to buy the other party's food, you know If the sheriff doesn't send troops to neighboring counties as he envisioned, we won't have the opportunity to take advantage of it."

Li Peijun showed a meaningful smile, "Even so, he can't survive this winter. The civilians under him will either be forced to riot, or he will still follow the old path of robbing neighboring counties. It's just a matter of time. We expect to be a little faster than we envisage, and we should be able to end the battle before the cold winter."

Seeing the shadow of the mainland appearing at the end of the sea, and the familiar harbor looming in front of everyone with the mist, Li Peijun stopped the conversation and ordered: "All personnel, immediately enter the state of emergency preparations, crossbowmen Ambush on the armor of the ship, if the enemy approaches the ship on a large scale, there is no need to wait for my order to kill them.”

As Harfleur's fleet gradually approached the shore, everyone held their breaths and waited for the next moment of bloodshed. All they could see in the field of vision were merchants dressed normally. Apart from the huge number, there was nothing doubtful about it. place.

More than 20 transport ships flooded into the harbor at once, and even the cable posts at the barge mouth were not enough. Some ships had no choice but to share a berth.

Unsurprisingly, the guards stepped forward vigilantly. Although the merchant ship on the other side was anchored with Harfleur's rose sculpture, it was still necessary to ask a few symbolic questions.

Possang poked his head out and greeted the people below: "Hi, we have agreed with the sheriff that there will be an important transaction in two days, and we hereby arrive in Hong Kong ahead of time to take a rest here."

It’s only been a day since the trade happened. Although the guards didn’t take part in it personally, they heard about it, “Your Excellency Possant, is it necessary to bring such a large merchant ship here? It’s not that you don’t know that the size of this port can’t accommodate it.” Such a size."

"Haha, doing business naturally pays attention to ostentation. If you doubt it, you can call the rest of the guards over and search on board to see if there is anything wrong with it." Possant replied calmly, and the other party did what they said, and immediately It was to summon most of the guards.

Possant put down a long wooden plank very wisely, and before the other party could react, he heard the seagulls soaring in the sky and dispersed in shock, leaving the pier alone with the dead silence after the rain of arrows.

"My lord, it's really a bit of a waste. Nearly [-] arrows were removed at once." Possant looked at the dense arrow holes on the corpse and roughly estimated.

Li Peijun shrugged, "It's a bit wasteful to make it without using it. You really need to experience actual combat to know the combat effectiveness. Now I know that these guys like to waste arrows. I have to talk about them when I go back."

Harfleur's army successfully took over Hastings without encountering much resistance on the way. When the battle situation was completely cleared up, the Caen front army was long overdue.

"Nathan? Why are you here...and why are you soaked all over." Li Peijun looked at the wet Nathan, a little confused.

"Ah... ah, I will be there wherever the lord is. There are not enough mooring points in the port, so we had to stretch the cable, and then set up a deck between the two ships and walked over. But I was out of luck, it was my turn. When I was leaving, there was a gust of cross wind on the sea, and when I lost my focus, I fell into the sea, but fortunately I didn’t break my head.” Nathan told his tragic experience, but Li Peijun was amused belly laugh.

Li Peijun simply divided the army under his command into five troops, and marched towards the five regions of East Sussex respectively. Li Peijun himself led the elite troops to the county sheriff's base in Eastbourne.

In order to better achieve his war intentions and disintegrate the will of the enemy, Li Peijun also planned to spread rumors along the way.

"Edwin, the Sheriff of East Sussex, has degenerated into a believer of Satan. He has abandoned his faith in God and succumbed to the control of Satan, just to satisfy his own selfish desires and to worship Satan. Devin also sacrificed the food in the hands of the common people, and exchanged it from Satan for wealth full of sins."

After Li Peijun finished chanting, his eyes scanned around, and he sighed again: "I wrote it out and gave each of you a copy. No matter where you go, as long as there are people, yell at him." several times."

"Yes, my lord." Everyone replied in unison.

The information in the Middle Ages was very limited. Except for the commoners of Hastings Port, the place where the transaction took place, who knew a little bit about the whole incident, the rest of the manor knew nothing about Edwin's actions. They only knew that the greedy sheriff almost The necessary rations were snatched from them by means of plunder.

This also provides an opportunity for Li Peijun to distort the facts. He intends to use carrots and sticks together. On the one hand, he claims to be the arbiter who descended from God to punish Edwin's crimes; Necessary rations were provided to civilians whose lives were hanging by the thread.

Although this move has invested heavily in the early stage, it can quickly win the hearts of the people after obtaining the occupied territory, and the obstacles in the subsequent governance will be reduced a lot. This is why Li Peijun is determined to fight the food war.

After learning the "truth", the angry civilians turned their backs one after another. They not only acted as the leading party, but also acted as the vanguard to attack the mansions of the manor nobles. Under a round of crushing offensive, the major manors in East Sussex Fall one by one.

"bang"

Li Peijun led the army to break through the gate of the county chief's house. Most of the guards in the mansion surrendered and surrendered, but a small number of them were still stubbornly resisting. After ordering to wipe out the remaining forces, Li Peijun, under the guidance of his attendants, headed towards the house where the wealth was stored. Walk to the warehouse.

"It's all... all here." The waiter was so trembling that he couldn't hold the key firmly, Li Peijun simply broke in directly.

Except for the pennies that were rewarded, most of the wealth was still lying here quietly. Li Peijun greeted, and the soldiers who followed began to carry it out one after another. Now it can be regarded as completely returned to Zhao.

As for Sheriff Edwin, he was still fighting with others in the nearby Surrey County, completely unaware of the great changes that had taken place in his home.

(End of this chapter)