total war rise of empire

Chapter 92 March

The location of Megara City, which was chosen by the Kingdom of Siris, is very good. The city of Megara was built against a mountain wall as a whole, and only three gates were opened.
The Greek Peninsula is not a conventional large-scale peninsula. The entire Greek Peninsula is actually divided into two parts. The more plain area controlled by the Kingdom of Seris and the mountainous area controlled by the city-state of Pylos!

The entire Greek peninsula is a bit like a gourd with two thick heads and a narrow middle. The land passage between the area where the Seres lived and the Pylos lived was just the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula, sunken inwards!

Unlike the external entrance of the Greek peninsula, which is blocked by a continuous mountain range, the narrow part of the calabash inside the Greek peninsula is surrounded by oceans on both sides, and they are all high-hanging mountain walls, so there is no suitable place for landing!
In fact, there are few gentle areas suitable for landing in the mountainous coastal areas of the Greek Peninsula. The fact that Pylos can become a prosperous city on the Greek Peninsula is closely related to its proximity to the largest coastal beach flatland in the Greek Peninsula!
Therefore, as long as the commander of the Crusaders has a normal mind, he must choose to open the gap from the city of Megara. This is why the Sires spent a huge price to build the Megara military fortress again!

If you want to occupy the entire Greek peninsula, Megara City is the only checkpoint that you cannot bypass!
The church leaders who led the crusade naturally understood this truth, and they did not plan to avoid the fortress of Megara. During the crusade, you can see a large number of craftsmen accompanying the army, playing with a large number of siege equipment!
Ladders, trebuchets, etc. abound. Although there are not many elite crusaders, they are fully prepared for the siege of this conquest!

In the eyes of the church, there is no army on the Greek Peninsula that dares to face hundreds of thousands of Crusaders in the field. The only place where they can struggle is to rely on the city to defend to the death!

As a Crusaders with complex composition across the blue sea, it is naturally impossible to use huge siege tactics. Their army is far more numerous than the opponent, and they have to supply supplies across the ocean. It takes a long time, and they must finish the game first. !
Therefore, the Crusaders plan to go all out to attack and even siege the city as soon as they come up, and destroy the newly rising Serisian forces in one fell swoop regardless of the cost of casualties!

Anyway, there are not many trials and judgments in the Crusades directly under the army, and it doesn't matter how many popes die!
Due to the large number of crusaders and the fact that they belonged to different lords, it was impossible to unify the order of the army. The high priest Alibach and the church deacons he accepted simply told the noble leaders and knights to bring the army to the designated place to meet. That's it!
As a result, the march of the Crusaders suddenly became loose, but under the constraints of the church, those noble subordinates did not run around happily, and the distance between each troop was not too far.

After all, the members of these crusaders knew very well that they were here to fight, not for an outing, and if they were too far away from friendly forces, if something happened to them, wouldn't they die unjustly on the Greek peninsula?
Except for the numb peasant conscripts, most of the mercenaries and even the soldiers directly under the nobles had the mentality of getting rich!
The richness of the Seris Kingdom, the gold and silver of the Seris Kingdom, and even the water spirit of the Seris woman have long been spread throughout the Crusaders under the propaganda of the church!

Where do the big soldiers in the Crusades have any insight?
It’s not what the church says!
After all, [-]% of people have never been to the Greek Peninsula, and even most soldiers have never heard of this barren land!
Of course, it is not only these illusory temptations that lure the Crusader soldiers to fight, but also what the noble lords and church deacons preached before the expedition, that all Sirisians are criminals, and the Crusaders can dispose of these criminals at will life property!

This is basically equivalent to telling the Crusaders that as long as they win the battle, they can happily rob, kill, and rape as they please!

Such a good thing is not common in noble civil wars. After all, the nobles did not launch wars to kill people, but to plunder population, wealth and peppercorns...

Therefore, in the aristocratic civil war, wanton massacres are strictly prohibited. If the chief sees a soldier hacking a surrendered prisoner to death without permission, he will be hung up and whipped!

Those prisoners of war are all strong adult laborers!

Whether it is sold as a slave trader or turned into their own serf coolie, it is a steady profit for the nobles, which is equivalent to their private property!

From this point of view, the behavior of nobles in the human world is actually similar to that of Lei Zihao. At most, he is not as rich as Lei Zihao, who can build a brothel block with tens of thousands of young and strong women at one time...

Women are also a wealth that nobles value very much. Men can use them to farm and fight wars, but women are the foundation for the continuation of the territory's population!

As long as there are enough fertile women of the right age in the territory, noble gentlemen don't have to worry about fighting wars and exterminating their own population...

The sustainable development of population has already become the norm in the consciousness of human aristocracy in this world!
It's cruel, but also very realistic!
In this backward world with frequent wars, most of the hypocritical surfaces have been torn up, and what remains are the most practical truths that best reflect strength!

Even the Church of the Lord of Glory, which controls the spiritual belief, regards the Holy Knights and the Judgment Army as the basis for maintaining its rule!
If you use an extreme way to describe this world, it is that all the leaders of the forces have a halo of militarism!
In the first half of the long march that the Crusaders threw several miles away, the troops from the Grand Duke of Bavaria belonged to different nobles, but since the Grand Duke of Bavaria is the only territory that does not belong to the Frankish Kingdom legally, so , the noble troops from the Grand Duchy of Bavaria are quite united, at least they can walk together!
The Bavarians are very warlike, and this kind of warlikeness is more willing to fight than those nobles who fight for honey and pepper all day long!

Normally, nobles fight for profit, but the Bavarians not only fight for profit, but also depends on their mood!
Originally, the church did not intend to mobilize the noble troops of the Kingdom of Germany. After all, the Kingdom of Germany is too far away from the Greek peninsula. Even the wealthy church is unwilling to mobilize the noble troops so far away. After all, the logistics chief is sent by the church...

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