The Revolutionary Era in One Piece

The next day, Crow and Little Gus personally brought a large number of people to Dashi Village. Ma En had already transferred grain from the granary in Dashi Village in advance, so Crow and Little Gus took over the grain and personally escorted it back to other villages.

They also agreed to arrange all matters, gather the revolutionary forces from all the villages tomorrow, and sweep the mountains together.

Another day passed, and Crow and Little Gus each brought their teams to Dashi Village to meet up with Ma En.

Except for the people who were left behind for defense, everyone who could be brought from each village has now been brought here.

Together with the main force of the revolutionary party from Dashi Village led by Ma En, the total number of revolutionary troops gathered here has now reached three thousand.

When Ma En saw that everyone had arrived and the reserve troops had replenished their rations for the journey, he ordered the entire army to set off.

The large army soon arrived at the location where the grain had been robbed the day before, and Maen called the team members who were transporting the robbed grain.

Because Marx and Engels had already instructed that people should be put first, the team members transporting food and fodder retreated early when they saw that they were outnumbered, and as a result no one was injured.

Under the guidance of the transport team members, the large force slowly approached the direction where the enemy was originally ambushed, and sure enough, they found traces of many people lying in ambush.

Following the trail, one can see traces of the looters' retreat, with some food still dropped on the ground, obviously having been dropped in a hurry.

This situation caused Marx and Engels to think deeply. The other side could seize the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and rob food.

But the current situation seems that the other party is in a hurry and does not seem to have made any preparations. Or it may be a trap just to lure people into the trap.

Therefore, Ma En decided to be cautious. Ma En first selected a capable team, led by Crow, as the vanguard army to explore the way, because Crow is a devil fruit ability user, even if he encounters danger, he can easily break through the siege and contact the main force.

Maan looked at Little Gus again and ordered him to take a team of people to secure the retreat route to prevent them from falling into a trap and being attacked by the enemy, and to ensure that the large force could retreat at any time.

Crow and Little Gus both quickly agreed and immediately began to select people.

When the troops' lineup was officially formed, the reserve army began to advance deep into the mountains.

The crows were the first to charge in the front, and the large group sped through the jungle like a stalking giant python.

As a result, by the evening, the troops had not encountered any obstacles, so Marx ordered them to set up camp on the spot and never march at night to avoid being ambushed.

Fortunately, everyone brought enough rations to survive in the forest for half a month.

In the early morning of the next day, the large army set out again quickly. This time at noon, the crows in front of the army finally encountered something and sent a signal to the large army.

To be honest, it was the first time for Ma En to lead a large army in battle. The march went so smoothly that Ma En had been worried for a long time. Now Ma En finally put his mind at ease. The next step will depend on the actual situation before making the next decision.

Ma En led the main force of the army and quickly approached the Crow's vanguard. What came into view was a ruined village with wounded and dead people everywhere, including many women and children.

Ma En walked forward and saw a scene that made him tear his eyes out. A nobleman led hundreds of soldiers to slaughter civilians, and dozens of civilians who were dressed similarly to the civilians lying on the ground were fighting hard with the nobleman's soldiers, and Crow was also leading people to support them.

Fortunately, the level of those soldiers was not very high, and Crow completely suppressed them with his devil fruit, but due to their small number of people, the two sides still fell into a stalemate.

Seeing this scene, Marx did not hesitate and immediately ordered the large troops to join the battle.

The two sides who were fighting just watched as a huge fresh force suddenly joined the battle. Marx also took the lead and charged forward, and everyone attacked the soldiers together.

When Crow and the others saw the reinforcements coming, their morale was boosted, and they actually started a counterattack with a minority suppressing the majority. At this time, the situation was very favorable, and victory was only a matter of time.

"Damn it, where did these untouchables come from?" The nobleman that the soldier was protecting was obviously broken.

"Kill all these untouchables quickly." However, the two guards next to him still had some brains. They were clearly at a disadvantage in this situation, and if they continued fighting, they would probably all be captured.

So the two men on each side lifted up one side of the noble and ran away, with only a dozen soldiers following them.

Obviously, they had abandoned all the other soldiers here. But it was true that Ma En was leading a large force to deal with these soldiers and had no time to care about the nobleman.

However, when Ma En saw the nobles escape, he could still take advantage of it. He had people shout, "He's running away, the boss on the other side has already run away, we're sure to win."

The enemy soldiers who were fighting were also stunned. They were already at a disadvantage and when they looked back, they found that their boss was gone and they collapsed immediately.

Ma En also led his men to pursue quickly, shouting "surrender your weapons and we will not kill you." He completely defeated the group of soldiers. However, it also delayed some time, allowing the nobleman to escape.

After the battle, Maen checked the results. No one in our army was killed, and the vanguard army was dealt with by crows using devil fruits.

Later, a large force joined in. It was originally a situation of outnumbering the enemy, so the enemy collapsed immediately. As a result, there were zero casualties. Only one person fell and was injured because he pursued too hastily.

On the other side, twenty-three soldiers were killed, twenty-five were seriously injured, and four hundred and ninety-two were captured. It can be said that a great victory was won.

In order to clarify the situation, Ma En quickly led people to interrogate the captured soldiers. These soldiers were not stubborn and answered all the questions immediately.

It turned out that they were soldiers stationed by the Kingdom of Norse. Recently, the war between the two kingdoms around Port Roland had escalated again.

In order to raise supplies for the war, the tax collector, who was the noble who had just escaped, brought his soldiers to the villages in the countryside to collect new war taxes.

As a result, in order to protect the little remaining food, the villagers here all refused to pay taxes and even broke out in resistance.

Faced with this situation, under the orders of the nobles, they suppressed the villagers of the village.

At this time, Crow also happened to come over. He had just gone to ask the villagers about the situation. Because he was the first to rush out to help the civilians here, the rescued villagers were not on guard against him and answered his questions truthfully.

The crow said solemnly, "Mr. Maen, according to the villagers, this is the food that everyone obtained with great difficulty.

As a result, the nobles of the kingdom came to collect new taxes, and they were forced to resist. If it weren't for our support, I'm afraid the whole village would have been destroyed."

Ma En thought about it silently, then asked the captured soldier, "Did you only send one team to this village?"

The soldier naturally knew everything, "Sir, we were only going to send a few people. But a bandit led his men to resist the tax with force.

The nobles in the city brought many soldiers to sweep the countryside here to deal with the bandits.

Moreover, the large force coming this time is all in this village. The other villages have only a few dozen people at the least and hundreds at the most. Soldiers have been sent from every surrounding village.”

Ma En sighed, "The greed of the nobles is endless, and everything will be paid for by the lowest class of people in the end.

Crow, you go and reorganize the troops. Although this goes against the purpose of our departure, this is what we revolutionaries must do. Saving the people from danger is our duty!"