But no matter what, as this strange beast died in public. It also announced the demise of the last large-scale royalist force in the south; and the city of Montpellier, which had been suffering and full of ruins, also ushered in a new chapter. The next step is how to rebuild and restore this commercial town.
The Marquis de Sade still didn't find it, but he found a secret passage with beaten marks in the tomb area under the church; it led all the way to a dyehouse in the shanty town of the outer city. Then, with traces of some residual energy contamination, several gold and silver instruments buried in the corral were found.
In addition, because no one was alive, we can only make inferences afterwards based on the traces and evidence at the search site. At the last moment, these fanatical believers/royalists called the Crusaders directly drank the filthy blood extracted by some alien species, causing their whole body and mind to be contaminated;
Therefore, in a kind of despair and fanaticism, side effects such as mental madness, physical deformation and loss of pain perception appeared. A small number of them were directly injected with dirty blood and underwent further transformation, but their animalistic instincts completely overwhelmed their rationality and turned into crocodile-like people.
In fact, this strange beast that has been hidden in the cathedral was an important basis for the Royal Party to conquer the city of Montpellier. It was also the main pillar for the Crusaders to maintain their fanatical spiritual beliefs for a long time; it was known as "Fafnigo" means the dragon that rolls around the earth.
What follows is a months-long public display/pilgrimage and four-way tour to witness and promote the martial arts and dominance of the Free Army. Therefore, after the Free Army settled the new immigrants and finally evacuated the city of Montpellier, several more specially formed companies emerged.
Unexpectedly, this was the work of Brother Teresa from the Holy Kingdom, who got together with the military priest, Father Lacha, to target the current ideological reform and subsequent disciplinary policies for the prisoners of the royal party. A special product called the Redemption Company.
In other words, not all of the prisoners accumulated after various wars were sentenced to death or to long-term punitive labor after the process of exposing their crimes and public trials; Members who do evil or have relatively minor acts.
In this case, it is not appropriate to put it back directly. Therefore, they came up with a plan to try to brainwash these people in a penitential manner and form several special redemption companies, using their own sacrifices and performance on the battlefield to atone for the mistakes they made in the past.
As long as they can survive three battles, it means that God's mercy and grace have not completely abandoned them; they can naturally obtain personal freedom. Then, you can choose to return to your hometown or continue to join the Free Army to receive a salary.
Although Jiang Tian felt that this strategy seemed a bit familiar, after careful consideration, he still approved the preliminary pilot. However, under the leadership of these atonement companies who fell into another kind of fanaticism, the subsequent process of pacifying the Hérault Province was surprisingly smooth.
They charged into every stronghold and fort with almost unnecessary casualties. Therefore, in a short period of time, the Free Army was able to sweep through most of the cities and towns in the province; local garrison companies, security patrols, and junior local courts were rebuilt; and a large number of mayors and town officials were appointed.
In the end, only part of the Sardinian army/Carilian regiment in the fortress of Saumiere in the north was left. However, when the Free Army was marching north, they received a report from the Duval Cavalry Regiment from another route; it was said that they encountered the Sardinians heading south on their way to join up.
As a result, in the encounter in the city of Ganges, Duval's leading cavalry defeated at least six or seven Sardinian naval combat companies; it also frustrated their intention to enter the Ode province. Therefore, when the main force of the Free Army arrived near Saumières, it also encountered the Sardinian messenger.
The commander-in-chief of the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia made a surprising suggestion in the letter sent privately. It was hoped that the price of half a million Ecu would be exchanged for the Free Army to release the blockade of the roads along the way, allowing the remaining Sardinian troops to board ships at the Port of Sete, and safely withdraw to the country.
In this regard, Jiang Tian just smiled after showing it in public; then he said to the messenger: "Let him wash his neck and wait for me to chop it off. As a foreign invading force that supports the royal party, he has caused many problems for the kingdom's subjects. After suffering, do you still think you can escape punishment?"
However, when the 30,000 main force led by Jiang Tian and the 8,000 troops of the Duval Corps successfully joined forces from the south to the north, and surrounded and blocked the Saumières fortress. But they met Sardinian messengers again. This time they were willing to hand over their equipment and food in exchange for complete conditions for returning home.
But Jiang Tian still refused, and began to build forts one after another around the fortress of Saumiere. So that night, the Sardinian troops in the city began to break out from the three city gates; however, this time they encountered new equipment put into battle by the Free Army.
It is a primary wire barrier made of three strands of hot-drawn thick iron wire. It is usually wrapped with wooden sticks at both ends, and a pack horse can carry two large bundles with special equipment. After it is completely unfolded, it can be laid out into A hook-and-thorn defense line that is twenty to thirty meters wide and nearly one meter high;
Then you can hang bells and empty tin cans to act as a triggering sound alarm in a sense. Therefore, it was these inconspicuous, intertwined barbed wire barriers hidden in the night; they eventually became an unexpected catastrophe and death trap for the Sardinians who made a full-scale breakout.
The soldiers of the Free Army who were awakened at night did not even need the guidance of visible targets and shot directly into the darkness where the screams came from; they always gained something. Then he threw explosives and incendiary cans, which revealed the struggling and screaming enemies hanging on the barbed wire.
Therefore, after dawn, the corpses of enemy soldiers were piled up in layers on the crisscrossed barbed wire fence like moths flying into the flame; this shocked both the enemy and ourselves. I really didn't expect that this seemingly simple equipment could actually produce such great results.
In the end, when several redemption companies armed in front of the battle rushed to the Saumières Fortress regardless of their own safety, they no longer encountered much resistance. Then the gate of the fort inside the fortress opened on its own initiative, and the gray-haired Sardinian corps deputy general, leading a group of remnants and defeated generals, presented their sabers.
Since then, three of the four main forces of the Northern Italy/Siro coalition that invaded the southern part of the kingdom have been destroyed; only the Duke of Verona's army, which is on the front line of Lyon in the north but has been harassed from the rear, is left. The southwest and southeast provinces under the control of the Free Army are also geographically connected.
Although, in some marginal areas, there may still be some stragglers and sporadic strongholds left, and there is no need for the battle-hardened main force of the Free Army to come to the rescue. It can be completely handed over to the newly formed provincial garrison, which is full of military training and will be slowly cleaned up and eliminated.
However, the impact of the defeat of the Holy Kingdom's army finally spread in ripples. This is no different from the Northern Italy/Siro coalition forces that have always fought independently; this is one of the powerful countries that can influence and interfere with the situation in the Western Continent. Therefore, various messengers and news came one after another on the way back to the army.
For example, the messenger from the Rhone region/province in the north, the Grand Governor of Lyon, directly promised that as long as the Free Army was willing to provide military support or take corresponding measures to contain the Verona army on the northern front, The position of deputy can be directly awarded.
There is also a more unexpected letter from the current director of the Saint-Yin Liya Charity Home in Toulouse, Elder Faria. He made a suggestion on behalf of the local church; he asked Jiang Tian if he could consider marrying a female descendant of the Grand Duke of Languedoc, or taking her as his lover.
Because the last Grand Duke of Languedoc, who fought hard to resist in the Albiget Crusade, was one of the few nobles in the kingdom who did not exploit his subjects exhaustively. He was also good at developing the local economy, encouraging commerce, and advocating religion. A tolerant and enlightened ruler.
Therefore, against the backdrop of the perverse behavior of those feudal nobles, there has always been a voice of nostalgia and sympathy among the people. Therefore, even after many years, there are occasionally rebels under the banner of the Languedoc family who appear to cause some trouble and trouble for the royal family...
Of course, behind this suggestion, there are actually more political demands; that is, which region will be the center of rule and the focus of development of the currently flourishing Free Army. Among them, the only ones with real competitive intentions are Toulouse and Provence.
However, this also reminded Jiang Tian that after integrating the spheres of influence of the southern provinces, it was time to formally establish a legitimate political system instead of relying on and continuing to use it; under the name of the overturned former charter government, the so-called southern Free Army and Guerrilla Corps Sequence.
