"We're back!" At the entrance of Datang Group, where only the signboard remained, an old worker who followed the Boy Scouts to Beiling shouted excitedly, raising his arms.
The boy scouts escorting the messy things returned to the place where they set out more than ten days ago without any warning.
When they left, there was a huge crowd, including 360 musketeers from three infantry companies, more than 30 elite hunters commanded by Loew, more than 100 improvised artillerymen, and more than 40 cavalry led by Tiger. . There are also 6 C64 field breech guns in the team, and more than 40 corresponding carriages.
There was also a long queue when we came back, but it was obvious that most people did not follow back to Bunas.
The largest number of people in this team were carriages, one after another. Tang Mo brought more than 130 captured horses and dozens of carriages back to his base camp.
There was no other way. In order to get all 40 cannons back and recast them, Tang Mo had to get the corresponding carriages back as well.
Of course, there were seriously injured people in so many carriages, as well as the confiscated property of prisoners, as well as the iron ore and copper ore that Beiling was mining and smelting these days.
In short, when we left, we were a fighting force, and when we came back, we turned into a convoy transporting loot.
As for why only 40 cannons were sent back, the main reason is that Earl Fisherot purchased some Cyric field guns and almost all the artillery shells.
He has never fought such a grand battle. Now his Northridge Corps has 59 cannons, including 6 C64 field muzzleloaders.
Such artillery is enough to frighten any opponent, not to mention that in addition to the precious breech-loading cannons, these cannons also have enough shells.
With so many cannons, Fischereau was more confident in holding his position and helping Tang Mo stabilize his back, and Tang Mo could sweep northward more confidently and boldly.
At this moment, in southern Sussus, the most senior frontline commander was an old acquaintance of Tang Mo - Viscount Romel, who had run away from him and returned to the country.
Everyone who knows him knows that he is actually a big idiot... Well, in fact, there are quite a lot of such idiot nobles in this world.
Normally, everyone is just a fool, a scammer who can't hold up the wall, so it's not obvious, so life goes by in the same way.
But now, when the opponent is an outstanding new star, it highlights how deceitful these pathetic nobles really are.
The Viscount Romel fled all the way back to the country. The first thing he did was to find a way to absolve himself of the blame, and put the blame for the defeat on Tucci, who would never be able to defend himself again.
He first wrote a letter and sent it to the capital to explain the defeat to his king: It was all because Tucci was greedy for credit and did not listen to Romel's persuasion. As a result, he was hit by enemy artillery at the Sancha intersection, and the three armies were disrupted. resulted in failure.
Then there was Viscount Romel who was so wise and brave that he risked his life to bring back the defeated army. It was a blessing in misfortune, and he barely managed to save these young people in the kingdom.
To be honest, just reading the content of the letter, Romell almost moved himself. So he sent the letter with satisfaction, and then pretended to gather the defeated troops.
Then...the slap in the face came.
He gathered together the collapsed troops and finally managed to gather 1,000 men. As a result, he ran into a Beiling troops heading north.
The rout of Sussus could not have artillery. Their artillery was lost on the way to escape and became Tang Mo's trophies.
The Kingdom of Susas, which planned to attack the Kingdom of Leyte and took the lead in going south to fight, could not leave an artillery unit on its southern border.
So the 1,000 men in Romell's hands were actually "light infantry" without artillery. Most of them only had a Cyric flintlock, and many of them didn't even have bullets.
There is nothing that can be done about this. On the way to escape, naturally throw away whatever is in the way. The armed belt was heavy and in the way, and the man who was still hanging on his body at this moment, such as gunpowder, bullets and bayonet, felt that he was already an elite member of the kingdom.
The North Ridge troops heading north were equipped with needle guns, which were much better than the fire sticks in the hands of the Susas troops, both in terms of range and accuracy.
As a result, the defeated troops that Romell had managed to collect were once again on the verge of collapse, and were defeated by more than 300 people from three companies of the new barracks led by Tang Mo.
Following this rout, Tang Mo occupied two small towns without bloodshed, and even broke open the treasury of a local nobleman on the outskirts of the town.
Then comes the really exciting part - Tang Mo showed off his talents and imitated Chuang Wang and performed the classic operation of opening a warehouse to release grain.
It's not his own territory anyway. Whether it's a headache or vomiting blood, it's all Fishero's headache. It doesn't have anything to do with Tang Mo, right?
So he asked the soldiers to shout the slogan that Northridge was fighting for freedom, farmers only paid 10% of taxes, and merchants only collected 20% of taxes, which helped Fishero get his name out.
In addition, he also revised the land deeds and distributed all the land certificates in the hands of the nobles to local farmers, which directly caused large-scale chaos.
No matter what, the land cannot be taken away, it must be divided! So many nobles couldn't take away the food they had hoarded. Instead of lighting it on fire, it would be better for the bachelors to share it with the locals.
What's even more ruthless is that Tang Mo only wanted gold coins to share the remaining tables, chairs, benches, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other things in the noble manor, and just took advantage of the situation.
As a result, a large number of local people followed Tang Mo's troops intentionally or unintentionally, and in just a few days, they swept through the southern part of Susas.
Tang Mo, who was overjoyed, even remembered a magical drama he had watched, so he gave the captured Cyric flintlock guns that were no longer needed to these farmers... With the gun in hand, follow me Go, grab the mansion, GO GO GO!
This saucy operation definitely affected the Kingdom of Susas. The farmers who received the food and the land really became the "King of North Ridge".
Based on the simple concept of right and wrong, whoever gives us food to eat is a good person, they joined the happy party of buying a noble manor for zero dollars.
For a time, the nobles of the Kingdom of Susas were in danger and began to flee frantically to the north. Their escape led to the collapse of more local defense forces.
When Tang Mo was still more than 100 kilometers away from the royal city of King Susas, rumors began to spread in the royal city. Even the troops defending the city had deserters.
This set of random fists directly confused the Kingdom of Susas, so regardless of the repeated requests of the Cyric Consortium envoys, the King of Susas sent envoys overnight, holding a white flag and found the "Bunas" led by Tang Mo. 300” Warrior.
The envoy of Susas did not even try to struggle. As long as Tang Mo promised to take three hundred locusts to stop the zero-yuan purchase operation, the Kingdom of Susas was willing to pay a ransom of 63,100 gold coins in advance...
As for why there are 63,100 gold coins in whole and in parts? It’s because now the king and nobles in the royal city of Susas can only make up so much at the moment...
As a result, the two parties happily reached a preliminary agreement: all the proceeds from Tang Mo's zero-yuan purchase were legal spoils of war, and Susas could not recover them in the future.
Susas paid an additional 63,100 gold coins as compensation for the hard work of traveling to the Tang Mo recruit camp. A further compensation must be paid to those injured and killed in this operation.
Under the premise that Susas promised not to hold the civilians of his country responsible for robbing the nobles' property, Tang Mo stopped providing cover and support for the civilians to attack the nobles.
The troops led by Tang Mo immediately retreated to the south of the Bingjing River. Susas promised to seriously consider whether it was feasible to cede the area south of the Bingjing River to the Kingdom of Wright during negotiations to end the war.
By this time, the war situation in the Kingdom of Wright had also undergone tremendous changes. Having lost their logistical supplies and running out of ammunition and food, the Susas troops completely gave up their plan to attack King Leyte's royal city and began a full retreat.
Previously, the Susas troops, who knew that they had been strategically surrounded, did not panic. They mobilized their troops in the hope of reopening the cut off supply lines.
As a result, the Northridge Army Corps in front of them was really stuck there like a nail. They allowed the Susas troops to attack fiercely, but they actually stood still.
Susas changed commanders three times in a row, and five legions attacked fiercely, but they failed to cause Fischereau's troops to suffer large casualties.
Just the luxurious artillery support lineup of 59 cannons made Fischerlo, who was blocking the breakout of Sussus' troops, extremely powerful.
The ammunition of the Cyric field artillery is almost "infinite". Fisherot's previous reserves, plus what was captured on the battlefield this time, are enough to waste the Northridge Army for a long time.
And the domestic news that finally came through the defense line gave these Sussus troops a thorough experience of what it means to be "embattled on all sides."
"The Great Luo of All Worlds"
The news brought over there is that the troops of the Kingdom of Wright have invaded the hinterland of Sussus, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes. The noble manor is ablaze, and the enemy's strength is 8,000, only a lot more!
This kind of vague news completely threw Susas's troops into chaos. The middle-level military system built by the nobles and retainers completely lost their fighting spirit, and they all began to think about their own family business.
What they don't know is that this so-called eight thousand North Ridge Army is actually just a group of civilians holding Cyric flintlock guns and pretending to buy them for zero dollars.
As a result, when the organized Susas troops began to retreat from the outer suburbs of the Royal City of the Kingdom of Wright, the tense atmosphere in the city finally disappeared.
What no one knows is that the young man who stirred up the situation is sitting on the roof of a carriage at this time, holding a piece of withered straw in his mouth, looking at the person walking in front, who is heading towards Beiling. Carloads of gold coins are giggling.
