Chapter 1031: Slave Soldier Big Ivan
When the war began, the Chinese showed with practical actions that their destination was not Henrik's Duchy of Sandomierz, but the Duchy of Krakow, where the King of Poland and the capital were located.
Krakow, the capital of the Poles, is their real goal, but what Lu Yue can't understand is that Krakow, as the capital of a country, is so located in the southeast (in Poland)?
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Poles later moved their capital to Warsaw, which was too far from the north and west of Poland. You know, it's 500 miles from Warsaw. But the distance to the HRE is less than 200 miles.
On the way to Krakow City, Xiao Heda looked at the city in front of him that had been blown up, and really thought that the Wu army had no artillery, and the Poles had replaced the wooden city wall with bricks and stones, so the coalition forces could not help them?
What a joke.
In the case that the Europeans have not yet learned to block the city gate hole, Xiao Heda took the demolition team as the first hand, pushed the simple cave house to the city gate, dug a foot into the ground, and then filled it with a powder packet, and then lit the fire rope, and the demolition man in the cave house rushed back to the army array like crazy with a shield on his head. The sound of thunderous explosions shattered Radom's wooden gates.
"Do you see the city ahead? It has been blasted open of the gap. β
Radom, two hundred miles south of Warsaw, is a very prosperous city in Poland, which is not only a transportation hub between the north and south of Poland, but also a long-term trade town. But today is destined to be the day of the city's suffering!
Xiao Heda shouted loudly to the slave soldiers behind him, "The Great Qi Empire is invincible, invincible. It is the punishment you deserve to be reduced to slavery if you dare to resist the majesty of the Great Qi Empire and go against the will of His Majesty the Supreme Emperor. But the fact that you can be selected into the army by His Royal Highness King Mu already proves your tameness and loyalty. But this is not enough, if you want to prove your complete obedience to the Great Qi Empire, if you want to prove your absolute loyalty to the Empire, you still need to go through the test of war. β
"Do you see Radom ahead of you? Rush in, kill all who dare to resist, and prove your loyalty to His Majesty the Great Emperor with the blood of your enemies. I will pardon some of you for your slavery in the light of your exploits. At the same time, you will be rewarded with one-third of the harvest after entering the city.
And whoever dares to take a step back will not only be beheaded himself, but your family will also be beheaded......"
It's been a while since they entered Rus', and while no one has learned to speak Rus' or Latin, they've become familiar with the way Europeans speak, and they're familiar with the somewhat exaggerated tone of admiration of Europeans. Like the illiterate Mongols in the depths of the Saibei steppe.
A battalion of slaves was at the head of the array, wearing leather, cloth, or cotton armor, and only the officers and the most elite were allowed to wear chain mail, armor, or foot armor, which was already very rare in the Central Plains. If so, a big woolly bear will live like an iron tower. Just because they're slaves doesn't mean they're not motivated.
They are controlled by their families, and they have a strong and persistent fighting spirit. Because as long as they make war achievements, their whole family can be liberated. What's more, there is the Eight Banners Army as an example in front of them, whether it is Anguo, Luoguo, Mu and Wu, there are retired soldiers of the Eight Banners Army. Of course, the vassal states treated the veterans and officers of the Lu Qi army more generously, but these slave soldiers would not bring themselves into it, and the Eight Banners soldiers were more in line with their appetite. And the preferential treatment of the Eight Banners generals by the vassal states is by no means coveted by the slave soldiers.
However, Tianzhu is too hot, Nanyang is humid and sultry, and the climate is not liked by the horse army of the Eight Banners such as the Yellow Banner and the Red Flag, but the mountain infantry such as the White Flag likes the milder climate.
This also depends on personal aspirations, just like the choice of many veterans and veteran officers in China, many of them would rather farm at home than go out to earn a lot of money.
As for the distant American continent, which is too distant. The power of the vast ocean is by no means comparable to the distance of thousands of miles on land, and if the former wants to earn a great inheritance for their children and grandchildren, it is their inevitable choice to move to the west of Anxi.
Here, any soldier of the Eight Banners can get a piece of land of 300 hectares, even if there are seven or eight people in this family, 300 hectares is 30,000 mu, and the per capita can reach an astonishing 4,000 mu of land. What's more, 300 hectares is only for the most basic Eight Banner soldiers, and those soldiers who retire as officers can reach up to 1,000 hectares, that is, 100,000 mu!
This is not a small number, you must know that the knightly fiefdom of the Europeans during this period was only six or seven hundred acres, which is about four thousand acres compared to the same period last year, which is not even enough. And the territory of a veteran of the Eight Banners can be worth the territory of seven or eight knights, and the territory of a senior veteran officer of the Eight Banners can be compared to 25 knights, and the French baron only has 12 knights under him at this time.
The super preferential treatment is the magic weapon of the feudal states to attract the veterans of the Eight Banners and domestic veterans, and the latter is even more favorable, which can even be regarded as the Chinese version of the mining system, the difference is that these veterans and veteran officers do not have administrative power over the 'tenants' in the territory, let alone judicial power. It was a simple relationship between the landlord and the tenant, with the exception of their slaves.
In view of the vast and sparsely populated nature of the current feudal states, it is not uncommon for veterans and officers to have large territories, and it is most important that there are people in them who farm and graze for them.
During this period, the landlord was not the landlord, but the tenant was the grandfather.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about the encroachment of the landlord and gentry on the rights of the state.
And when the war breaks out, these veterans and veteran officers who are attracted by the super high treatment will become the backbone of the county soldiers [vassal army] and conscripts.
The slave soldiers of Mu Country are very honest, they have an example standing in front of them, and they have their own relatives behind them, which makes them have to be honest. And seriously, the impact of role models is huge. The minimum of 300 hectares of land is comparable to the fief of a baron, even if it is in the vast land + sparsely populated Ross, it is also eye-catching.
"Rush, kill all the enemies!"
The five hundred slave soldiers turned into five hundred beasts, roared wildly into the sky, and then rushed straight into the city of Radom.
"Block them, stop them!" The nobles in the city are dying.
The city gate was blown up with a bang, which caught them off guard. The nobles who reacted shouted loudly, and some of them were brave enough to rush to the city gate with swords and guns and their own banners.
Like two torrents meeting on a narrow road, the crashing sound attracted the attention of everyone on both sides.
The Poles were desperate to block the city gates, and they even organized archers to shoot outside the city gates, so that they could cut off the fresh army of slave soldiers. But how did Xiao Heda not guard against this hand? The reason why the cave car was used to get the city gate was because it was difficult for the arrows outside the city to completely suppress the defenders at the head of the city.
Now, a large number of archers from outside the city rushed to the bottom of the city, and the arrows and crossbows intertwined between the head of the city and the city were as dense as raindrops.
"Forward, forward!" A man as strong as a bear wielded a mace, swatting the two armored swordsmen in front of him like a fly. This is one of the leaders of the slave soldiers, a Rus' man named Big Ivan.
Wearing a piece of foot armor that is rare nowadays, and sixty pounds of iron armor shrouded his whole body, Big Ivan was like an invulnerable iron tower, crushing everyone in front of him.
"Wan Shengβ" A cry of passion with a little accent, but very joyful, erupted at the gates of Radom.
Xiao Heda had a smile on his face, he knew that Big Ivan had won.
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