AWB Chapter 279 Shocking Europe
Chapter 279 Shocking Europe
Chapter 279 Shocking Europe
The tens of thousands of infantry led by Qin Tu arrived with many trebuchets and cast iron bombs, which made the attack go very smoothly.
Several waves of cast iron bombs were thrown into the camp of the Byzantine Empire army, which immediately caused the Byzantine army, which had originally arranged several layers of defense in the camp and planned to rely on the defense of the camp, to collapse quickly.
This group of people had seen many scenes of short spears and battle axes hitting human bodies and flying flesh and blood everywhere, but they had never heard of weapons as powerful as cast iron bombs, let alone seeing them before.
You must know that even in Xiao Qi's previous life, gunpowder was introduced to Europe in the 40s when the Mongolian army marched westward to Central Europe.
At this time, Europeans don't even know what black powder is, let alone cast iron bombs!
When Qin Tu received Xiao Qi's military order, he was warned to be careful of the long-range attacks of the enemy's short spears and battle axes.
In order to maximize the destruction of the enemy's vital forces in the Byzantine camp, Qin Tu directly ordered the trebuchets to attack the enemy camp with all their strength, while the Musketeers of the Changsheng Battalion advanced slowly, using muskets to destroy any enemies that could not surrender.
Strictly speaking, this battle is no longer a battle, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a one-sided massacre.
Those Byzantine sergeants who were blown out of their hiding places by cast iron bombs fell under the muzzles of the Changsheng Battalion Musketeers almost as soon as they ran out.
In less than an hour, this battle of disparity in strength was over.
Because Qin Tu was worried that his side would be attacked, he made a killing move from the beginning, and he didn't leave the opponent with the slightest chance to breathe from the beginning to the end.
On the side of the Changsheng Battalion, because of Qin Tu's caution, casualties were reduced to negligible in the collision of [-] troops from both sides.
But for the Byzantine army as the opponent, this situation is very miserable.
More than 5 of the 4 people were killed, and less than 1 were left alive, and half of them were still wounded. Only more than 4000 were captured without injuries.
While Qin Tu was cleaning the battlefield, he received a military order from Xiao Qi's personal soldiers, ordering him to clean up the battlefield quickly, and sent people to capture the ones that Xiao Qi had counted and transport them back to Suez along with the ones here.
Xiao Qi told Qin Tu that he would lead the [-] cavalry to quickly defeat the enemy's transport troops, and ordered him to arrange matters here, and quickly lead the infantry to follow the enemy's supply route.
In order to take over the enemy's supplies captured by the [-] cavalry, so that the [-] cavalry can follow the enemy's supply line as soon as possible and grab all their supplies.
After receiving Xiao Qi's military order, Qin Tu immediately ordered to speed up the cleaning of the battlefield.
And he sent an order to the rear to send 3 people to the [-] Ever-Victorious Battalion, which had captured the vanguard of Byzantium, to come quickly with enough gunpowder, projectiles and cast iron bombs.
After handing over the counted captured and prisoners of war to Qin Tu, Xiao Qi led the [-] cavalry who rested overnight and replenished ammunition and rushed down the enemy's supply line.
Xiao Qi now knows very well that their previous night attack was very successful, and the Byzantine supply team will not get the news at all. Now they will kill directly, and those people will have no chance to tamper with the supplies.
Otherwise, after a long time, those people got the news. If anyone thinks that those supplies cannot be taken away, it will be a big loss if they are set on fire.
Xiao Qi's judgment was very accurate. Those reserve troops who transported supplies, because they transported too many things, the nearest supply team to the Byzantine army was still hundreds of miles away from the battlefield.
They didn't get the slightest news that the Byzantine Empire army in front was wiped out.
Even those few soldiers who escaped from the big camp by chance, those soldiers who escaped exhausted and died, it is impossible to run more than 100 miles to report the news in such a short period of time.
The next thing is much simpler. Almost every time I encounter a supply team from the Byzantine Empire, it doesn't take much trouble at all.
All it took was one charge from the cavalry, and the equipment was as bad as beggars, and the reserve army, who was unprepared to transport supplies, immediately broke down and fled for their lives.
Every time he attacked a supply brigade of the Byzantine Empire, Xiao Qi left [-] cavalry troops to guard the supplies, and then took their [-] horses and rushed to the next target.
After five hundred miles, the cavalry army led by Xiao Qi has become [-] people with one man and two horses. Those [-] cavalry troops have surrendered their horses and stayed behind to guard the spoils.
At this time, Qin Tu had already led the [-] Changsheng Battalion infantry, rushed up from behind, and began to receive the captured carts full of food and supplies from the hands of the cavalry.
As Xiao Qi kept chasing and robbing the supply teams in front, Xiao Qi soon found that there was no Byzantine supply team ahead.
According to reports from scouts, there was no Byzantine supply brigade ahead, but a town appeared a hundred miles away.
Xiao Qi immediately gave an order, no matter where his town is, first fight it down, anyway, the fight has already started, let these bastards know how serious the consequences of provoking the Han people are!
When Xiao Qi led more than 2 cavalry troops into this town, all the soldiers and rich people had already left, leaving only the panicked people hiding in their homes and daring not to go out.
Xiao Qi ordered the soldiers not to harass the people here, but at the same time he also warned his soldiers that this is not the Song Dynasty, so don't take the initiative to harass them, but if someone wants to attack them, don't be polite.
He is still very clear about the crusades in Eastern Europe and the holy wars in West Asia countries.
The people of the two places in this environment are very cruel to foreigners or pagans.
It is right to be tolerant to the law-abiding people, but to be polite to those radical nationalists and fanatical believers is to not take your own life seriously.
If these soldiers really had to treat the people here like they did in the Song Dynasty, they would soon find the bodies of their own soldiers constantly appearing in various remote and dark corners.
For the expeditionary force, it is already the limit to be incapable of harming others, but the indispensability of defense is also the minimum standard, especially in this kind of place where you will die because of different beliefs, you must be more careful.
But to Xiao Qi's surprise, the people here are very surprised to find that these occupying troops, not only did not force them to change their beliefs, but they didn't care about their beliefs.
Soon the people here began to go out of their homes and work on their own livelihoods.
Knowing this situation, Xiao Qi quickly made arrangements.
He found translators who understood the local language, and asked them to spread the word around the city under the protection of soldiers, saying that the army of the Song Dynasty in the far east was forced to fight the war because it was attacked by the army of the Byzantine Empire.
It is clearly stated that the people of the Song Dynasty will not interfere with anyone's beliefs. As long as you do not take hostile actions against the Song Dynasty army, the Song Dynasty army will not attack anyone.
This publicity was very timely, and the local people who came out earlier were not harmed, so the people in this town quickly returned to normal life.
Some local craftsmen even approached the army and asked if they needed to work, and the wages they asked for were not high.
Xiao Qi pondered in his mind for a while and finally figured out that the place where he is now should be Palestine or Syria, which is West Asia.
It was occupied by the Byzantine Empire before, and the beliefs of the two sides are different, so it is estimated that it was severely oppressed.
The local people probably think that they, the Song army, treated them much better than the previous Byzantine occupation forces, so they are willing to get along better with them, the orientals.
Thinking that I have seized a large amount of supplies from the Byzantine Empire, those supply convoys have a large number of local carriages and other means of transport, not only need craftsmen who can repair these carriages.
We also need a lot of local people who can drive animals, otherwise the animals who pull the carts will not understand the instructions of the Song people at all, and it will be very troublesome when these supplies are transported to the front line.
So Xiao Qi ordered to recruit carpenters and a large number of people who can drive cars locally, and the wages were higher than those in the local area.
This move immediately won the favor of the local tribe, and the relationship between the two parties began to become more and more harmonious.
Not long after, Qin Tu brought the supplies with tens of thousands of infantry, and the [-] cavalry left by Xiao Qi also rushed here.
However, a piece of news came at the same time, which made Xiao Qi angry and scolded Qin Tu.
It turned out that Qin Tu received Xiao Qi's military order, ordered people to clean up the battlefield, sent people to send the captured soldiers back to Suez, and then came after Xiao Qi's cavalry with [-] infantry and ammunition supplies.
And the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who were ordered to leave the corpses on the battlefield murmured to their respective officers, thinking that it would be a lot of trouble to dig and bury the [-] to [-] corpses here, so they just piled them up in Jingguan according to the old rules. .
Seeing that all the soldiers under their command were asking for it, and because they also wanted to visit the capital, the officers agreed to the idea.
After these days, when Qin Tu and the others came to this town to join Qin Tu, news came that there was a huge Jingguan with 8 people gathered there.
Xiao Qi was so angry when he heard the news!
He called Qin Tu and scolded him, saying that the climate here was so hot and there was a lack of lime. If he built such a large Beijing temple, weren't he looking for trouble for himself?
Qin Tu felt aggrieved after being scolded, he didn't give these orders from Jingguan, it was a coquettish idea that those gangsters came up with themselves!
Fortunately, the definite news came later that those guys knew that piling up Jingguan randomly would cause plague, so they piled Jingguan in the wilderness away from the road.
In order to prevent the plague from appearing, they dug a large amount of soil and piled it together in the absence of lime, and built a Jingguan like a hill.
This finally relieved Xiao Qi's anger a lot, but he still ordered that the several highest-ranking generals who stayed there should be beaten with twenty military sticks each.
Who would have thought that the guys who had been beaten by military sticks would be treated like heroes by the soldiers.
After all, it was because they insisted on arguing to watch the capital, and as a result, these generals were implicated.
The treatment of these guys is very good. They lie on the bed every day and are served by their soldiers comfortably. After dinner every day, the soldiers take turns carrying their beds and carrying these guys out for a walk.
Coupled with the fact that Changsheng Battalion has good trauma medicines, these guys only had pain in their buttocks for a few days, but their reputation in the army has skyrocketed!
This made Qin Tu who got the news very depressed, what the hell, he didn't catch up with the good thing about Dui Jing Guan, and the few guys who were beaten by the army actually became as famous as himself as a general because of this!
Not to mention how depressed Qin Tu was, but the news that the 15 main army of the Byzantine Empire, plus [-] logistics reserves, were wiped out by the Eastern army in World War I spread to Europe, and the whole of Europe was shocked!
When these major powers in Europe inquired about it, not only did the Byzantine Empire get pissed off, but even the tens of thousands of troops of the Holy Roman Empire who crossed the Mediterranean and wanted to attack them were also wiped out!
These two powerful empires, which were stomping their feet and making the whole of Europe tremble, simultaneously attacked an army that came here from the east thousands of miles away, but they were both defeated.
Not only were they all defeated, they were defeated miserably!
That is to say, the Holy Roman Empire is far away, and can only attack by water, because it is not convenient to transport troops, only tens of thousands of people have passed.
But these tens of thousands of people were wiped out in one battle. Although more than 100 warships escaped back, those warships were all small warships, and all those who escaped were sailors on board, and none of the soldiers escaped. return!
The Byzantine Empire was even worse, with an army of 25!
An army of this size, even if it goes to war with the Holy Roman Empire, can scare the Holy Roman Empire, right?
Such an army that can walk sideways in Europe was wiped out by those orientals at once!
Oh, it's not completely wiped out. Most of the reserve troops who transported supplies have escaped.
But what kind of combat power does this group of orientals have to wipe out hundreds of thousands of Byzantine Empire troops in one go?
For a time, the whole of Europe was shocked, and they boldly clamored to fight to the death with the Easterners, to let these Easterners know how powerful their Western warriors were.
The timid ones hid quietly. These people knew that since the existence of the two giants in Europe could suffer such a big loss together, these orientals were definitely not something they could provoke.
To say that the kings of the Byzantine Empire are the most feared, because they are the closest and have the most troops killed by these orientals.
25 million troops!
Almost half of the country was hollowed out, and the large amount of bounty collected was just gone without a single sound!
Not only was the money and the army that was enough to hurt the Byzantine Empire gone, those Easterners also followed the supply line and rushed towards the Byzantine Empire!
The panic-stricken Byzantine King Manuel I Komnenos hurriedly searched all his property and recruited mercenaries again, preparing to fight this mysterious eastern force and prevent them from entering the core area of the Byzantine Empire.
(End of this chapter)