Chapter 593, Putting Down the Rebellion

The general situation was over, and the leader of the rebel army, Alan, hesitated for a while, and immediately handed his weapon to Raymond, begging for surrender.

The anti-rebel army was a little unwilling, but Juan kept Ryan's guidance in mind, and when he saw the rebel leader surrender, he immediately chose to agree.

The battle was over. Under the stern eyes of the old guards and local nobles, the rebel serfs came out of the stronghold little by little, knelt down and surrendered.

The anti-insurgency army has very strict requirements. Except for clothes, bedding and some pots and pans, no weapons are allowed, not even suspected weapons such as hoes and pitchforks. Items are also not allowed, all handed in.

Once found to be entrained in private, there is no reason to escape, and they will be executed on the spot.

This was a very strict order, but the rebel serfs were relieved after hearing it.

Because the requirements are so high and the order is so strict, it doesn't look like they want to kill prisoners and surrender, because if the knights really want to kill prisoners and surrender, it won't be so troublesome and so many things.

The anti-insurgency army set up camps for prisoners of war, and dozens of cauldrons were set up to cook for the rebel serfs.

Juan originally planned to distribute black bread to the rebel serfs, but Earl Durin and Larotte immediately objected. They believed that although these rebel serfs were justifiable, they were really not worthy of black bread, so they would not Just starve to death. Besides, let these serfs eat too much in case they have the strength to resist?

Juan thought for a while and thought it made sense, the captives really didn't need such good treatment.

The porridge was cooked in the big pot. This kind of porridge was not the kind of fragrant and oily porridge that the army ate at all. Plants), adding some chopped vegetable leaves, directly adding water to cook the porridge, not only does not have a drop of oil, but it is also very thin!

But this is already a supreme delicacy for the rebel serfs.

The smell of porridge wafted in the summer air. The rebel serfs could hardly stand their legs when they smelled the aroma. They were unkempt, skinny, and ragged. The rebel serfs slowly gathered together. The old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, women and children are also indispensable. Many women don't even have clothes to wear.

In the old guard camp, the leader of the rebel army, Alan, was arrested and interrogated in the barracks. He also said everything in a very bachelor way, but kept begging Juan not to kill prisoners or surrender. He was willing to exchange his life for all human life.

Following Ryan for a period of time, Juan also learned a lot. On the surface, he looked very embarrassed. After watching Alan beg for a long time, he reluctantly agreed to let these rebel serfs go.

The moment Juan let go, the rebel leader knelt in front of everyone in the barracks, weeping uncontrollably.

It just so happened that Raymond was Alan's fellow townsman, so Juan asked Raymond to pressure him to eat something first.

Lei Meng took Aaron to the barracks of the Old Guards and found a place to sit down, because he was shackled, and he knew that if he made trouble, the 20,000 brothers and sisters outside would suffer. The army leader sighed, and he took the bowl of porridge from Raymond's hand: "Long time no see... So, you are now an old guard? You brought the knights and lords here! Bring them here Beat us?!"

Raymond was also silent. His former childhood playmates were in front of him, so familiar yet so unfamiliar. They used to play together, go to the forest to pick wild fruits together, go to the river to catch fish together, and when they grew up, they also gave knights a gift together. Master is doing hard labor.

On that night of rebellion, Aaron chose to resist, while Raymond chose to escape.

Different choices create different paths in future life. When we meet again, Raymond is already an old guard with great achievements. He wears a plate armor, a dwarf's fine-crafted halberd, a sword on his waist, and he has successfully wiped his leather boots. Liang, how could he look like a serf?

"Lack is dead." Raymond was silent for a while,

Suddenly said: "Do you remember him?"

"Where are his two younger sisters?" Alan was stunned for a while.

"He died too, on the way to escape, killed by the Beastmen. My mother, my brother and I almost died too." Lei Meng said sadly, "It's not easy for anyone, Aaron."

"...Hey, yes, it's not that easy for anyone. If I'm a traitor, I'll be hanged, and if you're a fugitive slave, you'll be hanged too!" If you want to die, you either run away or fight back, you survived, and I survived, that's enough!"

"Aaron, why did you..." Raymond hesitated to speak.

"Why?! You asked me why?!" As soon as he mentioned this, Alang's expression became agitated again, and he almost cursed: "What can we do if we can't survive? If we don't have a bite to eat How about it? Watch yourself starve to death?"

The iron chains of the anklets rattled.

Seeing his hysterical appearance, Raymond was suddenly very grateful. He was very grateful for his choice. He escaped to Duke Ryan's territory and lived a good life ever since.

Alang also realized that the person in front of him was not his childhood playmate, but the old guard. He sat down again and ate the porridge with a big mouthful. This action was violent, as if he wanted to get something back.

As he ate and ate, big drops of tears came down: "It's been several days."

"How many days?" Raymond asked strangely.

"We have been out of food for several days, and we have to carry out more than a hundred dead people from the stronghold every day." Alan cried and said, "Your attack is too fierce. You attack one place and kill one. We usually move around , where is there so much food in storage!"

"...Sorry, but this is the Duke's order." Raymond was a little embarrassed, and the old guard felt a little ashamed for the first time: "We must put down the rebellion as soon as possible."

"Duke? Duke!" Aaron gritted his teeth, and he suppressed his anger: "You know the Duke, do you know how the Duke of Lyonnaise treated us?!"

"He tricked our original leader, saying that he was willing to help us and solve our problems. We were very happy and chose to surrender. The result was the Duke. He pretended to give us travel expenses and food to send us home, and then sent those surrendered serfs They were locked in the hills and carried out a massacre!" Alan's eyes were bloodshot: "8,000 people, 8,000 brothers and sisters, were killed by that duke! Tell me, Raymond, how is the duke of Lyonnaise now? ?”

"He's dead, killed by a vampire." Raymond knew that Duke Aldredard had killed prisoners and surrendered at the instigation of his valet.

"Good kill! The duke deserves to die!"

"Aaron!" Lei Meng was also angry: "Duke Ryan is different from him!"

"These knight nobles are all assholes!"

As soon as the rebel leader said this, the atmosphere in the camp changed.

Pairs of angry eyes stared at the rebel leader, an old guard came up, and slapped the rebel leader directly on the face: "Shut up, you idiot, I don't care about anything else, if you don't want to die , don’t speak ill of the Duke, or you can try it, and I can tell you that I was a serf like you, farming the land by the Chinon River.”

"I'm also a serf! I'm the hunter of Sharon Forest!"

"I'm also a serf! I used to fish for a living in Hongyu Village!"

"I'm a serf! I was a butcher before the Duke called me!"

"We are all serfs!"

"Without Duke Lane, we would not be where we are today!"

The old guards crowded up, and the soldiers killed from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood were terrifying. Alan was so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't speak. Lei Meng persuaded them for a long time, and the old guards Only then scattered away.

"Like I said, Duke Ryan is different from them." Sitting down again, Raymond continued: "Duke Ryan is loved by everyone, everyone, there, no one goes hungry, as long as he works hard Work, everyone has meat to eat, especially farming, the Duke collects a fixed tax from us, as long as we pay enough for the Duke, the rest is our own.”

Aaron muttered something in a low voice, but Raymond couldn't hear what he said clearly.

"By the way, I remember that we once assisted Lyonnaise with a large amount of grain!" Seeing that Alan didn't speak, Raymond remembered something, and said suspiciously: "Although they are all old grain with a storage period of nearly two years, but It should be enough to solve the food shortage!"

"Relief food? What nonsense are you talking about, Raymond." Who knew that Alan sneered again, and he picked up the spoon to drink the porridge sarcastically: "Don't talk about us rebellious serfs, even those who are willing to give to the knights The serfs who cultivated the land did not receive a single grain of relief food. This kind of thing is not helping us, but some knight masters in the castle, right?!"

"Don't talk nonsense, we knights and nobles haven't seen the relief food." At this moment, a voice approached from behind, wearing a set of Britannia earl costumes, Larotte with lace cuffs As the count approached, he nodded politely first, and said with a smile, "Mr. Alan, do you want to know where the relief food went?"

"How do I know!" Aaron yelled impolitely, but his eyes flickered back and forth, obviously still very interested.

"The relief food of several large ships was transported into the Leonasse Castle by Boldroux's Poseidon fleet. Originally, this batch of food was supported by several southern duchies to support the food shortage in Leonase." Earl Larotte said with a smile: " On the second day after the grain arrived in Hong Kong, the relief food immediately began to be sold in the market of Lyonnasay Castle. .”

"..." Alan clenched his fists.

"From the beginning to the end, we old Mousillon nobles have never seen even a grain of relief food." Larotte's smile was full of bitterness: "Of course, it doesn't mean that we can't get any, but we just need to buy it with money." , We old Musillons have always been excluded like this, so it’s not surprising.”

Hearing Earl Larotte's statement, the remaining old guards sighed for a while. Everyone was born as a serf, so they naturally knew some tricks that knights like to play. Many people also lamented that it was the Duke of Lane. .

In any case, with the destruction of the last group of rebellious serfs, all rebellions in the south of Lyonnaise have been put down.

Peace has finally come.

……… I am the good dividing line of Duke Ryan………

Old World, Britannia, Earl of Glamorgan, Earl's Castle of Lane.

"Oh, what a windfall!" Ryan sat on a chair in the study, browsing the battle reports sent from the front line, he nodded again and again, looking very happy.

This time to suppress the rebellion of Mu Xilong's old leader, a large amount of gold, silver and jewels were collected from the luggage and personal luggage of these rebellious serfs. According to statistics, there are more than 7,000 gold crowns.

The stocks that these rebels have plundered for many years are all here. Obviously, this large sum of money has aroused the covetousness of many local nobles. Recently, many nobles have come to Ryan to intercede, saying that the money was obtained from them by the rebel serfs Stolen, I hope Ryan can send them back.

This is really overthinking, since I can't keep it, don't blame me for not giving it.

With a swipe of his pen, Ryan defined this large sum of gold and silver as "captured".

Except for Earl Durin and Earl Larotte, who responded the fastest and personally led their knights to join the battle, each took a thousand gold crowns. The rest of the money will be used to resettle refugees and surrendered rebel serfs, resume production Control the situation so that Ryan doesn't have to spend extra money from his small coffers to solve these problems.

Overall, this counter-insurgency was successful, and as the first battle after the establishment of the Old Guard, this battle must be won, and as Ryan wished, this battle began to establish the impression that the Old Guard was invincible.

This is very important to Ryan's subsequent plan. As his facade and the army he built, the old guard must have strong combat effectiveness, firm fighting will and winning mentality at the same time.

So Ryan chose the rebel serfs as the first battle for the establishment of the Old Guard.

The old guard is indeed elite, and he has indeed fought countless victories along the way with Ryan, but Ryan knows that he can't just make waves because this army is elite, this army has rich combat experience, and this army is well rationed, otherwise .

It is the story of the legend of the fastest donkey cart on the Gaoliang River.

The iron army that destroyed several countries after the founding of the country was broken on the spot. Since then, the army facing the north no longer has any psychological advantage. What happened is far from being as simple as tens of thousands of casualties.

The subsequent Yongxi Northern Expedition was a continuation of the evil results. The frightened Zhao Er donated the 200,000 elite imperial troops left to him by Zhao Da, and then made another command error in the battle of Junziguan Zhao Er also sent in the last elite of the Imperial Army. Since then, all the elites of the Imperial Army cultivated by Zhao Da at the beginning of the founding of the country have been wiped out, and he never dared to hope to regain Yanyun.

Ryan thought that he would not blame Zhao Er for starting to dawdle and try to compromise with the literati, because the army is gone, if he doesn't make the literati happy, maybe one day the emperor will be replaced, and as we all know, Zhao Er's legal orthodoxy is problematic, he is not making a strong claim! Literati like to use this to make a fuss and make troubles.

(By the way, it was also from this time that generals were completely suppressed, and the pattern of emphasizing civility over military affairs was completely crucified. During the Zhao Dynasty, generals still had a higher status and certain autonomy.)

So what's going on with Ryan now?

Ryan's current situation is like that of Zhao Er who won a complete victory in the Battle of Gaoliang River and successfully recovered Yanyun (Mu Xilong)!

At this time, no one in the entire kingdom could oppose him or dare to oppose him. Even when he stretched out his hand to the indestructible aristocratic system, the two old Musillon counts could only grit their teeth and agree.

Because they can't tolerate their disapproval, otherwise there will be many people who want to come up to be earls.

Hold on!

But Ryan knew that he still needed to be careful. All it took was one failure, and everything would go back to the way it was, and his years of painstaking efforts would be wiped out.

After thinking about it for a while, the dark elf came in from outside: "Master, Her Highness Morgiana has returned from Courona, and she said she has something to discuss with you."

"Morgiana is back?"