Chapter 1407: Leading party competition is also fierce

The city of Mulhouse is located on the west bank of the Barn River. With the convenience of water transportation, it has become a transportation hub connecting the four places and is naturally quite prosperous. M.
This place originally belonged to the Kingdom of Anvalon and was a major town in the eastern part of the kingdom.
When the army of Semites and human vassals arrived here, the city lord of Mulhouse and the nobles in the city immediately chose to surrender without hesitation, and exchanged it for the appreciation of the Semites and continued in this city. Domineering.
April was supposed to be the busiest time for Mulhouse, and the caravans walking around would take their cargo to take a short break in the city, and then continue on the road.
At this time, on the Barn River, ships of all sizes flow in endlessly, trafficking all kinds of goods from the south to the north, and at the same time, it also brings a huge income for the Mulhouse people.
But today, under the shadow of war, the city of Mulhouse is in depression.
The transportation industry they usually depend on for their livelihood has almost ceased, and no businessmen will come to the city anymore.
In addition, most of the vehicles and ships were forcibly taken away by the Semitic army to transport them military supplies. I don't know how many died under the Semitic whips and steel knives.
With the successive defeats of the Semites and news that Lord Lorraine's army was about to crush the realm, the atmosphere in the city became very strange.
On the surface it looks very calm, but the underground tide is raging.
Originally it was the rear area, just undertaking the transfer of materials, so basically there were not many soldiers in the city, but now it has become a huge barracks, and most of the people who come and go are soldiers in simple uniforms.
From time to time, huge war fortresses roared through the sky.
Because of Mulhouse's superior geographical location, the important surname here is self-evident.
This place not only has the wide Barn River as a natural barrier, but also has extremely complete terminal facilities and huge throughput. The Barn River’s developed water transportation system can be used to mobilize a large number of troops in a short period of time to contend with the enemy.
Emperor De Rossi was ordered by the high priest to reorganize the western line of defense.
He also valued this point, so he made the city of Mulhouse the focus of his line of defense, ready to resist Lorraine's human coalition attack.
Emperor De Rossi also gave this defensive line that runs through thousands of miles a very nice name-Iron Wall.
The city of Mulhouse is one of the centers of the iron wall defense line. Emperor De Rossi stationed more than 200,000 troops here and vowed to build it into a copper wall that the coalition forces could not conquer.
‘Boom, boom boom. Deerdongdong...’ With the sound of drums in the morning, groups of soldiers stepped onto the street.
They formed a long line and gathered on the streets of the city to hold a routine morning kick.
The inferior soldier Hu Ge stood crookedly in the queue, looking at the prison officers in front of a few lines of people, listening to his hoarse tirade in his ears, and couldn't help yawning silently.
The words of the supervising army were tossed over and over again, and the enemy must not be terrible if the escaped beheaded or defiantly beheaded. They have strong support behind them.
After listening for two months, Hu Ge could recite it himself.
He was wearing a new military uniform from the De Rossi Empire, which, to put it bluntly, was actually just a blue denim shirt.
Hu Ge put his hand into the pocket of the army uniform, trying to feel if the potato he had brought with him in the morning was still there, but his palm came out directly from his pocket.
I don't know when a big hole was broken at the bottom, Hu Ge screamed secretly, waved his hand and wanted to take it out, but with a stab, he tore the whole pocket open.
Hu Ge couldn't help gritting his teeth and secretly said in his heart: Damn annihilator~!
This set of military uniforms that I don’t know how many years old have been used and can be torn apart with a little effort was not issued, but bought with their two-month military payment.
And it doesn't work if you don't buy it.
For convenience, the above directly deducted the salary, and then threw it to them in a tattered set.
It is said that in the procurement of military uniforms, the wise and wise Emperor De Rossi adopted the most popular, most cost-effective and efficient bidding plan.
The contract for making military uniforms for the soldiers was taken away by the contractor with the lowest bid, which saved a large amount of military expenses. For this, he was also appreciated by the high priest.
However, the gossip said that the vendor who won the bid was actually the younger brother of Emperor De Rossi's mistress. He offered forty-five copper plates to make two million sets of military uniforms.
But Hu Ge couldn't figure out how, how could a set of military uniforms worth forty-five copper plates turn into a gold coin in his hands? It seems that this tattered piece on his body is not worth forty copper plates.
Until now, Hu Ge and the 200,000 soldiers in the city have not yet received a cent, but instead they have posted a lot of them.
This is because not only the clothes are deducted from the military pay, but the weapons are not allotted, they bought them themselves.
The officer asked everyone to have a weapon, otherwise he would get a whip, and if he dared to defy, he would even beheaded.
And they can only buy the winning bidders produced by the designated manufacturers.
Those are all expensive to die. What Damascus steel knife costs five gold coins, a precision-forged long sword costs three gold coins, and a Langinus gun costs one gold coin. How can they afford it?
Don't think about armor, at least twenty gold coins.
Fortunately, a good guy from the quarters officer of the company sells knockoffs to everyone, and puts the brand of winning weapons on the knockoff weapons, and after a change, it becomes a political axe to purchase standard weapons.
A big knife only sells two silver coins, while the spear in Hu Ge's hand only cost fifteen coppers, and it was a conscience price.
The price is clearly marked, the young man is not deceived, and it is simply a model of excellent businessmen.
Although it was a bit simpler, it was rushed to make it at first glance. The wooden rod of the spear was still wet, and a simple flat spear head was installed at the front end. Hu Ge suspected that he could bend it with a bit more force, but it is also Not a weapon~!
And looking at the craftsmanship, Hu Ge knew that it must have come from the old dysentery of Wuliqiao Village outside the city.
The supervising army had to talk about it for a long time, and finally shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live the gods~!"
Hu Ge and the soldiers suddenly became energetic.
They also yelled loudly, and then they could disband. Usually at this time everyone went home to have breakfast separately, because the barracks didn't care about the food and could only solve it by themselves.
Emperor De Rossi used this kind of extensive management method that only managed to pull people, no matter what else, and the extensive management method provided by the soldiers themselves, pulling up a million troops within a month.
With just his hand-in-hand method, he can be called a master of extreme violence.
His efficient and economical method won the appreciation of the high priest and a group of high-level liches, and they unanimously praised Emperor De Rossi for his wisdom.
But they just watched the soldiers drastically... well, the huge growth, but as these labors were drawn from all walks of life, it made the whole machine that keeps society running more and more difficult, and it has come to the edge of collapse.
All businesses on the market are sluggish and prices are soaring. The common people were displaced and screamed...All these negative situations were ignored by De Rossi's high-level staff... To be precise, they turned a blind eye to it and let the situation worsen.
Hu Ge went out weakly with his head down. He had to stand guard on the wall before eight o'clock. He was fined by the officer for being late.
Of course, you don't want to go, as long as you pay some money, someone is willing to take the place.
Hu Ge is in front of such a person. He wears the same uniform. He is standing in the center of the street, soliciting business everywhere. He said loudly, "Standing for the guard and doing handyman. If you are sick, you scream. Ten copper plates, 15% off all day."
His yelling sound was quite loud, but the prison officers were sitting high on the horse, passing by just as they didn't hear it.
Hu Ge knew this guy and immediately joked: "Sauer, how's the business these two days?"
"Hey, don't mention it." Sauer curled his lips and said, "It hasn't been opened for two days. If this continues, I have to drink Northwest Wind."
"I heard that you have made a lot of money, but not all of your colleagues have been beaten away by you. You are now a monopoly operator."
Sauer rolled his eyes and said: "Don't talk nonsense, they weren't beaten by me, they are...Forget it, you know, I don’t know if I earn 60% of the money I earn, you think it’s nothing. Take it?"
As he stopped to talk, the road was a bit crowded, and the people behind immediately urged. Hu Ge shrugged helplessly, bid farewell to Sauer, and walked eastward slowly following the flow of people.
Suddenly there was a loud noise from behind, and someone shouted sternly: "The supervising army enforces the law, get out, get out~!"
The soldiers on the street heard it, and they all retreated to the corner of the wall, huddled together and looked in the direction of the sound.
A team of hundreds of prisoners in black clambered through the street slowly under a few prison vehicles. The faces of the people in the prison vehicles were trembling with fright.
Among them was the conscientious quartermaster whom Hu Ge knew. He was tied and sturdy, curled up in a cage, shaking with fright.
The prison car passed through the crowd and went straight to the execution ground on the square. All the curious soldiers followed to watch the excitement.
The prison army pulled the prisoners out, lined up on the execution ground, knelt down on the guillotine, and the executioner next to him raised his sword to prepare for execution.
A supervising army shouted at the soldiers: "These people have embezzled military expenses, reselled military supplies, filled their pockets, and sinned very badly. We execute them in the name of the emperor.
His Majesty made repeated orders, no matter who violated the law, we found them together, investigated them together, and executed them together. We will never tolerate corruption and malfeasance, cut it~! "
With an order, the executioners fell off the big knives, and a dozen heads rolled all over the ground. The blood spurted instantly reddening the ground of the execution ground.
Hu Ge was secretly surprised when he saw it, and he cried out in his heart that something bad happened. This conscientious logistics officer was slaughtered. Where would he go to buy cheap knockoffs?
The crowd on the square gradually dispersed. Hu Ge saw that it was getting late and hurried to the east of the city. He was fined if he was late.
He bumped into countless passers-by, and finally rushed to his post at the moment the bell rang at eight o'clock, showing a triumphant smile to the officer who was waiting for the fine.
The little officer next to him gave him an annoyed look, and he would definitely find fault with excuses and make Hu Ge trouble.
But today he had just chopped a dozen heads, he also had to weigh it carefully, and finally he could only grunt bitterly and turned away.
Hu Ge gasped, looking at the little officer's back with a disdainful expression, this guy is determined to go and slap the man above him again, cursing in his heart: You wait, it's not that you don't report, the time is not yet.
As soon as the officer left, the soldiers on the city wall became lazy, holding weapons in groups of nonsense. Anyway, no one cares. If there is a supervising army coming over, just pretend to be and finish work until noon. .
Several soldiers in the same class were all lamenting the wrongfulness of the quartermaster's death. He was doing a small business, with a dozen coppers and a spear, how much money could he make?
In addition to the cost, I am afraid that it is only a few coppers, and it has been a long time to earn only two gold coins. How can it be killed?
An old soldier who was the city defense army before the fall blinked, smiled slyly, and said profoundly: "You don't understand this..."
Then he kept silent, humming a small tune leisurely.
It was not until a curious soldier stuffed him a piece of bread, and the veteran weighed it, and then said leisurely: "That guy is confused, you know whose money he stole?"
"who?"
"The city lord's money~!" The veteran slapped his thigh and said in a more serious tone: "Can you not kill him then?"
Hu Ge was a little confused and asked: "How did he steal the money from the city lord?"
The veteran gave Hu Ge a blank look like a rookie, and said: "The standard weapons designated by the political axe are sold at the share of the city owner. The quartermaster sells his own copycats privately, so that the standard weapons ordered by the city owner cannot be sold. , Isn’t it just stealing money from the city lord.

The little soldiers suddenly realized, no wonder so many greedy people did not kill, and slaughtered a little person.
"Then he deserves to die." Everyone said in unison, instead of squeezing money from the people, instead of squeezing money from officials, this is not death.
The veteran snorted coldly and said, "Actually, the most important thing to kill is our city lord."
Hu Ge hurriedly waved his hand and said nervously: "Don't talk nonsense, because someone knows it, we are unlucky with you."
"What are you afraid of," the veteran said triumphantly: "They will be alive in a few days, Lord Lorraine's coalition forces are about to be killed. I tell you, our uniforms should have been free, but the city lord has to take it. How much did he make for our two months of military salary?"
Hu Ge calculated it in his mind. One person has one gold coin. Two hundred thousand people in the city are two hundred thousand gold coins. This number shocked him. Two hundred thousand gold coins are a huge sum of money no matter where they are placed.
Hu Ge slapped his tongue: "So many, that old guy should really kill~!"
The veteran sneered and said, "And that old guy is still eating empty pay. To me, there are no 200,000 people in the city, and our whole city is less than 100,000. The 200,000 troops have already paid The city is crowded.
Officials know that there are not many good days, and now they are all desperately holding money. When Lord Luo called in the future, they slapped their and ran away.
So, we little soldiers, keep their eyes brighter. Don't lose your life for those dog officials. "
The surrounding soldiers slapped their lips with different expressions.
Hu Ge sighed helplessly. Now the city is full of weird ideas. Whenever there are some ways, they are changing ways to make money, but these little people are so hesitant and helpless, struggling to survive, just seeking a way to survive in troubled times.
"Their good days are running out, and our good days are coming soon." I didn't know that the soldier murmured in the crowd.
Hu Ge nodded in agreement.
"Lorraine, what do you do if you call here?"
"What else can I do? Of course I surrendered.
According to the criteria of His Majesty’s red and black list, I have carefully calculated it, I am very ~! "The soldier said triumphantly.
"Almost, I have a nine-point score. Even if a human comes over, I'll be fine. When the time comes, throw the guy away and tear off the uniform."
Although Hu Ge didn't speak on his face, he was secretly happy in his heart. He was also very, a small soldier, and hadn't done any bad things. The coalition army was fine when he returned.
If he could not order a lead party, catch a few heinous people, and make money for bounty, he had already targeted the few people in the city who were stubborn to the Semitic.
However, it is estimated that it is not only oneself who is aiming at those people. The competition within the party will be fierce.
Even if these people are talking publicly about surrender, no one is in charge, and the soldiers are not worried about anyone reporting it.
Most of the people here have scores above five and will not be held accountable by the Holy See, but if you report other people to the prison army, there will be no bounty, and the red name that is still correct will inevitably be cut off.
At this time, everyone in the whole city knew that they couldn't stop Lord Lorraine's coalition forces, and it was the most important thing to leave a way for themselves.
One day is one day for an official, and a foreigner who serves as a soldier surrenders only when the coalition comes.
But Emperor De Rossi didn't know. After listening to the feedback from the people below, he was full of confidence in his army of millions. Emperor De Rossi thought that even if they were not able to fight in the field, they would always be okay to defend the city.
At very noon, Hu Ge, who was so hungry and howling, was finally ready to be laid off, dragging his spear and walking home weakly.
At this moment, I heard a loud and excited shout: "Allied forces are coming here~!"
There was a sudden chaos in the city.
"The coalition is coming, we are about to liberate~!"
"Brothers grab the red name and receive the bounty~!"
"Don't let the officials go."
The soldiers in the street ran around like rats falling into the boiling water pot.
When Hu Ge was still in a daze, a large group of supervisors ran out from the direction of the city center. They brandished their swords and drove the panicked soldiers on the street. They shouted fiercely: "Go up the city wall, go up to the city wall, disobey the military order. Slash."
Regardless of whether the coalition forces came over or not, this group of people came first, and the soldiers who encountered immediate danger were rushed to the wall by the prison army.
Hu Ge was caught in the crowd and ran back and forth involuntarily. He had just returned to the city gate. Suddenly a group of people tore the inferior military uniforms at the gate, revealing the white golden cross sign inside, and drew out the dazzling sword.
The crowd raised a banner of the Holy See at the same time, and the head of the crowd raised their weapons high and shouted: "For the sake of light, the insurgents are here, who dare to come and die?
Brothers, follow along and free Mulhouse~! "
Then he rushed to the prison army first, followed by hundreds of soldiers in white clothes.
The soldiers around seemed to see the savior, shouting: "The uprising is uprising~!"
"Kill the demon cubs and people."
Then behind the white-clothed soldier who followed, he rolled back like a tide.
Thousands of people in the supervising army saw the people on the street brandishing weapons and shouting at them, as if they were about to tear them to pieces, and turned around in fright and fled.
The city of Mulhouse suddenly became lively like a pan of water.
Hu Ge shrewdly left the team~EbookFREE.me~ and turned and ran to the gate of the city. He had to see the coalition before others to lead the way.
Several soldiers were working together to open the gate, and Hu Ge joined their team, pushing the heavy gate of Mulhouse open, and then desperately waving a white cloth toward the coalition outside the city.
Two miles outside the city, a coalition reconnaissance cavalry captain looked at the city gate, then looked back at the more than 20 cavalry behind him in confusion, and said blankly: "They are...surrendering to us?"
The cavalry looked at each other. There were only more than twenty men. How could they be surrendered?
Seeing that the coalition forces were not passing, Hu Ge and the others ran over while waving the white flag.
Several people surrounded the reconnaissance team, stretched out their hands to grab the scout cavalry horse, and said anxiously: "Quickly, I'll take you to catch people, and the officials will run away late."
The cavalry captain was taken aback by their enthusiastic attitude. He looked at these enthusiastic Mulhouses leading the way innocently, and said in a low voice: "Um, in fact, we are just here to spy."
(To be continued) q