Chapter 330: cannon fodder

Damn, this is a coincidence.
　　 He has been on duty for such a long time conscientiously, and he dared not leave lightly for a moment, and Akmeser would not attack.
　　 I followed Sean to the Military Staff, and within half an hour, did he call here?
　　 deliberately having trouble with him, right?
　　 "This is a coincidence?" Sean couldn't help but sighed like this. Had it not been for his whim, he had switched to the Military Staff, and he had already witnessed the first wave of siege by Akmeser.
　　 "Go, let's take a look." Sean said to the staff headed by Kelman.
"It’s good to see the real war scenes, it is more convenient for us to make a battle plan in the future. After all, we only have a bunch of numbers and sand tables, and the feelings are not so deep." Kelman couldn’t help but say, but the following words are lifeless. Swallowed back into his stomach.
　　 Their old wave of military staff members who grew up with the Yongye Army leader, have been baptized by war to some extent, but most of these newcomers have been admitted in the military academy for several years.
　　 The result is that this wave of young military staff members has a common problem, that is, they have strong theoretical knowledge and little actual combat experience. In the eyes of old staff members such as Kelman, it is inevitable that they will be given the impression of being superior and inferior.
　　 Kelman really wanted to advise Sean that these young military staff members should be transferred to the army and served as the marching staff for several years before being transferred back to headquarters.
　　 But this way, it is a bit too offensive, even if it is mentioned, it should be mentioned in private.
　　 What's more, he knows how Xiao En's troubles are. It's not that he doesn't understand the truth. It's just that Yongye Army leader is not enough talented, so he can only pull out generals from the scorpion.
　　 As more and more wars and more marching staff are trained, there is no need for Kelman to give advice at all, and the pattern will naturally change.
　　 After all, the internal competition of Yongyejun is still quite fierce, and it is natural that people will replace it without progress.
　　 Besides, people will always improve.
　　 Those who can be admitted to the Military Staff Headquarters are definitely a short-term choice. Give them a certain opportunity to grow. Maybe many will shine with a different light.
　　 Sean led a group of eager young staff officers out of the office building of the Military Staff.
Martial law has begun on the streets of 　　, and groups of soldiers are shuttled and gathered in the direction of the city wall.
　　 But this kind of martial law is obviously to perform official duties.
　　 Brother Port was not even built. Except for the port and related defense facilities, what is left is a barracks and a few solitary core buildings. The rest are large tracts of open space, and there are no indigenous people at all.
　　Compared to those rushing and nervous Yongye soldiers.
　　 These staff officers led by Xiao En, although not talking or laughing, they looked around frequently, observing the actions of the soldiers of the Eternal Night.
　　 When they boarded the city wall, the siege has not officially started.
　　 Siege, especially the defensive siege, is a very troublesome thing.
　　 Raid or something, it doesn't work at all.
After all, the 20-meter-wide moat and the six-to-seven-meter-high city wall are not decorations. Even if the champion knight wants to climb up, it will take a bit of work, let alone ordinary soldiers and farmers who have to use large-scale siege tools. .
　　 If you want to transport large-scale siege equipment to the city, it takes a lot of effort. The defense equipment and bows and arrows of the defender are not vegetarian.
　　 This siege, even a farmer who doesn't know anything about military strategy can see it, this is a temptation.
　　Because the siege crews didn't even bring large siege equipment, they could not rush up with simple shields.
　　 No, there are only a small number of people holding simple shields, most of them rushed up with bare hands and a sack on their back.
　　 These people are not even soldiers, they are all crocodile civilians who have been driven out.
　　 Even if they were several miles away, they could hear the vicious threats and shouts of the Kingsley soldiers.
　　 "Rush forward, rush forward quickly, retreat to death, run to the city, throw the sacks in your hands into the moat, and you will have completed the task."
　　 "Complete the mission, come back alive, a piece of bread per person! It's cheaper for you bastards! Give me a rush!"
　　 "Have you heard? The retreat is dead, you still dare to dare me, the archer prepares, one minute later, the arrows volley, run, run quickly, otherwise you will all die!"
　　 "Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one, archer, shoot!"
　　 With an order, a row of arrows fell down, crucifying the crocodile people in the back row, no matter whether they were really unwilling to rush forward or were stopped by the people in front, they had no chance to rush forward.
From beginning to end, Kingsley soldiers did not regard them as human beings, but as a group of thunder-stomping pigs. No matter how many deaths, they don’t feel distressed. Anyway, friendly forces are collecting all over the West Bank. Often more tenacious than cockroaches.
On the West Bank, which had been burned by the marsh fire for a whole week, they thought that there was no one left, so they sent the army to sweep back and forth here. After a month, the forest collected nearly 30,000 people. This hasn't finished their work. When the sweeping is complete, It should be no problem if you gather 50,000 to 60,000 people.
　　 didn’t know when the swamp fire happened earlier, where they hid and escaped?
　　 But nobody cares about this issue.
　　Because the good luck of these people has come to an end, the chances of them surviving in this war are extremely small. Even if they did not die in their own hands, they could not escape the clutches of the Kingsley family.
Beavis is one of them, but he is only an aboriginal of Despair Swamp, not a member of the Crocodile Elder Council. More precisely, their village is not on the list of the Elder Council, which is commonly known as the savage. .
　　The location of their village is very remote, so remote that even crocodile people rarely get involved. Before this, their ethnic group has been living a self-sufficient and isolated life.
　　 The weather changes in the Desperate Swamp in recent years have also impacted and affected their villages, because the land is sparsely populated and the hunting area is large, and there is no pressure as much as in densely populated areas.
　　 Even the swamp fire that enveloped the entire west bank of the Swamp of Despair would have little impact on their lives.
　　 No matter how small the west bank of the Swamp of Despair is, it would be 40-50 kilometers east-west and 200-300 kilometers north-south. It doesn't seem to be too big, but it can be exhausting if you really run.
　　 Even if human factors are added, it is impossible for biogas to flood the entire west bank of the Swamp of Despair.
The previous swamp fire enveloped the entire west bank of the Swamp of Despair. It is definitely an exaggerated adjective. The actual coverage range, let alone one percent, is one-thousandth of it is amazing, and it is mainly concentrated in the Kingsley family and The swamp fires that were brought up by the crocodile tribes in other areas were scattered and scary, and had little impact on the people living in them.
Because of isolation and news, before the Kingsley family’s search team found them, let alone the Kingsley family, the leader of the Eternal Night, and even the Crocodile Elder Council, they exist only in distant legends. Haven't really seen it.
　　 Therefore, when the Kingsley family's search team rushed into their village fiercely, like robbers butchers, when they started killing, the Beavis people were unprepared.
　　 Under the persecution of the butcher knife and the sharp blade, the young man who was dominated by fear had to surrender like other people.
　　 Then he drove them all the way, driving them like two-legged pigs, and gave them only a little poor food and clean water every day.
　　I heard from those experienced crocodile tribes that the Kingsley collection team did this, in addition to saving supplies, but also more convenient to control them. When the time comes, they will have no energy to run, let alone resist.
　　 And in front of hunger, people will lose a lot of things, and the first thing to lose is dignity.
　　 At first, young Beavis scoffed at this statement.
　　 Human dignity is not given by others, but by oneself, how can it be so easily lost?
　　 He was full of anger and contempt for those crocodile people who bowed to Kingsley soldiers for the black bread the size of a baby's palm.
　　 Although he has no sense of identity with the concept of Crocodiles, the same situation and hostility to Kingsley family soldiers can resonate with him, and he naturally turns to those who are also driven.
Especially those Kingsley soldiers, the biggest daily entertainment activity is to use the leftovers left over from their meals to lure the crocodile tribesmen into fighting like a mad dog, making him angry and wanting to tear the chests of those soldiers. See if their hearts are black?
　　 Everyone is a person with one head, two arms, and two legs. Even if there are differences in language, they don’t need to be treated like animals.
　　 The first time I saw that kind of scene, the impact on this young man who had never been 20 kilometers away from his home can be imagined.
　　 He couldn't bear the hot blood in his chest anymore, so he screamed and rushed out.
　　 Had it not been for the older crocodile to hold him down, Beavis would have never had a chance to stand here, and would have been slashed to death by Kingsley soldiers.
　　 Even so, a whip and days of hunger are indispensable.
The older crocodile told him that those Kingsley soldiers were slaving, and their dignity was lost and numb, making them full of despair in life, and it was more convenient when they came to the battlefield. Drive them.
To be more precise, it was the older crocodile who was a little bit ridiculous and said that Beavis was just listening passively. At that time, his heart was filled with anger and he didn't want to communicate with anyone, especially those who were right. The older crocodile tribe is among those who bow to their knees.
　　 He may be a wise man who knows many things, but he is an out-and-out coward. In front of Kingsley soldiers, he has no backbone at all.
　　 At least until his death, Beavis always thought so. At that time, he did not know that there was a term in the world called patience and humiliation.
　　 Until before crossing the Donau River, the older crocodile clans secretly told him that this was their last and best chance to escape.
　　 Beavis’ astonishment can be imagined.
It’s a pity that Beavis did not wait for the opportunity to escape as mentioned by the older crocodile, because before the escape plan was launched, the unknown older crocodile was betrayed by a traitor, and he endured humiliation and thought. The tribe to be rescued was sold.
He was cruelly nailed to the roadside cross by Kingsley soldiers. It is said that he will not die immediately. What awaits him will be days, even weeks of exposure, thirst and hunger, in endless pain and regret. Die.
　　 Obviously, Kingsley soldiers used him to warn the cannon fodder who were driven behind.
The term 　　 battlefield cannon fodder, of course, was also told by the older crocodile tribe.
　　 This is an extremely cruel and vivid lesson, which makes Beavis fully aware of the sinister human heart. When the human heart becomes dark, it is more cruel than any animal and has no morals.
Beavis’ biggest regret is that he didn’t ask his name clearly during his lifetime. Other crocodile people who benefited from him did not know his name. At best, he called him lame old man or lame uncle, because one of his legs was lame. .
　　 Following the trend, Beavis slowly became numb.
　　 However, it is not the heart, but the body that is numb. Only in this way can we survive countless days and nights of hunger, cold, pain, and exhaustion.
　　 After being driven to the Kingsley family camp outside Brothers Harbor, what awaits them is a hellish life.
　　 is not only the problem of hunger and cold, but also endless labor.
　　 Digging soil, burying piles, cutting wood, transporting wood, etc., these chores are mostly done by them.
　　The Kingsley family really didn't treat them as human beings. They didn't care about their life or death. Many of the crocodile people who were also driven by them all fell to the ground and never got up again.
　　The Kingsley family soldiers didn't care at all, and sent someone to drag them into the corpse and throw them down.
　　 At the beginning, I was worried about the spread of the plague, so I sent someone to bury a layer of soil on them. As the weather turned cold, I didn't even save this effort and let the bodies pile up.
　　 Since three days ago, the attitude of Kingsley soldiers has undergone a big change. Not only did they no longer drive them over, but they also gave them a few half-full meals.
But no one will feel grateful in life, because even inexperienced people know that it is not that the Kingsley family suddenly became kind, but that the siege is about to begin, and those meals are used to buy their lives. .
　　 They will officially fulfill their destiny as cannon fodder.
　　 Beavis was like other crocodile tribes. Although he didn't want to, but under the threat of death, he still had to start squirming in the direction of Brothers Harbor.
　　 "What are you waiting for, run!"
After some people walked a little distance, they immediately threw away the sacks full of sand and ran wildly, but instead of rushing towards Brothersport, they headed towards the Danube or Bacha River, trying to escape the Kingsley family by water. Clutches.
　　 "idiot!"
Beavis cursed in his heart, instead of running around with them, he shrank and drilled into the crowd, not only tightening the sack on his back, but also picking up an abandoned sand from the ground. The sack hit his head.
　　 Although this has increased my weight by tens of kilograms, it is nothing compared to my own life.
　　 Of course, Beavis is not numb, and he doesn't even have the heart to escape, but he has fully realized the ferocity and cunning of the Kingsley family.
　　How can you not be prepared for this situation?
　　 Even if it is to escape ~EbookFREE.me~, it is not now. It is just a dead end to run around as long as you leave the camp.
　　 As expected, those who lost their sack and escaped were nailed to the ground by countless arrows before they could run far. They still came to the Kingsley family army, and those vicious voices were still roaring.
　　 "Those who retreat die, those who escape without permission die!"
"I advise you not to mess around. When the time comes, not only will you die, but your people will also be killed by you. You have only one choice. Go forward and throw the sacks into the moat. Even if you complete the task, don’t throw yourself away. Drive to death."
　　 Bows and arrows are cold, and there are many spears.
　　 Those crocodile people who have been driven out have no second choice at all, they can only take heavy steps and rush towards Brother Port.
Looking at them, they can’t run even if they want to run. Not only are they burdened with heavy sacks, but also because they have not eaten enough for a long time and their body is weak. This is not just a few meals that are half full and not hungry. Restored.
　　The brutality of the Kingsley family has shattered their hope of escape, and they can only hope that the family on the opposite wall can open the net.
　　 It is said that the magnificent city wall opposite is the Brothers Harbor built by Yongyejun and the Crocodile Clan.
　　 is named Brother Port because it means to witness the beginning of the two sides as brothers, and it also represents the brotherly feelings of both sides.
　　 They should think that they are the same crocodile tribe.