Alien Empire Total War - Chapter 233

“In the ambush last night, we killed more than 1,900 enemies and captured 3,500 people. It was a great victory.”

A few hours after the battle, in the middle of the night, the fourth division commander, Matthias Jarvis, who hurriedly returned from the battlefield, took the statistics sheet, strode into the headquarters, and said to the other two division commanders.

“Captured more than 4,000 people? This is another new burden.” said Bernard House, the eighth division commander. He was most concerned about the disposal of the prisoners of war. Now that he was behind the enemy, a large number of prisoners of war came to them. It is obvious that there is a group of dragging legs.

“House is right, do we have to divide our troops to send these prisoners to the Kingdom of Todds?” said Commander Hernan Parker of the seventh division, “the second brigade escorting the prisoners of the seventh division of the enemy army We haven’t come back yet, and we have to split up another brigade?”

After he finished speaking, he picked up a stack of paper pages on the clean table and said to Jarvis: “During your time out, I personally went to interrogate the damned Enkelans. One by one, those guys were very tough at first, and after I cut off one of them’s fingers with a knife, they became very honest and confessed everything they knew.”

Jarvis didn’t take the paper and asked, “What did they say?”

“The enemy’s commander, Donny Blank, has decided to mobilize the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Divisions on the front line to deal with us, but our closest enemy’s 5th Division has been hit hard by us first. More than 5,000 people have been lost, and the remaining troops are not enough to threaten us.”

“But the good news is that before they could send out messengers to assemble the army, the nest was taken over by us.” Parker said, and his tone naturally brought a sense of schadenfreude.

“But we failed to wipe out the Fifth Division, and we also let go of the division commander of the Fifth Division. When they go back, they will definitely inform the other units of what happened here.” Jarvis said, his tone seemed a little annoyed.

“Let the commander of the Fifth Division run away?” House and Parker looked at each other and asked, “What’s the situation? Why didn’t you tell me just now?”

“Don’t mention it.” Jarvis pulled a chair over, sat on it, and said helplessly: “I misjudged the position of their division commander, thinking it would be in the middle army, plus the lack of troops, so I let it go. Their vanguard, who knows, the enemy’s division commander happened to be at the forefront of the team, so he escaped.”

House and Parker looked at each other again, and the latter said, “Since the enemy’s division commander has been released, our exposure time will only increase, and we don’t need to be so careful about the treatment of prisoners of war.”

“What do you mean?” Jarvis asked in confusion.

“Since we can’t take them with us, let’s just let the prisoners of war go,” Hernan Parker said, “but before letting them go, single out all the officers and put them to death, so that To prevent the prisoners of war from being pulled up and turned against us after they were released.”

“However, they will still consciously find nearby enemy troops, and after they are gathered and reorganized, they will still become our opponents.”

“It’s not a big problem.” House took the conversation and explained to him: “We want the prisoners of war to see with their own eyes how their officers are executed, and not only that, we can also perform eleven slashes among them. Law, choose one out of ten to put to death, to increase the level of fear we have in their hearts, so that they can’t stop trembling with fear when they meet us.”

Eleven kill laws…

The term Jarvis is not unfamiliar. In the army of the ancient Borsland Empire, this terrible military law once circulated. The object of this military law is those deserters who fled without authorization in battle. The military police will Mix wooden sticks painted with different colors and let the deserters draw lots inside. Those who draw the specified color will be dragged out and executed in public to deter other deserters.

However, Jarvis always had a very unrealistic feeling that this ancient martial law was used on prisoners of war.

“How to deal with prisoners of war aside, what are we going to do next?” Jarvis asked, changing the subject.

“The enemy’s fifth division is stationed at a supply station, where a batch of military uniforms should be hoarded. We have to take it there first, and then change into the enemy’s military uniforms, disguised as enemy troops and infiltrate the enemy’s third army’s defense line.” Haus replied.

“Infiltrating the Third Army?” Jarvis was stunned, and then asked: “Shouldn’t we cooperate with the friendly forces of the Third Army and Fifth Army to break through the enemy’s First Army’s defense line? The enemy’s Third Army defense line can be everywhere. This kind of stronghold under our feet, even if we sneak in, it will be difficult to win.”

“After the military headquarters is taken down, the defense line of the enemy’s first army may be broken through by our friendly forces at any time, and our participation in the war is only a time to speed up the breakthrough, but the enemy’s third army defense line is different, there are mostly strongholds, from It takes a lot of energy and cost to launch a frontal attack, and if we sneak in in advance, we can reduce the losses of friendly forces in future attacks.”

Jarvis heard the words and felt that Bernard House’s statement was very reasonable, and he was almost convinced.

In the end, Jarvis followed the plans of House and Parker.

They first instructed the captured staff to draw up a military order. The content of the military order was roughly because of the battle. The fourth, fifth and sixth divisions needed to retreat to the rear for repairs, requiring the various strongholds of the Third Army. Release and provide supplies.

This order is just a cover~www.mtlnovel.com~ Their real goal is to take those strongholds between the defense lines of the two armies, and use these strongholds to divide the two armies of the Enkelans, At the same time as they took the stronghold, they would also send messengers to ask the friendly troops who were attacking frontally to launch a fierce attack on the first army defense line on the other side, opening the battle from the junction of the two armies.

Of course, before that, they still had to rest for a night to let the soldiers replenish their stamina and prepare for the battle the next day.

After that, the night was silent.

On the morning of the next day, the soldiers of the three divisions took out all the officers among the prisoners of war according to the orders of the division commanders, and prepared a large number of wooden sticks with black and red ends smeared respectively for the prisoners to draw lots. Anyone with a black stick will be caught and executed in public with the officers.

The prisoners of the Fifth Division and the more than 1,000 people captured in the stronghold, a total of more than 4,000 people accepted the lottery. Among them, more than 500 unlucky soldiers were finally brought before the prisoners together with the officers. Under the watchful eyes, the imperial soldiers were executed, and the volleys of the row after row not only took the lives of those who were executed, but also planted a fruit called fear in the hearts of many prisoners who watched this scene.