Chapter 9 Breaking the City in Three Minutes
Until now, when he was completely angered by these stupid humans, he understood what his emperor meant. If favors cannot be remembered, then use suffering to let them know. This is the so-called human beings. If others treat them well, they will forget them in minutes. On the contrary, if they beat them up, they will have to remember them for a lifetime.
So, from a certain perspective, humans are really a very cheap creature.
It was as if now, the Norman Empire gave them a living standard equivalent to the level of the empire. The city of Paris was built no worse than other cities in the empire. The flat pavement, houses, residential areas, towering city walls, and various public facilities were all available. There were also mills that could provide high-quality flour and bake high-quality bread. Various handicrafts also became more developed and promoted commerce. Both the citizens of Paris and the farmers outside the city of Paris had improved their living standards a lot.
However, these Parisians did not seem to appreciate it. It was as if the Norman Empire did this for granted. While they were not grateful, they held a grudge against the central government of the Norman Empire after the environment had deteriorated helplessly. With the Black Death raging, industry and commerce were sluggish, and mobs were rampant outside the city, they actually felt that these were all the mistakes of the Norman Empire and Norman Huang.
In short, to summarize it, it is like this: if something good happens, I don’t remember you, that’s what you should do. If something bad happens, it must be you, even if it actually has nothing to do with you. Political and leaders are such a thankless and sad existence that is pointed out by thousands of people.
"The Lord is really... worthy of sympathy. So we should work hard to share the worries of the Lord."
General Fal thought this way and ordered the siege at the first time. The 20,000 army left the city gate to the south, and two thousand Hussars were ambushed on the road there. Although it was just a simple strategy of surrounding three and missing one. General Fal did not think that the fools in this world could have people who could see such a strategy - of course. Even if they saw it, it was no big deal. Because the other three city gates were all arranged enough troops.
The new army with the strongest defense ability blocked the roads on the other three sides of Paris. Later, the elite Norman Knights were also distributed equally as heavy crossbowmen with long-range blocking forces. The rest, the Norman infantry, the main offensive force, the Norman assault infantry and the longbowmen who suppressed fire were allocated to the north.
Of course there are artillery.
Well. That's right, the powerful, new-looking twenty-four-pound infantry cannon—the most powerful gunpowder weapon in the world, with a total of five.
These black and ferocious cannons cast in pure steel and through special casting methods have amazing power. A total of five cannons were fired in one round. They smashed the trembling Parisian city gates. Immediately afterwards, the Norman soldiers roared loudly, and with the support of the Nordic Wolf's skills, they surpassed their usual best condition - they either pushed the ladder cart forward, or rushed directly towards the city gate. Under the cover of the rain of longbows and arrows and artillery bombardment.
"This, this..." On the top of the city, a group of Paris citizens looked pale. At that time, there were many people who were not honest, who put down their simple weapons and raised their hands to surrender. The people next to them also followed suit. They either held their heads and squatted in defense or shouted to surrender - after all, they were "citizens" and ordinary people who could not even compare to mobs - although this kind of recruitment of Ding Zhuang would also play a certain role in the city defense war. But it also depends on what state.
The so-called "Paris Autonomous City-State" has neither too clever politicians nor passionate leaders who urge people to pee, nor is there a calm and contagious peerless general. They have a group of ambitious people, speculators and middle-aged idiots, and a group of transgressive idiots who claim to be members of the Supreme Council. Therefore, they are completely unable to mobilize the enthusiasm of citizens.
The ones who faced them were neither weak and incompetent defeated soldiers nor crazy people who would kill people indiscriminately before they realized this. Therefore, they would not have the awareness of fighting with the wind, or "If you don't resist, you will die, why don't you understand?!". What's more, the ones who came to fight were their original "motherland" and came to "save" their Norman army.
The shameless and shameless spirit of the unruly people was very unbearable. The Parisian citizens who were already shouting "Get out of the tyrant!" and "Paris is Parisian Paris!" changed their tone.
"Long live Egil Scadragrimson!", "Warm welcome to the Norman soldiers!". That's about it.
However, although their shouts were loud and their expressions were very vivid. Some even plucked up the courage to approach the Norman soldiers who rushed into the city or climbed up the walls with a flattering smile. They nodded and bowed to show that they were a great good citizen-but.
The answer given to them is just a sharp battle axe.
A Norman infantry centurion who rushed in the front, wiped away the blood that gushed out of the victim with a ferocious expression. Then he carried the battle axe and continued to charge forward.
"Attack! Attack! Kill all the rebels in this city! Your Majesty's order, massacre the city! No matter how old, young, female and child, kill them all!! No one left!!!"
With such a cruel and arrogant voice, all the residents of Paris have been sentenced to their fate. The flattering smile just now was replaced by a fearful expression. The words of loyalty that had just been said were immediately replaced by a harsh scream. The soldiers of the Norman Empire massacred, massacred, and massacred. With a group of professional soldiers wearing exquisite plate armor and holding sharp axes, they massacred a group of citizens who had no will to resist, and even less ability to resist.
The wailing sounded loudly and blood flowed into a river. The remaining citizens did not dare to resist and immediately fled into the city. As a result, the entire north wall was declared to fall.
"It's over, it's over - I wouldn't have listened to that bastard if I had known it! What was the Normans' strength greatly damaged during the plague?! What would the opponent not send troops?! No matter what kind of troops were going to break the defense of Paris - it was all nonsense!" In the center of Paris, it was originally the mayor's administrative residence appointed by Emperor Norman. At this moment, it was occupied by the incompetent ambitious people, speculators and middle school students as mentioned earlier.
I originally thought that I could take advantage of the troubled times to gain a foundation, even establish a country, and become the real ruler of the city. But I didn’t expect that the final result would be to go to the guillotine.
After hearing that the Norman army had captured the city, most of them became panic. They quarreled and blamed each other. At the same time, they prayed desperately that one of them could come up with an idea. At the same time, they were ready to betray anyone...
"Isn't the situation already obvious?" Seeing the ugly performance of this group of "companies", in the most conspicuous part of the crowd, the young man who still maintained calmness, looked cheerful and sunny and handsome, smiled. He felt in his heart: "What a group of fools."
Whenever I see these guys, this man, a small pickpocket from the streets of Paris, became the boss of the peripheral gang of the Norman Empire intelligence organization in just a few years, and even a young man who regarded himself as the underground ruler of Paris would feel a huge sense of superiority.
Success, success, and success. Successful successes made him feel overwhelmed. The clever and insidious plans and ruthless actions also made him gain a lot of loyal thugs and people’s awe. In fact, this time, this person made an indelible contribution to the success of Paris.
Without him, these ambitious speculators would not be able to connect them privately. They would be even more weak by the Norman intelligence system, although in this case, the intelligence system that could not get foreign aid was already weak and destroyed - because even a lean tiger was much better than a cat.
Unlike those whom he thought were out of reach, the young gang leader had already thought of a way out from the beginning. When he said this, he made the "companions" around him holding "dead horses as living horses" notice, and excitedly urged him to ask him what good ideas he had, the young man smiled proudly and snapped his fingers.
Immediately afterwards, the large gang members, assassins, and killers who were ambushing outside rushed in. Some of them protected the young man. Others rushed to other members of the parliament and used weapons to force them not to move around.
"What's going on with you?! Do you want to kill us in exchange for the forgiveness of the tyrant?! Naive!" Seeing this man taking such action, some people were so surprised that they couldn't speak. Some people shouted, wanting to change their minds.
However, what I got was a cold ridicule.
"You idiot! Let your men leave quickly! I can forget the insult you made to me! We still have a chance. As long as we can break through the city and run to Aquitaine to the south--"
The great nobleman who claimed to be the speaker, one of the best in Paris, and the father-in-law of the young man - he married a daughter he adopted to the young man, both to win over and monitor him. He originally thought that the young man was just a useful piece of chess piece. Therefore, he seemed particularly excited about the betrayal of the chess piece.
After seeing the young man's ridiculous face, he shouted loudly, asking the young man to change his mind. However, what he got was still just ridicule.
"Why are you laughing at?!" The Speaker's heart sank more and more. Finally, he couldn't help but shouted out. (..)
Chapter completed!