227 Hanging Deterrence(1/2)
Bang!
Under the brute force of the guard infantry, the wooden door panels of the 18th century houses fell to the ground with overwhelming burden. The guard infantry who broke the door had no intention of apologizing. They looked cold and shouted to the people in the house in a cold tone: "Everyone in the house comes out and go to the square in the city center to see the hanging of the revolutionary party.
If it does not come out, it will be handled according to the revolutionary unrest!”
After the guard infantryman finished shouting, he waited for a few seconds and shouted again.
Then, an old man with two and a half-year-old children came out timidly. Several guard infantrymen outside did not make things difficult for them, but broke in very roughly.
The old man wanted to stop him, but was blocked horizontally by a flintlock rifle with a bayonet.
"Old lady, we are performing official duties and arresting the revolutionary unrest in Marseille. According to the confession of members of the Revolutionary Committee of Marseille, more than 90% of the adult men in the city were involved in the battle.
But don’t worry, as long as you don’t interfere with our official duties, you and your children can be guaranteed for personal safety, otherwise…”
The guard infantryman who blocked the old man's way looked at the two and a half-old children huddled behind the old man with murderous intent on his face.
The guard infantry guard thought that his warning would make the old man give up his attempt, but he didn't expect that the old man would become even more crazy and directly reached out to grab the gun that intercepted her.
"No!
You can't do this!
My son is just an ordinary worker, he didn't participate in the battle, don't..."
With a bang, the old man was knocked to the ground by a left hook by the guard infantryman, and then pointed his gun at the old lady who fell to the ground, warning for the last time:
"If you continue to obstruct official duties, not only will you die, but your two children will also be executed according to law!
We are just catching war criminals, and all those who fight against the great Black Dragon Legion deserve the punishment they deserve.
But don't worry, we won't kill people randomly. As long as he doesn't resist, we are only responsible for sending your son to the labor service."
After hearing the last sentence, the old lady with bleeding from the corner of her mouth finally gave up her struggle, hugged her child, and slowly stood up with the help of her two children.
This old lady looks very old, but in fact she is only in her 50s!
Soon, a begging for mercy sounded in the room, and a man in his early 30s and a rough-looking middle-aged woman were pulled out by the guards infantry entering the house.
"Don't hurt my wife, I'm willing to follow you, I'm willing to bear the mistakes I've made, I'm willing to accept labor reform from the labor office..."
The man in his early 30s who was caught was kneeling in front of the guards' infantry and protected his wife behind him, begging while crying.
Fortunately, the man's attitude was more "sincerity". The guard infantry did not make things difficult for him. Capturing young and strong laborers is much more valuable than catching an "old woman" who is not very handsome and has a mother of two children.
The middle-aged man was led to a temporary gathering place by a guard infantry, while the other guard infantry continued to walk towards the next house, while the middle-aged woman who was left hugged and cried with the old man.
“Narita!
Take good care of my mother and I will definitely come back alive!”
The man in his early 30s who was taken away looked at his family before leaving, shouted at the top of his lungs, and was pushed hard by the guards infantry.
Guard infantry needs to be in a hurry to do their mission!
When the old man saw the guard infantry walking away, the sadness in his eyes suddenly turned into deep hatred.
"Damn Levi's rebels, God will punish you, thunder from the sky kills that demon Levi!"
"Mother, do we still have to go to the city center square?"
After hearing this, the old man sighed helplessly, stood up and led his daughter-in-law and two children, and walked towards the city center square with staggering steps.
She dared not not go.
Even though her husband and two sons died at the hands of the Black Dragon Legion, the last son had just been captured, and in order to survive, she had no choice but to surrender.
On the streets, there were old, weak, women, children and children who had just been driven out of the house. All the men and young men in Marseille, whether they had participated in the battle or not, were forcibly taken away by guard infantrymen.
The reason is very simple. In this battle to conquer Marseille, the Black Dragon Legion lost more than 1,200 guard infantrymen, which was regarded as a shame by Carl!
Because he led the team to attack the Marseille city, it was known as a defender of 100,000, most of which were militia-level and paramilitary armed forces. These people alone would cause such "huge" casualties to himself.
Even if the outside world seems to have the Black Dragon Legion attacked a Marseille city with more than 20,000 troops, with a united force to defend its hometown, and could end the battle in one day and one night, and only lose more than 1,200 people, which is enough to be recorded in France's glorious history, in Carl's eyes, this is still a shame for the Black Dragon Legion.
There is only one reason, the one who stands in front of the Black Dragon Legion is not the regular army!
As long as it is not a regular army, no matter how many people there are, Carl should be a scum that can easily defeat.
The revolutionary will of the Marseille defenders or the improvement of combat effectiveness brought by the deep blood hatred made Carl very angry, so this city-wide arrest operation was launched.
The family of four who had just lost her husband and son, passed by a house, instinctively stayed away from the guard infantry standing at the door to watch the door.
However, before they could leave, an angry roar suddenly came from the room.
"You Li Wei's lackey butchers, I'm fighting with you!"
Bang, bang bang!
After three gunshots, the roar came to an abrupt end. Not long after, a blood-covered young man in Marseille was dragged out, and the guards infantry behind him remanded three children and a disheveled woman.
A girl and three children had four people in total. Guard infantry, whose number was equivalent to that of them, was pressed to the corner of the street. One of the guard infantry shouted loudly to the crowd passing by:
"The revolutionary unrelenting party, all arrested immediate relatives were shot on the spot!"
As soon as the words were finished, the four guard infantry raised their guns to point at the woman and three children in the corner of the wall, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
One of the children was not hit by the vital points, and the guard infantry stepped forward and pointed it at his heart and repaired a bayonet...
The scene was so bloody that the passers-by and neighbors were stunned.
Many parents also quickly covered their children's eyes, but there was a lot of numbness and fear in the eyes of the covered children.
They seemed to have become accustomed to such a brutal war environment and the terrifying foreign army.
This typical case immediately made the people in the surrounding residential houses dare not resist at all, and obediently handed over the adult male at home, while the other elderly, weak, women and children followed the abortion to the central square designated by the Guards Infantry.
A battle to defend the Marseille market has caused the population of the Marseille city to drop sharply, and some people have died in battle and some have fled, and there are not many people left.
However, the Guards infantry did not force the hanging when visiting the city center square. Many Marseille citizens who went out returned, but were not blocked or made things difficult by the Guards infantry.
Guard infantry are just performing tasks, and they don't care about anything other than the tasks.
One of these is the most incredible to the citizens of Marseille.
When the Guards infantry entered the house to search, they saw the young and beautiful Marseille girls without any particular action.
A young girl in her 28 years old is treated exactly the same as an old lady in the eyes of the guard infantry...
This made the citizens of Marseille breathe a sigh of relief.
It is also the only good news they have received.
However, there was a small group of people in the Marseille city. Not only were they not captured by the guards infantry, but they were treated preferentially and formed a new Marseille city temporary municipal government.
Most of this small group of people are intellectuals and capitalists from the city of Marseille and its surrounding cities and towns.
Those who have good reputations in Marseille will receive preferential treatment as long as they have not been put into the arms of the Revolutionary Committee and are willing to join the Levi regime, and will help Karl restore production and trade in the Marseille and surrounding cities and towns.
As the second largest city in France and a crucial large port city, Li Wei naturally could not allow Marseille to accept military control for a long time.
The Black Dragon Legion has the first-class level of war, but its management level can basically only kill and kill...
Therefore, the surrender of these so-called Marseille social celebrities has extremely important transitional significance for the Li Wei regime.
Naturally, the relatives and friends of this small group of people were also protected by the Black Dragon Legion.
What really hurts Marseille is actually the revolutionaries in Marseille and the ordinary citizens' families who are enslaved by the revolutionary party.
This time, the Battle of Marseille reached a rare level of victory in the full war system campaign evaluation of Levi, who received 5 glory points and 1 building point.
This "complete victory" assessment is not a merger of multiple related battles, but a single battle evaluation of the offensive and defensive battle in Marseille.
For Li Wei, it is rare to achieve a "complete victory" level in a single battle.
Under the system of guard infantry, the last bloody and courage of the residents of Marseille who were broken into their houses disappeared.
The armed citizens of Marseille who escaped and did not die in the battlefield were originally cowards, so they naturally would not take their whole family to fight against the Black Dragon Legion.
After seeing the cruel methods of the Black Dragon Legion, many Marseille families even saw the adult males in the family voluntarily bid farewell to their families and walked out. Sometimes two guard infantrymen could escort dozens of Marseille adult male citizens to the detention center.
If the guard infantry encounters a house that is uninhabited, they will break the goal and plunder all the valuable goods inside.
In the eyes of Marseille citizens, this is the normal behavior of foreign invaders.
However, what the citizens of Marseille did not know was that the plundered guard infantry would not put a copper plate into their pockets, and would all be paid for the reserve military expenditure of the Black Dragon Legion.
The houses that have been looted will be sealed by the guards infantry, which means that the property is owned by the government and will be distributed to the garrison soldiers as rewards, or simply sold to recover the funds.
Of course, after those who tried to resist were killed, their property would be confiscated in this way.
There is no need to take any legal means. Any property that is not inhabited at this time will be included in government property.
Even if the original owner comes back, it will be difficult to get back through legal means. Unless it is a celebrity or a real rich man, he has the opportunity to get his property back from the government.
The premise is that they pay the price they deserve.
The reason for this is that Carl believes that if the people who left the city after the Battle of Marseille were not outsiders, they would have been revolutionary rioters. It is natural to confiscate the fixed property of the revolutionary rioters!
Although many Marseille citizens returned to their homes and did not go to the city center square to watch the hanging of members of the Marseille Revolutionary Committee, the Marseille Central Square was still surrounded by a large number of elderly, weak, women and children.
At first glance, there were dense heads.
Of course, Carl had already made security preparations. The execution platform was surrounded by guard infantry holding bayonets and flintlock rifles, and there were layers of guard infantry posts on the periphery, as well as guard infantry infantry patrols.
To be continued...