Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 508: The Polovisian Butcher

“Boss, I'm finally waiting for you. I can finally have a quick drink tonight and get a good night's sleep. You know, since the occupation of the Royal City of Polyvoria, I've had the nerve to even take a nap and close one eye. Now that you're here, our first division can rest assured..."

Don't look at Berklin holding a welcoming and small marching ceremony at the gates of the city, showing Chengzhu that everything is under control, but when he returns to division headquarters, he shouts bitterness. The surprise attack on the Royal City of Polyvisia was a feat in the history of war, but it was a very difficult day for him and the generals of the First Division to occupy the Royal City of Polyvisia and wait for the reinforcements of the successor forces.

Knowing that the kingdom of Nasserli has always been the enemy of the kingdom of Auvellas, as the seat of the Imperial City, the atmosphere of hostility towards the kingdom of Auvellas has always been very serious. And those living in the royal city are people with identity in the kingdom of Nasserley, who are arguably supporters of the Nasserley royal family and beneficiaries of the national policy of joining the Association of Eastern Nations against the kingdom of Auvellas.

As many as 110,000 families of registered residents of the Royal City of Polyvisia, even if the majority of them are civilians, are related to the noble class of the Kingdom of Nasri. The occupation of adult men in the family is either a grass-roots administrative officer or a member of the army, or to carry out business activities in the Royal City for the benefit of a nobleman. It can be said that the majority of the inhabitants of the Royal City are elites and middle-class members of the Nasseri Kingdom.

So in a way, the inhabitants of the Royal City of Polyvisia are all loyal subjects of Nasseri VII, who supported the war waged by the Kingdom of Nasseri against the Kingdom of Auvellas. He also looked forward to sharing a soup after the demise of the kingdom of Ovieras and benefiting individuals and families. In the residential area of the Imperial City, you can see a lot of families with white handkerchief orange blossoms hanging on their doors, which means that the family has a man who died on the battlefield...

Eleven thousand households, with a population of 560,000, plus foreign commercial workers, the population of the Royal City of Polyvoria exceeds 800,000, which is a little less than the one million resident residents of the Kingdom of Ovieras, the second largest city in the eastern part of the Farea continent, where commerce and factory manufacturing are well developed.

He was lucky enough to lead the First Division in a surprise attack on the Royal City of Polyvisia. He ran into the Royal Near Guard Corps of Nasserley once a month on a rest day, which was three days off in a row, and let the Corps officers and soldiers go home to deal with family matters and reunite their loved ones for three days. So there was only one division left in the Kingsguard Corps in the Royal City, which was suddenly attacked by the First Division of the Legion of Thunder, and was beaten down so quickly that the Royal City was captured by the First Division Corps.

The Royal City of Polyvisia was seized and none of the Nasserli royal or noble officials in the city escaped and were captured by Berklin's troops. It was also a matter of poor time, when the inhabitants of Wang Cheng did not react, and Wang Cheng was occupied by the enemy. By the time the situation is clarified, high-ranking noble officials who can incite civil change have been captured, the serpents have lost their heads and cannot resist.

One thing Becklin did very well was to take the initiative to sweep away the regrouped resistance in the vicinity of the Royal City when the situation in the city was not very stable. But Berklin also admitted that he had no choice at the time. If he did not take the initiative and wait for the cities and towns around the city to assemble their armed forces and besiege the city, then waiting for the First Division would be a brutal blood battle...

Because of the holidays of the Royal Nasseri Kingsguard Regiment, the officers and soldiers of a division returned home, most of whom did not live in the Royal City, but in the towns surrounding it. There are also some nobles of the Nasserli kingdom who also have estate villas in the surrounding towns of the Royal City or something. Upon learning of the fall of the Royal City, the nobles and the officers and soldiers of the near-guard regiment, who had returned from their rounds, acted to communicate with each other, assembled the surrounding towns and armed themselves and prepared to attack the Royal City for a short period of time.

Upon learning of this information, Berlin immediately decided to send troops directly to clear the surrounding towns and cities of the threat to the Royal City posed by the armed resistance that was being assembled, dispatched three major field regiments directly to sweep the surrounding towns and crush those that were being assembled to guard the armed forces, first eliminating the threat to the Royal City from swamps.

As Berlin himself admitted, the situation was truly very critical and tense, with less than one regiment remaining in the city. Nearly 3,000 people were killed and injured in the first division during the invasion of the Imperial City, and there was only one battalion of troops left at the expense. At that time, he was ready, in case the inhabitants of the King's City rioted, to take Nasseri VII out of the palace as hostage, to see who had been victimized, to save the King, to give you a dead body, much the same fate.

Fortunately, the three main field regiments swept the towns around the city, escorted large quantities of supplies and property back, and the residents of the city did nothing unusual to get the first division through the crisis. But it was not easy to stay in the city for more than a month, and the hostility and lack of cooperation of the inhabitants of the city were on the one hand. The captured Royal House of Nasserli and the guards of those high-ranking noble officials put a lot of pressure on the First Division by the more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Near Guard Corps who had already been captured.

There is also the whole Royal City's guarding work, which makes Berklin afraid of unexpected situations every day, looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements, so that he can take off the burden of his shoulders. In particular, the surrounding towns have not cleaned up the resistance, and there are still many leaking fish. Light patrol units of the first division were frequently ambushed by armed resistance in those areas, with 300 or 400 casualties. Berklin was too hot to take revenge and was afraid to provoke civil change.

“You see, the twelve towns within a hundred miles of this royal city have been listed as restricted areas for our division soldiers. Because walking down the street is ambushed by gunmen who ambush houses on the side of the street. And we couldn't find the enemy, because they dropped their guns and became civilians, and if we were to carry out a massive search of the entire town, we would have to send a regiment of troops, otherwise tens of thousands of inhabitants of a town would riot and we would have difficulty pressing down..." Berklin pointed to the surrounding towns on the map of the Royal City of Polyviria.

“Now the first division also has three and a half regiments, one guarding the walls of the city, one guarding the captives and one blocking order in the residential business district of the Royal City. Two more battalions are responsible for guarding the palace, and members of the Nasseri royal family and high-ranking dignitaries are being held in the palace, which is a matter of utmost importance. The remaining 2,000 wounded and sick stayed in the medical camp, so I had no manoeuvre at my disposal and had to let the twelve towns around the city secretly surround us. Even if scouting and patrolling squads are dispatched, they can only patrol and explore the outskirts of these towns..." Berlin is helpless.

When Claude remembered the two towns he had come to, he found that Berklin was right, that the townspeople had been driven out of their houses on both sides of the street, looking at the Thunder Corps generals passing through the street with hateful eyes. In fact, it's no big deal, mainly because the guard camp took over the houses on both sides of the street for safety reasons, and when Claude passed by, he would return the house to the original owner, without taking advantage of the opportunity to loot anything in their house.

That's how the townsfolk stood on the side of the street, looking cold with anger and hatred at the officers and soldiers of the Second Division of the Legion of Thunder and Claude passing through their doors. It would appear that none of the statements made by Berlin are false, as the lack of manoeuvre at hand does not counteract local resistance to armed forces in these towns in the vicinity of the Royal City, leading to a heightened sense of resistance among the inhabitants of these twelve towns. This does not bode well and must be resolutely repressed.

Sometimes benevolence does not allow the enemy to lay down his weapon, but rather makes the enemy more arrogant. As the Dead Enemy of the Kingdom of Auvellas, the Royal City of Polyvisia and surrounding areas of the Kingdom of Nasserli are the most determined anti-Olympics, and perhaps only iron and blood can awaken the people of the region, whose destiny lies in the hands of the conquerors.

“Take a full two days off, overcrowd the 12 towns surrounding the King's City, cut off traffic links between them, and even pedestrians must undergo rigorous checks and guarantees before they can be released. Two days later, the second division set out and each town sent a battalion to seal off roads and lay siege to them. The troops of the remaining regiment began searching every town, all arrests of firearms in the house, arrests of nobles and officials alike, resistance to the killing of innocent women and children, irrespective of old and weak, as long as those hostile to our army had acted, all were cleared! ”

Unlike those high-ranking officers in command who were ordered to come to the King's City of Polyvisia, Claude was well aware of the bloody wave that his orders would cause in the surrounding towns. Mercy does not go hand in hand with merciless killing of the enemy. Only in this way can those who trust themselves be afforded the sacrifice of those loyal generals for nothing, not for the sake of so-called humanism.

The two divisions of the Legion of Legion of Thunder in the Royal City Division of Polyvisia suddenly strained the area around the city. The night was the night of the Wolftooth Brigade, and Claude didn't let the Wolftooth Brigade into those towns, but rather operated on the outskirts of those towns at night. Unexpectedly, two nights later, the Lyceum Tooth Brigade captured more than a dozen liaison officers sent by the local resistance forces in these towns, who, under torture, revealed individually the contents of their local resistance to the armed forces.

On the third day, the network was closed, twelve towns were surrounded by divisions, and the fifth regiment of the second division entered the town of Rodwig and began searching. As a result, less than half an hour later, local resistance ambushes were encountered. The whole town rioted and countless residents of the town jumped at the officers and soldiers of the fifth regiment with knives and forks. The division leader of the second division, General Diaved, spit out the grass roots in his mouth and gave the order to fire...

After two days of intense and tragic vow of death resistance by more than 70,000 people in the town of Rodwig, all that was achieved was the end of a broken family. The knives and forks in their hands, not even an enemy, were knocked down by a ruthless bullet. Even hiding in their homes doesn't help. The Fifth Regiment officers and soldiers use old front-loaded light infantry artillery guns captured in the Royal City to fire solid iron bullets to destroy their houses and throw projectiles into the houses to clear the target...

At the end of the day, the town was razed to the ground, with the exception of more than 10,000 women and children who had surrendered voluntarily and were lucky to have been captured. In order to destroy the evidence, the heinous aggressor set fire to it as it departed, and the flames of the bear burned for three days and three nights before they were extinguished. Instead, the aggressor embarked on a return journey with close to a hundred cars full of possessions to escort the more than 10,000 women and children.

Next came the town of Ksimbak, which was well guarded, the townspeople erected a barrier, made various weapons, fought as guards before the Fifth Regiment entered the town, and wounded a soldier preparing to enter the town with a homemade crossbow arrow, so the battle broke out. It turns out that in front of heavily armed 5th Division soldiers, the townspeople of the town of Ksimbak are nothing more than five pieces of war, no one can resist the shelling and bombing of artillery shells, and the ruthless shooting of that bullet, the sooner the braver people die, the sooner the resistance of the townspeople will collapse.

The resistance of the townspeople in the town of Ksimbak was just that the thunder did not rain, the noise was loud, and it really shriveled quickly after the fight. They didn't look like the first townspeople in Rodwig, they fought for two days as if they were dead. And the townspeople of Kessinback can't hold out for six hours of resistance. After the most determined and brave men died, the rest gave up their weapons and surrendered, so the Thunder Corps gained over 40,000 more prisoners.

Following a precedent, the Fifth Regiment set fire to the entire town after searching for its belongings, burning the entire town to the ground. People were oblivious, and Claude was not prepared to release the townsfolk, who would be transported to the Overseas Autonomous Territories along with officers and soldiers of the captured Royal Nasserly Close Guard Corps. Rocky Mountain State is very unpopular, and the officers and townspeople of these close guard regiments will be the right miners. Perhaps a life of misery would soon make them part of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, forgetting the hatred between nations, which Claude believed in.

It was Diavid who asked Claude strangely why he didn't do the same thing with the other prisoners as he did with the KLA officers and soldiers on his left thigh before releasing them, so that he wouldn't have to waste the strength of a regiment to take care of them.

Claude told him that the officers and soldiers of the Kingsguard Corps were loyal to the kingdom of Nasri, and that they, like the captives at the grass-roots level, were members of the profit-making class of the kingdom of Nasri, so we would not compromise on the demise of the kingdom of Nasri. And the other prisoners, they were forcibly conscripted into the army, and we cut his knife to save him from the danger of going to war, and he would thank us for letting him avoid the fate of going to war as a cannonball dust.

And the officers and soldiers of the Near Guard, don't tell him to cut a knife and break one leg against us all the same. So sending them off to dig in the Rocky Hills of the Overseas Autonomous Territories would cut them off. In the future, they will have to fight for their survival and care for their families and for a better life.

By the same token, these townsfolk, they oppose us, and although we forcibly suppress them, they will still haunt us behind our backs if we let them go. For the sake of longevity and security in the surrounding area of the Imperial City, we can only kill chicken monkeys and make the towns of Rodwig and Kessinback our next example of disobedience. Let the residents of the remaining ten towns see what the outcome of the resistance will be...

The result is clear to all. So the residents of the third town had no other townspeople to resist the Thunder Corps officers and soldiers who entered the town to search and inspect, apart from those places where the resistance to armed death had swept away for more than an hour. Even the townspeople with guns in their houses were captured, and their neighbors had nothing to say about it, just closing the doors and windows and looking out the door and window...

The subjugation of the third town means that the nine remaining towns around the Imperial City can no longer unleash any wave of resistance. With the ruins of the towns of Rodwig and Ksimbak in front of them, the remaining four towns, like the third, have become quails, apart from the resistance of members of the resistance who are hiding there. They watched the Thunder Legion officers and soldiers crush the resistance of those armed men, gathering the captured rebels with weapons in the town square, shooting them to death and taking their families away.

For towns that bow their heads and surrender, the officers and soldiers of the Legion of Thunder indicate that only a 30 percent tax rate will be levied, and everything else will be left to the people of the town. Of course, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Corps only went inside to see if weapons such as guns were hidden, and the average sword and bow spear did not care. Nor will property be searched in the homes of the townspeople who obey orders.

The officers and soldiers of the Legion of Thunder simply took away the families of the resistance and the rebels, and the members of the resistance who surrendered voluntarily would not be killed, but were taken prisoner, just like their families. And the same goes for the nobles and officials in the town, who were arrested along with their families. Only armed rebels on the spot would be brutally repressed and executed on the spot, even if they were alive.

The houses of these resistant armed members and rebels, as well as the estates of the nobles and local officials, the villas and everything will be carefully searched, all property will be removed, even the vacant estate villas and houses will be sealed, indicating that the house will be disposed of later and no other townspeople will be allowed to seize it by themselves...

By the time the last three towns were reached, the three main field regiments were already operating simultaneously. Surprisingly, the townspeople of these three towns were well prepared to receive the soldiers of the Legion of Thunder. It was only then that the generals discovered that the townspeople had done everything for them, even those members of the resistance who were hiding in the towns had been tied up and concentrated in the town square, not even their family members.

Looking at weapons such as guns piled up in the square, members of the resistance who were tied up or verbally abusive or angry with remorse, as well as the crying families, General Diaved said he really opened his eyes.

As a representative, several elders of the townspeople expressed their humility that they had always lived in peace and only wanted to continue to live in peace. And this treatment of the resistance to armed members is for their own good, at least they will not die instantly because of the resistance and will involve the rest of the innocent townspeople...

As a result, the towns and areas surrounding the Royal City of Polyvisia were reintroduced under the control of the Legion of Thunder, and Claude then ordered a major inventory of the City, which had been sealed for half a month. In the past, an inventory of a residential area in a residential area continued to hear gunshots and explosions. More than 20,000 armed elements were killed for fighting on the spot, and close to 200,000 members of their families and those of members of the Royal Nasri Neighbourhood Guard, as well as those of royal city nobles and local officials, entered the controlled area and separated from the outside world.

At last, the Legion of Thunder has truly mastered the Royal City of Polyvisia, clearing away the hidden danger behind it. Armed rebels and the population who died as a result of the two clearance operations were statistically more than 100,000, and Claude was thus referred to by the outside population as the Polyvinian butcher.