309 Know why you fight
"Come on, let's talk about the unfair experiences you have suffered in the past. Don't be afraid. In the Legion of Honor, everyone is better than brothers. You can tell us about your past resentment and let everyone unite and take revenge together!"
As soon as the Greek officer of the Legion of Honor finished speaking, a young Albanian soldier who had already prepared stood up.
This is not a entrusting, but a "typical" communication with Greek officers in advance. After all, someone needs to take the lead in this kind of thing, otherwise everyone will not like "What should I do if I promote my family's ugly?"
"My name is Ethor. My parents are both farmers. Although life is hard, our family of five will not starve to death.
Until that day, the Serbian tax officials came to our village and collected three times the tax!
Our family didn't have that much food, and the Serbian tax officials asked the soldiers to tie my father and several other farmers who had not paid the full amount of food to the pillars.
In front of everyone…”
Speaking of this, the Albanian youth suddenly choked up, and the people who sat around were people from the minority groups recruited by the Legion of Honor in the Serbian occupied area.
As the Legion of Honor penetrated into the occupied areas of the Kingdom of Serbia, the proportion of original Greek soldiers became smaller and smaller.
At first, the initial army of honor brought by Aristotle was not large, less than 10,000 people.
After many battles, there was no way to replenish Greek soldiers, so they could only recruit those oppressed ethnic minorities on the spot.
Of course, the rich will not be sent to the guerrillas like the Legion of Honor, which seem to have no "cards". After all, no matter how many victories the Legion of Honor achieves, it will not shake the foundation of the ruling of the Kingdom of Serbia, let alone the Serbia Kingdom has a powerful sacred alliance!
Therefore, the Honor Corps recruits poor peasant children. This Albanian young man is born in many soldiers and absolutely accounts for the majority. Even if he is not a peasant family, he is also a poor migrant worker in the city.
Therefore, the arguments of this Albanian youth easily resonated with these soldiers!
On the contrary, the few Greek soldiers who were responsible for maintaining order and waiting and watching were not very empathetic. After all, even though they were poor, they had no in-depth contact with the official Serbian government.
However, with the expansion and war loss of the Legion of Honor, Greek soldiers had long become a minority among the components of its forces, so Aristotle launched this military-wide complaint campaign!
Aristotle had already noticed the crisis of the Legion of Honor!
After taking a deep breath and wiped away the tears, the young Albanian soldier adjusted his mentality. After all, he has been in the military for a long time and has killed Serbian soldiers with his own hands. He is no longer the cowardly young man who only kneels on the ground and cries when facing a gun-carrying soldier.
“At the order of the Serbian tax collector, my father and several villagers who were also encountering were dug out of his internal organs in public.
My mother wanted to go forward to stop her before her father died, but was dragged into the small house next to her by two Serb soldiers. My mother's screams rang for an entire hour. When I saw my mother again, there was only one body left...
My younger brother is braver than me. He rushed up and bit the thigh of the Serbian soldier who raped my mother, and then his companion broke his neck with a bayonet!
I hate it!
I hated my cowardice at that time. All the Serb soldiers surrounded me and laughed at me. The elders in the village dared not say a word of rebuttal except for laughing at me.
Just because I am an Albanian and they are Serbians, I can trample on our lives and dignity without any wits!
But I am no longer cowardly now. When I killed the first Serbian soldier with my own hands, I knew that the Legion of Honor was my last destination in this life. I would rather die on the battlefield of charge than return to the cowardly life before!"
As Ethor said, his face showed a firm expression, but the tears on both sides of his cheeks could not be wiped clean.
Many onlookers around him began to cry silently. Many of the ethnic minority soldiers who participated in the Honor Legion had their families dead at the hands of Serbians.
It was obvious that Ethor's encounter touched the softest string in their hearts.
"Ethor, I remember you have a sister, why have I never seen you?"
The Greek officer next to him suddenly spoke, and the soldiers present suddenly became nervous. It was obvious that Ethor was alone now, his sister...
Finally, Ethor collapsed. He knelt on the ground and cried loudly. A man who had killed someone knelt on the ground and cried like a child. The answer was self-evident.
The Greek officer did not force Ethor anymore, and the effect he wanted had achieved.
Two Greek soldiers helped Ethor down to prevent him from crying here.
It is obvious that even this tough Albanian young man could not say anything about his experience with his sister Ettor.
“I want to talk about my past experiences too!
My father was a city blacksmith. During the Ottoman rule, our family had been under heavy religious taxes, but we all survived.
Unexpectedly, after the Serbs became the rulers of the city, they not only levyed higher taxes than the Ottomans, but also helped another blacksmith shop opened by the Serbs to try every means to exclude us.
Just because the iron tools my father made were of better quality, the Serbian blacksmith hired a gangster to break my father's legs!
They thought that if my father broke his legs, my father would never be able to compete with them again, even if the iron tools they made were garbage!"
At this time, someone suddenly asked, "Your father was beaten up by a gangster, why didn't you call the police?"
The soldier who told him about his experience suddenly burst into laughter after hearing this, and tears came out of his eyes. I don’t know if he was laughing at his past experience or laughing at this cannibalistic society.
"Call the police?
That's right, that's what I thought at that time.
However, when the Serbian police found out that I was a Roma, they directly bombed my mother and me and spit out in my mother's face, saying that we Roma are not worthy of their police!
My father is the only financial pillar in the family. If he doesn't make a blacksmith, our whole family will starve to death. My father has to drag his disabled legs and feet to continue making a living.
Our output is far inferior to before, but the Serbian blacksmith is still unwilling to let us go. After seeing us reopening the door, he actually bought the gangster and lit our house at night.
My disabled father had no time to escape, and my mother was choked to death by the smoke to save me!
I watched my mother take her last breath in front of me.
My home is gone, but the Serbian police determined that it was an ordinary fire, not a deliberate murder!
If I hadn't been running fast, maybe I'd died in that city.
Haha, this is the treatment of the lower-class people in the Kingdom of Serbia. We are not worthy of living in cities controlled by Serbs."
As soon as the words were finished, the soldiers in the audience suddenly became angry and cursed the abominable Serbs.
At this time, the Greek officer responsible for maintaining order stood up and shouted to the soldiers who were provoked to hate: "The Serbs are our enemies, but do you know why the Serbs are so rampant?"
After this question was raised, soldiers immediately responded: "Because the Serbs established their own kingdom and had their own army, they could unscrupulously oppress us non-Serbians."
The Greek officer nodded in praise and continued to ask: "But do you know why the Serbs can establish their own country, but we cannot establish their own country?
We were all slaves ruled by the Ottomans. Later, the Ottoman Empire was defeated, and all our nations should be able to establish their own countries. However, in the entire Balkans, only the Serbs, the Romanians and the Bulgarians established their own kingdoms, and the remaining dozen nations became the objects of their enslavement!
Even the Macedonian Republic, which we Greeks supported, was destroyed by the Holy Alliance not long ago, just because the Macedonians established a country of their own nation without the consent of Levi, a tyrant of the French Empire!”
The Greek officer cleverly eliminated the Greek Republic from the Balkans, and the soldiers immersed in hatred did not notice this.
Even if it was discovered, it was nothing. After all, the Greeks were also enemies of the Holy Alliance and their ally. Even the many alien soldiers present had a general impression of the Greeks because of Aristotle's honorary army, and even regarded Greece's independence and country as an example of its own nation.
Unfortunately, the population and settlements of these minorities are too small and relatively scattered to compete with the Romanians, Serbs and Bulgarians, who are the leading population in the Balkans.
Otherwise, why should the Li Wei government support these three ethnic groups?
Isn’t it just that you like the population base of these three ethnic groups?
Only by building a nation with a majority population can we steadily oppress minorities. Otherwise, a minority will oppress the majority and it will easily fail!
All the Livi government wants is a conflicting Balkan Kingdom, not a Balkan Kingdom that fights civil war every day.
The vassal state that had daily civil wars did not benefit the Li Wei government.
They even have to help the vassal state stabilize the internal affairs.
Unlike the current army gathered by the Balkans, Aristotle of the Legion of Honor felt the crisis of destruction, and even thought of such tricks as the complaints, increasing the combat courage of the soldiers under his command at any cost.
To put it bluntly, they are all forced.
This is because the French Defence Force did not take action directly.
The Balkan minorities at the bottom did not understand the dilemma faced by the Legion of Honor, but Aristotle and his confidant officers knew it very well.
Sure enough, after the Greek military officer finished speaking, the soldiers present showed a sudden look of enlightenment.
It turns out that all the culprits were the Emperor Li Wei of the French Empire of the Holy Alliance!
"Yes, why did Livi, the tyrant of the French Empire, only help the Serbs establish the country, but ignore the Roma, Albanian, Montenegro...
And we also have to help the Serbs bully us!
Do we minorities do not have the right to live in the Balkans?”
"Yes, the French don't let us live well, so we will pick up our weapons and fight with them to the end. Our sacrifice is to create a living environment for the next generation of our ethnic group!"
The Greek officer nodded with a solemn expression and emphasized: "Levi, the tyrant of the French Empire, wanted to destroy us minorities, and the sacred alliance he established is our enemy.
But don’t worry, we also have powerful allies, and the anti-French allies are our backers, and many of the weapons in our hands are supported by the British!
As long as the Anti-French Alliance wins and the Holy Alliance fails, all minorities can establish our own country in the Balkans.
From then on, our relatives, friends and descendants will no longer have to suffer the tragedy we have encountered.
Only resistance can make those who oppress us understand and respect the human rights of minorities.
For freedom, for everyone equality, and for our future generations to have a safe living environment, we must defeat the Holy Alliance at all costs and establish our own kingdom in the Balkans!
And the Legion of Honor is a community that unites everyone and achieves this goal!
In the Legion of Honor, no matter what kind of ethnic group you come from, everyone is an equal good brother, fighting together and dedicating their lives for a common goal!
Our sacrifice is not meaningless. The Legion of Honor has a lofty sense of mission. Building a perfect society where everyone is equal and nations prosper is the goal we strive for!
Defeat the Holy Alliance and build a kingdom of equality and freedom!”
"Defeat the Holy Alliance and build a kingdom of equality and freedom!"
The soldiers present stood up one after another, raised their arms and shouted frantically, with tears still hanging on their faces.
After shouting the slogans, the complaint meeting continued, and many soldiers came to the middle of the venue to tell their tragic experiences, but the Greeks did not come on stage.
Aristotle, who was inspecting the complaint meeting not far away, saw the scene of chicken blood, nodded with satisfaction and taught to the confidant officer around him: "This is how our officers' regiment should be.
Only by doing this can inspire the hatred deep in the hearts of the soldiers, can they be fearless on the battlefield.
The main responsibilities of us officials are not only to lead troops to fight, but also to let the soldiers understand why they fight and what is the value of sacrifice!
Chapter completed!