Chapter 37 Severe Winter
Although it was so dangerous that the army of the Principal of Ivey had forced the civilians to rob food, and forced the people of the Prince's border to fill the trenches. It was too difficult to persuade these people to leave their hometowns by relying on this alone. In addition, insufficient manpower is also a flaw - this was due to the assistance of thirty vampire officers from the Southern Military Region.
But in the end, the plan was completed. The vampires used persuasion, threats, temptations, and butcher knives... In short, after using all the methods that could be used, these civilians agreed to migrate. Although there were still a lot of unrest during the migration.
The worst time was when people in a village believed rumors and said that vampires wanted to take them all to the laboratory and make them dead. This triggered a riot. Men, women, young and old all over the village took up weapons, set up roadblocks, and blocked the village.
Then a plague broke out. Then all the people in the village died. All this was just an unfortunate disaster, accident and coincidence. It had nothing to do with the Legion of the Dead.
Then, Vared ordered the entire village to be flattened, all the bodies of all the victims were transferred, and the dead were created. It was just to prevent the spread of the plague, and definitely not to bury the truth or anything else. Please remember this carefully.
So, finally, when Duke Ivey Constantine heroically declared to his subordinates, the soldiers of the Principality of Ivey who were trembling in the cold wind, the Tyrier mercenaries, and even a group of ogres from the northern mountains:
"You can enter Akendorf before the New Year, spend the winter in Akendorf's warm room, and have hot meals."
He said this, as if he had brought such a large army here just to go to Akendorf for a meal and then to have a nap. Afterwards, they found that they had been cheated.
The entire Akendorf was empty - the last five hundred undead soldiers who remained behind failed to defend themselves. After 100,000 soldiers from the Principality of Ivy entered the city of Akendorf. After they searched the entire city, the Ivy soldiers found that they were cheated.
Not only was there no one, but there was no food, and the wells were sealed. Other urgently needed supplies, such as cotton coats for keeping cold, firewood for making fire, strong liquor, ointment for treating frostbite, etc., were all, not at all.
Oh, by the way, if you insist on saying that there are any shortage of resources, Valed left a lot of wealth in Akendorf - gold, silver, jewelry, precious spices and high-end cloth, and even copper and iron... At the beginning, these gains made the soldiers of the Principal of Ive for a while. Especially those free soldiers and mercenaries who were just for money and were on their belts.
The money obtained further eroded the fighting will of the opponent's soldiers - after obtaining enough money, the soldiers' mood to fight further declined. Most of the short-sighted ordinary people now only want to bring this wealth back home. If the war really starts at this time, they will probably care more about the money than about victory.
That's it. Vared used this small strategy to further reduce the morale of the other party.
"Soldiers who have plundered enough property will no longer be in the mood to fight." At that time, when formulating this plan, Vared said this to his officers... Although they don't understand it very much... After all, they commanded undead soldiers who have no desires and no desires for external things. There will be no such thing as "greed".
In this way, the army of the Principality of Ivey not improved after entering Akendorf, but became worse.
In Konstantin, he sent light cavalry to patrol all parts of Akendorf. After learning that the nearby villages and towns were all empty, the situation was no different from that of Akendorf, he was also a little discouraged.
Sitting in the lord's residence in the city of Akendorf, His Highness the Duke did not feel the joy of being a winner at all. The generals and officials beside him all looked ashen, not knowing whether it was because of the cold or because of the mood.
"The situation is not very good now, Duke. We are not able to get enough supplies in the border prince territory. All military supplies need to be transported from the rear. It is winter now, and the loss of transportation troops is quite large, and the undead troops of vampires are constantly harassed our supply lines so-"
"—I don't want to hear such complaints. I just want to know if my soldiers have received enough supplies!" Constantine interrupted with a roar.
"I'm sorry, only half, or less." The general was tough and showed calmness in the face of Constantine's roar.
"What about the most important cold-proofing products?"
Seeing his calm appearance, Constantine lost her temper and said this weakly.
"I'm sorry. We didn't have enough clothes to protect the cold because of the lack of preparations. These supplies were not found around Akendorf.
In addition, although we have ordered the domestic, recruitment, production and priority transportation of these supplies to the front line, the current progress is still very slow.
At the same time, we also sent envoys to buy clothes for warm-proof from several dukes in the north of the empire. They may have some inventory... but it is difficult to guarantee that they will not take advantage of the situation."
"I can't care about that much." Constantine waved tiredly, and then said, "Give them more money and give them more money. Give them a quick bang - no, send messages through the communication crystal, and tell the messenger to agree to them for any price. Ask them to send their clothes as soon as possible!"
When the generals heard the duke's words, they finally felt a little comforted. They knew that he was not the kind of unreasonable and unreasonable master. Their complaints about him were slightly reduced.
Then another general stood up and said, "Clothing is indeed a problem. But there is another thing that needs to be solved."
"What is it?" Constantine asked with a frown.
"It's firewood - there is not enough firewood in the city. Without firewood, you can't make a fire to keep warm. There is no hot food to eat. This is also a torment for soldiers. Especially at night. If you don't make a fire, you can easily get sick... In fact, many injuries and loss of people have occurred in the past few days."
"If you don't have firewood, go out to chop it! You don't know such a simple question?! You still want to ask me?!" Constantine shouted out in anger.
"It's this 'cutting'... The Duke. The soldiers stayed in the house and felt cold when they got together. But you asked them to go out of the city to cut firewood..."
"Don't have clothes to protect the cold..."
Constantine asked a question that he thought was idiotic. Then the whole conference room was silent for a moment - without cold clothes, you can't go out to chop firewood, if you can't go out to chop firewood, if you can't go out to cook firewood, if you can't go out to cook firewood, if you can't go out to cook firewood, if you can't go out to cook firewood, if you can't go out to chop firewood, if you can't go out to cook firewood... This is a vicious cycle.
After a while, Constantine came up with a solution: "Concentrate all the cold-proof clothes of the entire army, and give them priority to the soldiers who go out to cut firewood! At the same time, they will be rewarded with merits. Every time the soldiers who bring back a bundle of firewood will be regarded as beheading one!" After that, he stood up again, pulled off his cotton robe, and threw it on the table: "Take my one too!"
Chapter completed!