202 – Shaking Outside (4)
“Hey, Mom. Mom…”
“Emilia, Emilia. “I decided to get married once this damn war is over… But will I live to see you again?”
“f*ck, why do we have to fight here…”
The sound of sobbing and mourning on the castle wall began to gradually become louder.
Shedding tears alone and swallowing them down is a problem that can be dealt with quietly, but if several people burst into tears and cry together, it becomes an unstoppable problem.
There is already a lot of crying going on, so I think it will be quite a sight to see by the time the performance we have prepared is over.
This makes me seem like an evil person who enjoys seeing other people’s misfortune.
What can I do? War is essentially a kind of competition in which you win by making the enemy unhappy.
You won’t be told to do anything for the next hour or two, so you can rest a little.
“Whitebeard mercenaries, you can rest. However, those who monitor civilians are keeping their eyes straight.”
At those words, except for those in charge of surveillance, the others sat down on the ground and began to rest.
Some people started chatting, giggling in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft.
“Captain Martin is truly evil. When he’s cornered, he makes me sing my hometown song. “How can people be so evil?”
“Isn’t that why they’ve been winning so far because they’re so evil? So, it is correct to say that he is not evil but has good abilities.”
“And they said this is not the end. “They say this is the beginning.”
Like those guys said, singing hometown folk songs is really just the beginning.
However, just because of that, the situation worsened to the point that ‘higher people’ on the castle walls had to step in and stop it.
A knight on the castle wall drew his sword and waved it in the air.
“Calm down! “Whoever plays with the tricks of the vicious enemy, I, Matteo Jamon, will cut off his head!”
Experienced soldiers and knights visited homesick soldiers in tears and gave them prescription medicine by kindly slapping their cheeks.
“Come to your senses! “Don’t be fooled by their modifications!”
This is just the beginning, but if it continues like this already, it will be difficult.
They are truly pitiful and pitiful people.
Once the crying and commotion on the castle wall had calmed down, reciprocating curses from high-ranking people poured down on us from the castle wall.
“You cowardly and evil bastards! How dare you try to play with our soldiers by stimulating their longing for their families and hometowns!”
No, it’s not like we’re massacring civilians.
I don’t know why they’re praising you for fighting so damn well.
Should I scratch the back of my head with a sheepish expression?
“But we never fall for these shabby tricks! “Do you not think you know that you are manipulating and abusing the families of our soldiers?”
The guys who ran away to Naeseong seem to be spreading propaganda that we are abusing the people who are the families of common soldiers.
But instead of abusing the people, we are giving them food to prevent them from starving and maintaining public order.
“Soon, His Majesty King Barceló himself will come with reinforcements and crush you! “You bastards, wipe your neck well before you die!”
If the soldiers’ morale is not up to par, there is nothing they can do even if 100,000 men are pinned inside the castle.
So, I can understand why he works so hard to brag in front of the soldiers without even believing in himself, but to be honest, it doesn’t seem like a lot.
Just as I was thinking about the next move, Hilde came up next to me.
“Captain, Baron Eclair, ordered us to distribute food to the people singing folk songs over there.”
Oh, has it already been this long?
“Really? “Wake up everyone, even those who are sitting and dozing off.”
Shortly after, the carriages used by each mercenary unit arrived near the people who were singing folk songs.
On top of the carriage were pots filled with more luxurious porridge than what we had eaten in the morning.
Although it is luxurious, it is nothing more than flour porridge and a lot of cheap beef jerky, but the soldiers in the castle over there can’t even eat this much food.
But the porridge that even soldiers, whose ration priority is much higher than that of ordinary civilians, cannot eat, is eaten by the people outside? I’ll be amazed.
“Lower the pot and start serving!”
When the soldiers lowered the pot and opened the lid, the smell of meat soup spread quickly and strongly over the castle walls.
“Line up, line up! “People have to eat to survive!”
“You had a hard time singing folk songs!”
“Stand straight in line! “For those of you who sing here, don’t worry, we have enough to fill your stomachs!”
The faces of the soldiers in the inner city who saw this were clearly visible, drooling on the walls.
“It looks delicious…”
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However, to open the gate, you will have to risk your life and fight with high-ranking people.
Then messengers sent by the nobles brought wind here.
“Eat as much as you want! “I have a lot of work to do today, so it’s okay to have one more bowl!”
When the soldiers on the castle wall heard that, they looked at us with envy.
“I’m starving to death, what on earth are you doing?”
In places where knights or commanders were not stationed, even the guys were seen kneeling down with a helpless look on their faces.
“f*ck, how heartbreaking it was to know that the family I left behind was starving and being exploited.”
Meanwhile, the people ate happily regardless.
“It tastes good because it contains a lot of meat. But can I really have one more bowl?”
“The soldier over there said you could have one more bowl. “Let’s go quickly and stand in line.”
“Wow, that’s a good idea. Ha, if I had known it would be like this, I would have brought my kids too.”
“Didn’t you say you’ll do the same thing again at this time tomorrow?”
Even if this is a bit of a burden, you have to do it every day because it can completely demoralize your enemies.
So, the emperor himself is setting an example by reducing the amount of food he eats and is securing food to make meat porridge to be distributed to the people.
Thanks to you, I can now eat biscuits and beef jerky, but those guys up there must be suffering more mentally than that…
If I can destroy the enemy in return for my hard work, that’s enough, cancer.
As I was looking at this with a happy smile, the soldiers finished distributing the meat porridge and began to clean up the pots.
At the same time, the people surrounded the wall…
“Alex! Alec! Her mom is baking a pie at her house and waiting for her!”
I called out to my mother, who those within those walls would miss the most.
No, all the people shouting out there are family members, lovers, sons and daughters of someone within those walls, right?
A young country girl desperately searched for her fiancé in her castle.
“Faveo, let’s go back to our village now. “If I die fighting for no reason, it would be unfair to you, but I would be a widow, right?”
As everyone called out to their families in the castle, a sobbing sound was heard from within the castle.
“f*ck, f*ck… It’s like a dirty war.”
“I’m not fighting because I want to fight either…”
“What on earth are you doing?”
Seeing morale dropping again makes me feel full.
The knights couldn’t stand seeing this and started kicking the soldiers.
“Come to your senses! The people over there were just threatened! They have no choice but to do this because they have been threatened, and they are all waiting for reinforcements from the Kingdom of Barcelo to come and liberate them! “Don’t be fooled!”
The soldiers who were kicked did not react at all when they heard those words.
No, I just couldn’t protest while crying.
“Don’t listen to that bullsh*t! “Your family is being intimidated and manipulated!”
Why would we do something like that?
Anyway, if we occupy Laceu Castle, the entire area here will become the land of the Montmartre Empire.
But we did not refute that statement for no reason.
Instead, it only made it easier to hear the people’s desperate cries, hoping that the soldiers would surrender.
“It’s Pietro! It’s Pietro! “This father has arranged for me to marry you when you come back!”
I don’t know what kind of high-ranking person is in that castle, but I’m sure they want to shoot arrows at the civilians screaming outside.
But if they do something like that, the morale of the soldiers will drop and they won’t be able to do it because they know that the point of the sword will be pointed at the back of their head…
Anyway, those people with their eyes open and their noses cut are truly pitiful and pitiful.
“You idiots, this is how you use the longing for home mentality you’ve been using since long ago!”
I can’t believe you can lower their morale like this without climbing the castle wall or swinging a sword.
This is truly an innovative and excellent operation.
As the atmosphere reached its peak, knights under the nobles appeared, accompanied by riders carrying colorful armor and flags.
Then a huge trumpet sounded.
‘Buuu’
When the sound of the trumpet, so loud that it shook the ground, stopped, they all shouted in loud voices.
“His Majesty wants to feed you and your family well, but he is heartbroken that he cannot do so because of the evil King Barcelo!”
The Emperor of Montmartre is absolutely not the kind of person who cares and loves his people like King Sejong the Great.
“But don’t worry! If the gates are opened and we win, we will surely feed you all! So just hang in there!”
You may have said to hold on, but isn’t that actually telling you to open the gates as quickly as possible and find the light?
After giving the advice, the Montmartre knights shouted loudly.
“I’m going back today! “I’ll come back tomorrow!”
We continued to carry out similar operations for a week, or even 15 days.
The order finally came.
“Lower your resistance!”