18th century total war

Chapter 309
"Come on, let's talk about the injustices you have suffered in the past. Don't be afraid. In the Legion of Honor, everyone is better than a brother. Everyone can tell the past that they have resented, so that everyone can unite and take revenge together!"

Just 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 trust, but a "typical" that I have communicated with the Greek military officer in advance. After all, this kind of thing needs someone to take the lead, otherwise everyone doesn't like "what to do with the ugly family"?
"My name is Ettore, and my parents are both farmers. Although life is difficult, at least our family of five will not starve to death.

Until that day, the Serbian tax collector came to our village and collected three times the usual tax!

Our family didn't have that much grain, so the Serbian tax collectors had soldiers tie my father and a few other farmers who hadn't paid enough grain to posts.

In front of everyone..."

At this point, the Albanian young man suddenly choked up. Sitting in a group were all members of the minority ethnic groups recruited by the Legion of Honor in the Serbian-occupied territories.

As the Legion of Honor penetrated into the territory occupied by the Kingdom of Serbia, the proportion of the original Greek soldiers became smaller and smaller.

For one thing, the initial strength of the Legion of Honor brought by Aristotle was not many, less than 1.

After many battles and losses, there was no way to replenish Greek soldiers, so the oppressed minorities could only be recruited on the spot.

Of course, the rich will not send their nephews to the Legion of Honor, a guerrilla group that seems to have no "cards". Said that the Kingdom of Serbia still has a powerful Holy Alliance!

Therefore, the Legion of Honor recruits all poor peasant children. Among the many soldiers, this Albanian youth definitely occupies the majority. Even if he is not a peasant family, he is also a poor migrant worker in the city.

Therefore, the words of this Albanian young man easily resonated with these soldiers!

On the contrary, the few Greek soldiers who are responsible for maintaining order and watching have no empathy. After all, even though they are poor, they have no in-depth contact with the official Serbian government.

However, with the expansion and battle damage of the Legion of Honor, Greek soldiers have already become a minority in the composition of the army, so Aristotle launched this army-wide complaining campaign!

Aristotle has sensed the crisis coming for the Legion of Honor!
After taking a deep breath and wiping away his tears, the young Albanian soldier readjusted his mentality. After all, he had been in the military for a long time and had even killed Serbian soldiers with his own hands. He was no longer the same soldier who faced guns. A cowardly boy who can only kneel on the ground and cry bitterly.

"Under the order of the Serbian tax collector, my father and several other villagers who had suffered the same situation were gutted out in public.

My mother tried to stop my father before he died, but was dragged into a small house by two Serbian soldiers. My mother screamed for an entire hour. When I saw my mother again, only The next body...

My brother was braver than me. At that time, he rushed up and bit the thigh of the Serbian soldier who raped and killed my mother, and then his companions broke his neck with a bayonet!
I hate!

I hated my cowardice at that time. All the Serbian soldiers surrounded me and laughed wantonly. The elders in the village dared not say a word of rebuttal except for apologizing.

Just because I am Albanian and they are Serbs, they can wantonly trample on our lives and dignity!

But I am no longer cowardly. When I killed the No.1 Serbian soldier with my own hands, I knew that the Legion of Honor is my final destination in this life. I would rather die on the battlefield of the charge than return to my previous cowardice of life! "

As Ettore spoke, a resolute expression appeared on his face, but the tears on both sides of his cheeks could not be wiped clean no matter what.

Many of the surrounding soldiers also began to cry silently. Among the minority soldiers who joined the Legion of Honor, many of them had family members who died at the hands of the Serbs.

It was obvious that what happened to Ettore touched the softest chord in their hearts.

"Ettore, I remember you have a sister, why have I never seen her?"

The Greek officer next to him suddenly spoke up, and the soldiers and audience present suddenly felt their hearts tightening. It was obvious that Ettore was alone now, and his sister...

Finally, Ettore collapsed. He knelt on the ground and cried loudly. A man who had killed people knelt on the ground and cried like a child. The answer was self-evident.

The Greek officer did not force Ettore any more, and the effect he wanted had been achieved.

Two Greek soldiers helped Ettore down to prevent him from crying and fainting here.

It was obvious that even this tough Albanian young man could not tell what happened to Ettore's sister.

"I also want to tell you about my past experience!
My father was a blacksmith in the city, and our family had to endure high religious taxes during the Ottoman rule, but we survived.

Unexpectedly, after the Serbs became the rulers of the city, they not only collected higher taxes than the Ottomans, but also helped another blacksmith shop opened by the Serbs, and tried every means to crowd out us.

That Serbian blacksmith hired thugs to break my father's legs just because my father's irons were of better quality!

They thought that by breaking my father's leg, my father would no longer be able to compete with them in forging iron, even if the iron tools they made were garbage! "

At this time, someone suddenly asked, "Your father was beaten and maimed by gangsters, why didn't you call the police?"

The soldier who told about what happened to him immediately burst out laughing, tears streaming down his face. He didn't know whether he was laughing at what happened to him, or mocking this cannibalistic society.

"Call the police?
Yes, I did think so at the time.

However, when those Serbian police found out that I was a Roma, they kicked me and my mother out, and even spat in my mother's face, saying that we Roma are not worthy of them !

My father is the sole breadwinner of the family. If he didn't forge iron, our whole family would starve to death. My father had to drag his disabled legs and feet to continue to forge iron to make ends meet.

Our output was far from what it used to be, but the Serbian blacksmith still didn't want to let us go. After seeing us reopen for business, he bought some gangsters to set our house on fire at night.

My disabled father had no time to escape, and my mother was choked to death by the smoke trying to save me!

I watched my mother take her last breath in front of me.

My home was gone and the Serbian police decided it was an ordinary fire and not a deliberate murder!

If I hadn't run fast, maybe I would have died in that city.

Hehe, this is the treatment of the inferior people in the Kingdom of Serbia. We don't deserve to live in a city controlled by Serbs. "

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers in the audience suddenly became angry and cursed the hateful Serbs.

At this time, the Greek officer in charge of maintaining order stood up and shouted to the soldiers whose hatred was aroused: "The Serbs are our enemies, but do you know why the Serbs are so rampant?"

After this question was raised, a soldier immediately responded: "Because the Serbs have established their own kingdom and have their own army, they can bully non-Serbs like us unscrupulously."

The Greek officer nodded approvingly and continued to ask: "But do you know why the Serbs can establish their own country, but we cannot establish our own country?

Everyone was originally a slave under the rule of the Ottomans. Later, the Ottoman Empire retreated. All our nationalities should be able to establish their own countries, but in the entire Balkans, only the Serbs, Romanians and Bulgarians established their own kingdoms. The dozen or so ethnic groups in China have all become the objects of their enslavement!

Even the Republic of Macedonia supported by our Greeks was annihilated by the Holy Alliance not long ago, just because the Macedonians established their own country without the consent of the tyrant of the French Empire, Livi! "

The Greek officer skillfully excluded the Hellenic Republic from the Balkans, and the soldiers, steeped in hatred, did not notice it.

Even if you notice it, it’s nothing. After all, the Greeks are also enemies of the Holy Alliance, and they are their allies. Even many foreign soldiers present have a good impression of the Greeks because of Aristotle’s Legion of Honor, and even made Greece an independent country. as a role model for one's own nation.

It's a pity that the population and settlement area of ​​these ethnic minorities are too small and scattered, and they cannot compete with the Romanians, Serbs and Bulgarians, who are the most populous in the Balkans.

Otherwise, why would the Livy government support these three ethnic groups?

Isn't it just because of the population base of these three ethnic groups?

Only by building a nation with a majority population can the ethnic minorities be stably oppressed, otherwise the minority oppresses the majority, and it is easy to overturn!

What Li Wei's government wants is only a three Balkan countries with conflicts, not a three Balkan countries that fight civil war every day.

A vassal state in civil war every day is of no benefit to the Li Wei government.

Even help the vassal state to stabilize the interior.

Unlike now, the assembled armies of the three Balkan countries are enough to make Aristotle of the Legion of Honor feel the danger of extinction. He even thought of such a trick as a complaint meeting to enhance the combat courage of his soldiers regardless of the cost.

To put it bluntly, they were all forced.

This is still the case when the French Defense Forces did not take a direct shot.

The Balkan minorities at the bottom did not understand the difficulties facing the Legion of Honor, but Aristotle and his trusted officers knew it very well.

Sure enough, after the Greek officer's voice fell, the soldiers present showed expressions of sudden realization.

It turns out that the culprit of everything is the French Emperor Li Wei of the Holy Alliance!

"Yes, why did Li Wei, the tyrant of the French Empire, only help the Serbs to build a country, but ignore the Roma, Albanians, and Montenegrins...

And he also wants to help the Serbians oppress us!
Does it mean that we, the ethnic minorities, do not have the right to live in the Balkans? "

"That's right, the French didn't let us live well, so we took up arms and fought them to the end. Our sacrifice is to create a living environment for the next generation of our ethnic group!"

The Greek officer nodded solemnly, and emphasized: "Levi, the tyrant of the French Empire, is the chief culprit who wants to destroy us minorities, and the holy alliance he established is our enemy.

But don’t worry, we also have strong allies. The anti-French alliance countries are our backers, and many of the weapons in our hands are even supported by the British!

As long as the Anti-French Alliance wins and the Holy Alliance fails, all ethnic minorities can establish our own country in the Balkans.

From then on, our relatives, friends and future generations will no longer have to suffer the tragedies we have encountered.

Only by resisting can those who oppress us understand and respect the human rights of ethnic minorities.

For freedom, for equality for all, and for our descendants to have a safe living environment in the future, we must defeat the Holy Alliance at all costs and establish our own country in the Balkans!
The Legion of Honor is a community that unites everyone to achieve this goal!

In the Legion of Honor, no matter what ethnic group you come from, everyone is an equal brother, fighting together and dedicating their lives for the common goal!
Our sacrifice is not meaningless. The Legion of Honor has a lofty sense of mission. To build a perfect society where everyone is equal and the nation prospers is what we strive for!
Defeat the Holy Alliance and establish a country of equality and freedom! "

"Defeat the Holy Alliance and establish a country of equality and freedom!"

The soldiers present stood up one after another, raised their arms and shouted frantically, many of them still had tears on their faces.

After shouting the slogans, the grievance meeting continued. Many soldiers came to the center of the venue to tell their tragic experiences. Only the Greeks did not play.

Not far away, Aristotle, who was inspecting the grievance meeting, nodded in satisfaction after seeing the bloody scene, and taught the confidant officers around him: "Our officer corps should be like this.

Only by doing this and stimulating the hatred deep in the hearts of the soldiers can they be brave and fearless on the battlefield.

The main responsibility of us officials is not only to lead soldiers to fight, but also to let soldiers understand why they fight and what is the value of sacrifice!

We do not fight for the loyalty of the king, but for the people, for the happiness of themselves and future generations! "

(End of this chapter)