Valkyrie Europa

Chapter 271 Opportunity
Looking at the silver armored knight driving away, Zhang Ang and his party felt very speechless.

What the hell is this for?Just left after a few words of ridicule?Please be more professional when you are a villain.

But Adolf looked at the knight's back thoughtfully, and he was silent for a while before saying: "Although it is rare to see such a precious character now, he should have pity on us."

"Pity? What do you mean?" Zhang Ang asked puzzled.

"Now we are confronting France on both sides of the Rhine River, and most of the bridges on the river have been destroyed. Except for a few martial arts masters who can easily cross the river, ordinary soldiers must cross the river if they want to cross the river! But it is inevitable whether it is a pontoon bridge or a boat. It was thwarted by the long-range attack from the opposite side." Adolf explained in detail: "If you want to break through their blockade, it is nothing more than killing people and consuming their arrows and stones."

He pointed to the groups of ragged teams that were advancing along the edge of the road, and continued: "At this time, we need cannon fodder to fill it in. The knight may not have the heart to see us die in vain. Come and persuade us. Although the words are harsh, this is mercy."

"Is that so?" Looking at the silver-armored knight who continued to "show off his might" in front of another team of cannon fodder, Zhang Ang's eyes became complicated.

Yes, people like Zhang Ang's team, although their equipment is shabby, each member's own strength is not weak, even against a city defense army of the same strength, they can easily defeat them.With the addition of Zhang Ang and Adolf, even the elite of the main force of the empire can fight.

But the other "cannon fodder" teams are not like this. They are also poorly equipped, but they are also poorly equipped, and their strength. Except for the few leaders who can barely be regarded as warriors, everyone else is malnourished. They looked thin and weak, even if they were only carrying weapons on the road, they were exhausted and out of breath. They must be some serfs who were forced to put down their hoes.Such a team, on the battlefield, against the experienced and well-trained French Revolutionary Army, is no different from an egg hitting a rock.

Facing such a weak cannon fodder team, the Silver Armored Knight's "persuasion" was also useless. The teams of cannon fodder faced his insults numbly, as if they hadn't heard anything, just followed the lead, and continued to follow along. The road goes south.

After hitting a wall a few times, the Silver Armored Knight had no choice but to return to his own team in despair and never came out again.

"Hey, what's the use of such persuasion? These are all serfs, and they are the property of the nobles. They are poor people who are exploited and oppressed by them all day long. The nobles don't want to risk themselves, so they sent them out. Where are they? If he curses or threatens, he will turn back." Adolf sighed and said with emotion.

"Then why don't these nobles come by themselves? What's the use of sending these cannon fodder? They don't want to make contributions and go further?" Zhang Ang expressed his puzzlement.

Zhang Ang was very puzzled by the indifference of the German nobles. In France, there are also many nobles, large and small, but whenever a war comes, most of them will rectify their troops and rush to the battlefield to participate in the war. In the subsequent civil war, they all maintained great enthusiasm and fought hard on the battlefield.After the establishment of the new dynasty, there are not a few who have made further progress in their original status, and even soared to the sky.

But Germany is different. There are very few elite troops of nobles rushing to the battlefield, but there are many cannon fodder troops composed of serfs, and most of those elite troops are under the hands of big nobles. Most of the small and medium-sized nobles, it seems that the small and medium-sized nobles who occupy the mainstream are not optimistic about this war.

"Because they are rotten!" Adolf said solemnly: "They are no longer the Junker nobles who were proud of their military achievements!"

He explained in detail: "Although our Germany has been fighting abroad all year round, we rarely suffer wars in our country. Most of them are nothing more than chaos caused by rebellious parties. As long as the army is mobilized, it can be solved easily. Moreover, the country has been peaceful for so many years. I have helped the nobles reproduce for several generations, and the older generation who made contributions and earned their children and grandchildren are almost dead. And those noble children, how many are still willing to practice hard every day and practice martial arts? They have Vast fields, groups of servants, and towering manors, you can spend your whole life in luxury and food, and wait to die. Even the lowest lord family can spend a lifetime with the land. And in their own territories, they often have huge The right to decide life and death at will. With such power and wealth, why should they risk their lives and go to the battlefield to fight to the death?"

After a pause, he said: "And you also saw that the manor captured by us, that Viscount Anthony, who is fat and struggling to walk, can be killed by any ordinary person? Such a person, You expect him to make meritorious service on the battlefield? But these little nobles have abandoned their skills long ago. They only know about greed and demand. There are piles of wheat and grain in the warehouse, and gold and silver in the house, but the armory is empty all the year round. After maintenance, there is only a pile of broken copper and rotten iron left. They never thought about going to the battlefield! They just want to be silverfish like this, for a lifetime, generation after generation, rotting away, and even going on like this for generations to come!"

Zhang Ang nodded, and then asked: "Okay, I basically understand. However, the mobilization order did not say that troops must be sent, not food, but is it also possible to send money to support? Why do you want to send this gang?" The serfs come out?"

Adolf laughed: "Because serfs are cheap. What's the difference between these silverfish asking for their money and killing them? Food and supplies can also be exchanged for money. Serfs are different. They are very easy to obtain. In the year of disaster, as long as you gather the refugees, you will have them immediately. There are also refugees from other countries who have fled and captured captives. It’s all gone, just let them continue to reproduce. To them, serfs are just a kind of livestock that can reproduce.”

"Is that so?" Zhang Ang looked at the team of serfs who were weak and insensitive, marching southward with difficulty, and fell into deep thought again.

In this way, the class solidification in Germany is very serious, and class conflicts are also very intense.According to this line of thinking, the core program of our German Communist Party can be slightly changed.In this entire decadent country, the number of nobles is a minority after all.And those who are oppressed and exploited like these serfs are the majority!

You only need to give them enough strength, enough support, and enough belief to make the fire start a prairie fire!
This war is a good opportunity!

However, is it good or bad to release this ghost so early?

(End of this chapter)