The opening kaleidoscope writing wheel eye: the war on the top

Chapter 436

At this time, the sky was slightly numb, and the houses on both sides of the street were lit with lights.

There were many pedestrians on the road, except for a few teams of rebel patrols maintaining law and order, no other soldiers were seen, and the rebels in the inner city.

Regardless of their mental outlook or temperament, words and deeds, they are quite different from the "recruit soldiers" seen in the outer city. The marching queue is neat, everyone is full of energy, and they do not squint, just like an elite soldier.

Walking along the way, Hanan and the others looked around, and the shops on the street were all open.

There are also many small stalls on the road, and the sound of selling is endless. There are all kinds of goods and food.

Hanan was amazed, what he saw was in stark contrast with the outer city, as if there were two worlds.

Seeing their puzzled look, Hicks explained with a smile: "The inner city is the core of the rebel army, and it must not be like the outer city. If there is chaos here, how can the rebel army survive? There are also many local residents." here."

Charlie asked in surprise: "Then the people in the outer city don't care?"

Hicks said in a low voice: "When the rebels first came here, they forcibly divided the inner and outer city areas, and moved most of the people into the inner city, leaving only some wealthy businessmen from other places and a few rich locals.

Later, they ordered the expropriation of houses and shops, and they had to pay a large amount of taxes. Naturally, they were dissatisfied with the rebels, and even had conflicts."

Harvey interjected, "I don't agree with that either. Why are you robbing houses and money? Not all rich people are bad people."

Hicks hissed and continued: "In the beginning, the rebels were relatively restrained and did not enforce it, but as the number of troops surged, money and food were in short supply.

Those so-called 'newcomers' started robbing everywhere, killing many people, and some even wiped out their families. "

Jessica said angrily: "How can you do this, isn't it like a robber?"

Clabatel chuckled, "Those who achieve great things don't care about small things. If I were the leader of the rebel army, I would only pick on bad judges or big families who usually do evil.

Not only will you get money, but the anger of the people will be much less, and it will also deter the disaffected generation. Isn't it much more convenient to expropriate houses or collect taxes in the future? "

Jessica widened her eyes and pointed at Clabattle, "You...you!"

Clara Bartel smiled, "It's not over yet.

Afterwards, the responsibility can be entirely shifted to the 'newcomer'. If he wants to, the leader can come out to put on a show, apologize in person, and chop off the heads of a few scapegoats to give an explanation to the people. Wouldn't it be a good thing to gain both fame and fortune? "

Hicks couldn't help clapping his hands and praised: "Mr. Clabattle is so predictable, they really act like this."

He suddenly thought that this was the base of the rebel army, his expression changed, and he looked around.

Except for Hanan and the others, all of them were their own guards, and the leader of the rebel army who was in charge of leading the way was also in the distance. Speak in public."

Han Nan shook his head at everyone, signaling not to talk about it. After all, they are outsiders, and finding out the whereabouts of their right-hand men is a serious matter, so as not to cause unnecessary troubles.

After walking for about four or 10 minutes, I finally arrived at the east side of the inner city of Katriya, where the rebel base camp is located.

Quatreya is worthy of being an old-fashioned oasis city. Even if it is not in the urban area, the housing density is still not small. The architectural style is basically the same as the port capital 'Nahaba'. Most of the multi-storey houses are dome-shaped structures and light colors.

"Here, there it is." Hicks pointed to the front and said to Hanan and the others.

Hanan looked up, and there was a flat area in the northeast, covering a large area. A huge military camp was built on it, and the lights inside were brightly lit, like daytime.

Many torches were also lit outside the camp, and ditches were dug on the outside, and a thick earth wall was built on the inside, with a barbed wire fence with spikes erected on it.

In the center is the gate of the camp, built with thick tree trunks, with a sentry tower on each side, and two sentries standing on each side.

When the caravan arrived outside the gate of the camp, the leader in charge of leading the way stepped forward and shouted, and everyone entered smoothly. After passing by, Hanan looked into the ditch, and saw that sharpened wooden stakes were arranged densely.

Hicks was in a hurry to hand over the goods, and walked in the front, while Hanan and the others fell behind.

Along the way, Yu Nan took a cursory look. The military camp was arranged in a decent manner and divided into different areas. A flagpole stood outside each small camp, and the big flag was fluttering in the wind, which read "Outer Camp, Inner Camp, and Central Army" respectively. The words are clearly layered.

Even Yunan, a layman, could see that this kind of barracks could only be set up by professionals who were well versed in marching and fighting. He couldn't help but nodded secretly. There were also talents in the rebel army.

Seeing Hanan's surprise, Clabatel whispered in his ear: "Captain, I asked Hicks about it. Not long ago, the 30 king's army in Alabasta turned to the rebel camp. There must be many military talents to advise."

Hanan couldn't help being surprised. The number of the troops was calculated in tens of thousands. He really underestimated the turmoil in the Kingdom of Alabasta. He asked, "So the rebel army is very powerful?"

Clabatel whispered: "I heard from Hicks that in this war, the king's army had a relatively large advantage, and the 60 king's army was much larger than the 40 rebels.

Most of the rebels were mobs, but the 30 king's army rebelled immediately, and the situation immediately reversed. "

Jessica was very anxious when she heard this, she had been worried about Princess Weiwei's affairs, now in this situation.

If a full-scale war breaks out, it will be a battle of millions of people, and no one can change the outcome. Even with the strength of an admiral, they can only retreat in front of millions of people.

"Hanan, what can we do to help Weiwei?" Jessica asked anxiously.

Hanan calmly said: "Don't worry, auspicious people have their own nature, as long as there are no major changes, this matter will definitely be resolved."

"How do you know? This is a war involving hundreds of thousands, millions of people!"

Just as Hanan was about to answer, Hicks ran back in a hurry and said, "Brother Hanan, hurry up, I'm going to see the leader Kosha right now, you wait outside later, if all goes well, I call You go in."

Hicks took a few people to wait outside the large tent of the Chinese army.

Hanan saw that the caravan guards were busy unloading the goods. Several rebel logistics personnel checked one by one. More than [-] rebel soldiers sorted the inspected weapons into large wooden boxes. The cold weapons were on the left and the hot weapons were on the left. right.

Hicks was chatting with a burly man at the side, only to hear Hicks smirk and say: "Falafola, this time I sent this batch of goods after going through a lot of hardships, can the price be better. "

(End of this chapter)