Chapter two hundred and sixty seven(1/2)
Li Xiao's speech was quickly transmitted to all parts of the Ming Dynasty through radio waves.
Today, the Ming Dynasty covers a large area, with Honolulu in the east and Corsica in the west.
Fortunately, the speed of radio waves was fast enough. Within a day, Li Xiao's speech was printed in writing and circulated among the Ming army at all levels.
The recruits were the ones who suffered the most. After reading Li Xiao's speech, all of them were so excited that they wished they could pick up their weapons and go to the battlefield to kill a few of them.
The most direct consequence was that officers of the Ming Army at all levels received countless blood letters, demanding to go to the front line, even if they were to serve as death squads.
There are no death squads in the Ming army!
Even for the troops responsible for the first wave of attacks, the casualty rate never exceeded ten percent.
The reason is simple: the firepower on the opposite side has always been suppressed.
Planes kept circling in the sky and began to explode whenever they saw enemy artillery positions.
On the position, after the heavy artillery bombardment, a focused assault was carried out with tanks as the guide.
The coalition forces deployed a large number of troops on one front, but the number of troops concentrated at one point was pitifully small.
After concentrating tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the Ming army could often easily break through a point and penetrate the enemy's depth of forty or fifty kilometers within a day.
The troops who entered the enemy's belly were as noisy as monkeys.
Especially the Austro-Hungarian army, which had weak anti-tank weapons, was simply in a state of no one.
Hundreds of thousands of people were cut into pieces like tofu within a few days.
There is also an unexpected person who is also troubled by radio messages, and that is the Pope.
He did not expect that Li Xiao would make such a request of him, and stated that he would be released back to the Vatican as long as he succeeded.
After much consideration, the Pope decided to agree to Li Xiao's suggestion.
After all, he didn't want to be a prisoner in Crete.
Li Xiao has proven with his actions that he doesn't care about offending the entire Christian world. He also doesn't care about the future of Europeans. If possible, this devil would like to kill all the men in Europe.
Ignazio Cassis took one last look back at the still smoking battlefield, and reluctantly stepped onto the Ming army's military tractor.
The tractor was bumpy and they were not tied down. But no one escaped!
Because there were many corpses on the roadside, they were all shot one by one after jumping out of the car and escaping.
The Swiss soldiers felt that by not tying them up, these Ming soldiers were actually encouraging them to escape so that they could shoot them in the back.
Since escaping is definitely a life-or-death affair, no one is willing to escape.
Moreover, the Ming army and the Russian army occupied the entire Kursk.
The fate that fell into the hands of the Ming army was pretty good, but the fate that fell into the hands of the Russian army was miserable.
Those rude Slavs would treat their captured opponents in the most brutal way.
Where the Russian army was stationed and assembled, there were usually a string of corpses of prisoners hanging at the door.
There are more than one battlefield scene, and many corpses are already covered with flies.
They also saw with their own eyes that the Russian army ordered the prisoners of war to stack the corpses together like Arhats, then pour gasoline on them and burn them on fire.
You can often see piles of corpses like this on the roadside.
The tractor pulled them for a long time until they arrived at a huge prisoner assembly area.
Here they saw many prisoners, surrounded by barbed wire in an open space. The density was so high that it was difficult to sit down!
Before entering, there were Russians at the door to identify people, and anyone with Jewish characteristics was singled out.
Those who obeyed were driven away like sheep, while those who disobeyed were shot in the head and thrown into a big pit on the roadside.
There are many large pits like this on the roadside. The dead people in them will be buried when they are full. In some places, the burial is a little shallow. You can often see arms and legs hanging out of the ground. Of course, sometimes there are also half a head.
exposed outside.
Most of these corpses had been burned, so everything was dark when exposed on the ground.
It looked as if it had been burned by the fire of hell. It looked very scary.
The Swiss all got into the car and after driving for a long time, they arrived at the train station.
Compared to the Hebrews, their treatment was pretty good. They lined up to receive their own white flour bread and hot water.
Officers and soldiers were treated the same, and those who dared to cause trouble or jump in line were deprived of their treatment and were forced to stand aside and watch everyone eat, and they were not allowed to sit down.
I don't know who invented a terrible punishment, which is to insert a piece of paper between the back of the head of the person who is standing, the two shoulder blades, the calf and the wall.
As long as that piece of paper falls, you will be out of luck.
If a piece of paper falls to the ground, you will be whipped with a stick and forced to stand, and the time will be increased by half an hour.
If two pieces of paper fall to the ground, it will be even worse, and you will be stripped naked and whipped.
What's waiting for you is no longer forced to stand, but hanging up, with the tips of your toes just touching the ground. If you don't look at the handcuffs, you will look like a ballet dancer...
If you don’t want your wrists to suffer, then your toes will suffer. On the contrary, if you don’t want your toes to suffer, then your wrists will suffer.
Generally speaking, people who hang there for several hours will beg the passing lord to kill them.
If you drop more than three pieces of paper, you will avoid being beaten. Just hang your hands!
And instead of hanging until you die, you will be allowed to rest for five minutes every three to five hours.
No matter how fierce a man is, he will look like a puddle of mud when placed on the ground.
After seeing the brutality of the Russians, no one was willing to make mistakes anymore. Everyone was sitting on the cold cement floor, waiting for their uncertain future.
Ignazio Cassis is the commander, and his treatment is much better than that of ordinary soldiers.
The food he got was two slices of bread with fried luncheon meat, and a glass of milk that was just for him.
Of course, this kind of treatment only belongs to him and a few senior officers.
They were arranged in the waiting room. Not only did they have freedom of movement, they even had simple camp beds where they could sleep.
"Where are they sending us?"
"I don't know! But he is quite friendly to us."
"Those Russians seemed to hate the Hebrews very much. Anyone who was identified would be killed. A lieutenant colonel under my command was shot just because he had a big Jewish nose."
"I heard that the Russians committed a lot of crimes in Ukraine. They killed a lot of Russians and Ukrainians."
"No wonder they were so hostile to the Hebrews."
Ignazio Cassis listened to the whispers of his subordinates and did not interrupt but looked outside and smoked.
This is another treatment they receive. Every senior officer detained here can receive a pack of cigarettes every day.
I have to say that Daming cigarettes seem to be easier to smoke than Swiss cigarettes.
Until now, the Ming Dynasty still treated them preferentially. The Russians only abused the Hebrews, or the Hebrews in the Swiss Army.
Treating pure Swiss people is quite polite.
Except for idiots who actively seek trouble, no one will be punished for no reason. Now I just don’t know where to get myself.
There was a knock on the door, and the Swiss officer inside immediately fell silent. Everyone looked at the door!
The door was pushed open and a Ming army officer walked in.
He said something to the speaker, and then he heard the man next to him say in Swiss: "Generals, please go out, the car to pick you up is here."
"Where are you taking me?" Ignazio Cassis asked.
Although he didn't know the rank of the officer who came, he determined that it was not as high as his rank.
"I don't know!" The translator didn't bother to translate at all and just made a gesture of invitation.
A group of people got on the platform, waiting for the oncoming train.
The train came, it was a tank train. The Swiss soldiers were escorted by the Russians and put on the tank train.
Sitting in the train, I don’t know how long it was.
The train was going very fast, and when everyone got off the train again, they saw the sea.
There is a very high platform in the distance, and there is a burning torch on the high platform.
Being locked up in the canister train, everyone stunk to death. This strong odor was even worse than the salty smell of the sea.
The Swiss were imprisoned in a larger prisoner of war camp, where Ignacio Cassis saw almost all of his men standing and moving, even the grooms and cooks.
He secretly contacted people, and there were a total of 34,728 people.
In other words, they lost more than 15,000 people in this battle.
More than 10,000 tough Swiss soldiers were killed in battle. This was a huge misfortune, and I don’t know if they would have other misfortunes.
This misfortune is how the people of Ming Dynasty will treat them.
"Commander, let's organize a riot. I think the guards here are very lax, and the Ming people are too conceited. Only a few hundred Russians were used to guard more than 30,000 of us!"
"The Ming army only has more than a hundred people. If we start a rebellion, we have a good chance of success."
To be continued...