Chapter 1319: It's crazy!
1500 mixed cavalry soldiers were quickly dispatched and went straight to the city of Oldenburg. Afterwards, nearly 3,000 light cavalry were also released to inform various manor houses in Oldenburg province to set fire to the fields.
The light cavalry of nearly three thousand people is not a regular cavalry, but consists of spies, cavalry and even a postman in the East Friesland region. But in order to carry out this arson mission, Marin temporarily organized them all to perform the mission.
Moreover, just before departure, Marin gave each of them a large skin sac filled with black liquid ...
What are these black liquids? It's all the remaining crude oil from Marin's refined gasoline. Marin refined gasoline, mainly refining gasoline components and some kerosene components. As for the components with higher boiling point, such as diesel, heavy oil and asphalt, they are not well separated.
Originally, Marin intended to further refine diesel and lubricants. Especially mineral lubricants have a great effect on steam engines. In this way, Marin no longer needs to import castor oil from Egypt as a steam engine lubricant.
However, because there were too many things during this time, Marin did not have time to further fractionate the processed crude oil. It happened that these light cavalrymen were going to perform the arson mission. Marin simply took out the hundreds of barrels of crude oil and put them in a leather bag to take away the light cavalrymen as a fuel. Although there is no gasoline component that burns the most violently, but the oil is oil, which is as vigorous as the fire.
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On the side of Oldenburg, it was just busy accepting the private army of the rebellious old nobles of Bremen. The princes of the Eight Kingdoms are obviously very optimistic about those noble private troops. After all, there are hundreds of knights who can fight on horses. Coupled with more than two thousand combatants, it is definitely a good armed force. At least, it is much stronger than the conscription of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms.
Therefore, these days, the princes of the Eight Kingdoms were busy negotiating with the representatives of the rebellious nobles of Bremen, and did not pay attention to sending people to the countryside to grab food.
Of course, the coalition forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms now have no shortage of food, and naturally there is no incentive to go to the countryside to collect food. Because the granary in the Oldenburg city is full of food, and tens of thousands of people cannot eat it.
Besides, the grain in the field will not fly there again, so do n’t rush to harvest. Also, according to the knowledge of these princes, the autumn harvest generally starts in October. Coupled with the busy reception of the noble private army, no one was sent to the countryside to supervise the harvest of grain.
In this way, when the light cavalry sent by Marin arrived at the manor in the Oldenburg area at night, the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms princes did not send troops to the countryside to rush food, which facilitated their actions.
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"What? Set fire to the field? Am I messing up, messenger?" Some manor managers looked at the light cavalry who came to the notice with great surprise.
"Yes, you heard it right. It was an order from Master Marin!"
"Adult Marin? Isn't that your death?" In rural areas, information is blocked and the news naturally lags behind.
"What nonsense? You were killed! Lord Marin has been blessed by God and has returned safely. I saw it with my own eyes. He didn't want these cheap food enemies, so he ordered to set fire to the fields!"
"But this command is too ... too abnormal ..." As the manor, obviously he was unwilling to burn the crop that was about to be harvested in the field.
The Light Cavalry sneered and said:
"Charlie, I am not here to ask for your opinion, but to convey the order. I almost forgot, the last sentence of this order is-those who disobey the order, execute immediately!"
The manager named Charlie was shocked, and his eyes were incredible:
"This ... if the crops were burned, what would we eat? Did Grand Duke give up us farmers?"
The light cavalry waved his hands impatiently:
"Do n’t tell me you did n’t dig into the secret room to hide the grain ..."
"It's a bit hidden, but I can't hold on to the harvest next year!" Charlie said with a sad face.
"It's okay, despite the order, once the war is over, the Grand Duke will mobilize the grain from the grain depot, and you will not starve you. What you have to do now is set fire to the fields. And, if the enemy comes to ask questions, just Said that the grain produced per acre is about 1,200 pounds. If you tell the truth, you will be executed afterwards, understand? "
"Okay, I'm fine." Charlie Manager said in frustration. He himself was one of the informants of Kohler's intelligence organization, a member of the periphery, and most obeyed orders. Moreover, as a person in the intelligence organization, the consequences of disobedience are the most clear. Therefore, he still executed the order.
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However, he is willing to carry out orders, and does not mean that farmers are willing to. When Charlie and the Hussars arranged to burn the fields, a farmer came out to stop ...
"Retreat, or die!" Qingqi messenger pulled out his waist knife.
"Can't burn! Burn the food, what do we eat?" An old farmer blocked on his knees.
"You won't eat less. Dagong's granary is full of grain. I have no time to explain to you, either let it go or die!"
The old peasant still refused to give way, and the Qingqi messenger had raised his sword:
"I count three times, one ... two ... three ..."
After counting, the old peasant's head flew ...
"Dare to kill my father, I will fight with you!" The old farmer's son was angry. However, he rushed up and got a knife in the back. Looking back, it was found that Charlie was in charge ...
Charlie was sullen and angered:
"Your family wants to die, don't pull me on! There is no shortage of food for you, why do you want to die?"
In this way, there is no more opposition in this manor. Then, the Qingqi messenger took out the sac and stood upwind, pouring the black oil in the sac on the yellow rye straw on the upwind ...
"ignition!"
Soon, the fire started. By the wind, it is burning more and more fierce. In addition, the straw in the field is yellow when it is mature, and it is easy to catch fire. For a while, the sky was full of fire and the smoke filled ...
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Of course, this does not mean that all estates strictly enforce orders. Some manors directly resisted orders, and even several Qingqi messengers were killed by angry farmers.
However, at this point, Marin had expected and prepared ...
"What? Jess Manor killed the messenger disobedience? Did the manor steward participate?" Asked the Centurion of the Cavalry.
"It's the manor who took the lead in attacking the messenger!" The Qingqi messenger reported seriously.
"Very well, the people of Jess Manor can't stay! Brothers, let the signal go and call for staff. Let's go to Jess Manor!"
"Adult, they are ordinary people!" Some men dissuaded.
"No, from the moment they disobeyed and killed the officer, they were already rebels!" The centurion said seriously ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Then, there were more than two hundred people on the manor called Jess, all of whom were Slaughter. Then, the rye field of Jess Manor also ignited a fire ...
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This trip was not easy. Thousands of manor houses in Oldenburg turned out to have dozens of them. Fortunately, Marin was already prepared. After killing more than 40 estate managers and slaughtering 8 collective disobedience estates, the rye fields of thousands of estates in Oldenburg were ignited in two nights ...
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"What's the situation? Why is the smell of smoke in the air?" In the city of Oldenburg, the tears of several princes were smoked by the dense smoke of ryegrass.
The manor near Oldenburg began to burn the next day, so it was n’t until the third morning that the princes who were smoked and tears after going out found it wrong.
"Hurry out of the city to check on the situation!" Charlie, Earl of Galden, felt wrong and immediately sent someone out of the city.
In fact, the coalition forces of the eight princes sent cavalry out of the city yesterday. However, it was seduced by 1,000 cavalry and 500 musketeer scouts. After going out, the two thousand cavalry chased by the coalition forces were killed in half. Then he fled back in disgrace. After that, the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms were afraid of traps, so they no longer sent troops out of the city. Exactly, Marin's men were given the opportunity to set fire.
"Report! The corn field outside the city was set on fire, and now the fire is so high that it can no longer be extinguished!"
"What? Someone actually burned the corn field? Are you crazy?" Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbiter, surprised.
Charlie the Earl of Galden frowned and thought:
"Marin is really a lunatic. In order not to make food cheap for us, people actually set fire to the farmland!"
'"crazy!"
"It's crazy!"
Several princes gave similar comments ...
