Chapter 27 The Most Fierce Brother(1/2)
The prisoners were quickly recaptured, and Chen Laohu personally received the prisoners.
He enthusiastically treated them to Daming canned food and grilled fish, and also found French bread sticks.
No one in the Ming Dynasty likes to eat this stuff, but the prisoners like it.
Seeing the old black men devouring the food, even licking one side of the can with their tongues, which was cleaner than dog food, Chen Laohu knew that the French were not having it easy either.
It was blocked by Ming destroyers for two or three months, and supplies could only rely on some small fishing boats, or small cargo ships that sneaked to the island.
Not to mention that the big ship cannot reach Corsica, as soon as it leaves the port of Marseille, it will be captured by the Ming Dynasty.
Then, this ship belongs to the Ming Dynasty. When the crew is put back, the ship and its contents have nothing to do with France.
These French bread sticks were supplies on a captured ship, and many of them went bad because no one ate them.
However, Lao Hei didn't seem to dislike it at all. Several people rolled their eyes and almost died.
After finishing eating and drinking, they packed up a bag of French bread sticks and happily went to complete the tasks assigned to them by Chen Laohu.
You are a group of messengers of peace. I hope you can bring peace to Corsica.
This was Chen Laohu's wish for them before leaving.
I don’t know if Lao Hei understood it, but everyone bared their big white teeth and looked silly at Chen Laohu.
This made Chen Laohu full of confidence in them. They were just foreign mercenaries. Why fight for the French?
The peace envoys left at noon, and were sent back just after dusk by a dozen locals who were so frightened that they almost peed with fear.
It was taken apart and sent back!
Several of them were cut into too small pieces and could be used as dumpling fillings after a few more cuts.
Being able to cut people into such pieces in such a short period of time seems to be to show the determination of the Foreign Legion's will to resist.
Chen Laohu's face looked ugly, which he never expected.
They are just a group of mercenaries, why are they fighting for their lives...!
When Li Xiu heard the news, he just nodded and said nothing.
"Second Master, we gave you the chance. These guys are so shameless...!"
"Fight!
In fact, I didn't expect them to surrender.
The soldiers of the Foreign Legion are mercenaries brought from various countries. But the officers are mostly French.
And there are many officers who have fought in battles and have war experience.
In this day, we have landed two marine regiments.
By relying on these two marine regiments to capture the port of Tavignano, our goal will be achieved."
"We are increasing our troops during this day. The French on the opposite side must also be increasing their troops. We only have two regiments.
In terms of military strength...!" After all, the Foreign Legion on Corsica claims to have 100,000 people.
But no one knows the real figures. If they fight desperately against the Ming army, it will be a nightmare battle.
After all, the battle report from Tsaritsin was really scary.
An average of one to two thousand casualties per day. When had the Ming army ever fought such a battle?
In the past, under the command of the commander-in-chief, everyone fought in a crushing and clever way.
The establishment of the Marine Regiment itself is smaller than that of the Army. It does not have the heavy equipment of the Army, and there is no artillery company at the battalion level.
The first level company only has three 60mm mortars.
There is even only one grenade squad in the company.
Instead of having a grenade squad in each platoon like in the Army.
Because of equipment, the Marine Corps is more than one level behind the Army in terms of firepower.
After all, the combat model of the Marine Corps is quite different from that of the Army.
If we really fell into a place like Tsaritsyn, let alone thousands of casualties a day. Even if we suffered hundreds of casualties a day, the Marine Corps would not be able to survive for a week.
"No! Tsaritsyn is a big city with a population of 600,000, while Tavignano is a small town with a population of tens of thousands.
In Liaodong, many towns have a larger population than here.
Besides, we only want the port of Tavignano.
As for the other parts, it doesn't matter whether they are present or not.
fry!
It's all over!
Send them an ultimatum, saying that out of humanitarian kindness, we order the residents in the city to retreat as soon as possible.
At nine o'clock tomorrow morning, we will launch an attack on the city of Tavignano."
"Second Master! This..., there's no need for it.
They are all French. If they are blown up, they will be killed. You..."
Chen Laohu was a little confused. Why did the second master suddenly become kind?
Not only must the opponent evacuate, but the opponent must also be informed of the attack time.
No one in the Liao army had ever done this to such an extent.
But I heard that the Ming army did this before when they fought against Saarhu.
Everyone knows the outcome, a disastrous defeat! A solid defeat!
"It's useless to kill so many people. It would be good to leave tens of thousands more people who consume food.
After we captured Sicily three months ago, we began to blockade the Corsica coast.
It has been three months and they have not received much supplies.
Even if there was some inventory before, it was all empty.
I don't believe they can save enough food for several years.
Aren't we going to fight a war of attrition? Then I will fight them. If they don't surrender, I will starve everyone on Corsica to death.
Food is the best weapon.
Hunger kills people more damn efficiently than guns and cannons."
Chen Laohu shuddered. The commander-in-chief also said this.
As expected, they crawled out of a mother's intestines. When it comes to cruelty, these two brothers are definitely the best.
I feel really sad for the people of Corsica. Just because they refused to surrender, hundreds of thousands of people survived in the end. I don’t know how many more could have survived.
Anyway, many, many, many people will die.
It seems that the sharks in the sea have something to eat again.
"Cake crabs tonight! Big crabs." After leaving Li Xiu's command room, no one expected Chen Laohu to give such an order.
"Deputy Commander, this...!" The officers didn't understand why Mao had to eat crabs at night.
As a navy, we have long been tired of the seafood in the sea.
Not to mention crabs, lobsters, abalones, etc. are all very expensive in the capital. You can eat them to the point where you feel like vomiting just looking at them.
In the navy, roasting whole lamb is the highest courtesy for entertaining guests.
"In a few days, the things in the sea will eat dead people. Let's see how you can continue to eat them."
"...!" Everyone looked stern.
The experienced officer immediately understood what was going on!
"Inform the blockading fleet to sink all ships approaching Corsica.
Notice!
All boats, including fishing boats and even small sampans.
The only things floating on the surface of this sea area are ships from the Ming Dynasty.
Do you understand?"
This is the so-called no sail allowed into the sea!
This is taking the blockade to the extreme!
"promise!"
At this moment, everyone knew what kind of war was about to happen.
Fortunately, there are still a few prisoners captured last time!
This time, the messenger of peace brought a letter to the commander of the Tavignano garrison.
To be continued...