Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Hearing this, Batu was stunned for a moment. Instead of killing the civilians, he would give them food for a few days? What is this thing called? They Mongolian soldiers have never done such a loss-making business, okay?
This time, not only did Bata not understand, but also Guyu, Baidar, Subotai, and some other Mongolian generals sitting nearby.

"Master Military Advisor, if you pity their lives, then Batu will not kill them, but will give them to the enemy and give them some food. What's the point?" Batu said.

When this military strategist usually fights wars, the Mongolian army or Guanzhong army he leads actually causes much less killing than other Mongolian armies.

This time the Western Expedition used various means to conquer many Western countries, which impressed Batu. He learned a lot from this military advisor and conquered some lords in Lithuania and Poland.

But Vienna is different. To put it bluntly, the Principality of Austria is not an independent principality, but a vassal state that surrenders to the Holy Roman Empire.

"Master Military Advisor, do you have any profound meaning in your words, or do you have any other strategic intentions? You might as well tell us." Subotai said.

As a veteran Mongolian general, Subotai has a very high vision and learning ability. He also wants to know what kind of medicine this military advisor is selling in the gourd, and what on earth is he thinking?

"Brother Zhang, tell us quickly! Why do you want to keep these poor people?" Guyu asked.

"How many civilians are there in this city now, plus people from other areas? How many people are there? Have you calculated it?" Zhang Yong asked.

"This city originally only had more than 300,000 people, but this time we besieged the city, 700,000 to 800,000 people poured in. Counting the residents of some small towns around Austria. There must be more than one million people in total!" Batu After thinking for a while, he spoke.

"I made a rough estimate, and the number of civilians in Austria now is more than 1.5 million.

That’s more than 1.5 million mouths. These people need to eat and have a place to live. "Zhang Yong smiled and said.

Previously, a large number of civilians in Austria died due to the actions of Guyou and others to clear the grass valley, and those who survived retreated to the rear.

Now that the entire Austria has fallen, Zhang Yong roughly estimates that there are more than two million ordinary civilians, of which more than 500,000 have already fled into the Holy Roman Empire in advance.

These people alone put a huge burden on the principalities and kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire. If Zhang Yong and the Mongolian army massacred all the more than 1.5 million civilians, it would actually do the Holy Roman Empire a big favor.

The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire will definitely use this to boost morale and say to everyone, look, these are the ferocious Mongols. We must resist to the end. We must unite to resist. We must defeat the Mongols.

This will greatly strengthen the army's will to resist, because more than 150,000 civilians have been killed, but if these people are not killed. If they are sent back to the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, another situation will form.

There are more than 150,000 people, and you have to take care of their food and housing. If you don't give them food, then they will be very hungry and will have no choice but to rob them. At that time, you will have to divide your troops to suppress it.

And there's another bonus. Sparing these more than 1.5 million people could send a message to all civilians in the Holy Roman Empire.

That is, the Mongols do not intend to engage in massacres. As long as you surrender, or even if you do not surrender, you may be spared death.

Moreover, these more than 1.5 million people are still a good propaganda team, and Zhang Yong will tell them a message. Why did I come to beat you?
It is not to invade your land, but your pope has robbed my artifact, and your pope refuses to recognize my identity.

"Hahaha! I understand, Master Military Advisor, you mean to ask these people to ask their monarch for food and drink after they go back. If their monarch does not give them, then these people will become thugs.

They will riot, and they will have to send troops to suppress it. Once they send troops to suppress it, their flaws will be exposed, and it will be easier for us to defeat them. Subotai said.

Hearing this, Zhang Yong nodded. He was indeed one of the most capable generals under Genghis Khan, and he immediately understood his strategic intentions.

"This is a good strategy! Keeping them here will waste our food, but if we give them to the enemy, we will waste the enemy's food." Batu said.

The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire did play hooligan sometimes, but when facing more than 1.5 million civilians, can you play hooligan?

If you can, kill them all and see how the Christian world will judge you. If you don't kill them, then you have to arrange food for them.

This is not an army of hundreds of thousands of people, but an army of millions of refugees. Arranging food and accommodation for so many refugees is simply a disaster.

And this disaster has just begun. As long as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire is willing to accept these people, Zhang Yong's next attack target will be the Bohemia region.

Then, same trick. Cut off all the soldiers who are good at fighting, and then drive the civilians into the Holy Roman Empire.

Secular monarchs can play hooligans, but you, the monarch of Shenquan and the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, have an extraordinary weight in Europe. If you have the ability, you can play hooligans again.

After some suggestions from Subotai, all the Mongolian generals present realized this. This is indeed a very good method that can consume the opponent to a great extent.

Moreover, Genghis Khan also used this trick back then, but they were driving civilians to attack the city and did not think so far-reaching.

"Brother Zhang's strategy is good, but we don't need to give them three days of food. We can just drive them away. They will find food on their own on the road." Guyu said.

After all, we are driving them into the Holy Roman Empire, so why should we give them enough food? Just let them chew the bark and eat grass roots along the way.

Distributing food to more than 1.5 million people would be enough to feed the Mongolian army for a long time. Even though the food was stolen from these people, Guyu felt very distressed.

"Hmph! That's because you are too stupid. Giving them food is the best option. If you don't give them food, this strategy will not work at all." Batu snorted coldly and looked at Gui with contempt. With a glance, he spoke with great disdain.

"You, you bastard, how do you talk? What do you mean? Do you want to fight?" See. Batu said with such contemptuous eyes and contemptuous tone that Guyu couldn't sit still immediately and stood up directly to fight Batu.

"I just said that you are stupid. You can't even understand such a simple question." Batu said.

However, most of the Mongolian generals present did not know what was going on, because they thought His Highness Guyou was right, so why should they be given food? Wouldn't it be better to just drive them away?
The food gathered together was enough to feed their Western Expedition army for a long time, and it could also be consumed by the armies of the slave countries.

"Haha, it seems these guys still don't understand. Master Military Advisor, please explain it to them!" Subotai, who was sitting aside, smiled and said.

Upon hearing this, many Mongolian generals raised their heads and looked at Zhang Yong.

"First of all, we give each of the more than 150 million civilians three days' worth of food, including children and men, but we all distribute it according to the standards of ordinary adults.

Then these people would drag their families and leave. Women, the elderly, and children could not actually eat much food. It was said that it was three days of food, but it was actually enough for them to eat for four or five days, or even longer.

Four or five days will give them hope of survival. After they are far enough away from us, they can eat some bark, roots, or other things to satisfy their hunger, and they can also capture some animals in the mountains and woods. prey.

At least within ten days, this group of people will not feel despair, and they will all live with hope.

And this hope is to escape into the German region. As long as they reach the German region, they can get enough food.

And because our Mongolian army is chasing behind them, their marching speed will be very fast.

Although it is not as good as the regular army, it is not much slower.

As long as they enter the German region, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire will have to take care of these people.

At that time, they will have civil strife. If they do not distribute food to these civilians and drive them away directly, it will cut off all their hope of survival. They will start to resist regardless of anything, because they have no chance of survival. Hope.

And we must give them a hope, give them a hope, so that they feel that they can survive as long as they reach the German area, so food for these three days must be provided. "Zhang Yong said.

This is a very simple truth. Give people hope. As long as there is hope, people will not want to die. If they do not want to die, they will find a way to live. If you do not give them even a little hope of survival, then these people are the most terrifying, and they will often turn into an unimaginable fighting force.

"I see, the military advisor is really brilliant!"

"If this were the case, and I were one of these civilians, I would also want to escape from here."

Although Guyu was a little unconvinced, he could only admit that this time Batu understood it faster than he did. There were some things that Batu saw the way to do, but he didn't.

"Master Military Advisor, I immediately order all the people in the city to be gathered together, except for the clothes they wear.

Just give them dry food for three days, and then let them move towards the German region, the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, and we will send some cavalry to chase after them.

And tell them. They have to march day and night. If they run slower, we will hunt them down. Batu said.

Zhang Yong smiled and nodded, and then Batu began to order that all Mongolian soldiers were not allowed to kill any civilians in the city, and then drove them all out of the city.

To be honest, these ordinary civilians don't have many valuable things on them. They only have some pots and pans, farm tools, and a little food at home.

After all, many of them had fled from other areas and were not local residents of Vienna. They had been receiving relief food before.

It took two days for the Mongolian army to drive all the civilians together, then asked all the civilians to stand up, and pushed in carts and carts of dry food.

These dry rations were seized by the Mongolian army after the city of Vienna was captured. Zhang Yong did not feel distressed at all when they were distributed, and there was no end to them.

After all, a certain Austrian archduke had hoarded a large amount of food and grass in the city in order to fight a long war with the Mongolian army. Now it's good, most of it has been taken advantage of by the Mongols. The other half will also be carried out a very powerful task.

Soon, a high platform was set up, and Zhang Yong directly launched his drone into the air. In the next stage of the speech, his own drone loudspeaker was needed to play its role.

After going back, I put myself on the off-road vehicle. Remove the big speaker and see if it can be used as an artificial speaker. Otherwise, you have to use a drone every time you give a speech. Although it is a deterrent, it is still very expensive!

"Okay, all Austrian civilians, please be quiet. This time we will not kill you. On the contrary, we will release you.

We will also distribute some food to you. Regardless of whether you are an adult, a child, an elderly person, a man, a woman or a child, all of them will receive three days of dry food on a per capita basis. "Zhang Yong stood at the top and said.

Batu, Guyu, Subotai, Baidar, Mengge and other Mongolian generals stood behind Zhang Yong.

A translator businessman shouted all these words using the drone loudspeaker provided by Zhang Yong.

To be honest, when they saw Zhang Yong's drone flying in the sky and making noise, these ordinary civilians were already frightened and even knelt on the ground one by one.

"Did you hear that? These Mongols said that if they don't kill us, can we survive?" an Austrian civilian said.

"Thank God, thank God."

"There is still food. We don't have to die. I thought they gathered us here to massacre us." Many Austrian civilians started discussing in a hurry.

"Quiet! I need you to be quiet. I want to tell you all that the main reason why we Mongols started this war is because the Pope stole my treasure and the artifact that belonged to me, like a robber.

I brought the army to deal with him, but you stood in front of me. Your monarch chose to stand in front of the Mongols. Now, these stupid and greedy monarchs have been eliminated, and you civilians are all Innocent.

So, for God's sake, I will never kill you. "Zhang Yong said.

Hearing this, the Austrian residents in the audience suddenly became excited. This, this is different from what their monarch told them!

Their monarch said that the Mongols burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil, just to destroy them, but now it seems that they have changed their story!

“Next, the whole of Austria, as well as Bohemia, will become a huge battlefield.

We will have a decisive battle here with the troops of the Holy Roman Empire and the coalition forces of European countries. It is very dangerous here. If you stay here, you will lose your life.

So I arranged for you to leave and distributed some rations to you. You can flee towards the German area. As long as you get there, you will be safe and get food. "Zhang Yong said.

“Is this Mongol ruler really going to give us food and then let us go?”

"Hmph, he is just hypocritical. Most of our property has been confiscated by them." An Austrian noble said through gritted teeth.

You guys have no property, so the Mongols are too lazy to rob you, but the real unlucky ones are the nobles!
The Mongolians searched all three floors inside and outside, and I was basically very poor, with only one piece of clothing left.

Giving them three days of food is a humiliation to these nobles.

"Hahaha! Dear noble lord, if you don't want these three days of dry food and think they are a burden.

You can give us dry food, we civilians need it very much. "A civilian who was covered in filth said.

Anyway, civilians like them are all dead and extremely poor. The original residents of Vienna were a little better off and still had some real estate.

But those of them who escaped from other areas just slept on the streets. They could get three days of dry food and be able to leave here. They had already made a profit, right?

"To prove that I am telling the truth and to prove my identity, I will show you a video next, a video of an angel." Zhang Yong said.

The same routine happened again. Zhang Yong moved out his projector, and then used the night sky to cooperate with him and brought over two super large light bulbs from off-road vehicles.

This group of ordinary civilians in Vienna, as well as a large group of coalition forces, once again created a miracle in front of the Mongolian army.

"Is this really an angel? Why, why does it look so scary? It looks so scary with so many eyes."

"Shut up and study the Bible. This is what the angels in the Old Testament look like. This is the real angel."

"Do you think angels all look the same as demons? Demons are very coquettish and beautiful, but angels are scary because demons want to tempt humans?" Some church members hiding among the common people immediately started popularizing science among the common people.

"Okay, I have told you all the truth, thank God!

You survived and now everyone is lining up to get your food.

After collecting the food, you can leave Vienna and head towards the German region.

Good luck to you and God bless you. "Zhang Yong smiled and said.

Take it! Holy Roman Emperor. (End of chapter)