allendalepharm Chapter 436
Chapter 436
At this time, it was slightly dark, and the houses on both sides of the street were lit up.
There were many pedestrians on the road, and apart from a few rebel patrols who maintained law and order, no other soldiers were seen, and the rebels in the inner city.
Whether it is mental outlook or temperament, words and deeds, they are very different from the 'recruits' seen in the outer city, the marching queue is neat, everyone is in high spirits, and their eyes are not squinting, just like a crack soldier.
Along the way, several people in Hanan looked around, and the shops on the street were open.
There are also many stalls on the road, shouting and selling, all kinds of goods, food, local residents, wearing characteristic costumes, very leisurely shopping, full of laughter.
Hanan was amazed, and what he saw in front of him contrasted sharply with the scene outside the city, as if it were two worlds.
Seeing their puzzled looks, Hicks explained with a smile: "The inner city is the core of the rebels, it is definitely not like the outer city, if there is chaos here, then how can the rebels stay, and there are many local residents here."
Charlie asked in amazement, "Then the people in the outer city don't care?"
Hicks whispered: "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 local rich people.
Later, they ordered the requisition of houses and shops, and they also had to pay a lot of taxes, and they naturally had a lot of dissatisfaction with the rebels, and even had conflicts,"
Harvey interjected: "I don't agree, why rob houses and money, rich people are not necessarily all bad people."
Hicks sighed and continued: "At first, the rebels were relatively restrained and not enforced, but as the number of troops skyrocketed, money and food were very scarce.
Those so-called 'newcomers' began to rob everywhere, killing many people, and even destroying doors.
Jessica said angrily: "How can you do this, isn't it the same as a bandit?"
Krabatel smiled, "Those who make big things are not informal, if I am the leader of the rebels, I will specifically pick on the big families who have bad style or usually do evil."
Not only will the money be obtained, but the people's anger will be much smaller, and it will also deter the dissatisfied, and it will not be much more convenient to requisition houses or collect taxes in the future?
Jessica rounded her eyes and pointed at Krabattel, "You... You!
Krabatel smiled, "That's not the end of it.
Afterwards, it is completely possible to put all the responsibility on the 'newcomer', and if you have the heart, the leader can come out for a show, personally apologize, and then cut off a few scapegoats' heads, and give the people an explanation, isn't it a good thing to gain fame and fortune?
Hicks couldn't help but clap his hands and praise, "Mr. Krabatel is like a god, and they really act like this."
He suddenly thought that this was a rebel base, and his face changed, and he looked around.
Except for a few people from Yunan, all of them were their own guards, and the rebel leader responsible for leading the way was also in the distance, patting his chest and sighing smoothly before whispering: "A few cautious words, we know it, don't talk about it in front of the public."
Hanan shook his head at everyone and signaled not to talk about this, after all, they were outsiders, and it was only right to find the whereabouts of their right arms, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
After walking for about forty minutes, they finally reached the east of the inner city of Katreia, where the rebel stronghold was located.
Katrea is worthy of being an old oasis city, even if it is not in the urban area, the density of houses is still not small, the architectural style is basically the same as that of the port capital 'Nahaba', with many multi-storey houses, dome-style structure, mainly light colors.
"When it arrives, there it is." Hicks pointed ahead and said to the Hanan people.
Hanan looked up, and there was a flat area in the northeast, covering a large area, on which a huge military camp was built, and the inside was brightly lit, like daylight.
Torches were also lit outside the camp, and ditches could be seen dug around the perimeter, and a thick earthen wall was built on the inside, with spiked barbed wire on it.
In the center is the camp gate, built of thick tree trunks, with a watchtower on each side, on which stand two sentinels.
The caravan came to the gate of the camp, the leader in charge of leading the way stepped forward and shouted, everyone entered smoothly, and when he passed by Yu Nan and looked into the ditch, he actually arranged sharpened wooden stakes, which were densely packed.
Hicks was in a hurry to hand over the goods and walked in the front, leaving several people in the back.
Along the way, Hanan took a rough look, the military camp was arranged decently, and it was also divided into different areas, each small camp stood outside the flagpole, and the big flag was displayed in the wind, respectively written with the words outer camp, inner camp, and central army, with clear layers.
Even Hanan, a layman, can see that this kind of military camp, only professionals who are well versed in marching and fighting, can arrange it, and he can't help nodding secretly, there are also talents in the rebels.
Seeing that Hanan was surprised, Krabattel whispered: "Captain, I inquired with Hicks, not long ago, the 300,000 kings of Alabastan defected to the rebel camp, and there must be many military talents who came up with advice." Hanan
couldn't help but be surprised, the number of this army is calculated in tens of thousands, really underestimating this turmoil in the Kingdom of Alabastan, and asked: "So, the power of the rebels is very strong?"
Krabatel whispered: "Listen to Hicks, originally in this war, the king's army had a greater advantage, and the 600,000 king's army against the 400,000 rebels was a lot more.
And the rebels were mostly rabble, but the 300,000 king's army turned against them, and the situation was immediately reversed.
Jessica listened to the hurry, she had been worried about Princess Vivi's affairs, and now in this situation.
If a full-scale war really breaks out, it will be a war of a million people, and no one is powerless to change the outcome, even if there is strength at the level of admirals, in front of millions of people, they can only retreat.
"Hanan, what can we do to help Vivi?" Jessica said urgently.
Hanan said calmly: "Don't worry, Jiren has his own natural appearance, as long as there is no major change, this matter will definitely be solved."
"How do you know?" This is a war of hundreds of thousands, millions of people! As
soon as Hanan wanted to answer, Hicks ran back in a hurry: "Brother Hannan, hurry up, I will go to see the leader Kosha now, you will wait outside first, if it goes well, I will call you in."
Hicks led a few people to wait outside the Chinese army tent.
Hanan saw that the caravan guards were busy unloading the goods, several rebel logisticians inspected one by one, and more than two dozen rebel soldiers put the weapons they had inspected into large wooden boxes after sorting them into categories, with cold weapons on the left and hot weapons on the right.
Hicks was chatting with a big man, only to hear Hicks sneer: "Farafola, this time I have gone through a lot of hard work to send this batch of goods, can the price be again." "