Rise of the Empire Total War

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Walking into the city of Begowo, which was still under fire a few minutes ago, Trond rode on his tall warhorse, looking down at the surrounding residents standing on both sides of the street and looking at him and his army with fearful eyes.

The streets are not clean. I mean, apart from the garbage and excrement that must exist in this era, there are also pieces of building materials that have been bombarded by shells, and a few pieces of meat that flew from nowhere.

Perhaps because of the deterrence of the heavily armed soldiers, the residents just stood on both sides of the street and looked at them without any physical movement, so the army continued to move forward without any hindrance, and soon came to the area that was occupied and controlled by the army landing from the port. Governor's Mansion, outside the Governor's Mansion, apart from the second brigade commander Eisner and some officers, there are also several Ansmara people in white robes.

Seeing Trond coming, Eisner, the leader, took a step forward, saluted him, and said, "General Olsen, our army took down the Governor's Palace with zero casualties, Deputy Governor of Begowo La Jike Anton surrendered to our army."

"Very good." Trond replied with a nod. He then set his eyes on the Ansmara man standing in front, guessing in his heart that he should be the vice-governor of Begowo, and introduced himself: "Your Excellency Rajik Anton, I am the Holy Roman Empire Expeditionary Officer." Army Commander Lieutenant General Trond Olsen."

"Nice to meet you, but I didn't expect to meet you in this way." The leader smiled awkwardly and said. Trond naturally understood what the method he was talking about meant, and he didn't answer. He continued to look at Eisner and asked, "General Reard, have the soldiers controlled the entire city?"

"Yes, the first time I occupied the Governor's Mansion, I sent soldiers to take over various important places in the city."

After finishing speaking, Eisnell turned slightly sideways, made a gesture, and said, "General Olsen, let's go in and talk first."

"En." Trond nodded, got off his horse, handed the horse to Irk behind him, and followed Eisner's gesture towards the gate of the Governor's Mansion. After walking a few steps, he paused, turned and looked at the Those Ansmara people said: "Since you surrender voluntarily, then come in with us. I still need to know the situation of Begowo through a few people."

"As you wish, general." Several people saluted by touching their chests, and walked in behind the two Holy Roman Empire generals.

In the Governor's Mansion, Trond gradually learned about the situation of Begowo City and even the entire Begowo Colonial Territory through the introduction of Vice-Governor Rajik Anton and the documents stored in the study. Begowo City has more than 12,000 residents, of which nearly 6,000 are immigrants from the Ansmara Republic, and the remaining 6,000 are residents of indigenous tribes who surrendered to the colonial territory.

They admired civilization, so they abandoned their hometown and entered city life. In addition to the residents, there are also many itinerant merchants and slaves who are not regarded as human beings. Those slaves were coaxed or robbed from the indigenous tribes, and the number is about 4,000.

It is worth mentioning that those naturalized aborigines did not speak for their compatriots who were enslaved. They seemed to regard themselves as orthodox citizens of the Ansmara Republic. Compatriots of skin color are even more miserable than white people.

In addition to the residents of Begowo City, the colonial government also set up large and small strongholds on the vast land. In each stronghold, apart from the garrison guarding against the aborigines' harassment, there are also varying numbers of immigrants and slaves. Live under the protection of the garrison and go to the nearby resource points to work.

If these people are added up, there may be nearly 8,000 orthodox Ansmara in the entire Begowo territory, but if those who join the army are deducted, there may be only more than 5,000 civilians left.

Trond was a little puzzled as to why there were so many immigrants living in Begowo Territory. If there were so many people in just one Territory, wouldn’t the total number of other Territories be even greater? The government of the Republic of Ansmara Will you agree that so many people leave their homes and come to live in this place?

Perhaps seeing through Trond's doubts, the vice-governor who surrendered directly answered him without him asking.

It turns out that not every colonial territory has so many immigrants. Among the five colonial territories established by the Republic, Begowo Territory can be said to have the largest population, and the least of the other four territories has not been expanded for a long time. There are only nearly 1,000 immigrants in Harus, who are shivering in a small city with only wooden walls under the threat of native tribes; the largest number is Zentaro, which has only more than 3,000 immigrants, and the number of immigrants in the other two It's only between one thousand and two thousand.

However, except for the Begowo territory, because the governor’s policy is to trade with the indigenous tribes (because they can’t fight each other, so they can only live in peace), and avoid wars, the other territories are in a state of war with the indigenous people all the year round. , the immigrants were afraid of dying in the war, so they went to settle in the Begowo Territory one after another, so the Begowo Territory became the most populous of the five colonial territories.

So many immigrants have now become the objects of the rule of the Holy Roman Empire.

Thinking that there are still so many strongholds in Begowo Territory, Trond has a headache. Apart from the strongholds, the missing native coalition forces are also a big threat. After thinking about it, he decided to let Rajik Anton, as the vice-governor of the colonial realm, write letters to the chiefs of various strongholds, telling them that the city of Begowo had surrendered to the Holy Roman Empire, and asking them to voluntarily surrender.

In Trond's view, those who can leave their homes and come to this strange continent will definitely cherish their lives more. On the one hand, they surrender to save their lives, and on the other hand, they insist on resisting. decision.

And this is indeed the case. A few days later, the messengers sent by Rajik came back on fast horses one after another, telling Trond the decisions of the chiefs of each stronghold. The chiefs of those strongholds did not want to die, and they could keep their wealth and status after surrendering. Under the temptation of the conditions, they all decided to respond to Rajik, formally surrendered to the Holy Roman Empire, lowered the blue wolf-headed flag of the Republic of Ansmara, and replaced it with the double-headed eagle representing the Holy Roman Empire.

In addition to agreeing to persuade them to surrender, in order to show their sincerity, they also reported to Trond about the movements of Begowo Governor Ajit and the tribal coalition forces, which made Trond very happy. I feel like he's really annoying.

At this time, Ajit and the tribal coalition forces did not know the news that the expeditionary force had breached the city of Begowo. They were coming from the south in an attempt to regain supplies in the city of Begowo and recruit more soldiers before launching an attack on the expeditionary force. , And this time, there were dozens more war elephants in their army who came back from the south.