Chapter 394： Opportunity in war (1/2)
The war is cruel, especially the civilians in the midst of the war.
The people of East Prussia were deeply touched, and their good days have ended since they were occupied by Russians.
Ficks is just a humble town and still hasn't escaped. Well-informed nobles and businessmen have already run away, and all that remains now is a bunch of poor ghosts.
Even so, they haven't escaped the Russians' poisonous hands. Now that the oil and water can't be fried, it's better to make the zhuangding.
The only church in the town is now full of people.
A middle-aged man asked frowningly: ”Just now the Russians sent someone over and asked for 500 workers in the town. What should we do, Father?”
The church is probably the only area that has been spared. In the face of God, the Russians have not ransacked the only church in the town.
Now the head and face of the town are running away. Among the remaining people, a few years old Priest Prague has the highest prestige.
As a religious person, Fr. Prague cannot run, nor does he need to run. The influence of European religions is so great that the Russian army will not act on the church, even if it is a Protestant church.
Father Prague said with regret: ”Child, I know the news. I just negotiated with the Russians and they asked for 20,000 rubles to be released from labor.
The Russians warned that if the numbers were not gathered within a week, they would kill. ”
Father Prague didn't think about collecting money. If those aristocrats and businessmen didn't leave, maybe they could get it together. It's impossible now.
It's not that the town doesn't have 20,000 rubles, but the property is not equal to cash. Nobles and businessmen still have real estate after they ran away. Unfortunately, the Russians only need cash.
Everyone is unwilling to fight their own country, but people have to bow their heads under the roof.
The bears are not good at talking. Since they say they want to kill, they will kill. The youth who initially tried to rebel against the Russians still hung their heads on the flagpole at the gate of the town.
One person rebelled-killed the whole family; found that the guerrillas did not report-killed; someone who attacked the Russian army, every 200 meters within a radius of one person every five-killed; there were more than ten resistance teams-Tuzhen ...
Under such a high pressure, the local people dared to anger without speaking. Now that the war has been going on, the Russians have already started real fire, and there are not a few villages and towns that have been slaughtered in East Prussia.
International opinion? Regrettably, the Tsarist government has been scolded, they are not debt-ridden.
Moreover, the Russians are not stupid, how can they admit it? Without evidence, at most in the newspapers, the Russians were fearless.
In this era, the camera was too big, and the shooting effect was not good. The sneak shot had no effect, and the Prussians could not produce convincing evidence at all.
These are all excuses. Actually, countries ca n’t help the bears. They opened the cover and everyone did n’t look good.
”What shall we do, or shall we run!”
Someone suggested. Serving on the battlefield is not a good job, especially for Russians.
The news spread. Many people know that the Russian army likes to use labor as cannon fodder. This is what they learned in the Near East War, and arresting laborers as cannon fodder can reduce troop losses.
An old man asked: ”Russians are everywhere, where are they going?”
It's not that simple to run, dragging homes with money, plus no money in their pockets, and Russian hunting, how far can they go?
A young man asked, ”But we can't really kill the Russians and fight our own army?”
The old man reprimanded: ”What do you know as a hairy kid, the youth in our town does not add up to five hundred.”
This is the key to the problem, not that they are willing or unwilling, but that it is impossible to complete the task.
The population of the town was originally small, and a large number of young people were recruited into the army after the outbreak of the war. Now there are no five hundred young people in the town.
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Looking at the quarrel, Fr. Prague had a headache. These are the believers he developed. If these people are gone, his food and clothing parents are gone.
”Keep calm in front of the Lord. I will go to Ganisburg and ask a friend to see if there is any other way.”
Gunisburg is the city closest to the town. If the Russians want to find a place in the local area, they will certainly not only target one town.
Heading to the city for help was a hint of priest Prague. Not all the nobles have run away, and a large part of the nobles of East Prussia remain.
Some people chose to organize guerrillas to resist the invasion of the Russians, while others wanted to run without running away. Most of them now gather in cities.
Europe has no tradition of killing nobles, provided that you do not place orders. If only one person is killed, he will be killed, no one knows anyway.
Everyone gathers together, it's different. The Russian army will not fight against them. This is the rule of the game and it applies to the Russians.
In a hurry, Father Prague hurried to Gunneysburg on horseback. The depression was in sight. The bustling streets of the past were no longer crowded with people, and scattered pedestrians met the Russian patrols and left quickly.
As a religious figure, Father Prague was not questioned. Of course, he did not come forward to the Russian army.