According to the rules of the Arab Empire, when conscription is carried out, the village must recruit all the people. If there is no one, there must be a legitimate reason.
Now not only are there no young people on the list in the village, there are even no old, weak, sick or young people. It is obvious that all the villagers have run away. If this is the case, then there is nothing more to say. We must execute the highest order of the Arab Empire and burn down the entire village. If you run away at this time, you are no longer legal citizens of the empire. When you go back, you will be fugitives from the government, and then you will not have to keep your houses.
"Don't be soft-hearted. After we leave here, someone will come to check. If they see that we didn't burn the village down, then the blame will be ours. You don't want us to get into trouble, do you?"
Looking at the hesitant Sambik, Raf really didn't know what to say. Your father was also a decisive man on the battlefield, otherwise he would not have made such great contributions. You are really unworthy of being your father's son. You still hesitate for a long time about such a thing. In the future, if we follow you to the battlefield, we may be the ones who suffer the most.
Sambik hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand and ordered his men to start. Even if he didn't want to burn down the village, the laws of the empire were here. If you don't want to punish these people, then you will become the one who is punished.
"Why has our country become like this? It doesn't matter what we do abroad, after all, it has nothing to do with us. This is our own village. Look at the houses in this village, they took a long time to build, and now they are burned down. When they return, all their life savings are gone, and they can only become bandits in the desert."
There was one more thing that Sambik didn't say, which was that once you become a bandit, there is no turning back in this life. You will have to deal with the imperial army for the rest of your life. Including your descendants, you can only live in the desert. The common people are afraid of these bandits in the desert, but that doesn't mean that the bandits in the desert have an easy life.
When Sambik was still in the army, he was once ordered to encircle and suppress a group of desert bandits. Those people lived a life that was almost like hell. Apart from having food to eat, they had to face sandstorms in the desert every day, as well as various natural disasters. If the sandstorm was too severe, they might even be buried alive. In short, if there was a way out, I believe no one would be willing to go in and become a bandit.
Of course, there is no way around this. After all, your whole family has been burned to death, and the land allocated to you is certainly gone. In the records of the entire court, you are already a dead man. What else can you do if not become a bandit?
If there are too many bandits in a country, it will not be a good thing for the entire country. The speed of population mobility will decrease, and all kinds of production will stop. The country itself is facing the trauma of war, and with a large number of people becoming bandits, it is really hard to say how the country will live.
"Put away your compassion. We can't care about so many things right now. After we burn this place, we have to hurry back to report. If I'm not mistaken, we will have many missions ahead. The conscription this time is really a lot. Marshal Sukhguman is scared."
When saying the last sentence, Raf almost put his mouth close to Sambik's ear. In broad daylight, saying that his marshal was afraid was not a trivial matter. If the relationship between the two was not strong enough, he would never dare to say it. If someone reported it, then you would have an arm chopped off on the spot. The punishment in the Arab Empire was very severe, and it was also very harsh on its own people.
Many people in the army had great trust in Marshal Sukhgoman. This guy led the Arab army to fight in many battles and won various victories. As long as he fought a war, he basically won.
But the situation is completely different now. The Tang army is also invincible. When the two sides clash, we should see who is the real trump card. Although the Arab Empire keeps proclaiming that we have won, anyone with a brain will understand that even the young and middle-aged men around the capital are being recruited. Is this a sign of victory?
After the entire Anton Governor's Office was lost, it was already a heavy blow to the Arab Empire. Unfortunately, no one took it seriously at that time, and the lost troops were not front-line troops, so the high-level officials of the Arab Empire did not care about that. By the time you started to care about it, the Tang Dynasty army was different from the original one. This is also an important reason why it continued to fail.
When the whole village was on fire, it was already noon. Other people came over from the rear, thinking that something had happened here. But when they saw the whole village on fire, they realized that everyone in the village had run away. They hurriedly asked Sambik to call his men back, as they had other things to do in the afternoon. They couldn't waste a whole day on a deserted village. We don't have that much time to waste.
Looking at the houses rising with black smoke in the distance, Sambik didn't know what to say. He'd burned down many houses during his military expeditions, but they were all enemy houses, even with civilians inside. But now, they were burning down our own civilians' houses. Our own army was burning down our own civilians' houses. What kind of thing was this? He didn't know what others were thinking, but Sambik himself couldn't get over it.
The afternoon's mission was simple, which was to capture someone in another village. According to information obtained by Sambik, they might have to go to seven or eight villages in the past five days, so they had to act quickly.
If you are slow, the people in the village may escape, and then our mission will not be completed. Don't think that burning the village is the end of the matter. The most important thing now is to catch the people back. If you can't catch them, then everyone will be punished. As for what kind of punishment it is, it depends on your superior's mood.
